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Arran (organization)

The group also promotes other issues such as environmentalism, decent housing and work, anti-fascism, anti-racism, internationalist solidarity and the defense of public and people's education.

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Arran (organization)

It adopts a horizontal structure and often works on a grassroots level.

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Arran (organization)

On October 2013, Arran claimed presence in 38 counties of what they consider to be the "Catalan Countries" (Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands) and had over 700 members.

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Arran (organization)

In August 2017, Arran's attack on a bus of British tourists attracted coverage in the British media. Masked members of Arran stopped the bus, slashed the tyres and daubed slogans on the side. The group published a video of the attack online with the caption “mass tourism kills the neighbourhoods, destroys the territory and condemns the working class to misery”, sparking a police investigation.

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Arran (organization)

In September 2017, Arran published and posted threatening "name and shame" pictures of Catalan politicians in the city of Lleida for not supporting the illegal Catalan Independence referendum.

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Arran (organization)

The organization is distributed in local branches, which can be found throughout Valencian Country, the island of Majorca and Catalonia.

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Dean Bosacki

Dean Bosacki is a Canadian businessman.

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Dean Bosacki

He graduated from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Palo Alto, California. He was a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

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Dean Bosacki

He worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and BNP Paribas. From 2002 to 2007, he was Managing Director of Friend Skoler & Co., a $231 million buyout fund specializing in consumer products and business services companies. He is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Manhattan Partners.

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Dean Bosacki

He sits on the Board of Directors of Academi.

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Alexandra Tóth (footballer, 1991)

Alexandra Tóth (born 29 January 1991 in Zalaegerszeg) is a Hungarian football defender currently playing in the Hungarian First Division for Viktória FC, with whom she has also played the Champions League. She is a member of the Hungarian national team.

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Anna (ship)

Anna was a merchant vessel originally employed as a collier taking coal from Yorkshire to London. The Admiralty chartered her in 1739 and subsequently purchased her to carry additional stores for the squadron of Commodore George Anson on his voyage around the world in 1740–44. She was often referred to as 'Anna Pink', as a 'Pink' is a type of ship with a narrow stern. She lost company with the squadron on 24 April 1741, but rejoined it at the Juan Fernández Islands on 16 August 1741 (Julian calendar) after sheltering for two months in a natural harbour on the South Chilean coast. A subsequent survey found her timbers were too badly damaged for a re-fit, therefore her stores and crew were distributed about the squadron and she was scuttled on 18 August 1742 in Cumberland Bay, Juan Fernández.

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Anna (ship)

By early April 1741, Anson's squadron was rounding the horn and in very bad weather was struggling to make enough westerly to clear Tierra del Fuego. "Anna" and another ship, , briefly became separated from the squadron. In this event, orders were to rendezvous at the island of Socorro (now Guamblin Island). By 13 April, she had regained visual contact with the squadron, and that night lookouts on "Anna" spotted land to the north, which was the western extremity of Isla Noir, off Tierra del Fuego. She fired her gun and set of rocket lights to warn the rest of the squadron, which turned around and beat-off the coast before making more westerly to clear land. This saved the squadron from being wrecked on a lee-shore.

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Anna (ship)

On 24 April, the squadron became dispersed in a severe storm and "Anna" found herself alone. Her Master, Mr Gerrard, therefore followed orders and tried to make for Socorro Island. As she approached the latitude of the rendezvous in mid-May, another westerly gale forced "Anna" towards the coast, threatening to wreck her. The crew dropped anchors in an attempt to avert disaster but they refused to hold. Just as being wrecked appeared unavoidable, a small opening appeared, so the anchors were cut away and the ship steered through two towering cliffs into a fine natural harbour.

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Anna (ship)

"Anna" remained there for two months whilst the crew gathered fresh food and recovered from the effects of scurvy. Except for one indigenous family, the area was uninhabited; however the Master didn't fire the evening gun in case there were Spanish settlers nearby which would be alerted to the presence of British ships in the Pacific.

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Anna (ship)

After this short stop to recuperate and repair the ship, "Anna" left her bay, which is to this day still known as Bahía Anna Pink and made for the secondary rendezvous location, the island of Juan Fernandez. The core of the squadron was indeed at Juan Fernandez, also recuperating from the exertions of rounding the Horn. They were minus "Pearl" and which had turned back for England after being separated from the squadron, and which was wrecked on the coast south of Bahía Anna Pink on 14 May 1741. "Anna" rejoined Anson's squadron on 28 August.

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Anna (ship)

The squadron did not have enough stores to fully repair "Anna" for the continued voyage, therefore her stores of food, which were desperately needed, were removed and she was broken up. The relationship between some of her crew and the Master must have been strained however, as some petitioned to be removed from and sent aboard , which Anson granted.

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Anna (ship)

The story of "Anna" made a lasting impression on the First Lord of the Admiralty, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich as in 1772 when the Admiralty was organising Cook's second voyage, Joseph Banks was dismayed at the small size of the vessel proposed by Cook, ; however, the First Lord commented, "The "Anna", a collier like "Resolution", did get round [Cape Horn] and made her way thro these stormy seas, which were so difficult to resist'."

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Anna (ship)

Thus the performance of "Anna" confirmed the selection of for Cook's second voyage and is specifically mentioned in the diary entry of Charles Darwin on 4 January 1835 when his ship entered Bahía Anna Pink.

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Mark Pawelek

Mark W. Pawelek (born August 18, 1986) is a professional baseball pitcher. He was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 1st round (20th overall pick) round of the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft. Pawelek attended Springville High School and signed with the Cubs and received a $1.75 million signing bonus instead of accepting a scholarship offer to play college baseball at Arizona State University. He played in the Cubs minor league system from 2005 to 2009, and never reached the major leagues. In 2010, he played independent baseball for the Gateway Grizzlies of the Frontier League. Pawelek played for Team Netherlands in the 2013 World Baseball Classic.

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Jonathan Wafula

Jonathan Walukana Wafula (born 17 June 1994) is a Kenyan born footballer who plays for Boston United.

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Jonathan Wafula

Wafula began his career with Chesterfield and made his professional debut on 12 January 2013 in a 3–0 victory against Northampton Town.

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Jonathan Wafula

In 2014, he signed for Worksop Town.

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Jonathan Wafula

He then signed for Shaw Lane.

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Jonathan Wafula

In May 2017 he signed for Gainsborough Trinity.

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Jonathan Wafula

In February 2018, Wafula signed for Boston United.

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Timeline of Bogotá

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bogotá, Colombia. Other cities in Colombia:

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Timeline of Bogotá

"This article incorporates information from the Spanish language Wikipedia"

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Paul Saltman

Paul Saltman (11 April 1928 – 27 August 1999) was a Professor of Biology at the University of California, San Diego, for more than three decades, and an internationally renowned nutrition expert. He received a B.S. in chemistry (1949) and Ph.D. in biochemistry (1953) from the California Institute of Technology. He commenced employment at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, until 1967, when he accepted the position of provost of Revelle College at the University of California, San Diego, "to bring undergraduate education to the same high level of academic excellence that marks the graduate program at the heavily science-oriented college." In 1972 Saltman was appointed Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. In 1980, he returned to full-time research and teaching at UCSD. After his death, from prostate cancer in 1999, the Paul D. Saltman Endowed Chair in Science Education was established by UCSD to recognize a distinguished senior member of Biological Sciences faculty for his/her commitment to, and success in teaching science. Saltman was married to Barbara Saltman for over 50 years, and is survived by sons David and Joshua, and five grandchildren.

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Paul Saltman

Saltman's research focussed on the chemistry, biochemistry and nutritional role of trace metals such as iron, copper, zinc and manganese. His approach to nutrition made the point that it is an exact science, and can be accurately measured and tested. He often clearly differentiated between the concept of eating food, about which he noted: "food is not in itself a science, it is a sensual experience required for survival", and nutrition. Nutritional requirements, he maintained, could in theory be provided with total parenteral nutrition. "With TPN feeding all of the nutrients that a human being needs, from the time of infancy to the latter years, one can be maintained alive and well and growing without ever eating a morsel of food or drinking a drop of liquid."

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Paul Saltman

His discoveries allowed for improvements in dietary and supplement strategies to prevent anemia, enhance physical performance and decrease the chance of heart disease. Clinical applications of his research included reduction of free radical damage to hearts, prevention of anemia, enhanced physical performance, and better bone and skeletal metabolism. His findings were of interest to the food industry and he was a consultant to Procter and Gamble, Mars and other food manufacturers. His academic writings are able to be purchased from Chemical and Engineering News, and are also held in the Mandeville Special Collections Library. His 1985 lecture in the Leon Pape Memorial Lecture Series reflected his overall philosophy, and was titled "Science Is With People: A Tribute to Leon Pape".

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Paul Saltman

He was an advocate of eating all types of food, including red meat and occasional "junk food", while always stressing the importance of exercise and supplements. He wrote "The University of California San Diego Nutrition Book" as a popular science book for the layperson, and believed that science has a duty to assist and educate not only university students, but also the general public. He was "the antithesis of the ivory tower academic, and expanded his role as a teacher to include the public at large. He did a half-hour series called "Patterns of Life" for National Educational Television and a series for PBS." He was also considered an outstanding teacher, and an inspiration to his students. Robert C. Dynes, UCSD Chancellor wrote of him : " His love of learning, his enthusiasm for science, his communication skills, made him a role model for students and faculty alike. My tenure here has been enriched by knowing him—by his advice, his personal integrity, his passion for teaching and for life."

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Paul Saltman

Dr. Saltman appeared as a contestant on the 22 October 1959 episode of Groucho Marx's TV quiz program "You Bet Your Life". He won $300 and his wit and charm made him a delightful guest.

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Armista Apartments

The Armista Apartments, known also as the Waldorf Apartments, at 555 Eest 100 South in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States were built in 1927. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

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Armista Apartments

The building is significant as representing the urbanization of Salt Lake City during 1890–1930, a period in which more than 180 "urban apartments" (apartment buildings) were built. Urban apartments were a new and important type of housing, that "document[ed] the accommodation of builders and residents to the realities of crowded living conditions and high land values", as opposed to suburban style architecture that would signify denial of urbanization.

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Armista Apartments

The apartment building was built for about $80,000 and its apartments were advertised as "'Splendid 3-room apartments, equipped with electric ranges and electric refrigeration. $40.00 to $42.00. One of the most modernly equipped and conveniently located apartments in the city.'"

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Jason DeYonker

Jason DeYonker is an American businessman.

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Jason DeYonker

He graduated from the University of Michigan, with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Accounting.

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Jason DeYonker

He started his career at the Arthur Andersen Corporate Finance Group. He then worked at Deloitte's Corporate Finance Group.

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Jason DeYonker

He is the Managing Partner of Forté Management, specializing in financial business management, and the Founder and Managing Partner of Forté Capital Advisors, a private equity firm. From 1998 to 2002, he managed Erik Prince's financial portfolio. He led the buyout of Xe Services (formerly known as Blackwater), now known as Academi. He helped expand the United States Training Center of Academi in Moyock, North Carolina and negotiated its first training contracts with the United States federal government. He sits on its Board of Directors as well as Box Services, The Wall Group, Inc., L'Wren Scott Fashion, and Serge Normant Professional.

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2010 Women's World Team Squash Championships

The 2010 Women's World Team Squash Championships is the women's edition of the 2010 World Team Squash Championships organized by the World Squash Federation, which serves as the world team championship for squash players. The tournament was organized by the World Squash Federation and Squash New Zealand. The events were held in Palmerston North, New Zealand and took place from November 28 to December 4, 2010. The Australia team won his ninth World Team Championships beating the English team in the final.

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2010 Women's World Team Squash Championships

A total of 16 teams competed from all the five confederations: Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. For Mexico, it was their first participation at a world team championship.

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Five Bathing Women at a Lake

Five Bathing at a Lake (German: Fünf badende am See) is a painting by the Expressionist German painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

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Peter van de Velde

Peter van de Velde or Peter van den Velde (Antwerp, 1634 – Antwerp, 1723/24), was a Flemish marine painter who was active in Antwerp. Some art historians believe that the long lifespan attributed to this artist could hide two artists operating under the same name, possibly a father and his son.

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Peter van de Velde

He was born in Antwerp where he became a master of the Guild of St. Luke in 1654. Between 1666 and 1680 he is recorded in the guild as having pupils.

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Peter van de Velde

Between 1668 and 1675 he is recorded producing 50 paintings as "dozijnschilder" for the Antwerp art dealers Forchondt, who exported these works to Vienna. Guilliam Forchondt II later moved to Spain to support the family business. The question whether he played a role in the views of Spain created by van de Velde remains unanswered.

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Peter van de Velde

Considering the great age that this painter is supposed to have reached, it is possible that the name Peter van de Velde refers actually to two painters, maybe a father and son pair who signed with the same name. A son of Peter van de Velde was baptized in Antwerp in 1687.

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Peter van de Velde

Peter van de Velde died some time after 1723, the latest date discovered on one of his paintings. Peter van de Velde is known for marines in stormy seas and his coastal landscapes, often of Oriental harbours. He monogrammed his work with P.V.V. or PVV.

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Peter van de Velde

A large part of the paintings attributed to Peter van de Velde seem to be mass produced and suggest that he worked as a painter in the employ of art dealer Gilliam Forchondt.

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Neandreia

Neandreia (Ancient Greek ) was a Greek city in the south-west of the Troad region of Anatolia. Its site has been located on Çığrı Dağ, about 9 km east of the remains of the ancient city of Alexandria Troas in the Ezine district of Çanakkale province, Turkey (based on the work of John Manuel Cook). The site was first identified as Neandreia by Frank Calvert in 1865 and Joseph Thacher Clarke in 1886 and was first excavated by the German architect Robert Koldewey when he excavated in 1889.

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Neandreia

We do not know the circumstances of Neandreia's foundation in the Archaic period. A tradition known to the author of the 4th century CE work "Dictys Cretensis Ephemeridos belli Trojani" claimed that Neandreia had been the home of the legendary king Cycnus who was killed on the first day of the Trojan War by Achilles and his city sacked. However, there is no archaeological evidence for settlement in the second millennium BCE on Çığrı Dağ and Cycnus is likewise claimed by the neighbouring cities of Kolonai and Tenedos. The first settlers of Neandreia probably chose the site because it is highly defensible and commands impressive views over travel along two axes: north-south along the western coast of the Troad, and east-west from the coast into the middle Skamander valley. Çığrı Dağ, the granite mountain on which Neandreia is located, has a maximum height of 520 m and a circuit 1,400 m and up to 450 m wide. It has access to granite quarries which were used for its fortification and to springs which would help the inhabitants withstand sieges. The city's main area of agricultural cultivation was the Plain of Samonion, provisionally identified with an area in the middle Skamander valley to the east of Neandreia.

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Neandreia

The earliest archaeological remains found on Çığrı Dağ date to the 6th century BCE. These include a temple, an agora, and a stoa, as well as fortifications at the western end of the site. It has been suggested that this temple was dedicated to Apollo, since Apollo appears on the coins of the city and an inscription from Neandreia dating to ca. 500 BCE records the dedication of a statue to this god. Rock-cut inscriptions found 1 km from the city's main gate and tentatively dated to the Classical period attest the existence of a sacred grove for Zeus, while other inscriptions found near Çığrı Dağ indicate the existence of a temple of Dionysus in the city's territory. In the "Periplus" of Pseudo-Scylax, which dates to the mid-4th century BCE, Neandreia is said to be ethnically Aeolian in origin, and this is confirmed by inscriptions dating to the 6th century BCE in the Aeolian dialect. The language of a dedication to the god Priapus indicates that by the late 5th or early 4th century BCE the Aeolic dialect was no longer spoken at Neandreia.

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Neandreia

In the 5th century BCE Neandreia was a member of the Delian League and is recorded paying a tribute to Athens of 2,000 drachmas as part of the Hellespontine district from 454/3 to 410/9 BCE. Soon after this latter date, perhaps following the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War in 404, the city of Neandreia came under the influence of Zenis, the dynast of Dardanus, who controlled the Troad on behalf of the Persian satrap Pharnabazos. Under Zenis and his wife and successor Mania, a garrison of Greek troops was installed in Neandreia. In 399 BCE this garrison was expelled and the city freed by the Spartan commander Dercylidas. Archaeological investigations have shown that in the late 5th or early 4th century BCE a new circuit of walls was constructed from granite ashlar blocks which was 3.2 km in length, 2.9 m thick, and enclosed an area of 40 ha. It is not clear whether these walls were constructed when the city was in the hands of Zenis and Mania, or after Dercylidas had freed the city. Later in the 4th century BCE there was further construction work on Çığrı Dağ, including housing in its western part on a rectangular grid, a complex internal drainage system, and possibly a theatre. The excavators estimate that in this period the city consisted of 230 houses and a population of about 2,500 individuals.

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Neandreia

In ca. 310 BCE Antigonus I Monophthalmus founded the city of Antigonia Troas (after 301 BCE renamed Alexandria Troas) as a synoecism of the surrounding cities of the Troad, including Neandreia. The earliest coinage of the newly synoecized city adopted the coin types of Neandreia, which displayed a grazing horse, and this remained Alexandria Troas' emblem on its coinage for the rest of antiquity. From this point on, Neandreia had no independent political existence, hence in the 1st century CE Pliny the Elder listed it among the settlements in the Troad which no longer existed in his day. However, a sarcophagus found near Çığrı Dağ which dates to the Roman period and held the remains of two men named Neandros and Epitynchanon indicates that the area was still inhabited long afterwards, presumably as a deme of Alexandria Troas.

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William Arnott

William Arnott may refer to:

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ISIRTA songs

"ISIRTA" songs are the songs, listed in alphabetical order, which were featured in episodes of the British comedy radio series "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again".

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ISIRTA songs

The songs were written by Bill Oddie unless specified otherwise. Play: "Search for the Nile" Introduction by David Hatch (including tonsillectomy)Index to programmes: http://www.britishcomedy.org.uk/comedy/isirta.html

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Phyllobius pyri

Phyllobius pyri, the Common Leaf Weevil, is a species of broad-nosed weevil belonging to the family Curculionidae subfamily Entiminae.

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Phyllobius pyri

"Phyllobius pyri" can reach a length of 5-6.5 mm. The body is stocky, with broad elytra. Antennae and legs are reddish or brown, clubs of antennae are darker or black, sometimes legs and antennae are entirely black. Elytra have a ribbed appearance, they are black or brown, covered with hairlike shiny greyish, golden or coppery scales. This species develops on the fruit trees, mostly pears, on oak, beech and other deciduous trees, feeding on the leaves. Adults can be found from March to July.

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Phyllobius pyri

These broad-nosed weevils are present in most of Europe, in the East Palearctic ecozone and in the Near East.

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Phyllobius pyri

This species prefers thickets, forest edges, orchards, parks and gardens.

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Kopeng

Kopeng is a village in the district of Getasan, in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia.

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Kopeng

Kopeng is a mountainous town (1500 m above sea level). There a number of tourist destinations there. Mount Merbabu is nearby.

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Kinemastik

Kinemastik is a non governmental, non profit organisation responsible for a year-round cultural programme of screenings, talks, exhibitions, concerts and the Kinemastik International Short Film Festival which was started in 2004. Kinemastik sees itself as an art collective, founded and based in Malta.

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Kinemastik

Over1 years of its existence, Kinemastik has hosted many filmmakers, musicians, artists and film festival organisers.

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Kinemastik

Kinemastik has hosted a number of film based workshops, guided by various professionals from all over the world. Some of the musicians that played at Kinemastik events were Patti Smith, Bonnie Prince Billy, Owen Pallett, Dark Horses etc.

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Kinemastik

Kinemastik Film Club holds screenings every Wednesday in Valletta. It was designed as a source for non-mainstream and off-beat movies, a step away from the pervasive and easily available Hollywood mainstream movies. Kinemastik invites various individuals from all sorts of backgrounds to program a month of films for the Kinemastik Film Club.

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Kinemastik

Kinemastik collaborates with many film festivals such as Milano Film Festival, Next Film Festival, Cosmic Zoom, Clermond Ferrand Film Fest, London Short Film Festival and many others.

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Kinemastik

Steph Von Reiswitz and Chris Bianchi from the London-based Le Gun collective oversee Kinemastik's artwork

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Kinemastik

Times of Malta - Kinemastik Short Film Festival

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Kinemastik

TOM KISFF 2011

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Kinemastik

KISFF on Malta Today

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Kinemastik

KISFF on Malta Independent

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Kinemastik

Ramona Depares Blog

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Kinemastik

Rich Pickings

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Kinemastik

British Council

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Kinemastik

Mediterranea Online

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The Cucumbers

The Cucumbers are a band from New Jersey founded in Hoboken in the early 1980s by husband-and-wife duo Jon Fried and Deena Shoshkes. Fried and Shoshkes met in their freshman dorm at Brown University and first performed on campus, doing folk and jazz standards acoustically, two voices accompanied by Fried on guitar. They lived together and wrote songs together and, in the early 1980s, moved to Europe. Their first song, "My Boyfriend", became a hit on the college radio charts, leading to national tours, a couple of videos on MTV, and reviews in "Rolling Stone" and "People". They have been the subject of profiles in the New York Times, specifically by Jon Pareles. In the early 1990s, Shoshkes and three other musicians—Alice Genese, David Cogswell, and Frank Giannini—formed "Over the Moon", an alternative rock group making music aimed at children. They released one eponymous album and performed at rock clubs, churches, and other locations in Hoboken and New York City. According to Nj.com, "...with a second child on the way, lead singer Deena Shoshkes and guitarist Jon Fried moved from their musical roots of Hoboken to Millburn. A suburban house gave them more room to raise their new family. Although the Cucumbers stepped out from the limelight of the Jersey scene they had been part for many years, they never stopped making music." They have received praise from music critic Robert Christgau.

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Margaret C. Snyder

Margaret C. "Peg" Snyder (born 1929) is an American social scientist with a special interest in women and economic development, particularly in Africa. She was the founding director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), whose name was changed to UN Women in 2011. She was also a co-founder of Women's World Banking and of the African Training and Research Centre for Women.

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Margaret C. Snyder

Snyder was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1929. As a young woman, she attended the College of New Rochelle, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1950, and the Catholic University of America, where she received a master's degree in sociology in 1952. Her M.S. thesis at Catholic University was a study of potential effects of the proposal for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In 1953 she became dean of women for Le Moyne College in Syracuse, a position she held for eight years.

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Margaret C. Snyder

A sabbatical-year in Africa in 1961 changed the course of her career. Invited by the Kenya African Women's Association to work with African women in Kenya, she initially assisted the "Kennedy Airlifts" that brought students to American colleges in preparation for Kenya independence in 1964. Kenya women, led by Margaret Kenyatta, daughter of Jomo who would be the nation's first President, then sought her assistance with planning a Kenya Women's Seminar to consult women from throughout the country about what roles women should play in an independent Kenya. After two national seminars, Tanganyika and Uganda were included in an East African Women's Seminar

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Margaret C. Snyder

When her sabbatical year was over, Snyder decided to give up her position at Le Moyne in order to stay on in Africa, where, sponsored by the Women's Africa Committee, she would serve as an adviser to Umoja wa Wanawake wa Tanganyika (UWT) and continue her work with various groups in Kenya and Tanganyika. In 1965 she became assistant director for the Programme of Eastern African Studies of Syracuse University's Maxwell School, and was assigned as field director of their Ford Foundation assisted doctoral dissertation research on village settlements in Tanzania, with an opportunity to complete her own dissertation research there. She also worked as a consultant to the State University of New York, and for the American Council on Education.

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Margaret C. Snyder

Snyder returned to Tanzania (the new name for the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar) in 1970 to complete her research while tutoring students. In 1971 she received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. That same year she joined the United Nations (UN) staff as regional adviser for the Economic Commission for Africa in a post sponsored by the Swedish International Development Agency aimed to create an Africa- Regional Programme on Advancement of Women. In that position, she was responsible for the first data base of statistics on women to include an entire geographical region, for itinerant training courses for rural development workers from governments and NGOs, seminars on the creation of "national machineries" such as women's bureaux and national commissions on women, national bibliographies of writings about women, and other activities. She was a co-founder of ECA's African Training and Research Centre for Women, which was to become a model for similar women's programs worldwide, while she also served as first head of the Commission's Voluntary Agencies Bureau.

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Margaret C. Snyder

In 1978 Snyder accepted a position with the United Nations, New York, to be the first director of the Voluntary Fund for the UN Decade for Women (VFDW), later renamed the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). In that position she expanded the scope of her activities beyond Africa to include Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, and the Caribbean. UNIFEM started innovative and experimental programs aimed at improving women's situation and status throughout the world. Its major fields of concentration were economic and political empowerment. For example, it was the first to provide a large scale grant to the Green Belt Movement of Kenya, whose leader, Professor Wangari Maathai, would receive the Nobel Peace Prize. It financed training of women as labor leaders in Latin America, and silk producers in Asia.

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Margaret C. Snyder

Once programs such as these were evaluated as effective, many were adopted or replicated by major funds including the UNDP and the World Bank. Two types of activities pioneered by UNIFEM for the whole UN system were direct support to national non-governmental organizations rather than solely to governments, and creation of revolving loan funds owned by community groups. Initially administratively located in the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs. VFDW moved as UNIFEM to autonomous association with the UN Development Program, UNDP, in 1985. It worked in cooperation with organizations such as UNICEF and UNDP in the UN system, non-governmental organizations and national governments of low income countries, and national development investment programs such as USAID, SIDA and Canadian CIDA. Its resources came entirely from voluntary contributions rather than from the assessed contributions of governments to the United Nations.

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Margaret C. Snyder

UNIFEM faced two major obstacles during its initial decade under Snyder's leadership. Although units/programs directed to women's advancement were being established at national levels, the UN's institutionalizing the growing world concern for equity and justice for women through VFDW/UNIFEM was not yet fully understood by many senior UN and UNDP staff, who sought to move it away from UN headquarters and/or locate it at administratively low levels. The other major obstacle arose when some politicians successfully sought the withdrawal of the US government's annual contributions to its core resources (but not to those of its middle east project partner, UNICEF). Pressure from the Consultative Committee to the Fund, led by Therese Spens of UK, and from a group of NGOs, led to restoration of the US contribution, but at a lower level.

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Margaret C. Snyder

Snyder retired from UNIFEM in 1989. Following her retirement, she continued to serve as senior advisor to the UN and United Nations Development Programme. In 1992-93 she was a visiting fellow at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and traveled worldwide to visit activities sponsored by UNIFEM a decade before, with grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. She wrote the histories of the African Training and Research Centre for Women at UNECA (with co-author Mary Tadesse) and of UNIFEM. She then received a Fulbright award to allow her to spend the 1994-95 academic year teaching at the newly established Women's Studies Programme for MA candidates at Makerere University in Uganda.

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Margaret C. Snyder

In late 2006, Snyder, her former UNIFEM colleague Dr Thelma Awori, and colleagues laid the foundations for the Sirleaf Market Women's Fund, that honors Africa's first elected woman President and assists Liberia to restore community markets and provide education and financial support to market women after 14 years of civil war. She is also a member of the Board of the Green Belt Movement International that supports Kenya's Green Belt Movement by sponsoring information activities and mobilizes resources for the work in Kenya. She was an International Election Observer in 1992 in Ethiopia; 1995 in Tanzania; 1996 in Uganda; and 2000 in Zanzibar.

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Margaret C. Snyder

Margaret Snyder is the author or co-author of several books, including:

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Fano Guitars

Fano Guitars is an American manufacturing company founded by luthier Dennis Fano in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, producing electric guitars. Fano is a brand of Desert Son Musical Instruments, LLC. Fano has acquired a reputation for building boutique guitars; among its more unconventional models is the Fano Stratosphear, with a body made of plexiglass covered with aluminum. Fano's "Alt de Facto" guitar line blends characteristics of Fender, Rickenbacher, Gretsch and Gibson guitars. The affordable Fano Standard line of guitars was launched in 2016 and includes the JM6, SP6, TC6 and RB6.

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Fano Guitars

Dennis Fano, founder of the company, repaired guitars at Matt Umanov Guitars in New York until 2001, when he decided to pursue guitar building full-time. Originally, Fano repaired and modified bass guitars, with one of the first models Fano modified were his Fender Jazz Bass and a Harmony bass.

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Fano Guitars

Fano's flagship guitar model is the Alt de Facto, which is available in a range styles and configurations, including a "distressed" finish which gives the guitar the appearance of being well-worn. The Alt de Facto has been reviewed by a wide range of guitar publications, including: Vintage Guitar.

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Fano Guitars

Fano introduced the Standard Series line of guitars, made up of the JM6 and SP6 models, in January 2016. The Standard Series is "...an affordable line of signature guitars from one of the industry’s most respected custom builders. The Standard Series "...feature many of the attributes that have made Fano Guitars world renowned, including beautiful designs that are new yet familiar, superior craftsmanship, and unique 'distressed' finishes that make these guitars ultimately playable and recognizable. In 2017 the RB6 and TC6 Standard models were added to the line along with a total of 8 vintage colors and 2 different styles of nitrocellulose finishes, medium "distress" or "NOS".

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Fano Guitars

On 12 January 2018, Fano introduced the Standard Series bass guitar, JM4-FB. The guitar will be launched at the winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California and shipped to the authorized Fano dealers in January and February 2018.

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Fano Guitars

Of the Fano Standard Series JM6 guitar, reviewer Chris Loeffler of Harmony Central said, "The Fano Standard JM6 really is a workhorse of a guitar…well-appointed without being flashy, comfortable, and unique-looking without ever getting too far from what most players expect."

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Fano Guitars

Fano Guitars are played and endorsed by a wide range of professional guitarists, including: Jared Schraff ("Saturday Night Live"), Walter Becker (Steely Dan), Scott Sharrard (Gregg Allman Band). and Conor Oberst

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Fano Guitars

Fano JM6 was used by Gary Clark Jr. and Matthew Followill of Kings of Leon. Followill is also known to play PX6, TC6, SP6, RB6 and GF6.

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Viking Direct

Viking Direct, trading as Viking, is an office supply mail order catalogue company based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Office Depot "Europe". It is headquartered in Leicester, United Kingdom. Founded in 1960 in Los Angeles, California, Viking operates in over eleven countries worldwide, and employs 1,300 people in the United Kingdom. The company is a mail order seller of office supplies to small and medium sized business. Viking began in 1960, as a small office supply retailer located in Los Angeles, California. The store was opened on January 7, 1960, by Rolf Ostern. Ostern supplemented the retail operation with a catalogue, and this would become the primary marketing technique of the company. In 1969 Ostern changed the name of his store to Viking Office Supplies and moved to a new location. By the middle of the 1970s, Viking had established itself as a West Coast mail order retailer of discount office supplies to small and medium sized businesses. At that time, the company began a geographic expansion. On September 1, 1988, Viking was sold by its founders in a leveraged buyout to the VOP Acquisition Corporation. This company had been founded by Viking's management and the New York investment banking house of Dillon Read & Company, along with some of their affiliates, for the express purpose of purchasing Viking. In December 1989, VOP was merged into its subsidiary, Viking Office Products, in preparation for the company's initial public offering of stock. On March 14, 1990, Viking offered stock to the public on the NASDAQ stock exchange, selling 2,300,000 shares at a price of $10.50 per share to raise $25 million. The company made its first move overseas in September, 1990. At that time, Viking established a United Kingdom subsidiary, Viking Direct Limited, and opened a facility in Leicester, England. In making this move, Viking hoped to gain a toe hold in the European Economic Community before the planned unification of that market. In a brief time, Viking Direct became the largest mail order marketer of office supplies in the United Kingdom. The source of Viking's steady growth was its state of the art database and catalogue customising technology. In May 1998, Viking Office Products merged with Office Depot. The following year the company began to move online, launching e commerce site www.viking-direct.co.uk. In May 2016, following a failed merger with Staples, Office Depot Inc. agreed to sell its European business, including Viking, to The Aurelius Group for an undisclosed purchase price.

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Viking Direct

Viking Direct sells print supplies, office supplies, paper and mailing, technology, furniture, and writing instruments.

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Spartak-Junost

Spartak Junost () are a junior-level synchronized skating team from Yekaterinburg, Russia. They are 2017 and 2018 World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships gold medalist. They have also won bronze medal at the 2013 World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships, held in Helsinki, Finland.