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Talk:Weekly Torah portion

Combined parshot
Among other changes, I just marked with an asterisk those portions which can be combined with the succeeding portion in order to fit the right number of weeks in a year with less than 54 weeks. I'm not completely certain how this works and would certainly love to have more information. My source for this was ; I just cross-referenced the names and Scripture references to see which ones were combined. Something I read implied all leap years were 54 weeks and all non-leap years were 50 weeks, but my initial thoughts from what I understand of the Hebrew calendar are that there would have to occasionally be slightly different numbers of weeks. So is there a precedence on how this combination is done, or what? Jdavidb 18:19, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

misspelling??
I think this is a misspellng of pārāšāh, pārāšath-hašŠābhūa‘. parshan means a "commentator". (I'm japanese)
 * --Sheynhertzגעשׁ״ך 18:26, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Parsha and parshan are not really necessarily derived from the same Hebrew root word (although there may be a philological connection on some level). The Hebrew word parsha is related to the word parash (liphrosh) = "to separate or divide" because the Torah portions are separated/divided from each other into 54 PORTIONS (parshiot) in the original Torah scroll they are written in. Similarly the name sidra is from the root seder which means "order" or "organized" (meaning the 54 Torah portions or "organized" in an "orderly" fashion). Whereas the parshan is related to the word perush = "explanation" and the job of a parshan would be to "explain" (the Torah) = to be a "commentator" (see rabbinical literature, where only the very learned classical rabbis are called meforshim = "[providers of] explanations / reasons"). Thus: Rabbis = Tannaim = Amoraim = Parshanim = meforshim = "commentators". Hope this helps. IZAK 10:30, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Parsha or Parasha?
I'll assume it's under Parsha for a reason, and won't change it just yet, but parasha seems to be correct, according to the Even Shoshan Hebrew dictionary. This dictionary also contains Aramaic and Biblical words, but does not contain an entry for 'Parsha' at all, and does for Parasha with many meanings. So, is there any reason it's at 'parsha'? -- Ynhockey 08:19, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

 * The most common usage today by Jews who attend synagogue every Shabbat (Saturday, the day of the Jewish Sabbath) to hear the weekly Torah reading (which is what this article is about: Torah reading = Parsha), is definitely Parsha, even though it could be Parasha (but it's used less frequently). Parsha alone denotes one singular "portion" whereas parashat  also denotes the possessive "the portion of" (so one can hear it said in Hebrew: Parashat HaShavua = "[The Torah ] Portion of the Week"). But nevertheless parsha is used in the same sense as parashat. Parasha should be a redirect to Parsha. IZAK 10:17, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with IZAK, well put. --PinchasC | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€  17:37, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

The correct plural of parasha is parashiyot.67.61.33.64 (talk) 21:35, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Date?
When did the calendar of readings stabilize in its current form? --Jim Henry 15:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Torah portion
FYI: (1) The weekly Parsha (Torah portion) is the main Torah reading in all synagogues every Shabbat as well as on Monday and Thursday mornings. (2) The template Torah portion is at the bottom of the Maftir article's page, so essentially it's part of the "See also" section which is a legitimate way of connecting related and connected topics on an article. (3) If a reader finds the Torah portion to be "too intrusive" then any reader is free to click "Hide" on the top right section of the template's heading which shrinks it to an unobtrusive one liner. Finally, (4) the Torah portion is presently diligently updated weekly by User:Dauster early each Sunday so that any readers may learn more about the weekly Parsha. User:Dauster summarizes each week's Parsha and adds some interesting graphics which surely adds life and color to a page that may gain the attention of readers who don't know much about this subject and may want to learn more. Please refer all further comments and discussions to one centralized location at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism Thank you. IZAK 09:10, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Rename
I suggest that this article be more accurately renamed "Parashat Hashavua" as it is in the Hebrew version (or perhaps even better Weekly Torah portion in English). The reason is that even though English speaking Jews (especially traditional ones) popularly use "Parshah" to refer to the weekly Torah reading, the term also has a much more precise, technical halakhic meaning, one that I would like to write an article about.

The correct, technical meaning of "parashah" in halakhic literature refers to blank spaces left in the biblical text when Torah scrolls, or even scrolls of Nevi'im and Ketuvim, are written. These are generally called "open" and "closed" sections in English (petuhot and setumot in Hebrew), though in the middle ages a third class was called parashah setumah. There is a long halakhic history regarding where and how these spaces should appear, as well as rulings on whether or not scrolls are kosher if the parashah is in error.

I think each of the meanings deserves its own article with its proper term. Dovi 20:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

 * As there were no objections, I have done so. Please make improvements to my new stub on Parashah.

 * Also: Parashah now links to פרשה in Hebrew, and this article Weekly Torah portion to פרשת השבוע in Hebrew. Dovi 13:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Spam?
When I first came to Wiki a little over a month ago, I made a mistake. Having looked at existing entries in various Torah related sections, I added links absolutely in line with what I saw in those sections, to related Torah commentaries at LearningTorah.org, a non-profit organization whose work is to spread Torah. As I understood from the Wiki moderators, there was no problem with the relevance of the links or the relevance of the commentaries, but the problem was the amount of links that were added at one time which made it appear that this was spam. In fact, this was just a desire to add to the list of commentaries that are included in Wiki, to help to further spread commentaries about the Torah. It is very similar in nature to other sites that are in fact listed as commentary under every single Weekly Torah Portion section. In fact, the relevance of these links and commentaries can be seen in Parsha Shemini or Tazria where for some reason, the LearningTorah commentary is still up.

Now I see that the site has been added to the Wiki spam list and this is very concerning. I request to please have this decision reversed and also to be treated as as the norm with other listed commentary sources that you can see under every section of the Weekly Torah Portions.

I appreciate Wiki very much and look forward to contributing in the future. Torahorg 06:45, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * As someone who has spent a lot of time helping to expand the pages for the parshiot, I wanted to say that I have no objection to the LearningTorah.org listings. I agree that they appear to be similar in content to other commentaries listed.  And I see a value in having a wide variety of commentaries posted. Dauster 11:11, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 13:56, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

References vs footnote
I'm no wiki-guru so I'd like to ask if anyone knows how to shift the three items listed here as references to being footnotes.Joe407 (talk) 15:25, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I just added a reference so I can take a stab at this. I am not entirely clear what you are asking for here (I am certainly not a guru so I may be misunderstanding).  The references listed in this article are footnotes through the  template.  See Help:Footnotes for more details.  Is this what you are asking about or am I misunderstanding?  Thanks, meshach (talk) 19:10, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Discussion about the 54 parsha articles

 * REQUEST: Please see the centralized discussion about this subject, relating to sources, links, content, etc at Talk:Chayei Sarah (parsha). Thank you, IZAK (talk) 09:40, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Delete external link
The external link to The Weekly Parshah is seriously outdated. Currently (Feb. 2019) it says
 * The Weekly Parshah
 * Published in Jewish Heritage
 * 26 Jul 2013

 * The Weekly Parshah
 * Parshat Tzav
 * Leviticus 6:1–8:36
 * Torah Reading for Week of April 1 - 8, 2017

I am deleting it.

--Thnidu (talk) 06:50, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

 * Thank You Thnidu. But this External link: *The Weekly Parshah in Hebrew leads me to some japanese site. maybe it should be changed to this link : https://www.chabad.org/parshah/torahreading.htm thanks again and cheers. תנא קמא (talk) 19:15, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

What happens on the 55th week?
The explanation re. HOW MANY parashot there are was and still is very unsatisfying. 54 in total? What happens then on the 55th week when it occurs in lap years? Now the text says "Apart for the "immovable" final portion, there can be up to 53 weeks available for the other 53 portions." It doesn't add up, 1+53=54, never 55. Arminden (talk) 10:13, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

The text as written is correct. 55 weeks and 54 parashas is fine because there are *never* more than 53 weeks of the year in which a parasha is read on Shabbat (because on at least 2 weeks a ‘special’ Torah reading is used). Djford10 (talk) 15:42, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

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Grateful Dead (album)

Grateful Dead is a live album by rock band the Grateful Dead. Released on September 24, 1971 on Warner Bros. Records, it is their second live double album and their seventh album overall. Although published without a title, it is generally known by the names Skull and Roses (due to its iconic cover art) and Skull Fuck (the name the band originally wanted to give to the album, which was rejected by the record company). It was the group's first album to be certified gold by the RIAA and remained their best seller until surpassed by Skeletons from the Closet.

Recording and release
Unlike Live/Dead, the album contained several lead and background vocal overdubs. For the three new original compositions ("Bertha", "Playing in the Band", and "Wharf Rat"), the band invited Jerry Garcia associate Merl Saunders to overdub organ parts. This made the organ playing of Saunders more prominent than that of Pigpen, whose contributions tend to be buried in the mix.

"Playing in the Band" received a good amount of airplay, and became the Dead's most played song in concert (a studio version was released the following year on rhythm guitarist Bob Weir's solo album Ace). The closing segue of "Not Fade Away" into "Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" also received airplay and became a fan favorite.

The album's cover art, composed by Alton Kelly and Stanley Mouse, is based on an illustration by Edmund Joseph Sullivan for an old edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Though the album has been known by the sobriquet "Skull & Roses", the original vertical gatefold cover unfolds to reveal the entire skeleton. The graphic became one of the images most associated with the band.

Opening track "Bertha" fades in on the original version of the album, in semblance of entering the performance space. A longer, full opening is used on CD/digital copies. More tracks from the same source concerts were later released on Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead.

The 7" single release of "Johnny B. Goode" (a split single with Elvin Bishop) was actually the version from the album Fillmore: The Last Days. However, the version from this album was later used as a B-side on the re-release of the "Truckin'" single.

The album was remastered and expanded for the 2001 box set The Golden Road. This version, with three bonus tracks (two contemporaneous live tracks and a hidden promotional track) and the extended "Bertha", was released separately, in 2003.

The 50th Anniversary Edition of Skull and Roses was released on June 25, 2021, in CD, LP, and digital formats. The CD includes a bonus disc of songs recorded live at the Fillmore West in San Francisco on July 2, 1971.

Title and message
When the band submitted "Skull Fuck" (a contemporary euphemism for "blow your mind") as the album title, it was rejected by the record label. Ultimately the agreement was made that the album would be published without the title appearing anywhere on the record labels or cover artwork. Though the band refers to the album by this title, and it has long been known to fans (through interviews with band members, the Deadhead network and other outlets), the alternate, descriptive title "Skull & Roses" developed among distributors, music buyers and reviewers as a graphic incipit from the cover artwork.

Drummer Bill Kreutzmann explained the lack of a title on the artwork and labels, "...the original name was going to be "Skull Fuck". This was a time long before rap artists like Eminem numbed concerned citizens to the idea of offensive language in music. Warner Brothers freaked out on us. They said stores would boycott it and we wouldn't be able to get it on shelves."

Inside the gatefold of the original LP, the band reached out directly to its burgeoning fan base, which had begun to attend multiple concerts in a row and collect live audio tapes of each concert, with a message reading:Dead Freaks Unite: Who are you? Where are you? How are you? Send us your name and address and we'll keep you informed. Dead Heads, P.O. Box 1065, San Rafael, California 94901. The mailing address is no longer valid.

Track listing
The four sides of the vinyl album were combined as tracks 1–11 on CD reissues.

Note: More songs from the April 25 – 29, 1971 shows at the Fillmore East are included in Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead.

Personnel
Grateful Dead
 * Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
 * Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals
 * Phil Lesh – bass guitar, vocals
 * Bill Kreutzmann – drums
 * Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – organ, harmonica, vocals

Additional musicians
 * Merl Saunders – organ on "Bertha", "Playing in the Band", "Wharf Rat"

Production
 * Produced by Grateful Dead
 * Recording: Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor
 * Artwork: Alton Kelley
 * Photo: Bob Seidemann

Production – 50th Anniversary Edition
 * Produced for release by David Lemieux
 * Mastering: David Glasser
 * Tape restoration and speed correction: Jamie Howarth, John Chester
 * Recording – Fillmore West bonus disc: Rex Jackson
 * Design: Steve Vance
 * Liner notes essay: Gary Lambert

Charts and certification
Billboard RIAA certification

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The Oromo Democratic Party (Paartii Demokraatawaa Oromoo, ODP), formerly called the Oromo People's Democratic Organization, was a political party in Ethiopia, and part of the alliance with the Amhara National Democratic Movement, the South Ethiopian Peoples' Democratic Front and the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front that formed the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). In the August 2005 Regional assembly elections, the party won 387 out of 537 seats in the Oromia, and 14 out of 36 seats in the Harari Region.

In November 2019, Prime Minister and Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front Chairman Abiy Ahmed began the unification of the constituent parties of the coalition into a new Prosperity Party.

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The Oromo Democratic Party, formerly known as the Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organization (OPDO), was created in 1990 after the relations of the existing Oromo Liberation Front with the TPLF soured while they were fighting against the Derg regime. In a recent book authored by Gebru Asrat, a veteran TPLF leader who took part in the creation of OPDO said that the TPLF had to resort to its ethnic Oromo speaking war captives from the Derg's military to recruit members for the organization as Oromos living abroad, including those refugees in the Sudan and the wider Oromo diaspora in North America and Europe rejected TPLF's call to join the organization to be formed anew. Citing the role of elites in articulating political, economic and cultural problems in any society, Mr. Gebru argued in his book that these early members whom were former war captives had neither the capability nor sociopolitical know-how to understand and articulate Oromo problems at the time. At first a weak organization, according to Paul B. Henze, the OPDO attracted defectors from Derg military units and gained supporters when in 1991 the EPRDF occupied parts of the provinces of Wollo and Shewa, both of which had significant Oromo majorities.

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The OPDO is known to be dominated by Christian Oromos. The Muslim Oromos expressed their discontent during the 2005 Ethiopian general election, denouncing the other side for participating in nepotism. The OPDO held their fourth congress on 23 February 2006 in Adama.

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Haig Housing is a charity founded in 1928 to provide housing for ex-servicemen in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands.

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Alejandra Pizarnik

Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (29 April 1936 – 25 September 1972) was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on "the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, [and] death".

Pizarnik studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and worked as a writer and a literary critic for several publishers and magazines. She lived in Paris between 1960 and 1964, where she translated authors such as Antonin Artaud, Henri Michaux, Aimé Césaire and Yves Bonnefoy. She also studied history of religion and French literature at the Sorbonne. Back in Buenos Aires, Pizarnik published three of her major works: Works and Nights, Extracting the Stone of Madness, and The Musical Hell as well as a prose work titled The Bloody Countess. In 1969 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and later, in 1971, a Fulbright Fellowship.

On September 25, 1972, she died by suicide after ingesting an overdose of secobarbital. Her work has influenced generations of authors in Latin America.

Early life
Flora Alejandra Pizarnik was born on April 29, 1936, in Avellaneda, a city within the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, Argentina, to Jewish immigrant parents from Rivne (now Ukraine). Her parents were Elías Pizarnik (Pozharnik) and Rejzla Bromiker. She had a difficult childhood, struggling with acne and self-esteem issues, as well as having a stutter. She adopted the name Alejandra as a teenager. As an adult, she had a clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Career
A year after entering the University of Buenos Aires, Pizarnik published her first book of poetry, The Most Foreign Country (1955). She took courses in literature, journalism, and philosophy, but dropped out in order to pursue painting with Juan Batlle Planas. Pizarnik followed her debut work with two more volumes of poems, The Last Innocence (1956) and The Lost Adventures (1958). She was an avid reader of fiction and poetry. Beginning with novels, she delved into more literature with similar topics to learn from different points of view. This sparked an early interest in literature and also for the unconscious, which in turn gave rise to her interest in psychoanalysis. Pizarnik’s involvement in Surrealist methods of expression was represented by her automatic writing techniques.

Her lyricism was influenced by Antonio Porchia, French symbolists—especially Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé—, the spirit of romanticism and by the surrealists. She wrote prose poems, in the spirit of Octavio Paz, but from a woman's perspective on issues ranging from loneliness, childhood, and death. Pizarnik was bisexual/lesbian but in much of her work references to relationships with women were self-censored due to the oppressive nature of the Argentine dictatorship she lived under.

Between 1960 and 1964 Pizarnik lived in Paris, where she worked for the magazine Cuadernos and other French editorials. She published poems and criticism in many newspapers, translated Antonin Artaud, Henri Michaux, Aimé Césaire, Yves Bonnefoy and Marguerite Duras. She also studied French religious history and literature at the Sorbonne. There she became friends with Julio Cortázar, Rosa Chacel, Silvina Ocampo and Octavio Paz. Paz even wrote the prologue for her fourth poetry book, Diana's Tree (1962). A famous sequence on Diana reads: "I jumped from myself to dawn/I left my body next to the light/and sang the sadness of being born." She returned to Buenos Aires in 1964, and published her best-known books of poetry: Works and Nights (1965), Extracting the Stone of Madness (1968) and The Musical Hell (1971). She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968, and in 1971 a Fulbright Scholarship.

Death
Pizarnik died by suicide on September 25, 1972, by overdosing on secobarbital, at the age of 36, on the same weekend she left the hospital where she was institutionalized. She is buried at the Cementerio Israelita in La Tablada, Buenos Aires Province.

Books

 * Alejandra Pizarnik: Selected Poems
 * translated by Cecilia Rossi, Waterloo Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-906742-24-9
 * The Most Foreign Country (1955)
 * translated by Yvette Siegert (Ugly Duckling Presse, October 2015)
 * The Last Innocence / The Lost Adventures (1956/1958)
 * translated by Cecilia Rossi (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019)
 * Diana's Tree (1962)
 * translated by Yvette Siegert (Ugly Duckling Presse, October 2014); translated by Anna Deeny Morales (Shearsman Books, 2020)
 * Works and Nights (1965)
 * translated by Yvette Siegert (in Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972, New Directions, September 2015)
 * Extracting the Stone of Madness (1968)
 * translated by Yvette Siegert (in Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972, New Directions, September 2015)
 * A Musical Hell (1971)
 * translated by Yvette Siegert (New Directions, July 2013; reprinted in Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 by New Directions, September 2015)
 * The Bloody Countess (1971)
 * Exchanging Lives: Poems and Translations, Translator Susan Bassnett, Peepal Tree, 2002. ISBN 978-1-900715-66-9

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This is a list of flags used in Jamaica.

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Hermes Pan

Hermes Pan (born Hermes Joseph Panagiotopoulos, December 10, 1909 – September 19, 1990) was an American dancer and choreographer, principally remembered as Fred Astaire's choreographic collaborator on the famous 1930s movie musicals starring Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He worked on nearly two dozen films and TV shows with Astaire. He won both an Oscar and an Emmy for his dance direction.

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, as the son of a Greek immigrant and an American woman from the South, Pan moved to New York City with his family when he was 14. He started dancing in amateur productions and speakeasies. He was first paid to dance at age 19 and worked in several Broadway productions. In 1930 he moved to California, where he met Astaire in 1933 and began working with him; he choreographed 89 films.

Early life

Pan was born Hermes Joseph Panagiotopoulos in 1909 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Pantelis Panagiotopoulos, a Greek immigrant, and Mary Aljeanne Huston, a Southerner of English and Scots-Irish ancestry dating to colonial times. His father was a confectioner by trade, and from a prominent family in Aigio, Greece. His family had opened the first theater in the city.

In 1895, at the age of twenty-seven, Pantelis Panagiotopoulos was chosen to represent Aigio at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition in Nashville as a "Greek Consul to the South." Initially intending to return to Greece, he stayed in Tennessee after meeting Mary Huston of Nashville in 1900. Her family had roots in the South dating to colonial times. The couple married in 1901. His brother Alkis also immigrated to the US, initially living in Nashville.

In 1903, Pantelis became a United States citizen, he and Mary moved to Memphis, and their first son Panos was born. Their daughter, Vasso Maria, was born there in 1906. Both children were named after Panagiotopoulos's parents. Pantelis became president of the Eutrophia Company, which owned the Eutrophia Hotel and Cafe in Memphis, and the family was well-off. Hermes, their second son and last child, was born in Memphis in 1909.

In 1911, two years after the boy's birth, the family returned to Nashville. Panagiotopoulos opened up his own restaurant. Hermes was interested in music and dance from an early age. In 1915 "Aunt Betty" Clark, the children's African-American nanny, took Hermes to her neighborhood, a black enclave of Nashville, to introduce him to jazz music and tap dance. He was greatly influenced by this.

Hermes befriended Aunt Betty's son, Sam Clark, who also worked for his family. Sam, a talented dancer, taught the boy many of the era's popular dances, and Hermes practiced on his own.

His father died of tuberculosis in 1922 in San Antonio. Upset at being excluded from his brother's will, his brother Alkis held the widow Mary, and her children Vasso and Hermes at gunpoint. He burned all their shares and money, saying that if he could not have them, no one would.

Move to New York
In 1923 Mary shortened the family name to Pan and took her family to New York City, accompanied by Sam Clark. Initially they had enough money to live comfortably on the Upper West Side, but soon their money ran out. At their lowest ebb, the family had only potatoes and coffee for a meal. They vowed to commemorate that day; every year on June 13, they wrote down what they did and ate that day in a journal. They made the date a family celebration. But the eldest son, Panos, who had helped support the family, died in 1927.

Pan's dance career began with an appearance at age 19 as a chorus boy in 1928 in the Marx Brothers Broadway production of Animal Crackers. Pan first met Ginger Rogers in 1930, when he appeared as a chorus singer in the Broadway musical Top Speed. He also danced in partnership with his sister Vasso. Both Pan and his sister moved to Los Angeles by 1930.

The young adults shared a house before Vasso married, along with their mother Mary, and their brother's widow Dorothy and daughter Aljeanne, named for their mother. Pan eventually had a house in Beverly Hills. Vasso Pan performed in the chorus of many of the Astaire-Rogers pictures.

Pan had retained links with his father's relatives in Greece. In the 1920s, he made an extensive visit to Aigio and Greece to meet them. Pan was a devout Roman Catholic and took spiritual meaning from his dancing. He was known as a homosexual in his circles, but was very private.

Collaboration with Fred Astaire

Pan met Fred Astaire on the set of Flying Down to Rio (1933), in which he worked as an assistant to dance director Dave Gould. While Astaire was trying to work out a series of steps for "The Carioca", someone told him that Pan had a few ideas, and the dancer was invited over. Pan demonstrated a brief break he had picked up from his street days in New York.

From then on the two began a lifelong professional collaboration and friendship. Pan worked on all the RKO Astaire pictures. He was nominated for Academy Awards for the "Top Hat" and "The Piccolino" numbers from Top Hat (1935) and for the "Bojangles of Harlem"' number from Swing Time (1936). In 1937 he received the Academy Award for Best Dance Direction for A Damsel in Distress (1937), in which Joan Fontaine starred with Astaire.

The Astaire-Pan collaboration, involving 17 of Astaire's 31 musical films and three of his four television specials, is widely accepted as one of the most important forces in dance choreography of 20th-century film and television musicals. Astaire called Pan his "idea man," and while he generally choreographed his own routines, he greatly valued the assistance of Pan not just as a critic, but also as a rehearsal partner for the purposes of fine-tuning a routine.

Given Astaire's obsessive rehearsal habits, this was no mean task. Pan also performed the essential function of teaching and rehearsing Ginger Rogers, whose many other commitments during the filming of the Astaire-Rogers musicals often conflicted with Astaire's rehearsal schedule. In addition, Pan recorded Ginger's taps in post production on all their movies made after Roberta (1935).

Pan continued to collaborate with Astaire until the latter's last musical picture, Finian's Rainbow (1968), which was a disaster on a number of fronts. The young director, Francis Ford Coppola, had no prior experience with musical films and rode roughshod over Astaire's and Pan's plans for the film's dance routines. Coppola reintroduced the style of dancing camera of the early 1930s, which Astaire had done so much to banish from the Hollywood musical. Eventually Coppola fired Pan, who had a small walk-on part in the film; Coppola has since acknowledged his own primary responsibility for the film's artistic failure. Coppola was embarrassed that Astaire's feet were cropped out on some dance routines when the film was reformatted to 70mm.

Film appearances
Pan's first on-screen appearance is as a clarinetist during the Astaire-Goddard routine, "I Ain't Hep To That Step But I'll Dig It", in Second Chorus (1940). He dressed as The Ghost in the deleted (and only) Astaire–Pan routine, "Me and the Ghost Upstairs," from that same film.

He appeared with Betty Grable in Moon Over Miami (1941 film) and Coney Island (1943).

His longest filmed dance routine is a complex tap duet with Grable in Footlight Serenade (1942 film), which reflects his work with Astaire and Rogers. His similarity to Astaire is striking. Pan also appeared with Rita Hayworth in My Gal Sal (1942) and with Betty Grable again in Pin Up Girl (1944). In these films he had non-speaking dancing roles and served chiefly as choreographer. In 1950, he danced with Lana Turner in a party scene in A Life of Her Own. These are his only dance performances on film (except for a brief but credited appearance in Kiss Me Kate as "Soldier Boy") – performances which have allowed comparisons between Pan's and Astaire's dance styles.

When not working with Astaire, Pan was much in demand as a choreographer throughout the golden age of the Hollywood musical. He has been described "as sensitive to the eye of the camera as to the lines of the human body", and changing dance for camera, as well as influencing the "ways in which Americans watch dance." He assisted LeRoy Prinz in choreographing the all-black musical Lucky Day (1936–37). He choreographed Lovely to Look At (1952), Kiss Me Kate (1953, in which Bob Fosse also choreographed and danced), and Pal Joey (1957), where he made his final onscreen appearance as the dress rehearsal choreographer leading the chorus girls in their steps.

Legacy and honors

 * Nominated for Academy Awards for the "Top Hat" and "The Piccolino" dance numbers from Top Hat (1935).
 * Nominated for Academy Award for the "Bojangles of Harlem"' dance number from Swing Time (1936).
 * Received the Academy Award for Best Dance Direction for A Damsel in Distress (1937).
 * Received an Emmy Award for the 1961 television special, An Evening with Fred Astaire.
 * Received a National Film Award in 1980.
 * The Joffrey Ballet gave him an award in 1986 for contributions to American dance.
 * Credited as Choreographer for the 1968 Edition of Folies Bergere at The Tropicana Hotel Las Vegas.

Choreographer

 * Flying Down to Rio (1933) (assistant)
 * The Gay Divorcee (1934)
 * Roberta (1935)
 * Old Man Rhythm (1935)
 * Top Hat (1935)
 * In Person (1935)
 * I Dream Too Much (1935)
 * Follow the Fleet (1936)
 * Swing Time (1936)
 * Shall We Dance? (1937)
 * Damsel in Distress (1937)
 * Radio City Revels (1938)
 * Carefree (1938)
 * The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
 * Second Chorus (1940)
 * Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
 * That Night in Rio (1941)
 * Blood and Sand (1941) (uncredited)
 * Moon over Miami (1941) (also dancer)
 * My Gal Sal (1942) (also dancer)
 * Footlight Serenade (1942) (also dancer)
 * Song of the Islands (1942)
 * Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
 * Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
 * Coney Island (1943)
 * Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943) (also dancer)
 * Pin Up Girl (1944) (also dancer)
 * Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
 * Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (1945)
 * Blue Skies (1946)
 * I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947)
 * The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
 * Three Little Words (1950)
 * Let's Dance (1950)
 * Excuse My Dust (1951)
 * Texas Carnival (1951)
 * Lovely to Look At (1952)
 * Sombrero (1953)
 * Kiss Me Kate (1953)
 * The Student Prince (1954)
 * Jupiter's Darling (1954)
 * Hit the Deck (1955)
 * Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
 * Silk Stockings (1957)
 * Pal Joey (1957)
 * Porgy and Bess (1959)
 * The Blue Angel (1959)
 * Can-Can (1960)
 * Flower Drum Song (1961)
 * Cleopatra (1963)
 * My Fair Lady (1964)
 * Finian's Rainbow (1968) (also actor)
 * Darling Lili (1970)
 * Lost Horizon (1973)
 * Help Me Dream (1981)

Actor

 * Second Chorus (1940) – College Clarinetist (uncredited)
 * Moon over Miami (1941) – Kay's Dance Partner in Conga Number (uncredited)
 * My Gal Sal (1942) – Sally's Dancing Partner
 * Footlight Serenade (1942) – Assistant Dance Director (uncredited)
 * Coney Island (1943) – Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
 * Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943) – Madge's Dancing Partner (uncredited)
 * Pin Up Girl (1944) – Apache Dancer (uncredited)
 * A Life of Her Own (1950) – Specialty Dancer
 * Kiss Me Kate (1953) – Sailor (uncredited)
 * Pal Joey (1957) – Choreographer at Dress Rehearsal (uncredited) (final film role)

Personal life
Pan never married. According to John Franceschina in his book, Hermes Pan: The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire, it was well known in the movie industry that Pan was gay. This was not publicly known during Pan's lifetime, and the identity of most of his partners is not known. He had a niece, Michelene Laski.

Pan's friendships were wide in and outside the world of Hollywood. He became friends with the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who invited him to the country's 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire at Persepolis. He was also close to painter Diego Rivera, who painted his full portrait. He was very close friends with Rita Hayworth, and was a pallbearer at her funeral.

Toward the end of his life, Pan visited Greece. He spent time especially in his father's city of Aigio, where he visited the family's mansion and met many relatives.

Death
Hermes Pan died in Beverly Hills, California, on September 19, 1990, aged 80, from undisclosed causes. He was survived by his sister Vasso Pan, niece Michelene Laski, and several other nieces and nephews.

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Heavens Peak

Heavens Peak (8991 ft) is located in the Livingston Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Heavens Peak is a little more than 1 mi north of McPartland Mountain. The mountain's descriptive name first appeared on a map prepared by Lt. George P. Ahern, from 1888 to 1890 reconnaissance maps prepared by him. This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1929 by the United States Board on Geographic Names.

Geology
Like other mountains in Glacier National Park, the peak is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi thick, 50 mi wide and 160 mi long over younger rock of the cretaceous period.

Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, the peak is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers. Temperatures can drop below −10 °F with wind chill factors below −30 °F.

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Katnappé! is episode 104 of Xiaolin Showdown. It first aired in the United States on November 22, 2003.

The Xiaolin Dragons-in-training encounter a purr-fectly evil new adversary in the person of Katnappé!

Synopsis
Description of what happened.

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Guest Characters
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Velana International Airport

Velana International Airport (VIA), also known as Malé-Velana International Airport (ވެލާނާ ބައިނަލްއަޤުވާމީ ވައިގެ ބަނދަރު) is the main international airport in the Maldives. It is located on Hulhulé Island in the southern Malé Atoll (or Kaafu Atoll), nearby the capital island Malé. The airport is well connected with major airports around the world, mostly serving as the main gateway into the Maldives for tourists. It is managed financially and administratively by a state owned company known as Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL).

Velana International Airport
The airport first started out as a small strip of land on the then inhabited island of Hulhulé. Hulhulé Airport was opened on 19 October 1960. The first runway built on Hulhulé Island was made of slotted steel sheets. This runway was 75 ×. The first aircraft which landed at the airport was a Royal New Zealand Air Force Bristol Freighter, NZ5906, on 19 October 1960 at 13:55hrs. The first commercial flight was an Air Ceylon flight (Avro 748; 4R-ACJ) landed on this runway was at 15:50hrs on 10 April 1962. The first aircraft owned by the Maldives landed on the runway of the Hulhulé Airport on 9 October 1974.

In May 1964, the government and the people of Malé worked together to construct a new asphalt runway. The four districts of Malé competed for the prize money of 1,000 rufiyaa, awarded to the fastest district. On the first day 108 volunteers were enlisted for the project and 1,563.08 rufiyaa was donated. The new runway was opened on 12 April 1966 at 16:00 by President Ibrahim Nasir.

Upgrade to Velana International Airport
When the tourism boom in the Maldives began in 1972, the country was in need of an international standard airport to transport international tourists to the resort islands. The International Airports Authority of India successfully completed the construction of Hulhule Airport, which was formally inaugurated, on 11 November 1981, under a new name of "Malé International Airport".

Maldives Airports Company Ltd (MACL) was formed on 1 January 1994 to operate and manage the Malé International Airport. MACL is governed by the board of directors appointed by the President of the Maldives.

On 26 July 2011, Malé International Airport was officially renamed as the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport in memory of Ibrahim Nasir, the 2nd President of the Maldives and the founder of the airport.

On 1 January 2017, the airport was rebranded as Velana International Airport, referring to the family house name of President Ibrahim Nasir. The rebranding is part of a strategic plan in aligning the airport with the economic vision of the Yameen administration. India has played a crucial role as a key supporter and financier of infrastructure initiatives in the Maldives, serving as a steadfast friend. India's Line of Credit amounting to $136.6 million significantly expedited the successful completion of the Male Airport project.

Privatisation of the airport
In 2010, the Nasheed administration appointed IFC to run a bidding process for the privatisation of the airport. The bid was won by a consortium between GMR Group and Malaysia Airports who provided 1 billion rufiyaa as upfront fee to the government for the expansion and modernisation of the airport by 2014, and its operation for 25 years.

By the end of the year, MACL officially handed over the aerodrome licence of the airport to the newly formed GMR Malé International Airport Ltd (GMIAL). GMIAL announced that the development plans included reclaiming more land at the eastern end of the runway; where a new terminal is to be built. This terminal would consist of three separate bridged buildings. Plans for a separate cargo terminal were also announced. However, the project faced numerous delays.

In late 2012, the new government of Maldives under the Waheed administration declared that the concession agreement was void ab initio and on 27 November 2012 gave GMIAL a deadline of seven days to 'evict the airport', a decision which drew mass protests from the government's opposition, as well as criticism from the government and media of India. On 7 December, GMR handed over the airport to the government, and MACL was reinstated as the operator.

Expansion of the airport
On 18 September 2018, the airport finished a new runway. It is 3400 m long and 60 m wide, built to serve larger aircraft. However, it was only used as a taxiway until 2022 when the old Trans Maldivian Airways seaplane terminal was finally demolished as it was in closer proximity than required by International aviation standards. Although the new runway was inaugurated on 5 September 2018 by then president of Maldives, Yameen Abdul Gayoom, it was not in use for scheduled flights for 4 years from then until the runway was fully ready.

On 26 June 2019, a Maldivian Airbus A320 successfully tested the new southwest apron at Velana International Airport. This was the first live flight operation testing by Maldives Airports Company as they awaited final certification for operations. On 17 July 2019, the new apron was opened for flight operations. The ICAO fully compliant apron has three Code E MARS stands, two dedicated Code E stands and one dedicated Code C stand.

On 6 October 2022, a new Seaplane Terminal was opened. The terminal was developed by China’s Beijing Urban Construction Group (BUCG) at a cost of US$55 million. In the world’s largest seaplane operation, the new terminal and dock can accommodate more than 100 seaplanes and operate 300 daily flights on average rising to 600 during peak season with the capacity to serve more than 6,000 tourists a day. With 28000 m2 of floor space, the four-storey terminal building includes offices, arrival lobbies, and 42 lounges, most of which are dedicated for resorts aside from the MACL’s VIP and business lounges.

The foundation work of the new passenger terminal being constructed at the airport was completed as of December 2019. The new passenger terminal is being developed at the south of the current international terminal and will have an area of over 78000 m2. The current terminal was designed to serve 1 million passengers per year while the new terminal will have the capacity to serve 7.3 million passengers per year. Expected completion time of the new terminal is by 2025 and will cost about US$357 million. The project was contracted to the Saudi Bin Laden Group in 2019. The expansion project also includes the construction of a cargo terminal and a fuel farm that is expected to be completed in 2020. The current cargo terminal permits the handling of 50,000 tonnes of cargo per year, the new terminal is expected to process 120,000 tonnes of cargo per year. The new fuel farm area is three times larger than the current fuel farm, while the current fuel storage capacity of the entire airport is 15,000 metric tonnes, the fuel storage capacity at the airport would reach 45,000 metric tonne by the end of the project. Under this project, an 8.4 km fuel hydrant has been installed under the airport to fuel aircraft. After the system is implemented, fuel trucks will no longer be needed to fuel aircraft, improving safety and shortening service time for the airlines.

The new runway became operational by 6 October 2022, with a Boeing 777 operated by Emirates from Dubai, UAE, landing on the new runway, with the existing runway being converted into a permanent taxiway, as TMA finished moving to the new seaplane terminal by August 2022. The old runway was closed by a departing Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 bound for Istanbul, Turkey. The runway was developed by China's Beijing Urban Construction Group (BUCG) at a cost of USD 452 million. With the operationalization of the new runway, the waiting time between landing flights will be decreased from 15 minutes to 3 minutes. The previous runway only accommodated 8 flights per hour, while the new runway can accommodate 21 flights per hour.

Facilities
The airport is at an elevation of 6 ft above mean sea level. It has a single asphalt runway designated 18/36 measuring 60 ×. The adjacent waterdrome which serves the large seaplane operations at Velana has 4 water runways, designated NR/SL, NC/SC, NL/SR and E/W, measuring 60 ×, 60 ×, 60 × and 60 × respectively. Runway NL is takeoff only and runway SR is landing only due to proximities to flying restricted areas.

The airport has three terminals: the International Terminal, the Domestic Terminal and the waterdrome Seaplane Terminal.

The airport includes the corporate headquarters of Trans Maldivian Airways.

Passenger

 * Notes
 * : BeOnd's flights to Milan, Munich and Zurich operate with a refueling stop in Dubai-Al Maktoum. It does not sell tickets from Malé to Dubai.

Statistics
As of October 2023, SriLankan Airlines is the largest foreign carrier into the Maldives with over 21 flights a week. Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka is the most common direct stop out of the Maldives as it is served by SriLankan Airlines, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Flydubai and Gulf Air who operate a combined total of up to 7 flights daily between Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Incidents and accidents

 * On 18 October 1995 an Air Maldives Dornier 228 abruptly turned right, left the runway, struck the seawall and somersaulted into the adjacent lagoon while landing. The plane was written off.
 * On 15 August 1996 a Hummingbird Helicopter MIL Mi-8P lost control after takeoff due to a loss of hydraulic pressure. Four people received minor injuries.
 * On 17 May 2004 a Trans Maldivian Airways de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300 collided with the sea-wall of runway 18 after experiencing problems taking off from the seaplane base. Both pilots and one passenger were seriously injured in the accident. The aircraft was written off.

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Emil Sembach

Emil Sembach (April 2, 1891 – July 1, 1934) was an SS-Oberführer (Senior Colonel) attached to the SS headquarters of Silesia. He had joined the Nazi Party in 1925, and received promotion in the SS in 1931.

Biography
Emil Sembach was born on 2 April 1891, near Grein, Upper Austria.

Education
After studying at high school he went to a humanistic school in Coburg and graduated. Afterwards he joined as a cadet in a Magdeburg Artillery Regiment one.

Career
In the First World War he was a battery commander. From 1919 to 1921 he a member of a volunteer corps and fought in the Baltic states. Then earned it until 1932 his livelihood in commercial professions, most recently as assistant manager in Berlin. In 1934, after being caught by Reinhard Heydrich's Sicherheitsdienst (SD), for embezzlement and also for having a homosexual relationship with Curt Wittje, he was expelled from the party and the SS. Fearing for his life he asked Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick for protection, but his protection could not save him when on the Night of the Long Knives Sembach was arrested on the orders of his rival Udo von Woyrsch, and the next day under the command of SS-Obersturmführer (1st Lieutenant) Paul Exner, Sembach was taken to the Giant Mountains and executed on the orders of von Woyrsch.

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Trail of the Cedars

The Trail of the Cedars is a hiking trail accessible from Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, Montana. The .60 mi path is paved and has a raised boardwalk in some sections. Some of the cedars visible are over 80 ft tall. The trail splits into two sections: one loops, while the other continues to Avalanche Lake which can reached after a 2 mi hike with a 500 ft elevation gain. In the middle of the half loop is a beautiful waterfall that has carved through colorful rock to make a channeled stream.

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Northway

Northway may refer to:

Places

 * Canada
 * Camp Northway, the oldest summer camp for girls in Canada

 * United Kingdom
 * Northway, Devon, England
 * Northway, Gloucestershire, England
 * Northway, Oxford, England
 * Northway, Somerset, England
 * Northway, Swansea, Wales

 * United States
 * Northway, Alaska, a village
 * Northway Junction, Alaska, a village
 * Northway Village, Alaska, a village
 * Northway Mall, a shopping mall in Anchorage, Alaska
 * Northway Shopping Center, a shopping mall in Colonie, New York
 * The Shoppes at Northway, a shopping mall in Ross Township, Pennsylvania
 * Adirondack Northway, the segment of Interstate 87 between Albany, New York, and the Canada–US border

People
Notable people with the Northway surname include:
 * Doug Northway (born 1955), American swimmer
 * Edward Northway (1901–1966), English cricketer
 * Mary Louise Northway (1909–1987), Canadian psychologist
 * Reginald Northway (1906–1936), Sri Lanka-born cricketer in England
 * Stephen A. Northway (1833–1898), American lawyer and politician

Other

 * Northway Bank, a community bank in New Hampshire
 * Northway Books, a British publisher specialising in books about jazz

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Breton Sound

Breton Sound (Détroit Breton) is a sound of the Gulf of Mexico and a part of the coastline of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It lies off the southeast coast of the state and is partially enclosed by the Breton Islands.

Two ships in the United States Navy have been named the USS Breton after this area.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina crossed the sound before making its third landfall near Pearlington, Mississippi.

In 2023, Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan intends to redirect fresh water from the Mississippi River east into wetlands in Breton Sound.

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Sar Kheng

Sar Kheng (ស ខេង; born 15 January 1951) is a Cambodian politician. He is the vice president of the ruling Cambodian People's Party and served as Minister of the Interior and deputy prime minister from 1992 to 2023. He also represents the province of Battambang in the Cambodian Parliament. Kheng has been the Minister of the Interior since 1992. Until March 2006, he shared the position with FUNCINPEC party member You Hockry as co-Ministers of the Interior, but then became sole interior minister in a cabinet reshuffle as FUNCINPEC ended its coalition with the CPP. He left office as interior minister in 2023 and was succeeded by his son, Sar Sokha.

A Cambodian child in the Sangkum
Sar Kheng was born on January 15, 1951, during the Sangkum in Ang Daung Saat Village, Krabau Township, Kamchay Mear District, Prey Veng Province. He was born into a peasant family.

From guerilla warfare to leader of the Kampuchea
Along with Heng Samrin, Chea Sim, and Hun Sen, Sar Kheng was among the Democratic Kampuchea cadres of the Eastern Zone. However, after commander of the Eastern Zone Sar Phim was assassinated, Sar Kheng, Hun Sen, and other leaders who refused the purges of the Cambodian genocide went into the opposition against the Khmers Rouges. The ties and friendships made at that time have lasted and still continue to determine Cambodian politics. Since they fled to Vietnam, they have been accused of being pro-Vietnamese. After the Vietnamese troops entered Cambodia and pushed back the Khmers Rouge to the North West provinces, Kheng, along with his brother-in-law Chea Sim, took on leadership positions in national security and were identified as "hard-liners" in the People's Republic of Kampuchea government, fighting to eradicate the Khmer Rouge from Cambodia. As leaders in the one-party state controlled by the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (the former name of the CPP), they were accused of operating "a police state". Human Rights Watch Asia Director Brad Adams described governmental policies that included imprisonment without trial and torture of political activists.

Coup after coup towards democracy after the return of the monarchy
Kheng became the Minister of Interior in 1992 during the UN protectorate period overseeing the State of Cambodia's transition to the Kingdom of Cambodia. During this time, the CPP formed a coalition with its main rival, Prince Norodom Ranariddh's FUNCINPEC party. As a result of this arrangement, each party appointed members to "share" higher offices. Within the CPP, Kheng is its Vice President and a standing member of its Central Committee, the body responsible for all core decision making.

1994 coup: surviving the failed attempt of Chakrapong and Sin Song
A schism slowly developed in the CPP with Hun Sen and his supporters who would hold on to power at all costs on one side and the more moderate Kheng, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin on the other. Hun Sen, who had control and support of the military and National Police emerged as the undisputed leader. His suspicion of Kheng was such that during an aborted coup attempt led by Prince Norodom Chakrapong in 1994, Hun Sen totally bypassed the Ministry of the Interior in his response, not notifying Kheng of troop mobilization or movements until the whole episode had already ended. Sar Kheng was particularly opposed to the tactics behind the coup as they only reinforced the political position of the Khmer Rouge by perpetuating political instability in Cambodia.

1997 coup: refusing a violent response
Three years later, while planning the 1997 coup to oust his popular co-Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Hun Sen personally confronted Kheng to ensure his loyalty and support for the use of force. Sar Kheng warned Hun Sen against the use of violence and said that he would refuse to take part in a coup. Further, Kheng could do nothing to reign in Hok Lundy, the head of the National Police force and close confidant of Hun Sen, who was accused of crimes and abuses of power ranging from human trafficking and drug smuggling to the murder of political opponents even though Lundy was under the authority of the Interior Ministry.

By the late 1990s, Kheng's name was often floated by Western observers as a possible party "reformer".

Growing stronger after the loss of the FUNCINPEC
Since 1992, Kheng and FUNCINPEC member You Hockry were ruling as co-Ministers of the Interior. This arrangement lasted until the Senate elections of 2006, when FUNCINPEC, which lost many seats while Ranariddh left to form his own party, dissolved the coalition and allied with Sam Rainsy's opposition movement. You Hockry, who chose to follow Ranariddh, was dismissed and Prince Norodom Sirivudh was made co-minister with Kheng. However, Sirivudh was soon also dismissed, leaving Kheng as the sole Minister of the Interior. Since this loss, Sar Kheng has been able to grow stronger and rein in any serious political opposition.

In September 2015, he warned the authorities of Sihanoukville whom he suspected of taking bribes in return for allowing illegal fishing and smuggling activities off the coast.

After Sar Kheng downturned offers of inclusion by the Cambodia National Reform Party in 2017, Sam Rainsy directed "revenge claims" against Sar Kheng. In 2019, Sar Kheng sued Sam Rainsy for his allegations that he had been colluding with Dy Vichea against Hun Sen, accusations which he considered "fake news and incitements".

Orkun santheipheap: balancing public order and personal freedom
Since coming to power in 1992, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has overseen the transition to democracy. While some have applauded the longest period of political stability since the Cambodian Civil War and Kheng's efforts to fight against corruption and drug trafficking, others have been critical of the suppression of political opponents such as CNRP deputy leader, Kem Sokha. Kheng continues to attempt to be a mediating force in Cambodia politics. In September 2015, Kheng announced the formation of a seven-person police commission to investigate the 2013 death threats made by CPP Interior Ministry official Lieutenant Colonel Pheng Vannak against CNRP deputy leader Kem Sokha. The investigation has resulted in Kheng removing Vannak from his position. After the October 2015 attacks on opposition CNRP lawmakers by pro-CPP demonstrators, Kheng conducted informal meetings with CNRP leader Sam Rainsy in an attempt to "restore a working relationship" between the two parties and quell the tension. This politics of stability has been summarized in the slogan which begins with a leitmotiv of CPP: orkun santheipheap (Khmer: អរគុណសន្តិភាព), which translates as "thanks be for peace".

Honors and recognitions
On June 14, 2015, King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Kheng the honorary title of Samdech. His official title is "Samdech Kralahom Sar Kheng" (សម្ដេចក្រឡាហោម ស ខេង).

Family
Kheng is married to Nhem Sakhan with whom he has three children. Through matrimonial alliances, Kheng is part of an intricate network of powerful Cambodian families. Kheng is also brother-in-law to former president of the Cambodian National Assembly Chea Sim, who was CPP president until his death in 2015. His son Sar Sokha is married to Ke Kuon Sophy, the daughter of General Ke Kim Yan.

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Resurrection Bay

Resurrection Bay, also known as Blying Sound, and Harding Gateway in its outer reaches, is a fjord on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, United States. Its main settlement is Seward, located at the head of the bay. The bay received its name from Alexandr Baranov, who was forced to retreat into the bay during a bad storm in the Gulf of Alaska. When the storm settled it was Easter Sunday, so the bay and nearby Resurrection River were named in honor of it. Harding Gateway refers to the passage between Rugged and Cheval Islands.

Resurrection Bay is the location of Caines Head, at the summit of which Fort McGilvray is situated 650 ft above sea level. This fortification was constructed by the United States Armed Forces to defend against a possible invasion by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The bay remains ice-free even in winter, making it easily navigable.

It is called the "gateway to the Kenai Fjords" as many water taxis, kayak tours, anglers, and recreational boaters use the bay to access nearby Kenai Fjords National Park.

Geography
Resurrection Bay has a maximum depth of 972 ft, near the coast at Caines Head. It contains many deep coves, most notably Thumb, Humpy, Bulldog, Pony and Derby Coves. To the west, Resurrection Bay is bordered by the Aialik Peninsula and the adjacent Aialik Bay. To the east, the bay is bounded by the Resurrection Peninsula and Day Harbor.

Parks
Several parks are located in and around the bay. Kenai Fjords National Park is primarily accessed by boat from Seward. Caines Head State Recreation Area is here. Many visit it by boat, but there is a trail from Lowell Point State Recreation Site, a 19 acre park with beach access and trailhead parking. Parts of the trail between the two parks are only accessible at low tide, so visitors must plan accordingly. Sandspit Point State Marine Park is a 1,135 acres undeveloped park, popular with kayakers, with beach camping and tidepooling. Sunny Cove State Marine Park is a 960 acre park on Fox Island. It is also undeveloped and has no source of fresh water. The park consists of a beach area used for camping and landing of small boats, and steep, rocky cliffs. Thumb Cove State Marine Park is one of the few developed parks in the area, featuring offshore mooring buoys for small boats, beach camping, and two public-use cabins. Visitors can view Porcupine Glacier, Spoon Glacier, and Prospect Glacier from the park.

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Thanks for your work on the heart failure page! Could we have some more references?

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Your edits on sepsis are excellent, someone really needed to take care of that article. As JFW mentions above, you can add references to what you write (just start by adding and others can do more complex formatting). A good place to start might also be our Manual of Style for medical articles.

I hope you enjoy it here, keep up the good work!

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Linking journal titles
Well done for those "small additions" on myocardial infarction. Could I suggest that you probably shouldn't add Wikilinks to the names of medical journals in the cite journal template? Most journals have no pages for themselves (yet). Also, some the of the URLs you used redirect to other pages, and may need to be updated. HighWire journals have a "pmidlookup" function that parses to a different, more final URL. JFW | T@lk  09:02, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

 * I have removed a few additions to the introduction of the article. WP:LEAD places some restrictions on the size of the intro, and I felt that a discussion on the use of myoglobin and the need to commence abciximab was slightly excessive. JFW | T@lk  09:26, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

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Elizabeth Poole

Elizabeth Poole or Pole (25 August 1588 – 21 May 1654) was an English settler in Plymouth Colony who founded the town of Taunton, Massachusetts. She was the first woman known to have founded a town in the Americas.

Biography
Poole was a well-born woman from Shute in East Devon, near Axminster. She was the daughter of Sir William Pole, who was knighted by James I in 1601, and Mary Peryam, the daughter of Sir William Peryam, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Until 2009, her family's descendants, the Pole-Carews, lived in the Devonshire house she was born in, Shute Barton, a National Trust property which is open to the public on four weekends during the year. (The property is now refurbished and let by the Trust as holiday accommodation). Elizabeth sailed from Plymouth, England in 1633 on the Speedwell with two friends, fourteen servants, goods, and twenty tons of salt for fishing provision. She intended to form a settlement and for the conversion of the Native Americans to Christianity. Although the Taunton town seal depicts Poole purchasing land from the local Wampanoag Indians, she was not actually involved in the original transaction. However, together with her brother William Poole, she acquired a large section of this land in 1637. This led to the development of the Taunton settlement in 1638. The next year, on 3 March 1639, the settlement was officially incorporated.

At her time of death in 1654, she was a wealthy spinster who had built her own house with an orchard which was occupied by her brother as well as a second home she purchased from Robert Thornton. She was one of the few women at that time who left a will leaving her property, including a 40-acre meadow, to John Poole, her nephew and merchant in Boston.

The inscription on her gravestone reads:

Here rest the remains of Elizabeth Poole, a native of Old England, of good family, friends, and prospects, all which she left in the prime of her life, to enjoy the religion of her conscience, in this distant wilderness; a great proprietor of the township of Taunton, a chief promoter of its settlement, and its incorporation in 1639-40; about which time she settled near this spot, and having employed the opportunity of her virgin state in piety, liberality, and sanctity of manners, died May 21, 1654, aged 65.

Bible
Her Geneva Bible sold for £20,000 in January 2023.

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