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She Lives!

She Lives! is a 1973 made-for-television movie about a young couple, Andy and Pam (played by Desi Arnaz Jr. and Season Hubley).

She Lives! is the title of a novel by Paul G. Neimark, published in 1972, on which the television drama is based.

Some of the locations that were used for shooting included the steps and the exterior of the Architecture Building at UCLA, and the Bridge over the Avenue of the Stars in Century City.

The final scene when Andy shouts out in the streets "She Lives!" was filmed in San Francisco at the corner of Divisadero St. and Vallejo St.

Plot
Andy is unsatisfied in a class which involved the disection of a rat, after its death, that he wanted to find a new person through an ad. Andy and Pam meet after Andy places a singles ad in his college newspaper. Pam sees his ad and sends Andy a letter. In that letter she advises him to put a response to her letter in the album Tommy by The Who at a local record store. He does and they meet. They are instantly attracted to each other and in the next scene they are living together. Andy has to overcome the objections of his father and brother (his mother having died a year earlier) and he and Pam get jobs and live in her studio apartment.

They are happy until Andy discovers a lump in Pam's neck. They go for tests and find out Pam has Hodgkin's Disease. They are devastated and Pam goes to a therapist to help cope with the sad news. Pam considers suicide, but Andy talks her out of it by convincing her that they will fight. They find a doctor who gives Pam experimental treatments that almost kill her. They travel to San Francisco to meet with another doctor. At first, he won't take Pam's case but eventually he is swayed by Andy's tearful appeal. He turns out to be the doctor who gets Pam's disease into remission.

As the young lovers run throughout the streets of San Francisco celebrating the news they come upon a group of girls playing hopscotch. Andy borrows the chalk from one of them and the girl tells him, "Okay, but don't break it." He responds, "I will never break anything as long as I live." He writes She Lives! in chalk and runs through the streets shouting it. He turns and there is Pam, the girl he loves. As the movie ends, Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle" plays over the credits.

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Ratusz

A Ratusz (Rathaus; Rotušė) is a historic administrative building in countries that adopted the Magdeburg rights such as the Holy Roman Empire, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and others. It was distinguished with a bell tower (lookout or a clock tower). Unlike a regular city hall which may or may not have any specific architectural compositions, ratusz (rathaus) always consisted of a building with a tower.

Ratusz was primarily designated as a city hall, traditionally built in the centre of a town or in the middle of a town square or more common market square (freedom of trade as the main goal of Magdeburg rights). Although the old ratusz can still maintain the function of a seat of local government, frequently it is separated from the contemporary city government, the administrative building housing the town council, and often serves as a museum of local history (for example in Ivano-Frankivsk and Tarnów among many others).

History
Prominent examples of a historic ratusz can be found in at least 82 Polish cities. Some of them date back to the mid-13th century, like the ratusz in Kalisz. The oldest tower still standing was erected in 1274 in Toruń while the actual building with 365 windows comes from the 14th century. The ratusz in Zamość, built during the Renaissance in Poland, is one of the highest achievements of Renaissance architecture anywhere in the country. It was intentionally placed in the corner of the town square not to outshine the nearby Zamoyski Palace of the city's owners, which it did anyway, once the imposing Baroque staircase was added in the 17th century. The ratusz in Poznań, dating from the mid-16th century, has a clock with billy goats butting heads, which attracts hundreds of spectators every day in tourist season. Throughout the centuries many Polish town halls have been damaged in foreign invasions, such as the ratusz in Sandomierz, with city rights since 1286, meticulously renovated before being turned into a museum. In the royal city of Kraków, the historic ratusz, built of brick and mortar in the centre of Main Square, originally in 1316, has been torn down not by the occupiers, but by the Cracovians themselves in 1820 because it was not considered pretty enough. What remains of it is the massive town-hall tower, a prominent example of Polish Gothic architecture.

A considerable number of heritage city halls became historical museums in the 20th century, including the ratusz in Toruń (Toruń Regional Museum or Muzeum Okręgowe in Polish), with stained glass and gingerbread divisions, in Poznań (Muzeum Okręgowe), with a Chopin division, in Lublin (Muzeum Okręgowe), Siedlce (Muzeum Okręgowe), Białystok (Muzeum Podlaskie), Gdańsk (Muzeum Historii Miasta), Sandomierz (Muzeum Okręgowe), and Szczecin (Muzeum Historii Miasta Szczecina). Others still serve as seats of local government, and sometimes also as civil wedding halls and art galleries, restaurants, and cultural centres. These include Zamość, Kielce, Zielona Góra (also a civil wedding hall, restaurant, and winery), Kętrzyn (also a wedding hall and cultural centre), and Kołobrzeg (also a wedding hall, cultural centre, and gallery of modern art).

Etymology
The Polish word ratusz to describe a city hall is derived from the German Rathaus (council house) sometime during the Middle Ages. The influence also serves as a metonym for the burmistrz (burgomaster, or mayor), derived from the German bürgermeister.

Since 1980, the Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society (PTTK) offers a badge for tourists interested in organizing group excursions across the country with the aim of visiting the maximum number of ratusz towns and cities. The PTTK hands out a special booklet where stamps can be collected for the gold badge awarded for visiting a minimum of twenty ratusz outlets.

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Shacklewell

Shacklewell is a small locality to the east of Roman Ermine Street (now the A10), in the London Borough of Hackney.

The area was originally a hamlet that developed on Shacklewell Lane in the Ancient Parish and later Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, now a part of the larger modern London Borough of Hackney. The place name is no longer commonly used, and the areas is now generally regarded as part of Dalston, which was originally a separate hamlet 500 yards to the south, and also part of the Parish and Borough of Hackney. Shacklewell took its name from "some springs or wells which were of high repute in former days, but the very site of which is now forgotten."

History
The place name was first recorded in 1490, when Thomas Cornish, a London saddler, had a tenant there.

The hamlet was one of four small settlements within the Parish of Hackney, (Dalston, Newington, Shacklewell, and Kingsland), which were all grouped for assessment purposes, together having only as many houses as the village of Hackney. The village of Shacklewell was settled on the eponymous village green, along Shacklewell Lane.

Shacklewell lay a little over 500 yards north of the hamlet of Dalston, which stood on Dalston Lane, with which it was linked by Cecilia Road.

John Heron, reputedly the richest man in Hackney, with extensive land-holding had his manor house at Shacklewell. Cecilia More, the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas More, the Roman Catholic martyr, married into the family in 1525. The house was later occupied by the Tyssen family, who owned large parts of Hackney.

One municipal building still standing is the former Shacklewell Washing Baths. This was a communal bath and washhouse. Simple bathhouses like these were once of great importance. Even into the 1960s, in some working-class areas of London many dwellings did not have their own bathrooms.

Largely residential in the mid-19th Century, the district gained some light industry later on, including Eyre & Spottiswoode's printworks and a saw mill. Although some industry remains, largely in Turkish hands, the area is no longer a significant commercial centre.

Although the place name is now little used, the historic street pattern of the original hamlet remains.

Growth and loss of sphere of identity
During the 19th century the area was urbanising and local identities were more fluid than before or since. For some of this period, Shacklewell was informally considered to extend north into West Hackney to include Rectory Road and the northern end of Amhurst Road. It was sometimes also seen to extend west of Stoke Newington Road to include the most southern part of Stoke Newington.

That sphere of self-identification has been almost completely lost. It is no longer common for a Londoner to refer to themselves as living in Shacklewell, the only people to do so now living in the immediate vicinity of the village core, and these would normally also consider the area a part of Dalston. In its way the district is an illustration of the mutable nature of place names in the capital. The lack of a railway station using the name Shacklewell and the consequent omission of the name from railway maps of the capital will have contributed to the decline of the name.

Electoral Ward
There is a Shacklewell electoral ward for Hackney Council, which, as electoral wards require roughly equal electorates, corresponds only very roughly to the area after which it is named.

The post-2014 ward boundaries straddle Stoke Newington Road, with the village core and its immediate surroundings (now part of Dalston) to the east, while the area west of the road is the southernmost part of Stoke Newington

Transport
The nearest London Overground station is the Dalston Kingsland railway station.

Education
Primary schools in the area include Shacklewell School and Halley House, and the secondary school the Petchey Academy, located on the site of the former Kingsland Secondary School

Entertainment
The Shacklewell Arms is a well known pub and live music venue. The pioneering dance music production duo Shut Up and Dance immortalized the Shacklewell Arms in its former life in their track The Green Man.

In popular culture

 * In the book Career of Evil (2015) a murder in Shacklewell leads to the perpetrator being known as the "Shacklewell Ripper".

Nearest places

 * Dalston
 * Hackney Central
 * Stoke Newington
 * West Hackney

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Adeline Dutton Train Whitney

Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (pen name, A. D. T. Whitney; September 15, 1824 – March 20, 1906) was an American poet and prolific writer, who published more than 20 books for girls. Her books expressed a traditional view of women's roles and were popular throughout her life.

Her first venture was a Book of Rhymes. Then followed: Mother Goose for Grown Folks, Boys at Chequassett, Faith Gartney's Girlhood, Hitherto — a Story of Yesterday, Prince Strong's Outings, The Gayworthys, Leslie Goldthwaite, We Girls, Holy Tides, Real Folks, The Other Girls, Sights and Insights, Odd and Even, Bannyborough Whiten Memories, Daffodils, Pansies, Homespun Yarns, Ascutney Street, A Golden Gossip, Bird Talk, and Just How.

Early life and education
Adeline Dutton Train was born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1824. She was the daughter of Enoch Train and Adeline Train (née Dutton). With his cousin, Samuel Train of Medford, Enoch did an extensive mercantile business, owning vessels, and trading to Russia and South America. In later years, he established his line of packet ships between Boston and Liverpool, thereafter known as the "Warren Line". George Francis Train, a founder of the Union Pacific Railroad, was her cousin.

When she was thirteen, her mother presented Whitney with a complete set of the stories of Maria Edgeworth, and gave her unlimited permission to read them. The result was twofold: first, the girl was preserved from reading a great deal of ordinary writing, and secondly, her thoughts were formed and guided by their influence, so that ordinary writing became distasteful to her.

Most of Whitney's more mature education was conducted in Boston. She was mainly the outcome of the culture, intellectual and moral, of that city. Like many other Boston girls, Whitney was educated in the school of George B. Emerson, from the age of thirteen through eighteen, from 1837 to 1842, with the exception of one year spent at Northampton, under the care of Margarette Dwight. Emerson was a Unitarian; Dwight was a Calvinist. In those days, there was an excited controversial division between the Unitarian and the Orthodox. Of this she said:— "After what has been said, incidentally, concerning alternating religious training and influences, I may suitably say that the result of all has been that I have recently connected myself with the church of the 'Apostles' Creed,' finding there the germ and foundation of all that has either broadened or narrowed from it; and am content to rest in that body which recognizes 'the blessed company of all faithful people,'—claiming the right to interpret those words with all the liberalism which they imply."

In the church and Sunday school of Dr. Lyman Beecher, and his successor, Hubbard Winslow, she received her first religious impressions. Afterwards, on her father's second marriage with a woman who belonged to the Unitarian church, the family changed their connection, under the care of Dr. Lowell. "Here," she says, "I found a somewhat different, though not antagonistic teaching, for those were the early days when there was still a simple faith, even among those who had unbound it from the Puritan rigidity. To Dr. Lowell, Dr. Bartol, and Mrs. Bartol, who as Miss Howard, was my Sunday-school teacher, I owe the beginning of my most earnest thinking."

Career
On November 7, 1843, she married Seth Dunbar Whitney, a wealthy merchant of Milton, who was twenty years older than herself. They lived in Milton, where they raised their family. For many years her household obligations prevented her from devoting time to her literary work, apart from an occasional article to a religious journal.

Whitney started writing seriously in her thirties, after her children started school. She first published poems and stories in local journals. Her first writing appeared in the Religious Magazine, published by Bishop Frederic Dan Huntington. In the winter of 1859, Rudd & Carleton published for her Mother Goose for Grown Folks, a little jeu d'esprit, for Christmas.

In 1861, she wrote Boys at Chequasset, for which, probably, her own son furnished material. In June, 1862, came out Faith Gartney's Girlhood. Both these books were issued by Loring in Boston, and had an immediate success. In 1864, came out under the same publisher The Gayworthys, published simultaneously in England, by Sampson, Low, Son & Co. In 1866, she issued as a serial in Our Young Folks, "A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life"; this was published the same year by Fields, Osgood & Co. In the space from 1868 to 1870, she wrote as a serial in the Christian Register, " Patience Strong's Outings," which was published by Loring. She also furnished a serial called "We Girls" to Our Young Folks, which was published in book form by Fields, Osgood & Co. In 1869, she published Hitherto, which appeared simultaneously in England, Whitney securing copyright by being in Montreal at the time of publication. To these followed Real Folks and The Other Girls, published by Osgood & Co., in 1872–73. After this followed Sights and Insights, detailing the experiences of a party travelling in Europe. In the winter of 1877, Whitney compiled a cookbook entitled Just How, and in the spring of 1879, she published her story entitled Odd or Even with the firm of Osgood & Co. After the issue of Odd or Even, Messrs. Houghton & Osgood, having previously purchased of Loring the plates of all Whitney's other books, prepared a uniform edition of all her works. From time to time, Whitney published poetry in the Atlantic Monthly, or other papers; these were collected in a volume entitled "Pansies," published by Osgood & Co. in 1872.

The 1905, New International Encyclopedia expressed the opinion that with Hitherto (1869) "the period of her best work ends." Whitney also patented a set of alphabet blocks for children.

Personal life
Whitney privately opposed women's suffrage, and took no part in public life (in accordance with the traditional approach for women expressed in her books). Her daughter, Caroline Leslie Field, published prose and verse. She was known to the reading public through her contributions to periodicals. Whitney died in Milton at the age of 81.

Style and themes
Whitney wrote mainly for young girls and supported conservative values. She promoted the message of the era that a woman's happiest place is in the home, the source of all goodness. As this was popular among parents, her books sold extremely well throughout her life.

In the Apostles' Creed, on which Whitney found rest, is the article "I believe in the communion of saints," and Whitney, in this poem, expressed the idea of the primitive church, of a living, unbroken sympathy between their departed friends and themselves. They believed that in the services of the church their beloved ones once more drew near to them, and as in family prayers, the whole family in heaven and on earth united.

The most suggestive and comprehensive of Whitney's stories is The Other Girls. In her other stories, she has given amiable, sprightly, interesting young people, growing up under circumstances of ease and comfort, with means for a free, unembarrassed development. But in The Other Girls, we have life questions as they present themselves to those to whom life is a perplexity and a battle, and in this field, Whitney has the advantage of a heart full of motherly sympathy. There is no innocent natural feeling of the young female heart for which she has not kindly comprehension and tolerance. In Whitney's stories, we find the tenderest motherly sympathy for this natural feeling of the young girl's heart. Some of the prettiest pages of The Other Girls are given to a description of the raptures and tremors of the beautiful young country girl, Bel Bree, when acting as a lay figure in trying on an exquisite dress which she and her aunt were making up for a customer. Then there is a suggestion of an admiring male spectator, lodging in the same house, who catches through the half-open door a glimpse of all this loveliness. So far there has been only sympathy with young girlhood, but when the story goes on to show how this same admirer, Morris Hewland, captivated by the girl's loveliness, yet unwilling to offend his aristocratic relations, offers her protection and support without marriage, Whitney makes Bel Bree show resistance. She goes to Aunt Blin's Bible for guidance. In treating of the chances, mischances, fortunes, and misfortunes of The Other Girls, Whitney strikes directly across the much-mooted "woman question" of that day, and here she takes her stand firmly on the ground that family life and the creation of home and its influences is the first duty and the greatest glory of woman. She gives the instance of a young girl who, on the strength of her youthful prettiness, and a lesson or two in elocution, chooses to try the life of a platform reader, and shows the dangers that beset such a course: its interference with womanly duties and family ties, and the slightness of the advantages it brings compared with those which are sacrificed. In contrast come ever so many pretty scenes, as, for instance, when Bel Bree and Kate Senserbo go to live as "help" in a charming young family, where there is mutual appreciativeness and mutual care on the part both of employer and employed.

Selected works

 * 1857: "Footsteps on the Seas" (poem)
 * 1859: Mother Goose for Grown Folks (new editions in 1870 and 1882)
 * 1868: Boys at Chequasset
 * 1863: Faith Gartney's Girlhood
 * 1865: The Gayworthys
 * 1866: A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life
 * 1868: Patience Strong's Outings
 * 1869: Hitherto
 * 1870: We Girls
 * 1871: Real Folks
 * 1872: Pansies (poems)
 * 1873: The Other Girls
 * 1876: Sights and Insights
 * 1878: Just How: A Key to the Cook Books
 * 1880: Odd or Even
 * 1885: Bonnyborough
 * 1886: Homespun Yarns
 * 1886: Holy Tides
 * 1887: Daffodils
 * 1888: Bird Talk
 * 1890: Ascutney Street
 * 1891: A Golden Gossip
 * 1894: Square Pegs
 * 1896: Friendly Letters to Girl Friends
 * 1897: The Open Mystery: A Reading of the Mosaic Story
 * 1900: The Integrity of Christian Science

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Jacques Dufilho

Jacques Dufilho (19 February 1914 – 28 August 2005) was a French actor. He was born at Bègles (Gironde) and he died at Ponsampère (Gers).

Life and career
Dufilho appeared in 65 French productions. Moreover, he was frequently seen in Italian films. In 1978 he received a César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Le Crabe-tambour and in 1980 another one for his role in Un mauvais fils.

The actor was also known as a collector of Bugatti vintage cars.

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Interior of church in Abbey of Senanque, photographed 2004 by Jeremy J. Shapiro

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Microsite

A microsite  is an individual web page or a small cluster of pages which are meant to function as a discrete entity (such as an iFrame) within an existing website or to complement an offline activity. The microsite's main landing page can have its own domain name or subdomain.

Usage
Microsites are typically used in web design to add a specialized group of information, either editorial or commercial. Such sites may be linked in to a main site or not or taken completely off a site's server when the site is used for a temporary purpose. The main distinction of a microsite versus its parent site is its purpose and specific cohesiveness as compared to the microsite's broader overall parent website.

Microsites used for editorial purposes maybe a page or group of pages that, for example, might contain information about a holiday, an event or similar item which gives more detailed information than a site's general content area may provide. A community organization may have its main site with all the organization's basic information but creates a separate, temporary microsite to inform about a particular activity, event, or similar.

Often, microsites will be used for editorial purposes by a commercial business to add editorial value. For example, a retailer of party goods may create a microsite with editorial content about the history of Halloween or some other holiday or event. The commercial purpose of such editorial microsites, (beyond driving product sales), may include adding value to the site's visitors for branding purposes as well as providing editorial content and keywords allowing for greater chances of search engine inclusion. Normally, microsites do not contain web applications.

Microsites may be used for purely commercial purposes to create in-depth information about a particular product, service or as editorial support towards a specific product, such as describing a new technology. A car manufacturer, for example, may present a new hybrid vehicle and support the sales presentation with a microsite specific to explaining hybrid technology.

In a large corporation, the various business units may own their specific content in a microsite within the corporations main website.

With the prevalence of keyword contextual advertising, (more commonly referred to as pay per click or PPC), microsites may be created specifically to carry such contextual advertising. Or along a similar tactic, they're created in order to specifically carry topic-specific, keyword-rich content with the goal of having search engines rank them highly when search engine users seek such content topics.

A microsite, however, will most likely not lower PPC cost, because it will most likely not improve Quality Score. There are nine factors that go into Quality Score, one of them is the quality of the landing page (how relevant the content is, transparent it is, and the ease of navigation). This factor does not look at the entire website (which can be a common misconception on Quality Score), only the page chosen to land people on from their search query. Thus, it does not matter if the website covers a broad spectrum of items, or only one, it matters if that one page's content is specific to that person's search. And considering the other eight factors that go into Quality Score, the main website should typically result in better Quality Scores than a microsite.

Criticism
Microsites have been criticized by security expert Rich Baldry who claimed they cause confusion, waste money, and can damage reputation.

When special-purpose domains for campaign microsites appear, it becomes [...] confusing. At best, people might ignore the microsite domain, keeping themselves safe but making the marketing dollars a waste. At worst, the protection and reputation offered by use of known domains is lost and people end up infected the next time they follow an unknown domain.

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Sestra (Leningrad Oblast)

The Sestra (Сестра; Rajajoki or Siestarjoki; Systerbäck) is a river in Vsevolozhsky and Vyborgsky Districts of Leningrad Oblast and Kurortny District of Saint Petersburg, Russia. The length of the Sestra is 74 km, and the area of its basin is 399 km2.

The Sestra flows over the Karelian Isthmus. The source of the river is in swamps west of the settlement of Vaskelovo, and the Sestra flows in the general direction south, having its mouth in the town of Sestroretsk. It used to fall into the Gulf of Finland until the early 18th century. After the construction of a dam for the needs of the munitions factory in Sestroretsk, a part of the river was turned into a reservoir called Sestroretsky Razliv (Sestroretsk Overflow), 2 m deep with an area of 10.6 km2. Since then, the Sestra River has been flowing into this reservoir. The Sestroretsk Overflow is separated from the Gulf of Finland with a ridge of artificial sand dunes. Excess water is dumped into the Gulf of Finland through a canal, which is 4.8 km long.

The Sestra served as a natural border between Russia and Sweden (1323–1617) and between Russia and Finland (1812–1940). It currently serves as a border between Vsevolozhsky (east, formerly Soviet Union) and Vyborgsky (west, formerly Finland) districts of Leningrad Oblast.

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Eldar Ryazanov

Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov (Эльдар Александрович Рязанов; 18 November 1927 – 30 November 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the former Soviet Union and former Warsaw Pact countries.

Biography
Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov was born in Samara. His father, Aleksandr Semyonovich Ryazanov, was a diplomat who worked in Tehran. His mother, Sofya Mikhailovna (née Shusterman), was of Jewish descent.

In 1930, the family moved to Moscow, and soon his parents divorced. He was then raised by his mother and her new husband, Lev Mikhailovich Kopp. In 1937 his father was arrested by the Stalinist government and subsequently served 18 years in the correctional labour camps.

Ryazanov began to create films in the early 1950s. In 1955, Ivan Pyryev, then a major force in the Soviet film industry, suggested to him to begin work on his film Carnival Night. At first, Ryazanov refused, as he wanted to make "serious films", but then was convinced to begin, as Pyryev believed that "anybody could shoot a melodrama, but only a few can create good comedy." He won instant success, and began to release more films.

He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1984, and received the USSR State Prize in 1977. He won the Nika Award for Best Director in 1991 for the film Promised Heaven.

Among his most famous films are Carnival Night (1955), Hussar Ballad (1962), Beware of the Car (1966), The Irony of Fate (1975), Office Romance (1977), The Garage (1980), Station for Two (1982) and A Cruel Romance (1984). Ryazanov's main genre was tragicomedy.

Illness and death
Ryazanov had an acute ischemic stroke in November 2014. He was admitted to a Moscow hospital on 21 November 2015 due to shortness of breath. He died around midnight on 30 November 2015, of heart and lung failure, at the age of 88.

Legacy
Ryazanov was one of the most successful film directors of the Soviet Union, and his films are still well-known in the post-USSR landscape. The Irony of Fate is still aired every December 31 in most post-USSR countries, except for Ukraine since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. A street in Moscow was named after him in 2017, and a museum and memorial dedicated to his memory was opened on the site of his childhood home in Samara.

Criticism
In his book "Nepoladki v russkom dome" Sergey Kara-Murza wrote that "Ryazanov and the artists close to him, consumed by anti-Soviet feeling, lovingly reflected and thereby in many ways created a certain social and spiritual world - and this world turned out to be possible only when it was surrounded and protected by the crude structures of the Soviet way of life."

Honours and awards

 * Order "For Merit to the Fatherland";
 * 2nd class (3 July 2008) – for outstanding contribution to the development of national cinema and many years of creative activity
 * 3rd class (20 June 1996) – for services to the state, an outstanding contribution to the development of national cinema and culture
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice (1969, 1977)
 * Order of Friendship of Peoples (1987)
 * Order of the "Key of Friendship" (Kemerovo Region, 2007)
 * Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (France)
 * Commander of the Order of Honour (Georgia) (2008)
 * People's Artist of the RSFSR (1974)
 * People's Artist of the USSR (1984)
 * USSR State Prize (1977) (for the film "Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!")
 * Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1979) (for the film "Office Romance")
 * Winner of the All-Union Film Festival in the "First Prize among the comedies" for 1958
 * Winner of the All-Union Film Festival in the "Special Award" for 1983
 * Nika awards;
 * Best Director (1991)
 * Best Fiction Film (1991)
 * Honour and dignity (2006)
 * Winner of Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize (2005)
 * The asteroid 4258 Ryazanov is named after him.

Filmography

 * 1950 They are Studying in Moscow (Они учатся в Москве), documentary – author (in co-operation with Zoya Fomina)
 * 1951 The Way Named October (Дорога имени Октября), documentary – director (in co-operation with Liya Derbysheva)
 * 1952 On the World Chess Championship (На первенство мира по шахматам), documentary – director
 * 1953 Your Books (Твои книжки), documentary – director (in co-operation with Zoya Fomina)
 * 1953 Near Krasnodar (Недалеко от Краснодара), documentary – director
 * 1954 Island of Sakhalin (Остров Сахалин), documentary – director (in co-operation with Vasily Katanyan)
 * 1955 Spring Voices (Весенние голоса), documentary – second director
 * 1956 Carnival Night (Карнавальная ночь) – director
 * 1957 The Girl Without Address (Девушка без адреса) – director
 * 1961 How Robinson Was Created (Как создавался Робинзон) – director
 * 1961 The Man from Nowhere (Человек ниоткуда) – director
 * 1962 Hussar Ballad (Гусарская баллада) – director / screenwriter
 * 1965 Give me a complaints book (Дайте жалобную книгу) – director / actor: chief editor
 * 1966 Beware of the Car (Берегись автомобиля) – director / screenwriter
 * 1968 Zigzag of Success (Зигзаг удачи) – director / screenwriter
 * 1971 Grandads-Robbers (Старики-разбойники) – director / screenwriter / actor: the passer-by
 * 1974 Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (Невероятные приключения итальянцев в России) – director / screenwriter / actor: doctor
 * 1975 The Irony of Fate (Ирония судьбы или с легким паром!) – director / screenwriter / actor: airplane passenger
 * 1977 Office Romance (Служебный роман) – director / screenwriter / actor: bus passenger
 * 1979 The Garage (Гараж) – director / screenwriter / actor: sleeping Man
 * 1981 Say a Word for the Poor Hussar (О бедном гусаре замолвите слово) – director / screenwriter / actor: confectioner
 * 1982 Station for Two (Вокзал для двоих) – director / screenwriter / actor: railroad supervisor
 * 1984 A Cruel Romance (Жестокий романс) – director / screenwriter
 * 1987 Forgotten Melody for a Flute (Забытая мелодия для флейты) – director / screenwriter / actor: astronomer
 * 1988 Dear Yelena Sergeyevna (Дорогая Елена Сергеевна) – director / screenwriter / actor: neighbour
 * 1991 Promised Heaven (Небеса обетованные) – director / screenwriter / actor: man in diner
 * 1993 Prediction (Предсказание) – director / screenwriter
 * 1996 Hello, Fools! (Привет, дуралеи!) – director / screenwriter / actor: manager of the bookshop
 * 2000 Old Hags (Старые клячи) – director / screenwriter / actor: judge
 * 2000 Still Waters (Тихие омуты) – Director / Screenwriter / Actor: Radiologist / Producer
 * 2003 The Key of Bedroom (Ключи от спальни) – director / screenwriter / actor: police constable / producer
 * 2006 Carnival Night 2 (TV) – director / actor (сameo appearance)
 * 2006 Andersen. Life Without Love – director / screenwriter (with Irakly Kvirikadze) / actor: mortician / producer
 * 2007 The Irony of Fate 2 – actor (сameo appearance)

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El Porto, Manhattan Beach, California

El Porto is a beach community that is part of northernmost Manhattan Beach, a city in the South Bay area of Greater Los Angeles in Southern California.

The boundary of El Porto is 45th Street on the north side, which is the border with El Segundo, and its Chevron oil refinery, to 38th Street, which was the old border with Manhattan; the east-west boundary is Crest Drive, next to the fence of El Segundo's oil refinery, to El Porto State Beach and the Pacific Ocean.

The commercial section of El Porto is along Highland Avenue, which is its only main thoroughfare. North of 45th Street, Highland becomes Vista Del Mar Boulevard, which runs along the coast to Playa del Rey.

Residents of El Porto are currently zoned to Grandview Elementary School by the Manhattan Beach Unified School District. Fire and Police Services are generally provided by the downtown police and fire facility.

History
El Porto was subdivided in 1911 on land owned by developer George H. Peck. There were 83 business lots, 225 residential lots, on sandy soil partly covered with large trees, and ocean view sand lots. Included were concrete sidewalks and curbs, oiled streets and artesian water that was piped in the streets.

The 30-by-90 foot lots, laid out by Peck, were each between a street and an alley. At first, no names were given to the streets. Numbers were later assigned to the east-west streets and names to the alleys. The alley between 39th and 40th Streets, for instance, is named El Porto Street.

Although it is thought to mean "The Port" in Spanish, the name is actually a misspelling and translates "The I Carry." The Spanish word for port should have actually been spelled p-u-e-r-t-o. However, "porto" is the Portuguese word for "port," but its article is "O" instead of "El," which leads one to believe the origin of the name El Porto could have come from both Spanish and Portuguese influences.

For over six decades, El Porto was a county island that was part of the El Segundo Unified School District.

In November 1980, the unincorporated town of El Porto, consisting of approximately 34 acre and a population of about 1,185 people, was annexed from the County of Los Angeles by Manhattan Beach.

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Enrique Santos Discépolo

Enrique Santos Discépolo (Discepolín) (27 March 1901 – 23 December 1951) was an Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer, author of famous tangos like Cambalache and many others performed by several of the most important singers of his time, amongst them notably Carlos Gardel. He was also a filmmaker, actor and screenwriter.

Life
Discépolo was born in Buenos Aires on March 27, 1901. He was devoted to the arts from an early age and tried acting and theatre writing, with moderate success, before finally dedicating himself to tango. Although his decision to write popular music was not unrelated from his previous exchanges with theatre and acting, his elder brother Armando resisted this move and therefore in the beginning things were not easy for Enrique. Armando had taken over his education after his parents died when Enrique was very young.

He wrote a few songs including the famous Que vachaché ("What Will You Do?") with little success until 1928, when singer Azucena Maizani performed his number Esta noche me emborracho ("I'm Getting Drunk Tonight"). Days after this performance, the tango's lyrics circulated across the nation and earned notoriety. Later that year, actress and singer Tita Merello rescued Que vachaché, and propelled it to the same popularity as Esta noche me emborracho. To finish a great year in 1928, he also met his partner, Tania, who would accompany him for the rest of his life.

He continued to gain fame the following years, and, in 1934, he wrote Cambalache, its lyrics not only describing the political climate of its era, but also nearly predicting its future. Cambalache is often quoted by Argentines regarding the extent to which its lyrics apply today.

Discépolo died from a heart attack on December 24, 1951.

Style
Discépolo was versatile in his styling, having the ability to write songs that were ironic and moralistic, like Yira... yira..., Cambalache, romantic like Sueño de juventud, sarcastic (Justo el 31, Chorra), expressionist (Soy un arlequín, Quién más, quién menos), passionate (Confesión, Canción desesperada) and nostalgic (Uno, Cafetín de Buenos Aires).

His tango songs, as those of most other tango composers, make extensive use of lunfardo, thus making understanding his lyrics an exercise in patience for listeners unused to that dialect.

Selected Songs

 * Infamia ("Infamy")
 * Que vachaché ("What Will You Do?")
 * Yira... yira...
 * Que sapa señor ("What's New, Sir?")
 * Cambalache ("Junkshop")
 * Sueño de juventud ("A Young Man's Dream")
 * Justo el 31 ("Right on the 31")
 * Chorra ("She-Thief")
 * Soy un arlequín ("I Am a Harlequin")
 * Quién más, quién menos ("Who More, Who Less")
 * Confesión ("Confession")
 * Canción desesperada ("Desperate Song")
 * Uno ("One")
 * Cafetín de Buenos Aires ("Buenos Aires Cafe")

Selected filmography
Discépolo directed or co-directed a number of films:

 * Four Hearts (1939)
 * Caprichosa y millonaria (Petty and Millionaire) (1940)
 * Un señor mucamo (1940)
 * By the Light of a Star (En la luz de una estrella) (1941)
 * Fantasmas en Buenos Aires (Ghosts in Buenos Aires (1942)
 * Candida, Woman of the Year (1943)
 * The Fan (1951)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amanpour

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The result of the debate was del. mikka (t) 03:54, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Amanpour
This article was created by an anonymous user whose previous contributions have all been vandalism. It documents a made-up philosphy, and looks to me like just a new form of vandalism. Michael L. Kaufman 17:10, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now.  No opinion. —Cryptic (talk) 06:47, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete as nonsense, and possibly replace with a redirect to Christiane Amanpour. If I'd come across this before it was listed for AFD, I would've just redirected it that way without a second thought. Aquillion 07:37, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * del. nonverifiable. mikka (t) 08:27, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Don't see any need to replace with a redirect to Christiane Amanpour. Dlyons493 10:21, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete in no way is this a new philosophy, it is a poor oversimplification of a very worn track. Alf melmac 11:17, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete — Couldn't find a match on this "philosophy" in google. Appears to be original research. — RJH 15:26, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect. "Amanpour" is a very logical redirect to me. / Peter Isotalo 15:29, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Maybe create a page on Stoner philosophy and put it there. On second thoughts, maybe not. -- Last Malthusian 15:38, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and then redirect to Christian Amanpour, as this would be logical and the article now is not. Geogre 21:11, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; looks like an elaborate hoax. Owen× ☎  21:29, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete if I am allowed to vote on my own nomination. Michael L. Kaufman 03:31, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Penet.fi
In your statement on WikiProject Scientology, you state: "I'm still pissed about penet.fi" - Marbahlarbs What about penet.fi are you "still pissed" about? --AI 23:01, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Nice use of quotes.

I'm upset about the loss of an anonymous remailer because of the Church wanting to go after someone who posted copyrighted information.

The IP battle on the Internet that is going on right now is doing more bad than good. I understand the Church's need to protect its property, but taking penet.fi to court was a step away from freedom. On the other hand, it did cause other anonymous remailers to wake up and change their systems so that no log and no evidence is left.

The litigious society we live in REALLY needs a complete facelift.

What I'm "pissed" about is the completely horrid PR job the Church does when it comes to critics. Once the Fishman documents had been leaked, the cat was out of the bag. Scientology's answer to the whole mess was a whole lot of lawsuits, and not say a word about Xenu.

What is the Church's official stance on Xenu? How/when were the OT documents stolen and by whom?

The Church's PR machine is transparent and ineffective. Bad things are covered up, creating conspiracies. I also don't like the push in the forced religion direction. The cross is an ugly symbol, completely designed to create the appearance of religion. Church documents are now called "scriptures". Sunday Service is held. The list goes on and on and on. Scientology is a religion because it teaches you about your soul and the nature of the physical and spiritual universe. That's it. Everything else makes the Church look cheap and fake.

It's not just anon.penet.fi that I'm mad about. It's Scientology versus the Internet. They've done so very much wrong in this fight. I expected better. The dreadful "personal pages" of Scientologists, created from forms filled out at some event. anon.penet.fi is a huge case of wrong target. It created a huge amount of bad PR and started the "war". Suing websites to take down copyrighted content happens every day. Using the DCMA to get Google to remove pages from its index? Cover of slashdot. All that did was make MORE people look at what the Church doesn't want them to see, and make the Church look really bad. /rant Marbahlarbs 01:27, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Anonymous remailers are a problem because they are a wide gaping door for abuse. --AI 09:44, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

So is encryption. Marbahlarbs 21:00, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Weren't you also pissed-off with freakout and snow white?--Mongreilf 11:53, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to go ahead and say no. It's hard to pity the IRS. Marbahlarbs 17:46, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Can you pity Paulette Cooper?--Mongreilf 16:38, 14 September 2005 (UTC

Also no. Could the Church have handled it better? Probably. But let's go through the facts.

1. Paulette Cooper wrote a huge pack of lies about Scientology.

2. The Church of Scientology shows no mercy and takes no prisoners when attacked.

3. The parties on both sides of Scientology do a fantastic jobs at making themselves look like complete wackos.

I'm not going to say that Paulette Cooper was "asking for it", but I'm also not going to feel bad for her when her actions cause her problems.

This is different from penet.fi because Paulette Cooper was not an innocent bystander.

I'm a huge supporter of freedom of speech. However, free speech doesn't include copyright violation or libel.

Marbahlarbs

Thanks for the reply. Before I continue, I'd just like to say I'm not baiting you. I'm very interested that a Scientologist is working with quite a few anti-scientologists on the wiki-project. I admire this, in fact. Forgive me if I continue this conversation, but you offer answers I couldn't get from other users.

My own partly informed view about Scientology is similar to my views about the cult I used to be in: Rajneeshism. That is a community of a lot of good people, some very beneficial theraputic techniques and outlooks, but a corrupt, sometimes criminal, heirarchy. I couldn't stay in the cult, knowing about the higher up problems, but you have and I'm interested to know why. I am not a rabid anti-cultist by the way, as some ex-cult members are.

The problem I have with the PC case you admit yourself in point 2. No mercy, no prisoners. Saying this is the case, as you do, does not make it acceptable. And of point 3, it isn't a case of "scientology making themselves look like complete wackos". It's them actually being "complete wackos", if by "complete wackos" we mean criminals/conspirators, etc.

The central problem is that if someone lies about you either take in on the chin or sue for libel, use the PR machine to counter it, or have some other sane and legal response to it. Don't conspire to get them locked up/institutionalized by criminal means. If you do that then it's not a case of making yourself look bad, it's actually being bad.

Anyway, thanks again, for your time--Mongreilf 15:23, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm not saying that whatever happened to Paulette Cooper was acceptable. I'd never heard of her until you brought her up. I'm just saying that I don't pity her for the choices she made.

If you look at the history of any religion, you'll find a lot of really bad decisions made by the people who represent those religions at the top levels. That doesn't make the religion bad, it just means there needs to be change.

There's a real difference between Scientology and the Church of Scientology. Scientology is a collection of works by L. Ron Hubbard. The Church of Scientology is the organization that distributes and safeguards those works. A good analogy would be to say that Scientology is like the Bible, and the Church is like the Catholic Church before Martin Luther. If you like Christianity and like the Bible, you go to Catholic church, even if you don't agree with the priest taking a vow of celibacy, or the Inquisition.

There isn't going to be a Lutheran church for Scientology. Copyrights and Trademarks will keep Hubbard's writings out of public domain. However, I see a change happening some time in the future. Someone at the Church is going to be able to bridge the gap between the Church of the last few decades, and the rest of the world.

I'm still a Scientologist because it's helped me a lot. There's a brilliant collection of writings, and an entire way of looking at people and the Universe that isn't even touched on anywhere else. I'll support the known works of Scientology to great extremes. It's worth learning, and worth preserving. I can't say anything about Xenu, because it's not real to me. It's certainly not knowledge that helps me in any way, so I don't pay attention to it.

I've pretty much given up on editing the wiki-project. NPOV has made my editing changes quite a bit more conservative than they should have been. Subtle wording and "critics claims" make things that are technically true look bad.

With the major Scientology critics numbering in the dozens, it doesn't take too many critics to form a majority viewpoint.
 * Critics claim that L. Ron Hubbard was an open supporter of bestiality. The Church has never publicly denied that Hubbard sexually molested cats.

Also, researching the court cases and documents to find what is really true is completely exhausting. The Church's information about its critics wild claims is virtually nonexistent. Their viewpoint is that negativity isn't worth answering. This makes it very hard to find facts. For example, this paragraph from Scientology

In Australia, critics point to a certain passage in a 1982 ruling by the High Court of Australia. They claim that in the course of litigation between the Church of Scientology and the provincial government of Victoria, that even though the government of Victoria found that the Church of Scientology practiced charlatanism (see: Church of the New Faith v. Commissioner Of Pay-roll Tax), still, due to certain legal technicalities, the government of Victoria could not deny the Church of Scientology the right to operate in Victoria under the legal status of 'religion'

I actually read the entire court document mentioned. That document, by the way, is the most thorough and insightful investigation into Scientolgy that I have ever read. It covers the legal definition of what is and is not a religion, and picks apart Scientology's beliefs and practices. In the end, they determine that Scientologists practice Scientology as a religion, and the topics covered by Scientology are religious in nature. They judges expressed that they would protect the People's freedom of religion, despite how the Church acts and what shows it puts on. Charlatanism is hardly mentioned, somewhere near the middle and nowhere near their final ruling.

Anyway, two final points.

1. If you're looking into what Scientology has to offer, take an objective view, read something (I recommend the Scientology Handbook,) ignore all the critics (and the Church) and decide about everything you read: "Can I use this?"

If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. If the answer is yes, then by all means use it and be better off.

2. Read the document mentioned above. It's seriously fascinating. I'd never thought so deeply about religion in general. Marbahlarbs Marbahlarbs 05:47, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Arnie Lerma's copyright violation
Hi Marbahlarbs, thank you for supporting my addition in Fishman affidavit of the fact that Arnie Lerma was convicted of copyright violation. --AI 02:17, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

No problem. It was relevant and factual. I'm getting out of editing Scientology-related articles. Reading them is too exhausting. --Marbahlarbs 05:46, 15 September 2005 (UTC) Nice.

Block
This IP has been blocked from editing for a short period of time due to repeated insertion of rude remarks into a talk page and personal attacks on another editor.

In a few minutes I will have opened a thread on WP:AN/I for further consultation. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 17:49, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

 * The discussion thread is [|here]. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 18:04, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject updates

 * I have done some updating to the WP:SCN, added some new articles, added a "to do" list to the top of the project, and fixed up some categories and assessment stuff. I suggest we should all pick one article at a time, or at most two, to work on bringing up to Featured Article status.  You could give input on the project's talk page...  Smee 21:28, 9 March 2007 (UTC).
 * Also, a Userbox for project members, User Scientology project   Smee 21:28, 9 March 2007 (UTC).

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Steelcase

Steelcase Inc. is an international manufacturer of furniture, casegoods, seating, and storage and partitioning systems for offices, hospitals, classrooms, and residential interiors. It is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

History
Originally known as The Metal Office Furniture Company, Steelcase was founded by Peter Martin Wege in 1912. Prior to starting the company, Wege had filed approximately 25 patents related to the sheet metal and fireproofing industries. The Metal Office Furniture Company's first products included fireproof metal safes and four-drawer metal filing cabinets.

In 1914, the company received its first product patent for "The Victor", a fireproof steel wastebasket. The Victor gained popularity due to its light weight—achieved through a patented process of bending flat steel at right angles to create boxes—and its ability to prevent fires at a time when smoking was common indoors, particularly in the workplace. In 1915, the company began manufacturing and distributing steel desks after designing and producing 200 for Boston's first skyscraper, the Custom House Tower. In 1937, the company collaborated with Frank Lloyd Wright on office furniture for the Johnson Wax Headquarters. The partnership lasted two years and resulted in some of the first modern workstations.

The name Steelcase was a result of an advertising campaign to promote metal office furniture over wood and was trademarked in 1921. The company officially changed its name to Steelcase, Inc. in 1954.

The company became an industry leader in the late 1960s due to the volume of its sales. Steelcase expanded into new markets during the 1970s, including Asia, Europe, and North Africa. In 1973, the company debuted the Series 9000 furniture line, a panel-based office system that became a best seller and the company's flagship brand. That same year, the company delivered the largest single furniture shipment to the then-new Sears Tower. The delivery included 43,565 pieces of furniture and furnished 44 floors.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Steelcase was working closely with architects and interior designers to develop products as well the company's own workspace in Grand Rapids. The company's current headquarters were built in 1983 on 901 44th St. SE in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1989, Steelcase opened the pyramid-shaped Steelcase Inc. Corporate Development Center. The center contained ten research laboratories and workspaces meant to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration on product development. Steelcase vacated the Pyramid in 2010, and the Pyramid was sold to Switch (company) in 2016. In 1996, Steelcase became the majority stakeholder in design firm IDEO and the firm's CEO, David M. Kelley, became Steelcase's vice president of technical discovery and innovation. Steelcase sold its shares back to IDEO's managers starting in 2007.

In 1996, Steelcase was found at fault in a patent infringement suit brought against them by Haworth, Inc., another furniture company. Steelcase was ordered to pay $211.5 million in damages and interest, thus ending a 17-year dispute with Haworth.

Steelcase became a publicly traded company in 1998 under the symbol SCS. During the 2000s, Steelcase reorganized its workforce and began integrating modern technologies in its products. In 2000, the company opened Steelcase University, a center for ongoing employee development and learning. Steelcase's wood furniture plant in Caledonia, MI earned LEED certification in 2001, becoming the first plant to receive the certification. In 2002, Steelcase partnered with IBM to create BlueSpace, a "smart office" prototype designed using new office technologies. In 2010, Steelcase and IDEO launched new models for higher education classrooms called LearnLabs.

In January 2016 the company recalled 12 models of Steelcase "Rocky" style swivel chairs manufactured between 2005 and 2015, due to fall hazard.

Noteworthy products
Steelcase released Multiple 15 desks in 1946, which introduced standardized desk sizing and became a universal industry standard. Series 9000 was released in 1973 and became Steelcase's most popular line of office systems. The Leap chair, introduced in 1999, sold 5,000 units a week during its first year and became the company's most popular release. The ergonomic office chair was designed with eight adjustable areas for users to control, including chair height, armrest positioning, lumbar support, seat depth, and back positioning. The chair was developed over four years, cost $35 million to design, and resulted in 11 academic studies and 23 patents. The company released the Gesture chair in 2013, which is designed to support the way workers naturally sit.

Steelcase innovates the industry with the 1945 Metal Office Furniture Company path in an attempt to be more sustainable. The idea started when Steelcase saw the need for furniture to be personalized for custom size spaces with the ability to be able to fix a broken part if necessary. This series then came to be over 200 compatible arrangements for tables and desks. The process for this simple assembly of parts for the new design was to repair, replace or recycle as many times as the user needs.

Brands
Subsidiaries include AMQ, Coalesse, Halcon, Orangebox, Smith System, and Viccarbe, as well as several other brands such as Steelcase Health and Education. The company established an office accessories brand called Details in 1990. In 1993, Steelcase launched Turnstone, a line of furniture designed for small businesses and home offices. Designtex, which produces interior textiles and upholstery, was acquired in 1998. Nurture was founded in 2006 to create products for the health care industry, including furniture and interiors for waiting rooms, offices, and clinics. The brand became Steelcase Health in 2014.

Steelcase merged three of its subsidiaries (Brayton International, Metro Furniture and Vecta) to form Coalesse in 2008. Coalesse products are meant for what the company calls "live/work" spaces, a result of the frequent overlap of home and office in modern working habits.

Company culture
In 1985, Steelcase purchased the Meyer May House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and restored it, opening it to the public in 1987. A corporate art program has resulted in a collection including pieces by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Dale Chihuly.

The company employs a research group called WorkSpace Futures to study workplace trends. In 2010, Steelcase underwent a three-year project to update its Grand Rapids headquarters to promote employee productivity and employee well-being, including redesigning a cafeteria into an all-purpose work environment that provides food service and space for meetings, socializing, and independent work.

Steelcase's sustainability efforts have included reducing packaging, using regional facilities to reduce shipping distance, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption, and a goal to reduce its environmental footprint by 25 percent by 2020. As of 2012, Steelcase had reduced its waste by 80 percent, greenhouse gas emissions by 37 percent and water consumption by 54 percent since 2006. According to the company's WorkFutures group, the company also analyzes its supply chain and materials chemistry to determine product sustainability. As of 2014, the company led its industry in Cradle to Cradle-certified products. In 2016, Steelcase employees volunteered 38,913 hours and the Steelcase Foundation donated more than US$5.7 million.

Steelcase became Carbon Neutral on August 25, 2020, with the plan of becoming Carbon negative (eliminating more carbon than they produce) by 2030. As a company they have a focus on green chemistry and have stopped manufacturing with many chemicals like Polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

COVID-19 response
As of March 2020, Steelcase has been manufacturing equipment for health care providers and medical facilities in response to COVID-19. Solutions include PPE, masks, face shields, and social screens.

Steelcase is also redesigning offices layouts that can adapt to the ongoing Covid regulations. To continue interaction in the workplace, they have installed social screens to divide desks/workspaces and are planning to implement more technology to enhance communication whether the staff is in the office or working from home. Desks will be six feet apart as per the United States CDC guidelines and there will be a focus on sanitization stations.

Company Awards

 * The company won the Editors' Choice award at the 2014 NeoCon product competition for "Quiet Spaces", a series of workspaces designed for introverts and a collaboration with Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.
 * Steelcase was named The World's Most Admired Company by Forbes in 2018, 2019 and 2020. They earned the 2020 Civic Award.

Design Awards

 * 2014 Steelcase's SOTO II Worktools won a Silver Award in the Office Accessories category from Editor's Choice.
 * 2018 Best Large Showroom and Best of Competition at NeoCon
 * 2019 Steelcase won the Red Dot Award in 2019 for their SILQ chair design.
 * 2021 Best of NeoCon Gold and Best of NeoCon Innovation Awards

Similar companies

 * Haworth
 * Herman Miller
 * Knoll
 * Vitra

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Hans863 is known as Hans Stam in everyday life. He has lived in The Netherlands for the first 16 years of his life. Twenty years ago he was born in a town called Ochten in an area called the Betuwe. After 16 years of his life spent in The Netherlands Hans moved with to Ireland together with his parents and his sister. He went to highschool in Scariff County Clare for the first 3 years he spend in Ireland. Nowadays Hans is a student at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. From september 2005 he will be in second year of Computer science and software engineering.

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