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Abbey Green, Staffordshire Moorlands

Abbey Green is a village near Leek in the English county of Staffordshire.

The village is close to the site of Dieulacres Abbey. The abbey was founded in 1214 by Ranulph de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester for Cistercian monks, who moved from Poulton, Cheshire because of attacks from the Welsh. The Earl gave the monks the manor of nearby Leek, where a Wednesday market had recently been established. The abbey remained in existence until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was surrendered in 1538.

There are some scanty remains of the abbey, which are Grade II listed. Much of the material was used for the building erected on the site.

The building on the site of the abbey, built by 1614, was the home of Thomas Rudyard, lord of the manor of Leek, and later of his descendants. It was once known as Abbey Dieulacres, and later as Dieulacres Abbey Farm. It is now known as Abbey Farm.

The Abbey Inn, a feature of the village, is a Grade II* listed building and is dated 1702.

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Abbey Hill (disambiguation)

Abbey Hill is a civil parish in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.

Abbey Hill may also refer to several places in the United Kingdom:

 * Abbey Hill, Somerset, a hamlet in the parish of Curland
 * Abbey Hill Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
 * Abbey Hill, now Abbeyhill, district of Edinburgh
 * Abbeyhill railway station
 * Abbeyhill Junction, a railway junction
 * Abbey Hills, an area in Oldham, Greater Manchester

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Pantelimon, Bucharest

Pantelimon is a neighbourhood located in north-eastern Bucharest, Romania, in Sector 2. Outside Bucharest, there is an adjacent town named Pantelimon, administered separately.

The Pantelimon district is named after Saint Pantaleon (Pantelimon in Romanian), and hosts Arena Națională, the largest football stadium in Romania. Pantelimon Avenue is the backbone of the district.

A Cora hypermarket is situated in this neighbourhood. Several car showrooms (Renault & Dacia, Peugeot, Skoda, Fiat) have been built in the east side of the district.

The area was a small houses neighborhood until systematisation started in 1971. The first apartment blocks were completed in 1974, followed by the completion of the "Delfinului" housing complex in 1976–1978, construction having continued until the 1980s, specifically west of the 23 August Stadium and on Chișinău Avenue. Most of the buildings constructed in the 1970s feature structures typically filled out with mortar, whilst some of them use prefabricated concrete panels. Ultimately, in the 1980s, the predominant construction technique was using prefabricated concrete panels, and most buildings of the same type can be seen one after the other, being "copy-pasted" in a typical fashion of the era.

A famous area of the district is "Capătu' lu' 14" (or "Capu' lu' 14", literally "the terminus of (tram) line 14"), which is situated in the east side of the neighbourhood, and features "Confort 2" block buildings with 4 stories. This area is the setting of a popular legend among locals, "The Children's Fall." The story — which dates back to the mid-1950s, when the area suffered from gangster and racketeering problems — details the supposed decline of the neighbourhood's children from being "legit" to being "dangerous". Pantelimon is also famous in Romania because of the hip-hop group B.U.G. Mafia. As children, the members of the band lived on Pantelimon Alley and Socului, near "Capătu' lu" 14". Tataee, a member of B.U.G. Mafia stated in various interviews that both he and Uzzi and Daddy Caddy still live in the neighbourhood.

The east side of the neighbourhood was built on the domains of the Mărcuța Monastery. The old Mărcuţa church built in 1587 still exists today on the banks of Pantelimon lake.

Pantelimon is served by the Pantelimon and Republica subway stations, as well as tram lines 14, 23, 36, 40, 55 and bus lines 101, 104, 243, 330, 335.

Currently, there are 5 primary and 2 secondary schools (Lucian Blaga Theoretical High School and Saint Pantaleon Industrial School Group) in the neighbourhood.

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All images were taken in March 1976

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The Enforcers

The Enforcers may refer to:

 * Enforcers (comics), a Marvel Comics villain team, enemies of Spider-Man
 * New Enforcers, another group of Marvel Comics supervillains
 * Enforcers (SWAT Kats), an animated series
 * A criminal group in Jackie Chan Adventures; see Dark Hand

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Tsinghua University High School

Tsinghua University High School is a public secondary school in Haidian, Beijing, China. The school is supervised by the Beijing City Haidian District Education Committee.

History
In 1915, the school was founded as Chengzhi School (成志学校).

In 1946, the school was renamed as Beiping School (北平学校).

In 1952, the school became the Tsinghua University Affiliated Junior High School (清华大学附设中学).

Rankings
In a 2016 ranking of Chinese high schools that send students to study in American universities, the school ranked tenth in mainland China in terms of the number of students entering top American universities.

Alumni

 * Liu Yandong

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Talk:A Clockwork Orange (film)

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After completing 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick searched for a project that he could film quickly on a small budget. He settled on A Clockwork Orange (1971) at the end of 1969, an exploration of violence and experimental rehabilitation by law enforcement authorities, based around the character of Alex (portrayed by Malcolm McDowell). Kubrick had originally received a copy of Anthony Burgess's novel of the same name from Terry Southern while they were working on Dr. Strangelove, but had rejected it on the grounds that Nadsat, a street language for young teenagers, was too difficult to comprehend. In 1969, the decision to make a film about the degeneration of youth was a more timely one; the New Hollywood movement was witnessing a great number of films centering around the sexuality and rebelliousness of young people, which no doubt influenced Kubrick in Baxter's opinion.

A Clockwork Orange was shot over the winter of 1970-1 on a budget of £2 million. Kubrick abandoned his use of CinemaScope in the filming, deciding that the 1:66:1 widescreen format was, in the words of Baxter, an "acceptable compromise between spectacle and intimacy", and "favoured his rigorously symmetrical framing", which "increased the beauty of his compositions". The film heavily features "pop erotica" of the period; the house of one of the victims of the "droogs" (friends), the exercise instructor Cat Lady, is full of erotic statuary and paintings, including a giant white plastic set of male genitals. Kubrick informed Ciment that the erotic decor used in the film was intended to give it a "slightly futuristic" look, the assumption being that "erotic art will eventually become popular art". Kubrick and production designer John Barry spent weeks perusing back issues of architectural magazines for inspiration. They cut out relevant material and kept it in a special display named "Definitiv". Whereas the novel had depicted the droogs in Alex's gang as "teenage juvenile delinquents who squash pets, smash windows and seduce pimply teenage girls", Kubrick wanted Alex and his gang in the film to function more as young adults, whose victims are also adults. McDowell, aged 28 at the time, was almost twice the age of the Alex in the novel. His role in Lindsay Anderson's if.... (1968) was crucial to his casting as Alex, as Kubrick had been impressed with his ability to "shift from schoolboy innocence to insolence and, if needed, violence". So central was McDowell to the film and his vision, that Kubrick professed that he probably wouldn't have made the film if McDowell had been unavailable. Because of its depiction of teenage violence, A Clockwork Orange became one of the most controversial films of the decade, and part of an ongoing debate about violence and its glorification in cinema. It received an X-rated certificate upon release, just before Christmas in 1971, though many critics saw much of the violence depicted in the film as satirical, and less violent than Straw Dogs which had been released a month earlier. Kubrick personally pulled the film from release in the United Kingdom after receiving death threats following a series of copycat crimes based on the film; it was thus completely unavailable legally in the UK until after Kubrick's death, and not re-released until 2000. The censor, John Trevelyan, himself considered A Clockwork Orange to be "perhaps the most brilliant piece of cinematic art I've ever seen, and believed it to present an "intellectual argument rather than a sadistic spectacle" in its depiction of violence, but acknowledged that many would not agree. Kubrick disagreed with many of the scathing press reports in British media in the early 1970s that the film could transform a person into a criminal, and argued that "violent crime is invariably committed by people with a long record of anti-social behavior". He defended the depiction of violence in the film, arguing that "The violence in the story has to be given sufficient dramatic weight so that the moral dilemma it poses can be seen in the right context", otherwise the viewer would not reach a "meaningful conclusion about relative rights and wrongs". The State cannot turn even the most "vicious criminals into vegetables". Biographer LoBrutto sees the film as more a "sociopolitical statement about the government's threat against personal freedom" than one which celebrates violence. Robert Hughes, the art critic for Time magazine, also sees beyond its violence, arguing that "No movie of the last decade (perhaps in the history of film) has made such exquisitely chilling predictions about the future role of cultural artefacts—paintings, buildings, sculpture, music— in society, or extrapolated them from so undeceived a view of our present culture". Rex Reed concurred, calling it "a mind-blowing work of dazzling originality and brilliance that succeeds on many levels of consciousness", adding that it was "of the most perfect movies I have ever seen in my lifetime". Ignoring the negative media hype over the film, A Clockwork Orange received four Academy Award nominations, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editing, and was named by the New York Film Critics Circle as the Best Film of 1971. After William Friedkin won Best Director for The French Connection that year, he told the press: "Speaking personally, I think Stanley Kubrick is the best American film-maker of the year. In fact, not just this year, but the best, period".

Location of the film
I have changed 'In a futuristic London' to 'In a futuristic Britain'. While it is of course on record that the film was shot in London and the surrounding area, it simply cannot be stated with any confidence that the film is meant to take place in London. In the book it's not mentioned and it's often thought that Alex and co could actually be in Moscow. What's certain is that it is not clear. In the film, there is no mention that they're in London and the accents indicate that they could well be in the north of England. Given that all the characters speak English/ Nadsat, it's safe to assume that they're in Britain, but it is disingenuous explicitly to state that they're in London, in spite of the filming taking place there. NEDOCHAN (talk)

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A recent edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)&diff=prev&oldid=1167237235 added the description “darkly humorous” to the film. No doubt the film has some absurd and comedic elements to it, but I am wondering the opinions on whether this should be kept, especially as the edit also removed this note: “This [previous list of genres] was agreed to on the Talk page. Please do not add sub-genres without discussion there.” 2A00:23C6:95CE:B401:E010:9DEA:4080:3D91 (talk) 19:44, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

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HITEC City

The Hyderabad Information Technology and Engineering Consultancy City, abbreviated as HITEC City, is an Indian information technology, engineering, health informatics, and bioinformatics, financial business district located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. HITEC City is spread across 81 ha of land under suburbs of Madhapur, Gachibowli, Kondapur, Miyapur, Nanakramguda, Serilingampally, Bachupally, Manikonda, Kukatpally and Shamshabad all the combined technology townships is also known as Cyberabad with a radius of 52.48 km surrounding approximate area of 6100 ha. HITEC City is within 2 km of the residential and commercial suburb of Jubilee Hills.

History
HITEC City was commissioned by the erstwhile Government of United Andhra Pradesh, adjoining Cyberabad to the west of Hyderabad and was inaugurated by then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 22 November 1998. In 1997, The then Chief Minister N. Chandra Babu Naidu travelled to Southeast Asia to meet potential investors and to 'market the state' and was impressed with the larger technology related developments of Singapore and Malaysia – especially Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) near Kuala Lumpur. Soon after coming back from his Southeast Asia tour, Naidu initiated a $350 million knowledge enclave in Hyderabad, leading to birth of HITEC City.

Foundation of HITEC City
Cyber Towers was the first tower to be built for promotion of Information Technology (IT) within 14 months and the attractive unique design was selected by N. Chandrababu Naidu in 1997 to stand as a Monument in city of Hyderabad and as architectural masterpiece in the center of Cyberabad with transforming the City of Pearls, Hyderabad as the City of Destiny for IT and Pharmaceutical companies while also set up a separate Cyberabad Metropolitan Police Commissionerate and totally revamped the way of policing under safety and surveillance accomplishing HITEC City has emerged as the symbolic heart of cosmopolitan Hyderabad and it was initially marketed by both the officials of APIIC and L&T Infocity Ltd (the public and private sector partner). Companies such as Orbees Business Solutions, Knowledge Matrix India Pvt Ltd., 7 Hills Business Solutions, AppLabs, Keane Inc NTT DATA, Microsoft, Patni Computer Systems, Oracle Corporation, GE Capital, Whishworks, Prithvi Information Solutions, Naia Software Solutions India Pvt Ltd., Four Soft operate and call centers operate from this four-quadrant, 10-story building. The Cyber Towers building is divided into four quadrants with a large fountain in the middle of the quadrants. Another large building of office space named Cyber Gateway has been built comprises over 866,000 square feet (80,500 square meters) across 8 acres (3.25 ha).

Laxmi Cyber City
Laxmi Cyber City, started construction from 2005 and built span of two years by 2007 operations started. It consists of three blocks. A block- HSBC GLT B block- E&Y, Inventiv, etc. C block- ADP The property is close to 1 Million sft. and shares its heritage with Laxmi Cyber Centre (Banjara Hills), Laxmi CentrePoint (Begumpet GE), Laxmi Cyber Point, Laxmi Cyber Towers SEZ etc.

R & D center
Microsoft India Development Center is one of Microsoft's largest R&D centers outside the Redmond headquarters, Washington state. Set up in Hyderabad in 1998. Then Chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu arranged a meeting with Bill Gates founder of Microsoft and discussed about the infrastructure provided and human resources availability in the state while managed him to build their sprawling 54 acres Microsoft campus of LEED Gold Certification for one of its buildings in hyderabad. The Microsoft Corporation is the first multinational company to build a research and development center in Cyberabad.

L&T Infocity
Infocity is the first software technology park layout in HITEC CITY which attracted major technology companies like Accenture, Microsoft, Oracle, s2Tech Technologies etc.

CII - Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre
CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre (CII-Godrej GBC) was established in the year 2004, as CII's Developmental Institute on Green Practices & Businesses, aimed at offering advisory services on conservation of natural resources. The Green Business Centre was inaugurated by His Excellency Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the then President of India on 14 July 2004.

The Services of Green Business Centre include energy management, green buildings, green companies, renewable energy, GHG inventorisation, green product certification, waste management, and cleaner production process.

Hyderabad International Convention Centre
In process of making India's favorite meetings and events destination in Hyderabad, then chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu created a convention hub with the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, is a purpose-built, state-of-the-art convention facility, the first of its kind in South Asia. The convention centre was built by Emaar MGF of India. It has been the winner of the excellence award for “Best Standalone Convention Centre” for a record four times, nationally awarded by Ministry of Tourism, Government of India and the company is part owned by Emaar of UAE. The facility is managed by Accor Hospitality. The Hyderabad International Convention Centre with 5,000 seating capacity is India's largest convention facility. It is an integrated 27000 m2 covering 15 acre. The centre can be configured to increase seating capacity to about 6,500. The convention center is connected to Novotel Hyderabad, an international business hotel, it has 288 rooms and is equipped with meeting rooms, restaurants, business centre, spa and a health club.

Raheja Mindspace IT Park

The Mindspace IT Park includes residential, recreational, entertainment, and retail spaces. The park provides about 4000000 sqft of office space. Spread across 110 acres, this layout also provides about 40% open space with telecommunications and civic infrastructure, wide roads and greenery. The district witnessed immediate success with over 1 e6sqft built and occupied within just 14 months of starting the project. The park provides both multi-tenant and built to suit facilities. Companies such as Hyundai Mobis, IBM, Accenture, CSC, Bank of America, Facebook and Novartis have built to suit facilities in the park with 10000 workers within them. Other companies in multitenant facilities include Broadcom Inc., Deloitte, Parexel, Syneos Health, Qualcomm, Zensar Technologies Ltd, Tech Mahindra, Oracle, Accenture, Amazon, General Electric, OpenText, IGATE, Verizon, Thomson Reuters, Wells Fargo and TietoEVRY. As of 2008 March, 20,000 people work in the park. The park is a notified SEZ and is set to accommodate about 55,000 IT workers making it the largest of the IT parks in HITEC city. The park also has a Westin Hotel and Inorbit Mall which have been opened in the second half of 2009. Map of Mindspace Park

 * Building - 1 - Accenture.
 * Building - 2 -Tech Mahindra, GE, ZenQ, Patni Computer Systems, Bank of America, Sumtotal systems, Redpine Signals, Beryl Consulting
 * Building - 3 - IBM.
 * Building - 4 - Computer Sciences Corporation.
 * Building - 5 - Bank of America, Redpine Signals.
 * Building - 6 - Qualcomm.
 * Building - 7 - Computer Sciences Corporation.
 * Building - 8 - Qualcomm, PL Engineering, Deloitte, UTC Fire & Security
 * Building - 9 - Verizon, Amazon, Broadcom, Qualcomm, HSBC, Deloitte, PerkinElmer.
 * Building - 10 - Verizon, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Raheja India.
 * Building - 11 - JP Morgan, Thomson Reuters, Advanced Micro Devices.
 * Building - 12A - Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pegasystems Inc.
 * Building - 14 - Portware, United Health Group, Persistent Systems & Solutions Ltd, OpenText Corporation, LGS Global Ltd, Trianz, Yash Technologies Pvt. Ltd, ZenQ, Verity Knowledge Solutions Pvt Ltd.
 * Building - 20 - Parexel, vSplash Techlabs Pvt. Ltd, Cognizant Technology Solutions, YASH Technologies, RealPage, OMICS, PROLIFICS (Semantic Space Technologies).
 * Building - 21 - Colruyt IT Consultancy
 * HUDA Techno Enclave - Ocimum Bio Solutions

HITEX Exhibition Centre
Hyderabad International Trade Expositions Limited (HITEX) is a venue for international exhibitions, conferences, trade shows, and corporate events in India. Exhibition centre was conceptualised by German architects and opened on 14 January 2003 by Commerce Minister Arun Shourie, and the Hitex Trade Fair Office Building was inaugurated by Andhra Pradesh former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.

HITEX is located at Madhapur (near HITEC City). The facility is spread over nearly 100 acre.

GITEX Hyderabad, is the annual IT&C expo organised by the Dubai World Trade Centre in association with the Department of IT&C, Government of Telangana.

HITEC City-2 SEZ
HITEC City-2 is a milestone project of Phoenix Infocity Pvt. Ltd. This is a venture by Phoenix Group, India. HITEC City-2 is an IT/ITeS Special Economic Zone (SEZ), and it is being promoted as an extension of HITEC City. The project has received formal approval as an IT/ITeS SEZ from the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India. On an overall built-up area of about 3000000 sqft, nine IT buildings are proposed with a mix of multi-tenant and custom-built to suit options to be developed in phases. The SEZ design allows about 28,000 IT workers to work in an area of 3000000 sqft.

It has accommodated MNCs like

 * UBS (the Indian operations of which were recently acquired by Cognizant)
 * CUBIC Transportation Systems India Private Limited
 * ValueMomentum
 * MAQ Software
 * HCL
 * ValueLabs Inc.
 * Object Technologies
 * IGATE

Cyber Pearl (an Ascendas IT park)

CyberPearl is located in the heart of Hyderabad's growth centre. Numerous MNC campuses, commercial facilities and extensive social infrastructure are located nearby the park. Opened in 2004, CyberPearl was the first park in Hyderabad to feature a fully equipped health club and business centre. In-house amenities include a large food court, restaurant, meeting rooms, conference and recreational facilities. Cyber Pearl would have been named Cyber Oasis, but since Hyderabad is associated with pearls, "Pearl" was considered more appropriate. The park accommodates over 5000 IT workers with 5,000,000 square feet (460,000 m2) of office space. Companies located at Cyber Pearl are :

 * Winshuttle Software (India) Pvt. Ltd.
 * TNS INDIA PVT. LTD.
 * Sitel India Ltd
 * GE
 * Innopark
 * UMC
 * NTT DATA
 * Tech Mahindra
 * Salesforce dotcom
 * MarketTools Research Pvt Ltd
 * RSA/Valyd Software
 * SD Softech
 * Smartplay Technologies
 * ZenQ
 * Bank of Baroda - DR Site
 * CenturyLink

Facebook, Hyderabad
Facebook has had an office in Cyberabad since 2010. It was the fourth Facebook office worldwide.

Amazon Global Campus
Amazon first started operations in India in 2004 from Hyderabad. Global e-commerce giant amazon inaugurates its first owned and world’s largest campus building in 2019 at Hyderabad that spread across 9.5 acres which can house for more than 15,000 employees, becoming third of Amazon’s total India employee base across six offices. This is Amazon’s single largest building in the anywhere worldwide in terms of total built-up area and the campus will spread out with spanning over 68 acres.

Other campuses around HITEC city
Oracle Campus, HITEC City Microsoft R&D Campus in Gachibowli, Hyderabad.

Several companies have opened built to suit facilities in and around HITEC city. Some of these are:

 * Tecreos Overseas Education Consultants
 * Ananth Technologies
 * Aurobindo Pharma, Water Mark Building
 * Computer Maintenance Corporation
 * Convergys Campus
 * Cyient Campus
 * NetCracker Technology Corp.
 * DELL Campus
 * CyberCity I.T. Campus
 * E-Park I.T. Campus (Currently leased by TCS)
 * Franklin Templeton campus
 * Honeywell Campus
 * Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited. IT Data Centre
 * HSBC Campus
 * Capgemini Campus
 * iLabs Centre
 * Infosys Campus
 * Login4ITES Network
 * Microsoft Campus
 * Motorola Campus
 * Oracle Campus
 * Polaris Campus
 * Tech Mahindra Cyber Space Campus
 * Tech Mahindra Infocity Campus
 * Reliance Communications
 * Sierra Atlantic Campus
 * SoftSol Campus
 * Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Campus (Deccan Park)
 * UBS (now Cognizant)
 * ValueLabs Campus
 * VSNL campus
 * WIPRO Campus (Gachibowli)
 * Zensar technologies Ltd
 * Simply Write Consulting Services

The V, an Ascendas IT Park
The V is spread across 20 acres (8 ha) and has five multi-tenant buildings with a gross floor area of 1.65 million sq ft (90,000 m2) having close to 100% occupancy. With over 10 acres (4 ha) of open space, it is a green township with landscaped gardens. Most of the large rock formations have been left untouched, with the buildings designed around the natural landscape. The V is the first IT park which is completely operational. It accommodates about 15,000 IT professionals.

It is about 10 km from the city center and 14 km from the airport, both being within an hour's drive. The nearest local train station is around 3 km from the campus.

The V is composed of five buildings.

 * Mariner
 * Auriga
 * Orion
 * Capella
 * Vega

The TCS Deccan Park Campus
The Deccan park is the largest global development centre of the Tata Consultancy Services. The facility was designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta. The Deccan Park has been set up with an estimated investment of ₹15 billion with recreation and sporting facilities, which houses more than 2,200 professionals. The centre has been set up in 11 acres (4.5 ha) of land, with a built-up area around 320,000 ft2 (30,000 m2) on 9 floors. The centre works in domain areas such as telecommunications, e-governance, biological sciences, ports, and shipping and also deploy technologies including .Net, opensource billing and bioinformatics.

RMZ Futura IT Park
RMZ FUTURA is an exclusive independent/built-to-suit facility set amidst HITEC city owned by RMZ Corp, adjacent to Cyber Gateway. The state-of-the-art structure comprises four independent blocks spread across the entire site.

The RMZ FUTURA IT Park is composed of four buildings. All four buildings have been occupied.

 * CGI on the fourth floor; other floors constitute Deloitte Block A
 * Deloitte Block B
 * Deloitte Block C
 * Deloitte Block D

Shilpakala Vedika
Shilpakala Vedika, constructed under the government of N. Chandrababu Naidu, is located in a 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m2) plot, on a 5 acres (20,000 m2) land, with a seating capacity of 2,500. It is a state-of-the-art facility comprising a press room, cafeteria, modern multi-media projection system, luxurious green rooms, good acoustics and exquisite ethnic decor. This auditorium was held by M/S Sanpra Group and M/S Alif Group under a BOOT contract.

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Mount Kuring-gai, New South Wales

Mount Kuring-gai is an outer suburb of Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mount Kuring-gai is located 31 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Hornsby Shire.

History
The name "Kuring-gai" derives from the Guringai Aboriginal people who were thought to be the traditional owners of the area. More contemporary research suggests that this was not the case.

The railway station opened on 5 October 1901 and was named Kuring-gai. The current station was constructed in 1909. The Mount was added to the name on 1 August 1904.

Kuring-gai Post Office opened on 27 January 1908 and was similarly renamed Mount Kuring-gai in 1933.

Mount Kuring-gai Public School opened in 1957.

Population
In the 2021 Census, there were 1,766 people in Mount Kuring-Gai. 70.9% of people were born in Australia and 80.6% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 36.9%, Catholic 18.0%, Anglican 14.2% and Hinduism 4.7%.

Commercial areas and transport
The suburb is divided in two by the Pacific Highway, Main Northern railway line and the Pacific Motorway. The suburb is served by the Mount Kuring-gai railway station.

The eastern side is home to a primary school, community hall and sports oval. The western side has a shopping centre, Mount Kuring-gai railway station and a Telstra telephone exchange. The east and west sides are connected by a road bridge and a pedestrian bridge.

In 2010, the existing shopping centre was demolished and an Aldi store was built in its place, along with a variety of other stores.

Mount Kuring-gai also has an industrial area which is home to many diverse businesses such as a hot air balloon manufacturer, electronics companies, a school paint manufacturer, a book publisher and one bus depot of CDC NSW.

Geography
Mount Kuring-gai is located approximately 7 km north of Hornsby. Its neighbouring suburbs are Berowra to the north, and Mount Colah to the south. Surrounded by bushland, it is bordered by Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park on the eastern side and by Berowra Valley Regional Park on the western side. There are several bushwalks starting in the suburb including the Great North Walk and a path to Apple Tree Bay. Mount Kuring-gai varies in altitude from about 57 m to 214–221 m above sea level.

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The Pink Panther (2006 film)

The Pink Panther is a 2006 American comedy-mystery film and a reboot of The Pink Panther franchise, marking the tenth installment in the series. It is also the first Pink Panther film to be released since Son of the Pink Panther in 1993. In this film, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is assigned to solve the murder of a famous soccer coach and the theft of the famous Pink Panther diamond. The film was directed by Shawn Levy, stars Steve Martin as Clouseau and also co-stars Kevin Kline, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, and Beyoncé Knowles.

The film received mostly negative reviews but was a commercial success, earning $164million worldwide. The Pink Panther was released theatrically in United States on February 10, 2006, by Sony Pictures Releasing under the Columbia Pictures banner with 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer handling the international distribution, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 13, 2006. A sequel was released on February 6, 2009.

Plot
At a football match between France and China, France national coach Yves Gluant arrives wearing the priceless Pink Panther diamond ring and embraces his girlfriend, pop star Xania. After France wins in sudden death, Gluant is killed by a poison dart, with the Pink Panther nowhere to be found.

Eager to win the Légion d'honneur, Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus promotes clumsy policeman and village idiot Jacques Clouseau to the rank of inspector and assigns him to the case. While Clouseau draws the media's attention, Dreyfus assembles a secret team to crack the case and assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton to keep an eye on Clouseau. Clouseau befriends Ponton and falls in love with secretary Nicole Durant.

Although Clouseau makes little progress in the case, due to his clumsiness, he still discovers that many people hated Gluant and even wanted to kill him. Bizu, a France player who blamed Gluant for "stealing away" Xania, is the prime murder suspect until he is shot in the head in the team's locker room. While gathering information at a casino, Clouseau meets MI6 006 agent Nigel Boswell, who foils a robbery while wearing Clouseau's trench coat; Clouseau mistakenly receives credit (as Nigel wasn't supposed to be around) and is nominated for the Légion d'honneur, angering Dreyfus and ruining his intentions and chances to win the Légion d'honneur.

After following Xania to New York City, Ponton insists she is a suspect because Gluant cheated on her, but Clouseau believes she is innocent, though her actions cause him to believe she knows more than she is letting on. The poison that killed Gluant is found to have been derived from Chinese herbs, leading Dreyfus to conclude that the killer is a Chinese envoy named Dr. Pang, whom Gluant had several dealings with. Dreyfus has Clouseau's bag swapped for one full of weapons at the airport, and Clouseau is arrested (primarily due to his inability to say "hamburger" correctly, having attempted to smuggle some onto the flight back) and vilified by the press on his return to France. Dreyfus demotes Clouseau and plots to publicly arrest Dr. Pang at the Presidential Ball, where Xania will perform.

Clouseau sees an article online about his arrest and notices something in the picture from which he deduces that Gluant and Bizu were killed by the same person. Realizing that Xania will be the killer's next target, Clouseau, Ponton, and Nicole hurry to the Élysée Palace and sneak into the Presidential Ball. While Dreyfus errantly arrests Dr. Pang, Clouseau and Ponton save Xania's life by capturing her would-be assassin: Yuri, the France team's trainer. Jealous and feeling overlooked for the team's success, Yuri used his mandated knowledge of Chinese herbs to kill Gluant; he jabbed the dart unseen into Gluant's neck during their celebration, making it look like Gluant had been shot with it. He later killed Bizu, who long suspected that Yuri might try to kill Gluant and attempted to blackmail him, by using his Russian army training to target the player's occipital lobe, and then targeted Xania for ignoring him and dating Gluant.

Clouseau reveals that the Pink Panther was not stolen but instead sewn into the lining of Xania's purse; the photograph of Clouseau's arrest showed an X-ray of the purse at airport security. Xania confesses that Gluant gave her the diamond as an engagement ring just before the France-China match, but after his murder, she believed that if she came forward with the ring, everyone would think she did it. Clouseau concludes that Xania is the ring's rightful owner, and Yuri is taken into custody.

Clouseau wins the Légion d'honneur which disappoints Dreyfus. Leaving the ceremony, Dreyfus' suit accidentally gets caught in Clouseau's car door, causing Dreyfus to be dragged down the street as an oblivious Clouseau drives away. While visiting a gravely injured Dreyfus in the hospital, Clouseau accidentally releases the brake on Dreyfus' bed, which rolls through the hospital and crashes through a window, throwing him down into the Seine as he screams out Clouseau's name, while Clouseau, Ponton, and Nicole watch from inside.

Cast

 * Steve Martin as Inspector Jacques Clouseau, a bumbling police officer from a small village in France, assigned to bring Yves Gluant's murderer to justice and recover the Pink Panther diamond
 * Kevin Kline as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus, the head of the French police who is obsessed with winning the Medal of Honour, and means to use Clouseau and the Pink Panther case to win it
 * Jean Reno as Gendarme Gilbert Ponton, a capable police officer who is assigned to report to Dreyfus on Clouseau's actions
 * Emily Mortimer as Nicole Durant, a secretary and romantic interest of Clouseau
 * Henry Czerny as Yuri, a Russian trainer for the France national football team
 * Kristin Chenoweth as Cherie, an American employee of the France national football team
 * Roger Rees as Raymond Laroque, a wealthy casino owner and friend of Yves Gluant
 * Beyoncé as Xania, a famous pop star and girlfriend of Gluant
 * William Abadie as Bizu, a player on the France national football team
 * Scott Adkins as Jacquard, another player on the France national football team
 * Philip Goodwin as Deputy Chief Renard
 * Henri Garcin as President
 * Jean Dell as Justice Minister Clochard
 * Anna Katarina as Agent Corbeille
 * Jason Statham as Yves Gluant (uncredited), the head coach of the France national football team, whose murder and vanishing of his Pink Panther diamond serve as the main conflicts of the plot
 * Clive Owen as Nigel Boswell/Agent 006 (uncredited), an MI6 secret agent who briefly helps Clouseau
 * Boris McGiver as Vainqueur (uncredited), the current head coach of the France national football team who takes over after the murder of Gluant

Production
Chris Tucker and Mike Myers were considered for the role of Inspector Jacques Clouseau. A collaboration between Steve Martin and producer Robert Simonds, who had worked together on Cheaper by the Dozen, The Pink Panther had a production budget of US$80million. Filming began on May 10, 2004.

The film was originally supposed to seek an August 5, 2005 release date, but was then pushed back to February 10, 2006, after Sony expressed dissatisfaction with the film's raunchy tone. It was heavily edited and key scenes were re-shot in an effort to create a more family-friendly feature. "With the recent acquisition of MGM, we wanted to give our marketing department the time and opportunity to launch this very important franchise," Sony Pictures Releasing president Rory Bruer said. "We've seen the movie, and we really love this film. It's a franchise we believe in and are really excited about, and Steve Martin is great as Clouseau."

As per tradition of the original Pink Panther films, animated opening titles are featured, provided by Kurtz & Friends.

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, The Pink Panther has an approval rating of 21% based on 143 reviews and an average rating of 4.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Though Steve Martin is game, the particulars of the Inspector Clouseau character elude him in this middling update." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 38 out of 100 based on 35 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

The film was nominated for two Razzies in 2006, one in the category "Worst Remake or Rip-off", and one in the category "Worst Supporting Actress" for Kristin Chenoweth. At the 2006 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, the film received four nominations: "Worst Actor" (Martin), "Worst Song" (Check on It), and "Worst Fake Accent (Male)" (both Martin and Kline).

Box office
The film grossed $164.1million against a budget of $80million. The Pink Panther is the highest-grossing film in the Pink Panther franchise.

The Pink Panther opened at No.1 in the United States, grossing $20.2million from 3,477 theaters, and took in an additional $20.9million over the four day Presidents Day weekend the following weekend. The film closed in theatres on April 16, having grossed $82.2million in its ten weeks of release. Overseas, the film took $76.6million. United States screenings made up 51.8% of box office takings, with international viewings responsible for 48.2%. In the United Kingdom, the film was released on March 17, 2006, and topped the country's box office that weekend.

Home media
The Pink Panther was released on DVD on June 13, 2006 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and sold 693,588 DVD copies, worth $9,391,182. To date the film has sold 1,579,116 copies—$23,216,770 of consumer spending. It was later released on Blu-ray on January 20, 2009.

Music
David Newman was originally chosen to compose the score for the film, but was quickly replaced by Christophe Beck. He is credited with the film score which was released as the soundtrack album The Pink Panther about one month following the release of the film. R&B singer, Beyoncé, who co-stars as Xania, performed two songs for the film, "A Woman Like Me" and # hit, "Check on It". The latter serves as the film's theme song aside from the Pink Panther theme by Henry Mancini.

Numerous other songs were used in small parts, but only Beck's original score was included on the soundtrack album.

Sequel
The sequel to this film, titled The Pink Panther 2, was released on February 6, 2009. Martin, Mortimer, and Reno reprised their roles as Inspector Clouseau, Nicole, and Ponton respectively, while John Cleese replaced Kline as Chief Inspector Dreyfus; other new additions to the cast included Andy Garcia, Alfred Molina, Lily Tomlin, and Jeremy Irons. The film received worse reviews than its predecessor and was also not as commercially successful, grossing only $75,946,615 at the box office.

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Sunline

Sunline (29 September 1995 – 1 May 2009) was a champion New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the world's highest earning race mare of her time. She won 32 of her 48 races with earnings of NZ$14,200,000. She was named the New Zealand Horse of the Year four times and Australian Horse of the Year three times. She has won the most Group races in modern times with 27, and she previously held the New Zealand record of 13 Group One wins until Melody Belle surpassed her in 2021.

Sunline led in most of her races, and sometimes settled just behind the leader; she was difficult to pass. She loved to win and was known for her fiery temperament.

In 2006, Sunline was an inaugural inductee into the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame, along with Carbine, Gloaming, Kindergarten, and Phar Lap.

Background
Sunline was foaled at Pleasanton Stud near Cambridge, New Zealand on 29 September 1995. Her sire was the Group Two winning English stallion Desert Sun, a grandson of leading sire Danzig. Her dam was the capable mare Songline by Western Symphony (USA). Sunline came from the same family as Phar Lap, tracing back to the Entreaty through Night Raid (Sunline's 8th dam). She was a big strong plain bay with no white markings.

Early career
In partnership with Thayne Green and Helen Lusty, McKee raced Sunline as a two-year-old. She was unbeaten in three starts.

After a first-up win at three, in August 1998, the McKees took Sunline to Australia for the first of an eventual nine visits. Racing in the second, third, and fourth legs of Sydney's Princess Series, for three-year-old fillies, she powered through the slop on her Australian debut in the Furious Stakes, won the Tea Rose Stakes on a dry track two weeks later, and then took the Flight Stakes - her first of 13 Group One wins. Sunline was then spelled, rather than continuing on to the feature races in Melbourne, and never competed with the reigning Horse of the Year, Might And Power.

Sunline resumed in February 1999. She won first up but was narrowly beaten for the first time by Rose O'War, second-up, in Melbourne's Angus Armanasco Stakes, her 9th career start. The race was not run to suit, with a long shot racing away before the home turn, which may have exposed Sunline's lack of fitness on the day, as she was jumping from 1,200 to 1,600 metres. At her next start, Sunline defeated Rose O'War in the Kewney Stakes, and in her first look at the Cox Plate course, defeated the VRC Oaks (and subsequent AJC Oaks) winner Grand Archway by $4 1/2$ lengths in the Moonee Valley Oaks (2,040 metres).

Sunline then ventured north to Sydney to tackle the Doncaster Handicap (1,600 metres). Despite taking on older horses for the first time, and starting from a wide starting gate, Sunline was sent out one of the shortest-priced favourites in the race's long history, at 10/9 (approximately $2.10). Sunline went straight to the front and never looked back to score by one-and-three-quarter lengths. She became just the fourth filly to win in the modern history of the race.

A fortnight later, Sunline was again a favourite in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2,000 metres), and led the field over the rise (near the top of the straight), then faded to finished second-last of the six runners. She was then sent home to New Zealand for a spell.

1999/2000: Four-Year-Old Season
Unlike many three-year-old champions, Sunline made the transition to weight-for-age racing as four-year-old. First up, she scored a win over the multiple Group One winner Tie the Knot in the Warwick Stakes and was installed ante-post favourite for the $3 million W. S. Cox Plate at Moonee Valley. At her next two starts, Stephen and Trevor McKee then tried to get the mare settle in her races, but she was narrowly defeated in the Theo Marks Quality (by Adam) and the George Main Stakes (by Shogun Lodge). Her final lead-up to the Cox Plate was a close fourth under 56.5 kilograms (8 st 11 lb) in the Epsom Handicap.

Speculation in the media that Sunline would be vulnerable in the Cox Plate - in open company over 2,040 metres - proved unfounded. Leading before the home turn, Sunline held off a late challenge from Tie the Knot, with Caulfield Cup winner Sky Heights in third place. Sunline became only the fifth mare to win the race since its inception in 1922 and the second of four mares to win the race since Dane Ripper in 1997 (the others being Makybe Diva in 2005 and Pinker Pinker in 2011).

After a brief let-up, Sunline came back in distance and defeated other mares in the Auckland Breeders' Stakes (1,400 metres), in New Zealand, in preparation for the International Cup (2,000 metres) in Hong Kong. Sunline led, and her jockey, Greg Childs, explained that she travelled well to the home turn, but, in an echo of the autumn's Queen Elizabeth Stakes, tired badly in the home straight and finished seventh. She then returned home to New Zealand for a spell.

Back in Sydney for the autumn of 2000, Sunline powered through the rain-affected going to win the Apollo Stakes (1,400 metres) first-up. In her entire career, she was never beaten over the distance. She then carried the maximum topweight (60 kilograms) to win the first of two Coolmore Classics - at the time, Australia's only Group One race for fillies and mares (three years and over). At her next start, she carried 57.5 kilograms (9 st. 1 lb.) in the Doncaster Handicap and was narrowly defeated by the lightly weighted three-year-old Over. Meeting again a week later, in the All-Aged Stakes, Sunline relished the return to weight for age conditions - accounting for Georgie Boy, with Over in third place, to make it three wins from four starts this campaign.

2000/2001: Five-Year-Old Season
Sunline started her five-year-old campaign in Melbourne, against the sprinters - streaking away in the Manikato Stakes (1,200 metres) at Moonee Valley. She then had wins in the Memsie (1,400 metres) and Feehan Stakes (1,600 metres), but was narrowly beaten by Fairway in the Turnbull Stakes (2,000 metres). A natural frontrunner, like Sunline, Fairway refused to hand up the lead to Sunline, who was forced to chase, and held her at bay down the straight. It was Sunline's third defeat over the distance from as many starts away from Moonee Valley, but it was a great improvement on her previous defeats, especially since Fairway was a multiple Group One winning three-year-old the previous season.

Sunline fans regard her next run as one of her greatest. On the last Saturday of October, Sunline took control in the rain-affected going to win the Cox Plate by seven lengths from Caulfield Cup winner Diatribe, with Referral in third place. Perhaps unsuited in the conditions, fancied runners Tie the Knot (2nd in 1999), Sky Heights (3rd in 1999), and Shogun Lodge (conqueror of Sunline in the George Main Stakes) were beaten a combined margin of more than 100 lengths. In winning, Sunline became the first Australasian horse to pass $6 million in career earnings.

International Success
Returning to New Zealand after the Cox Plate, the mare's owners revealed that Sunline had been part of a bidding war from five different countries, including the powerful Godolphin stables in the United Arab Emirates. All bids were rejected, and the mare was prepared for another trip to the rich, pre-Christmas international meeting in Hong Kong. In her final lead-up, Sunline raced away with the Auckland Breeders' Stakes at Pukekohe. In Hong Kong, she led all the way to win the International Mile (1,600 metres), narrowly holding off local icon Fairy King Prawn, with five lengths back to Adam in third place.

While the victory in Hong Kong neither confirmed nor denied the oft-made claim of her fans that Sunline was world's best racemare, her Cox Plate victory saw the Australian and New Zealand Horse of the Year receive an invitation to compete in the world's richest raceday, the Dubai World Cup meeting in the United Arab Emirates.

In early February, Sunline recorded her eighth win in New Zealand when she was too good for seven other Group One winners in the Waikato Sprint. The victory kept alive Sunline's wonderful record in her home country, which at career end would stand at 11 wins from as many starts. Sunline's next step came with a hit-and-run trip to Sydney for the Apollo Stakes at Warwick Farm. For the second year in a row, the race was run on a rain-affected track, and Sunline accounted for Celestial Choir, with Tie the Knot unplaced.

In Dubai, Sunline showed her customary pace to lead the field in the Duty Free (1,800 metres), but her breakaway tactics were not aided by a home straight of 600 metres. Jim And Tonic and Fairy King Prawn loomed up to Sunline with 200 metres to run, and after a tough run, Sunline did well to hold on for third.

She returned to Australia to contest the All Aged Stakes against a sub-standard field on a wet track at Randwick. Starting a hot favourite, Sunline was narrowly defeated by El Mirada and Final Fantasy, and then given time off from racing.

2001/2002: Six-Year-Old Season
The six year old Sunline returned with a close second to Piavonic in the Manikato Stakes. She then won the Memsie Stakes for the second year in a row, but was defeated by Northerly in the Feehan Stakes. She rebounded to win the Turnbull Stakes in her fourth start of the season.

Sunline was defeated by Northerly again in the Cox Plate, where a third victory would have equalled the record set by Kingston Town. Just like in the Feehan Stakes, In both races, Sunline led to the home turn, but Northerly surged to the front in the straight. The race featured three controversial protests: Sunline (second) against first (Northerly), and third (Viscount) against first and second. The protests arose from heavy contact between the three horses in the straight, with Northerly on the outside, Sunline closest to the rails, and Viscount in between. All three protests were eventually dismissed on twin grounds that stewards were unable to determine which riders were at fault or satisfy themselves that the interference had affected the result.

Following her spring defeats by Northerly, she returned in the autumn of 2002 to race four times for as many wins - all in Group One races. Each of her nine starts for the season came in races she had also contested in the last two seasons, and returned six wins from nine starts (a winning strike-rate of 67%), compared to eight from 11 in the 2000–2001 season (73%), and six from 11 in the 1999–2000 season (55%).

The first of these was a win by four lengths in Waikato Sprint at Te Rapa (defeating Ethereal, who was out-paced in her first run since the Melbourne Cup). She then won the Coolmore Classic for a second time - again carrying the race's maximum handicap of 60 kilograms - and became the first horse in Australasia to win A$9 million in prize money.

At her next start, she carried the number one saddlecloth to victory in Doncaster Handicap. With 58 kilos, she defeated Shogun Lodge (who also carried 58 kilos) and Defier (who carried 51.5 kilos but was trapped wide). She closed her campaign with a six length victory in the weight-for age All-Aged Stakes. By winning these races, she became the first horse in Australasia to pass the $11 million mark in career earnings and with 13 Group One wins, she was within one of Kingston Town's record of 14 Group One races.

In the next spring, Sunline notched her fifth consecutive win when taking the Mudgway Stakes first-up in New Zealand, and returned to Sydney for the George Main Stakes. Sunline led but was run down by Defier and Excellerator. In her next start in the Caulfield Guineas Sunline led, and, to a huge roar from the crowd, skipped away by more than three lengths at the top of the straight, but Lonhro loomed up strongly close to home to score in race record time, with a margin of six lengths back to the third horse.

The clash may have flattened Sunline and Lonhro, who appeared to race below their best when fourth and sixth, respectively, behind Northerly in the Cox Plate. As planned, Sunline was retired after this, her fourth and final Cox Plate, and her record of two wins, a second, and a fourth is one of the best in the history of the race.

Retirement and Records
She retired with 27 stakes wins, more than any other horse in Australasian history, and was the highest grossing Australasian racehorse at that time. She was Australian Horse of the Year a record 3 times, and inducted into Australia’s Racing Hall of Fame – the only horse to receive that honour while still racing. She was New Zealand Horse of the Year 4 times, and inducted into the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame.

Stud record
Sunline went into retirement at the McKee property near Auckland and produced four foals. Two of her progeny won races, Sunstrike (2004 filly, by Rock of Gibraltar) and Sun Ruler (2005 colt, by Zabeel). Sun Ruler and Sunstrike were both trained by Stephen McKee and met in a race on 19 December 2009 at Te Rapa with Sun Ruler defeating his older half-sister, Sunstrike, by a nose.

Sun Ruler stood at stud in New Zealand from 2012 until 2017 and died 12 February 2022.

Sunline also left the unraced Sunalta (2006 filly, by Rock of Gibraltar) and the unplaced Sunsett (2007 filly, by Hussonet).

In 2011, Sunline became a grandmother for the first time, when her 3rd foal and 2nd daughter, Sunalta, produced a bay filly by the Danzig stallion, Librettist. In 2012, Sunalta foaled a chestnut filly by the Zafonic stallion, Iffraaj (GB) and Sunstrike foaled a bay colt by the Street Cry stallion, Per Incanto (USA).

Death
On 1 May 2009 Sunline was put down after suffering from the debilitating hoof disease laminitis for nine months. A memorial has been established at Ellerslie Racecourse where she is buried.

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Erkan Oğur

Erkan Oğur (pronounced ) (born 17 April 1954) is a Turkish musician. A pioneer of fretless guitars, he invented the first fretless classical guitar in 1976. A composer, he has influenced many musicians with his compositions combining the sounds of Turkish folk music and classical music with the ancient traditional music. He has played many concerts all over the world. He is regarded as a master of the kopuz and bağlama lutes.

Biography
Erkan Oğur was born on 17 April 1954, in Ankara, Turkey. He spent his childhood in Elazığ, eastern Turkey, where he became interested in violin and the Turkish bağlama lute, and started to practice them frequently. He graduated from high school in Elazığ, then moved to study physics at the Ankara University Faculty of Science from 1970 to 1973. As a result of encouragement to be a scientist by his father, he started to study physics engineering and in 1974 continued his education in The Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany, for three years. He was introduced to guitar education in 1973. Instead of being a scientist, he chose to be a musician. Since he needed detailed sounds from a guitar in order to obtain Turkish melodies, he modified his guitar and invented the fretless classical guitar in 1976.

In 1980, he returned to Turkey, and started to study at the State Conservatory of Istanbul Technical University. After his military service, he worked as an oud lute teacher. He had live performances with Fikret Kızılok and Bülent Ortaçgil where he contributed to scene with fretless guitar. He released his first album in Germany called Arayışlar ("Searches"). In 1989, he went to the U.S. to work with numerous local blues artists, foremost of which was Robert 'One Man' Johnson. He introduced fretless guitar into blues. A year later, he released his first album in Turkey, Bir Ömürlük Misafir ("A Lifetime Guest"), which was ranked 4th in European lists. He still performs concerts through the world and in Turkey. He works with Kemal Eroglu on technical improvements on bağlama lute; and continues his performances with Fahir Atakoglu and Bülent Ortaçgil. In 2004, he played on Yansımalar's album Pervane ("Moth"). He is a member of the Telvin trio, which mainly performs Turkish folk music in improvised jazz style, with İlkin Deniz and Turgut Alp Bekoglu, and has released an album called Telvin in 2006.

His soundtrack for the 2004 movie Yazı Tura by Uğur Yücel won two awards: the 2004 Golden Orange for Best Music at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, and the 2005 award for Best Music at the Ankara International Film Festival.

Discography
Chronologically, subsections by the date of their first item:

 * Early works and collaborations

 * 1982 - Istanbul'da Bir Amerikalı
 * 1983 - Perdesiz Gitarda Arayışlar - small-distribution cassette

 * Soundtrack albums and collaborations (by film date)

 * 1989 - Sis OST - Zülfü Livaneli film soundtrack
 * 1996 - Eşkiya OST (The Bandit) - with Aşkın Arsunan, Yavuz Turgul film Eşkıya soundtrack (Kalan, released 2000)
 * 2003 - Yazı Tura OST - Uğur Yücel film soundtrack, (Kalan, released 2005)
 * 2009 - Mommo (Kız Kardeşim) - Atalay Tasdiken film soundtrack

 * Solo and collaboration albums

 * 1993 - Fretless (Feuer und Eis)
 * 1996 - Bir Ömürlük Misafir - reworked reissue of Fretless (Kalan)
 * 1998 - Gülün Kokusu Vardı - with İsmail Hakkı Demircioğlu (Kalan)
 * 1999 - Hiç ("Nothing") - with Okan Murat Öztürk (Kalan)
 * 2000 - Anadolu Beşik - with İsmail Hakkı Demircioğlu (Kalan)
 * 2001 - Fuad - with Djivan Gasparyan
 * 2006 - Telvin - in Telvin trio
 * 2007 - The Istanbul Connection
 * 2012 - Dönmez Yol
 * 2014 - Dokunmak - with Derya Türkan, İlkin Deniz
 * Featured on albums

 * 1989 - Mideast/Midwest - recording of live performance with Robert 'One-Man' Johnson
 * 1995 - The Other Side of Turkey - compilation, includes Oğur (Feuer und Eis)
 * 2004 - Pervane ("Moth") by Yansımalar - studio album, Oğur on four tracks (Kalan)
 * 2009 - Kıyıların Ardı by Fatih Yaşar - Oğur plays on "Sirlarumi Söyledum"
 * 2011 - Bahçeye Hanımeli by Ayşenur Kolivar - Oğur plays on the title track, "Bahçeye Hanımeli"
 * 2013 - Sabah Rüzgarı by Hüseyin and Ali Rıza Albayrak - Oğur plays on "Böyle Buyurdu Aşık"
 * 2017 - Encounters by Katre - Oğur plays on the title track, "Existence I. Underwater World"

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Mortlake, New South Wales

Mortlake is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 10 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay.

Transport
Mortlake sits on the southern bank of the Parramatta River and is home to the southern bank of the Mortlake Ferry or commonly known as the Putney Punt, the last surviving punt service in Sydney.

Mortlake is also the terminus for bus route 464 (to Ashfield railway station).

History
Mortlake was originally known as Bottle Point.

The suburb's name is derived from its namesake Mortlake, by the banks of the Thames in London. Parramatta River had been known as the 'Thames of the Antipodes' and other nearby suburbs were also named after Thames localities of Greenwich, Woolwich and Putney.

Mortlake was notable as the site of the Australian Gas Light Company (AGL) gas works, which first purchased land here in 1883. Colliers from Newcastle or Hexham brought coal to the gasworks wharf at Mortlake. When a new Gladesville Bridge was opened in 1964, it was built to replace a bridge that needed to close every time the swing section on the southern end of the bridge had to be opened to permit large vessels to pass through. The gas works closed and the land redeveloped into the Breakfast Point residential development, which since 1993 has been a separate official suburb.

During WWII, the Green Point Naval Boatyard at Mortlake assembled Fairmile B motor launches.

Until 1948, an electric tramway connected Mortlake south to the suburbs of Burwood, Enfield and Ashfield.

Population
In the 2016 Census, there were 1,063 people in Mortlake. 59.5% of people were born in Australia and 56.7% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 32.7% and No Religion 24.2%.

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Mortdale, New South Wales

Mortdale is a suburb located in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mortdale is located 20 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the St George area. Mortdale is situated in the local government area of Georges River Council. Mortdale extends south to Lime Kiln Bay, on the Georges River. Mortdale Heights is a locality in the western corner of the suburb.

History
Mortdale has been known in the past as Mort's Road, Mort's Hill, Mort's Crossing, Mort's Township and Mort Dale. The suburb was named after Sydney industrialist Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (1816–1878), who was famous for pioneering the refrigeration of shipping meat and the construction of Mort's Dock, Balmain. Thomas Mort purchased the land from Robert Townson (1763–1827), who had been granted land in the Hurstville area with his brother John Townson.

A small farming community started when the land around Mort's Road was subdivided into seventeen farms. The Hurstville Steam Brick Company (better known as Judds Brickworks) was established in 1884 by William George Judd. The large brick-making chimneys were easily seen from around the district. The first residences were built opposite the Brickworks in 1885. The railway was extended through the district around the same time. The railway divided two of the main farms, Kemp's orange orchard and Parkes's farm near Victoria Avenue, and these were subdivided for housing by 1894. The official title for the suburb was set as Mortdale when the railway station opened with that name on 20 March 1897.

The school opened in January 1889, and the post office and grocery store opened in November. Mortdale became a popular residential suburb in 1920s for soldiers returning from World War I.

In 1921, there was a movement for Mortdale to split from Hurstville and form a separate municipality. An official 1923 inquiry into the proposed Municipality of Mortdale decided against the change, despite the separation movement having the law behind them.

At the same time there was also a push to have the name of Mortdale changed due to its similarity with the suburb of Mortlake and the association with its literal translation from Latin ('Valley of the Dead'). Suggestions by various groups over several years included: Leyton, Montrose, Morella, Kingrose and Boronia. A final list approved by the Department of Lands were: Carruthers, Princemead, Wyargine, and Storrieville, but the matter was never resolved.

Commercial area
Mortdale consists mainly of residential dwellings with some commercial and industrial developments in the north-west corner. The main shopping centre is located on Morts Road and Pitt Street, near Mortdale railway station. Commercial and industrial developments are located along Boundary Road.

A number of streets near the commercial area are named after notable streets in the Sydney CBD; These include: George Street, Martin Place, Pitt Street, Macquarie Place and Oxford Street. This is the only group of Sydney-wide streets named as such.

Transport
Mortdale railway station is on the Illawarra railway line of the Sydney Trains network. Mortdale is a 30min (approx) train journey from the city. Mortdale sits on the T4 trainline, which may help to avoid delays as this line is separate from the rest of the network. U-Go Mobility services 944, 945 and 955 run throughout the week, with limited services on weekends.

Churches

 * Christ Church Anglican
 * Mortdale Uniting Church
 * Mortdale Oatley Baptist Church
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
 * Hurstville District Christadelphian Ecclesia
 * Mortdale Spiritual Church

Schools

 * Mortdale Public School
 * Carinya Special School
 * Marist College Penshurst
 * Penshurst West Public School

Parks and Waterways

 * Mortdale Memorial Park, Renown Park, Jubilee Park, Hurstville Golf Course, Mick Downes Reserve, Oatley Heights Park, Lime Kiln Bay Reserve, Olds Park, Edith Park, Beatty Street Reserve, Ruby Wing Reserve, Paddy Tyler Reserve, Milsop Place Reserve, Sunlea Avenue Reserve, Treloar Avenue Reserve, Walter Street Reserve, Nicol Murray Reserve, Lesley Crescent Reserve,
 * Georges River, Lime Kiln Bay, Dairy Creek

Landmarks

 * Historic Buildings - Mortdale Fire Station, Old Police Station, Mortdale Hotel, Mortdale railway station, Mortdale RSL Club, Mortdale Bowling Club (demolished 2012), St George Masonic Club, Mortdale Scout Hall, Mortdale Senior Citizens Centre, Ellen Subway underpass.
 * Mortdale Memorial Park - Contains a perimeter of large Small-leaved Fig trees, a classical rotunda and a decorative War Memorial. The park is popular for picnics, weddings, and concerts.

Sport

 * Hurstville Golf Course - 18-hole golf course
 * Ken Rosewall Tennis Centre - 8 tennis courts adjoining the golf course
 * Renown United Rugby League Club - play at Renown Park, Mortdale
 * Mortdale Heights Cricket Club - play at Oatley Park Oval
 * Hurstville Small Bore Range - rimfire shooting rifle range opposite the golf course
 * Beatty Street Reserve - Cricket Nets
 * Jubilee Park - netball court

Pop culture
Mortdale has been colloquially referred to as the "Valley of the Dead" or "Death Valley", due to the Latin mort ("death") and English dale ("valley").

In 1992, Su Cruickshank, published a book entitled 'Bring A Plate to The Mortdale Scout Hall - The Autobiography of a Fat Tart Complete with Recipes'.

Demographics
According to the, there were 10745 people usually resident in Mortdale, being 49.4% male and 50.6% female, median age 40 years. 34.9% stated they were born overseas, with the top countries of birth being China 7.7%, Nepal 2.3%, England 2.2% and Hong Kong 1.6%. English was stated as the only language spoken at home by 62.6% of residents, and the most common other languages spoken were Mandarin 8.1%, Cantonese 5.2%, Greek 2.9%, Macedonian 2.7%, and Nepali 2.4%. The most common responses for religious affiliation were no religion 32.1%, Catholic 24.4%, Anglican 11.2% and Orthodox 8.0%, with religion not stated being 4.7%.

Mortdale households consisted of 50.3% occupied by two-parent families, single parent families 12.9%, 35.2% by couples with no children at home, and 1.4% by others. 31.8% of households were purchasing their homes, 28.7% were renting, and 37.3% were owned outright (others not stated).

There were 56.4% of these in separate houses, semi-detached 13.8%, and 29% in apartments. 41.0% had one vehicle, and 34.7% had 2.

Notable residents

 * Mark Gasnier - St George Rugby league footballer
 * Reg Gasnier - St George Rugby league footballer
 * J. H. Leonard - illustrator
 * Billy Smith - St George Rugby league footballer
 * Ruby Violet Payne-Scott (1912-1981) - physicist, radio astronomer and schoolteacher

Mortdale Heights
Mortdale Heights is a waterfront locality located between the Georges River and the western edge of the suburb of Mortdale in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mortdale Heights is located 20 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the Georges River Council.

This small, elevated area is bounded on the south by Oatley Heights Park and Lime Kiln Bay, and on the west by Hurstville Golf Course. It is known for the unusual choice of its street names, as most begin with the letter "B" and have a Scottish heritage.

History
The name "Mortdale Heights" was in use by 1919, but there only scattered residences in the area. The estate was not fully subdivided for sale until 1924 when a subdivision of 300 allotments was made available. The area did not fully develop until shortly after World War II.

Culture

 * A row of around 12 shops was built along Balmoral Road during the 1950s. Many of these have since been converted into residences
 * Beatty Street Reserve incorporates part of an old Quarry site (originally known as Hannon's Quarry) that was cleared by the Mortdale Heights Progress Association in 1954. A children's playground was built on the top section in 1955. Cricket nets were later installed in the quarry section.
 * The Girl Guides Hall is situated beside Beatty Street Reserve
 * The Mortdale Heights Cricket Club was founded in 1957 and is one of the oldest clubs participating in the Georges River St George District Cricket Association's competitions. Their home games are played at Oatley Park Oval
 * Lime Kiln Bay Reserve, Oatley Heights Park, is a natural bushland area surrounding Lime Kiln Bay which extends into nearby Oatley Park

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was speedy deleted. --fvw *  14:07, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

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Vanity mixed with nonsense, scrambled and served with bacon Cnwb 06:32, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. IMHO, A7 should be tweaked to make this sort of thing qualify for speedy...  Thatdog 06:37, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete per Capitalistroadster. Thatdog 07:33, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, utter nonsense. — J I P | Talk 06:45, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * A7 Speedy. The only claim to fame is inventing Sushi Done Right which according to the article is only notable in his hometown. Thus there are no real claims of notability. Capitalistroadster 07:07, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Sushi Done Right now has an article and probably isn't notable outside his own kitchen, much less his hometown.  Thatdog 07:33, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. User who wrote article is retorting with nonsense on my Livejournal. I've lost any sense of WP:FAITH in this case. Cnwb 07:19, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete - A7, I've recreated the nn-bio template that was removed by the creator of the article. Usrnme h8er 09:38, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete - And I hope he dies a horrible, horrible death in the hands of Japanese chefs with those ginsu knives. Deep-fried ham-and-pork "sushi"? YUCK. --80.222.74.5 10:19, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete - A7, DV8 2XL 11:32, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

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Moorebank, New South Wales

Moorebank is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Moorebank is located 27 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Liverpool.

Moorebank features a mix of residential and industrial areas. Moorebank Shopping Village is a small shopping centre located in the suburb.

History
The suburb takes its name from early settler Thomas Moore. Moorebank was originally home to vineyards and other rural activities. Nuwarra Public School opened in 1973 and is located directly opposite Moorebank shopping centre, which also opened in the early 1970s. Moorebank is built atop a plateau and was cut off from surrounding areas in the floods of 1986.

Transport
The M5 Motorway links Moorebank east to the Sydney central business district and west to Campbelltown. Moorebank is close to Liverpool railway station on the Inner West & Leppington Line, Bankstown Line and Cumberland Line of the Sydney Trains network.

Moorebank is the site of the proposed Moorebank Intermodal Terminal.

Schools
Note: Moorebank High School, Newbridge Heights Public School and St Josephs Primary are now in the adjacent suburb of Chipping Norton, due to a suburb border change.
 * Nuwarra Public School

Churches
Moorebank has several churches for the suburb
 * St Thomas (Anglican)
 * St Joseph (Catholic)
 * Freedom City Church

Sport and recreation
Moorebank is home to a number of local sporting teams, most of which use Hammondville Park as their home ground. Most prominent is the Moorebank Magpies Australian Football team which plays in the second division of the Sydney AFL competition. The Moorebank Rams rugby league team plays in the Canterbury-Bankstown Junior Rugby League competition but have previously fielded teams in the Metropolitan Cup, the most senior Sydney competition beneath the National Rugby League. Moorebank also fields a soccer team in the Southern Districts Soccer Football Association, a cricket team in the Fairfield-Liverpool Cricket Association, a baseball team (the Royals) in the Bankstown District Baseball Association and also has netball and fishing clubs. Moorebank/Liverpool District Hockey Club operates out of Ernie Smith Reserve with 3 international standard water based turfs and is one of the most successful clubs in Sydney.

Moorebank is also home to a purpose-built remote control car race track. The John Grant International Raceway is located in Helles Reserve which is just off Helles Avenue, near the Moorebank Road and M5 intersection. The racetrack is run by the New South Wales Remote Control Race Car Club Incorporated, a not-for-profit club, and was host to the 2001 IFMAR World Championships for 8th scale racing which saw the world's best 8th scale racers attend this event.

Also situated in Helles Reserve, on the Georges River, is the NSW Barefoot Waterski Club. The site is considered one of the best in the World with consistent pristine water conditions. NSWBWSC has hosted many World Championships, National Championships, State Titles and Club Tournaments. Growth and development of first time barefooters and nurturing of junior members is key to the club's goal and purpose.

Moorebank has a small lake called Clinches Pond. It is surrounded by a park called Chinches Pond Reserve.

Demographics
According to the 2016 census undertaken by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Moorebank was home to 9,747 people. 63.8% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were Vietnam 2.9%, India 2.3%, Fiji 2.1%, Lebanon 1.8% and Philippines 1.8%. 56.9% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 6.6%, Greek 5.0%, Vietnamese 4.2%, Hindi 2.3% and Mandarin 2.1%. The most common responses for religion in Moorebank were Catholic 30.7%, No Religion 14.3%, Anglican 12.2%, Eastern Orthodox 9.2% and Islam 6.5%.

The average age was 35 compared to 38 for the country as a whole and the median household income was $1,889 per week compared to a national figure of $1,438. The average housing loan repayments in Moorebank ($2,419 per month) are above national average ($1,755.)

Notable residents

 * Robert Kaleski (1877–1961), bushman and dog expert.
 * Harley Matthews (1889–1968), vigneron, soldier and author of four books about his experiences at Gallipoli.
 * Thomas Moore (1762–1840), explorer and first British settler of Moorebank.
 * Robert Braiden (1971), film writer and director.

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