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Lesbonax

Lesbonax of Mytilene (Λεσβώναξ ὁ Μυτιληναῖος), a Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the time of Roman emperor Augustus. According to Photius I of Constantinople he was the author of sixteen political speeches, of which two are extant, a hortatory speech after the style of Thucydides, and a speech on the Corinthian War. In the first he exhorts the Athenians against the Spartans, in the second (the title of which is misleading) against the Thebans (edition by F. Kiehr, Lesbonactis sophistae quae supersunt (Leipzig 1906). Some erotic letters are also attributed to him. His son Potamo was also a notable rhetorician.

The Lesbonax described in the Suda as the author of a large number of philosophical works is probably of much earlier date; on the other hand, the author of a small treatise on grammatical figures (ed. Rudolf Müller, Leipzig, 1900), is probably later.

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Talk:Lao kip

Appearance
What is this comment based on?

 *  The LAK's appearance is much closer to the U.S. dollar rather than other currencies of Southeast Asia

I have some kip banknotes and eg. the 5000K note is small, white and brown, with nothing at all in common with the US dollar notes as far as I can see. Jpatokal 05:33, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Royal Kip
This section states that the Royal Kip was introduced in 1957, but then says the only year of issue for the coins was 1952. Is this an error, or were the coins actually piastre cents? Nik42 18:51, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

 * They are piaster cents, only other coins issued was dated 1980 with the current series of banknotes. Enlil Ninlil 03:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

₭N vs KN
Officially this is the new kip, hence the N in KN or ₭N. I don't have any evidence as regards whether people write ₭, ₭N or even KN, however. Someone who knows would be welcome to edit the article as necessary I'm sure.--Ajhoughton 16:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I never saw either of these (KN or ₭N) when I was in Lao. I only saw Kip, 1000 Kip or for high prices USD but I never had to use USD, kip was always acceptedLimbo-Messiah (talk) 17:11, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Lowest banknote
(I removed a link pointing to a 404 web page) Enlil Ninlil 03:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * http://laos.seeli.info/laos_main.php states it is the 500 kip.
 * http://www.retire-asia.com/lao-bank.shtml also states the 500 kip is the lowest.
 * http://www.geckosadventures.com/sth_east_asia/money_budgeting.asp?country=136&bhcp=1 older sorce that states the 100 kip is the highest.

 * Thank you for doing all these research. 500 kip is about 5 US cents, which seems plausible. In Vietnam, the smallest coin is 200 dong, which about 1.2 US cents. But things are often priced at multiples of 1000 dong (6.2 US cents). --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 03:47, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Description of the banknotes http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Kip Enlil Ninlil 05:42, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Is that enough info to change the banknotes to rarely and most common? Enlil Ninlil 05:42, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

 * If everything2 is right, combined with the earlier sources, it seems to me that 100 and 50,000 should be "rarely", and 500 to 20,000 should be frequently used. But keep in mind that everything2 is open just like wiki. At this time, it has "Money can be so damn boring... blah blah blah" in its content. By the way, I can't find the Lao page on hostelbookers. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 06:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

 * I've been to Lao (Lao poeple like to call their country Lao and not Laos), and 500 kip is the lowest note I came across. Water was 1500 kip or 1000 kip depending on where you were.  Limbo-Messiah (talk) 17:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Eas that for a river, bucket or cup? Well in a sentence Lao would sound wierd, that is why we say it with a plural. A bit like Math, Aussies say Maths, more convenient. Enlil Ninlil (talk) 03:28, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

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Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier

Edme-Armand-Gaston, duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier (21 October 1823, in Paris – 4 June 1905), known as Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier, was a French politician and member of the Académie française, Seat 16. He was preceded in his position by Félix Dupanloup and succeeded by Alexandre Ribot.

Life
He was the grand-nephew and adopted son of Baron Etienne Denis Pasquier, an academician. He inherited the title of duke in 1844, and became auditor at the council of state in 1846.

After the revolution of 1848 he retired to private life. Under the Second Empire he was twice an unsuccessful candidate for the legislature, but was elected in February 1871 to the National Assembly of France, and became president of the Centre-right parliamentary group in 1873. After the fall of Thiers, Audiffret-Pasquier directed the negotiations between the different royalist parties to establish the Comte de Chambord as King of France, but as Chambord refused to give up the white flag of the Bourbons in favor of the tricolor, the project failed. Yet he retained the confidence of the chamber, and was its president in 1875 when the constitutional laws were being drawn up. Nominated senator for life under the new constitution, he likewise was president of the Senate from March 1876 to 1879 when his party lost the majority. Henceforth he was less prominent in politics. Audiffret-Pasquier was distinguished by his moderation and uprightness; and he did his best to dissuade MacMahon from taking violent advisers.

In 1878 he was elected to the Académie française, but never published anything.

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Nam Ngum Dam

The Nam Ngum Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Nam Ngum River, a major tributary of the Mekong River in Laos. It was the first hydropower dam built in the Lao PDR.

Construction
The dam was constructed in three stages, beginning in with stage I in 1968 and ending with the completion of stage III in 1984. The Mekong River Commission first implemented the dam project as part of the national development plan. The project was mainly focused on harnessing Lao PDR's hydropower potential, but it has also striven to achieve flood protection, implement lift irrigation, facilitate lake fisheries, and develop Lao PDR's tourism industry. The Nam Ngum Dam has a capacity of 155 MW and generates most of Laos' electricity, including all the power used in the capital, Vientiane. Additionally 70–80 percent of electricity created by the dam is exported to Thailand. The revenue from export accounts for about a quarter of Laos' foreign exchange earnings. The gross power revenues of the dam are approximately US$36 million annually. Recent studies have indicated that the dam has adversely affected lake fishery and the Nam Ngum River ecosystem. Responsibility for operation of the project rests with the national power utility Electricité du Laos, a state enterprise under the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft.

Today, the Lao PDR's hydropower potential is widely recognized as one of the country's main resources, since it enjoys a strategic location between the booming economies of China, Vietnam, and Thailand and rivers that contribute 35 percent of Mekong flows. The Lao PDR has an estimated potential of some 18,000 MW from over 60 project sites on the tributaries of the Mekong River, of which less than 3 percent has been developed.

Location
The Nam Ngum River originates in Phou Kout in the northeastern part of the Tran Ninh Plateau, through which the river flows southwestward, and discharges into the Mekong River 55 kilometers east of Vientiane. Covering seven percent of the nation's land area, the Nam Ngum basin is home to roughly 500,000 people, representing approximately nine percent of the Lao PDR's population. The length of the river is 420 kilometers. The Nam Ngum project is 60 kilometers north of Vientiane on the Nam Ngum tributary of the Mekong, within the Vientiane Capital Province. The Nam Ngum catchment covers 8,460 km2, and is on track to becoming one of the most heavily dammed catchments in Laos, with six additional dams at various stages of planning and construction, and two water diversions.

History
During the 1960s, power production in the Kingdom of Laos was not sufficient to meet national needs. The government had attempted to meet power requirements through small local developments and power loans from Thailand. A feasibility study presented in December 1962 was the first detailed plan outlining the Nam Ngum 1 project. The study explained how the proposed dam could contribute to hydropower generation, flood control, and irrigation. The project was well received by the Lao government and many international organizations, and the plan for construction was finalized in 1968. Three distinct feasibility studies were conducted to outline each stage of the project, and three distinct funds were established to fund all three stages of the Nam Ngum 1 project. Ten countries gave financial aid to pay for its construction. These funds were collected, overseen, and administered by the United Nations and The World Bank. The total cost of the Nam Ngum Dam was US$97 million.

First stage funding (1966)
In 1966 Japan, The United States, the World Bank and the United Nations established the NN1 Fund to finance the first stage of the project.

Planning of Stage I (1968)
In 1968 the Mekong Commission completed their design for Stage I of the NN1 project.

Stage 1 of NN1 project (1968-1971)
The first stage of the project was implemented in by the Mekong-Commission as part of the 1968-1974 Lao Development Plan. Construction began in 1968 and completed in 1971. During the Stage I the dam was given a full supply level of 202.5 elevation, two 15 MW turbine-generator units, and intakes for units 3, 4, and 5. The total cost of Stage I was US$28 million.

Planning of Stage II (1973)
In 1973 the government of Laos issued a feasibility study in order to fully plan of the NN1 project Stage II.

Stage II funding (1974)
In 1974 Laos established the Stage II fund with the help of the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Asian Development Bank.

Stage II of the NN1 project (1976-1980)
Stage II was undertaken from 1976 and completed in 1980. During stage II four spillway gates were installed, the full supply level was raised to 212 m elevation, and two 40 MW turbine-generator units were added to the power output. The total cost of Stage II was US$49 million.

Fishery Development (1978)
After completion of Stage II in 1978 the government of the Lao PDR realized that it had neglected to account for how the dam would affect the Nam Ngum river ecosystem, and the hundreds of thousands of people who relied on fishing for subsistence. As a response to this issue fishery development projects were contributed by Netherlands and Switzerland. This included the construction of primary schools and water supply networks as well as the provision of gill nets and boat engines to selected villages. These projects were intended to facilitate fishery employment in Nam Ngum 1 reservoir. This project facilitated the movement of tens of thousands of local fisherman to the banks of the Nam Ngum reservoir throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Funding of Stage III (1976)
In 1976 the government established the NN1 Stage III Fund with the help of Japan, the United States, and the Asian Development Bank.

Planning of Stage III (1980)
In 1980 the government of the Lao PDR issued a feasibility study to plan Stage III of the NN1 project.

Stage III of the NN1 project (1983-1984)
Stage III began in 1983 and was completed in 1984. During this final stage a third 40 MW turbine-generator unit was added to the dam. The total cost of Stage III was US$20 million.

Nam Ngum Dam
Nam Ngum 1 is a gravity concrete dam with a power station at the base of the dam. Currently the Ngum Nam has a total output capacity of 150 megawatts. Nam Ngum 1 is approximately 75 meters tall, with a total area of 400 km2. The effective storage capacity of the dam is 4,700 x 106 m3.

Nam Ngum Reservoir
The Nam Ngum reservoir is the largest body of water in the Lao PDR. The dam also serves as major river regulation infrastructure in the basin and its maximum storage is approximately 8.5 billion m3, with a reservoir surface area of 370 km2, and an available depth of 16 m. In 1996 a diversion from the Nam Song River directly into the Nam Ngam 1 reservoir was completed. The diversion transfers 400 m3/second to increasing hydropower generation.

Ecological Impacts of the Nam Ngum Dam
As rapid economic development continues in Southeast Asia and the lower Mekong basin, demands for both food and energy will continue to rise. The Lao government is also keen to utilize its water resources to pursue irrigation expansion and more hydropower projects. This development is seen as critically important for meeting current and future energy demand in the rapidly growing cities and towns throughout the lower Mekong in Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. With these rising demands come the challenges of regional management of water resources and increased pressure upon surrounding ecosystems. Within this context, the implications of the Nam Ngam Dam, and other projects like it, are a matter of some controversy. Whether or not hydropower-based economic development is consistent with other socioeconomic and environmental objectives in the Lao PDR (irrigation, fisheries, flood control) has scarcely been explored.

Determining the viability of the dual strategy of irrigation and hydropower expansion requires careful analysis to understand whether the water needed for energy generation objectives could be balanced with the water that would be required for additional irrigation development. The issue is that the dam projects in the Nam Ngum are often independently planned and managed, with only minimal consideration of their cumulative and basin-wide economic and hydrological impacts. The lack of coordination is evident in recent controversies and observed flood damages from poorly managed water releases during high flow events. This is in part due to an insufficient valuation of the country's vast water resources. Revenues from electricity generation at individual dams sometimes overshadow potential trade-offs with other important economic sectors like agriculture and aquaculture, or with the nonmarket value generated by subsistence fisheries and other hydrological services.

Fishing in particular is extremely important to the local economy. Fishing provides the primary source of meat for these villagers, with fish contributing 56.3 percent of protein to the local diet. The average household consumes 83.2 kg fish protein each year compared to the Laos national average of 8–10 kg /year. Among these households, 50 percent supplement family income by selling fish to traders in their villages. In total villagers harvest more than 55 indigenous species from in the Nam Ngum reservoir annually. In recent years the excess harvesting of the Nam Ngum reservoir has greatly reduced the biodiversity of the reservoir, and made fishing more difficult. Many ecologists have criticized the Lao PDR for failing to effectively manage reservoir fishing. Annual fish production in the reservoir from 1979 to 1983 was estimated at 1,472 tons or 37 kg /ha. Since then, harvest rates and productivity have decreased substantially to about 20 kg/ha by 1988, resulting in a total estimated fish production of some 740 tonnes per year. Considering that reliable fish catch assessments are extremely difficult the actual situation may be even worse. Nonetheless, the catch statistics available indicate that the reservoir fishery has progressively shifted from the large-bodied top-predators to small-bodied, low-value planktivores. This trend of fishing down food webs is common in fisheries. The data available evidences the trend of individual fishers experience more total catches, but lesser returns from the small fish harvested. Many researchers examining the problem have suggested giving local villages more control over the regulation of fishing in the reservoir, to facilitate more sustainable fishing practices.

Some reports have also found that the Nam Ngum dam has adversely affected aquatic life downstream. Careful analysis has revealed that water released from the Nam Ngum reservoir has different quality as compared to the water in undammed natural rivers. Specifically the dissolved oxygen levels in the water released from the reservoir are unfavorable for aquatic life most of the year, especially during the wet season. Similarly some reporters have noted an unsafe level of hydrogen sulfide. The dam also actively blocks migration by upland fish into the downstream part of the river, which secludes these fish from active spawning sights. These deteriorations in the water quality and biodiversity of Nam Ngum river, pose a significant risk to the overall river ecosystem.

The Nam Ngum 1 heavily influences local agriculture irrigation. According to the 2005 national census, subsistence-based agriculture is the main form of livelihood generation for the majority of citizens, and 75 percent of the population in basin provinces report agriculture as their primary form of employment. Some government officials and academics have raised concerns about if the water required for hydropower generation could co-exist with the water being used for irrigation expansion. A study from Duke recently used the Nam Ngum dam as a case study to model the effects of current and expanded hydropower usage on the river. The study determined that if high-levels of water availability continue tradeoffs between agricultural and hydropower goals will be modest because with high-levels of water irrigation expansion will not significantly effect hydropower generation or vice versa. However, the study did find that under dry conditions the tradeoff between expanded irrigation and hydropower increases. The study determined that continued hydropower generation and hydropower expansion could become exceedingly difficult in such conditions. This is because future returns from Nam Ngum dam and expanded agriculture are largely dependent on high levels of rainfall and water levels. Accordingly, the expected future economic returns from the Nam Ngum dam as well as agriculture expansion in the Vientiane province would be severely decreased in dry conditions. As a result of the potential impact of dry conditions, there is widespread uncertainty about the future of Nam Ngum 1 and further hydropower project on the Nam Ngum. Some scholars have become concerned that climate change may lead to decreased levels of rainfall. As with fishing in the reservoir, the government of the Lao PDR will likely have to take steps to address hydrology issues in the future.

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Nam Ngum River

Nam Ngum (Laotian: ນໍ້າງືມ ) is a 354 km long river in Laos. It is a major tributary of the Mekong River.

Geography
The Nam Ngum originates from the northern mountainous region of Xiangkhoang Province and flows south through Vientiane Province joining the Mekong at the capital of Laos, Vientiane.

The Nam Ngum river basin is home to about one million people in Laos. The current largest dam on Nam Ngum, Nam Ngum Dam (Nam Ngum 1 Hydropower Project) was originally constructed between 1968 and 1971. There are also four other hydropower projects under construction or planned for construction on the Nam Ngum River. Tourism destinations along Nam Ngum include the Nam Ngum Lake, Dansavanh Nam Ngum Resort, and Vang Vieng.

The Nam Ngum river basin covers 16,906 square kilometers, including 8,297 km2 of watershed area. The Nam Ngum river basin covers 2.73 percent of the lower Mekong river basin. The water flow of the Nam Ngum River to the Mekong River is 700 m3/s. Thirty percent of the river basin is covered by forest. Various international organizations and financial institutions assist in watershed management, water resource management, establishment of water regulation, and river basin organizations for optimum use of water resources and watershed protection. One such project, the Nam Ngum River Basin Development Sector Projects, has operated since 2002.

Wildlife
The hemimyzon confluens, a type of ray-finned fish, is known to live only in the Nam Ngum drainage area. It is threatened by mining, pollution, and hydro-power development.

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"Necrotraficante" came to be in one hungover Sunday morning in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. He needed to come up with a new AIM name, and therefore thought up "Narcotraficante", but still being kind of drunk, typed it as "Necrotraficante." Hence, the coolest screen name ever was born.

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Marjorie Lord

Marjorie Lord (née Wollenberg; July 26, 1918 – November 28, 2015) was an American television and film actress. She played Kathy "Clancy" O'Hara Williams, opposite Danny Thomas's character on The Danny Thomas Show (Make Room for Daddy).

Early years
Lord was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Lillian Rosalie (née Edgar) and George Charles Wollenberg. During her early childhood, she was a ballet dancer. Her father was a cosmetics executive. Her paternal grandparents were German, as were two of her maternal great-grandparents. Her family moved to New York City when she was 15.

Stage
In 1935, at the age of 16, Lord made her Broadway debut in The Old Maid with Judith Anderson. Her other Broadway appearances came in Signature (1945), Little Brown Jug (1946), and The Girl in the Freudian Slip (1967).

Although most of Lord's success came in television, she said in 1963: "I am primarily a stage actress. That's what I was trained to do and that's my first love."

In the 1970s, Lord was active in dinner theater productions, spending 34 weeks in such presentations in 1973 alone.

Film
One film reference book summarized Lord's movie career by saying, "For two decades, she played leading roles in mostly routine films ..."

Lord was signed by RKO Radio Pictures in 1935. While appearing in Springtime for Henry with Edward Everett Horton, director Henry Koster approached her and signed her to a contract with Universal Studios. She appeared in six feature films and a film serial The Adventures of Smilin' Jack for Universal. Her film work includes a number of wartime pictures, including the 1943 mystery Sherlock Holmes in Washington, starring Basil Rathbone in the title role. She also appeared in the Western films Masked Raiders, Mexican Manhunt, and Down Laredo Way. In 1966, she played Mrs. Martha Meade, the wife of Bob Hope's character, in the screwball comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!.

Television
Lord appeared in a 1950 episode of The Lone Ranger titled "Bullets for Ballots", also featuring Craig Stevens, and a 1955 episode entitled "The Law Lady". She appeared on the 1951 episode "The Return of Trigger Dawson" of Bill Williams's syndicated western television series The Adventures of Kit Carson and the 1954 production of "Shadow of Truth" on Ford Theatre.

In 1956, while she was appearing in Anniversary Waltz, Lord caught the attention of Danny Thomas, who asked her to replace Jean Hagen as his television wife on Make Room for Daddy. Hagen had played Thomas' wife since the series' inception, but she was written out of the script in 1956 at the end of her contract. Lord accepted the role and joined the cast of the show, now called The Danny Thomas Show. She played the role until the show was cancelled in 1964. In 1970, Lord and Thomas, along with several other original supporting actors, returned to television with Make Room for Granddaddy. The show lasted just one season.

Later years
Lord remained active beyond her 90th birthday. On May 8, 2008, she participated in a "Salute to Television Moms" panel discussion organized by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Recognition
Lord has a star in the television section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6317 Hollywood Boulevard. The star was dedicated on February 8, 1960.

Personal life
Lord was married three times. She wed actor John Archer on December 30, 1941, and they had two children, including actress Anne Archer. They were married from 1941 until their divorce in 1955. Her second husband was producer Randolph Hale, to whom she was married from 1958 until his death in 1974. Her third husband was Harry Volk, the former CEO of Union Bank and a Los Angeles philanthropist, to whom she was married from 1976 until his death in 2000. Her memoir is entitled A Dance and a Hug. Lord is grandmother of Tommy Davis, son of her daughter Anne, both of whom are noted members of the Church of Scientology.

Death
Lord died on November 28, 2015, aged 97, at her home in Beverly Hills, California of natural causes. Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes given to her son, Gregg Archer.

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Dale Oliver

Dale Oliver is an American music composer, guitarist and producer, who is signed to TNA, where he is the head of TNA Knockout Music. Oliver was formerly a guitarist for the American country music group Blackhawk, Reba McEntire, Steven Curtis Chapman and Geoff Moore and the Distance.

Career
Oliver toured and recorded with Geoff Moore and the Distance as their guitarist for 6 years and cowrote 11 songs with Moore during this time. He was nominated for rock song of the year for "A Place to Stand". After leaving The Distance, Oliver formed a rock trio called The Ministers with Jimmie Lee Sloas and Kip Raines. The band was then signed to Hollywood Records. The band recorded one album and disbanded.

Oliver then recorded and toured with Henry Lee Summer and Steven Curtis Chapman. Chapman's album "The Live Adventure", which included the song "Tuesdays Child", co-written by Oliver, won a Grammy in 1994.

Following the Live Adventure tour, Oliver joined the American country music group Blackhawk as guitarist. He toured and recorded with Blackhawk, as well as co-writing some of their music, such as "Almost a Memory Now", "Nobody's Fool" and "She Dances with her Shadow". The band opened for Reba McEntire. When Blackhawk founding member Van Stephenson died from cancer, Oliver left the band and began touring with McEntire as her lead guitarist.

After touring with McEntire, Oliver worked as staff writer for Warner Bros and composed music for EA Sports 2012, the 2013 Madden video game and produced a song for the 2008 NASCAR video game. Oliver also wrote songs for and produced the music of Christian rock band Casting Crowns. He composed music for the movies Facing the Giants and Unconditional and was a musician on the soundtracks for the movies Fireproof, Courageous and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Oliver continues to record music and has recorded with Shania Twain, Kenny Chesney, Shinedown, Carrie Underwood, Sawyer Brown and Bucky Covington. Oliver cowrote songs with Covington and has produced his music.

Wrestling music composer (2002–present)
In 2002, Oliver joined NWA:TNA (later simply TNA) where he writes, records and produces music for entrance theme and pay-per-views. Oliver sang on Jeff Jarrett's entrance theme "My World" and AJ Styles' "I AM", for which he collaborated with rap group GRITS, rapped on Samoa Joe's "Nation of Violence" and played guitar on Sting's entrance theme. Oliver co-wrote, produced and played all instruments for James Storm's theme, "Longnecks and Rednecks" by Serg Salinas featuring Montgomery Gentry, and also appeared in the 2012 music video. Oliver also supplied the entrance themes for The Beautiful People/Velvet Sky, Madison Rayne, Dixie Carter, Tara and Ethan Carter III, as well Joe Hermes and others.

In 2010, Oliver collaborated with TNA wrestler Jeff Hardy and Hardy's band Peroxwhy?gen on two songs. The first was a remix of the song "Modest" by Hardy. The other was a remix of the Peroxwhy?gen song "Another Me", which Hardy used as his entrance theme. In 2011, Oliver again teamed with Hardy to work on the track "Resurrected", which Hardy then began using the theme at TNA's "Bound For Glory" Pay-Per-View event on October 16, 2011. In 2013 Oliver produced, cowrote and played guitar on Peroxwhy?gen's newest album. He also, produced, performed and cowrote Christy Hemme's 2013 holiday album. In addition, he played guitar on the Shinedown album The Sound of Madness.

In 2018, Oliver replaced Chris Anderson in the Outlaws southern rock band as lead guitarist as well as rejoining country band BlackHawk.

Discography
Impact has released twelve albums containing Oliver's work during his Impact tenure, the first five of which have been released physically on CD, the rest are digital releases.

 * NWA: TNA The Music, Vol. 1 (2003) [CD]
 * NWA: TNA The Music, Vol. 2 (2003) [CD]
 * 3rd Degree Burns: The Music of TNA Wrestling Vol. I (November 21, 2006) [CD]
 * Meltdown: The Music of TNA Wrestling Vol. 2 (November 20, 2007) [CD]
 * Emergence: The Music of TNA Wrestling (November 12, 2009) [CD]
 * TNA Q4 (November 21, 2012)
 * TNA Black EP (December 27, 2012)
 * TNA Delirium EP (May 3, 2013)
 * TNA Deliver EP (November 18, 2013)
 * Evolution XIV (April 24, 2014)
 * TOI (September 22, 2014)
 * Rawk On! (February 13, 2015)
 * POP (Past or Present) (December 28, 2015)

Personal life
Oliver was raised in Kentucky. He has two children.

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Pablo Ozuna

Pablo José Ozuna (born August 25, 1974) is a Dominican former professional baseball utility player. During his major league career, he played for the Florida Marlins (2000, 2002), the Colorado Rockies (2003), the Chicago White Sox (2005–2008), and the Los Angeles Dodgers (2008). He is the cousin of current Atlanta Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna.

St. Louis Cardinals
Originally signed by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1996, Ozuna spent two years in the Cardinal farm system before being traded with Braden Looper and Armando Almanza to the Florida Marlins for Édgar Rentería on December 14, 1998.

Florida Marlins
Ozuna would spend four years with the Marlins organization before being traded again. This time, he was traded with Charles Johnson, Preston Wilson and Vic Darensbourg to the Colorado Rockies for Mike Hampton and Juan Pierre on November 16, 2002. In 48 games with Florida, Ozuna had 21 hits in 71 at bats for a .296 batting average.

Colorado Rockies
Ozuna spent one year with the Rockies, going 8-for-40 (.200) with 2 RBI in 17 games. He was released on December 14, 2003.

Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Phillies
On January 9, 2004, Ozuna signed with the Detroit Tigers as a minor league free agent. On March 27, his contract was purchased by the Philadelphia Phillies. He spent the entire season with the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons, batting .307 with six home runs, 76 RBI and 31 stolen bases in 126 games.

Chicago White Sox
Ozuna signed with the Chicago White Sox on January 19, 2005. He appeared in a career high 70 games, and also had career highs with 203 at bats, 56 hits, and 11 RBI. Ozuna also had 14 stolen bases, including a steal of home on September 8.

On October 12, 2005, during Game 2 of the ALCS, A. J. Pierzynski advanced to first base on a controversial dropped third strike call. Ozuna pinch ran for him, stealing second base on the second pitch of the at bat to Joe Crede. Ozuna scored the game winning run on a double by Crede to end the controversial game. It was one of only two games Ozuna appeared in during the postseason as the White Sox won the World Series (the other being the night before).

Ozuna was brought back for 2006 and on May 3, 2006, he hit his first career home run, a solo shot, to tie the game with two outs in the ninth inning against Eddie Guardado of the Seattle Mariners. In the bottom of the 11th, Ozuna had another two-out hit, a bouncer up the middle that he stretched into a double. His heads up play allowed Juan Uribe to bat in the winning run with a soft fly ball to short left center. Later that season, on August 24, in a game against the Detroit Tigers, Ozuna fielded a play from left field that probably never happened and probably never will happen again. Detroit first baseman Sean Casey hit a line drive from pitcher Jon Garland drive to third baseman Joe Crede, who just missed gloving the ball. Crede tracked the ball, slowing it down as it rolled into left field. Casey had taken two steps before walking to the dugout, thinking Crede had made the grab. However, he soon noticed that the ball was still in play, and took off for first again. It was too late. Thinking on his feet, Ozuna scooped up the ball in left and fired across the way, beating Casey by a half step. It was a 5-7-3 putout. Ozuna finished the 2006 season batting .328 with two home runs and 17 RBI in 79 games.

On December 5, 2006, Ozuna signed a one-year, $800,000 contract with the White Sox to avoid arbitration. He later signed a one-year, $1.25 million contract extension with the team that included an option for the 2009 season on April 1, 2007. On May 27, 2007, Ozuna fractured his right fibula and tore the deltoid ligament in his ankle in a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Though he managed to walk off the field on his own power, he did not return for the remainder of the season. In 27 games, Ozuna hit .244 with 3 RBI.

Ozuna began the 2008 season batting .281 with 6 RBI in 32 games. Despite hitting .353 in June, he was designated for assignment on July 8, and was later released on July 16.

Los Angeles Dodgers
On July 20, 2008, Ozuna signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the remainder of the season. He made his debut with the team that day, where he was put in as a pinch-runner for Andy LaRoche after he singled in a run to make it a one-run game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the top of the ninth with two out. Matt Kemp then doubled him home, tying the game. The Dodgers eventually won the game, and tied with Arizona for first place in the NL West.

On September 19, 2008, he hit his third career home run in a 7–1 loss to the San Francisco Giants.

Philadelphia Phillies
On January 15, 2009, Ozuna signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Philadelphia Phillies, but began the season with the Phillies AAA minor league team, Lehigh Valley IronPigs, where he batted .294 with 15 RBI in 51 games. On June 11, he was suspended 50 games for violating the Major League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. He was released on August 8, 2009.

Newark Bears
On July 9, 2010, Ozuna signed a contract with the Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He played in 28 games for the Bears, hitting .294 with a home run and 13 RBI.

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Can someone get a photo up of him? I think its needed. Kangaross1989 (talk) 01:56, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

He's da bomb!

Not really if you knew him. - There was already a team stopped at the accident site, by stopping at the accident site, he would not have been able to help the situation at all, so I don't see this as an "Obvious lack of morals". Also, when you Lie in a game, it is not immediatly a lack of morals. Almost every team lies to a certain extent during the course of the race, it's just common sense. Say a team has a flight that gets in at 2 pm, and another team asks them "Hey, the flight that get's in at 4pm is the earliest right?" The team is fully allowed to not reveal the earlier flight without being stated to have "obvious lack of morals" Pay attention next season, this fall, and you'll notice alot of teams, even fan favourite teams, will Lie to a certain extent during the race. Riphal 09:35, 19 July 2006 (UTC) Riphal --

With Rob Mariano, he has allways been one of the people that Polarize the viewers, I don't think the article is quite right to say that all the fans hate him, more accuratly 45% of them hate him, 45% really like him, and a smaller group, which includes myself, don't have a particularly strong feeling one way or the other. I feel the article might be more accurate to say he split fans rather then made them all hate him. Also, that whole thing about the show being rigged by producers wasn't thought up by Rob, it was on several message boards, posted by Rob fans and what not, withen minutes after the episode aired. Perhaps someone has a link to the original interview? I have a recolection that Rob didn't actually outright say the rigged it, moreso, when he was asked if it was rigged, he did not deny it, hence implying this was the case. Some may see this as a minor detail, but I think that this could be worth looking into.

The article about Mariano certainly has a very strong bias towards the Anti-Rob side of things. As someone who was in the middle of things, I often got tired of both all the rabidly Pro-Rob and rabidly Anti-Rob things I would allways see. Often, when I took the middle, I would debate both sides, therefor the Pro-Robs would all consider me to hate Rob because I disagreed with them, and the Anti-Robs would all consider me to love rob because I disagreed with them. So I'm sure some people will take it as me being all in love with Rob or whatever when I suggest this article needs to be changed slightly, but honestly, It shows a very strong bias, rather then showing Rob as the contestant that polarized fans that he really was. Riphal 09:35, 19 July 2006 (UTC)Riphal --- I just found an example too add to what i was trying to say earlier, if you read the Amber Brkich wiki, you'll note this entry on her being in the race: "While some felt that they brought new, exciting elements into the Race, others felt that they were using the program for their own ends, not the least of which was publicity to sustain interest" This is what I meen by not showing a bias, it discusses both the posative and negative feelings that viewers have for them. Riphal 09:40, 19 July 2006 (UTC)Riphal

Reads like a fan site
If this page used to be negatively biased against Rob Mariano, it certainly isn't anymore. It reads like a fan site or an overly friendly magazine profile. ChrisStansfield 07:18, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

I think a magazine profile should include the fact that he was a construction worker for awhile. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.76.240.12 (talk) 11:36, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Clarification of IP address, mistaken revert, etc.
Hi, Will Beback. I see you reverted my edits to the page, which were all made in order to improve grammar, update the article to the present, and remove wikilinks that were excessively duplicative of past links. If you look closely, you will see that there was nothing malicious in those edits and that, in fact, my edits made better use of the English language than what was previously in place. I get the impression that you believe the edits were made by a sock puppet of a banned account. In truth, they were made by myself, but I had forgotten to log in under my own user name. If the banned account has the same IP as the computer I am currently using, I would venture a guess that all computers at the firm where I am currently temping use the same address. The fact that the banned account makes specific reference to a law degree would bear this out. I will ask that you not revert this a third time unless you look over the edits and find them objectionable for a legitimate reason. Thank you very much, ChrisStansfield 14:16, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Improving Grammar in an article about 'Boston Rob'. hahahahahahaha  BTW there is a HUGE telecom corridor in this area that wiki blocks.  This also blocks a LOT of places just because someone decided to block basically an ISP or two instead of one person.

College?
It mentions he went to Xaverian, but that is a high school. Where did he get his BA? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.91.102.185 (talk) 09:14, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Tontine
Tontine seems to have gone by the wayside. The official site doesn't appear to have been updated in over a year. Might be time to jettison it from the article? 72.186.130.31 (talk) 02:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that section should be removed. Apparently it was never a real show, but all part of a viral campaign to promote a "mockumentary" where all the contestants murder each other or some such nonsense. The basis for the show was so stupid in the first place, I guess we should have known it was not a real show. See http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/tontine/2010_Jul_01_preview BK DC (talk) 22:09, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

I don't know if "mockumentary" is a good term for it.. it was all hype for a blair witch style low budget horror movie. What I can't figure out is why they didn't release the fake youtube videos of the "accident" until 3 year later? Anyway, I guess they coundn't get anyone to pick the movie up because now they are doing some silly tour and showing it at locally owned theaters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.75.152.237 (talk) 12:23, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

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New Trier Township, Cook County, Illinois

New Trier Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 57,371.

The township contains New Trier High School, but the borders of the school district do not line up exactly with the borders of the township.

Geography
The township covers approximately 16 sqmi. The township comprises the villages of Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, and portions of Glenview and Northfield. There is also a small unincorporated area near Winnetka known as Indian Hill because of the nearby country club of the same name.

Cities, towns, and villages

 * Glencoe
 * Kenilworth
 * Northfield (eastern third)
 * Wilmette
 * Winnetka

Unincorporated Town

 * Indian Hill at 42.09359°N, -87.72377°W

Ghost Town

 * Gross Point at 42.07892°N, -87.72256°W

Demographics
As of the 2020 census, there were 57,371 people living in the township. The population density was approximately 3,500/sq mi (1,400/km2). There were 21,114 housing units. The racial makeup of the township was 82.5% White, 8.8% Asian, 0.8% Black or African American, 1.1% from other races, and 6.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.6% of the population.

The median age in the township was 45.8 years. 29.3% of the population was under 18 years, and 19.7% were 65 years or older.

There were 20,447 households, out of which 38.9% had people under the age of 18 living with them, and 35.9% had people 65 years or older living with them. 69.2% of households were married couples living together, 19.5% had a female householder with no spouse present, 10.3% had a male householder with no spouse present, and 1.0% were cohabiting couples living together. The average household size was 2.72 and the average family size 3.20.

The median income for a household in the township was $177,672, and the median income for a family was $227,204. 3.3% of residents were below the poverty line.

Township services

 * Angel Fund – provides emergency assistance to pay for food, shelter, medical care, and other necessities. Funded fully by private donations, it is utilized by those who are not eligible for assistance from other funds.
 * Access to Care – a suburban Cook County program that helps uninsured and underinsured residents get discounted medical services and prescription medication.
 * Assessor's Assistance – the Township Assessor's Office assists taxpayers with property tax issues.
 * Child Care Scholarships
 * Dial-a-Ride – provides discounted taxi fares to senior citizens traveling within the township.
 * Employment Counseling
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Mirabehn

Madeleine Slade (22 November 1892 – 20 July 1982), also known as Mirabehn or Meera Behn, was a British supporter of the Indian Independence Movement who in the 1920s left her home in England to live and work with Mahatma Gandhi. She devoted her life to human development and the advancement of Gandhi's principles.

She was the daughter of the British Rear-Admiral Sir Edmond Slade and Florence Madeleine, eldest daughter of Mr James Carr Saunders of Milton Heath, Dorking (but born in Reigate, Surrey in 1870). Sir Edmund and his wife also had another daughter, Madeline's sister Rhona.

Early life
Mirabehn was born into a well connected British family in 1892. Her father, Sir Edmond Slade was an officer in the Royal Navy who was posted in Mirabehn's early years as the Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Squadron, later becoming director of the Naval Intelligence Division. She spent much of her childhood with her maternal grandfather who owned a large country estate, and was from an early age a nature and animal lover, having developed a love for horses, and for riding them.

At the age of 15, Mirabehn developed a passion for Ludwig van Beethoven's music. She took to the piano and concerts and went on to become a concert manager. In 1921, she arranged for a German conductor to lead the London Orchestra in concerts featuring Beethoven, and helped bring about an end to the British boycott of German musicians that followed the First World War.

She also visited Vienna and Germany to see where Beethoven had lived and composed his music and she read about him extensively. She read Romain Rolland's books on Beethoven and later met with him at Villeneuve, where he was living at the time. During this meeting, Rolland mentioned about a new book of his called Mahatma Gandhi, which she had not yet read. Rolland described Gandhi as another Christ and as the greatest figure of the 20th century. On her return to England, she read Rolland's biography of Gandhi, which convinced her to become a disciple of the Mahatma. She later recalled in regards to the book, "I could not put it down...From that moment I knew that my life was dedicated to Gandhi." Rather than embarking for India right away, Mirabehn decided to prepare herself for the change by studying material on the Sabarmarti Ashram, sitting cross-legged, and adopting a vegetarian diet. In 1924, she wrote to Gandhi expressing her wish to join him, and also sending him 20 pounds. Gandhi replied, pleased with her patience and willingness to prepare herself first, and asked that she decide on whether or not to come in a year's time. She then continued training herself for all the demands of an ascetic's life in India, giving up all wine, beer, and spirits, eliminating meat from her diet, and learning to spin and weave wool. That year in England, she subscribed to Young India and spent a part of her time in Paris reading the Bhagvad Gita and part of the Rigveda in French.

Life in India and role in the independence movement
In November 1925, she contacted Gandhi and requested to stay in his ashram. She arrived in Bombay on 6 November 1925, and was met by followers of Gandhi as well as his son, Devdas. Declining to spend the day sightseeing, she set off to Ahmedabad, where she was received by Mahadev Desai, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Swami Anand on 7 November 1925. This was the beginning of her stay in India that lasted almost 34 years. Upon meeting her, Gandhi said "You will be my daughter", and gave her the name Mirabehn, which represents the Hindu mystic Mirabai. Speaking about her name Mirabehn, she stated in the spring of 1982, ''It is my name. If someone says 'Miss Slade' to me, I don't know who they are talking to.''

Mirabehn attended her first annual meeting of the Indian National Congress in December 1925. She spent most of 1926 in Sabarmati, where she spun and wove, cooked, and cleaned in the ashram. In December of that year, she travelled to Delhi, where she stayed at a women's hostel.

After about a year into her stay in India, Mirabehn continued to struggle with the languages in North India such as Hindi and Gujarati, so Gandhi sent her to Gurukul Kanya and Gurukul Kangri to learn the languages. Mirabehn had hopes that Gandhi would take her with him after the Jubilee Celebration at Gurukul Kangri, but to her dismay he sent her to Bhagwadbhakti Ashram of Rewari for a better learning experience.

She spent the early months of 1927 visiting ashrams across North India. During this time, she also worked on correcting the language and grammar of the English version of Gandhi's autobiography, a special task given to her by Gandhi himself. After returning to Sabarmati, she decided to become a celibate, began wearing a white sari, and cut her hair short.

In September 1928, Gandhi asked her to travel through North, South, and East India alone with the hope of her gaining experience to start a training center for spinning and weaving in Sabarmati. In 1929, she visited Santiniketan, a university founded by Rabindranath Tagore, where she met Tagore himself.

Mirabehn's stay in India coincided with the zenith Gandhian phase of the freedom struggle. She accompanied Gandhi to the Round Table Conference in London in 1931. On their way back to India from London, Mirabehn and Gandhi visited Rolland, who gave her a book on Beethoven which he had written while she was in India. As she began to read it, it convinced her to move to Austria and spend her remaining days in the land of Beethoven's music.

Upon returning to Bombay from the conference, the new viceroy, Lord Willingdon, arrested Gandhi. Mirabehn then took on the task of preparing weekly reports of who had been arrested, where, and why. This soon led to her arrest, and she was jailed at Arthur Road Jail for three months, where she met Sarojini Naidu and Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay. Shortly after being released, she was arrested once again in 1932 for entering Bombay without permission, this time being jailed for a longer term. She was transferred to Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad, where she shared a cell with Kasturba, Gandhi's wife.

In the summer of 1934, she asked Gandhi for permission to tour the West to promote the Indian independence movement. She spoke in London, Wales, Lancashire, and Newcastle, among other locations. The tour included a meeting with former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, and a correspondence and eventual meeting with Winston Churchill. Throughout, she spoke about how Indians were more than capable of running the country on their own, the destruction British colonialism caused to the rural industry, and the high taxes being imposed upon Indians.

She then travelled to the United States through her contact with Priest John Haynes Holmes, and in her two-week tour she spoke to 22 gatherings, spoke on 5 radio broadcasts, and met First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Mirabehn also took an active interest in the establishment of the Sevagram Ashram, and worked among the people of Orissa to non-violently resist a potential Japanese invasion in the beginning of 1942.

In August 1942, Mirabehn was arrested along with Gandhi and many Congress leaders as they launched the 'Quit India' movement. They were jailed in Aga Khan Palace, Pune until May 1944. Both Mahadev Desai and Kasturba Gandhi died while jailed at the palace.

After her release from jail, with Gandhi's permission, she established the Kisan Ashram on a plot of land near Haridwar. Here, the locals constructed a home and a cattle shed. Soon the ashram was home to cows and bullocks, a shed for khadi, and a dispensary for basic medicine. She then moved to Pashulok in 1946, at the request of Govind Ballabh Pant, who wanted to involve her in agriculture extension programs.

Despite living in an ashram, she maintained correspondence with Gandhi through 1947, and spent 3 months with him in Delhi after she fell ill towards the end of the year.

Throughout her life, she was a witness to the Simla Conference, Cabinet Mission, Interim Government, Constituent Assembly, Partition of India, and assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.

Post-independence life in India
After Independence, she established a settlement named Bapu Gram and the Gopal Ashram in Bhilangana in 1952. She took to dairying and farming experiments in these ashrams and also spent a while in Kashmir. During the time she spent in Kumaon and Garhwal she observed the destruction of the forests there and the impact it was having on floods in the plains. She wrote about it in an essay titled Something Wrong in the Himalaya but her advice was ignored by the Forest Department. In the 1980s, these areas witnessed a large Gandhian environmental campaign to save the forests called the Chipko Movement.

She returned to England in 1959, and relocated to Austria in 1960. Her long-time friend, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, whom Mirabehn had known since Gandhi was a child, made sure she was taken care of even while in Austria. Gandhi had instructed the Indian Embassy in Austria to provide Mirabehn with whatever she needed. Throughout her years in Austria, four of her friends visited her daily. Nonetheless, she continued to voluntarily live a simple life, eating only natural foods and abstaining from using labor saving devices. She spent 22 years in small villages in the Vienna Woods (Baden, Hinterbrühl, Kracking), where she died in 1982.

She was awarded India's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan, in 1981.

Books by Mirabehn
Mirabehn's autobiography is titled The Spiritual Pilgrimage. She also published Bapu's Letters to Mira and New and Old Gleanings. Mirabehn drafted a book called “Beethoven’s Mystical Vision” (not “The Spirit of Beethoven”). It was published in Madurai by Khadi Friends Forum in 1999, and then a second, digital edition in 2000 by MGM University.

In popular culture

 * Actress Geraldine James portrayed her in Richard Attenborough's film, Gandhi, which premiered several months after Mirabehn's death in 1982.
 * In Mira and the Mahatma, Sudhir Kakar provides a fictional account of Mirabehn's relationship with Gandhi as his disciple.
 * In his book, Rebels Against the Raj, Ramchandra Guha tells the story of how Mirabehn and six other foreigners served India in its quest for independence from the British Raj.

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Talk:Sissy Spacek

Name
I believe her surname would pronounced (owing to the "c"'s having a hacek) "shpah-chek". I have edited this accordingly. I'm a native English speaker, but I'm a resident in the Czech Republic and reasonably fluent in Czech, certainly enough to realise that the "c" with a hacek is pronounced (for English speakers) like "ch" and not "cz". Derekpatterson (talk) 14:13, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Older talk without heading
Miss Sherri? Romper Room

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"Spacek is also an ardent crusader for women's lib."

"Women's lib?" I haven't heard that expression for a couple of decades.

 * So what, Sissy Spacek has been around for a couple of decades. --DrTorstenHenning 11:40, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Oscar succession box?
Does this box really improve the article? There is so such thing as a reigning Oscar winner, all Oscar winners are Oscar winners for life. I would recommend to remove the box. Any opinions? --DrTorstenHenning 12:29, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Lead section
Given that the article is short at this time, I think the very concise lead is appropriate. Who disagrees? --DrTorstenHenning (talk) 14:30, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree. Attention should be given to expanding the article. Then a fuller lead would follow. Wildhartlivie (talk) 16:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Breathless tone
The article is written in an admiring breathless gee-whiz fan club sort of tone. Does this count as POV?
 * It does. Feel free to improve the article. --DrTorstenHenning (talk) 13:45, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

I tried to get most of the fanboyism out. I don't know if there's a guideline on this, but how much do we have to(or are allowed to) describe a certain actor's/actresses's roles in their own articles? I thought this article spends way too much time describing her role characters. I edited the ones which had obvious POV in them, for example the ones using words like "hilarious", "beatiful" etc. (Vehement (talk) 17:26, 26 December 2009 (UTC))

Is anybody named Oilman's?
The article says her mother's maiden name was "Oilman's." Seems improbable.
 * Old vandalism. All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 20:36, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

New Film
She is going to be in a new movie called The Help in 2011. She plays Missus Walters

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Talk:Petroleum engineering

Petroleum refining
From the rather short discussion in this article, it seems petroleum engineers work on finding petroleum, bringing it to the surface, and designing or using pipelines to transport the oil. However, this article does not say petroleum engineers work in petroleum refining. I suppose that is the area of chemical engineers. Does anybody know if petroleum engineers get involved in petroleum refining? H Padleckas 17:48, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Petroleum refining
Petroleum engineers usually do not get involved in petroleum refining. You are correct in your supposition that petroleum refining is the area of chemical engineers. Information Addict 22:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Types
I am a student of Petroleum Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Here at CSM we divide the industry into these sub-categories: Reservoir Engineering, Drilling Engineering, and Production Engineering. The Society of Petroleum Engineers adheres to the same convention. I would suggest changing the name of the category Subsurface Engineer to Production Engineer. A Production Engineer has the same responsibilities as described for a "Subsurface Engineer," but the name "Production Engineer" is more in line with conventional industry terminology. Information Addict 22:41, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

In the UK and a lot of other places you've also got Production Technologists, and Petrophysicists classified as petroleum engineers, also Drillign Engineering is quite a specific role, as there are completion engineers etc.  But i agree witht he idea of calling subsurface engineers production engineers, as subsurface at least in my mind refers to reservoir engineers Philbentley 14:28, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

HOLE PACK-OFF
i'm student from University Technology Malaysia. i want your opinion and hint about one types of drilling problem; hole pack-off. please give any article @ website @ reference about "hole pack-off". thank's —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.139.212.70 (talk) 04:49, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Reservoir Engineers
Would you categorise a Reservoir Engineer under the banner of Production or Geoscience?

Neither. At a higher level, geoscience would cover geology and petroleum engineering. Subsets of petroleum engineering would be Production Engineering and Reservoir Engineering. Reservoir Engineering deals with determining the size of the reservoir and fluid flow through that porous medium. Production Engineering deals with how the fluid enters the wellbore and is transported to the surface (and in some cases is separated and stored in tanks for sale, or piped to an export / sales through LACT meter.

Updating sources to recent data
One of the sources cited is the 2017 SPE salary survey. The 2018 version is out which can be found at: https://www.spe.org/industry/docs/2018-Salary-Survey-Highlight-Report.pdf Can someone either change the old figures to the updated figures or reword everything to show the comparison from 2017 to 2018?23.243.114.16 (talk) 00:23, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Adding an Education Heading
Considering the constant reference to knowledge of different disciplines required and education standards throughout the article, such as in the second paragraph, in the middle of the "Overview" section, and the "Sub-disciplines" section, I feel that it would be beneficial to add an "Education" section. Here we can clearly state what the required knowledge is in each subject and briefly explain their application/significance in Petroleum Engineering in more depth. For example, geostatistics, geology, economics, etc. and how they are used in petroleum engineering. Dpokhriyal (talk) 10:22, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Images for education header
I have started the "Education" header and would like to add some images, specifically an image for well drilling technologies in order to illustrate the different methods of drilling. However, I am unsure of how/whether I would cite an image. Dpokhriyal (talk) 10:45, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

"Petroleum & Mining Engineering" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Phiomorpha

The rodent parvorder or infraorder Phiomorpha comprises several living and extinct families found wholly or largely in Africa. Along with Anomaluromorpha and perhaps the extinct Zegdoumyidae, it represents one of the few early colonizations of Africa by rodents.

During the Oligocene, Africa was not connected to any of the other continents. The predominant theory suggests that rodents first evolved in Laurasia, and expanded outward from there. Although Europe, Asia, and North America were distinct landmasses during much of the Eocene and Oligocene, they experienced intermittent migration events across the shallow sea separating Europe and Asia, via an ice-free Greenland (Europe and North America), or across Beringia (North America and Asia). The southern continents were much more isolated leading to the unique faunas of Australia, South America, and to a lesser degree Africa.

Although the hystricognath rodents may have evolved from an early entodacryan ancestor in Asia, they migrated to Africa soon after. Phiomorpha represents the clade that evolved as a result. Although once diverse, this infraorder is now restricted to the Old World porcupines, the cane rats, the dassie rat, the naked mole-rat, and the blesmols.

Families
The makeup of this infraorder is controversial. At its core lie the extant families Thryonomyidae, Petromuridae, and Bathyergidae and their extinct relatives. The Old World porcupines (Hystricidae) are sometimes included in Phiomorpha, but many authorities consider them either basal to all hystricognaths or basal to all hystricognaths except the Laotian rock rat (family Diatomyidae); also, more recent evidence not supports them belonging in Phiomorpha. Molecular results suggest that the Diatomyidae is a part of the Ctenodactylomorphi, but this is in contrast to morphological results which place the animal at a basal position to all hystricognaths.

 * Infraorder Phiomorpha
 * Family †Diamantomyidae
 * Family Hystricidae - Old World porcupines
 * Family †Kenyamyidae
 * Family †Myophiomyidae
 * Family Petromuridae - the dassie rat
 * Family †Phiomyidae
 * Family Thryonomyidae - cane rats and their extinct relatives
 * Parvorder Bathyergomorpha
 * †Paracryptomys - incertae sedis
 * Family Bathyergidae - blesmols
 * Family †Bathyergoididae
 * Family Heterocephalidae - naked mole-rats

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Hystricomorpha

Hystricomorpha (from Greek ὕστριξ, hystrix 'porcupine' and Greek μορφή, morphē 'form') is a term referring to families and orders of rodents which has had many definitions throughout its history. In the broadest sense, it refers to any rodent (except dipodoids) with a hystricomorphous zygomasseteric system. This includes the Hystricognathi, Ctenodactylidae, Anomaluridae, and Pedetidae. Molecular and morphological results suggest the inclusion of the Anomaluridae and Pedetidae in Hystricomorpha may be suspect. Based on, these two families are discussed here as representing a distinct suborder Anomaluromorpha.

Classification

The modern definition of Hystricomorpha, also known as Entodacrya or Ctenohystrica, is a taxonomic hypothesis uniting the gundis with the hystricognath rodents. Considerable morphological and strong molecular support exists for this relationship. If true, this hypothesis renders the traditional view of Sciurognathi invalid, as it becomes a paraphyletic group.

The hystricomorph rodents, or at least members of Caviomorpha, are sometimes not regarded as rodents. Most molecular and genetic research, however, confirms the monophyly of rodents. Support for rodent polyphyly appears to be a product of long branch attraction.

Hystricomorph rodents appeared in South America in the Eocene, a continent which previously had metatherians, xenarthrans, and meridiungulates as the only resident nonflying mammals. They apparently arrived by rafting across the Atlantic from Africa. The same type of migration may have occurred with primates, which also appeared in South America in the Eocene when it was an isolated continent, long before the Great American Interchange. All of this is still controversial, and new scientific discoveries on this subject are published regularly.

Families
The following list of families is based on the taxonomy of and, who subjected a number of early fossil rodents to parsimony analysis and recovered support for the Hystricomorpha or Entodacrya hypothesis. Their results rendered the suborder Sciuravida as defined by to be polyphyletic and invalid. The symbol "†" is used to indicate extinct groups.

 * Suborder Hystricomorpha
 * Superfamily Ctenodactyloidea
 * †Chapattimyidae
 * Ctenodactylidae – gundis
 * Diatomyidae – Laotian rock rat
 * †Tamquammyidae
 * †Yuomyidae
 * Hystricognathiformes
 * †Tsaganomyidae
 * Hystricognathi – true hystricognaths
 * †Baluchimyinae
 * Phiomorpha
 * Bathyergidae – blesmols
 * †Bathyergoididae
 * †Diamantomyidae
 * Heterocephalidae – naked mole-rats
 * Hystricidae – Old World porcupines
 * †Kenyamyidae
 * †Myophiomyidae
 * Petromuridae – dassie rat
 * †Phiomyidae
 * Thryonomyidae – cane rats
 * Caviomorpha – New World hystricognaths
 * Superfamily Cavioidea
 * Caviidae – cavies, capybaras, and guinea pigs
 * †Cephalomyidae
 * Cuniculidae – pacas
 * Dasyproctidae – agoutis and acouchis
 * Dinomyidae – pacarana
 * †Eocardiidae
 * †Neoepiblemidae
 * Superfamily Chinchilloidea
 * Abrocomidae – chinchilla rats
 * Chinchillidae – chinchillas and viscachas
 * Superfamily Erethizontoidea
 * Erethizontidae – New World porcupines
 * Superfamily Octodontoidea
 * Capromyidae – hutias
 * Ctenomyidae – tuco-tucos
 * Echimyidae – spiny rats
 * †Heptaxodontidae – giant hutias
 * Myocastoridae – nutria
 * Octodontidae – degus and relatives

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Hystrix (mammal)

Hystrix is a genus of porcupines containing most of the Old World porcupines. Fossils belonging to the genus date back to the late Miocene of Africa.

Hystrix (from Ancient Greek ὕστριξ (hústrix, “porcupine”) was given name by the 18th-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus.

Species

 * Genus Hystrix
 * Subgenus Hystrix
 * Hystrix africaeaustralis - Cape porcupine
 * Hystrix cristata - crested porcupine
 * Hystrix indica - Indian crested porcupine
 * Subgenus Acanthion
 * Hystrix brachyura - Malayan porcupine or Himalayan crestless porcupine
 * Hystrix javanica - Sunda porcupine
 * Subgenus Thecurus
 * Hystrix crassispinis - thick-spined porcupine
 * Hystrix pumila - Philippine porcupine
 * Hystrix sumatrae - Sumatran porcupine

Fossil species

 * †Hystrix arayanensis - Late Miocene
 * †Hystrix depereti - Pliocene
 * †Hystrix paukensis - Late Miocene-Pliocene
 * †Hystrix primigenia - Late Miocene-Pliocene
 * †Hystrix refossa - Pleistocene
 * †Hystrix suevica - Late Miocene

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Caviinae

Caviinae is a subfamily uniting all living members of the family Caviidae with the exception of the maras, capybaras, and Kerodon. The subfamily traditionally contained the guinea pig or cavy-like forms along with the cursorially adapted (running) Kerodon. Molecular results suggest the Caviinae as so defined would be paraphyletic and Kerodon is more closely related to maras and capybaras than to other caviines. This led Woods and Kilpatrick (2005) to unite Kerodon and capybaras into the subfamily Hydrochoerinae within the Caviidae. These studies also suggest Microcavia and Cavia are more closely related to one another than either is to Galea.

Genera and species

 * Subfamily Caviinae
 * †Cardiomys
 * †Allocavia
 * †Palaeocavia
 * †Neocavia
 * †Dolicavia
 * †Macrocavia
 * †Caviops
 * †Pascualia
 * Galea - yellow-toothed cavies
 * Galea flavidens - Brandt's yellow-toothed cavy (may be an invalid species)
 * Galea monasteriensis - Muenster yellow-toothed cavy
 * Galea musteloides - common yellow-toothed cavy
 * Galea spixii - Spix's yellow-toothed cavy
 * Microcavia - mountain cavies
 * Microcavia australis - southern mountain cavy
 * Microcavia niata - Andean mountain cavy
 * Microcavia shiptoni - Shipton's mountain cavy
 * Cavia - guinea pigs
 * Cavia aperea - Brazilian guinea pig
 * Cavia fulgida - shiny guinea pig
 * Cavia intermedia - intermediate guinea pig
 * Cavia magna - greater guinea pig
 * Cavia porcellus - domestic guinea pig
 * Cavia tschudii - montane guinea pig

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Li Shan (painter)

Li Shan (Chinese: 李鳝; c.1686–1762) was a Qing dynasty painter born in Jiangsu. He had an interest in painting at an early age and by 16 was a noteworthy painter. His paintings had an unrestricted quality and were influenced by Shitao. He was one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.

Aside from painting he also served as a magistrate for a county in Shandong. Li Shan is also the name for two modern Chinese painters, one born in 1885 and the other in 1926.

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Wickecheoke Creek

Wickecheoke Creek is a 15.0 mi tributary of the Delaware River in Hunterdon County, New Jersey in the United States.

It originates in Raritan Township on the Hunterdon Plateau and flows through Croton and Locktown before cascading off the Plateau where it passes under the Green Sergeant's Covered Bridge, one of the two last remaining covered bridges in the state. It cuts through part of the Amwell Valley and several steep sections of the Rosemont Valley before reaching the Delaware River. Before reaching the Delaware, it cuts through a low ridge and is joined by Plum Brook. Further south it and cuts through a second slightly larger ridge to the west of Sergeantsville. Rose Creek enters the creek two miles before it reaches the Delaware and Raritan Canal and the Delaware River at Prallsville.

The Creek receives most of its water from springs as it passes through woodlands and farm fields. Water birds, eagles, beaver, and mink can be seen near the trout-stocked stream. Trails and narrow lanes along its banks also make it a favorite for artists, anglers, cyclists and hikers. The lower portion of what locals call "the Wick," runs through farms and forests protected by the New Jersey Conservation Foundation. The Foundation's Donald Jones Footpath follows the Creek for nearly two miles, just above Prallsville and the town of Stockton, New Jersey.

The name Wickecheoke comes from a Unami word — wichkaachkwik, or "where there are birch trees".

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Prehensile-tailed porcupine

The prehensile-tailed porcupines or coendous (genus Coendou) are found in Central and South America. Two other formerly recognized Neotropical tree porcupine genera, Echinoprocta and Sphiggurus, have been subsumed into Coendou, since Sphiggurus was shown by genetic studies to be polyphyletic, while Echinoprocta nested within Coendou.

Characteristics
Among the most notable features of Coendou porcupines are their unspined prehensile tails. The front and hind feet are also modified for grasping. These limbs all contribute to making this animal an adept climber, an adaptation to living most of their lives in trees.

They feed on leaves, shoots, fruits, bark, roots, and buds. They can be pests of plantation crops. They also make a distinctive "baby-like" sound to communicate in the wild.

Their young are born with soft hair that hardens to quills with age. Adults are slow-moving and will roll into a ball when threatened and on the ground. The record longevity is 27 years.

Species

 * Genus Coendou - prehensile-tailed porcupines
 * Baturite porcupine - C. baturitensis - a newly discovered species
 * Bicolored-spined porcupine - C. bicolor
 * Streaked dwarf porcupine - C. ichillus
 * Bahia porcupine - C. insidiosus
 * Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine - C. melanurus
 * Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine - C. mexicanus
 * Black dwarf porcupine - C. nycthemera
 * Amazonian long-tailed porcupine - C. longicaudatus
 * Brazilian porcupine - C. prehensilis
 * Frosted hairy dwarf porcupine - C. pruinosus
 * Andean porcupine - C. quichua
 * Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine - C. roosmalenorum
 * Stump-tailed porcupine - C. rufescens
 * Santa Marta porcupine - C. sanctamartae
 * C. speratus - a newly discovered species
 * Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine - C. spinosus
 * Brown hairy dwarf porcupine - C. vestitus

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Brush-tailed porcupine

The brush-tailed porcupines are a genus, Atherurus, of Old World porcupines found in Asia and Africa.

Characteristics
The brush-tailed porcupines have bodies covered in quills like their New World relatives. These quills are shorter and not as visually prominent as those seen in the genus Hystrix, but considerably more so than in Trichys. They have a prominent tuft on the tip of their tails which leads to their common name. The tail breaks off easily when the animal is threatened.

Their bodies are long and somewhat rat-like. They are forest dwellers and nocturnal, and feed on vegetation, but may take insects or carrion. The animals may live in social groups usually numbering six to eight. The longevity record for a captive animal was almost 23 years.

Due to their small size (the typical brush-tailed porcupine weighs about 3 kg), it is a popular bushmeat to the urban and rural residents of Gabon, Nigeria, Cameroon or Congo.

Species
The two species of Atherurus, an Asian and an African variety, are:
 * A. africanus – African brush-tailed porcupine
 * A. macrourus – Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine

Predators
The brush-tailed porcupine has many native predators: leopards, large raptors and snakes; however, humans are their most prominent and constant predators. The brush-tailed porcupine is hunted in such large quantities, many in those areas fear that it is no longer a sustainable option.

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Luo Ping

Luo Ping ( 1733 - 1799) was a Chinese painter of the Qing Dynasty who lived in Ganquan (甘泉; present-day Yangzhou, Jiangsu. His courtesy name was Dunfu (遯夫) and his pseudonyms were Liangfeng (兩峰; Liǎngfēng; lit. "Two Peaks") and Huazhisi Seng (花之寺僧; Huāzhisì Sēng; lit. "Monk of the Temple of Flowers"). He studied painting under Jin Nong and developed a unique personal style. He painted people, Buddhist images, plum with bamboo, flowers, and scenery paintings. He refused government service to live a life of poverty selling paintings. He was the youngest of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.

Luo Ping's life began with loss and sadness. His father died when Luo was just one year old, and his mother soon after. But from an early age the youth orphan was recognized as a talented poet and gained admission to the exclusive artistic circles of his home town, Yangzhou. At nineteen he married - for love—the poet and painter Fang Wanyi (方婉儀, 1732 - 1779). Their daughter and two sons (Yǔnshào, 允绍, and Yǔnzuǎn, 允缵) also went on to become artists. All painted plum blossoms, the family trade mark (罗家梅派).

Five years after his marriage Luo met the man who would change his life. This was the nationally renowned poet, artist and bon vivant Jin Nong (1687 - 1763). The 70-year-old master took a great liking to the talented young man, who was in turn inspired by the emotional and expressive art of his mentor. Luo also painted pictures for Jin Nong, who signed them with his own name and sold them. When, after 6 years of this close collaboration, Jin Nong died, Luo buried his teacher with as much reverence as if it were the funeral of his own father.

In the second half of his life, Luo often visited the capital, Beijing, where he caused a sensation in the fashionable cultural scene. On to a long painting scroll which he showed to everyone, he had painted ghosts and claimed to have seen such creatures with his own eyes: "Some expose teeth like melon seeds, and have fingers large as thighs." Luo died, highly esteemed, at the age of sixty-six. Throughout his life he saw himself as an austere Buddhist and signed his works with the name "Monk of the Temple of Flowers".

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Gao Xiang (painter)

Gao Xiang (Chinese: 高翔; 1688–1753) was a Qing Chinese painter, and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. He was born in Ganquan in Yangzhou prefecture.

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Li Fangying

Li Fangying 李方膺 (1696–1755) was a Qing Chinese painter from Jiangsu. He served as a county magistrate for 20 years. As a painter he is best known for painting plant imagery specifically pines, bamboos, plum blossoms and orchids. He was one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.

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C. J. Muere

Caesar Joseph L. Muere (born February 18, 1988), popularly known simply as C. J. Muere, is a former Filipino actor. He is best known for being in the Final Four of StarStruck season two and portraying Ding in the 2005 television series of Darna. Before applying for GMA Network's StarStruck, he was a dropped from ABS-CBN's Star Circle Quest, which is also a reality television talent search show.

StarStruck
He auditioned in StarStruck in 2004 and he made it until the Top 7. He may be eliminated but through the Wild Card that was included in the season's format, he was selected, replacing Benj Pacia. He proved that he really deserved to be the wild card pick. He made it through to the coveted Final 4 along with LJ Reyes, Ryza Cenon and Mike Tan and wherein he finished as the runner up to Mike Tan.

StarStruck standing

 * CJ got the highest point for that week.

Filmography

 * Lovestruck
 * Mars Ravelo's Darna
 * Love to Love
 * Ay, Robot!
 * Now and Forever: Mukha
 * SOP Gigsters
 * StarStruck Season Two

Priority
Muere called a batch mate of his in StarStruck to tell that he formally said good bye to Ms. Ida Henares, to say good bye to show business. Muere wants to study full-time and he is taking Dentistry at Centro Escolar University. In March 2013, he graduated at Centro Escolar University with the degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine and passed the Dentistrt Licensure exam at the same year. He is currently taking his M.S. Orthodontics at Centro Escolar University Graduate School.

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Miller School of Medicine

The Miller School of Medicine, officially Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, is the University of Miami's graduate medical school in Miami, Florida. Founded in 1952, it is the oldest medical school in the state of Florida.

Campus
The University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine is in the Health District area of Miami within the 153 acre University of Miami Jackson Memorial Medical Center complex. The medical center includes three University of Miami-owned hospitals that make up UHealth System: University of Miami Hospital, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital, home to the top-ranked Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.

Affiliated hospitals on the medical campus include Jackson Memorial Hospital, Holtz Children's Hospital, and Miami Veterans Administration Healthcare System. Jackson Memorial Hospital serves as the university's major teaching facility and is the largest hospital in the United States with 1,547 beds.

Academic affiliates
The majority of Miller School residency and fellowship training sponsored by Miller School of Medicine is offered in conjunction with Jackson Memorial Hospital and its health system in Miami-Dade County. Academic affiliates of the Miller School include:

 * Holy Cross Hospital (in Fort Lauderdale)
 * Jackson Memorial Hospital (in Miami's Health District)
 * JFK Medical Center (in Atlantis)
 * University of Miami Hospital (in Miami's Health District)
 * University of Miami Hospitals and Clinics/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (in Miami's Health District)
 * Veterans Affairs Medical Center (in Miami's Health District)

Joint programs
Miller School of Medicine offers joint-degree programs in coordination with other disciplines at the University of Miami:
 * M.D./Ph.D. in conjunction with the University of Miami's Program in Biomedical Sciences and Program in Public Health Sciences, through the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)
 * M.D./JD. in conjunction with the University of Miami School of Law
 * M.D./MBA in conjunction with the University of Miami School of Business
 * M.D./M.S. in Genomic Science
 * M.D./MPH Beginning in 2011, the medical school and the University of Miami's Department of Public Health Sciences initiated a four-year joint M.D./M.P.H. program designed to train public health physicians. This is one of the few programs in the nation that enables students to complete both degrees concurrently.

Rankings
The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine received a record $149.5 million in NIH funding in 2019, the 39th-largest recipient institution in the world and largest of any medical school in Florida.

As of 2023, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine school is ranked the 43rd-best medical school in the nation for research by U.S. News & World Report.

In 2022, the education ranking site EduRank ranked the University of Miami the top university in the world based on research performance in ophthalmology.

In 2018, U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Miami's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute as the best hospital in the nation for ophthalmology for a 15th consecutive year. In addition, the University of Miami's Holtz Children's Hospital was nationally ranked in three pediatric specialties. In December 2018, Expertscape recognized the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute as seventh best in the world for Type 1 diabetes care.

In 2012, U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Miami Physical Therapy Department the ninth-best such program in the nation.

Academic and research programs

 * The University of Miami's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is the top facility in the country for ophthalmology clinical care and research. The Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital annually serves 160,000 outpatients of ophthalmology and other specialties, largely for microsurgery procedures.
 * For its pioneering work in islet cell transplantation, Miller School's Diabetes Research Institute joined the National Institutes of Health and the Naval Medical Research Center as the only academic partner in this national initiative to cure diabetes through organ transplantation.
 * The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center treats 3,000 newly diagnosed cancer patients each year and treats thousands more in ongoing treatment from throughout the U.S. and Latin America. Approximately 200 cancer-related clinical trials are under way at the University of Miami's Sylvester Center, supported by more than $31 million in research grants.
 * Dedicated to finding a cure for paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury, researchers at the University of Miami's Miami Project to Cure Paralysis found the first direct evidence of successful regeneration of adult human central nervous system tissue. The Miami Project conducts basic and clinical research trials and a program that permits spinal cord-injured men to father children.
 * The University of Miami Ear Institute houses the nation's second most active cochlear implant program, restoring hearing to adults and children with profound deafness. The University of Miami's Barton G. Kids Hear Now Foundation Cochlear Implant Family Resource Center, dedicated to assisting hearing-challenged children and their families' transitions from a silent world into the hearing world through use of cochlear implant technology, opened at the Ear Institute in September 2010.
 * The School of Medicine's Mailman Center for Child Development has a number of model programs that help children with developmental disabilities.
 * The University of Miami Jackson Transplant Program is one of the nation's busiest, responsible for half of pediatric multivisceral transplants in the world. University of Miami Jackson has active transplant programs for bone marrow, heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, pancreas, and intestines.
 * Significant federal funds support research at the University of Miami's Comprehensive AIDS Program, including HIV studies in pregnant women, pediatric HIV/AIDS clinical trials, various drug protocol studies, heterosexual transmission of AIDS, blood transfusion safety studies, and the national cooperative drug discovery group.
 * University of Miami's Center on Aging, dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older people, conducts significant research on geriatric challenges and issues.
 * University of Miami's Center for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI), founded in 2011, brings together expertise in small molecule discovery, pharmacology and disease biology to enable academic drug discovery efforts. Several prominent projects include discovery of epigenetic modulators for cancer, inflammatory diseases, neuroscience and programs centered on a variety of disease targets, including mucopolysaccharidosis, addiction, schizophrenia, fragile X syndrome, obesity, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and others.
 * The University of Miami's John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics applies genomics to the practice of medicine. In 2007 at the institute, Margaret Vance, MD and her University of Miami colleagues reported a new gene responsible for multiple sclerosis.
 * The University of Miami's Department of Physical Therapy offers an entry-level clinical doctoral degree (DPT) and an academic doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in physical therapy.
 * The University of Miami's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute researches the biology of stem cells and translates basic research into new regenerative therapies. In 2007, Joshua Hare, MD and his University of Miami colleagues reported that a new stem cell therapy was safe for treatment of myocardial infarctions and reduced complications from the condition.
 * The Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at the University of Miami was created in 2012 through an award by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. CTSI's mission is to be promote clinical and translational CT research and advance excellence in culturalized clinical and translational research.

Research
Miller School of Medicine has over 1,500 ongoing projects funded by more than $200 million in external grants and contracts to University of Miami faculty. The medical campus includes more than 500000 sqft of research space. The recently completed Building I of the University of Miami Life Science and Technology Park added an additional 252000 sqft of dedicated research space and is the first phase of a five building, 1.8 e6sqft lab ready research park. It is located in Miami's Health District adjacent to the medical campus.

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis is a research center dedicated to research in paralysis and spinal cord injury with an eventual goal of identifying a cure for paralyzing injuries. Based at Miller School of Medicine, the Miami Project is considered a world leader in neurological injury research. The center was founded in 1985 by a research physician and three others who had dealt with spinal cord injuries. Since its 1985 opening, the center has identified a family of genes that may control regeneration of the optic nerve.

The Miller School of Medicine has developed the famed Harvey teaching mannequin that is able to recreate many physical findings of cardiology examinations, including palpation, auscultation, and electrocardiography.

The University of Miami's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (ISCI) is leading cutting edge treatment for heart attacks that include injecting a person's own bone marrow stem cells to repair heart damage following a heart attack.

Admissions
Admission to the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine is highly competitive. In 2019, 463 out of 9,164 applicants to the Miller School of Medicine were interviewed for a class of 154 students. This entering class had an average overall GPA of 3.72, a science GPA of 3.67, and composite MCAT in the 87th percentile.

In 2018, 173 out of a total 9,164 applicants to Miller School's combined MD/MPH class were interviewed for a class of 54 students. The entering class presented an overall GPA average of 3.66, a science GPA of 3.54, and a composite MCATs in the 84th percentile.

Donations
In December 2004, the University of Miami School of Medicine received a $100 million donation from the family of Leonard M. Miller, former president and chief executive officer of Lennar. It was the single largest donation in University of Miami history at the time and the second-largest gift ever given to any Florida university or college. The school was subsequently renamed that month in Miller's honor.

In February 2014, Oscar de la Renta recreated his entire Spring presentation, Designed for A Cure 2014 collection, to raise money for the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

In October 2014, The Lennar Foundation announced a $50 million naming donation for a new UHealth ambulatory care center in Coral Gables. To be located adjacent to the main University of Miami campus, the new Lennar Foundation Medical Center at UHealth Coral Gables will expand outpatient access to UHealth physicians in South Miami. Future plans include relocating UMiami Student Health Center to a new facility.

In May 2015, Stuart Miller, chairman of Lennar and chairman of the University of Miami Board of Trustees, unveiled a $50 million donation for construction of a new medical education building to be located on the main medical center campus.

Notable alumni

 * Maria T. Abreu (alumni and faculty), gastroenterologist
 * Daniel T. Barry (alumni), NASA astronaut
 * Gloria Hemingway (alumni), son of Ernest Hemingway
 * Glenn Laffel (alumni), physician and health IT entrepreneur
 * Ferdie Pacheco (alummi), American physician, personal physician of Muhammad Ali, accomplished artist, sports commentator
 * David Perlmutter (alumni), American physician, author, and scholar
 * Michael Welner (alumni), forensic psychiatrist
 * Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable (alumni), physician-scientist, director of National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
 * Paul Alan Wetter (alumni and faculty), minimally invasive and robotic surgery innovator

Notable faculty

 * Maria T. Abreu, (alumni and faculty), gastroenterologist
 * Thomas J. Balkany, neurotology and otorhinolaryngology
 * Mary Bartlett Bunge, neuroscience and paralysis
 * Bernard J. Fogel, pediatrician and Dean of the Medical School
 * Erin Marcus, internal medicine
 * Paul Alan Wetter, (alumni and faculty), Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery pioneer and innovator

In popular culture
On FX's reality television series Nip/Tuck, plastic surgeons Sean McNamara and Christian Troy are graduates of the University of Miami School of Medicine.

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