Dear Esther [SEP] developer
The Chinese Room


. Thechineseroom's first three projects were two mods for "Half-Life 2", named "Antlion Soccer" and "Dear Esther", and a "Doom 3" mod titled "Conscientious Objector". The modding project was backed by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Of these, "Dear Esther" became a cult hit. In 2009, Thechineseroom developed "Korsakovia", which was a survival horror mod. After "Korsakovia", Thechineseroom worked with Robert Briscoe to develop a remake of "Dear Esther
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Rememoried


Rememoried is an art game developed by Hangonit. It is a surrealist explorative game inspired by titles such as "Dear Esther" and "Proteus". The game was released 31 August 2015. The game was developed by Hangonit, the one-man studio of Vladimír Kudělka. He came up with the idea for the game during his studies at Technical University of Brno. At the time he got impressed by games like "Proteus" and "Dear Esther". He decided to make a similar game after studies. He
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Dear Esther


", commenting that "what gives "Dear Esther"s visuals such a poignant edge is how masterfully it extends the sense of loneliness and isolation that's conveyed in the script". Writing for "The Daily Telegraph", Tom Hoggins noted the effect of the game's more minor details, stating that "[the] broad strokes of "Dear Esther's" visuals are majestic, but the finer details on the landscape are the most revealing." At the 2012 Independent Games Festival, "Dear Esther" received the prize
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Dear Esther


for "Excellence in Visual Arts". In its 2012 Awards, "Develop" awarded "Dear Esther" the prize for "Best use of narrative". At the TIGA Games Industry Awards 2012, the game won the "Originality Award" along with the prizes for "Best Action/Adventure game", "Best Visual Design", "Best Audio Design" and "Best Debut Game". The game was nominated for five awards in the 9th British Academy Video Games Awards. As of September 2013, the
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Dear Esther


Dear Esther is a first-person exploration and adventure video game developed by The Chinese Room for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. First released in 2008 as a free-to-play modification for the Source game engine, the game was entirely redeveloped for a commercial release in 2012. Featuring minimalistic gameplay, the player's only objective in the game is to explore an unnamed island in the Hebrides, listening to a troubled man read a series of letters to his deceased wife. Details of
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Dear Esther


walls are adorned with images resembling chemical diagrams, circuit diagrams, neurons and bacteria. At various points a figure is seen walking away from the player in the distance, but disappears before they can be reached. As the game progresses, the identities of the characters become more blurred and the player is made to draw their own conclusions of the story. The original rendition of "Dear Esther" was one of several modifications of the Source Engine developed by The Chinese Room while the studio was still a research project at the University
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Dear Esther


her mysterious death are revealed as the player moves throughout the island. The Chinese Room released a spiritual successor to "Dear Esther", titled "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture", in 2015. The gameplay in "Dear Esther" is minimal, with the only task being to explore an uninhabited Hebridean island, listening to an anonymous man read a series of letter fragments to his deceased wife, Esther. As the player reaches new locations on the island, the game plays a new letter fragment relating to that area
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Dear Esther


the project. The Fund's Ron Carmel stated "As soon as people started playing it, the tone of the conversation just completely shifted, and people were very much in favor of supporting this project". Within six hours of the remastered release on Steam, over 16,000 units had been sold, allowing the developers to pay back the full Indie Fund investment. The voice of "Dear Esther"s narrator was performed by Nigel Carrington, whose script was extended for the remake. The game's music was composed by Pinchbeck's wife
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Dear Esther


—something "Dear Esther" stubbornly stands against." PC Gamer did not find the basic gameplay to be a problem, stating that “the lack of puzzles is necessary: it’s crucial to the experience that you’re allowed to keep moving at your own pace. […] Without puzzles, the visuals and narrative are allowed to take precedence.” The level of detail in "Dear Esther"s environment was given broad praise by critics. Reviewing for bit-tech, Joe Martin called the game "a graphical masterpiece
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will leave you feeling edified, contemplative, and possibly even emotionally moved." Strategy Informer awarded the game 9/10, calling it "one of the most haunting and well-executed titles of this or any other generation." However, critics were divided by the suitability of the video game medium for conveying the story of "Dear Esther". Maxwell McGee of GameSpot claimed that "[the] story in "Dear Esther" works well in video game form—possibly more than as a book or movie." McGee
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Margo Howard


plan to write long-form pieces as the spirit moves me". Her aunt, Pauline Esther Friedman "Popo" Phillips, wrote the "Dear Abby" column. Although her mother and aunt were twin sisters, and close while growing up, an intense rivalry developed between them because of their columns. In an echo of that rivalry, Howard and her aunt never got along, and she has had public differences with her cousin Jeanne Phillips, who took over the "Dear Abby" column when her mother died.
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Dear Esther


." Independent games artist Robert Briscoe began work on completely redeveloping "Dear Esther" in 2009, with the full support of Pinchbeck. Briscoe and The Chinese Room worked in parallel on the game's remake, with much of the level design completed solely by Briscoe based on concept art done by Ben Andrews. In redesigning the island's landscape, Briscoe aimed to eliminate the confusion caused by the original game's lay-out, and to fill out the environment with "richer, visually interesting" features to improve on the
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Dear Esther


release of "Dear Esther" was selected for the Animation Exhibition at the 2008 Prix Ars Electronica and made Mod DB's top 100 mods of 2008. In 2009, the game won the award for Best World/Story at the IndieCade Independent Game awards. Reviewing the game for "Honest Gamers" in 2009, Lewis Denby praised the game's original tone, saying that the game "taps into an emotion that few games dare to approach: "un"happiness" and stated that Curry's soundtrack created "an impressively ethereal atmosphere
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Dear Esther


went further to claim that "video games allow for pacing and discovery that would be impossible to reproduce elsewhere." Reviewing for Destructoid, Allistair Pinsof claimed the opposite, stating that the game "would be better as a short film", although doubted whether "if "Dear Esther" were a short film, if its vague plot and predictable conclusion would be effective." Eurogamer also offered criticism of the plot, calling the writing "purple in places and wantonly obscure in ways which will draw accusations of pretentiousness",
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Dear Esther


and joked that "the [game's] tendency to deploy extended car metaphors occasionally steers the writing into oncoming traffic." However, the review commended the lasting impact of the story, stating that "its two-hour long chill will remain in your bones for a long while after." The limited interactivity between the player and the narrative in "Dear Esther" also divided reviewers. Pinsof stated that "[the] ironic thing is that the most pedestrian of stories can be convincing when coupled with intelligently applied interaction
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Dear Abby


when it moved to Universal Press Syndicate. Dear Abby's current syndication company claims the column is "well-known for sound, compassionate advice, delivered with the straightforward style of a good friend." As of 1987, over 1,200 newspapers ran the column. On June 1, 2009, the column moved from the "Chicago Tribune" to the "Chicago Sun-Times". Abby was born Pauline Esther Friedman, and her twin sister was born Esther Pauline Friedman. Abby was known as Popo, and her sister
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List of The Originals characters


by her aunt as part of Esther's deal when Esther was pregnant with Elijah and her life following that is a mystery. Esther claimed that she was the victim of a plague in order to cover up what she and Dahlia had done, which is what caused Mikael and Esther to move from Norway to a village in a "mystical land" far away in the New World, which was later called Mystic Falls. They moved there under the advisement of Esther's dear friend and mentor, a witch named Ayana, who
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Frictional Games


oneself. This turned out to be false, as the game sold 36,000 copies within the first month, and a total of 1,360,000 copies within the first two years, earning the company a total revenue of about in contrast to their development budget. "Amnesia: The Dark Descent" was followed by "" in 2013, which was developed by "Dear Esther" developer The Chinese Room. Nilsson stated that they chose The Chinese Room because the team at Frictional Games felt that they did not know how they should continue the
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Dear Esther


". Despite commendations for its premise and story, the original mod release received complaints of poor level design and numerous glitches in moving about the terrain. The 2012 remastered "Dear Esther" has garnered mainly positive reviews from critics, receiving an average score of 71.29% based on 28 reviews and 75/100 based on 37 reviews on review aggregators GameRankings and Metacritic. Despite questioning whether it truly constitutes a video game, reviewers praised the game's originality and commented favourably on the emphasis on the story; IGN stated that the game "
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Jeanne Phillips


Jeanne Phillips (; born 1942), also known as Abigail Van Buren, is an American advice columnist who has written for the advice column "Dear Abby." She is the daughter of Pauline Esther "Popo" Phillips, who founded "Dear Abby" in 1956, and her husband, Morton Phillips. In a "Dear Abby" column on December 12, 2000, Pauline introduced Jeanne as co-creator of "Dear Abby". They began to share the byline "Abigail Van Buren", and both were
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture


last words being her belief that the Pattern was her own counterpart. During the development of "Dear Esther", the team wanted to introduce interactive elements. When this proved to be impractical, the concept of "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" was born. The developers were inspired by "the very British apocalyptic sci-fi of the 60s and 70", like John Christopher's "The Death of Grass" and Charles Eric Maine's "The Tide Went Out". The team made the decision to partner
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Pyst


of Missed", or "Missed", was developed by Jason Bloomberg. "100 Videogames" noted the success of "Myst" is "best demonstrated by the amount of parodies constructed of it". Daniel Rosen of "Built To Play" thought the game was a predecessor to exploration video games like "Gone Home" and "Dear Esther". A demo of the planned sequel to "Pyst", "Driven" (an allusion to the "Myst" sequel "Riven"), was included on
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Jessica Curry


to his wife Curry to write a score. Thus Curry became the co-founder of The Chinese Room game studio. Following the success of that game, The Chinese Room went on to develop "" which Curry describes as her first "journey into interactivity" as her score had been "shoehorned" into "Dear Esther". While "Amnesia" was in production, The Chinese Room received an approach from Sony Computer Entertainment's Santa Monica Studio to develop an exclusive game for them. "Everybody's Gone to the
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The Chinese Room


The Chinese Room Ltd (formerly Thechineseroom Limited until 11 June 2013) is a British video game developer best known for exploration games, such as the "Half-Life 2" mod "Dear Esther", and co-developing its full-fledged remake. The company originated as a mod team for "Half-Life 2", based at the University of Portsmouth in 2007, and is named after John Searle's Chinese room thought experiment. As of August 14, 2018, it became a subsidiary of Sumo Digital
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Jessica Curry


Jessica Curry is an English composer, radio presenter and former co-head of the British video game development studio The Chinese Room. She won a BAFTA award in 2016 for her score for the video game "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture". Curry earned B.A.(Hons) English Literature and Language at University College London, graduating in 1994. Four years later, she obtained a Postgraduate diploma in Screen Music at the National Film and Television School. When Dan Pinchbeck was developing his experimental video game "Dear Esther" he turned
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Esther Barsel


President Nelson Mandela. Her death came almost three months to the day after joining him and 24 other of his closest friends for his private lunch to commemorate his ninetieth birthday. Mandela sent a letter of condolence to Esther's family, and it was read aloud at the funeral in Johannesburg on 7 October 2008: Dear Merle and family, We have been deeply saddened by the loss of Comrade Esther. She dedicated her life to the struggle for justice in South Africa, and was a formidable and highly respected resource to the movement
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Dearness allowance


table shows All India Consumer Price Index since 1.1.2006 with Base year 2001=100 The DA Rate for Industrial Workers (since 1.1.2007 with Base year 2001=100) for 3rd Quarter (Sep-Dec), 2015 has been declared as 107.9% and that of 4th Quarter (Jan-Mar), 2016 is 112.40%. The Vth Pay Commission recommendations were implemented since 1.1.1996 and consequently DA rate wef 1.1.1996 became 0. Further in 1994 Central Government merged 50% of the Dearness Allowance (DA) with the basic pay w.e.f. 01.04.2004 and
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Dear Esther


, Jessica Curry, a freelance music composer and co-director of The Chinese Room. In the remake's development, Curry overhauled and re-orchestrated the score to be fuller and longer, featuring more instruments and reaching nearly double the length of the original soundtrack. The music of the original game was released for free on 8 July 2008, shortly after the mod itself was released, and the remastered soundtrack was released on 14 February 2012, via Amazon.com, iTunes, and Bandcamp. The original free-to-play
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Dear Prudence (advice column)


"Prudence" had not come back from her "needlework"—per the explanation offered in Stein's last column—but rather had convinced her daughter and namesake to continue her work. While similarly anonymous at first, the new author of the column was eventually revealed to be Margo Howard, the daughter of Esther Lederer, aka Ann Landers. Howard maintained the column for nearly eight years. Her last "Dear Prudence" column appeared in "Slate" on 2 February 2006. Howard then had a Creators Syndicate advice column called "Dear
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barren landscape of the original mod. In March 2011, while the game was still in development, The Chinese Room lost the financial backing of the University it had theretofore relied on. The studio had needed the University to pay for the Source Engine license needed for a commercial release of the game, but the University's legal department was dissatisfied with the license agreement and refused to sign it. The Chinese Room turned to the Indie Fund for finances, who were hesitant at first but after playing a demo, agreed to fund
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture


Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is a first-person adventure art video game developed by The Chinese Room and SCE Santa Monica Studio. It is a story-based game, taking place in a small English village whose inhabitants have mysteriously disappeared. It is considered a spiritual successor to "Dear Esther", also from The Chinese Room. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released for the PlayStation 4. The game was released for Windows on 14 April 2016. In "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture",
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Adventure game


names has been proposed, like "environmental narrative games", which emphasizes the importance of the narration and the fact the plot is told by interaction with ambient elements. Walking simulators feature few or even no puzzles at all, and win/lose conditions may not exist. They allow players to roam around the game environment and discover objects like books, audio logs, or other clues that develop the story, rather than through dialog and cutscenes. Examples of walking simulators include "Gone Home", "Dear Esther",
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. Different audio fragments are revealed in each playthrough of the game, presenting a slightly different narrative each time. Several other characters are referred to by the narrator: a man named Donnelly, who charted the island in the past; Paul, who is suggested to be the drunk driver in the accident in which Esther died; and a shepherd named Jakobson who lived on the island in the 18th century. As the player explores the island, they find the derelict remains of buildings, a shipwreck, and a cave system whose
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Eloise Wilkin


Swedish. In 1960, Vogue Dolls, Inc. launched the first doll designed by Eloise Wilkin. "Baby Dear" came in 12 and 18 inch-sizes and sold for $6 and $12 respectively. Nikita Khrushchev saw the doll in the window of FAO Schwartz during his 1960 visit to New York City and purchased 13 to take back to the Soviet Union. In all, Eloise designed eight dolls for Vogue and Madame Alexander. "Baby Dear" and "So Big", both written by Esther Wilkin and illustrated
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Esther Hunt


, a tender father, able to instruct his children, temporally and spiritually; except the Lord help we shall perish. My loss is inexpressible, having my dear companion taken from me by death, and I left in this strange land with six children, the youngest about four months old. I can but mourn under a sense thereof, though not as one without hope. Esther decided to remain at Hunt Pleasant. The ages of her children ranged from Elisha, who was a little over 12 years, to Rachel,
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Eppie Lederer


the "Dear Abby" advice column as Abigail Van Buren. Lederer was a profile-raiser for several medical charities, and in 1977 President Carter appointed her to a six-year term on a cancer advisory board. Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Esther Pauline and her identical twin sister Pauline Esther ("Popo", who was 17 minutes younger) were daughters of Russian Jewish immigrants Rebecca Friedman (née Rushall) and Abraham B. Friedman. They grew up in Sioux City and attended its Morningside College for three and
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David ben Yom Tov


Astruc Caravita, a wealthy merchant of Girona. The marriage was turbulent however, and by 1337 Esther was demanding divorce, and the return of her dowry to her family. David refused to consider it, until Esther had all his books and instruments removed from his study and hidden. "So dear were they to my eyes, that she could hardly have forced me and obligated me with any other kind of coercion better than my interest, desire and longing for them," David complained. He duly presented the required statement
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Richard Rashke


actor Rutger Hauer. One of the survivors of Sobibor whom Rashke interviewed was Esther Terner Raab. As a result of her talks about her experience, she received many letters, which she shared with Rashke, as she said they helped her heal. His play about her and the influence of the letters, "Dear Esther", premiered in 1998 in Washington, DC, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Drawn to compelling personal stories, Rashke has studied subjects including Bill Lear, an aviation engineer and inventor who did not
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Pauline Phillips


Pauline Esther "Popo" Phillips (née Friedman; July 4, 1918 – January 16, 2013), also known as Abigail Van Buren, was an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the "Dear Abby" column in 1956. During her decades writing the column, it became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, syndicated in 1,400 newspapers with 110 million readers. From 1963 to 1975, Phillips also hosted a daily "Dear Abby" program on CBS Radio. TV anchorwoman Diane Sawyer calls
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Ask Ann Landers


and take advantage of opportunities neither of us has had the time for until now." They also introduced columnist Annie Lane, known as Dear Annie. A few months after Eppie Lederer took over as Ann Landers, her twin sister Pauline Esther "PoPo" Phillips introduced a similar, competing column, Dear Abby, using the pseudonym "Abigail Van Buren", which produced a lengthy estrangement between the two sisters. Phillips wrote her column until retiring in 2002, at which time her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, took over.
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Seismic Unix


visit to SEP Einar introduced SY to Shuki Ronen, then a graduate student at Stanford. Ronen further developed SY from 1984 to 1986. Other students at SEP started to use it and contributed code and ideas. SY was inspired by much other software developed at SEP and benefited from the foundations laid by Claerbout and many of his students; Rob Clayton, Stew Levin, Dave Hale, Jeff Thorson, Chuck Sword, and others who pioneered seismic processing on Unix in the seventies and early eighties. In 1986, Shuki Ronen brought
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Morris murders


The Morris Murders are the unsolved murders in 1879 of husband and wife Charles Henry Morris (born: May 9, 1847) and Esther Jones Morris (born: Sep. 22 1850) of Decatur, Michigan. On the night of September 28, 1879, in an desolate farmhouse along an isolated country road in Decatur Michigan, Mr. and Mrs. Morris retired to bed at about 8:30. The only other individual in the house at the time was a woman who worked for them by the name of Jennie Bull. At around 9
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SEP-363856


SEP-363856 (also known as SEP-856 for short) is an investigational antipsychotic that is undergoing clinical trials for the treatment of schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease psychosis. The medication is being developed by the pharmaceutical companies Sunovion Pharmaceuticals and PsychoGenics Inc. The adverse effect profile of SEP-363856 differs from that of other antipsychotics because its mechanism of action does not involve antagonism of dopamine receptors in the brain, which is responsible for the drug-induced movement disorders (like akathisia) that may occur with those agents. Some adverse events reported in preliminary clinical trials
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World Qualification Series (2009)


18 - Aug 23" 30th Anniversary of the Lacanau Pro and good conditions this year. Surf, concerts, events scheduled. Check out the video for a summary of the event http://vimeo.com/6994555 "Aug 25 - Aug 30" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 04 - Sep 06" "Sep 09 - Sep 12" "Sep 10 - Sep 13" "Sep 08 - Sep 13" "Sep 15 - Sep 20" "Sep 16 - Sep 22" "Sep
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Splitterskyddad EnhetsPlattform


The SEP modular armoured vehicle ("Splitterskyddad enhetsplattform"), Swedish for "Fragmentation Protected Standard Platform", is a hybrid diesel-electric powered armoured fighting vehicle developed by BAE Systems AB. The vehicle is codenamed "Thor". The first demonstration models were produced in 2000 (tracked) and 2003 (wheeled). It was originally contracted by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration. The series-hybrid electric drivetrains for both the wheeled (SEP-W) and two generations of tracked (SEP-T) vehicles were
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List of 1982–83 NBA season transactions


1982 Oct 2, 1982 Oct 1, 1982 Sep 30, 1982 Sep 29, 1982 Sep 28, 1982 Sep 27, 1982 Sep 24, 1982 Sep 22, 1982 Sep 20, 1982 Sep 19, 1982 Sep 18, 1982 Sep 17, 1982 Sep 15, 1982 Sep 14, 1982 Sep 13, 1982 Sep 10, 1982 Sep 9, 1982 Sep 7, 1982 Sep 2, 1982 Sep 1, 1982 Aug 31, 1982 Aug 27, 1982 Aug 26, 1982 Aug 16, 1982 Aug 8,
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Ker Sin Tze


Ker Sin Tze () is a former Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC from 1991 to 2001. He was Minister of State (Sep-Dec 1991) and later Minister of State for Education (Jan 1992) and Information and the Arts (Jan 1992-Aug 1994). He joined Liang Court in 1980 and later became the Managing Director (1991). He was Chairman of Superior Metal Printing Limited (1990-1992, Sep 1994-1995); Deputy Chairman of the Chinese Development Assistance Council (Sep 1994-2000
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SEP-363856


are somnolence, agitation, nausea, diarrhea, and dyspepsia. The mechanism of action of SEP-363856 in the treatment of schizophrenia is unclear. However, it is thought to be an agonist at the trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) and serotonin-1A receptor (5-HT1A) receptors. This mechanism of action is unique among available antipsychotics, which generally antagonize dopamine receptors (especially dopamine receptor D2). The precise pharmacokinetic profile of SEP-363856 has not been reported, though the developer has suggested that the pharmacokinetic data supports once daily dosing
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State Highway 57 (Uttar Pradesh)


for its completion. Continuing the progress of the development of the road, the road contract was extended for 2 years from Sep 2014 to Sep 2016 to SEW by State Government as Center was asking to take this road as NH for development. UP Government denied for the same for the sake of canceling contract will cost approx 750 Cr. as the penalty so it can not be canceled. We see a lot of paid advertisements floated by UP Government itself to enlist the developments undertaken and accomplished by them but there is no issue
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2007 (album)


2007 is a dark minimal techno album by Matthew Dear under his pseudonym of False. It is Dear's first mix album. Matthew Dear began developing the "2007" album due to unreleased material beginning to build up on his hard drives. Disliking having unused tracks, Dear talked with his label Minus about using the material to create an album that was to be different from his previous works. The album was developed as a dark and rhythmless mix, which was "a big turn on to complete the album" for Dear
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Good Game (TV program)


, and "ET" (Bajo – 1; Junglist – 0). From time to time, unorthodox ratings have been given to games. These include when Bajo gave a "not sure" and Hex gave an 8791 for "Robot Unicorn Attack", when Bajo gave a "wispy breeze" and Hex gave a "picture of a tree" for "Dear Esther", and when "DayZ" (a Mod for "ARMA 2") was not rated and the score screen at the end of the
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Blackwood Crossing


appreciated narrative-driven games, such as "Gone Home", "Dear Esther", and "Firewatch". The reviewer goes on to praise Finn's portrayal, stating "I can't recall such a good portrayal of a child in a game, since the Studio Ghibli-produced Ni No Kuni". It was among the website staff's most anticipated games of 2017, and was ranked 25th on their list of the 50 best games of 2017. "Blackwood Crossing" was awarded UKIE’S Game of the
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September 1941 lunar eclipse


A partial lunar eclipse took place on Friday, September 5, 1941. It was a shallow partial lunar eclipse, with less than 10% of the Moon covered in Earth's shadow. Aug 31, 1941 = Sunday Sep 1, 1941 = Monday Sep 2, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 3, 1941 = Wednesday Sep 4, 1941 = Thursday Sep 5, 1941 = Friday Sep 6, 1941 = Saturday Sep 7, 1941 = Sunday Sep 8, 1941 = Monday Sep 9, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 10, 1941
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Esther Bloom


and Esther tries to defend his actions, but he is still found guilty. Esther, Ruby Button (Anna Shaffer) and Ricky Campbell (Ashley Margolis) truant from school and play kissing games, then Esther reveals that she is a lesbian. Ruby kisses Esther and Ricky to decide who is the best kisser. Duncan Button (Dean Aspen) develops feelings for Esther, unaware of her sexuality, so she rebuffs his advances. Esther kisses Seth Costello (Miles Higson) as a joke, which humiliates him. Ruby films
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Project Awakening


Project Awakening is an upcoming fantasy video game by Cygames initially announced for PlayStation 4 in Sep 2018. Development of Project Awakening as a 'high-end console game' was announced at Cygames Next event (Tokyo) in Nov 2016, under development at Cygames Osaka studio. A short gameplay video was shown in a closed session at 2018's E3 expo. The game was described as showing some influences from games such as Monster Hunter and Dragon's Dogma. The game was officially announced as an action fantasy RPG in Sep 2018
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Queen Esther (artist)


. It was after seeing John Leguizamo’s "Mambo Mouth" at the American Place Theater that Queen Esther wrote, developed and performed "The "Moxie" Show", a one person performance art piece that was subsequently featured at Dixon Place, Performance Space 122 and The Samuel Beckett Theater. Queen Esther wrote, developed and performed her second one person show, the semi-autobiographical "Queen Esther: Unemployed Superstar", at Tribeca Playhouse, The New York International Fringe Festival, The Diva Series at George Street Playhouse and
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Une double famille


and, according to a principle dear to him, he contrasts the interior design of an aristocratic house with both the grime of a squalid Parisian neighbourhood and the cheerful décor of a grisette's apartment (another familiar theme in the works of Balzac). Madame du Granville's home is, in his eyes: "a place of cold, arid solemnity, of moral rectitude and narrow-mindedness". Whereas the grisette's flat, like that of "La Torpille" (Esther Van Gobseck), is a place of
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Minorca (1799 ship)


However, "Minorca" developed leaks and turned back, joined soon after by "Esther", which too had developed leaks. They arrived at the Charleston bar on 3 November and took on board pilots, who informed them of the presence of the French privateer "Creole". The privateer appeared and approached the two British ships. "Minorca" succeeded in getting into Charleston, but an engagement developed between "Esther" and the privateer. Both suffered extensive losses before "Esther" struck her colours. The men from
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Virginia (video game)


. On Metacritic, it holds a score of 82% on Xbox One, 77% on PlayStation 4 and 76% on PC. "The Daily Telegraph" awarded it 5 stars, saying "It is the game that titles like "Dear Esther", "Gone Home" and "Firewatch" have hinted at, but in a way that evolves the interactive narrative form way beyond anything we’ve seen before." TIME awarded it 4.5/5, saying "what gorgeous, reverberant moments there are in this game, empowered
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Emily Mortimer


"Notting Hill"; Esther in the television mini series "Noah's Ark"; and Angelina, the star of the film within a film in "Scream 3". In 2003, Mortimer appeared in Stephen Fry's film "Bright Young Things". In 2004, Mortimer played the female lead in the film "Dear Frankie". In 2005, she played a major role as the oblivious spouse of Jonathan Rhys Meyers's adulterer in Woody Allen's "Match Point", as well as voiced young Sophie in
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Pea soup fog


), when Esther arrives in London, she asks of the person meeting her "whether there was a great fire anywhere? For the streets were so full of dense brown smoke that scarcely anything was to be seen. 'O, dear no, miss,' he said. 'This is a London particular.' I had never heard of such a thing. 'A fog, miss,' said the young gentleman." The London satirical journal 'Punch' (1860) outlines some venture capital schemes:
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All the Delicate Duplicates


Duplicates" should be considered a game at all, calling it ""more of an experience then a game"", while finally scoring it 8 out of 10 and stating: ""Those familiar with The Vanishing of Ethan Carter or Dear Esther will find themselves feeling at home...until the gnarled and twisting limbs of trees begin jutting into the landscape. Or until the world itself seems ablaze with otherworldly flickering light. Then the game takes on a style of its own that is truly a marvel to behold."
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Dear Esther


of Portsmouth. The project was funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Dan Pinchbeck, a professor and lecturer at the university. The story and script were composed by Pinchbeck, who cited the works of William S. Burroughs as influential in the writing: "... looking at the way William Burroughs worked structurally was a big influence, but also I was really interested in moving towards a quite image-heavy, symbolic, poetic use of language rather than the normal descriptive tone we find in games
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Korsakovia


his hands. He had punched the television and the wires caught fire, which is the cause of the damage to his hands. He also seems to have ripped his own eyeballs out and eaten them as reported by the paramedics. These injuries and their rationale are referenced repeatedly in the narration and by objects the player finds in his illusory landscape. Like Thechineseroom's previous mod, "Dear Esther", the player explores the environment while listening to narration. However, this time the player can move far more freely and is
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Ian Dalrymple


Lee. It was followed by "Esther Waters" (1948), which Dalrymple directed alongside Peter Proud, and is remembered today for introducing Dirk Bogarde. Bogarde starred in two other Wessex films, "Once a Jolly Swagman" (1949), directed by Lee, and "Dear Mr. Prohack" (1949) directed by Thornton Freeland. They also made "All Over the Town" (1949), directed by Derek Twist. None of the films had been particularly successful at the box office. In 1949 Wessex
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs


blurred image (a piece of concept art), redirecting to Google Maps with the search field set as 502 2nd Avenue in Seattle. The three hyperlinks were hints towards The Chinese Room's involvement in the game (a previous game by The Chinese Room, "Dear Esther", was set on a Hebridean island like Boreray, and the address in Seattle pointed towards a restaurant named 'The Chinese Room'). Examination of the site's source code led fans to a webpage that resembled a computer console with usable commands
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The Beeps


Sapphire Stream S2/Ep45 Apr. 29 Wash Those Socks! S2/Ep46 Dec. 12 The Bumps SEASON 3: S3/Ep1 Aug. 30 Up Down Hill S3/Ep2 Aug. 31 Caravan S3/Ep3 Sep. 6 Secret Garden S3/Ep4 Sep. 7 Bounceflower Tea S3/Ep5 Sep. 13 The Whale S3/Ep6 Sep. 14 Soggy Sockroaches S3/Ep7 Sep. 20 Stinkroots S3/Ep8 Sep. 21 Sing-a-long-a-beeps S3/Ep9 Sep. 27 History Book S3/Ep10 Sep. 28 What Goes Splat? S3
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Signal Transfer Point


. SEPs send signaling messages to other SEPs, but the messages are normally routed via the SEP's adjacent STPs. An STP's main function is to identify the best path for two SEPs to communicate. A typical application would be for two SEPs to agree on the use of a shared data path (e.g., using ISUP to initiate a voice call between a user on one SEP and a user on the second SEP). In this way, STPs route signaling messages (for starting, maintaining or finishing any kind of
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1983–84 Australian region cyclone season


. A small, weak tropical low, later named Esther, developed over the Banda Sea on 19 December. Esther struck Babar Island and then dissipated on 21 December. Operationally, this cyclone was considered to have been the redeveloped remnants of Esther. The storm developed from a cloud cluster near the southern tip of Timor on 21 December. The system moved west-northward and dissipated on 24 December. A low pressure area rapidly developed into Tropical Cyclone Sharon on 25 December. Sharon existed west of 90°E, which is
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Signal Transfer Point


calls originated by the SEPs' attached users) while avoiding disabled intermediary STPs. A signaling message typically never goes directly from a given SEP to the destination SEP: the message would normally have to pass through the initiating SEP's adjacent STP so that it can be routed to the destination SEP. In some applications, however, SEPs might be directly connected with signaling links; this would typically be done to enhance robustness or performance between two critical SEPs. Such mesh network configurations are also common in Europe, where STPs have not
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Esther (1794 ship)


of . However, "Minorca" developed leaks and turned back, joined soon after by "Esther", which too had developed leaks. They arrived at the Charleston bar on 3 November and took on board pilots, who informed them of the presence of the French privateer "Creole". The next day "Creole" attacked "Esther". "Creole", of Barracoa, was armed with six or seven guns of various calibers and had a crew of 111 men under the command of Captain Pierre Burgman. The
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Hurricane Esther


Hurricane Esther was the first large tropical cyclone to be discovered by satellite imagery. The fifth tropical cyclone, named storm, and hurricane of the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season, Esther developed from an area of disturbed weather hundreds of miles west-southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands on September 10. Moving northwestward, the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Esther on September 11, before reaching hurricane intensity on the following day. Early on September 13, Esther curved westward and deepened into a major hurricane. The storm remained a Category 3
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Abhijit Banerjee


doctoral advisee, and MIT professor Esther Duflo, and had lived together for 18 months before then. The baby was born in 2012. Abhijit was a joint supervisor of Esther's PhD in economics at MIT in 1999. Esther is also a Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT. Abhijit and Esther formally married each other in 2015. June 2010 Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia Kinnan May 2010 Abhijit Banerjee, Vivi Alatas, Rema Hanna, Benjamin Olken, and Julia Tobias April 2010 Abhijit
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Esther Bloom


then wants Curtis to live with her but changes her mind and allows Grace to care for him after she makes a passionate speech about how much Curtis means to her. Esther then develops feelings for Grace as she helps her look after Curtis, but then witnesses Grace sleeping with Darren. On new year's day Darren gets back together with Nancy and Grace is heartbroken but Esther and Grace kiss and the two start a relationship. Esther starts a feud with Trevor over Esther not leaving him see Curtis. Kim's sister Lindsay (
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Indie Fund


the investment. The second game, "Dear Esther", cleared 16,000 units within 6 hours of being available on Steam, the revenue from that completely repaying the Indie Fund's contribution. In February 2012, the Indie Fund changed their repayment model, now only asking for the initial investment back plus 25% of the revenues from sales through the first two years or until they have doubled their investment, whichever comes first. This allows the Fund to allow for broader projects in size and scope, as well as take more
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Jessica Curry


woman in the game industry. In April 2016, Curry won a BAFTA at the 12th British Academy Games Awards for her music on "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture". After her departure from The Chinese Room, Curry embarked on various other projects including a collaboration with poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy which saw poems by Duffy performed to music by Curry and others at Durham Cathedral in July 2016 as part of a centenary remembrance of the Battle of the Somme. In October 2016 Curry's score to "Dear Esther" was
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Ryan C. Gordon


back in 2007 which Gordon had unsuccessfully tried to port to the platform. In 2013 he ported "Dear Esther" to Linux to be included as part of Humble Indie Bundle 8. Gordon was one of the speakers at the first ever "Steam Dev Days", where he outlined how to port a game to Linux and to SteamOS. In 2014 he ported the games "Goat Simulator" and "Sanctum 2" to Linux and Mac OS X for Coffee Stain Studios. On June 19, 2014 he released a new
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Sarah Prince


in this World [is] gone,” Sarah wrote in her personal book of meditations. Esther “was dear to me as the Apple of my Eye- she knew and felt all my griefs..." Prince also corresponded with Catharine Macaulay. Although multiple men tried to court her, Prince remained singled and living with her parents throughout her twenties. By 1752, Sarah was the only surviving child in the family. After the death of both of her parents, 31 year old Sarah Prince married Moses Gill, a wealthy Boston
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Grace Black


. When Grace confides in Esther about her "disastrous love life", she sees the opportunity to reveal her feelings and surprises Grace with a kiss. Grace and Esther begin a relationship but soon develop problems. Grace has second thoughts about being with Esther because she still loves Trevor. With Trevor in prison Esther feels confident their relationship can succeed. But Esther's happiness is short-lived when she finds Grace's old engagement ring. "All About Soap's" Laura Morgan reported that Grace would feel guilty and try to
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Judy Dearing


Play." She died at New York Hospital in 1995 of acute pneumonia. Judy Dearing was the costume designer for the following productions. Dearing was the costume designer for the following productions at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Dearing's designs were celebrated for their authenticity. She developed a folkloric look for the 1990 production of "Once on This Island," using printed kente cloth, Dutch cotton prints, raw silk, and chiffon with metallics. "A costume has to appear natural","" Ms. Dearing said in
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The Beeps


/Ep20 Sep. 19 Bouncy Bouncy Beep Beep S2/Ep21 Sep. 19 Big Beepday Bash S2/Ep22 Sep. 20 Yuk Says No S2/Ep23 Sep. 24 Wheely Helpful S2/Ep24 Sep. 25 Teeny Beep Takes Off S2/Ep25 Sep. 26 Carnival S2/Ep26 Sep. 27 Peas and Beeps S2/Ep27 Apr. 25 Stuck on You! S2/Ep28 Dec. 9 Hole Lot of Trouble S2/Ep29 Dec. 15 A Little Adventure S2/Ep30 Dec. 16 The Lost Houses S2/Ep31 May 1 Bounceberry Pie S2/Ep32 Dec. 23
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Severn Estuary


authorities and interested parties such as farmers and fisherman. Its stated aim is "To bring together all those involved in the development, management and use of the Estuary within a framework which encourages the integration of their interests and responsibilities to achieve common objectives". In 2001 SEP published the "Strategy for the Severn Estuary", which sets out a plan for the management of the estuary. SEP uses a geographically extended definition of the Severn Estuary, beginning at the tidal limit of the River Severn in Gloucester and ending at a
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Jeanne Phillips


readers on different topics including those related to health, safety, and acceptance of multiculturalism and diversity. On December 1, 2005, Jeanne made her first live radio broadcast via Internet radio. In her press release regarding that broadcast, she said that she sometimes calls people who have written her since, in many cases, it is easier to advise people over the phone than through letters. Jeanne Phillips was born in Mount Morris, Illinois, to Pauline Esther "Popo" Phillips, the founder of "Dear Abby",
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Dinner Date (video game)


Dinner Date is a short, experimental first-person computer game made by Dutch game designer Jeroen D. Stout. It was first released digitally through Stout Games own website. Four months later (March 1, 2011) it was released on Steam. Just like some other indie games (e.g. Dear Esther or The Graveyard) its status as a video game has been disputed, as it requires minimal interaction and the few small choices you make are of no consequence to the story. It does, however, give the player the
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Barbara Jo Allen


Barbara Jo Allen (born Marian Barbara Henshall, September 2, 1906 – September 14, 1974) was an actress also known as Vera Vague, the spinster character she created and portrayed on radio and in films during the 1940s and 1950s. She based the character on a woman she had seen delivering a PTA literature lecture in a confused manner. As Vague, she popularized the catch phrase "You dear boy!" Allen was born in Manhattan, New York, to Charles Thomas Henshall and Grace Esther Selby "(maiden
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IPCom


field and ensuring those behind the development of standard essential patents (SEPs) are fairly rewarded for their technologies and work. IPCom is headquartered in Pullach, Munich, Germany, and operates on a global basis. In 2007, IPCom acquired a portfolio of mobile technology patents from Robert Bosch GmbH. This comprises more than 160 patent families in 2G, 2.5G, 3G and LTE technologies, 30 of which are SEPs covering the USA, Europe and Asia. Technologies covered in the portfolio span areas including interface, MMS and
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EZ-Link


some 5,000 commuters, generated 1.7 million transactions and has confirmed that the system is ready for revenue service. Developed in-house by the LTA, SeP is built on the Singapore Standard for Contactless ePurse Application (CEPAS) which allows any smart card that complies with the standard to be used with the system and in a wide variety of payment applications. With SeP, commuters were able to use cards issued by any card issuer for transit purposes as long as the card complied with the CEPAS standard and included the transit application.
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Esther Thelen


Esther Thelen (May 20, 1941 – December 29, 2004) was an expert in the field of developmental psychology. Thelen's research was focused on human development, especially in the area of infant development. Thelen was also President of the Society for Research in Child Development and the International Society for Infant Studies. She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Psychological Society. Thelen is known for her works on infant development, particularly those that focused on complex movement and behavioral development. Thelen
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Union Shield – 2011


Union Shield – 2011 () is a joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise, which took place from Sep 16 until Sep 22, 2011. Russian Defence Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov officially announced that the joint military exercise "Union Shield" is to take place in September 2011 after the meeting with his counterparts - Mykhailo Yezhel (the Ukrainian Defence Minister) and Yuri Zhadobin (the Defence Minister of the Republic of Belarus), which was held in Minsk, April, 2011. The concept for the exercise was being developed jointly by the
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Education in Mexico


In 1992, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who became president in the disputed 1988 elections, instituted changes in the organization of Mexico's educational system. Adopting neoliberal economic policies to promote development, Salinas saw education as a key factor. In an accord with the SNTE, education was decentralized from its control by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) and came under the control of Mexican state government. Curriculum reform was also undertaken by the SEP, which included the creation of new textbooks. Protests resulted in the government's withdrawing
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Sufficiency economy


Sufficiency economy is the name of a Thai development approach attributed to the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej's "sufficiency economy philosophy" (SEP). It has been elaborated upon by Thai academics and agencies, promoted by the Government of Thailand, and applied by over 23,000 villages in Thailand that have SEP-based projects in operation. Soon after ascending to the throne in 1946, King Bhumibol toured the country and became aware of the hardships facing Thai farmers. At that time, the per capita GDP was about US$200. He
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy


topic to reflect reasoned disagreements among scholars. Initially, the "SEP" was developed with U.S. public funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. A long-term fundraising plan to preserve open access to the encyclopedia is supported by many university libraries and library consortia. These institutions contribute under a plan devised by the "SEP" in collaboration with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, the International Coalition of Library Consortia, and the Southeastern Library Network, with matching funding from the National Endowment for
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Esther Bloom


upset" and the bullying continues. In October 2012, producers announced a "special online project" to run alongside Esther's storyline. When Dylan Shaw (Mikey Riddington-Smith) creates his own micro-blogging site DocYou other characters decide to misuse it to broadcast humiliating content about Esther. "Hollyoaks" had entered into partnership with Channel 4 Education and organisation Beatbullying to publish the website for real. The development offered viewers exclusive content and another way to connect with Esther's story. In addition it was created with the
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Grace Black


lives, but this is definitely one of them." Writers began developing a new romance for Esther while she carried Grace's child. Esther meets Kim Butterfield (Daisy Wood-Davis) who asks her on a date. Esther invites Grace along and Kim presumes they are in a relationship. Grace is privy to their misunderstanding and urges them to get together. Digital Spy's Kilkelly revealed that Grace would soon regret her decision. The character becomes worried that Esther and Kim's relationship will ruin their surrogacy deal. Grace tells
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Esther Short


Company finally abandoned their efforts, and Esther Short and her family remained, with Esther becoming a pioneering developer of the city of Vancouver and a notable part of its history. Shortly after his acquittal, Amos Short drowned while returning on a trip from California aboard the ship the Vandalia, which sank in the Columbia Bar. Following his death in 1853, Esther filed papers to claim 640 acres of her husband's land pursuant to the Donation Land Claims Act. She opened a restaurant on the land that same year, and opened
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Esther Lederberg


way to transfer genetic information between bacteria. Stanley Falkow: Esther Lederberg developed a method of replica plating using velveteen attached to a piston ring. The rings are pressed onto bacterial colonies and then stamped onto a series of plates. She advanced many of the early lab procedures and also discovered lambda phage, which became a widely used tool in microbial genetics. Stanley Falkow said of Esther Lederberg that "Experimentally and methodologically she was a genius in the lab." However, although Esther Lederberg was a pioneer research scientist, she faced
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Mark Steven Greenfield


, was the Vice President of the Los Angeles Art Association, and was on the board of the Downtown Arts Development Association. Sep, 2014 Lookin’ Back in Front of Me: Selected Works of Mark Steven Greenfield, 1974-2014 California African American Museum Sep, 2014 EAT.DRINK.ART - A Kaleidoscope of the Senses Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park (LAMAG) Mar, 2014 RISE: Love. Revolution. Black Panther Party. Closing Reception Art Share L.A. Feb, 2014 RISE: Love, Revolution, the Black Panthers
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris


for nine days on a Univac 1100/81. DE405 was integrated on a DEC Alpha in quadruple precision. In the 1970s and early 1980s, much work was done in the astronomical community to update the astronomical almanacs from the theoretical work of the 1890s to modern, relativistic theory. From 1975 through 1982, six ephemerides were produced at JPL using the modern techniques of least-squares adjustment of numerically-integrated output to high precision data: DE96 in Nov. 1975, DE102 in Sep. 1977, DE111 in May 1980, DE118 in Sep.
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Esther Duflo


Esther Duflo, FBA (; born 25 October 1972) is a French American economist, Co-Founder and Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Duflo is an NBER Research Associate, serves on the board of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and is Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research's development economics program. Her research focuses on microeconomic issues in developing countries
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Rita (2009 Italian film)


- Artistic Direction 9th Concorto Film Festival | 2010 22 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Special Jury Mention 8th Imaginaria Film Festival | 2010 24 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Jury Mention 16th Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine | 2010 3 Sep – 11 Sep | France Best Sound 3rd Festival Internacional Curtametraxes Bueu | 2010 Bueu International Shortfilm Festival 6 Sep – 11 Sep | Spain Best Short Fiction Film 17th Altin Koza Film Festival | 2010 Golden Boll Film Festival 20 Sep – 26 Sep | Turkey Special Jury Mention 7th Filmfest Eberswalde |
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