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Lauren (Cameroonian footballer)

Laureano Bisan-Etame Mayer (born 19 January 1977), commonly known as Lauren, is a Cameroonian former footballer who played as a right back. As an Arsenal player he won several trophies and is known as one of 'The Invincibles', a title given to the Arsenal squad in 2004 after they went undefeated in the 2003–04 season and won the Premier League title. He also won an Olympic Gold Medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and two Africa Cup of Nations titles in 2000 and 2002 with Cameroon. He holds dual Cameroonian-Spanish nationality due to being raised in Spain.

Early career
Lauren was born in Kribi, Cameroon, as his parents fled Equatorial Guinea due to the political persecution during the dictatorship of Francisco Macías Nguema. Then the family moved to Seville, Spain, where he was raised. He started his career in Spain playing for Utrera on loan from Sevilla, San Fernando, Sevilla, Levante, and Mallorca. He played the Cup Winners Cup with Mallorca against Lazio, and classified Mallorca to the Champions League. He received important offers (Real Madrid, Roma...), but he chose Arsenal.

Arsenal
After a transfer to Italian club Roma fell through, he moved to English club Arsenal in 2000. He made his Arsenal debut as a substitute against Sunderland on 19 August 2000 and scored his first goal for the club just two days later against Liverpool. However his first season was blighted by injuries. Although at first Lauren was unable to gain a regular place in the Arsenal side, he eventually ended up becoming the club's first-choice right back, replacing Lee Dixon and leapfrogging Oleh Luzhnyi in the process. By the time Arsenal had won the Double in 2001–02, Lauren was an integral part of the Arsenal defence. Lauren missed part of the season as he went off to play in the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations, but returned to feature for Arsenal from February onwards. He scored the winning goal, a penalty, against rivals Tottenham Hotspur as Arsenal closed in on the title.

In 2002–03, Lauren suffered a calf injury and again missed part of the season, but nevertheless recovered in time and won an FA Cup medal that season, as Arsenal beat Southampton 1–0.

Lauren was a consistent member of the Arsenal first team during 2003–04 and a became known as one of the 'Invincibles' after the club went the whole season unbeaten. Lauren made his 150th appearance for Arsenal during the record-breaking run and Arsenal won the Premier League title, giving Lauren his second League winners' medal. His season was, however, slightly marred by his verbal abuse towards Ruud van Nistelrooy after the latter had missed a penalty late on in a draw between Arsenal and Manchester United at Old Trafford. Lauren was banned by the Football Association for four matches and fined £40,000.

Lauren won a third FA Cup winners' medal in 2005, as Arsenal beat Manchester United on penalties after a 0–0 draw in the final; Lauren scored the first of Arsenal's spot-kicks. However, during 2005–06, Lauren suffered a knee injury against Wigan Athletic in a League Cup semi-final match on 24 January 2006. He spent nearly a year out of the game as a result, and it was not until 19 December that Lauren was included in a playing squad, for Arsenal's match against Liverpool in the League Cup quarter-finals; this match was later postponed due to heavy fog. Lauren was not called up for Arsenal again.

During his absence, Lauren's position had been covered by, amongst others, Emmanuel Eboué and Justin Hoyte, leading to media speculation that Lauren would leave Arsenal for West Ham United. On 12 January 2007, Wenger confirmed Arsenal would allow Lauren to leave, if he chose to do so. On 18 January 2007, Lauren joined Portsmouth on a $2 1/2$-year contract for an undisclosed fee.

Portsmouth
On 18 January 2007, Lauren completed a transfer to Portsmouth on a $2 1/2$-year contract. On 22 January, Harry Redknapp announced the transfer fee was £500,000.

Lauren made his debut on 20 January 2007 against Charlton Athletic and was a regular at right back for the remainder of the 2006–07 season. In the 2007–08 season, he dropped to second choice right back due to Glen Johnson's impressive form. However, Lauren found first team opportunities due to his versatility and filled in at left back on many occasions and played regularly on the right of midfield during January 2008 while John Utaka was away at the African Cup of Nations. Lauren was part of Portsmouth's 2007–08 FA Cup-winning team. Despite not making the squad for the final he appeared in the earlier rounds. In June 2009, his contract ended and he was released from the club having made just one appearance all season, as a substitute in the 2008 FA Community Shield.

Córdoba
On 15 March 2010, Córdoba announced that they had signed Lauren as a free agent. He made his league debut as a substitute for Arteaga on 3 April 2010 in a 0–0 away draw against Huesca. Lauren retired at the end of the season.

International career
Lauren has said he feels Spanish, but chose to represent Cameroon, the nation of his birth. With Cameroon he won the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the Africa Cup of Nations title in 2000.

This success was repeated when the team won the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations; Cameroon beat Senegal on penalties after a 0–0 draw. Lauren scored in the penalty shootout.

Lauren made his international debut for Cameroon in 1998 and went on to earn a total of 25 caps, which yielded two goals, whilst he won Olympic Gold at the 2000 Games in Sydney and also lifted the Africa Cup of Nations in 2000 and 2002. He was part of the Indomitable Lions' squad at the France 1998 World Cup and the 2002 edition, held in Japan and Korea. Lauren announced his retirement from international football at the age of 25.

Arsenal legend
Following the success he enjoyed at Arsenal, the north London outfit regard Lauren, who was a mainstay of the Invincibles side, as a club legend. He is a regular visitor to the Emirates Stadium and has lined up for the Arsenal Legends in charity matches organised by the club's foundation, such as the double-header against Real Madrid Legends played at the Emirates and the Santiago Bernabéu in the summer of 2018.

Arsenal ambassador
Thanks to his career achievements at Arsenal and within the African game, which include two Africa Cup of Nations crowns and an Olympic Gold with Cameroon, Lauren currently serves as an Arsenal ambassador for the African continent, a role which features activities involving football and education, as well as attending gatherings with the club's supporters. Lauren considers this position to be a real honour as he sees it as a means of helping the African people, whilst repaying some of the support he received during his playing days. One of the countries Lauren has visited is Rwanda, where he took part in children's football and educational clinics, whilst he also acted as a club representative at official events with local authorities and explored the country's most iconic landmarks whilst flying the flag for Arsenal.

Lauren's role as an Arsenal ambassador has also seen him travel to other global destinations, including Singapore, where he was again involved in football clinics and represented the club at various events.

FIFA technical expert
Lauren was appointed as a FIFA technical expert for talent development. Within his role, he will be tasked with enhancing the competitive standards of African football on the international stage and is able to call on the vast experience acquired during a playing career that saw him earn legendary status with Arsenal and the Cameroon national team.

TV commentator
Lauren is a well-respected voice of authority when it comes to match broadcasts. He regularly features on LaLiga TV's English-language Viva LaLiga show, which reviews all of the latest action from the Spanish top flight. Meanwhile, he has also worked as a studio pundit for GOL TV's coverage of major Arsenal matches, such as the 2018/19 Europa League final against Chelsea. He has also made media appearances for leading broadcasters, including Sky Sports, where he has featured on Guillem Balagué's Revista de La Liga show, and BBC Sport. He was part of ITV and Eurosport broadcasting teams for the 2012 and 2017 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations.

Personal life
He is also an avid boxer and enjoys sparring in his spare time. He lives in Seville, and has two children.

International

 * Scores and results list Cameroon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Lauren goal.

Honours
Mallorca
 * Supercopa de España: 1998

Arsenal
 * Premier League: 2001–02, 2003–04
 * FA Cup: 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05
 * FA Community Shield: 2002, 2004

Portsmouth
 * FA Cup: 2007–08

Cameroon
 * Olympic Tournament: 2000
 * African Cup of Nations: 2000, 2002

Individual
 * African Nations Cup Player of the Tournament: (2000)
 * PFA Team of the Year: 2003–04 Premier League

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AZS Politechnika Pocztowiec Poznań

AZS Politechnika Pocztowiec Poznań is a field hockey team based in Poznań, Poland. The club was founded in 1932. At first their name was Pocztowiec Poznań but in 2012 they merged with the omnisport club of the Poznań University of Technology.

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Les Têtes Brulées

Les Têtes Brulées are a Cameroonian band known for a pop version of the bikutsi dance music. Their name literally means the burnt heads in French, but more likely is meant to imply mindblown or hotheads, although founder Jean-Marie Ahanda prefers the translation "burnt minds".

About
Les Têtes Brulées first rose to prominence in the 1980s, and quickly became the world's most famous bikutsi band. However, many critics and fans of the genre did not like their aggressively electrified sound, and the band saw some criticism. They became known for their distinctive costumes, shaved heads and brightly painted bodies, which were meant to evoke traditional Beti scarification.

The band was formed by Jean-Marie Ahanda, and included the guitarist Zanzibar, who remains well known for innovative attachment of foam rubber to the bridge of his guitar, which made the instrument sound like a traditional balafon. Zanzibar's death in 1988 threatened to end the band's future, but they continued performing and recording. Their first LP was Hot Heads, which was also the first full-length recording of bikutsi, and contained lyrics which addressed social issues. The band toured across Africa, Europe, the United States and Japan; some footage of this tour was used in Claire Denis' film Man No Run. Later, they accompanied the Cameroonian soccer team to a match in Italy, which brought the band many new fans.

Discography

 * 1988: Les Têtes Brûlées (Bleu Caraïbe)
 * 1990: Ma Musique a Moi (Bleu Caraibes)
 * 1990: Hot Heads (Shanachie Records)
 * 1992: Bikutsi Rock (Dona Wana)
 * 1995: ''Be Happy (Dona Wana)
 * 2000: Bikutsi Fever "Best of" (Africa Fete)

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Estonian Football Association

The Estonian Football Association (EJL; Eesti Jalgpalli Liit) is the governing body of football, beach soccer and futsal in Estonia. Established on 14 December 1921, it organizes the football league, including the championship which is called Meistriliiga, Estonian Cup and the Estonian national football team. It is based in Tallinn. EJL became a member of FIFA in 1923, but following Estonia's annexation by the Soviet Union it was disbanded. It became a member again in 1992 after Estonia reinstated its independence.

Controversy
In 2017, FIFA fined the Estonian Football Association 30,000 Swiss francs (26,000 euros) and gave them a warning because of an incident where Bosnia and Herzegovina fans threw burning material onto the field.

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Chlorophytum comosum

Chlorophytum comosum, usually called spider plant or common spider plant due to its spider-like look, also known as spider ivy, airplane plant, ribbon plant (a name it shares with Dracaena sanderiana), and hen and chickens, is a species of evergreen perennial flowering plant of the family Asparagaceae. It is native to tropical and Southern Africa but has become naturalized in other parts of the world, including Western Australia and Bangladesh. Chlorophytum comosum is easy to grow as a houseplant because of its resilience, but it can be sensitive to the fluoride in tap water, which commonly gives it "burnt tips". Variegated forms are the most popular.

Description
Chlorophytum comosum grows to about 60 cm tall, although as a hanging plant it can descend many feet. It has fleshy, tuberous roots, each about 5 - 10 cm long. The long narrow leaves reach a length of 20 - 45 cm and are around 6 - 25 mm wide.

Flowers are produced in a long, branched inflorescence, which can reach a length of up to 75 cm and eventually bends downward to meet the earth. Flowers initially occur in clusters of 1–6 at intervals along the stem (scape) of the inflorescence. Each cluster is at the base of a bract, which ranges from 2 - 8 cm in length, becoming smaller toward the end of the inflorescence. Most of the flowers that are produced initially die off, so that relatively, the inflorescences are sparsely flowered.

Individual flowers are greenish-white, borne on stalks (pedicels) some 4 - 8 mm long. Each flower has six triply veined tepals that are 6 - 9 mm long and slightly hooded or boat-shaped at their tips. The stamens consist of a pollen-producing anther about 3.5 mm long with a filament of similar length or slightly longer. The central style is 3 - 8 mm long. Seeds are produced in a capsule, 3 - 8 mm long, on stalks (pedicels) that lengthen to up to 12 mm.

The inflorescences carry not only flowers but also vegetative plantlets at the tips of their branches, which eventually droop and touch the soil, developing adventitious roots. The stems (scapes) of the inflorescence are called "stolons" in some sources, but this term is more correctly used for stems that do not bear flowers and have roots at the nodes.

Taxonomy
The first formal description of Chlorophytum comosum was by the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg as Anthericum comosum in the 1794 volume of Prodromus Plantarum Capensium, Thunberg's work on the plants of South Africa. The species was subsequently moved to a number of different genera, including Phalangium, Caesia, Hartwegia Nees, and Hollia, before receiving its current placement in Chlorophytum by Jacques in 1862.

The species has been confused with Chlorophytum capense (L.) Voss by some authors, but this is a different species.

Intra-specific variation
There are three described varieties of the species: the autonym C. comosum var. comosum has strap-shaped narrow leaves and is found along forest margins; C. comosum var. bipindense has broader, petiolate leaves with stripes on the underside and the inflorescences are 2–3 times the length of the leaves; and C. comosum var. sparsiflorum also has broader leaves that narrow to the base, and usually lacks a petiole and the striping on the underside of the leaf and the inflorescences are up to two times the length of the leaves. The latter two are rainforest-dwelling taxa that had been described earlier as separate species, but botanists Axel Dalberg Poulsen and Inger Nordal reduced the taxa to varieties of C. comosum in 2005.

Delimitation of species boundaries within the genus Chlorophytum is reported to be difficult, possibly because of several evolutionary radiations into forest environments that led to morphological aspects that are too similar to reliably distinguish separate species. The evidence given to support this is the widespread distribution of most taxa in the genus and poor seed dispersal, leading to the conclusion of deeper evolutionary divergence among the taxa.

The three described varieties in C. comosum could be an example of this convergent evolution of leaf shape among the forest-dwelling varieties from species of disparate origin, leading to the species C. comosum being polyphyletic, instead of the traditional view of morphological divergence among the varieties within the species with the assumption of a common origin (monophyly). The widespread C. comosum var. comosum has slender, near linear leaves that lack a petiole similar to plants found in cultivation and is only found growing at the margins of the rainforest. The two other varieties, C. comosum var. sparsiflorum and C. comosum var. bipindense, possess petioles and have broader leaves necessary for collecting more light in the shady Guineo-Congolean rainforest. A study published in 2005 used 16 morphological characters and was unable to delimit species boundaries among these three taxa, so they were relegated to varietal status. A follow-up study published in 2008 provided preliminary evidence from phylogenetic analysis of plastid and nuclear DNA sequences that established samples from disparate collections sites identified as C. comosum were polyphyletic.

Distribution
Chlorophytum comosum has a widespread native distribution in Africa, being native to six of the ten World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions regions of Africa (West Tropical Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Northeast Tropical Africa, East Tropical Africa, South Tropical Africa, and Southern Africa).

Cultivation

Chlorophytum comosum is a popular houseplant. The species with all-green leaves forms only a small proportion of plants sold. More common are two variegated cultivars:

Both cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017).
 * C. comosum 'Vittatum' has mid-green leaves with a broad central white stripe. It is often sold in hanging baskets to display the plantlets. The long stems are white. There is also a "curly" version with this type of striping and compact size.
 * C. comosum 'Variegatum' has darker green leaves with white margins. It is generally smaller than the previous cultivar. The long stems are green.

Propagation
Propagating Chlorophytum comosum commonly occurs through potting the plantlets, informally referred to as 'spiderettes', or 'pups', directly into potting soil attached to the main plant or cutting the running stems and then potting them.

Spider plants are easy to grow, being able to thrive in a wide range of conditions. They will tolerate temperatures down to 35 °F, but grow best at temperatures between 65 °F and 90 °F. Plants can be damaged by high fluoride or boron levels.

Spider plants are non-toxic to humans and pets, and are considered edible.

Air purification
The NASA Clean Air Study suggested that air plants were effective at removing common household air toxins formaldehyde and xylene; however, these results are not applicable to typical buildings, where outdoor-to-indoor air exchange already removes volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at a rate that could only be matched by the placement of 10–1000 plants/m$2$ of a building's floor space.

The results also failed to replicate in future studies, with a 2014 review stating that:

"While the plant's ability to take up VOCs is well documented in laboratory studies, the effect of plants on indoor air in complex environments like offices requires further investigations to clarify the full capacity of plants in real-life settings."

In the laboratory settings uses in the Clean Air Study, spider plants were shown to reduce formaldehyde pollution, and approximately 70 plants would neutralize the formaldehyde released by materials in a representative (c. 167 m2) energy-efficient house, assuming each plant occupies a 3.8 L pot.

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Talk:Hawthorne studies

This aricle doesn't stand alone without the conclusions that were drawn from the studies, currently treated separately, for some reason, at Hawthorne effect. When this material is incorporated there, it will reinforce that entry. --Wetman 06:26, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I agree with Wetman's point. --Janarius 02:19, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

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Supreme Soviet of the National Economy

Supreme Soviet of the National Economy, Superior Soviet of the People's Economy, (Высший совет народного хозяйства, ВСНХ, Vysshiy sovet narodnogo khozyaystva, VSNKh) was the superior state institution for management of the economy of the RSFSR and later of the Soviet Union. There were two institutions with this name, at different times, 1917–1932 and 1963–1965.

1917–1932
The VSNKh of the first period was the supreme organ of the management of the economy, mainly of the industry.

Foundation
The VSNKh was launched on December 5, 1917, through a decree of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) and All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. Its stated purpose was to "plan for the organization of the economic life of the country and the financial resources of the government". It was subordinated to the Sovnarkom. The recently established All-Russian Council for Workers' Control was dissolved into the new organisation. It had rights of confiscation and expropriation. The first chairman was Valerian Osinsky and with Bukharin, Georgy Oppokov (Lomov), Milyutin, Sokolnikov, and Vasili Schmidt also appointed to the council.

Reorganisation
After the creation of the Soviet Union in 1923 it was transformed into the joint all-Union and republican People's Commissariat. In 1932, it was reorganized into three People's Commissariats: of heavy industry, light industry and forestry.

In each of the union republics of the Soviet Union, subordinate organisations existed. These were referred to as ВСНХ followed by their union republic acronym. (for example ВСНХ БССР (VSNKh BSSR) for the Belarusian SSR). The all-union council could be referred to as ВСНХ СССР (VSNKh SSSR). The republican VSNKhs had control over small scale, minor industries which used local materials and supplied local markets and which were referred to as "enterprises of republican subordination". Large scale industrial enterprises ("enterprises of union subordination") were controlled by one of the industrial sector departments of the all-union VSNKh.

Organisational structure
Within the VSNKh, departments were split into two types.

Functional sector departments
Departments within the functional sector dealt with decisions relating to finance, planning, economic policy, and research and development.

Industrial sector departments
Departments of this type were created by decree in 1926 and consisted of "chief departments", known as glavki (glavnye upravlenija).

Heads of all the departments in this sector formed the council of the all-union VSNKh together with representatives from the union republics.

Heads of the VSNKh

 * Valerian Osinsky (1917–1918)
 * Alexei Rykov (1918–1920)
 * Felix Dzerzhinsky (1924–1926)
 * Valerian Kuibyshev (1926–1930)
 * Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1930–1932)

1963–1965
Vesenkha was reestablished by Nikita Khrushchev when he introduced decentralization of the management of industry by means of sovnarkhozes. It was subordinated to the Council of Ministers of the USSR and managed industry and construction.

Sovnarkhozes were introduced by Nikita Khrushchev in July 1957 in an attempt to combat the centralization and departmentalism of ministries. The USSR was initially divided into 105 economic regions, with sovharknozes being operational and planning management. Simultaneously, a large number of ministries were shut down.

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Spider plant

Spider plant is a common name for several plants and may refer to:

 * Chlorophytum comosum, the commonly cultivated houseplant
 * Chlorophytum, a genus of plants in the asparagus family
 * Saxifraga flagellaris, also known as whiplash saxifrage
 * Cleome, a genus of flowering plants

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Look into the Eyeball

Look into the Eyeball is the sixth studio album by musician David Byrne, released on May 8, 2001. The single "Like Humans Do" was supplied with the Windows XP operating system to showcase Microsoft's Windows Media Player.

"Desconocido Soy" is a Spanish language song, performed with Nrü (a.k.a. Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega) from Café Tacuba. The title means "I Am Unknown" in English.

As of August 2001 the album has sold 63,000 copies in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Track listing
All songs written and arranged by David Byrne

Personnel

 * David Byrne – vocals and guitar, keyboards on "Walk on the Water", Mellotron on "Everyone's in Love with You", and timpani on "The Accident"

 * Additional musicians
 * Thom Bell – Rhodes on "Neighborhood"
 * Herb Besson – trombone
 * Virgil Blackwell – clarinet on "Smile"
 * Kysia Bostic – back-up vocals
 * Paulo Braga – percussion on "The Great Intoxication"
 * Vinicius Cantuária – percussion on "The Great Intoxication"
 * Bob Carlisle – French horn
 * Tara Chambers – cello
 * Vivian Cherry – back-up vocals
 * Greg Cohen – upright bass
 * Imani Coppola – back-up vocals on "Everyone's in Love with You"
 * Nick Cords – viola
 * Michael Davis – trombone
 * Larry Etkin – flugelhorn and trumpet on "Broken Things"
 * Bruno Eicher – violin
 * Arlen Fast – bassoon on "The Accident""
 * Paul Frazier – bass guitar
 * Robert Funk – trombone on "Broken Things"
 * Karen Griffin – piccolo
 * Dawn Hannay – viola
 * Jim Hayes – trumpet on "Like Humans Do"
 * Birch Johnson – trombone on "Broken Things"
 * Bradley Jones – bass on "The Revolution", baby bass on "Everyone's in Love with You"
 * Rodd Kadleck – trumpet
 * Vivek Kamath – viola
 * Lisa Kim – violin
 * Judy Leclair – bassoon on "The Accident""
 * Ken Lewis – bass and keyboards
 * Eileen Moon – cello
 * Kristina Mosso – violin
 * Maxim Moston – violin
 * Nrü (a.k.a. Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega) – vocals on "Desconocido Soy"
 * Suzanne Ornstein – violin
 * Sandra Park – violin
 * Rajnhidur Pejursdottir – violin
 * Shawn Pelton – drum kit and percussion
 * Susan Pray – viola
 * Dan Reed – violin
 * Mauro Refosco – percussion
 * Robert Rinehart – viola
 * Stewart Rose – French horn
 * Roger Rosenberg – baritone saxophone
 * Marlon Saunders – back-up vocals
 * Laura Seaton – violin
 * Sarah Seiver – cello
 * Fiona Simon – violin
 * Alan Stepansky – cello
 * John Vercesi – Rhodes on "The Revolution"
 * Shelley Woodworth – English horn on "The Great Intoxication"
 * Sharon Yamada – violin

 * Production
 * David Byrne – photography
 * Greg Calbi – mastering
 * Danny Clinch – photography
 * Stephen Doyle – photography
 * Ken Lewis – engineering, mixing (tracks 2 to 12)
 * Michael Mangini – producer
 * Doyle Partners – artwork

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Manuel de Novas

Manuel d' Novas (February 24, 1938 — September 28, 2009) was a Cape Verdean poet and composer.

Biography
Manuel Jesus Lopes was born in Penha da França, one of the neighbourhoods of Ribeira Grande on the island of Santo Antão, he became one of the most important poets and composers of Cape Verde. His music is known all over the world, through performers like Cesária Évora, Bana and others. He lived in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente. He visited 35 Rua de Moeda where other Cape Verdean musicians visited including Bana. He took part in the 2003 Baía das Gatas Music Festival. Manuel died on September 27, 2009, from a stroke he suffered for three years that started in Portugal, after staying at the hospital named Baptista de Sousa for about a week. He was buried later in Mindelo.

Some famous poems in crioul

 * Apocalipse
 * Nôs raça, D. Ana, Cumpade Cizóne, Ess Pais
 * Tudo tem se limite, Cumpade Ciznone
 * Lamento d'um emigrante
 * Biografia d’ um criol
 * Lisboa, capital di sôdade (done with Rui Machado)
 * Morna Morna:
 * Stranger ê um Ilusão
 * Morna-Coladeira:
 * Psú nhondenga, Cmé catchorr, Morte d'um Tchuc

Recordings

 * "Cumpade Ciznone" by Cesária Évora in the album Miss Perfumado (1992)
 * "Direito Di Nasce" by Cesária Évora in the album Miss Perfumado (1992)
 * "Vida Tem Um So Vida" by Cesária Évora in the album Miss Perfumado (1992), together with Dany Mariano
 * "Barbincor" by Cesária Évora in the album Miss Perfumado (1992)
 * "Ess Pais" by Cesária Évora in the album Cabo Verde (1997), based on his poem "Quem ca conchê Mindelo, Ca conché Cabo-Verde"
 * Posthumous publications
 * Criod de São Vicente (2011) - some tracks

Adaptations by other artists

 * “Biografia d’ um criol’” (1979) in the album Djonsinho Cabral by the band Os Tubarões
 * "C’mê catchorr’” (1986) in the album Lamento de um Emigrante by Manecas Matos

Literature

 * César Augusto Monteiro: Manel d'Novas: Musica, Vida, Caboverdianidade (2003)

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Marilyn Mushinski

Marilyn Mushinski (born c. 1946) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was an alderman (councillor) for the city of Scarborough, Ontario from 1982 to 1994 and she served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003. From 1995 to 1997 she was a cabinet minister under Mike Harris.

Background
Born in England, Mushinski emigrated to Canada in 1967 at age twenty-one, and was educated at York University. She worked with the Canadian Mental Health Association before entering political life.

She was married to Paul Mushinski JP, but are now divorced.

Municipal
She served as an alderman and councillor in Scarborough, Ontario from 1982 to 1994, and was also a councillor for Metro Toronto in 1987-88. Mushinski also served as a board member of the Scarborough General Hospital and the Scarborough Women's Centre.

In 1986, Mushinski argued, albeit unsuccessfully, to retain the title alderman rather than switch to the gender neutral term councillor. She said, "My gut reaction is one of dismay because I don't know if they've ever taken into consideration the historical significance of the word alderman. I think it trivializes the language and I'm concerned to have to accommodate the quirks of a feminist movement which is trying to bastardize the English language."

In 1994, she ran for mayor of Scarborough against fellow councillors Frank Faubert and Maureen Prinsloo. Mushinski's campaign which was similar to those of her colleagues was based on freezing property taxes and increasing the police force to fight rising crime in the city. During the election, a group called the Scarborough Volunteer Citizens' Budget Advisory Committee rated the candidates. They gave Mushinski a score of 0 out of 100; Faubert was given a score of 50 out of 100. Faubert defeated Mushinski by a margin of 30,844 votes.

Provincial
Mushinski was elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1995, defeating incumbent New Democratic Party of Ontario David Warner by about 4,000 votes in the riding of Scarborough—Ellesmere. On June 26, 1995, she was named as Ontario's Minister of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation.

In 1995, shortly after the election, Mushinski moved to repeal the employment equity law introduced by the previous NDP government. She said, "legislated hiring and promotion quotas are unnecessary, unfair and ineffective."

In 1997, Mushinski issued a press release denouncing a gangland style shooting in her riding in which two Tamil men were injured. She said, "The Canadian tradition of consultation, co-operation and compromise seems to be lost on these individuals. Canada's strength lies in its long-held belief that immigrants to this country are starting fresh, and should embrace a new openness to diversity and respect for the law of the land." Scarborough Mayor Frank Faubert said the release went too far. He called the statement, "a smear on the entire Tamil community."

During a cabinet shuffle later that year she was dropped from cabinet. There was some speculation that although culture was part of her portfolio she had made few friends in the arts community. In 1998 she was made Parliamentary Assistant to the Premier.

In the provincial election of 1999, Mushinski was re-elected by about 4,000 votes over Liberal candidate Costas Manios; NDP candidate and labour leader Sid Ryan was third. During this term she served as Parliamentary Assistant to both the Premier and the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities.

In May 2000, Mushinski introduced a private members' bill called the Judicial Accountability Act. The bill called for the publication of judges' sentencing records. It would have created a list of sentences imposed by judges and their reasons for not awarding the maximum possible sentence. Upon introduction of the bill she said she wanted to "motivate lenient judges to give out tougher sentences." She warned that judges that didn't play along with this goal might be subject to performance reviews. The bill was opposed by the Criminal Lawyer's Association. Alan Gold, president of the association said, "It's a blatant attack on the independence of the judiciary, it's an attempt to intimidate judges into imposing higher sentences and that's simply inexcusable." Attorney General Jim Flaherty initially was supportive of the bill. He said, "I think the public is entitled to know what sentences are being handed down by judges." But after considerable opposition from the legal community he distanced himself from the legislation. The bill died on the order paper when the legislature recessed for the summer.

In the 2003 provincial election, she was defeated by Liberal candidate Brad Duguid by 10,012 votes.

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject NASCAR

Nomination of Kory Rabenold for deletion
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Full Race Names
I'm wondering whether the 'subtitle' (e.g. presented by..., powered by... etc.) of race/event names should be included in the Wikipedia page title (or in the Wikipedia page at all) as I've noticed their inclusion is inconsistent at least in the pages I've seen. For example, the Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube and Quaker State 400 available at Walmart pages have the full name in the first sentence but not in the title whereas the Enjoy Illinois 300 presented by TicketSmarter and Iowa Corn 350, Powered by Ethanol do not have the full name at all. I've had a look in this Wikiproject's standards but I haven't found anything related to this. Thanks. UseroftheWikis (talk) 18:07, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * It emphatically should not. See WP:CONCISE. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 18:12, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

NASCAR race articles
Now I know we can be a little too early, but I was wondering how early is too early? I want to finish up the rest of the rest of the seasons articles. and I know we have either the race program or the race track, but since the roval got a redesign and all. 45BearsFan (talk) 01:49, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Conversion to km/h
reverted my addition of conversions to km/h in the qualifying lap table on 2012 Pocono 400 and deleted my request for conversions on 2012 FedEx 400. I believe these conversions are required by MOS:CONVERSIONS, but 35.139.154.158 has asserted they are not. Speeds and distances are converted to metric elsewhere in these articles, so it seems inconsistent not to convert them everywhere. These conversions are useful to allow readers to compare these events to events that take place outside the United States, and also to allow non-US readers to get a sense of how fast people were driving. What do other editors think? -- Beland (talk) 16:55, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

 * Agree here and disagree with 35.139....'s rationale written in the edit summaries. Those reverts should not have been made. ―  "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk)  19:54, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Okey, I've added conversions to the tables in both these articles. -- Beland (talk) 19:20, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * 35.139.154.15 (who appears to be editing while logged out) has reverted these changes. I have asked them to come to this thread to discuss. In particular they said "inappropriate to add conversions when they're completely uncustomary". I'm not sure if they mean uncustomary in the US, on Wikipedia, or NASCAR articles, or what. Clarification might be helpful. -- Beland (talk) 05:19, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

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Gholam-Hossein Banan

Gholām-Hossein Banān (5 May 1911 – 27 February 1986) was an Iranian musician and singer. One of the most prominent Iranian singers of the 20th century, he was renowned for the quality of his voice.

Biography
Born in Tehran, Banān descended from a prominent family "with a background in government service". His father, Karim Khan Banān ol-Dowleh (son of Mohammad-Taqi Mirza Fazlollah Khan Mostowfi Nuri) was an admirer of traditional music. His mother was related to the ruling Qajar dynasty of Iran; she was the daughter of Mohammad Taqi Mirza Rokn ed-Dowleh, a brother of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar ((r. undefined – undefined)1848–1896). Margaret Caton notes that Banān grew up in an environment where artistic development was fostered; his father sang and played the tar, while his mother played piano. Banān's maternal aunt played the ney, and his sisters studied the tar with Morteza Neidavoud.

From the age of six Gholam-Hossein Banān began to take lessons in singing and playing the piano and organ through the encouragement of Morteza Neidavoud who was quick to recognize him as musically talented. Gholām-Hossein's first teachers were his parents. He subsequently studied with Mirzā Tāher Ziā oz-Zākerin Rasā'í and Nāser Seif. Ali-Naqi Vaziri later introduced him to the acclaimed Rouhollah Khāleghi.

Banān joined the Iranian National Music Association in 1942, and appeared on Iranian National Radio that same year. He then joined the orchestra of the distinguished pianist Javād Maroufi, becoming the lead vocalist.

In 1957 or 1958, Banān became blind in his right eye following a car accident.

Banān died 7:00 pm on Thursday 27 February 1986 in Iranmehr Hospital in Gholhak, Tehran. He is still remembered by lovers of traditional Persian music. Among his best-remembered songs are "Ey Iran", "Caravan" and "Elahe-ye Naz".

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Nova Scotia Court of Appeal

The Court of Appeal for Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia Court of Appeal or NSCA) is the highest appeal court in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. There are currently 8 judicial seats including one assigned to the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. At any given time there may be one or more additional justices who sit as supernumerary justices. The court sits in Halifax, which is the capital of Nova Scotia. Cases are heard by a panel of three judges. They publish approximately 80 cases each year.

History
The Court of Appeal was established on 30 January 1993. From 1966 to 1993, appeals pursuant to Supreme Court cases were heard by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court and, prior to 1966, by a panel of Supreme Court judges sitting en banc. The Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal is the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. Prior to the establishment of the Court of Appeal, the Chief Justice was the Chief Justice of the Appeal Division (1966–1993) and, before 1966, of the Supreme Court.

Jurisdiction
The court derives its power from legislation of the Nova Scotia legislature, the Judicature Act. It hears appeals from the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Provincial Court of Nova Scotia, and various tribunals.

Only the Supreme Court of Canada has jurisdiction to hear appeals from decisions of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal; in practice this happens a few times a year.

Judges
Supernumerary

Chief Justice of Nova Scotia
The Chief Justice of Nova Scotia is the highest position in the Nova Scotia judiciary. Since the creation of the Court of Appeal, this title is held by the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal. Prior to that the title was held by the Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Appeal Division (1966–1993) or the Supreme Court (before 1966). For completeness the list includes Chief Justices of Cape Breton Island, which merged with Nova Scotia in 1820.

 * Chief Justices of Cape Breton Island
 * William Smith (1798 -)
 * William Woodfall (1803 -)
 * Archibald Charles Dodd (1806–1820)

 * Chief Justices of Nova Scotia
 * Jonathan Belcher (1754–1776)
 * Charles Morris (1776–1778)
 * Bryan Finucane (1778–1785)
 * Isaac Deschamps (1785–1788)
 * Jeremy Pemberton (1788–1789)
 * Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (1789–1797)
 * Sampson Salter Blowers (1797–1833)
 * Sir Brenton Halliburton (1833–1860)
 * Sir William Young (1860–1881)
 * James McDonald (1881–1905)
 * Sir Robert Linton Weatherbe (1905–1907)
 * Sir Charles James Townshend (1907–1915)
 * Sir Wallace Nesbit Graham (1915–1917)
 * Robert Edward Harris (1918–1931)
 * Sir Joseph Andrew Chisholm (1931–1950)
 * James Lorimer Ilsley (1950–1967)
 * Lauchlin Daniel Currie (1967–1968)
 * Alexander H. McKinnon (1968–1973)
 * Ian Malcolm MacKeigan (1973–1985)
 * Lorne Clarke (1985–1998)

 * Chief Justices of the Court of Appeal
 * Constance Glube (1998–2004)
 * J. Michael MacDonald (2005–2019)
 * Michael Wood (2019–present)

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Minneapolis City Council

The Minneapolis City Council is the legislative branch of the city of Minneapolis in Minnesota, United States. Comprising 13 members, the council holds the authority to create and modify laws, policies, and ordinances that govern the city. Each member represents one of the 13 wards in Minneapolis, elected for a four-year term. The current council structure has been in place since the 1950s.

In recent elections, council membership has been dominated by the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL). As of 2024, 12 members identified with the DFL, while four identified with Democratic Socialists of America (three members identify as both DFL and DSA). Until the 2021 Minneapolis City Council election, the city's government structure was considered a weak-mayor, strong-council system. However, a charter amendment was passed that gave the mayor more power and reduced the council to purely legislative duties.

History

The city has never had more than 13 wards, but at one time there were three representatives from each area, for a total of 39 members of the city council. The city council assumed its current size in the 1950s.

The Minneapolis City Council represents the city's thirteen districts called wards. The city adopted instant-runoff voting in 2006, first using it in the 2009 elections. The council has 12 DFL members and one from the Democratic Socialists of America. Election issues in 2013 included funding for a new Vikings stadium over which some incumbents lost their positions. That year, Minneapolis elected Abdi Warsame, Alondra Cano, and Blong Yang, the city's first Somali-American, Mexican-American, and Hmong-American city councilpeople, respectively.

The city council passed a resolution in March 2015 making fossil fuel divestment city policy. With encouragement from city administration, Minneapolis joined seventeen cities worldwide in the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance. The city's climate plan is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent in 2015 "compared to 2006 levels, 30 percent by 2025 and 80 percent by 2050".

In 2018, the city council passed the Minneapolis Comprehensive 2040 Plan and submitted it for Metropolitan Council approval. Watched nationally, the plan rezones predominantly single-family residential neighborhoods for triplexes to increase affordable housing, seeks to reduce the effects of climate change, and tries to rectify some of the city's racial disparities. After the Metropolitan Council approved the plan, in November 2019 the city council voted unanimously to allow duplexes and triplexes citywide. The Brookings Institution called it "a relatively rare example of success for the YIMBY agenda" and "the most wonderful plan of the year."

Controversies and incidents
In July 2001, DFL Council Member Brian Herron pleaded guilty to one count of felony extortion. Herron admitted to accepting a $10,000 bribe from business owner Selwin Ortega who faced numerous health and safety inspection violations at his Las Americas grocery stores. Herron served a one-year sentence in federal prison.

On November 21, 2002, ten-year DFL Council Member Joe Biernat was convicted of five federal felony charges, one count of embezzlement, three counts of mail fraud, and one count of making a false statement. Biernat was found not guilty on extortion and conspiracy to extort charges.

In September 2005, Green Party Council Member Dean Zimmermann was served with a federal search warrant to his home by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The affidavit attached to the warrant revealed that the FBI had Zimmermann on video and audiotape accepting bribes for a zoning change. Zimmermann subsequently lost his re-election campaign, and was convicted in federal court on three counts of accepting cash from a developer and found not guilty of soliciting property from people with business with the city. Zimmermann was released from prison in July 2008.

In 2009, Council President Barbara A. Johnson was accused of misusing campaign funds for personal spending. An administrative hearing was held January 26, 2010. The administrative judges at the hearing dismissed six of the eight charges; it upheld two charges—that AAA services were paid for both her and her husband's vehicle and that not all charges for hairstyling or dry cleaning were reasonably related to the campaign. Johnson paid a $200 fine for these violations, the lowest fine possible.

In 2015, DFL Council Member Alondra Cano used her Twitter account to publish private cellphone numbers and e-mail addresses of critics who wrote about her involvement in a Black Lives Matter rally.

In 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, nine city council members announced their highly controversial goals to disband the Minneapolis Police Department. Their plan included amending the city's charter to remove the requirement for a minimum number of officers, along with replacing the MPD with a broader public safety agency. The city council was then discovered to have been utilizing private security at a cost of $4,500 per day for three of their members. The plan made it to the ballot in 2021, but ended up failing with only 43% of votes in support of it; along with six of the nine city council members who wanted to disband the police department either voted out or having not ran for reelection.

In 2021, while leaving a Pride Day event, a car containing Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins was surrounded by protesters who blocked her from leaving until she signed a list of demands, which included not interfering with the occupied George Floyd Square and the resignation of Mayor Jacob Frey. Jenkins was stuck for over 90 minutes before signing the list so she could go.

In July 2022, City Council Member Michael Rainville said during a meeting with his constituents that he was going to go to a mosque in Northeast Minneapolis to "meet with Somali elders and tell them that their children can no longer have [poor] behavior," in response to incidents on the 4th of July in downtown Minneapolis, during which groups of younger people were seen launching fireworks at buildings and passerby. His comments drew criticism, including from fellow City Council members who attempted to censure him. Jamal Osman, Jeremiah Ellison, and Aisha Chughtai, the City Council's three Muslim members at the time, issued a statement calling Rainville's comments "incorrect," "inappropriate," "disturbing," and "dangerous." Rainville has since apologized for the comments.

At the Minneapolis DFL caucus for Ward 10 on May 13, 2023, supporters of challenger Nasri Warsame rushed the stage when incumbent Aisha Chughtai was scheduled to speak. Chughtai claimed that over a dozen of her supporters and DFL volunteers were physically assaulted in the chaos, while Warsame claimed his campaign manager had been hospitalized due to an injury sustained by a member of the opposing campaign staff. Later that month, leaders of the DFL voted to permanently bar Warsame from seeking the party's endorsement for any elected office.

Electoral system
In 2006, Minneapolis voters approved the use of the single transferable vote for its municipal elections. The first use of ranked-choice voting was in the 2009 municipal election. However, since the City Council uses single-member districts, the single transferable vote functions the same way as instant-runoff voting. This system of voting is commonly known in the United States as ranked choice voting.

Each member's term is normally four years, and there are no limits on the number of terms a member may serve. In 2020, voters approved a plan to amend the city charter to establish city council elections in 2021 and 2023 for two-year terms instead of the regular four-year terms, with four-year term elections restarting in 2025. The amendment also granted the ability for the city to use this method whenever regular city council elections do not fall in a year ending in a 3 in order to comply with a state law designed to require city council elections in years ending in 2 or 3 after a census.

Wards

Each city council member represents one of 13 wards. Ward boundaries are redrawn after each census and approved by the court-appointed Charter Commission. For elections, the 13 wards are subdivided into a total of 137 precincts.

Salary
Council Members have a base salary of $109,846 in 2024. Raises for council members and the mayor are based on "averaging out the increases included in the union contracts they approved the previous year." The rate was $106,101 in 2021. In 2018, all Council Members were paid a base salary of $98,696 annually, plus mileage, free parking, and the usual employee benefits. This salary included an increase of $10,000 approved in late 2017.

Members
The council is made up of 13 members. The DFL holds 12 seats, while one member (Robin Wonsley) sits as an independent democratic socialist. New members took office January 2024.

Committees
The Minneapolis City Council operates through several standing committees, each focusing on specific areas of city governance.

Administration & Enterprise Oversight Committee
 * Chair: Robin Wonsley (Ward 2)
 * Vice-Chair: Linea Palmisano (Ward 13)
 * Focus: Oversight of general government, enterprise, and administration operations. Regular evaluation of the City’s Strategic Racial Equity Action Plan and the Mayor’s Office.

Business, Housing & Zoning Committee
 * Chair: Jamal Osman (Ward 6)
 * Vice-Chair: Jeremiah Ellison (Ward 5)
 * Focus: Oversight of community and economic development, housing policy, land-use and zoning policy, and employment and training programs.

Public Health & Safety Committee
 * Chair: Jason Chavez (Ward 9)
 * Vice-Chair: Robin Wonsley (Ward 2)
 * Focus: Oversight of public health and social service programs, civil rights, environmental justice, community safety services, and police reform initiatives.

Climate & Infrastructure Committee
 * Chair: Katie Cashman (Ward 7)
 * Vice-Chair: Emily Koski (Ward 11)
 * Focus: Oversight of community infrastructure, climate resilience, transportation, public works, utilities, and recycling.

Budget Committee
 * Chair: Aisha Chughtai (Ward 10)
 * Vice-Chair: Emily Koski
 * Focus: Oversight of the city's budget, financial wellbeing, and approval of financial policies.

Committee of the Whole
 * Chair: Jason Chavez (Ward 9)
 * Vice-Chair: Aurin Chowdhury (Ward 12)
 * Focus: Oversight of strategic goals, enterprise-wide initiatives, and Mayor’s Cabinet appointments.

Settlement Agreement & Consent Decree Subcommittee
 * Chair: Elliott Payne (Ward 1)
 * Vice-Chair: Andrea Jenkins (Ward 8)
 * Focus: Oversight of the settlement agreement with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, coordination on police reform and accountability.

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Stone of Farewell

Stone of Farewell is a 1990 fantasy novel by Tad Williams, the second volume of his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy. The saga develops the narrative started in The Dragonbone Chair and focuses primarily on Simon, a former kitchen servant in the largest castle in the land.

Plot summary
The previous volume saw Simon wound a dragon with the mystical sword Thorn, splashing himself in dragon’s blood, leaving himself deeply scarred (physically and emotionally). Now bearing the sobriquet "Snowlock", he and his companions leave the mountains in search of the mysterious "Stone of Farewell".

Meanwhile, Josua "Lackhand", brother to the king, leads a motley band of survivors after the disastrous events at Naglimund.

Princess Miriamele, having escaped before the siege of Naglimund, gets caught up in events that demonstrate the evil powers surrounding her father.

Princess Maegwin of Hernystir leads her people deep underground, where they discover secrets that may help turn the tide in a war thought to be hopeless.

Finally, a power rises in the North, but its true implications may not yet be fully revealed.

Reception
In Locus, Carolyn Cushman called the novel "an epic fantasy you can get lost in for days, not just hours".

Kat Hooper of fantasyliterature.com gave The Stone of Farewell a rating of 3.5 out of 5 and a mixed review, calling it "excessively lengthy" and saying it "is everything we’ve come to expect from a middle book in a well-written traditional medieval-style epic fantasy trilogy".

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At the Movies (Australian TV program)

At the Movies is an Australian television program on ABC hosted by film critics Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, where they discussed the films opening in theatres that week.

History
The program, which began in mid-2004, is a continuation of the pair's earlier program The Movie Show, which aired on SBS One from 1986 to 2004. The pair left SBS after expressing dissatisfaction with high-level decisions.

The weekly half-hour program consists of film reviews and discussions as well as interviews with cast and crew members. The hosts also occasionally broadcast from film events such as the Cannes Film Festival.

The pair's 25 years of presenting film reviews on television was celebrated in a special show on 26 October 2011, filmed before an audience and special guests, hosted by Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush.

On 16 September 2014, Stratton and Pomeranz announced they would be retiring at the end of the 2014 series. The final episode aired on 9 December 2014, and Stratton and Pomeranz said farewell to over 700,000 viewers, making it one of the most-watched season finales on the ABC in the history of the station.

5-star films
Only seven films have achieved a perfect 5-star rating by both Pomeranz and Stratton.
 * Good Night, and Good Luck
 * Brokeback Mountain
 * No Country for Old Men
 * Samson and Delilah
 * A Separation
 * Amour
 * Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

In the previous SBS format, several films achieved 5 stars from both Margaret and David, including films such as Goodfellas, The Thin Red Line, Schindler's List, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Aliens, Eyes Wide Shut, Russian Ark, The Thin Blue Line, Evil Angels, Return Home, The Piano,  Lantana, and Three Colours: Red.

In other media
Pomeranz and Stratton both appeared in a parody of themselves and At the Movies in the fourth episode of the ABC show Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure. They have also appeared in the ABC shows The Chaser's War on Everything, Review with Myles Barlow, Good Game and Dance Academy. Pomeranz has also appeared in recurring spoofs of the show on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. In December 2020, they appeared in a spoof YouTube video reviewing the year 2020. Around 2006 Hopscotch Entertainment released a DVD Margaret & David at the Movies interactive quiz, hosted by Stratton and Pomeranz, containing around 1500 film-based questions (and answers), with list of rules and scoresheet.

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Pioneer Jazz

Pioneer Jazz was a Malian band from the 1960s. The band emerged from the city of Bamako after Modibo Keita, the Malian leader, began subsidizing musical groups as long as they used indigenous praise song, and the kora and balafon musical instruments, in their music. Pioneer Jazz became very popular, and contributed musicians who went on to join other renowned Malian bands. Perhaps the most prominent member of Pioneer Jazz was guitarist Djelimady Tounkara, who later joined the Rail Band.

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Rumford fireplace

The Rumford fireplace is a tall, shallow fireplace designed by Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, an Anglo-American physicist best known for his investigations of heat. Its shallow, angled sides are designed to reflect heat into the room, and its streamlined throat minimizes turbulence, thereby carrying away smoke with little loss of heated room air.

History
Rumford appears to have first developed an interest in smoking fireplaces following problems encountered following 1794 renovations of the Palmerston family's house in Hannover Square, Rumford being at the time, in intimate correspondence with Lady Palmerston. Around the end of 1795 Rumford experimented with various designs, his first practical installation being at the Board of Trade in Whitehall. Rumford later installed such fireplaces not only at the Palmerston house, but throughout those of the aristocracy of England.

His designs made the fireplaces smaller and shallower with widely angled covings so they would radiate better. And he streamlined the throat, or in his words "rounded off the breast" so as to "remove those local hindrances which forcibly prevent the smoke from following its natural tendency to go up the chimney..."

Rumford wrote two papers detailing his improvements on fireplaces in 1796 and 1798. He was well known and widely read in his lifetime and almost immediately in the 1790s his "Rumford fireplace" became state-of-the-art worldwide. Subsequent testing of Rumford's designs has shown that their efficiency would qualify them as clean-burning stoves.

Principle of action
The Rumford fireplace created a sensation in London when he introduced the idea of restricting the chimney opening to increase the updraft. He and his workers changed fireplaces by inserting bricks into the hearth to make the side walls angled, and they added a choke to the chimney to create a circulation of air inside the chimney. In the unmodified chimney, smoke rises up the chimney propelled only by buoyancy—the heated gases from the fireplace being lighter than the surrounding air. This is especially ineffective when the fire is first lit, and the temperature and density of the smoke are closer to the ambient air. Thanks to the discontinuity produced by Rumford's brick "smoke shelf", the flow of smoke gases up the chimney became detached from the outside wall at the lip of the shelf. This set up a counter-circulation of outside air which flowed down the backside of the chimney, while a mixture of outside air and smoke flowed up the opposite side. The circulation inside the chimney, and above the smoke shelf, created a dynamic pressure in which the smoke gases were driven up one side of the chimney and cold air was pulled down the other. The air mixed with the rising smoke and increased the combined flow rising up the flue. It produced a circulating air-smoke flow, driving the smoke up into the chimney rather than lingering and often choking the residents. Many fashionable London houses were modified to his instructions and became smoke-free as well as more efficient. Thompson became a celebrity when news of his success became widespread. In an age when fires were the principal source of heat, this simple alteration in the design of fireplaces was copied widely.

Usage
Rumford fireplaces were common from 1796, when Count Rumford first wrote about them, until about 1850. Jefferson had them built at Monticello, and Thoreau listed them among the modern conveniences that everyone took for granted. There are still many original Rumford fireplaces, often buried behind newer renovations. He also invented a cast iron stove, also known as the Rumford stove, which competed successfully with the famous Franklin stove. Both devices gave much more control over the air flow into the fire, and were much more efficient users of fuel. Such stoves were expensive, but saved so much fuel as to justify the cost of installation very quickly. They in turn inspired the development of the kitchen range, also made in cast iron, which gave yet more control of the fire and also was used directly for cooking purposes.

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Mein

Mein may refer to:

People

 * Alexander Mein (1854–1927), British soldier who played on the winning side in the 1875 FA Cup Final
 * Hannie Mein (1933-2003), Dutch ceramist.
 * John Gordon Mein (1913-1968), a United States ambassador to Guatemala, the first to be assassinated while in service
 * Will G. Mein (1866 -1939), a British book illustrator who flourished in the late 19th to early 20th century
 * William Mein Smith, (1799-1869), a key actor in the early settlement of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington

Other

 * Mein clan, an ethnic group living along the Forcados River in Delta State, Nigeria
 * Mein (noodles), a variety of Chinese noodles made from wheat
 * "Mein" (song), a song by the band Deftones, featuring System of a Down singer Serj Tankian
 * "Mein!", in Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin
 * Écoust-Saint-Mein, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in France

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Chris Allbritton

Christopher Allbritton is a web blogger and journalist, best known for starting the Web log Back to Iraq during the 2003 Iraq War. After he raised $15,000 from his readers, he became the Web's "first fully reader-funded journalist-blogger."

He taught a blogging class at New York University until, after a second round of fundraising, he returned to Baghdad in May 2004 and contracted with Time magazine as a correspondent for Iraq until March 2006.

He previously worked for the Associated Press and the New York Daily News covering the Internet, technology and business. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a Masters in Science in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. He then was based in Beirut, Lebanon, where he reported on the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict as well as a range of regional issues.

He was selected as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, where he spent a year before moving to Pakistan and has been appointed as the Pakistan Bureau Chief for Thomson Reuters.

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User:Branddobbe/License

All my contributions to Wikipedia in the past, present, and future, are hereby released into the public domain. Exceptions:
 * 1) My user page and related subpages are licensed under the standard Wikipedia GFDL license.
 * 2) Unless otherwise indicated on the image page, any image that I personally created is licensed under the standard Wikipedia GFDL license.

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To Green Angel Tower

To Green Angel Tower is the third and final novel in Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy. At over 520,000 words, it is one of the longest novels ever written. Due to the length of the novel, the paperback version had to be split into two separate volumes, known as To Green Angel Tower: Part 1 and Part 2. In the United Kingdom, the two paperback volumes were titled To Green Angel Tower: Siege and To Green Angel Tower: Storm. The saga follows a young man named Simon as he is caught up in an epic adventure.

Plot introduction
As the Storm King's power grows, the loyal allies of Prince Josua struggle to rally their forces at the Stone of Farewell. There, Simon and the surviving members of the League of the Scroll attempt to unravel a prophecy that may ultimately allow them to strike down the undead Storm King and bring peace to the kingdom. This epic saga concludes as Simon travels back to castle Hayholt to confront Ineluki.

Plot summary
The story begins with the forces of Prince Josua Lackhand rallied at the Stone of Farewell, where the icy hand of the Storm King Ineluki has yet to take a deathgrip on the land. The remaining members of the League of the Scroll have also gathered at the Stone in hopes of unraveling an ancient prophecy. If deciphered, it could reveal to Josua and his army the only means of striking down the unslayable Storm King.

After Simon/Seoman Snowlock and Binabik have their reunion, they come to the realization that Memory - one of the three Great Swords recognized as being key to defeating the Storm King - is one and the same with Bright-Nail, old King John’s sword that was buried with him not three years previously. The trouble is, the grave of King John Presbyter lies in the shadow of the Hayholt, the stronghold of King Elias, and between the Stone of Farewell and Hayholt marches the army Elias has sent to besiege the defenders.

Meanwhile, Miriamele, Elias’s daughter who has joined Josua’s cause, is an unhappy prisoner on the ship of a lascivious and ambitious lordling to whom she has surrendered her virtue knowing only too late of his true nature. Another princess, Maegwin of Hernystir, falls deeper into madness, leading her people in a seemingly futile resistance against Elias’s allies who have conquered her kingdom, and deep in the ancient forest of Aldheorte, the immortal Sithi are mustering for a final conflict.

While Josua and his army must make a final stand to try to delay the forces of King Elias, Simon embarks upon a quest to Hayholt Castle to try to obtain the last of the three legendary swords and use their hidden magics to defeat The Storm King Ineluki and restore peace to Osten Ard once and for all.

Qanuc

 * Binabik, Singing Man of Mintahoq Mountain
 * Sisqinanamook, daughter of the chieftains of Mintahoq Mountain

Sithi

 * Jiriki i-Sa'onserei (the Sithi prince)
 * Aditu (Jiriki's sister)
 * Likimeya y-Briseyu no'e-Saonserei (mother of Jiriki and Aditu, leader of Sithi folk)
 * Ineluki, the Storm King

Norns

 * Utuk'ku the Norn Queen

Erkynlanders

 * Simon Snowlock
 * Prince Josua Lackhand
 * King Elias, High King of Osten Ard
 * Guthwulf, Earl of Utanyeat
 * Princess Miriamele, daughter of Elias

Rimmersmen

 * Duke Isgrimnur, ruler of Rimmersgard
 * Isorn (Isgrimnur's son)
 * Sludig, Rimmersgard soldier

Hernystiri

 * Cadrach
 * Eolair, Count of Nad Mullach
 * Princess Maegwin, daughter of King Lluth

Other or unknown

 * Geloë (possibly Tinukeda'ya: Aditu calls her "Ruyan's Own" TGAT part 2, ch 1)
 * Pryrates (Nabbanai or Perdruinese: "from a poor island family" TGAT part 1, ch 9)
 * Tiamak (Wrannaman)
 * Sir Camaris (Nabbanai)

Cover art
Two versions of the U.S. hardcover dust jacket were produced. Both have Michael Whelan paintings on the front and back with one painting being titled "Seoman" and the other "Jiriki". The difference between the covers is that the front and back paintings were switched. Both paintings were also "flopped" (reversed left-to-right) so that the characters are facing away from the spine on both the front and back for both covers. The same paintings were then used as the cover art for the part 1 and part 2 paperback editions.

Reception
The book was listed for five weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.

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Talk:Campus of Iowa State University

Goals of this page
For ISU-centric people (not Henry Gilman or Carrie Chapman Catt) who are well known outside of ISU) I think a somewhat detailed biography is needed, much like what I've done with some of the first presidents but more (though not done with all of them). Probably involves a trip to Special Collections and getting some of the bio stuff them. If known outside of ISU (has its own wikipedia page or should have one) then a link should be sufficient with perhaps a condensed biography as it directly applies to ISU.
 * Year of birth & death
 * Location of birth & death
 * Education: college, year, major/degree
 * Notable achievements: awards, roles/positions
 * Family notes

For buildings:
 * Year constructed
 * Original purposes if different from current
 * Major changes/renovations
 * Who it's named after should be evident from where it's located (subcategory of the person)
 * Cost, uses, departments, etc.
 * Did it replace another building? (e.g., Beardshear replaced Office Building)
 * Was it originally named something and then renamed afterward (e.g., Frederiksen Court, Beardshear Hall, Agriculture Hall, Engineering Hall)

For streets:
 * Location in Ames
 * Perhaps a list of what's on the street if applicable (e.g., campustown is on Welch)

And pictures, pictures, pictures. Come snow fall I'll take my camera around and shoot some of the buildings, and again come late spring/summer.

Comments? Cburnett 06:47, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Future size
The article is already 50 KB plus images in size. I'm worried at how big it will be in the future and how to break it up without making links difficult to create....and having to change them all to point at the other articles.

Thoughts? Cburnett 00:16, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hm, I thought the thumbnails were included in the article size. I personally feel okay with the current setup, it has excellent headers and most sections are brief.  Adm58 01:02, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

Page length
Heh, I just noticed this page is #487 on the list of longest pages. :) Cburnett 01:47, May 3, 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to work on splitting off a few of the more notable buildings at ISU into their own articles because this page is pretty massive at the moment. At this time, I'm planning on making articles about the Campanile, the Memorial Union, Stephens Auditorium, and perhaps a few more. Also, I noticed that Jack Trice Stadium and Hilton Coliseum have their own articles already, so I'll add links to the full articles within this article. Etphonehome 01:37, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Page length
I agree with others that the page is way to long and steps need to be made to reduce the size. I feel that there should be three steps to this:
 * First, create/ improve articles for individual buildings. If building requires more than a paragraph to explain, it should probably have its own page.
 * Second, redevelop the page into more of a list and less of an article with links to the information. This could be done in a table format so that basic information could still be given for other lesser buildings.
 * Last, for the few building that we can't justify their own page, but really need additional space, we could add it below the list. I can't imagine more than 10 buildings falling into this category. This would only be done if needed

On a final note, I suggest renaming the page to Iowa State University Campus (if we keep landmarks) or at least Iowa State University buildings. This would maintain similar naming format of other ISU pages.

 * Sense no one else has updated this page in two years and no one else of note has updated the main page for a long time, I'm going to run with this by creating a complete list in a table format at the top of the page. Below that I will leave additional building info that is important and remove the rest.  I believe that this will greatly reduce the size.--Jaretac (talk) 15:48, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Mostly done, still have some formating that needs to be done and I keep noticing little mistakes here and there. The big task should now be to create/improve building articles.  Articles that need to be created include Parks Library, Marston Hall, Memorial Union, and others.  The idea is to slowly make this page a simple overview of the campus buildings with links to more detailed articles about individual buildings.--Jaretac (talk) 02:53, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Didn't really reduce the size in KB, since it was 50KB and is now 75KB, but I do feel that it is easier to read, navigate and the overall length of the page is much shorter. Most of the additional KB came from special formating and not from added information.--Jaretac (talk) 20:14, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Individual Building Articles
I have started a draft for an article about the Memorial Union. Please take a look and let me know what you think.DUKyleXY (talk) 07:51, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Looks good so far, however, it appears you are having problems with your pictures. I'm alright but I'm not the best writer; I mostly pride myself on formating and organization.  Maybe you can go over the main article and make improvements there too.--Jaretac (talk) 01:32, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Thanks, as far a pictures go, I am leaving picures as inline text for now because the article is in my User namespace, not the main Wiki namespace. As for the "main article," are you referring to this article? If so, I will once Memorial Union is "published" in the main Wiki. Again, thanks. DUKyleXY (talk) 16:15, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

List of Current Buildings...
I am wondering if it would be better to create a stand-alone list article for the full list of buildings on campus, and leave major buildings on the main article. Each major building should eventually have it's own main article, but this article would list a summary statement for each major building. DUKyleXY (talk) 18:25, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

 * I like the idea of having a main page that is strictly the article and then having this master list, but the only way I could see that being worth while is if you go in depth about the campus itself. You would want to keep the focus on the campus and just talk about buildings in respect to the entire campus (leave in-depth talk about buildings to that buildings main article).  At that point you may be better off just creating a new article called "Iowa State University Campus" and then provide a link to the this complete listing.  Originally, this article was the master list with each building under a heading, which meant that the TOC was about 2000 px long.  I redesigned the article this spring, but over the years people added info about campus areas that doesn't fit with the building list.  I didn't want to delete that info, so I added the section about campus and renamed the entire page.  I think we should keep this particular page the way it was originally attended, as the master list, but starting a main page about the campus isn't a bad idea.  Also, keep in mind that some buildings and campus info will find its way into college/programs article.  For example, see Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine.  This is something (working on college articles) I plan to continue to improve through the coming months.  Finally, to answer your question above, I was hoping you could skim through all the text in this article and in articles off this, and make any correction you feel are necessary.--Jaretac (talk) 00:52, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

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Ping-pong recording

Ping-pong recording (also called ping-ponging, bouncing tracks, or reduction mixing) is a method of sound recording. It involves combining multiple track stems into one, allowing more room for overdubbing when using tape recorders with a limited set of tracks. It is also used to simplify mixdowns.

The two most common methods consist of
 * Dubbing tracks between two tape recorders (or tracks on a multitrack recorder) connected through a mixing console
 * Dubbing tracks internally, through the onboard mixer of many machines, including Portastudios and similar multitrackers.

In both cases, a new instrument, voice, or other material may be added with each bounce, depending on the setup's mixing capabilities.

In analog recording, the audio quality normally decreases with each generation, while in digital recording, the quality is usually preserved. In either case, the most leeway comes with having the best possible source material.

Early examples
The method was employed by Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson during the 1960s. For the recording of Pet Sounds (1966), Wilson created the instrumentals of songs using a 4-track recorder. He then bounced the material onto one track of an 8-track recorder, using the remaining tracks for vocal overdubs. This meant that the album could not be suitably mixed in stereo, because the instrumental parts were locked in monaural. In 1997, advances in recording technology allowed engineer Mark Linett to resync the original first-generation instrumental stems with the second-generation overdubbed vocals for the compilation The Pet Sounds Sessions and create a true stereo mix of the album.

Other terms
Ping pong is also a term of derision, in particular applied to early commercial stereo recordings of the late 1950s to mid-1960s which do not have a convincing stereo image or sound-stage. Such recordings were often made in two-track form for mixing in mono, but released as authentic stereo recordings.

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Sweeney's Men

Sweeney's Men was an Irish traditional band. They emerged from the mid-1960s Irish roots revival, along with groups such as The Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers. The founding line-up in May 1966 was Johnny Moynihan, Andy Irvine and "Galway Joe" Dolan.

First line-up
Before creating the band in 1966, Irvine, Moynihan and Dolan had met in Dublin and had performed and travelled together, on and off, around Ireland; Irvine and Dolan hitch-hiked together around Europe (Munich, Vienna and Rome) in late 1965.

The name 'Sweeney's Men' was inspired by Dolan's reading of Flann O'Brien's comic novel At Swim-Two-Birds, which depicts the mad, anti-religious, tree-leaping pagan King Sweeney of Antrim.

The band's manager was Eamonn O'Doherty, and he and the band travelled in a red VW van. The band often travelled to Milltown Malbay to enjoy musical sessions with the piper Willie Clancy. The early days of the band have been described by Irvine in his song "My heart's tonight in Ireland".

Second line-up
In June 1967, Dolan decided to travel to Israel to fight in the Six-Day War and was replaced by Terry Woods. Woods who played the 12-string guitar, had travelled in the US and studied the American folk tradition brought an American musical influence to the group.

At the time, they played the bouzouki, mandolin, guitar, tin whistle, harmonica, concertina and 5-string banjo. This line-up recorded their first full-length album, Sweeney's Men in 1968.

The band did not stick to Irish songs exclusively, since all three were big fans of American music and their repertoire included American songs like "Tom Dooley" alongside traditional songs like "Willy O'Winsbury" from the Scottish tradition. Irvine left the band in May 1968, to travel around Eastern Europe.

Third line-up
Irvine was replaced by Henry McCullough, who had been repatriated to Ireland while on an Eire Apparent tour, owing to visa problems. McCullough played electric guitar, and his tenure saw the band explore more progressive, psychedelic territory. After playing with Sweeney's Men at the Cambridge Folk Festival, McCullough left in July 1968 to join Joe Cocker's Grease Band, and was briefly replaced by Al O'Donnell (born Alastair Noel O'Donnell, 8 December 1943, Harold's Cross, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, died 3 September 2015, Rathdrum, County Wicklow, Ireland).

Final line-up
It was as a duo that Woods and Moynihan recorded the band's second, and final, album The Tracks of Sweeney, released in 1969 and including some of their own compositions, such as Moynihan's "Standing on the Shore". Shortly after this release, they broke up, on 22 November 1969. A new Irish-English folk super-group was almost formed in 1970, with Moynihan, Irvine (now back from his travels), Woods and his wife Gay, plus Ashley Hutchings joining on bass, but this never happened.

Break-up and follow-on projects
Following the break-up of Sweeney's Men, four of the members played in other notable bands:
 * Andy Irvine: Planxty, Patrick Street, East Wind, Mozaik, LAPD, Usher's Island, and several duos (with Dónal Lunny, Paul Brady, Mick Hanly, Dick Gaughan, Rens van der Zalm and Luke Plumb) while also pursuing a solo career.
 * Johnny Moynihan: Planxty, De Dannan, Fleadh Cowboys, Moonshine, solo career and with Anne Briggs and Andrew McNamara.
 * Terry Woods: Steeleye Span, Gay & Terry Woods, The Woods Band and The Pogues.
 * Henry McCullough: The Grease Band and Wings.

Reunions
In 1986, Moynihan, Woods and McCullough reunited for a special edition of the BP Fallon Orchestra, a radio show hosted by Dave Fanning of RTÉ Radio.

Irvine and Moynihan were re-united for a one-off gig as Sweeney's Men in Rostrevor, County Down on 22 July 2007, when the band was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the local Fiddler's Green Festival; Dolan was unable to participate due to illness, so Paul Brady agreed to deputise. Irvine wrote "Had hoped we might 'blague' Galway Joe Dolan into doing it but he hasn't been on a stage for about two lifetimes and that wasn't going to work. Johnny had hit on the great idea of asking Paul Brady to play with us as Paul had stood in for Dolan at a gig in Limerick in 1967 after Joe's speedy departure for Israel and the 6 Day War".

Irvine, Moynihan and Woods played together once again on 16 & 17 June 2012, as part of Irvine's 70th Birthday party concerts at Vicar Street in Dublin, a dozen tracks from the shows were released by Irvine as a live album. It worked so well that they gigged again in Ireland later in 2012 and also played five full-house gigs in Galway, Kilkenny, Cork, Dublin and Limerick during November 2013. Their play list included some new songs as well as old standards, in performances that demonstrated that they retain their old vitality and virtuosity across a wide range of instruments.

Legacy
A significant innovation that Sweeney's Men contributed to Irish music was Moynihan's introduction of the bouzouki, with the tuning of GDAD',  one octave lower than the open-tuned mandolin instead of the traditional Greek tuning of CFAD'.

For a band with such a short lifespan, their influence was considerable. Thanks largely to Irvine, they helped evolve a more structured approach to the accompaniment of ballads. Irvine's interaction with Moynihan's bouzouki playing initially, and then with Lunny's up to and including Planxty, consolidated this contrapuntal approach.

Discography

 * Original releases
 * "Old Maid in the Garrett"/"The Derby Ram", 1967; 7" single (Pye 7N 17312)
 * "Waxie's Dargle"/"Old Woman in Cotton", 1968; 7" single (Pye 7N 17459)
 * Compilation EP, featuring all four songs from first two singles (Pye Mini Monster Series EP PMM.608)
 * "Sullivan's John"/"Rattlin' Roarin' Willy", 1969; 7" single (Transatlantic TRASP 19)
 * Sweeney's Men, 1968; LP (Transatlantic TRA170)
 * The Tracks of Sweeney, 1969; LP (Transatlantic TRA 200)

 * Anthologies
 * Time Was Never Here, 1992; CD with both albums but missing The Exile's Jig and Dicey Riley (Demon TDEMCD11)
 * Sweeneys Men/The Tracks of Sweeney,1996; CD with both albums plus Old Woman in Cotton (Essential ESMCD 435)
 * The Legend of Sweeney's Men, 2004; Double-CD with all studio recordings plus several extras (Castle Music, CMDD932).

 * Compilations/Featured
 * Andy Irvine/70th Birthday Concert at Vicar St 2012, 2014; CD/Digital (AK-5)

Filmography

 * Andy Irvine 70th Birthday Concert at Vicar St 2012 (2014), DVD

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The Movie Show

The Movie Show was an Australian film review program which was broadcast on SBS TV. Its history is divided into three parts, until it finally wound up in 2008.

History
The original format, which ran from 30 October 1986 to 12 May 2004, had two presenters, David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz. Stratton and Pomeranz left for the ABC in early 2004, expressing dissatisfaction at high-level decisions at SBS. They soon had a new program with a similar format, At the Movies.

SBS continued The Movie Show, which underwent a style change to become more appealing to youth. Three new presenters were brought in: Megan Spencer, Fenella Kernebone and Jaimie Leonarder. Marc Fennell presented a segment reviewing newly released DVDs. The final episode of The Movie Show aired in 2006.

From 2007 to 2008, The Movie Show returned with a new interactive 10-minute format, presented by Lisa Hensley and Michael Adams.

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How did you find me? I have been in Hiding.

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Opiki

Opiki is a small rural settlement in the Horowhenua district of New Zealand's North Island. It is located on the floodplain of the Manawatu River, 15 km southwest of Palmerston North.

Opiki and its surrounds had a population of 522 at the 2013 New Zealand census, an increase of 3 people since the 2006 census. There were 264 males and 261 females. Figures have been rounded and may not add up to totals. 92.6% were European/Pākehā, 7.4% were Māori, 2.5% were Pacific peoples and 3.1% were Asian.

The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of climbing" for Ōpiki.

Education
Opiki School is a co-educational full state primary school serving students from years 1 to 8, with a roll of as of

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Büchner funnel

A Büchner funnel is a piece of laboratory equipment used in filtration. It is traditionally made of porcelain, but glass and plastic funnels are also available. On top of the funnel-shaped part there is a cylinder with a fritted glass disc/perforated plate separating it from the funnel. The Hirsch funnel has a similar design; it is used similarly, but for smaller quantities of material. The main difference is that the plate of a Hirsch funnel is much smaller, and the walls of the funnel angle outward instead of being vertical.

A funnel with a fritted glass disc can be used immediately. For a funnel with a perforated plate, filtration material in the form of filter paper is placed on the plate, and the filter paper is moistened with a liquid to prevent initial leakage. The liquid to be filtered is poured into the cylinder and drawn through the perforated plate/fritted glass disc by vacuum suction.

The main advantage in using this type of filtration is that it proceeds much more quickly (several orders of magnitude) than simply allowing the liquid to drain through the filter medium via the force of gravity. It is essential that the amount of liquid being used is limited to less than what would overflow the flask; otherwise, the liquid will be drawn into the vacuum equipment. If the vacuum is provided by a water flow device, an overflow of the liquid could result in the spilling of a hazardous liquid into the wastewater stream, a potential violation of the law, depending on the liquid. The potential for overflow and the potential for water to be drawn back into the flask can be reduced by using a trap between the flask and the vacuum source.

It is used in organic chemistry labs to assist in collecting recrystallized compounds. The suction allows the wet recrystallized compound to dry out such that the pure dried crystal compound is left remaining. However, it is often the case that further drying is required, by an oven or other means, in order to remove as much residual liquid as possible.

It is often used in combination with a Büchner flask, Büchner ring and sinter seals. A vacuum tight seal and stability of the Büchner flask and filter are essential during the filtration process. A Büchner ring can be used with Büchner funnels, flasks, glass crucibles and Gooch crucibles. The wide flange and large surface contact ensures an excellent vacuum tight seal whilst the rings are easy to remove and offer excellent support to even the largest funnels.

It is commonly thought to be named after the Nobel Laureate Eduard Buchner (without umlaut), but it is actually named after the industrial chemist Ernst Büchner.

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