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The Dance (Fleetwood Mac album)

The Dance is a live album by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 19 August 1997. It hailed the return of the band's most successful lineup of Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Stevie Nicks, who had not released an album together since 1987's Tango in the Night, a decade earlier. It was the first Fleetwood Mac release to top the U.S. album charts since 1982's Mirage.

History
Recorded during a concert on 23 May 1997, The Dance was the last Fleetwood Mac album to feature Christine McVie as a full-time member before she left a year after the album's release (she would return to tour with the band in 2014). Debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 199,000, The Dance became the fifth best-selling live album of all time in the United States, selling a million copies within eight weeks, spending more than seven months within the top 40, and eventually selling over 6,000,000 copies worldwide. The DVD version has been certified 9× platinum in Australia for selling 135,000 copies. The 44 date tour grossed $36 million.

Unlike 1980's Live, which was a collection of live recordings over a series of 60 shows, The Dance was recorded in one night, albeit with good isolation to allow for overdubs. The concert was recorded for Fleetwood Mac's MTV The Dance special at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California, and features the University of Southern California Marching Band who perform on the tracks "Tusk" (having played on the original studio recording) and "Don't Stop".

Although the album is predominantly a live greatest hits package, The Dance also features new material written by each of the primary songwriting members of the band (with two from Buckingham) as well as popular album tracks. "Bleed to Love Her" was a previously unreleased track when The Dance was released, although a studio recording of the song was later included on the Say You Will (2003) album. No tracks from the Mirage album were included on the CD, although "Gypsy" was included in the video and DVD versions.

"Say You Love Me" received a folk rearrangement that featured a banjo and cocktail drum kit. John McVie also sang backing vocals for this performance.

The album was titled for Henri Matisse's painting, Dance, which was at one point intended to be used as the album cover but couldn't be licensed. The album cover photo, taken by David LaChapelle, has Mick Fleetwood recreating his pose from the cover of Rumours, the band's most successful album, and Lindsey Buckingham holding the cane used on the cover of the Fleetwood Mac album, Rumours ' predecessor.

This album spawned three singles in the USA: "Landslide", "The Chain", and "Silver Springs" which earned the band three Grammy nominations in 1998, in the categories of "Best Pop Album", "Best Rock Performance by a Group or Duo with Vocal" for "The Chain" and "Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" for "Silver Springs". A fourth single, "Temporary One," was released in some European markets.

Buckingham originally wanted less overlap in the track listing between The Dance and their 1980 live album. "At first I thought this should be a more eclectic collection, with different songs that were a little more surprising. But Warner was very upset about that. They wanted more hits. They felt a live album from 1981 was irrelevant, and I guess they were right."

The band later embarked on a 44-date tour across the United States with one stop in Canada in support of The Dance. The setlist was similar to that of the album, but with "Over My Head" and "My Little Demon" being replaced by "Oh Daddy", "Second Hand News", "Stand Back", "Farmer's Daughter" (a cover of the Beach Boys song from Surfin' U.S.A.), and "Not That Funny". "Eyes of the World" was played instead of "Second Hand News" on opening night in Hartford, Connecticut.

Video track listing
The DVD video is in 1.33:1 aspect ratio, while audio is in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround and PCM stereo.

Personnel
Fleetwood Mac
 * Stevie Nicks – vocals, tambourine
 * Lindsey Buckingham – vocals, guitars, banjo on "Say You Love Me"
 * Christine McVie – vocals, keyboards, acoustic piano, accordion on "Tusk", tambourine on "Say You Love Me", maracas on "Everywhere"
 * John McVie – bass guitar, backing vocals on "Say You Love Me"
 * Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

Additional musicians
 * Scott Pinkerton – synthesizer programming
 * Brett Tuggle – keyboards, guitars, backing vocals
 * Neale Heywood – guitars, backing vocals
 * Lenny Castro – percussion
 * Sharon Celani – backing vocals
 * Mindy Stein – backing vocals
 * Dr. Arthur C. Bartner – director of the USC Trojan Marching Band

Fleetwood Mac crew
 * Marty Hom – tour manager
 * Paul Chavarria – production manager
 * Sam Emerson - stage manager
 * Edd Kolakowski – piano tech
 * Ray Lindsey – guitar tech
 * Todd Bowie – guitar tech
 * Steve Dikun – bass tech
 * Walter Earl – drum tech
 * Mike Fasano – drum tech
 * Bruce Jackson – FOH sound
 * Chris Lantz – monitors
 * Chris Fulton – Clair Bros.
 * Mark Dowdle – Clair Bros.
 * Kim Brakeley – wardrobe stylist
 * Jill Focke – assistant wardrobe
 * Margi Kent – clothing designer for Nicks
 * Barbara Buck – makeup
 * Elaine Offers – makeup
 * Karen Johnston – assistant to Nicks
 * Steve Real – vocal coach
 * Sara Sierra – hair
 * Robert Ramos – hair
 * Richard Perea – assistant/runner
 * Mark Candelario, Jen Dreisen – runners
 * Edward O'Hickey III – WB stage
 * Fred Hammond, Jim Callahan – WB security

CD production
 * Lindsey Buckingham – producer
 * Elliot Scheiner – producer, engineer, mixing
 * Barry Goldberg – engineer
 * Guy Charbonneau – additional engineer
 * Charlie Bouis – assistant engineer
 * John Nelson – assistant engineer
 * Paul DeCarli – digital editing
 * Scott Humphrey – digital editing
 * Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
 * Ted Barela – technical assistance
 * David Gallo – technical assistance
 * Eric Johnston – technical assistance
 * Ph. D – art direction, design
 * David LaChapelle – photography
 * Neal Preston – photography

Video production
 * Bruce Gower – director
 * Lindsey Buckingham – producer
 * Elliot Scheiner – producer, recording, mixing
 * Barry Goldberg – recording
 * David LaChapelle – photography
 * Neal Preston – photography
 * Dr. Arthur C. Bartner – director of the USC Marching Band

Certifications

 * Album release

 * Video release

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1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system

The Tri-Service aircraft designation system is a unified system introduced in 1962 by the United States Department of Defense for designating all U.S. military aircraft. Previously, the U.S. armed services used separate nomenclature systems.

Under the tri-service designation system, officially introduced on 18 September 1962, almost all aircraft receive a unified designation, whether they are operated by the United States Air Force (USAF), United States Navy (USN), United States Marine Corps (USMC), United States Army, United States Space Force (USSF), or United States Coast Guard (USCG). Experimental aircraft operated by manufacturers or by NASA are also often assigned designations from the X-series of the tri-service system.

The 1962 system was based on the one used by the USAF between 1948 and 1962, which was in turn based on the type, model, series USAAS/USAAC/USAAF system used from 1924 to 1948. The 1962 system has been modified and updated since introduction.

History
The Tri-Service system was first enacted on 6 July 1962 by the DoD Directive 4505.6 "Designating, Redesignating, and Naming Military Aircraft" and was implemented via Air Force Regulation (AFR) 66-11, Army Regulation (AR) 700-26, Bureau of Weapons Instruction (BUWEPSINST) 13100.7 on 18 September 1962. Anecdotally, the Tri-Service system was partly brought about due to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's confusion and frustration with the different designation systems the Navy and Air Force used at the time which resulted in the F4H and F-110 both being used to refer to, essentially, the same aircraft. The Tri-Service aircraft designation system was presented alongside the 1963 rocket and guided missile designation system in Air Force Regulation (AFR) 82-1/Army Regulation (AR) 70-50/Naval Material Command Instruction (NAVMATINST) 8800.4A (published 27 March 1974) and the two systems have been concurrently presented and maintained in joint publications since.

The most recent changes were mandated by Joint Regulation 4120.15E Designating and Naming Military Aerospace Vehicles and were implemented via Air Force Instruction (AFI) 16-401, Army Regulation (AR) 70-50, Naval Air Systems Command Instruction (NAVAIRINST) 13100.16 on 3 November 2020. The list of military aircraft was maintained via 4120.15-L Model Designation of Military Aerospace Vehicles until its transition to data.af.mil on 31 August 2018.

Designation system
The system uses a Mission-Design-Series (MDS) designation of the form:
 * (Status Prefix)(Modified Mission)(Basic Mission)(Vehicle Type)-(Design Number)(Series Letter)

Of these components, only the Basic Mission, Design Number and Series Letter are mandatory. In the case of special vehicles a Vehicle Type symbol must also be included. The U.S. Air Force characterizes this designation system as "MDS", while the Navy, and Marine Corps refer to it as Type/Model/Series (T/M/S).

Status prefix
These optional prefixes are attached to aircraft not conducting normal operations, such as research, testing and development. The prefixes are:
 * e: Digitally developed
 * G: Permanently grounded
 * J: Special test, temporary
 * N: Special test, permanent
 * X: Experimental
 * Y: Prototype
 * Z: Planning

A temporary special test means the aircraft is intended to return to normal service after the tests are completed, while permanent special test aircraft are not. The Planning code is no longer used but was meant to designate aircraft "on the drawing board". For example, using this system an airframe such as the F-13 could have initially been designated as ZF-13 during the design phase, possibly XF-13 if experimental testing was required before building a prototype, the YF-13; the final production model would simply be designated F-13 (with the first production variant being the F-13A). Continuing the example, some F-13s during their service life may have been used for testing modifications or researching new designs and designated JF-13 or NF-13; finally after many years of service, the airframe would be permanently grounded due to safety or economic reasons as GF-13.

Modified mission
Aircraft which are modified after manufacture or even built for a different mission from the standard airframe of a particular design are assigned a modified mission code. They are:
 * A: Attack
 * C: Cargo (i.e., transport)
 * D: Drone director
 * E: Electronic warfare
 * F: Fighter
 * H: Search and rescue and MEDEVAC
 * K: Tanker
 * L: Modified for cold weather operations
 * M: Multi-mission (i.e., Special Operations)
 * O: Observation
 * P: Maritime patrol
 * Q: Unmanned aerial vehicle
 * R: Reconnaissance
 * S: Anti-submarine warfare
 * T: Trainer
 * U: Utility
 * V: VIP transport
 * W: Weather reconnaissance

The multi-mission and utility missions could be considered the same thing; however they are applied to multipurpose aircraft conducting certain categories of mission. M-aircraft conduct combat or special operations while U-aircraft conduct combat support missions, such as transport (e.g., UH-60) and electronic warfare (e.g., MC-12). Historically, the vast majority of U.S. Coast Guard air assets included the H-code (e.g., HH-60 Jayhawk or HC-130 Hercules). In the 21st century, the Coast Guard has used the multi-mission designation for their armed rescue helicopters (MH-60 Jayhawk or MH-65 Dolphin).

Basic mission
All aircraft are to be assigned a basic mission code. In some cases, the basic mission code is replaced by one of the modified mission codes when it is more suitable (e.g., M in MH-53J Pave Low III). The defined codes are:
 * A: Attack aircraft (for tactical air-to-surface mission)
 * B: Bomber (for strategic air-to-surface mission)
 * C: Cargo (i.e. Transport)
 * E: Special electronic installation
 * F: Fighter
 * K: Tanker (dropped between 1977 and 1985)
 * L: Laser-equipped
 * O: Observation (Forward Air Control)
 * P: Maritime patrol
 * R: Reconnaissance
 * S: Anti-submarine warfare
 * T: Trainer
 * U: Utility
 * X: Special research

The rise of the multirole fighter in the decades since the system was introduced has created some confusion about the difference between attack and fighter aircraft. According to the current designation system, an attack aircraft (A) is designed primarily for air-to-surface missions (also known as "attack missions"), while a fighter category F incorporates not only aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air warfare, but also multipurpose aircraft designed also for attack missions. The Air Force has even assigned the F designation to attack-only aircraft, such as the F-111 Aardvark and F-117 Nighthawk.

The only A designated aircraft currently in the U.S. Air Force is the A-10 Thunderbolt II. The last front line A designated in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps was the A-6 Intruder, with the only strictly A designated fixed-wing aircraft remaining is the A-29 Super Tucano leased under the Imminent Fury program.

Of these code series, no normal aircraft have been assigned a K or R basic mission code in a manner conforming to the system.

Vehicle type
The vehicle type element is used to designate the type of aerospace craft. Aircraft not in one of the following categories (most fixed-wing aircraft) are not required to carry a type designator. The type categories are:
 * D: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control segment
 * G: Glider
 * H: Helicopter
 * Q: Unmanned aerial vehicle
 * S: Spaceplane
 * V: Vertical take-off/short take-off and landing (VTOL/STOL)
 * Z: Lighter-than-air

A UAV control segment is not an aircraft, it is the ground control equipment used to command a UAV. Only in recent years has an aircraft been designated as a spaceplane, the proposed MS-1A.

Design number
According to the designation system, aircraft of a particular vehicle type or basic mission (for manned, fixed-wing, powered aircraft) were to be numbered consecutively, and the number series were restarted, causing some redesignated naval aircraft and subsequent new designs to overlap disused USAAC/USAAF designations (e.g., the Lockheed F-5 and Northrop F-5). Numbers were not to be assigned to avoid confusion with other letter sequences or to conform with manufacturers' model numbers. Recently this rule has been ignored, and aircraft have received a design number equal to the model number (e.g., KC-767A ) or have kept the design number when they are transferred from one series to another (e.g., the X-35 became the F-35).

Series letter
Different versions of the same basic aircraft type are to be delineated using a single letter suffix beginning with "A" and increasing sequentially (skipping "I" and "O" to avoid confusion with the numbers "1" and "0"). It is not clear how much modification is required to merit a new series letter, e.g., the F-16C production run has varied extensively over time. The modification of an aircraft to carry out a new mission does not necessarily require a new suffix (e.g., F-111Cs modified for reconnaissance are designated RF-111C), but often a new letter is assigned (e.g., the UH-60As modified for Search and Rescue missions are designated HH-60G).

Some series letters have been skipped to forestall confusion with pre-1962 naval designations; for instance, there was no "H" version of the F-4 Phantom II because the aircraft type was previously designated F4H.

Non-systematic aircraft designations
Since the 1962 system was introduced there have been several instances of non-systematic aircraft designations and skipping of design numbers.

Non-systematic or aberrant designations
The most common changes are to use a number from another series, or some other choice, rather than the next available number (117, 767, 71). Another is to change the order of the letters or use new acronym based letters (e.g. SR) rather than existing ones. Non-systematic designations are both official and correct, since the DOD has final authority to approve such designations.
 * A-29
 * Briefly designated "A-14A" before being changed to "A-29B" to match the Brazilian designation.

 * A-37 Dragonfly
 * Used the design number from its parent aircraft, the T-37 Tweet, rather than the next available number in the A series (8).

 * EA-37B
 * Renamed from EC-37B to better reflect the aircraft's capabilities. The new designation conflicts with the A-37 Dragonfly.

 * F/A-18 Hornet, also the transient F/A-16 and F/A-22.
 * Originally, the Navy planned to have two variants of the Hornet: the F-18 fighter and A-18 light attack aircraft. During development, "F/A-18" was used as a shorthand to refer to both variants. When the Navy decided to develop a single aircraft able to perform both missions, the "F/A" appellation stuck despite the designation system not allowing for slashes or other characters. AF-18 would be conformant. Similar issues existed with the naming of the F-22, though the naming of an attack variant was mooted by designation of the FB-22 (which, more appropriately, should have been designated BF-22).

 * F-15EX Eagle II
 * Uses non-standard EX series letters rather than the next available standard series letter (F-15F or F-15L).

 * F-35 Lightning II
 * Used the design number from its X plane designation (X-35) rather than the next available F series number (24).

 * FB-111 Aardvark
 * Should have been designated BF-111 as a fighter modified for bombing capabilities. Also should have used the next available number in the bomber sequence but 111 was retained for commonality with the F-111 from the pre-1962 system.

 * F-117 Nighthawk
 * Designated as part of series continuing from the pre-1962 system and latterly used to identify foreign aircraft acquired by the government, e.g., YF-113 was a MiG-23. Additionally, the basic mission designation as fighter implies air-to-air capabilities though the F-117 does not possess any. There have been conjecture and anecdotal reports concerning purported air-to-air capabilities for use against Soviet AWACS craft.

 * KC-767
 * Skipped hundreds of C-series numbers to use Boeing's model number. Has conformant basic mission and modified mission letters. Only used for aircraft sold to foreign air forces.  The U.S. Air Force ordered the Boeing 767-based tanker KC-46.

 * OA-1K
 * Designated as an implied further development of the long-retired and unrelated A-1 Skyraider, of which the A-1J was the last production variant, rather than using the next available number in the A series (14).

 * RC-7B
 * Designation conflicted with unrelated C-7 Caribou. Was redesignated EO-5C in August 2004.

 * SR-71
 * The SR-71 designator is a continuation of the pre-1962 bomber series, which ended with the XB-70 Valkyrie. During the later period of its testing, the B-70 was proposed for the Reconnaissance/Strike role, with an RS-70 designation. The USAF decided instead to pursue the Lockheed A-12 which was dubbed RS-71 (Reconnaissance/Surveillance; unrelated to the S mission designation for anti-submarine warfare). Then-USAF Chief of Staff Gen. Curtis LeMay preferred the SR (Strategic Reconnaissance) moniker and wanted the reconnaissance aircraft to be named SR-71. Before the Blackbird was to be announced by President Johnson on 29 February 1964, LeMay lobbied to modify Johnson's speech to read SR-71 instead of RS-71. The media transcript given to the press at the time still had the earlier RS-71 designation in places, creating the myth that the president had misread the aircraft's designation.

 * TR-1
 * A variant of the U-2; uses its own modified mission letter (T for Tactical) with basic mission letter (R for Reconnaissance). The U-2 was initially designated as "utility" to obfuscate its reconnaissance capabilities. Following shootdowns of the aircraft, this subterfuge was pointless. The TR-1, first flown in 1981, was re-designated U-2R in 1991 for uniformity.

Skipped design numbers
The design number "13" has been skipped in many mission and vehicle series for its association with superstition. Some numbers were skipped when a number was requested and/or assigned to a project but the aircraft was never built.

The following table lists design numbers in the 1962 system which have been skipped.

 * # : A-8 was technically skipped, but the AV-8 Harrier received the number within the "V" vehicle type sequence. Within the V sequence, it should have been designated AV-12 (as the Ryan XV-8 "Fleep" was already in existence). Additionally, the stillborn 1960s General Dynamics Model 100 attack aircraft proposal has been referred to as the A-8A, but it is unclear if it was ever formally granted this designation by the USAF.
 * †: The C-42 through C-44 designations were skipped in favor of the KC-45 by Airbus. The designations are considered skipped as the sequence continued in with the C-46 rather than continuing from the last otherwise sequential designation.
 * ‡: A top-secret stealth fighter designated F-19 has been rumored to exist for decades, and the rumors gained widespread publicity after the USAF cordoned off a crash site near Nellis Air Force Base in July 1986, but the crashed aircraft was subsequently revealed to have been an F-117, which was still classified at the time. No conclusive evidence of a genuine F-19 program has surfaced.
 * *: Skipped to avoid confusion with the North American T-2 Buckeye, which was still in service at the time.
 * **: The T-4 and T-5 designations were skipped in favor of T-6 by Raytheon to honor the WW2-era North American T-6 Texan. The designations are considered skipped as the sequence continued with the T-7 rather than continuing from the last otherwise sequential designation.

Manufacturer's code
Since 1939, a 2-letter manufacturer's code has been added to designations to identify the manufacturer and the production plant. For example, F-15E-50-MC, the "MC" being the code for the McDonnell Douglas plant at St. Louis, Missouri.

Block number
In 1941, block numbers were added to designations to show minor equipment variations between production blocks. The block number appears in the designation between the model suffix and manufacturers code (for example F-100D-85-NH). Initially, they incremented in numerical order −1, −2, −3 but this was changed to −1, −5, −10, −15 in increments of five. The gaps in the block numbers could be used for post-delivery modifications—for example, a F-100D-85-NH could be modified in the field to F-100D-86-NH. Not all types have used block numbers.

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2002 Asian Games

The 2002 Asian Games (2002년 아시아 경기대회/2002년 아시안 게임), officially known as the XIV Asian Games (제14회 아시아 경기대회/제14회 아시안 게임) and also known as Busan 2002 (부산2002), were an international multi-sport event held in Busan, South Korea from September 29 to October 14, 2002. Due schedule impediments the football tournament started two days before the opening ceremonies.

Busan is the second city in South Korea, after Seoul in 1986 to host the Games. This was the second time South Korea hosted the event. A total of 419 events in 38 sports were contested by 7,711 athletes from 44 countries. The Games were also co-hosted by its four neighbouring cities: Ulsan, Changwon, Masan and Yangsan. It was opened by President of South Korea, Kim Dae-jung, at the Busan Asiad Main Stadium.

The final medal tally was led by China, followed by host South Korea and Japan. China set a new record and became the first nation in the history of Asian Games to cross the 300 medal-mark in one edition. South Korea set a new record with 95 gold medals. 22 world records, 43 Asian records were broken during the Games. In addition, Japanese Swimming Kosuke Kitajima was announced as the most valuable player (MVP) of the Games.

Bidding process
Busan was selected over Kaohsiung at the 14th Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly in Seoul, South Korea on 23 May 1995. The voting involved 41 members of the sports governing body, with 37 of them supported Busan.

Costs
A total of US$2.9 billion was spent for the games.

Emblem
The emblem of the Games is a motif of East sea blue waves in the shape of Taegeuk, symbolising Busan and Korea. It expresses the image of development and unity of the Asian people and the two dynamic powers that are closely intertwined. The wave's shape in the emblem indicates the character B, the first character of Busan.

Mascot
The mascot of the 2002 Asian Games is a Sea gull, the city bird of Busan named "Duria", whose name is a combination of the two words 'Durative' and 'Asia', which means "You and Me Together" or Everlasting Asia in the Korean language, which expresses the ideal of the Games: to promote harmony, friendship and prosperity among Asian countries. Its thick black ink and free line expression, symbolize Korean traditional culture, while its white colour shade representing the image of a powerful spirit and the great hopes for Asia in the 21st century.

Medals
The medal of the games featured the Korean traditional octagonal building, Palgagjeong top view design with the old Olympic Council of Asia logo on the obverse and Busan Asia Games Flame, logo, and Oryukdo scenery on the reverse. The design represents solidarity of membership and eternity of OCA, Busan as host of the games and youth, unity, and friendship of the athletes.

Music
In conjunction with the Games, eight songs were released as the official music for the Games:
 * "The Dream of Asia" – Lee Moon-se
 * "Frontier!-Voices from the East" – Yang Bang-ean & Furee
 * "We are..." – Baby box
 * "Theme from Duria" – Hong Jong-myung, Shin Hyo-bum
 * "The Fanfare" – Busan city Orchestra
 * "Welcome to Busan Korea" – Kim Hyo-soo
 * "Let's Go!!" – Gang Hyun-soo
 * "Love to All of Us" – CAN

Torch relay
The relay itself started at 11 a.m. on 5 September 2002 when two flames were simultaneously lit at Hallasan in South Korea and Paektu Mountain, the Korean peninsula’s highest mountain, in North Korea. 42 local flames in other participating nations were also lit at the same time. The two Korean flames were unified into one at Imjingak Pavilion at the truce village of Panmunjeom during 7 September 2002 morning and was dubbed the Unification flame. After that, a nationwide torch relay totaled a distance of 4,294 kilometres in 23 days was held. The relay passed through 904 districts in 16 cities within the country. The Unification flame joined with the flames of 42 other participating nations are also unified at the main cauldron base during the opening ceremony on 29 September 2002. The torch design was based on a Korean traditional music instrument called Taepyeongso.

Venues
42 competition venues were used in the Games with twelve of them are newly built, including the Asiad Sports Complex which was completed on 31 July 2000. Other venues included an athletes' village and a main press centre.

Ulsan
The Asian Village in Property Development Area, Banyeodong, Haeundae District, Busan had 2,290 apartments in 20 buildings which can accommodate 14,000 people.

Transport
The host city Busan had existing subway and bus services prior to the games.

Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony with the theme “A Beautiful meeting,” was held on 29 September 2002 at the Busan Asiad Main Stadium. Participating nations marched into the stadium in Korean alphabetical order began with Nepal. North Korea and South Korea jointly entered the stadium under one flag for the first time in Asian Games history and the second time after the 2000 Summer Olympics. South Korean president Kim Dae-Jung declared the Games open, Two Korean athletes - Mun Dae-Sung (taekwondo) and Ryu Ji -Hye (table tennis) took the oath on behalf of all the participating athletes while South Korea's retired judoist Ha Hyung-joo and North Korean female judoist Kye Sun-hui lit the games' cauldron. The cultural part was 6 segment show with a total duration of 40-minutes and the was about the enconter between King Kim Suro and the Queen Hur Hwangok was also presented, the main star of the event was the opera diva Sumi Jo.

Participating National Olympic Committees
All 44 members of Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) with 7,711 athletes took part in the Games. East Timor participated for the first time since its independence, Afghanistan returned to the action since Taliban had come to power, and Saudi Arabia returned after previously boycotted prior event due to political tension with Thailand as the 1998 Games host. Below is a list of all the participating NOCs; the number of competitors per delegation is indicated in brackets.

Sports
A total of 419 events in 38 sports was contested in the Games for 16 days of competition. Football and basketball was kickoff two and one day respectively prior to the opening ceremony. Bodybuilding was the debutant sport in Games.

 * Aquatics
 * Artistic swimming
 * Diving
 * Swimming
 * Water polo
 * Archery
 * Athletics
 * Badminton
 * Baseball
 * Basketball
 * Cue sports
 * Bodybuilding
 * Bowling
 * Boxing
 * Canoeing
 * Cycling
 * Mountain bike
 * Road
 * Track
 * Equestrian
 * Fencing
 * Field hockey
 * Football
 * Golf
 * Gymnastics
 * Artistic gymnastics
 * Rhythmic gymnastics
 * Handball
 * Judo
 * Kabaddi
 * Karate
 * Modern pentathlon
 * Rowing
 * Rugby union
 * Union
 * Sevens
 * Sailing
 * Sepaktakraw
 * Shooting
 * Softball
 * Soft tennis
 * Squash
 * Table tennis
 * Taekwondo
 * Tennis
 * Volleyball
 * Beach volleyball
 * Volleyball
 * Weightlifting
 * Wrestling
 * Wushu

Calendar

 * All times are in Korea Standard Time (UTC+9)

Closing ceremony
The closing ceremony with the theme “Returning to Home.” was held on the evening of Monday, 14 October 2002 at the Busan Asiad Main Stadium. Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima was announced as the most valuable player (MVP) of the Games. Samih Moudallal, vice president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), on behalf of OCA President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al Sabah declared the games closing. The Asian Games flag was handed over to Doha, Qatar, host of the next edition in 2006. A cultural segment of the city was also presented.

Medal table
The top ten ranked NOCs at these Games are listed below. The host nation, South Korea, is highlighted.

Broadcasting
Busan Asian Games Radio and Television Organization (BARTO), a joint venture between Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) and Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS), served as the host broadcaster of these Games, covered 28 of the 38 sports during the event. The International Broadcast Centre was located at Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (BEXCO) in Haeundae District.

Doping issues
On October 7, 2002, the Olympic Council of Asia announced that the bodybuilding bronze medalist in the +90 kg weight category Youssef El-Zein of Lebanon was relieved of his medal for not submitting to a drugs test. After El-Zein was disqualified, the bronze medal in the +90 kg category went to Choi Jae-Duck of South Korea (who had finished fourth).

Six days later, Japanese news agency Kyodo News reported that Indian middle-distance runner Sunita Rani had tested positive for a banned substance, which was later confirmed by Lee Choon-Sup, Deputy Secretary General of the Busan Asian Games Organizing Committee; an unofficial report stated that the substance was the anabolic steroid nandrolone. Sunita had won two medals in athletics: a gold in the 1,500 m (setting an Asian Games record) and a bronze in the 5,000 m, (in which Sunita jointly bettered the Games record set by Indonesian Suprianti Sutono in Bangkok during the 1998 Asian Games with six other athletes). The Indian Chef de Mission at the Games backed Sunita—who denied using any banned drug—and asked for a "B" sample test from Bangkok, but tests were run only at the Asian Games’ Doping Control Center (AGDCC) in Seoul (the laboratory accredited by the IOC). On October 16, the AGDCC confirmed the steroid nandrolone in Sunita's urine sample; as a consequence, the OCA stripped her of both medals and dismissed her Asian Games record for the 1,500 m.

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) requested the intervention of the International Association of Athletics Federations and the IOC; the samples were jointly reexamined by the World Anti-Doping Agency and the IOC Sub-Commission on Doping and Biochemistry of Sport. In January 2003, the OCA announced that the IOC Medical Director had cleared Sunita of the doping charge and that appropriate action would be taken against the AGDCC. Both of Sunita's medals were reinstated on February 4, 2003, in a ceremony attended by the Secretary General of OCA Randhir Singh and the president of the IOA Suresh Kalmadi.

Three Malaysian sepak takraw players were sent home for failing drug tests after testing positive for morphine.

Missing athletes
A total of 16 athletes including 12 Nepalese, three Sri Lankans and one Mongolian were reported to be missing, which police and sports officials suspected them to have found illegal jobs in South Korea.

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List of Portuguese-language films

The following is a list of Portuguese-language films.

 * At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)
 * Awakening of the Beast (1970)
 * Central Station (1998)
 * Behind the Sun (2001)
 * Bus 174 (Ônibus 174) (2002)
 * Carandiru (2003)
 * City of God (2003)
 * The Forest (2002)
 * Juventude em Marcha (2006)
 * Lower City (2006)
 * Lula, o filho do Brasil (2010)
 * Madame Satã (2002)
 * Nise: O Coração da Loucura (2015)
 * No Quarto da Vanda (2000)
 * Normais, Os - O Filme (2003)
 * Ossos (1997)
 * The Three Marias (2002)
 * This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967)
 * Tropa de Elite (2007)
 * Adão e Eva (1995)
 * Call Girl (2007)
 * Arte de Roubar (2008)
 * balas e bolinhos (2001)
 * As bodas de Deus (1999)
 * Branca de Neve (2000)
 * A carta (1999)
 * Contraluz (2010)
 * Complexo: Universo Paralelo (2010)
 * dot.com (2007)
 * Kilas, o mau da fita (1980)
 * Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar (1990)

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Mount Chester

Mount Chester is a mountain located in the Smith-Dorrien Creek Valley of Kananaskis in the Canadian Rockies. The mountain was named in 1917 after HMS Chester, which was severely damaged in the Battle of Jutland.

Chester Lake is located in a small valley just northwest of the base of the mountain.

Geology
Mount Chester is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.

Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Chester is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. In terms of favorable weather, July through September are the best months to climb.

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Hahn embedding theorem

In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra dealing with ordered structures on abelian groups, the Hahn embedding theorem gives a simple description of all linearly ordered abelian groups. It is named after Hans Hahn.

Overview
The theorem states that every linearly ordered abelian group G can be embedded as an ordered subgroup of the additive group $$\mathbb{R}^\Omega$$ endowed with a lexicographical order, where $$\mathbb{R}$$ is the additive group of real numbers (with its standard order), $Ω$ is the set of Archimedean equivalence classes of G, and $$\mathbb{R}^\Omega$$ is the set of all functions from $Ω$ to $$\mathbb{R}$$ which vanish outside a well-ordered set. Let 0 denote the identity element of G. For any nonzero element g of G, exactly one of the elements g or −g is greater than 0; denote this element by |g|. Two nonzero elements g and h of G are Archimedean equivalent if there exist natural numbers N and M such that N|g| > |h| and M|h| > |g|. Intuitively, this means that neither g nor h is "infinitesimal" with respect to the other. The group G is Archimedean if all nonzero elements are Archimedean-equivalent. In this case, $Ω$ is a singleton, so $$\mathbb{R}^\Omega$$ is just the group of real numbers. Then Hahn's Embedding Theorem reduces to Hölder's theorem (which states that a linearly ordered abelian group is Archimedean if and only if it is a subgroup of the ordered additive group of the real numbers).

gives a clear statement and proof of the theorem. The papers of and  together provide another proof. See also.

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This is something I will work on and hopefully other people will add too as well. The list of French films and other language films strive and should be left to grow on their own. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hmoleman00 (talk • contribs)

 * Yes, but there needs to be more than just one entry. - Lucky 6.9 06:04, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * We may want to follow the format of the French list and alphabetize both by English and by German title. And include the year of release, where possible. Rahnle 07:41, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

What the hell? There are tens of thousands of movies in German. You can't possibly list them all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.64.148.249 (talk • contribs)

 * I have added a few orphaned articles to this list but wonder if it really is a good idea. As stated above there are a very large number of German films, the list will be huge. There is also Category:German-language films. Should this list be deleted? --Traveler100 (talk) 05:35, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Sort it, baby! By decades/years
This list should be sorted, in a similar fashion like de:Liste bedeutender deutscher Filme after decades and years. Cheers, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 13:34, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

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Expo

 * The theme for Expo 86 was disputed in the Vancouver discussion. In case this discussion appears here, I wanted to explain why I have corrected the theme on the Expo 86 page. Although the general theme for Expo was "Transportation and Communications", the theme was expanded to include "World in Motion - World in Touch." See Expo Museum, [Canadian Encyclopedia, and Canadian Heritage site on expos. --[[User:Westendgirl|Westendgirl]] 05:54, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Photos

 * Could somone elaborate on what they want photographed? I won't have any original pictures from Expo 86, but I can take pictures in vancouver Apfejes 22:39, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I would say any of the remaining elements from the fair - buildings, signs, etc. Unsigned comment by Themepark 03:07, August 22, 2006 (UTC)
 * I have pictures from 1986. I will upload one or more once I have located them.  In the meantime, I think it would be great to have something highlighting how Canada Place or BC Place is being used now (in contrast to it being part of Expo 86).  I'll leave it to your imagination as to how that can be accomplished. Canadiana 13:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm away for about a week, but when I come back, I'll go take a few shots - it sounds like fun. Apfejes 14:31, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I just checked and it seems none of the photos from my Expo 86 visit (I was 2!) are laying around. There seems to be some material on Flickr, but it all sucks IMO, but may be worthy of inclusion anyway. See http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=expo+86&l=comm&ct=0 for CC content that is not NC.--Ktims (talk) 09:36, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

 * The Expo Robot would be a good photo to add... Pacific Place, the concrete road with concrete cars... the before it was redeveloped, during reconstruction, and after the Expo, when it was rebuilt again. 76.66.202.72 (talk) 01:38, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

In the info for the original 1986 photo, the date says "September 21, 2007". This should be publicly editable. The date should be changed to 1986 (year only is fine, month and day would be preferable if known) 1779Days (talk) 18:04, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

43 new photos added to Commons - most of the pavilions now have pictures. Please add to the article (perhaps a table of pavilions? or a gallery?) Ruhrfisch ><> ° ° 17:23, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Monorail
I heard recently that there is still a monorail station in the Plaza of Nations building, including a short section of track. There isn't much in this building so most people have no reason to go there and hence have no idea it's still there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.232.127.117 (talk) 19:13, 23 February 2007 (UTC).

Cost
"The final cost of the fair ended up being CDN $8 million under budget." "Deficit : $311,000,000" Clearly, these two numbers don't add up. I'm marking for citations needed. Caulfield14 15:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

"Germany"?
West Germany? or East Germany? I'm pretty sure the presence at Expo 86 was from West Germany.

70.73.4.197 13:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

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Expo Lands article needed
Someone had in my watchlist said they'd redirected this link to this article, but I don't see it in the "what links here" and I've lost track of which article that was done in; I imagine what was done was a pipe to here, not a redirect. The term "Expo Lands" was used after the fair and is (more or less) synonymous with Pacific Place (Vancouver), which was the dba name for their acquisition/development used by Concord Pacific, who bought the lands from the BC government after ten years of them lying fallow and undeveloped, and would belong in the political scandals coverage due to various issues connected with the sale and the lands themselves.Skookum1 (talk) 23:06, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Assessment
I changed the quality assessment of this article from B to C class today due to a lack of inline citations (indeed, there are a few "citation needed" tags still in the article today).  PK T (alk)  16:53, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

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Evictions
This section is far too long for an article on the fair, and unbalances the presentation. Yes, it's sad that unscrupulous landlords acted in an unscrupulous way, and sad that somebody died. But to spend as much time on that as on, for example, the legacy section, makes it seem as though the fair was built on death and discomfort; in short, the writer of this section is trying to re-fight political battles of the 1980s rather than give information about the fair. What the landlords did is ancillary to the fair itself. If somebody wants to write an article called "Hard Times in the Vancouver Downtown East Side, 1980s," then by all means go ahead; but to import a long digression on "evictions" into an article on the fair is absurd. The whole section should either be deleted, or shaved down to a sentence, and incorporated into "Backgrounds," which is where it belongs. Theonemacduff (talk) 23:38, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

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This is a good page to compile films that might intrest people who like foriegn languages. The page could be very interesting in the future if left alive. I might complile more later, and then this page would not be as useless as you guy seem to think it is.

 * I don't wish to sound cross but this is useless as it stands. A  list needs to be more than just one wiki-link.  Also, articles do not just grow on their own.  The person responsible for the article in the first place is also responsible for that article to meet some basic standards of inclusion.  Please drop me a note on my talk page if you have any questions.  I'd like to help. - Lucky 6.9 06:07, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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David Parker (New Zealand politician)

David William Parker (born 1960) is a New Zealand lawyer, businessman and politician who has been a Labour Party Member of Parliament since 2002.

After a career in law and business, Parker entered Parliament by winning the marginal Otago electorate. He was Attorney-General of New Zealand and a senior Cabinet minister in the Sixth Labour Government between 2017 and 2023, holding the posts of Minister for the Environment, Minister of Transport, Minister for Trade and Export Growth, Minister for Economic Development and Associate Minister of Finance. Parker was also a Cabinet minister in the Fifth Labour Government and a senior figure in the Labour Party opposition between 2008 and 2017, including as deputy leader and interim leader between 2013 and 2014.

Early life and family
David Parker was born in Roxburgh to parents Joan (née Pinfold) and Francis Parker. He is the second of four children and grew up in Dunedin, where he attended Otago Boys' High School. He studied law and business at the University of Otago, graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce in accounting and Bachelor of Laws. While still a student, he co-founded the Dunedin Community Law Centre.

Parker has three children with his ex-wife, the poet Sue Wootton. Since 2011, he has had a relationship with Barbara Ward, a sculptor and Labour Party activist. He lives in Auckland and has a holiday home in Karitane.

Career
Before entering politics, Parker had a career in law and business. He was admitted as a barrister at the High Court in Dunedin on 1 December 1982. His legal career began with general law followed by some time working as a duty solicitor and working in family and environmental law. He was then a resource management law specialist for the firm Anderson Lloyd, based in Queenstown, and a civil litigation specialist and managing partner for the same firm, based in Dunedin.

Parker's business career began with a Dunedin café, the Percolator, which he co-owned and ran with his wife. His Labour MP colleague Pete Hodgson said Parker's decision to leave legal practice and pursue other activities was because the high charges associated with civil litigation work conflicted with Parker's values. Business ventures with Dunedin property developer Russell Hyslop in the late 1990s, including the restoration of Dunedin's St James Theatre (now the Rialto Cinema), were unsuccessful and led to Hyslop's bankruptcy. In 2006, Parker stated that he, too, had considered voluntarily filing for bankruptcy to "take the easy way out", but did not. He returned to legal practice for three years before resuming his business career.

Parker was hired by entrepreneur Howard Paterson as a business manager for his agri-biotechnology ventures. Parker said one of his early roles was to identify commercial opportunities emerging out of universities and Crown Research Institutes and develop corporate structures for them. Companies Parker was involved with, including as inaugural chief executive, included A2 Corporation, Blis Technologies, Botryzen and Pharmazen.

Member of Parliament
From about 1999, and spurred by his opposition to then government's energy reforms, Parker began planning a political career and joined the Labour Party. He was chair of the Dunedin North electorate from 2001 and was selected as Labour candidate in Otago for the 2002 general election. Otago had previously been regarded as a safe National Party seat but was downgraded to marginal when National's support dropped ahead of the election. Ranked an unwinnable 47th place on the party list, and himself not expecting to make it into Parliament, Parker won an upset victory over the incumbent, Gavan Herlihy, by 648 votes. While he was unsuccessful in holding Otago against Jacqui Dean in 2005, it was said that Parker lost by a lesser margin than was expected. He was defeated by Dean in the new Waitaki electorate in 2008. After the breakdown of his marriage in 2009, Parker moved to Auckland where he has twice unsuccessfully contested the Epsom electorate, in 2011 and 2017. Despite these electorate losses, Parker has been returned as a list MP in every election since 2005.

Parker gave his maiden statement to Parliament on 3 September 2002. In his speech, he addressed infrastructure inaffordability in Queenstown and gave his support to the proposed ability of Queenstown-Lakes District Council to collect a visitor level to fund infrastructure improvements. More than 20 years later, the levy remained only a proposal. Parker's speech also outlined his early views on the economy. He said he supported waste minimisation efforts and suggested that energy consumption and resource depletion should be added to indicators of economic performance, in addition to gross domestic product (GDP). He criticised the governance of the Reserve Bank by Don Brash, who was by then also a first-term MP, saying that the late 1990s "marked the greatest mismanagement of the New Zealand economy" since the days of Sir Robert Muldoon. He further set out his views that the sale of rural land to non-residents should be controlled "very strict[ly]" and that overtime rates should be reintroduced as an incentive for employers to increase employment and decrease the size of the average working week for workers.

Parker's parliamentary roles centred on economic, environmental, and legal portfolios. In his first term, Parker sat on the finance and expenditure committee, the commerce committee, and the regulations review committee. He was promoted in March 2003 to be deputy chair of the local government and environment committee and in February 2005 to be deputy chair of the constitutional arrangements committee. In his second term, he was transport, energy, climate change, and lands minister, and briefly Attorney-General, in Helen Clark's Fifth Labour Government (see ).

Labour was in Opposition from 2008 to 2017; Parker was a senior figure during the first six of those years. He was ranked fourth in caucus by leader Phil Goff, third by David Shearer, and second as deputy leader to David Cunliffe. He was shadow attorney-general under all three leaders and additionally served as finance spokesperson under Shearer and Cunliffe. Parker was briefly interim leader after Labour's 2014 general election defeat. He unsuccessfully contested the 2014 Labour Party leadership election and was demoted by incoming leader Andrew Little after refusing the finance portfolio, but continued as shadow attorney-general and eventually became environment and foreign affairs spokesperson.

In opposition, Parker chaired the government administration committee from 2008 to 2011 and sat on the justice and electoral committee (2008–2011), finance and expenditure committee (2011–2014), regulations review committee (2014–2017; chair in 2017), local government and environment committee (2015–2017) and foreign affairs, defence and trade committee (2017). He was also a member of the parliamentary privileges committee from 2009 to 2023, including as deputy chair (2012–2017) and chair (2018–2023).

In the Sixth Labour Government, Parker was reappointed as Attorney-General. Through the government's six years he was also Minister for the Environment and Associate Minister of Finance. He additionally held the offices of Minister for Economic Development and Minister for Trade and Export Growth in the government's first term and Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, Minister of Revenue, and Minister of Transport in the government's second term. Parker's principal achievements in government were rewriting the country's resource management laws and establishing a reporting mechanism on the fairness of the tax system (see ). However, neither survived the government's defeat at the 2023 general election. Returning to opposition, Parker was reappointed as chair of the regulations review committee and became Labour's shadow attorney-general and spokesperson on foreign affairs and electoral reform in the Shadow Cabinet of Chris Hipkins.

Minister in the Fifth Labour Government
Parker joined the Clark ministry in its third and final term. He was appointed Attorney-General, Minister of Transport, Minister of Energy, and Minister Responsible for Climate Change Issues on 19 October 2005. Parker's appointment as Attorney-General and "a de facto Minister of Infrastructure" in his second term, despite his Otago election defeat, was criticised by the National Party due to his apparent inexperience. Media commentary on Parker's promotion and early days in his portfolios focused on his status as one of the "few lawyers" within Labour, his apparent close relationships with the prime minister and deputy prime minister, and the perception that he was a "rising star" of the party.

Parker resigned from the Cabinet in March 2006 (see ) but was reappointed with the energy, climate change, and land information portfolios that May. In July 2007 prime minister Helen Clark appointed Parker as the acting Minister for the Environment following the resignation of David Benson-Pope. Parker was promoted to Minister of State Services, and thirteenth in the Cabinet, on 5 November 2007. During this first term as a minister, Parker was praised for his policy formulation and attention to detail, and was proposed by commentators as a possible successor to Michael Cullen as finance minister.

Attorney-General
In his first appointment, Parker was Attorney-General for only 152 days, the shortest tenure of any Attorney-General since the 1920s. In his term, he elevated Noel Anderson to the Supreme Court and appointed William Young president of the Court of Appeal.

In March 2006, Investigate magazine published allegations by Russell Hyslop that Parker had filed an incorrect declaration with the Companies Office regarding the property company Queens Park Mews Limited, the directors of which were Parker, Hyslop, and Parker's father. Parker resigned as Attorney-General on 20 March and resigned from Cabinet the next day. Hyslop's charge was that Parker had failed to consult him over the filing as required by law. An inquiry by the Companies Office cleared him of the charge of filing false returns, due to the fact that Hyslop had previously waived that requirement before declaring bankruptcy in 1997, and it was later waived again by the official assignee responsible for Hyslop's affairs after the bankruptcy. Clark described Parker as having pleaded guilty to something he was innocent of and reappointed him to Cabinet as Minister of Energy, Minister for Land Information, and Minister Responsible for Climate Change Issues on 2 May 2006. Political commentator Colin James wrote of the incident: "[it] must be the world’s first resignation by a minister for something he thought he might conceivably have done but turned out not to have... David Parker is one of the few to end 2006 with reputation enhanced."

Other portfolios
As energy minister, Parker's priorities were energy supply and competition. Early in his tenure he "ruled out" rolling winter blackouts to manage supply of hydro-generated electricity; however, equipment failures in Auckland led to a significant blackout in 2006. He developed the government's national energy strategy, which was announced in 2007, which had a strong focus on energy sustainability. Power shortages were a persistent trend through Parker's time in the portfolio, with additional gas-generated electricity commissioned to ease demand in 2008. Parker also reiterated New Zealand's commitment to being nuclear free. His proposals to phase out inefficient light bulbs drew criticism of the government's "nanny state" approach, leading Parker to brandish modern energy-efficient bulbs as props during one parliamentary debate.

As climate change minister, Parker announced the cancellation of a proposed carbon tax, pursuant to a coalition agreement between Labour and New Zealand First. In its place, Parker proposed Labour's flagship climate change mitigation policy, the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, which was legislated as the Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading) Amendment Act 2008. For his work in the energy and climate change portfolios, Parker was named 2008 Environmentalist of the Year by The Listener.

In the transport portfolio, Parker opened consultation on possible toll roads in Auckland, described by The New Zealand Herald as the most "courageous" step towards road pricing undertaken in New Zealand. Appointed state services minister in November 2007, Parker immediately came under pressure when it was revealed he, as climate minister, had suggested the environment ministry hire a Labour activist, Clare Curran, as a communications advisor. An investigation by the State Services Commission cleared Parker of charges of inappropriate ministerial direction, although some commentators like the Herald 's Fran O'Sullivan and the National Party's Gerry Brownlee were highly critical both of the report's findings as well as of Parker's role and "impatience" in pressuring the environment ministry on a political appointment. As land information minister, he blocked the partial sale of Auckland Airport to the Canada Pension Plan in 2008.

Opposition, 2008–2017
Following Labour's defeat in the 2008 general election, Parker was named spokesperson for ACC and electoral reform, shadow attorney-general, and associate spokesperson for finance in the shadow Cabinet of Phil Goff. The conservation portfolio was added to Parker's workload in 2009 and replaced with economic development in 2010. In 2011, ahead of that year's election, Parker was elevated to fourth in the Labour caucus and also assigned the energy portfolio. He led Labour's campaign against the National government's proposed sale of state-owned electricity companies, which resulted in a win at a 2013 referendum but did not prevent any asset sales. He also promoted, for the first time for the Labour Party, a capital gains tax and retirement age increase.

Parker was increasingly seen as a leading figure within the Labour Party. He was described as a top performer in opposition and the "frontrunner" in the party's November 2011 leadership election due to his role developing the party's policies for that year's general election, much of which was seen as moving the party more towards the political left. Critics of Parker saw him as bookish and boring with an understated sense of humour. Parker did enter the leadership election, but withdrew partway through the contest to support David Shearer's bid. It was reported that he withdrew because a key backer, Grant Robertson, had shifted his allegiance to Shearer, who defeated David Cunliffe in the election and appointed Parker as the finance spokesperson. By July 2013, Parker had become critical of Shearer's leadership. With six other senior MPs, he challenged Shearer to improve. Shearer resigned six weeks later. Cunliffe took over as leader on 15 September 2013; Parker became deputy leader and continued as finance spokesperson and shadow attorney-general.

Following the poor performance of the Labour Party in the 2014 general election, and Cunliffe's resignation as leader, Parker was appointed interim leader of the Labour Party. He initially ruled himself out of the ensuing leadership election, but changed his mind. Although he was seen as a frontrunner in the race, he finished third. New leader Andrew Little offered for Parker to continue as finance spokesperson, but Parker declined. Little had campaigned on doing away with Parker's economic policies from the previous election, like a capital gains tax and raising the retirement age. Instead, Parker was assigned a range of portfolios including shadow attorney-general and spokesperson for trade and export growth, the environment and, after the resignations of former leaders Goff and Shearer, foreign affairs.

As spokesperson for trade and foreign affairs between 2015 and 2017, Parker prosecuted allegations that foreign affairs minister Murray McCully had deliberately misrepresented an arrangement with businessman Sheikh Hmood Al Ali Al Khalaf. It emerged that McCully had sourced government funding for the development of an "agribusiness hub" promoting New Zealand agriculture in Saudi Arabia, including secret "facilitation payments" of more than $4 million, seemingly to prevent the sheik from suing the New Zealand government. The deal circumvented a ban on live sheep exports for slaughter the sheik disagreed with and was also an attempt by McCully to try to secure Saudi Arabia's agreement to a New Zealand–Gulf Cooperation Council free trade agreement. Parker referred the matter to Auditor-General Lyn Provost, who investigated and found that while there was "no evidence of corruption," the deal amounted to "the settlement of a grievance... provided under the guise of a contract for services [which did] not specifically reflect the settlement component relating to the grievance." Parker cancelled the arrangement as trade minister in 2019. , the NZGCC FTA is still under negotiation.

Parker was responsible for three members bills in the 2014–2017 term. In 2015 and 2016, he proposed the Minimum Wage (Contractor Remuneration) Amendment Bill, which sought to ensure contract workers could not be remunerated below minimum wage. Although the bill passed its first and second readings, it was voted down in the Committee of the Whole House when Peter Dunne withdrew his support. In June 2016, he took over the Keep Kiwibank Bill from Clayton Cosgrove for its second reading. The bill was defeated by the National-led government, which said it had no intention of selling the bank. The Ombudsmen (Cost Recovery) Amendment Bill was defeated in May 2017.

Minister in the Sixth Labour Government
Following the formation of the Labour–New Zealand First coalition government, Parker was sworn in for a second appointment as Attorney-General and also became Minister for Economic Development, Minister for the Environment, and Minister for Trade and Export Growth. He also became Associate Minister of Finance. The depth and breadth of his portfolios led him to be described as "the minister of almost everything", an epithet that had previously been given to Sir Michael Cullen. Parker was seen as a trusted confidante of the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, and was remarked as having a close relationship with the deputy prime minister, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. Chess international master and journalist Vernon Small was brought on as Parker's press secretary.

Parker's economic development portfolio was reassigned to Phil Twyford in June 2019; Ardern said this was so Parker could focus more on domestic water quality proposals and free trade negotiations with the European Union and United Kingdom. In the Labour government's second term, from October 2020, he was reappointed as Attorney-General, Minister for the Environment, and Associate Minister of Finance. He also became Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, Minister of Revenue and, briefly in 2023, Minister of Transport. Several commentators saw him as a candidate for foreign affairs minister in 2020; that role instead went to Nanaia Mahuta.

Attorney-General
During his second period as Attorney-General, Parker made three appointments to the Supreme Court of New Zealand. With prime minister Ardern, Parker oversaw the appointment of Dame Helen Winkelmann as Chief Justice—the first such appointment since the creation of the Supreme Court in 2004—in November 2018. Parker also announced the elevation to the Supreme Court of Sir Joseph Williams in May 2019 and of Sir Stephen Kós in April 2022.

In May 2020, as Attorney-General, Parker led the passage of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 (the PHRA) through Parliament. This provided the legal framework for the Government's efforts to combat COVID-19. Shortly before the bill was introduced, Parker gave a lengthy Facebook Live address where he addressed and refuted the claim that the government's lockdown direction was unenforceable; the High Court later found that while this was justified, it was not lawful for the first nine days. In an address to the New Zealand Centre for Public Law in December 2021, Parker reflected on the legal framework for managing COVID-19. He said that in his view, the PHRA served New Zealand well until the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in 2021.

In November 2021, Parker chaired the annual meeting of attorneys-general from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2022, he progressed the New Zealand Bill of Rights (Declarations of Inconsistency) Amendment Bill, which required if Supreme Court finds a law to be inconsistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act that the issue be returned to Parliament.

Environment portfolios
As environment minister, Parker oversaw a "comprehensive overhaul" of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA). He appointed retired judge Tony Randerson, who had previously been on a review panel for the RMA before its enactment, to make recommendations about the future direction for resource management. Parker led the government's development of new policy and two new laws: the Natural and Built Environment Bill and the Spatial Planning Bill. Both bills were introduced into parliament on 14 November 2022 and passed into law on 16 August 2023. Parker said his rationale for replacing the RMA was that it had become too complex and expensive, without adequately protecting water quality or decreasing carbon emissions. The legislation was repealed in January 2024 after a change of government.

Parker launched the government's freshwater policy statement in September 2019, which aimed to improve water quality in lakes and rivers. A report Parker had commissioned the previous year had found significant water quality issues, including increases of nitrates and E. coli. By 2020, another report showed that water quality had not improved in nearly half of monitoring sites. Tighter water quality regulations, including controls on winter grazing of stock, were enacted in 2020 and these were soon described as "onerous" and "unworkable" by farming lobbyists. However, environmental advocates like Mike Joy said Parker's regulations were insufficient at addressing nitrate pollution. Following the change of government in 2023, the winter grazing rules are expected to be repealed by the end of 2024.

As the first minister in the new oceans and fisheries portfolio, Parker launched the government's sustainable oceans strategy in a pair of speeches to Forest & Bird in June 2021 and Auckland University in June 2022. During two years in the portfolio, he launched a marine protected area in the Hauraki Gulf and reformed fisheries legislation. He passed the portfolio to Stuart Nash in February 2023, and held it briefly again after Nash's dismissal from the executive in March 2023.

Economic portfolios
Parker was Minister for Economic Development from October 2017 to June 2019. In the 2019 budget, he announced a new $300 million venture capital fund, administered in a similar way as the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. Parker said the intention of the fund is to increase productivity and generate revenue to fund future superannuation. After leaving the economic development portfolio, Parker was continued as the responsible minister for the venture capital fund through his associate finance delegation. He said in 2023 that the fund had already generated $1 billion total market capital available for start-up companies. Parker's finance delegation also included responsibility on behalf of the Minister of Finance for the Overseas Investment Act 2005. In August 2018, Parker led the passage of the Overseas Investment Amendment Act 2018, that banned the sale of existing residential property in New Zealand to foreign buyers.

As trade minister between 2017 and 2020, Parker's trade strategy centered on defending the rules-based system for international trade led by the World Trade Organization and embedding New Zealand within Asia-Pacific free trade agreements. On 8 March 2018, he signed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership on behalf of New Zealand. In October 2018, he led New Zealand's ratification of the PACER Plus agreement. He also worked with Liz Truss, then the United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Trade, on the development of a United Kingdom–New Zealand free trade agreement. In 2019, Parker announced government support for Saudi Arabia "agri-hub" he had questioned, and described as a bribe, in Opposition had been cancelled. Parker's final engagement as trade minister was a speech addressing global challenges to the OECD on 9 October 2020.

Parker became revenue minister in October 2020, having requested to hold the portfolio. He was responsible for legislating the government's Budget 2022 "cost of living" payment scheme for low-income individuals, but faced criticism for the scheme's poor implementation. Around the same time, he proposed adding goods and services tax to KiwiSaver account fees but the proposal was dropped due to widespread criticism. Parker said the proposal would have made the tax system more consistent, but opponents accused it of "eating into" retirement savings. New Zealand Herald columnist Audrey Young said these incidents showed Parker's difficulty at seeing political risk.

Parker also conducted work on tax inequality, which he said was his main priority in the portfolio and was inspired by reading Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In April 2022, Parker gave a speech titled "Shining a light on unfairness in our tax system," which set out his belief that New Zealand no longer has a progressive tax system. In the speech, he said: "the effective marginal tax rate for middle income Kiwis is generally higher than it is for their wealthiest citizens. Indeed, some of their wealthier Kiwi compatriots pay very low rates of tax on most of their income." One year later, he released research from the Inland Revenue Department that found New Zealand's wealthiest families pay less than half the amount of tax, across all forms of income, than most other New Zealanders. Parker said the "internationally ground-breaking research" revealed a "large differential between the tax rates ordinary New Zealanders pay on their full income compared with the super-wealthy". Piketty responded to the report saying New Zealand should institute a wealth tax.

Following on from these findings, in May 2023, Parker introduced the Tax Principles Reporting Bill that proposes an ongoing reporting framework for fairness in the tax system. The relevant principles were horizontal equity, efficiency, vertical equity, revenue integrity, compliance and administrative costs, certainty and predictability, and flexibility and adaptability. The bill, which passed its third reading in August 2023, was described by National Party opponents as "David Parker's pet envy project." It was repealed under urgency by the incoming National government in December 2023, days before the first report was due to be published.

Parker resigned his role as revenue minister on 25 July 2023, describing remaining in the position as "untenable," after prime minister Chris Hipkins said Labour would not introduce a wealth tax policy that Parker had spent several years developing. Parker also refused to say whether he thought Hipkins preferred tax policy (removing goods and services tax on fresh fruits and vegetables) was workable. His stance was criticised by The New Zealand Herald 's Claire Trevett as "an ill-timed bout of personal principle that carries a whiff of petulance and selfishness" that came in the lead-up to an election and amid several other resignations of Cabinet ministers for various scandals, but was praised by former revenue minister Peter Dunne as the correct decision and by journalist Simon Wilson for being a rare act of principle.

Political views
Parker is a liberal. He has been described as an "ardent progressive" and once self-described himself as an "agent of progressive change." Consistently through his career, he has described himself as an egalitarian politician. He voted in support of civil unions in 2004 (the Civil Union Bill) and gay marriage in 2013 (the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill). He voted against legalising voluntary euthanasia in 2003, but voted for the End of Life Choice Bill in 2019. In 2019, he stated a personal view that the sale of fireworks should be limited to only the days around Matariki rather than Guy Fawkes Night. He has also given his support to a four-year electoral cycle, rather than the current three-year parliamentary term, but prefers keeping the voting age and drinking age at 18.

In 2003, Parker supported a petition calling for the government to hold a royal commission of inquiry to review the case of Peter Ellis. A parliamentary committee reviewed the petition and rejected the petitioners' call for a commission of inquiry, concluding that it was not practical to hold such an inquiry. Ellis's case was eventually heard by the Supreme Court which found in his favour; in 2021, North & South argued that without Parker's 2019 appointment of Sir Joseph Williams to the court it is unlikely the case would have been successful. In terms of the reach of the senior courts, Parker said that he is "concerned when judicial activism goes too far and amounts to lawmaking, which should be left to Parliament." He co-authored the Labour Party policy, later the New Zealand Bill of Rights (Declarations of Inconsistency) Amendment Act 2022, which set out that when the Supreme Court finds a law to be inconsistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act that the issue be returned to Parliament.

Parker is opposed to Israeli occupation of the West Bank and supports the creation and international recognition of a Palestinian state. He has been outspoken on these views since 2003. As Labour's foreign affairs spokesperson in 2024, he wrote to foreign affairs minister Winston Peters requesting the government officially recognise Palestine, which Peters rejected, and opposed the government's deployment of New Zealand soldiers into the Red Sea crisis.

French economist Thomas Piketty has been a strong influence on Parker's economic views. In a speech following one by Piketty at the OECD in 2020, Parker said he became a Piketty "disciple" after reading Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In 2023, Parker described Capital to The Spinoff as the book "everyone should read" because it demonstrated how wealth is being concentrated among very few individuals and that this has largely been missed because of a lack of sufficient, accurate data-based monitoring. Parker said of Piketty, "he has written some of the most important economic analysis of the problems of the world in the last couple of decades."

Personal life
On 28 February 2022, Parker became the first New Zealand Member of Parliament to test positive for COVID-19. He broke his leg in late 2023 and was unable to travel to Parliament to be sworn in; instead the Clerk of the House traveled to Dunedin to administer Parker's oath remotely.

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Mark Peck

Mark Everett Peck (born 16 July 1953) is a New Zealand politician and a member of the Labour Party. From 2013 to 2016, he was a Wellington City Councillor, and was MP for Invercargill from 1993 to 2005.

Early life and career
Peck was born in 1953 in the town of Hamilton, Ohio, United States, and arrived in New Zealand in 1963. His father, Reverend Robert Logan Peck, was an Anglican priest, journalist and politician, and stimulated Mark's interest in politics at an early age, leading him to seek positions in the Labour-influenced trade unions. In 1969 he became a New Zealand citizen. He was educated at Wellington College and then attended both University of Canterbury and Christchurch College of Education. He became President of the University of Canterbury Students' Association and from 1975 to 1976 he was General Secretary of the National Student Teachers' Association.

He worked several jobs prior to entering politics including as a part-time tutor, retailer, factory worker and supermarket department manager. In 1977 he became a union official with the Hospital and Hotel Workers' Union (later amalgamated into the Service Workers' Union. In 1985 he was appointed a member of the Southland Polytechnic Council. He was vice president (1991) and president (1992–93) of the Southland Council of Trade Unions.

Political career
In 1975 he joined the Labour Party and in 1977 he unsuccessfully stood for the Wellington City Council on the Labour ticket.

Peck won the National Party dominated electorate of Invercargill in the 1993 election. Soon after entering parliament he supported Helen Clark in her successful leadership challenge to Mike Moore. From 1996 to 1999 he was Shadow Minister of Revenue under Clark.

In 2002, he missed out getting promoted to cabinet and after that, he became more distant to his party colleagues and started feeling lonely. He represented the electorate until retiring from the House of Representatives twelve years later in September 2005; he claims that he made the decision to retire at his birthday in 2004.

During his hiatus from politics, he has been a director of the anti-smoking organisation Smokefree Coalition. In 2009 he opened a café "Little Peckish" in central Wellington with his wife Margaret. He retired and sold the café in 2021.

In the October 2013 local elections, Peck successfully ran for Wellington City Council in the Lambton ward. Peck voted for Wellington City Council to introduce a 'living wage' for council employees. However he did not intend to apply a living wage to those he employs in his cafe. Peck retired at the local elections in October 2016.

Personal life
In early 2005, after crashing his car while drink driving, Peck spoke publicly about his addiction to alcohol since he was a young man, and how he had checked himself into an addiction rehabilitation centre. He and his wife have three children.

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Mount Cornwell (Canada)

Mount Cornwell is located on the Continental Divide on the boundary between British Columbia and Alberta along the spine of the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The mountain was named in 1918 after "boy hero" John Cornwell, a sixteen-year-old crewman aboard HMS Chester, which was severely damaged in the Battle of Jutland. Cornwell was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery during the battle. Mount Chester was also named after his ship.

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Jill Pettis

Marjorie Jill Pettis (born 22 September 1952) is a New Zealand politician, and a member of the Labour Party.

Early life
Pettis was born on 22 September 1952. Before entering politics, she worked as a nurse and as a finance officer at a bank. Pettis is of Māori descent.

Political career
Pettis became a member of the Labour Party in 1968.

Pettis became MP for Wanganui in the 1993 election, but in 2005 she narrowly lost the seat to National's Chester Borrows. She was returned to Parliament as a list MP, at which point she stepped down as the Labour Party's Senior Whip to focus on winning back the Whanganui seat.

She also served as Assistant Speaker of the House.

She retired from politics prior to the 2008 general election.

Personal life
Pettis is married with two children.

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Sacred Heart University (new article edit request)
Hello, we have a number of edits (like the size of Sacred Heart's endowment, sporting affiliations, number of buildings on campus, names of buildings and colleges, etc.) we are requesting and would like to ask the best way to achieve this. Should we request one or two edits at a time, or can we submit them in bulk? We've compiled our edits in this document--of course, we will follow proper procedure in actually submitting the requests, but wanted to provide our source material as a starting point: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wHP7AShk2ksobVDaP8Dpf8UMCjm0DiBXI2aq9MT0UaI/edit?usp=sharing.

Additionally, we wish to disclose a conflict of interest in updating the Wikipedia page for Sacred Heart University, as we are employees of the institution. We've worked here for a number of years, and during this time, the university has transformed in many ways, and the page as it stands does not accurately represent the institution today. We have thoroughly vetted all edits that we propose to the page against the latest data we have as well as external articles that we were able to find. SacredwikiHeart (talk) 18:24, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

 * Hi! It's best that you declare your COI clearly on your userpage, as you have. If you are being paid to edit on Wikipedia or are otherwise expecting compensation in relation to your editing here, you must also declare this separately and clearly (see WP:PAID).
 * Using Google Docs is a bit cumbersome and discouraged. If you would like to share a draft you created here on Wikipedia, the best thing to do would be to write it in your (perhaps even a separate sandbox page) and then share a link to that. For more information about sandboxes, see H:SANDBOX.
 * Lastly, remember that all information on Wikipedia needs to be verifiable per WP:V. If you have access to some kind of internal data or information that is not publicly available, you can't base your edits on that information. Unless information can be attributed to a reliable source that readers can access, or it is very plausible and obvious that a reader could easily verify information ("London is the capital of the UK" needs no inline citation), it should not be added to an article. Actualcpscm (talk) 18:31, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

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Add Sporting affiliations NEWHA, MAAC, EIWA, ECAC, NEIFC
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Update Undergraduates numbers (this includes full-time and part-time) to 6,782 and Postgraduates to 3,939

Update number of programs and students under first section to: Sacred Heart is the second-largest Catholic university in New England, behind Boston College, and offers nearly 90 degree programs to over 10,000 students at the bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels.

The page does not accurately represent Sacred Heart University today and has errors such as inaccurate building and program names, admissions numbers, sporting affiliations, endowment size and more. These edit requests have been thoroughly vetted against the latest data as well as external articles.
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Greek life lists
@Emilyjd8: lists of Greek institutions are better placed on list pages, since their content relevance for an encyclopedia is marginal. Also, there is not enough reliable documentation about them. Most Wikipedia editors agree that rote listings of Greek institutions are not helpful if there is no sourcing from outside the school's own homepage or the fraternity's own circle. If you can prove that one or more of the Greek houses is significant, then pls do so, but for the most part, individual houses fall under WP:UNDUE. That is, they are not significant enough for an encyclopdia. Here is an example of the lists, which are more appropriate. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 18:58, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

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Patrick Magruder

Patrick Magruder (1768 – December 24, 1819 ) was an American lawyer, politician, and librarian who served as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland’s 3rd congressional District from March 4, 1805, to March 3, 1807, and as the 2nd Librarian of the United States Congress, from December 26, 1807, to January 18, 1815.

Biography
Patrick Magruder was born on his family's estate, Locust Grove, near Rockville in the Province of Maryland, in 1768, the son of Samuel Wade Magruder (1731-1792), and Lucy Beall (1738-1795). Patrick Magruder was the great-grandson of Samuel Magruder (1654-1711), the son of Alexander “the Immigrant” Magruder (1610-1676). Patrick Magruder attended Princeton College and became a lawyer. In 1804, he was elected to be a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland’s 3rd congressional District, and served from March 4, 1805, to March 3, 1807. After the death of John J. Beckley, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Magruder to the dual post of Clerk of the United States House of Representatives and Librarian of Congress. The posts were not separated until 1815. Magruder served as the 2nd Librarian of the United States Congress from December 26, 1807, to January 18, 1815. During the War of 1812, the British burned Washington, D.C., including the Library of Congress, which was then housed in the US Capitol Building. After an investigation by Congress into the destruction of the library and the use of its funds, Magruder resigned. He died December 24, 1819, in Petersburg, Virginia, and was buried on his family's ancestral estate, Sweden, near Petersburg in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Magruder, who first married Sarah Turner, and then Martha Goodwyn, had six children: Theophilus, Louisa, Edmund, Patrick, Adelina, and Napolean.

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Swimmers who have represented Russia at the Olympics.

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The Three Marias

The Three Marias is a Brazilian drama film made in 2002. It is the second feature film by the Brazilian filmmaker Aluizio Abranches. Marieta Severo, Júlia Lemmertz, Maria Luísa Mendonça and Luíza Mariani lead the cast. Also in the cast are Lázaro Ramos, Wagner Moura, Carlos Vereza and Tuca Andrada.

The movie is a shakespearean tragedy in the countryside of Pernambuco. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, achieving excellent reviews in Brazil and abroad, being critically acclaimed in international level.

Cast

 * Marieta Severo as Filomena Capadócio
 * Julia Lemmertz as Maria Francisca
 * Maria Luisa Mendonça as Maria Rosa
 * Luiza Mariani as Maria Pia
 * Carlos Vereza as Firmino Santos Guerra
 * Enrique Diaz as Zé das Cobras
 * Tuca Andrada as corporal Tenorio (capt. Tenorio in the English version)
 * Wagner Moura as Jesuíno Cruz, cavalo do cão (Devil's Horse in English)

Reception
The Three Marias grossed R$76,819 ($32,761) and was watched by 13,003 people in the 10 Brazilian theaters in which it was released. It received mixed reviews by English-speaking reviewers. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 40% rating based on 20 reviews, with an average score of 5.4/10. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the film has a score of 45 (indicating "mixed or average reviews") based on 9 reviews.

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Lynne Pillay

Barbara Lynne Pillay (born 14 August 1950) is a New Zealand politician, and member of the Labour Party.

Pillay was born in Palmerston North. Before entering politics, she was a nurse, and had been active in the New Zealand Nurses Union.

Member of Parliament
She was first elected to Parliament in the 2002 election, winning the Waitakere electorate. Her main rival was Alliance leader Laila Harré. Pillay had previously contested the safe National seat of Tamaki in the 1999 election, and had missed out on election as a list MP by only one place.

In 2006, Pillay's Human Rights (Women in Armed Forces) Amendment Bill was drawn from the member's ballot. The bill removed the legislative ban on women serving in combat roles in the New Zealand Defence Force. The bill was subsequently adopted by the government before its third reading, and passed unanimously as the Human Rights (Women in Armed Forces) Amendment Act 2007.

In the 2008 general election Pillay was defeated by National candidate Paula Bennett, with a margin of 632 votes. Pillay was ranked 32 on the Labour Party list and was elected into the 49th parliament as a list MP.

On 3 December 2009 Pillay announced that she would retire at the 2011 election.

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Times Publishing Company

Times Publishing Company is a newspaper and magazine publisher. Its flagship publication is the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times), a daily newspaper serving the Tampa Bay area. It also publishes the business magazine Florida Trend and the daily newspaper tbt*.

Times Publishing Company is based in St. Petersburg, Florida, and is owned by the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism school in St. Petersburg. The current chairman and CEO of Times Publishing Company is Paul Tash, who also serves as editor of the Tampa Bay Times.

On January 1, 2012, the St. Petersburg Times was renamed the Tampa Bay Times, with tbt* (which was an acronym for "Tampa Bay Times") only referred to by that name.

Properties
The Times Publishing Company owns several other publications, most of which are co-branded with the Tampa Bay Times.

 * tampabay.com is the online presence of the Times. Articles are free to view. Subscribers to the printed or electronic editions of the Times have access to a digital edition of the Times that resembles the layout of the printed paper.
 * Bay is an upscale magazine distributed to subscribers in select neighborhoods of the Tampa Bay area in their Sunday Editions of the Tampa Bay Times and published six times a year. It began publication in 2008.
 * Florida Trend is a business-oriented news publication. It describes itself as "the respected source of insight for Florida's leaders — business executives, top government officials, and civic trend-setters". Its monthly print readership is 150,000.
 * Tampa Bay Newspapers are weekly papers that serve local communities in central Pinellas County. They include the Beach Beacon, Belleair Bee, Clearwater Beacon, Dunedin Beacon, Largo Leader, Seminole Beacon, and Pinellas Park Beacon, as well as TBN Weekly Online and a digital edition. Tampa Bay Newspapers' general office is located in Seminole. Their combined circulation is 143,000.
 * tbt* is a free weekday tabloid that is marketed to "mainly 25- to 39-year-olds" in the Tampa Bay area. A large proportion of its content is about social events. Its daily circulation is approximately 80,000.
 * tb-two* is a weekly tabloid written by high school students in the Tampa Bay area in collaboration with the editors of tbt* and the Times. It began publication in 2009. It is released every Thursday with a circulation of around 60,000 weekly.
 * Senior Living Guide is a directory of housing, home care, and medical care services for seniors. It reaches 500,000 readers.
 * Times Events are exhibitions around the Tampa Bay area presented by the Times. They include home shows and job fairs.
 * PolitiFact is an online journalistic undertaking that ferrets out the truth in American politics. It won the Pulitzer for national reporting in 2009.

The Times owned and published an evening newspaper, the Evening Independent, from 1962 until its closure in 1986. Issues of the Evening Independent are available for viewing on Google News Archive.

On May 3, 2016, the Times Publishing Company announced the purchase of the Times' competing newspaper, The Tampa Tribune, from Revolution Capital Group, saying it intends to create one financially secure, locally owned daily newspaper in the Tampa Bay region. The Times ended publication of the Tribune on that day. The Times' acquisition of the Tribune also includes the following publications, which will continue publishing:

 * Highlands Today, a daily newspaper serving Highlands County, Florida, previously issued as a supplement of the Tribune.
 * The Suncoast News, a chain of weekly neighborhood newspapers in Pasco and northern Pinellas Counties.
 * Centro, a weekly Spanish-language newspaper.

Highlands Today was sold and closed later in 2016.

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