Central de Abasto

The Central de Abasto (Supply Center) is Mexico City’s main wholesale market for produce and other foodstuffs run similarly to traditional public markets. It was constructed to be the meeting point for producers, wholesalers, retailers and consumers for the entire country.  Located in the eastern borough of Iztapalapa, it is the most important commercial establishment in Mexico and the largest of its kind in the world. The market handles over 30,000 tons of merchandise daily, representing 80% of the consumption of the Mexico City metropolitan area. The market was established on former farmland to ease congestion in the historic center of Mexico City.

Description and function

The Central de Abasto is one of the two large wholesale markets in Mexico City, along with the Nueva Viga market, which specializes in fish and seafood.  The facility is located on a property that extends , with more than 2,000 businesses that sell principally fruit, vegetables, meat and some processed foods in a main building that covers . The project was designed by architect Abraham Zabludovsky. He designed a slightly deformed hexagon shaped building which measures 2,250 meters across.  The entrances and exits are located on opposite ends of the building. In addition, there are more than sixty other installations on the property with services such as refrigeration, shipping and more. The center commercializes more than 30,000 tons of food products daily, representing 80% of the consumption of the 20 million people in the Mexico City metropolitan area. This and the Nueva Viga market are the two largest employers in Iztapalapa  The market generates 70,000 jobs directly and attends to more than 300,000 people per day.   Its distribution network connects with more than 1,500 points of sale, including mercados públicos, tianguis, 380 establishments associated with fifteen chain stores as well as other kinds of commercial centers. The Central de Abasto is the most important food warehouse and distribution center in Mexico and the largest institution of its kind in the world, Although most of the business conducted at the site is between wholesalers and retailers, retail sales still play a significant role.

As an officially sanctioned wholesale market, the main purpose is to be a central meeting point between large scale buyers and sellers. It is designed to be the axis of food distribution not only in Mexico City but for the entire country as well. Its volume means that the business done here is important to the setting of prices for goods and distribution patterns. It also helps with the regulation of the country’s food supply to ensure adequacy and safety as its centrality eases the inspection process. This is especially true for food items such as produce, milk and meat.

The market was established and is run by the Fideicomiso Central de Abasto de la Ciudad de México, which is a trust set up in 1981 for a duration of 99 years under the Ley General de Títulos y Operaciones de Crédito. Members of the trust include the Government of Mexico City and the Secretary of Economic Development. The trust is headed by an Administrador General designated by a committee and approved by the head of the government of Mexico City. In 2002, daily operations of the market were turned over to the private sector, but with oversight by the trust. In addition to running the market, another function of the trust is to provide financing to suppliers, especially agricultural producers with little technology or credit with financing to allow them access to the principal markets of Mexico, as well as international markets.

History

From the  pre Hispanic period, there have been various open air markets called “tianguis” handled most of the foodstuffs sold in Mexico City. From these developed a number of larger fixed markets called mercados públicos.  One of the earliest mercados públicos to be established in the city was the El Volador, located where the Supreme Court is now. The purpose of large, fixed markets then as now was to ease regulation. La Merced was another early market, established on what was the lakeshore near docks where farmers brought in their produce to sell in the city in boats. La Merced reached its height at the beginning of the 20th century, eventually becoming known as the “stomach of the city,”  taking over most wholesale sales.  However, neither La Merced nor the various others famous in the city such as Mercado de Sonora and La Lagunilla, never displaced local markets or tianguis.

Because of the growth and congestion of what is now the historic center of Mexico City, La Merced’s capacity was exceeded and the area around it no longer permitted the free flow of traffic in the city center. This situation existed for many years, but came to a crisis in the 1970s, forcing authorities to seek an alternative.  At that time, much of the borough of Iztapalapa was undeveloped and contained farmlands, although it had been growing. City and federal officials decided to move wholesale food sales to a new facility to be built on “chinampa” farmland, with the goal of providing better entrance and egress, more space for vendors and be better for the environment. La Merced was not shut down, but rather became focused on retail sales, still mostly in food products, but not exclusively.

The relatively open land in Izatapalapa meant not only a larger facility but the construction of wider and better roads for shipping. However, the land that was appropriated for the project in the 1970s, was the last of the pre Hispanic chinampas in Iztapalapa, artificial islands originally near lake shore created for agriculture. The establishment of the Cental de Abastos would effectively eliminate this tradition in this part of the city.

Construction of the new facility was begun in 1981, designed by Abraham Zabludovsky .   The project allowed for large scale excavations to be held in the area, important as it was part of the Culhuacan dominion and important up until Aztec times as the site of the Cerro de la Estrella and the New Fire ceremony. There was not time to excavate everything before construction, so archeologist covered unexcavated structures with protective material called “geotextile” to preserve them for future excavations. Construction was finished in 1982 and the facility was inaugurated in November of the same year, by President José López Portillo . It was considered to be the most important infrastructure project of the decade.

Since that time, the market has remained very important, but its establishment has created a number of problems. Since the 1970s, the borough of Iztapalapa has grown tremendously around the market, and now it is over 90% urbanized. This has returned the traffic related problems that plagued the La Merced market. This is particularly true on the north side which opens onto Eje 3 Oriente, which is the main access to the facility. Another problem is the amount of refuse that the facility generates. Neighbors next to the federally owned property have complained of large mounds of trash accumulating on the periphery. In some areas, such as on the Eje 6 roadway, the garbage spills over into the public venue, along with rocks and chemicals.

However, the most serious problem to have plagued the market and the area around it is crime. The borough of Iztapalpa has become one of the most crime ridden in Mexico City, but the market is a particular attraction for certain types of crime.  Because of the large number of truckers and others that regularly enter and leave the area, the facility has become a magnet for prostitution. This includes the prostitution of minors. There are also significant problems with underage workers,  and small scale drug trafficking.

However, the most serious threat is robbery and kidnapping. Robbery of merchandise, shipments and money, including violent episodes, is a constant concern, and many merchants have private security. NGO’s related to the kidnapping problem in Mexico such as Consejo para la Ley y los Derechos Humanos state that merchants from the facility are targeted by gangs associated with this crime. The targets include the merchants themselves, but more often it is family members. One recent case was the kidnapping and murder of Antonio Equihua Peralta, the minor son of one of an Abasto merchant. In the last ten years, there have been 286 proven cases of people associated with the market who have been held against their will. Police have conducted raids and other operations to improve security over the years. Market official and police have claimed that crime statistics as of 2007 have significantly improved, up to 90% from highs over the tenure of current administrator Raymundo Collins Flores. However, market merchants have demanded more security including the installation of 4,000 surveillance cameras and the establishment of 4,000 member police squad specifically to the market.

Over twenty five years after the federal government expropriated fifty chinampa properties to build the facility, former owners are still demanding return for the loss of their cropland. At the time, the farmers received forty pesos per square meter. However, many claim that since much of the land was never built on, it should be sold back to the original owners for the equivalent price. Most of the claimants are over fifty who lost their only means of subsistence with the loss of their lands.

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Sandy Crawford

Sandy Crawford is an American banker and politician from the state of Missouri. A Republican, she represents the 28th District in the Missouri Senate, which encompasses all of Benton County, Cedar County, Dallas County, Hickory County, Laclede County, Pettis County, Polk County, and St. Clair County. She was elected Senator in an August 2017 special election. Crawford previously served as the House Majority Whip, and in the Missouri House from 2010 to August 2017.

Personal life
Sandy Crawford was born October 1, 1957 in Buffalo, Missouri. She graduated from Buffalo High School in 1975, and married husband John in 1976. Ten years after high school Crawford began taking college classes at night while also working in the banking industry during the day, eventually earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Southwest Missouri State University in 1995. Later, in 1998, she would earn an advanced degree from the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado. When not involved with her legislative duties in Jefferson City, Crawford assists her husband John in running their livestock production operation (beef cattle).

Political career
Sandy Crawford was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2010. Previously her involvement in politics consisted of serving as Chairperson of the Dallas County (Missouri) Republican Central Committee. She defeated fellow Republican Warren Love by just under 1,400 votes to win the August, 2010 Primary. In the November, 2010 general election she won nearly sixty-six percent of the vote to defeat Democrat John L. Wilson and Constitution Party candidate Raymond Kish for the right to represent the 119th District in the Missouri House of Representatives.

Following the 2010 U.S. Census all Missouri House of Representative districts were reapportioned and district boundaries redrawn. Since Sandy Crawford's home was in the newly created 129th District, she ran for that House seat in 2012. In the August, 2012 Republican primary Crawford faced off with Randy Angst, who had represented the 146th District prior to the redrawn boundaries. Crawford was victorious in the primary with a bit over fifty-five percent of the ballots cast in her favor. The November general election again pitted Crawford against Democratic opponent John L. Wilson, who she soundly defeated in 2010. The margin of victory for Crawford was even larger in 2012, as she received nearly seventy-seven percent of all votes cast.

Legislative assignments
Soon after 97th General Assembly began their first session, Representative Crawford was elected to serve as House Majority Whip by fellow Republicans.  As Whip she serves on all House committees in an Ex-officio role. However she also serves on these specific committees:

 Agriculture Policy
 Appropriations - Infrastructure and Job Creation
 Ethics
 Financial Institutions
 Joint Committee on Government Accountability
 Leadership for Missouri Issue Development
 Missouri Sportsman Issue Development

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Remi De Roo

Remi De Roo (born February 24, 1924) is a retired Canadian Roman Catholic bishop.  Ordained a priest on June 8, 1950, and consecrated a bishop on December 14, 1962, he was the Bishop of Victoria until he retired on March 18, 1999. He was born in Swan Lake.  This makes him Canada’s longest-serving Catholic bishop.

De Roo has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin philosophy from the Collège de Saint-Boniface (University of Manitoba).  In 1952 he earned a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome with a dissertation entitled Regina in Coelum assumpta : les rapports entre l'assomption et la souveraineté de Marie (Queen assumed into Heaven : The relationship between the Assumption and the sovereignty of Mary). He also has several honorary degrees and is an Enneagram of Personality teacher.

De Roo attended all four sessions of Vatican II. This experience deeply affected him and he still refers to himself as "a pilgrim of the Second Vatican Council".  He describes attending the sessions as "a voyage of discovery that would radically alter my whole outlook on reality" and "it was indeed a time of euphoria". Since his retirement, De Roo has continued to travel and lecture about Vatican II and gave the keynote address, Rebuild my church – a Vatican Council Father Shares an Inspired Vision, at a Call to Action conference in 2008.

During his tenure as diocesan bishop, De Roo was known as a strong proponent of social action and liberation theology and was a critic of capitalism. He was the main force behind the 1983 Canadian bishops' statement Ethical Reflections on the Economic Crisis. That document stated that the "goal of serving the human needs of all people in our society must take precedence over the maximization of profits and growth."

De Roo was at the centre of a financial scandal that left his diocese nearly bankrupt. Over a 15-year period, he made a series of large investments in real estate and in a horse-breeding ranch, all without submitting any records of these to an external audit. When the ventures failed, the diocese was left with a debt of over $12 million. Other references say the figure was $17 million. De Roo was not accused of fraud, but did not obtain Vatican approval for any of these transactions. Vatican approval is required for transactions over $3.5 million. In May 2000, De Roo issued an apology to all Catholics in his former diocese which was printed in parish bulletins. In the apology he wrote that "I am truly sorry and beg your forgiveness."  The diocese sold off assets and issued bonds to clear the debt.

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Viking Airport

Viking Airport, , is an airport which is located  northwest of Viking, Alberta, Canada.

See also
Viking (South) Aerodrome

References

External links
Page about this airport on COPA's Places to Fly airport directory

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János Garay (fencer)

János Garay (23 February 1889 in Budapest, Hungary – 5 March 1945 in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Oberösterreich, Austria) was a Hungarian fencer, and one of the best sabre fencers in the world in the 1920s.

Personal
Garay had two children: Jànos, a water polo player and Mària, a swimmer. He was also father-in-law to Valéria Gyenge.

Fencing career

Hungarian Championship

Garay was the Hungarian national sabre champion in 1923.

European and World Championships

In 1925 and 1930, Garay captured the Individual European Sabre Championship gold medal.  He won the team sabre gold medal at the 1930 European Championships.

Olympics

He won silver medal for team saber at the 1924 Paris Olympics.

He also won a gold medal in team saber at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.

Concentration Camp and Death

He was one of 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary to a concentration camp after Germany occupied the country in 1944.

Garay was killed shortly thereafter, in 1945, in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, shortly before the end of World War II.

Hall of Fame

Garay, who was Jewish, was inducted in 1990 into The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Wingate Institute, Netanya, Israel.

See also
 List of select Jewish fencers

References

External links
 Holocaust Museum bio
 Jewish Sports bio
 Jews in Sports bio
 Jewish Sports Legends bio
 "Jewish Olympic Champions; Victims of the Holocaust
 "The Olympics and the Holocaust," 2004
 "The Nazi Olympics"
 "The Nazi Olympic Victims"

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Valentina Sampaio

Valentina Sampaio is a Brazilian model and actress. She became Victoria's Secret's first openly transgender model in August 2019.

Early life
Valentina Sampaio was born as Valentino in a fishing village in Aquiraz, Ceará, which is in Northeastern Brazil. Her mother is a schoolteacher and her father is a fisherman.

At eight years of age, her psychologist identified her as transgender, but she did not start calling herself Valentina until she was 12.
She has said in many interviews that she was not bullied for her gender identification. A 2017 New York Times profile of Sampaio mentioned that her parents "were always supportive and are very proud" of her, and her classmates were also very accepting because she said that "they already saw me as a little girl."

Sampaio initially studied architecture in Fortaleza, but she dropped out at 16 to study at a preschool. It was there that a makeup artist discovered her and signed her with a São Paulo modeling agency.

Modeling career

In 2014, a clothing company fired Sampaio from her first modeling job because of her transgender identification. Although she was supposed to be in one of their ad campaigns, the company – which she has not disclosed – told her that the brand was conservative and its clients would not be receptive to a transgender model. Despite this hurdle at the very beginning of her career, she left her home state of Ceará for the first time to act in an independent film in Rio de Janeiro that later debuted at São Paulo Fashion Week.

In November 2016, she first walked her first runway at São Paulo Fashion Week. Soon after, L'Oréal made a short film about Sampaio, which they released on International Women's Day, and later the company made her one of the company's brand ambassadors. She is a L'Oréal Paris spokeswoman along with several other Brazilian women including: Grazi Massafera, Taís Araújo, Juliana Paes, Isabeli Fontana, Emanuela de Paula, Ágatha Moreira, and Sophia Abrahão.

In February 2017, Sampaio received international media attention after appearing on the cover of Vogue Paris and becoming the first transgender model to appear on the magazine's cover.  Later that year, she also appeared on the covers of Vogue Brasil and Vogue Germany. She is the first openly transgender woman to be featured on both magazines' covers as well. Other magazine cover appearances of Sampaio's include Vanity Fair Italia, Elle Mexico, and L'Officiel Turkiye. She has also worked with brands such as Dior, H&M, Marc Jacobs, Moschino, L'Oréal, and Philipp Plein. She is now signed with New York modeling agency The Lions.

In 2018, she was photographed on her way to the casting of the 2018 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show but she was not hired.

On August 2, 2019, Sampaio indicated her association with Victoria's Secret PINK on her Instagram account, making her the first openly transgender Victoria's Secret model. Her agent confirmed that VS PINK had hired Sampaio for a catalog photo shoot that will be released sometime in August. Nearly all news sources that covered Sampaio's hiring mentioned the timing between this hiring and the notorious November 2018 Vogue interview in which the Victoria's Secret parent company's chief marketing officer Ed Razek commented that he doesn't think that the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show should feature "transsexuals" in the show.

Filmography

Television

Film

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Arrondissements of the Haute-Garonne department

The 3 arrondissements of the Haute-Garonne department are:
 Arrondissement of Muret, (subprefecture: Muret) with 126 communes.  The population of the arrondissement was 220,791 in 2016.
 Arrondissement of Saint-Gaudens, (subprefecture: Saint-Gaudens) with 235 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 77,444 in 2016.
 Arrondissement of Toulouse, (prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department: Toulouse) with 225 communes.  The population of the arrondissement was 1,049,948 in 2013.

History

In 1800 the arrondissements of Toulouse, Castelsarrasin, Muret, Saint-Gaudens and Villefranche were established. The arrondissement of Muret was disbanded in 1803, and restored in 1806. The arrondissement of Castelsarrasin passed to the new department Tarn-et-Garonne in 1808. The arrondissements of Muret and Villefranche were disbanded in 1926, and Muret was restored in 1942. In January 2017 the commune Auragne passed from the arrondissement of Toulouse to the arrondissement of Muret, and the commune Aignes passed from the arrondissement of Muret to the arrondissement of Toulouse.

References

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Fox 44

Fox 44  may refer to one of the following television stations in the United States affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company:

KPTH, Sioux City, Iowa
KWKT-TV, Waco, Texas
WFFF-TV, Burlington, Vermont
WGMB-TV, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
WEVV-TV, Evansville, Indiana


Ibrahim Taguri

Ibrahim Taguri (born September 1978) is a British community worker and political candidate. He was the Race Equality Champion of the Liberal Democrats, announced in the role by party leader Nick Clegg on 21 January 2015 at a meeting of Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats. In December 2013 Taguri was selected to succeed Sarah Teather MP as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the London constituency of Brent Central in the 2015 general election.

Taguri is also a former undefeated British boxer, his last fight having been in 2008.

Background
Taguri was born in Brent and grew up in Willesden Green, London, England. In a 2014 interview, he said: "My parents came here in 1977 to escape the Gaddafi regime in Libya and my mum was at the time one of the few females going through university. She was going to become a lawyer but because of the nature of the regime, they decided to leave and they came here as cleaners to start again. So I grew up in social housing till I was thirteen.... There was a very heavy threat of homelessness that hung over the family for several years."

Taguri attended Latymer Upper School, one of the last pupils to benefit from the Assisted Places Scheme, and went on to study English Literature and Language at the University of Reading. When he was in his early twenties he took up boxing and had his debut fight at the York Hall, Bethnal Green. For more than 15 years he has worked for several London-based charities in campaigning and fundraising capacities (including within the hospice movement and with children's charities), and most recently for the Liberal Democrats, before being chosen to run as their candidate for the 2015 election in the Brent Central seat previously held (since 2003) by Sarah Teather. He states that his mission in politics is to eradicate child poverty in the UK by 2020. In the course of his campaigning he has been quoted as saying that, like boxing, politics "is all about preparation and training. It’s not what happens on polling day, it’s what happens in the months before." Mr Taguri though was forced to stand down as fundraiser, race and equality champion and candidate when he was caught in a sting operation by the Telegraph apparently accepting donations in exchange for access, as well as suggesting ways of funneling the donations to hide their origins.

Taguri has been a contributor to publications including the New Statesman and the Huffington Post, writing about issues that reflect his concerns, which include UK immigration policy, informed by his own experience as the eldest child of a working-class immigrant family; increasing parents' access to affordable childcare, improving educational standards and fighting poverty through radical tax reform, defending civil liberties in the UK and abroad, and environmental topics such as fracking.

Taguri is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur FC.

References

External links
 Ibrahim Taguri at twitter @ibrahimtaguri
 Myron Jobson, "It will be a ‘tough job’ as an MP says Lib Dem candidate for Brent Central" (profile of Ibrahim Taguri), Brent & Kilburn Times, 16 January 2014.

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It's Not the End of the World?

"It's Not the End of the World?" is a song by Welsh band Super Furry Animals. It was the last single to be released from the Rings Around the World album and reached number 30 on the UK Singles Chart on its release in January 2002. Singer Gruff Rhys has variously described the track as being about the extinction of mankind and as "a romantic song about growing old".

Critical reaction to the track was generally mixed with some reviewers claiming the track compares unfavourably with the band's previous work while others were enthusiastic in their praise. A computer generated promotional music video was produced to accompany "It's Not the End of the World?"'s release as a single. Directed by Numero 6 the video won the special jury prize at the 2002 Imagina Festival. An alternative video, directed by Dylan Jones, was included on the DVD release of Rings Around the World featuring archive footage of nuclear explosions.

Themes and recording

"It's Not the End of the World?" is "a romantic song about growing old" according to singer Gruff Rhys. In an interview with British newspaper The Daily Telegraph Rhys discussed the song in the context of parent record Rings Around the World. The band abandoned the idea of making a "save the world" concept album as they reasoned that "when people talk about saving the world they're really talking about saving humans. The reality is that humans are the problem". "It's Not the End of the World?" expands on this idea with Rhys stating that the song is about human extinction: "maybe we'll all die but the world'll still be here, even if it's a dark, singed piece of rock flying around the sun". The track was recorded in 2000 at Bearsville Studios, Woodstock and was produced by the Super Furry Animals and Chris Shaw.

Musical structure

"It's Not the End of the World?" is 3 minutes 25 seconds long and is in the key of C major. The track begins with just a guitar, featuring an echo effect, playing the descending notes C, B, A, G, F, E, D and G before the band join on 13 seconds with the bridge during which Gruff Rhys sings the word "why" several times in a falsetto voice, accompanied by strings arranged by Sonia Slay and the group. The first verse follows on 38 seconds with Rhys accompanied by a basic 4/4 beat provided by drummer Dafydd Ieuan, sparse bass guitar and a melody line played by Huw Bunford on guitar. The first chorus enters at 1 minute 4 seconds with Rhys singing the words "as our hair turns white, all the stars still shine so bright above, at least it's not the end of the world" while Bunford plays a guitar counter-melody. Another bridge and verse follow before the second chorus appears at 2 minutes 2 seconds with Rhys this time singing "as our hair turns grey everything is far from A-A-A-ok". The outro begins at 2 minute 23 seconds, with the chorus repeating before the bridge plays through several times, ending on a C chord.

Alternative version

A Force Unknown remix of "It's Not the End of the World?" is included on the DVD version of Rings Around The World. The track is 3 minutes 52 seconds in length and begins with just cymbals then drums before the bridge. The remix follows the arrangement of the original with Gruff Rhys's vocals and all instruments heavily effected by echo. Instrumentation is sparse with only occasional guitar.

Critical response

Critical reaction to "It's Not the End of the World?" was generally mixed. Website Drowned in Sound described the song as "sweet and charming" but stated that, although it is a good album track it isn't strong enough to stand up on its own as a single and is rather "bland" compared to some of the band's other songs such as "Demons" and "Fire in My Heart". The NME called the song "a bit rubbish" by the Super Furries' "usual high standards" and went as far as to claim that "John Lennon was shot for less". The Dallas Observer claimed the track is "guaranteed to induce the same type of melancholic, goose-bumpy splendor that tunes like The Kinks' 'Waterloo Sunset', Dennis Wilson's 'Forever' and Jack Bruce's 'Theme for an Imaginary Western' still do", Entertainment Weekly described it as one of the best songs on parent album Rings Around the World, comparing it to the work of The Beatles while The Daily Telegraph called it a "honey-dripping pop classic". Adrien Begrand of PopMatters claimed the track "sounds like any of Blur's best ballads".

Music videos

Dylan Jones video

A Dylan Jones directed video was included on the DVD version of Rings Around the World on its release in July 2001.

The video consists entirely of archive footage of nuclear explosions and nuclear technicians.  Keyboard player Cian Ciaran has stated that the band deliberately tried to avoid making videos that looked like just "another pop promo ... like MTV" for the DVD version of Rings Around the World and asked the directors to make the visuals as "extreme as possible". Ciaran claims the directors had to "work even harder at creating something interesting" due to the limited budget available.

Numero 6 video

A promotional music video, directed by animator Numero 6 (also known as David Nicolas), was produced to accompany the release of "It's Not the End of the World?" as a single. According to Gruff Rhys the band made separate videos for Rings Around the World'''s three singles as they saw the videos included on the DVD release of the album as "pure art" whereas they needed promotional music videos that were more like adverts for the songs. The video won the special jury prize at the 2002 Imagina Festival and took silver at the D&AD awards in the same year.

The video begins with a shot of a computer generated man with a guitar and sunglasses walking down a set of spiral stairs singing along with "It's Not the End of the World?'s" chorus. A baby is then shown playing with a toy tank before a man seen receiving his call up papers, having his head shaved by a barber then leaving on a steam train as people outside wave goodbye. The next shot features a battleship—the video then cuts to a small boy playing with a toy ship in the bath before joints of meat on hooks are seen moving from right to left through a tiled room spattered with blood. A shot of a military commander on horseback addressing his troops appears before the second chorus which again features a guitarist singing along as he walks down spiral stairs. After brief footage of a tank driving across a desert landscape a baby is shown playing with a paper aeroplane. A hat is placed on the baby's head and the head is then removed and fitted onto the body of a bomber pilot. The next scene shows a fleet of bombers bombing a city while an anti-aircraft gunner fires at them and troops parachute down. A soldier is seen running across a bombed out city before two opposing troops are shown repeatably stabbing each other with bayonets on a battlefield landscape filled with human skulls. This scene is intercut with footage of two military leaders playing chess. The third chorus features similar footage to the first two—a singer walking down a set of stairs. The two military leaders are then seen appearing on a game show, each pressing a buzzer which makes an image of a skull behind them light up. The video cuts to a shot of a baby sitting between two nuclear missiles before a zoomed out model of the Earth shows multiple mushroom clouds as the planet explodes (this image was used as the front cover for Digipak CD version of the single). The final shot sees the two opposing commanders holding hands and kissing on a tiny piece of the earth as it floats through space while a red heart lights up behind them. The Numero 6 video appears on the DVD release of the band's greatest hits album Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1'' and the DVD version of the "It's Not the End of the World?" single.

David Nicolas also directed the Supermen Lovers' Starlight music video in 2001.

Track listing

All songs by Super Furry Animals.

Digipak CD (6121752), 12" (6121756)
"It's Not the End of the World?" – 3:30
"The Roman Road" – 5:18
"Gypsy Space Muffin" – 3:32

DVD (6721759)
"It's Not the End of the World? (Video)" – 3:30
"The Roman Road" – 5:18
"Gypsy Space Muffin" – 3:32

Personnel
Gruff Rhys – vocals, string arrangements
Huw Bunford – guitar, string arrangements
Guto Pryce – bass guitar, string arrangements
Cian Ciaran – keyboards, string arrangements
Dafydd Ieuan – drums, string arrangements
Harriet Harris – violin
S. Herbert – violin
Jackie Norrie – violin
Sonia Slany – violin, string arrangements
Nick Barr – viola
Clare Smith – viola
Nick Cooper – cello
Sophie Harris – cello

Chart positions

References

External links

The End Of The World with Josh Clark Spotify Playlist  to accompany the End Of The World with Josh Clark Podcast series.

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Morpeth Castle

Morpeth Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building at Morpeth, Northumberland, in northeast England.  It has been restored by the Landmark Trust and is now available as a holiday rental home.

History
The original motte and bailey dating from the 11th century was built on a hill overlooking the River Wansbeck and destroyed by King John in 1216. A new castle was built in the bailey of the original in the 1340s, but little of that structure survives apart from parts of the curtain wall and the much-altered gatehouse. In 1516 Margaret, sister of Henry VIII and widow of James IV of Scotland, stayed for four months in Morpeth Castle as she fled from her enemies in Scotland and sought refuge with her brother. The one great military event in the castle’s history was in 1644 when a garrison of 500 Lowland Scots held it for Parliament for 20 days against 2,700 Royalists.

The castle was held by and passed by the female line through several illustrious families; de Merlay, Greystoke, Dacre and Howard, none of whom resided there for any long period. In about 1860 the gatehouse was restored and converted to provide a staff residence.

Recent History
The Castle was rented on a long-term arrangement to the Landmark Trust in 1988 which undertook a complete refurbishment in 1990, restoring many of the gatehouse's original historic features and removing the modern extensions and swimming pool. The gatehouse is now available to rent from the Landmark Trust as holiday accommodation.

References

 The David and Charles Book of Castles Plantagenet Somerset Fry 1980
Images of Morpeth Castle

External links
 The Landmark Trust

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La pasión de Isabela

La pasión de Isabela (English title: The passion of Isabela) is a Mexican telenovela produced by José Octavio Cano for Televisa in 1984.

Ana Martín and Héctor Bonilla starred as the protagonists, while Beatriz Aguirre and Claudio Brook starred as the antagonists.

Cast
Ana Martín as Isabela
Héctor Bonilla as Adolfo Castanedo
Beatriz Aguirre as Celina
Claudio Brook as Bruno
Delia Casanova as Natalia
Roberto Cobo as Maestero of ceremonies
Gemma Cuervo as Zoraida
Irma Dorantes as Azucena
Margarita Gralia as Odette
Alfonso Iturralde as Sebastián
Silvia Derbez as Angela
Manuel Landeta
Lilia Aragón
Raúl Meraz as Castillo
Ana Ofelia Murguía as Cristina
Martha Navarro as Matilde
Lilia Prado as Perla
Adrián Ramos as Faustino
Anna Silvetti as Regina
Susana Kamini as Ruth
Roberto D'Amico as Ramon
Tito Vasconcelos as Goyo
Rosa Carmina as Herself
Yolanda Montes as Herself

Awards

References

External links

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Grande Saline, Saint Barthélemy

Grande Saline  is a quartier of Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean. It is located in the southern-central part of the island.

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Else Amann

Else Amann (born 17 May 1923) is a German cross-country skier. She competed in the women's 10 kilometres and the women's 3 × 5 kilometre relay events at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Cross-country skiing results

Olympic Games

References

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Hatidža Hadžiosmanović

Hatidža Hadžiosmanović (19 August 1938 – 23 December 2015) was a Bosnian judge, member and president of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Biography
Born in Sarajevo, Hadžiosmanović graduated from the Sarajevo Law School on 30 June 1962. She passed the bar exam in 1967 with excellent results. In 1957–67 she headed the legal office of the Sarajevo Tobacco Factory.

Thereafter and until 2002 she held office as a judge of various regular courts: Municipal Court I Sarajevo (1967–71); District Court of Sarajevo (currently Cantonal Court of Sarajevo) (1972–88); the Supreme Court of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1988 to 1992; the Supreme Court of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992-1995, and then the Supreme Court of the [[Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina]. On 30 June 2002, she was appointed by the Federation entity parliament as judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In June 2006 she was appointed President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She retired at age 70 in 2008.

Hadžiosmanović-Mahić dedicated her entire professional career to the law and its theoretical and practical application in economy as well as dealing with first-instance, second-instance, appellate, cassation and constitutional judicature. She died on 23 December 2015, aged 77.

References

External links
Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Category:Sarajevo Law School alumni
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Bounty (chocolate bar)

Bounty is a chocolate bar manufactured by Mars, Incorporated. It was introduced in 1951 in the United Kingdom and Canada, initially only coated with milk chocolate.

Bounty has a coconut filling enrobed with milk chocolate (which is sold in a blue wrapper) or dark chocolate (which is sold in a red wrapper) and is usually sold as two bars wrapped in one package.

Since 2006, a cherry flavoured version has also been available in Australia. This was initially a limited edition flavour, but remained available as of 2013. In Europe, a limited edition mango flavour was available in 2004-05 and in Russia and Ukraine in 2010. A pineapple flavoured edition was available in Russia during 2014.

Although Bounty is no longer distributed by Mars in the United States (similar products, such as Mounds and Almond Joy are marketed by Hershey's), it can be found at World Market and in the international sections of many supermarkets there.

Its television advertising has tended to feature tropical beaches with coconut palms.

Shape
In 2003, Mars registered the shape of the Bounty bar as a trademark in the European Union. This was appealed by Ludwig Schokolade, a German confectionery company. In 2009, the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg upheld the appeal, stating "The allegedly distinctive characteristics, namely the rounded ends of the bar and the three arrows or chevrons on top of it, cannot be sufficiently distinguished from other shapes commonly used for chocolate bars".

Culinary usage
In her book and television series Nigella Bites, Nigella Lawson includes a recipe for a deep-fried Bounty bar.

See also

List of chocolate bar brands

References

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List of twin towns and sister cities in Lithuania

__NOTOC__
This is a list of municipalities in Lithuania having standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (other terms, such as "partner towns" or "sister cities" are sometimes used instead), and while most of the places included are towns, the list also comprises villages, cities, districts, counties, etc. with similar links.

A
Akmenė

 Auce, Latvia

 Bryansk, Russia
 Chernivtsy, Ukraine
 Dobele, Latvia
 Kalundborg, Denmark
 Konin, Poland
 Mariupol, Ukraine
 Ölfus, Iceland

 Rustavi, Georgia
 Skhidnytsia, Ukraine
 Viru-Nigula, Estonia

Alytus

 Amata, Latvia
 Berdychiv, Ukraine
 Botkyrka, Sweden
 Crawley, England, United Kingdom
 Ełk, Poland
 Grodno, Belarus
 Hiratsuka, Japan
 Kremenchuk, Ukraine
 Lida, Belarus
 Monaghan, Ireland
 Næstved, Denmark
 Ningbo, China
 Opole, Poland
 Ostrołęka, Poland
 Petrozavodsk, Russia
 Rochester, United States
 San Martín, Argentina
 Sejny, Poland
 Smarhon’, Belarus
 Suwałki, Poland
 Vélizy-Villacoublay, France

Anykščiai

 Dalaman, Turkey

 Kletsk, Belarus
 Krupina, Slovakia
 Madona, Latvia
 Myrhorod, Ukraine
 Nepomuk, Czech Republic
 Ödeshög, Sweden

 Os, Norway
 Pengzhou, China
 Sassenage, France
 Sejny, Poland
 Smarhon’, Belarus
 Telavi, Georgia
 Vasylkiv, Ukraine

B
Birštonas

 Ağstafa, Azerbaijan
 Bykle, Norway
 Chiatura, Georgia
 La Croix-en-Touraine, France
 Ełk County, Poland
 Jinan, China
 Keila, Estonia
 Leck, Germany
 Sigulda, Latvia
 Sysmä, Finland
 Żnin, Poland

Biržai

 Aizkraukle, Latvia
 Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Poland
 Nyasvizh, Belarus
 Tczew, Poland
 Vecumnieki, Latvia
 Werder, Germany

D
Druskininkai

 Augustów, Poland
 Elbląg, Poland
 Dzerzhinsk, Russia
 Grodno, Belarus
 Kolpino, Russia
 Strzelce Opolskie, Poland

E
Elektrėnai

 Bruck an der Leitha District, Austria
 Forlì, Italy
 Maardu, Estonia
 Maladzyechna, Belarus
 Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Poland

 Słubice, Poland
 Zhovkva Raion, Ukraine

I
Ignalina

 Büren, Germany
 Østfold, Norway
 Prachatice, Czech Republic
 Serock, Poland

J
Jonava

 Bagrationovsk, Russia
 Děčín, Czech Republic
 Jõgeva, Estonia
 Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland
 Riihimäki, Finland
 Polotsk, Belarus
 Pucioasa, Romania
 Smila, Ukraine
 Vadul lui Vodă, Moldova
 Zugdidi, Georgia

Joniškis

 Auce, Latvia
 Dobele, Latvia
 Jelgava Municipality, Latvia
 Kapyl, Belarus
 Konin, Poland
 Sulingen, Germany
 Ungheni, Moldova
 Vimmerby, Sweden
 Võru, Estonia

Joniškis – Žagarė is a member of the Charter of European Rural Communities, a town twinning association across the European Union, alongside with:

 Bienvenida, Spain
 Bièvre, Belgium
 Bucine, Italy
 Cashel, Ireland
 Cissé, France
 Desborough, England, United Kingdom
 Esch (Haaren), Netherlands
 Hepstedt, Germany
 Ibănești, Romania
 Kandava, Latvia
 Kannus, Finland
 Kolindros, Greece
 Lassee, Austria
 Medzev, Slovakia
 Moravče, Slovenia
 Næstved, Denmark
 Nagycenk, Hungary
 Nadur, Malta
 Ockelbo, Sweden
 Pano Lefkara, Cyprus
 Põlva, Estonia
 Samuel (Soure), Portugal
 Slivo Pole, Bulgaria
 Starý Poddvorov, Czech Republic
 Strzyżów, Poland
 Tisno, Croatia
 Troisvierges, Luxembourg

Jurbarkas

 Bogense (Nordfyn), Denmark
 Crailsheim, Germany
 Criuleni, Moldova
 Hajnówka, Poland
 Laakdal, Belgium
 Lichtenberg (Berlin), Germany
 Neman, Russia
 Ryn, Poland
 Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom

K
Kaišiadorys

 Będzin, Poland
 Iwye, Belarus
 Jõgeva, Estonia
 Twistringen, Germany

Kaunas

 Białystok, Poland
 Brno, Czech Republic
 Cava de' Tirreni, Italy
 Grenoble, France
 Hordaland, Norway
 Kaliningrad, Russia
 Kharkiv, Ukraine
 Linköping, Sweden
 Lippe (district), Germany
 Los Angeles, United States
 Lutsk, Ukraine
 Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
 Myślibórz, Poland
 Odense, Denmark
 Rende, Italy
 Rishon LeZion, Israel
 Saint Petersburg, Russia
 San Martín, Argentina
 Tampere, Finland
 Tartu, Estonia
 Toruń, Poland
 Växjö, Sweden
 Vestfold, Norway
 Wrocław, Poland
 Xiamen, China
 Yaotsu, Japan

Kazlų Rūda

 Frombork, Poland
 Gołdap County, Poland
 Gusevsky District, Russia
 Koriukivka, Ukraine
 Lwówek, Poland
 Masty, Belarus
 Olecko, Poland
 Oni, Georgia
 Sondershausen, Germany

Kėdainiai

 Brodnica, Poland
 Fălticeni, Romania
 Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
 Łobez, Poland
 Melitopol, Ukraine
 Rostov, Russia
 Sömmerda, Germany
 Svalöv, Sweden
 Telavi, Georgia
 Vawkavysk, Belarus
 Zelenogradsk, Russia

Kelmė

 Biłgoraj, Poland
 Gallese, Italy
 Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary
 Kinn, Norway
 Lienen, Germany
 Miastko, Poland
 Novovolynsk, Ukraine
 Ogre, Latvia
 Östra Göinge, Sweden
 Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria
 Świętajno, Poland
 Wartburg (district), Germany

Klaipėda

 Cleveland, United States
 Debrecen, Hungary
 Gdynia, Poland
 Kaliningrad, Russia
 Karlskrona, Sweden
 Kotka, Finland
 Kuji, Japan
 Liepāja, Latvia
 Lübeck, Germany
 Mannheim, Germany
 Mersin, Turkey
 Mogilev, Belarus
 North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom
 Odessa, Ukraine
 Sassnitz, Germany
 Szczecin, Poland

Klaipėda District Municipality

 Iława, Poland
 Maardu, Estonia

Kretinga

 Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany
 Bornholm, Denmark
 Gribskov, Denmark
 Gvardeysk, Russia
 Märkisch-Oderland, Germany
 Osby, Sweden
 Polessky District, Russia
 Viljandi, Estonia

Kupiškis

 Balvi, Latvia
 Jēkabpils Municipality, Latvia
 Kežmarok, Slovakia
 Lanchkhuti, Georgia
 Manevychi Raion, Ukraine
 Pastavy District, Belarus
 Rēzekne Municipality, Latvia
 Sztum, Poland
 Zgierz, Poland

L
Lazdijai

 Ambrolauri, Georgia
 Augustów County, Poland
 Baranivka, Ukraine
 Grodno, Belarus
 Grodno Region, Belarus
 Holmestrand, Norway
 Łuków, Poland
 Nesterovsky District, Russia
 Płaska, Poland
 Puńsk, Poland
 Sejny, Poland
 Tomelilla, Sweden
 Tõrva, Estonia

M
Marijampolė

 Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
 Chernyakhovsk, Russia
 Kokkola, Finland
 Kvam, Norway
 Lesja, Norway
 Mayo, Ireland
 Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
 Rogoźno, Poland
 Salihorsk, Belarus
 Suwałki, Poland
 Valga, Estonia
 Valka, Latvia
 Viborg, Denmark

Mažeikiai

 Havelberg, Germany
 Havířov, Czech Republic
 Lebedyn, Ukraine

 Novopolotsk, Belarus
 Paide, Estonia
 Płock, Poland
 Saldus, Latvia

Molėtai

 Hörstel, Germany
 Ludza, Latvia
 Maków, Poland
 Pryazha, Russia
 Rahachow, Belarus
 Romaniv Raion, Ukraine
 Slonim, Belarus
 Ungheni, Moldova

N
Neringa

 Fehmarn, Germany
 Jaunjelgava, Latvia
 Łeba, Poland

 Pāvilosta, Latvia
 Saulkrasti, Latvia
 Zelenogradsk, Russia

P
Pagėgiai

 Bad Iburg, Germany
 Iława (rural gmina), Poland
 Kose, Estonia
 Lomma, Sweden
 Sovetsk, Russia
 Zbarazh Raion, Ukraine

Pakruojis

 Bauska, Latvia
 Gurjaani, Georgia
 Põhja-Pärnumaa, Estonia
 Kozłowo, Poland
 Lelchytsy, Belarus
 Mariestad, Sweden
 Raunheim, Germany
 Rundāle, Latvia
 Rypin, Poland
 Uggiate-Trevano, Italy

Palanga

 Bergen auf Rügen, Germany
 Bucha, Ukraine
 Chernyakhovsk, Russia
 Eilat, Israel
 Jūrmala, Latvia
 Kobuleti, Georgia
 Liepāja, Latvia
 Simrishamn, Sweden
 Svetlogorsk, Russia
 Svetlogorsky District, Russia
 Ustka, Poland

Panevėžys

 Daugavpils, Latvia
 Gabrovo, Bulgaria
 Goes, Netherlands
 Kaliningrad, Russia
 Kalmar, Sweden
 Kolding, Denmark
 Lublin, Poland
 Lünen, Germany
 Maramureș County, Romania
 Mytishchi, Russia
 Rakvere, Estonia
 Rustavi, Georgia
 Toyohashi, Japan
 Vinnytsia, Ukraine
 Vitebsk, Belarus

Panevėžys District Municipality

 Akhmeta, Georgia

 het Bildt (Waadhoeke), Netherlands
 Ialoveni District, Moldova
 Limbaži, Latvia
 Lubicz, Poland
 Maladzyechna, Belarus
 Maramureș County, Romania
 Tosnensky District, Russia
 Vinni, Estonia

Pasvalys

 Chokhatauri, Georgia
 Drangedal, Norway
 Götene, Sweden
 Iecava, Latvia
 Liévin, France
 Liubar Raion, Ukraine
 Obernkirchen, Germany
 Żory, Poland

Plungė

 Bjerkreim, Norway
 Boxholm, Sweden
 Bruntál, Czech Republic
 Golub-Dobrzyń, Poland
 Krasnogorsk, Russia
 Kvareli, Georgia
 Menden, Germany
 Tukums, Latvia

Prienai

 Asikkala, Finland
 Bitetto, Italy
 Busk, Ukraine
 Dusheti, Georgia
 Kętrzyn (rural gmina), Poland
 Lubań, Poland
 Navahrudak, Belarus
 Parczew, Poland
 Talsi, Latvia

 Türi, Estonia

R
Radviliškis

 Bauska, Latvia
 Daliyat al-Karmel, Israel
 Gniezno, Poland
 Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland
 Horki, Belarus
 Kadzidło, Poland
 Khashuri, Georgia
 Lillehammer, Norway
 Minsk District, Belarus
 Nyasvizh, Belarus
 Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye, France
 Skara, Sweden
 Uman, Ukraine

Raseiniai

 Ķekava, Latvia
 Lubartów, Poland
 Mława, Poland
 Rapla, Estonia
 Slavsky District, Russia
 Unstrut-Hainich (district), Germany
 Zhmerynka, Ukraine

Rietavas

 Gulbene, Latvia
 Saerbeck, Germany
 Kętrzyn (rural gmina), Poland

Rokiškis is a member of the Douzelage, a town twinning association of towns across the European Union. Rokiškis also has several other twin towns.

Douzelage
 Agros, Cyprus
 Altea, Spain
 Asikkala, Finland
 Bad Kötzting, Germany
 Bellagio, Italy
 Bundoran, Ireland
 Chojna, Poland
 Granville, France
 Holstebro, Denmark
 Houffalize, Belgium
 Judenburg, Austria
 Kőszeg, Hungary
 Marsaskala, Malta
 Meerssen, Netherlands
 Niederanven, Luxembourg
 Oxelösund, Sweden
 Preveza, Greece
 Rovinj, Croatia
 Sesimbra, Portugal
 Sherborne, England, United Kingdom
 Sigulda, Latvia
 Siret, Romania
 Škofja Loka, Slovenia
 Sušice, Czech Republic
 Tryavna, Bulgaria
 Türi, Estonia
 Zvolen, Slovakia
Other
 Borșa, Romania
 Cēsis, Latvia
 Daugavpils Municipality, Latvia
 Estenfeld, Germany
 Harbin, China
 Jēkabpils, Latvia
 Ludza, Latvia
 Ozurgeti, Georgia
 Pabianice, Poland
 Pastavy, Belarus
 Provadia, Bulgaria
 Tamsalu (Tapa), Estonia
 Viesīte, Latvia

S
Šalčininkai

 Ashmyany, Belarus
 Bełchatów County, Poland
 Hude, Germany
 Kastrychnitski District, Belarus
 Kadzidło, Poland
 Kaźmierz, Poland
 Kętrzyn County, Poland
 Lahoysk, Belarus
 Lida, Belarus
 Łomża, Poland
 Łowicz, Poland
 Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, Poland
 Płońsk, Poland
 Radom County, Poland
 Stare Miasto, Poland
 Świdnik, Poland
 Szczytno, Poland
 Tarnowo Podgórne, Poland
 Voranava, Belarus
 Warsaw West County, Poland
 Wolsztyn County, Poland
 Wschowa, Poland
 Żnin, Poland

Šiauliai

 Baranavichy, Belarus
 Częstochowa, Poland
 Etten-Leur, Netherlands
 Fredericia, Denmark
 Jelgava, Latvia
 Kaliningrad, Russia
 Khmelnytsky, Ukraine
 Kristianstad, Sweden
 Omaha, United States
 Pärnu, Estonia
 Plauen, Germany

Šilalė

 Borshchiv Raion, Ukraine
 Kandava, Latvia
 Kraśnik, Poland
 Mamonovo, Russia
 Slavsk, Russia
 Sovetsk, Russia
 Stavenhagen, Germany
 Ternopil, Ukraine

Šilutė

 Alanya, Turkey
 Ashmyany, Belarus
 Cittaducale, Italy
 Emmerich am Rhein, Germany
 Gdańsk County, Poland
 Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
 Ljungby, Sweden
 Ostróda, Poland
 Ostróda (rural gmina), Poland
 Pruszcz Gdański, Poland
 Saldus, Latvia
 Skadovsk, Ukraine
 Slavsk, Russia
 Tarutyne, Ukraine
 Vellinge, Sweden

Švenčionys

 Akkol District, Kazakhstah
 Astravyets, Belarus
 Hlybokaye, Belarus
 Mrągowo County, Poland
 Pastavy, Belarus
 Rumia, Poland
 Solnechnogorsky District, Russia
 Świdnica, Poland
 Virovitica-Podravina County, Croatia
 Wejherowo County, Poland
 Węgrów, Poland

T
Tauragė

 Bełchatów, Poland
 Bytów, Poland
 Považská Bystrica, Slovakia
 Riedstadt, Germany
 Sovetsk, Russia
 Ternopil, Ukraine
 Zestaponi, Georgia

Telšiai

 Bassum, Germany
 Chernyakhovsk, Russia
 Krnov, Czech Republic
 Lebedyn, Ukraine
 Liezen, Austria
 Mestia, Georgia
 Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland
 Obdach, Austria
 Orsha, Belarus

 Saint-Égrève, France
 Sävsjö, Sweden
 Steinfurt (district), Germany

Trakai

 Acre, Israel
 Alanya, Turkey
 Avola, Italy
 Giżycko, Poland
 Giżycko (rural gmina), Poland
 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
 Kondopoga, Russia
 Koszalin, Poland
 Lida, Belarus
 Lutsk, Ukraine
 Malbork, Poland
 Mtskheta, Georgia
 Polotsk, Belarus
 Qazax, Azerbaijan
 Rheine, Germany
 Schönebeck, Germany

U
Ukmergė

 Ashmyany, Belarus
 Bad Langensalza, Germany
 Cologno al Serio, Italy
 Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
 Kiskunmajsa, Hungary
 Herrljunga, Sweden
 Līvāni, Latvia
 Mariestad, Sweden
 Pionersky, Russia
 Põlva, Estonia
 Svislach, Belarus
 Tarnowo Podgórne, Poland
 Tsalenjikha, Georgia
 Unstrut-Hainich (district), Germany
 Västra Götaland County, Sweden
 Wetterau (district), Germany
 Worcester, England, United Kingdom
 Zhodzina, Belarus

Utena

 Beit Sahour, Palestine
 Chełm, Poland
 Hlybokaye, Belarus
 Kovel, Ukraine
 Lidköping, Sweden
 Pontinia, Italy
 Preiļi, Latvia
 Rēzekne, Latvia
 Třeboň, Czech Republic

V
Varėna

 Bartoszyce, Poland
 Giby, Poland
 Giżycko, Poland
 Giżycko County, Poland
 Grajewo, Poland
 Gusev, Russia
 Mikołajki, Poland
 Pionersky, Russia
 Prenzlau, Germany
 Shchuchyn, Belarus
 Szemud, Poland

Vilkaviškis

 Guryevsky District, Russia
 Gusev, Russia
 Kowale Oleckie, Poland
 Marly, France
 Nesterov, Russia
 Olecko, Poland
 Ruciane-Nida, Poland
 Suchowola, Poland

Vilnius

 Aalborg, Denmark
 Almaty, Kazakhstan
 Chicago, United States
 Dnipro, Ukraine
 Donetsk, Ukraine
 Duisburg, Germany
 Erfurt, Germany
 Gdańsk, Poland
 Guangzhou, China
 Joensuu, Finland
 Kiev, Ukraine
 Kraków, Poland
 Łódź, Poland
 Madison, United States
 Moscow, Russia
 Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
 Pavia, Italy
 Reykjavík, Iceland
 Riga, Latvia
 Saint Petersburg, Russia
 Salzburg, Austria
 Taipei, Taiwan
 Tallinn, Estonia
 Tbilisi, Georgia
 Warsaw, Poland

Vilnius District Municipality

 Ashmyany, Belarus
 Birkenwerder, Germany
 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
 Dopiewo, Poland
 Komorniki, Poland
 Koronowo, Poland
 Knyszyn, Poland
 Krotoszyn, Poland
 Miłomłyn, Poland
 Międzyrzec Podlaski, Poland
 Olsztynek, Poland
 Pasym, Poland
 Radom, Poland
 Reda, Poland
 Rybnik, Poland
 Sambir, Ukraine
 Siedlce, Poland
 Sulejówek, Poland
 Valozhyn, Belarus
 Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland

Visaginas

 Braslaw, Belarus
 Dagda, Latvia
 Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland
 Obninsk, Russia
 Preobrazhenskoye (Moscow), Russia
 Slavutych, Ukraine
 Slonim, Belarus
 Smarhoń, Belarus
 Zambrów, Poland

Z
Zarasai

 Ballan-Miré, France
 Daugavpils Municipality, Latvia
 Mottafollone, Italy
 Senglea, Malta
 Zduńska Wola, Poland

References

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Twin towns
Twin towns


Mozilla Messaging

Mozilla Messaging (abbreviated MoMo) was a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.  It was broadly tasked with aspects of the Mozilla Project that focused on interpersonal communications, such as instant messaging and e-mail.  Its main focus was developing Mozilla Thunderbird, the e-mail client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

It was spun off from the Mozilla project in 2007; on 4 April 2011, it was merged into the Mozilla Labs group of the Mozilla Corporation.

References

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Category:Email


Molly's Game

Molly's Game is a 2017 American biographical crime drama film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin (in his directorial debut), based on the memoir of the same name by Molly Bloom. It stars Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O'Dowd, Joe Keery, Brian D'Arcy James, and Bill Camp. The film follows Bloom (Chastain), who becomes the target of an FBI investigation of the underground poker empire she runs for Hollywood celebrities, athletes, business tycoons, and the Russian mob.

Principal photography began in November 2016 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The film premiered on September 8, 2017, at the Toronto International Film Festival, and began a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 25, 2017, by STXfilms, before expanding wide on January 5, 2018, and grossed $59 million worldwide. Molly's Game received positive reviews, with particular praise for Sorkin's screenplay, as well as Chastain and Elba's performances, with the former being considered one of the best of her career by some critics. The film earned Chastain a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Drama, while Sorkin earned nominations for his screenplay at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Writers Guild of America Awards, and BAFTA Awards.

Plot
Molly Bloom is a world-class mogul skier with Olympic aspirations, the result of years of enforced training from her overbearing father. In a qualifying event for the 2002 Winter Olympics, she is severely injured, ending her career.

Instead of following her original plan of attending law school, Molly decides to take a year off and move to Los Angeles. Once she arrives, she becomes a bottle service waitress at a club, where she meets Dean, an ostentatious but unsuccessful real estate developer. She becomes his office manager, and he soon involves her in running his underground poker games. Many famous and wealthy individuals, such as movie stars, investment bankers, and sports players, are involved in Dean's game. Molly earns large sums of money in tips alone.

Molly is initially uninformed on poker topics but quickly learns how to appeal to the players to gain tips. In particular, she hopes to please the most successful player, Player X, by attracting new players to the game. Dean, upon seeing that Molly is becoming increasingly independent in running the games, attempts to control her, and then he fires her. Molly, having gained contacts through years of running the game, decides to create her own poker games. She rents a penthouse at a hotel and hires a staff to help her run games. Additionally, she contacts employees at clubs and casinos to try and spread word about her poker games. Player X, along with many other players, decides to leave Dean's games to play at Molly's game. Molly becomes increasingly successful, gaining more money while being pressured by Player X to raise the stakes for her games. Harlan Eustice, a skilled, conservative, and successful player, joins Molly's game. One night, after accidentally losing a hand to the notorious worst player in Molly's circle, Harlan becomes increasingly compulsive, suffering heavy losses (later, Molly finds out that Player X, who enjoys ruining people's lives more than the game itself, has been funding Harlan to keep him in the game). After Molly berates him for his unethical actions, Player X decides to change venue for his games, and the other players join him, leaving Molly.

Molly moves to New York, with the hope of beginning a new underground poker game. After reaching out to many wealthy New Yorkers, Molly finds enough players for several weekly games. Despite continuous success, she fears being unable to cover her losses when players cannot pay. Her dealer convinces her to begin taking a percentage of large pots, allowing her to recoup her potential losses but making her game an illegal gambling operation. One of her Los Angeles players is indicted for running a Ponzi scheme; Molly is investigated and questioned as to who attended her games. At this time, Molly becomes increasingly addicted to drugs, as the games have increasingly taken their toll. Her players also begin to include wealthy individuals from the Russian mafia, among others. She is approached by several Italian mafia members who offer their services to extort money from non-paying players. After she declines, she is attacked in her home, where she is held at gunpoint and her mother's life is threatened. As she is about to return to her poker games, the FBI conducts a raid, a result of Douglas Downey, one of her players, acting as an informant. Molly's assets are seized, and she returns home to live with her mother.

Two years later, Molly has moved out and published a book where she names a few individuals that played in her games. She is arrested by the FBI and indicted for involvement in illegal gambling with the mafia. She enlists the help of Charlie Jaffey, a high-profile and expensive lawyer in New York, who agrees to help after he learns that she has been protecting innocent people who were affected by her poker games. While she is in New York awaiting trial, her father, Larry, seeks her out and attempts to reconcile with her. He admits that he was overbearing and that he treated Molly differently than her brothers because she had known about his affairs. Charlie reads Molly's book and becomes interested in helping her case, as he feels she has not committed serious enough wrongdoing to merit a prison term. Charlie negotiates a deal for Molly to receive no sentence and for her money to be returned in exchange for her hard drives and digital records from gambling. Molly declines this deal, fearing that the information about her players would be released, and she pleads guilty. The judge, deciding that she had committed no serious crimes, sentences her to 200 hours community service, one year probation, and a $200,000 fine.

Cast

Production

Development

On November 12, 2014, Mark Gordon's The Mark Gordon Company bought the feature film adaptation rights to Molly Bloom's memoir, Molly's Game: The True Story of the 26-Year-Old Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World, which Gordon produced. Aaron Sorkin was hired to adapt the memoir into a screenplay. Bloom had already approached Sorkin, as he was her "favorite writer". On January 7, 2016, it was announced that Sorkin would make his directorial debut on the film, for Sony Pictures Entertainment, while Amy Pascal also produced. On February 18, 2016, Sony exited the project, and on May 13, 2016, STX Entertainment came on board, and subsequently bought the film's US and Chinese distribution rights for $9 million.

Casting
On February 18, 2016, Sorkin offered Jessica Chastain the lead role in the film, but the negotiations between them had then not yet begun. On May 6, 2016, Idris Elba joined the film to star alongside Chastain. Sorkin stated that "the casting of Jessica and Idris in the two lead roles is any filmmaker's dream come true, they're two of the greatest actors of their generation, paired for the first time, and their chemistry will be electric." On September 7, 2016, Michael Cera joined the cast as Player X, a celebrity poker player. On October 17, 2016, Kevin Costner joined as Molly Bloom's father, and on October 21, 2016, Brian d'Arcy James was added. On November 9, 2016, Chris O'Dowd, Jeremy Strong, Bill Camp, and Graham Greene joined the cast as well.

Molly Bloom herself discussed Chastain's portrayal of her character with ET Canada stating, "We spent a little time together. She didn't have much time for prep or research," Bloom tells ET Canada's Matte Babel. "I was blown away by her performance by how right it was and how deep and understood I felt by her performance."

Filming
Principal photography began on November 9, 2016, in Toronto. Production concluded on February 9, 2017.

Release
Molly's Game premiered on September 8, 2017, at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was also the closing film at AFI Fest on November 16, 2017, replacing All the Money in the World. It began a limited release in North America on December 25, 2017, before expanding wide on January 5, 2018. The film was previously slated to be released on November 22, 2017, before being moved to the Christmas date in October 2017.

Reception

Box office
Molly's Game grossed $28.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $30.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $59.3 million.

On Christmas Day, the film debuted with $1.04 million from 271 theaters. In its first full weekend, the film grossed $2.3 million, finishing 13th at the box office. The film expanded wide on January 5, 2018, alongside the opening of Insidious: The Last Key, and was projected to gross around $6 million from 1,608 theaters in its opening weekend. It ended up debuting to $6.9 million, finishing 7th at the box office. The following weekend it dropped 44% to $3.9 million, finishing 11th. In its third week of wide release the film grossed $1.7 million, finishing 19th.

The film also grossed a total of $4.5 million in France and $5.3 million in the United Kingdom.

Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 82% based on 272 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Powered by an intriguing story and a pair of outstanding performances from Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba, Molly's Game marks a solid debut for writer-director Aaron Sorkin." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 71 out of 100, based on 46 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.

Peter Debruge of Variety praised Sorkin's script, saying, "... Molly's Game delivers one of the screen's great female parts — a dense, dynamic, compulsively entertaining affair, whose central role makes stunning use of Chastain's stratospheric talent." Mike Ryan of Uproxx gave the film 9/10, writing, "Molly's Game is a perfect story for Sorkin. There's poker, the Russian mafia, the Italian mafia, celebrities, and sports. The only thing missing for Sorkin's wheelhouse is President Bartlet. And at over two hours long, the film still feels tight and never fails to entertain."

Writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, saying, "Molly's Game bristles with fun zingers, electric energy and Sorkin's brand of verbal fireworks – all of which help enormously when the movie falters in fleshing out its characters. Still, in his first film with a female protagonist, the writer-director has hit on a timely theme: the tribulations of being a woman in a man's world." Chastain's portrayal of Molly Bloom was praised by The Hollywood Reporter, for "Chastain roars through the performance with a force and take-no-prisoners attitude that keeps one rapt." The Hollywood Reporter also stated: "Sorkin keeps things rolling relentlessly and gets fine results from the actors down the line [...]. [...] The film looks sharp and a trio of editors keeps thing pacey despite the 140-minute running time." It concluded: "One strong woman and many rich men make for a good show."

Accolades

References

External links

 Molly's Game at History vs. Hollywood

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Ignotus

Hugó Veigelsberg (2 November 1869, Pest – August 3, 1949, Budapest) was a noted Hungarian editor and writer who usually published under the pen name Ignotus (Latin for "unknown").  He was distinguished for the lyric individuality of his poems, stories, and sociological works.  In addition to "Ignotus", he also wrote under the pseudonyms "Dixi," "Pató Pál," and "Tar Lorincz".

His works include A Slemil Keservei (1891), Versek (1894), Vallomások (1900), and Végzet, a translation of a novel by the Dutch author Louis Couperus. He also founded the literary magazine Nyugat. His father was the journalist Leó Veigelsberg, and his son Pál (Paul) Ignotus (1901–1978) was a journalist and writer who worked for the BBC during World War II.

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Salvatore Murdocca

Salvatore "Sal" Murdocca (born April 26, 1943) is an American children's book illustrator. He is best known as Sal Murdocca, illustrator of the Magic Tree House series written by Mary Pope Osborne (from 1992) and the nonfiction Magic Tree House Fact Checkers by Osborne and collaborators (from 2000)—about 50 and 30 volumes respectively to 2014.

Murdocca grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended the High School of Art and Design in New York City, majoring in illustration.  After graduating in 1960, he spent another year studying at the Art Students League while apprenticing in a commercial art studio.

After a successful nine-year career as an advertising and magazine illustrator, Mr. Murdocca gradually turned to children's book illustration.

Since 1970, Mr. Murdocca has authored ten books and illustrated hundreds of education, mass market, and trade books. He has illustrated books by such noted authors as Elizabeth Winthrop ("Dancing Granny", Marshal Cavendish, 2003), Eve Bunting, Bill Martin Jr., Olivia Newton-John, Charles Grodin, Alan Benjamin, Laura Numeroff, Edward Packard, Jeanne Bendick, and Mary Pope Osborne.

He has also illustrated several series, including George E. Stanley's Third Grade Detectives, Scaredy Cats, and Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House series.

In the early 1980s, Mr. Murdocca taught writing and illustration for two years at the Parsons School of Design.
He has written the libretto for an opera inspired by his own book, "The Hero of Hamblett", published in 1972.

His art work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, the Art Director's Club in NYC and the Children's Book Council. His writing has been recognized by the Literary Guild.  He was a winner in an international short story competition in 1978.

Mr. Murdocca is also an award-winning fine artist who has participated in many one-man and group shows of his watercolor and acrylic paintings. His fine art has been represented by galleries in Nyack, NY, SOHO, NYC, and in France.

External links
 Salvatore Murdocca at Simon & Schuster
 S&S is the publisher of Third-Grade Detectives by George E. Stanley (10 volumes) and Landry News by Andrew Clements

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Intensified

Intensified is an album by Desmond Dekker & the Aces released in 1970.

Track listing
All tracks composed by Desmond Dekker; except where indicated
"It Mek" (Dekker, Leslie Kong) - 1:40
"Too Much Too Soon" (Dekker, Leslie Kong) - 2:38
"Coconut Water" - 3:27
"Sweet Music" - 2:29
"My Lonely World" - 3:16
"Rude Boy Train" (Dekker, Leslie Kong) - 2:16
"Poor Me Israelites" - 2:47
"It Is Not Easy" (Dekker, Leslie Kong) - 2:13
"Intensified" (Dekker, Leslie Kong) - 2:43
"Nincompoop" - 2:11
"Tips of My Fingers" (Bill Anderson) - 3:27
"Wise Man" - 2:15

References

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Cyclone Paula

Severe Tropical Cyclone Paula (RSMC Nadi designation: 09F, JTWC designation: 13P) was a tropical cyclone which caused extensive damage to areas of Vanuatu. The cyclone was the second cyclone and only severe tropical cyclone of the relatively inactive 2000–01 South Pacific cyclone season. Cyclone Paula developed from an area of disturbed weather embedded within a monsoon trough on February 25, 2001, near Vanuatu. Situated in an area of favorable conditions, Paula steadily intensified as it moved in a general direction towards the southeast. On March 1, Paula reached peak intensity with winds of , sustained for ten minutes. However, the cyclone began to accelerate further to the southeast into more unfavorable conditions. As a result, Paula quickly weakened, and thus degenerated into an extratropical cyclone on March 4.

Meteorological history

The low pressure area that would eventually develop into Cyclone Paula was first identified at 1800 UTC on February 25, embedded within a monsoon trough  south of Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. At the time, the system was positioned under an upper-level outflow center and located in an area of warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of about 30 °C (86 °F). Early the next day, a sharp increase in oceanic heat content triggered a rapid burst of convection in the northern and eastern quadrants of the system. Associated rainbands also began to increasingly curve toward the circulation center of the low pressure area. An expanding circulation center and persistently deep convection allowed barometric pressures within the system to steadily fall. QuikSCAT and SSM/I data indicated that winds of gale force were persisting in northeastern areas of the system. As a result, the storm system was upgraded to cyclone status and was given the name Paula at 1200 UTC on February 26 by the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center in Nadi, Fiji (RSMC Nadi). The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) also began to track the system, issuing its first cyclone warning on the same day at 1500 UTC, noting at the cyclone's persistent deep convection. At the time of its naming, Cyclone Paula was moving towards the southeast at .

In an area of weak steering currents, Paula began to move in a small, clockwise loop. Quickly intensifying under favorable conditions and an environment of low wind shear, the cyclone reached Category 2 status on the Australian cyclone scale at 0000 UTC on February 27, with winds of , sustained for ten minutes. After completing its small cyclonic loop, the cyclone developed a small central dense overcast (CDO), containing a ragged eye. Throughout the day the eye became increasingly better defined as the cyclone accelerated towards the southeast. Still strengthening, Cyclone Paula moved across the Vanuatu island chain, making landfall just north of Port Vila, Vanuatu at 1200 UTC on February 28 with winds of , sustained for ten minutes. After passing Vanuatu, Paula moved towards Fiji, quickly passing the island to the south. The cyclone made its closest pass to Fiji at 1800 UTC on March 1,  south-southwest of Kadavu Island. Operationally, it was believed that Paula peaked at intensity at this time according to RSMC Nadi with ten-minute sustained winds of ,  but this was revised to  and a minimum barometric pressure of  in post-season analysis.

After passing to the south of Fiji, Cyclone Paula quickly accelerated into an area of strong vertical wind shear, due to a strong northwesterly wind current. As a result, the cyclone promptly began to quickly weaken, with maximum ten-minute sustained winds dropping by  in 30 hours. After passing  south of Tonga, Cyclone Paula moved into the Tropical Cyclone Warning Center in Wellington, New Zealand's (TCWC Wellington) area of responsibility. Still weakening, Paula transitioned into an extratropical cyclone at 0600 UTC on March 4,  east-northeast of the northern tip of New Zealand. The JTWC subsequently issued their final warning on the system at 1200 UTC, later that day.

Preparations and impact

Vanuatu
As Cyclone Paula threatened Vanuatu, RSMC Nadi issued a total of 14 special advisories for the island chain at six–hour intervals, beginning at 2344 UTC on February 25, and ending at 0230 UTC on March 1. In the Port Vila area, an estimated 100 families were evacuated from potentially flood-prone areas.

The cyclone caused heavy rainfall and flooding across Vanuatu. Areas in the western parts of Espiritu Santo experienced damage due to strong winds and flooding in low-lying areas due to Cyclone Paula, forcing the evacuation of communities to higher ground. Trees were also uprooted, causing damage to communication lines and resulting in power outages. An estimated 45–50% of all houses and gardens in Vanuatu were reported to have been damaged by the cyclone, as well as 25% of other infrastructure. A 19-year-old boy drowned in floodwaters caused by Paula after trying to get his canoe to safety.

Fiji
In Fiji's Western Division, strong storm surge destroyed homes in nine villages across the coastline. Root crops, fruit trees, and sugar cane fields were damaged due to Paula. Strong rains also resulted in minor landslides and road closures. One fatality resulted from Cyclone Paula in Fiji.

See also

Cyclone Fergus (1996)

References

External links

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CWF Heavyweight Championship

The NWA Continental Heavyweight Championship was a major title in the National Wrestling Alliance's Alabama territory called Southeastern Championship Wrestling. It existed from 1984 until 1988 when SECW became the Continental Wrestling Federation. The title continued on as the CWF Heavyweight Championship from 1988 until 1989 when the CWF closed.

Footnotes

See also
National Wrestling Alliance
Southeast Championship Wrestling

References

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New Leads

"New Leads" is the 20th episode of the sixth season of the American comedy series The Office and the show's 120th episode overall. It was written and directed by Brent Forrester.

The series—presented as if it were a real documentary—depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. In this episode, Sabre has spent a large amount of money for some sales leads, due to their new "sales is king" policy. Frustrated with his sales staff's cocky attitudes, Michael is reluctant to hand out the new leads he has received, and instead hands them out to the non-sales staff, who are also frustrated with their coworkers' behavior, and the leads are hidden.

Synopsis
The sales staff (Jim, Dwight, Phyllis, Andy and Stanley) let Sabre's new "sales is king" policy get to their heads, frustrating Michael (Steve Carell) and the rest of the non-sales staff. The sales staff are expected to receive new leads from the corporate office and when they arrive, Michael refuses to give them to the sales staff due to their arrogant and disrespectful behavior (particularly Phyllis ordering Michael to "Hand them over, numb-nuts"), which earns him the respect of the non-sales staff. After talking on the phone with Gabe Lewis (Zach Woods) about their attitude, Michael is ordered to hand out the leads and cheerfully does just that—to the non-sales staff: Creed, Meredith, Angela, Kevin, Ryan, Kelly, Oscar, and Erin. They all hide them throughout the office, and Jim (John Krasinski) is given a list of clues as to where to find them and calls Pam (at home on maternity leave) to try and figure them out. Erin plays the warmer-colder game with Andy (Ed Helms), who thinks she is trying to have him touch her chest, only to find leads under the keyboard. Angela (Angela Kinsey) forces Phyllis (Phyllis Smith) to do unnecessary paperwork. Stanley (Leslie David Baker) wins leads from Ryan (B. J. Novak) and Kelly (Mindy Kaling) by pretending to agree with various points they're making during an argument.

When Dwight (Rainn Wilson) returns from a sales call, he is given a clue that leads him to Kevin (Brian Baumgartner), who tells him that some of the leads are in the trash after Dwight starts strangling him. However, the trash is empty, so Dwight checks the dumpster, which is also empty. Michael sees that the garbage truck had emptied the dumpster already, so he and Dwight go to the dump to find them.

Meanwhile, Jim's urging gets the sales staff to acknowledge their rude behavior, and they agree on a plan to offer the non-sales staff some pastries and 2% of their commissions. However, before mentioning their commissions offer, the rest of the staff are so happy with the snacks that they end their dispute with the sales force, who decide to cap the apology right there. At the dump trying to find the leads, Michael calls Dwight out on his bad attitude and Dwight complains that he "hitched my wagon to a horse with no legs" by accepting Michael's job offer years ago instead of going to Home Depot, and the two start throwing trash at each other until they get exhausted. Instead, they bring a beanbag chair back to the office for their own uses.

At the end of the episode, Andy and Erin try to look for the leads at the dump after work. Andy gets cold so Erin gives him her jacket. He tells her that she is the nicest person he has ever met and they share a first kiss amidst the mountains of trash.

Reception
In its original American broadcast, "New Leads" was watched by 7.63 million viewers, with a 3.6 rating and a 10 share in the 18–49 demographic.

References

External links
 "New Leads" at NBC.com

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Edward B. Bullard

Edward B. "Ed" Bullard (born November 28, 1943) is a former United States American politician and educator.

Born in Nassau, Bahamas, Edward Bullard served in the United States Army from 1966-1969. He received a bachelor of science degree in Sociology with a minor in Criminology in 1972 from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. He also received his master's degree in Education Administration (Grades 7-12) in 1976 from Florida A&M University as well.  A master's degree Education Administration (k-12) was earned from Nova Southeastern University in 1977.
He retired from the Miami-Dade School system as an administrator. Bullard served 8 years from 2000-2008 in the Florida House of Representatives. His wife and their son, Dwight Bullard also served in the Florida State Legislature.

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Skyline Commissary

The Skyline Commissary (also known as the Rock Store) is a historic building in Skyline, Alabama.  It was built in 1935 as part of Skyline Farms, a project of the Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program that sought to provide jobs for unemployed farmers on collective farms.  The commissary sold food to both co-op members and surrounding residents, and served as the hub of social activity for the community.  The co-op operated until the end of World War II, when it was sold to private owners.  The commissary continued to operate as a general store for the community until the early 2000s.  It was converted into a heritage museum in 2005.  Like other New Deal structures, the commissary makes heavy use of local materials.  The walls are of locally quarried limestone, and the façade features a pedimented portico covering double entry doors.  The entry is flanked by two large, multi-paned fixed windows.  A gable-roofed ell was added to the north of the rear side in 1937.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

The Skyline Farms Heritage Association owns the building and operates it as the Rock Store Museum. It is open on a limited basis.

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Meulaboh

Meulaboh (or Moulabouh) was the capital of West Aceh Regency, Indonesia, as of July 8, 2013 is an independent city Kota.

Geography

Meulaboh is about 245 km southeast of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province. Meulaboh is located in the western part of Sumatra island.

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake event

"The casualty rates in Meulaboh defy imagination," said Aitor Lacomba, Indonesian director of aid group International Rescue Committee. "Tens of thousands need immediate assistance there."

A damaged airstrip was cleared, enabling International Red Cross medical teams from Japan, Spain and Singapore to begin treating survivors. Red Cross engineer Sara Escudero said "There is a strong smell of putrefaction and, whilst body retrieval has commenced, it can be assumed that there are still hundreds, possibly thousands of bodies remaining underneath the debris".

The Red Cross said it would use Meulaboh as an aid staging post for the Sumatran west coast. The government of Singapore deployed two helicopter landing ships there.

See also

 Calang
 Gleebruk
 Leupung
 Tapaktuan
 Teunom

References

External links
 DigitalGlobe analysis of Meulaboh tsunami images. (For reference only. PDF 1.08 MB)

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