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|4 April 2010
| Napoli, Italy
|Clay
| Rui Machado
|4–6, 4–6
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|4. |12 July 2010
| Rimini, Italy
|Clay
| Paolo Lorenzi
|2–6, 0–6
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==Wins Over Top 10s Per Season==
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|1. | Roger Federer
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|bgcolor=#d0f0c0|International German Open, Hamburg, Germany
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==References==
==External links==
Argentine male tennis players
People from Buenos Aires Province
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1990 births
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First Lady Wears Jason Wu for Target Dress First lady Michelle Obama wore a dress from designer Jason Wu's line for Target during a "Let's Move" tour in Florida over the weekend. Mrs. Obama wore the $39.99 dress to dinner at the Halls family's Ocoee, Fla., home, accessorizing it with a blue cardigan and trading the gold belt for a red one of her own. (AP Photo/Target)
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Norsk Tindeklub is a Norwegian mountaineering association. The club was founded in 1908. The association issues climbing guides and mountaineering books. The club has issued several jubilee books in the series Norsk Fjellsport (1914, 1933, 1948, 1958, 1968, 1983, 1998, 2008). The club has three cabins, in Skagadalen (Hurrungane), Vengedalen (Romsdalen) and Flatvaddalen (Innerdalen). ==References==
Organisations based in Norway
Organizations established in 1908
Climbing organisations
1908 establishments in Norway
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US dismisses Iranian claims of nuclear agreement Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki addresses the security conference in Munich yesterday. Photograph: Miro Kuzmanovic/Reuters Western officials have disputed claims by Iran's foreign minister that his country is "approaching a final agreement" in its nuclear programme. Manouchehr Mottaki told a security conference in Munich yesterday that Iran was "serious" about making progress on a deal agreed in principle last October to swap most of its enriched uranium stockpile for fuel rods to use in nuclear power stations. Governments in Europe and the US fear the stockpile could be refined to make nuclear weapons. But despite Mottaki's assurances, the US defence secretary, Robert Gates, said today he saw no sign that a deal was close, suggesting it was time to push forward with sanctions, according to the Reuters news agency. "The reality is they have done nothing to reassure the international community that they are prepared to comply with the NPT [Non-Proliferation Treaty] or stop their progress towards a nuclear weapon," he said. "Therefore, I think various nations need to think about whether the time has come for a different tack."The German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, whose country has joined the five permanent UN security council members in negotiations with Tehran, dismissed Mottaki's comments as nothing new. "If it's not more than we heard yesterday, then we have to say unfortunately this is not a new transparency," Westerwelle said. "It does not mean there is a change. That is the situation and we have to face it." Mottaki said Iran should set the amount of uranium that would be exchanged, suggesting that less than the 1,200kg of low enriched uranium provisionally agreed last year would be exported. "Our request is the quantity should be announced by the party who is going to use this enriched uranium, and the quantity will be announced based on our need. This is the most important point," the foreign minister said. Such a change could render any deal worthless in the eyes of western governments, for whom the whole point of the bargain was to deplete Iran's stockpile. Mottaki said he would discuss Iran's proposal at the weekend with the new head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, who is attending the Munich conference. The foreign minister's remarks came a few days after Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, raised the possibility of low enriched uranium being exported and returned within five months in the form of fuel rods. The president did not mention how much might be exported, and his offer was met with scepticism from western capitals, where it was seen as a gambit to buy time and forestall sanctions. Preliminary discussions have begun at the UN in New York on a further round of punitive measures aimed at Iranian individuals and institutions linked to the nuclear and missile programmes, and the Revolutionary Guards who control both. However, a security council resolution is seen as highly unlikely in the near future because of Chinese opposition. Speaking at the Munich conference, China's foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, made clear the country was prepared to stand alone among the permanent members of the security council in opposing sanctions. He insisted Iran had not closed the door on negotiations over the export of its uranium, and called for patience and "a more flexible, pragmatic and proactive policy" towards talks with Tehran. The EU foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, said she agreed with the Chinese foreign minister that the possibilities of dialogue with Tehran were not exhausted, but added that "dialogue takes two."
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When the core a Qaeda organization was stronger and Bin Laden was alive, it focused all its attention on trying to recreate the spectacular impact of a 9/11. That operation took hundreds of thousands of dollars and extensive logistical support. But the relentless drone attacks on a Qaeda's leadership and the daring SEAL raid that killed bn Laden last year have undermined a Qaeda Core's ability to plan or execute such apocalyptic spectaculars. Terrorist affiliates like the one in Yemen, advised by American-citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, lowered the bar considerably. They were linked to several failed bomb plots and to shootings by lone gunmen in the United States who targeted soldiers in Texas and Arkansas. The United States later managed to kill Awlaki, but with or without him, a shooter like Merah found it easy to adopt similar tactics: he chose to target soldiers who weren't on duty around a city that was not perceived as a likely terrorist target, then he targeted Jews and their children at a school. Such plots are relatively easy to plan, easy to carry out, difficult to detect, hard to stop - and still get global publicity. "The targets are highly significant; they seem to have been very seriously thought out for symbolic value," says Hoffman. "Even if [Merah] isn't directly part of the al Qaeda firmament it may not matter because, for Zawahiri looking at the news, he's thinking, "They are listening to me vicariously, and this strategy works."" For all these reasons, the danger posed by this improvisational terrorism, even if it is carried out by only a very few individuals, can have a major impact on public confidence. "We see no reason to think the threat has diminished," says Kelly. Yet this is also coming at a time when the public is increasingly skeptical about the measures law enforcement agencies have taken over the last 10 years to penetrate and disrupt terrorist operations and mount lines of defense if some slip through. "There's a backlash against the "war on terror,"" says Hoffman. Whether it comes to draconian airport security or what's been portrayed as pervasive surveillance by law enforcement, "people just want to forget all this stuff. They see the precautions as an expression of paranoia and wasteful spending." Kelly and the NYPD, for instance, have come under mounting criticism in the press for pushing the edge of the legal envelope in order to conduct surveillance operations. "We use our investigative capacity to monitor things," he says, "but always within the law." Earlier this week Cathy Lanier, the chief of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, told The Daily Beast she was grateful to Kelly and the NYPD for the extensive intelligence work they conduct, much of which is shared very quickly with other law enforcement agencies that have fewer resources. "As my grandmother used to say, "You are going to be damned for doing and damned for not doing, you better be damned for doing. When the bad thing happens and lives are actually lost, the public won't forgive you for that." In Toulouse, the questions about what was known, and what should have been known, have just begun.
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China scolds US over S&P credit downgrade
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Car purchases - Officially, if you wanted a car, you could pay in forints and wait years on a list to get one, or just go out and buy one direct with US dollars. 6. Postal services - Packages were routinely opened and items stolen. This was a regular occurrence. 7. Any service paid for in forints was expensive in comparison to services paid for by 'valuta' or 'valuable western money'
8. There was non-monetary trade going on between the rural produce and urban products. Manufactured items (stolen by workers) often were traded for rural produce. As for Kadar, whatever he was, accepted the status quo as with the rest of the government of the time. The economy worked, the soviets used the country as a holiday resort and there was an acceptable level of corruption (and socialism). The corruption couldn't be termed evil or criminal, but was more of a way of life. So IMHO the article as written is correct. Htcs —Preceding unsigned comment added by Htcs (talk • contribs)
== Neutrality ==
Someone had added a textual note questioning neutrality, especially of the section titled "The Kádár era". I replaced the note with a tag, but have no opinion myself. Perhaps the tag should be replaced with {POV-check}?... GlassFET
"but he was voted in a poll, the "best Hungarian" of the twentieth century"
"While Kádár later claimed that there grew a father-son like bond between them, the more plausible truth is that there grew a "somewhat adolescent cheekiness" between the two." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.183.41.172 (talk)
source? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.183.41.172 (talk)
== Role in the Rajk case ==
I beleive the article hides Kádár's role in organizing the show trial of Rajk. At that time he was the minister of interior _and_ participated the interrogations at the ÁVH headquarters several times. According to the memoires (X) of Vladimir Farkas, at the late stage of the work, Kádár "convinced" Rajk to co-operate. He was not a victim that time but he was one of the highest ranking organizers of the show trial. I think this part of the article need to be heavily reworked to reflect the truth. (X) Farkas, a former leader of the ÁVH, is far from being a neutral source, but he's work is generally considered reliable. He was the single person from ÁVH to show remorse and publishing memoires (detailing his own crimes as well). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.183.180.131 (talk)
Yep. Kadàr's role in Rajk's trial is well described in Gough's book. In its current form the article is grossly misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.58.222.51 (talk)
== Show trial of his own ==
"This time it was Kádár who was beaten by the security police and urged to "confess." "
I beleive this sentence need to be reworked. Although several rumors were distributed after 1956, there is no evidence that Kádár was tortured by the ÁVH. According to the best-known version of this story he was tortured by Farkas Vladimir (see above); he was beaten to half-unconscious and finally Farkas urinated into his mouth. After the death of Kadar and the fall of the communist state, Farkas managed to publish his memoires. In this book he admits being the leader of the "investigation" during the early part of the "Kádár-case", and he assumes responsibility of his oppressive activity at this and other fields, but he consistently denies that he physically tortured Kádár. He aligns several arguments of his own version and some contradictions of the rumors. A notable example of them is that according to the documents of Kádár's Political rehabilitation in 1954 Kádár told that "I was not assaulted physically. This can be understand, since during this ten months I arrived such a mental state that no coercive measures were needed... the arrest broke my hearth too". Farkas cites examples, where the rumors can be traced back to Kádár and his friends.
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Selling mood takes over energy prices amid uncertainty NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices dropped under $101 per barrel in New York Thursday morning as the disruptive federal government shutdown came to an end. Federal workers were called back to work and the threat of default averted for now, as the government's line of credit was extended through Feb. 7. The end of the government shutdown and the threat of default would normally be seen as positive for demand, but traders were retreating as they waited for the resumption of federal reports. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, West Texas Intermediate crude oil shed $1.42 to reach $100.87 per barrel. Reformulated blendstock gasoline prices lost 1.97 cents to $2.6824 per gallon. Home heating oil gave up 2.91 cents to $3.0102 per gallon. Natural gas lost 4 cents to reach $3.73 per million British thermal units. At the pump, the national average price of unleaded gasoline added a penny from Monday to Tuesday to $3.357 per gallon, AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report said. © 2013 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.
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Scots fashion guru slams plus-sized mannequin plan A SCOTTISH fashion expert has blasted calls to introduce plus- sized clothes models in shops. Founder of the Scottish Fashion Awards, Tess Hartmann, has rubbished claims the psychological state of consumers now lies in the hands of retailers. Britain's equality minister, Jo Swinson, has been asking stores to use plus-size and petite clothes models to promote a positive body image for women. In November, retail giant Debenhams became the first department store to use size 16 display models. Other stores have said they may follow to more reflect changing body shapes. The average UK women's dress size has grown from a 12 to a 16 in little more than a decade, but many stores still use size ten models to show off their clothes. But now fashion guru Ms Hartmann says people need to take more responsibility for their lifestyle and diet choices.Dr Hartmann said: "Enough of this ridiculous blame culture. Being bigger, voluptuous, large, whatever word you like to use, is a lifestyle choice. "Our bad diets, lack of exercise and blame culture are to blame. "So instead of wasting taxpayers" money on sensationalist campaigns that are completely futile, why not direct our efforts towards poverty-stricken areas of Scotland, where bad diets are the norm?"
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Choose a good descriptive name for the file, and try to fill in as many of the other fields as you can. For "licensing", either choose the "recommended" option from the list, or place the image entirely in the public domain. Edit the article to use your image instead of the old one. Click the "Edit" label at the top of the article, and look for something like or n be used as references in the article, as it is currently unreferenced. If those indicate that the hyphenated version is more prevalent, then I will make that the title of the article with the non-hyphenated version as the redirect. Looks to me as if the unhyphenated version is much more frequent. Not too surprising that Shakespeare's usage doesn't necessary tie in with more modern usage. David Biddulph (talk)
= December 6 =
== Problems editing reference on The Voice 106 page ==
I am having problems editing a reference on my page. The text for the link does not seem to go next to the number, so I need some general help tidying that up and making sure the links point to the correct external referenced article which can be found here: http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/news/Festive-FM-air/article-2954708-detail/article.html comment added by Jver10 (talk • contribs)
Try reading REF. - David Biddulph (talk)
Hi David, I read through that article before posting the question and searched for a possible solution, I even tried copying the script from other Wikipedia articles and pasting it into my article (of course making the necessary changes to the text), but I think I might be missing something somewhere as it doesn't seem to be correcting itself. Is there any chance you might be able to perform the required edit for me (it is my page)? Jver10 (talk)
Done, see this diff. - David Biddulph (talk)
Thank you very much, David, Much appreciated. Jver10 (talk)
== message ==
all i would like to know is can where can i ask ian duncin smith a question81.153.222.242 (talk)
Wikipedia has no way of contacting Iain Duncan Smith. His constituents in Chingford and Woodford Green can contact him via his website; you might have some luck with that. Gonzonoir (talk)
== Editing ==
What happens when someone edits a page in Wikipedia and the information they add is wrong? Do edits get reviewed befroe they appear on the web? Thanks in advance
Stephen Brenton —Preceding unsigned comment added by Swbrenton (talk • contribs)
The edits are not reviewed. Wikipedia depends on everyone to review information that is added. If you see something that is incorrect, feel free to jump in and correct it. TNXMan
In fact any information which is not referenced may be deleted at any time, though in practice this often does not happen unless it is blatantly wrong, or contravenes the policy on biographies of living persons. Thanks Swbrenton (talk)
== irish echo ==
contributors include brian friel, john b keane and tom caulfield —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.117.162 (talk)
I guess you are referring to The Irish Echo. If have more than the meagre information which is in that article, and the information you have is sourced from reliable sources, you are very welcome to edit the article and add the information. If it concerns people or topics which are already covered in Wikipedia, please link to their articles like so Brian Friel (which displays as Brian Friel). = December 7 =
== Help me set up my pages ==
Is there some one who can he me set up my general template for my page and my talk page? Andrew Revender —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrew Revender (talk • contribs)
Hi there - can you tell us a bit more about what exactly you're trying to do? Is it the appearance/style of your user and user talk pages that you want to change? User page design center is a good starting point for that. Or do you perhaps want to add an edit notice to your talk page? Gonzonoir (talk)
== Editing References ==
I was looking through the article about Jason Grace, the protagonist from the book "The Lost Hero" by Rick Riordan and added some information about Jason's tattoo and memories of his former friends.
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Pizzicato is the first album from Yoko Takahashi, including the hit single Mou Ichido Aitakute, which reached #38 in the Oricon weekly charts, while the album reached #75 and charted for two weeks. ==Track listing==
==References==
1992 albums
Yoko Takahashi albums
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Fanny McHugh (21 August 1861–17 December 1943) was a New Zealand midwife, volunteer nurse, health patrol and social hygiene lecturer. She was born in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand on 21 August 1861. ==References==
1861 births
1943 deaths
New Zealand educators
New Zealand nurses
New Zealand midwives
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Maurice Eustace (executed November 1581) was an Irish soldier, secretly ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and hanged as a traitor. ==Life==
He was the eldest son of Sir John Eustace, Castlemartin, County Kildare. He was sent to be educated at the Jesuit college at Bruges in Flanders. There, after the completion of his secular studies, he desired to enter the Society of Jesus. His father, however, wrote to the superiors of the college to send him home. Maurice returned to Ireland. After a brief stay, during which he tried to dissuade his father from opposing his vocation, he went back to Flanders. His old masters, at the college of Bruges, advised him to return to Ireland and devote himself in the world to the service of religion. Shortly after his arrival in Ireland he got an appointment as captain of horse. He never abandoned the idea of becoming a priest, and secretly took Holy Orders. His servant, who was aware of the fact, told his father, who had his son immediately arrested and imprisoned in Dublin. A younger brother, desiring to inherit the family estates, also reported Maurice to be a priest, a Jesuit, and a friend of the Queen's enemies. As a consequence he was put on trial for. During his imprisonment Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, offered him his daughter in marriage, and a large dowry if he would accept the reformed religion. Eustace was sentenced to public execution, and was hanged. ==External links==
Catholic Encyclopedia article
1581 deaths
Irish Roman Catholic priests
Year of birth unknown
Irish soldiers
16th-century soldiers
16th-century Irish people
Clergy of the Tudor period
People executed under Elizabeth I of England as Queen of Ireland
16th-century Jesuits
Irish Jesuits
People executed for treason against Ireland
People from County Kildare
Irish people executed by hanging
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Two in Georgia Governor's Race Disciplined for Misconduct With Students ATLANTA - Two former high school teachers running for governor in Georgia were suspended from their jobs in the past for sexual misconduct involving students, according to state documents. In unrelated cases, the two men - one Democrat and one Republican - were accused of inappropriate relationships with female students. Both were suspended from teaching for a week, then resigned but denied wrongdoing. The candidates were long shots to win the race, but the news could affect the crowded primary elections in July, political experts said. The governor's office in Georgia is likely to be in play for either party, after a streak of scandals last fall weakened the normally dominant state Republicans. The teachers" cases were reported Wednesday night by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and detailed in publicly available state documents. The Republican, Ray McBerry Jr., had his teaching certificate suspended in 2004, after findings by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission that he had conducted an inappropriate relationship with a student from a different school and deliberately misrepresented his actions to school investigators. Mr. McBerry, who taught history, denied the accusations in a statement on Thursday, saying that he was trying only to counsel the student, who he said was struggling with alcohol and drug use and became "attached and emotionally dependent" on him. The fact that his punishment was a week of suspension while school was not in session demonstrates, he wrote, "that there was little belief among anyone involved in the process that any actual wrongdoing had occurred." Still, he resigned shortly after the complaint was filed and is now president of a company that produces radio and television commercials. The Democratic candidate, Carl L. Camon, a former mayor of Ray City, a small town in southern Georgia, was accused by multiple students in 2007 of making sexual remarks, staring at female students" breasts and looking up their skirts. He resigned in October from the school, in nearby Valdosta, rather than accept the commission's weeklong suspension. He said students concocted false stories about him in retaliation for calls to their parents about bad grades. "One girl even told me, "We're going to get you," " he said in an interview. "I'm not accepting one minute of punishment for something I did not do." The commission report mentions that Mr. Camon was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with students in a previous case but that no probable cause for punishment was found. Both candidates said they would continue their campaigns for their parties" nominations to succeed Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Republican who cannot seek re-election because of term limits. Roy Barnes, a former governor, appears to be the front-runner among the five Democrats running, and the state insurance commissioner, John Oxendine, leads the field of seven Republican candidates. In recent years, Georgia has been a reliably Republican state, with the party controlling both Senate seats in Washington and the state legislature. But the governor's race this year is a tossup, in part because of scandals involving state Republicans, including the recent resignation of the powerful house speaker, Glenn Richardson, after his attempted suicide and allegations of an affair with a lobbyist. Political experts said the news about the two teachers" pasts would probably not benefit either party, although they could help the front-runners" goal of reaching the 50 percent of the vote necessary to avoid a runoff in the primary.
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Design notebook: the best trolley tables Collective Passion is the name of the key colour palette that Dulux has created to inspire home decorators this summer. For this picture the paint specialist has used creative licence and frozen some of its paints, but the idea perfectly captures the fruity, cheerful and bold colour combinations that the palette proposes. From top: Orange Fizz, Rock Candy, Flying Feather, Sapphire Spring 3 and Fruit Fool 6, all £24.20 for 2.5 litres (08444-817817; Dulux). Designers working across disciplines including furniture, ceramics, fashion, jewellery and lighting will show their latest work at the Cornwall Design Fair, August 16-18. Shown here is a piece by the Nottingham-based ceramics artist Suet Yi. Entry costs £6. To dye for Dip-dye may have come and gone in the worlds of fashion and hair (yes, really) but it's only just gaining a firm foothold in interior decoration. Try it out with the Zephyr dip-dye linen collection, £135/m from Black Edition. Take a seat The Odd Couples bench is by Plant & Moss, a design team set up in Birmingham by James Plant and James Moss four years ago. The witty take on a classic piece of furniture is typical of their work, which also includes desktop accessories made from cast concrete. £1,850, Heal's. Five of the best: trolley tables Ice TV trolley, £250, John Lewis; aluminium side table, £75, Muji; Flip trolley by Antonio Citterio for Kartell, £516, Utility; Transit folding trolley, £425, David Mellor; PS 2012 coffee table, £40, Ikea.
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British chip-makers drop on falling demand for gadgets By Rupert Neate
Published: 6:45PM BST 28 Jul 2009 Demand in the semiconductor sector is estimated to have dropped by about 30pc in the first six months of the year as electronics manufacturers reduce their stocks in the face of weakening consumer demand. Wolfson, which makes audio chips used in Apple's iPhone and Microsoft's Xbox, made a $6.8m (£4.1m) pre-tax loss in the six months to July 5, compared to a $9.1m profit a year earlier. Sales dropped from $100m to $58m. The Scottish company, which has made a loss for three consecutive quarters, warned that "demand visibility remains poor." Mike Hickey, chief executive, said: "Whilst end market demand visibility remains poor and ordering patterns 'choppy' we have refreshed our product portfolio with exciting new products. Analysts at Cazenove said the company's second-half outlook was "disappointing" but added that management is now more "bullish" about demand in 2010. Wolfson's shares fell 2½ to 113¼p. Cambridge-based ARM, which designs microchips used in 98pc of the world's mobile phones, said pre-tax profits tumbled 20pc to £19.5m, on sales up 10pc to £144m. The company's interim dividend is up 10pc at 0.97, payable October 5. ARM's shares closed down 3½ to 128¾p. Warren East, chief executive, said the industry had experienced a "very sharp downturn" but ARM had not suffered as much as a large part of its revenue comes from the growing smartphone market.
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Md. School Group Released from Quarantine in China A group of 21 students and three teachers from a Silver Spring private school has been released from quarantine after being held by the Chinese government over fears about swine flu. The students from the Barrie School have just one day left to wrap up their tour of Guizhou province before they return home Sunday. They arrived a week ago and were quarantined in their hotel for five days, beginning Monday. Chinese officials feared the group was exposed to swine flu on their flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong. U.S. consular officials told school officials and parents Tuesday that the passenger with a fever did not have the illness. However, the group remained confined at a hotel in the city of Kaili until Friday.
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Bivens gave himself until Labor Day to decide. Democrats say that given the low name recognition among the candidates in the field, no one but Giffords or Kelly could afford to wait much longer. "By end of summer, early fall, we expect top-tier races to really take shape," said Arizona Democratic Party Communications Director Jennifer Johnson. "We expect to have strong Democrats in the game."???initialComments:true! pubdate:06/27/2011 14:13 EDT! commentPeriod:3! commentEndDate:6/30/11 2:13 EDT! currentDate:6/27/11 2:40 EDT! allowComments:true! displayComments:false!
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Andreas Ogris (born 7 October 1964 in Vienna) is an Austrian football coach and former player. He is the older brother of former Austrian international and Hertha BSC player Ernst Ogris. ==Club career==
The red-haired Ogris played for Austria Wien from 1983 through 1997, split by short spells at Espanyol Barcelona and LASK Linz. The speedy and fiery striker finished his professional career at Admira/Wacker before moving into coaching. ==International career==
In 1983 Ogris played at the FIFA World Youth Championship. He then made his senior debut for Austria in October 1986 against Albania and was a participant at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He earned 63 caps, scoring 11 goals. His last international was an April 1997 World Cup qualification match against Scotland, in which he came on as a late substitute for Franz Aigner. ==Honours==
Austrian Football Bundesliga (5):
Austrian Cup (3):
==External links==
Profile - Austria Archive
==References==
1964 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Vienna
Austrian footballers
Austria international footballers
1990 FIFA World Cup players
FK Austria Wien players
RCD Espanyol footballers
LASK Linz players
FC Admira Wacker Mödling players
Austrian Football Bundesliga players
La Liga footballers
Expatriate footballers in Spain
Austrian football managers
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BBC News - Timeline: Malawi Timeline: Malawi A chronology of key events: 1st century AD - Bantu-speaking tribes invade the region inhabited by Twa and Fulani tribes. 13-15th centuries - Further migrations of Bantu-speaking people to the area. New settlers work with iron and dominate earlier inhabitants who are considered to be "stone-age." 1480 - Bantu tribes unite several smaller political states to form the Maravi Confederacy which at its height includes large parts of present-day Zambia and Mozambique plus the modern state of Malawi. 17th century - Portuguese explorers arrive from the east coast of present-day Mozambique. 1790-1860 - Slave trade increases dramatically. 1850 - Scottish missionary David Livingstone's exploration of the region paves the way for missionaries, European adventurers, traders. 1878 - Livingstonia Central African Mission Company from Scotland begins work to develop a river route into Central Africa to enable trade. 1891 - Britain establishes the Nyasaland and District Protectorate. 1893 - Name is changed to the British Central African Protectorate. White European settlers are offered land for coffee plantations at very low prices. Tax incentives force Africans to work on these plantations for several months a year, often in difficult conditions. 1907 - British Central African Protectorate becomes Nyasaland. 1915 - Reverend John Chilembwe leads a revolt against British rule, killing the white managers of a particularly brutal estate and displaying the head of one outside his church. He is shot dead by police within days. 1944 - Nationalists establish the Nyasaland African Congress. 1953 23 October - Despite strong opposition from the Nyasaland African Congress and white liberal activists, Britain combines Nyasaland with the Federation of Northern and Southern Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively). 1958 - Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, "the black messiah," denounces the federation and returns from the US and the UK, where he has been studying, to lead the Nyasaland African Congress. 1959 - Violent clashes between the Congress supporters and the colonial authorities lead to the banning of the organisation. Many leaders, including Banda, are arrested and a state of emergency is declared. Malawi Congress Party is founded as a successor to the Nyasaland African Congress. 1960 - Banda is released from Gwelo prison and attends talks in London with the British government on constitutional reform. 1961 - Elections held for a new Legislative Assembly. Banda's Malawi Congress Party wins 94% of the vote. 1963 - Territory is granted self-government as Nyasaland and Banda is appointed prime minister. Independence 1964 6 July - Nyasaland declares independence as Malawi. 1966 6 July - Banda becomes president of the Republic of Malawi. The constitution establishes a one-party state. Opposition movements are suppressed and their leaders are detained. Foreign governments and organisations raise concerns about human rights. 1971 - Banda is voted president-for-life. 1975 - Lilongwe replaces Zomba as capital. 1978 - First elections since independence. All potential candidates must belong to the Malawi Congress Party and be approved by Banda. He excludes many of them by submitting them to an English test. 1980s - Several ministers and politicians are killed or charged with treason. Banda reshuffles his ministers regularly, preventing the emergence of a political rival. 1992 - Catholic bishops publicly condemn Banda, sparking demonstrations. Many donor countries suspend aid over Malawi's human rights record. 1993 - President Banda becomes seriously ill. Voters in a referendum reject the one-party state, paving the way for members of parties other than the Malawi Congress Party to hold office. Muluzi elected 1994 - Presidential and municipal elections: Bakili Muluzi, leader of the United Democratic Front, is elected president. He immediately frees political prisoners and re-establishes freedom of speech. Banda announces his retirement from politics. 1997 - Banda dies in hospital in South Africa where he is being treated for pneumonia. 1999 - President Muluzi is re-elected for a second and final five-year term. 2000 - World Bank says it will cancel 50% of Malawi's foreign debt. 2002 - Drought causes crops to fail across southern Africa. Government is accused of worsening crisis through mismanagement and corruption, including selling off national grain reserves before drought struck. 2002 September - Railway line linking central Malawi and Mozambican port of Nacala reopens after almost 20 years, giving access to Indian Ocean. 2004 May - Government says it will provide free anti-viral drugs to Aids sufferers.
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Santorum camp pounces on Romney adviser's 'Etch A Sketch' comment By NBC's Mark Murray On the very day that Mitt Romney picked up a key endorsement from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), his campaign is now receiving criticism after a top adviser suggested that Romney could hit a "reset button" in the general election -- like someone shaking up an "Etch A Sketch." On CNN this morning, adviser Eric Fehrnstrom -- who worked for Romney when he was Massachusetts governor, as well as on his two presidential campaigns -- was asked if he was concerned that the GOP primary has forced Romney too far to the right, which could hurt him with moderate voters in the general. Fehrnstrom's answer: "Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again." He added, "But I will say, if you look at the exit polling data in Illinois, you'll see that Mitt Romney is broadly acceptable to most of the factions in the party. You have to do that in order to become the major party nominee. He's winning conservatives; he's winning Tea Party voters; he's winning men, women; he's winning Catholics and Protestants." The Santorum campaign quickly seized on Fehrnstrom's "Etch A Sketch" comment, charging that it was an admission that Romney will abandon his conservative positions in a general election. "We all knew Mitt Romney didn't have any core convictions, but we appreciate his staff going on national television to affirm that point for anyone who had any doubts," said Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley. "Voters can trust that Rick Santorum will say what he believes, and do what he says. They may not always agree with Rick Santorum, but they can trust him because they know he is a man of principle. Clearly, the same cannot be said of Governor Romney." The Obama campaign also piled on. Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter tweeted that Fehrnstrom "says on CNN that Romney will erase his hard right positions in general election like an etch-a-sketch. Yeah, don't think so." While it's commonplace for a general-election candidate to tack back to the center in a general election -- think Barack Obama shifting his position on renegotiating NAFTA -- this is particularly tricky territory for Romney, who once supported abortion rights (but now opposes them), who raised fees and revenues as Massachusetts governor (but now opposes that), and who championed an individual health-care mandate in his state (but now opposes a federal one).
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==Needs work==
This article needs a little work. ;)
I've trimmed some of the more obvious nonsense; if no-one else leaps in, I'll do this, but I'll be offline for most of the next three weeks or so. Some material I cut which may be usable:
"One of the political movements under the communist government in China. Communists are "left-wing," and this was apparently an attempt at purging "rightist" or anti-communist elements in the general populace. Being labeled a "rightist" was a sort of social death penalty during these times. Rightists could be sent to the countryside for "re-education."" Markalexander100
This article is far from complete. At least it should be up to the rehibilitation of these alleged rightists in 1978 - 1979. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Roland Longbow (talk • contribs). OK throughout my life I have heard the term "purge" used apologetically, euphemistically, or ambiguously. Do you mean that the rightist elements were stripped of party or post, run out of their homes, deported, executed, assasinated, disappeared? What does this mean?Toddster37
All of 'em. In contempory China the movement is always regarded as devastating to China's technicals and intellectuals. Dunno if some body has the time to work on it a bit. If you are purged, you are stripped of political power, often times either exiled or put under house arrest or put in jail. They rarely kill people outright although prison terms were often very harsh on people. But these offenses were rarely capital crimes and often they will be allowed to live.Yialanliu (talk)
==To be translated==
Below is a Chinese article trying to explain the origin of this Anti-rightist movement.
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Anti-Rightist Campaign
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New York man sentenced to life for subway suicide bomb plot By Jessica Dye
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Bosnian-born U.S. citizen was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for his role in planning a suicide bomb attack on New York City subways in 2009 at the behest of senior al Qaeda operatives. Adis Medunjanin, 28, was convicted in May by a federal jury in Brooklyn on nine counts including conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism and providing material support to al Qaeda. Prosecutors had urged U.S. District Judge John Gleeson to give Medunjanin the maximum penalty of life in prison, saying in a pre-sentencing court filing that he "committed a host of heinous crimes aimed at killing and maiming his fellow American citizens in order to alter and take revenge for American foreign policy." Medunjanin's accused co-conspirator Najibullah Zazi was arrested in September 2009, just days before Medunjanin and a third member of the plot, Zarein Ahmedzay, planned to carry out what U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called "one of the most serious terrorist threats" to the United States since the September 11 attacks. During Medunjanin's trial, prosecutors described how the three friends from Queens, New York, made a plan to travel overseas with the intent of joining up with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. They made it to Pakistan, where they were introduced to an al Qaeda facilitator. That facilitator took them to meet with senior al Qaeda operatives, who provided them with military training and persuaded them to return to the United States to carry out an attack in New York City. After their return, the three met to discuss their plans for a suicide attack, and settled on a target: New York City subways. Zazi began to assemble explosive devices at his family's home in Colorado, and drove to New York City with the materials in September 2009, prosecutors said. The plan was aborted when Zazi and Ahmedzay became suspicious that they were being monitored. After federal agents searched Medunjanin's home in January 2010, Medunjanin got into his car and sped erratically across the Whitestone Expressway in Queens, crashing his car into another vehicle in what prosecutors described as a last-ditch attempt to fulfill his suicide mission. Both Zazi and Ahmedzay pleaded guilty and testified against Medunjanin during his trial. Zazi, 27, is scheduled to be sentenced on December 14, and Ahmedzay, also 27, will be sentenced on May 10. (Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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Judge orders Hostess to mediate with union Twinkies won't die that easily after all. Hostess Brands Inc. and its second largest union will go into mediation to try and resolve their differences, meaning the Irving, Texas-based company won't go out of business just yet. The news came Monday after Hostess moved to liquidate and sell off its assets in bankruptcy court citing a crippling strike last week. Play Video Twinkies likely staying on store shelves The bankruptcy judge hearing the case says that the parties haven't gone through the critical step of mediation and asked the lawyer for the bakery's union to ask his client, who wasn't present, if he would agree to participate. The case is being heard by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York in White Plains, N.Y. Hostess, founded in 1930, said Nov. 16 it is going out of business and laying off all of its 18,500 workers after a national strike crippled its operations. The privately held Texas company filed for protection in January, its second trip through bankruptcy court in less than a decade. Play Video Hostess going out of business The company's planned liquidation would result in the closure of 33 bakeries, 565 distribution centers and 570 bakery outlet stores, according to Hostess. Thousands of members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike last week after rejecting in September a contract offer that cut wages and benefits. Hostess had already reached a contract agreement with its largest union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. "Many people have worked incredibly long and hard to keep this from happening, but now Hostess Brands has no other alternative than to begin the process of winding down and preparing for the sale of our iconic brands," CEO Gregory F. Rayburn said in a letter to employees last week.
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'Putin the peacemaker' tries talking to the U.S. public By Timothy Heritage
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has found many ways and places to browbeat the United States over the years. Munich was the venue for a 2007 speech in which he changed the tone of Russian foreign policy by railing against U.S. "global supremacy." The May military parade on Red Square has become a yearly platform to warn against U.S. hegemony and his annual news conferences are laced with anti-American bluster. But the latest choice for an attack, an op-ed article in The New York Times, is an unusual departure for Putin, even though it was not his first column for the newspaper - he wrote one defending his decision to send troops to war in Chechnya in 1999. Finding a way, as he put it, "to speak directly to the American people" underlines his growing confidence that a Russian proposal to put Syrian chemical arms under international control has enabled him to steal the diplomatic initiative and moral high ground from U.S. President Barack Obama. He now looks determined to press home the advantage by presenting himself whenever and wherever he can as the man leading global peace efforts in Syria, undermining Obama even in the pages of a leading U.S. newspaper. The attention the op-ed received in U.S., global and Russian media gave the Kremlin cause for some back-slapping on Thursday. "The idea came up at a very short notice. The latest edits were done last night," a Kremlin source said, suggesting foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov was one of the instigators and that work on it had continued until late on Wednesday night. The Kremlin is advised by a New York-based public relations company, Ketchum. Putin also gave the Associated Press, a U.S. news organisation, an interview last week to get his message across to the American public, but sources close to the Kremlin said it was the first such article in the U.S. press since 1999. The image he presented was of Russia as peacemaker, and the United States as warmonger, turning the tables on Obama after being portrayed in the West as an obstacle to peace for most of the time since the start of Syria's civil war in 2011. As if on cue, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad backed Putin up by telling a Russian television channel: "Syria is placing its chemical weapons under international control because of Russia. The U.S. threats did not influence the decision."
Washington was not impressed. "I was insulted," said John Boehner, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, saying the column demonstrated "why I have suggested I have doubts about the motives of the Russians and Assad." Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House, mocked Putin for the final line in the column, which said "God created us equal." She pointed out Russia has anti-gay propaganda laws. "He says that we are all God's children. I think that's good. I hope it applies to gays and lesbians in Russia as well," Pelosi said. A spokesman for the Pentagon said Putin was wrong to suggest in the piece that Syrian rebels were likely responsible. "Let me respond with the following on the Putin op-ed: President Putin has invested his credibility in transferring Assad's chemical weapons to international control and ultimately destroying them," said Pentagon spokesman George Little. "The world will note whether Russia can follow through on that commitment," Little told reporters. Putin's column was partly a response to Obama's address to the nation on Tuesday in which he said he would study Russia's plan but voiced sceptism about it, following a gas attack Obama blames on Assad's troops and Putin blames on rebel forces. In Russia, which is Syria's main ally and an important arms supplier, the article featured prominently in news bulletins, largely without comment by state media, but attracted satirical and derogatory remarks as well. Critics pointed out that Putin's 1999 article in the New York Times took the opposite tack by defending Russian military action in an internal conflict against separatists in Chechnya. Others noted that Russia had sent troops to Georgia in 2008 without U.S. Security Council approval, although Moscow said it was responding to Georgian military action against Russians inside Georgia's internationally recognised territory. Some portrayed Putin as hypocritical in warning the United States it must uphold international law because of accusations that Russia's judiciary is weak and bends to the Kremlin's will. "Life and law mean nothing to him," Garry Kasparov, an opposition leader, wrote on Twitter. Mocking the column, he wrote: "In (the) morning I expect to see a Putin cooking column in Le Monde and Putin football column in El Pais." Others derided Putin's decision to take up his pen because of Russia's poor record of protecting journalists.
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Walt Disney Studios chief Dick Cook abruptly leaves the company -- latimes.com With all the signs of a classic Hollywood shake-up, Dick Cook, the longtime head of Walt Disney Studios, abruptly left the company Friday afternoon after 38 years. The news, which came just as offices were emptying out for the weekend, stunned the entertainment industry for its suddenness, even as it revealed a rift between Cook and Disney Chief Executive Robert A. Iger. The studio has had an uneven box-office performance and has been struggling creatively. It lost money in its most recent financial quarter. A person close to Cook said the movie chief "didn't see it coming." He was summoned into a meeting and was told the studio "wanted to go in a different direction," said the person. A Disney spokesperson denied the report. But in a meeting Friday with colleagues, Cook described himself as "a square peg in a round hole," three people said. The first evidence of discontent bubbled to the surface in a conference call with analysts in May, when Iger described the studio's performance as "disappointing" -- and placed the blame on Burbank's doorstep, criticizing the choice of films and the execution. Cook's departure comes nearly three weeks after Disney agreed to buy comic-book publisher Marvel Entertainment, producer of the "Spider-Man" and "Iron Man" movies, for $4 billion. Disney's box-office performance for the last year has been propped up in large part by Pixar Animation Studios. Disney's attempts to create branded franchises that can be spread throughout the company's theme parks, TV and interactive divisions, a key priority, have been lackluster. July's "G-Force," March's "Race to Witch Mountain" and last Christmas' "Bedtime Stories" were all box-office disappointments. Still, this summer's Touchstone-branded romantic comedy "The Proposal" was a surprise hit, selling more than $161 million of tickets domestically. And April's "Hannah Montana: the Movie," based on the Disney Channel series, grossed a solid $80 million. Pixar's "Up" has already collected $415 million around the world and is likely to exceed $600 million after finishing its foreign run. Nonetheless, problems extended beyond the box office. Cook, the onetime Disneyland ride operator who rose to head the studio, is viewed as a traditionalist at a time when Iger is seeking new ways of doing business. Cook tended to be uncommunicative to the point of secretiveness -- a personal style that frustrated Iger, who emphasizes collaboration. Iger nonetheless lauded Cook's contributions to Disney, in a tenure that included the launch of 63 movies that exceeded $100 million in domestic box office, the release of "Toy Story" and the first release of a digital film, "Tarzan." "Dick Cook's outstanding creative instincts and incomparable showmanship have truly enriched this company and significantly impacted Disney's great legacy," Iger said. "We thank Dick for his tremendous passion for Disney, and his many accomplishments and contributions." Some of Hollywood's most prominent figures reacted to the news with dismay. Johnny Depp, star of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, said he was "shocked and very sad" to hear about Cook's abrupt departure. "He is the utmost gentleman," said Depp, whom Cook contacted personally in London. "He said, 'I'd like you to hear it from me before you hear it from someone else or read it.' He said today was my last day. He didn't give me a reason." In a statement, Cook said he had been contemplating stepping down for some time. "I have loved every minute of my 38 years that I have worked at Disney... from the beginning as a ride operator on Disneyland's steam train and monorail to my position as chairman of the Walt Disney Studios," he said. "To wrap up my Disney experience in a neatly bundled statement is close to impossible. But what I will say is... we have achieved many industry and company milestones." dawn.chmielewski @latimes.com
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NFL: Bucs' Wright suspended for four games for banned substance Tue Nov 27, 2012 1:01am EST (Reuters) - Tampa Bay cornerback Eric Wright has been suspended for four games for violating the NFL's policy on performance enhancing drugs. Wright, who was signed by the team in the off-season, had an appeal rejected by the league. Coach Greg Schiano confirmed the suspension. "I am extremely disappointed that the suspension was upheld at my appeal," Wright said in a statement. "I apologize to the entire Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization, my team mates, our great fans and my family who have stood by me through this entire process." Earlier this season, the Buccaneers (6-5) also lost cornerback Aqib Talib, who was hit with a four-game suspension for the same offense. Talib has since been traded to the New England Patriots. Wright has 39 tackles and an interception for the Buccaneers but missed Sunday's game against Atlanta because of an Achilles injury. (Writing by Jahmal Corner in Los Angeles; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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OK, we're going to learn how to do internal links. I want to be able to click and go to there. Because of the historical completion that the School has attained, it is now most necessary for us to stop, look back and ponder this extraordinary realization as a whole and also individually by those who have securely and accurately entered into a work that has required in itself considerable preparation, research and the presentation of the actual practice that we established as the Line of Integral Philosophy—the philosophy of completion and attainment of true spiritual realities. This extraordinary realization has become an actual reality at the top of our spiritual process as a School of Knowledge and Wisdom and is represented, envisioned and embodied in the School as the Divine Gnosis Deity (Knowledge—dark blue/indigo) and the Divine Sophia Deity (Wisdom—violet). These spiritual realities mean that we have entered into the highest degrees of Integral Theology, Theosophy and Theurgy which, in the Scarab, are represented by Sphere 9, the Enlightened Mind, up to Sphere 1, the Transcendental Mind. Beyond these Divine Minds of the Scarab are the Minds of Pure, Divine Transcendence of the Divine Pearl of the Scarab, containing the Universal Trinity of The One, The Good and The Truth. The Universal Trinity is represented by individual yantras: The One by the Universe yantra, The Good by the Universal Logos yantra and The Truth by the Golden Eye yantra. What is necessary for us to observe carefully is that these Transcendental Integral Spheres of Existence, Knowledge and Immortality (Spheres 9–1) are transcendent, realized and attained beyond matter, composition, generation, and destruction, and are only possible as a result of the total development of the Integral Spheres that are below Transcendence (Spheres 18–10), separated by the Enlightened Mind, Sphere 9, the first and basic Sphere of Transcendence. Because of the historical completion that the School has attained, it is now most necessary for us to stop, look back and ponder this extraordinary realization as a whole and also individually by those who have securely and accurately entered into a work that has required in itself considerable preparation, research and the presentation of the actual practice that we established as the Line of Integral Philosophy—the philosophy of completion and attainment of true spiritual realities. This extraordinary realization has become an actual reality at the top of our spiritual process as a School of Knowledge and Wisdom and is represented, envisioned and embodied in the School as the Divine Gnosis Deity (Knowledge—dark blue/indigo) and the Divine Sophia Deity (Wisdom—violet). These spiritual realities mean that we have entered into the highest degrees of Integral Theology, Theosophy and Theurgy which, in the Scarab, are represented by Sphere 9, the Enlightened Mind, up to Sphere 1, the Transcendental Mind. Beyond these Divine Minds of the Scarab are the Minds of Pure, Divine Transcendence of the Divine Pearl of the Scarab, containing the Universal Trinity of The One, The Good and The Truth. The Universal Trinity is represented by individual yantras: The One by the Universe yantra, The Good by the Universal Logos yantra and The Truth by the Golden Eye yantra. What is necessary for us to observe carefully is that these Transcendental Integral Spheres of Existence, Knowledge and Immortality (Spheres 9–1) are transcendent, realized and attained beyond matter, composition, generation, and destruction, and are only possible as a result of the total development of the Integral Spheres that are below Transcendence (Spheres 18–10), separated by the Enlightened Mind, Sphere 9, the first and basic Sphere of Transcendence. Because of the historical completion that the School has attained, it is now most necessary for us to stop, look back and ponder this extraordinary realization as a whole and also individually by those who have securely and accurately entered into a work that has required in itself considerable preparation, research and the presentation of the actual practice that we established as the Line of Integral Philosophy—the philosophy of completion and attainment of true spiritual realities. This extraordinary realization has become an actual reality at the top of our spiritual process as a School of Knowledge and Wisdom and is represented, envisioned and embodied in the School as the Divine Gnosis Deity (Knowledge—dark blue/indigo) and the Divine Sophia Deity (Wisdom—violet).
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Palin to pay Alaska nearly $7,000 for kids' trips JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will reimburse the state nearly $7,000 for costs associated with nine trips taken by her children, her attorney said Tuesday. Palin must reimburse the state within 120 days, according to a settlement agreement filed by a special investigator hired by the Alaska Personnel Board to investigate an ethics complaint filed against her. The exact amount will be determined by the Alaska Department of Administration, said Palin's attorney, Thomas Van Flein. He estimated the amount would be $6,800. There is no state law prohibiting the governor's family from traveling with her and the personnel board found no wrongdoing on the part of the governor. But the investigator, Timothy Petumenos, interpreted the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act to require that state only pay if the first family serves an important state interest. Petumenos said "some of the travel raised by the Complaint does not meet this standard," according to the agreement. Van Flein said 72 travel authorizations were studied, with nine found to be of questionable state interest. Those include airfare and one meal for her daughter Bristol Palin, who accompanied the governor to New York for Newsweek's Third Annual Women and Leadership Conference in October 2007. Other trips include Bristol attending "Beauty and the Beast" at the Valley Performing Arts Center, airfare for daughters Piper and Bristol to travel to Juneau from Anchorage for the State of the State address and airfare for Piper to attend the start of the Iron Dog snowmachine race and the Alaska Outdoor Council Banquet. Van Flein said the governor's action in reaching the agreement was voluntary and above what was legally and ethically required of her. "She did not have to do this. She did not have to reach this agreement and she's been fully cleared by this investigation," he said. "The problem that was raised by the complaint was determined to be a lack of clarity in the rules and regulations and a lack of familiarity, because of that lack of clarity, with long-term state employees whose job it is to handle this." The complaint was filed in October by Anchorage Democrat Frank Gwartney, 60, who alleged that Palin used her official position as governor for personal gain, violating a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Gwartney, a retired power company lineman, said he was not surprised that the personnel board, whose three members are appointed by the governor, failed to find wrongdoing. "I think it's really apparent that she was wrongfully using state funds to conduct personal business," he said. "They basically are an extension of the governor's office so I think they would be hard pressed to actually come out and condemn her as they should." Gwartney's complaint followed a report by The Associated Press that Palin charged the state more than $21,000 for her three daughters' commercial flights, including events where they weren't invited, and later ordered their expense forms amended to specify official state business. Administration officials have said Alaska law allows governors to charge the state for their family's travel if they conduct state business. Petumenos was asked to examine the complaint at the same time he was investigating allegations that Palin fired her public safety commissioner over his refusal to let go a state trooper involved in a contentious divorce with Palin's sister. That investigation found there was no probable cause to believe Palin or any other state official violated the Alaska Executive Ethics Act. In a separate legislative investigation, special counsel Stephen Branchflower found that Palin had abused her office but the firing was legal since Commissioner Walt Monegan was an at-will employee. The so-called "Troopergate" scandal became politically charged after Palin was tapped to be Republican presidential nominee John McCain's running mate.
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Sony Ericsson Z800i is a 3G mobile phone developed by Sony Ericsson and released in 2005. The Z800i is a phone that is identical to the Vodafone branded Sony Ericsson V800 (or 802SE in Japan). The difference between these two phones is that the Z800i can be found not branded to any mobile phone service provider, and it has different colour variations. The Z800i is available in two colours (or actually textures), Linear Silver and Titanium Silver. It is a 3G and Tri-band phone weighing 128 grams. It has a 1.3-megapixel rotating camera (that can rotate 180 degrees, called the MotionEye camera), that lets you take photos, video and use it during Video Calls. It is a quite well featured, for its time, 3G phone that supports WAP 2.0, UMTS (or the slower GPRS), polyphonic ringtones in MIDI up to 72 tones, and Java applications. You can store multimedia files in its internal memory (5 MBs) or in a Memory Stick PRO Duo card. ==Features==
Camera1.3-megapixel resolution (1280 x 960 pixels) with 16x digital zoom and photo light
MultimediaAudio playback - AAC, AMR, MP3, MIDI, WAV, WMV, XMF and TruetoneVideo playback - MP4, DiVX, 3GPMusic and Video Streaming is available
JavaVersion: MIDP 2.0BrowsingWAP 2.0, XHTML/HTML multimode browser
Battery performanceStandby time: 140 hoursVoice Talk time: 150 minVideo Talk time: 85 min
==See also==
Sony Ericsson V800
==External links==
Sony Ericsson Home Page
Z800i
Sony Ericsson Z800i
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== Summary ==
Artist's conception of the Douglas F6D Missileer. == Licensing: ==
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The Eckhart Branch Railroad is a historic railroad that operated in Maryland. The company was a subsidiary of the Maryland Mining Company of Eckhart Mines, Maryland. The railroad operated from 1846 to 1870, when it was absorbed into the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad. ==Corporate ownership and construction history==
The Maryland Mining Company (MMC) was incorporated in Maryland on March 12, 1829. The company built the railroad from Eckhart to Wills Creek, a length of, and later extended the line as the Potomac Wharf Branch, totalling. The railroad was acquired by the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad (C&P) in 1870. The Maryland Mining Company Railway from Eckhart Mines to Wills Creek following Braddock Run was completed in 1846. Wills Creek was bridged at the west end of the Cumberland Narrows with a four arch brick structure that stood until removed for flood control in 1998. The railway included two tunnels, the one closest to Cumberland (lower tunnel) being long, and the upper tunnel being long. The tunnels were separated by. The grade (slope) reached 3 percent in places. This branch was also the location of a large horseshoe curve, at Clarysville, with 180 degrees of a 30 degree curvature. The construction of Interstate 68 from the Vocke Road intersection to the bridges at Clarysville removed most of the evidence of the Eckhart Branch railroad in that area, including the tunnels. The Potomac Wharf Branch was built between 1846 and 1850, as an extension of the Eckhart Branch into Cumberland. The MMC rail line connected with the Mount Savage Railroad at the west end of the Narrows. After passing through the Narrows on the north side, it recrossed Wills Creek on a bridge (no longer present) just east of the present U.S. Route 40 bridge. Some of the tracks were still visible as of 1999 near some billboards, and a gas station. A picture of a classic wreck scene, circa 1860, shows that bridge collapsed into Wills Creek, with the engine C.E. Detmold hanging on. The original Potomac Wharf Branch bridge was a deck plate girder structure, with two support pillars in the creek. It was built in 1849, and rebuilt after the Detmold accident. It survived until a flood in 1936, and was not replaced. The Potomac Wharf Branch was used to carry coal to flat-bottom Potomac River boats, and to canal boats, before a canal wharf facility for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O Canal) was completed. The flat-bottom boats ferried coal down the Potomac to Georgetown, Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, Virginia during the Spring, when the water level was high enough for navigation. After the C&O Canal reached Cumberland, canal boats could enter the Potomac River through the guard locks. The original Potomac River wharf had been built by John Galloway Lynn of Cumberland, and was known as the Lynn Wharf. It ran along what now is Avirett Avenue. It was deeded to the Maryland Mining Company in 1849. The Cumberland Coal and Iron Company (CC&I), chartered in 1850, purchased the MMC mines and railroad property, including the village of Eckhart, in April 1852. The rail line was extended to the nearby Hoffman mines in 1859. Cumberland Coal & Iron was in turn acquired by the Consolidation Coal Company in 1870. At that point, the Eckhart Branch became part of the C&P Railroad, also owned by Consolidation Coal. However, for a period of 20 years, from 1850 to 1870, the Eckhart Branch Railroad operated independently of the C&P. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) provided early motive power (locomotives) and rolling stock to the Allegany County coal short line railroads. The B&O supplied at least eight Camel engines to the MMC, as evidenced in notes by locomotive builder Ross Winans. These included B&O engines nos. 161, 162, and 163, among others. In addition, Winans, among other builders, sold engines, tenders, and coal to the various mining companies. Passenger service was provided on the Eckhart Branch sometime before 1853, and the C&P continued to use a gravity passenger car on that line. The passenger car was then hauled back up the mountain at the end of a string of empty coal hoppers. Servicing, watering, and coaling facilities were located in Eckhart.
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If I Want Revenge reaches the winner's circle on Saturday it would put IEAH in some heady company, joining racing luminaries like Calumet Farm and Penny Chenery of Secretariat fame as consecutive Derby winners. "I think coming back here this year kind of helped solidify things," said Nick Sallusto, who helped orchestrate the deal to buy into I Want Revenge. "There's always a fear when people burst on the scene that they may have been one hit wonders and stuff like that."
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New Report From The Conference Board Features Best Practices in Managing Information Vendor Portfolios NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from The Conference Board outlines a set of best practices in acquiring and managing licensed information resources, with a focus on controlling costs. The report, part of The Conference Board Council Perspectives™, is based on discussions, interviews and other relevant data from The Conference Board Information Research and Management Council, a group comprised of senior information professionals from leading organizations. To gain the most value, information executives must implement a content management strategy that maximizes use, controls costs and reduces usage restrictions, while being aligned with the company's strategic direction. "An investment in vendor resources and services that is based on strategy is becoming increasingly important," says Barbara Hirsh, chair of the council, and Director of Information Resources and Knowledge Management at NERA Economic Consulting. "Senior managers want to know how each major contract connects to the company's strategic objectives, and they expect information professionals to employ best practices in managing vendor portfolios." For most companies, acquiring information is costly and licensing complex. Information professionals are best positioned to ensure the organization gets the most value for its investment. This report provides a best practices roadmap for how to achieve that goal. Some of the report highlights include: Run the portfolio with an overall strategy in mind. Includes developing a comprehensive information needs assessment, creating a strategic accounting process, conducting annual budget reviews, staging an effective rollout of information services, and teaching users key terms and conditions for using information and data. Evaluate the content in the information portfolio to increase efficiency. Includes conducting periodic content reviews to identify changing needs, product overlap, and under- or heavily used sources to be sure the organization gets the best value for its dollar. Use metrics to determine the portfolio's value. Includes guidelines on collecting and analyzing data to determine the ROI of the portfolio. Manage contracts through a tracking system and standardize those contracts to streamline budgeting. Includes processes for making sure contracts remain up to date, working with global contracts, and aligning contract durations with the organization's fiscal year. Develop a strategy to obtain desired cost reductions and get the best deal possible. Includes tactics to use in competitive bidding, negotiating terms, and knowing the competition. Source: Best Practices in Managing Information Vendor Portfolios The Conference Board Council Perspectives™ CP-025 2010 For a copy of this report: http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=1870&subtopicid=90 About The Conference Board Information Research and Management Council For over two decades, The Conference Board Information Research and Management Council (IRMC) has been meeting to share best practices, discuss current and emerging issues, identify trends, and develop responses in a candid, confidential exchange of views and experience. They disseminate their knowledge through briefings and white papers of interest to corporate senior management. Members include senior managers from world-class organizations and academic institutions who lead the information management, research and analysis, and other closely related functions within their organizations. About The Conference Board The Conference Board is a global, independent business membership and research association working in the public interest. Our mission is unique: To provide the world's leading organizations with the practical knowledge they need to improve their performance and better serve society. The Conference Board is a non-advocacy, not-for-profit entity holding 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status in the United States. www.conference-board.org Follow The Conference Board
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Paracyclopia is a genus of copepods in family Pseudocyclopiidae, containing only the species P. naessi. It is endemic to Bermudan karsts and is critically endangered. ==References==
Calanoida
Fauna of Bermuda
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Rolling Stones release new cheap tickets for Staples concert Maybe the Rolling Stones were inspired by their recent cheap Echo Park club gig. Or maybe even their longtime fans have an upper limit on what they can pay for a show these days. Ahead of the band's Staples Center "50 and Counting" show Friday night, the promoter AEG announced that a new block of more than 1,000 $85 seats (some of the cheapest on offer) will be made available for last-minute purchase. AEG told Reuters that the price cut came after a final walk-through of the stage design revealed that more unobstructed seats were available than previously thought. PHOTOS: The Rolling Stones through the decades But fans looking for a last-minute Stones ticket might be surprised that the set from the oft-declared "biggest rock band in the world" is, well, not at all sold out. As of Thursday, a lot of seats were still available in the $250-$600 range - exactly the high-rolling sections that gave the Stones their past eye-popping ticket grosses. The band grossed $550 million on their last tour in 2005-07, with more than 144 dates. The new $85 seats will be placed, according to AEG, all around the arena, including in the prime "tongue pit" spot near the stage. Earlier this week, music-biz spitballer Bob Lefsetz published a scathing take on the Stones' undersold tour, saying "It's a disaster" and detailing the many prime seating options still available a week before the show. "The bloom is off the rose, there's no story, people just don't care." PHOTOS: Iconic rock guitars and their owners It's hard to imagine the Stones - famous for triple-digit concert tickets and elaborate tax-avoidance plans - are suddenly offering a whole batch of cheap seats out of a burst of empathy for working-class fans. But if you got left behind at the El Rey and didn't want to sell your plasma to make it to Staples, now you might have some options - even if it comes with a small side of humble pie for Jagger and Co.
The Rolling Stones invade Echo Park PHOTOS: The Rolling Stones through the decades PHOTOS: The Rolling Stones at the Echoplex
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Kanye West's Yeezus tour postponed after damaged gear Page last updated at 08:52 GMT, Friday, 1 November 2013 Kanye West is postponing his Yeezus tour after some equipment was damaged. A statement on the rapper's website said a video for the show and a 60ft LED screen were "damaged beyond repair" in an accident on the way to his Vancouver show. It added that it was "impossible" to do the North American shows until the "essential" gear could be rebuilt. The dates are part of West's first solo tour for five years, which started on 19 October in Seattle. Continue reading the main story Kanye West will not compromise on bringing the show, as it was originally envisioned and designed, to his fans Kanye West official website Reviews of the show describe a mountain as part of the set and the rapper being joined on stage by an actor dressed as Jesus. The statement continued: "This gear is central to the staging of The Yeezus Tour, and central to the creative vision put forth by Kanye West and his design team. "Kanye West will not compromise on bringing the show, as it was originally envisioned and designed, to his fans. "The Vancouver, Denver and Minneapolis dates have been postponed. Further details on the affected tour dates will be announced shortly." Kenrick Lamar is one of the support acts on the Yeezus tour In September, West said he had experienced "glass ceilings" as a black musician, fashion designer and businessman in an interview with Zane Lowe on Radio 1. The rapper also credited Michael Jackson with breaking down barriers for black artists in the music industry. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter
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John Grisham: "We are all racists" Author John Grisham talks to the BBC about growing up in the racist southern states of the USA and the attitudes that left him with. Speaking to BBC Newsnight's Kirsty Wark about his new novel Sycamore Row, Grisham said "We are all racists at different levels. We prefer our race and we are quick to condemn others."
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I'd say absolutely not. I'd say I'm not giving you a freaking dime. I'd say, if I even give you a nickel more, you'd have to stand on the Empire State Building, and drop every person you endorsed, and hold Malcolm up and say he's the best thing since sliced bread. Matter of fact, he's better than sliced bread. The allusion to Ezekiel ("Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles") by way of "Hamlet" ("He took my father grossly, full of bread;/ With all his crimes broad blown") is surely no accident. How helpful such an endorsement ("better than sliced bread") would have proved to be in a mayoral campaign we will never know. Last week, Smith was arrested in a pre-dawn raid and, if convicted, could face forty-five years for corruption and bribery. (His lawyer says that he will plead not guilty.) Life imitates art more than art imitates life - this we know. But rarely has life gone about its business with such audacity and aplomb. ♦
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==Barnstar==
Thanks for your note! No problem - you are doing great work there! - Ahunt (talk)
==Thanks for the help==
... with the redirect issue on The Rest of the Story. I didn't mean for you to do the work for me, but I appreciate it. I knew how to fix the one I found but wasn't sure whether that would mess other things up. I'm glad there are people around here who are smarter than I am!
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I'd hate to just remove the discussion of it, however; someone needs to make a section for obsolete uniforms. 75.142.83.176 (talk)
and good riddance! go to navy uniform regs and look at tropical dinner dress. what a goofy looking get-up! almost (but not quite) as bad as the enlisted tropical short uniform.you know, white shorts with black anklet socks and black shoes. ugh!Toyokuni3 (talk)
==Saber vs. sword==
the unregistered user who changed sword to saber was probably looking at one of various commercial websites, who also get it wrong. if you go to http:://www-nmcp.med.navy.mil/EduRes/AcademicAffairs/Contacts/chapter3.pdf, pages 3-24 & 3-25, Full Dress White, under Prescribable Items you find 'Sword (LCDR and above) 3501.84". as i said, various commercial websites, including marlow and white, call it a saber. they probably think this looks better for marketing, but they are wrong. a saber is by definition a curved 'backsword,' used primarily by cavalry. very few horses aboard ship and the naval officer's dress sword is straight.Toyokuni3 (talk)
== Warfare pins ==
I was told there was one way a navy member could wear three warfare pins on there uniform. Which way is that? There isn't, according to US Navy Uniform Regulations.—Preceding unsigned comment added by (talk • contribs)
This is true. You cannot wear three warfare pins; you only get to wear two. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FloydianHate (talk • contribs)
==New dress whites==
Recruits coming out of boot camp in February are receiving the "fancy crackerjack" dress white uniforms that were proposed in 2007 along with the throwback khakis. How should this be handled? It's not really a new uniform, just an update on an existing uniform. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lady Arwyn (talk • contribs)
==Service Khaki Headgear==
In the Service Khaki section, it mentions 3 types of authorized headgear, but mentions only two. The regs only state 2, which is about as credible of source as you can get: http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/support/uniforms/uniformregulations/chapter3/MaleChief/MC_Service/Pages/ServiceKhaki.aspx
== ion the situation is further confused by the article's lack of structure (e.g. section breifly touching on on CPOs & officers and enlisted wedged in between sections for Service Dress and Full Dress. 66.65.94.53 (talk)
== Bootcloak ==
When I served in the Navy until about five years ago, the bootcloak was always the most exotic entry in the uniform catalogue, since none of us had ever actually seen it worn around. Perhaps a knowledgeable authority could write something about it here? CRCulver
it's 'boatcloak'. sheeesh! bootcloak!? it's still authorized, but try finding one.Toyokuni3 (talk)
== Obsolete ==
I think a seperate obsolete section should be created once the transition to the new uniforms is complete. That way you know which is currently in use, and which are already out-dated. 205.174.22.26
i made a new article on the NWUs. someone put the picture in there because i don't know how—Preceding unsigned comment added by (talk • contribs)
Yes, we need to break obsolete uniforms away from the modern ones. Putting in information for the new uniforms is good, but not good enough. Having obsolete uniforms mixed in with the current uniforms is just incredibly confusing for readers. 66.65.94.53 (talk)
== Cleanup Needed ==
This article needs some serious cleanup. There's few references for items that sailors take for granted; yeah we call winter blues "Johnny Cashes" but where's the reference? I call Service dress blues "crackerjacks", my old LPO called 'em "crackerjacks", never heard them called "Monkey Suits." It's all original research without references, though. Ballcaps aren't authorized for wear with service khakis; need a reference for it though. Oh, and the sections on the new working/service uniforms needs serious updates.
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Janne Korhonen (born March 30, 1970 in Oulu, Finland), 193 cm/120 kg (6′4″/265 lbs/18 stone 11 lbs), reach 206 cm (6′9″) is a Finnish taekwondo athlete. He used to compete in the ITF (International Taekwon-Do Federation)'s competitions. His best achievements are three personal European Championship gold medals in 1992, 1993 and 1999. Korhonen started to train athletics and cross-country skiing at an early age. He started combat sports at the age of 12. After a few years of karate, he started taekwondo. After being promoted as a black belt in 1991, he debuted in the national team of his native country. His competitive career in taekwondo lasted from 1988 to 1999. During that period of time he participated European Championships five times and World Championships twice, among other international and national competitions. Korhonen also cross-trained multiple other sports to improve his performance in taekwondo. On field, for example, he threw 2 kg discus 58.32m., and on track, ran 100m in 11,2 secs. His standing long jump peaked at 340 cm and power clean at 190 kg. His instructor on the early years of training was Senior Master Fikret Güler, 8 dan. Janne korhonen is a medical doctor by profession..
==See also==
Korean martial arts
Taekwon-Do
International Taekwondo Federation
==References==
Taekwon-do European Championships` results AETF's statistics
Tilastopaja`s statistics
==External links==
Janne Korhonen in Finnish
1970 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Oulu
Finnish taekwondo practitioners
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highest chart position reached, please?
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Massive destruction as typhoon flattens Philippine city TACLOBAN, Philippines, Nov 9 - One of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall churned through the Philippine archipelago in a straight line from east to west and devastated central provinces, killing at least 100 people in a surge of flood water, officials said on Saturday. The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan is expected to rise sharply as rescue workers reach areas cut off by the fast-moving storm, whose circumference eclipsed the whole country and which late on Saturday was heading for Vietnam. Roads in the coastal city of Tacloban in the central Leyte province, one of the worst-hit areas, were either under water or blocked by fallen trees and power lines and debris from homes blown away by Haiyan. Bodies covered in plastic were lying on the streets. "The last time I saw something of this scale was in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami," said Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, head of the UN disaster assessment co-ordination team sent to Tacloban. "This is destruction on a massive scale. There are cars thrown like tumbleweed and the streets are strewn with debris." The category 5 "super typhoon" weakened to a category 4 on Saturday, though forecasters said it could strengthen again over the South China Sea en route to Vietnam. Authorities in 15 provinces in Vietnam have started to call back boats and prepare for possible landslides. Nearly 300,000 people were moved to safer areas in two provinces alone - Da Nang and Quang Nam - according to the government's website. The Philippines has yet to restore communications with officials in Tacloban, a city of about 220,000, but a government official estimated at least 100 were killed and more than 100 wounded. The national disaster agency has yet to confirm the toll but broken power poles, trees, bent tin roofs and splintered houses littered the streets of the city about 580km (360 miles) southeast of Manila. The airport was destroyed as raging seawater swept through the city. "Almost all houses were destroyed, many are totally damaged. Only a few are left standing," said Major Rey Balido, a spokesman for the national disaster agency. Local television network ABS-CBN showed images of looting in one of the city's biggest malls, with residents carting away everything from appliances to suitcases and grocery items. About a million people took shelter in 37 provinces after President Benigno Aquino appealed to those in the typhoon's path to leave vulnerable areas. "For casualties, we think it will be substantially more," Aquino told reporters. Officials started evacuating residents from low-lying areas, coastlines and hilly villages as early as three days before the typhoon struck on Friday, helping to limit the loss of life, several officials said. But not all headed the call to evacuate. "I saw those big waves and immediately told my neighbours to flee. We thought it was a tsunami," said Floremil Mazo, a villager in southeastern Davao Oriental province. Meteorologists said the impact may not have been as strong as feared because the storm was moving so quickly, reducing the risk of flooding and landslides from torrential rain, the biggest causes of typhoon casualties in the Philippines. Ferry services and airports in the central Philippines remained closed, hampering aid deliveries to Tacloban, although the military said three C-130 transport planes managed to land at its airport on Saturday. At least two people were killed on the tourist destination island of Cebu, three in Iloilo province and another three in Coron town in southwestern Palawan province, radio reports said. "I never thought the winds would be that strong that they could destroy my house," LynLyn Golfan of Cebu said in a television interview while sifting through the debris. By Saturday afternoon, the typhoon was hovering 765km west of San Jose in southwestern Occidental Mindoro province, packing winds of a maximum 185kph, with gusts of up to 220kph. The storm lashed the islands of Leyte and Samar with 275-kph wind gusts and 5-6 metre (15-19 ft) waves on Friday before scouring the northern tip of Cebu province. It weakened slightly as it moved west-northwest near the tourist island of Boracay, later hitting Mindoro island. Haiyan was the second category 5 typhoon to hit the Philippines this year after Typhoon Usagi in September. An average of 20 typhoons strike every year, and Haiyan was the 24th so far this year. Last year, Typhoon Bopha flattened three towns in southern Mindanao, killing 1,100 people and causing damage of more than $1 billion.
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Weiner in New NY Campaign Ad: I Won't Quit New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner has released a new campaign video saying he won't quit the race. The 1 minute video was posted on his campaign's website Tuesday evening. Speaking directly into the camera, the former congressman addresses politicians and newspaper editors who have said he should quit. He says they don't know New York or him and that quitting isn't what New Yorkers do, they "fight through tough things." Last week, Weiner acknowledged exchanging sexually explicit messages online after similar behavior spurred his resignation from Congress in 2011. He says in the video that when "embarrassing" things in a person's private life become public, the person should talk about it. A new poll released Monday found Weiner's support fell from 26 percent last week to 16 percent.
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The Pope responded by saying, "I believe in God, but the only thing that scares me is Muhammed Faye!" The fan then turned to Kaiser Sose, as his head exploded at the mere mention of Faye's name. 29. Faye played a game of 1:2 against both Superman and Batman, at the same time. The loser had to wear his underwear on the outside of his clothes. 30. In public forums with GT fans, Coach Paul Hewitt has mentioned Faye briefly. All he has said was that he's another new player, he has practiced this past year with the team and he is now eligible to play. CPH said he definitely benefited greatly from the year of practice and will contribute. He did NOT mention his 145 inch vertical jump, his 84% 3-point shooting percentage, or his ability to walk on water. (That's shooting from the opposite 3 point line, of course!) 31. Faye's "Fission Vision" has proved to be a problem for Mouhammad lately. He has recently acquired from Los Alamos a pair of Atomic Diffuser goggles until he learns to blink. Growing up he never blinked and consequentially contributed to the growth of the Sahara near his native land. After vaporizing most of North Georgia's BB goals he was forced to face Florida while dribbling up court in pick up games. This was discontinued, however, when forest fires started raging out of control there recently. Argonne National Laboratory is now working on developing his anti fusion goggles next so when Faye has a cup of coffee in the morning after he has a good night's sleep he doesn't turn the training table into the surface of the sun. Argonne Labs has requested that no one associated with Faye surprise, shock, or present him with any incredible material that may cause a wide-eyed response until these goggles are fully developed. Because of this, Faye is no longer permitted to view BOTD posts on the Hive's Water Cooler. 32. Acronyms: a. Fantastically Amazing Yellowjacket Extrordinaire, b. Freakishly Athletic YoYo Embodiment Source: APAMF - Arbitrary Post About M. Faye. === Sources ===
http://www.radarhoops.com/basketball_camp.html
http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200605190928.html
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news?slug=rivals-16277&prov=rivals&type=lgns
s own "possee," the idolized Faye has a cult, is a message board cult hero or, moreso, "Faye is The Cult." Fans already realize that for the elusive Muha, "none of us are witnesses." The evolving "Legend of The Fayebulous," who has yet to be witnessed in any photographs or videos, has begun to grow exponentially "On the Flats" of the GT Campus, within the ATL sporting community, and beyond the farthest reaches of the universe....well, make that of the internet, sans Athens, GA. Among the recently, most noted Fayebulous Legends are:
1. One time, after saving the world, Mouhammad was late for his team’s final game of the season. He arrived in the nick of time with his team down by 4 with.7 seconds left on the clock. The other team, knowing that their chances of winning had completely disappeared, tried to intentionally foul Faye by raking his eyes rather than let him score two 3-pointers in the time left. It was, however, too late… They fouled him just as Faye hit the full court shot. Still blinded, Faye refused to be taken out of the game and calmly made the two intentional foul shots helping his team win the game. Afterwards, the other team’s coach walked up to him and told Faye that he must have ice in his veins. To which Mouhammad replied, “Nope, sulfuric acid.” Then Faye left to save the world again. 2. Scientists incorrectly believe the hole in ozone was caused by green house gases. It was, in fact, created when Mouhammad broke through the atmosphere the first time he tried to dunk the ball at age 2. He has learned to gauge his hops better and has not broken through since. 3. There was no light until Mouhammad first opened his eyes. Everything was pitch black up until that point. 4. Mouhammad blinks his eyes over 25 million times per second. He has to. If he looks at you for longer than 1/1 millionth of a second, you will vaporize. 5.
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Why I fell in love with Tucson, a city that will find its own special way to heal A hearse with the remains of US district judge John Roll leaves St Elizabeth Ann Seton church after his funeral in Tucson, Arizona. Photograph: Chris Carlson/AP A long time ago, I fell in love with Tucson, Arizona, at first sight. It was to do with a lifelong affair with the American south-west and its desert - its infinite space, its vast indifference, its scintillating light and occult shadows. To do with the cry of coyotes in warm night air and the lilac light of dawn fading infinite constellations of stars. Perhaps it was also to do with old-fashioned phones in the Congress Hotel where John Dillinger stayed shortly before his arrest in 1934, the old cocktail bar and a band thrashing away in that cavernous room. On the morning of President Barack Obama's election in 2008, I found myself in a sleepy, hard-line Republican corner of California, and thought: where best within driving distance to watch TV tonight? I headed for the Congress in Tucson seven hours away, watched the victory on a big screen in the backyard, and joined in the dancing when the band struck up at 2am. Two years later, working again in Tucson, I made a decision: to spend as much of the rest of my life as possible in this place. I bought a faux-adobe house on the edge of town with 3.3 acres of desert and 19 saguaro cactuses before you reach the border of my property line. The sun rises from behind the Catalina mountains on to the back porch and sets over the Tucson mountains at the front. Two of the most decent people I know, a Mexican nephew-and-uncle team called James and Rene, fixed the place up a treat, quickly and proudly - recently they planted a lime tree, a grapefruit tree, a tangerine tree and a lemon tree. Bob Feinman, the doyen of Spanish-speaking radio in Tucson (although he is Jewish, from New York, which says a lot about Tucson) introduced the city to me this way: "In Phoenix, they pave the desert as far from their houses as they can. In Tucson, we welcome it to the front door." The usual thumbnail sketch of Tucson portrays a funky, dusty town that looks ugly from the freeway, but is the south-west's best-kept secret. Not as contrived as Santa Fe, New Mexico, but with that same feel of the island of ponytails, bikers and students in a sea of guns, good ol' boys and golf courses. Of course, there are wealthy people too, but of a kind - Linda McCartney was one of them and Angie Bowie retreated here. Crucially, Tucson is only 70 miles from Mexico and almost everyone in the southern half of the city has relatives across the border. Before last weekend's bloodshed - in which congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot and six others killed - propelled him to international fame, everyone knew Sheriff Clarence Dupnik as the eight-times-elected tough-guy-with-principle Democrat who last year refused to implement the Arizona state immigration law requiring spot-checks on Mexicans, because it was "racist." Most people in a racially tolerant town agreed with him, even conservative friends unhappy with the idea of splitting a family by deporting half of it. Not everybody becomes good friends with the real estate agents they buy houses through, but then not everyone buys houses through Anne and Eddie McKechnie. Anne came from Wales via Texas, Eddie from Washington state - a stunt man in cowboy movies: gets blown through windows and thrown off horses and he's damned good at it. We go with Anne and Eddie to a dive bar called the Wagon Wheel where good ol' boys, Mexicans and Native Americans with bandy legs (from horseback-riding) drink and dance wearing stetsons. Last weekend's shooting "happened around the corner from our house, at our local shopping centre," says Anne. "The people were an epitome of what Tucson is like, and its citizens: people that had gone to mass that morning, retirees, proactive citizens, children active in the community, partaking in something that casually happens in Tucson all the time." Anne and Eddie chose to live in Tucson because of the eclectic nature of the town, its long history as one of the oldest continually inhabited places in the US, and the natural beauty of its surroundings, its mountainous basin, its wildlife, and the warmth of the weather and the people. "The Tucsonians are friendly, family orientated people who bring you into the fold and joke that if you have been here a few weeks then you are natives!"
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China Arrests Man Over Fake Plane Bomb Threats A Chinese aviation industry news website says a man has been arrested for allegedly making fake bomb threats against several domestic flights bound for Shanghai. It's the second time in a week that Chinese flights have been threatened with fake bomb threats. A man is in police custody for allegedly making such calls Wednesday. China Aviation Resources Net said Saturday that a man surnamed Ji and from the eastern city of Yancheng admitted to making the prank calls Friday afternoon, grounding several flights departing from cities including Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing and Shenzhen. The official Xinhua News Agency says the Chongqing bomb threat delayed all outbound flights and forced inbound flights to return on Friday evening. Yancheng police confirmed the arrest Saturday but declined to provide further details.
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AC Milan 2 Barcelona 0: match report "The result is very bad, we can't deny that," reflected Roura, still simmering over an apparent handball in the build-up to Boateng's goal. "Maybe it is too harsh, a bit excessive given they only really had two chances. But Milan are always difficult to play against, and this was not our best game. We are confident for the return leg and believe that at our stadium, on our pitch, with our fans, we can turn it around." It was an optimistic statement, for should they add to their Herculean efforts here with an away goal at the Nou Camp on March 12, Barcelona would suddenly need to score four. The San Siro pitch appeared to cut up badly, at times disrupting Barcelona's passing rhythm, but the credit belonged all to Milan, who had little need for the cup-tied Mario Balotelli. Between them, Riccardo Montolivo and Kevin Constant had found a solution to the apparently age-old problem of how to stop Messi, constantly suffocating his space whenever he dared to drift out wide. Roura's decision to play Fabregas rather than Iniesta on the left also looked dubious, as Barcelona conspicuously lacked their lethal signature pass from midfield. While they were undoubtedly slick for periods of the first half, their triangular passing patterns were curiously aimless. Milan, sensing that there was no final ball to endless pretty build-up play, saw that they had a chance to take hold of the game. When Cristian Zapata hesitated in attack, Muntari rushed in to retrieve, threading an audacious cross-field pass towards Stephan El Shaarawy, fractionally too long for the stretching Italian. Boateng clipped the ball past Carles Puyol to create another opening for El Shaarawy, whose touch was too strong and allowed Victor Valdes to clear. But again the powerful forward, known here only as "Prince," highlighted his talent by swinging in a cross to the far post that proved too strong for his Rossoneri team-mates. While Barcelona reshuffled to a more direct approach early in the second half, with Iniesta playing more centrally, the change did little to unshackle them as Montolivo and his well-drilled midfield brigade continued to stifle their creativity. What the game required to break the impasse was a moment of controversy. Montolivo's 30-yard strike plainly cannoned off the arm of Zapata, straight into the path of Boateng, who pirouetted on the edge of the box before driving his finish beyond Victor Valdes. Barça were indignant, especially Puyol, but all they received for their troubles was a booking for Gerard Piqué. The goal produced the shot of energy the match needed and Milan attempted increasingly to pounce on the counter-attack, as when Pazzini unleashed a volley that failed to trouble Valdes. Barcelona became desperate, with Xavi muscled off the ball in his quest for the equaliser, before Iniesta belatedly connected with a right-foot shot that flashed wide of Milan goalkeeper Christian Abbiati. But it was to become better, much better for Milan as they gained in confidence from their guests" toothlessness. Substitute M'Baye Niang forced Puyol off a long ball into the penalty area, and deftly knocked it across to El Shaarawy in the middle. From there the 20 year-old made the rest look easy, looping the ball over his man to the onrushing Muntari, who delivered an exquisite volley past Valdes. The San Siro tifosi were in ecstasy. The home side had stuck fast to their game-plan and, courtesy of their star pair of Boateng and Muntari, it worked spectacularly. Made in Milan this triumph may have ultimately been but it was one put together, with glorious improbability, in Portsmouth.
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In the Blockade of Almeida (14 April – 10 May 1811) a French garrison under Antoine François Brenier de Montmorand was surrounded by approximately 13,000 Anglo-Allied soldiers led by Generals Sir Alexander Campbell, 1st Baronet and Sir William Erskine, 2nd Baronet. After a French relief attempt failed, Brenier and his troops broke out at night after blowing up portions of the fortress. To the fury of the British army commander Arthur Wellesley, Viscount Wellington, most of the French escaped due to their commander's single-minded determination, British fumbling, and remarkably good luck. The action took place during the Peninsular War portion of the Napoleonic Wars. Almeida, Portugal is located near the Spanish border about northeast of Lisbon. The town was originally captured from a Portuguese garrison during the 1810 Siege of Almeida. ==Background==
On 11 October 1810, Marshal André Masséna's French army found itself confronted by the elaborately-built and well-defended Lines of Torres Vedras in its invasion of Portugal. Foiled by the virtually impregnable defenses, the French commander halted to wait for reinforcements. Unable to secure enough food, the French army wasted away from starvation and illness. By 1 January 1811, the 65,000-strong army had shrunk to 46,500. Massena reluctantly retreated from Portugal beginning on 6 March. The British army of Viscount Wellington beat the French II Corps of General of Division Jean Reynier at the Battle of Sabugal on 3 April 1811. The next day, the British invested the fortress of Almeida. After Marshal André Masséna's retreat from Portugal, the French installed a garrison of 1,400 men under Brenier in the fortress. These troops were blockaded in the town by forces under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Since the Anglo-Portuguese Army had no heavy guns to breach the walls, they were forced to starve the garrison out. Because of this, this operation was technically a blockade rather than a siege. From 3 to 5 May 1811, Masséna failed to relieve Almeida in the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro. During this time, the blockade was maintained by Major General William Erskine's 5th and Major General Alexander Campbell's 6th Divisions, plus Count Barbacena's 300-man Portuguese cavalry brigade. Campbell guarded the south and west sides of the fortress with too many soldiers and placed his men too far from the city. Though instructed by Wellington to block the Barba del Puerco bridge on the afternoon of the 10th, Erskine neglected to forward the necessary orders in time. ==Escape==
With great skill, Brenier slipped his men through the Anglo-Portuguese lines on the night of 10-11 May. The fortifications were rigged with explosives and blew up after the French cleared out. After overrunning a Portuguese outpost, Brenier headed northwest toward the Barba del Puerco bridge. Campbell and Brigadier General Denis Pack gave chase with some troops, but a British colonel whose regiment was stationed near the breakthrough failed to pursue. Another regiment arrived at the Barba del Puerco, but since the French had not gotten there yet, the unit marched to another location. The French were intercepted just as they reached the bridge and numbers of them were killed or captured. A total of 360 Frenchmen became casualties during the night. An unwise attempt by the 36th Foot Regiment to storm the bridge was repelled with 35 casualties by the French 31st Light Infantry Regiment from Reynier's II Corps. An enraged Wellington later wrote,
==Notes==
==References==
Battles of the Peninsular War
Battles of the Napoleonic Wars
Battles involving the United Kingdom
Battles involving France
Battles involving Portugal
Conflicts in 1811
1811 in Portugal
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Moment of truth for Tomic as Federer showdown arrives By Greg Stutchbury
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - It will be time for Australia's Bernard Tomic to put up or shut up when he faces 17-times grand-slam champion Roger Federer in the third round of the Australian Open tennis on Saturday. Local favorite Tomic and Federer have traded barbs since the draw for the season's opening grand slam was made last week and the Swiss has been repeatedly questioned about the prospect of facing the brash 20-year-old in the third round. "I feel so confident. This is the perfect time to play him," said Tomic who is unbeaten in 2013 after winning three matches at the Hopman Cup in Perth before taking his first ATP Tour title in Sydney. "I've got a good attitude to win. "I've beaten a lot of good players over the last past two weeks, especially Novak," he added in reference to beating world number one Djokovic at the Hopman Cup. "I'm ready. I mean, I'm not going to say I don't have the belief; I do have the belief now. "It's possible. I showed that in Perth, that you can beat these players. Now I'm going to try to beat him." Federer graciously deflected most questions put to him about the Australian world number 43 but did remind local fans that Tomic had a poor 2012, even though he was now playing well, and still had a lot to do to prove himself. Before the tournament began, both men were openly skeptical about their opponents even making it as far as the third round. "He's...got his work cut out in the first few rounds," the Swiss world number two said. "He will be making a mistake about thinking about me in the third round because he also has to get there." In turn, Tomic, who lost to Federer in the fourth round at Melbourne Park last year, reckoned the Swiss could have trouble in his second-round match against Russian Nikolay Davydenko. "He's playing a guy that's beaten him before. It's not easy playing Davydenko," Tomic said on Thursday. "I'm sure Roger knows that as well. You can't take anyone lightly, especially someone that's been in the top five for like six years." Federer duly won the clash against Davydenko in straight sets to prove Tomic wrong. U.S. Open champion Andy Murray, who has quietly gone about his quarter of the draw, will face Lithuania's Ricardas Berankis, a player he knows well, in Saturday's final day match in Rod Laver Arena. "I actually hit with him a lot," Briton Murray said. "I trained with him before the Australian Open last year. I practiced with him again in Brisbane this year. "Nice to see him do well because we spent quite a bit of time practicing together." Women's champion Victoria Azarenka and tournament favorite Serena Williams will get an opportunity to assess each other's form, after their pre-Australian Open showdown in Brisbane was stymied by Azarenka's infected toe, with Williams following the world number one on to centre court. The Belarusian will play American Jamie Hampton in the first match, while Williams will meet Japan's Ayumi Morita. (Editing by Clare Fallon)
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Pietersen is allowed time off for good behaviour Kevin Pietersen appears to have got his wish for more free time after he was left out of the England limited-overs squad to tour New Zealand. The England and Wales Cricket Board has made the decision to leave Pietersen out of all international action until March at the earliest as part of its attempt to manage the workload of key players. The crux of Pietersen's period of exile from the England squad earlier this year arose from his complaint that he was not being given enough time with his family. He retired from the limited-overs game last May, but then went back on his decision. He has since been welcomed back into the fold on a short-term contract, which is set to be extended now that his so-called "period of reintegration" has passed without hiccup during the Test series in India. And the ECB appears to have kept its side of the bargain with regard to workloads by picking players who will not play in India in the new year for the New Zealand tour, and vice versa. Pietersen is likely to return to the squad for the three-Test series against New Zealand, which begins on 5 March. The South African-born batsman will also miss the five-match one-day series in India in the new year, as well as sitting out the tour of New Zealand, involving three one-dayers and three Twenty20 games, which follows immediately after. Chris Woakes, Danny Briggs, Jade Dernbach and Stuart Meaker - all of whom are involved in the India series - will also miss the one-day series against the Kiwis, but the latter three will play in the Twenty20 matches. James Anderson, Jonathan Trott and Graeme Swann, who were rested for the one-day series in India, will return to the squad for the New Zealand tour, although Swann will miss the Twenty20 games. Stuart Broad will return to captain the Twenty20 side after missing the two-match series against India with an ankle injury. Geoff Miller, the national selector, said: "Following on from the ODI tour to India, the tour to New Zealand will require players to adapt to different conditions and will prove a real challenge for the squad. There are a number of players who we have decided not to select for parts of the competitive programme this winter as we look to manage their workloads. Kevin Pietersen will miss the limited-overs tour of New Zealand, with Graeme Swann missing the T20 leg of the tour. This approach also provides an opportunity for talented young players to gain more international experience." England's 2013 schedule is certainly punishing: after the trip to New Zealand, the Kiwis arrive in England for a Test and one-day series in May. Then in June England contest the Champions Trophy, a 50-over competition, followed by the Ashes. After the Test series against Australia the home season is rounded off by a five-match one-day series. Soon after that, England travel Down Under to contest the Ashes again. * Martin Guptill returned from illness to hit a four off the last ball for a brilliant match-winning century and series-leveling victory for New Zealand in the second of three Twenty20s away against South Africa yesterday. Having recovered from a stomach complaint, Guptill hit six sixes in his 101 not out from 69 balls to chase down South Africa's 165-5 and earn the Kiwis an eight-wicket win at Buffalo Park.
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The year 2003 in rugby union
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== Before pics? ==
Saw her on OITNB, fascinated... any photos of her when she was a man? And is she post-op ts in real life? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.161.146.190 (talk)
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David Flatman: My mate Matt will always have home at the Rec No need to wrestle with your conscience - Stevens made a mistake but we'd be glad to have him back People seem to have lots of different ideas about what constitutes true friendship. Some want to be the shoulder to cry on, others the honest ally to keep his contemporaries in check. I have friends who seem only truly comfortable during the good times and others to whom I turn in times of need. For me, the value of friendship is that we can all, despite our idiosyncrasies, exist together with enjoyment, tolerance and empathy. Matt Stevens is my friend, and I hope he always will be. Sure, we do not speak every day or eat together every week. We sometimes share a coffee at his swanky new café, sometimes enjoy a beer in the same building, and we always do so as friends. Last January, Matt received a two-year ban for taking a banned substance during competition - a huge blow to both career and reputation. How I would cope with this I do not know and hope never to find out, but the way he conducted himself immediately after the story broke, and continues to do, has elevated him, in my eyes, to a new place in the hearts and minds of the Bath players and public. You see, Matt never denied having made a mistake. He didn't go down the "my drink got spiked" route. He just got on with it. No whining, no bitterness, just moving forward. Since then he has, with Lee Mears, opened the gorgeous Jika Jika Coffee Shop and Canteen in Bath. He has also become the British submission-wrestling champion. All this in roughly 10 months. Was he not meant to sulk and blame someone else for a while first? Not a chance. And it is this character, not to mention his enviable level of rugby ability, which has made him hot property once again. Lawrence Dallaglio, the one-man publicity machine, has already declared to the world an interest in giving Stevens a home at Wasps, who, in the words of Lawrence himself, are famed for taking in all sorts of waifs and strays. Now call me a pedant, but I would not put a champion wrestler and successful business director into either category. What he is, is a great, great signing waiting to happen. Do not forget, Matt will be just 28 when his ban expires, and folk who seem to know their onions say that prop forwards do not reach their peak until at least the 30 mark. So it was with real glee that I read the comments of Nick Blofeld, our CEO at Bath, stating our desire to bring Matt back to the Rec. Players come and go in this game and there seems to be little room for sentiment now that the result is everything, but to see Matt run out for another club would, to me, be very sad. He was so at home in Bath and he really suited it. The sociable, cosmopolitan atmosphere of the city after dark, the easy, laid-back team breakfasts by the river and 30-second commute from home to work (early starts are not a strength). He just fitted in and we loved having him here. Of course, with big Davey Wilson and wily veteran (or just "old") Duncan Bell - both incumbent internationals - fit and firing, we are not exactly struggling on the tighthead side of the scrum, but that really is not the point. Matt is a wonderful rugby player, probably the best ball-carrying prop on the planet. He is a big, confident, opinionated, intelligent, guitar-playing wrestler with an almost encyclopedic knowledge of coffees of the world. He has an awful lot going for him and just one thing hanging over his head. So ask yourself, as a friend, would you ostracise the man who made a mistake purely because he should have known better? Would you, from a safe distance, cast aspersions on him because all highly paid athletes who commit social errors are to be executed for appearing too human? I wouldn't. I would bring him back and watch him grow again. It is not about him proving a point, nor is it about Bath signing another big name. This is about sending a message that compassion is not a weakness. Matt may sport a particularly posh South African accent but he is a Bath boy now and here, among his friends, he always has a home.
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Associated Press This undated image made available by Kia Motors Corp shows Kia's new concept car, Provo. The car is designed to provoke comment. But to many across Ireland, the name sounds too much like a celebration of terrorism. Lawmakers from Northern Ireland formally appealed Tuesday, March 5, 2013 for the South Korean car maker to junk the name of its planned super-mini sports coupe because "Provo" is the nickname for the dominant branch of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, the Provisional IRA. Kia insists the name is supposed to suggest "provocative," not IRA bombings and shootings. The car prototype has been unveiled for the International Geneva Motor Show and is years away from production. (AP Photo/Kia Motors Corp.) This undated image made available by Kia Motors Corp shows Kia's new concept car, Provo. The car is designed to provoke comment. But to many across Ireland, the name sounds too much like a celebration of terrorism. Lawmakers from Northern Ireland formally appealed Tuesday, March 5, 2013 for the South Korean car maker to junk the name of its planned super-mini sports coupe because "Provo" is the nickname for the dominant branch of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, the Provisional IRA. Kia insists the name is supposed to suggest "provocative," not IRA bombings and shootings. The car prototype has been unveiled for the International Geneva Motor Show and is years away from production. (AP Photo/Kia Motors Corp.) DUBLIN (AP) - Kia's new concept car, the Provo, is designed to provoke comment. But to many across Britain and Ireland, the name sounds like a celebration of terrorism. British lawmakers appealed Tuesday in the House of Commons for the South Korean car maker to junk the name of its planned mini sports coupe because "Provo" is the street name for the dominant branch of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. The Provisional IRA killed nearly 1,800 people during its failed 1970-1997 campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom. Kia insisted the Provo - an experimental prototype unveiled this week for the International Geneva Motor Show and years away from production - was named to suggest "provocative," not IRA bombings and shootings. And in a follow-up statement, Kia said it would be certain not to market any future car as a Provo in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. "I accept that this was a mistake made by the company and I know that their decisive action will be welcomed by many people, in Northern Ireland and beyond, whose lives have been affected by the murderous actions of the Provisional IRA," said Gregory Campbell, a British lawmaker for the main Northern Ireland party, the Democratic Unionists. Not everybody took the matter as sternly as Campbell. The idea of a car called the Provo going on sale in Belfast sparked a rapid-fire battle of Ulster wits across the Internet. On an Irish news aggregator called the Broadsheet, posters noted that the car's detailing was in orange, the favored color of the British Protestant majority. "Does my bomb look big in this?" asked one. Another noted the car needs no satellite navigation system, because the car "already knows where you live." Kia is hardly the first automaker to stumble when picking model names that don't sound stupid worldwide. In Spanish, Chevy's Nova meant "doesn't go," Mazda's LaPuta translated as "the whore," and the Nissan Moco as "booger." The Honda Fitta raised eyebrows across much of Scandinavia, where the word refers to women's private parts. When Toyota launched the MR2, they soon found saying those letters and numbers in French made it sound as though the car smelled of excrement. And of course, to the military-minded or excessively nervous, Kia's own corporate name suggests "killed in action." Associated Press
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Jobless man's £45m lottery ticket Mr Scadding, an unemployed mechanic and haulage driver and grandfather of six, has been out of work since Christmas. He bought the winning ticket - one of two lucky dip lines - at the Tesco store in Spytty Road, Newport, while doing his grocery shopping last Friday. When he went back to the supermarket the next night he decided to check his Euromillions tickets. "When I asked the people behind the counter to check the numbers the machine just printed out a pink slip telling me to contact Camelot. "I thought I might have won around £50,000 and I rushed home to tell Samantha." After frantic double checking online, he said: "It was a very funny couple of minutes. We just looked at each other while it sunk in before we got on the phone to Camelot." Mrs Peachey-Scadding, who has her own marketing business from home, said they rang Camelot and got the winning numbers and then checked them off against her husband's and realised they all matched. She said: "We were in total shock. We were just looking and pinching ourselves. It was unreal. The feeling was unbelievable. " This win means I can take my foot off the pedal and relax a bit "
Samantha Peachey-Scadding Mr Scadding has three grown-up children from a previous marriage, whom he said he has always told he would win the lottery one day. He said his daughter in Abu Dhabi was always ringing saying "Have you won the lottery yet?" and now he has. Mr Scadding said: "I have never ever in my life owned a new car. So I'm going to buy a new car now. My dream car is a Range Rover Sport, black with ivory interior. Not that I've thought about it much!" Mrs Peachey-Scadding is hoping to take things a little easier now. She said: "There is quite a lot of pressure involved in running your own business, and I've been working 12 hours day recently. Holidays in Barbados "This win means I can take my foot off the pedal and relax a bit." The couple, who married two and a half years ago and have been together seven, plan to move to a bigger house, but say they will probably stay in south Wales, although they may also buy a holiday home. They also intend to splash out on holidays in Barbados. It is the UK's largest-ever lottery prize and the couple are picking up their £45,570,835.50 cheque for half the jackpot. Caerleon has a population of around 8,700 and is around four miles from the city of Newport. It is well known for its historic links with the Roman army, who had a garrison there. The National Roman Legion Museum is based in the town. Ann-Marie Tait, who is the lottery winners' next door neighbour, said they were a "lovely couple" and "richly deserved it." The winning ticket was bought from the same store from which another lottery winner - Jenny Southall - won more than £8m in 2007 Until now, the biggest single win was by Angela Kelly, from South Lanarkshire, who won more than £35m (39m euros) in August 2007. The winning numbers on the Euromillions draw last Friday were 19, 43, 45, 34, 11 and the Lucky Star numbers were 5 and 9. A group of Hewlett Packard IT workers from Liverpool scooped the other half of last Friday's Euromillions jackpot.
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England wing Chris Ashton defends his try celebrations Ashton defends try celebrations England wing Chris Ashton has no qualms about his flamboyant swallow-dive try celebration and could perform it again against France on Saturday. The England management had warned the 23-year-old of the risks of dropping the ball in a flying one-handed finish. But Ashton did it for two of his four tries in England's 59-13 Six Nations victory over Italy on Saturday. And the Northampton player said: "I don't see why you shouldn't be able to celebrate in the way you want to." He added: "It is right to celebrate tries. Scoring tries is what I want to do playing rugby. "It's just something that happened and that's the end of it. "Everybody dives, everybody scores tries the way they want to score tries. I just happened to do that and it has run away with itself a bit." Ashton performed his flamboyant celebration in England's opening two Six Nations victories over in Cardiff and at Twickenham. We are not here to stamp on people's personalities - he is a good guy to have in the group and he is playing fantastically well
England manager Martin Johnson England team-mate Toby Flood had revealed that Ashton had received a after the win over Wales with manager Martin Johnson unhappy with, among other things, the spectacular dive for his first try. The England squad were shown a video of former London Irish forward Juan Leguizamon dropping the ball over the line while attempting similar theatrics. But although Ashton vowed to end his showboating ahead of Italy's visit to Twickenham, his promise lasted 127 seconds and he repeated the trick for his final try. England boss Johnson missed the first finish against Italy - but he was laughing in the stands when Ashton wrapped up an eight-try rout. "We are not here to stamp on people's personalities," Johnson said. "He is a good guy to have in the group and he is playing fantastically well. "We want him to keep it up. It is not a big issue for us. Underneath all the fun-guy stuff he is a pretty serious rugby player." Ashton became the first England player to score four tries in a Five/Six Nations match since 1914 during the game against Italy. He has, however, admitted that his late father Kevin would not have approved of his swallow-dive. "My mum is worried about me dropping the ball and if my dad was here, he would be very unhappy about me doing the dive - very, very unhappy," he said. "But if the chance comes again? I don't know, we will have to wait and see. It was just a spur-of-the-moment thing and that's how it will stay. "As long as I get the ball down, they won't be too bothered." The player has received some ribbing from his England team-mates over the attention his dive has generated - but they are happy to see it. "We all know that if he is going to score four tries he can do whatever he wants," said centre Shontayne Hape. "Ashy's got a great record. If he keeps playing like that he'll be one of the best." England play France on Saturday 26 February at 17:00.
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Claremont McKenna College campaign raises $635 million Claremont McKenna College on Tuesday announced that it has raised more than $635 million in a fundraising campaign believed to be among the largest for an American liberal arts college. The public campaign was launched in 2008 with a goal of $600 million to support endowed faculty positions, student scholarships, new facilities and building renovations at the small, private college in Claremont, about 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The effort was boosted by gifts from several billionaire alumni, including $200 million from philanthropist Robert Day, $75 million from financier Henry Kravis and $50 million from George R. Roberts, a cousin of Kravis. Kravis and Roberts were among the founders of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a financial firm that was involved in leveraged buyouts of companies. Claremont McKenna is part of a consortium of seven campuses that make up the Claremont Colleges and includes Pomona College, Scripps, Harvey Mudd and Pitzer College. Noted for its highly selective admissions, Claremont McKenna tied with Vassar College as the nation's 10th-best liberal arts college in U.S. News & World Report's 2013 rankings. The campus enrolls about 1,250 students; annual tuition and fees top $44,000. Officials said the fundraising success is especially notable for a relatively young campus, established in 1946 with $85,000 in start-up funds and support from the post-World War II GI Bill. "It's an inspirational achievement to match the eminence the school has built over the last several decades through a really tremendous faculty and a fiercely driven student body," said President Hiram Chodosh. "It reflects a tremendous loyalty and commitment on the part of alumni and a belief in the school and its future." The college has an alumni base of about 10,000; officials estimate that nearly 80% contributed. "Yes, we were nervous about our goal, but we always knew the... community would rally and come through," said Ernie Iseminger, vice president of development and external relations. Donations to U.S. colleges dropped 12% in 2009, the steepest decline in nearly 40 years, according to a survey by the New York-based Council for Aid to Education. But giving has increased slightly in recent years. Centre College, a small school in Kentucky, recently received a $250-million all-stock gift from the A. Eugene Brockman Charitable Trust that is believed to be the largest single donation to a liberal arts college. That eclipsed the $200 million that Claremont McKenna received from Day, former chairman of Trust Company of the West, to establish a graduate finance program and fund scholarships for undergraduates. USC, meanwhile, has embarked on an ambitious fundraising goal of $5 billion by 2018. "The downturn in 2008-09 was really unprecedented in its impact on fundraising, and we're still feeling the uncertainty in the economy," said Rae Goldsmith, vice president of advancement resources for the Council of Advancement and Support of Education, a nonprofit that tracks fundraising. "The fact that Claremont McKenna, a young institution starting a campaign when the economy isn't supportive, moved forward with some success is something to brag about." To raise participation rates, the college encouraged alumni to make four-year pledges to the annual fund, and more than a third participated. "We felt this was a much easier way to be in communication with alumni," said trustee A. Steve Crown, who helped develop the plan and then made a matching gift for each pledge. "This is a way to stay in communication for three or four years, and we can catch kids as they're leaving school and stay in touch." Crown and his wife, Nancy, separately made a $7.5-million gift to the campaign. The college renamed a student residence as Crown Hall. The campaign included a matching gift from Roberts that raised about $63 million to endow 27 professorships across several departments. Roberts also gave the college an unrestricted gift of $50 million that will fund a new fitness and athletic center to be named Roberts Pavilion. The college also built the Kravis Center, a five-story facility that houses classrooms and administrative offices. In 2012, a dean at Claremont McKenna was found to have exaggerated its freshman SAT scores and high school rankings to U.S. News & World Report. But the magazine said the inflated results did not affect the campus ranking.
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Cooks cook. Hostesses host. Bartenders tend. What do owners do after a fine staff has been assembled and the handbooks have all been written? Tweak? Observe? Interfere? Expand? All of the above. We had our first wedding party last Saturday night. We are investigating retail possibilities and catering, we are looking into a cookbook and a television project. There is plenty for the boss to do. In the dining room, his duties have diminished. He scoops up dropped napkins and replaces them. He empties tables during crunch time. He ministers to any guest with a craned neck. He tries to be a steadying influence. He is an amusing bouche. He follows the golden rule: do unto guests that which you would want done unto you. But not all of it is done at the restaurant. Stepping back from the intensity of service has proved more difficult than expected. A hectic restaurant can be as jumpy and intimate as a foxhole, without the live ammunition. I miss that. More than I imagined. I am currently adrift, in limbo, akimbo, one foot in and one foot out. I always think I can handle transitions. I never can. Depression is the usual result. Nothing clinical, just your garden variety depression that seems to plague most inhabitants of the Western world from time to time. The last two years have not afforded much opportunity for depression, so I am making up for lost time. If bodies in motion tend to stay in motion, then when bodies come to a halt, even a scheduled rest, kaboom. Flat tire. No patch. No roadside service. Depression is not without dubious advantages. Everything seems longer these days. Especially these days. Nothing is important these days. Including these days. Anomie is the opposite, but not the antidote, to working like a maniac. Mania vanquishes time. Mania transforms one year into a one-minute Ritalin blur of jump cuts, of fishes and humans, coming and going, complimenting and criticizing, spinning by as if on a hyper merry-go-round, with sped-up calliope music, and each time the same painted horse gallops past, he carries a different rider. Some tip their hats, some flip the bird. Some vow loyalty, some are gone before you can remember their names. Whenever I think I have this baby half-figured out, I remember that Southfork Kitchen is an infant conundrum inside an old enigma located by a schizophrenic seaside in a paradoxical part of a very strange land. Happy birthday. Now back to work. Bruce Buschel owns Southfork Kitchen, a restaurant in Bridgehampton, N.Y.
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2011-12-31 00:00:00
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Top 10 hospitals in the United States By Rachel Auerbach, Special to CNN July 16, 2013 -- Updated 1421 GMT (2221 HKT) Dr. Niraj Desai orients a suture during a kidney transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Johns Hopkins Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 Report evaluates more than 5,000 medical centers across the country MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston ranked No. 1 for cancer treatment (CNN) -- Johns Hopkins Hospital is back on top. After spending 21 years as the country's best hospital, according to U.S. News & World Report, Johns Hopkins Hospital relinquished its crown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 2012. This year, the roles have reversed yet again. The annual U.S. News & World report evaluates more than 5,000 medical centers across the United States. The rankings consider 16 medical specialties from cancer to surgery to rehabilitation. If a hospital is considered one of the best in at least six specialties, it earns a spot on the coveted Honor Roll list. This year, 18 hospitals across the country made the Honor Roll. The top 10 are: 1. Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore 2. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston 3. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota 4. Cleveland Clinic in Ohio 5. UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles 6. Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago 7. (tie) New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, New York 7. (tie) UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco 9. Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston 10. UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania Northwestern Memorial Hospital made the biggest jump on the list, rising six spaces from No. 12, while Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis had the largest loss, dropping nine spots. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia made the Honor Roll list for the first time. The University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers in Ann Arbor fell off the list, although they still ranked for some specialties. Tell us your story! We love to hear from our audience. Follow @CNNHealth on Twitter and Facebook for the latest health news and let us know what we're missing. Don't dismiss a hospital just because it doesn't appear on the Honor Roll. For example, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston didn't make the honor roll, but is ranked No. 1 for cancer treatment. Similarly, the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York is ranked best for orthopedics. The Cleveland Clinic made the top of the list for cardiology and heart surgery, while Johns Hopkins Hospital led the rankings for neurology and neurosurgery. New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Cleveland all have more than one Honor Roll hospital on the list. U.S. News & World Report also released its children's hospital rankings; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia came in at No. 1. Choosing a hospital that best fits your needs depends on factors like proximity and the severity of your condition. To find a hospital closer to home, you can check out the regional hospitals list.
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Here is an extract from Images for deletion:
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Abell.lensing.arp.300pix.jpg
Gravitational lens-thumb.jpg
Thumbnails made obsolete by the autothumbnail feature too Bryan
KEEP. I strongly object. I put Abell and Gravitational Lens pics onto WP. It's perfectly possible that if the new code proves unsuitable I might go back to the old code (for example, in the new code we can't have caption italics, caption text centring nor caption links). If thumbnails are deleted I'll have to reupload them which would be unacceptable. PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ABEL AND GRAVITATIONAL THUMBNAILS. Adrian Pingstone
Yes you can - just use the same old html markup but fmt the link as and your image will be limited to 250px. END OF EXTRACT
I don’t understand why thumbnails are being deleted at all since it would take 50000 of them to even make 1 Gigabyte (assuming each is 20K) and the entire WP database is 19 GB (if I remember correctly). Even though I’ve worked every day since January 2003 on illustrations I’ve still “only” put on 800 thumbnails. Thumbnails are not going to materially affect the size of WP and so are not really worth the trouble of transferring their names to IFD. However the stronger argument is that the new code is not fully satisfactory yet. We need to keep the ability to revert to the old code (and therefore use the old thumbs) if it was ever necessary. I would very much appreciate it if you do not list on IFD any thumbs with file names containing arp or ***pix. I don’t understand how Jiang’s code solves my problems with the new code. The old caption standard was italics, text centred and links were possible. None of that works now. I already know the code for setting thumbnail size. Do you know the code for the three caption adjustments I can’t do? I hope you can understand my concerns and leave my thumbnails off IFD. Best Wishes,
Adrian Pingstone
The reason I've been putting them up for deletion is not space concerns, but simply because they're orphans and I don't see them becoming non-orphans again at any point in the future now that there's code for thumbnailing. Even if you have a problem with the current formatting of image captions, you can still use the autothumbnail feature to get exactly the same result as before; try only way to get these donkeys' attention. Or is that a personal attack? Dandrake 08:39, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)
Yeah, page protection can sometimes help. Alternately, if you want to send a message specifically to editors rather than to non-editing readers, how about adding an HTML comment?. Editors will see it in the page source, but it's not visible otherwise. Bryan
You got me there. Ought to have seen that for myself, but I didn't. It doesn't pay to get pissed off, which I thought I knew already. Dandrake 08:54, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)
==Mediation==
Sam Spade has requested mediation between you and him. Are you willing to accept this? If so, please could you express any preferences regarding who should mediate your dispute? The members of Mediation Committee are the recommended choice, but you may ask anyone if you like. Please note at Requests for mediation which mediators are acceptable to you, or ones that you would refuse to accept. You may also e-mail me if you do not want your concerns publically posted - I will keep all communication as private as you like. (angela AT fused.org). Alternatively, if you decide against mediation, please can you let one of the mediation committee know your decision. Thanks. Angela. 19:21, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)
Sure, I'm willing. I'm not exactly sure what needs being mediated (though based on his various complaints about me I can make some guesses :), but I suppose that'll be presented by Sam. Bryan
==I. J. Good==
Why did you move I. J. Good to
I moved it because when I saw that article his name was listed as "Irving John Good", and so I foolishly assumed that it would be reasonable to have his article under a title of the form "firstname lastname" like most other biographical articles on Wikipedia.
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Shopfitter wins £1.8m contract - Scotsman.com Morris & Spottiswood, the Glasgow-based shop fitter and maintenance company, yesterday revealed it had won a £1.8 million contract for the third phase of refurbishment work on the city's upmarket Princes Square shopping centre. The firm had previously carried out phase two of the refit. Fitout business unit director Mark Wanless said: "It is fantastic news that King Sturge and Princes Square-owner Redevco have chosen Morris & Spottiswood for this next phase of the refurbishment."
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As LAUSD layoffs loom, debate over teacher seniority resurfaces Cutting enthusiastic, effective teachers just because they're new is not good for students, say some district officials and education reform advocates. Unions leaders say it's an issue of fairness. Richard Rivera joined the Algebra Project at exactly the wrong time. After three years at charter schools, Rivera returned to the Los Angeles Unified School District last year as a math coach -- a kind of roving instructor and supervisor -- at Luther Burbank Middle School in Highland Park. He also agreed to work on the Algebra Project, a new program designed to keep low-achieving students involved in math. But even though Rivera spent a decade teaching in the district, he lost his seniority with L.A. Unified because of his foray into the charter world. Since the district lays off teachers based on the amount of time they've worked for the school system, Rivera is now in danger of losing his job, and the Algebra Project might stall before it even begins. If Rivera and other younger teachers involved in the program leave, the school goes "right back to square one," said John Samaniego, the principal at Burbank, where test scores have slowly been rising. Samaniego's dilemma is common throughout the state as districts prepare to issue preliminary layoff notices to teachers by Friday and principals try to determine their plans for next year. The Los Angeles Board of Education is scheduled to vote today on whether to issue these notices to about 9,000 employees, including 5,500 teachers, because of an expected $700-million budget shortfall. Outside of Los Angeles, more than 20,000 teachers statewide are expected to receive preliminary pink slips, according to teachers union officials. The California Teachers Assn. has planned protests this week against the widespread layoffs. In L.A. Unified, instructors with less than two years of experience are expected to be given notice first. But some top L.A. Unified officials believe layoffs could rob the district of their most enthusiastic employees, and are trying to find ways to keep them. "We have invested all this money in these new teachers... so we should have the ability to retain them," said board member Yolie Flores Aguilar, who represents Burbank Middle School. Districts across the state, including L.A. Unified, are offering early retirement packages to employees, which would help retain younger teachers. So far, nearly 2,000 L.A. Unified employees have agreed to retire early and the district plans to offer the program again. Since less experienced teachers are cheaper, a district must lay off more of them to close a budget gap, leading to increased class sizes and the shuffling of classes and instructors. Some board members have questioned whether the district can circumvent firing by seniority. Flores Aguilar said she would push the district to revise the law to allow districts to retain teachers based on merit. In Washington, D.C., the superintendent is battling the teachers' union to create a system that allows teachers to decide whether they want to retain seniority or pursue a higher-paying performance-based track. And Rhode Island's Commissioner of Education ordered Providence schools to stop seniority-based bumping in February. L.A. Unified Supt. Ramon C. Cortines also said he's in favor of changing the system: "People need security and protection but we've got to move into the 21st century as well." Layoffs by seniority -- last hired, first fired -- have been part of the California Education Code for at least three decades, and A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, said it was unlikely the union would support doing away with it. "Until somebody can show me a fair or equitable way besides tenure, I don't see it happening," he said. Researchers say districts can use a combination of student-assessment data and principal evaluations to lay off teachers based on effectiveness in the classroom. "This [seniority] policy isn't about kids," said Marguerite Roza, an assistant professor at the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington. "It's about awarding job security to more senior members." Meanwhile, a recent eighth-grade math class at Burbank was chaotic. Students' voices rose and fell depending on how far away the teacher was. A girl used the overhead projector as a finger-puppet stage and a boy asked if he could smash a photographer's camera. Students doing their work often had to consult a hanging multiplication table. "They should know that by now," said teacher David Simms. "A lot of what we do is just catch-up." But there was an island of calm around Rivera, who was huddled in the back with two students, peppering them with questions and challenging their responses.
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ISBN 978-0671219888. Emsley, Clive (1993). The Longman Companion to Napoleonic Europe. Harlow, UK: Longman. ISBN 978-0582072244. Esdaile, Charles J. (2001). The French Wars 1792–1815. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415150422. Fregosi, Paul (1989). Dreams of Empire: Napoleon and the First World War 1792–1815. London: Century Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0091739236. Giles, Frank (2001). Napoleon Bonaparte: England's Prisoner. London: Constable. ISBN 978-1841193908. Glover, Michael (1980). The Napoleonic Wars: an illustrated history 1792–1815. London: Book Club Associates. ISBN 978-0713417234. Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, ed. (2006). The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social and Military History. Vols. 1–3. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1851096466. Haythornthwaite, Philip J., Cassin-Scott, Jack. illus. (1973). Uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars in Colour 1796–1814. Poole, UK: Blandford Press. ISBN 978-0713705720. Haythornthwaite, Philip J. (1979). Weapons & Equipment of the Napoleonic Wars. Poole, UK: Blandford Press. ISBN 978-0713709063. Haythornthwaite, Philip J. (1990). The Napoleonic Source Book. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 978-1854092878. Haythornthwaite, Philip J. (1998). Who Was Who in The Napoleonic Wars. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 978-1854093912. Haythornthwaite, Philip J. (2001). Napoleonic Infantry. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 978-0304355099. Haythornthwaite, Philip J. (2001). Napoleonic Cavalry. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 978-0304355082. Holmes, Richard (2006). The Napoleonic Wars Experience. London: André Deutsch. ISBN 978-0233001982. Marshall-Cornwall, James (2002). Napoleon as Military Commander. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0141391014. Lachouque, Henry; Brown, Anne S.K. (translator) (1997). The Anatomy of Glory: Napoleon and his Guard. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 978-1853672644. McNab, Chris, ed. (2011). Armies of the Napoleonic Wars. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1849086486. Nosworthy, Brent (1995). Battle Tactics of Napoleon and His Enemies. London: Constable and Company. ISBN 978-0094772403. Over, Keith (1976). Flags and Standards of the Napoleonic Wars. London: Bivouca Books. ISBN 978-0856800122. Palmer, Alan (1998). An Encyclopaedia of Napoleon's Europe. London: Constable. ISBN 978-0094787001. Pivka, Otto von (1979). Armies of the Napoleonic Era. Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0715377666. Quarrie, Bruce (1986). Napoleon's Campaigns in Minature. Northants, UK: PSL. ISBN 978-0850597851. Roberts, Andrew (2001). Napoleon and Wellington. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0297646075. Rose, J. Holland (1935). The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era 1789–1815 (7th ed.). Cambridge, UK: University Press. Rothenberg, Gunther E. (1977). The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon. London: B.T. Batsford. ISBN 978-0713409338.
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Pigs produce crackling of electricity WHERE there's pig muck there's brass. A farmer has been given a £568,000 government grant to convert porcine dung into electricity and cash. In the biggest project of its kind in Scotland, East Lothian landowner Jamie Wyllie will build a £1.5 million "anaerobic digester" to turn pig slurry into power for his farm, with any surplus being sold to the national grid. An added bonus for nearby residents is that the process is expected to reduce the smells wafting across the countryside from pig-derived fertiliser. The Scottish Government hopes the project, financed under its Rural Priorities grant scheme, will pave the way for other farms to transform animal waste into green energy as part of plans to combat global warming. As there are 3,200 breeding sows, producing 70,000 pigs a year, on the 137-hectare farm â one of the biggest pig units in the country â there will be no shortage of muck to feed the digester. Wyllie, the director of Ruchlaw Produce in Dunbar, learned about how to turn waste into electricity while at Reading University. After graduating last year, he decided to put what he had learned into action. "Anaerobic digesters are very common in Europe but not at all common in Britain," said Wyllie."We used them to try to combat oil and gas shortages after the war, but they were really inefficient. Then we forgot about them. We have always had oil, so we have never needed them. "Now we are in a good position because countries like Germany and Denmark have done all the hard work." Methane and carbon dioxide will be created from the pig slurry fed into the digester. The digester works by pouring the waste into an airtight unit containing bacteria, which partly breaks it down into methane gas. The methane is then pumped into a "biogas" plant, where it is burned to generate electricity and hot water for heating systems. The remaining material is a powerful fertiliser which can be spread on land as pig slurry is now. The benefit of the new process is that the smell is reduced. The process produces 800kg of fertiliser and 200kg of biogas for every tonne of waste. Wyllie said: "The anaerobic digester is a living process, using bacteria which feed on the pig manure and food waste to produce methane gas. "This methane gas is then burnt in an internal combustion engine to drive a generator which provides electricity for direct farm use or which will be fed into the national grid." Wyllie said it would be a win-win situation. "I want to help the community and the environment. I'm aware that we have to change the way we do things to do this. "The construction of a digester will not only do that but also provide us with a better byproduct at the end of it." As well as pig muck, it is hoped that approximately 2,000 tonnes of vegetable waste will be gathered by the local council and vegetable producers to be converted to energy at the Dunbar farm, reducing the waste going to landfill. Wyllie believes many farmers in Scotland have a progressive attitude towards the environment. "People have this image of a farmer as a rough old man with only a sheepdog for company, but the fact is that the farming world is full of intelligent people whom people outside of farming wouldn't realise were farmers. "People have this stereotype that farmers think, 'We did it like this ten years ago so that's how we will do it.' With changing climates and so on we have got to change too." Environment minister Richard Lochhead said he hoped the project could lead to farms across the country being turned into mini-electricity stations, helping cut Scotland's carbon footprint. He said: "Agriculture is well placed to help Scotland reduce harmful emissions and at the same time reap the benefits for farming businesses. "Scotland has some of the most ambitious climate change legislation in the world." The biogas project comes as the SNP government launches a five-point plan to reduce farm waste and improve energy efficiency. This will urge farmers to use energy and fuels efficiently, ensure that material used in farm businesses are put to the best possible use, develop renewable energy schemes, reduce carbon emissions and maximise the use of fertilisers and manure.
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Old Woman Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area located south of Essex, California. This wilderness was established in 1994 and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The 1975 discovery of the Old Woman Meteorite is located in the Old Woman Mountains and is the largest meteorite found in California and the second largest in the United States. The area consists of bajadas (extensive flat aprons of alluvium) and the massive, fault-lifted Old Woman Mountains that extend some north-south and up to in an east-west direction. The elevations within the wilderness range from in the drainage bottoms to over at the top of Old Woman Peak. The mountains take their name from a granite monolith resembling the figure of an old woman, known as the Old Woman Statue (5,000 feet high). The Old Woman Mountains Wilderness falls within a transition zone between the Lower Colorado and Mojave deserts and encompasses many different habitat types. Creosote bush scrub dominates the lower elevations, grading into mixed desert scrub at middle elevations with juniper-pinyon woodland at the higher elevations. The dry washes are characterized by catclaw acacia, cheesebush, desert lavender, little-leaf ratany, and desert almond. Wildlife is typical for the Mojave Desert; including a permanent population of bighorn sheep, mule deer, bobcat, cougar, coyote, black-tailed jackrabbit, ground squirrels, kangaroo rats, quail, chuckar, roadrunners, rattlesnakes, and several species of lizards. Numerous raptor species are likely to be found in the area; including prairie falcons, red-tailed hawks, golden eagles, Cooper's hawks, American kestrels, as well as several species of owls. The washes and canyons provide good habitat for several species of songbirds, and the bird densities and diversity is further enhanced by the presence of the known 24 springs and seeps. The bajadas provide excellent desert tortoise habitat; of the wilderness area have been identified as critical habitat for the threatened desert tortoise. ==Notes==
==References==
Part of this article incorporates text from the Bureau of Land Management, which is in the Public domain. "Old Woman Mountains Wilderness", Bureau of Land Management
"Old Woman Mountains Wilderness", Wilderness.net
Adventuring in the California Desert, Lynne Foster, Sierra Club Books, 1987 (ISBN 0-87156-721-0)
Wilderness Areas of California
Protected areas of the Mojave Desert
Protected areas of the Southern California area
IUCN Category Ib
Protected areas of San Bernardino County, California
Bureau of Land Management areas in California
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Krasne Pole (Krásné Loučky, Schönwiese) is a village located in Poland, in the Opole Voivodeship, Głubczyce County and Gmina Głubczyce, near the border with the Czech Republic. It is approximately south-west of Głubczyce and south of the regional capital Opole. ==References==
Villages in Głubczyce County
Czech Republic–Poland border crossings
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Campaign sees drop in violent crime A police initiative in an area of Norfolk has helped create a significant drop in the levels of violent crime. Tactics including closing late-night food takeaways earlier and banning troublemakers from pubs has seen violent incidents in North Norfolk fall by 109 cases over the first nine months of 2009. There were just over 600 violent offences, compared to over 700 in the same period last year, with many of these fuelled by alcohol. Overall crime has also fallen in the district by almost 20%. Copyright (c) Press Association Ltd. 2009, All Rights Reserved.
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Jovana Marjanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јована Марјановић) (born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, c. 1983) represented her country in the Miss Earth 2005 pageant, held in Quezon City, Philippines on October 23, 2005 where she was crowned Miss Earth-Fire (3rd runner-up). ==References==
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1980s births
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Rebels fail to oust Royal Institution board at ballot Rebel members of the Royal Institution failed in a vote to remove the governing council and pave a possible return for Baroness Susan Greenfield, who was ousted from her post as director in January. Photograph: Guardian An attempt to oust the governing council of the Royal Institution (RI), one of Britain's most revered scientific establishments, failed at a meeting in London tonight. Rebel members of the 211-year-old institution called for the removal of the entire board of trustees, a move that would have paved the way for the return of the former director, Baroness Greenfield, who was made redundant in January. But hundreds of members who attended the secret ballot at the institution's historic premises in Mayfair voted overwhelmingly to reject the rebel motions and backed the existing council. The decision to support the existing council, which forced Lady Greenfield to leave in January, was backed by several leading scientists, including the Nobel prizewinner Sir Harry Kroto and Richard Catlow, a former director of the institution's Davy Faraday research laboratory. "You have my assurance we will not only listen, but we will also act. We will do our level best not to let you down," said Adrian de Ferranti, chair of the council, after the vote was called 484 to 137 in favour. Richard Catlow, former director of research at the Royal Institution, said: "I'm sad that we had to go through this, but I'm relieved and I hope we can now put this episode behind us." The Royal Institution has been riven by infighting since the council axed the director's job following a review of its finances that revealed the organisation was £2.5m in debt. Lady Greenfield's supporters argued that the RI needed a complete change of management to save it from financial ruin, while others said such a drastic move would only destabilise the institution further. Lady Greenfield, 59, was appointed as the RI's first female director in 1988. While she is credited with modernising the institution, she has been blamed for cost overruns on an ambitious £22m refurbishment that required the RI to sell off property to fund the work. Her supporters say she has been made a scapegoat for others' incompetence. Last week, Baroness Greenfield began proceedings to take the RI to an employment tribunal for alleged unfair dismissal and sex discrimination. The institution has vowed to fight the case, which risks plunging it deeper into financial turmoil. Greenfield is regarded as one of Britain's most colourful and influential scientists, but she is also a controversial figure. She was recently criticised by fellow scientists for warning that social networking sites may harm children's brain development. At the meeting, members crammed into the Faraday lecture hall defeated two motions proposed by the rebel members, who had called the special meeting last month in protest over Baroness Greenfield's dismissal. The first motion called for a new byelaw to allow members to remove the entire governing council; the second would have replaced them with a transitional council to serve for six months until a permanent board was elected. Many scientists have warned the rival factions that they threaten to harm the Royal Institution's reputation and its ability to attract the new funding needed to save the organisation. Four members of the council, including Lord Rees, the president of the Royal Society, and Professor Lisa Jardine at Queen Mary, University of London, have resigned in the past year. Baroness Greenfield's supporters claimed that donors would have greater confidence in the transitional council, which would have included Julian Hunt, the former head of the Met Office; John Stein, professor of physiology at Oxford University; and Baroness Sally Greengross. Lord Hunt and other members of the proposed transitional council may still join the council later this year if a compromise deal can be reached.
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Naked freshman shot to death by campus police officer at University of South Alabama By Reuters BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A campus police officer at the University of South Alabama on Saturday shot and killed a naked freshman who repeatedly chased, threatened and rushed him, a university spokesman said. Gilbert Thomas Collar, 18, died from a single bullet wound to the chest, spokesman Keith Ayres said. Collar was ordered several times to halt and continued to challenge the officer even after being shot, Ayres said. He died at the scene. The incident began shortly before 1:30 a.m. when the officer heard loud banging on the window of the campus police station. He drew his gun after finding the student in a fighting stance, according to Ayres. The officer tried to calm Collar and retreated several times before shooting him, he said. The spokesman declined to speculate on whether Collar was under the influence of alcohol or drugs. An autopsy is likely, he said. The officer has been placed on paid administrative leave, Ayres added. The University of South Alabama is in Mobile and serves 15,000 students. More content from NBCNews.com: Follow US news from NBCNews.com on Twitter and Facebook Copyright 2011 Thomson Reuters. Click for restrictions.
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Wary Christmas looms for music retailers By Ed Christman NEW YORK (Billboard) - Retailers expect music sales to be better during the Christmas shopping season than the rest of this year, but most anticipate a case of the holiday blues. "Last year was such a bad Christmas for music sales that if we can't top that, then we've got a serious problem on our hands," says a purchasing executive at a retail chain who asked to remain anonymous because he isn't authorized to speak about sales projections. The executive expects year-end sales to be up from last year, which would be the first time since 2003 that fourth-quarter U.S. recorded-music sales haven't posted a year-on-year decline. But that's one of the more optimistic forecasts. Others say they assume that year-end recorded-music sales will slide in line with the rest of 2009, when year-to-date sales have dropped 14.5 percent from the same period last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan. A strong release schedule could help slow the decline. High-profile releases expected this fall include albums by Jay-Z, 50 Cent, T-Pain, Leona Lewis and Shakira. But merchants and distribution executives say it's too early to assess the impact of this year's slate. "Overall, (U.S. CD sales) are down about 20 percent this year," says Universal Music Group Distribution president/CEO Jim Urie. "It may get better due to a strong release schedule, but it won't provide a major improvement."
Most industry executives say the distressed economy, weak CD profit margins and the increasing displacement of physical music product in brick-and-mortar stores by other entertainment products will make it difficult for holiday sales to remain steady over last year, much less show an upswing. The CFO at a leading retail chain says that while he expects some U.S. economic indicators to show improvement in the fall, "it will be 2011 before we see any serious spending out of consumers, and it won't be at previous levels." The wild card is U.S. monetary policy, according to the executive. "If they don't focus on strengthening the dollar, I worry that hyper-inflation will kick in," he says, adding that hopes for a near-term economic recovery will be dim "if the dollar is not strong and foreign investors start pulling out." Bruce Ogilvie, co-owner of music and video distributor Super D, says he doesn't expect the current rate of decline in U.S. physical music sales to accelerate during the rest of the year, after a 21.2 percent fall in CD sales during the first six months of the year from the same period of 2008. "If the economy got better, it would help things," Ogilvie says. But making matters worse are this year's significantly slowed DVD sales, retail executives say. They're divided, however, on whether the poor sales have been the result of a weak release schedule and tough economic conditions or a decline in the DVD format's popularity among consumers, many of whom have already stopped buying CDs.
Whatever the answer, DVDs have supplanted music at the front of most home entertainment superstores, thanks to aggressive marketing by film studios. This year, studios are being just as aggressive with DVD catalog, merchants say. But they may be backing off from releasing big DVD titles close to Thanksgiving weekend, out of fear of a possible price war, says a Wall Street analyst who follows movie studios. The analyst notes that intensive promotional pricing last year led to a pricing battle, triggered by pressure from big-box retailers on the studios to provide them with unusually large promotional budgets. Alan Tuchman, president of independent distributor Alliance Entertainment, says he assumes that floor space dedicated to music will continue to dwindle right through the holiday shopping season. "The labels have made it very clear to me that they want to manage the CD down... because they fear it is cannibalizing potential digital sales," he says. "The labels see it as a declining business and will no longer invest in it" beyond the big-box merchants. But Tuchman says labels should view the CD as a different business from digital downloads, and one that targets a different demographic. If the labels look at it from that perspective, and cut prices and invest in other music merchandisers, then the CD can be incremental business for them, he says. "Christmas depends on how much real estate we have left," Tuchman says. "We don't see much of a change in pricing from the label side... so we think music will continue to fade. By Christmas merchants will have a much smaller music section, so I am not bullish." (Editing by SheriLinden at Reuters) (please visit our entertainment blog via www.reuters.com or on blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/)
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In 1940, Texas was 74 percent Anglo, 14.4 percent black, and 11.5 percent Hispanic. World War II had a dramatic impact on Texas, as federal money poured in to build military bases, munitions factories, POW detention camps and Army hospitals; 750,000 young men left for service; the cities exploded with new industry; the colleges took on new roles; and hundreds of thousands of poor farmers left for much better paying war jobs, never to return to agriculture. Texas manufactured 3.1 percent of total United States military armaments produced during World War II, ranking eleventh among the 48 states. Texas modernized and expanded its system of higher education through the 1960s. The state created a comprehensive plan for higher education, funded in large part by oil revenues, and a central state apparatus designed to manage state institutions more efficiently. These changes helped Texas universities receive federal research funds. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. == Government and politics ==
The current Texas Constitution was adopted in 1876. Like many states, it explicitly provides for a separation of powers. The state's Bill of Rights is much larger than its federal counterpart, and has provisions unique to Texas. === State government ===
Texas has a plural executive branch system limiting the power of the Governor. Except for the Secretary of State, voters elect executive officers independently; thus candidates are directly answerable to the public, not the Governor. This election system has led to some executive branches split between parties. When Republican President George W. Bush served as Texas's governor, the state had a Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Bob Bullock. The executive branch positions consist of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Land Commissioner, Attorney General, Agriculture Commissioner, the three-member Texas Railroad Commission, the State Board of Education, and the Secretary of State. The bicameral Texas Legislature consists of the House of Representatives, with 150 members, and a Senate, with 31 members. The Speaker of the House leads the House, and the Lieutenant Governor, the Senate. The Legislature meets in regular session biennially, but the Governor can call for special sessions as often as desired (notably, the Legislature cannot call itself into session). The state's fiscal year spans from the previous calendar year's September 1 to the current year's August 31. Thus, the FY dates from September 1, through August 31,. The judiciary of Texas is one of the most complex in the United States, with many layers and overlapping jurisdictions. Texas has two courts of last resort: the Texas Supreme Court, for civil cases, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Except for some municipal benches, partisan elections select judges at all levels of the judiciary; the Governor fills vacancies by appointment. Texas is notable for its use of capital punishment; having led the nation in executions since capital punishment was reinstated in the Gregg v. Georgia case (see Capital punishment in Texas). The Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction. Over the years, the Texas Rangers have investigated crimes ranging from murder to political corruption. They have acted as riot police and as detectives, protected the Texas governor, tracked down fugitives, and functioned as a paramilitary force both for the republic and the state. The Texas Rangers were unofficially created by Stephen F. Austin in 1823 and formally constituted in 1835. The Rangers were part of several important events of Texas history and some of the best-known criminal cases in the history of the Old West. === Politics ===
As in other "Solid South" states, most whites resented the Republican Party after the American Civil War. White Democrats wrested power back in the state legislature from the biracial coalition at the end of Reconstruction and, by the end of the 19th century, passed laws and a new constitution to disfranchise blacks, poor whites and Mexican-Americans through the use of poll taxes and, later white primaries. In the 1890s, 100,000 blacks voted in the state; by 1906, only 5,000 managed to get through such barriers to vote. As a result, the Democratic Party dominated Texas politics from the end of Reconstruction until after passage of the civil rights legislation enforcing constitutional rights in the mid-1960s. The state has since become a Republican stronghold. The Texas political atmosphere leans towards fiscal and social conservatism. Since 1980, most Texas voters have supported Republican presidential candidates. In 2000 and 2004, Republican George W. Bush won Texas with 60.1 percent of the vote, partly due to his "favorite son" status as a former Governor of the state. John McCain won the state in 2008, but with a smaller margin of victory compared to Bush at 55 percent of the vote.
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Derek Riordan signs lucrative two-year deal in China Derek Riordan has sealed a life-changing move to China after agreeing a two-year contract with Shaanxi Chanba, and is set to make his debut as early as this weekend. The deal is understood to have quadrupled what Riordan had been earning at Hibs, whom he left this summer following the expiry of his contract. Riordan travelled to Xi'an, where his new club are based, earlier this week and spoke of wishing to escape the routine of the Scottish Premier League. His new club lie in mid-table in China's Super League and face an away game with Liaoning Hongyu on Sunday. Riordan, who was unveiled at a press conference in Xi'an on Wednesday night, has travelled to Shenyang to join up with his team-mates and Serbian head coach Milorad Kosanovic. It is more likely, however, that he will feature in his side's match against Shenzhen Ruby next Thursday night. "Derek might be involved this weekend - but he has not done a pre-season remember," said his agent Jim McArthur, who accompanied Riordan to China. ⢠From Leith to China: Derek Riordan swaps one People's Republic for another "It's a really good deal for him, it's two years. He is totally up for it. That might surprise a lot of people." Asked about the reaction of the locals, McArthur said: "They love the fact he's come here. He's a goalscorer. "They buy into the fact he's third-top goalscorer of all time in the SPL "The fans have been great with him," he added. "The press are up for it as well. There were over 30 journalists at his first press conference." Riordan's partner Suzanna and 11-month-old daughter Ruby will remain in Edinburgh for the time being. The Chinese league season ends in November.
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Rwanda closes tribunals overseeing genocide prosecutions By the CNN Wire Staff June 18, 2012 -- Updated 1046 GMT (1846 HKT) File photo of Rwanda President Paul Kagame, who said what the courts achieved went beyond expectations.
Rwanda established village tribunals, known as the gacacas, to oversee cases Gacacas courts were established to ease the burden on criminal court prosecutions The gacacas handled more than 1.5 million cases related to the 1994 genocide The genocide in Rwanda left more 800,000 dead (CNN) -- Rwanda officially closed on Monday its village tribunals overseeing the prosecution of suspects in a 1994 genocide that left 800,000 dead, marking the end of more than a decade of local court prosecutions. Government officials gathered in Kigali over the weekend to formally mark the closure of the courts, known as the gacacas, which closed the last of its cases earlier this month. "What these courts achieved went beyond anyone's expectations. They administered justice and united Rwandans at the same time," Rwanda President Paul Kagame said in a statement posted on the gacacas website. "These courts were evidence of our ability to find solutions to challenges that seemed insurmountable." The closing of the gacacas came on the heels of the last of the criminal prosecutions related to the genocide by the International Criminal Court, though appeals of ICC findings are expected to go through 2014. according to the ICC The leaders and masterminds of the genocide were tried by the criminal courts and the ICC, and civilians who contributed to attacks or loss of life directly or indirectly were sent to gacacas. Gacaca courts were introduced in the central African nation after the April 1994 genocide. The victims were mostly from the Tutsi ethnic minority, who were targeted by Hutus over a rivalry that dates to colonial days. Some moderates from the Hutu majority who supported Tutsis were also killed. The gacacas were originally formed to resolve minor disputes among villagers but were reinvented to hand out justice to the perpetrators of the genocide and help fast-track reconciliation efforts in the broken nation. The nation's justice system and the International Criminal Tribunal set up to try genocide suspects were overwhelmed, and handling all the cases in those courts would have taken hundreds of years, according to the president. Gacacas hearings were held in open fields in neighborhoods where the attacks occurred. There were no lawyers and no judges in robes. A panel of local villagers with no legal experience conducted the proceedings. More than 1.5 million cases were heard by the gacacas, according to estimates. Critics of the gacacas said they did not meet international standards for a fair trial, while others said it exposed victims who testified to revenge attacks. But proponents of the system, which allows a victim to address the tribunal, said it reduced prison congestion and allowed survivors to hear first-hand what happened to their family members who were killed. CNN's Faith Karimi and Ben Brumfield contributed to this report. June 15, 2012 -- Updated 1752 GMT (0152 HKT) Greeks say continuing economic uncertainty is forcing them to move their savings abroad as the debt-ridden nation gears up for an election. June 14, 2012 -- Updated 1412 GMT (2212 HKT) The World Bank has found a sharp decline in child mortality in African countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, and Ghana. Here in numbers, we show the gains and pains of the young. June 17, 2012 -- Updated 2210 GMT (0610 HKT) King, whose beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 sparked riots after the acquittal of the officers involved, was found dead in his swimming pool. June 16, 2012 -- Updated 0622 GMT (1422 HKT) China's first female astronaut is indicative of the gains made by women in the world's most populous nation, says Jaime FlorCruz. June 15, 2012 -- Updated 0339 GMT (1139 HKT) Islam Mohmand and his two wives have so many children that he sometimes gets confused and needs help to remember all of their names. June 17, 2012 -- Updated 2309 GMT (0709 HKT) See the action from every match in Ukraine and Poland at Euro 2012. June 15, 2012 -- Updated 1055 GMT (1855 HKT) At the start of the 1980s there were over a million elephants. Today, no more than 400,000 remain across Africa. June 15, 2012 -- Updated 1447 GMT (2247 HKT) One of the most popular internet domains is.tk. It stands for a country you've probably never heard of: Tokelau. In Afghanistan, one province is showing progress in the fight against heroin by growing the world's most expensive spice: saffron.
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Drogba wants new Chelsea deal Didier Drogba has revealed he would sign a new contract with Chelsea if the west London club offer him one. The Ivory Coast international has consistently been linked with a move away from Stamford Bridge during a frustrating campaign that has seen him score just once in the Premier League. Drogba has, however, dismissed such talk and told The Sun: "I am happy with everyone here and want to be a Chelsea player." He added: "I want people to stop talking about me going back to Marseille or going to Inter Milan. I want to stay until the end of my contract. I love the fans. "My family love it here and we want to stay. There have been no talks about extending my deal but there is time for that. "I would stay if they offered me a new deal. I know that first I need to show I am still the Didier Drogba this club knows." New boss Guus Hiddink will take charge of the team, who sit fourth in the Premier League and in danger of missing out on a Champions League place, for the first time at Aston Villa on Saturday and Drogba admits the Dutchman's arrival has reinvigorated him and the team. "Hiddink is just what Chelsea need right now," he said. "He is working us very hard and that is just what Chelsea need right now. "When you train hard, you play hard. It is very simple. You play the way you train and, after the session on Wednesday, we were on our knees." Copyright PA Sport 2009, All Rights Reserved
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The Almanac, Celebrity Birthdays, Today in History, March 10 Today is Thursday, March 10, the 69th day of 2011 with 296 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus. The evening stars are Neptune, Saturn, Mars and Venus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include Italian scientist Marcello Malpighi in 1628; actors Barry Fitzgerald in 1888 and Sam Jaffe in 1891; French composer Arthur Honegger in 1892; poet Margaret Fishback in 1900; jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke in 1903; James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1928; playwright David Rabe and actor Chuck Norris, both in 1940 (age 71); college basketball coach Jim Valvano in 1946; Kim Campbell, the first woman prime minister of Canada, and journalist Bob Greene, both in 1947 (age 64); al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in 1957 (age 54); actors Sharon Stone in 1958 (age 53) and Jasmine Guy in 1964 (age 47); Olympic gold medal gymnasts Mitch Gaylord in 1961 (age 50) and Shannon Miller in 1977 (age 34); Britain's Prince Edward in 1964 (age 47); actor Jon Hamm and rapper Timbaland, both in 1971 (age 40); and country singer Carrie Underwood in 1983 (age 28). On this date in history: In 515 B.C., the rebuilding of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem was completed. In 1862, the U.S. Treasury issued the first American paper money, in denominations from $5 to $1,000. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first telephone message to his assistant in the next room: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." In 1880, the Salvation Army of the United States was founded in New York City. In 1945, 300 U.S. bombers dropped almost 2,000 tons of incendiaries on Tokyo, destroying large portions of the Japanese capital and killing 100,000 people. In 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. In 1977, astronomers discovered rings around the planet Uranus. In 1987, the Vatican condemned human artificial fertilization or generation of human life outside the womb and said all reproduction must result from the "act of conjugal love." In 1992, U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton got sweeping Southern victories in the Super Tuesday primaries. In 1993, FBI agents arrested a third person, a 25-year-old Kuwaiti-born chemical engineer, in connection with the World Trade Center bombing. Also in 1993, an anti-abortion rights demonstrator fatally shot a doctor at a Pensacola, Fla., clinic. In 1997, The Citadel announced that 10 male cadets had been disciplined for mistreating two female cadets. The women resigned from the South Carolina military academy. In 1998, Indonesian President Suharto was elected to a seventh term. In 2003, The Palestinian Legislative Council created the position of prime minister but peace talks with Israel continued under the command of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Also in 2003, Ivory Coast, torn by civil war for six months, got a new premier, Seydou Diarra, under a French-brokered peace accord. 2004, Lee Boyd Malvo, 19, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his role in the 10 Washington-area sniper killings in 2002. His partner, John Allen Muhammad, considered the mastermind, was sentenced to death one day earlier. In 2005, a suicide bomber killed at least 30 people and injured 27 at a funeral procession in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. In 2006, the body of Tom Fox, a kidnapped U.S. Christian peace activist, was found near Baghdad, authorities report. Three others kidnapped with Fox were reported released. In 2007, captured terrorist Khalid Sheik Mohammed, long suspected of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, confessed to planning them and said he played a role in about 30 other attacks and plots. Also in 2007, a federal court threw out a District of Columbia ban on keeping handguns in private homes as unconstitutional. In 2008, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a former crusading state attorney general against white collar crime, was pressured to resign after being implicated in a high-priced prostitution ring. Also in 2008, some 400 Buddhist monks took part in a protest march in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, to mark the failed uprising of 1959 that resulted in the Dalai Lama fleeing to India. As Chinese forces moved in, what had been a peaceful gathering turned violent.
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Mafia Boss Rancadore Remanded In Custody Mafia On-The Run: Arrests Timeline Updated: 4:14pm UK, Friday 09 August 2013 Domenico Rancadore's arrest in London is the latest in a line of Italian Mafia fugitives to be captured after fleeing police. Here are some of the others. :: April 2012 - Gianfranco Techegne - The Mafioso wanted over the killing an Italian policeman was arrested in London while waiting in line at a post office opposite Scotland Yard. :: December 2011 - Michele Zagaria - Head of the Casalesi clan, part of Naples' infamous Camorra Mafia. On the run since 1995, he was found in an underground bunker in Casapesenna, southern Italy. Sentenced to multiple life sentences in his absence, Zagaria was wanted for crimes relating to drug trafficking and corruption. :: October 2010 - Gerlandino Messina - Lasted for 11 years on the run before being caught by armed police in the Sicilian town of Favara. Considered the Sicilian Mafia's second-in-command when he was captured, he had already been convicted of life in prison over several murders. :: June 2010 - Nicola Schiavone - A high-profile mobster from the Camorra Mafia, his was another arrest made during a 2010 crackdown by Italian authorities. :: December 2009 - Gianni Nicchi - Thought to be close to the top of the Sicilian Mafia hierarchy, he was described by police as a "young, dangerous, ambitious, pitiless killer." On the run since 2006, he was convicted in 2008 of extortion and sentenced to 18 years in prison. :: November 2009 - Domenico Raccuglia - Known as "the veterinarian" for his love of animals, he was on Italy's 10 Most Wanted List and had been on the run for more than a decade. Helicopters hovered overhead as the one of the top dogs in the Sicilian Mafia was arrested on the island's west coast. Raccuglia had been given multiple life sentences for murder, including for killing the son of a supergrass and dissolving his body in acid. :: November 2007 - Salvatore Lo Piccolo - Arrested after a short period where he was considered the Sicilian Mafia's new Godfather following Provenzano's arrest (below). He was captured near Palermo after 20 years evading police. :: April 2006 - Bernardo Provenzano - Widely considered the "boss of bosses" in the Sicilian Mafia, Italy's most wanted man was arrested after four decades on the run. He was captured in a farmhouse near Corleone, the town made famous in the Godfather films, after police followed a delivery of clean laundry. Provenzano was known as "The Tractor," a name he reputedly picked up because of the way he mowed down his enemies. Police hunting the elderly crime boss had no photograph of him taken more recently than 1959. Informers said Provenzano, who was 73 at the time, moved between farmhouses every two or three days to evade capture. He was wanted in connection with many notorious crimes, including the 1992 killings of top anti-Mafia judges.
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Les Paul's legacy looms large in 'It Might Get Loud' -- latimes.com There's a moment in the documentary "It Might Get Loud" when Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, while sitting with fellow guitarists Jack White and the Edge, reaches for his Gibson Les Paul to play a thundering "Whole Lotta Love." The solid-body guitar remains the model of choice for Page and many of rock's leading players, and is the enduring legacy of the late guitarist and inventor Les Paul. "It was like a throwdown," director Davis Guggenheim said of that moment in his film. "It was like, 'I'm done talking.' " Paul, who died Thursday at age 94, was very much on the mind of Guggenheim at a Friday opening-night screening of "It Might Get Loud" at the Landmark Theater in West Los Angeles. "This screening will be dedicated to Lester William Polsfuss, who was born on June 9, 1915," he told a full house and then read details of the man's life from a newspaper obituary. It was a fitting setting for a tribute, as the film is an intimate look at three distinctive rock guitarists and their relationships with the instrument: Page, U2's the Edge and White (of the White Stripes, Raconteurs, Dead Weather, etc.). It's on his black "No. 2" Les Paul that Page grinds a raw, shimmering riff over the film's opening credits. As the 97-minute documentary rolled, Guggenheim gathered with producer Lesley Chilcott, editor Greg Finton and other members of his crew to celebrate the opening at an adjacent bar. The director drew a line from Paul to the restless guitarists in his film, noting that the Edge built a guitar from scratch as a teenager with his brother, and White is seen constructing a primitive "Diddley Bow" in the opening scene from a plank of wood, a Coke bottle and a single string. "Les Paul was constantly taking things apart and making things better, finding a tool for him to express himself," Guggenheim said. "They each take this thing and modify it for themselves to say what they want it to say." "Words are their second language," he added with a grin. "Their first language was this piece of wood, the strings and electricity." Of the many hours of footage left out of the film was a scene in which Page spoke of hearing the guitar on Paul and Mary Ford's "How High the Moon" for the first time. "It blew his mind and he wondered how he did it," Guggenheim said. After the film ended Friday, the filmmakers took questions from the audience. One of the first was about how the three guitarists were chosen. Producer Chilcott, who also worked with Guggenheim on the Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth," noted that Page was the first to sign on. She also smiled and admitted, "My mother didn't talk to me for a couple of months because of some of the people we left out of the movie." "Namely?" asked Guggenheim. "Namely, Les Paul," she answered with a nod. Another fan just wanted to know the most rewarding part of making a film like this. Editor Finton had an easy answer: "I got to meet Jimmy Page."
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And there will be plenty of regional competition. By the time Shanghai Disneyland opens, Disney rivals will include Universal Studios Singapore, a renovated Ocean Park in Hong Kong and perhaps even Asia's first Legoland, set to open in Malaysia in 2012. Enterprising local operators could prove formidable as well. At least two Beijing theme parks have borrowed liberally from Disney's repertoire - including costumed Plutos, Minnies and a castle that looks eerily similar to the one in Orlando. Knockoff Disney clothing, toys and DVDs are widely available in China. "The key to Disney's success has been migrating products to different platforms and cross-selling them. The challenge to doing that in China is piracy," said Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing. "The downside is you don't get paid for all that content," he said. "The upside is everyone knows the characters. So the question is, how do you monetize it?"
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Bethany LeSueur (born January 6, 1983) is a former Long Island basketball player. A six-year starter at guard for Garden City High School, LeSueur compiled a record of 121-12, a.910 winning percentage. LeSueur led her team to three state final fours, three Long Island Championships, three Nassau County Championships, and six Conference Championships. LeSueur was a scoring machine compiling 38 games of 30+ points. Bethany LeSueur was twice named Gatorade Player of the Year for New York (2000, 2001) as well as Miss New York Basketball (2001). She was a Street & Smith All-American, USA Today All-American, and also started in the Nike-WBCA All America Game. LeSueur holds the Long Island scoring record (male or female) with 3,167 points. LeSueur was a three-sport athlete at Garden City where she also competed for the lacrosse and soccer teams. She was named First Team All-State in soccer and was All-County twice. Off the court, Bethany was a member of the National Honor Society and a Merit Scholar. LeSueur is the only athlete to have her number retired from Garden City High School. == College ==
Bethany LeSueur was a 3-year starter at Georgetown University as well as a two-year team captain. In three years for the Hoyas, she is one of only seven players in Georgetown history to record over 800 points, 200 assists and 400 rebounds. She also received honors such as Defensive Player of the Year for the Hoyas and the Patricia E. Corace Hustle Award. Additionally, LeSueur was the team MVP for Georgetown for the 2005-2006 season. LeSueur was in the top ten in steals in the Big East her junior and senior seasons. She was also in the top 3 in over 5 statistical categories for the Hoyas. == Post Playing Career ==
Bethany LeSueur currently resides in Garden City with a husband Tom Hughes, a former member of The University of Scranton Men's Basketball and Lacrosse Team. She is a Business Education teacher at East Meadow High School as well as the Girls Varsity Basketball Coach. LeSueur also serves as the Director of Female Programs for the Rising Stars Organization and head female trainer for Pro Hoops, Inc.
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Basketball players from New York
High school basketball coaches in the United States
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Sinai Biomedical Research Program, Mathematics Concentration or Advanced Engineering Concentration. Most courses are taught at the advanced and college level and, by graduation, all students will have completed a significant number of college level courses with credit granted by CCNY as well as Advanced Placement courses. All students in the graduating classes beginning in 2013 will complete at least two Advanced Placement courses, as HSMSE teaches AP English Literature as the standard 11th grade English course and AP World History as the 9th and 10th grade social studies course. The school also offers AP Statistics, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science AB, AP Chemistry and AP German. Students may take advantage of additional undergraduate courses offered through the CUNY College Now program. ==German Program==
German is the core language taught at HSMSE which has one of the largest high school German programs in the United States. The school also offers Spanish at the advanced level for students who pass an entrance exam and then begin at the second-year level, but the majority of students take German for a minimum of three years. HSMSE’s founders believed that German is the language of engineering. As a result, about 75% of HSMSE students study German, which is offered through the Advanced Placement level, and many of them continue to study German in college. The school employs three full-time German teachers and is one of nine US partner schools of the PASCH program of the Goethe Institut through its "Schools: Partners for the Future" program. Every summer HSMSE sends a number of students on funded study trips to Germany with the Goethe Institut and the American Association of Teachers of German. ==Electives==
Students at HSMSE have one elective period each day. All 9th graders take a Study Skills and Research course (referred to as "Freshman Academy") as their elective. The diverse electives program includes such subjects as Varsity & JV Math Team, Astronomy, Philosophy, Science Research, Sustainable Civilizations, Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS), Nanotechnology, History of the 1960s, Sports Journalism, Classical Guitar, Gastronomy, Poetry, Yearbook, Creative Writing, Band and Art History. ==Extracurriculars and Sports==
Students participate in extracurricular activities such as Dance Team, Cheerleading, Eat NYC, Spades Club, Model UN, Euro Challenge, Fed Challenge, Key Club, Junior States of America, Dr. Dragon school magazine, Harlem Is,The National Society of Black Engineers, Robotics, Photography Club, Gay-Straight Alliance, Ping Pong Club and Film. Students regularly compete in the AMC, AIME and NYC Math Competitions and submit research to the New York City Science and Engineering Fair and national scientific research competitions. PSAL sports teams include boys' basketball, soccer, baseball and volleyball, girls' basketball, softball and soccer, and coed cross-country. Student events occur throughout the year, such as Club Fair, Student Leadership Conference, Talent Show, Spring Fair and Multicultural Night. There is also a Student Government with two representatives from each grade, along with a Secretary and Treasurer. == References ==
== External links ==
HSMSE's official website
Educational institutions established in 2002
Public high schools in New York City
Specialized high schools in New York City
University-affiliated schools in the United States
Schools in Manhattan
2002 establishments in New York
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My School sheds a welcome light BEFORE NAPLAN and My School were introduced by the federal government, state departments of education routinely collected data on student and school performance. In those days, only a few privileged insiders were allowed access to this information. Parents and the public were kept in the dark.
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Beyonce and Jay Z 'rock Havana' for their anniversary By Jeff Franks
HAVANA (Reuters) - American pop star Beyonce and rapper husband Jay Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary this week in Havana, where big crowds greeted them as they strolled hand in hand through the Cuban capital. They ate at some of the city's best restaurants, danced to Cuban music, walked through historic Old Havana and posed for pictures with admiring Cubans, who recognized them despite the past half-century of ideological conflict that separates the United States and Cuba. They were the latest and perhaps greatest big-name American stars - actors Bill Murray, Sean Penn and James Caan among them - to visit the Caribbean island in the past few years, but the first to cause such a stir everywhere they went. Fans in the street below cried out Beyonce's name as she and Jay Z and their mothers dined at the upstairs restaurant La Guarida, famed as the location for the hit 1993 Cuban film "Strawberry and Chocolate." A crowd of several thousand people swarmed around them in the main square of Old Havana, which prompted their security team to put a halt to their visit to the site. "I was in the eye of the whirlpool. We had to cut it short because it got so crazy," said architect Miguel Coyula, who gave the couple a tour of the 16th century heart of the city. They also visited a children's theater group called La Colmenita, a source close to the group said. On Thursday night, they dined at La Fontana, one of the city's more established private restaurants, or paladares, and a favorite of visiting foreigners, but police blocked off surrounding roads to prevent onlookers. Later, they went to El Gato Tuerto, a famous Havana nightclub, then to the Casa de la Musica in the Miramar district where the source said they "danced until dawn" to salsa and other music by the band Havana D'Primera. On Friday, they toured Cuba's famous art school, Instituto Superior de Arte, and, according to government blogger Yohandry Fontana, Beyonce was to have lunch with "important figures of Cuban culture." His blog ran several photographs of her and Jay Z under the headline "Beyonce Rocks Havana." Jay Z, in shorts, a short-sleeve shirt and straw hat, looked like a typical tourist, puffing on a big Cuban cigar. Beyonce, camera in hand, wore a colorful print mini-dress, big sunglasses, dangling ear-rings and her long braids piled high. The Grammy winner posed for a photograph with a group of smiling Cuban schoolchildren. The couple declined to talk to the media to explain the purpose of their visit. The source close to the group said they were invited by Cuba's tourism ministry. The longstanding U.S. trade embargo against Cuba prevents most Americans from traveling to the island without a license granted by the U.S. government, though President Barack Obama's administration has eased restrictions on travel to Cuba for academic, religious or cultural exchanges. In Washington, the State Department said it had no prior knowledge of the visit. A spokeswoman at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana said she did not know if the two stars obtained a license for their trip, which if they did not could expose them to a fine. Publicists for the couple did not return emails or phone calls seeking comment. The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which handles licenses for travel to Cuba, said it does not comment on individual cases. (Additional reporting by Nelson Acosta in Havana and David Adams in Miami; Editing by Will Dunham)
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13; T Parker, 14. 5; P Daniels, 14. 8; J Schroeder, 15. 11; B Williams, 14. 8; J Wetzel, 15. 7; B Ripoll, 13. 9; Cox S Pearce, 8. 7
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|2007 || || R Esjmond-Frey, 14. 6; A Kosmicki, 15. 2; M Plotkowiak, 14. 13; M Fleming, 15. 3; A Wright, 14. 1; W Buckland, 15. 11; T Kooyker, 13. 9; A Kusurin, 15. 0; Cox N Brodie, 8. 9
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|2008 || W || J Herzog; T Medaris; B Smith; Aa Marcovy; M Wherley; O Moore; C Cole; W England; Cox N Brodie
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|2009 || W || M Plotkowiak; C Smith; A Hearne; B Harrison; S Hamburger; T Solesbury; G Bridgewater; A Kušurin; Cox C Groshong
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|2010 || || B S Myers; M P Walsh; T Winklevoss; C Winklevoss; S H Hamburger; M G Evans; S A Gawlik; C D Burkitt; Cox A M Barhamand
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|2011 || W || M C Hafner, 12. 9; B S Myers, 15. 6; A N R Dent, 14. 2; B F D Ellison, 14. 10; K A Z Hudspith, 14. 8; C M Louloudis, 14. 9½; G A Whittaker, 13. 10; S M Hislop, 14. 8; Cox S A Winter-Levy, 8. 8
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|2012 || || A Woods; W Zeng; K Baum; A Davidson; K A Z Hudspith; H Wienhausen; D Harvey; R Haen; Cox Z de Toledo
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|2013 || W || P J Close, 14. 2; G W Macleod, 13. 10; A Davidson, 15. 2; S O'Connor, 14; P M Bennett, 15.11; K A Z Hudspith, 14. 8; C M Louloudis 14. 11; M Howard, 17. 3; Cox O A Zorrilla, 8. 4
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==See also==
List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews
List of Oxford University Isis crews
Grand Challenge Cup
==References==
OUBC Crew Lists – from 2000 to present
The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race website – from 2002 to present, with biographies
British Rowing Almanack – from 1861 to present
William Fisher MacMichael, The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Races: From A.D. 1829 to 1869, Publisher: Deighton, 1870, 380 pages
Oxf
History of rowing
Rowing at the University of Oxford
Boat Race
Annual events in London
English sports-related lists
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Dead teen may have fallen from plane MILTON, Mass., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Police in Massachusetts say they aren't ruling out the possibility a missing teen found dead on a suburban Boston street fell out of a plane. The body of Delvonte Tisdale, 16, of Charlotte, N.C., was severely mangled when it was discovered in an upscale neighborhood in Milton Nov. 9, WHDH-TV in Boston reported Wednesday. Milton police said the body was so mutilated the medical examiner was unable to establish the cause of death. Officials are looking into the possibility the teenager was hiding in the wheel well of an airplane bound for Boston when he fell to the ground. Members of the boy's family told the Boston Herald they doubted Delvonte was a wheel-well stowaway. Federal Aviation Administration officials said Tuesday jets headed for Boston's Logan International Airport from the south drop their landing gear when they are over Milton. And there was a flight from North Carolina the night the teen was reported missing, the Herald reported.
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Halleck appointed Pope to command the Army of the Mississippi (and the District of the Mississippi, Department of the Missouri) on February 23, 1862. Given 25,000 men, he was ordered to clear Confederate obstacles on the Mississippi River. He made a surprise march on New Madrid, Missouri, and captured it on March 14. He then orchestrated a campaign to capture Island No. 10, a strongly fortified post garrisoned by 12,000 men and 58 guns. Pope's engineers cut a channel that allowed him to bypass the island, then, assisted by the gunboats of Captain Andrew H. Foote, he landed his men on the opposite shore, which isolated the defenders. The island garrison surrendered on April 7, 1862, freeing Union navigation of the Mississippi as far south as Memphis. Pope's outstanding performance on the Mississippi earned him a promotion to major general, dated as of March 21, 1862. During the Siege of Corinth, he commanded the left wing of Halleck's army, but he was soon summoned to the East by Lincoln. After the collapse of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, Pope was appointed to command the Army of Virginia, assembled from scattered forces in the Shenandoah Valley and Northern Virginia. This promotion infuriated Frémont, who resigned his commission. Pope brought an attitude of self-assurance that was offensive to the eastern soldiers under his command. He issued an astonishing message to his new army on July 14, 1862, that included the following:
Despite this bravado, and despite receiving units from McClellan's Army of the Potomac that swelled the Army of Virginia to 70,000 men, Pope's aggressiveness exceeded his strategic capabilities, particularly since he was now facing Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee, sensing that Pope was indecisive, split his smaller (55,000 man) army, sending Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson with 24,000 men as a diversion to Cedar Mountain, where Jackson defeated Pope's subordinate, Nathaniel Banks. As Lee advanced upon Pope with the remainder of his army, Jackson's swung around to the north and captured Pope's main supply base at Manassas Station. Confused and unable to locate the main Confederate force, Pope walked into a trap in the Second Battle of Bull Run. His men withstood a combined attack by Jackson and Lee on August 29, 1862, but on the following day Maj. Gen. James Longstreet launched a surprise flanking attack and the Union Army was soundly defeated and forced to retreat. Pope compounded his unpopularity with the Army by blaming his defeat on disobedience by Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter, who was found guilty by court-martial and disgraced. Brigadier General Alpheus S. Williams, who served briefly under Pope, held the general in particularly low esteem. In a letter to his daughter, he wrote:
"All this is the sequence of Gen. Pope's high sounding manifestoes. His pompous orders... greatly disgusted his army from the first. When a general boasts that he will look only on the backs of his enemies, that he takes no care for lines of retreat or bases of supplies; when, in short, from a snug hotel in Washington he issues after-dinner orders to gratify public taste and his own self-esteem, anyone may confidently look for results such as have followed the bungling management of his last campaign....I dare not trust myself to speak of this commander as I feel and believe. Suffice it to say (for your eye alone) that more insolence, superciliousness, ignorance, and pretentiousness were never combined in one man. It can with truth be said of him that he had not a friend in his command from the smallest drummer boy to the highest general officer. All hated him.". Pope himself was relieved of command on September 12, 1862, and his army was merged into the Army of the Potomac under McClellan. He spent the remainder of the war in the Department of the Northwest in Minnesota, dealing with the Dakota War of 1862. His months campaigning in the West paid career dividends because he was assigned to command the Military Division of the Missouri on January 30, 1865, and received a brevet promotion to major general in the regular army on March 13, 1865, for his service at Island No. 10. On June 27, 1865, the War Department issued General Order No. 118 dividing the entire United States, including the states formerly a part of the Confederacy, into five military divisions and 19 subordinate geographical departments. Major General William T. Sherman was assigned to command the Division of the Missouri.
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A more precise title for the present page should be something like Alternative rock (years 1980-2000) (I am not sure about the exact years to be considered, however)
"Alternative music" is just a generic name for the music of some alternative culture
No it isn't. It's been used as a genre term for a long time. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, so there's no need to focus on the meaning of the word "alternative".WesleyDodds
Alt rock, alternative rock have been used for a long time and sometimes the term "alternative" is used. I don't think anyone is disputing that. But i think popopp's point is that this article co-opts the term to cover off virtually *any* guitar music since 1980 in the UK and the US. Thus its not meaningful in other countries (UK) where the term is no longer used or certainly doesn't have the same connotations and doesn't adequately cover off or even allude to non mainstream music outside this period especially in the UK.. It starts to become less meaningful in this article after the mid 90s when as a genre alternative rock fragmented into other genres (it er, became mainstream and its main protagonist dies) and it means that avant garde stuff (see Wire magazine bascially) which is "alternative" but not "alternative rock" is pretty absent. : I would change in the summary section from "At times alternative rock has been used as a catch-all phrase for rock music from underground artists in the 1980s, all music descended from punk rock (including punk itself, New Wave, and post-punk), and, ironically, for rock music in general in the 1990s and 2000s." to something like "At times alternative rock has been used as a catch-all phrase for rock music from underground artists in the 1980s, all music descended from punk rock (including punk itself, New Wave, and post-punk), and in the United States for rock music in general in the 1990s and 2000s.". In the United Kingdom music that since the mid 1990's is called "alternative" in the United States is called "Indie" in the U.K". A reminder in the "Alternative Music in the U.K. section might restate "alternative" generally has not been used to describe new music since the mid-90's" Edkollin
Alternative Rock as US movement (1980- 1995?) UK Indie Music (obviously as there already are sub pages devoted to Britpop, Indie Pop, Baggy/Indie- Dance and the like)
and an over arching page called alternative music. Wikipedia isn't a dictionary but without pages like that it would be pretty empty. Jem
:The page underground music largely already serves the purpose of what you and Popopp are getting at, though. WesleyDodds
: Enought talking now some doing. If alternative and indie are synonyms. i'm not sure they are but if they are! then this page needs to give equal weight to for example the derivation of the term; indie and its history in the UK. so i'm going to add a paragraph outlining the term; That said as this page is a tad revert triggy happy to say the least. i'm posting an outline of it here first. there are citations for nearly all of these statements* (books, articles etc)*
its an outline. so *not* finished. The term indie (I don't mind which order they go in ;)
A derivation of the word independent, was first used to describe non major US film studios in the US and used to describe a music label in Billboard magazine in 1945. However it wasn't until the publication in 1980 of a Independent record label chart in the UK music weekly Sounds that the term; indie started to be used commonly in the UK but then merely to describe music released and distributed via independent labels. The celebrated NME cover mounted cassette; C86, featuring new bands was releasedhas been called; "the birth of indie" and "the most indie thing ever" that indie as a term now became a genre for primarily white, guitar bands whether they were on a independent label or not. ( i know there's a reference to this later on in the article. it needs moving to here)
Ironically major labels seeking the cachet of "independence" started to launch indie labels of their own (Elevation, Hut, Food) in the late 80s/90s. The growth of the genre was confirmed when sub genres were coined in the late 80s such as indie-dance and indie pop (for those still in thrall to Postcard and early Creation singles).
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Trust and laughter return to Windy Hill but club not out of the woods just yet A weary-looking James Hird emerges from Windy Hill yesterday afternoon. Picture: Mike Keating Source: Herald Sun JAMES Hird ended the week clearly more comfortable than when it started. On Tuesday, he was in shock, a mix of anger, disbelief and certainly humiliation, as he and club chiefs fronted a curious media. His footy club was embroiled in potentially the most damaging situation in the game's history. His players would be accused of being drug cheats, having had needles in a clinic across the road from Windy Hill, the contents of which are unknown, all the time while criminal enterprises were gripping his club and all of footy. It sounded like Underbelly Essendon. Questions abounded from Bombers fans: Would they play in 2013? Would Jobe lose his Brownlow Medal? Did the players systematically cheat? Even so, a shaken Hird maintained his club's innocence, though it was more in hope and not confirmation. By the end of the week, however, Hird was said to be extremely confident his players were not given banned drugs. He may despise Stephen Dank, the sports scientist he sacked last year and who will be the central character in the doping investigation, but he was heartened when he read the Herald Sun's front page on Thursday, where Dank denied giving Essendon's players a hot shot of good and bad drugs. His faith in his players is unwavering. Hird and presumably Danny Corcoran, head of football, held separate meetings with every player on the club list this week. Eye to eye, Hird asked if there was anything the club should know about, and that the time for truth was upon them. To a player, each denied taking performance-enhancing drugs. They would deny it, you suppose, but Hird's confidence is absolute. If the players did take drugs, they were duped into doing so. Hird fronted the Essendon board at a meeting on Thursday night, and everything the club knows was laid out. What they don't know is if Dank gave them dodgy gear. As the Australian Crime Commission and ASADA work out the next step in catching and penalising drug cheats and suppliers, and while the AFL waits for players and clubs to put up their hands, Hird has the demanding task of resurrecting the soul of his footy club. His confidence is said to have turned to anger yesterday. That's because his players were the subject of ridicule when, he believes, they are the innocents in all this. The players themselves have been shellshocked, and laughter heard on the training track yesterday was the first of its kind all week. It was only a laugh, but the first sign the players had put a long week behind them.
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Sultan Muwallil Wasit (in his Tausug name) (reigned, 1610–1650), is the 9th Sultan of Sulu and was also known as Rajah Bongsu I. His birth name was Pangiran Shahbandar Maharajalela, and was the youngest son of former Sultan of Brunei Muhammad Hassan. Prior to his death in 1650, he was succeeded by Sultan Salah ud-Din Bakthiar who took the throne of the "other" sultan Nasir ud-Din III earlier in 1648. His descendants are the Kiram, Shakiraullah and Maharajah Adinda families of the later sultans. 1650 deaths
Filipino datus, rajas and sultans
Sulu Archipelago
Sultans of Sulu
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Muwallil Wasit I of Sulu
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Étude in C minor for viola and piano; G. Schirmer
Sonata in B major for viola and piano, Op. 36 (1862)
Sonate inachevée (Allegro et Scherzo) in B major for viola and piano, Op. 60 (Op. 14 posthumous); published 1884
Andrea Vigani (b. 1970); Andrea Vigani at the Living Composers Project
Muser d'hiver for viola solo (2001), or for viola and live electronics (2002)
Miloš Vignati (1897–1966)
Pathetická suita (Suite pathétique) for viola and piano; Český Hudební Fond
Sonata quasi ballata for viola solo, Op. 12 (1943); Hudební Matice Umělecké Besedy
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)
Aria (Cantilena) from Bachiana Brasileira No. 5 (1938–1945), transcription for viola and piano by William Primrose (1947); Associated Music Publishers
Duo for violin and viola (1946); Music Press
Edmundo Villani-Côrtes (b. 1930)
Concerto for viola and orchestra
Interlúdio V for viola and piano
Sonata for viola and piano (1969)
Pierre Villette (1926–1998)
Arabesque for alto saxophone, viola and piano, Op. 55 (1985) or orchestra (1991); Éditions Alphonse Leduc
Aria for violin or viola and piano, Op. 69 (1991)
Barcarolle for viola and piano, Op. 74 (1992); Editions Combre
Boston for viola (or violin) and piano, Op. 73 (1992)
Spleen for viola and piano or chamber orchestra, Op. 63 (1990); Éditions Gérard Billaudot
Ivan Vincze (b. 1930)
Duett for violin and viola (1999); Edition Samfundet
GMEOG for viola and cello (2000); Edition Samfundet
Carl Vine (b. 1954)
Miniature I "Peace" for solo viola (1973); Australian Music Centre
Miniature II for 2 violas (1974); Australian Music Centre
Nicholas Vines (b. 1976)
The Underside Revealed for solo viola and string ensemble (1996); Australian Music Centre
Giulio Viozzi (1912–1984)
Sonata for viola and piano (1966); Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Trio for flute, viola and harp (1960); Edizioni Musicali G. Zanibon
Nicola Visalli
Shafaqa for violin and viola
Dan Visconti (b. 1982); Dan Visconti website
Hard-Knock Stomp for viola solo (2000)
Fabi Vitaček – Фабий Евгеньевич Витачек (1910–1983)
Theme and Variations for viola and piano, Op. 7 (1938); Gosudarstvennoe muzykalnoe izdatelstvo
Marius Vitetta
Etude Caprice No. 1 in E minor for viola and piano (1942); Joseph Patelson Music House
Berthe di Vito-Delvaux (1915–2005)
Sonata for viola and piano, Op. 60 (1955); CeBeDeM
Jāzeps Vītols (1863–1948)
Récit for viola or cello and piano, Op. 14 (1894); M.P. Belaieff
Marina Vlad (b.
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List of compositions for viola: T to Z
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