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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 19:10, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Corby Ziesman
Not notable, should be deleted. Thue | talk 20:34, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete, not notable, vanity. Megan1967 22:56, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * This student should come back when he's accomplished something. Delete. Radiant! 10:20, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)


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Belaya (Angara)

The Belaya (Бе́лая, Exe Bülen) is a river in Irkutsk Oblast and Buryatia in Russia, The area of its basin is 18,000 km2.

There are nephrite and graphite deposits in the Belaya basin.

Course
The river is a left tributary of the Angara, which flows into the Bratsk Reservoir. It is formed at the confluence of the Bolshaya Belaya (Big Belaya) and Malaya Belaya (Little Belaya). Its length is 359 km from the source of Bolshaya Belaya in the Belskye Goltsy of the Eastern Sayan. Not including the latter the length is 79 km.

Besides the Malaya Belaya, the main tributary is the Urik. There are about 400 lakes in the basin. The Belaya freezes up in October or November and stays under ice until April or May.

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Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States–Japan)

The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Japan and the United States (日米修好通商条約), also called the Harris Treaty was a treaty signed between the United States and Tokugawa Shogunate, which opened the ports of Kanagawa and four other Japanese cities to trade and granted extraterritoriality to foreigners, among a number of trading stipulations. It was signed on the deck of the USS Powhatan (1850) in Edo (now Tokyo) Bay on July 29, 1858.

Timeline

 * July 29, 1858: Treaty and Regulations are signed by the United States and Japan
 * December 15, 1858: Senate reviews the treaty and consents to ratification
 * March 19, 1859: Ratified by Japan
 * July 4, 1859: Entered into force
 * April 12, 1860: Ratified by the President of the United States
 * May 22–23, 1860: Ratifications exchanged at Washington and proclaimed by the President
 * June 25, 1866: Amended through convention
 * July 25, 1878: Modified by convention
 * July 17, 1899: Superseded by the treaty of November 22, 1894.

The Treaty
The treaty followed the 1854 Convention of Kanagawa, which granted coaling rights for American merchant ships and allowed for a US Consul in Shimoda. Although Commodore Matthew Perry secured fuel for US ships and protection for US sailors, he left the important matter of trading rights to Townsend Harris, another US envoy who negotiated with the Tokugawa shogunate; the treaty is therefore often referred to as the "Harris Treaty". It took two years to break down Japanese resistance, but with the realization that demands for similar privileges would soon follow from other Western powers, the Tokugawa government eventually capitulated.

Among the most important points were:

 * exchange of diplomatic agent
 * in addition to the existing ports of Shimoda and Hakodate, the ports of Kanagawa and Nagasaki to be open to foreign trade effective 4 July 1859 and thereafter Niigata, and Hyōgo opened on 1 January 1860 and 1 January 1863 respectively
 * in all the treaty ports listed, United States citizens may permanently reside, have the right to lease ground and purchase the buildings thereon, and may erect dwellings and warehouses
 * a system of extraterritoriality that provided for the subjugation of foreign residents to the laws of their own consular courts instead of the Japanese law system
 * fixed low import-export duties, subject to international control
 * right of freedom of religious expression and church construction to serve the needs of United States nationals within the confines of the designated foreign settlements at the treaty ports

The agreement served as a model for similar treaties signed by Japan with other foreign countries in the ensuing weeks. These Unequal Treaties curtailed Japanese sovereignty for the first time in its history; more importantly, it revealed Japan's growing weakness. The recovery of national status and strength became an overarching priority for the Japanese, with the treaty's domestic consequences being the end of Bakufu (Shōgun) control and the establishment of a new imperial government.

American interests in Japan
Perry's expedition to Japan was theoretically linked to the notion of manifest destiny, in which American settlers had a "God-given" right to spread across North America. The role of Japan in particular was that of a base of commerce between China and the United States. According to US Secretary of State Daniel Webster, God had placed coal for steam ships and other trading vessels "in the depths of the Japanese islands for the benefit of the human family." The idea of "Manifest Destiny" as an imperialistic measure outside of North America was not introduced as a significant idea until the Republican bid for office in 1892, thereby suggesting, in practicality, a mere economic interest in Japan, as it held coal reserves in key locations for Pacific trade.

Extension of the "Perry Crisis"

The Convention of Kanagawa mediated by Commodore Perry was a primary step to a rather forced extension of American influence in Japan. However, most problems that the Tokugawa Shogunate faced came from a division within the country between those who favored opening to the West immediately (kaikoku) and advocates of joi ("expel the barbarian") who favored a preservation of Japanese culture and influence until Japan could face the military threat posed by the West. Most Japanese were familiar with the humiliating Chinese defeat in the First Opium War, but they were divided on how and when they would inevitably open their ports. Both camps did agree that trade should be handled by Japanese going overseas instead of foreigners coming into Japan and violating the country's seclusion laws. Many of those Tokugawan officials who agreed to the Treaty of Kanagawa did so in an effort to avoid war with the United States, whom they knew possessed a far superior military than anything found in Japan. The result was a deepening domestic crisis; after 1858, the Shogunate was trapped between the demands of the United States and its powerful domestic enemies.

However, Townsend Harris' terms were much more demanding than Perry's. Harris claimed that the laws of Japan were "very peculiar" and it would be unfair for foreigners to live under such rule. Article III of the treaty gave Americans the right to trade and reside in Yedo (Tokyo) and Osaka without influence from the Japanese government; the treaty also allowed for consular jurisdiction in those cities opened to American trade, the free export of Japanese gold and silver, and a conventional tariff. The entrance of foreigners to the port of Edo, the shogunal capital, and the placement of an official from a foreign government in proximity to the Emperor was threatening, even to those who supported opening to the West publicly. These demands in particular demonstrated the United States' planned role for Japan; there was to be freedom of trade, allowance for an influx of Americans, (but no expectations of Japanese coming to the United States), no interest in military concerns, and religious toleration of Japanese tradition. It was merely a link in a chain of commerce that would connect North America to China.

Harris' emphasis (and threat) of the inevitable defeat of the Japanese, who still proved reluctant to sign the treaty, by European powers was enough to convince many of the kaikoku members of the Tokugawa Shogunate to agree to the terms of the United States, no matter how unfavorable they were. The memory of China's overwhelming defeat was too close to be ignored.

Additional Treaties
After reluctantly accepting the Harris Treaty, Japan quickly signed similar treaties, called the Ansei Treaties, with Russia, France, Britain, and the Netherlands. This process was hastened by the outcome of the Arrow War in 1858 in which the Chinese were once again soundly defeated by a European expeditionary force. Harris also suggested that Japan sign "honorable treaties" before the European powers would sail to Japan and coerce the signing of "unequal treaties". However, the content of the treaties signed between Japan and the United States did not differ in their most essential points from unequal treaties signed between China and Western nations.

Ratification
The Treaty was ratified through the visit of the first Japanese Embassy to the United States in 1860. The new relationship with the United States has been cited as a factor in the assassination of Ii Naosuke. The Treaty was later superseded on July 17, 1899, by the Treaty of November 22, 1894, which is about the establishment of tariff duties with respect to Japan.

Effects
According to a 2017 study, the treaties reducing trade barriers between Japan and Western powers caused the GDP to increase in Japan by 7 percent in the immediate period.


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Mussaurus

Mussaurus (meaning "mouse lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in southern Argentina during the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic. It receives its name from the small size of the skeletons of juvenile and infant individuals, which were once the only known specimens of the genus. However, since Mussaurus is now known from adult specimens, the name is something of a misnomer.

In its early stages of life, Mussaurus was a small quadrupedal herbivore, walking on all four legs. As it grew up, the changes in body proportions may have led its centre of mass to move backwards towards its pelvis. Adults would have been medium-sized bipedal herbivores, measuring up to 8 m long and weighing up to 1.2 - 1.6 MT.

Numerous specimens of varying age found in a single locality suggest that Mussaurus is one of the earliest dinosaurs to have lived in a gregarious lifestyle. With its possible origin from the Triassic, this complex social behaviour may have given rise to the sauropods' early success as the largest herbivores on land. Mussaurus also possessed anatomical features that suggest a close, possibly transitional evolutionary relationship with true sauropods.

Discovery
Infant and juvenile fossils of Mussaurus were first discovered by an expedition led by Jose Bonaparte during the 1970s to the Laguna Colorada Formation, where the team found fossilized eggs and hatchlings, which added insight into the reproductive strategies of Mussaurus and other sauropodomorph dinosaurs. The age of the formation is estimated between 192.78 ± 0.14 Ma and 192.74 ± 0.14 Ma. The first adult specimens of Mussaurus were described in 2013, although some of these specimens had first been described in 1980 and were originally attributed to the genus Plateosaurus.

Classification
Previous to the discovery of adult specimens of Mussaurus, the phylogenetic position of this taxon was difficult to establish. Infant and juvenile fossils are known to show more basal traits than adult specimens of the same taxon. Furthermore, the recently discovered of one subadult and three adult specimens assigned to Mussaurus are more complete than other material assigned to it. Therefore, a cladistic analysis of basal sauropodomorphs performed by Otero and Pol (2013) to test the phylogenetic relationships of Mussaurus, included information only from adult specimens. The following cladogram is simplified after their analysis (relationships outside Plateosauria are not shown).

Palaeobiology
Mussaurus specimens have been found in association with nests that are believed to contain multiple eggs apiece. The skeletons of Mussaurus infants were small, measuring about 20 cm long and weighing about 53.3 - 76.5 g. This is about the size of a small lizard. Juveniles differed from adults in proportion in addition to size and mass. As is common for dinosaurs, juvenile Mussaurus had tall skulls with short snouts and large eyes. These proportions are common in many infant vertebrates and are often associated with species that provide parental care during the vulnerable early stages of life. Adults are expected to have longer snouts and necks, as typical in early sauropodomorphs.

Social behaviour
As of 2021, Mussaurus represents the earliest unequivocal evidence of complex social behaviour in dinosaurs, with over 100 eggs and skeletal specimens of 80 individuals ranging from embryos to adults found in the same locality. This discovery predates the previous records of herd-living dinosaurs by at least 40 million years. It is thought that this behaviour has been originated from the Triassic period, leading them to become successful as large terrestrial herbivores.

Growth
A study published in May 2019 shows that in its first year of life, during which it weighed 6.5 - 10.2 kg, M. patagonicus probably a was quadruped, walking on all four limbs. Changes in the relative proportions of its body during growth (ontogeny) may have caused its centre of mass to move backwards towards its pelvis, resulting in the animal adopting a two-legged (bipedal) stance later in life. Adult Mussaurus had a tail length of 3.13 m and weighed up to 1.2 - 1.6 MT, significantly larger than subadults which weighed about 106.2 - 557 kg. Individuals of such size would have measured up to 8 m in total body length. It is estimated that Mussaurus would have been sexually mature at 23 to 31 years of age, and reached somatic maturity after 14 years.

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Talk:Chipped beef

This article's VfD nomination was withdrawn.

Yep, looks excellent now. It's definitely a worthwhile article now. Thank you, dpbsmith. GeorgeStepanek\talk  20:37, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! Dpbsmith (talk) 21:51, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Also, the pictures rock. ZacharyS 01:56, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I had fun. Well worth the $2 or whatever it cost to buy a jar of chipped beef in the supermarket. I ate it, too. Last time I had eaten it was about two decades ago. I think it will be no hardship to wait another two decades before trying it again. Dpbsmith (talk) 02:36, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

I didn't feel it was necessary to mention this in the article, but we have chipped beef available in diners all over central Pennsylvania and Maryland. Rufusgriffin

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Carrie Williams Clifford

Carrie Williams Clifford (September 1862 in Chillicothe, Ohio – November 10, 1934) was an author, clubwoman, and activist in the women's rights and civil rights movements in the United States.

Personal life
Born in Chillicothe, Ohio and raised and educated in the state, Clifford left the state to teach in Parkersburg, West Virginia, for three years. In 1886, she returned to Cleveland, Ohio, married Ohio state legislator William H. Clifford, and became an engaged clubwoman. In 1908, she moved with her husband and two children, Maurice and Joshua, to Washington, D.C. Clifford died on November 10, 1934, and was buried at Woodland Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.

Political work
While living in Cleveland, Clifford founded the Minerva Reading Club, which discussed current social problems. Her work as the assistant recording secretary for the National Association of Colored Women led her to found the Ohio Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in 1901. She served as the organization's first president while she lived in Cleveland.

Clifford developed a close relationship with W. E. B. DuBois, beginning when she hosted a talk by him in Cleveland. At his request, Clifford helped organize a women's auxiliary within the Niagara Movement and succeeded in recruiting a large number of female delegates for the 1907 Niagara Movement meeting in Boston. Once she moved to Washington, D.C., she hosted regular Sunday evening gatherings, frequented by DuBois and other black activists involved in the Harlem Renaissance like Mary Church Terrell.

When the NAACP grew out of the Niagara Movement, Clifford transitioned into the new organization, serving on the central leadership committee and as a leader of the group's work on children's issues. She worked with other prominent black activist women, including Mary Church Terrell and Addie D. Waites Hunton, on this issue and others, including lynching. Clifford's anti-lynching work involved helping organize a Silent Parade in Washington, D.C. in 1922 and meeting with President William Taft to show the NAACP's support for anti-lynching reforms.

Beyond her work for the NAACP, Clifford was also a frequent lecturer, speaking on issues related to politics and race.

Writing
Clifford wrote two books of poetry, Race Rhymes (1911) and The Widening Light (1922), the first of which she dedicated to her mother and the second of which she dedicated to her race. She wrote in the preface of Race Rhymes that the common theme of the poems is "the uplift of humanity" and that she hoped her poems would "change some evil heart, right some wrong and raise some arm strong to deliver." The poems in these books grapple with issues of racial and gender inequality, discuss current events in black political life, and celebrate black historical figures. Issues like lynching appear both in her poetry and political advocacy work. She also wrote in favor of temperance. Clifford's political work and poetry intersected in her involvement in black newspapers. Her poems, with their political messages, were occasionally published in these papers, and she published essays there as well. In her essay "Votes for Children," published in the NAACP paper The Crisis, Clifford argued in favor of women's enfranchisement as a way of protecting children and the family. Clifford also contributed to the women's section of the Cleveland Journal as its editor. Beyond being the organization's president, Clifford further contributed to the Ohio Federation of Colored Women's Clubs by editing their recurring publication and an essay collection.

Books

 * Race Rhymes, Printed by R. L. Pendleton, Washington, D.C.: 1911.
 * The Widening Light, Walter Reid Co., Boston, MA: 1922.
 * (edited) Sowing for Others to Reap, Charles Alexander, Boston, MA, 1900.

Poems

 * "Brothers." Opportunity. 1925
 * "Lines to Garrison." Alexander's Magazine 1 (1906–1907): 8–9.
 * "Love’s Way (A Christmas Story)." Alexander's Magazine 1 (1906–1907): 55–58.

Essays

 * "Cleveland and its Colored People" (1905)
 * "Votes for Children" (August 1915), The Crisis 10: 185

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My Name Is Legion (novel)

My Name Is Legion is a novel by A. N. Wilson first published in 2004. Set in London in the first years of the 21st century, the book revolves around two main topics: Britain's gutter press and Christian religion. On the one hand, the novel satirises the detrimental influence yellow journalism can have on individuals, society and politics both domestic and international. On the other hand, My Name Is Legion discusses the role of the churches in contemporary civil society, of faith in a secularised world, and of evil as an undeniable force in our lives—why it exists (leading to the theological question of theodicy) and what believers can actively do to make the world a better place to live in.

Plot introduction
In the novel, a mentally disturbed teenager who might be suffering from schizophrenia (or rather dissociative identity disorder, as the illness is never diagnosed) behaves as if he were possessed by demons. Also, the fictional tabloid whose proprietor and staff are described in the book is called The Daily Legion.

Explanation of the novel's title
"My name is Legion" is a quotation from the Gospel according to Mark. In Chapter 5, we are told that Jesus and his disciples encounter a man possessed by a multitude of demons. On seeing Jesus approaching, the afflicted man

ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many (Mark 5:6–9).

Plot summary
At 16, Peter d'Abo is an elusive boy. He seldom stays at his mother's place, but his grandmother, Lily d'Abo, in whose flat he is supposed to live for the time being, does not see him regularly either. From time to time Peter visits Father Vivyan and on such occasions even serves as an altar boy. When, on the social worker's advice, his mother tells him that Lennox Mark is his natural father, Peter decides to get some money out of him his way. One night while Lennox Mark is not at home he poses as a delivery boy and gains entrance into the Marks' private home. However, he is overwhelmed by Martina Mark and her mother, who is also living there, and persuaded to stay and work for them as a servant. As the two women have his DNA and he does not want to be arrested, he accepts their offer.

While he is on the streets of London, Peter d'Abo starts committing crimes. He steals a miniature recording device from the Marks' home; he steals Rachel Pearl's expensive watch when she comes to live at Crickleden; but he also turns violent, cutting off a man's testicles just because he was looking for a homosexual encounter; and pushing Kevin Currey in front of an underground train.

Meanwhile, Lennox Mark is planning General Bindiga's state visit in London—he has already arranged the details with the Prime Minister and convinced him that Bindiga is an honourable state leader—to coincide with his elevation to Lord Mark of Lower Pool. To suppress opposition to the state visit which might be headed by Father Vivyan, The Daily Legion launches a campaign against the priest, alleging that he has a history as a child molester and releasing a doctored version of a secretly recorded conversation between Peter d'Abo and Father Vivyan as evidence against the clergyman. Vivyan is suspended from the parish, his reputation as a 20th-century saint is immediately destroyed, and ardent devotees such as Lily d'Abo, believing everything the papers say, are devastated. When she is approached by The Daily Legion, Lily d'Abo succumbs to the lure of money and signs an exclusive contract for £10,000, realising only afterwards that in no way will she be able to help her grandson with the money.

Unaware of how dangerous Peter d'Abo is, Rachel Pearl goes in search of the boy in an attempt to make him talk and clear Father Vivyan of the allegations. Following a hint from someone in the street, she walks to a nearby cemetery, finds Peter in an old mausoleum but is immediately taken captive by him. Several people have already been alerted to the fact that Peter d'Abo may have a hostage, and the place is surrounded by police. However, Father Vivyan is there first and shoots Peter between the eyes. Vivyan is fatally wounded by a bullet himself and brought to a monastery to die there.

At about the same time—it is the day of General Bindiga's state visit—a bomb goes off in a posh London hotel killing Bindiga and injuring two of his women, while another device, planted in the offices of The Daily Legion, is defused before it can explode. Three months later, Lord Mark dies of a massive heart attack.

The main characters
The central character of My Name Is Legion is Peter d'Abo, a black youth from (the fictitious area of) Crickleden in South London. 16 years of age, he is the illegitimate son of Mercy Topling, an office worker who, due to her then promiscuous lifestyle, honestly cannot say who Peter's father is—either one of a number of journalists from The Daily Legion where she was employed when she became pregnant in 1985, or Lennox Mark himself, the proprietor of that paper. However, it could also be Father Vivyan Chell, an Anglican monk who lived and worked in Africa but with whom she had a spontaneous and illicit sexual encounter while he was visiting her parish church in Crickleden. Now married with two younger boys, who do not get along with their older brother, Mercy Topling senses that her son Peter, who has been playing truant of late, is not well and may even be dangerous to others but does not do much about it except consult Kevin Currey, the local social worker. While Mercy sees in him "an accepter of human incurability", Currey is in fact a paedophile who has encouraged Peter to have sex with him and thus contributed to the boy's downfall.

Lennox Mark, the owner of The Daily Legion, was brought up in the (fictitious) African country of Zinariya, where he got to know, and was taught to distinguish right from wrong, by Father Vivyan, a man 15 years his senior. Although he had discovered his spirituality there, after moving to England and taking over The Daily Legion, Mark's faith was superseded by greed, gluttony, and other signs of a thoroughly capitalistic view of the world. His wealth is based on the exploitation of the native Zinariyans who work in the local copper mines. Having forged a successful alliance with General Bindiga, the dictator of Zinariya, and publicly supporting him through his paper in spite of blatant human rights violations in that country, Mark has seemingly stopped listening to his conscience altogether. Now in his mid-fifties, the only ambition he has is a peerage: He wants "nothing more than to drape himself with dead animal skins and […] make obeisance to his tribal chieftainess".

Mark's wife Martina is a former East German prostitute now, after rewriting her own biography, posing as the daughter of a Swiss surgeon who, during the Second World War, helped the victims of Nazi Germany without taking money for it. Her perpetual smile is due to the umpteenth facelift she has recently had. Just like her best friend Mary Much, Martina Mark works as a columnist for The Daily Legion and is generally said to pull the strings in her husband's life.

The other people working for Lennox Mark are a motley crew at various stages of disillusionment and self-loathing. 28-year-old Rachel Pearl, for example, a very intellectual and excellently educated young woman, did not mind, when she was still at university, becoming the lover of a much older journalist and getting a well-paid job through his connections. Now, eight years later, she realises that for almost a decade she has been no more than that man's whore, living in an expensive flat paid for from his expense account and providing him with a beautiful body whenever he feels the lust to have her rather than his wife or a prostitute. When, on the death of her former schoolmate and socialite Kitty Chell, Rachel realises the sheer amount of manipulation going on in the media—Kitty died of natural causes in the first stages of pregnancy, but The Daily Legion turns it into a scandalous drug-related death—she quits both her job and her lover and benefactor. Unable, as an atheist, to turn to God or an official church for consolation or advice, she is nevertheless drawn towards Father Vivyan, Kitty's uncle.

Father Vivyan comes from an aristocratic British family, his brother being the Earl of Longmore. As a young man he joined the army and fought in Zinariya, but his conversion was complete, he became a monk and went back to Africa to live and work there for almost 40 years. Now in his late sixties, he is assigned to take over the parish church in Crickleden, and he immediately introduces important changes. He turns the vicarage into an open house—literally, by removing the lock on the front door—and caters for the homeless as well as asylum seekers. As a radical follower of Jesus Christ, he advocates absolute poverty and does not have any personal belongings himself except a few books, among them his favourites, Bonhoeffer's Ethik and works by Simone Weil. Like Bonhoeffer, Vivyan has been pondering the question of whether it is ethically justifiable, and a fulfilment of God's plan, to use violence against those in power who are evil—whether they are a British newspaper tycoon or an African dictator butchering his own people. As it happens, some of the shadier figures looming in and around his Crickleden headquarters have built a secret arsenal and are training to use the weapons.

Father Vivyan's guilty secret, however, is his voracious appetite for sex, which has made him lead a double life as a monk, "while actually being the lover of dozens of women," an appetite which, in retrospect, makes Mercy Topling call him "a randy old goat who just LOVED sex".

Quotations

 * Father Vivyan to Rachel Pearl on good and evil:

Maybe our forebears felt by instinct that there were gods or that there was one true God. This instinct formed itself into religion, or several religions. […] Those deep instincts that goodness is not something we invented for ourselves, that it is there independent of our ability to attain it, irrespective of how many people deny it. You could have the whole Third Reich with all its power and all its deadly attractiveness designed to tell you that it was a good thing to send a child to a gas oven; but every single person on this planet would know that it was evil. That's what makes me hold on. We did not invent the rules. (Part Two, Chapter Twenty)

"When I left this country, the best part of forty years ago, England still seemed to have a soul. It had pulled together after the war and committed itself to a welfare system …" "Jesus, it was the welfare system which drained this fucking country of its soul—can't you see that? The dependency culture destroyed any sense of having to do something for yourself. Do you think those violent, criminal bastards in your parish would have time to be muggers if they had ever been made to work?" (Part One, Chapter Ten)
 * Father Vivyan and Lennox Mark on the welfare state:

Fiction and drama about Fleet Street

 * Howard Brenton & David Hare: Pravda (1985) (about a Rupert Murdoch-like character)
 * Amanda Craig: A Vicious Circle (1996) (about a fictitious British newspaper tycoon and the world of publishing in general)
 * Michael Wall: Amongst Barbarians (1989) (Similar to Lily d'Abo in My Name Is Legion, a white British working class couple takes money from a tabloid to be able to help their son.)
 * Evelyn Waugh: Scoop (1938) (Here, the fictional African country is called Ishmaelia, and the paper's name is The Daily Beast.)
 * A. N. Wilson: Scandal (1983) (about how a political scandal is created by the tabloid press).

Non-fiction

 * Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Ethics (German Ethik) (published posthumously in 1949)
 * Fritz Spiegl: Keep Taking the Tabloids. What the Papers Say and How They Say It (1983)
 * A. N. Wilson: London: A Short History (2004) (especially Chapters 12–15 about post-war London and after).

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Mwaliyas overpower Ochobu for Rocball win

By Shan Seman Reporter

Monday, February 28, 2005

Mwaliyas step foot onto the Marianas High School Green Court with their game faces on and outplayed Ochobu en route to a lopsided 43-18 victory in Friday afternoon's continuation of the World Organized Rocball.

Mwaliyas played as hot as the heat from the torching sun and set the tone of things to come right from the start, breezing through the first set for a 13-4 win, with Donald Tagabuel pounding in three aces.

Not much of a fight was put up in the following set by Ochobu, as Tagabuel picked up where he left off and opened the second set with a goal.

Mwaliyas had everything going their way with Pete Iguel adding an ace and Darrel Roligat a kee to shut down Ochobu 13-0 for a comfortable 26-4 cushion.

Ochobu, however, remained determined and finally broke out of their cold spell by quickly turning the tables on their opponents, smacking away for an early lead on two aces by Ichnis Kapwich and a xunk by Dean Mathew.

While Mwaliyas struggled to convert on first serves, Ochobu danced ahead, doing it a single point at a time and eventually inched into Mwaliyas' lead by taking the set, 12-5. Mwaliyas still led by mile, though, as the teams headed into the final set of regulation.

Mwaliyas would not let Ochobu's charge last any longer and went back to its dominating ways, firing on all cylinders to close the match with an easy 12-2 win.

Not helping Ochobu's cause was the fact that they failed to convert on first serves, resulting in negative points for most parts of the set.

Roligat was the game's heavy hitter with two aces, a xunk, and three kees for 12 points, while Tagabuel's three aces and kee gave him 8 points.

Kapwich led Ochobu with 4 points off his two aces, while Mathew had 2 points on his xunk.

Rocball action continues throughout the week from 12:30pm to 1:10pm at the Green Court.

Rocball was created in 1979 and evolved into tournament-play a couple of years later.

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Belaya (Kama)

The Belaya (Бе́лая; Ағиҙел, ; Агыйдел ) is a river in Bashkortostan, Russian Federation. Its source lies in the south-western Ural Mountains.

It is 1430 km long, and its drainage basin covers 142000 km2.

Settlements along the Belaya include Beloretsk, Sterlitamak, Ufa (at the confluence with the river Ufa), and Birsk. The Belaya flows into the Kama near Neftekamsk.

Tributaries
The largest tributaries of the Belaya are, from source to mouth:

 * Tirlyan (right)
 * Nugush (right)
 * Ashkadar (left)
 * Kuganak (left)
 * Zigan (right)
 * Zilim (right)
 * Sim (right)
 * Urshak (left)
 * Ufa (right)
 * Dyoma (left)
 * Chermasan (left)
 * Bir (right)
 * Bystry Tanyp (right)
 * Baza (left)
 * Syun (left)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nutrinopets

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 18:17, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Nutrinopets
This page was created by a persistent vandal. The topic of the article is real, but seems non-notable; the website in question is currently looking for a place to host the site, and complaining about their lack of a $300 server. I would think a remotely popular website could muster that kind of change. 2600 google hits, but that seems likely to be inflated, given that this is a message board/website. Meelar (talk) 20:41, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete - Alexa says "not in top 100000" and nothing esle significant about it - TB 20:43, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)
 * Delete. I believe this squarely falls below the threshhold of notability.  Its inclusion here appears to be part of an ongoing astroturfing effort. -- John Fader 20:50, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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Singapore Cable Car

The Singapore Cable Car is a gondola lift in Singapore, providing an aerial link from Mount Faber (Faber Peak Singapore) on Singapore Island to the resort island of Sentosa across the Keppel Harbour.

Opened on 15 February 1974, it was the second aerial ropeway system in the world to span a harbour, after Port Vell Aerial Tramway in Barcelona, which opened already in 1931. However, it is not the first aerial ropeway system to span the sea. For instance, Awashima Kaijō Ropeway in Japan, built in 1964, goes over a short strait to an island.

The system is a major tourist attraction, as it provides a panoramic view of the central business district. In 2020, a round-trip ticket cost SGD35 for adults and SGD25 for children.

History

The Singapore government came up with the idea of a cable car to Sentosa from Mount Faber in 1968 as part of its masterplan for tourism projects in the country. Four years later in 1972, construction on the S$5.8 million system commenced, and it was officially opened on 15 February 1974 by then Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee.

At opening, the system had 43 cabins which required cabin attendants to manually open and close the doors. The number of cabins was increased to 51 in 1976. An episode of the popular American TV show Hawaii Five-O was filmed on the system in the late 1970s, while the world's first mass weddings on the cable cars were conducted in the late 1970s.

There was a major breakdown on 27 March 1977, when eyewitnesses heard screams coming from a stranded cable car.

In 1988, the system celebrated its 10 millionth rider. It played host to contestants from the Miss World Pageant when it was held in Singapore in 1989, as well as the sportsmen and officials who were there for the Southeast Asian Games in 1990.

The system's cabins were replaced in 1994 at a cost of over S$11 million. The new cabins now numbered 80, and effectively doubled the system's capacity to 1400 passengers per hour in either direction from 700 passengers previously. The upgrade took 25 days to complete, during which time the system suspended operations.

A year later in 1995, the system welcomed its 20 millionth rider, and quickly reached its 25 millionth visitor just two years later in 1997. The stations at Mount Faber and Sentosa were also upgraded in the same year, while Lego presented to Singapore the world's only life-size cable car cabin made entirely of Lego, based on the Singapore cable car's design.

In November 1999, the Singapore cable car system achieved another world's first when it added glass-bottomed cabins at a cost of S$30,000 each. 6 more of these popular cabins were added in December 2000, giving the system a total of 81 cabins today.

For a week from 16 March 2004, as part of its 30th anniversary celebrations, the system conducted its 'Surviving the Sky' Challenge in which 34 two-person teams (2 teams withdrew at the last minute) from around Asia attempted to survive the longest in the cable car for 24 hours a day.

A S$36 million rebuild of the entire system as a modern monocable detachable gondola started on 14 September 2009, and it re-opened on 21 July 2010. All the cabins were now metallic black cars with chrome trimming (the current design). There are 67 bigger cabins, including World's First 7* VIP Glass-Bottomed Cabin. The two cables were raised by 30 m to facilitate the bigger cabins, to stand 120 m above sea level. Seating capacity was also increased to eight passengers per cabin from six. There are also new flip-up seats and a new music system. The Sentosa Line, an intra-island cable car was opened on 14 July 2015 and is 890 metres in length, and the older line is now called the Mount Faber Line. The lines are not physically linked up, so all visitors must walk 3 to 5 minutes from the original Sentosa station to the Imbiah Lookout station. The new line links Siloso Point to the Merlion station, with the Merlion station also providing a link with the Sentosa Express. The new S$78 million line has 51 eight-seater cabins and is able to move about 2,200 people per hour in one direction.

Between 1 May 2023 and 30 September 2023, as part of the lead-up to its 50th anniversary, the system's operators (Mount Faber Leisure Group) collaborated with The Pokémon Company to redecorate the Mount Faber Line cabins with Poké Ball designs; the interiors also featuring Pokémon.

On 20 March 2024, seven new chrome-finished spherical SkyOrb glass-bottomed cabins entered the Mount Faber Line fleet as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations.

Incidents
A serious incident occurred on the Singapore Cable Car system at about 6 p.m. on 29 January 1983, when the derrick of the Eniwetok, a Panamanian-registered oil rig, passed under the aerial ropeway and struck the cable that stretched over the waterway between the Jardine Steps Station and the Sentosa Station. As a result, two cabins plunged 55 m into the sea, killing seven people. The oil rig was being towed away from Keppel Wharf when it became entangled in the cable and caused it to snap. It also left 13 people trapped in four other cabins between Mount Faber and Sentosa. This was the first incident involving death or injury since the cable car system opened in February 1974. This disaster caused the entire system to shut down for almost seven months.

In 2010, 20 passengers found themselves trapped in their cabins for 15 minutes after lightning triggered sensors which brought the cable cars to a sudden halt.

In 2014, construction was underway on a new intra-island cableway on Sentosa when an empty car became dislodged and crashed. No one was hurt but a member of the staff in another cable car was trapped for several hours.

On 27 July 2022, 18 people were left stranded in cable cars between Sentosa and Mount Faber due to system error.

System
The Singapore Cable Car system consists of two independent lines: Mount Faber Line, which provides services between Mount Faber and Sentosa stations across Singapore main island and Sentosa island; and Sentosa Line, which provides services between Siloso Point and Merlion stations on Sentosa Island.

The system has a total of six stations; three per line.

Specifications
The monocable detachable-grip gondola lift system has three stations, namely Mount Faber Station at the peak of Mount Faber, the HarbourFront Station (former Jardine Steps Station) at HarbourFront and the Sentosa Station at Imbiah, Sentosa. Two supporting towers are located between each pair of stations. This distance between Mount Faber Station and the first tower is about 300 m; from the first tower to the HarbourFront Station is 400 m; from the HarbourFront Station to the second tower is 500 m, and from the second tower to the Sentosa Station is 450 m long.

The height of the track rope is as follows:
 * Mount Faber Station: 93 m (300 ft) above mean sea level
 * Tower 1 (Seah Im Road Tower): 80 m (260 ft) above mean sea level
 * HarbourFront Station (Harbourfront Tower 2): 69 m (225 ft) above mean sea level
 * Tower 2 (pulau balakang mati island Sentosa tower): 88 m (288 ft) above mean sea level
 * Sentosa Station: 47 m (154 ft) above mean sea level

The Mount Faber system consists of 67 cabins, suspended at least 60 metres (197 ft) above the sea. Each cabin can carry a maximum of 8 adult passengers, while the whole system can support 2000 passengers per hour either way. Travelling at a speed of 5 m/s, it takes about 15 minutes for a continuous ride from Mount Faber to Sentosa.

In addition, there are 27 red overhead wire markers mounted on a telephone rope just above the cableway.

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Plastics Engineering Talk
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Chronicles, 1967–1992

Chronicles, 1967–1992 is a compilation album from the band Spirit. It followed on the heels of the previous year's compilation Time Circle, 1968–1972, which had focused on releasing material from the band's first four studio albums. Chronicles concentrates on unreleased material, such as outtakes, alternate and live versions, and some re-recordings.

Track listing

 * 1–4, 22 are from Spirit's 1967 demo tape
 * 5–6 are live versions, 5, 8, 10-15 circa 1974
 * 7 circa 1975, 9 year unknown
 * 16-21 are 1991 recordings

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Michael Umlauf

Michael Umlauf (August 9, 1781 – June 20, 1842), was an Austrian composer, conductor, and violinist. His father, Ignaz Umlauf, was also a notable composer. His sister, Elisabeth Hölzel (née Umlauf), had a career as a contralto and her son Gustav Hölzel was an important bass-baritone.

Umlauf was born at Vienna. At an early age he became a violinist in the Vienna court orchestra. His earliest known compositions were a series of ballet scores for the court theatres dated 1804. He is listed in the theatre almanac of 1809 as Kapellmeister Gyrowetz’s deputy, and by the 1815 almanac he had advanced to fourth of the six Kapellmeisters at the Kärntnertortheater. Umlauf retired in 1825 during Barbaia’s direction of the court opera, and applied without success for the post of second Kapellmeister at the Stephansdom. It was 1840 before he again came to the fore, this time as music director at the two court theatres, but his lengthy absence had left him quite out of touch and he soon retired again, dying at Baden bei Wien not long after.

Umlauf's name is most familiar from his connections with Ludwig van Beethoven, whose works he conducted on numerous occasions. In 1814 he conducted the premiere of the final revision of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio. Ten years later, he conducted the premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

As a composer Umlauf is best remembered for his ballet scores, especially Paul und Rosette and for four Singspiele: Die Herrenhuterin (1804), Das Fest der Freude und der Liebe (1806), Der Grenadier (1812), and Das Wirtshaus von Granada (1812).

In 1823–24, he was one of the 50 composers who composed a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli for Vaterländischer Künstlerverein.

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Aspen Institute

The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1949 as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. The institute is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It also has campuses in Aspen, Colorado, its original home.

Overview
The Aspen Institute is largely funded by foundations such as the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, by seminar fees, and by individual donations. Its board of trustees includes leaders from politics, government, business and academia who also contribute to its support. A report by the Center for International Policy's Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative of the top 50 think tanks on the University of Pennsylvania's Global Go-To Think Tanks rating index found that during between 2014 and 2018 the Aspen Institute received the fifth-highest amount of funding from outside the United States compared to other think tanks, with a total of more than US$8 million from donors that originated primarily in Western democracies but also "sizeable donations from undemocratic regimes in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates."

History
The institute was largely the creation of Walter Paepcke, a Chicago businessman who had become inspired by the Great Books program of Mortimer Adler at the University of Chicago. In 1945, Paepcke visited Bauhaus artist and architect Herbert Bayer, AIA, who had designed and built a Bauhaus-inspired minimalist home outside the decaying former mining town of Aspen, in the Roaring Fork Valley. Paepcke and Bayer envisioned a place where artists, leaders, thinkers, and musicians could gather. Shortly thereafter, while passing through Aspen on a hunting expedition, oil industry maverick Robert O. Anderson (soon to be founder and CEO of Atlantic Richfield) met with Bayer and shared in Paepcke's and Bayer's vision. In 1949, Paepcke organized a 20-day international celebration for the 200th birthday of German poet and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The celebration attracted over 2,000 attendees, including Albert Schweitzer, José Ortega y Gasset, Thornton Wilder, and Arthur Rubinstein.

In 1949, Paepcke founded the Aspen Institute; and later the Aspen Music Festival and eventually (with Bayer and Anderson) the International Design Conference at Aspen (IDCA). Paepcke sought a forum "where the human spirit can flourish", especially amid the whirlwind and chaos of modernization. He hoped that the institute could help business leaders recapture what he called "eternal verities": the values that guided them intellectually, ethically, and spiritually as they led their companies. Inspired by philosopher Mortimer Adler's Great Books seminar at the University of Chicago, which was later adopted by Encyclopædia Britannica's Great Books of the Western World, Paepcke worked with Anderson to create the Aspen Institute Executive Seminar. In 1951, the institute sponsored a national photography conference. During the 1960s and 1970s, the institute added organizations, programs, and conferences, including the Aspen Center for Physics, the Aspen Strategy Group, Communications and Society Program and other programs that concentrated on education, communications, justice, Asian thought, science, technology, the environment, and international affairs.

In 1979, through a donation by Corning Glass industrialist and philanthropist Arthur A. Houghton Jr., the institute acquired a 1,000-acre (4 km$2$) campus on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, known today as the Wye River Conference Centers.

In 1983, former United States Senator Dick Clark founded the Aspen Institute's Congressional program, which sought to educate members of Congress on foreign affairs issues.

In 2005, it held the first Aspen Ideas Festival, featuring leading minds from around the world sharing and speaking on global issues. The institute, along with The Atlantic, hosts the festival annually. It has trained philanthropists such as Carrie Morgridge. It has since added additional events such as the Aspen Ideas Health and Aspen Ideas Climate. In 2023, the Aspen Ideas Climate event included Vice President Kamala Harris and famed singer Gloria Estefan.

Since 2013, the Aspen Institute together with U.S. magazine The Atlantic and Bloomberg Philanthropies has participated in organizing the annual CityLab event, a summit dedicated to develop strategies for the challenges of urbanization in today's cities.

Walter Isaacson was the president and CEO of Aspen Institute from 2003 to June 2018. Isaacson announced in March 2017 that he would step down as president and CEO at the end of the year. On November 30, 2017, Daniel Porterfield was announced as his successor. Porterfield succeeded Isaacson on June 1, 2018.

In April 2020, the company received approximately $8 million in federally backed small business loans as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. The company received scrutiny over this loan, which meant to protect small and private businesses. The Washington Post noted their large endowment and membership of billionaires made this problematic. Dele Olojede, a fellow at the institute, called it "contrary to the stated purpose of this institute", that "one of America’s most elite institutions thinks it is okay to take the money", going on to say "Those who purport to be values-based and public-spirited leaders cannot at the same time put self interest first, when there is so much human suffering and death". The day after Olojede and the Washington Post highlighted the funding, Aspen Institute announced they would return it, stating "Upon listening to our communities and further reflection, we have made the decision to return the loan".

In 2023, Simon Godwin was named Aspen Institute's Harman/Eisner artist in residence. Godwin is the artistic director for the Shakespeare Theatre Company and will serve in a one-year residency at the institute. In June 2023, CAA's Bruno del Granado was named to be head of the Board of the Aspen Institute's Latinos Society Program.

2023 Lineup
The Aspen Institute's community program includes lecturers from the Hurst Lecture Series, the McCloskey Speaker Series, and the Murdock Mind, Body, Spirit series.

Assets
As of 2019 the Aspen Institute had net assets of $310,055,857.

Funding details
Funding details as of 2019:

Henry Crown Fellowship
The Henry Crown Fellowship, established in 1997, educates accomplished entrepreneurs from the private sector to become leaders in community and global development projects. The Aspen Global Leadership Network inducts an annual class of 20-22 candidates between the ages of 30-46 for a two-year training program. Instruction takes place at the Aspen Institute's campus in Aspen, Colorado, and various sites abroad.

New Voices Fellowship
The New Voices Fellowship is a year long program for applicants from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Every year, nominations are accepted from August through October. Fellows are selected in December and announced publicly in early January.

The New Voices Fellowship is a non-residential program. During the fellowship year, fellows meet three times for one week sessions. There are no age limitations for fellows. All expenses for participation in the fellowship are covered by the program. At times the program will also cover the cost of "media-related activities and conferences."

Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence
Community Colleges which succeed in attaining exceptional results for all students during their time in college and as post-graduates are awarded the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.

Recipients to date include:
 * 2023 Amarillo College
 * 2023 Imperial Valley College
 * 2021 San Antonio College
 * 2019 Indian River State College
 * 2019 Miami Dade College
 * 2017 Lake Area Technical College
 * 2015 Santa Fe College
 * 2013 Santa Barbara City College
 * 2013 Walla Walla Community College
 * 2011 Valencia College

Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneers and Dissertation Proposal Award
The Financial Times called the Faculty Pioneers and Dissertation Proposal Awards the "Oscars of the business school world". These honor business school instructors with an outstanding track record of leadership and risk-taking in ensuring that the MBA curriculum incorporates social, environmental and ethical issues.

Recipients in the Category "Lifetime Achievement" include:
 * 2010 James E. Post, John F. Smith, Jr. Professor in Management at the School of Management at Boston University
 * 2010 David Vogel, Solomon P. Lee Professor of Business Ethics at Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley

Excellence and Equity in Community College STEM Award
Community Colleges which demonstrate the provision of outstanding technical education and successfully link students, regardless of their race, ethnicity, family income or gender, with STEM careers as a gateway to economic mobility, are eligible to receive the Excellence and Equity in Community College STEM Award. The prize, awarded in co-operation of the Aspen Institute and Siemens Foundation, provides leading college staff with a benchmark standard of development and technical programs which foster equitable student success by highlighting exemplary practices of the winning programs.

Recipients include:
 * 2020 San Jacinto College

Henry Crown Leadership Award
This annual award was created to honor an outstanding leader whose achievements reflect the high standards of honor, integrity, industry, and philanthropy that characterized the life and career of industrialist and philanthropist Henry Crown. Notable recipients include: The full list of laureates appears on the Award's web page.
 * 2021 Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health
 * 2015 General (ret.) Stanley McChrystal, former Commander of the International Security Assistance Force and Commander of United States Forces Afghanistan
 * 2014 Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO, Netflix
 * 2013 Wynton Marsalis, Managing and Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
 * 2012 Gabrielle Giffords, former U.S. Representative
 * 2011 Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, The Albright Stonebridge Group and former United States Secretary of State
 * 2010 Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
 * 2009 Jeffrey Bezos, President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Amazon.com
 * 2006 Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State
 * 2003 Patty Stonesifer, Co-Chair and President of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
 * 2002 Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth president of the United States
 * 1999 Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.), founding chairman of America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth and former U.S. Secretary of State

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Nossa Senhora

Nossa Senhora (Portuguese for "Our Lady") may refer to the following places:

Angola

 * Estádio Nossa Senhora do Monte, multi-use stadium
 * Pavilhão Nossa Senhora do Monte, indoor sporting arena

Brazil

 * Nossa Senhora Aparecida, Sergipe
 * Nossa Senhora da Glória, Sergipe
 * Nossa Senhora das Dores, Sergipe
 * Nossa Senhora de Lourdes, Sergipe
 * Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Mato Grosso
 * Nossa Senhora do Socorro
 * Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, Piauí
 * Nossa Senhora do Pau Assado, Aracajú

Cape Verde

 * Nossa Senhora da Ajuda (parish)
 * Nossa Senhora da Conceição (São Filipe)
 * Nossa Senhora da Graça (Praia)
 * Nossa Senhora da Lapa (Ribeira Brava)
 * Nossa Senhora da Luz (Maio)
 * Nossa Senhora da Luz (São Domingos)
 * Nossa Senhora da Luz (São Vicente)
 * Nossa Senhora das Dores (Sal)
 * Nossa Senhora do Livramento
 * Nossa Senhora do Monte
 * Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Ribeira Brava)
 * Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Ribeira Grande)

India (Portuguese East Indies)

 * Catedral de Nossa Senhora dos Milagres
 * Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Milagres (Mangalore)

Portugal

 * Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Alandroal), a parish in the Alandroal Municipality
 * Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Angra do Heroísmo), Azores
 * Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Vila Real), a parish in the municipality of Vila Real
 * Nossa Senhora do Monte (Portugal), Madeira
 * Nossa Senhora do Pópulo, a parish in the municipality of Caldas da Rainha
 * Nossa Senhora do Rosário, a parish in the municipality of Lagoa, Azores
 * Nossa Senhora dos Remédios (Povoação), Azores

Churches and buildings

 * Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição Velha, Lisbon, Portugal
 * Church of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré, Nazaré, Portugal
 * Nossa Senhora da Conceição Fortress, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal

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Myers Park (Charlotte)

Myers Park is a neighborhood and historic district in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.

Neighborhoods that are near Myers Park include Dilworth and Sedgefield to the west, Eastover to the east, Uptown Charlotte to the north, and South Park and Foxcroft to the south. The Little Sugar Creek Greenway runs along the western edge of the neighborhood, adjacent to Freedom Park. Though its boundaries originally coincided with the boundaries of the 1220 acre John Spring Myers farm, the neighborhood, by 2008, comprised 2200 acre and had a population of 9,809. Myers Park is bounded by Queens Road to the north, Providence Road to the east, Sharon Road to the south, and Park Road to the west.

Demographics
Of the 9,809 people living in Myers Park in 2008, 2,249 were under 18 years of age; approx. 1,511 were over 64 years of age. There were 4,643 housing units in Myers Park. In 2024, the median household income of 28207 (Myers Park's zip code) was $230,889. The average home value was $1,597,112

Culture
Myers Park is home to the "Booty Loop" a popular 2.85-mile walking, running, and cycling route. The route follows Queens Road to Selwyn Avenue, turns right down Queens Road West to Hopedale Avenue and then right back onto Queens Road, completing the loop. The cycling loop is also the original home to the 24 Hours of Booty annual charitable event, hosted by the 24 Foundation. The 24 hour fundraising event draws hundreds of cyclists and thousands of spectators each year.

The neighborhood's central location and wide, tree lined streets make it a popular choice to include in event routes for local charity runs and the Charlotte Marathon.

Mass transit
The following buses from the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) serve Myers Park and the surrounding neighborhoods:
 * #6 (Kings Drive)
 * #14 (Providence Road)
 * #15 (Randolph Road)
 * #18 (Selwyn Avenue)
 * #19 (Park Road)
 * #20 (Queens/Sharon Road)

Roads
Providence Road, Kings Drive, and Queens Road are major thoroughfares in Myers Park. The highly confusing intersection of "Queens and Queens and Providence and Providence" in front of the Myers Park Library is well-known, as when traveling toward Uptown Charlotte on Providence Road, one must actually turn right at the intersection to stay on Providence, not go straight.

School system
Residents of Myers Park attend Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, including Myers Park High School, Alexander Graham Middle School, Myers Park Traditional Elementary School, and Selwyn Elementary School.

Myers Park is served by the Myers Park Branch of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. The library is located at the corner of Queens Road and Providence Road.

Sites of interest

 * Christ Episcopal Church
 * Little Church on the Lane – originally Myers Park Moravian Church
 * Manor Theatre – one of Charlotte's oldest movie theatres, permanently closed in 2020
 * Myers Park Baptist Church
 * Myers Park Presbyterian Church
 * Myers Park United Methodist Church
 * Edgehill Park
 * Duke Mansion – 400 Hermitage Road
 * Queens University of Charlotte
 * Theatre Charlotte – Charlotte's oldest arts organization and the state's longest running community theatre
 * Wing Haven Gardens and Bird Sanctuary

Historic district
The Myers Park Historic District is a national historic district encompasses 670 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and contributing structures in Myers Park. It was developed after 1911 and includes notable examples of Bungalow / American Craftsman, Colonial Revival, and Tudor Revival style architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Notable Historic Structures

 * Elizabeth Lawrence House and Garden (1949)
 * H.M. McAden House (1917) designed by architect Louis H. Asbury
 * J. Luther Snyder House (1920)
 * John Jamison House (1912)
 * Lambeth-Gossett House (1916)
 * James Buchanan Duke House (1914)
 * Queens College campus, five buildings dated to 1916
 * Myers Park Moravian Church (1924)
 * Myers Park Presbyterian Church (1928)
 * Myers Park United Methodist Church (1929)

Notable residents

 * Lauren Holt, actress and comedienne
 * Pat McCrory, politician, former Governor of North Carolina
 * Ann McCrory, former First Lady of North Carolina
 * Cameron A. Morrison, former Governor of North Carolina
 * Angelia Lawrance Morrison Harris, former First Lady of North Carolina
 * Sara Virginia Ecker Watts Morrison, former First Lady of North Carolina
 * Russell M. Robinson II, lawyer
 * Sally Dalton Robinson, philanthropist

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Talk:The IT Crowd
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Hi, I'm Jimmy. As I've used Wikipedia anonymously (as a reader) a lot since 2002, I now have an account to try to contribute as much as time allows.

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Chemical space

Chemical space is a concept in cheminformatics referring to the property space spanned by all possible molecules and chemical compounds adhering to a given set of construction principles and boundary conditions. It contains millions of compounds which are readily accessible and available to researchers. It is a library used in the method of molecular docking.

Theoretical spaces
A chemical space often referred to in cheminformatics is that of potential pharmacologically active molecules. Its size is estimated to be in the order of 1060 molecules. There are no rigorous methods for determining the precise size of this space. The assumptions used for estimating the number of potential pharmacologically active molecules, however, use the Lipinski rules, in particular the molecular weight limit of 500. The estimate also restricts the chemical elements used to be Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Sulfur. It further makes the assumption of a maximum of 30 atoms to stay below 500 daltons, allows for branching and a maximum of 4 rings and arrives at an estimate of 1063. This number is often misquoted in subsequent publications to be the estimated size of the whole organic chemistry space, which would be much larger if including the halogens and other elements. In addition to the drug-like space and lead-like space that are, in part, defined by the Lipinski's rule of five, the concept of known drug space (KDS), which is defined by the molecular descriptors of marketed drugs, has also been introduced. KDS can be used to help predict the boundaries of chemical spaces for drug development by comparing the structure of the molecules that are undergoing design and synthesis to the molecular descriptor parameters that are defined by the KDS.

Empirical spaces
As of July 2009, there were 49,037,297 organic and inorganic substances registered with the Chemical Abstracts Service, indicating that they have been reported in the scientific literature. Chemical libraries used for laboratory-based screening for compounds with desired properties are examples for real-world chemical libraries of small size (a few hundred to hundreds of thousands of molecules).

Generation
Systematic exploration of chemical space is possible by creating in silico databases of virtual molecules, which can be visualized by projecting multidimensional property space of molecules in lower dimensions. Generation of chemical spaces may involve creating stoichiometric combinations of electrons and atomic nuclei to yield all possible topology isomers for the given construction principles. In Cheminformatics, software programs called Structure Generators are used to generate the set of all chemical structure adhering to given boundary conditions. Constitutional Isomer Generators, for example, can generate all possible constitutional isomers of a given molecular gross formula.

In the real world, chemical reactions allow us to move in chemical space. The mapping between chemical space and molecular properties is often not unique, meaning that there can be very different molecules exhibiting very similar properties. Materials design and drug discovery both involve the exploration of chemical space.

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Roding, Germany

Roding is a town in the district of Cham, in Bavaria, Germany, near the Czech border.

Sons and daughters of the town

 * Louis Mary Fink OSB (1834-1904), Benedictine and Bishop of the Archbishopric of Kansas City
 * Heimrad Prem (1934-1978), painter, member of the artist group SPUR (1958-1965)

Personalities who lived / worked on the ground

 * Hermann Höcherl (1912-1989), CSU politician, former Federal Minister of the Interior

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Talk:Observe

This is a mess. There is also to observe a religion or religious practice, which is vaguely connected to the mention of morality in this entry, but much religious observance is of custom or ritual, or holiday. This article does belong in wiktionery I guess but it needs repair of content as well as format. -- anon

Merged and redirected to observation as per tag. It could still use some more work there. Akerkhof 15:12, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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text: Category:400 births

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