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Decimal Binary
Anonymous copy-paste of material already in Binary numeral system, and I can't see this article title being useful. -- Wapcaplet 10:11, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Cleanup. Rename. Bin and dec are the two most common systems, and their mutial conversions are important. Mikkalai 05:01, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. redundant, obscurely named. Gazpacho 22:57, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. improper title, redundant content   — Kieff | Talk 06:58, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
 * Probably quite a useful topic but need both remining and rewritten. Send to clean up and see what happens.  ping 08:05, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect and delete. Denni ☯ 17:18, 2004 Oct 3 (UTC)
 * Redundant, belongs to BJAODN because of the title itself. Delete and do not redirect. -- Mike Rosoft 21:52, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Fernando Angel

Fernando Angel (born 16 September 1963) is a Mexican musician who was a member of the ranchera group, Los Temerarios.

Fernando Angel is the cousin of Adolfo and Gustavo Angel, original band members. He joined the group in 1982, when the group was still known as Grupo Brisas. In 1983, the group changed its name to Los Temerarios. Fernando plays bass guitar.

Fernando Angel is perhaps the least known member of the Angel family in the group. This may be because usually Adolfo's and Gustavo's photographs headline the group's CDs and concert posters. Nevertheless, he has also become popular in Mexico and the rest of Latin America as a member of the famous group. He has also impressed many music critics with his ability to play the bass.

Fernando left the group in 2005, with his last performance in their hometown of Fresnillo, Zacatecas.

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Changning, Shanghai

Changning () is a district of Shanghai, China. It has a land area of 37.19 km2 and had a population of 620,000. The district government is located at 1320 Yuyuan Rd.

Economy
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport is located in Changning. China Eastern Airlines has its headquarters, the China Eastern Airlines Building, on the airport grounds. China Cargo Airlines has its headquarters on the airport property. Spring Airlines has its headquarters in the Homeyo Hotel in Changning. Juneyao Airlines has its headquarters in the district.

Huazhu Hotels or China Lodging, which operates Hanting Hotels and other brands, has its headquarters in the district. Additionally Pinduoduo is based in the district.

Renren Inc. has its Shanghai office in the SOHO Zhong Shan Square in Changning District.

Parks and recreation
Zhongshan Park and Kaiqiao Green Area are located in the district. The Shanghai Zoo is located in the district. New Town Central Park opened in 2000.

Education
East China University of Political Science and Law has a Changning Campus.

Schools in Changning District include Shanghai Yan'an High School, a school well known for its mathematics program; Shanghai New Hongqiao High School, a private school; Yew Wah School of Shanghai; the Primary Division of the bilingual YK Pao School; and Shanghai Meizhi Mandarin School.

Metro
Changning is currently served by five metro lines operated by Shanghai Metro:
 * - Songhong Road, Beixinjing, Weining Road, Loushanguan Road, Zhongshan Park, Jiangsu Road
 * and - Hongqiao Road, West Yan'an Road, Zhongshan Park
 * - Shanghai Zoo, Longxi Road, Shuicheng Road, Yili Road, Songyuan Road
 * - Jiaotong University, Jiangsu Road

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Spottsville, Kentucky

Spottsville is a census-designated place (CDP) and former coal town in Henderson County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 325.

U.S. Route 60 forms the northern edge of Spottsville, and the Green River forms the eastern edge. The first Spottsville Bridge over the Green River opened on December 17, 1931. In September 2013, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet determined that the structure was functionally obsolete because of its narrow deck width and was structurally deficient. The new Spottsville Bridge was completed in 2022, with the ribbon being cut by Irma Stanley Day who had cut the ribbon on the original Spottsville Bridge in 1931.

The Green River Lock & Dam is located in the community. Traveling east through Spottsville, one can see the lock to one's right when one crosses the US-60 bridge (the Green River Bridge). One can still see some of the remains of the old locks that were replaced in the mid-1960s; to one's left, one can see a turning bridge for trains (it turns when a barge comes through).

US-60 leads east 19 mi to Owensboro and west 11 mi to Henderson, the Henderson County seat.

There is one elementary school in Spottsville, serving all of the eastern part of Henderson County (including Beals, Baskett, and Reed). The original Spottsville school, which served all grades, provided Henderson County's first school bus service in 1920. This original Spottsville school burned down in March 1932.

Spottsville was named for Major Samuel Spotts, who shot the first gun at the Battle of New Orleans. The area was visited by the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1541. His army was attacked near the Ohio River by Indians of a tribe or tribes called variously the Kashinampo, the Quizqui, and the Chiska Cherokee.

From 1904 to 1911 as many as 116 men of the Green River Coal Company mined coal in Spottsville. The Pittsburgh Coal Company operated a 75-man coal camp in Spottsville from 1911 to 1924.

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Putuo, Shanghai

Putuo District is a municipal district of Shanghai Municipality, People's Republic of China. It covers an area of 54.83 km2. Putuo District borders Baoshan District to the north, Jing'an District to the east and south east, Changning District to the south west and Jiading District to the west.

Overview
The name of Putuo District comes from Putuo Road, located within the district. Suzhou Creek crosses the Putuo District and makes up the eastern boundary of the area, shared by Jing'an District. The Shanghai Putuo District People's Government is located on Daduhe Road.

The Zhenru Temple, Jade Buddha Temple, and Changfeng Park are located in the district. The Shanghai West Railway Station is in Putuo District. East China Normal University has a Putuo campus.

Administrative divisions
Putuo District has eight subdistricts and two townships. Below is a list of subdistricts and towns in Putuo District.

Economy
O.C.T. Mami, a Chinese maternity wear brand, has its headquarters in the district.

Lianhua Supermarket has its Shanghai office in the district.

Population
In 2009, the region's total registered population was 872,600. The natural growth rate of households was -1.99‰. At the end of 2009, there was a resident population of 1,135,900. The Putuo district is home to populations representing 44 minorities, the largest of whom are Chinese Muslims from the country's northwest. They account for a total minority population of 70%.

Education
In 2014, 100% of children residing in Putuo District are enrolled in compulsory education, and 97.88% are enrolled in high schools.

There are 25 mainstream primary schools, with 34,143 students enrolled, 47 mainstream high schools with 27,542 students enrolled, 77 nurseries and kindergartens with 27,382 student enrolled, 1 vocational school with 1529 students enrolled, 2 special education schools with 429 students enrolled and 1 work-study school with 13 students enrolled.

Public

 * Shanghai Putuo District Changzheng Central Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District New Putuo Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Caoyang Experimental Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Zhenruwenying Central Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Yangjia Bridge Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Zhenru Primary School No. 3
 * Shanghai Putuo District Zhenguang Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Lianjian Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Shude Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Hengde Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Taopu Central Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Hui People Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Wuning Road Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Lujiazhai Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District North Zhongshan Road Primary School No. 1
 * Shanghai Putuo District Xunyang Road Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Guanlongxincun Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Pingli Road Primary School No. 1
 * Shanghai Putuo District Hutaixincun Primary School No. 1
 * Shanghai Putuo District Huayin Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Chaochun Central Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Caoyangxincun Primary School No. 6
 * East China Normal University Primary School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Jinshajiang Road Primary School

Private

 * Shanghai Jinzhou Primary School

Middle schools

 * Shanghai Wuning Middle School
 * Shanghai Huayin Middle School
 * Shanghai Beihai Middle School
 * Shanghai Yanhe Middle School
 * Shanghai Xinglong Middle School
 * Shanghai Nujiang Middle School
 * East China Normal University Affiliated High School No. 4
 * Shanghai Normal University Affiliated Experimental School No. 2
 * Shanghai Zhenbei High School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Education Department Affiliated High School
 * Shanghai Xinyang High School
 * Shanghai Meilong Middle School
 * Shanghai Lantian High School
 * Shanghai Yuhua High School
 * Shanghai Luochuan School
 * Shanghai Caoyang Affiliated Middle School No. 2
 * Shanghai Jinyuan Affiliated Advanced High School
 * Shanghai Yichuan Affiliated Middle School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Affiliated Middle School
 * Shanghai Caoyang Affiliated Middle School
 * Shanghai Jiangning School
 * Shanghai Guangxin School
 * Shanghai Tongchuan School
 * Shanghai Shatian School
 * East China Normal University Affiliated Foreign Languages Experimental School
 * Shanghai Zizhang Middle School
 * Shanghai Zhongyuan Experimental School
 * Shanghai Wanlicheng Experimental School
 * Shanghai International Studies University Shangyang Foreign Languages School
 * Shanghai Wenda School
 * Shanghai New Huangpu Experimental School
 * Shanghai Jinding School
 * Shanghai Conservatory of Music Affiliated Anshun Experimental Middle School
 * Shanghai Taopu School
 * Shanghai Caoyang Middle School No. 9
 * Shanghai Caoyang Middle School
 * Tongji University Affiliated Middle School No. 2
 * Shanghai Ganquan Foreign Languages Middle School
 * Shanghai Changzheng Middle School
 * Shanghai Jinhua Private Middle School
 * Shanghai Peijia Bilingual School
 * Shanghai Caoyang Middle School No. 2
 * Shanghai Jinyuan Advanced School
 * Shanghai Yichuan Middle School
 * Shanghai Zhenru Middle School
 * Shanghai Tongbai Advanced Middle School
 * Shanghai Chengzheng Secondary School
 * It was established in 1965.

Higher education

 * East China Normal University (North Zhongshan Road Campus)
 * Tonji University (Huxi Campus)
 * Shanghai University of Engineering Science (Xincun Road Campus)

Special education

 * Shanghai Putuo District Qixing School
 * Shanghai Chengyuan Middle School
 * Shanghai Putuo District Ganlin Primary Technology Vocational School

Shanghai Railway Bureau
The Shanghai West Railway Station operated by the Shanghai Railway Bureau is located within Putuo District. The station serves the:
 * Shanghai-Nanjing Intercity High-Speed Railway, and the;
 * Beijing-Shanghai Railway.

Shanghai Metro
Putuo District is currently served by seven metro lines operated by Shanghai Metro:
 * and - Jinshajiang Road, Caoyang Road  , Zhenping Road , Zhongtan Road
 * - Xincun Road, Langao Road, Zhenping Road, Changshou Road
 * - Longde Road, Caoyang Road , Fengqiao Road, Zhenru , Shanghai West Railway Station , Liziyuan, Qilianshan Road, Wuwei Road, Taopu Xincun
 * - South Qilianshan Road, Zhenbei Road, Daduhe Road, Jinshajiang Road , Longde Road , Wuning Road , Changshou Road , Jiangning Road.
 * - Zhenguang Road, Tongchuan Road, Zhenru , Zhongning Road, Caoyang Road station , Wuning Road
 * - Qi'an Road, Gulang Road, East Wuwei Road, Shanghai West Railway Station, Tongchuan Road , North Meiling Road, Daduhe Road , Changfeng Park

Bus
There are 34 public diesel bus routes, 4 electric bus routes and 85 long-distance bus routes running through Putuo District.

Important Roadways

 * National Highways
 * Kokudou_204(China).svg G204
 * Kokudou_312(China).svg G312
 * National Expressways
 * China_Expwy_G42_sign_with_name.svg G42 (Shanghai-Chengdu Expressway)
 * Shanghai Expressways
 * Shanghai_Expwy_S5_sign_with_name.svg S5 (Shanghai-Jiading Expressway)
 * Shanghai_Expwy_S20_sign_with_name.svg S20(Shanghai Outer Ring Expressway)
 * Ring Roads
 * Middle Ring Road
 * Inner Ring Road
 * Main Roads
 * North Zhongshan Road
 * Langao Road
 * Xincun Road
 * Caoyang Road
 * Wuning Road
 * Jinshajiang Road
 * Qilianshan Road
 * South Qilianshan Road
 * Meichuan Road
 * Taopu Road
 * Jiaotong Road
 * Moganshan Road
 * Ningxia Road
 * Daduhe Road
 * Zhenbei Road
 * Cao'an Highway
 * Zhennan Road
 * Gulang Road

Parks

 * Changfeng Park
 * Suzhou River Mengqingyuan Environmental Park
 * Weilai Island Park
 * Xianghe Park
 * Lanxi Youth Park
 * Yichuan Park
 * Changshou Park
 * Guanlong Park
 * Putuo Park
 * Caoyang Park
 * Zhenguang Park
 * Meichuan Park
 * Hutai Park
 * Haitang Park
 * Ganquan Park
 * Zhenru Park

Post offices
In March 2012, the Shanghai Post Putuo District Postal Bureau was established. Due to regulations set out by the Chinese government, in March 2014, the bureau was renamed to Shanghai Post Putuo District Branch.
 * Putuo Post Office Sub-Branch
 * Yejiazhai Post Office
 * Changhua Road Post Office
 * Hutai Post Office Sub-Branch
 * Yichuan Post Office
 * Ganquan Post Office
 * Caoyangxincun Post Office Sub-Branch
 * East China Normal University Post Office
 * Changfengyicun Post Office
 * Shiquan Post Office Sub-Branch
 * Wuning Road Post Office Sub-Branch
 * Zhenping Post Office
 * Taopu Post Office Sub-Branch
 * Tiedao University Post Office
 * West Wuwei Road Post Office
 * Hongmian Road Post Office
 * Zhengru Post Office Sub-Branch
 * Beishi Road Post Office
 * Zhenguang Post Office
 * Wanli Post Office

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Talk:The Generals

The Generals
I removed Greece from the list of nations that habe experienced the rule of "The Generals". Greece was ruled by colonels, not generals.

The second paragraph seems like it could be someone's idea of a joke. Can anyone confirm whether it has any basis in fact, or is notable enough for an encyclopedia? --Micpp 09:21, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Repeated vandalism

 * 31 October 2005 (edit) 61.95.1.238 (Talk)    +rugby team edit
 * 31 October 2005 (edit) 202.63.57.140 (Talk)  helped edit rugby section
 * 3 November 2005 (edit) 203.214.93.140 (Talk) helped edit rugby section
 * 8 November 2005 (edit) 131.156.230.79 (Talk) reverted rugby team vandalism
 * 10 November 2005 (edit) 61.95.1.238 (Talk)   restored rugby section
 * 18 November 2005 (edit) 203.100.251.29 (Talk) sandboxing
 * 22 November 2005 (edit) 61.95.1.238 (Talk)   added link to his/her blog
 * 12 December 2005 (edit) 69.68.24.80 (Talk)   +more vandalism ("underground organization" in miami)
 * 12 December 2005 (edit) 69.68.24.80 (Talk)   helped edit"bedroom generals" section
 * 16 December 2005 (edit) 193.61.14.102 (Talk) -vandalism
 * 1 June 2006 (edit)     82.109.155.203 (Talk) +rugby vandalism

Stoppit!!!

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Laura La Plante

Laura La Plante (born Laura Laplante; November 1, 1904 – October 14, 1996) was an American film actress, whose more notable performances were in the silent era.

Early life
La Plante was born in St. Louis, Missouri on November 1, 1904, the daughter of William A. Laplante and Elizabeth E. Turk. Her father taught dancing. After her parents were divorced, her mother took Laura and her sister Violet to live in San Diego, California. In her teens, Laura stayed with Mary MacMahon, her cousin, in Hollywood during a summer vacation and replied to a newspaper ad asking for children for moving pictures, and she was hired. After this, Laura's mother started to lose her hearing, and her cousin Mary convinced her to try more work in motion pictures to earn money for the family. Laura then became an extra with The Christie Film Company on Gower Street.

Silent film career
La Plante made her acting debut at age 15, and in 1923, she was named as one of that year's WAMPAS Baby Stars. During the 1920s, she appeared in more than 60 films. Her early films include Big Town Round-Up (1921), with cowboy star Tom Mix, the serials Perils of the Yukon (1922), Around the World in Eighteen Days (1923), and several movies with Hoot Gibson. The majority of the films starring La Plante (from 1920 to 1930) were made for Universal Pictures. During this period, she was the studio's most popular star, "an accomplishment duplicated only by Deanna Durbin years later", and almost always enjoyed top billing.

One of La Plante's early surviving films is the 1925 film Smouldering Fires, directed by Clarence Brown and costarring Pauline Frederick. Her best-remembered film is arguably the silent classic The Cat and the Canary (1927), but she achieved acclaim for Skinner's Dress Suit (1926), with Reginald Denny, the part-sound The Love Trap (1929), directed by William Wyler, and the 1929 part-sound Show Boat (1929), adapted from the novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.

Although this last film was an adaptation of the novel, and not of the famous musical play adapted from the 1926 novel, some songs from the play were included in the film as box-office insurance. She did not sing in the movie; her singing was dubbed by Eva Olivetti, one of the early examples in which this was done in a movie. A scene of La Plante in Show Boat was broadcast in the early days of British television.

Transition to sound films
The advent of sound films effectively shortened her career. In her mid-20s, La Plante was a natural and appealing presence in early sound films, but the huge wave of new stars in these years overshadowed her. She made her last appearances for Universal in the Technicolor musical King of Jazz (1930). She appeared in God's Gift to Women (Warner Bros., 1931), directed by Michael Curtiz and co-starring Frank Fay and Joan Blondell, and Arizona (Columbia, 1931), co-starring alongside a young John Wayne.

Later career
La Plante went to Britain to work at Warner Brothers' Teddington Studios. The company had faced criticism for the low quality of its "quota quickies", and her arrival coincided with an attempt to make expensive productions. She starred in Man of the Moment (1935), with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. She appeared in the West End playing the lead in Ian Hay's Admirals All. La Plante briefly was considered to replace Myrna Loy in the Thin Man when Loy thought about leaving series, but Loy stayed as Nora Charles, and La Plante's career never rebounded. She retired from the screen in 1935, making only two later films, and 1957's Spring Reunion was her last. Her younger sister, actress Violet, never achieved Laura's level of fame; both sisters were WAMPAS Baby Stars.

On June 3, 1954 (Season 4 Episode 38), La Plante made a guest appearance (as herself, Mrs. Laura Asher) on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life. In this episode, La Plante discussed numerous topics, including her husband Irving Asher, who had just lost 25 lbs. and completed the film Elephant Walk with Elizabeth Taylor. Mrs. Asher asked that her winnings, if any, go to the Motion Picture Relief Fund. They got three out of four questions correct to win $215. In the mid-1980s, La Plante was brought on stage in a wheelchair to wave to the crowd at the event Night of a Hundred Stars.

Death
La Plante died on October 14, 1996, at the age of 91 in Woodland Hills, California. Her death was due to Alzheimer's disease. Despite contrary belief about her rumored interment at El Camino Memorial Park in San Diego, California, La Plante was actually cremated by Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California, and her ashes scattered at sea.

Legacy

 * Laura La Plante Drive in Agoura Hills, California

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Dommel

The Dommel is a small river in Belgium and the Netherlands, left tributary of the Dieze. It is 120 km long, of which 85 km are in the Netherlands. The Dommel takes in water from the Keersop, Tongelreep, Run, Gender and Kleine Dommel streams and merges at 's-Hertogenbosch with the Aa stream to form the river Dieze, which subsequently flows towards the Meuse. The main cities and towns along the Dommel's course are Peer, Neerpelt, Valkenswaard, Dommelen, Eindhoven, Son en Breugel, Sint-Oedenrode, Boxtel, Sint-Michielsgestel and 's-Hertogenbosch.

Drainage basin
The drainage basin of the Dommel belongs to that of the Meuse. To the west of is the basin of the Donge, which also belongs to that of the Meuse. To the south the basin of the Dommel borders that of the Schelde. To the east is that of the Aa. Further to the south a number of rivers flow into the Meuse much further upstream.

Former glory
The Dommel often looks like a brook nowadays, but it has many geographical features that only larger rivers have. These are the width of the rivers' valley, and large meanders from the Last Glacial Period. In the past, there was talk about the Romans navigating the Dommel. Later, the near forests were cut down, and so the river became more shallow and started to meander.

Water board
In 1863 a Water board (Waterschap) was founded for the Dommel. It had authority in all the municipalities where the Dommel flowed. One of its first priorities was to prevent flooding, especially between 's-Hertogenbosch and Boxtel. If possible, it wanted to canalize the same stretch, and to improve its navigability, but for the latter a lock would be required. C. 1865, the water board diverted the Dommel through the western city moat of 's-Hertogenbosch and made a sluice in the left dyke of the Dieze.

North of the Bocholt-Herentals canal
The source of the Dommel is in the Kempens Plateau, part of which forms the Hoge Kempen National Park. The exact source is south of Wauberg, near Peer, Belgium. Other brooks on this plateau flow directly to the Meuse, or flow to the Schelde via the Zwarte Beek and the Demer. The source of the Dommel is 77 metres above sea level. On its course it drops 75 m.

Just west of Peer, the Dommel flows through the small nature reserve Mullemer Bemden, where it is joined by the Kleinbeek. To the east there was a small diversion of the water towards the Watermill of Peer. Part of this mill is still standing on the Molhem road. The Mullemer Bemden is part of the preserve 'Valley of the Dommel and Bollisserbeek' which stretches till west of Kleine Brogel. At the end of the preserve is the building of the Kleine Molen (small mill).

From Kleine Brogel the Dommel first passes the Wedelse Mill, which is a monument. It then passes east of Overpelt, where the Bemvoortse molen is. The Dommel passed very close to the west of Neerpelt, and then reaches the Bocholt–Herentals Canal. It passes this canal by culverts and sluices.

From the Bocholt-Herentals canal to Valkenswaard
The stretch of the Dommel from the canal near Neerpelt till Valkenswaard is especially valuable. The Dommel first flows through the nature reserve Hageven, and then passes the Dutch border, south of Schaft. From the Dutch-Belgian border the Dommel then drops only 25 meters more. The Dommel then flows along the nature reserve Malpie, which is a Heath with many meres.

This stretch of the Dommel ends at the Venberg Watermill (Venbergse Molen) south of Valkenswaard. This also the end of the popular canoe trips, that start just north of the Bocholt-Herentals canal in Belgium.

To Eindhoven
After the Venberg Watermill, the Dommel flows north between Dommelen and Valkenswaard. It then flows between Waalre and Veldhoven before it reaches the south west tip of the Eindhoven municipality. After flowing below a handful of bridges of the motorways A67 and A2, most of the water of the Dommel is taken by the Afwateringskanaal. This canal was dug to prevent flooding in Eindhoven and ends in the Wilhelmina Canal. In the south of Eindhoven, the Dommel flows mainly through parks. First the Genneper Parken, and then the Dommelplantsoen, where the Tongelreep joins the Dommel. Next comes the Anne Frank plantsoen, and then the Dommel reaches the city center.

In the center of Eindhoven, the shores and bridges of the Dommel are rather utilitarian. An exception is the new pedestrian bridge near the Van Abbemuseum, and the new extension of this museum which juts out into the Dommel. The river then continues on the east side of Eindhoven city center. Here it almost touches the Eindhovensch Kanaal. The Dommel next flows along the terrain of the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Just west of Nuenen the Dommel is joined by the Kleine Dommel. Just south of Son the Dommel meets the Wilhelmina Canal. Here is it led through culverts that dive below the Canal. The Dommel then appears again on the other side.

From Son to Boxtel
The stretch from Son en Breugel to Vught is primarily rural. The most original part and natural state of the Dommel can be found between Eindhoven and Boxtel. Here, the Dommel still has many of its original winds and meanders, though many have also been lost. The stretch forms a cultural-historical and valuable landscape area that is part of the Het Groene Woud. This is a National Landscape situated between Eindhoven, Tilburg and 's-Hertogenbosch.

The Moerkuilen is a heath area with a mere few kilometres east of Sint-Oedenrode. It is actually a very old meander of the Dommel. Since the Last Glacial Period, it has grown closed with peat, and is now known as the Moerkuilen. The many ponds in the area have been formed by excavating peat. Just west of the Moerkuilen is the Dommelbeemden area, which is a natural monument. It (used to) consist of regularly flooded low-lying meadows used to grow hay, and higher situated "bolakkers" (high fields), where cereals were cultivated. The aim of the natural monument is to restore part of this situation.

Boxtel to 's-Hertogenbosch
About two kilometers before reaching the center of Boxtel town, the Afwateringskanaal Boxtel diverts from the Dommel. It was dug by hand in 1933–1936 in order to prevent flooding in Boxtel. It cut off a bend of the Dommel of about 4 km that flowed through Boxtel. The Boxtel 'arm' then received only little water till the waterschap reverted the situation in 2013. Now the Dommel bed is again the primary course of the Dommel in Boxtel, and the Afwateringskanaal Boxtel is only used at high water. An unexpected effect of the Afwateringskanaal is that it allows canoes to make a round trip in Boxtel, the so-called 'Rondje Boxtel'.

Boxtel is traditionally said to be the point till which the Dommel is navigable. However, navigability is a highly contextual subject. In the context of current commercial navigation the size of the ships that the Dommel can handle is much too small to make shipping economically viable. Before the introduction of the steam engine however, river ships were much smaller, and navigation was economically viable between Boxtel and 's-Hertogenbosch. The Dommel was even wide enough to allow shipping till Sint-Oedenrode, but apart from the fact that a mill in Boxtel blocked its course, there were too many bends in the river too make navigation till Sint-Oedenrode economically feasible.

Up till about 1870, there was still some navigation on the Dommel. In 1859, a ship loaded with stone and Gravel sank on the Aa near Sint-Michielsgestel while en route to Boxtel. The skipper was from Sint-Michielsgestel, and was killed together with his son.

West of Sint-Michielsgestel the Esschestroom joins the Dommel near the hamlet Halder. In Roman times Halder was probably the most important settlement on the Dommel. A small museum is dedicated to the Roman history of the area.

In 's-Hertogenbosch
While residents of Eindhoven generally know that their city is on the Dommel, the citizens of 's-Hertogenbosch are convinced that their city is situated on the Dieze. Up till the 1860s, this was a matter of using a different name for the same river. However, in 1864 a sluice was made in the left Dieze dyke just north of the ravelin which was north of the Oliemolen bastion in 's-Hertogenbosch. It connected the western city moat to the Dieze. In turn this city moat was connected to the Dommel at about the same time. The result was that henceforward the Dommel not only flowed to the Dieze under the name 'Binnendieze', but also flowed to the Dieze in a new bed as 'Dommel'. With more water flowing through the new bed, than through the older Binnendieze bed, confusion became inevitable.

The Dommel reaches the southern tip of the city center on its eastern side. The connection from the Dommel to the city moat was made by digging about 100 m to the west from that point. The 1864 Dommel then turns north to run along the west side of the city center. At the point where the Dommel turns northward, the Drongelens Canal starts. This was constructed from 1906 to 1910. If the water level on Dommel and Aa is high, this canal is actually the main discharge of both.

Here the Dommel in 's-Hertogenbosch is understood as the new bed that is currently called 'Dommel'. Its appearance has been influenced by two major events. The first was that the city lost its status as a fortification in the 1880s. It prompted works that canalized the city moat, obliterating many of the fortification works. The second are the post millennial works to restore the fortifications, and to make the Dommel an ecological connection zone. This meant that on the Dommel the fortifications, and in particular the city wall were made visible again. In the Dommel itself a more natural river-side was created to aid wild-life.

There are some highlights of the Dommel in 's-Hertogenbosch. The St-Jan's Bolwerk is a reconstructed part of the city wall which functions as a tiny city park. The clever aspect is that on the inside it functions as a sewer overflow. The late medieval city walls have been excavated. At St-Jan's Bolwerk a rediscovered older part, which had fallen over in the moat, has been resurrected. The Wilhelminabrug connects to the station and is heavily decorated with often neglected post war sculptures. The swing bridge near the confluence with the Dieze is a fine piece of industrial engineering.

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Oceanic Airlines

Oceanic Airlines, and less frequently, Oceanic Airways, is the name of a fictional airline used in several films, television programs, and comic books—typically works that feature plane crashes and other aviation disasters, with which a real airline would prefer not to be associated.

The brand is used prominently in the TV series Lost, where Oceanic Airlines is featured branded with a highly stylized logo depicting an Australian Aboriginal dot painting that resembles a nazar, a bullseye, an island, or an "O". The show's fictional storyline begins with the crash of an airline flight called Oceanic Flight 815.

Airlines with this name have also been featured in other media, starting as early as the mid-1960s. Before Lost, the most prominent use of Oceanic Airlines was in the 1996 film Executive Decision. The film's producers shot extensive footage of two actual Boeing 747s with Oceanic Airlines logo and livery, though not the same logo used later on Lost. This stock footage has been reused in several films and television programs, spreading the Oceanic Airlines brand across various otherwise unrelated fictional universes.

Appearances
The following sources feature an airline called Oceanic Airlines.

Lost
Oceanic Airlines is a central plot element in the TV series Lost. The show explores the aftermath of the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 (a Lockheed L-1011 was used to create the crash, but the plane in-universe is stated as a Boeing 777) traveling from Sydney to Los Angeles. The producers of Lost also created a now-defunct website for the fictional airline, including clues and references to the show's plot. In flashforwards, a group of characters who survive the crash (Hurley, Kate, Jack, Sayid, Sun, and Aaron) are nicknamed the "Oceanic Six." In January 2008, viral marketing billboards for Oceanic Airlines were placed by ABC in various large cities around the world as part of the Find 815 alternate reality game. Fictitious TV advertisements for the company also aired on ABC and the internet, including one advertisement that apparently airs in an alternate universe where Flight 815 did not crash and Oceanic has a "perfect safety record". The flight number 815 is a nod to Disney's Peter Pan animation: while flying into the Big Ben clock dial, Peter Pan sets the time to 8:15. This reference later shows up in Once Upon a Time.

Apps and Internet

 * Apple iPhone OS 3.0 launch (17 March 2009): While demonstrating cut and paste features on the iPhone 3G, Scott Forstall is seen creating an email which shows the times of a flight he has booked on Oceanic Flight 815.
 * Google Inbox: The mobile and web app Google Inbox displayed Oceanic Flight 22, SFO-JFK for 4 December, 8:00 AM as an example reminder on first use for web app users.

Comics

 * Alex: Bankers Alex Masterley and Clive Reed appear as the only survivors of an Oceanic Airlines air crash in the Amazon Rainforest, in Brazil.
 * Daredevil: Oceanic Airlines advertises on a cab in the opening page of issue 104.
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 had an Oceanic flight lose a wing and almost crash before being saved by one of the major protagonists.

Film

 * Executive Decision (1996): The entire plot happens on Oceanic Airlines Flight 343, a Boeing 747 flying from Athens, Greece to Washington, DC.
 * For Love of the Game (1999): An Oceanic flight is announced over the PA system in the airport lounge near the end of the movie.
 * Nowhere to Land (2000 television movie): A Boeing 747-200 from Sydney to LAX flying with a bio-chemical agent bomb programmed to detonate one hour prior to landing.
 * Code 11–14 (2003 television movie): an FBI agent searches for a murderer aboard Oceanic Flight 816, a Boeing 747SP bound for Los Angeles from Sydney.
 * Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004): Bridget and Daniel Cleaver fly to Thailand on an Oceanic Airlines Flight.
 * Survivor (2015): A flight from Heathrow, London to New York carried out by Oceanic Airlines.
 * Downsizing (2017): While not explicitly mentioned within the film, some of its props suggest that the flight was meant to be an Oceanic Airlines one during its production.
 * 97 Minutes (2023): Oceanic Airlines is the branding used in this movie, where a 767 is hijacked.

Radio

 * Cabin Pressure (25 December 2010): In the Christmas special "Molokai", First Officer Richardson accidentally wishes a Shinto-Buddhist controller at Oceanic ATC a merry Christmas.

Television

 * Alias "A Clean Conscience" (27 April 2005): Oceanics' flight to Sydney is briefly mentioned in an announcement when the show's lead character Sydney Bristow is at Los Angeles International Airport. Alias and Lost were both created by J. J. Abrams.
 * Castle "In Plane Sight" (27 April 2015): Oceanic Air appears as the airline Richard Castle and his daughter Alexis are on during a flight from New York to London. The air marshal is murdered, and Castle and his daughter must find the killer with the help of the NYPD from the ground.
 * Colony "Eleven. Thirteen" (12 January 2017): Maddy looks up her husband's Oceanic Airlines' flight on her tablet which reads "Flight Status Not Available" prior to the Arrival.
 * Chuck "Chuck Versus the Helicopter" (1 October 2007): Chuck is viewing a series of photographs when one prompts him to recall the secret information to which he had been exposed by Bryce Larkin. He begins revealing apparently unconnected secrets, including, "Oceanic Flight 815 was shot down by a surface-to-air..."
 * Criminal Minds Beyond Borders (12 April 2017): Flight attendant murdered aboard Oceanic flight to Singapore on Flight 815, the same flight number from Lost.
 * Crossing Jordan "Conspiracy" (17 March 2003): Jordan and a detective chase down Henry Ross, a man who framed his wife for his faked death, to an airport just before he attempts to use a $30,000 Oceanic Airline open-ended, multi-stop ticket to escape the country. Damon Lindelof, who co-produced this episode, was often a writer and/or producer for this series, as well as Lost.
 * Diagnosis Murder Season 4 "Murder in the Air" episode. The episode happens aboard an Oceanic Airlines flight to Switzerland.
 * FlashForward "No More Good Days" (24 September 2009): The FBI agents Mark Benford and Demetri Noh are staking out taking photos of a woman, a billboard with the Oceanic Airlines logo can be seen. The tagline states "Perfect Safety Record".
 * Flipper "The Ditching" (30 October 1965): Sandy and Flipper's plane Oceanic Flight 17 crashes in the sea.
 * Fringe "The Dreamscape" (25 November 2008): When the FBI was checking the apartment of a murdered Massive Dynamic employee, Special Agent Olivia Dunham found an airline ticket from Oceanic Air. The flight destination printed on the ticket was Omaha, Nebraska, and the date of the flight, 22 December. Fringe and Lost were both created by J.J. Abrams.
 * JAG (TV series, S5 - E18, 2000) Harm and Mac are on their way to Korea with Oceanic flight 105.
 * Total Drama Action "The Aftermath: Pt. Four" (10 December 2009) When Chris McLean and Chef Hatchet are at the airport and about to board the plane, the Oceanic Airlines logo can be seen in front of a boarding gate with the flight number being 815, the same flight number as in Lost.
 * Futurama "Möbius Dick" (4 August 2011): The aircraft tail, which couldn't be initially found in Lost, is shown to be placed in the fictional Bermuda Tetrahedron.
 * The Goldbergs "The President's Fitness Test" (1 April 2014): It ends with Barry outside of the airport to say goodbye to Fanny, which is Erica's pen pal.
 * Grey's Anatomy (season 12 episode 11): Oceanic Airlines is visible as Jackson Avery approaches the check-in desk, and again behind him as he tries to board the flight his wife April has already boarded.
 * LAX "Senator's Daughter" (16 April 2006): Advertisements and computers in airport terminals in LAX read "Oceanic Airlines".
 * Once Upon A Time "The Stranger" (29 April 2012): A plane with the Oceanic logo is seen flying overhead.
 * The Pretender "Flyer" (19 October 1996): When Jarod returns to the junk yard where the retired planes are, you see an Oceanic airplane in the background.
 * Pushing Daisies "Pie-lette" (2 October 2007): An Oceanic Airlines advertisement is displayed in the travel agency.
 * The Strain (season 3 episode 8): When Dr. Goodweather and Dutch are listening to the Regis Air 753 voice data recorder, they hear JFK air traffic control instructing the pilots: "Regis 753, foxtrot short at four left. Follow the Oceanic 737 to the ramp". The pilot responds, "753, crossing four left, Oceanic in sight. Turning left at foxtrot".
 * Transformers: Cybertron "Inferno": The pilot of a military jet fighter identifies himself as, "Oceanic Flight 815, requesting clearance for landing."
 * Up All Night "Travel Day" (16 February 2012): Reagan and Chris travel with Amy for the first time. At the airport check-in, the camera pans to Oceanic Airlines, the counter next to the fictitious Pathway Air that the couple was heading to.
 * White Collar "Whack-A-Mole" (11 December 2014): The plane targeted by the Pink Panthers is Oceanic Flight 1097 scheduled to land at JFK 3 days later.
 * The X-Files "Synchrony" (13 April 1997): Oceanic is on a note in the future guy's hotel room.
 * Zero Hour: In promotional material of a magazine named Modern Skeptic-published by a main character- a cover asks, "What really happened to Oceanic Flight 815?", and features a photo of the Island just before it moves.
 * The Goldbergs "Lainey Loves Lionel" (10 February 2016): Adam flies on Oceanic to Seattle to see his girlfriend, Dana.
 * The Goldbergs "Smother's Day" (4 May 2016): Adam's airplane ticket to space camp has an Oceanic logo.
 * The Goldbergs "MTV Spring Break" (4 April 2018): Erica and Barry fly on Oceanic to Fort Lauderdale for MTV Spring Break and to see Pops.
 * The Goldbergs "Airplane" (21 October 2020): The family flew Oceanic to Miami.
 * The Serpent "Episode 7" (1 January 2021): An Oceanic Airlines flight is seen landing at an airport in Paris

Video games

 * Dead Island (2011): After the first boss fight, the player hears a radio dispatch from Oceanic Flight 1012 stating that the plane will land in the jungle. When the player gets to the roof of the building, they can actually see the plane pass by the coast as it prepares to crash in the jungle. The plane has also broken into 3 parts (cockpit, midsection and tail), as did Oceanic 815.
 * The Wolf Among Us (2013): An Oceanic Airlines advertisement is displayed on the roof of a taxi.
 * Supertuxkart (2015): An advertisement featuring Oceanic Airlines can be seen in the lobby of the island airport and in a stadium.

Reused footage
In Executive Decision (1996 film), Oceanic Flight 343 from Athens to Washington, D.C. was hijacked by an Islamic terrorist. Stock footage from Executive Decision was reused in the following:
 * After the Sunset (2004 film): In the trailer, Max and Lola fly on Oceanic Airlines to their retreat in The Bahamas. The footage does not appear in the film's final cut.
 * Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004 miniseries): Oceanic Flight 762 was forced to make an emergency landing at O'Hare International Airport after being struck by lightning. During landing, the hole in the aircraft's fuselage from Executive Decision is visible.
 * Diagnosis: Murder episode "Murder in the Air" (24 April 1997): Flying between Los Angeles International Airport and Switzerland on Oceanic Flight 456, Dr. Mark Sloan and Amanda Bentley carry out an airborne investigation after the first officer is murdered and several aircrew personnel are incapacitated by a mysterious illness.
 * JAG:
 * "Vanished" (28 October 1997): An Oceanic Airlines flight to Washington, D.C. carrying a delegation from the Palestine Liberation Organization is the target of a terrorist plot involving a missing United States Navy F-14 Tomcat. Lt. Commander Douglas decides not to shoot it down.
 * "The Bridge at Kang So Ri" (29 February 2000): Oceanic Flight 105 is skyjacked by North Korean extremists who accuse a passenger of ordering a massacre during the Korean War.
 * Nowhere to Land (2000 television movie): A man suffering from mental illness brings a deadly nerve agent on board Oceanic Flight 762, also from Sydney to Los Angeles, in the run-up to the 2000 Summer Olympics. At takeoff, the hole in the aircraft's fuselage from Executive Decision is visible.
 * Panic in the Skies! (1996 television movie): A Royce Air International Boeing 747 is struck by lightning shortly after takeoff in America, en route for Europe. In some scenes, the Royce Air International logo is not visible, with Oceanic Airline markings in their place.
 * The War at Home "The West Palm Beach Story" (16 April 2006): A gag about a Middle Eastern man and the threat of airborne terrorism on board an Oceanic Airlines flight is featured.

Fictional Fleet
According to all appearances made by Oceanic Airline's, the fleet consisted of the following real-life aircraft:
 * Airbus A310
 * Boeing 747-100
 * Boeing 747SP
 * Boeing 747-200
 * Boeing 747-400
 * Boeing 777-200ER
 * Douglas DC-3

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Talk:Pushing hands

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The external links don't directly address the topic of pushing hands. I am tempted to remove them all.--Sonjaaa 10:36, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * They are links to international schools where readers can learn how to (or at least get more information about) push hands. Fire Star 14:08, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The external link towards Chen style.com is broken. Paul Jonas (talk) 16:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Pictures
I think this article needs more pictures. Possibly an individual pic for each of the methods (peng, lu, ji, an etc). any thoughts? VanTucky 02:33, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

 * It would be nice to get public domain pictures from the old masters demonstrating such, so that it would be unequivocal. Videos would be better, but much less likely. The picture that we have is from a series of 6 old photos that show Wu Chien-ch'uan doing Ta Lu applications. From the form, the particular picture could fit Wu style Single Whip Dān Biān 單 鞭, Separate Foot Fēn Jiǎo 分 腳, Snake Creeps Down Shé Shēn Xià Shì  蛇 身 下 勢 or Separate Wild Horse's Mane Liáng Mǎ Fēn Zōng  野 馬 分 鬃. He could be doing Lu or Ts'ai with his right hand, P'eng with his left forearm, or Lieh with both arms to his right. It is hard to tell from a still photo which direction he'll choose to go next. If we were to take pictures or vids of ourselves, that could infringe on WP:Original research. --Fire Star 火星 19:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Not sure if I understand you..do you mean that you think the current pic could be any one of those application? or that you have public domain pics of those? If you mean the first, then a app from any form is usually a combination of energies. To "Part the Horse's Mane" requires that you use tsai to hold the hand and lieh to spilt them. But it looks to me that he's doing Liang Ma Fen Zong. OF course, to include a few pics that primarily represent one energy or another is easy. Ji for instance, or Kao, use pretty much only that. Though all include necessary peng. VanTucky 20:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

 * The current pic could be from any of those forms I mentioned (from Wu style). I'd say it best fits either the beginning of Wild Horse or one possible end result of Snake Creeps Down. Those you could get without hooking the hand or repositioning the lead foot. What we'd need to know to say for sure which of the 8 gates he actually is using, for the right hand for example, is what direction he went right after the photo was taken. If down, it is Ts'ai, if outward in a circular "sidewise p'eng" motion the same position could be the start of Lu, etc. Unfortunately the pics I have are all ambiguous like that. I know Yang Ch'eng-fu did some 8 gate specific photos, that he labelled, that could work for us, but I don't have good copies of them myself - just tiny, blurry magazine photos of them. I've got some videos of Wu Ta-hsin demoing some power generations with one of his nephews that would be perfect, but unfortunately they are copyrighted. :-( --Fire Star 火星 21:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

well, I'm sure we can find the Yang Chengfu ones somewhere on the net, or maybe the ones of Cheng Man-Ching. VanTucky 21:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure why my correction of Wade-Giles was deleted. You either write correct Wade-Giles, or you don't. Sure, it's common to write Tai-Chi Chuan, but the correct spelling in WG is T'ai-Chi Ch'üan and the spelling was almost correct and therefore I corrected it. I think you should either use the westernized tai-chi chuan (and hsing-i chuan) or do the whole thing correctly. --Øystein 08:47, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

 * The photo in this article of the two hands doing "push-hands" is atrocious. What would someone who had never seen push-hands before think of push-hands after seeing that photo?  If anyone has a better photo please offer it.  In fact it would be better to take that photo away in the mean time because it is doing more damage than good.  There are historical photos we could insert as well. --

Confused by wording
In the text, we see, "pushing hands is a contract between students to train in the defensive and offensive movement principles of their martial art."

Is that word "contract" correct? It seems a very odd choice to me. Phiwum (talk) 19:31, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

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Baoshan, Shanghai

Baoshan () is a suburban district of Shanghai. It has an area of 424.58 sqkm and had a population of 2,235,218 at the time of the 2020 Chinese census.

History
The area was the scene of heavy fighting during the Battle of Shanghai.

Landmarks
The War of Resistance Memorial Park on Donglin Lu has a small museum with artifacts from the Second World War and a modern glass-and-steel pagoda.

The Wisdom Bay Industrial Park has the world's largest concrete 3D printed pedestrian bridge.

In 2009, Gucun Park opened. It is famous for the Cherry Blossom Festival.

Education
The main campus of Shanghai University is located in Baoshan District. One of several schools in the district, Xing Zhi Middle School was founded by the famous educationalist from Nanjing, Tao Xingzhi. Shanghai Xingzhi High School and the High School Affiliated to Shanghai University are also located in the district.

Transport
Baoshan District is served by the Shanghai Metro. There are 4 lines from Baoshan to central Shanghai—Line 1, Line 3, Line 7, and Line 15 —which operate as subways and elevated rail in different parts of the district. The 952B rapid bus runs from the district to People's Square in central Shanghai, being one of the many buses that link the district to central Shanghai.

Ferries to Chongming Island operate from Wusong, Baoyang Rd, and Shidongkou. Ferries to Putuoshan from Wusong are also available.

Economy
The district is home to Baosteel Group's original factory, still a major producer of iron and steel. Rovio Entertainment has its China offices in Baoshan District. The Shidongkou Power Station is located along the Yangtze.

Metro
Baoshan is currently served by four metro lines operated by Shanghai Metro:
 * - Tonghe Xincun, Hulan Road, Gongfu Xincun, Bao'an Highway, West Youyi Road, Fujin Road
 * - West Yingao Road, South Changjiang Road, Songfa Road, Zhanghuabang, Songbin Road, Shuichan Road, Baoyang Road, Youyi Road, Tieli Road, North Jiangyang Road
 * - Meilan Lake, Luonan Xincun, Panguang Road, Liuhang, Gucun Park, Qihua Road, Shanghai University, Nanchen Road, Shangda Road, Changzhong Road, Dachang Town, Xingzhi Road, Dahuasan Road
 * - South Changjiang Road, Yingao Road

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Muky

Muky was an Argentine brand of die-cast toy model cars. The brand was popular in Argentina between the 1970s and the 1980s. Most were diecast seconds or knockoffs of early Mattel Hot Wheels.

At its peak, the factory produced 50,000 to 60,000 models by month until 1991, when the factory closed due to competition from imported products.

Beginning
"Muky" was a brand created by ESDECO, a company founded by Mr. Escobar and Libio DeConti and his brother The company's name is an acronym from both families surnames. in the city of Gualeguay, in Entre Ríos Province, 145 miles north-west of Buenos Aires.

Virtually all of the models made by Muky were copies of early Mattel's Hot Wheels like the Custom Corvette, the Lola T70, the Custom Eldorado, or the Dodge Deora. Thus the company is often called the "Hot Wheels of Argentina". Muky were not as popular, or as collectible today, as the country's Buby toys, which made Argentine Torinos, Falcons, and other vehicles that may have been more familiar to children there.

Change of management
In the late 1970s, because of the worsening economic environment in Argentina, the DeConti brothers moved to Brazil and began manufacturing toys there called "Superveloz". In 1984 or 1985, a certain Dell Arciprete (whose family ran a fumigation business) bought the factory and rights to the Muky brand, changing its name to "Induguay S.A.". Using most of the same dies, the company again began making toy cars. Arciprete's Muky line added a few new vehicles. The Archiprete family ran the factory and the fumigation business at the same time.

The later Mukys were numbered from eight to forty, numbers one through six having been lost along the line somewhere. Also, these later models' chassis were cast in plastic, and Mukys were distributed also to Uruguay and Spain.

Questions on tooling
How Induguay came to possess the Mattel dies is uncertain; one story is that the DeConti brothers stole the dies from Mattel, but two other prevalent theories exist, both logical. One is that the models were carefully copied from blueprints. Another is that third party agents, with the approval of Mattel, sold some dies to the De Contis. In any event, perusal of catalogs of old and new models shows that few of the 37 models originally manufactured by Induguay were ever reissued by Mattel. Apparently, the Arciprete family has kept the tooling and doesn't deny that they might again someday make more Mukys.

Products
List of Muky diecast cars, by number:

 * 7 - 1941 Ford
 * 8 - Lola GT Spoiler
 * 9 - Ford MKN Turbo
 * 10 - Ford GT40
 * 11 - Chevelle SS
 * 12 - Lincoln Continental
 * 13 - Arenero Muky
 * 14 - Lola GT 40
 * 15 - Dodge Charger
 * 16 - Corvette Special
 * 17 - Motorhome
 * 18 - Ford MK IV
 * 19a - Transporter Van
 * 19b - Mc Laren MCA Turbo
 * 20 - Ford GT 40
 * 21 - Cadillac Eldorado
 * 22 - Lamborghini
 * 23 - Tank truck
 * 24 - Police car
 * 25 - Cattle truck
 * 26 - Super Turbo
 * 27 - Furgón (truck)
 * 28 - Chaparral 2 G
 * 29 - Skoda Baby
 * 30 - Ford Coupé 36
 * 31 - Volcador (truck)
 * 32 - Lancia 3000
 * 33 - Rapit Urbano (truck)
 * 34 - Mc Laren MGA
 * 35 - Firetruck
 * 36 - Servicio Médico
 * 37 - Taxi
 * 38 - Volkswagen
 * 39 - Ferrari 308

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Minhang, Shanghai

Minhang District is a suburban district of Shanghai with a land area of 371.57 km2 and population of 2,653,489 residents as of 2020. The original Minhang consist of present-day Jiangchuan Road Subdistrict (Former Minhang Town ) and the eastern strip of Wujing along the Huangpu River in 1992, the surrounding Shanghai County merged with Minhang.

It is mostly a residential district, though it is also home to some of the many factories and production facilities in Shanghai. Residential housing development is the main source of local government revenue. Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena (旗忠森林体育城) is located in Ma Qiao Town (马桥镇). The Aerospace Museum is being constructed at Pujiang Town.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University and East China Normal University both have campuses in the southern part of Minhang District.

Administrative divisions
Minhang administers 4 subdistricts and 9 towns.

Of particular note is Qibao (七宝), a tourist attraction in the northern part of the district, and Maqiao, which hosted the Shanghai ATP Masters tennis tournament and is the site of the Neolithic Ruins of Maqiao. The town of Hongqiao also overlaps with Hongqiao Subdistrict in Changning District, and is next to the location of Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, the city's older commercial airport and which is used primarily for domestic flights.

Economy
The hotel chain Huazhu Hotels Group is headquartered in Minhang District. The fast food chain Yonghe King has its headquarters in Minhang District. Want Want China, the milk manufacturer, has its headquarters in the district.

Education
International schools include:

 * British International School Puxi Campus
 * Nord Anglia Chinese International School
 * Shanghai American School Puxi Campus
 * Shanghai Japanese School Hongqiao Campus (elementary school)
 * Shanghai Korean School
 * Shanghai Singapore International School Minhang Campus
 * Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi Campus

Closed:
 * Shanghai Rego International School

Transportation

 * Public bicycle share scheme, with more than 20,000 bikes available for free use, after a registration process.
 * Luheng Road Comprehensive Passenger Transport Hub Project Luheng Road Comprehensive Passenger Transport Hub, located at Puxing Road NO. 569 Minhang District, is taking up a land of 27,612 square meters and connected to Metro Line 8 at Luheng Road Stop. It is one of the two Park and Ride testing Transportation Hubs in Shanghai, boasting departure and terminal stops of 6 bus lines connecting to downtown Shanghai and 500 parking spaces. Commuters can save the expensive parking fee in the downtown area and park their cars here and transfer to the Metro or bus lines for work. The project was started in 2011 and the hub has been put into use in 2016.

Metro
Minhang is currently served by six metro lines operated by Shanghai Metro:
 * - Xinzhuang Station, Waihuanlu, Lianhua Road
 * - Hongqiao Railway Station, Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2
 * - Xinzhuang Station, Chunshen Road, Yindu Road, Zhuanqiao, Beiqiao, Jianchuan Road, Dongchuan Road, Jinping Road, Huaning Road, Wenjing Road, Minhang Development Zone
 * - Luheng Road, Pujiang Town, Jiangyue Road, Lianhang Road, Shendu Highway
 * - Zhongchun Road, Qibao, Xingzhong Road, Hechuan Road
 * - Hangzhong Road, Ziteng Road, Longbai Xincun / Hongqiao Railway Station, Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2 (Hongqiao Airport Terminal 1 is in Changning District)
 * - Hongqiao Railway Station
 * - Shendu Highway, Sanlu Highway, Minrui Road, Puhang Road, Dongchengyi Road, Huizhen Road

Climate
Minhang has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dwa). The average annual temperature in Minhang is 16.5 C. The average annual rainfall is 1180.7 mm with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 28.2 C, and lowest in January, at around 4.3 C.

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Alice White

Alice White (born Alva White; August 25, 1904 – February 19, 1983) was an American film actress. Her career spanned late silent films and early sound films.

Early years
Alice White was raised by her maternal grandparents in Paterson, New Jersey, and she attended schools in Paterson and East Orange, New Jersey. Her grandfather owned a fruit business.

Film
After leaving school, White became a secretary and "script girl" for director Josef von Sternberg. She also worked as a switchboard operator at the Hollywood Writers' Club. After clashing with von Sternberg, White left to work for Charlie Chaplin, who decided before long to place her in front of the camera.

Her bubbly and vivacious persona led to comparisons with Clara Bow, but White's career was slow to progress. In his book Silent Films, 1877-1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies, Robert K. Klepper wrote: "Some critics have said that Ms. White was a second-string Clara Bow. In actuality, Ms. White had her own type of charm, and was a delightful actress in her own, unique way. Whereas Clara Bow played the quintessential, flaming redheaded flapper, Alice White was more of a bubbly, vivacious blonde."

After playing a succession of flappers and gold diggers, she attracted the attention of director and producer Mervyn LeRoy, who saw potential in her. Her screen debut was in The Sea Tiger (1927). Her early films included Show Girl (1928), which had Vitaphone musical accompaniment but no dialog, and its musical sequel Show Girl in Hollywood (1930), both released by Warner Brothers and both based on novels by J.P. McEvoy. In these two films, White appeared as Dixie Dugan. In October 1929, McAvoy started the comic strip Dixie Dugan with the character Dixie having a "helmet" hairstyle and appearance similar to actress Louise Brooks. White also used the services of Hollywood 'beauty sculptor' Sylvia of Hollywood to stay in shape.

White was featured in The Girl from Woolworth's (1929), having the role of a singing clerk in the music department of a Woolworth's store. Karen Plunkett-Powell wrote in her book Remembering Woolworth's: A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime: "First National Pictures produced this 60-minute musical as a showcase for up-and-coming actress Alice White."

Later career
White left films in 1931 to improve her acting abilities, returning in 1933 only to have her career hurt by a scandal that erupted over her involvement with boyfriend actor Jack Warburton and future husband Sy Bartlett. Although she later married Bartlett, her reputation was tarnished and she appeared only in supporting roles after this, including Jimmy the Gent (1934) with James Cagney and Bette Davis. By 1937 and 1938, her name was at the bottom of the cast lists. She made her final film appearance in Flamingo Road (1949) and eventually resumed working as a secretary.

Personal life
In 1933, White and her fiancé, American screenwriter Sidney "Sy" Bartlett, were accused of arranging the beating of British actor John Warburton. White and Warburton had reportedly had a love affair that ended when he beat her so badly she required cosmetic surgery. A grand jury in Los Angeles decided not to charge Bartlett or White; however, the bad publicity hurt White’s career.

White married Bartlett on December 3, 1933, in Magdalena, Mexico. She filed for divorce in 1937, claiming he "stayed away from home" and was awarded $65 per week in alimony.

White remarried, to film writer John Roberts, on August 24, 1940. They divorced on April 18, 1949, in Los Angeles. The following year, she sued him over unpaid alimony.

Death
White died of complications from a stroke on February 19, 1983, at age 78. She was buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood.

Award
White has a star at 1511 Vine Street in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.

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Nanhui, Shanghai

Nanhui District, formerly romanized as Nanhwei, was a district of Shanghai until it was merged into Pudong New Area in May 2009. It had a land area of about 809.5 km2 and a 59.5 km coastline. The population of Nanhui was 975,017 as of August 2006. On May 6, 2009, it was announced that the State Council of China had approved the proposal to merge Nanhui District into Pudong, which is also a district of Shanghai.

History
About 2000 years ago, the water of the Yangtze River ran to the south because of sea tide and met the Qiantang River so as to form the land near the Tang dynasty, so this district was named by Nanhuizui (Nan is South, Hui means converge, and Zui means mouth in Chinese). Nanhui County was established from Shanghai County in 1726.

In 2001, Nanhui County was renamed Nanhui District. In May 2009 Nanhui was merged into Pudong New Area.

Economy
Nanhui's GDP in 2006 is about US$4.5 billion. Per Capital Annual Total Income and Net Income of Rural Households is slightly more than US$1000. Public finance-revenue is about US$1.38 billion. In the past, Nanhui got the good rank in Public finance-revenue (the Top 10 of rich county in China). Foreign exchange through exports is about US$1.88 billion.

Nanhui District is now special in developing the Yangshan international deep-water port in the southeast and Pudong International Airport in the northeast. Yangshan deep-water port is a new port in Shanghai. It is connected the Lingang New City with the East China Sea Bridge. It can help Shanghai become the Top 1 harbour city in the world. With the development of Yangshan port and Pudong airport, Nanhui District is developing very fast. Recently the center of Nanhui district enlarge its area to catch up with the development of Shanghai. Huanglu Town has been incorporated into the center of Nanhui.

Medicine System
Nanhui Zhongxin Yiyuan is very famous in Shanghai. The new center of Zhongxin Yiyuan is being built near the urban. wow

Education
Nanhui District started to build the College City, including the Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai Fisheries University, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai Top technique college and Shanghai I&C Foreign Languages College.

Nanhui High School is famous in Shanghai. Many students have graduated and entered many good universities such as Tsinghua University, Fudan University, etc.

Culture and travel
There is a big "peach blossom" festival (桃花节) held in Nanhui from March to April every year. More than 100,000 travelers come here and enjoy the beautiful scene.

There is a famous safari park in Nanhui. It is established by Shanghai Government and State Forestry Administration in 1995. It is also an AAAA national visiting spot.

Important Culture Sights: Zhang Wentian's Residence.

Famous calligrapher: Su Juxian (January 1, 1882 – December 30, 1991). Su Juxian was the 28th offspring of the great poet Su Dongpo. He was the oldest man in Shanghai (110 years old), and also the oldest poet and calligrapher in China. He donated his body to be researched in science field after he died in 1991.

Suborbital rocket launch site

China's first ever T-7M sounding rocket was successfully launched on February 19, 1960.

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Katharine Tynan

Katharine Tynan (23 January 1859 – 2 April 1931) was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1893 to the Trinity College scholar, writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson, or variations thereof. Tynan's younger sister Nora Tynan O'Mahony (née Tynan, 1866–1954) was also a poet and one of her three children, Pamela Hinkson (1900–1982), was also known as a writer. The Katharine Tynan Road in Belgard, Tallaght is named after her.

Biography
Tynan was born into a small farming family in County Dublin and educated at the Dominican St. Catherine's, a convent school in Drogheda. Her poetry was first published in 1875. She met and became friendly with the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1886. Tynan went on to play a major part in Dublin literary circles, until she married and moved to England; later she lived at Claremorris, County Mayo when her husband was a magistrate from 1914 until 1919.

From June 1885 when they first met until around the time of her marriage in 1893, Tynan was a close associate of and regular correspondent with William Butler Yeats (who may have proposed marriage and been rejected). Tynan was also later a correspondent of Francis Ledwidge. She is said to have written over 100 novels. Her Collected Poems appeared in 1930; she also wrote five autobiographical volumes.

Tynan contributed to many periodicals and magazines such as the Jesuit published Studies, the Dominican published Irish Rosary, Irish Monthly, Hibernia and Dublin University Review.

Tynan died in Wimbledon, London aged 72.

Publications

 * Louise de la Vallière (1885) poems
 * Shamrocks (1887)
 * Ballads & Lyrics (1891)
 * Irish Love-Songs (1892)
 * A Cluster of Nuts, Being Sketches Among My Own People (1894)
 * Cuckoo Songs (1894)
 * Miracle Plays (1895)
 * The Land of Mist and Mountain (1895)
 * The Way of a Maid (1895)
 * Three Fair Maids, or the Burkes of Derrymore (c.1895) later Illustrated by G. Demain Hammond
 * An Isle in the Water (1896)
 * Any Woman (1896)
 * Oh, What a Plague is Love! (1896)
 * The Golden Lily (1899)
 * The Dear Irish Girl (1899)
 * Her Father's Daughter (1900)
 * Poems (1901)
 * A Daughter of the Fields (1901)
 * A King's Woman (1902)
 * Love of Sisters (1902)
 * The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh (1902)
 * The Handsome Quaker, and other Stories (1902)
 * The Adventures of Carlo (1903) illustrated by E. A. Cubitt
 * The Luck of the Fairfaxes (1904)
 * A Daughter of Kings (1905)
 * Innocencies (1905) poems
 * For the White Rose (1905)
 * A Little Book for Mary Gill's Friends (1905)
 * The Story of Bawn (1906)
 * The Yellow Domino (1906)
 * Book of Memory (1906)
 * Dick Pentreath (1906)
 * The Cabinet of Irish Literature. (4 volumes) (1906) editor, expansion of work by Charles Read
 * The Rhymed Life of St Patrick (1907) Illustrated by Lyndsay Symington
 * Twenty-One poems, selected by W. B. Yeats (Dun Emer Press, 1907)
 * A Little Book of XXIV Carols (1907)
 * Father Mathew (1908) biography of Theobald Mathew
 * Experiences (1908)
 * A Union of Hearts (1908)
 * The House of the Crickets (1908)
 * Ireland (1909)
 * A Little Book for John O'Mahony's Friends (1909)
 * The Book of Flowers (1909) with Frances Maitland
 * Mary Gray (1909)
 * A Girl of Galway
 * The Rich Man
 * A Red, Red Rose (c.1910)
 * Heart O' Gold or the Little Princess
 * The Story of Cecelia (1911)
 * New Poems (1911)
 * Princess Katharine (1911)
 * Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences (1913)
 * Irish Poems (1913)
 * The Wild Harp (1913) poetry anthology, editor, illustrated by C. M. Watts
 * A Mesalliance (1913)
 * A Midsummer Rose (1913)
 * The Daughter of the Manor (1914) illustrated by John Campbell
 * A Shameful Inheritance (1914)
 * The Flower of Peace (1914) poems
 * Mary Beaudesert, V. S. (1915)
 * Flower of Youth (1915) poems
 * The Curse of Castle Eagle (1915)
 * The House of the Foxes (1915) novel
 * Joining the colours (1916)
 * Lord Edward: A Study in Romance (1916)
 *  The Holy War (Great War Poems) 1916.
 * The Middle Years (1916)
 * Margery Dawe (1916) illustrated by Frank E. Wiles
 * Late Songs (1917)
 * Herb O'Grace (1918) poems
 * The Sad Years (1918) tribute to Dora Sigerson
 * The Years of the Shadow (1919)
 * The Honourable Molly (1919)
 * Denys the Dreamer (1920)
 * The Handsome Brandons (1921) Illustrated by G. D. Hammond
 * Bitha's Wonderful Year (1922)
 * The Wandering Years (1922)
 * Evensong (1922)
 * White Ladies (1922)
 * A Mad Marriage (1922) novel
 * Memories (1924)
 * Life in the Occupied Area (1925)
 * The Man from Australia (1925)
 * The Wild Adventure (1927)
 * Twilight Songs (1927)
 * The Face in the Picture (1927)
 * Haroun of London (1927)
 * Pat, the Adventurer (1928)
 * The Respectable Lady (1928)
 * The River (1929)
 * Castle Perilous (1929)
 * The Squire's Sweetheart (1930)
 * Denise the Daughter (1930)
 * Collected Poems (1930)
 * The Admirable Simmons (1930)
 * The Forbidden Way (1931)
 * Philippa's Lover (1931)
 * A Lonely Maid (1931)
 * The Story of Our Lord (1932)
 * The Other Man (1932)
 * An International Marriage (1933)
 * Londonderry Air (1935)
 * The Briar Bush Maid
 * A little radiant girl, illustrated by John Campbell
 * A Passionate Pilgrim
 * Maxims
 * The Poems of Katharine Tynan (1963) edited by Monk Gibbon
 * A Girls Song"

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Horehound bug

The horehound bug (Agonoscelis rutila) is a stink bug which sucks the sap of the horehound plant, causing wilting of new shoots. They have five nymphal stages in their development. Although they usually attack horehound, they may also swarm on a variety of other trees and shrubs.

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Songjiang, Shanghai

Songjiang is a suburban district (formerly a county) of Shanghai. It has a land area of 605.64 km2 and a population of 1,909,713 (2020). Owing to a long history, Songjiang is known as the cultural root of Shanghai.

Songjiang Town, the urban center of the district, was formerly the major city in the area. It is now connected to downtown Shanghai by Line 9 of the Shanghai Metro.

History
The prehistoric coastline of the East China Sea was much farther inland, at Xinzhuang near Songjiang's current eastern border with Minhang District. It was only gradually that silt from the Yangtze River filled in downtown Shanghai about 2000 years ago and then Pudong and Chongming Island over the last 1000 years.

Modern archaeology has established a chronology of the main cultural groups who lived in the present area of Songjiang District in Neolithic China: the Majiabang in the 5th millennium ), the Songze in the 4th millennium), and the Liangzhu in the 3rd millennium. The Majiabang were among the first harvesters of rice and kept domesticated pigs while still frequently hunting deer. The Liangzhu possessed a high stratified society that almost certainly represented one of the earliest states in East Asia. The Liangzhu site at Guangfulin in Songjiang has been developed into Guangfulin Relics Park, an expansive museum and tourist attraction.

During World War II, Japan occupied Songjiang from 9 November 1937 until 1945. Afterwards, both the Nationalist and Communist regional government was moved to Shanghai proper, leaving Songjiang a comparatively rural county. The city's many ancient religious structures and examples of traditional architecture were seriously damaged during the 1960s and 1970s amid the Cultural Revolution. Following the PRC's Opening Up Policy, Songjiang restored its more important religious buildings and developed into a college town hosting several large universities. In 1998, it was elevated to its current status as an urban district.

Significant Features
Some of the notable features in Songjiang District include:
 * Songjiang New City is a major new-town development located within Songjiang District. It was developed as part of Shanghai's "One City, Nine Towns" plan. The New City will encompass an area of 60 km2 when completed, and will have a total population of 500,000 residents. The New City reflects Garden City design principles, with a large proportion of land allocated to green-space and parks.
 * Thames Town is a residential and commercial development located within the Songjiang New City that both imitates and is influenced by classic English market town styles. Some of the architecture has been directly copied from buildings found in England.
 * Songjiang University Town is a major higher education sector located in the district. It is the largest higher education sector in mainland China.
 * Shanghai First People's Hospital has a campus located within the Songjiang New City.
 * Shanghai Film Studios are located in Songjiang District.
 * InterContinental Hotel Shanghai Wonderland is built against the walls of a former quarry, and partly underwater: it claims to be the world's first underground five-star resort.

Cultural sights in Songjiang include:
 * Sheshan Hill with Sheshan Basilica
 * Fangta Park, one of the first celebrations of traditional Chinese architecture following the Cultural Revolution, including the city's Square Pagoda and Mazu Temple
 * Huzhu Pagoda on Tianmashan

Government and infrastructure
The Shanghai Women's Prison is in Songjiang District.

Transport
Songjiang District is located approximately 25 km from Hongqiao International Airport and 70 km from Pudong International Airport. Songjiang is currently served by one metro line operated by Shanghai Metro, one suburban line operated by China Railway, and two tram lines.

Metro

 * - Songjiang South Railway Station, Zuibaichi Park, Songjiang Sports Center, Songjiang Xincheng, Songjiang University Town, Dongjing, Sheshan, Sijing, Jiuting

Suburban Rail

 * - Chunshen, Xinqiao, Chedun, Yexie

China Railway

 * Shanghai Songjiang
 * Songjiang North

Songjiang Tram

 * Line T1
 * Line T2

Subdistricts and towns
Songjiang District has six subdistricts, eleven towns and three special township-level divisions.

Attractions
Xilin Chan Temple is a Buddhist temple in Yueyang Subdistrict, which is also a famous tourist attraction.

Zuibaichi is one of the five ancient Chinese gardens in Shanghai that dates back to the Song dynasty.

The Songjiang Mosque is the oldest mosque in Shanghai with its latest rebuild in 1391.

Songjiang's emblematic tower is the 9-story Fangta Pagoda, or Songjiang Square Pagoda.

Dacang Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge over the Old City River in the district.

Songjiang Tangjing Building is located in the Zhongshan Primary School, Songjiang District and it is the oldest surviving above-ground relic in Shanghai built in 859 AD.

Notable people
Birthplace: Heroes: Hou Shaoqiu, Jiang Huilin, Xia Yunyi, Chen Zilong, Xia Wanchun;
 * Han Bangqing – Author of The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai (Lou County, Songjiang Prefecture)

Statesmen: Gu Yong, Lu Xun, Xu Jie;

Litterateurs: Lu Ji, Lu Yun, Chen Jiru, Qian Fu, Gu Qing;

Chinese Painting and Calligraphy (Songjiang was listed among "cities of Calligraphy" in 2013 ) Artists: Shen Du, Dong Qichang, Zhang Nanheng, Zhang Zhao, Shi Zhecun, Cheng Shifa;

Craftsmen: Zhu Kerou, Huang Daopo, Ding Niangzi;

Experts: Tao Zongyi, Zhu Shunshui, Chen Yongkang;

Educators: He Dong, Ping Hailan, Ma Xiangru;

Intelligent woman: Ye Gu.

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Fengxian, Shanghai

Fengxian District, is a suburban district in the south of Shanghai with a land area of 704.68 km2, a registered population (as of 2020) of 1,140,872, and 1.5 to 2 times more migrants. It is known for its relative rusticity, as well as its beaches and ocean resorts along the Hangzhou Bay. Bihai Jinsha is a common place for Shanghainese to spend their weekend.

In 2019 some senior citizens in Fengxian District still used the pronunciation "Hongxian".

Overview
Nanqiao is a major town in Fengxian district, which recent development has more than doubled in size. Of particular interest is Guhua Park which contains the "Three Women Temple" or "Ancestral Hall". During the Zhou dynasty, the King of Wu's three daughters hanged themselves rather than be caught by the King of Yue's soldiers. The town is also a short taxi ride from Xinghai Beach and its resorts, also slated for development. Nanqiao has a 1000-bed medical center, the Fengxian District Central Hospital, which is an all-discipline tertiary hospital.

Nanqiao is about 30 minutes from downtown Shanghai by car or about 1–2 hours by public transit. It can be reached by taking the Line 1 subway to Xinzhuang and transferring to the Line 5 subway to Dongchuan Road. Alternatively, one can transfer to the Xinnan Bus at Xinzhuang, the Nanmei Line (南梅线) from Jinjiang Park to Nanqiao Bus Station (南桥汽车站), or the Shangfeng Bus at the Shanghai South Railway Station Station's South Square.

Economy
M&G Stationery has its corporate headquarters in the district. Tesla Gigafactory 3 touches the eastern district border.

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Lauryn Williams

Lauryn Williams (born September 11, 1983) is an American sprinter and bobsledder. She was the gold medalist in the 100 meter dash at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and won silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2007 World Championships, and 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships. She won a silver medal in the two-woman bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

A World Junior Champion in 2002, she went on to win the 100 m at the 2003 Pan American Games and claimed the NCAA title over the distance for the University of Miami the following year. She has also featured as part of the American 4×100 meter relay team, winning gold medals at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships and at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Williams is one of six athletes to have won a medal in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games, as well as the first American woman to do so.

Career
Williams was born and raised in suburban Pittsburgh and Detroit and currently resides in suburban Pittsburgh. She holds her high school records for the 100, 200m, long jump and 4x100 meters relay. She ran for The Wings of Moon Track Club founded by Coach Rubin Carter based in Moon Township, PA, a suburb near Pittsburgh. She was a star with the new club and qualified for the National Junior Olympics.

College
She attended the University of Miami, where she competed on the track team and graduated in 2004. She was inducted into the Iron Arrow Honor Society, the university's highest honor.

Track career
Williams was a part of the 4x100 meter relay team at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics, where she anchored the American team with Angela Williams, Chryste Gaines and Inger Miller in their heat. She did not run in the final.

Later that season, she participated in the 2003 Pan American Games in the 100 metre event. She went on to claim gold in a time of 11.12, followed closely by Angela Williams and Liliana Allen.

Williams is a silver medalist in the 100 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympics and a 4-time medalist at the World Championships in Athletics, where she won (together with Angela Daigle, Muna Lee and Me'Lisa Barber) a gold medal in the 4x100 m relay in 2005 and 2007, as well as gold and silver in the 100m in 2005 and 2007 editions of the meet.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Williams ran the third leg for the women’s 4x100 relay team in the final. Marion Jones, who ran the second leg, and Williams failed to complete the baton exchange within the 20-meter passing zone, resulting in disqualification of the U.S. team.

In the Beijing Olympics of 2008, Williams ran the anchor leg in the relay, but a mix-up in the semi-final with team-mate Torri Edwards caused Edwards to drop the baton. Williams picked up the baton to finish in last place, but the USA was disqualified because she had had to run outside her lane in order to retrieve the baton. At the individual 100 metres sprint she placed 2nd in her first round heat behind Christine Arron in a time of 11.38 to advance to the second round. There she improved her time to 11.07 seconds and placed 2nd again, this time behind Kerron Stewart. With the third time in her semi final heat behind Shelly-Ann Fraser and Muna Lee she qualified for the final in 11.10 seconds. In the final she came to 11.03, finishing in fourth place, behind three runners from Jamaica.

Williams took third place in the 100 m at the 2009 US Championships and as a result she qualified for the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, her third consecutive championships. A week before the World Championships began, she was part of a United States 4 x 100 m relay team that ran the fastest women's sprint relay in twelve years. Williams, Allyson Felix, Muna Lee and Carmelita Jeter finished with a time of 41.58 seconds, bringing them to eighth on the all-time list.

She spent the entirety of 2010 away from competitive athletics and, among other things, she worked in the athletic department at the University of Miami. She returned to competition in 2011.

In the 2012 Olympics in London, Lauryn Williams ran the anchor leg of 4 x 100 meter relay for USA in the qualification round. The team went on to win gold and earn a new world record with a time of 40.82

2014 Winter Olympics
On January 19, 2014 Williams won her first bobsled gold medal in a World Cup event at Igls, Austria. She was later selected to be a part of the U.S. Olympic 2014 women's bobsled team.

On February 19, 2014 Williams along with Elana Meyers won the silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Their first run was a time of 57.26, a track record. Their second run was 57.63, the third was 57.69 and fourth was 58.13 for a total of 3:50.71, a difference of +0.10 from first place, just edged out by Canada 1.

Williams is one of six Olympians, three Americans to win medals at the Winter and Summer Olympic Games. Eddie Eagan won Gold as a boxer in 1920 and on the bobsled in 1932. Eddy Alvarez won a Silver Medal in 2014 as a speedskater and another Silver Medal in Tokyo for baseball.

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Jinshan, Shanghai

Jinshan District, is a suburban district of southwestern Shanghai, neighboring Zhejiang province and Hangzhou Bay. It has a land area of 586.14 km2 and a population of 732,500 as of the 2010 Chinese census. Jinshan District, located in the southwest of Shanghai, is one of the biggest districts of the city. Local political administration is divided into nine towns and one subdistrict. About 6.2 km off the coast of Jinshan, there are three islands named Dajinshan ("Big Gold Mountain"), Xiaojinshan ("Little Gold Mountain"), and Fushan ("Floating Mountain"). At 103 m above sea level, the peak of Dajinshan Island is the highest point within the Shanghai municipality. There are several beaches along the 23.3 km shoreline, which are popular tourism destinations.

As the city of Shanghai has grown, Jinshan has experienced rapid changes, evolving from a relatively rural area to a more suburban environment. With completion of the high-speed highway in 2008, a new bus line was opened between Shanghai and Jinshan. This Shimei Line ( t, s ) travels between the bus station in Jinshan and another beside the Jinjiang Park station on Line 1 of the Shanghai Metro. Travel time is about an hour, depending on traffic and time of day, and costs 10 RMB each way.

Since 2012, the Shanghai Suburban Railway system also offers connections to Jinshan. This service, the Jinshan Railway, connects Jinshanwei railway station to Shanghai South railway station in downtown Shanghai in about 30 minutes.

The district is home to the Donglin Temple, a Buddhist temple dedicated to Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion. Jinshan peasant painting, which originated in the town of Fengjing, has become a nationally and internationally exhibited form of folk art.

Economy
Jinshan District is home to the headquarters of Shanghai Petrochemical Company Ltd and Jinshan Industrial Park.

Tourist attractions
Going to Jinshan can be by a convenient suburban train from South Railway Station to Jinshan (10 RMB, 30min, non-stop). Check the schedule as the time between trains can be an hour.

Other attractions around Jinshan are:
 * Ancient Town of Fengjing
 * Donglin Temple.

Jinshan City Beach
Location: 5 Shihuaxincheng Road, Jinshan, Shanghai (free shuttle bus from train station in summer, 20 minute walk, or bus 2)

Admission fee: 20RMB (weekends) 10RMB (week days)

Jinshanwei town is home to Jinshan City Beach, one of the few beaches within the city boundaries of Shanghai. The large beach with imported sand from Hainan is clean and boxed-in by a concrete wall. Locals prefer sitting in a tent over sunbathing. It offers facilities including restaurants, toilets, and for (100RMB for 90min) 5 beach volleyball and 3 beach soccer fields, trampoline, water balloon shooting, jetski

It is a favorite spot for couples take their pre-wedding pictures. An annual beach fireworks display is held in August.

Jinshan Binhai Park
Location: 16 Xincheng Road, Shihua Street, Jinshan, Shanghai

Nearby Jinshan City Beach is a seaside park. There are large lawns, large artificial lakes, rockery buildings and pavilions in the park including a small children's playground with amusement facilities such as bumper cars, swivel chairs, rotating cups, and sheep carts.

Jinshanzui Fishing Village
Jinshanwei is the site of the historic Jinshanzui Fishing Village (Jinshanzui Yucun, 金山嘴渔村) located 30 minute walk from the beach or five minutes by taxi. It is a small village on Hangzhou Bay with a beautiful scenery and the earliest (dating back more than 2,000 years) and last fishing village in Shanghai. Xiangyu Lake in summer has thousands of lotus flowers. Tourist attractions include teahouses, small inns, seafood specialties (shrimp, sea eel and jelly fish head), fishery museum and a folk art gallery.

Subdistrict and towns
Jinshan District has one subdistrict, nine towns and one special township-level division.

Notable residents

 * Qian Zhijun - A Chinese actor and entertainer who first gained fame as part of the "Little Fatty" internet meme

Commuter rail
Jinshan is currently served by one suburban line operated by China Railway:
 * – Tinglin, Jinshan Industrial Park, Jinshanwei

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Roman ring

In general relativity, a Roman ring (proposed by Matt Visser in 1997 and named after the Roman arch, a concept proposed by Mike Morris and Kip Thorne in 1988 and named after physicist Tom Roman) is a configuration of wormholes where no subset of wormholes is near to chronology violation, though the combined system can be arbitrarily close to chronology violation.

Examples
For example, an Earth–Moon wormhole whose far end is 0.5 seconds in the "past" will not violate causality, since information sent to the far end via the wormhole and back through normal space will still arrive back on Earth (-0.5 + 1) = 0.5 seconds after it was transmitted; but an additional wormhole in the other direction will allow information to arrive back on Earth 1 second before it was transmitted (time travel). However, it is believed that relative time between the transmission of the information in one wormhole throat and out of the other end in a ring structure will remain the same, because light wouldn't have violated local proper time, because the distance traveled by the information would take time, either by going the long way or through the wormhole.

Chronology protection
Semiclassical approaches to incorporating quantum effects into general relativity seem to show that the chronology protection conjecture postulated by physicist Stephen Hawking fails to prevent the formation of such rings, although Matt Visser feels that there are reasons to think the semiclassical approach is unreliable here, and that a full theory of quantum gravity will likely uphold chronology protection.

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Acrididae

Acrididae, commonly called short-horned grasshoppers, are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the superfamily Acridoidea. Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by relatively short and stout antennae, and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.

Subfamilies
The Orthoptera Species File (September 2021) lists the following subfamilies of Acrididae. The numbers of genera and species are approximate and may change over time.
 * Acridinae MacLeay, 1821 (140 genera, 470 species), Worldwide: temperate and tropical
 * Calliptaminae Jacobson, 1905 (12 genera, 90 species), Africa, Europe, Asia
 * Caryandinae Yin & Liu, 1987 (3 genera, 100 species), Africa, Asia
 * Catantopinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (325 genera, 990 species), Africa, Asia ("spur-throated grasshoppers")
 * Copiocerinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (22 genera, 90 species), Central & South America
 * Coptacrinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (20 genera, 110 species), Africa, Madagascar, tropical Asia
 * Cyrtacanthacridinae Kirby, 1910 (38 genera, 170 species), Worldwide ("bird grasshoppers")
 * Egnatiinae Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951 (30 species), Africa to central Asia
 * Eremogryllinae Dirsh, 1956 (5 species), North Africa
 * Eremogryllus Krauss, 1902
 * Notopleura (grasshopper) Krauss, 1902
 * Euryphyminae Dirsh, 1956 (23 genera, 80 species), Africa including Madagascar
 * Eyprepocnemidinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (26 genera, 150 species), Africa, mainland Europe, Asia
 * Gomphocerinae Fieber, 1853 (192 genera, 1200 species), Worldwide
 * Habrocneminae Yin, 1982 (15 species), China, Indochina
 * Habrocnemis Uvarov, 1930
 * Longzhouacris You & Bi, 1983 - China only
 * Menglacris Jiang & Zheng, 1994 (syn. Tectiacris Wei & Zheng, 2005)- China
 * Hemiacridinae Dirsh, 1956 (45 genera, 180 species), Africa, Asia
 * Incolacridinae Tinkham, 1940 (4 genera), East Asia
 * Leptysminae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (21 genera, 70 species), Central and South America
 * Marelliinae Eades, 2000 (monotypic, 1 species), South America
 * Marellia Uvarov, 1929
 * Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897 (146 genera, 1100 species), Americas, Eurasia
 * Oedipodinae Walker, 1871 (138 genera, 790 species), Worldwide
 * Ommatolampidinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (115 genera, 290 species), South America
 * Oxyinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (33 genera, 210 species), Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australasia
 * Pauliniinae Hebard, 1923 (monotypic, 1 species), South America
 * Pezotettiginae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (10 species), Europe, western Asia, Middle East
 * Proctolabinae Amédégnato, 1974 (29 genera, 210 species), Central and South America
 * Rhytidochrotinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (20 genera, 40 species), South America
 * Spathosterninae Rehn, 1957 (single tribe, currently with 3 genera and 12 species), Africa, Indomalaya, Australia
 * Teratodinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (8 genera, 20 species), Africa, southwest Asia
 * Tropidopolinae Jacobson, 1905 (13 genera, 30 species), Africa, southern Europe, Asia

incertae sedis

 * Tribe Eucopiocerini Descamps, 1975 - Central America
 * 1) Chapulacris Descamps, 1975
 * 2) Eucopiocera - monotypic E. rubripes Bruner, 1908
 * 3) Halffterina Descamps, 1975
 * 4) Leptalacris Descamps & Rowell, 1978 - monotypic L. fastigiata Descamps & Rowell, 1978
 * unplaced genera (all monotypic):
 * Atopacris Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
 * Castetsia Bolívar, 1902
 * Jumandiacris Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
 * Melliacris Ramme, 1941
 * Palandella Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
 * Pileolum Bolívar, 1917
 * Tylotropidiopsis Storozhenko, 1992
 * †Heeracris Zeuner, 1937
 * †Menatacridium Piton, 1936
 * †Taeniopodites Cockerell, 1909
 * †Tyrbula Scudder, 1885

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