Dissident Gardens

Dissident Gardens is Jonathan Lethem's ninth novel.  It is a multigenerational saga of revolutionaries and activists, the civil rights movement and the counterculture, from the 1930s Communists to the 2010s Occupy movement, and is mostly set in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens and in Greenwich Village.

The title is an obvious play on "Sunnyside Gardens".  Later, a character in East Germany writes to his American daughter, describing his workplace:

Plot summary

The novel is divided into four parts, and each part is divided into four chapters.  Each chapter tells its own coherent narrative, but the years, settings, and points of view of the chapters jump around.

Part I: Boroughphobia

Background information is provided on Rose Zimmer.  A Polish Jew, she immigrated with other members of her family, the Angrushes, to the United States at a young age, and became an ardent Communist.  She met the German Jewish immigrant Albert Zimmer, fellow Communist.  They married in 1936, and had a daughter Miriam in 1940.  The Party exiled Albert to East Germany in 1947 (for his uselessness in America), and then in 1955 expelled Rose, for having an affair with Douglas Lookins, a black police officer.  But Rose gets the last laugh, because Khrushchev's secret denouncements of Stalin are revealed in 1956, leaving the American Communist Party in utter disarray.

In 1957, 17-year-old Miriam is out with several acquaintances.  At some point, she secretly decides she wants to lose her virginity with one of them, a Columbia University student, and the two of them end up in her bedroom.  Her attempt at seduction proves incompetent—the student is reluctant and they are both clueless—but their night is ruined by Rose making a scene.

In 2012, Miriam's son Sergius Gogan visits Cumbow, Maine, a small college town where Cicero Lookins, Douglas's son, is on the faculty, for information regarding his parents, of whom he has no memory, they having spent most of their time dedicated to their causes, including their fatal support for the Sandinistas, and also of his cousin Lenin "Lenny" Angrush, who died in a mob hit.  Cicero is mostly uncooperative, resentful at the surfacing of strong negative memories of Rose as the Lookins' secret homewrecker and his harsh mother substitute during his adolescence.

In 1969, Miriam took 13-year-old Cicero to show off his supposed chess talents to Lenny.  Cicero does so badly that he swears off chess forever.  Miriam then takes him to get his horoscope, which is so bland she then takes him to have his fortune told by a chicken, which turns out to be "wear your love like heaven," a message Cicero interprets as approval of his incipient gay orientation.

Part II: The Who, What, or Where Game

In the summer of 1960, Lenny tries to exploit his in with Bill Shea, bringing a Tommy Gogan tape of a proposed anthem for the forthcoming New York City Continental League team, to be known as the Sunnyside Pros (short for "Proletariats").  His mission ends in abject failure when Shea breaks the news to Lenny that Major League Baseball has capitulated, and agreed to expansion teams after all, including the National League team that will be named the New York Mets. Lenny takes this as a betrayal.

In 1969, Miriam is a contestant on a popular quiz show.  She sabotages her own chances by showing up slightly high, and during the show privately fumes over the non-activist trivia, musing over the categories she is really an expert in.

In 1940, Albert Zimmer gives a rousing, inspirational speech to a beginning Jewish commune in New Jersey, supposedly where he and Rose may themselves move to.  Rose realizes belatedly her husband is simply following orders, and is furious that she had been excluded from any information. That, and the fact she does not want anything to do with farm life, leads to her insisting they stay in the city, and soon they move to Sunnyside Gardens.

Tommy Gogan's early life story is told, culminating in him joining his older brother's Peter and Rye to form "The Gogan Brothers", a mildly successful Irish singing trio.  In 1960, he meets Miriam, falls in love, and she pushes him to fully develop his activist leanings.  But his first album is savaged in the underground press, and his talent peters out.

Part III: The Wit and Wisdom of Archie Bunker

Cicero invites Sergius to attend his morning seminar on "Disgust and Proximity".  In trying to break down his students' resistance, he tells some of the horrors of his parents in his life.  Afterwards, Sergius introduces Cicero to Lydia, who was visiting "Occupy Cumbow" as part of an "Occupy New England" tour.  Sergius had met her the night before, amazed that Lydia was playing his father's music, which she explains was a forerunner for the Occupy movement. They leave Cumbow together.

Letters from Albert Zimmer to Miriam tell the story of his life in Dresden, East Germany.  He has become a revisionist historian, specializing in the firebombing of Dresden and the implications of how evil capitalism is.

In 1978, Lenny sold the IRA some fake Krugerrands: identical gold content, but free of the taint of apartheid.  The IRA gives chase, and after a few days, kill him.

After the killings of Miriam and Tommy in Nicaragua in 1979, Rose discovers All in the Family, and falls in love with Archie Bunker, and projects herself into various scenes with Archie, symptomatic of her growing cynicism regarding politics.

Part IV: Peaceable Kingdom

Sergius' story from earliest memories to being raised by Quakers after the death of his parents is told.  He becomes a pacifist, and learns to play the guitar.  He meets Rose once, in the nursing home where she is an advanced state of mental decline.  In her only full utterance, she calls him "Cicero", the first Sergius learns of his existence.

In March 1979, sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, Miriam and Tommy visit Nicaragua.  Before leaving the Sandanista-leaning León, Miriam writes a letter to a friend, saying that if she does not live, make sure Rose does not get custody of Sergius.  They cross over into Somoza-controlled territory, and soon their hosts split up and separate the two.  The chapter ends with the implication that Miriam is about to be raped and murdered.

In the early 1980s, Rose is committed to a nursing home after being found wandering and highly confused.  Cicero pays her regular visits, and she recovers to the point of becoming the terror of the nurses.  (Cicero's other motive for visiting New York is anonymous sex away from Princeton.)  Cicero accepts a position on the West Coast, and in the year he is away, she deteriorates, and dies soon after Cicero's visit back.

Sergius and Lydia drive to the Portland airport.  They stay at the airport, have sex in a bathroom stall, she leaves to hitchhike back to the city.  Sergius, in trying to board, is treated as highly suspicious by security: he took more than an hour from entering the airport to finally checking in.  He is detained, and security radios to have someone pick up Lydia.  The book ends with Sergius realizing he is a "cell of one".

Critical reception

Initial reviews were quite varied.

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Joseph A. Kitchen

Joseph A. Kitchen was a North Dakota state legislator and the state Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor from 1921 to 1932.

References

External links
List of North Dakota Commissioners of Agriculture and Labor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Political party strength in North Dakota - Wikipedia
Department History | North Dakota Department of Agriculture
Digital Horizons - Search Results (a few photos of Commissioner Kitchen)
North Dakota Department of Agriculture - Biennial Report 2009 - 2011
Directory of Agricultural and Home Economics Leaders, United States and Canada: Vocational Teachers - William Grant Wilson, 1922 (Google Search for Joseph A. Kitchen North Dakota

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Oleria rubescens

Oleria rubescens is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler and Herbert Druce in 1872. It is found in Mexico, south to Panama and Costa Rica.

The wingspan is 49–50 mm. Forewing length is 23–25 mm.

The larvae feed on Solanum siparunoides.

External links
Haber, William A. (17 November 2001). "Oleria rubescens (Butler & Druce)". Monteverde Natural History. Retrieved January 4, 2020.

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HM LST-422

HMS LST-422 was a United States Navy  that was transferred to the Royal Navy during World War II. As with many of her class, the ship was never named. Instead, she was referred to by her hull designation.

Construction
LST-422 was laid down on 12 November 1942, under Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 942, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; launched 10 December 1942; then transferred to the United Kingdom and commissioned on 4 February 1943.

Service history
LST-422 saw no active service in the United States Navy. The tank landing ship was lost in action while in Royal Navy service 26 January 1944, when she struck a mine off Anzio, Italy.

LST-422 was carrying the C and D Companies, and the Headquarters of the US Army's 83rd Chemical Battalion, Motorized and also members of the 68th Coast Guard Artillery Battalion, at the time. She had departed Naples, along with 12 other LSTs, the night of 25 January 1944, with a capacity load of trucks, most likely GMC 2½-ton trucks, jeeps, M3 Half-track, ambulances, and other vehicles. In addition, she was carrying  steel barrels of gasoline on her deck, along with a variety of ammunition. The 83rd utilized  mortars firing either white phosphorus, smoke, gas, or high explosive shells.

LST-422 had arrived off of Anzio, around 01:00, after sailing through deteriorating weather and high, gale force, winds, and set anchor. With waves at  and continued gale force winds, the LST was blown into a known mine field located around  offshore. At 05:20 an explosion ripped open a  hole in the bottom starboard side of the ship, between the main and auxiliary engine rooms, which immediately ignited the ship's fuel oil supply.

The tank deck was the first to flood, with most of the men of the 83rd asleep on this deck over 400 men were unable to escape. The vehicles on the tank deck, which were fueled and loaded with ammunition, began to explode, which in turn ignited the gasoline that had been stored on the top deck. With all power lost, it was impossible to contact the engine room and with the fires it was impossible to reach the mess deck where the fire fighting suits and helmets were stored. The auxiliary fire foam motor had been damaged by flying shrapnel and could not be started.

The order was given for the US Army personnel to abandon ship, however, only four life rafts were undamaged, so any floatable loose materials were thrown overboard to assist men that were already in the water.

 came to assist but many of the men who had jumped into the frigid waters perished before being rescued.  also tried to assist LST-422, but struck a mine herself and sunk with a loss of 30 of her crew. Soon the minesweepers  and , along with , , , and other YMS craft joined in the rescue and were able to pull 150 survivors from LST-422 and LCI-32 from the storm tossed waters.

Lieutenant Commander Braodhurst, along with eight of his crew, finally abandoned ship at about 06:00. At 14:30 LST-422 broke in two and sank.

She was struck from the Navy list on 16 May 1944.

See also
 List of United States Navy LSTs

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Isabel Vincent

Isabel Vincent (born 1965 in Toronto) a Canadian investigative journalist who writes for the New York Post, is an alumna of the University of Toronto's The Varsity newspaper and the author of five books.

Early life and education
Born in 1969 to a Portuguese Catholic family and reared in Toronto, Vincent speaks English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. At the University of Toronto, she majored in English, wrote for the student newspaper The Gargoyle for two years, and edited The Varsity from 1988-1989. Ishe n 1990 earned her BA there at University College.

Career
In 1990s she became Latin American correspondent covering the drug wars of the Medellín Cartel. From 1991-1995 she was in Rio de Janeiro for Toronto's The Globe and Mail. Serving as a foreign correspondent, she covered conflicts in Kosovo for the Globe and Mail, and the war in Angola for the Nationa Post and the Globe and Mail. Since 2008 she has been an investigative reporter for New York Post, covering New York City and corruption.

Lamont/Spencer criticism

During the 1990s, Vincent wrote several articles and the book See No Evil about the Abílio dos Santos Diniz kidnapping case in Brazil. Two young Canadians, David Spencer and Christine Lamont, had been convicted of Diniz's 1989 political kidnapping and confinement and sentenced to 28 years each in Brazilian prisons. Vincent's writing was highly critical of Canadian media and their assumption that Lamont and Spencer must be innocent, attributing those assumptions to prejudices about Brazil. These writings brought Vincent open hostility from the Canadian journalism establishment.

However, David Levesque said, "She's critical of magazines like Saturday Night and CBC television's Fifth Estate, which ran stories on the case seemingly without consulting the trial transcripts available in English translations." Robert W. Shirley wrote, "...the families, lobbyists, several Canadian politicians and much of the Canadian press were unwilling to study the complexities of the case and deliberately created an international incident". He said that Vincent made an "attempt to understand how two idealistic young Canadians would have become involved in such a case. Vincent presents a wider and darker picture... Her writing is at times rushed and impacted, difficult to follow as she shifts rapidly in time and space. But her summing up of the case is masterful and she addresses some fundamental philosophical questions."

David Frum wrote, "Vincent mercilessly rips to pieces the lies surrounding the Lamont-Spencer affair, and uncompromisingly takes to task the gullible journalists who allowed themselves to be manipulated by a pair of wannabe revolutionary terrorists... See No Evil is a searing account of journalistic malpractice, one that belongs on the bookshelf of every journalist, and every serious consumer of news, in Canada. And Vincent's ominous conclusion should be framed: 'If there's a moral here, it lies in the ease with which public opinion in this country can be influenced and directed, especially by using distortions and lies.'"

In 1996, Lamont and Spencer admitted they had participated in the kidnappings.

For her work on the Lamont/Spencer case, Vincent received the Canadian Association of Journalists' Award for excellence in investigative journalism and a Southam Fellowship.

Kielburger libel suit

In 1996, Vincent wrote a feature on Craig Kielburger in Saturday Night magazine saying the teenage anti-child labor advocate diverted donations made to his Free the Children charity to his family. Kielburger sued Vincent and the magazine for libel and, in February, 2000, settled for $C 319,000. The National Post editor-in-chief said settling was "largely a commercial decision... It was costing us a great deal of time and money. It was time to wind things up."

Books

See no evil: the strange case of Christine Lamont and David Spencer Reed Books Canada, 1996.
Hitler's silent partners: Swiss banks, Nazi gold, and the pursuit of justice Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 1997. . Vintage Canada, 1998. .
 German translation: ; translated by Klaus Fritz, Norbert Juraschitz and Thomas Pfeiffer. Munich: Diana Verlag, c1997,
 French translation: ; translated by André Dommergues and François Tétreau. Paris : L'Archipel, 1997.
Bodies and Souls: The Trafficking of Jewish Immigrant Prostitutes in the Americas. Random House Canada, 2006. , . Details the gang Zwi Migdal in forcing women to become prostitutes.
Gilded Lily: Lily Safra, The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Women. Harper, 2010.
Dinner with Edward: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship (2016), . A memoir about her deep friendship with an elderly gourmand, who gives her insights into life while sharing his exquisite dinners. The movie version of this book is planned to star David Suchet, best known for his role as Hercule Poirot.

Awards
Vincent has received multiple awards:

 Canadian Association of Journalist's Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism
 Journalism fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto.
 National Jewish Book Award in Canada, for Bodies and Souls
 Yad Vashem Award for Holocaust History, for Hitler's Silent Partners.

References

External links

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 Article at the Ryerson Review of Journalism

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Dave Bickers

David Geoffrey Bickers (17 January 1938 – 6 July 2014) was an English Grand Prix motocross racer from Coddenham, Suffolk. He won two European motocross championships, and was a member of British motocross teams that won two Motocross des Nations events as well as two Trophée des Nations events. Bickers was awarded the Motorcycle News 'Man of the Year' award in 1960.

Motorcycling career
In the early 1960s, Bickers was one of the top motorcycle racers in the sport of scrambles, which eventually became more widely known by the European term 'motocross'. He began competing in motorcycle scrambles at the age of 15 just before the official age which he was eligible to ride, which was sixteen, and he was so successful that he was rewarded with a sponsorship from the Dot motorcycle company.

His riding talent got him noticed by Greeves factory rider, Brian Stonebridge, who then recommended that Bickers be hired by Greeves in 1958. He won two consecutive 250cc European motocross championships in 1960 and 1961 for the Greeves factory racing team. The European championship was considered to be the world championship at the time, as the sport of motocross had yet to develop outside of Europe.

Bickers was a member of British teams that won the Trophée des Nations event in 1961 and in 1962. He also helped British teams win the Motocross des Nations in 1966 and 1967.

The middle-1960s saw the start of the move away from traditional large-capacity four-stroke engines to two-strokes.

From 1966 Bickers rode CZ models and was the UK importer for the 250 cc and 360 cc scramblers together with a trials bike, followed by CZ roadsters and Jawa models in 1973, selling both marques initially from his premises at Woodbridge Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, followed by a move to Farthing Road Industrial Estate, Ipswich.

As one of the first European riders to race in the United States, Bickers helped to introduce Americans to the sport of motocross. He also competed in the Trans-AMA motocross series in 1971 and 1972.

Film industry career
After retiring from competition, Bickers started a company manufacturing stunt equipment used in the film industry.  He also appeared as a stunt double for Roger Moore in Octopussy and Escape to Athena among other film work.

Bickers died after a stroke on 6 July 2014.

References

External links
 Bickers Action – Film stunt equipment

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R. A. Gani

R. A. Gani (1927 – 15 January 2016) was a Bangladeshi engineer and politician from Gaibandha belonging to Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was a member of the Jatiya Sangsad. He also served as the state minister of Ministry of Science and Technology. He was a member of the standing committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

Biography
Gani was born on 1927 at Bosniapara in Sadullapur of Gaibandha. He completed matriculation from Gaibandha Local Boys' School. Later, he completed higher secondary studies from Presidency College. He completed graduation from Ahsanullah Engineering College in civil engineering in 1952.

Gani founded an engineering consultant farm named Gani Bangla Limited in 1953. Then, he completed postgraduate studies from California in 1963. Later, he received doctorate degree from a university of Washington. He took part in the Language Movement, Mass Uprising and Liberation War of Bangladesh.

Gani was elected as a member of the Jatiya Sangsad from Rangpur-19 in 1979. He was appointed as the state minister of  Ministry of Science and Technology during the reign of Ziaur Rahman. He was a member of the standing committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

Gani was married to Begum Hosne Ara Gani. They had three daughters and a son.

Gani died on 15 January 2016 at Square Hospital in Dhaka the age of 89.

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Cavalier Wildlife Management Area

Cavalier Wildlife Management Area is a  Wildlife Management Area in Chesapeake, Virginia.  It preserves habitat for a number of species, including black bear, canebrake rattlesnakes, white-tailed deer, eastern wild turkeys, and many varieties of songbirds.

The preserve comprises two separate tracts of land. The  main tract is located about  east of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and adjacent to the Virginia–North Carolina border; it was once a part of the Great Dismal Swamp but was drained more than 200 years ago. The main tract today is typified by recently logged forestlands planted with young pine.  A smaller,  tract lies about  north of the main area of land, immediately adjacent to the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.

The area is open to the public for seasonal hunting, trapping, fishing, hiking, and primitive camping. Firearms are prohibited in the Dismal Swamp tract, where only bow-hunting is permitted; firearms may be used for hunting within the main tract. Neither area permits horseback riding.

Cavalier Wildlife Management Area is owned and maintained by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Access for persons 17 years of age or older requires a valid hunting or fishing permit, or a WMA access permit.

See also
 List of Virginia Wildlife Management Areas

References

External links
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries: Cavalier Wildlife Management Area
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries: Dismal Swamp Tract of Cavalier

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Myrtlewood, Alabama

Myrtlewood is a town in Marengo County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 130, down from 139 in 2000.

History
A post office has been in operation at Myrtlewood since 1886. Myrtlewood was incorporated as a town in 1957. The town was named for a grove of crepe myrtle trees near the original town site.

Geography
Myrtlewood is located at  (32.247254, -87.947141).

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 139 people, 59 households, and 45 families residing in the town. The population density was 53.6 people per square mile (20.7/km²). There were 76 housing units at an average density of 29.3 per square mile (11.3/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 79.14% White and 20.86% Black or African American. 0.72% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 59 households out of which 22.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.0% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.7% were non-families. 23.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 2.76.

In the town, the population was spread out with 18.7% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 30.2% from 45 to 64, and 19.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.2 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $42,188, and the median income for a family was $50,114. Males had a median income of $51,667 versus $31,250 for females. The per capita income for the town was $21,262. There were 4.8% of families and 7.3% of the population living below the poverty line, including 7.1% of under eighteens and 13.0% of those over 64.

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Heydukova Street Synagogue

The Heydukova Street Synagogue is the only Jewish synagogue in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It was constructed in 1923 – 1926 on Heydukova Street in the Old Town in Cubist style, designed by the local Jewish architect Artur Szalatnai.

The synagogue is an important example of Slovak religious architecture of the 20th century and it is listed as a Slovak National Cultural Monument. It is one of only four active synagogues in Slovakia and historically one of three in Bratislava,  the other two were demolished in the 20th century. The building also houses the Bratislava Jewish Community Museum, installed upstairs, with a permanent exhibition “The Jews of Bratislava and Their Heritage” which is open to the public during the summer season.

History
The architect Artur Szalatnai was selected by winning a competition for the project of a new synagogue. It was Szalatnai's first major work after finishing studies in Budapest. At the time of the construction, there were no houses in this part of Heydukova Street.

The synagogue exterior has a towerless, seven-pillared colonnade facing Heydukova Street. Entrance is situated at the building's eastern side, from the corridor connecting the street with the inner yard. The interior includes a large sanctuary in which modern steel-and-concrete construction and contemporary Cubist details are combined with historicist elements.

See also

 History of the Jews in Slovakia
 History of Bratislava

References

Further reading
 Borský Maroš, Synagogue Architecture in Slovakia: A Memorial Landscape of the Lost Community, Menorah Foundation
 Dulla Matúš, Majstri architektúry, Perfect, pages 56 - 57
 Barkány Eugen, Židovské náboženské obce na Slovensku, Vesna, pages 48 - 49

External links

 Bratislava Synagogue
 The Slovak Jewish Heritage
 Jewish Religious Life in Bratislava Before the Holocaust, part of an online exhibition by Yad Vashem

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Mirzəqurbanlı

Mirzəqurbanlı is a village and municipality in the Neftchala Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 535. The municipality consists of the villages of Mirzəqurbanlı and Uzunbabalı.

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Ministry of Petroleum

A Ministry of Petroleum or Ministry of Oil is a kind of government ministry often found in countries that are producers and exporters of petroleum.

Examples include:
 Ministry of Oil, Kuwait
 Ministry of Oil, Iraq
 Ministry of Oil and Gas, Kazakhstan
 Ministry of Oil and Gas, Oman
 Ministry of Petroleum, Egypt
 Ministry of Petroleum, Iran
 Ministry of Petroleum, Pakistan
 Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, Norway
 Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia
 Ministry of Petroleum and Mining, South Sudan
 Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, India

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Quality Control (album)

Quality Control is the second studio album by American hip hop group Jurassic 5. It was released through Interscope Records on June 20, 2000.

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Quality Control received an average score of 77 out of 100 based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

In 2015, it was ranked at number 2 on Pastes "10 Hip-Hop Albums for People Who Don't Like Hip-Hop" list.

Track listing

Charts

References

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Solhan

Solhan () is a town and district of Bingöl Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The mayor is Abdulhakim Yıldız (AK Party).

References

External links
 Solhan website
 District governor's official website

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Manuel Trappel

Manuel Trappel (born 16 September 1989) is an Austrian professional golfer who in 2011 became the first Austrian winner of the European Amateur. This title brought Trappel an invitation to the 2012 Open Championship.

Trappel won his National Championship before winning the 2011 European Amateur at Halmstad Golf Club in Sweden. He won in a playoff against Walker Cup player Steven Brown.

In September 2011, Trappel played in his first European Tour event, the Austrian Open, where he made the cut and finished tied for 70th place.

In December 2011, Trappel was named the Austrian Golf Association "Golfer of the Year". Trappel lives in Bregenz and studied Economic Law at the University of Innsbruck.

Results in major championships

Note: Trappel only played in The Open Championship.
CUT = missed the half-way cut

Team appearances
Amateur
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Austria): 2012
St Andrews Trophy (representing the Continent of Europe): 2012 (winners)
Bonallack Trophy (representing Europe): 2012 (winners)

References

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Irish Bookbinders' and Allied Trades Union

The Irish Bookbinders' and Allied Trades Union () was a trade union representing print workers in Ireland.

The union was founded in 1920 as the Irish Bookbinders' and Paper Rulers' Trade Union, by Dublin-based members of the UK-based National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers.  It became the "Irish Bookbinders' and Allied Trades Union" in 1938.  From 1941, the Irish government required unions to obtain a license, and the National Union thereafter withdrew from Ireland, the Irish Bookbinders thereafter recruiting throughout the country; by the 1950, it had around 1,000 members.

Originally part of the Irish Trades Union Congress, the union was a founding member of the rival Congress of Irish Unions.  The two confederations later merged to form the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, of which the union maintained membership.

In 1983, the union merged with the Irish Graphical Society and the Electrotypers' and Stereotypers' Society of Dublin and District to form the Irish Print Union.

General Secretaries
1920: Michael Colgan
1953: Terence Farrell
1960s: J. Cullen

References

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Phalonidia praemorsa

Phalonidia praemorsa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Peru.

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John Craig Freeman

John Craig Freeman (born February 16, 1959) is a contemporary artist and a Professor of New Media at Emerson College in Boston.

Education

Freeman received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, in 1986. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1990.

Artistic career

Freeman is a public artist using emergent technologies to produce large-scale public work at sites where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities. Freeman's public art has evolved from the use of billboards in the early 1990s to mixed reality installations at the turn of the century, with current work focusing on augmented reality.  In a 2012 interview, Freeman stated, "My work seeks to expand the notion of public by exploring how digital networked technology is transforming our sense of place."

The following are some examples of his work.

Operation Greenrun II, 1990

Freeman's earliest work, titled Operation Greenrun II and developed as his master's thesis at the University of Colorado, used billboards to draw attention to a contaminated nuclear production facility at Rocky Flats, Colorado.  In this work, eleven billboard faces were created with a message protesting the Rocky Flats site.  The ensuing controversy resulted in the decision to shut down Rocky Flats for good.  Writing of this project in her book titled Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age, Margot Lovejoy says of Freeman that he "believes that a public art can circumvent problems of the gallery system such as the commodification of culture and the perpetuation of an exclusive, elite system for art.  He believes in bringing art to the public." She goes on to quote Freeman, who said that "If people are too busy to go to the gallery or museum, it makes sense to bring art to them. They don't even have to get out of their cars."

Imaging Place, 1997–2010

The "interventionist, political nature" of Operation Greenrun II established a pattern that has remained consistent throughout Freeman's career.  This pattern can be seen in the work he titles Imaging Place, an ongoing work which employs panoramic photography in location-based projects that highlight sites affected by globalization. Locations where this work has been done include Beijing; Taipei, Taiwan; São Paulo, Brazil; the U.S./Mexico border; the Miami River; Lowell, Massachusetts; Kaliningrad, Russia; Warsaw, Poland; and Belfast, among others.  His process has been called a "nonlinear documentary method."

Freeman worked on the Imaging Place: Miami River project as part of an interdisciplinary, collaborative group called the Florida Research Ensemble.

Augmented Reality

Much of Freeman’s work since 2010 uses emergent forms of augmented reality as interventionist public art. He is a founding member of the international artists collective Manifest.AR.

Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos, 2012

Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos is an augmented reality public art project and memorial, dedicated to the thousands of migrant workers who have died along the U.S./Mexico border in recent years trying to cross the desert southwest in search of work and a better life. Built for smartphone mobile devices, this project allows people to visualize the scope of the loss of life by marking each location where human remains have been recovered with a virtual object or augmentation. The public can simply download and launch a mobile application and aim their devices’ cameras at the landscape along the border and the surrounding desert. The application uses geolocation software to superimpose individual augments at the precise GPS coordinates of each recorded death, enabling the public to see the objects integrated into the physical location as if they existed in the real world.

Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands, 2012

Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands is based on the work of Gustav Klutsis, including his designs for Screen-radio Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands from 1922. Each of four virtual orators displays a black and white animation from a contemporary mass uprising: Tank Man near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989; the assassination of Neda Agha-Soltan, who was gunned down in the streets of Tehran during the 2009 Iranian election protests; scenes from Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 Arab Spring; and the 2011 Occupy Wall Street uprising. Each of these images is juxtaposed, in montage, with frames from the Odessa Steps scene of Sergei Eisenstein‘s historic Battleship Potemkin film. When touched, the virtual objects play sound from the uprising. The stands call up both the resurgence and nostalgia of current worldwide political idealism as they re-imagine the museum plaza in the function of the public square.

Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Artists Respond program, Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands has also been exhibited at Kunsthallen Nikolaj, as part of the Conversations exhibition during the 2012 Copenhagen Art Festival and at Triennale di Milano in Milan, Italy, as part of the No Need for Real exhibition in 2012.

Water wARs, 2011

Water wARs was an augmented reality pavilion for undocumented artists/squatters and water war refugees, which anticipates the flood of environmental refugees into the developed world caused by environmental degradation, global warming and the privatization of the world’s drinking water supply by multinational corporations. Water wARs was exhibited as part of the Manifest.AR's unofficial Venice Biennial Intervention in front of the main pavilion in Giardini and in the Piazza San Marco during the 54th Venice Biennial International Art Exhibition, ILLUMInations.

MetroNeXt+ , 2014

The project exhibits a replica of a vintage New York City subway entrance that transports visitors to downtown Zurich, Switzerland’s largest city. It uses augmented reality and photogrammetry technologies to display 3D models of Zurich’s old town and the historic ″Augustinergasse.″ MetroNeX+ is presented by ETH Zurichhttps, Digital Art Week International, and Virtuale Switzerland.

Academic career

Freeman began his academic career in the early 1990s in San Diego, where he lectured at the University Of California, San Diego, for three and a half years. He was an assistant professor at the University of Florida from 1994 to 1999, where he coordinated the photography area. From 1999 to 2002 he ran the digital media art curriculum as an associate professor in the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is currently an associate professor of New Media at Emerson College in Boston. In 2012 he received a visiting scholar appointment at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, University of California, San Diego. In 2006 he taught as a visiting professor at Shih Hsin University, in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2011 Freeman joined the editorial board of the Public Art Dialogue.

Publications

John Craig Freeman, on behalf of ManifestAR. "ManifestAR: an augmented reality manifesto, VR Hybrids: Augmented Reality, edited by Todd Margolis, San Francisco, CA: IS&T SPIE: The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality, #PSI82890D, 2012.
Greg Ulmer with Barbara Jo Revelle, William Tilson and John Craig Freeman. Miami Virtue & the Ulmer Tapes Kamloops, BC, Canada: Small Cities Imprint, Vol 2, no 2, 2012.
John Craig Freeman. "Imaging Place: Globalization and Immersive Media," Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen Digital Art Weeks and Interactive Futures, edited by Randy Adams, Steve Gibson and Stefan Muller Arisona, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 2008, pp. 453–466.
John Craig Freeman. "Imaging Place: The Choragraphic Method," Imaging Place, edited by Craig Saper, W.F. Garrett-Petts, and John Craig Freeman, Rhizomes, Vol. 18, Winter, 2008.
William Tilson and John Craig Freeman. "Place and the Electrate Situation," Rhizomes, Vol. 13., Fall, 2006.

References

External links
John Craig Freeman's blog.
Greg Ulmer, The Florida Research Ensemble and the Prospects for an Electronic Humanities.
Public Art Dialogue.
No Need for Real, Triennale di Milano.
Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands, Kunsthallen Nikolaj.
Artists Respond, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Manifest.AR @ ZERO1.
Manifest.AR @ LA RePlay.
Manifest.AR @ ICA.

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Georges Groussard

Georges Groussard (born 22 March 1937) is a retired French road cyclist. Groussard rode professionally from 1960 to 1967. He participated in 7 Tours de France, and wore the yellow jersey for 9 consecutive days in 1964. His best overall result was also in 1964, when he finished 5th place in the overall classification.
His elder brother Joseph Groussard was also a professional cyclist.

Since 1995, the race La Georges Groussard is dedicated to him.

Major results

1959
Winner Mican-Morvan (amateur race)
1961
2nd place Paris–Nice
3rd place Tour de Luxembourg
1962
Winner in Plumeliau
1963
Winner in Plumeliau
1964
2nd place in French national road race championship
2nd place in Preslin
2nd place in Sévignac

Tour de France results
 1961: 30th place
 1962: 72nd place
 1963: 51st place
 1964: 5th place, 10 days in yellow jersey
 1965: did not finish: gave up in stage 3
 1966: 30th place
 1967: Team: France 3 (start number 127), did not finish; out of time on stage 8

References

External links

Info about the stages where Groussard wore the yellow jersey
Official Tour de France results for Georges Groussard

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Acalolepta biocellata

Acalolepta biocellata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1935. It is known from Sumatra.

References

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Kumora

Kumora () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Severo-Baykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 565 as of 2010. There are 21 streets.

References

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Eames: The Architect and the Painter

Eames: The Architect and the Painter is a 2011 documentary film about American designers Charles and Ray Eames and the Eames Office. It was produced and written by Jason Cohn, and coproduced by Bill Jersey.

The film moves between a narrative about the husband and wife team to one about the Eames Office and its accomplishments, starting with chair design, but also moving through architecture, photography and film. Most of the period images are still photographs from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, but there are several film clips. Audio clips are interspersed with narration by James Franco.

The film uses extensive interviews to frame the story. Interviews include Richard Saul Wurman, the founder of TED, Irish architect Kevin Roche, designer Bob Blaich, and screenwriter Paul Schrader; Lucia Eames and Eames Demetrios, Charles Eames' daughter and grandson; former Eames office designers: Jeannine Oppewall, Gordon Ashby, Deborah Sussman, and John and Marilyn Neuhart; historians Pat Kirkham, Jed Perl, and Donald Albrecht; and IBM consultant Zeke Seligson.

Reception
The New York Times reviewer A. O. Scott called it "a lively new documentary" and "appropriately busy and abundant: full of objects, information, stories and people, organized with hectic elegance." He praised it for showing, "in marvelous detail, how their work was an extension of themselves and how their distinct personalities melded into a unique and protean force."

Tom Keogh of the Seattle Times wrote that "Much like the creations of its subjects, 'Eames' is itself a dazzling, sensory adventure" and that "the film is an extraordinary and enjoyable history of how two people influenced so much of our thinking and surroundings today."

Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan described the film as "a thorough and vibrant examination of the master Modernists."

Awards
The film won a Peabody Award in 2012.

Home media
The film is available on YouTube from PBS as Cd1 and Cd2.

The film is available on DVD.

References

External links

Film entry at firstrunfeatures.com

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Ishikawadai Station

is a railway station on the Tokyu Ikegami Line in Ota, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tokyu Corporation.

Lines
Ishikawadai Station is served by the Tokyu Ikegami Line, and is located 4.9 km from the line's Tokyo terminus at .

Station layout
The station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History
The station first opened on 28 August 1927 as . On 3 April 1928, it was renamed Ishikawadai.

Surrounding area
 Tokyo Institute of Technology

References

External links

 Ishikawadai Station information (Tokyu)

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Hardwood Records

Hardwood Records is a Canadian independent record label, owned and operated by singer-songwriter Hayden. Originally formed to distribute his own albums, the label has also released albums by Cuff the Duke, Basia Bulat and Lou Canon.

See also
 List of record labels

References

External links
 Official website

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Snailsbury Tales

Snailsbury Tales is a children's cartoon broadcast on the BBC (on both the CBBC channel and its BBC Two slot) between 2002 and 2005. It was produced by Maverick Entertainment.

The cartoon was about a town whose inhabitants were all snails. Much of the humour derived from the fact that it would take 10 days to visit the shops, or that the fire service was proud of their ability to move at 0.1 mph.

The shows voice cast featured Jon Culshaw as the narrator and additional voices, alongside David Holt, Sheila Steafel and Mike Hurley providing the female characters and other additional voices such as the children.  Backgrounds were drawn by Matt Cooley, an art teacher at Wanstead High School.

Snailsbury Tales episodes
 The Maze
 Aerial Photography
 Drought
 The First Snail in Space
 Tooth Fairy
 Mobile Phones
 Old Age
 Pet Show
 Shell Shock
 Nature Walk
 Musician of the Year
 Genie
 The Mystery of Snailsbury Pond
 Skateboard
 Snail's Pace
 Off to the Circus
 Burglary
 Something in the Water
 Mighty Snail
 Ghost
 Snow
 Town Hall Dance
 Cross Country
 Disco
 Gone with the Wind
 Radio Cabbage
 Monster

References

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Category:Fictional gastropods


Bent Creek Campus of the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station

Bent Creek Campus of the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station is a national historic district located near Asheville, in the Appalachian Mountains, Buncombe County, North Carolina.

The district encompasses 16 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure associated with the Bent Creek Experimental Forest of the Pisgah National Forest.

Architecture
The campus has two sections:
west section centered on an insectary and a garage dating to 1925-1928.
east section with laboratories, insectaries, residences, and auxiliary buildings dating to 1931-1934.

The buildings are typically one-story high (often with basement or garret stories), of frame construction in the Rustic Style.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, with a boundary decrease in 1996.

References

Category:Buildings and structures in Buncombe County, North Carolina
Category:Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Buncombe County, North Carolina
Category:Pisgah National Forest
Category:Protected areas of the Appalachians
Category:Rustic architecture in North Carolina


Carl Ludwig (Medal of Honor)

Carl Ludwig   was a Private in the Union Army, received the Medal of Honor, on July 30, 1896, for his brave and gallant action at the Second Battle of Petersburg, Virginia during the American Civil War.

Medal of Honor citation
Rank and organization: Private, 34th New York Battery.
Place and date: Petersburg, Virginia., June 18, 1864.
Birth: France.
Date of issue: July 30, 1896

Citation:

As gunner of his piece, inflicted singly a great loss upon the enemy and distinguished himself in the removal of the piece while under a heavy fire.

See also
List of Medal of Honor recipients
List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: G–L

References

External links

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Commerce, Texas

Commerce is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States, situated on the eastern edge of North Texas, in the heart of the Texas Blackland Prairies, and the far northeastern part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The town is  northeast of Dallas and  south of the Texas/Oklahoma border. Commerce is the second largest city in Hunt County, with a population of 8,078 at the 2010 census and an estimated 9,303 in 2018. The city is home to Texas A&M University–Commerce, a four-year university of over 12,000 students that has been in the town since 1894. Commerce is one of the smallest college towns in Texas.

History

The town of Commerce was formed when two merchants named William Jernigan and Josiah Jackson established a trading post and mercantile store where the present-day downtown area is. The rural area just to the northeast was an open prairie originally known as Cow Hill. The town was established in 1872 and named "Commerce" due to the thriving economic activity among the cotton fields and ideal farm and ranch lands between the Middle and South Sulphur rivers on the rich, black gumbo prairie in northeast Hunt County. The town incorporated in 1885. Two years later, a railroad was built through Commerce to transport merchandise from Fort Worth, and nine years later, William L. Mayo, a college educator, moved East Texas Normal College from the northeast Texas town of Cooper to Commerce after the original school in Cooper was destroyed in a fire. Mayo continued as president of the college, now known as Texas A&M University–Commerce, until his death in 1917 and is buried on the campus grounds.

Commerce was named the "Bois d'Arc Capital of Texas” (pronounced "bow-dark") by the Texas Legislature because of its location in the geographic center of the indigenous range of the bois d'arc tree. The second largest bois d'arc tree in Texas, "Big Max", recognized by the National Forests Famous and Historic Trees, is located within the city limits. Held every September, the annual Bois d'Arc Bash pays homage to the native trees which played a vital part in the frontier days, providing foundations, fences and weapons of the Native Americans. The Bash celebrates with arts & crafts vendors, food, parade, kids' game area, pageant, wine, musical entertainment, 5K run, and car & truck show.

Geography

Commerce is located in northeastern Hunt County at  (33.244959, −95.899957).

It is  northeast of Dallas,  southeast of Sherman,  southwest of Paris, and  northwest of Sulphur Springs. Greenville, the Hunt county seat, is  southwest of Commerce via Highway 224 or  via Highway 24 and I-30.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Commerce has a total area of , of which  are land and , or 0.94%, are water. The Middle Sulphur River, part of the Red River watershed, runs past the north side of Commerce and forms part of its northern border.

Climate

Commerce's climate is part of the humid subtropical region. The temperature varies greatly throughout the year. Commerce has hot, humid and dry summers, typical of much of Texas, and above average spring temperatures. Commerce has cooler fall and winter temperatures, with higher wind chills due to its northern location and location on a natural prairie. During the spring is the strongest part of the storm season as thunderstorms are very common and tornadoes have been known to form in and around the area.

Demographics

As of the census of 2010, there were approximately 8,078 people, 2,881 households, and 1,524 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,183.3 people per square mile (456.9/km²). There were 3,405 housing units at an average density of 525.4 per square mile (202.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 71.07% White, 20.78% African American, 0.42% Native American, 2.59% Asian, 0.21% Pacific Islander, 3.13% from other races, and 1.80% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.65% of the population.

There were 2,881 households out of which 28.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.0% were married couples living together, 14.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 47.1% were non-families. 36.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 3.02.

Age demographic: 21.5% under the age of 18, 28.2% age 18 to 24, 26.3% age 25 to 44, 14.3% age 45 to 64, and 9.8% age 65 or older. The median age was 25.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.3 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $26,946, and the median income for a family was $34,901. Males had a median income of $17,666 versus $14,515 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,320. About 29.3% of families and 35.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 37.2% of those under age 18 and 6.8% of those age 65 or over.

Transportation

Commerce is served by the following highways:
  Texas State Highway 11–An east-west route through Commerce that connects with Sulphur Springs and Winnsboro to the east, and Wolfe City, Whitewright and Sherman to the west. Runs concurrent with Loop 178 along the south side of the university on a street known locally as "Culver Street" and then runs concurrent with Highway 24 before heading west towards Wolfe City.
  Texas State Highway 24–Major north-south route that runs through the city of Commerce and the University. It connects with Campbell and Interstate 30 to the south and with Cooper and Paris to the north. Most of the major businesses of Commerce line Highway 24. It is the only highway in Commerce that has a frontage road. It is a four-lane divided highway.
 Texas State Highway 50–Serves the northwest part of Commerce, particularly the area by Commerce Municipal Airport. Connects with Ladonia to the north. Formerly, the highway ran concurrent with Highway 24 from Interstate 30; this portion of the highway was reassigned in 2009.
  Texas State Highway 224–Is the Commerce-to-Greenville route, as it is the only highway that directly connects the two largest cities in Hunt county. It also goes through Neylandville before reaching its terminus in Greenville.
  Texas State Highway Loop 178–a 3/4 loop that runs a semi-circle around Commerce. It runs concurrent with Highway 11 along Culver Street south of the university before the junction with Highway 24, and after the junction it continues west towards Highway 224.
 Texas Farm to Market Road 71–Serves the northeast rural area of Commerce and continues into Hopkins County, going through some of the smaller rural communities.
  Texas Farm to Market Road 2874– Heads toward some unincorporated parts of Hunt County from a Junction with highway 224.
  Texas Farm to Market Road 3218–Serves the southeast area of Commerce, running through a small industrial and rural area. It also passes by a few Commerce ISD schools.
   Business 224–A business route of highway 224 through Commerce along Live Oak Street, Main Street and Park Street.
   Business 11–A business route of highway 11 through Commerce along Maple Street, Park Street, and Wolfe City Drive, this route was formerly a part of highway 11 before it was rerouted to run concurrent with Loop 178 and Highway 24.

Commerce is the proposed terminus in the third and final stage for the proposed Blacklands Turnpike, a toll road that would run from far northeastern Dallas County, through Collin and Rockwall counties, as a faster way to get from Dallas to the major cities in Hunt County.

Commerce is served by Commerce Municipal Airport.

Public transit called "The Connection" serves Commerce and all of Hunt County. The Connection operates Monday through Friday from 7 am  to 7 pm. Reservations have to be made one day in advance, and the transit charges $2 ($4 round trip) if the passenger is traveling to a place within the same community or city, and $3 ($6 round trip) if the passenger is traveling from one city or community to another within Hunt County. The Connection will also take Hunt County residents to Dallas, as a round trip only: passengers are charged $34, and a minimum of three passengers is required.

Education

Primary and secondary education
The city is served by the Commerce Independent School District. CISD currently operates the following schools:

 Commerce Elementary (Pre-K-2)
 AC Williams Elementary (3–5)
 Commerce Middle School (6–8)
 Commerce High School (9–12)

Post-secondary education
Commerce is home to Texas A&M University–Commerce (formerly known as East Texas State University), a fully accredited and ranked university that offers over 100 different majors, with an enrollment of 12,302 students, 7,808 undergraduates, and 4,494 graduate students. A&M-Commerce was founded in 1889 at its original location in Cooper, Texas, but moved to Commerce after burning down in 1894. The university is ranked #1 in the state of Texas for teaching education and 13th in the nation, in addition to having a highly ranked graduate school. The university also remains as the fifth longest continuous operating university in the state of Texas. Paris Junior College is an alternative for junior college students in the area, as PJC has campuses in Paris (40 miles away), Greenville (15 miles away), and Sulphur Springs (25 miles away).

Sports

High school sports

Commerce High School is the only high school in Commerce. They are known as the Commerce Tigers and compete at the 3A level in UIL sports. The Tigers compete in football (boys), volleyball (girls), basketball (boys and girls), softball (boys), baseball (boys), track and field (boys and girls), cross country (boys and girls), powerlifting (boys and girls), tennis (boys and girls), and golf (boys and girls). The football team has two state titles from 1999 and 2001. Commerce-Norris High School (defunct) won the state championship for basketball in 1964.

Collegiate sports

The A&M–Commerce Lions compete in NCAA Division II sports and are a member of the Lone Star Conference. The A&M-Commerce Lions compete in football (men), volleyball (women), basketball (men and women), soccer (women), softball (women), golf (men and women), track and field (men and women), and cross country (men and women). Football is very popular among the university as well as the town, as fans from surrounding cities including Greenville and Sulphur Springs will come out to support the A&M-Commerce Lions football team, and the average attendance at football games is over 6,000. The A&M-Commerce Lions have earned numerous conference titles in nearly every sport that they compete in. In addition to this they've also earned six national titles, men's basketball (1954–1955), men's golf (1965), football (1972, 2017), men's tennis (1972, 1978).

Media

KETR serves as the radio station for the city of Commerce, Texas A&M University–Commerce, Hunt County, and surrounding cities. The station was founded in 1975 at the A&M-Commerce campus where it still remains today. KETR is a 100,000 watt radio station that can reach up to 75 miles away, the radio frequency is 88.9 FM in honor of the year 1889 which is the year the university was founded. The station provides news, music, and sports for its listeners. In fact the station has two NPR talk shows. Commerce High School football games are broadcast on KETR, as well as A&M–Commerce Lions football and basketball games. KGVL in nearby Greenville also has a strong presence due to the proximity of the two cities. Commerce is served by the Dallas/Fort Worth Television Stations on local cable and also regular programming. Commerce residents have three newspapers that serve the city, The Dallas Morning News, (Daily) The Greenville Herald-Banner, (Daily) and the Commerce Journal. (Weekly) Texas A&M University-Commerce also has its own student-led newspaper, The East Texan (weekly).

Economy
Due to being a rural college town with proximity to Dallas, Commerce has an economy that remained steady for years, with gradual increases with new businesses opening and others being renovated. Most of the bigger businesses of the town surround the local university, and the university's student body is bigger than the town itself. The downtown area is approximately one mile from the university and is the hub for town festivities. The downtown area includes bars, dining, a fashion retailer, an office supplies retailer, a thrift shop, real estate offices, tax preparation offices, an insurance agency, the Chamber of Commerce, banks, and loft-style living.

Healthcare
Commerce is home to Hunt Regional Medical Center, a Level IV Emergency Room and Trauma Center. The hospital was once part of the Dallas-based Presbyterian Health System, but changed hands around 2010. The main medical center is in nearby Greenville, and Commerce also has three primary care physicians' offices, one chiropractor, a prenatal clinic, two dental offices, and a physical therapy center.

Employment

Attractions

Northeast Texas Children's Museum

The city of Commerce is home to the Northeast Texas Children's Museum. The museum provides playful and creative learning experiences for children. There are many hands-on exhibits and programs that cater to children between ages 2 through 10. Many school districts from the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and the Northeast Texas area visit the museum.

Jim Chapman Lake

Jim Chapman Lake (formerly known as Cooper Lake) is located roughly 25 minutes east of Commerce, between Cooper and Sulphur Springs. Boating, swimming, and fishing are available at Jim Chapman Lake. Cooper Lake State Park is located along the northern shore of the lake. The park contains several picnic areas, campgrounds and a large swimming area on Jim Chapman Lake. The park also contains several hiking and equestrian trails.

Notable landmark

The most notable landmark of the city of Commerce is Samuel H. Whitley Hall, a 12-story building on the A&M-Commerce campus. It is the tallest building between Dallas and Texarkana. The building is named in honor of former university president Samuel Whitley, who served from 1924 to 1946. The  building serves as a dormitory for traditional freshmen on campus.

Notable people
 George C. Butte, Republican candidate for governor of Texas
 Claire Chennault, World War II general and noted war hero
 Ben Kweller, rock musician who penned a song called "Commerce, TX" that was loosely based on Kweller's time living in a duplex near college students
 Larry Lemanski, director of the Biomedical Institute for Regenerative Research at Texas A&M-Commerce
 Adam Kelly Ward, convicted murderer of code enforcement officer Michael Walker in 2005; executed in March 2016
 Wade Wilson, former All-Pro NFL quarterback and current quarterbacks coach for the Dallas Cowboys

References

External links

 City of Commerce official website
 Commerce Independent School District
 Texas A&M University-Commerce
 A&M-Commerce Lions
 KETR

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Camino, Veneto

Camino is a village in the municipality of Oderzo, in the province of Treviso, region Veneto, in Italy.
Camino lies in the heart of the Venetian plain, about  to the northeast of Venice.

History
Venetic period
The earliest settlement of the area can be dated to the Iron Age, around the 10th century BC.
From the mid-9th century BC the Veneti occupied site and gave it its name.  Etymologically, "-terg-" in Opitergium stems from a Venetic root word indicating a market (q.v. Tergeste, the old name of Trieste).  The location of Oderzo on the Venetian plain made it ideal as a centre for trade.

10th Century AD
In the 10th century a certain Guido Colalto became count of Montanara for having saved the life of the German king Conrad I. His sons Alberto and Guecello received further lands from bishop of Ceneda, in the plain between the Piave and Livenza, in particular in Camino, where they built a castle. From the name of the place, they took their future name and became the da Camino Family.

Notable people

 Stefano Dall'Acqua – Italian footballer who plays for Reggiana.

External links

 Tourism website
 Map of Veneto

References

Notes

Category:Cities and towns in Veneto


Adam Alexander (sportscaster)

Adam Alexander (born July 11, 1973) is a television announcer with Fox Sports 1. He currently hosts NASCAR Race Hub alongside Shannon Spake

Announcing career
Alexander was the studio host and play-by-play announcer for TNT's coverage of NASCAR with Kyle Petty, Wally Dallenbach and Kevin Harvick, and did college football announcing for Fox Sports 1 with Chris Simms, branded as College Football on Fox. He did pit reporting for NASCAR on TNT in 2009 before moving to the booth in 2010.  In August 2014, he took over as one of two play-by-play announcers for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series broadcasts for Fox, and was made full-time in October for the remainder of the season.  For the 2015 season, Alexander was named to the lead for Fox's NASCAR Xfinity Series coverage with Michael Waltrip and a rotating guest analyst filled by select Sprint Cup Series drivers, a position he still holds to this day.  Alexander along with Brian Till, Mike Joy, Vince Welch, and Ralph Sheheen rotated in the booth to call the 2015 Camping World Truck Series season.

Alexander was the host of SPEED Center on the defunct SPEED channel. He was a pit reporter for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on the network.  In October 2014, he took over hosting NASCAR Race Hub with Danielle Trotta.

Motor Racing Network
In addition to NASCAR on TNT and Speed Channel, Alexander also worked for the Motor Racing Network for coverage of NASCAR as a studio host, pit reporter, and play-by-play. He worked on coverage of the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series and did play-by-play for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

Other work
Alexander began his career at television station WEVV in Evansville, Indiana where he served as a public address announcer for the Tri-State Speedway and also called games for the Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team.

Alexander has been part of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network covering the Indianapolis 500.

He had a cameo in the 2017 film Logan Lucky.

Personal life
Alexander grew up in Indianapolis, he is a resident of Evansville, Indiana where he graduated from Vincennes University and University of Evansville. He is not related to Blaise Alexander.

References
TNT Play-by-Play Announcer Adam Alexander. News.turner.com
CUP: SPEED’s Adam Alexander Inks Six Race Deal With TNT. Fox Sports.
TNT hires Alexander as play-by-play announcer. USA Today. 3/4/2010.
Adam Alexander vs Steve byrnes willrichardson70*

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Pancreatic enzymes (medication)

Pancreatic enzymes, also known as pancrelipase and pancreatin, are commercial mixtures of amylase, lipase, and protease. They are used to treat malabsorption syndrome due to certain pancreatic problems. These pancreatic problems may be due to cystic fibrosis, surgical removal of the pancreas, long term pancreatitis, or pancreatic cancer, among others. The preparation is taken by mouth.

Common side effects include vomiting, abdominal pain, constipation, and diarrhea. Other side effects include perianal irritation and high blood uric acid. The enzymes are from pigs. Use is believed to be safe during pregnancy. The components are digestive enzymes similar to those normally produced by the human pancreas. They help the person digest fats, starches, and proteins.

Pancreatic enzymes have been used as medications since at least the 1800s. They are on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system. In the United Kingdom a typical month's supply costs the NHS about £12.93 to £47.55 as of 2019. In the United States the wholesale cost of this amount is about 300 to 900. In 2016 it was the 255th most prescribed medication in the United States with more than a million prescriptions.

Medical use
Pancrelipases are generally a first line approach in treatment of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and other digestive disorders, accompanying cystic fibrosis, complicating surgical pancreatectomy, or resulting from chronic pancreatitis. The formulations are generally hard capsules filled with gastro-resistant granules. Pancrelipases and pancreatins are similar, except pancrelipases has an increased lipase component.

Pancreatin is a mixture of several digestive enzymes produced by the exocrine cells of the pancreas. It is composed of amylase, lipase and protease. This mixture is used to treat conditions in which pancreatic secretions are deficient, such as surgical pancreatectomy, pancreatitis and cystic fibrosis. It has been claimed to help with food allergies, celiac disease, autoimmune disease, cancer and weight loss. Pancreatin is sometimes called "pancreatic acid", although it is neither a single chemical substance nor an acid.

Pancreatin contains the pancreatic enzymes trypsin, amylase and lipase. A similar mixture of enzymes is sold as pancrelipase, which contains more active lipase enzyme than does pancreatin. The trypsin found in pancreatin works to hydrolyze proteins into oligopeptides; amylase hydrolyzes starches into oligosaccharides and the disaccharide maltose; and lipase hydrolyzes triglycerides into fatty acids and glycerols. Pancreatin is an effective enzyme supplement for replacing missing pancreatic enzymes, and aids in the digestion of foods in cases of pancreatic insufficiency.

Pancreatin reduces the absorption of iron from food in the duodenum during digestion.

Some contact lens-cleaning solutions contain porcine pancreatin extractives to assist in the intended protein-removal process.

Side effects
High doses over a long period of time are associated with fibrosing colonopathy. Due to this association a maximum dose of 10,000 IU of lipase per kilogram per day is recommended.

Though never reported there is a theoretical risk of a viral infection as they are from pigs.

Society and culture

Brand names
Brand names include Creon, Pancreaze, Pertzye, Sollpura (Liprotamase), Ultresa, and Zenpep.

USA regulation
Longstanding pancreatic enzyme replacement products (PERPs)—some in use for a century or more—fell under a 2006 FDA requirement that pharmaceutical companies with porcine-derived PERP products submit a New Drug Application (NDA) for each; Creon (AbbVie Inc.), the first of the commercial PERP products approved after the FDA directive, reached market in 2009.

The specific requirement and reasoning for the FDA directive was that manufacturers submit a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) and Medication Guide to ensure patients are adequately informed regarding potential risks associated with administration of high doses of porcine-derived PERP products, especially with regard to "the theoretical risk of transmission of viral disease from pigs to patients", the risk of which (alongside other off-target effects) is reduced by patient adherence to label dosing instructions.

References

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Accelerator Test Facility (Japan)

The Accelerator Test Facility (KEK-ATF) is a test accelerator in the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan. It is a test bed for production of the beam for the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) linear electron-positron collider. Its main goal is to create the super-low-emittance beam which is needed for the ILC.

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Ivan Sytov

Ivan Nikitovich Sytov () (13 June 1916 - 13 October 1943) was a Soviet fighter pilot and flying ace, credited with 26 kills and four shared victories.
Initially serving with Stalingrad’s fighter school, Sytov then posted to 788th Fighter Aviation Regiment, where he claimed at least one Bf 109 in September 1942. Lieutenant Ivan Sytov then joined 5th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment in December 1942.

Sytov fought during the Battle of Stalingrad and Battle of Kursk, scoring the majority of his kills during this period. After intensive operations on the Kalinin Front, the unit withdrew to equip with the new Lavochkin La-5.

On 13 October 1943 Sytov was shot down and killed by JG 52s Oberfeldwebel Walter Jahnke. Some Soviet sources claim he rammed a Bf 109, but according to German records no such incident occurred.

References

 Bergstrom, Christer. (2008). Bagration to Berlin - The Final Air Battles in the East: 1944 - 1945, Ian Allan. .
 Russian website: Ivan Nikitovich Sytov

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1862 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1862 in Australia.

Incumbents

Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
Governor of New South Wales - John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar
Governor of Queensland - Sir George Bowen
Governor of South Australia - Sir Richard G. MacDonnell, Sir Dominick Daly
Governor of Tasmania - Colonel Thomas Browne
Governor of Victoria - Sir Henry Barkly.

Premiers
Premiers of the Australian colonies:
Premier of New South Wales - Charles Cowper
Premier of Queensland - Robert Herbert
Premier of South Australia - Thomas Reynolds, then George Waterhouse
Premier of Tasmania - Thomas Chapman
Premier of Victoria - John O'Shanassy

Exploration and settlement
 24 July - Explorer John McDouall Stuart successfully returns from crossing the Australian continent from north to south on his third attempt.

Music, arts and literature
 Waterfall, Strath Creek - Eugene von Guérard

Sport
 4 November - Archer wins the second Melbourne Cup (List of Melbourne Cup winners).

Births
4 February - George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer and journalist (died 1920)
29 July – Mona McBurney, British-born pianist, teacher and composer who lived and worked in Australia (died 1932)
16 November - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (died 1944)
8 December – Kate Rickards, Australian trapeze artist and later musical theatre actress (died 1922)

Deaths
13 March - Roderick Flanagan (born 1828), historian
5 July - Charles Whitehead (born 1804), English novelist

References

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Bath National Cemetery

Bath National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the town of Bath, in Steuben County, New York. It encompasses , and as of the end of 2005, had 13,048 interments.

History

The area was originally part of the New York State Soldiers and Sailors Home, which was established in 1877; the cemetery was officially dedicated in on December 25, 1879. In 1930, it became part of the National Cemetery system.

In 1987, archaeologists digging in Fort Erie discovered the remains of 28 American soldiers who died at the time of the Niagara campaign during the War of 1812. They were reinterred in Bath National Cemetery.

Notable monuments

A  high granite "Preservation of the Union Monument" which was dedicated to Civil War soldiers, erected in 1892. Its benefactor was Samuel Dietz.
The "1812 monument" marks the burial place of the 28 soldiers from the War of 1812 who were reinterred at the cemetery.

Notable interments

Captain William James Aylward war artist.
Corporal George M. Grueb, Medal of Honor recipient for action at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm.
Sergeant John Kiggins, Medal of Honor recipient for action at the Battle of Lookout Mountain.
Private George Ladd, Medal of Honor recipient for action at the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia.
Sergeant Charles E. Morse, Medal of Honor recipient for action at the Battle of the Wilderness.
Private Robert Knox Sneden, parts of his 5,000 page memoir and numerous drawings during his service in the Civil War were published in Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey.
Seaman James Roberts, Medal of Honor recipient for action at the First Battle of Fort Fisher.

See also
Bath VA Medical Center
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
United States National Cemetery
Old soldiers' home

External links
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Bath National Cemetery
Find a Grave
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Margherita Rinaldi

Margherita Rinaldi (born 12 January 1935) is an Italian lyric soprano, primarily active in the 1960s and 1970s.

Rinaldi was born in Turin, Italy, and completed her music studies in Rovigo. She won a voice competition in Spoleto and made her debut there in 1958 in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor. Her debut at La Scala in Milan came the following year as Sinaide in Rossini's Mosè in Egitto. Rinaldi sang at most of the major opera houses in Italy, in roles such as Amina in La sonnambula, Adina in L'elisir d'amore, Norina in Don Pasquale and especially Gilda in Rigoletto. She also excelled in operas by Mozart and Cimarosa.

Rinaldi won acclaim as Giulietta in Claudio Abbado's version of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opposite Giacomo Aragall and Luciano Pavarotti, at La Scala in 1966, and also as Linda in a revival of Linda di Chamounix again at La Scala, in 1972, opposite Alfredo Kraus. She sang a wide variety of roles for RAI between 1963 and 1975, such as Bertha in Le Prophète, Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, Ginevra in Ariodante, and Noraime in Les Abencérages.

In 1977 she had a triumph singing Amenaide in Rossini's Tancredi opposite Horne at Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. The night was broadcast by RAI TV.
In 1978, Rinaldi appeared as Adalgisa in a production of Bellini's Norma at the Teatro Comunale in Florence.  Conducted by Riccardo Muti and starring Renata Scotto in the title role, these performances offered the Florentine public a rare chance to hear a lyric soprano as the younger, more vulnerable character of Adalgisa, according to the composer's intention. In November of the same year Rinaldi sang Ines in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, opposite Plácido Domingo and Grace Bumbry.

Rinaldi also enjoyed a successful international career, making her American  debut at the Dallas Opera as Gilda in 1966. Her debut at the San Francisco Opera was as Lucia in 1968. She also sang at the  Lyric Opera of Chicago. Rinaldi also performed at the Glyndebourne, Wexford and Bregenz festivals.

Rinaldi made only two commercial recordings, Gilda in Rigoletto opposite Rolando Panerai and Franco Bonisolli, which was also the soundtrack of a German television production, and Ilia in Idomeneo with Sir Colin Davis conducting.  Luckily, unofficial "pirate" recordings have preserved several of her live performances: the Spoleto Lucia di Lammermoor,the Scala I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Linda di Chamounix, the RAI Le Prophète, a 1967 Rigoletto from Turin, and the 1978 Norma from Florence.

Margherita Rinaldi was also an excellent performer of sacred music: she performed at La Scala Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle or for RAI TV Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore. She took part in the first recording of Rossini's Messa di gloria (1974).

Margherita Rinaldi retired from the stage in 1981. She lives outside Florence where she privately coaches young singers.

References

 Roland Mancini and Jean-Jacques Rouveroux,  (orig. H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, French edition), Guide de l’opéra, Les indispensables de la musique (Fayard, 1995).

External links
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Marina DeBris

Marina DeBris is the name used by an Australian-based artist whose work focuses on reusing trash to raise awareness of ocean and beach pollution. DeBris uses trash washed up from the beach to create trashion, 'fish tanks', decorative art and other works of art. She has also used beach trash to provide one perspective on what the earth might look like from space. As well as creating art from debris, DeBris also is a fund raiser for environmental organizations,  and collaborates with non-profit organizations and schools to educate children about ocean pollution.  DeBris is also a social activist, for example, participating in a panel on how artists can contribute to environmental public policy, promoting clean energy and curating eco-art exhibitions.  DeBris's work is not just in pollution, but also works with non profits to raise funds for art education. DeBris is listed with the Women Environmental Artists Directory, has been cited by EcoSalon as one of four artists whose work raises awareness of environmental concerns, and has been listed as one of ten key eco artists. DeBris is also listed as one of the 30 most influential contemporary women artists, and as one of 10 eco friendly artists who will blow your mind.

Education and personal life
DeBris was educated at Indiana University and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has lived and worked in New York City, London, England, and Sydney, Australia. She was born in Detroit, had lived in Los Angeles, and currently lives in Australia

Genre and venues
Works by DeBris are often displayed in galleries, Sculpture by the Sea, featured in magazines, included in science events, included in the Smithsonian Institution’s Washed Ashore Project, or may be used by organizations such as the United Nations as awards.   Her works are also displayed in venues not typically thought of as galleries, but are art venues nonetheless, such as retail venues, Burning Man,  a trasher's ball,  a downtown art walk, an Earth Day creek spring clean-up, and an Environmental & Animal Justice Exhibit.

DeBris also partners or works with various anti-pollution organizations, such as Friends of Ballona Wetlands,  5 Gyres, RuckusRoots, the United Nations Special Assembly on Climate Change Heal the Bay and other organizations, such as Aquarium of the Pacific. Marina DeBris has also designed accessories for Captain Charles J. Moore, who worked to bring attention to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. DeBris' work with the United Nations Special Assembly was a collaboration with actress/poet Sheryl Lee, dancer Maya Gabay, and musician Marla Leigh.

DeBris also partnered with an office building, MLC Centre, to highlight the problems of throwaway coffee cups. The MLC Centre hosted her work "Disposable Truths" created from used throwaway coffee cups.

Awards
DeBris's "Inconvenience Store" was a joint recipients of the Allens People’s Choice Award at the 2017 Sculpture By the Sea. The "Inconvenience Store" was also awarded with the Sydney Water Environmental Sculpture Subsidy for her work on water pollution and consumption, and won the Waverley Council Mayor’s Prize.

References

External links
Washed Up
Discovering women who inspire Interview with Marina DeBris

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Orion Music + More

The Orion Music + More was a touring music festival created by American thrash metal/heavy metal band Metallica. On February 7, 2012, the band announced plans to launch the festival, which took place at Bader Field in Atlantic City on June 23 and 24, 2012. The second installment took place at Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, on June 8 and 9, 2013. The festival was a financial disaster, which led to its cancellation after only two installments.

2013
It was announced that Belle Isle would be the site of the Orion Music + More Festival in 2013. On December 26, 2012, Detroit Councilman Ken Cockrel Jr. confirmed rumors that the city is in the process of confirming 2014 and 2015 as well to take place at Belle Isle. However, on December 2, 2013, it was announced that Metallica would be "taking a year off" from the festival in 2014.
Every year, Metallica brings many bands and artists from many different genres to play at the Orion. In addition to the musical features, Orion Music and More had numerous additional attractions, including: "Custom Car + Motorcycle Show", Ulrich's speech at "Hit The Lights Films", Kirk’s Crypt which contains his huge horror collection and the "Metallica Museum" (which featured classic Metallica guitars) among others.

2013 Lineup
38 bands and artists performed at the festival. Bands from a wide variety of genres, ranging from thrash metal and black metal, even to punk, indie, moombahton, dubstep, bass music and experimental rock, played throughout the weekend. Metallica did a surprise performance at the Damage Inc. Stage as dehaan and played entire Kill 'Em All album. The following evening they played different set-list, including songs such as "Carpe Diem Baby" and "I Disappear" among Sunday's rarities. Aside from their performances, The Chili Peppers closed Saturday night's lineup in drummer Chad Smith's home town with an hour and 45 minutes of mostly hits including a frenetic rendition of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground."

BUDWEISER ORION Stage

Fuel Stage

Damage Inc. Stage + Van's Vert Ramp

Frantic Stage

Sanitarium Stage

2012
In 2012, the first Orion festival was held at Atlantic City. According to Press of Atlantic City, Metallica’s Orion Music + More Festival sold 23,571 for shows June 22 and 23.

2012 Lineup
37 bands and artists performed at the festival. Bands from a wide variety of genres, ranging from thrash metal and black metal, even to punk, indie, and experimental rock, played throughout the weekend. Members of Metallica introduced some of the bands performing, including Suicidal Tendencies, where Robert Trujillo was their bassist from 1989 to their breakup in 1995. Metallica headlined the festival on both days and performed two of their most critically acclaimed albums in their entirety (in reverse order): their 1984 album Ride the Lightning on the Saturday night, and their 1991 eponymous fifth release on the Sunday night.

Orion Stage

Fuel Stage

Damage Inc. Stage

Frantic Stage

References

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Epichorista psoropis

Epichorista psoropis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Kenya.

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Sharon Pritchett

Sharon Pritchett (born August 17, 1951) is a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 102nd District, which stretches from Miami Gardens to Pembroke Pines in northern Miami-Dade County and southern Broward County, since 2012.

History
Pritchett was born in Miami and attended St. Thomas University, where she received her bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice in 1978 and then her masters degree in Administration of Justice in 1980. After graduation, she worked as a public investigator for the Miami-Dade County Public Defender's Office. She served on the Committee to Incorporate the City of Miami Gardens in 2002, and shortly after the city was successfully incorporated, was elected to the Miami Gardens City Council, where she served from 2003 to 2011.

When Oscar Braynon was elected to the State Senate to replace Frederica Wilson, who had been elected to the United States House of Representatives, a special election was held to replace him in the 103rd District, which included parts of southern Broward County and northern Miami-Dade County, stretching from Bunche Park to Miami Gardens. Pritchett ran to succeed him in the Democratic primary on February 8, 2011, and she faced former Miami Gardens Vice-Mayor Barbara Watson and Erhabor Ighodaro. A contentious campaign ensued, and on election night, it appeared as though Prichett had emerged victorious; the Sun-Sentinel declared her the narrow victor over Watson. However, Pritchett held only a 14-vote lead over Watson, and, following a state-mandated recount, Watson narrowly took the lead over Pritchett by 18 votes, winning the election.

Florida House of Representatives
Following the reconfiguration of legislative districts in 2012, Pritchett ran in the newly created 102nd District, which contained much of the territory of the 103rd District. She was challenged in the Democratic primary by Melvin Bratton, whom she defeated by a comfortable margin of victory, winning with 58% of the vote. In the general election, she did not face an opponent and she was elected to her first term in the legislature uncontested.

While serving in the legislature, Pritchett joined with State Senator Rene Garcia, a Republican, to sponsor legislation that would provide "mandatory vision screenings for students entering the public school system for the first time," explaining, "So often we hear about children who are just not performing to their optimal capabilities, and they're not doing so because they can't see; they've never had an eye exam. We need this. It's something that guarantees each child who may need corrective lenses can be identified at an early enough age."

In 2014, Pritchett was re-elected to her second term in the legislature without opposition.

References

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Leptolalax botsfordi

Leptolalax botsfordi is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae from Vietnam. It was recorded on Mount Fansipan, in Hoang Lien National Park, northern Vietnam.

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List of Tour de France Grands Départs

The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the most well-known and prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. The race usually covers approximately 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi), passing through France and neighbouring countries such as Belgium. The race is broken into day-long segments, called stages. Individual finishing times for each stage are totalled to determine the overall winner at the end of the race.

The course changes every year, but has always finished in Paris; since 1975 it has finished along the Champs-Élysées. The start of the course is known as the Grand Départ. Since the 1950s it has typically taken place in a different town each year, and since the 1970s it has been common to award the Grand Départ to cities outside France as a way of increasing international interest in the competition and the sport. The right to host the Grand Départ is now highly sought after, with cities bidding to host, and has been shown to increase economic activity as well as interest in cycling in the host area.

Host cities

Footnotes

A.  Bjarne Riis has admitted to doping during the 1996 Tour de France. The organizers of the Tour de France have stated that they no longer consider him to be the winner, although Union Cycliste Internationale has so far refused to change the official status due to the amount of time passed since his win. Jan Ullrich was placed second on the podium in Paris.

B.  Lance Armstrong was declared winner of seven consecutive tours from 1999 to 2005. However, in October 2012 he was stripped of all titles by the UCI due to the use of performance-enhancing drugs. The tour director Christian Prudhomme had previously declared that if this happened, there would be no alternate winners for those years, but this has not yet been made official.

C.  Floyd Landis was the winner at the podium ceremony in Paris on the last day of the 2006 tour, but subsequently was found to have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during stage 17 of the race. The United States Anti-Doping Agency found him guilty of using synthetic testosterone during the race and stripped him of his title on 20 September 2007.

D.  Alberto Contador was the winner at the podium ceremony in Paris on the last day of the 2010 tour, but subsequently was found to have tested positive for the prohibited substance Clenbuterol on a rest day. The Court of Arbitration for Sport found him guilty of using clenbuterol during the race and stripped him of his title on 6 February 2012.

Notes and references

Bibliography

See also
List of Tour de France secondary classification winners
Yellow jersey statistics
List of Grand Tour general classification winners

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List of Adult Contemporary top 10 singles in 1977 (U.S.)

This is a list of songs that have charted in the top ten of the Billboard Adult Contemporary in 1977.

Top-ten singles

1976 peaks

1978 peaks

Notes
The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending July 23, 1977.

The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending September 17, 1977.

See also
 List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1977 (U.S.)

References

External links
 Billboard.com
 Billboard.biz
 The Billboard Adult Contemporary

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