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Joe Devlin (actor)

Christopher Joseph Devlin (February 7, 1894 – October 1, 1973), better known as Joe Devlin, was a vaudeville and burlesque performer, and American actor with over 170 film and television credits.

A singer, comedian, and actor, he toured extensively in vaudeville and burlesque between 1911 and 1937. Devlin was a member of the Minsky Winter Garden house company in New York City for a few seasons. He relocated to California in 1937 and worked as a character actor in film and TV until 1967, often playing henchmen, bartenders, and cops. He had a co-starring role in Dick Tracy TV series in the early 1950s.

Early life
Devlin was born on February 7, 1894, in a tenement on Vandam Street in Manhattan, New York, the son of Anna (Bird) Devlin and John Francis Devlin, a fireman. His father was Irish, from County Meath, and his mother was of Irish and English ancestry. Devlin attended NYC Public School #8 and LaSalle Academy.

Early career
Devlin started performing in an after-school quartet called the American Comedy Four which performed on street corners and at neighborhood benefits. Performer George “Honey Boy” Evans hired him to appear in a touring production of the Cohan and Harris musical Minstrels in 1911.

He sometimes worked as a singing waiter in New York City, and briefly took a job with the McKinley Music Company in 1918, then the world’s largest producer of sheet music.

Vaudeville
Devlin entered vaudeville in 1918 and toured for nearly 20 years.

In the fall of 1920 he and his girlfriend, Iva Boudry, toured extensively on the Orpheum Circuit through the Dakotas and Indiana, where Joe performed as a blackface singer, using the "skill" he learned in the Cohan and Harris Minstrels show.

He also performed at summertime attractions including aboard the SS Canadiana in the summer of 1921 and a Detroit amusement park in the summer of 1922.

His vaudeville partners included yodeler Paul Van Dyke, with whom he performed as Van Dyke & Devlin in several Loew's houses in New York City in 1921; and Fred Pisano as Pisano & Devlin in Boom Boom in the fall of 1928 along the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuit.

He toured as Joe Devlin & Co., in North Dakota, Montana, and California in 1925, upstate New York in the fall of 1925, and New England in 1927–1928. He also toured with Charles (Red) Marshall in 1931 and Steve Mills along the Fanchon and Marco circuit in 1932.

Devlin was a member of house company at Detroit's National Theater in 1922, and Newark's Strand in 1922–1923 as “character comedian."

His last vaudeville performance was in the Catskills Borscht Belt at the Capitol Hotel at Loch Sheldrake with his girlfriend, Pearl White, and Harry Rose and Helen Black in the summer of 1937, at a time when vaudeville was waning and burlesque jobs were hard to come by due to enforcement of morality laws.

Burlesque
He played the straight comedian in burlesque from 1924 to 1937. He also sang tenor.

His first job in burlesque came in 1924 when he toured the East Coast in a Mutual Burlesque Association (MBA) show, Joy Belles. Other MBA tours included Frank Harcourt's Red Hot, which featured 6 principals and a chorus of 17 girls in 1924 and 1926, and Dizzy Dames in 1934. He later toured along the Independent Burlesque Association (IBA) circuit in a show billed as Oriental Girls and Cupid's Carnival in 1935; and Town Tattles and Babes of Broadway with Billy "Cheese and Crackers" Hagan in 1936.

Joe was a house principal in the Minsky's Winter Garden theater in New York City in the 1926–1927 season. The NYPD raided the venue for violating morality laws on February 25, 1927. Joe and 12 other performers including Chubby Drisdale, Billy Wallace, and Raymond Paine were held under Section 1140 and tried in court. The raid inspired the 1960 novel The Night They Raided Minskys by Rowland Barber, and the 1968 film. The character Duffy is based on Joe Devlin. He was again a Winter Garden house principal in the 1929–1930 and 1931–1932 seasons.

He performed at Baltimore's Palace Theater in 1928 with famed burlesque celebrity Mae Dix, who invented the strip tease; the Irving Place Theater in New York City in 1928, 1933, and 1934; the New Gotham in New York in 1932 and 1934; the Parsons Hartford and Shubert New Haven in 1933; the Lyric in Philadelphia in 1935; the Star in Brooklyn in 1935; the Gayety in Washington, D.C., in 1936 in Melody Maid with Billy "Cheese and Crackers" Hagan; the Palace Theater in Buffalo in the summer of 1936 in a show featuring Ginger Sherry and comedy duo Stinky Fields and Shorty McAllister; and the Juno Casino and the Star in Brooklyn in 1936 and 1937.

His last East Coast burlesque appearance was at the Star in Brooklyn in April 1937 with Stinky Fields and Shorty McAllister, stripper Rose La Rose, and Countess Nadja.

Joe wrote the book for the burlesque show Novelties of 1936 which featured 24 scenes across 2 acts and toured Issy Hirst’s Independent Burlesque Association (IBA) circuit in 1936 with exotic Russian performer Countess Nadja (Nadjezda Grenko) starring. The show received positive reviews from the Washington Post and the Billboard.

His last burlesque appearance was at the Gayety in Minneapolis, MN, on December 8, 1937.

Broadway
Joe played Vincent Jones as C. Joseph Devlin in Street Scene at the Ambassador Theater from December 1929 to the show's closing in 1930. He reprised the role for the touring production in 1930.

Radio
Joe appeared on NBC's coast-to-coast airwaves during a special reading of Street Scene on February 15, 1930. He and Harry Rose tried to launch a radio program in the fall of 1934. He appeared on Joe Penner's The Park Avenue Penners in 1938, broadcast on CBS from Los Angeles.

Film and Television
Devlin started his acting career in 1938, and was under contract to Warner Brothers in the late 1930s. appearing in films such as Held for Ransom, King of the Underworld, Chasing Trouble, Tight Shoes, Murder in the Big House, Sweethearts of the U.S.A. and Shoot to Kill.

He also appeared in TV series like Front Page Detective, My Hero, The Whistler, Damon Runyon Theater and Hey, Jeannie! among others.

Devlin was famous for his resemblance to Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, whom he played in three films during World War II.

During his 30 years in film and television, Joe worked with many stars of the Golden Age including Humphrey Bogart, Marlene Dietrich, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Ronald Reagan, Boris Karloff, Mickey Rooney, John Wayne, Edward G. Robinson, Van Johnson, Bob Hope, Lou Costello, Ida Lupino, Eddie Cantor, Ralph Byrd, and so many more.

Personal life
Joe changed the spelling of his name to Christopher JA Devlyn briefly in 1913, and to Christopher Mathews in 1918 when he entered vaudeville.

Devlin married Anna Helen Woods in Manhattan on October 1, 1913 (as Christopher JA Devlyn), with whom he had a daughter, Rita Devlin (1914–1914). Joe was also in a relationship with Iva Mae Boudry from 1918 to 1922, and the couple had two sons, Robert "Bob" Mathews and William "Bill" Mathews. Joe and Iva were vaudeville performers and Iva was a tea leaf reader. His second marriage was to his long-time partner Pearl Christina White in Sherman Oaks, California on December 27, 1952.

Joe built a house at 4248 Vantage Avenue in Studio City in 1940, where he lived until his death. The house was torn down in 2018.

He was friends with Joe Yule, Sr., the father of MGM child actor Mickey Rooney.

Death
Devlin died on October 1, 1973, in Burbank, California, at the age of 79.

Film

 * Held for Ransom (1938) – Mark (uncredited)
 * Racket Busters (1938) – Truck Driver (uncredited)
 * Paroled from the Big House (1938) – Jed Cross
 * Tenth Avenue Kid (1938) – Card player (uncredited)
 * Gangster's Boy (1938) – Jim – Cop (uncredited)
 * Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) – Gangster (uncredited)
 * Up the River (1938) – Football player (uncredited)
 * Sweethearts (1938) – New York Taxi Driver (uncredited)
 * King of the Underworld (1939) – Porky
 * The Oklahoma Kid (1939) – Keely – Bartender
 * The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939) – Police Lt. George Devlin
 * The Adventures of Jane Arden (1939) – Vanders' Henchman #2 (uncredited)
 * Outside These Walls (1939) – Circulation Man (uncredited)
 * Panama Lady (1939) – Joe – New York Bartender (uncredited)
 * Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939) – Stone – Dolan Henchman (uncredited)
 * Another Thin Man (1939) – Barney – Macfay's Bodyguard (uncredited)
 * Hell's Kitchen (1939) – Nails – a Henchman (uncredited)
 * Waterfront (1939) – Heintzie – Committee Man (uncredited)
 * Calling All Marines (1939) – Dutch
 * No Place to Go (1939) – Spud
 * Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) – Waiter (uncredited)
 * Beware Spooks! (1939) – Shooting Gallery Man (uncredited)
 * The Roaring Twenties (1939) – Order-Taker (uncredited)
 * Invisible Stripes (1939) – Mug Who Brings Drink to Chuck (uncredited)
 * The Shadow (1940, Serial) – Henchman (uncredited)
 * Chasing Trouble (1940) – Cassidy, Motorcycle Cop
 * Three Cheers for the Irish (1940) – Man in Bar with Callagan (uncredited)
 * Half a Sinner (1940) – Steve
 * Terry and the Pirates (1940, Serial) as Henchman (uncredited)
 * Two Girls on Broadway (1940) – Taxi Driver (uncredited)
 * Gangs of Chicago (1940) as Lugo, Matty's butler (uncredited)
 * A Fugitive from Justice (1940) – Hinky-Dink
 * Millionaires in Prison (1940) – Vince Connell (uncredited)
 * Carolina Moon (1940) – Racetrack Bookie (uncredited)
 * They Drive by Night (1940) – Fatso (uncredited)
 * Golden Gloves (1940) – Cloudy Maple (uncredited)
 * Strike Up the Band (1940) – 3 Balls 10¢ Attendant (uncredited)
 * The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1941, Serial) – Joe Dolan – Henchman
 * Maisie Was a Lady (1941) – Man with Seal (uncredited)
 * The Great Mr. Nobody (1941) – Used Car Dealer (uncredited)
 * A Man Betrayed (1941) – Tramp at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
 * The Penalty (1941) – Shorty (uncredited)
 * Sis Hopkins (1941) – Police Detective (uncredited)
 * The Flame of New Orleans (1941) – Fourth Sailor (uncredited)
 * The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941) – Cook at Mike's (uncredited)
 * Country Fair (1941) – (uncredited)
 * Tight Shoes (1941) – Truck Driver (uncredited)
 * Whistling in the Dark (1941) – Taxi Driver (uncredited)
 * Manpower (1941) – Bartender (uncredited)
 * Honky Tonk (1941) – Masher in Saloon (uncredited)
 * They Died with Their Boots On (1941) – Joe (uncredited)
 * Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) – Mug Starting Fight at Wrestling Match (uncredited)
 * Unholy Partners (1941) – Airplane Mechanic (uncredited)
 * Steel Against the Sky (1941) – Ed (scenes deleted)
 * True to the Army (1942) – Waiter (uncredited)
 * Shepherd of the Ozarks (1942) – Louie
 * Murder in the Big House (1942) – Mulligan – Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
 * Larceny, Inc. (1942) – Spud the Umpire (uncredited)
 * Syncopation (1942) – House Detective (uncredited)
 * Wings for the Eagle (1942) – Service Station Owner (uncredited)
 * The Old Homestead (1942) – Henchman Geetus (uncredited)
 * The Devil with Hitler (1942, Short) – Benito Mussolini
 * Gentleman Jim (1942) – Hogan (uncredited)
 * Fall In (1942) – Sergeant (uncredited)
 * They Got Me Covered (1943) – Mussolini (uncredited)
 * Slightly Dangerous (1943) – Painter (uncredited)
 * Taxi, Mister (1943) – Henchman Stretch
 * Lady of Burlesque (1943) – Detective (uncredited)
 * That Nazty Nuisance (1943) – Benito Mussolini
 * Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) – Dan Hannigan
 * The Phantom (1943, Serial) – Singapore Smith (uncredited)
 * The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) – Benito Mussolini (uncredited)
 * Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944) – Boss – 1st Robber
 * See Here, Private Hargrove (1944) – Mess Hall Sergeant (uncredited)
 * Gambler's Choice (1944) – 'Studs' Franco (uncredited)
 * Mr. Skeffington (1944) – Boat Employee (uncredited)
 * Sensations of 1945 (1944) – Silas Hawkins (uncredited)
 * Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More (1944) – Ice Man (uncredited)
 * Delinquent Daughters (1944) – Detective Hanahan
 * Dixie Jamboree (1944) – Police Sgt.
 * My Buddy (1944) – Nicky Piastro
 * Mystery of the River Boat (1944, Serial) – Louis Schaber
 * The Woman in the Window (1944) – Toll Collector on Henry Hudson Parkway
 * Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945, Serial) – Police Sgt. Tim Brown (uncredited)
 * Roughly Speaking (1945) – Man at Shipyard (uncredited)
 * Without Love (1945) – Soldier (uncredited)
 * The Master Key (1945, Serial) – Bauer (uncredited)
 * Pillow to Post (1945) – Al – Army Sergeant in Jeep (uncredited)
 * Bedside Manner (1945) – Augustus (uncredited)
 * Captain Eddie (1945) – Brewery Worker (uncredited)
 * Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945) – Cab Driver Steve Caveroni (uncredited)
 * The Shanghai Cobra (1945) – Taylor
 * Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) – Bartender (uncredited)
 * Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945) – Kelly – Bartender (uncredited)
 * Scarlet Street (1945) – Joe Williams, Morning World (uncredited)
 * The Hoodlum Saint (1946) – Bartender (scenes deleted)
 * The Bachelor's Daughters (1946) – Briggs (uncredited)
 * Criminal Court (1946) – Clark J. 'Brownie' Brown
 * Bringing Up Father (1946) – Casey – the Hotel Superintendent
 * San Quentin (1946) – 'Broadway' Johnson
 * The Man I Love (1947) – Waiter (uncredited)
 * The Mighty McGurk (1947) – Dog Man (uncredited)
 * That Way with Women (1947) – Police Desk Sergeant
 * Shoot to Kill (1947) – Smokey
 * Fun on a Weekend (1947) – Clothing Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
 * Body and Soul (1947) – Prince (uncredited)
 * Always Together (1947) – First Cab Driver (uncredited)
 * My Wild Irish Rose (1947) – Man in Olympic Theatre Balco (uncredited)
 * Killer McCoy (1947) – Cigar Smoking Fight Fan (uncredited)
 * If You Knew Susie (1948) – Silent Cy (uncredited)
 * The Enchanted Valley (1948) – Bugs Mason
 * Bodyguard (1948) – Detective Sgt. Burch (uncredited)
 * A Song Is Born (1948) – Adams' Henchman (uncredited)
 * Blood on the Moon (1948) – Barney – Bartender (uncredited)
 * El Paso (1949) – Bartender at Casa Grande (uncredited)
 * A Kiss in the Dark (1949) – Stage Electrician (uncredited)
 * Night Unto Night (1949) – Joe, Truckman (uncredited)
 * Mighty Joe Young (1949) – Reporter (uncredited)
 * Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949) – Casey (uncredited)
 * The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) – Tough Lodge Members in Stands (uncredited)
 * Our Very Own (1950) – Card Player (uncredited)
 * Pretty Baby (1950) – Waiter (uncredited)
 * Insurance Investigator (1951) – Malone's Henchman (uncredited)
 * Stop That Cab (1951) – Short Cop (uncredited)
 * All That I Have (1951) – Louie Lumpkin
 * On Dangerous Ground (1951) – Bartender (uncredited)
 * Double Dynamite (1951) – Frankie Boy (uncredited)
 * Bitter Creek (1954) – Pat – Bartender
 * Silver Lode (1954) – Wait Little (uncredited)
 * Prince of Players (1955) – Theatre Shill (uncredited)
 * Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955) – Mike – Policeman (uncredited)
 * Tennessee's Partner (1955) – Prendergast
 * While the City Sleeps (1956) – Newspaper Teletype Operator (uncredited)
 * Three for Jamie Dawn (1956) – 1st Jury Room Guard (uncredited)
 * Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956) – Squad Car Officer
 * The Wayward Bus (1957) – Bus Dispatcher (uncredited)
 * The Restless Breed (1957) – Morton (uncredited)
 * Calypso Heat Wave (1957) – Room Service Waiter (uncredited)
 * Up in Smoke (1957) – Al
 * The Gift of Love (1958) – Bar & Grill Waiter (uncredited)
 * Hell's Five Hours (1958) – Cook (uncredited)
 * The Decks Ran Red (1958) – Crewman (uncredited)
 * The Last Hurrah (1958) – Man (uncredited)
 * The Ugly Dachshund (1966) – Dog Owner (uncredited)
 * The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966) – Waiter-Spy (uncredited)
 * Good Times (1967) – Bartender (final film role)

Television

 * Front Page Detective – Death of a Hero (1951) TV Episode .... uncredited
 * My Hero – Horse Trail (1952) TV Episode .... Spike
 * The Abbott and Costello Show – Las Vegas (1953) TV Episode .... Bit – From Bed to Worse (1954) TV Episode .... Man – Barber Lou (1954) TV Episode .... Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
 * I Married Joan – Party Line (1954) TV Episode .... uncredited – Two Saint Bernards (1954) TV Episode .... Police Dispatcher
 * The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin – Rin Tin Tin, Outlaw (1954) TV Episode .... Major Phillips
 * Topper – Topper's Amnesia (1955) TV Episode .... Max
 * TV Reader's Digest – How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants (1955) TV Episode .... uncredited
 * The Whistler – Death Sentence (1955) TV Episode .... Bartender
 * My Little Margie – Buried Treasure (1953) TV Episode .... Joe – Margie's Elopement (1955) TV Episode .... Mr. Rivers
 * Celebrity Playhouse – Bachelor Husband (1956) TV Episode .... Phone Man
 * Damon Runyon Theater – Tobias the Terrible (1955) TV Episode .... Happy – Blonde Mink (1955) TV Episode .... uncredited – Cleo (1956) TV Episode .... uncredited – The Pigeon Gets Plucked (1956) TV Episode .... uncredited
 * NBC Matinee Theater – Statute of Limitations (1956) TV Episode .... Mervin
 * Our Miss Brooks – Geraldine (1956) TV Episode .... Policeman
 * Hey, Jeannie! – Jeannie's Here (1956) TV Episode .... N.Y. policeman
 * The Life of Riley – Riley, the Animal Lover (1953) TV Episode .... Policeman – Vacation Plans (1957) TV Episode .... The Guard
 * Death Valley Days – Solomon in All His Glory (1953) TV Episode .... Paddy the Bartender (uncredited) – Quong Kee (1957) TV Episode .... Charlie Moran
 * Wanted Dead or Alive – Baa Baa (1961) TV Episode .... Larry
 * Holiday Lodge – Wanted: Two Recreation Directors (1961) TV Episode .... Smitty
 * The Dick Van Dyke Show – Forty-Four Tickets (1961) TV Episode .... Shabby Man
 * The Hathaways – The Paint Job (1962) TV Episode .... Gateman
 * Gunsmoke – Catawomper (1962) TV Episode .... Jester – Reprisal (1962) TV Episode .... Dan Binny – The Boys (1962) TV Episode .... Drummer
 * The Danny Thomas Show – The Baby Hates Charley (1962) TV Episode .... Policeman
 * Dennis the Menace – Poor Mr. Wilson (1962) TV Episode .... Needy Man #1 (uncredited)
 * Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre – The Square Peg (1964) TV Episode .... Zakaris

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Günter Nooke

Günter Nooke (born January 21, 1959) is a German CDU politician and a former civil rights activist.

Background
Nooke was born in Forst (Lausitz), Germany, a small town in Brandenburg. He grew up there only 150 km (90 mi) southeast of Berlin, in the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR), near the Polish border.

He was educated in Forst, Cottbus and at the University of Leipzig, where he studied physics from 1980 to 1985. After graduating Nooke worked as a research assistant, latterly as a head of section from 1985 to 1990 at the industrial hygiene inspectorate in Cottbus.

He currently works as Director Internationals Affairs at Worldwide Hospitals (WWH), a global healthcare company that offers flexible solutions that fill gaps in medical infrastructure.

He is married to sociologist Maria Nooke. They have three children.

Political career
Since 1987, Nooke had been a member of a church opposition group and got involved in the growing democracy movement in 1989, which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Following the first (and only) democratic election in the GDR, he became Member of the People's Chamber for the opposition group named Alliance 90.

From 1990, to 1994 Nooke was a member of the parliament of the state of Brandenburg and was the chairman of the parliamentary group of Alliance 90. In 1996, he joined the CDU with other former civil rights activists.

From 1998 to 2005 Nooke was a member of the German Bundestag, deputy chairman (2000–2002) and spokesperson for cultural and media affairs (2002–2005) of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.

Positions in the German government
On March 8, 2006, Nooke was appointed as the Federal Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. He was succeeded in this office by Markus Löning in 2010.

Since April 2010, Nooke has been serving as Personal Representative of the German Chancellor for Africa in the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), under the leadership of ministers Dirk Niebel (2009-2013) and Gerd Müller (since 2013).

Controversy
In a 2018 interview with German tabloid BZ, Nooke made a number of allegations that were later criticised as racist and neo-colonial, such as the suggestion that colonialism was beneficial for Africa and that the hot and humid climate was responsible for a lower work productivity amongst Africans; he also suggested African states should lease their land to a foreign entity such as the World Bank to "allow free development for 50 years" implying that it was solely the incompetence and corruption of African heads of state that were responsible for the death of jobs and opportunities in many African states. His suggestion was widely criticised as reeking of neo-colonialism by academics and journalists. In the ensuing controversy, Nooke allegedly threatened to dismiss a non-tenured faculty member of the University of Hamburg, Raja Kramer, who had served as the voluntary head of a German association of Africa scientists (Fachverbands Afrikanistik).

Other activities

 * Amref Health Africa, Member of the Board of Trustees
 * German-Azerbaijani Forum, Member of the Board of Trustees
 * World Vision Deutschland, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2009)
 * Deutsche Welle, Deputy Chairman of the Broadcasting Council (2003-2014)

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User:Mhatab93/sandbox

FAM71D is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FAM71D gene on chromosome fourteen.

Gene/Locus
In humans, FAM71D is located at 14q23.3 and stretches between positions 67189393 and 67228550 (span 39157 bp). It codes for at least 10 unique human protein isoforms: the primary isoform (422 aa; also denoted X1),  , isoform X2 (417 aa) , isoform X3 (413 aa) , isoform X4 (400 aa) , isoform X5 (399 aa) , isoform X6 (398 aa) , isoform X7 (392 aa)  , isoform X8 (389 aa) , isoform X9 (347 aa) , isoform X10 (336 aa).

Transcript
In humans, FAM71D codes for an mRNA strand that is 1790 base pairs long. The human mRNA is comprised of a 5' untranslated region that is 290 bases and a 3' untranslated region that is 231 bases long

Protein
The primary protein encoded by FAM71D in humans is 422 amino acids long with a molecular weight of 47076 Da. THe protein is part of a functionally uncharacterized family of proteins (pfam 12480) with a domain of unknown function (DUF3699).

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Screenshot from Dracula X; Chi no Rondo.

Fair use in TurboGrafx-16 and Akumajō Dracula X Chi no Rondo
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
 * 1) It illustrates an educational article about the entity that the logo represents.
 * 2) The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
 * 3) It is a low resolution image, and thus not suitable for production of counterfeit goods.
 * 4) The logo is not used in such a way that a reader would be confused into believing that the article is written or authorized by the owner of the logo.
 * 5) It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

 * Copyright in video game shown most likely held by Konami.

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Marana Unified School District

Marana Unified School District (MUSD) is an above average, public school district located in Marana, AZ, comprising 17 schools in Pima County, Arizona. It has its headquarters in Marana. It has 12,293 students in grades PK, K-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 19 to 1, about 650 teachers. According to state test scores, 42% of students are at least proficient in math and 42% in reading. Founded in the early 1920s, MUSD's boundaries include 550 sqmi of land.

Schools
The Marana Unified School District has a total of 17 schools:
 * 10 elementary schools
 * 2 K-8 schools
 * 2 middle schools
 * 3 high schools.

Elementary schools
In alphabetical order:
 * 1) Butterfield Elementary (Casas Adobes Community Advocate, Casas Adobes)
 * 2) Coyote Trail Elementary (Marana)
 * 3) DeGrazia Elementary (Cortaro)
 * 4) Estes Elementary (Marana)
 * 5) Gladden Farms Elementary (Marana)
 * 6) Ironwood Elementary (Casas Adobes Community Advocate, Casas Adobes)
 * 7) Picture Rocks Elementary (Picture Rocks),
 * 8) Quail Run Elementary (Casas Adobes Community Advocate, Cortaro)
 * 9) Rattlesnake Ridge Elementary (Marana),
 * 10) Roadrunner Elementary (Avra Valley),

K-8 schools
In alphabetical order:
 * 1) Dove Mountain (CSTEM)
 * 2) Twin Peaks Elementary (Marana)

Middle schools
In alphabetical order:
 * 1) Marana Middle (Marana)
 * 2) Tortolita Middle (Cortaro)

High schools
In alphabetical order:
 * 1) Marana High School (Marana),
 * 2) MCAT High School (Marana)
 * 3) Mountain View High School (Cortaro)

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J. O. Lindsay

Jean Olivia Lindsay (née McLachlan) (1910–1996) was a British historian who was a graduate of Girton College, Cambridge University. She was the Headmistress of St George's School.

Life
Jean Olivia Lindsay was born in India, to James Douglas McLachlan and Gwendolyn Mab White. She was educated at schools in Edinburgh and at Queen's College, located on Harley Street in London. Her father was posted as the first British military attache to Washington D.C. and she accompanied him, with her mother and sister Felicita Dina.

She studied history at Girton from 1929–32, obtaining a distinction in Part II of the Tripos. She undertook historical research in Cambridge, London and Spain as a Cairnes Student from 1932 to 1936, leading to her PhD in 1936; she was awarded both the University Prince Consort Prize and Seeley Medal in 1938.

Lindsay had a distinguished war service in the Ministry of Information and in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY, renamed FANY (The Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps) in 1999) 1939–45, and she came back to Girton as Lecturer in Modern History and Fellow, later also a University Lecturer. She married Humphrey David Richard Pelham Lindsay in 1947. In 1960, she moved to Edinburgh, where she was Headmistress of St George's School until her retirement in 1976. Jean Lindsay published widely, particularly on the history of Anglo-Spanish relations. In 1957, she was named editor of volume seven of Cambridge's The New Cambridge Modern History. Jean Lindsay published widely, particularly on the history of Anglo-Spanish relations.

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Votaw

Votaw is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Carmen Delgado Votaw
 * Carolyn Harding Votaw (1879–1951), American missionary and public servant
 * Lyravine Votaw (1874–1958), American music educator
 * Ty Votaw (born 1962), American lawyer and golf administrator

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This course is designed to be an introduction to computer hardware. The goal of this course is to provide the students with the fundamental understanding of computer hardware.

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Top-rated United States television programs of 1998–99

This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1998–99 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research.


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Mamuri, Fazl

Mamuri (, also Romanized as Ma‘mūrī) is a village in Fazl Rural District, in the Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 413, in 113 families.

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Lesson plans

 * This project is most likely made for high school/college students.
 * This project requires creativity, neatness, and hard work.

1. Begin showing the class about sunken relief, you must explain the history show some examples and explain the purpose of them. The Egyptians were the main ones to use sunken relief sculptures to tell stories and show the greatness of the pharaoh. This should take about 20 to 25 minutes to teach. 2. Now you start showing them how to do it, give them a demo, and let them ask questions. Start by finding a picture you or they like and let them recreate it by redoing it as a sunken relief. Now that they have a picture of their or your choice draw it on paper using coal, draw your image really dark. Now that you have your image drawn on it take a thick sheet of fresh clay and place your paper on it with the image faced down and take some rubbing alcohol and damp the paper evenly on to the clay. Carefully lift the paper up and your image should clearly show up. Take your sculpting tools and carefully start carving out your image. When done, smooth out your work, make it look neat.

3. The students should now know what to do, and ready to work. On the first two days they should take the time to find an image. On the third day they should recreate the image on paper, fourth day they should copy it on to a sheet of clay. The last day should be used to take time and clean up the project, smooth out and touch it up.

Note: This page can be access at "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sunken_relief".

To erase a page...
To erase a page that you created, I think you must put the word "ORPHAN" on the top of the page and a request to deleate the page. (Sorry, I don't know the correct template for this.) Robert Elliott 20:50, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

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Northern Samar Provincial Board

The Northern Samar Provincial Board is the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial legislature) of the Philippine province of Northern Samar.

The members are elected via plurality-at-large voting: the province is divided into two districts, each having five seats. A voter votes up to five names, with the top five candidates per district being elected. The vice governor is the ex officio presiding officer, and only votes to break ties. The vice governor is elected via the plurality voting system province-wide.

The districts used in appropriation of members is coextensive with the legislative districts of Northern Samar.

Aside from the regular members, the board also includes the provincial federation presidents of the Liga ng mga Barangay (ABC, from its old name "Association of Barangay Captains"), the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK, youth councils) and the Philippine Councilors League (PCL).

Current members
These are the members after the 2019 local elections and 2018 barangay and SK elections:

 * Vice Governor: Gary Lavin (NUP)

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Wikiversity talk:Course titles

This is the discussion page for the Course Names and Course Numbers of the Wikiversity. Please discuss everything necessary! Gabriel Spiro 05:53, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Wikiversity is not limited to college-level or traditional content. It includes group discussions, research projects, etc., and course materials that could range from pre-school to post-graduate levels.  If any numbering system is going to be Wikiversity-wide, it would have to take all of this into account.  It may be extraordinarily difficult to convince all of the different Schools to adopt a uniform numbering system, however, and things get much more complicated by the existance of cross-subject studies.  The Jade Knight 11:25, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I can't follow this policy at all. I don't understand which phrases are meant to be the course names and which are descriptions of the course. How does the course number indicate Russia, are there codes for countries? How does this relate to the actual page name of a lesson? I'm new here and this is just confusing. Are there any concrete examples out there based on this policy that I could use as a template? Jonathan Webley 17:53, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

 * The examples in this page are confusing as they include numbers as codes and also as dates (eg. 1917 is the year of the Russian revolution, rather than a code for this material). I think it is always better to be descriptive, rather than codify page titles - hence, use "Introduction to Klingon", as opposed to "Klingon 101". I also agree in that I don't think this policy page is particularly useful. Cormaggio talk 18:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I believe this idea has some merit, at least from a hierarchical standpoint. Personally, I feel that the segregation of studies is counter-productive to actual learning. However, for the purposes of navigation throughout the wiki, the idea seems useful. The addition of an alphabetic prefix denoting the general subject may help differentiate the subject from the course level, and the incorporation of the unused "0" course level to designate pre-college level classes. for example:

pre-college level mathematics

MAT 0100 - MAT 0900

college level mathematics

MAT 1000 - MAT 9000 Peter D.talk 19:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Pre-college level mathematics includes 12 years worth of mathematics! Are you going to lump it all in one number?  The Jade Knight 05:00, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I think Peter means that there could be several pre-college courses: MAT0100, MAT0200, MAT0300, etc. I can see problems with deciding what counts as pre-college. In my part of the world a college could be a school or it could be a university or something in between. Jonathan Webley 13:12, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think that Peter is trying to lump 12 years into one big number, those who are going to use this site will be of reading levels and unless they don't teach math along with english, then we must assume they have some math foundations. However, there can be classes that are not just 0900 level, that could be the Algebra section and there might be three classes under that title (0901, 0950, 0999). Therefore, instead of just a couple of classes, there is 999 possible classes. Just a thought. The G 17:10, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know, but why is the current scheme so time-disproportionate? The Jade Knight 16:58, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I say we drop all numbering systems discussed in this portion and create something more usable as being discussed below in the "Class Structuring Proposal" section. The G 17:37, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Support The Jade Knight 04:41, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

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Cookbook:Leavening Agent

| Basic foodstuffs

Leavening agents are used to make bread and other foods rise, trapping many little air bubbles in the food. This gives the final product a less dense, lighter consistency than it would have if leavening had not taken place. The various methods for leavening include biological and chemical reactions, as well as mechanically trapping air in a substance.

Chemical leavening
These leavening agents work by releasing carbon dioxide gas as they react with water, heat, or acid in the food.

 * baking powder
 * baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
 * horn salt (hartshorn - ammonium bicarbonate)

Biological leavening
These leavening agents work by fermenting sugars in the food to produce carbon dioxide. The fermentation typically produces additional flavour compounds, such as the sour flavours in sourdough bread.

 * beer (unpasteurised - live yeast)
 * buttermilk
 * ginger beer
 * kefir
 * sourdough starter
 * yeast
 * yoghurt

Mechanical leavening
These leavening agents work either by releasing gas already trapped in the product, or by incorporating air into the product by beating / stirring. If a gas is used, it is usually carbon dioxide, although sometimes nitrous oxide is used (as in the case of canned whipped cream).

 * beer (pasteurised - no live yeast)
 * egg whites (whipped)
 * whipped cream

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Brian L. Roberts

Brian L. Roberts (born June 28, 1959) is an American billionaire businessman, and the chairman and CEO of Comcast, an American company providing cable, entertainment, and communications products and services which was founded by his father, Ralph J. Roberts.

Early life and education
Roberts was born into a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Ralph J. Roberts, the founder of Comcast Corporation, and Suzanne (née Fleisher), a former actress and playwright. His maternal grandfather, Alfred W. Fleisher, was a real estate investor and philanthropist who supported prison reform. Roberts graduated from Germantown Academy and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981, and immediately began working for Comcast.

Career
Roberts is chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation. He was named President of Comcast Corporation in 1990 at 31 years of age when the company had $657 million in annual revenue. Comcast Corporation's annual revenue has since grown to $94.5 billion.

Roberts is chairman of the board of directors of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), and a former treasurer. Roberts served as Chairman of NCTA from 1995 to 1996, when the landmark deregulatory 1996 Telecommunications Act became law.

In 2000, Roberts acquired AT&T Broadband for $53.2 billion in stock and assumed debt. The deal allowed Comcast to become the largest cable operator in the world. In 2009, NBCUniversal was also acquired by Comcast.

In 2016, Roberts received US$28.6 million in compensation, and in 2020, his net worth was US$1.7 billion.

Awards and philanthropy
Institutional Investor Magazine named Roberts as its top vote-getter for three years in a row (2004–06) in the Cable & Satellite category of their America's Best CEOs annual survey; and named Comcast as one of America's Most Shareholder-Friendly Companies in 2006.

Roberts was the recipient of the 1994 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, the 2004 Humanitarian Award from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and was the 2002 Walter Kaitz Foundation Honoree of the Year for his commitment to diversity in the cable industry. The Police Athletic League of Philadelphia honored Roberts with their 2002 award for his commitment to youth programs and community partnerships.

In 2011, Roberts was awarded the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's 2011 Ambassador for Humanity Award.

The Aileen K. and Brian L. Roberts Foundation was one of the largest contributors to the restoration of the Alfred W. Fleisher Memorial Synagogue at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, named in the honor of his maternal grandfather.

Maccabiah Games
An All-American squash player, Roberts competed in the Maccabiah Games in Israel, earning a gold medal with the U.S. squash team in the 2005 Maccabiah Games, and silver medals in the 1981 Maccabiah Games, the 1985 Maccabiah Games,  the 1997 Maccabiah Games, and the 2009 Maccabiah Games. On October 21, 2012, Roberts was honored by Maccabi USA as a 'Legend of the Maccabiah.'

Politics
Roberts was a founding co-chair of Philadelphia 2000, the nonpartisan host committee for the 2000 Republican National Convention. The Pennsylvania Report named Roberts to the 2003 "The Pennsylvania Report Power 75" list of influential figures in Pennsylvania politics, calling him "Pennsylvania’s most powerful businessman", and noted his influence with Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.

In 2003, Roberts was named to the PoliticsPA list of politically influential individuals.

In December 2009, Roberts wrote a letter to President Barack Obama, endorsing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Roberts has donated $90,600 to Democratic candidates/PACs, and $70,300 to Republican candidates/PACs. He has not donated to any political party or candidate since 2012.

Personal life
Roberts and his wife, Aileen Kennedy Roberts, live in Philadelphia and have three children. Aileen is the chair of the Barnes Foundation.

In 2010, Roberts, along with his brother Douglas and his father, presented his mother a Women's Image Network Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.

Roberts owns a 48 ft sloop and a 65 ft sloop, both designed by Sparkman & Stephens and named Aileen after his wife, which he sails while on vacation in his seasonal home on Wildwood, NJ.

Roberts's son Tucker was appointed president of Overwatch League eSports team Philadelphia Fusion in January 2018, after Comcast and its sporting arm Comcast Spectacor paid a reported $20 million in franchise fees to participate in that league.

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Draft:Ravenwood (band)

Ravenwood, is an American alternative rock band formed in 2010 in North Canton, Ohio. . Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist & producer Joe Vitale Jr is the only permanent member of the band.

The leader of Ravenwood, Joe Vitale Jr, son of rock drummer Joe Vitale (Joe Walsh, The Eagles, Crosby Stills & Nash) recorded the band's first commercial release single, Don't Let Go (2018), while performing as a solo artist under his own name.

Ravenwood's second commercial release single, We're All In This Together (2020) was reviewed in the online publication, A&R Factory & in the online magazine, Crack Wise Magazine review. Both songs were released under Vari Loud Records.

Formation (2010-2014)
In 2010, Joe Vitale Jr founded Ravenwood in North Canton, Ohio. Ravenwood uses a combination of genres of alternative rock, industrial rock & analog synthesizers in their releases.

Ravenous (2018-2021)
Written, arranged, produced and performed by Joe Vitale Jr.

The first commercial single Don't Let Go was released in 2018.

Ravenwood's second commercial release We're All In This Together (2020).

Ravenwood's third commercial release & first LP was released in 2021

Unsympathetic Vibrations (2021-2022)
Written, arranged, produced and performed by Joe Vitale Jr.

The first commercial single "Blind" was released in 2022.

Ravenwood's fourth commercially release.

Alive Music Festival (2023)
Ravenwood is the first considered mainstream band to ever perform at the Christian Alive Music Festival. Related to this Mr. Vitale is an author of Christian books and has released 4 books.

Downtown Canton Music Festival (2023)
Ravenwood reached another milestone when the band was slated to headline the Inaugural 2023 Downtown Canton Music Festival in Canton, Ohio. This festival replaces the long run national Canton Blues Festival.

Music and lyrics
Ravenwood's intrinsic message remains as Triumph Over Adversity.

Don't Let Go
"Don't Let Go" is the first commercially released single from Ravenwood on January 31st, 2018 & the guitar solo was performed by guitarist, Neil Zaza.

We're All in This Together
"We're All in This Together" is the second commercially released single from Ravenwood on May 5th, 2020.

Ravenous
"Ravenous" was Ravenwood's first full length album commercial release on May 7th, 2021.

Blind
"Blind" is the third commercially released single from Ravenwood on July 29th, 2022. "Blind" is part of Ravenwood's second commercially released album "Unsympathetic Vibrations".

Unsympathetic Vibrations
"Unsympathetic Vibrations" is Ravenwood's second commercially released album, released on March 3rd, 2023.

Music Festivals
In 2023, Ravenwood got it's milestone break by being selected to perform at the national Alive Music Festival in Mineral City, OH for July 14th, 2023. Subsequently, Ravenwood was also chosen to headline it's first music festival for the inaugural Downtown Canton Music Festival.

Books
Ravenwood released the book "The lyrics of Ravenous" in connection with the release of their album Ravenous in the fall of 2021. This book is a collection of the band's lyrics & interior liner notes from the album "Ravenous".

Film
Vitale, under the name J. Ravenwood, scored the independent film called Safe in 2010. This was the inception of Vitale's use of the name Ravenwood. The film was released to film festivals around the United States and won honorable mention at the Myrtle Beach Film Festival in 2011.

Podcast
In the winter of 2022, Vitale started an official podcast called "Cast the Raven" on all major podcast platforms.

Principle member
Joe Vitale Jr - lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, synthesizers, piano, programming, drums, percussion & only principal member | 2010-present.

Band Members current & past
Casey Ha : Lead Guitar | 2024 - Present

Jon Pyle : Guitar | 2024 - Present

Guy Snowdon : Bass | 2024 - Present

Trevor Matthews : Lead Guitar | 2019 - 2023

Brandon Covey : Bass | 2015 - 2023

Dan Kinsinger : Drums | 2015 - 2023

Kathy Vogel : Keys | 2019 - Present

Ryan McDermott | Lead Guitar | 2018

Neil Zaza : Lead Guitar 2017 - 2022

Theresa Rose : Backup vocals 2018-2019

Albums

 * Ravenous (2021)
 * Unsympathetic Vibrations (2023)

Singles

 * Don't Let Go (2018)
 * We're All in This Together (2020)
 * Blind (2022)

Books

 * The Lyrics of Ravenous (2021)

Music Videos

 * Don't Let Go (2018)
 * We're All in This Together (2020)
 * Aural Borealis - ALPHA (2020)
 * Ravenous (2021)
 * Blind (2022)

Film

 * Aural Borealis - ALPHA (2020)
 * Aural Borealis - BETA (2023)

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Middle Hesse

The region of Middle Hesse (Region Mittelhessen, ) is one of three planning regions in the German state of Hesse, alongside North and South Hesse. Its territory is identical with that of the administrative province of Gießen (Regierungsbezirk Gießen) and covers the counties of Limburg-Weilburg, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Gießen, Marburg-Biedenkopf and Vogelsbergkreis. The Middle Hesse Regional Assembly (Regionalversammlung Mittelhessen), which decides on the regional plan, currently consists of 31 members chosen by the five counties and the three towns with special status: Gießen, Marburg and Wetzlar. The regional assembly has tasked the governing president (Regierungspräsident) with delivering regional management. The Mid-Hesse Regional Management Association (Regionalmanagementverein MitteHessen) was founded on 22 January 2003.

Geology and geography
Middle Hesse is geomorphologically a mix of uplands and valley depressions, originally shaped by volcanism. The valley of the Lahn, including the natural regions of the Upper Lahn Valley, Marburg-Gießen Lahn Valley, Weilburg Lahn Valley region and Limburg Basin, bisects the region down the centre. Of the highlands on both sides of the river valley, only the Vogelsberg (to its left) and the Gladenbach Uplands (to its right) lie entirely within Middle Hesse. Of the others, only the northern part of the Eastern Hintertaunus in the Taunus, the eastern part of the Westerwald, almost to its highest point, and the (south-)east slopes of the Rothaar at the Kalteiche, including the Haincher Heights and Sackpfeife, are actually within Middle Hesse.

The western Middle Hesse belongs to the Rhenish Massif and is therefore its oldest part (formed during the Palaeozoic around 300 to 500 million years ago). This, initially single, mountain chain was uplifted again during the Alpine folding and finally took on the morphology visible today: the vulcanites of the Westerwald and its bisection by the rivers Lahn and Dill with raised fault blocks (Dill Basin) like the Limburg Basin that were broken again during the Tertiary. Depositions of loess and the availability of water resulted in its early settlement.

The Hintertaunus includes the southern part of the Middle Hessian slate mountains; north of the Lahn is the Tertiary volcanic upland of the Westerwald and, immediately to the east are the Gladenbach Uplands. The red iron deposits in the west of the latter uplands, which include the Lahn-Dill region, were the prerequisite for the very early establishment of iron and non-ferrous metal mining, owe their formation to the submarine volcanicity of the Upper Devonian. The kaolin-rich clays of limnic-terrestrial sediments were produced by the depositions of the sea that once covered almost the whole of Germany in the Palaeozoic. They formed the raw materials for the early production of pottery and brick ware in the region. Time and again, attempts were made to mine lignite in Middle Hesse; the use of mineral springs from this time e.g. in the Löhnberger Basin or in Selters has clearly been more successful even to date.

The West Hesse Highlands adjoin the slate mountains to the east, as far as the West Hesse Depression. During the Palaeozoic (Mesozoic, around 140 to 200 million years ago), the depression filled up with sediment sequences. Of particular mention, in the highlands west of the depression, is the Bunter sandstone, up to 1,000 metres thick, a porous rock, thus not attractive for settlement, which characterises the Burgwald, as well as the Marburg Ridge, the Lahnberge and the northern part of the Upper Hessian Ridge.

The low mountains of the Vogelsberg in the east of Middle Hesse, with a basalt surface area of 2,500 km², is the largest contiguous volcanic mountain range in Europe. Long ago the lavas spread out into table-like formations with a basalt thickness of up to 300 metres.

In the centre of Middle Hesse lie several basins which are part of the Mediterranean-Mjösen graben (European rift zone): in the south the foothills of the Wetterau rise in the region, enclosing the Gießen Basin and, behind the barrier of the Anterior Vogelsberg, the Amöneburg Basin.

Mountains
Buttes of the Rhenish Massif - like the Sackpfeife (674 m), Angelburg (609 m), Dünsberg (498 m) and Rimberg (498 m); and basalt kuppen, like the Amöneburg, Stoppelberg (402 m) in the north of the Eastern Hintertaunus or the Gleiberg - characterise the landscape. The most important mountains of the Middle Hesse portion of the Westerwald are the Höllberg (643 m), Auf der Baar (618 m) and Knoten (605 m). The most important hills of the Middle Hessian part of the Eastern Hintertaunus are the Kuhbett (526 m), Hesselberg (518 m) and Steinkopf (518 m). The highest summit in Middle Hesse is the Taufstein in the east of the region in the Vogelsberg mountains, which reaches a height of 773 metres.

Rivers
The river valleys, especially those of the Lahn and Dill, have incised the landscape deeply in places and represent historically important lines of communication that had a great influence on the developments of towns and the economy. In the valley of the Dill, roughly 250 metres deep, numerous mineral deposits in the bedrock were exposed. The larger tributaries of the Lahn in Middle Hesse include the Dill, Ohm, Weil and Emsbach.

Running diagonally across the Vogelsberg from southeast to northwest is the Rhine-Weser Watershed. The rivers that rise in the northern and eastern Vogelsberg drain via the Fulda into the Weser. These include the Schwalm, Antrift, Lüder and Schlitz.

The Wetter, by contrast, is a tributary of the Nidda and drains into the Main.

Literature

 * Georg Dehio, Ernst Gall, M. Herchenröder: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler – Südliches Hessen. Revised by Ernst Gall. 3rd unrevised edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, 1961.
 * Karl E. Demandt: Geschichte des Landes Hessen. Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel und Basel 1972, ISBN 3-7618-0404-0.
 * Wilhelm Classen: Die kirchliche Organisation Althessens im Mittelalter samt einem Umriss der neuzeitlichen Entwicklung, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1929 edition with map section (15 maps), Elwert Marburg, 1980, ISBN 3-7708-0694-8.
 * Willi Schulze, Harald Uhlig (eds.): Gießener Geographischer Exkursionsführer Mittleres Hessen. Vols. 1–3, Geographisches Institut und Institut für Didaktik der Geographie der Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen, Brühlscher Verlag, Gießen, 1982, ISBN 3-922300-10-3.
 * Regierungspräsidium Gießen in Verbindung mit der Historischen Kommission für Hessen (publ.): Mittelhessen: aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Hitzeroth, Marburg, 1991, ISBN 3-89398-066-0.
 * Ulrich G. Großmann: Mittel- und Südhessen. Dumont Verlag, Cologne, 1995, ISBN 3-7701-2957-1.
 * Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen (publ.): Kulturelle Entdeckungen Mittelhessen. Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7954-1854-0.
 * Georg Dehio: Dehio – Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Hessen I: Die Regierungsbezirke Gießen und Kassel. Bearb. von Folkhard Cremer und Tobias M Wolf. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3.
 * Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen (publ.): Kulturelle Entdeckungen: Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Vogelsbergkreis, Wetteraukreis. Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-2189-2.
 * Communication Solution GmbH/David Hart (ed.): Newcomers Guide. Welcome Home to Mittelhessen. 2011.
 * Communication Solution GmbH/David Hart (ed.): Newcomers Guide. Welcome Home to Mittelhessen. 2011.

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樣子

Noun

 * 1) appearance; shape
 * 2) air; manner
 * 3) model; pattern; sample
 * 4) situation; state
 * 1) model; pattern; sample
 * 2) situation; state

Synonyms

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Hello everyone! My name is Ashley, and I am quite knowledgeable of American Girl Dolls and the online communities revolving around them. I am here to put that knowledge to a good use and spread it around for anyone who wants to learn about them! Have a good day!

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Why was Mishae removed from this category when he was banned indefinitely by the community? -Cupper52 (talk) 19:04, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

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Latin/Lesson 1-Nominative

The Nominative Case
The Nominative case refers to the subject of a sentence. For example:

"The girl is pretty"

"The girl" is the subject of this sentence. In its simplest form a sentence will have a subject stated as a noun and will give some further information about the subject. The second part of this sentence tells the reader that the girl is pretty. This is called predicating the noun. This sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. As you know from English, an adjective is a word that denotes some quality, which in this sentence is attractiveness. The noun and adjective are joined together by the word "is", which is called the copula. Note that the copula simply connects the words and gives almost no information about the subject.

The sentence in Latin has the same grammatical elementsː

"puella est pulchra"

The noun is followed by the predicate. The only difference is the absence of an article which has to be supplied by the translator. Puella can be translated as "girl", "the girl", or "a girl". Can you tell which word is the copula?

Translate the followingː

 * Rōma est fāma
 * Rōma est magna
 * Rōma est in Italia

Which region of Europe was the Roman historian Tacitus referring to as Caledonia in his book Agricola, which records the military campaigns of his father-in-law?

Translate the followingː

 * Italia est in Eurōpa
 * Germānia est in Eurōpa
 * Britannia est in Eurōpa

Note the conjunction given in the Vocabulary, and translate the followingː

 * Rōma est fāma et magna
 * Germānia est magna et Britannia est fāma
 * Germānia et Britannia sunt in Eurōpa

Give the meaning of the complete word on this inscription fragment from Roman Britainː

Vocabulary
Key to Vocabulary:

 * m. = masculine
 * f. = feminine
 * n. = neuter

 * Latin nouns have gender and are formed into five groups of declension. Feminine nouns ending in "-a" in the Nominative Singular and "-ae" in the Genitive Singular are of the 1st declension. Most Latin names for countries and cities are 1st declension feminine nouns, so they end with "-a" in the Nominative Singular.

 * sg. = singular
 * pl. = plural

Overview of Adjectives
An adjective is any word that qualifies a noun. For example:

Adjectives in Latin
Adjectives must agree with the nouns they describe in gender, number, and case.

 * Adjectives are made to agree with first and second declension nouns by using the -a, -us, -um (feminine, masculine, and neuter) suffixes.

 * Third declension adjectives are given with the nominative and genitive singular. This, however, is only true for third declension adjectives of one termination. Most third declension adjectives do not have separate masculine and feminine forms. (Neuter adjectives follow the third declension neuter pattern.)

These words will look like the adjective antiquus (old, ancient):
 * antiquus (masculine), antiqua (feminine), antiquum (neuter).

Third declension adjectives typically look more like ferox, ferocis (wild, bold). This is because the third declension has no stem assigned to the nominative singular.

Adjectives often come after the word they describe. Since word order is not central to the meaning of a Latin sentence the adjective may appear anywhere in the sentence.

In the following examples the -us is masculine (m.), -a is feminine (f.) and -um is neuter (n.). So magnus is masculine, magna is feminine, and magnum is neuter.

Basic verbs
Verbs in Latin work quite differently than those in English. Study the following table then view the examples below.

Personal Endings
Archaic

Latin was spoken and written in Europe for over two thousand years and since all languages change gradually this sometimes makes it difficult for beginners to see patterns of change. English has also had a long development that is now divided into three periods called Old English, Middle English and Modern English. Compare the following English verbsː

 * grindan (OE), grinde (ME), grind (Modern English verb)
 * climban (OE), climbe (ME), climb (Modern English verb)

The contraction of the archaic "laborao" to "laboro" would have undergone the same gradual process. The archaic "amao" (I love) eventually became "amo". If you look at the Vocabulary you will see that "amat" and "amant" retain the original letter "a" of the stem.

Example 1

 * Notes
 * The adjective magnus -a -um must agree with templum in gender, number, and case, so the correct form is magnum (neuter nominative singular).
 * Note templum magnus est is incorrect because magn-us does not agree with templ-um.

Example 2
Notes: In the same way, the adjective pulcher -ra -rum must agree with puella in gender, number, and case, so the correct form is pulchra (agreement with the feminine nominative singular noun of the first declension).

Example 4
Notes: The adjective magnus -a -um in this case must agree with lūdī in gender, number, and case, so the correct form is magnī (masculine nominative plural).

Third Declension Nouns and Adjectives
Third declension nouns and adjectives follow a different pattern. The nominative singular stem is not defined, and as such, any letter (or letters) can serve as a third declension stem. For example, Māter (mother) is a third declension noun in the nominative case. When pluralized, it becomes Mātrēs. "-ēs" is attached to the end of a third declension noun to pluralize it, as opposed to changing the ending completely, because there is no uniform way to do so.

You may have also noticed that the "e" in "Māter" was dropped when pluralized. This often happens when a stem is attached to a third declension noun of similar spelling (example, "Pater" (father) becomes "Patrēs")

Examples:

Third declension nouns are listed with the nominative case and the genitive case to provide the main stem. For example:

All other types of nouns are also generally listed with the genitive

Adjectives with a nominative ending in -is and the same stem in the nominative and in the other cases (eg. fortis) end in -e in the neuter and -ia in the neuter plural.

For example:
 * dies difficilis = the difficult day
 * proelium difficile = the difficult battle
 * proelia difficilia = the difficult battles

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Electronics/Impedance

Definition
Impedance, $$\tilde{Z}$$, is the quantity that relates voltage and current in the frequency domain. (The tilde indicates a phasor. An overscore or arrow may also be used.)

 * $$\tilde{Z}=\frac{\tilde{V}}{\tilde{I}}=\frac{V\angle\phi_V}{I\angle\phi_I}=\frac{V}{I}\angle{\phi_V-\phi_I}$$.

In rectangular form,

 * $$\tilde{Z}=R+jX$$

where R is the resistance and X is the reactance. Impedance is generally a function of frequency, i.e.

 * $$\tilde{Z}(\omega)=R(\omega)+jX(\omega)$$

NOTE: ω = 2 π f
 * where f is the frequency in cycles per second (f=50 or 60 Hertz usually, depending on the country concerned. Aircraft systems often use 400 Hertz.)

Reactance
Reactance (symbol $$X$$) is the resistance to current flow of a circuit element that can store energy (i.e. a capacitor or an inductor), and is measured in ohms.

The reactance of an inductor of inductance $$L$$ (in Henries), through which an alternating current of angular frequency $$w$$ flows is given by:

 * $$X_L = \omega L$$

The reactance of a capacitor of capacitance $$C$$ (in Farads) is given similarly:

 * $$X_C = 1 /(\omega C)$$

The two formulae for inductive reactance and capacitive reactance create interesting counterpoints. Notice that for inductive reactance, as the frequency of the AC increases, so does the reactance. Hence, higher frequencies result in lower current. The opposite is true of capacitive reactance: The higher the frequency of AC, the less reactance a capacitor will present.

Similarly, a more inductive inductor will present more reactance, while a capacitor with more capacitance will yield less reactance.

Resistors
Resistors have zero reactance, since they do not store energy, so their impedance is simply
 * $$\tilde{Z}=R$$.

Capacitors
Capacitors have zero resistance, but do have reactance. it is stored in the power of a circuit or it can be also stored in a motor running off a AC current. Their impedance is

 * $$\tilde{Z}=\frac{1}{j{\omega}C}$$

where C is the capacitance in farads. The reactance of one microfarad at 50 Hz is -3183 ohms, and at 60 Hz it is -2653 ohms. In much more basic terms storing energy would be equivalent to a battery the power source is active and stays in this manner without any loss of power, this is what is regarded as a means for reversing electricity in the process of keeping that current.

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Inductors
Like capacitors, inductors have zero resistance, but have reactance. Their impedance is

 * $$\tilde{Z}=j{\omega}L$$

where L is the inductance in henries. The reactance of one henry at 50 Hz is 314 ohms, and at 60 Hz it is 377 ohms.

Circuit Analysis Using Impedance
Analysis in the frequency domain proceeds exactly like DC analysis, but all currents and voltages are now phasors (and so have an angle). Impedance is treated exactly like a resistance, but is also a phasor (has an imaginary component/angle depending on the representation.)

(In the case that a circuit contains sources with different frequencies, the principle of superposition must be applied.)

Note that this analysis only applies to the steady state response of circuits. For circuits with transient characteristics, circuits must be analyzed in the Laplace domain, also known as s-domain analysis.

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The Anthem of the Heart

The Anthem of the Heart (心が叫びたがってるんだ.), abbreviated as Kokosake (ここさけ) and subtitled Beautiful Word Beautiful World, is a 2015 Japanese animated youth drama film produced by A-1 Pictures and released in 2015. The film was directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai and written by Mari Okada. Masayoshi Tanaka served as the chief animation director and designed the characters. The trio, under the creative team name of Super Peace Busters, had previously worked on Toradora! and Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. The film was released in theaters in Japan on September 19, 2015.

Plot
As a young girl, Jun Naruse was very excitable and talkative. She used to love fairy tales and was always excited about the castle on the hilltop, which in reality was a love hotel.

One day, she saw her father leaving the love hotel. Not realising the significance of it, she exposes her father's infidelity. Her father blames her for the family conflict that follows. While she is crying, she imagines a fairy egg that curses her by sealing her words, so she won't hurt people again.

As a result of her "curse", Jun is not able to speak and suffers stomachaches whenever she tries to speak.

Years later, when Jun is attending high school, her homeroom teacher, Kazuki Jōshima, signs her up as a member of the Community Outreach Event along with three other classmates:

 * Takumi Sakagami, a shy member of the computer music researching club
 * Natsuki Nitō, a cheerleader and honor student
 * Daiki Tasaki, the former ace of the baseball team, who has a broken elbow

When she goes to the committee's room to reject her position, Jun hears Takumi singing and is captivated. She then tells Takumi about her past using her phone, and requests for him to turn her words into a song. In this way, Jun learns that though she cannot speak, the 'curse' doesn’t affect her if she sings. Her class decides to perform a musical for their school festival based on the story of her experience narrated in the form of a fairy tale.

While discussing the musical, Daiki has a falling out with his teammates. Jun intervenes, which leads to another stomachache, but this improves her bonds with the other Committee members. Misunderstanding Takumi's concern for Jun as a sign that he is falling in love with her, Natsuki tells Takumi that she will cheer them on, despite Natsuki's feelings for Takumi.

The next day, Daiki makes amends with his teammates. As they spend time together preparing for the musical, Jun starts to develop feelings for Takumi, while Daiki starts to develop feelings for Jun. Daiki asks Takumi about his relationship with Natsuki, having heard rumors that both of them were dating during middle school, but Takumi denies this since Natsuki had told her classmates that they were not dating when she was asked. Natsuki also tells Daiki that she currently has a boyfriend. On the night before the musical, Takumi asks Natsuki about the boy she's dating currently, leading Natsuki to finally reveal that the boy she's referring to is none other than Takumi himself before she accuses him of falling in love with Jun. Takumi reveals that while he is concerned about Jun, he is not in love with her and he has always regretted not trying to convey his feelings for Natsuki during middle school even when he was aware of her feelings for him at that time. Unbeknownst to them, Jun overhears their conversation. Heartbroken, she runs away and meets the fairy egg, who reveals that she has worsened the curse by trying to convey her feelings for Takumi. Jun doesn't show up on the day of the musical, leaving Natsuki to fill her role while Takumi frantically goes searching for her.

Takumi finds Jun at the love hotel that has been shut down. To his surprise, she can talk normally. Jun angrily lashes out at Takumi as he tells her that the reason she is unable to convey her words is not because of the fairy egg's curse but because of Jun's fear. Wanting to hear her voice once more, Takumi allows Jun to lash out all of her anger and frustration until she is satisfied. Jun confesses her feelings for Takumi, but it is revealed that Takumi is still in love with Natsuki, to which Jun replies that she knew. Takumi then expresses his gratitude for Jun because before he met her, he was unable to say what he truly felt and only went along with everyone else. This convinces Jun to perform in the musical. Jun and Takumi arrive just in time before the final scene, allowing Jun to sing and convey her feelings to her mother who finally understands what she has been through. As the musical ends, Jun realizes that the fairy egg was actually nothing but imagination that she created to have someone she could blame for her condition, and now she decides to open up her heart, coming to terms with her past.

As the movie ends, Takumi and Natsuki reconcile their relationship, while Daiki finally confesses his feelings to Jun.

Characters

 * Naruse Jun (成瀬 順)
 * Jun is the protagonist. She was originally a very upbeat, cheerful child, but after she exposed her father's unfaithfulness to her mother, she became quiet, timid and unable to speak. She later finds her voice by joining Takumi and the others in making a musical, in which she plays the main character.
 * Jun is the protagonist. She was originally a very upbeat, cheerful child, but after she exposed her father's unfaithfulness to her mother, she became quiet, timid and unable to speak. She later finds her voice by joining Takumi and the others in making a musical, in which she plays the main character.

 * Sakagami Takumi (坂上 拓実)
 * Takumi is another central character, who like Jun, is also quiet and timid. Like Jun, his parents are divorced, and he lives in the care of his grandparents. He plays piano, and played a major role in helping Jun set up the musical for the Charity Committee.
 * Takumi is another central character, who like Jun, is also quiet and timid. Like Jun, his parents are divorced, and he lives in the care of his grandparents. He plays piano, and played a major role in helping Jun set up the musical for the Charity Committee.

 * Tasaki Daiki (田崎 大樹)
 * As a member of the school's baseball team, he is initially seen as grumpy and fully rejects the idea of the musical. Through the course of the movie, he learns to warm up to his classmates, and plays a central role in the musical. He also starts to develop feelings for Jun, and eventually confesses his feeling to her.
 * As a member of the school's baseball team, he is initially seen as grumpy and fully rejects the idea of the musical. Through the course of the movie, he learns to warm up to his classmates, and plays a central role in the musical. He also starts to develop feelings for Jun, and eventually confesses his feeling to her.

 * Nitō Natsuki (仁藤 菜月)
 * Takumi's ex-girlfriend, still has feelings for Takumi. Though initially reluctant to join the musical, she warms up, and becomes a close friend of Jun. It is suggested Daiki had feelings for her, though she rejected them.
 * Takumi's ex-girlfriend, still has feelings for Takumi. Though initially reluctant to join the musical, she warms up, and becomes a close friend of Jun. It is suggested Daiki had feelings for her, though she rejected them.

 * Fairy Egg
 * A small mystical being resembling a white egg that only Jun can see. He has a thin mustache, two black dots for eyes, while wearing a tuxedo and a fedora hat with a feather on top. After Jun accepted his request to help her as a child, the Fairy Egg put a curse on her and sealed her mouth closed so that she will never speak and hurt people ever again. In the end, he is revealed to be a fragment of Jun's imagination. He has a black spot floating around his left hand and when he hides it, he turns into a prince which is a pun with the kanjis of tamago (玉子) and ōji (王子).
 * A small mystical being resembling a white egg that only Jun can see. He has a thin mustache, two black dots for eyes, while wearing a tuxedo and a fedora hat with a feather on top. After Jun accepted his request to help her as a child, the Fairy Egg put a curse on her and sealed her mouth closed so that she will never speak and hurt people ever again. In the end, he is revealed to be a fragment of Jun's imagination. He has a black spot floating around his left hand and when he hides it, he turns into a prince which is a pun with the kanjis of tamago (玉子) and ōji (王子).

Release
The film was released in theaters in Japan on September 19, 2015. The film's main theme song is "Ima, Hanashitai Dareka ga Iru" (今、話したい誰かがいる) performed by Nogizaka46. Aniplex of America released the film in North America on November 11 of the same year.

Box office
During its first five days in Japan, The Anthem of the Heart sold approximately 235,000 tickets, earning over ¥300 million. By November 1, 2015, the film had earned ¥1,015,293,050 (about US$8.43 million) in the Japanese box office. The film grossed US$8.85 million worldwide.

Critical response
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 63% of critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Anthem of the Heart is an excellent anime, whose truly captivating story will satisfy anyone who will succumb to it".

Nick Creamer of Anime News Network (ANN) rated the film a B+ rating. In his review, he said that despite the last act being hampered by typical dramatic tropes, he praised the film for its well-written characters, grounded storytelling and classically minded soundtrack, concluding with, "It's an endearing little film that tells one small story with some real grace. Definitely recommended." Fellow ANN editor Zac Bertschy placed the film at number four on his top 5 best anime list of 2015, calling it "a sweet, lighthearted and sincere little drama" with solid character animation and emotional moments, and commended it for using the medium's limitless potential to tell its story regardless of genre, concluding with, "I imagine any other country on earth creating an animated film like Anthem of the Heart. Every now and then you've got to stop and recognize the truly unique things about anime that are still true – like the fact that it tells stories with animation that no one else does".

Writing for IGN, Kallie Plagge was concerned about the ending stating that "The Anthem of the Heart falls flat toward the end" but she also praised other aspects of the film saying, "The animation looks great, and its tone is balanced nearly perfectly" giving it an overall rating of 8.2/10.

Live-action film
A live-action film adaptation was announced in March 2017. Directed by Naoto Kumzawa, it stars Kyoko Yoshine, Kento Nakajima, Anna Ishii, and Ichiro Kan. Filming began in March 2017 in Chichibu, Saitama, and the film was released on July 22, 2017.

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1913 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo) was the tenth water polo championship in Hungary. There were two teams who played one match for the title.

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Tsalada

Tsalada (Цалада) is a rural locality (a selo) in Tlogobsky Selsoviet, Gunibsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The population was 207 as of 2010.

Geography
Tsalada is located 42 km northwest of Gunib (the district's administrative centre) by road, on the Kunada River. Gazilala and Kuyada are the nearest rural localities.

Nationalities
Avars live there.

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Talk:كحول

where did the arabic word al kuhool come from? its a semi modern word introduced from English alcohol which in turn came from the original arabic word al ghoul. please see the discussion at alcohol.

painting around the eyes does not have anything to do with alcohol (in spirits).

 * Our entry uses the known standard etymology, not a POV revision. Robert Ullmann 15:18, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

 * The English word alcohol did not always mean what it means today. Until the 18th century, it meant antimonium sive stibium. The word alcohol really is from Arabic from كحل. The modern meaning of alcohol, which the word only achieved less than 200 years ago, is equivalent to the Arabic (spirit) of the Qur’an, but its phonetic similarity to the English word is only coincidental. Alcohol, in its earlier meaning, derives from كحل, then the meaning changed to what it is now, and then it loaned back into Arabic as الكحول. —Stephen 15:32, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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Andar Ab, Razavi Khorasan

Andar Ab (, also Romanized as Andar Āb) is a village in Binalud Rural District, in the Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 201, in 56 families.

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Digvijaya Singh

Digvijaya Singh (born 28 February 1947) is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 2014. He is a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and Ex-General Secretary of the Indian National Congress party's All India Congress Committee. Previously, he had served as the 14th and 15th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, a central Indian state, in two terms from 1993 to 1998 and from 1998 to 2003. Prior to that he was a minister in Chief Minister Arjun Singh's cabinet between 1980 and 1984. In 2019 Indian general election he was defeated by Pragya Singh Thakur for Bhopal Lok Sabha seat.

Personal life
Digvijaya Singh was born on 28 February 1947 in Indore in the princely state of Holkar of British India. His father, Balbhadra Singh, was the Raja of Raghogarh (under Gwalior State), presently known as Guna district of Madhya Pradesh, and a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) as independent candidate for the Raghogarh Vidhan Sabha constituency following the 1951 elections. He was educated at The Daly College, Indore and the Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS) Indore, where he completed his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering.

Since 1969, he was married to Asha Singh, who died in 2013, and with whom he has four daughters and a son Jaivardhan Singh, who was member of Madhya Pradesh's 14th Vidhan Sabha serving as the Cabinet Minister of Urban Development and Housing. In April 2014, he confirmed that he was in a relationship with a Rajya Sabha TV anchor Amrita Rai; they married in late August 2015.

Narmada Yatra
The sacred Narmada River, the lifeline of Central India, is worshipped as Narmada maiyya (mother) or Ma Rewa (derived from “rev” meaning leaping one). One of the five holy rivers of India, it is the only one which has the tradition of being circumambulated from source to sea and back, on a pilgrimage or yatra.

Being the longest west-flowing river, the Narmada parikrama is a formidable spiritual exercise and challenge—an incredible journey of about 3,300 km.

Digvijaya Singh along with his wife started the Narmada Parikrama on 30 September 2017, from Barman Ghat, on banks of river Narmada after taking the blessing of his spiritual guru Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati. The journey took them from Barman Ghat, on River Narmada southern banks, all the way to its mouth at Bharuch in Gujarat. At Bharuch, Mithi Talai is the point where the Narmada joins the Arabian Sea. Here they took a motorboat from the southern to the northern end and begin the return journey along its northern bank. On 9 April 2018 they completed the narmada parikrama at Barman Ghat having covered 3300 km by foot in 192 days.

MLA and MP, 1977–1993
Singh was president of the Raghogarh Nagar palika (a municipal committee) between 1969 and 1971. An offer in 1970 from Vijayaraje Scindia for him to join the Jana Sangh was not taken up and he subsequently joined the Congress party. He became a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) as the party's representative for the Raghogarh Vidhan Sabha constituency of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in the 1977 elections. This was the same constituency that his father had won in 1951 as member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) as independent candidate for the Raghogarh Vidhan Sabha constituency following the 1951 elections. Digvijaya was later re-elected from the Raghogarh constituency and became a Minister of State and later a Cabinet Minister in the Madhya Pradesh state government led by Arjun Singh, whom he has called his mentor, between 1980 and 1984.

He was president of the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee between 1985 and 1988, having been nominated by Rajiv Gandhi, and was re-elected in 1992. He had been elected as a member of the 8th Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, in the Indian general election of 1984, representing the Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency. He was the first Congress politician to win the constituency, which had been created in 1977. Having won that contest by 150,000 votes, he lost the seat to Pyarelal Khandelwal of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by 57,000 votes in the 1989 general election. He regained it in 1991, becoming a member of the 10th Lok Sabha.

Chief Minister, 1993–2003
In 1993, he resigned from the Lok Sabha because he had been appointed Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. His brother, Lakshman Singh, had been elected in 1993 as a Congress MLA in Madhya Pradesh from the same Raghogarh assembly constituency that Digivijaya had previously held. Lakshman resigned from the seat in favour of Digvijaya, who needed to be elected to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in order to fulfill his role as Chief Minister. However, the scheme failed when a petition was filed that challenged the validity of Lakshman's 1993 election. Digvijaya instead won the by-election from Chachoura constituency, which was vacated by the Former MLA Shivnarayan Meena that time for the purpose. The Hindi Belt, of which Madhya Pradesh is a part, has a significant number of economically and socially disadvantaged Dalit and tribal communities. Through his policies, which have evoked both strong support and criticism among academics, Singh targeted the prospects of those people during his first term in office. These efforts attempted to arrest the declining support for the INC by those communities, who since the 1960s had increasingly been favouring the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Jana Sangh and its political successor, the BJP. He followed the example set by Arjun Singh in taking this approach, which was not adopted in other areas of the Belt such as Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Sudha Pai says, "He was driven by both the political imperative to sustain the base of the party among these social groups and ... a commitment to improving their socio-economic position." The "Dalit Agenda" that resulted from the Bhopal Conference in 2002 epitomised the strategy, which by Digvijaya Singh's time was more necessary than during Arjun Singh's period in power because one outcome of the Mandal Commission had been increased Dalit desires for self-assertion. His approach to reform in what was still largely a feudal society was driven by a top-down strategy to achieve Dalit and Tribal support, as opposed to the bottom-up strategy of other belt leaders such as Mayawati, who lacked Singh's upper caste/class status and harnessed the desire for empowerment in the depressed communities through identity politics. Among the measures introduced to achieve his aim were the Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS), redistribution of common grazing land (charnoi) to landless dalits and tribals, free electricity for farmers, the promotion of Panchayati Raj as a means of delegating power to villagers and a supplier diversity scheme which guaranteed that thirty per cent of government supplies would be purchased from the disadvantaged groups. There was less emphasis than previously on methods of assistance that were focused on reservation of jobs. Returning to the Raghogarh constituency for the 1998 elections, Singh was re-elected and appointed by Sonia Gandhi to serve a second term as chief minister. Census data suggests that Singh's education reforms had become a particularly successful aspect of his government. Those reforms included the construction of thousands of new village schools under the EGS, and may have been significant in increasing the literacy rate in Madhya Pradesh from 45 per cent in 1991 to 64 per cent in 2001. The improvement among girls was particularly high, growing from 29 per cent to 50 per cent. In his second term as Chief Minister, Singh sought to extend his decentralising, socially beneficial ideas by instituting reforms in healthcare that would guarantee a minimum level of care at panchayat level by financing the training of locally nominated healthcare professionals. This mirrored his earlier efforts in education and was known as the Healthcare Guarantee Scheme.

Chhattisgarh gained administrative independence from Madhya Pradesh in 2001 under the terms of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act. Singh was directed by Sonia Gandhi to ensure the selection of Ajit Jogi as the Chief Minister for the new state and this Singh did, although Jogi had been critical of his style of politics and Singh had personally preferred not to see him installed to that office. While Singh managed to convince the majority of Congress Legislator Party members to back Ajit Jogi, the absence of Vidya Charan Shukla and his supporters at the meeting raised questions about the exercise of seeking consensus because Shukla was the other main contender for the post. Subsequently, Singh met with Shukla in order to allay concerns.

Singh won the Raghogarh constituency again in 2003 but his party overall was heavily defeated by the BJP, as it also was in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The defeat in Madhya Pradesh has been attributed in large part to deadlocks in the pursuit of development that had arisen as the Panchayati Raj and central government squabbled about the extent of their respective powers, and to frequent electrical power cuts. The latter resulted from thirty-two per cent of what had been the generation capacity of Madhya Pradesh now being in the new state of Chhattisgarh: while Chhattisgarh did not need all of that capacity, much of it had historically been used in the remainder of Madhya Pradesh, which now found itself having only around 50 per cent of the power that it required. Aditi Phadnis, a political journalist and author, also notes that in 1985, the state had been producing a surplus of electricity through a process of technical and administrative efficiency that was the envy of other areas and that then "The State Electricity Board began to be looked upon as a milch cow by successive politicians, Digvijay Singh included." Power was given away and no money was set aside for repairs and maintenance. One of Singh's last proposals while in office was to write-off the electricity bills of 1.2 million people over the preceding three years. In this, he was thwarted by the Election Commission of India, which ruled the proposal to be a breach of election rules. Singh had claimed that it was desirable because the farmers of the state — who needed electricity to power water pumps — had suffered three years of drought conditions.

Work at national level
Following his party's defeat, Singh determined that he would not contest any polls for the next decade and the Raghogarh constituency was won by his cousin, Mool Singh, at the next elections in 2008. Singh shifted his attention to working for Congress from the centre, becoming a general secretary of the AICC and being involved in the party's organisation across several states, including Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. In 2012, Singh said that there was a need for younger people to be involved in state assemblies and that he had no further interest in contesting state elections. He expressed a willingness to contest the 2014 Lok Sabha elections if Congress wanted him to do so; he also said that he would like to see his son as the incumbent of the Raghogarh constituency. His son, Jaivardhan, was accompanied by his father when he joined the INC in June 2013 after previous involvement in its youth section. Mool Singh, the incumbent MLA, announced then that he would not be contesting his Raghogarh Assembly seat in the forthcoming elections, paving the way for Jaivardhan to be elected in a form of dynastic succession that is a feature of politics in India.

In January 2014, he was elected as a member of parliament to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh.

Singh has been criticised by his opposition for corruption, which he denied. In 2011, a charge sheet was submitted in court against him but the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) determined in March 2014 that there was no case to answer.

In June 2015, Singh petitioned the Supreme Court, pleading for a CBI probe into the Vyapam scam. He claimed to have interacted with a whistleblower who had revealed sensitive information to him. The CBI dismissed the claim in November 2017, raising the possibility that Singh could be prosecuted for fabricating evidence.

In the 2019 Indian general election, he ran for Lok Sabha in the constituency of Bhopal, but lost to Pragya Singh Thakur.

In the 2024 Indian general election, he ran for Lok Sabha in the constituency of Rajgarh, and lost to BJP candidate Rodmal Nagar by a margin of 146,089 votes.

Controversies
In 1998, 19 to 24 farmers were shot dead by Madhya Pradesh police. Singh was Chief Minister of the state at the time and the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) blamed him for arresting farmers' leaders.

A comment by Singh in 2011 led to disagreements within his party. He stated that the Batla House encounter case, which led to the death of two terrorists and one police officer, was fake. The Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram, dismissed Singh's claim and his demand for a further judicial investigation into it. Congress rejected his views that the encounter was stage-managed, stating that the encounter should not be politicised or raked up for political gains. Singh's stand on the Batla House encounter led to criticism from the opposition BJP.

In 2013, Singh described Meenakshi Natarajan, a female Congress MP from Mandsaur, as "sau tunch maal" ("totally unblemished")—a colloquialism The Times of India described as "frequently used loosely to describe a woman as 'sexy'". Advocates for women's rights were upset by Singh's comment and called for Congress to act against him. However, the MP backed Singh and said he meant that she was like "pure gold"; The Times of India commented that "tunch maal" is "also a trade jargon among jewelers to describe the level of purity of the yellow metal" and added that Singh prefaced his comment about Natarajan by describing himself as a "political goldsmith".

Singh criticised the United States in 2011 for not respecting Osama bin Laden's religion when it buried him at sea, saying "however big a criminal one might be, his religious traditions should be respected while burying him." Congress's leadership distanced itself from his views. Singh later said that his statement should not be interpreted as support for or opposition to bin Laden, adding "I had merely said that the worst of criminals should be cremated according to their faith. He is a terrorist and he deserved the treatment that he got."

In March 2022, Digvijay Singh along with six others was sentenced for one year rigorous imprisonment by an Indore court in connection with clash with BJYM workers in 2011.

Views on Hindu nationalist groups
Singh has said that the right-wing extremism of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) represented a grave threat to national unity. He stated that "The RSS, in the garb of its nationalist ideology, is targeting Muslims the same way Nazis targeted Jews in the 1930s". Israel has protested this comment. He believes the RSS was involved in a number of terrorist strikes including the Mumbai terror attacks. He requested a CBI enquiry into the murder of Sunil Joshi, an RSS pracharak involved in the Ajmer Dargah attack, alleging that Joshi was murdered because "he knew too much".

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The result was delete. Tone 16:38, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

East Hill Church

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Apparently non-notable church. There are hits ( (namedrop) (WP:ROUTINE, I think)), but not enough for either WP:NORG or WP:GNG. Being a large church in a mid-size city does not confer notability, IMO. Tagged for notability for 11 years. Prodded in 2009. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 13:23, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 13:23, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Oregon-related deletion discussions. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 13:23, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep - with over 4,000 weekly attendance, this church is considered to be a megachurch; therefore, probably meets GNG. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 08:38, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Care to provide an RS that cites its attendance figures? I'm having trouble finding one myself. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 16:23, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete I could find no sources to substantiate 4,000 weekly attendance, much less coverage to meet WP:GNG. Eddie891 Talk Work 12:38, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  15:57, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete: non-notable megachurch. No secondary sources or references. Whiteguru (talk) 11:49, 25 August 2020 (UTC)


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Nueva Vizcaya Provincial Board

The Nueva Vizcaya Provincial Board is the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial legislature) of the Philippine province of Nueva Vizcaya.

The members are elected via plurality-at-large voting: the province is divided into two districts, each having five seats. A voter votes up to five names, with the top five candidates per district being elected. The vice governor is the ex officio presiding officer, and only votes to break ties. The vice governor is elected via the plurality voting system province-wide.

The districts used in appropriation of members is not coextensive with the legislative district of Nueva Vizcaya; unlike congressional representation which is at-large, Nueva Vizcaya is divided into two districts for representation in the Sangguniang Panlalawigan.

Aside from the regular members, the board also includes the provincial federation presidents of the Liga ng mga Barangay (ABC, from its old name "Association of Barangay Captains"), the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK, youth councils) and the Philippine Councilors League (PCL).

Current members
These are the members after the 2022 local elections and 2018 barangay and SK elections:

 * Vice Governor: Eufemia Dacayo (Lakas–CMD; since May 5, 2023)

title: Nueva Vizcaya Provincial Board


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Talk:Austin Flannery

Dates for the Prior role
I noticed what appears to be a typo:

"Flannery edited the Dominican bi-monthly journal entitled Doctrine and Life from 1958 to 1988, while at St. Saviour’s Priory, Dublin where he also served as prior from 195 to 1960."

I believe that there should be a start date in the 1950s - though I'm not sure what the precise date would be (it's possible to be elected prior 2 terms in a row and to resign before completing either term). I'd suggest reaching out to the priory itself to clarify. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:35, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

title: Talk:Austin Flannery