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Kathleen Hawk Sawyer

Kathleen Hawk Sawyer was the first female director of the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons. She served as director between 1992 and 2003. On August 19, 2019, Attorney General William Barr re-appointed her as director of the Bureau of Prisons. She left this role on February 25, 2020.

Education
Hawk Sawyer is a graduate of Wheeling Jesuit College, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in psychology. She obtained both a master's degree and an Ed.D. in Counseling and Rehabilitation from West Virginia University.

Early career
In 1976, Hawk Sawyer was employed as a psychologist at the Federal Correctional Institution, Morgantown in Morgantown, West Virginia. This employment started her career with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. She was named Chief of Psychology Services at the institution in 1983. Hawk Sawyer started her career in 1976 as a psychologist at the Federal Correctional Facility in Morgantown, West Virginia. She went on to hold positions at various prisons across the United States, including at Sargus Juvenile Detention Center in St. Clairsville, Ohio. While at the Sargus Juvenile Detention Center, she established a psychological counseling program for juveniles and their families. In May 1989, she became the assistant director for the Program Review Division at the Central Office of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. While in that position, she "was responsible for developing and implementing a system of internal controls for all Bureau operations."

Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
On December 4, 1992, Hawk Sawyer was appointed the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons by William Barr, the Attorney General at the time. While director, she focused her efforts on reducing recidivism by giving more opportunities for education and employment to prisoners. She also sought to offer secondary education at every federal institution, and substance abuse programs. Hawk Sawyer retired from the position in 2003.

On August 19, 2019, Barr re-appointed her as director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons as part of a shake-up following the death of Jeffrey Epstein.

Honors
In 1992, she received the Attorney General's Award for Excellence in Management. In 1994, she received the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service. In 1997, President Bill Clinton awarded her with the Presidential Distinguished Executive Award, which is the highest governmental award that is offered to professionals in her line of work. Also in 1997, she received the Surgeon General's Medallion from the Office of the Surgeon General. Hawk Sawyer was awarded with the Association of State Correctional Administrators' Michael Francke Award in 1998. In 2000, she again received the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service. In 2001, Hawk Sawyer was awarded the Edmund Randolph Award for outstanding service in the Department of Justice. She was also awarded the Eastern Kentucky University College of Justice and Safety Distinguished Professional Award in 2003.

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Erbendorf

Erbendorf is a town  in the Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz) region of Germany. As of December, 2006, the town has a population of 5,341.

The following villages are incorporated into the town: Aschenhof, Birkenreuth, Boxdorf, Eppenhof, Frodersreuth, Glashütte, Gössenreuth, Gramlhof, Grötschenreuth, Hauxdorf, Inglashof, Napfberg, Neuenreuth, Pfaben, Plärn, Schadenreuth, Siegritz, Steinbach, Straßenschacht, Thann, Wäldern, Wetzldorf, and Wildenreuth.

Main Attractions of Erbendorf

 * Hiking and biking in the Stienwald region; a mountain range and a national park well known for its long-distance trails.
 * The Mining Museum of Erbendorf, as the city has a very rich mining history.
 * A public recreation center equipped with two heated outdoor pools.
 * Walking tour of cellars.

Sons and daughters of the city

 * Hans Müller (1898-1974), politician (SPD), Member of Bundestag 1953-1965
 * Wilhelm Schraml (born 1935), 84. Bishop of Passau

Personalities who have worked in the city

 * Norbert Scharf (1952-2010), Landtag deputy (SPD), was from 2005 to 2008 member of the town council of Erbendorf

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Norm Stewart

Norman Eugene Stewart (born January 20, 1935) is a retired American college basketball coach. He coached at the University of Northern Iowa (then known as State College of Iowa) from 1961 to 1967, but is best known for his career with the University of Missouri from 1967 until 1999. He retired with an overall coaching record of 731–375 in 38 seasons. The court at Mizzou Arena (and previously at the Hearnes Center) is named in his honor.

Early life
Stewart was born in Shelby County, Missouri. He grew up the son of a gas station owner around the small farming community of Shelbyville, and graduated from high school there in 1952. After high school Stewart enrolled at the University of Missouri, becoming a standout in both basketball and baseball for the Tigers. Stewart was a two-time team captain, and all-Big Seven selection in basketball. His 24.1 scoring average per-game in 1956 ranks fourth in school history and earned him a spot on the 1956 Helms Foundation All-American team. It was while at MU he met the love of his life, Virginia (Zimmerley) Stewart. Following graduation from Mizzou, Stewart was drafted by the St. Louis Hawks in the 1956 NBA draft, playing one season at forward. He also signed a contract with Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles, pitching in 1957 for the Class C Aberdeen Pheasants, but never played at the big-league level.

Coaching career
Following his brief career as a professional athlete, Norm Stewart returned to the University of Missouri in 1957 to earn his master's degree. He also served as an assistant basketball coach under Sparky Stalcup and an assistant baseball coach under Hi Simmons. In 1961 Stewart became head basketball coach at the State College Of Iowa (now University of Northern Iowa). In six seasons Stewart's Panthers compiled a record of 97 wins, 42 losses, and two conference championships.

On March 10, 1967, Stewart was named head basketball coach at his alma mater. He inherited a program that had only garnered two winning seasons since 1956, his senior year. The Tigers had only finished as high as fourth in the Big Six/Seven/Eight three times since then. He didn't take long to turn the program around. In his fifth year, he led the Tigers to the National Invitation Tournament, their first postseason appearance of any sort since the 1944 NCAA basketball tournament, and only the second in school history. Four years later, the Tigers won their second outright conference title in school history and went to the NCAA tournament for only the second time ever, advancing all the way to the Elite Eight. He reached his peak from 1979 to 1983, when the Tigers won four straight Big Eight regular season titles.

In 32 seasons as Missouri head coach, Stewart had a 634–333 overall record, making him far and away the winningest coach in school history. Stewart's Missouri teams also won eight Big Eight regular-season championships, six Big Eight tournament titles, made 16 NCAA Tournament appearances (including Elite Eight appearances in 1976 and 1994; though the 1994 run was vacated), five NIT appearances, and one National Commissioners Invitational Tournament appearance. Stewart also was UPI Coach of the Year (1982) and Associated Press Coach of the Year (1994).

NCAA penalties and probation
In 1990, the NCAA placed Missouri's basketball program on probation for two years and banned the team from that season's post-season tournaments for major violations of rules regarding recruiting, benefits for athletes and irregularities in academics that occurred under Stewart from 1985 through 1989. The NCAA also imposed limits on the Tigers' recruiting practices and the number of scholarships that could be offered in the 1991–92 and 1992–93 academic years. Two of Stewart's assistant coaches, Rich Daly and Bob Sundvold, were forced to resign over the scandal, but Stewart was able to remain as Missouri's coach. Stewart's legal attorney was future Missouri interim president Steve Owens.

Shortly after the 1994 Elite Eight season, Missouri discovered that senior center Jevon Crudup had accepted thousands of dollars in inducements from a middleman working for agents hoping to sign Crudup if he was selected in the 1994 NBA draft. Missouri didn't dispute that Crudup had received the payments, but contended that it didn't know about them. In 1996, the NCAA largely exonerated Stewart and the Tigers, but forced them to vacate their 1994 NCAA Tournament appearance.

Health issues and retirement
In 1989, Stewart was diagnosed with colon cancer, missing the final 14 games of the 1988–89 season. He underwent invasive surgery and chemotherapy and was able to return to coaching the following season. Stewart's assistant, Rich Daly, took over as interim coach for the rest of the season, but Missouri credits the entire season to Stewart.

The 1990s were a time of both highs and lows for Mizzou basketball, with the highlight being 1994 when the Tigers went a perfect 14–0 in conference play. For that special season, Norm Stewart was named College Coach of the Year by the Associated Press and five other leading organizations. Following another winning 1998–99 season, the Stewart Era came to an end as he announced his retirement on April 1, 1999. As a measure of the growth in the Tigers' stature under his watch, he won four more games in 32 years than the Tigers had previously won in their first 60 years of play. He'd also had a hand in more than half of Missouri's all-time wins as either a player, assistant coach, or head coach.

Although retired from coaching, Stewart continued to keep a busy itinerary of meetings, speaking engagements, travel, and color commentary on Mizzou basketball broadcasts. Stewart is also a member of the council of Coaches Vs. Cancer, a program he founded following his own cancer battle. After collapsing at a Dallas, Texas restaurant in May 2007, Stewart had a pacemaker installed. In late July 2008 Stewart underwent successful open-heart surgery, an aortic valve replacement, at a Columbia, Missouri hospital.

Halls of Fame
Norm Stewart's achievements on the basketball court and baseball diamond were recognized in 1990 as he led the inaugural class of the MU Athletics Hall of Fame. He was again given special recognition by the Hall for his coaching career in February 2008. In 2014 Stewart was inducted into the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame. His highest honor came in November 2007 as Stewart was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

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The Seeds of Time

The Seeds of Time is a collection of science fiction stories (five short stories and five novelettes) by British writer John Wyndham, published in 1956 by Michael Joseph. The title is presumably from Macbeth, Act I Scene III.

Contents

 * A foreword by John Wyndham
 * "The Chronoclasm" (1953), novelette, variant of "Chronoclasm"
 * "Pillar to Post" (1951), novelette
 * "Dumb Martian" (1952), novelette
 * "Compassion Circuit" (1954)
 * "Survival" (1952), novelette
 * "Pawley's Peepholes" (1951)
 * "Opposite Number" (1954)
 * "Wild Flower" (1955)
 * "Time to Rest" (1949), as by John Beynon, Bert #1 series
 * "Meteor" (1941), novelette, as by John Beynon

Summaries

 * "Chronoclasm"
 * a time-travelling romantic comedy.

 * "Pillar to Post"
 * The central character is a paraplegic who was badly injured in a wartime attack. Frequently taking drugs to cope with the pain, he finds himself in a healthy body very far in the future. A complex plot of body-swapping and time travel ensues. It is considered by some people to be the best story in the collection.

 * "Dumb Martian"
 * a satire on racism, featuring an Earthman who buys a Martian wife.

 * "Compassion Circuit":
 * a horror story on the subject of robotics.

 * "Survival"
 * set on a spacecraft marooned in orbit around Mars. A BBC Radio 4 adaption was broadcast in 1989 with Stephen Garlick, Susan Sheridan, and Nicholas Courtney. It was released as an Audiobook in 2007 with the 1981 version of The Chrysalids.

 * "Pawley's Peepholes"
 * another time travel story, this time a comedy in which tourists projected from the future cause chaos in a present-day town.

 * "Opposite Number"
 * which plays with the concept of parallel universes.

 * "Wild Flower":
 * which explores the tension between nature and technology.

 * "Time to Rest"
 * depicting the life on Mars of a human survivor of the destruction of Earth. A sequel "No Place Like Earth" appears in the collection No Place Like Earth (2003), which contains both.

 * "Meteor"
 * in which alien visitors to Earth find themselves on a very different scale to humans.

Adaptations

 * "Dumb Martian" (1962), episode of the series Armchair Theatre and Out of This World, directed by Charles Jarrott, based on novelette "Dumb Martian"
 * "No Place Like Earth" (1965), episode of the series Out of the Unknown, directed by Peter Potter, based on short story "Time to Rest" and novelette "No Place on Earth"

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Ollie Silva

Oliver W. Silva (May 14, 1929 – August 15, 2004) was an American auto racing driver. He raced in the Northeastern United States, winning many races, track championships, and touring-series championships. Silva drove in modifieds, supermodifieds, pro stocks, late models and sprint cars. He was the first driver inducted to the New England Auto Racers Hall of Fame when it was instituted in 1998.

Biography
One of 16 children born to Portuguese immigrants, Silva started driving at age 10, steering a tractor and a pickup truck on his family's large produce and poultry farm in Topsfield, Massachusetts. By the time he was 14, he had secretly purchased a car and hid it in woods near the farm to "practice drive" on rarely used back roads. Silva served in the United States Army from February 1951 to February 1953, during the Korean War. He later worked as a carpenter and roofer.

Silva began racing in 1949 at Dracut Speedway in a 1934 Ford Coupe. Silva raced and won features from Canada to Florida, and won an estimated 500 features in 12 states. He drove for many years in a touring SuperModified association known as NESMRA.

Silva drove in underfunded cars. The Lawrence Eagle-Tribune published a story about him in 1999, where he described one race in Quebec: "We just had this little flathead engine. They had these big fuel-injected Chrysler V-8s. But when they got to the end of the straightaways, they didn't know how to drive through the turns. I wasn't going to tell them." "They're speaking French and all of a sudden one guy wants to buy our motor. Another one wanted to buy the rear end. Somebody else bought the transmission. Then somebody else bought the body, frame and roll bars. We came home with an empty trailer." Silva built himself a new racer the next week. Silva had offers to race for big-money NASCAR teams, but he turned them down because he wanted to be his own boss.

Silva joined forces for several years with car owner Vic Miller in a unique 01 Supermodified which was very successful. One of his last SuperModified rides was in the Clyde Booth "nine" car.

Silva died in 2004, aged 75, at the Manchester VA Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Haverhill, Massachusetts. His memory has been preserved with the annual "Ollie Silva Classic" at Lee USA Speedway in Lee, New Hampshire. For the first event, locals built a replica of one of Silva's 1960s "Big O" coupe modifieds.

Notable events
Silva once lapped the entire field twice at the 1974 Hott Wheels 100 All-Star race at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl. He was a multi-time winner of Star Speedway's International Super Modified Classic.

Silva won New England Super-Modified Racing Association (NESMRA) championships at Star Speedway in 1967, 1968, and 1978. He won Can-Am Classics championships in 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1974. Silva was the four-time champion at the U.S. Winter Nationals. Silva claimed the 1972 World Series at Thompson Speedway.

Silva's career nearly ended in 1978 when he was seriously injured while racing at Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, New Hampshire. Funds to help with medical costs were raised by some members of the Boston Bruins. He returned to racing for a short while in 1980.

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Bernie Bickerstaff

Bernard Tyrone Bickerstaff (born February 11, 1944) is an American basketball coach and front office executive, currently serving as the Senior Basketball Advisor for the Cleveland Cavaliers. As a coach, he previously worked as the head coach for the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics, Denver Nuggets, Washington Bullets/Wizards, Charlotte Bobcats, and Los Angeles Lakers. He has also been an assistant for the Portland Trail Blazers, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Cavaliers. He has served in numerous other NBA front office positions, and has been a consultant for the Harlem Globetrotters.

Early years
Bickerstaff was born in Benham, Kentucky, where his father and grandfather worked in the coal mines. He often had to endure open racism. He attended East Benham High School, where he was the starting point guard of the basketball team.

After graduating in 1961, Bickerstaff moved to Cleveland where he had relatives, with the idea of joining the Army, but he instead accepted a basketball scholarship to play for Rio Grande College. The racial tension he experienced during his time playing there made him leave school early and head back to Cleveland to work in a steel mill. However, the difficult working conditions prompted him to accept a second opportunity to play college basketball at the University of San Diego from 1964 to 1966. As a senior, he was named team captain and MVP, when the Toreros finished 17–11 and went on to play at the Small College Regional Playoffs. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.

Professional career
After finishing his college eligibility, Bickerstaff was hired by his coach Phil Woolpert to serve as an assistant for the 1968–69 season. After three seasons at 25 years old, he was named the head coach of the University of San Diego after Woolpert's abrupt resignation, keeping this position for the next four years. In 1972–1973 his team finished 19–9 and his four-year overall record was 54–49.

In 1973, Bickerstaff was hired as an assistant for the Washington Bullets by then coach K. C. Jones and was a part of the 1978 Bullets NBA Championship. He left the team after 12 seasons to become head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics. Lenny Wilkens, who had been elevated from coach to GM in 1985, hired Bickerstaff for the head coaching position to replace himself. Bickerstaff was head coach of the Sonics from 1985 to 1990, with the team reaching the Western Conference Finals in 1987.

Bickerstaff was the Denver Nuggets' president and general manager from 1990 to 1997, also coaching the team from 1994 to 1996.

In 1997, Wes Unseld hired Bickerstaff to coach the Bullets, making the playoffs for the first time since 1988 and becoming the league's all-time 34th-winningest coach. After parting ways with the team in 1999, he had a two-year stint with the International Basketball League's St. Louis Swarm. Bickerstaff was twice named IBL Coach of the Year.

In 2003, Bickerstaff was hired by Ed Tapscott to become the expansion Charlotte Bobcats' first head coach and general manager.

Bickerstaff was hired by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2012–13 as an assistant coach to Mike Brown. On November 9, 2012, Bickerstaff was named interim head coach of the Lakers after Brown was fired after 5 games, going 1–4 in those games. Three days later, the Lakers signed former Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni as their official head coach, although D'Antoni's on-court debut was delayed as he recovered from knee-replacement surgery. Bickerstaff continued to coach the Lakers in D'Antoni's absence, ending his stint with a 4–1 record, the highest winning percentage in Lakers' history, albeit in only five games. He continued with the team as an assistant coach, but was fired after the season.

In the summer of 2013, Bickerstaff became an assistant coach with the Cleveland Cavaliers. The following year, he moved up to the Cavaliers' front office, serving as a senior advisor. As a member of the Cavaliers front office, he was part of Cleveland's 2016 NBA Championship team.

Awards and accolades

 * In 1987, he received the Horace Mann Award for Leadership and was also named the 1987 Sports Person of the Year, presented by the New York Pro-Am Basketball Association.
 * In 1995, he was inducted into the University of San Diego's Hall of Fame.
 * Inducted into the West Coast Conference's inaugural Hall of Honor.
 * In 2010, he was inducted into the John McClendon Minority Athletics Administrators Hall of Fame.
 * In 2011, he was named a Kappa Legend and Icon in Sports.
 * In 2012, he was inducted into the Breitbard Hall of Fame.
 * His hometown of Benham, Kentucky, named a street – Bernard Bickerstaff Boulevard – in his honor.
 * In 2014, he was awarded the NBA's Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award.

Personal life
Bickerstaff also worked as a TV and radio analyst with the Washington Wizards, San Antonio Spurs, NBA.com and the Sporting News Radio. His son, J. B. Bickerstaff, was fired as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers on May 23, 2024, and hired by the Detroit Pistons on June 30, 2024. His wife Eugenia is retired. He has two other sons, Bernard Jr. and Tim, and two daughters, Cydni and Robin.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hurricane Danielle (1998)

 * 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 was close. Not sure why this was never closed (after nearly 15 months), but AfD is not for discussing merges. --Core desat  23:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Hurricane Danielle (1998)
Recommended that this page be merged with 1998 Atlantic hurricane season and the article name deleted. Hurricane Danielle currently disambiguates, the storm never really hit land, there isn't a whole lot of information here and the link could be confusing if Hurricane Danielle (2010) is so bad it warrants retirement then... CrazyC83 02:58, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree with the merge. Danielle wasn't nearly notable enough to have its own article. Hurricanehink 01:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
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George Putnam (newsman)

George Putnam (July 14, 1914 – September 12, 2008) was an American television news reporter and talk show host based in Los Angeles. He was known for his catchy phrase "and that’s the up-to-the-minute news, up to the minute, that’s all the news" at the end of his broadcast. He concluded the 5:00 PM news with a teaser, inviting viewers back to get the full story at the station's late evening news program, smiling his signature close, "back at 10, see you then!"

Biography
Putnam was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota. His radio career began on his 20th birthday in 1934 at WDGY in Minneapolis, then continued in Washington, DC at WJSV and later, in New York City. While working in New York, influential newspaper columnist Walter Winchell declared that "George Putnam's voice is the greatest in radio."

From July 1949 to February 1951 tall, wavy-haired Putnam, known for his rich baritone voice, hosted the evening version of Broadway to Hollywood on the DuMont Television Network.

Putnam began working in Los Angeles television in 1951, eventually hosting the highest-rated newscast. At one time or another, he anchored at all four of Los Angeles' major independent stations – KTTV, KTLA, KCOP, and KHJ-TV (now KCAL-TV). In addition to his salary, he was provided a Rolls-Royce automobile while at KTTV and KTLA. He was replaced by news legend Hal Fishman in 1975.

Putnam long carried a grudge against Fishman, stating on his radio show Talk Back that he was back-stabbed by him. Putnam made this claim for decades. It is noteworthy that when Fishman produced KTLA's 50th anniversary history in television in 1997, footage of Putnam was not used, though Putnam had been the face of KTLA news in the 1960s and 1970s before the arrival of Fishman. During KTLA's 60th-anniversary special during Thanksgiving weekend in 2007, the KTLA News intro from when George Putnam anchored the news was shown; Fishman died on August 7, 2007, three months before the 60th anniversary special aired.

In 1965, Putnam narrated a film titled Perversion for Profit, in which he warned viewers about magazines containing nudity and homosexual material, saying homosexuals were perverted and misfits, as well as implying they were child molesters. The film was financed by Charles Keating.

For his contribution to the television industry, George Putnam was awarded three Emmy awards as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6372 Hollywood Blvd. The late Ted Knight stated that Putnam served in part as a model for the Ted Baxter character in the 1970s television series The Mary Tyler Moore Show on CBS.

Putnam was also noted for his years of participation in the Rose Parade, having ridden in that event from 1951 until 2000, when his horse died. At the time, Putnam said that he was too advanced in age to train another Parade horse. Putnam lived and died at his 20 acre working ranch in Chino. The ranch housed his sixty-five racehorses, which competed in the Kentucky Derby and all of the racetracks in Southern California. He also spent time at his home of fifty-seven years in Beverly Hills.

Putnam was the host of Talk Back, a conservative radio show he hosted daily after leaving the television anchor chair in 1975. It was based at KIEV in Glendale, California (now KRLA) until 2001 and moved to KCAA 1050 in San Bernardino in 2002. Talk Back was distributed nationwide on the Cable Radio Network on CRN1. Although Putnam advocated many conservative viewpoints, he stated many times his status as a "lifelong Democrat" since his youthful admiration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In addition to political talk Putnam interviewed many people whom he knew in show business including Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Peggy Lee, Doris Day, Charlton Heston, John Wayne, Desi Arnaz, Milton Berle and many others. He and Lucille Ball were very close friends, as evidenced by her yearly in-person appearance on Talk Back on or around his birthday. Downtown Los Angeles workers were thrilled and surprised to see Ball making the walk through the underground level of Arco Plaza to Putnam's studio, often with her husband Gary Morton and no security detail. The studio was enclosed in glass so that people visiting Arco Plaza could observe shows and on occasion (as with Ball's appearances) ask questions of Putnam's guests. KIEV built the studio mainly for Putnam. He is credited with giving Blog reporter Matt Drudge his start.

Putnam received an honorary LL.D. from Bates College in 1985.

Putnam had a cameo role as a TV news reporter or anchor in at least three films: Fourteen Hours (1951), I Want to Live! (1958) with Susan Hayward starring as accused murderer Barbara Graham, and the disaster film Independence Day (1996).

In a June 12, 2008, e-mail to Putnam's Newsmax readers, it was announced that Putnam was in a Los Angeles hospital undergoing medical treatment on his liver and kidneys. In mid-July he took part in a special on-air 94th "birthday" show, in which actress Doris Day appeared by telephone, according to the Los Angeles Times.

On September 12, 2008, Putnam died at Chino Valley Medical Center in Chino, California.

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There's a New Sound

"There's a New Sound" is a 1953 novelty song by Tony Burrello, written by Burrello and Tom Murray.

Burrello, a songwriter and jazz pianist better known as Tony Tamburello, and Murray started writing novelty songs after they were unsuccessful in having their more serious material recorded by prominent musicians. They noted the success of music that was seemingly intentionally bad, after hearing a disc jockey play Harry Stewart's version of "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" sung in a faux-Japanese accent. According to Murray, the disc jockey said that the record was a hit but also "one of the most horrible records he had ever heard".

Burrello and Murray responded by creating the songs "There's a New Sound", performed by Burello, and "Fish", sung by Leona Anderson, which they released as a single. "There's a New Sound" consists of a single chorus repeated five times, each time in a higher key, with calliope accompaniment. The lyrics describe "the strangest sound that you have ever heard", which turns out to be "the sound that's made by worms". Burrello was credited as the artist on the single, which was released on Burrello and Murray's own record label, Horrible, as catalog numbers H 100 (ten-inch 78 rpm format) and H 100-X45 (seven-inch 45 rpm format). The single was Horrible's only release.

When Billboard magazine reviewed the single, it commented: "A weird one. 'The new sound is the sound made by worms.' Strange sound effects go with nonsense lyric. It's a studied attempt to be as screwy as possible." For the flip side, "Fish", Billboard′s review was "Same comment".

Burrello and Murray originally had only 500 copies of "There's a New Sound"/"Fish" issued to be sent to disc jockeys. However, within two weeks, they received orders for more than 100,000 copies of the single.

Soon afterward, Burrello and Murray were called upon to write a song for Brucie Weil, who was then 6 years old. The song they wrote for Weil, "God Bless Us All", reached #18 on the Billboard singles chart. Burrello and Murray were soon called upon to write music for other artists, including a theme song for John Conte and special material for Tony Bennett.

Anderson went on to exploit her newfound fame as a "horrible" musician by making appearances on The Ernie Kovacs Show and signing with Columbia Records for two more singles. In 1957, for Unique Records, Anderson released a full-length album, Music to Suffer By, in the same mock-operatic style she used for "Fish."

"There's a New Sound" was later featured often on the Dr. Demento show and performed by Scooter on The Muppet Show.

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I Am Kloot (album)

I Am Kloot is the self-titled second album by English rock band I Am Kloot. Released in 2003, the album reached #68 on the UK Albums Chart and yielded four singles and one download-only single. The download-only single "Proof" had a music video created for it by Krishna Stott, featuring actor Christopher Eccleston, which never received its intended, full release. A demo of "Proof" originally appeared as a B-side to "Morning Rain" in 2001. The album contains an extra song, hidden in the pregap, called "Deep Blue Sea," also released as a B-side on the "Life in a Day" single.

The singles "Life in a Day" and "3 Feet Tall" charted on the UK Singles Chart at #43 and #46 respectively.

On 25 January 2005, I Am Kloot became the first album by I Am Kloot released in the United States. In March 2005, the band gave their first concert tour in this country.

Track listing
All songs written by John Harold Arnold Bramwell.

Contributing musicians

 * Tony Gilfellon: additional guitar on "3 Feet Tall"
 * Bob Sastry: French horn on "The Same Deep Water as Me"
 * Isabelle Dunn: cello on "The Same Deep Water as Me"
 * Amanda Drummond: viola on "The Same Deep Water as Me"
 * Stella Page: violin on "The Same Deep Water as Me"
 * Prabjote Osahn: violin on "The Same Deep Water as Me"

Singles
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Šilalė District Municipality

Šilalė District Municipality (Šilalės rajono savivaldybė, Samogitian: Šėlalės rajuona savivaldībė) is a municipality in Tauragė County, Lithuania.

Seniūnijos (Elderships or Wards)
The Šilalė district municipality contains 14 seniūnijos (in English: elderships or wards); the main town or village is listed for each.

 * 1)  – Kaltinėnai
 * 2)  – Kvėdarna
 * 3)  – Laukuva
 * 4)  – Pajūris
 * 5)  – Šilalė
 * 6)  – Šilalė
 * 7)  – Teneniai
 * 8)  – Šilalė
 * 9)  – Upyna
 * 1)  – Šilalė
 * 2)  – Teneniai
 * 3)  – Šilalė
 * 4)  – Upyna

Settlements
The Šilalė district municipality contains:
 * 1 city (miestas) - Šilalė
 * 7 towns (miesteliai) - Kaltinėnai, Kvėdarna, Laukuva, Pajūris, Teneniai, Upyna, Žvingiai
 * 435 villages (kaimai)

The largest settlements, with population as of 2001:
 * Šilalė – 6281
 * Kvėdarna – 1934
 * Laukuva – 998
 * Pajūris – 872
 * Kaltinėnai – 835
 * – 633
 * – 436
 * – 410
 * Upyna – 409
 * Teneniai – 369

Population by locality

 * Status: M, MST - city, town / K, GST - village / VS - steading

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Rogue Traders Album - Here Come The Drums


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James Boyd White

James Boyd White (born 1938) is an American law professor, literary critic, scholar and philosopher who is generally credited with founding the "law and Literature" movement. He is a proponent of the analysis of constitutive rhetoric in the analysis of legal texts.

Biography
White attended Amherst College, from which he graduated in 1960 with a B.A. in Classics, and went on to earn an M.A. in English Literature from Harvard University in 1961, and an LL.B. from the Harvard Law School in 1964.

He practiced with the firm of Foley Hoag in Boston before moving into teaching. He taught at the University of Colorado School of Law from 1967 to 1974, at the University of Chicago Law School from 1974 to 1983, and has been at the University of Michigan Law School from 1983 until the present. At Michigan, White is the L. Hart Wright Professor of Law, Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Classics. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Works
White's best-known book, The Legal Imagination: Studies in the Nature of Legal Thought and Expression, was published in 1973. It was designed essentially as a textbook for students studying legal language. In The Legal Imagination, literary and other texts are compared to legal texts in the way they "constitute" the identities of characters and the meanings of concepts. The book is thought to have "kicked off" the law and literature movement and is still widely influential.

White's subsequent books include:
 * When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community (1984)
 * Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law (1985)
 * Justice As Translation: An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism (1990)
 * Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics (1994)
 * "This Book of Starres": Learning to Read George Herbert (1994)
 * From Expectation to Experience: Essays on Law and Legal Education (2000)
 * The Edge of Meaning (2003)
 * Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force (2006)
 * Keep Law Alive (2019)

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Caption (comics convention)

CAPTION was an annual comics convention specialising in British small press comics. It was first held in Oxford in January 1992, subsequently being held in summer each year. Loosely based on a theme, each year's event offered panels and workshops related to small press comics along with the opportunity to buy and sell them. CAPTION was last held in 2017, the 25th anniversary of the show.

CAPTION differed from other conventions by breaking down the distinction between named guests and other attendees, avoiding segregation or special treatment of guests. In addition, it prioritized the social interaction of attendees by encouraging comics creators to place their publications on the CAPTION stall, managed by a rota of volunteers.

History
CAPTION was founded in 1992 by Adrian Cox, Damian Cugley, Jeremy Dennis, and Jenni Scott. Between 1992 and 2003 CAPTION took place in the Oxford Union Society.

Ed Pinsent was an early star of CAPTION conventions, selling his Fast Fiction on his stall.

In 1993 Andy Roberts moved to Oxford, and was able to lend his considerable experience in art and design to the convention.

In 1994 Peter Pavement started selling zines from around the world as well as repackaging other small press comics, and his zine Pavement Pizza became Ground Level.

CAPTION moved venues to Wolfson College for 2004 and 2005. From 2006 to 2013 it was held at the East Oxford Community Centre.

CAPTION skipped a year in 2014. It had been planned to be held in Brighton, but a scheduling conflict with the University of Brighton forced the show to be canceled. At that point, the show announced its intention to mount future shows in a different British city each year.

CAPTION also skipped a year in 2016 before returning in December 2017 for the convention's 25th-anniversary show.

There has not been a CAPTION show since 2017.

Dates, themes, and special guests

 * January 1992: no specific theme
 * 17–18 July 1993: Comics: Art or Trash? — debating the status of comics within culture
 * Summer 1994: Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll — guests include Hunt Emerson, Pete Loveday, and Bryan Talbot
 * Summer 1995:
 * Summer 1996: Lazy CAPTION
 * 19–20 July 1997: EuroCAPTION — guests include France's David B, Spain's Max, and the Netherlands' Maaike Hartjes
 * 25–26 July 1998: The Death of CAPTION
 * Summer 1999: SpaceCAPTION1999 — guests include Bryan Talbot
 * 12–13 August 2000: You cannot kill that which is already dead
 * 18–19 August 2001: Love is ... CAPTION 2001
 * 17–18 August 2002: CAPTION Noir
 * August 2003: CyberCAPTION — guests include Carla Speed McNeil
 * 14–15 August 2004: CAPTION is History — guests include Al Davison and Pat Mills
 * 30–31 July 2005: Bargain Basement CAPTION
 * 5–6 August 2006: CAPTION Remix
 * 11–12 August 2007: Dreams and Nightmares
 * 9–10 August 2008: Timewarp CAPTION
 * 15–16 August 2009: CAPTION is away with the fairies
 * 31 July to 1 August 2010: Mad Science
 * 6–7 August 2011: Austerity
 * 18–19 August 2012: CAPTION Summer Special
 * 24–25 August 2013
 * 10–11 October 2015
 * 1–2 December 2017: 25th anniversary show

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Number Eight (Battlestar Galactica)

Number Eight is a female humanoid Cylon model on the television series Battlestar Galactica, a reimagining of the 1978 show of the same name. She is portrayed by Canadian-American actor Grace Park. Two prominent Number Eight copies serving as pilots on the Battlestar Galactica are Sharon Valerii and Sharon Agathon, using the call signs "Boomer" and "Athena", respectively. The call signs for both Sharons are references to two characters from the original Battlestar Galactica series: Viper pilot Lieutenant Boomer, played by Herbert Jefferson, Jr., and Lieutenant Athena, the daughter of Commander Adama (Lorne Greene), played by Maren Jensen.

Notable copies
Cylon models Six and Eight are the most common in the series. Two Number Eight copies are featured as central characters — Boomer and Athena.

Sharon "Boomer" Valerii
Lieutenant Junior Grade Sharon "Boomer" Valerii is a Cylon sleeper agent programmed with false memories of being raised in the mining colony Troy. Before the mini-series, Boomer and Galen Tyrol are romantically involved. Her programming leads her to sabotage the Galactica on several occasions, which Tyrol unwittingly abets by hiding evidence implicating her. In "Kobol's Last Gleaming", Commander Adama sends Boomer on a mission to destroy the Cylon basestar orbiting Kobol; upon her return, she shoots Adama twice in the chest, putting him in a coma and revealing her nature to the crew. While Boomer is being transported from the brig, Cally shoots and kills her.

In "Downloaded", Boomer's preserved consciousness is downloaded into a new body in Cylon-occupied Caprica. She resists being identified with the Cylon cause and tries to persuade the Cylons to reduce hostility against humans. In "The Eye of Jupiter", Boomer attempts to care for Athena's hybrid child Hera on the Cylon base ship, where the child ended up after the New Caprica evacuation. In a conflict with the visiting Athena over whether the humans negotiated in good faith, Boomer is killed by Caprica Six for endangering the child. After resurrecting into a third body, Boomer develops a relationship with John Cavil, a Number One who embraces his machine nature and sees human traits as a weakness. Cavil enlists Boomer's support when the Cylon models become deadlocked in a vote over whether the Raiders should be lobotomized. Boomer turns against Cavil during the Colonial assault on the Cylon colony. After returning Hera to Athena and Helo, who were part of the boarding party, Boomer is executed by Athena for her previous actions.

Sharon "Athena" Agathon
Sharon "Athena" Agathon is originally created to impersonate Boomer and ensure the success of a Cylon experiment to create a Human-Cylon hybrid. She aids Karl "Helo" Agathon on Caprica, intending eventually to kill him. However, she eventually falls genuinely in love with Helo and tries to help him escape, during which he both discovers her true identity and that she is pregnant with his child. Sharon uses her knowledge of the Tomb of Athena on Kobol as leverage to avoid immediate execution aboard Galactica and consistently demonstrates her loyalty by defending the group from Cylon ambushes. Sharon's reunion with the Galactica personnel is tense due to Boomer's history with them, but she makes it clear that she and Boomer are different people.

Upon learning of irregularities in the pregnancy, President Roslin orders it terminated but rescinds the decision when Sharon's fetal blood is used to cure her terminal cancer. Sharon gives birth to her child prematurely and names her Hera. The Colonial administration decides it is too dangerous to let a hybrid child be raised by a Cylon mother, so they fake the child's death and rehome her with a human mother. Despite the strain this puts on Sharon's loyalty, she continues to help the Galactica.

Sharon and Helo are married in the gap between Season 2 and Season 3, and Sharon is recognized for her service by being sworn in at Boomer's rank of Lieutenant JG. She is sent back to New Caprica as the liaison between the Galactica fleet and the resistance effort and is able to infiltrate the Cylon base and steal the keys for the civilian ships. After the successful rescue mission, Sharon is assigned to join the Galactica's pilot corps with the callsign "Athena" after the goddess of warfare and wisdom. During Colonial negotiations with the Cylons, Athena and Helo learn their daughter is still alive on a Cylon ship. Athena travels to the ship, retrieves her daughter, and honors Boomer's wish to be executed for betraying the Colonial cause.

Analysis
The character has been discussed in the context of stereotypes of Asians, and the relationships between Asian Americans and white Americans. Juliana Hu Pegues writes that the different copies of Number Eight highlight and challenge varying stereotypical descriptions of Asian Americans; Boomer, as the unaware sleeper agent, appears as the "model minority", while Athena, initially acting with the intent to deceive, typifies a "yellow peril" stereotype. Eve Bennett similarly writes that Boomer's actions as a sleeper agent echo stereotypes of East-Asians as conformist and robotic, and a character whose motivations cannot be understood in human terms. The use of Number Eight to depict the uniformity in Cylon society in "Kobol's Last Gleaming" also highlights similar stereotypes. Bennett also comments that the repeated depiction of naked Number Eight models (when Cylons are usually clothed) is an example of the eroticization of East-Asian women in the Western media.

Number Eight's plotline has been compared to those of Miss Saigon and Madame Butterfly. Athena's eventual romance with Karl Agathon, which leads her to change her allegiance to the humans, is specifically described as mirroring the narrative in "Miss Saigon", despite Battlestar Galactica's color-blind casting. This narrative is later subverted, when a scene mirroring Miss Saigon's suicide occurs when Athena is "killed" so she may download into a new body and rescue her child. Bennett writes that while Number Eight in some ways defies the stereotype of a femme fatale — Athena remains faithful to Karl Agathon — narrative tension surrounds this eventual outcome, and numerous similarities exist to other robotic characters who embody that stereotype. Boomer, despite siding with the Cylons, appears to remain in love with Tyrol, and tries to persuade him to come away with her. Athena, conversely, does not entirely abandon her Cylon identity despite remaining loyal to the humans. More generally, she retains a "spirited personality", and does not flinch from expressing strong views and challenging Helo's actions. She is thus described as subverting narratives of obedient and passive "oriental" women and the "Madame Butterfly" trope.

Pegues writes that in the human society depicted in the series, race is not a meaningful category, but the show nonetheless explores racial difference via Human-Cylon relations. The character of Athena also defies the Human-Cylon binary; though allied with the humans, she refuses to identify other cylons hidden among them, refusing an "absolute allegiance". Pegues describes her as a liminal subject, and writes that her "irreducibility" made the series an enjoyable one to analyze. The plotline of Athena's child, in particular, is described as examining the fear of miscegenation in white societies: the "biracial" child is an object of anxiety among the humans, and its birth mother is entirely excluded from decisions about it.

Number Eight, and Boomer specifically, also symbolize the othering of West Asian and Arab peoples following the September 11 attacks, particularly when she is tortured in "Litmus". Pegues compares the treatment of the Number Six prisoner on the Battlestar Pegasus (where she is raped, and endures other physical abuse) to the treatment of Boomer as a prisoner on Galactica. She writes that while the comparison superficially suggests that Galactica prosecutes a more humane war, it symbolizes the overt abuses in Abu Ghraib and the less publicized treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

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Isle of France
What do you mean by "Isle of France"? Is it the territorial division in metropolitan France or the small island in the Indian ocean? The current link points to a disambiguation page and should be fixed. --Tony Bruguier 03:07, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * After various edits over the intervening months, the link in question (now appearing in the article as Île-de-France), has, as of January 2007, been correctly disambiguated to Île-de-France (province), thanks to User:M-le-mot-dit. --Lini (talk) 13:39, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

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Isle of France
What do you mean by "Isle of France"? Is it the territorial division in metropolitan France or the small island in the Indian ocean? The current link points to a disambiguation page and should be fixed.

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Prosper Montagné

Prosper Montagné (14 November 1865 – 22 April 1948) was one of the most renowned French chefs of the Belle Époque and author of many books and articles on food, cooking, and gastronomy, notably Larousse Gastronomique (1938), an encyclopedic dictionary of the French culinary arts. While Montagné was once as famous as his friend Auguste Escoffier, and was one of the most influential French chefs of the early twentieth century, his fame has faded somewhat. In the 1920s, Montagné, Escoffier, and Philéas Gilbert—their close friend and collaborator, and an acclaimed chef and writer in his own right—were the French chefs and culinary writers esteemed above others by many French journalists and writers. After Montagné's death, the chef and author Alfred Guérot's description of the troika as the "celebrated contemporary culinary trinity: Auguste Escoffier, the father; Philéas Gilbert, the son; Prosper Montagné, the spirit" reflects the reverence in which all three were held by the French culinary community.

Early life and career in restaurant kitchens
Montagné was born Paul Marius Octave Prosper on 14 November 1865 in Carcassonne (Aude), in the south of France about 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of Toulouse. He was the second child of Victor Germain Montagné, who managed a department store, and Clary Jeanne Roument. Upon leaving lycée (high school) in Carcassonne, he hoped to pursue a career in the arts, perhaps architecture. However, his parents had other ideas. They acquired an old hotel, L'Hôtel des Quatre-Saisons, in Toulouse, and young Prosper went to work in the kitchen, although he remained more interested in painting than cuisine. Hoping to steer his son in a different direction, Montagné's father placed him in an apprenticeship at the Hôtel d'Angleterre in Cauterets (Hautes-Pyrénées), in southwestern France, under one of the finest chefs of the period, Alphonse Meillon.

By the time he completed his apprenticeship, Montagné had indeed found his vocation in the kitchen. He went to Paris to work in the kitchens at Ambassadeurs Restaurant, then the Grand Hôtel. He then worked at the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo, where he met his friend and collaborator Prosper Salles, until he had to report for his obligatory military service. In 1900, he returned to Paris and managed the kitchens at Pavillon d'Armenonville, Restaurant Ledoyen, and, finally, the Grand Hôtel once more. He left that position in 1907 to pursue his interests in culinary and gastronomic literature and journalism.

In 1920, he decided to open his own restaurant, Montagné Traiteur, rue de l'Echelle, Paris, which was frequented by le Tout-Paris, or the most celebrated artists, writers, gastronomes, and politicians of the day. But, he had to close the restaurant in 1930 for financial reasons. Soon after it closed, Leigh Hoffman wrote about the restaurant in The Chicago Tribune and the Daily News, describing it as a "small, quiet and dignified restaurant" well known to Americans. Hoffman continued: "Never presenting a large menu to choose from, M. Montagné conducted his restaurant with the idea that it was better to specialize in a few choice dishes cooked to perfection, than it was to make up a score of mediocre dishes and spoil them all. ... His one aim was to maintain the culinary traditions that had made France so justly famous, and the result was obtained by the fact that he himself, with his universal reputation, was always to be found ... personally supervising every dish that was served." He served as culinary consultant to La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque, rue de la Pépinière, Paris, from 1939 to 1945.

Publications

Montagné was a prolific culinary writer. His books include (with year of first edition):
 * La Grande cuisine illustrée, with Prosper Salles (1900)
 * Le Livre de cuisine militaire en garnison with Philéas Gilbert (informally called the Manuel Chéron) (1908)
 * Le Livre de cuisine militaire aux manoeuvres et en campaign (1909)
 * La Cuisine diététique, with Dr. Félix Regnault (1910)
 * Manuel du bon cuistot et de la bonne ménagère (1918)
 * Bonne chère, pas chère, ou les repas sans viande (1918)
 * Le Grand livre de cuisine, with Prosper Salles (1929)
 * Le Festin occitan (Collection des Ecrivains de l'Aude) (1930)
 * Les Délices de la table, ou les Quatre saisons gourmandes (1931)
 * Mon menu. Cuisine d'hygiène alimentaire, with Dr. Alfred Gottschalk (1936)
 * Larousse Gastronomique, with Dr. Alfred Gottschalk (1938)
 * La Cuisine avec et sans tickets (1941)

Montagné also contributed to many newspapers and magazines, including: Le Petit Parisien; L'Art Culinaire; Bulletin des Armées de la Republic (1916-1917); L'Eventail (Brussels); L'Oeuvre; Touche-à-Tout; Excelsior; La Vie Parisienne; Fémina; Gil-Blas; La Revue de la Femme; Nos Loisirs. He was also the editor-in-chief of La Revue Culinaire, a monthly publication started by the Société des cuisiniers de Paris, which began publication in 1920.

The Encyclopædia Britannica writes of him: "After Carême, the two men who probably had the greatest impact on French gastronomy and that of the world at large were Prosper Montagné and Georges-Auguste Escoffier. Montagné was one of the great French chefs of all time, and he achieved a secure place in gastronomic history by creating Larousse Gastronomique (1938), the basic encyclopaedia of French gastronomy. As a young man..., he came to the conclusion that all pièces montées, as well as superfluous garnitures and decorations, should be discarded."

Montagné was awarded the Knight of the Légion d'honneur, the highest French order of merit, in 1922.

He lends his name to the Club Prosper Montagné, a trade association of French food professionals.

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Montreal Biosphere

The Biosphere, also known as the Montreal Biosphere, (French: Biosphère de Montréal) is a museum dedicated to the environment in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is housed in the former United States pavilion constructed for Expo 67 located within the grounds of Parc Jean-Drapeau on Saint Helen's Island. The museum's geodesic dome was designed by Buckminster Fuller.

Expo 67
The structure was originally built as the United States pavilion at Expo 67. The United States Information Agency, which was responsible for the U.S. presence at the exposition, revealed its plans for the pavilion in June 1965. The geodesic dome exterior was designed by R. Buckminster Fuller with Shoji Sadao and Geometrics Inc., while the interior structures and exhibits were designed by Cambridge Seven Associates. The construction project, led by the George A. Fuller Company, began in December 1965.

The Expo opened on 27 April 1967 and ran until 29 October 1967. Upon entering the pavilion, visitors ascended a 135 foot escalator, reported to be the longest unsupported escalator in the world, to reach the exhibit platforms. The two uppermost platforms held "Destination: Moon", an exhibit on NASA's space programs; spacecraft were hung from the dome's steel frame, including the Freedom 7, Gemini 7, and Apollo AS-202 capsules. On the mezzanine level, the "American Spirit" exhibit displayed a wide variety of artifacts, including American Indian crafts, folk art objects, guitars owned by famous musicians, a collection of dolls, and an array of almost 300 hats, representing a range of regions and occupations. Other attractions included a gallery of Hollywood memorabilia and "American Painting Now", an exhibit of 22 large-scale works by contemporary American artists. A 300-seat theater screened A Time to Play, a multi-screen film by Art Kane showing American schoolchildren playing various playground games.

Man and His World (1968–1976)
After the Expo, the site continued to operate as Man and His World, an ongoing exhibition held every summer. Like most countries at the Expo, the United States donated its pavilion structure to the City of Montreal for use in the exhibition. The pavilion was renamed to Biosphere and opened in 1968 as an aviary and arboretum, featuring four suspended gardens and hundreds of birds.

For the 1971 season, the United States returned to use Biosphere as its national pavilion, with a display titled "Visit USA", sponsored by the United States Travel Service and the Smithsonian Institution. The pavilion reverted to its nature theme in 1972, with the addition of a troop of baboons, a Japanese garden, and a children's adventure area, Sleeping Beauty's Fantasy Land.

In 1973, Biosphere was converted to an anti-pollution exhibit titled "Man and His Environment", sponsored by Hydro-Québec.

1976 fire
On 20 May 1976, Biosphere was severely damaged in a fire. Sparked by a welding crew during structural renovations, the fire burned away the building's transparent acrylic bubble, but the hard steel truss structure remained.

After the fire, the city was determined to maintain the Biosphere and continue using it as an open-air structure, possibly containing suspended gardens or a concert venue. Plans were announced in 1977 to transform it into a recreational area named Man at Play, but they did not come to fruition. By 1980, the building's future was still unclear, as the city was cleaning it up in hopes of finding a partner to redevelop it.

Ultimately, the building remained closed and unused until 1990.

Rebirth as museum

In August 1990, Environment Canada committed $17.5 million to turn Biosphere into an interactive museum showcasing and exploring the water ecosystems of the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence River regions. The museum opened on 6 June 1995. It inhabits a set of enclosed buildings designed by Éric Gauthier, inside the original steel skeleton.

The Biosphere changed its name in 2007 to become an environment museum. It offers interactive activities and presents exhibitions about the major environmental issues related to water, climate change, air, ecotechnologies, and sustainable development.

The museum shows support for multiple causes by lighting up in different colors on special occasions. In April 2020, it lit up in multiple colors to show support during the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2022, the museum lit up in green in support of World Environment Day.

In 2021, control of the Biosphere was transferred from Environment Canada to Space for Life, the City of Montreal's complex of nature museums.

Pavilion
The museum is housed in the former pavilion built by the United States for Expo 67. The architectural engineer of the geodesic dome was Buckminster Fuller. The building originally formed an enclosed structure of steel and acrylic cells, 76 metres in diameter and 62 metres high. It is a Class 1 (icosahedral, as differentiated from Class 2 domes, which are dodecahedral, and Class 3 ones, which are tetrahedral), 32-frequency, double-layer dome, in which the inner and outer layers are connected by a latticework of struts. (There has occasionally been confusion in mistakenly referring to this as a 16-frequency dome due to the fact that there are 15 hexagonal polygons from each pentagonally polygonal vertex of this icosahedral polyhedron to the adjacent vertex. However, the standard for measuring dome frequency is the number of triangles from vertex to vertex. Since there are two triangles from one side to the opposite side of a hexagon, there are actually 30 triangles from the edge of each pentagonal vertex in this dome to the next, plus the triangle that comprises one-fifth of the pentagonal vertex at each end of the length from one vertex to the adjacent vertex: totaling 32 triangles from the center of each vertex to the center of the next vertex.)

A complex system of shades was used to control its internal temperature. The sun-shading system was an attempt by the architect to reflect the same biological processes that the human body relies on to maintain its internal temperature. Fuller's original idea for the geodesic dome was to incorporate "pores" into the enclosed system, further likening it to the sensitivity of human skin, but the shading system failed to work properly and was eventually disabled.

Architects from Golden Metak Productions designed the interior exhibition space. Visitors had access to four themed platforms divided into seven levels. The building included a 37 m escalator, the longest ever built at the time. The Minirail monorail ran through the pavilion. In 2021, The New York Times picked the dome as one of "the 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture".

Legacy
The carbon molecule buckminsterfullerene was named for Biosphere's architect, R. Buckminster Fuller, because the molecule's structure, resembling a geodesic sphere, reminded its co-discoverer, Harold Kroto, of his visit to the pavilion at Expo 67.

The structure influenced the design of Spaceship Earth at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World. Disney designer John Hench expanded on Biosphere's three-quarter-sphere to create a full sphere appearing to be balanced on legs.

In popular culture
The structure was used prominently in the original Battlestar Galactica television series episode "Greetings from Earth". Scenes for Robert Altman's post-apocalyptic ice age film Quintet were shot on site as well.

The Biosphere appears in the 2003 animated Jacob Two-Two TV episode "Jacob Two-Two and the Notorious Knit Knapper", in which it is used as the headquarters for a group of seniors who plan on knitting a giant tea cosy to cover Montreal.

The Biosphere made an appearance during the finales of The Amazing Race: Family Edition and The Amazing Race Canada 4.

The Biosphere appears in the game Civilization VI (in the New Frontiers DLC) as a World Wonder, where it increases the appeal of marsh and rainforest tiles, and boosts renewable power and tourism.

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Spiral (Suzuki novel)

Spiral (らせん) is a 1995 Japanese novel, a part of author Koji Suzuki's Ring series. It is the second in the Ring series, and a film based on the book was released in 1998. The English translation of the book was published by Vertical Press in the United States and by HarperCollins in Britain.

Two direct film adaptations of the novel have been produced: the 1998 Japanese film Spiral, and the 2017 American film Rings, as well as a 1999 Japanese television series Rasen.

Plot
Ando Mitsuo, a coroner still struggling with his son's death, is assigned to do the autopsy of his old classmate Ryūji Takayama. He and his colleague, Miyashita, find a tumor in Ryūji's heart, believed to be his cause of death. Puzzled as the tumor appears similar to smallpox (which was eradicated in 1979), Ando completes the autopsy and, upon finding a newspaper poking through a suture, is reminded of Ryūji's cryptography hobby. Finding the newspaper numbers interesting, he decodes them and discovers that they spell "RING", perplexing Ando.

While searching for the message's meaning, Ando meets Mai Takano, Ryūji's assistant and lover. Mai mentions a videotape that Ryūji watched before dying and believes that it is connected to his death. Learning of Kazuyuki Asakawa, Ryūji's friend, Ando considers speaking to him, only to learn that Asakawa and his family were involved in a car accident, leaving Kazuyuki Asakawa the sole survivor and catatonic. Ando learns that the wife and child were dead well before the car crashed and that a tape recorder and word processor were in the vehicle.

After losing contact with Mai, Ando goes to her seemingly abandoned condominium. He finds what he believes to be a copy of the supposedly cursed videotape, albeit almost entirely overwritten, and believes an unknown entity is hiding somewhere in the condo. Learning that Asakawa's tape deck and word processor went to his next of kin, Ando retrieves the word processor from his brother and copies the files.

Finding a document about the videotape, Ando reads that the curse spreads through a tape and can only be stopped by copying and sharing it with someone else. Despite dismissing the documents as pseudoscientific, Ando and Miyashita continue reading and discover that the Ring Virus started with the murder of psychic Sadako Yamamura. Additionally, Miyashita soon discovers that a virus connects all of the victims and comes in two forms: a ring-shaped virus that kills the host, and a broken version of the same virus (similar to a sperm cell) which is dormant.

One week after Mai's disappearance, her corpse is found in the ventilation shaft of a barely used office building. Additionally, despite having given no physical indication that she was pregnant, Mai's corpse shows signs that she gave birth prior to her death. Upon visiting the crime scene, Ando meets a beautiful woman named Masako who introduces herself as Mai's older sister. After having sex with Masako, Ando later receives a fax containing information on Sadako from Miyashita, only to realize that Masako is identical to Sadako.

Believing that Masako is Sadako reborn, Ando receives a note from her explaining that Mai was infected with the 2nd "sperm" ring virus which targeted her womb. This allowed Sadako to conceive herself within Mai and control her, before birthing herself within a week and disposing of Mai's corpse. Also revealing that the Ring Virus can also spread through literary descriptions, Sadako has ensured that Asakawa's brother is able to publish a book on Kazuyuki's files, allowing the virus to spread internationally. She then concludes that Ando is infected with the dormant virus and, should he interfere in any way, she will activate it and kill him; conversely, in exchange for Ando's cooperation, Sadako will resurrect Ando's dead son.

Finally learning that Ryūji worked with Sadako to ensure her resurrection, Ando realizes that Ryūji deliberately influenced both himself and Mai. By supernaturally causing the paper code to appear to Ando and making Mai watch the tape when she was most fertile, Ryūji was the mastermind behind the plan, doing so to be spared and revived by Sadako. An epilogue shows Ando playing with his son, Takanori, whereupon Ryūji arrives and implies that he acted for the greater good.

Adaptations
A film of the same title was released in 1998 which was based on the book. It was poorly received and later another sequel to the 1998 Ring film was made, Ring 2. A 13-episode TV drama was broadcast in 1999 on Fuji Television. Elements of Spiral were adapted in the 2017 American film Rings.

 * Films
 * Spiral (1998)

 * TV series
 * Rasen (1999)

 * Manga
 * Rasen (1999)

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Talk:Antarctic beech

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Shouldn't this page be move to Antarctic Beech (Ñire), so it can be find easily by their common name? I suggest remaning it

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alcibiades Jones

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The result of the debate was Delete. Carbonite | Talk 12:17, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Alcibiades Jones
This page was reporrted as a copyvio, howver the author owns the copyright. The article is a puff piece for a band that does not meet WP:MUSIC, delete. --nixie 03:13, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The first line says it all "Alcibiades Jones is a band that likes to take off." In other words it hasn't taken off yet and is no different from millions of other bands. The article continues with irreperable POV promotional language and ends in extensive linking. Delete as band promotion advert. - Mgm|(talk) 08:22, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - it's textbook band vanity. Scimitar parley 18:05, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep and cleanup. I'm not sure they don't meet WP:MUSIC standards. The article is cruft, sure - it can be cleaned up though (and those dreadful downloads removed!) The band itself may well be (barely) N. Their one cd has a review by Keith 'MuzikMan' Hannaleck at [Evolving Artist] which is repeated on at least 6 other sites, verbatim - not good, that - but the key word is guidelines on wp:music, yes? and they have a strong review on [Kweevak] also. As in, not quite Noteable by wp:music but almost... and as they're planning another cd and not breaking up, perhaps would be best to clean the article so its not advert? KillerChihuahua 18:07, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:MUSIC. Wouldn't be surprised to find that it's a copyvio from somewhere. --Carnildo 20:58, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per WP:MUSIC guidelines. Mallocks 21:59, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; does not meet WP:MUSIC to my mind, nor have any overriding notability not reflected in those tests. MCB 23:25, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
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Providence Island Sign Language

Providence Island Sign Language (PISL; Lengua de señas de Providencia), also known as Provisle, is a village sign language of the small island community of Providence Island in the Western Caribbean, off the coast of Nicaragua but belonging to Colombia. The island is about 15 sqmi and the total population is about 5000, of which an unusual proportion are deaf (5 in 1,000).

It is believed that the sign language emerged in the late 19th or early 20th century. Brief sociological studies have suggested that deaf people on the island are regarded as inferior in mental ability; hearing people do not discuss complex ideas with them, and they hold a marginalized social position. Perhaps consequently, PISL is rather simplistic in comparison to other sign languages. Another possibility for the state of the language is that few deaf people communicate directly, meaning that almost all signing is mediated by the hearing population.

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:MMORPG research

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User:MMORPG research
This is not a proper user page - there is no User with that name. It is a page created by User:Highbreed. By its own admission it is original research (OR) but since it is in user space that may not be sufficient grounds for deletion. But since it is OR we can propose deletion on the grounds that Wikipedia is not a free host or webspace provider. See also discussion of a clone of this page: Articles for deletion/Highbreed. -- RHaworth 03:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I DID NOT ASK THAT MY PAGE BE DELETED I gave away my username and password away so that they can either disambiguate or split my article but It seems they've used it to go to protected restricted areas of my page to vandalize what I have said and now it has been deleted. /sob /sob GOODBYE TO MY HARDWORK AND LABOUR OF GATHERING THAT VALUABLE INFORMATION All the hardwork and sacrifice gone in a flash! I guess it can't be retrieve again. Bye bye to wikipedia. So long. It's been nice meeting yah all. Say hi to all the Cambridge professors for me okay. Bye Oyasumi Nasai
 * Like I stated before, we don't need your password in order to be able to edit the page; anyone is already able to edit, split or disambiguate your page. Also, if the user MMORPG doesn't exist, then I believe we should indeed delete this userpage. Also, Wikipedia is not a battleground, so please remain civil. -- SoothingR 13:25, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete original research. Also, says it was sourced from a website. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  12:05, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete User pages are for real users, not fake users. Xoloz 22:27, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Ahehe I copied this page already and transfered it to a hard drive. No need to worry. Ahehehehe BYE BYE WIKIPEDIA. This is my last message.


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Wool bale

A wool bale is a standard sized and weighted pack of classed wool compressed by the mechanical means of a wool press. This is the regulation required method of packaging for wool, to keep it uncontaminated and readily identifiable. A "bale of wool" is also the standard trading unit for wool on the wholesale national and international markets. The minimum weight of a bale is 120 kg.

Wool packs
Packaging of wool has not changed much for centuries except that the early wool packs were made from jute, prior to the use of synthetic fibres. Jute packs were relatively heavy, weighing several kilograms each. In the 1960s polypropylene and high-density polyethylene packs were manufactured and used to make wool bales. Loose fibres from these packs caused contamination of the wool in the bale and led to nylon becoming the regulation fabric used in Australia. In South Africa woven paper was tested but discontinued in 1973 due to poor wet strength and high cost. Regulation standard white nylon packs now have a 280 mm label sewn onto the top flap of the wool pack for inclusion of the farm brand, wool description, bale number, woolclasser stencil number and bin code. Each bale of wool packs contains 50 packs that measure 70 x x 98 cm and have 46 cm flaps.

History
Very early wool presses were made from wood boards and had a wire winch mechanism to compress the wool and also hollow logs where the wool was tramped into a pack. During the late 19th century various forms of wooden wool press became the standard. Most popular models were the Koerstz and the Ferrier. The Koerstz was a smaller press than the Ferrier. The Ferrier press was manufactured under license by Humble & Nicholson (later Humble & Sons), Geelong, Victoria, and they had sold 2,000 presses between about 1871 and 1918. These presses were distributed throughout Australia, but were also sent overseas to New Zealand, South America, and North Africa. The most popular wool press in New Zealand was the Donalds Wool Press which was manufactured under patent. The steel Ajax wool presses were also used. Wool pressing with a manual wool press was hard, tiring work that required tramping the wool into a box and then pressing it further with a manually operated lever activated cable. Nowadays power operated, self-pinning wool presses with inbuilt scales have made a major contribution to shearing shed productivity.

Wool bales have been transported by camel, horse teams, bullock wagons, paddle steamer, boats and later by rail and trucks.

Method
Pressing and branding are typically carried out by a wool presser in the larger shearing sheds. In small sheds, the pressing may be done by the woolclasser, wool handler or sheep owner. A wool presser may perform the combined duties of wool pressing and penning up the sheep for the shearers. The latter arrangement means less interruption to the flow of the wool across the table and into the wool bins.

The woolclasser oversees the duties of the wool presser during the entire shearing. The presser ensures that the wool pack is free of any contaminants before he places it into the wool press and secures it there. He then carries the wool from the selected wool bin, removing any contamination, before placing it into the press.

It takes about 60 skirted fleeces to fill a wool bale, depending on the size and age of the sheep. The presser closes the bale with four internal and five external metal bale fasteners, before weighing the bale, if the press does not have an inbuilt scale. Bales should weigh between 110 kg and 204 kg, unless the wool is under 18.6 microns, in which case they may be a minimum gross weight of 90 kg. Bales that weigh less than 110 kg are known as a butt and those over 204 kg will not be sold at auction without repacking at the vendor's expense. The maximum wool bale length is 1.25 m. Overlong bales may create problems with over wide loads when trucking, in brokers' stores and in the jamming of dumping equipment. The presser is responsible for completing the wool book and then branding the bale head and face with the owner's brand, contents description, number and wool classer ID.

Process
Following shearing at the farm, woollen fleeces are placed together in "sheets", that is to say large sacks containing about 20 rolled fleeces each. These sheets are bulky yet are light (weighing about 60 kg) and convenient for the small farmer to transport to his local wool collection centre. Here they are opened for grading and sorting into one of several dozen different qualities, based on breed of sheep, which dictates fineness of wool, and physical condition of the wool, for example, damp dirty or stained fleeces will be graded lowly.

Once a sufficient volume of fleeces of a particular grade has filled a grading bin, the wool is compressed into a bale by a packing machine, producing a single bale equivalent to the capacity of some 5 1/2 wool sheets, a weight of 330 kg. Such bales are most economical for shipping purposes, but clearly require mechanised lifting equipment.

The collection process for wool in England has remained the same for many centuries. Shepherds brought their fleeces to a local collection point, for example Chipping Camden for wool from the Cotswolds, where it would be graded, paid for, consolidated into bales, sold to wholesalers, and shipped to the manufacturer. The existence of bales in ancient times is attested by the custom of the English Lord Chancellor to sit on the so-called Woolsack from which he presides over the House of Lords. This seat is therefore not in reality a "sack", in which the shepherds probably brought 20 or so fleeces, probably two per mule, being the equivalent of today's "sheet", but is rather a bale, compacted by the weight of human feet at the merchant's premises.

Sale of wool
Most Australian wool is sold at auction sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle, conducted by the Australian Wool Exchange. Renowned Australian brands like Merino & Co. use specialist woolgrowers from the Australian Wool Network. They are known for their high quality and taking care to grow and select wool to exacting standards and specifications. Their merino wool products cover a wide range of clothing, from men's thermal underwear to merino wool winter skirts. There are about 80 brokers and agents throughout Australia. After transportation by rail or road to the woolbroker's store, each wool bale's brand is carefully inspected to see that it corresponds with the classer's report. It is then weighed by sworn weighers (this weight is marked on the bale and recorded and is the basis on which buyers are invoiced), and then core sampled. This sample will then be tested for micron, yield and vegetable matter as a minimum. Wool that is to be sold by sample has a minimum of one grab, of a specified weight, taken from each bale and a minimum of 20 grabs, from each lot. Speciality wool is often traditionally displayed in original wool bales with the test results displayed. Wool not sold by the traditional display system will be directed to various parts in the warehouse for stacking and storing. An index is maintained showing the location of all bales so that, when their turn of offering-which is based on the equitable method of order of receipt into store approaches, they may be easily found.

The sale's programme in all centres is arranged, in the first place, by the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers after consultation with the buyers' organisations. Later, state allocation committees attend to details, such as individual sale dates and the quantity of wool to be offered by each broker in each series of sales at the centres concerned.

The traditionally displayed bales of wool on the floor are opened for examination by the brokers, buyers and wool growers. The sale by sample lots will have their grab samples displayed in boxes across the show floor. Catalogues are prepared by the woolbroker, listing all test and other details of each lot of wool.

A valuation of every lot, based on current market rates, is also made by the brokers' staff, this being used by the growers as a guideline for the subsequent auction. The lots are sold by nominating each lot in turn and it is sold by open cry auction.

After the wool is sold at auction the bales are usually "dumped", i.e. compressed to a higher density, still in the original wool bale, for shipment to overseas mills in containers. Three bales that have been dumped and secured with a metal band are known as a "tri pack".

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Kishore Mahbubani

Kishore Mahbubani (born 24 October 1948) is a Singaporean diplomat and geopolitical consultant who served as Singapore Permanent Representative to the United Nations between 1984 and 1989, and again between 1998 and 2004, and President of the United Nations Security Council between 2001 and 2002.

After stepping down, he remained serving as a senior advisor at the National University of Singapore while engaging in a nine-month sabbatical at various universities, including Harvard University's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute. In 2019, Mahbubani was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Between 2004 and 2017, he served as Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

Early life and education
Mahbubani was born in Singapore to a Sindhi-speaking Hindu family who were displaced from Sindh province during the Partition of India.

He attended Tanjong Katong Technical School and St. Andrew's School before he was awarded the President's Scholarship in 1967 to study at the University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore), where he graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours degree in philosophy.

He subsequently went on to complete a Master of Arts degree in philosophy at Dalhousie University in 1976.

Mahbubani was conferred an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from Dalhousie University in 1995.

Public service
After his graduation in 1971, Mahbubani joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) as a foreign service officer. His earlier postings included Cambodia, Malaysia and the United States. From 1993 to 1998, he held the position of Permanent Secretary at MFA. Later, he served as Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. In that role, he served as President of the United Nations Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002.

Academic career
Mahbubani's academic career began when he was appointed as the Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He is also a Professor in the Practice of Public Policy. In 2017, he stepped down as Dean. His term as Dean was also marked by controversies, most notably when one of the school's senior academics, Dr Huang Jing, was identified as "an agent of influence of a foreign country" by the Government and expelled. Several months prior to his resignation, he also drew criticism from Law Minister K Shanmugam and senior diplomats including Ambassador at Large Bilahari Kausikan for one of his commentaries that was published in the Straits Times. In addition, he was a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in 1991–92. He currently also serves on the board of the International Advisory Council at Bocconi.

Author
Mahbubani is best known outside Singapore for his books Can Asians Think?, Beyond The Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World, and The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East. His articles have appeared in newspapers such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Washington Quarterly, Survival, American Interest, the National Interest, Time, Newsweek, the Financial Times and the New York Times. His latest book, Has China Won?, was published in 2020.

In The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World, Mahbubani describes how the world has seen more positive change in the past 30 years than the past 300 years. By prescribing pragmatic solutions for improving the global order – including a 7-7-7 formula that may finally break the logjam in the United Nations Security Council – Mahbubani maps a road away from the geopolitical contours of the nineteenth century. The book was reviewed, including in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. The Great Convergence was selected as one of the Financial Times' books of 2013 and longlisted for the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize.

Mahbubani also writes regularly for Singapore's The Straits Times. In the lead up to Singapore's 50th anniversary of independence, he began a series on "big ideas" that he hoped would help Singapore succeed in the following half-century.

Board memberships
Mahbubani continues to serve in boards and councils of several institutions in Singapore, Europe and North America, including the Yale President's Council on International Activities, Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, Indian Prime Minister's Global Advisory Council, Bocconi University's International Advisory Committee, World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on China, and Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize's nominating committee.

Mahbubani also spoke as part of Asian Institute of Finance's Distinguished Speaker Series in 2015 with the title "Can ASEAN re-invent itself?" to over hundreds of financial institution practitioners in Kuala Lumpur.

In 2019, Mahbubani was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Honours

 * Pingat Pentadbiran Awam ribbon (from 1996).png Public Administration Medal (Gold) (1998)

Mahbubani was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Gold) by the Singapore government in 1998. The Foreign Policy Association Medal was awarded to him in New York in June 2004 with the following opening words in the citation: "A gifted diplomat, a student of history and philosophy, a provocative writer and an intuitive thinker". Mahbubani was also listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines in September 2005, and included in the March 2009 Financial Times list of Top 50 individuals who would shape the debate on the future of capitalism. Mahbubani was selected as one of Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2010 and 2011 and one of Prospects top 50 world thinkers in 2014.

The secondary school library of the Tampines campus of the United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) is named after Mahbubani. He is also a former chair of the UWCSEA foundation.

Personal life
Mahbubani was previously married to Gretchen Gustafson, a journalist and author on 21 June 1975.

Mahbubani later married Anne King Markey on 30 March 1985. When Mahbubani first met Anne, she was part of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and he was serving as the deputy chief of the Singaporean mission in Washington, D.C. The couple has two sons and one daughter.

Mahbubani said in an interview that he enjoys jogging as a way of relaxing and easing his mind. He also has a habit of writing while listening to the music of Mohammed Rafi which his mother often put on the radio when he was a child. He also has a Chinese name, being known as.

In April 2016, Mahbubani suffered severe chest pains while jogging. He later underwent a double heart bypass operation.

Books

 * Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide Between East and West., Steerforth, 2001, ISBN 978-1-58642-033-8; Times Editions; 3rd edition, 2004, ISBN 978-981-232-789-5
 * Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World, Perseus Books Group, 2005, ISBN 978-1-58648-268-8
 * The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, PublicAffairs, 2008, ISBN 978-1-58648-466-8
 * The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World, PublicAffairs, 2013, ISBN 978-1610390330
 * Can Singapore Survive?, Straits Times Books, 2015, ISBN 978-9814342971
 * The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace, Ridge Books, 2017, ISBN 978-9814722490
 * Has the West Lost It? A Provocation, Penguin Books, 2018, ISBN 978-0241312865
 * Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy, PublicAffairs, 2020, ISBN 978-1541768130
 * The Asian 21st Century, Springer, 2022, ISBN 978-9811668135

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Emmy

Didn't Michael Imperioli win the Emmy for the 5th season of "The Sopranos"?

Music video appearance

The biog says that Imperioli was in the music video 'Shiny Shiny' for the band Haysi Fantayzee in 1983. I believe this to be an error - I believe the man in the video, who does strongly, even uncannily, resemble Imperioli, is actually Paul Caplin who was manager of the band and partner of band member Kate Garner at the time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:B488:200:A8CD:CE8E:A0D:7997 (talk) 02:12, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

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Kėdainiai District Municipality

Kėdainiai District Municipality (Kėdainių rajono savivaldybė) is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania, located in the central part of the country.

Structure
Kėdainiai District Municipality is divided into:
 * 1 city: Kėdainiai;
 * 10 towns: Akademija, Kėdainiai, Dotnuva, Gudžiūnai, Josvainiai, Krakės, Pagiriai, Pernarava, Surviliškis, Šėta and Truskava;
 * 11 elderships:
 * 534 villages.

Ethnic composition
Ethnic composition of Kėdainiai District Municipality according to the 2011 census:
 * Lithuanians – 95.78% (51,777);
 * Russians – 2.17% (1,171);
 * Poles – 0.61% (329);
 * Ukrainians – 0.28% (150);
 * Belarusians – 0.26% (139);
 * Romani – 0.07% (40);
 * Germans – 0.03% (17);
 * Others – 0.8% (434).

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Hi, I'm 'Haamer'. I'm posting this page as I've recently made contributions to Wiki you may or may not have encountered. I don't have much to contribute besides my honestly heartfelt discussion that I feel is needed in a world full of deceitful manipulation of text and media. It is not my goal to persuade thoughts one way or another; rather, to encourage thought, without bias, to a goal of mutual benefaction. I would rather you prove me wrong than listen to propoganda insinuate I am- My aim- TRUTH...no matter how painful. "LET'S ROLL"...

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