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Nashville City Cemetery

Nashville City Cemetery is the oldest public cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. Many of Nashville's prominent historical figures are buried there. It includes the tombs of 22,000 people, 6,000 of whom were African Americans.

Overview
Nashville City Cemetery was opened on January 1, 1822. By 1850, over 11,000 people were buried there. In 1958, Nashville Mayor Ben West led an effort to restore and preserve the cemetery. In 1972, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places due to its historical and architectural significance.

Among those interred in the cemetery are two of Nashville's founders, four Confederate generals, one Tennessee Governor, and twenty-two mayors of Nashville. Also buried there are numerous soldiers, schoolteachers, former slaves, early civic leaders, and other interesting citizens of Nashville. Sea Captain William Driver, who coined the name "Old Glory" for his ship's U.S. Flag and hid that famous flag during the Civil War, is buried here. By 2017, the cemetery included the tombs of approximately 22,000 people, 6,000 of which were African Americans. On March 4, 2017, Elias Polk and Matilda Polk, who were enslaved by President James K. Polk, had their tombstones replaced as part of an effort to recognize more African-Americans buried at the cemetery.

Nashville City Cemetery is located near downtown Nashville at 1001 4th Avenue South.

Notable buried

 * Lt. Lipscomb Norvell – Revolutionary War Soldier and father of US Senator John Norvell.
 * Samuel R. Anderson – Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War.
 * Gen. Felix Kirk Zollicoffer – Confederate general, U.S. Congressman, journalist, Tennessee militiaman.
 * Washington Barrow – U.S. Charges d'Affaires to Portugal; U.S. Congressman from 1847 to 1849.
 * William Carroll – Governor of Tennessee from 1821 to 1827 and again from 1829 to 1835.
 * Thomas Claiborne – U.S. Congressional Representative from 1817 to 1819.
 * Charles Dickinson – Killed by Andrew Jackson in 1806 duel.
 * William Driver – Coined the name Old Glory for the U.S. flag in 1831.
 * Richard S. Ewell – Civil War Confederate General, corps commander, Army of Northern Virginia.
 * Francis Fogg – Developed Nashville's public school system in 1852.
 * Harlan Howard – Prolific American songwriter, principally in country music.
 * Mabel Imes and Ella Sheppard – two of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers.
 * John Patton Erwin – Mayor of Nashville from 1821 to 1822, and from 1834 to 1835.
 * Alexander Porter – U.S. Senator who represented Louisiana.
 * Felix Robertson – Mayor of Nashville from 1818 to 1819, and from 1827 to 1829.
 * Anne Robertson Johnson Cockrill – pioneer.
 * James Robertson and his wife, Charlotte Robertson – two of the founders of Nashville (then called Fort Nashborough)
 * Wilkins F. Tannehill – Mayor of Nashville from 1825 to 1827.
 * Charles Clay Trabue – Member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1824 to 1828 and Mayor of Nashville from 1839 to 1841.
 * Ben West – 62nd Mayor of Nashville from 1951 to 1963.
 * Elias Polk – Enslaved body servant to James K. Polk and later political activist.

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Syagrius and Trier
Tom, you wrote: "The entire northern half of Roman Gaul, from Tours north, remained under Roman Administration for ten years after the deposure of Augustulus, until 486. After this, perhaps another ten years or more, approaching the start of the sixth century, deep within Germany actually only just east of what is now Luxumborg(1), the Roman people of Trier still remained autonomous". Well, there was the empire of Syagrius until 486. But your conclusion is wrong, because your detail information is wrong. Your cardinal error is to believe, Trier was part of Syagrius roman kingdom. In fact, Trier was never part of this last roman remain in middle europe. Syagrius territorry lied exclusively on what today is called France (concentrated around the regions Ile de France and Normandie). The eastern border of Syagrius territory ended roundabout at the valleys of the river Maas (or Meuse in french) and Marne more in the south and Somme in the north, all this is miles west from Trier. During the time Syagrius was defeated, Trier already belonged to the frankish kingdom, called Francia in latin speaking sources, it did no longer belong to Gallia. There are dozens of good maps and books about it, e.g. here http://perso.wanadoo.fr/palladia/finempireoccident.htm (Look at the brown tainted map: The black territory is the frankish kingdom with the city Tournai shown. Tournai is today at the belgian-french border and is situated approx. 130 Kilometers more westwards than Trier). An evidence that trier not belonged to Syagrius kingdom is, that the newly conquered territory in 486 was called "Neustria" (new land) by the new frankish rulers. But Trier never belonged to Neustria, but always to "Austrien" or "Austrasia" (eastern land). The same with today french city of Metz and Reims. So, I don`t know why you insist on your error. You can`t rewrite history without having reliable sources. And thanks for the information, that 6th century refers not to 600's but 500's. Revolutionary! Emettlach 09:30, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

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M83 (band)

M83 are a French electronic music group formed in Antibes in 1999. Initially the duo of multi-instrumentalists Nicolas Fromageau and Anthony Gonzalez, Fromageau parted ways shortly after touring for their second album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. Gonzalez remains the sole constant member of the project, as the primary songwriter and lead vocalist.

The band has released nine studio albums, including the Grammy Award-nominated Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, in addition to two soundtracks. Gonzalez records primarily on his own, with numerous guest musicians. The band is signed to Mute Records and found breakout success in 2011 with "Midnight City", Hurry Up, We're Dreaming's lead single. Their sound has been described as dream pop, new wave, shoegaze, as well as ambient.

Early life
Anthony Gerard Gonzalez (born 13 March 1980) grew up in Antibes, France, together with his brother Yann. His family had a great interest in football and Gonzalez had trials with AS Cannes, while his maternal grandfather is the French international Laurent Robuschi. At the age of 14 he was injured, and turned to music instead when his parents bought him a guitar. He developed his interest in music and American culture at secondary school. With Fromageau, he formed a post-rock group called My Violent Wish.

2001–2005: First recordings
At 17, Gonzalez bought a synth to record a demo, which he sent to a number of French labels. When Paris-based Gooom Records seemed interested, he recruited Nicolas Fromageau to "help me because I didn't feel like I had the shoulders to carry the project on my own". They decided to name their band M83, after the galaxy of that name.

In spring 2001, while Gonzalez was still in college, M83 released its self-titled debut album recorded on an 8-track. It did not attract much attention outside Europe until September 2005, when Mute Records reissued it for worldwide release. M83's second album, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, followed in spring 2003 (summer 2004 in North America) to widespread critical acclaim. After worldwide touring for Dead Cities resumed, Fromageau left the band; he later formed the band Team Ghost in 2009.

Gonzalez returned to the studio to record the group's third studio album, Before the Dawn Heals Us, released in January 2005. In 2016, the song "Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun" was featured in the trailer for the film A Monster Calls starring Felicity Jones and Sigourney Weaver. Later in 2005, M83 provided a remix of "The Pioneers" by Bloc Party, which was also included on Bloc Party's remix album Silent Alarm Remixed. M83 also remixed Placebo's "Protège-Moi", Goldfrapp's "Black Cherry", Depeche Mode's "Suffer Well", Van She's "Kelly", and The Bumblebeez's "Vila Attack". Similarly, M83's songs have been remixed by Gooom labelmates Montag and Cyann & Ben.

2006–2009: Digital Shades Vol. 1 and Saturdays = Youth
In 2006, after the Before the Dawn Heals Us US tour, Anthony Gonzalez continued to explore a musical direction already heard on earlier M83 tracks and began writing and recording a collection of ambient works. The album was recorded primarily at his home studio with the assistance of Antoine Gaillet. The resulting project was called Digital Shades Vol. 1, and was released in September 2007 with a sleeve illustrated by Laurent Fetis (known for his work with DJ Hell, Beck, and Tahiti 80). It is intended to be part of an ongoing series of ambient works.

Saturdays = Youth, M83's fifth studio album, was released in April 2008. It was recorded with Ken Thomas (known for his work with Sigur Rós, The Sugarcubes, Boys in a Band, Cocteau Twins, and Suede), Ewan Pearson (who has also produced for Tracey Thorn, The Rapture and Ladytron) and Morgan Kibby (of The Romanovs). The album features a more focused approach to song structure and form, and Gonzalez stated that the main influence of the album came from music of the 1980s: "I think that '80s music is such a brilliant period for music history. It was the occasion for me to do a tribute to this '80s music, but [it was] also a tribute to my teenage years because the main theme of the album is being a teenager, and being a teenager means a lot to me." Four singles were released from the album: "Couleurs" in February 2008, "Graveyard Girl" in April, "Kim & Jessie" in July, and "We Own the Sky" in December. Redbull and Snowboarder Travis Rice used "We Own the Sky" as the opening song in the 2008 snowboard film That's It That's All. M83 also appeared on a limited edition split 7-inch single with Maps in 2008; M83 remixed Maps' "To the Sky", while Maps provided a remix of M83's "We Own the Sky".

In December 2008, M83 supported Kings of Leon on its UK tour. In January and February 2009, M83 supported The Killers across United States tour dates and toured with Depeche Mode on its Tour of the Universe in Italy, Germany, and France. In July, M83 appeared at the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan. In July 2009, M83 appeared at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio. Gonzalez, unprovoked, physically assaulted an elderly security guard when Gonzalez attempted to have members of the crowd join him on an unreinforced stage platform. The band later apologized to its fans for the incident. In 2010, on the eve of turning 30, Gonzalez moved to Los Angeles.

2010–2015: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, Oblivion and commercial success
In Spring 2010, M83 composed the score of French director Gilles Marchand's film Black Heaven. On 5 July 2010, the Black Heaven Soundtrack was released, which included two new songs by M83 called "Black Hole" and "Marion's Theme", along with five tracks from his back catalog. The soundtrack also includes songs from the score by Emmanuel D'Orlando, Moon Dailly and John & Jehn. However, his feelings towards the record were largely negative, leaving him depressed.

In 2011, Gonzalez started working on a new batch of songs for an album slated for release later in the year. He described the tracks as darker and "very, very, very epic". Speaking with Spin, he said of the new album "It's a double album. It's mainly about dreams, how every one is different, how you dream differently when you're a kid, a teenager, or an adult. I'm really proud of it. If you're doing a very long album, all the songs need to be different and I think I've done that with this one." He recorded again with Morgan Kibby as well as others, including Medicine's mastermind Brad Laner, Nine Inch Nails bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen and Zola Jesus.

Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is Gonzalez's first double album, something he had dreamed of making ever since hearing The Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. "I wanted to make a very eclectic album but also something not too long. Making a double album was a dream of mine for a long, long time and I felt ready to make this move," he explains. Discussing the sound and process of creating this album, Gonzalez says it was "written like a soundtrack to an imaginary movie with different ambiances, different atmospheres, different tempos, different orchestrations and different instrumentation.... When I make an album it's always about nostalgia, melancholy in the past and memories."

On 19 July 2011, the breakthrough single "Midnight City", the first from Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, was released for streaming and free download on the band's official website. Beginning in October, they toured North America and Europe to promote the album; Active Child supported the US leg of the tour. The album placed 3rd in Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2011 list; the single "Midnight City" was placed 1st on the Top 100 Tracks list. On 26 January 2012, M83 came in at number 5 on the Triple J Hottest 100 with the single "Midnight City". The track received further exposure in 2013 as the remixed soundtrack to the Gucci Premier fragrance television advert featuring Blake Lively. It was also used in the 2013 film Warm Bodies.

On 28 June 2012, it was announced that M83 would compose the soundtrack for the 2013 movie Oblivion, directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise. The score was co-written with Joseph Trapanese. The soundtrack album was released on 9 April 2013 by Back Lot Music featuring Susanne Sundfor on vocals. On 26 February 2014, a new song titled "I Need You" was included on the Divergent soundtrack. The song "Wait" was featured in the 2014 film The Fault in our Stars. It was also featured in the "Perception" episode of Revenge in 2012, "The Backup Dan" episode of Gossip Girl in 2012, "Imperfect Circles" episode of Under the Dome in 2013 and "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" episode of The Vampire Diaries in 2014. More recently, "Wait" was used as part of the documentary "The Day We Walked On The Moon" commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing and screened in the UK by ITV in July 2019 and in the same year, in a feature film titled Five Feet Apart. Also from Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, two tracks, "Another Wave from You" and "Outro", featured in the 2014 remake of The Gambler. In 2015 and 2016, British-Franco-Canadian drama Versailles, uses "Outro" as the theme title. "Outro" was also featured in the popular snowboarding documentary The Art of Flight, in the reveal trailer for the games "Paragon" and "Kerbal Space Program 2", in a Mazda commercial entitled "Feel Alive" in 2018, and as the final song in the finale of both the USA Networks TV show Mr. Robot and Fox TV show Enlisted. Moonchild was featured in Top Gear's McLaren Mercedes SLR Oslo challenge. The Italian-French film Suburra from 2015 features music by M83 extensively.

In August 2014, the first three albums produced by the band were re-released by Mute Records with additional material available separately for download. Gonzalez justified the reissues by noting that physical copies of the albums were hard to find and sold for "a ridiculous amount of money". On 2 March 2015, M83, with indie pop group Haim, released the song "Holes in the Sky" from The Divergent Series: Insurgent soundtrack. He also participated in Jean-Michel Jarre's album Electronica 1: The Time Machine.

2016–present: Junk, Volta, Tour, DSVII, and Fantasy
On 1 March 2016, M83's seventh studio album Junk was announced along with its lead single, "Do It, Try It". The album was released on 8 April 2016. The band then embarked on a tour across North America and Europe during the first half of 2016. On 5 December 2016, it was announced that Gonzalez of M83 would be the composer and musical director for Cirque du Soleil's touring show, Volta.

In July 2019, Gonzalez announced M83's eighth studio album, DSVII (standing for Digital Shades, Vol. II). It was released on 20 September 2019. In December 2021, Gonzalez announced a re-release of Hurry Up We're Dreaming for its 10th anniversary. On 10 January 2023, M83 released the single "Oceans Niagara", and released their ninth studio album, Fantasy, on 17 March 2023. A tour of North America in support of the album followed.

Style
The band's aesthetic is characterized by dense guitar and synthesizer layering, extensive use of reverb effects, and lyrics often sung softly in a dream pop style. Gonzalez has been inspired by cultural and musical facets of the 1980s, and his songs have been described as "adult-scripted teen dreams". Inspiration for his music includes bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Smashing Pumpkins, Depeche Mode, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Tangerine Dream.

Members
Current members
 * Anthony Gonzalez – lead vocals, synthesizers, keyboards, guitars, piano, bass, drums, percussion, programming, arrangement, mixer, production (1999–present)

Former members
 * Nicolas Fromageau – keyboards, synthesizers, arrangement, programming, mixer, production (1999–2004)
 * Morgan Kibby – vocals, piano, keyboards (2008)
 * Loïc Maurin – drums, percussion, guitar, bass, keyboards (2008)(2023)

Live members
 * Kaela Sinclair – keyboards, vocals (2016–present)
 * Joe Berry – piano, synthesizers, EWI, saxophone (2016–present)
 * Théophile Antolinos – guitars (2023–present)
 * Julien Aoufi – drums (2023–present)
 * Clément Libes – bass, keyboards, violin (2023–present)

Former live members
 * Loïc Maurin – drums, percussion, guitar, bass, keyboards (2004–2016)
 * Jordan Lawlor – guitars, vocals, multi-instrumentalist (2011–2016)
 * Pierre-Marie Maulini – guitars, backing vocals, keyboards, percussion (2008–2009)
 * Jonathan Bates – guitar, bass (2009)
 * Morgan Kibby – vocals, piano, keyboards (2008–2015)
 * Ian Young – saxophone (2011–?)
 * Phillip Kern
 * Philippe Thiphaine – guitars (2004–2005)
 * Stéphane Bouvier – bass (2004–2005)
 * Ludovic Morillon – drums (2004)
 * Alexandre Fogliani – drums (2003)
 * Orderic Cousin – bass (2003)

Discography

 * M83 (2001)
 * Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (2003)
 * Before the Dawn Heals Us (2005)
 * Digital Shades Vol. 1 (2007)
 * Saturdays = Youth (2008)
 * Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (2011)
 * Junk (2016)
 * DSVII (2019)
 * Fantasy (2023)

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Homer (unit)

A homer (חֹמֶר ḥōmer, plural חמרם ḥomārim; also כֹּר kōr) is a biblical unit of volume used for liquids and dry goods. One homer is equal to 10 baths, or what was also equivalent to 30 seahs; each seah being the equivalent in volume to six kabs, and each kab equivalent in volume to 24 medium-sized eggs. One homer equals 220 litre or 220 dm3.

Lawrence Boadt notes the word homer comes from the Hebrew for an "ass." "It is one ass-load."

The homer should not be confused with the omer, which is a much smaller unit of dry measure.

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United Fighting Arts Federation

The United Fighting Arts Federation (UFAF) is a martial arts organization founded by Chuck Norris in 1979. UFAF is the governing and sanctioning body for the Chuck Norris System, a martial art Norris developed from Tang Soo Do, and which was known as the Chuck Norris System in the early to mid 1980s and as Chun Kuk Do from December 1990 until July 2015. UFAF provides technical standards for instruction and advancement in the system, and also provides its students, instructors, and schools with Chuck Norris System rank certification, educational opportunities, special events, online community access, and other services.

Organizational structure
Like many organizations, UFAF includes an executive board and a board of directors.

Executives Board of Directors
 * Chuck Norris, 10th degree black belt – Founder, Chairman of the Board
 * Aaron Norris, 10th degree black belt – Chief executive officer
 * Ken Gallacher, 10th degree black belt - President
 * Ed Saenz, 9th degree black belt
 * Rick Prieto, 9th degree black belt
 * Chip Wright, 9th degree black belt
 * John Presti, 9th degree black belt
 * Tara Cox, 8th degree black belt

UFAF is also further divided into several regions across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. International locations and members are also included among the following regions:

 * Region 1 – Southern California USA
 * Region 2 – Great Basin USA (Including satellites in Colorado, Nebraska, and Norway)
 * Region 3 – Northwest USA
 * Region 4 – Texas USA, excluding KICKSTART KIDS schools (see Region 13)
 * Region 5 – Southwest USA
 * Region 6 – Appalachia West USA (Schools in Western West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky)
 * Region 7 – Southeast USA
 * Region 8 – Northeast USA
 * Region 9 – Mexico Baja (Including satellites in South America)
 * Region 10 – Northern Mexico
 * Region 11 – Appalachia East USA (Schools in Eastern West Virginia, Virginia)
 * Region 12 – Mexico City area
 * Region 13 – Texas KICKSTART (KICKSTART KIDS Schools in Texas)

Events
Each summer the United Fighting Arts Federation holds a training conference and Chuck Norris System World Championship tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Webb Pierce

Michael Webb Pierce (August 8, 1921 – February 24, 1991) was an American honky-tonk vocalist, songwriter and guitarist of the 1950s, one of the most popular of the genre, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the decade.

His biggest hit was "In the Jailhouse Now", which charted for 37 weeks in 1955, 21 of them at number one. Pierce also charted number one for several weeks each with his recordings of "Slowly" (1954), "Love, Love, Love" (1955), "I Don't Care" (1955), "There Stands the Glass" (1953), "More and More" (1954), "I Ain't Never" (1959), and his first number one "Wondering", which stayed at the top spot for four of its 27 weeks' charting in 1952.

He recorded country gospel song "I Love Him Dearly" also. His iconic hit "Teenage Boogie" was covered by British band T. Rex as "I Love to Boogie" in 1974, but credited as being written by the group's lead singer Marc Bolan and not Pierce. The music of Webb was also made popular during the British rockabilly scene in the 1980s and 1990s.

For many, Pierce, with his flamboyant Nudie suits and twin silver dollar-lined convertibles, became the most recognizable face of country music of the era and its excesses. Pierce was a one-time member of the Grand Ole Opry and was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. A tribute album in his honor (produced by singer-songwriter Gail Davies) was released in 2001 entitled Caught in the Webb – A Tribute To Country Legend Webb Pierce.

Biography
Born in West Monroe, Louisiana, United States, as a boy Pierce was infatuated with Gene Autry films and his mother's hillbilly records, particularly those of Jimmie Rodgers and Western swing and Cajun groups. He began to play guitar before he was a teenager and at 15 was given his own weekly 15-minute show, Songs by Webb Pierce, on KMLB-AM in Monroe.

He enlisted in the US Army Air Forces, and in 1942 he married Betty Jane Lewis. After he was discharged, the couple moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, where Pierce worked in the men's department of a Sears Roebuck store. In 1947, the couple appeared on KTBS-AM's morning show as "Webb Pierce with Betty Jane, the Singing Sweetheart". Pierce also performed at local engagements, developing his unique style that was once described as "a wailing whiskey-voiced tenor that rang out every drop of emotion."

Rise to fame
In 1949, California-based 4 Star Records signed the Webbs under separate contracts, with his wife signed for duets with her husband under the name Betty Jane and Her Boyfriends. However, success only came for Pierce, and in the summer of 1950, the couple divorced.

He moved to KWKH-AM and joined Louisiana Hayride during its first year, and devised a plan to achieve instant "stardom". Before the show, he bought tickets for several young girls in line and asked them to sit in the first row, and after each of his songs to scream and beg for more. It worked; their enthusiasm spread throughout the audience.

Pierce assembled and performed with a band of local Shreveport musicians, including pianist Floyd Cramer, guitarist-vocalist Faron Young, bassist Tillman Franks and vocalists Teddy and Doyle Wilburn. He also founded a record label, Pacemaker; and Ark-La-Tex Music, a publishing company, with Horace Logan, the director of the Hayride. On Pacemaker, Pierce made several records between 1950 and 1951 designed to attract radio play around Louisiana.

Shreveport to Nashville
In 1951, Pierce got out of his 4 Star contract and was quickly signed by Decca Records. His second single, "Wondering", became his breakthrough hit, climbing to No. 1 early in 1952. Pierce moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he met and married his second wife, Audrey Greisham. In June 1952, he had his second No. 1 single with "That Heart Belongs to Me".

In September 1952, the Grand Ole Opry needed to fill the vacancy left by the firing of Hank Williams, and Pierce was invited to join the cast. After Williams' death, he became the most popular singer in country music; for the next four years, every single he released hit the top ten, with ten reaching No. 1, including "There Stands the Glass" (1953), "Slowly" (1954), "More and More" (1954) (a million seller), and "In the Jailhouse Now" (1955). His singles spent 113 weeks at No. 1 during the 1950s, when he charted 48 singles. Thirty-nine reached the top ten, 26 reached the top four and 13 hit No. 1.

Other hits included "Back Street Affair", "Why Baby Why", "Oh, So Many Years", and "Finally"; the latter two being duets with Kitty Wells. His 1954 recording of "Slowly" was one of the first country songs to include a pedal steel guitar. He made regular appearances on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee including as a guest host once a month during 1956. In 1958, he recorded a rockabilly record, "The New Raunchy"/"I'll Get by Somehow" for Decca under the name Shady Wall.

On February 19, 1957, Pierce resigned from the Opry after he refused to pay commissions on bookings and for associated talent.

Pierce continued charting until 1982 with a total of 96 hits; and he toured extensively and appeared in the films Buffalo Gun, Music City USA, Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar, and The Road to Nashville

Lavish lifestyle and later years
As his music faded from the spotlight, Pierce became known for his excessive lifestyle. He had North Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohen, who had made flamboyant suits for Pierce, line two convertibles with silver dollars. He built a $30,000 guitar-shaped swimming pool at his Nashville home which became a popular paid tourist attraction – nearly 3,000 people visited it each week – causing his neighbors, led by singer Ray Stevens, to file suit and prevail against Pierce to end the tours.

He remained with Decca and its successor, MCA, well into the 1970s, but by 1977 he was recording for Plantation Records. Even though he had occasional minor hits, charting in a 1982 duet with Willie Nelson, a remake of "In the Jailhouse Now", he spent his final years tending to his businesses, and his legend became clouded due to his reputation as a hard drinker. Webb and his daughter Debbie recorded the ballad "On My Way Out" as the Pierces, and she was a member of the country group Chantilly in the early 1980s.

Pierce waged a long battle with pancreatic cancer, dying on February 24, 1991, and was buried in the Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville.

Legacy
Pierce has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1600 Vine Street. He was inducted, posthumously, into the Country Music Hall of Fame in October 2001 and into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2008.

Caught in the Webb–a Tribute to the Legendary Webb Pierce was released on Audium Records in 2001. Produced and arranged by singer-songwriter Gail Davies, this album features Willie Nelson, Crystal Gayle, George Jones, Emmylou Harris, The Del McCoury Band, Charley Pride, Allison Moorer, Dwight Yoakam, Pam Tillis, Dale Watson, The Jordanaires, Gail Davies, and others. Gail Davies herself first charted in 1978 with "No Love Have I", a No. 26 Billboard Country hit that Pierce had recorded (and taken to No. 4) in 1959. Proceeds from this album will benefit The Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation.

Footage of Pierce singing "There Stands the Glass" was featured in the 2005 documentary No Direction Home by Martin Scorsese about early influences on Bob Dylan. Pierce's hit single "More and More" was played in the title credits of the 2006 horror film The Hills Have Eyes.

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Zoom Airlines

Zoom Airlines Inc. was a Canadian low-fare scheduled transatlantic airline with its headquarters in the Place Bell Canada building in Ottawa, Ontario. Zoom operated year-round scheduled services to Europe, and charter services to South America, Caribbean, and Southern United States destinations with Canadian tour operators.

Zoom ceased all operations and filed for bankruptcy protection on August 28, 2008 because of its deteriorating financial position. Zoom Airlines was organised as two units - Zoom Airlines Ltd., administered by PKF, and Zoom Airlines Inc with Doyle Salewski Inc as trustees.

History
Zoom Airlines Inc. was founded in May 2002 as a charter airline serving Go Travel Direct to the Caribbean, using aircraft from FirstAir and Monarch Airlines. It would later become a low-fare transatlantic airline. The carrier, based in Canada's capital city, Ottawa, was conceived by two Scottish brothers, John and Hugh Boyle, to fill an opportunity in the Canadian leisure travel market.

The brothers entered the holiday business in the 1980 with their startup company Falcon Holidays in their native Scotland, which was later sold for a large profit to a major United Kingdom tour operator.

Their next venture, Direct Holidays, was started in 1991 and gained strength and market share in Scotland, becoming a household name and the largest 'direct sell' travel company in the UK.

After the sale of Direct Holidays in 1998 to MyTravel Group for £84m (C$200 million), Hugh relocated to Canada. Boyle started GO Travel Direct Vacations, introducing the 'direct sell' method. This business model eliminates the role of travel agents, passing the savings back to the holiday maker. In taking this business model one step further, Boyle launched Zoom Airlines, removing the remaining third parties from the booking process.

In November 2006, Zoom Airlines and Flyglobespan.com embarked on a codeshare agreement. Zoom Airlines operated two of three weekly Manchester to Toronto Flyglobespan flights. Zoom flights from Toronto to Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, London Gatwick, London Stansted and Manchester were available for booking on the Flyglobespan website, as well as Ottawa to London Gatwick. This agreement was only for the 2006/2007 winter season, as Flyglobespan subsequently commenced their own Canadian program.

In the summer of 2006, John Boyle founded a sister company in the UK known as Zoom Airlines Limited. It operated until 28 August 2008, when it ceased trading along with the original Canadian company.

In January 2008, Zoom Airlines Inc received approval from the Canadian Minister of Transport, Lawrence Cannon, to operate flights between Canada and Italy.

2008 financial difficulties
On August 27, 2008, an aircraft leased to Zoom was grounded at Calgary International Airport when the owner cancelled the lease agreement. The fuel supplier would not refuel the aircraft due to outstanding debts. Zoom subsequently announced it had requested creditor protection.

Administration
On 28 August 2008, a Boeing 757 aircraft was held at Glasgow Airport because of the airline's financial difficulties. It was reported that the aircraft was impounded after the airline failed to pay its air traffic control charges. An aircraft at Cardiff Airport was also grounded as the aircraft being used to perform the flight had been impounded before scheduled take off. Shortly afterwards, the airline announced that it had filed for administration under the Canadian Companies Creditors Arrangement Act and that it was ceasing operations.

On the same day shortly after C-GZNA had departed London Gatwick for Bermuda/Fort Lauderdale under the command of Captain Tony Hampson and Senior First Officer Howard Barnard the company's sister airline filed for bankruptcy under the British legal system in August 2008. The company failed to hedge its pre-sold low cost service against globally rising fuel prices. Zoom Airlines is reported to have blamed the "horrendous" price of aviation fuel and the wider economic slowdown.

Re-launch as XPO Airlines
On 14 January 2009, Globe Span Capital announced the acquisition of Zoom Airlines Inc. A plan was in place to get the new Zoom off the ground in early 2009. The Kingston, Ontario, based financial services company planned to relocate Zoom Airlines' finance, human resources and call-centre divisions to Kingston. The operation centre of the airline was to remain in Toronto. On 25 March 2009, a website was launched for the new airline, XPO Airlines. The executives at Globe Span had planned to use the Zoom Airlines brand name, but chose to change to the name XPO, meaning Cross Pacific Ocean.

In May 2009, XPO announced a planned focus on the Canada-Asia market with a revised launch date of late 2009/early 2010. However, by August 2010, the website was shut down and as of May 2020, the website, flyxpo.com is offline. In February 2018, XPO Airlines was in advanced stages of talks with investors, hoping to raise a total of about $18,000,000 CAD by the end of the fiscal year of 2018.

Europe

 * France
 * Paris (Charles de Gaulle Airport)
 * Italy
 * Rome (Rome Fiumicino Airport) (seasonal)
 * Netherlands
 * Amsterdam (Amsterdam Airport Schiphol)
 * United Kingdom
 * England
 * London (London Gatwick Airport)
 * London (London Stansted Airport)
 * Manchester (Manchester Airport)
 * Northern Ireland
 * Belfast (Belfast International Airport)
 * Scotland
 * Glasgow (Glasgow Airport)
 * Wales
 * Cardiff (Cardiff Airport)

North America

 * Canada
 * Alberta
 * Calgary (Calgary International Airport)
 * Edmonton (Edmonton International Airport)
 * British Columbia
 * Vancouver (Vancouver International Airport, Abbotsford International Airport)
 * Manitoba
 * Winnipeg (Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport)
 * Nova Scotia
 * Halifax (Halifax Stanfield International Airport)
 * Ontario
 * Hamilton (John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport)
 * Ottawa (Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport)
 * Toronto (Toronto Pearson International Airport)
 * Quebec
 * Montreal (Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport)
 * United States
 * Fort Lauderdale (Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport) seasonal
 * New York City (John F. Kennedy International Airport)
 * San Diego (San Diego International Airport)

Caribbean

 * Barbados (Grantley Adams International Airport)
 * Bermuda (L.F. Wade International Airport)
 * Grenada (Point Salines International Airport)
 * Jamaica (Norman Manley International Airport)
 * Trinidad (Piarco International Airport)

South America

 * Guyana (Cheddi Jagan International Airport)

Fleet
As of September 2008 the fleet consisted of:

 * W Premium Economy offered only on select flights.
 * As of August 2008, the average age of the Zoom Airlines Inc. fleet was 15.9 years.

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Panhandle (San Francisco)

The Panhandle is a public park in San Francisco, California, so named because it forms a panhandle with Golden Gate Park. It is long and narrow, being three-quarters of a mile (eight blocks) long and just one block wide. Fell and Oak Streets border it to the north and south, Baker Street to the east, and to the west Stanyan Street which separates the smaller Panhandle from the much larger Golden Gate Park. The Panhandle is bisected by Masonic Avenue, which runs north to south and cuts through the middle of the park. In its westernmost block, Oak and Fell Streets angle across the Panhandle, converge with one another, and continue west of Stanyan as John F. Kennedy Drive and Kezar Drive.

Two paved walking paths, one allowing bicycles, run the entire length of the Panhandle from east to west, and several shorter ones criss-cross it north to south. In its western section, between Stanyan and Masonic, the Panhandle contains basketball courts, a public restroom, a playground, and an outdoor gym. The William McKinley Memorial is at the eastern end of the Panhandle, just across Baker Street from the DMV; it consists of a statue and seating area, and was dedicated in 1904 by President Theodore Roosevelt, who succeeded McKinley after his assassination in 1901.

The Panhandle forms the southern boundary of the Western Addition neighborhood and the northern boundary of the Haight-Ashbury district.

History
An 1853 map of San Francisco labels the area that the Panhandle and Golden Gate Park presently occupy the "Great Sand Bank". In 1870, the Panhandle's footprint occupied large, shifting sand-dunes with little vegetation in between it and the Pacific Ocean known as the "Outside Lands". The large hills of sand, semi-arid conditions, and powerful winds generated by the Golden Gate effect conspired to make agriculture and gardening nearly impossible—except for in a few small valleys protected from the constant winds.

William Hammond Hall's long-term plan to create a vast recreational park in San Francisco was first implemented in The Panhandle in 1870, which became part of Hall's experimental laboratory for finding suitable vegetation for reclaiming the dunes. After much trial and error, Hall found that by first planting barley, followed months later by sea bent grass mixed with yellow lupin, the sand dunes could be stabilized enough to dump manure and top-soil without risk of wind erosion. On top of this layer, Monterey Pines, Monterey Cypresses and Eucalyptus—all known for quick growth and shallow root structures—could take root.

After Hall tamed the dunes, the Panhandle was ready to accept planting of hundreds of tree varietals, representing regions from all over the world, including such species as Bailey's Acacia, Japanese Yew, Black Walnut, Blackwood Acacia, Queensland Kauri, and Italian Alder. The land in and around the Panhandle has been so completely transformed by over 100 years of irrigation and development that the sandy, unstable ground beneath is no longer apparent.

In 1899, a proposal was considered for an expansion of the Panhandle due eastward, across Van Ness Avenue and all the way to Market Street downtown. Another idea in 1928 proposed extending the Panhandle diagonally across the Lower Haight and Duboce Triangle neighborhoods and reaching Market Street further west. Neither of these were ever carried out.

In the 1950s, a freeway was proposed that would have run through the Panhandle, taking the place of a road running through the park known as The Avenue Drive,  but due to a citizen freeway revolt it was canceled; the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted in 1959 and again in 1966 against building the Panhandle freeway. Instead, the road through the Panhandle was removed entirely and the streets on either side of it were turned into wide, one-way streets, with traffic lights timed to allow cars to move continuously at 20 (formerly 25) miles per hour. Similar one-way pairs of rapid through-streets exist throughout San Francisco.

The popular bike and walking path along the north side of the Panhandle, along with the Fell and Oak Street Bikeways, The Wiggle, and Market Street, form an important link between the largely residential Richmond and Sunset Districts, which are west of Twin Peaks, and other areas to the east, including the Civic Center, Financial District, and Mission District. This route follows the terrain in such a way as to allow someone to traverse San Francisco without having to climb its steepest hills. The Bikeways, which feature physical barriers that separate the bike traffic from the fast-moving car traffic, were built by removing three blocks of parking from the south side of both streets (between Baker and Scott), an almost impossible political feat in car-clogged San Francisco. In addition to the bike and walking path, west-bound riders can also use a bicycles-only curb lane, which is separated from moving traffic by a parking lane, on Fell Street along the north side of the Panhandle.

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Clutch Cargo

Clutch Cargo is an American animated television series created by cartoonist Clark Haas and produced by Cambria Productions, syndicated beginning on March 9, 1959. The series was notable for its limited animation yet imaginative stories, as well as for being the first widely-known use of Syncro-Vox technology.

Plot
The series' stories centered on adventurer Clutch Cargo, who was sent around the world on dangerous assignments. Accompanying him on the assignments were his young ward Spinner and his pet Dachshund Paddlefoot. Live-action footage of a 1929 Bellanca C-27 Airbus was used; series creator Clark Haas was previously a jet pilot. Episodes were produced and serialized in five 5-minute chapters each. The first four chapters ended in cliffhangers, with the fifth chapter concluding the adventure. Haas explained that the show was formatted this way so that "the stations can run one a day on weekdays, then recap the whole for a half-hour Saturday show."

Production technique
The show was the first to use the "Syncro-Vox" optical printing system because of budgetary limitations and the pressure to create animation within a tight time frame. Syncro-Vox was invented by Edwin Gillette, television cameraman and partner in Cambria Studios, as a means of superimposing real human mouths on the faces of animals for the popular "talking animal" commercials of the 1950s. Clutch Cargo employed the Syncro-Vox technique by superimposing live-action human lips over limited-motion animation or even motionless animation cels.

To further cut costs, Gillette and special-effects man Scotty Tomany supplemented Syncro-Vox with other tricks to save time and money. Haas explained, "We are not making animated cartoons. We are photographing 'motorized movement' and—the biggest trick of all—combining it with live action...Footage that Disney does for $250,000 we do for $18,000." Gillette and Tomany simulated action in the real-time movement either with the camera or within the cel itself. Other live-action shots were superimposed as a means of adding a certain degree of realism and to keep production costs down; for example, footage of real smoke was used for explosions. Traditional animation was also employed in the series on occasion.

The musical soundtrack to Clutch Cargo was also limited. Jazz musician Paul Horn provided a score using bongos, a vibraphone, and a flute.

Episodes
The series consisted of 52 episodes.

 * 1) The Friendly Head Hunters
 * 2) The Arctic Bird Giant
 * 3) The Desert Queen
 * 4) The Pearl Pirates
 * 5) The Vanishing Gold
 * 6) The Race Car Mystery
 * 7) The Rocket Riot
 * 8) Mystery in the Northwoods
 * 9) Twaddle in Africa
 * 10) The Lost Plateau
 * 11) The Ghost Ship
 * 12) The Rustlers
 * 13) The Missing Train
 * 14) The Devil Bird
 * 15) Pipeline to Danger
 * 16) Mister Abominable
 * 17) Operation Moon Beam
 * 18) Air Race
 * 19) The Haunted Castle
 * 20) The Elephant-Nappers
 * 21) Dragon Fly
 * 22) Sky Circus
 * 23) The Midget Submarine
 * 24) Cliff Dwellers
 * 25) Jungle Train
 * 26) Space Station
 * 27) The Swamp Swindlers
 * 28) The Dinky Incas
 * 29) Kangaroo Express
 * 30) The Shipwreckers
 * 31) The Ivory Counterfeiters
 * 32) Dynamite Fury
 * 33) Alaskan Pilot
 * 34) Swiss Mystery
 * 35) Pirate Isle
 * 36) Crop Dusters
 * 37) The Smog Smuggler
 * 38) Global Test Flight
 * 39) Dead End Gulch
 * 40) The Missing Mermaid
 * 41) Flying Bus
 * 42) Road Race
 * 43) Feather Fuddle
 * 44) Water Wizards
 * 45) The Terrible Tiger
 * 46) The Circus
 * 47) Bush Pilots
 * 48) Cheddar Cheaters
 * 49) The Blunderbird
 * 50) The Case of Ripcord Van Winkle
 * 51) Fortune Cookie Caper
 * 52) Big "X"

Home video
In 1996, a live music venue named after the series, Clutch Cargo's, opened in Pontiac, Michigan, but it closed in November 2013 with the site returning to its original use as a church.

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Microtus

Microtus is a genus of voles found in North America, Europe and northern Asia. The genus name refers to the small ears of these animals. They are stout rodents with short ears, legs and tails. They eat green vegetation such as grasses and sedges in summer, and grains, seeds, root and bark at other times. The genus is also called "meadow voles".

There is some disagreement on the definitive list of species in this genus, and which subgenera are recognized. The American Society of Mammalogists recognizes the following 60 species, with discrepancies as noted:

Subgenus Blanfordimys
 * Afghan vole (Microtus afghanus)
 * Bucharian vole (Microtus bucharensis)
 * Juniper vole (Microtus yuldaschi)

Subgenus Euarvicola
 * Short-tailed field vole (Microtus agrestis)
 * Mediterranean field vole (Microtus lavernedii) split from M. agrestis
 * Portuguese field vole (Microtus rozianus) split from M. agrestis

Subgenus Hyrcanicola (not recognized by the ASM, listed in subgenus Microtus)
 * Schelkovnikov's pine vole (M. schelkovnikovi)

Subgenus Iberomys
 * Cabrera's vole (Microtus cabrerae)

Subgenus Microtus
 * Anatolian vole (Microtus anatolicus)
 * Common vole (Microtus arvalis)
 * Doğramaci's vole (Microtus dogramacii)
 * Günther's vole (Microtus guentheri)
 * Harting's vole (Microtus hartingii) split from M. guentheri
 * Tien Shan vole (Microtus ilaeus)
 * Persian vole (Microtus irani)
 * Kerman vole (Microtus kermanensis)
 * Cyrenaica vole (Microtus mustersi) split from M. guentheri
 * East European vole (Microtus mystacinus)
 * Altai vole (Microtus obscurus) split from M. arvalis
 * Paradox vole (Microtus paradoxus)
 * East European gray vole (Microtus rossiaemeridionalis) split from M. mystacinus
 * Schidlovsky's vole (Microtus schidlovskii)
 * Social vole (Microtus socialis)
 * Transcaspian vole (Microtus transcaspicus)

Subgenus Pedomys (not recognized by the ASM, listed in subgenus Pitymys)
 * Prairie vole (M. ochrogaster)

Subgenus Pitymys (includes the former subgenus Mynomes)
 * Insular vole (Microtus abbreviatus)
 * California vole (Microtus californicus)
 * Gray-tailed vole (Microtus canicaudus)
 * Rock vole (Microtus chrotorrhinus)
 * Western meadow vole (Microtus drummondi)
 * Florida salt marsh vole (Microtus dukecampbelli)
 * Guatemalan vole (Microtus guatemalensis)
 * Long-tailed vole (Microtus longicaudus)
 * Mexican vole (Microtus mexicanus)
 * Mogollon vole (Microtus mogollonensis) split from M. mexicanus
 * Montane vole (Microtus montanus)
 * Tarabundí vole (Microtus oaxacensis)
 * Creeping vole (Microtus oregoni)
 * Eastern meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus)
 * Woodland vole (Microtus pinetorum)
 * Jalapan pine vole (Microtus quasiater)
 * North American water vole (Microtus richardsoni)
 * Townsend's vole (Microtus townsendii)
 * Zempoaltépec vole (Microtus umbrosus)
 * Taiga vole (Microtus xanthognathus)

Subgenus Terricola
 * Calabria pine vole (Microtus brachycercus)
 * Daghestan pine vole (Microtus daghestanicus)
 * Mediterranean pine vole (Microtus duodecimcostatus)
 * Felten's vole (Microtus felteni)
 * Anatolian pine vole (Microtus fingeri) split from M. subterraneus
 * Liechtenstein's pine vole (Microtus liechtensteini)
 * Lusitanian pine vole (Microtus lusitanicus)
 * Major's pine vole (Microtus majori)
 * Alpine pine vole (Microtus multiplex)
 * Sicilian pine vole (Microtus nebrodensis) split from M. savii
 * Gerbe's vole (Microtus gerbii or Microtus pyrenaicus)
 * Savi's pine vole (Microtus savii)
 * European pine vole (Microtus subterraneus)
 * Tatra pine vole (Microtus tatricus)
 * Thomas's pine vole (Microtus thomasi)

The IUCN recognizes these additional species:

 * Bavarian pine vole (Microtus bavaricus) (included in M. multiplex by ASM)
 * Singing vole (Microtus miurus) (IUCN lists this as split from M. gregalis, but the ASM lists M. miurus as a synonym of M. abbreviatus)
 * Elbeyli vole (Microtus elbeyli) (IUCN list this as distinct from M. irani)
 * Qazvin vole (Microtus qazvinensis) (IUCN list this as distinct from M. irani)

There is also at least one known subfossil species known:

Subgenus Tyrrhenicola
 * Sardinian vole (M. henseli) extinct after 1300 BC

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Maria Augimeri

Maria Augimeri (, ; born c. 1954 ) is a Canadian politician. From 1985 to 2018, she served as a local politician in Toronto, holding office as a school board trustee, and as a council member in North York, Metropolitan Toronto, and on Toronto City Council. In 2019, Augimeri stood as the New Democratic candidate for the riding of Humber River-Black Creek.

Background
Born in Italy, Augimeri moved to Canada with her family at the age of 2. Before entering politics, she was a Social Anthropologist at York University. She has written three books on the Italian-Canadian community and is also a published poet.

Politics
She first entered politics as a school trustee, and was elected to the city council of North York in 1985. She ran for the Ontario New Democratic Party in the 1987 provincial election in the riding of Downsview which her husband, Odoardo Di Santo, held for ten years before losing in the 1985 election. She lost to Liberal Laureano Leone by 174 votes.

Augimeri was elected to the Metro Toronto council in 1988, and remained on that council until the creation of the new city of Toronto in 1997. She was elected councillor to the new city council three times. She was known for promoting environmental awareness and cultural issues.

She was endorsed for re-election by the Toronto Star newspaper in 2003.

The local weekly newspaper Now Magazine also gave her an endorsement in 2000.

On August 10, 2008, a massive propane explosion in Augimeri's ward destroyed a propane distribution facility which caused the evacuation of thousands of residents. Augimeri cut short a summer vacation in Italy and returned to Toronto to assist with the situation. During a press conference, she became involved in a heated discussion with Tony Di Santo, head of the local ratepayer's group. She said, "If people have problems of a partisan nature they should not be using the death of a firefighter... So shut up!" Later she apologized for losing her temper.

2010 municipal election
The 2010 Toronto municipal election was held on October 25. Augimeri won by an 89-vote margin (0.7%) over local businessman Gus Cusimano. Augimeri thanked her supporters the following day on October 26, 2010, when she said, "I know a lot of the community voted for me because they know I'm the one to protect community interests."

Cusimano later announced that he would challenge the results. The matter was heard in court on March 29, 2011. The judge ruled that there were enough irregularities in the 2010 voting that the election should be held again. Initially the city's legal staff said they would be appealing the decision but on May 13 it was announced that the city would not launch an appeal. City Clerk Uli Watkiss said in a statement, "The decision to proceed with a by-election and resolve this matter as quickly as possible is in the best interest of the public, the individuals directly affected, and the workings of Council." The mayor's office supported the decision. Rob Ford's press secretary Adrienne Batra said, "Obviously the mayor supported (Cusimano) during the general election and once the byelection gets under way he will be fully supporting him again."

On May 16, Augimeri announced that she would be appealing the decision herself. Augimeri told media, "The clerk’s advice not to appeal does harm to taxpayers as well as to the integrity of our electoral system." On August 4, the city reversed its decision and decided to join the appeal which was held in September 2011. On December 19, the court ruled in Augimeri's favour. A three judge panel ruled that although 300 ballots were unsigned by electoral officers the people voting were very likely eligible to vote and that this would have no effect on the election. In a related judgement, they also ruled that Cusimano incorrectly voted in the Ward 9 election because he lived in another riding. They decided that no further action was necessary.

Augimeri was appointed Chair of the Toronto Transit Commission in February 2014 upon the resignation of Karen Stintz to run for Mayor of Toronto in the 2014 Toronto election winning appointment over Josh Colle, Stintz's preferred successor.

2014 municipal election
In the 2014 election, Augimeri again faced Cusimano, though defeated him by a larger margin (42.74% to 28.37%).

2018 Municipal Election
Following the election of Augimeri's former council colleague Doug Ford as Premier of Ontario, Ford's Progressive Conservative government passed legislation that reduced the number of seats on Toronto City Council from 47 to 25 immediately before the city's scheduled election. The legislation, referred to as the Better Local Government Act, merged wards being contested by Augimeri and another council colleague, James Pasternak. Augimeri lost to Pasternak by over 2000 votes, blaming the reduction in council seats for her loss and noting that she would have won in her old ward.

Augimeri served as the chairperson of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) Board of Directors until February 2019. In July 2019, Augimeri was replaced on the TRCA by a citizen appointee.

2019 Federal Election
In the October 21, 2019 Federal Election, Maria Augimeri was unable to unseat the long time Liberal incumbent in the Humber River-Black Creek riding, Judy Sgro. Ms. Sgro won with 22,983 votes, Ms. Augimeri with the NDP was a distant second at 7,126.

Municipal
!rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Candidate !colspan="3"|Popular vote !rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Expenditures ! Votes ! % ! ±% 2022 Municipal election Note: All Toronto Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan. Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
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 * style="text-align:left;" | James Pasternak (Incumbent)
 * style="text-align:right;" |11,559
 * style="text-align:right;" |47.61%
 * style="text-align:right;" |-57.78%
 * style="text-align:right;" |$67,212.21
 * style="background-color:#FF7F00;" |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Maria Augimeri (Incumbent)
 * style="text-align:right;" |9,223
 * style="text-align:right;" |37.99%
 * style="text-align:right;" |-4.75%
 * style="text-align:right;" |$66,209.39
 * style="background-color:#FF0000;" |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Louise Russo
 * style="text-align:right;" |2,726
 * style="text-align:right;" |11.23%
 * style="text-align:right;" | -
 * style="text-align:right;" |$23,323.98
 * style="background-color:#b70776;" |
 * style="text-align:left;" | Edward Zaretsky
 * style="text-align:right;" |771
 * style="text-align:right;" |3.17
 * style="text-align:right;" | -
 * style="text-align:right;" | -1
 * style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Total votes
 * style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |24,279
 * style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |
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 * style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters
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 * style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |
 * style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" |
 * style="text-align:right;" |
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" | 1 These candidates did not submit official Financial Statements and are, therefore, ineligible to run in the
 * style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" |Registered voters
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 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" | 1 These candidates did not submit official Financial Statements and are, therefore, ineligible to run in the
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" | 1 These candidates did not submit official Financial Statements and are, therefore, ineligible to run in the
 * style="text-align:left;" colspan="13" |Sources: City of Toronto, "Election Results"
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Works

 * Italian-Canadians, a cross section. 1978. National Congress of Italian-Canadians. Ottawa.
 * Calabrese folklore. 1985. National Museums of Canada. Ottawa.

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Talk:Skilled worker

2005 comment
Wikipedia doesn't currently have a page skilled worker. Yet the article linking to it has a page linking to it! --T. Mc. 03:12, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The original refering page to this page, "skilled worker" is:

"."

It says,

"Fair Ranked tenth was the project on lowering barriers to migration for skilled workers."

--T. Mc. 00:57, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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POV tag
I see no current POV disputes, removing tag. Ronnotel 04:38, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

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Writing Style -- typos, long sentences and thoughtful writing
The last paragraph in the Overview section is incomprehensible. Someone should fix it or remove it. I'd do it myself, but it's after 3:00 AM and I'm too tired to try to understand it. --71.192.64.235 07:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

 * It looks like it may have been written by a non native English speaker. I agree that it's hard to read, but the material in it is relevant.  It should really be rewritten, not deleted.  Athaler 00:07, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I fixed my two typing misses and the only grammar error. But those were very minor errors -- and the grammar is now correct -- so long sentences are not allowed?T. Mc. (talk) 01:06, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

=="„Als politische Mindestlösung sollte Deutschland gegenüber den 2004 beigetretenen EU-Mitgliedern nun seinen Arbeitsmarkt auf jeden Fall für alle Arbeitnehmer mit Hochschulabschluss und für weitere Berufe, bei denen offensichtlicher Fachkräftemangel besteht, vollständig öffnen.“"==
 * Liebe 10 Millionen Pariser, Liebe 10 Millionen Londoner, Liebe 10 Millionen Moskauer, kommt auf die Anbauflaechen des Bundeslandwirtschaftsministeriums und Bundesforschungsministeriums und arbeitet fuer den Profit der Deutschen Landwirtschaft und Deutschen Industrie.
 * Bezahlt werdet ihr als Chinesische Arbeiter und Bauern der Deutschen Landwirtschaft und Deutschen Industrie zu den entsprechenden Bruttoloehnen und Nettoloehnen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
 * Ausserdem vielen Dank der Deutschen Bundesregierung und Franzoesischen Regierung, dass ihr eure Besten ausgebildeten Facharbeiter und Studenten der Deutschen Landwirtschaft und Deutschen Industrie kostenlos verschenkt.
 * http://www.wiwo.de/politik/dihk-grenzen-fuer-osteuropaeische-arbeitnehmer-oeffnen-294819/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.66.226.95 (talk) 10:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Skill (labor) into Skilled worker
Appears to be something of a WP:OVERLAP but less sourced. The topics should be combined. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 18:34, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Not sure about merging. In the UK "skilled worker" indicates an employee status rather than simply ability. Traditionally it referred to a worker who had at least served some kind of apprenticeship, and the status was retained for life. A worker who had not had such formal training was labelled as "unskilled" no matter how long they had been doing it, and no matter what their ability level. Markjeff (talk) 12:36, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Closing, given the uncontested objection and no support. Klbrain (talk) 21:04, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Business studies
Skilled labour 41.190.2.119 (talk) 16:13, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

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Schwinger

Schwinger can refer to:
 * Gene Schwinger (1932–2020), American basketball player
 * Julian Schwinger (1918–1994), a physicist
 * the Schwinger model, which he created
 * a song by the German band Seeed, from their album Next!
 * a participant in schwingen wrestling

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Maksim Opalev

Maksim Alexandrovich Opalev (Максим Александрович Опалев; born 4 April 1979) is a retired Russian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won a complete set of medals in the C-1 500 m event (gold: 2008, silver: 2000, bronze: 2004).

Opalev's potential was evident when he won two gold medals as a sixteen-year-old at the 1995 World Junior Championships in Yamanashi, Japan. Competing against opponents two years older than himself he won the C-2 1000 m title (with Konstantin Fomichev) as well as the C-4 500 m gold. At the next edition of the world junior championships, in Lahti, Finland, in 1997, Opalev won the C-1 1000 m title.

At the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Opalev has won 20 medals between 1997 and 2007. This includes eleven golds (C-1 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003; C-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006; C-1 1000 m: 1999, C-4 200 m: 2002, 2005), six silvers (C-1 200 m: 2001, 2005, 2007; C-1 500 m: 2003, C-1 1000 m: 2002, C-4 1000 m: 1997), and three bronzes (C-1 500 m: 2005, C-1 1000 m: 2003, C-4 200 m: 2001). Opalev also won two more medals at the 2003 world championships in Gainesville, Georgia, United States with golds in the C-4 200 m and C-4 500 m events, but were stripped of those medals when teammate Sergey Ulegin failed a doping test.

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Talk:Felim O'Neill of Kinard

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I have totally re-written this page. I've added a lot more information and I've also removed some stuff that was just wrong, eg "Wentworth was sent to Ireland to subdue the rebellion". Wentworth was an administrator in Ireland in the years leading up to the rebellion but was recalled and indeed executed by the English Parliament before the rebellion ever happened. Jdorney 02:26, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Quite right, if anything Wentworth kept the country under control. The threat that he might bring an Irish Catholic army over in support of Charles contributed to the outbreak of the civil war in England. Whilst the 1641 revolt was certainly reactionary the threat of invasion by the Long Parliament came after the revolt not before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.42.157.42 (talk) 15:03, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Shane O'Neill, but not the "the proud"
Quite obviously, like with most O'Neills, there is more than one Shane O'Neill. At some stage I succumbed to the illusion that Phelim's Great-Great Grandfather Shane O'Neill, the father of the Henry O'Neill who died in 1579, was the famous Shane O'Neill, called "the proud". I had even added him to the family tree, which I extended to his generation to include such a famous person. Luckily, User: Fraytel expertly pointed out to me, citation at hand, that the Shane in question was not "the proud" but a "Shane O'Neill of Kinard". May nobody else fall into the trap.

With thanks, Johannes Schade (talk) 09:58, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

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Edgar Breau

Edgar Breau is a musician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Hamilton-based band Simply Saucer in the 1970s, and has released a number of solo albums.

In 1974, Simply Saucer recorded a demo tape of music under the supervision of Robert Lanois which combined psychedelic, Krautrock and early punk influences (Syd Barrett, the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop have been cited as among the band's influences). The band broke up in 1979, and their recording was not released until 1989 as Cyborgs Revisited.

Cyborgs Revisited was first issued on CD in 1992, by the Chicago-based Fistpuppet label. A remastered edition, with additional material from the 1977-1979 version of Simply Saucer, was issued in 2003 by Hamilton's Sonic Unyon label.

In 2004, Breau issued a solo album entitled Canadian Primitive. Recorded over a period of 14 years at Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton, the album was generally described as folk-psychedelia. On September 16, 2006, the 1978-79 line-up of the Saucer, featuring ex-Teenage Head guitarist, Steve "Sparky" Park, reunited for a six-song cameo appearance at the Corktown Tavern in Hamilton.

A new edition of Saucer has been created featuring original bassist Kevin Christoff, guitarist Steve Foster, theremin/electronics/guitarist Dan Wintermans, and drummer Joe Csontos. A new album, Half Human, Half Live, was released in 2008.

Breau campaigned for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1999 Ontario provincial election, as a candidate for the right-wing, socially conservative Family Coalition Party. He received 386 votes (1.16%) in Hamilton East, finishing well behind the winner, Dominic Agostino of the Liberal Party.

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Punkah

A punkah, also pankha (, Hindi: पंखा, paṅkhā), is a type of fan used since the early 6th century BC. The word pankha originated from pankh, the wings of a bird which produce a current of air when flapped.

History
In its original sense in the Indian subcontinent, pankha (a Hindi word) typically describes a handheld fan made from a single frond of palm or a woven square of bamboo strips, rattan or other plant fibre, that can be rotated or fanned. These small handheld devices are still used by millions when ceiling fans stop working during frequent power outages.

In the colonial age, the word came to be used in British India and elsewhere in the tropical and subtropical world for a large swinging fan, fixed to the ceiling, pulled by a punkah wallah during hot weather. To cover a larger area, such as the inside of an office or a courthouse, a number of punkahs could be connected together by strings so that they would swing in unison. The material used could range from utilitarian rattan to expensive fabrics. The date of this invention is not known, but it was familiar to the Arabs as early as the 8th century. It was not commonly used in India before the end of the 18th century.

The electric fan largely supplanted it in barracks and other large buildings at the beginning of the 20th century.

Legacy
The term was carried over to punkah louvre, to refer to the outlet for cool air in aircraft, particularly those over the passenger seats.

In India, the punkhawallah or pankha wallah was the servant who operated the fan, often using a pulley system.

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Dagnis Vinogradovs

Dagnis Vinogradovs (born 2 June 1981) is a Latvian canoe sprinter who competed in the mid-2000s. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, he finished seventh in the C-1 1000 m event while being eliminated in the semifinals of the C-1 500 m event.

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Polina Astakhova

Polina Ghrighorievna Astakhova (Поліна Григорівна Астахова; 30 October 1936 – 5 August 2005) was a Soviet and Ukrainian artistic gymnast. She won ten medals at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.

Biography
Astakhova became interested in artistic gymnastics at age 13, after she had watched the gymnastics championships in Donetsk, where their family moved a short time before. She trained in the local gymnastics sports club Shakhtyor under Vladimir Alieksandrovitch Smirnov.

Astakhova earned a nickname The Russian Birch in Western countries for her exceptional grace, and at the 1960 Olympics she was even called Madonna by the Italian journalists. Between 1956 and 1966 Astakhova was on top of many international and national competitions especially on the uneven bars apparatus event. She was a member of the USSR team between 1955 and 1968.

In 1954 Astakhova competed in the USSR Championships for the first time and in a year she made the USSR National team at the 1956 Summer Olympics. She was the youngest team member and contributed to the team's gold. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome she led in the all-around, but lost a whole point for a fall on beam, which was the seventh routine of eight contested. She was very disappointed by the accident and even did not compete that year, although in Rome she won the gold in the team competition and on the bars, silver on the floor and bronze in the all-around. She recovered after the 1961 European Championships, where she won gold medals on the bars and on beam. Competing in the 1964 Summer Olympics, Astakhova contributed to the team's gold, won on the bars, was second on the floor and third in the all-around. She became the first gymnast to defend her Olympic gold medal in the uneven bars event. Her feat was only matched in 2000 by Svetlana Khorkina and later in 2016 by Aliya Mustafina.

After retiring from competitions, since 1972 Astakhova worked as a national coach in Ukraine. In 2002, she was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Astakhova spent the last years of her life in Kyiv before her death at age 68 from pneumonia.

title: Polina Astakhova