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Don't Let Me Down (Will Young song)
Don't Let Me Down (Will Young song)
"Don't Let Me Down" is a pop song written by Richard Stannard, Julian Gallagher, D. Morgan, Will Young and Simon Hale, and performed by Will Young. It was released as his fourth single, along with the track "You and I". It reached number two in the UK Singles Chart.
The double A-side single was released in aid of Children in Need. CD2 included a limited edition poster.
# Single track listing.
- CD1:
- 2. "Don't Let Me Down" — 4:46
- 3. "You and I" — 4:06
- 4. "If That's What You Want" — 4:17
- 5. "You and I" (Video)
- CD2:
- 2. "Don't Let Me Down"
- 3. "You and I"
- 4. "Ready or Not"
# Credits and personnel.
- Published by Sony Music/EMI Music
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- 3. "You and I" — 4:06
- 4. "If That's What You Want" — 4:17
- 5. "You and I" (Video)
- CD2:
- 2. "Don't Let Me Down"
- 3. "You and I"
- 4. "Ready or Not"
# Credits and personnel.
- Published by Sony Music/EMI Music Publishing/Biffco Publishing/Copyright Control
- Produced by Richard "Biff" Stannard and Julian Gallagher for Biffco Productions
- Recorded and mixed by Alvin Sweeney at Biffco Studios, Dublin
- Assisted by Paul J. Brady
- Guitars by Dave Morgan
- Bass by Steve Lewinson
- Keyboards by Simon Hale
- Drums by Alvin Sweeney and Richard "Biff" Stannard
- Programmed by Julian Gallagher and Alvin Sweeney
- Backing vocals by Sharon Murphy and Richard "Biff" Stannard
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Prairie (disambiguation)
Prairie (disambiguation)
A prairie is a type of temperate grassland.
Prairie may also refer to:
# Places.
## North America.
- Prairie, Indiana, an unincorporated community
- Prairie, Maine, an area located outside Augusta, Maine
- Prairie, Mississippi, a village in Mississippi
- Prairie, Washington, an unincorporated community
- Prairies Ecozone, a geographical area in the western provinces of Canada and great plains of the US
- The Prairies, the prairie provinces of Canada
## Elsewhere.
- Prairie, Queensland, a town in Australia
# Animals.
- Prairie dog
# Art, entertainment, and media.
## Fictional characters.
- Prairie, a character in the "Mega Man ZX" video game
- Prairie
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## Fictional characters.
- Prairie, a character in the "Mega Man ZX" video game
- Prairie Dawn, a "Sesame Street" character
## Other art, entertainment, and media.
- "A Prairie Home Companion", a variety show
- "A Prairie Home Companion" (film), a film based on the show
- "Little House on the Prairie" (disambiguation)
- Prairie School, Prairie style architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright
# Vehicles and vessels.
- Nissan Prairie, a car
- The "Prairie" type of steam locomotive, or 2-6-2, an engine with two leading wheels, six driving wheels and two trailing wheels
- USS "Prairie", two ships of the US Navy
# See also.
- La Prairie (disambiguation)
- Prairie Township (disambiguation)
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Ikamiut
Ikamiut
Ikamiut is a settlement in the Qeqertalik municipality in western Greenland, located on a small island in the Aasiaat Archipelago on the southern shores of Disko Bay. Its population was 96 in 2010.
# Transport.
Air Greenland serves the village as part of government contract, with winter-only helicopter flights from Ikamiut Heliport to Aasiaat Airport and Qasigiannguit Heliport. Settlement flights in the Disko Bay region are unique in that they are operated only during winter and spring.
During summer and autumn, when the waters of the bay are navigable, communication between settlements is by sea only, serviced by Diskoline. The ferry links Ikamiut with Qasigiannguit, Aasiaat, and
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on a small island in the Aasiaat Archipelago on the southern shores of Disko Bay. Its population was 96 in 2010.
# Transport.
Air Greenland serves the village as part of government contract, with winter-only helicopter flights from Ikamiut Heliport to Aasiaat Airport and Qasigiannguit Heliport. Settlement flights in the Disko Bay region are unique in that they are operated only during winter and spring.
During summer and autumn, when the waters of the bay are navigable, communication between settlements is by sea only, serviced by Diskoline. The ferry links Ikamiut with Qasigiannguit, Aasiaat, and Akunnaaq.
# Population.
The population of Ikamiut has been stable in the last two decades.
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Elaine Ives-Cameron
Elaine Ives-Cameron
Elaine Ives-Cameron (5 December 1938–15 November 2006) was an American-born British actress.
Elaine Ives-Cameron was born Elaine Schleifer, in Philadelphia, PA. She had one son, Erik Cameron, and was grandmother to his two children Amelie, and Benjamin. Her brother, Dr Charles R. Schleifer, is a hospital physician in Philadelphia.
Her film credits include: "The Night Digger", "Terror", "Murder by Decree" and "Supergirl".
Television appearances include: "Codename"; "Doctor Who", The Stones of Blood serial in the Key to Time story arc; "Tales of the Unexpected"; "Miss Marple", as Hannah (the cook) in "A Murder is Announced"; "Dempsey and Makepeace" and "The Bill".
In 2001,
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ory arc; "Tales of the Unexpected"; "Miss Marple", as Hannah (the cook) in "A Murder is Announced"; "Dempsey and Makepeace" and "The Bill".
In 2001, she guest-starred in the "Doctor Who" audio adventure, "The Stones of Venice".
In 1994, Elaine Ives-Cameron wrote an article for "The Independent" newspaper about difficulties in the reclaiming of her house in the U.K., which she had first let, and which was then occupied by squatters. The article provides a good example of the problems of eviction of squatters at that time, and looks forward to the publication of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. The Act contains provisions for the eviction of squatters within twenty-four hours.
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Tabasco pepper
Tabasco pepper
The tabasco pepper is a variety of chili pepper species "Capsicum frutescens" with its origins in Mexico. It is best known through its use in Tabasco sauce, followed by "peppered vinegar".
Like all "C. frutescens" cultivars, the tabasco plant has a typical bushy growth, which commercial cultivation makes stronger by trimming the plants. The tapered fruits, around 4 cm long, are initially pale yellowish-green and turn yellow and orange before ripening to bright red. Tabascos rate from 30,000 to 50,000 on the Scoville scale of heat levels, and are the only variety of chili pepper whose fruits are "juicy"; i.e., they are not dry on the inside . Tabasco fruits, like all other members
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of the "C. frutescens" species remain upright when mature, rather than hanging down from their stems.
A large part of the tabasco pepper stock fell victim to the tobacco mosaic virus in the 1960s; the first resistant variety ("Greenleaf tabasco") was not cultivated until around 1970.
# Naming.
The peppers are named after the Mexican state of Tabasco. The initial letter of "tabasco" is rendered in lowercase when referring to the botanical variety, but is capitalized when referring to the Mexican state or the brand of hot sauce, Tabasco sauce.
# Cultivation.
Tabasco peppers start out green and as they ripen, turn orange and then red. It takes approximately 80 days after germinating for them
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to become fully mature. The tabasco plant can grow to tall, with a cream or light yellow flower that will develop into upward oriented fruits later in the growing season. As they are native to the Mexican state of Tabasco, seeds require lots of warmth to germinate and grow best when the temperature is between . If grown outside of their natural habitat, the peppers are planted 2 to 3 weeks after the last frost when the soil temperatures exceed and the weather has settled. Peppers are temperamental when it comes to setting fruit if temperatures are too hot or too cool and even if nighttime temperatures fall below it can reduce fruit set. A location that receives plenty of light and heat, with
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uit if temperatures are too hot or too cool and even if nighttime temperatures fall below it can reduce fruit set. A location that receives plenty of light and heat, with soil that is fertile, lightweight, slightly acidic (pH 5.5–7.0) and well-drained is ideal for growing the plants. Peppers need a steady supply of water for best performance. Growers are careful to make sure that fertilizers and soil are rich in phosphorus, potassium and calcium and reduced in nitrogen as it can deter fruit growth.
# See also.
- Malagueta pepper
- Piri Piri
- Siling labuyo
- List of "Capsicum" cultivars
# References.
- The information in this article is based on a translation of its German equivalent.
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Corbet Woodall
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Corbet Woodall
Corbet Woodall
Corbet Stafford Woodall (6 April 1929 – 19 May 1982), was an English newsreader for the BBC.
Born in Hampshire, he was educated as an Oppidan scholar at Eton College where he also excelled at sports. He worked in the 1950s for the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, before returning to Britain where he initially worked as a stage manager on outside broadcasts. He then became an announcer on the Home Service, moving to work on television in 1963. He became part of the team of regular BBC newsreaders, the others being Robert Dougall, Michael Aspel and Richard Baker. After leaving BBC Television in 1967, he presented "Look East", and, as a freelance broadcaster, contributed to
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the "Today" programme. He also chaired editions of "Any Questions?" and "Any Answers?".
Corbet Woodall appeared in many television series, and also in some films, in which he invariably acted as either a television newsreader, or as an announcer. On television, Corbet Woodall appeared in several episodes of "The Goodies", as well as "Steptoe and Son", "A Fine Romance" and "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?", among others. Increasingly disabled by rheumatoid arthritis from the late 1960s, Woodall's frequent appearances on "The Goodies" (1970-1981) would have been more frequent, but according to author Robert Ross in his book "The Goodies Rule OK" his contract was often marked "Artist ill".
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. In an interview with Ross, Tim Brooke-Taylor praised Woodall's professionalism in wake of his debilitating illness. "He wasn't a well man at all, but (on camera) he rose from the dead and delivered every time."
Towards the end of his life, Woodall became a committed supporter of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council (now Arthritis Research UK) and by appearing in a Christmas television appeal for the charity in 1981, raised the sum of £72,000; at that time a record for an appeal of that kind. Woodall recounted his struggle with the illness in his autobiography "Disjointed Life", which he hoped would help medical professionals to understand the mental and emotional aspects of the condition.
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Batak Christian Protestant Church
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Batak Christian Protestant Church
The Huria Kristen Batak Protestan (HKBP), which translates into English as the Batak Christian Protestant Church, is the largest Protestant denomination in Indonesia, with a baptized membership of 4,000,000. Its present leader is Ephorus (or Bishop) Darwin Lumbantobing.
# History.
The first Protestant missionaries who tried to reach the Batak highlands of inner Northern Sumatra were English and American Baptist preachers in the 1820s and 30s, but without any success. After Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn and Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk did intensive research on Batak language and culture in the 1840s, a new attempt was done in 1861 by several missionaries sent out
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by the German Rhenish Missionary Society (RMG). The first Bataks were baptized in this year. In 1864, Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen from Rhenish Missionary Society Germany, reached the Batak region and founded a village called "Huta Dame" (village of peace) in the district of Tapanuli in Tarutung, North Sumatra.
The RMG was associated with the "Unierte Kirche", or union of Lutheran and Reformed churches. However, Nommensen and local leaders developed an approach that applied local custom to Christian belief.
Already in 1868, a local seminary for the education of teachers was opened in Sipirok, and in 1877 a seminary for the education of preachers was built in Pansurnapitu. 1881, Nommensen was officially
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nominated "ephorus" of the Batak congregations by the RMG. In 1885, the first Batak ministers were ordained in Pearaja Tarutung, where the HKBP headquarters is located until this day.
In 1889, the RMG sent out Sr. Hester Needham who started the work with girls and women and later established the first Batak deaconesses.
In the last quarter of the 19th century, further missionaries of the RMG were sent out to the other Batak tribes (Angkola, Dairi, Simalungun, Karo, Pakpak).
In 1917, the "Hatopan Christen Batak" (HCB) which later became one of the nucleus for the independent Batak church, was founded in Tapanuli as a social movement.
In 1922, the first General Synod ("Sinode Godang") of all
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Batak congregations was held
In 1931 HKBP became the first independent self-governing Christian body in what was then the Dutch East Indies.
In 1940, all Germans working for the RMG, including pastors and ministers, were detained by the Dutch government. Rev. Sirait was chosen by the synod the first indigenous ephorus of HKBP.
In 1952, while maintaining its indigenous character, the HKBP became a member of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF). In 1954, HKBP founded Nommensen University. In 1977, "Sekolah Tinggi Theologia" (STT or "Theological Seminary") HKBP split from Nommensen University.
Over the years, a number of church bodies have split from HKBP for various cultural and doctrinal reasons.
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However, HKBP remains the largest Indonesian LWF member by a factor of ten and also remains in communion with daughter church bodies through the LWF. Tarutung and the Batak region remain the stronghold for the HKBP in the predominantly Muslim nation of Indonesia, although worshippers are found throughout Indonesia and the United States.
Well known HKBP congregants include Amir Sjarifuddin (only Christian prime minister of Indonesia), Todung Sutan Gunung (TSG) Mulia (second Indonesian education minister), and General Tahi Bonar (TB) Simatupang.
In January 2010 two churches were burnt down in Sibuhuan.
# Ecumenical relations.
HKBP is a member and so actively participates in the programmes
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s.
Well known HKBP congregants include Amir Sjarifuddin (only Christian prime minister of Indonesia), Todung Sutan Gunung (TSG) Mulia (second Indonesian education minister), and General Tahi Bonar (TB) Simatupang.
In January 2010 two churches were burnt down in Sibuhuan.
# Ecumenical relations.
HKBP is a member and so actively participates in the programmes of Christian Conference of Asia.
# Agenda.
The book of liturgical procedure used by the HKBP is referred to as the "Agenda" or formerly as the "Agende". This term comes from the European Protestant use of "agenda".
# See also.
- Protestantism in Indonesia
# External links.
- "Sekolah Tinggi Theologia" (Theological Seminary) HKBP
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The Tree of Hands
The Tree of Hands is a 1984 suspense novel by the author Ruth Rendell. It won the CWA Silver Dagger in 1984, and was short listed for the MWA Edgar Award upon publication in America. The book has been filmed twice. One adaptation featured Lauren Bacall as the protagonist's mother.
# Plot summary.
"The Tree of Hands" tells the story of an affluent young woman, Benet, who has a two-year-old son named James. She is estranged from James' father. They live in North London. Benet's mother comes to visit them. She and Benet's father now live in Spain. Benet's mother has a history of mental illness, possibly schizophrenia, and Benet is rather fearful of her mother and what she may
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be capable of doing.
Unfortunately James becomes extremely ill and dies, Benet is distraught and spends a lot of time in a state of prostrated grief. Her mother tries to look after her.
A sub-plot involves a young man on a council estate who is deeply in love with a woman, Carol, who has several children from previous partners. It becomes apparent to the reader that she is unfaithful to this young man, and she is abusing her children, in particular her little boy, Jason. A turn in events leads to Benet's mother kidnapping little Jason and "replacing" the dead James. Benet, at first horrified at what her mother has done, begins to realise that little Jason has been abused (she finds cigarette
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burns on his body) and grows to love him. As he refers to himself as Jay, this is what she calls him. However, she realises that she cannot continue to see the Doctor from the hospital because he knows that James has died, and he has been very kind to her. He may start to question Jason's appearance. Also Benet's ex begins to realise what may have happened and puts pressure on her. She realises that she and Jay must leave the country in order to start their new life.
The sub plot (Carol and her friends and family) evolves into murder and betrayal, and a very clever twist involving the sale of a house in Hampstead.
The title "Tree of Hands" refers to a piece of artwork displayed on the wall
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self as Jay, this is what she calls him. However, she realises that she cannot continue to see the Doctor from the hospital because he knows that James has died, and he has been very kind to her. He may start to question Jason's appearance. Also Benet's ex begins to realise what may have happened and puts pressure on her. She realises that she and Jay must leave the country in order to start their new life.
The sub plot (Carol and her friends and family) evolves into murder and betrayal, and a very clever twist involving the sale of a house in Hampstead.
The title "Tree of Hands" refers to a piece of artwork displayed on the wall in the ward that James was admitted to when first taken ill.
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We Can Build You
We Can Build You is a 1972 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Written in 1962 as The First in Our Family, it remained unpublished until appearing in serial form as A. Lincoln, Simulacrum in the November 1969 and January 1970 issues of "Amazing Stories" magazine, re-titled by editor Ted White. The novel was issued as a mass market paperback original by DAW Books in 1972, its final title provided by publisher Donald A. Wollheim. Its first hardcover edition was published in Italy in 1976, and Vintage issued a trade paperback in 1994.
The magazine version of the story includes a brief closing chapter written by Ted White and very lightly copyedited by Dick.
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The "Amazing" editor felt that Dick's text did not properly complete the novel, and so he sent a draft conclusion to Dick, expecting him to overhaul it. Dick instead approved White's coda as written and altered only a few words. This final chapter, which Dick later expressed disapproval over, was not included when the novel was published in book form.
# Plot summary.
"We Can Build You" is set in the then-future year of 1982. It centers on Louis Rosen, a small businessman whose company produces spinets and electronic organs. Rosen's partner wants to begin production of simulacra, or androids, based on famous Civil War figures. The firm completes two prototypes, one of Edwin M. Stanton and one
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of Abraham Lincoln. Rosen then attempts to sell the robot patents to Sam K. Barrows, an influential businessman who is opening up lunar real estate for purchase and colonization. Unfortunately, while the Stanton simulacrum proves able to adapt to contemporary U.S. society, the Lincoln simulacrum proves unable to do so, possibly because the original experienced schizophrenia. At the same time, Louis begins a relationship with Pris Frauenzimmer, the schizophrenic daughter of his business partner, who has designed both simulacra. This becomes an obsession and Louis himself begins to hallucinate about Pris.
At the same time, Pris defects to Barrows but then loses faith in the benevolence of their
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partnership when his objectives are disclosed as more prosaic than hers, with his plans to use simulacra colonists to entice human settlement on the Moon and other human interplanetary colonies within the solar system. After Pris's destruction of a John Wilkes Booth prototype simulacrum, the Stanton/Lincoln simulacra strand of the plot abruptly terminates.
The remainder of the book deals with Louis Rosen's admission of schizophrenia and his Jungian therapeutic treatment at the Kasanin Centre in Kansas from where Pris was originally released. Under the influence of his therapist Rosen creates a virtual hallucinatory reality of his own where he resumes his relationship with Pris, marries her,
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has children and grows old together with her, finally culminating with him hitting her hallucinatory doppelgänger in a fit of pique. This concludes his final therapy session and he is released from the Kasanin clinic after his doctor accuses him of malingering. The end of the novel posits the query of whether he was actually batty to begin with. The real-world Pris, however, has become unwell again, and she is returned to Kasanin following her short-lived career as a simulacra designer.
# Reception.
Theodore Sturgeon gave "We Can Build You" a mixed review, praising Dick on the "handling of his characters, who are consistent and warmly recognizable even in their stubborn irrationalities, on
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rs, who are consistent and warmly recognizable even in their stubborn irrationalities, on the boldness and provocation of his themes [and] on the richness of his auctorial background and the sparkles of laughter finger-flicked all over his work." He concluded, though, that Dick's "willingness to pursue some collateral and fascinating line at the expense -- and even the abandonment -- of his central theme" weakened the novel.
Gregg Rickman asserts that "We Can Build You" can be read as a prequel to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", Dick's more famous novel that also deals with androids.
# External links.
- Philip K. Dick Trust: "We Can Build You"
- We Can Build You cover art gallery
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Saqqaq
Saqqaq (old spelling: "Sarqaq") is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland. Founded in 1755 as Solsiden, Saqqaq had 188 inhabitants in 2010. The village's Kalaallisut name is a translation of the Danish meaning "Sunny Side", in reference to its position relative to Livets Top.
It is the site name for the Saqqaq culture.
# Geography.
It is located in the southwestern part of the Nuussuaq Peninsula, on the northern shore of Sullorsuaq Strait, northwest of Ilulissat. Immediately northeast of Saqqaq is the Livets Top mountain (1150 m).
# History.
Archaeological excavations in Qilakitsoq on the other side of Nuussuaq Peninsula on the shores of Uummannaq Fjord revealed
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the existence of an ancient Arctic culture, later named the Saqqaq culture, which inhabited the area of west-central Greenland between 2500 BCE and 800 BCE.
Recent DNA samples from human hair suggest that the ancient Saqqaq people came from Siberia about 5,500 years ago and independent of the migration that gave rise to the modern Native Americans and the Inuit.
# Transport.
Air Greenland serves the village as part of government contract, with winter-only helicopter flights between Saqqaq Heliport and Ilulissat Airport. Settlement flights in the Disko Bay are unique in that they are operated only during winter and spring.
During summer and autumn, when the waters of the bay are navigable,
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between Saqqaq Heliport and Ilulissat Airport. Settlement flights in the Disko Bay are unique in that they are operated only during winter and spring.
During summer and autumn, when the waters of the bay are navigable, communication between settlements is by sea only, serviced by Diskoline. The ferry links Saqqaq with Qeqertaq, Oqaatsut, and Ilulissat.
# Population.
The population of Saqqaq has increased by 60 percent relative to the 1990 levels, stabilizing in the following decade. Saqqaq is one of the very few demographically stable settlements in the Disko Bay region.
# External links.
- Historical images from Saqqaq
- Saqqaq projectile points, National Museum of the American Indian
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Process
A process is a set of activities that interact to produce a result.
Things called a process include:
# In arts, entertainment, and media.
- Writing process, a concept in writing and composition studies
- The Process, a concept in the movie "3%"
# In business and management.
- Business process, activities that produce a specific service or product for customers
- Business process modeling, activity of representing processes of an enterprise in order to deliver improvements
- Manufacturing process management, a collection of technologies and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured.
- Process architecture, structural design of processes, applies to fields such
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as computers, business processes, logistics, project management
- Process costing, a cost allocation procedure of managerial accounting
- Process management, ensemble of activities of planning and monitoring the performance of a business process or manufacturing processes
- Process management (Project Management) , a systematic series of activities directed towards causing an end result in engineering activities or project management
- Process-based management, is a management approach that views a business as a collection of processes
- Process industry, a category of material-related industry
# In law.
- Due process, the concept that governments must respect the rule of law
- Legal
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process, the proceedings and records of a legal case
- Service of process, the procedure of giving official notice of a legal proceeding
# In science and technology.
- The general concept of the scientific process, see scientific method
- Process theory, the scientific study of processes
## In anatomy.
- Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body
## In biology and psychology.
- Biological process, a process of a living organism
- Cognitive process, such as attention, memory, language use, reasoning, and problem solving
- Mental process, a function or processes of the mind
- Neuronal process, also "neurite", a projection from the cell body of a neuron
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In chemistry.
- Chemical process, a method or means of changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds
- Unit process, a step in manufacturing in which chemical reaction takes place
## In computing.
- Process (computing), a computer program, or running a program concurrently with other programs
- Child process, created by another process
- Parent process
- Process management (computing), an integral part of any modern-day operating system (OS)
- Processing (programming language), an open-source language and integrated development environment
## In mathematics.
- In probability theory:
- Branching process, a Markov process that models a population
- Diffusion process, a solution
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to a stochastic differential equation
- Empirical process, a stochastic process that describes the proportion of objects in a system in a given state
- Lévy process, a stochastic process with independent, stationary increments
- Poisson process, a point process consisting of randomly located points on some underlying space
- Predictable process, a stochastic process whose value is knowable
- Stochastic process, a random process, as opposed to a deterministic process
- Wiener process, a continuous-time stochastic process
- Process calculus, a diverse family of related approaches for formally modeling concurrent systems
- Process function, a mathematical concept used in thermodynamics
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In thermodynamics.
- Process function, a mathematical concept used in thermodynamics
- Thermodynamic process, the energetic evolution of a thermodynamic system
- Adiabatic process, which proceeds without transfer of heat or matter between a system and its surroundings
- Isenthalpic process, in which enthalpy stays constant
- Isobaric process, in which the pressure stays constant
- Isochoric process, in which volume stays constant
- Isothermal process, in which temperature stays constant
- Polytropic process, which obeys the equation formula_1
- Quasistatic process, which occurs infinitely slowly, as an approximation
# Other uses.
- Food processing, transformation of raw ingredients,
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- Isothermal process, in which temperature stays constant
- Polytropic process, which obeys the equation formula_1
- Quasistatic process, which occurs infinitely slowly, as an approximation
# Other uses.
- Food processing, transformation of raw ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food
- Language processing in the brain
- Natural language processing
- Praxis (process), in philosophy, the process by which a theory or skill is enacted or realized
- Process (engineering), set of interrelated tasks that transform inputs into outputs
- Process philosophy, which regards change as the cornerstone of reality
- Process Thinking, a philosophy that focuses on present circumstances
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Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1998
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1998
The 11th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given on 1 March 1999, honored the finest achievements in 1998 filmmaking.
# Winners.
- Best Actor:
- Ian McKellen - "Gods and Monsters"
- Best Actress:
- Cate Blanchett - "Elizabeth"
- Best Cinematography:
- "The Thin Red Line" - John Toll
- Best Director:
- Terrence Malick - "The Thin Red Line"
- Best Film:
- Saving Private Ryan
- Best Foreign Language Film:
- "La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful)", Italy
- Best Score:
- "The Truman Show" - Burkhard Dallwitz
- Best Screenplay:
- "Shakespeare in Love" - Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
- Best Supporting Actor:
- Billy Bob Thornton -
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Director:
- Terrence Malick - "The Thin Red Line"
- Best Film:
- Saving Private Ryan
- Best Foreign Language Film:
- "La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful)", Italy
- Best Score:
- "The Truman Show" - Burkhard Dallwitz
- Best Screenplay:
- "Shakespeare in Love" - Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
- Best Supporting Actor:
- Billy Bob Thornton - "A Simple Plan
- Best Supporting Actress:
- Kathy Bates - "Primary Colors
- Most Promising Actor:
- Joseph Fiennes - "Shakespeare in Love
- Most Promising Actress:
- Kimberly Elise - "Beloved
# References.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120515203059/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=58
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Emek Refaim
Emek Refaim () is the German Colony, a neighborhood in Jerusalem, as well as its main street. It takes its name from the biblical Valley of Rephaim which began its descent from Jerusalem here.
# Etymology.
Emek Refa’im can be translated as either "the valley of the ghosts" or "the valley of the giants." The 2nd-century CE Aramaic Targum of Onkelos translates the words as "meshar gibaraya," or "plain of the mighty." Jerome’s 4th-century Latin Vulgate translates the phrase as "vallis Raphaim," and the English King James version follows the Jewish commentators, translating it as "the valley of the giants."
# History.
Outside of the ancient city of Jerusalem, but inhabited by villagers
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from the tribe of Judah in the first and second Temple periods.
The first residents of Emek Refaim in modern times were German Templers, who settled there in the 19th century. Biblical inscriptions in German Fraktur script can still be seen on the lintels of some of the homes. As enemy aliens, the Templers were interned and later deported by the British during World War II. They built one- and two-storey houses similar in appearance to the homes they left in Württemberg.
# Architecture.
Many of the buildings on Emek Refaim date from Ottoman and British Mandate times. Some of the distinctive German Templer buildings are still standing, as are elegant villas that belonged to wealthy Arabs before
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the establishment of the State of Israel.
Some homes in the area were abandoned by local Arabs or expropriated after 1948, and many issues of property ownership and displacement have yet to be resolved. A former Arab resident of the Bauerle House, located at 10 Emek Refaim (originally built by the Templers), wrote about a painful visit to her home after 1967.
A movie theater, Smadar, on the corner of Emek Refaim and Lloyd George Street, was built during the British Mandate, when it was known as the Regent or the Orient. At the corner of Emek Refaim, on a hill overlooking the Hinnom Valley, is the Scottish Church of St. Andrew's, built in 1927 and incorporating local Armenian tile-work. Similar
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tiling can be seen on the facades of some buildings on Emek Refaim.
The residents of Emek Refaim have banded together to protest plans to build a hotel and residential towers in the area, which would affect the historic character of the neighborhood. The protest was partially successful, in that the small grove next to the building will be preserved, and the planned height of the hotel was reduced from the original 14 to 7 floors - making it - The Orient Hotel by Dan Hotels, the largest and tallest structure on Emek Refaim.
As of 2016, planners for the Jerusalem Light Rail network have announced the possibility that a rail line will pass along Emek Refaim, which will be closed to traffic in
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both directions. This has sparked another wave of protests, which have in turn prompted a public debate on alternative routes that would leave the street as-is.
# Restaurants.
Emek Refaim is home to a variety of restaurants and cafes which are mainly, if not all, kosher certified establishments (reflecting the largely religious population in the area). Two chains of restaurants (Burgers Bar and Caffit) had their first branches on this street before they expanded across the country with additional locations.
- Aldo - Ice cream
- Bagel Cafe
- Burgers Bar
- Caffit
- Falafel Adir
- Focaccia Bar
- Pompidou
- Roza
- Sushi Rehavia
- Waffle Bar
- Waffle Factory
# See also.
- German Colony,
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. This has sparked another wave of protests, which have in turn prompted a public debate on alternative routes that would leave the street as-is.
# Restaurants.
Emek Refaim is home to a variety of restaurants and cafes which are mainly, if not all, kosher certified establishments (reflecting the largely religious population in the area). Two chains of restaurants (Burgers Bar and Caffit) had their first branches on this street before they expanded across the country with additional locations.
- Aldo - Ice cream
- Bagel Cafe
- Burgers Bar
- Caffit
- Falafel Adir
- Focaccia Bar
- Pompidou
- Roza
- Sushi Rehavia
- Waffle Bar
- Waffle Factory
# See also.
- German Colony, Jerusalem
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Tabasco (disambiguation)
Tabasco (disambiguation)
Tabasco is a Mexican state.
Tabasco may also refer to:
# In food.
- Tabasco pepper, chili pepper
- Tabasco sauce, sauce made in part from the peppers
# In geography.
- In Mexico
- Tabasco, Francisco Z. Mena
- Tabasco, José María Morelos
- Tabasco, Las Margaritas
- Tabasco, Zacatecas
- Tabasco River, Mexico
- In the United States
- Tabasco, New York, a hamlet
- Tobasco, Ohio, an unincorporated community
- Tabasco Creek, Alaska
Historic
- Tabasco (former state)
# In biology.
- Tabasco mud turtle
# Art, entertainment, and media.
- Burlesque Opera of Tabasco by George Whitefield Chadwick
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Gordon Warnecke
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Gordon Warnecke
Gordon Warnecke
Gordon Warnecke (born 24 August 1962 in London) is a British actor of Indo-Guyanese and German descent. He may be best known for his role as Omar in the 1985 film "My Beautiful Laundrette", co-starring as the lover of Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis). Other film credits include Franco Zeffirelli's "Young Toscanini" and Hanif Kureishi's "London Kills Me".
Television credits include "Boon", "Doctor Who" (in the serial "Mindwarp"), "Only Fools and Horses", "Virtual Murder", "Birds of a Feather", "EastEnders"), "Holby City" and "The Bill".
An experienced theatre actor, he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre; he most recently returned to the stage
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"Virtual Murder", "Birds of a Feather", "EastEnders"), "Holby City" and "The Bill".
An experienced theatre actor, he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre; he most recently returned to the stage with a national tour of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" for Tara Arts and two new contemporary adaptations of Christmas productions at the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He has written and directed a short film "The Magician" which was to be released in March 2012. He was also in an episode of Holby City in March 2017.
Since 2014, he has been actor-in-residence at East Barnet School in North London, providing workshops and masterclasses to pupils.
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National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film
The National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for Non feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1985, at 33rd National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.
# Winners.
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
# External links.
- Official Page for Directorate
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National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film
m Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for Non feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1985, at 33rd National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.
# Winners.
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
# External links.
- Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
- National Film Awards Archives
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Qeqertaq
taq
Qeqertaq is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland, located on an island off the southern shore of the Nuussuaq Peninsula in an inlet of Sullorsuaq Strait. Founded in 1830 as Øen, the settlement had 130 inhabitants in 2010.
# Transport.
## Air.
During winter, Air Greenland serves the village as part of government contract, with helicopter flights to Ilulissat.
## Sea.
During summer and autumn, when the waters of Disko Bay are navigable, communication between settlements is by sea only, serviced by Diskoline. The ferry links Qeqertaq with Saqqaq, Oqaatsut, and Ilulissat.
# Population.
The population of Qeqertaq has slowly increased in the last two decades.
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Ballyskeagh
Ballyskeagh
Ballyskeagh () is a small village and townland situated between Lambeg and Drumbeg in County Down, Northern Ireland. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 186 people. It lies within the Lagan Valley Regional Park and the Lisburn City Council area.
# Places of interest.
- Ballyskeagh Bridge, a sandstone arched bridge situated over the Lagan Canal, was built between 1760 and 1779 by Thomas Omer, engineer in charge of the canal. It is a listed building.
- McIlroy Park, connecting the Lagan towpath to Ballyskeagh and Dunmurry, was named after local footballer Jimmy McIlroy.
- The Lock Keeper’s House, also built between 1760 and 1779, is a privately owned listed building.
- To
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o Ballyskeagh and Dunmurry, was named after local footballer Jimmy McIlroy.
- The Lock Keeper’s House, also built between 1760 and 1779, is a privately owned listed building.
- To the west of the Lock Keeper’s House, an enclosure, probably a rath, is situated.
# Sport.
Ballyskeagh is the home of New Grosvenor Stadium, the football stadium of Lisburn Distillery F.C., which is also used as a greyhound racing stadium under the name Drumbo Park.
# Notable residents.
- Jimmy McIlroy
# See also.
- Tullynacross
- List of villages in Northern Ireland
# References.
- NI Neighbourhood Information System
- Draft Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan 2015
# External links.
- Ballyskeagh Lockhouse
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Built to Spill Caustic Resin
Built to Spill Caustic Resin was an EP released by indie rock bands Built to Spill and Caustic Resin. The EP was less a split release by both bands and more a collaboration between the bands.
The album attributes the first two tracks to Built to Spill, the third to Caustic Resin and the last to Tae Won Yu from his time in the band Kicking Giant. It also lists Brett Netson as performing guitar and vocals on "Shit Brown Eyes" (Caustic Resin). Todd Dunnigan is listed as playing organ on "When Not Being Stupid Is Not Enough" and moog on "One Thing".
The album was originally released with a cover featuring a photo featuring newly hatched fish larva and eggs, which had
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oog on "One Thing".
The album was originally released with a cover featuring a photo featuring newly hatched fish larva and eggs, which had been found in a trash can. However, the photo's owner complained, and the cover art was changed to the image shown here.
The album is Up Records release UP018.
# Track listing.
- 1. "When Not Being Stupid Is Not Enough" – 9:17
- 2. "One Thing" – 5:09
- 3. "Shit Brown Eyes" – 3:28
- 4. "She's Real" – 8:13
# Personnel.
- James Dillion - drums (Caustic Resin)
- Doug Martsch - vocals and guitar (Built to Spill)
- Tom Romich - bass (Caustic Resin)
The track "Shit Brown Eyes" was engineered by Todd Dunnigan, and the rest were engineered by Phil Ek.
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Jokester
"Jokester" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the December 1956 issue of "Infinity Science Fiction", and was reprinted in the collections "Earth Is Room Enough" (1957) and "Robot Dreams" (1986). It is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac.
# Plot summary.
Noel Meyerhof is a "Grand Master", one of a small cadre of Earth's recognised geniuses, who has the insight to know what questions to ask Multivac. But a computer scientist is concerned that Meyerhof is acting erratically. As a known joke-teller, he has been discovered feeding jokes and riddles into Multivac.
By computer analysis,
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the characters in the story investigate the origin of humour, particularly why there seems to be no such thing as an original joke, except for puns. Every normal joke is something that was originally heard from someone else.
The computer eventually tells them that humour is actually a psychological study tool imposed from without by extraterrestrials studying mankind, similarly to how humans study mice. They needed to isolate the responses to their jokes from original ones, so they "programmed" us to react differently to puns.
The characters of the story conjecture that figuring this fact out makes it useless as a tool, so the aliens will turn off humour. And suddenly nothing is ever funny
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racters in the story investigate the origin of humour, particularly why there seems to be no such thing as an original joke, except for puns. Every normal joke is something that was originally heard from someone else.
The computer eventually tells them that humour is actually a psychological study tool imposed from without by extraterrestrials studying mankind, similarly to how humans study mice. They needed to isolate the responses to their jokes from original ones, so they "programmed" us to react differently to puns.
The characters of the story conjecture that figuring this fact out makes it useless as a tool, so the aliens will turn off humour. And suddenly nothing is ever funny again.
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Ilimanaq
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Ilimanaq
Ilimanaq, formerly Claushavn, is a settlement in the Qaasuitsup municipality in western Greenland. It had 84 inhabitants in 2010. The modern name of the village is Kalaallisut for "Place of Expectations".
# Geography.
Ilimanaq is located on the eastern shore of Disko Bay, just south of the mouth of the Ilulissat Icefjord ().
# History.
The old Danish name of the settlement derived from the Dutch whaler Klacs Pieterz Torp. The whalers were active in the region from 1719 to 1732, leaving a trail of names behind the settlement of Oqaatsut to the north was originally a Dutch whaling station named "Rodebay". Claushavn was founded in 1741, around the same time as Ilulissat.
# Transport.
##
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Air.
Air Greenland serves the village as part of government contract, with winter-only helicopter flights between Ilimanaq Heliport and Ilulissat Airport. Settlement flights in the Disko Bay are unique in that they are operated only during winter and spring. During winter, the nearby Qasigiannguit town to the south of Ilimanaq can be reached on foot, or by dogsled.
## Sea.
During summer and autumn, when the waters of Disko Bay are navigable, communication between settlements is by sea only, serviced by Diskoline. The ferry links Ilimanaq with Ilulissat, from where ferry connections are available to Oqaatsut, Qeqertaq, Saqqaq, Qeqertarsuaq, and towns and settlements in the Aasiaat Archipelago.
#
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helicopter flights between Ilimanaq Heliport and Ilulissat Airport. Settlement flights in the Disko Bay are unique in that they are operated only during winter and spring. During winter, the nearby Qasigiannguit town to the south of Ilimanaq can be reached on foot, or by dogsled.
## Sea.
During summer and autumn, when the waters of Disko Bay are navigable, communication between settlements is by sea only, serviced by Diskoline. The ferry links Ilimanaq with Ilulissat, from where ferry connections are available to Oqaatsut, Qeqertaq, Saqqaq, Qeqertarsuaq, and towns and settlements in the Aasiaat Archipelago.
# Population.
The population of Ilimanaq has been stable in the last two decades.
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Wildstyle (disambiguation)
Wildstyle or Wild Style may refer to:
- "Wild Style", a 1982 American hip hop culture movie
- Wildstyle, a style of graffiti
- , a fictional radio stations in ""
- "Wildstyle", a 1983 hip-hop single by Afrika Bambaataa
- Wildstyle, rapper/member of Chicago hip-hop group Crucial Conflict
- Wildstyle (album), a 2010 EP by American electronic music artist Bassnectar
- Lucy "Wyldstyle", a character in "The Lego Movie" and
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Sipsey Fork, Mississippi
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Sipsey Fork, Mississippi
Sipsey Fork, Mississippi
Sipsey Fork is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.
Sipsey Fork is located at east of Splunge.
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Confessor (comics)
The Confessor is a fictional character in the comic book series "Astro City".
Created by writer Kurt Busiek and artists Brent Anderson and Alex Ross.
# Fictional character biography.
Born in the 19th century, The Confessor was originally Jeremiah Parrish, a Roman Catholic priest who fell victim to temptation during construction of the Grandenetti Cathedral in what was then Romeyn Falls. While tending to the South-Eastern European immigrants who worked on the Cathedral, he was seduced by a mysterious beautiful woman he saw around the workers' shanty town; the woman turned out to be a vampire, who bit him, causing his transformation. Hiding in the lost and forgotten halls
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and vaults of the Cathedral for decades, he finally came out of hiding to fight crime in Astro City as penance, eventually constructing the identity of a religious-themed costumed hero. The Confessor's first documented (to date) appearance in Astro City occurred during the early 1950s.
Possessing the regular vampiric aversion to sunlight, the Confessor stays inside the church during daytime, coming out only at night. He is almost always seen wearing an all-black costume with a large black cape, a high collar, and usually a ninja-esque mask over his face. On his chest there is a large, shining cross, which causes him sufficient pain to prevent him giving into his temptation to drink blood and
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remind him of the mission which drives him onward, his mission to defend justice.
Towards the climax of his career he began mentoring a sidekick, Altar Boy, who discovered his vampiric nature. The Confessor sacrificed his identity and life to expose masquerading alien invaders, but posthumously was nonetheless falsely blamed for a string of unrelated murders in the Shadow Hill district of Astro City. The mantle of The Confessor was then taken up by Altar Boy. Although the original Confessor had traditional vampiric weaknesses, and was thus defeated by traditional methods (i.e. crucifixes, holy water, and a stake), his successor Altar Boy, not being a vampire, is immune to these methods, to
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d a stake), his successor Altar Boy, not being a vampire, is immune to these methods, to his great advantage when fighting enemies who mistakenly view him as a vampire.
# The Confessor in Pop Culture.
- In the 4th (Hardy Boys) graphic novel, "Malled", Frank Hardy is seen wearing a T-shirt that pays homage to "The Confessor".
- In a sequel to Alan Moore's "Top 10", "Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct", The Confessor has a cameo as the minister at Dust Devil's mother's funeral.
# Collected editions.
- Astro City: Confession (, collects Astro City Vol. 2 #1/2, 4-9)
# See also.
- Astro City
- List of Astro City characters
# External links.
- The Confessor at internationalheroes.co.uk
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The Wayne Gretzky 99 Award is awarded annually to the most valuable player in the Ontario Hockey League playoffs. It was first awarded in 1999, and is named for Wayne Gretzky. The recipient is selected by the news/sports media. The award was introduced shortly after Gretzky announced his retirement from the NHL in 1999. He played for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in the 1977–78 OHL season, scoring 70 goals as a rookie, establishing an OHL record for most goals by a 16-year-old that stood until 2007.
# Winners.
List of winners of the Wayne Gretzky 99 Award.
# See also.
- List of Canadian Hockey League awards
# External links.
- Ontario Hockey League
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Youngstown Sheet and Tube
The Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company, based in Youngstown, Ohio, was an American steel manufacturer. Officially, the company was created on November 23, 1900, when Articles of Incorporation of the Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company were filed with the Ohio Secretary of State at Columbus. It acquired the Mark Manufacturing Company in 1923. Youngstown Sheet and Tube remained in business until 1977. It reopened in 2014 as a small business promoting economic redevelopment of Youngstown.
# History.
In 1888, Youngstown industrialists George D. Wick and James A. Campbell organized the Mahoning Valley Iron Company, with Wick as president. Five years later, the two
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men resigned from the firm when it was taken over by the Republic Iron and Steel Company, and their next project would come in response to major changes that occurred in the community's industrial sector. Youngstown's industrial leaders began to convert from iron to steel manufacturing at the turn of the century, a period that also saw a wave of consolidations that placed much of the community's industry in the hands of national corporations. To the rising concern of many area industrialists, U.S. Steel, shortly after its establishment in 1901, absorbed Youngstown's premier steel producer, the National Steel Corporation.
During the previous year, however, Wick and Campbell combined resources
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with other local investors who wanted to maintain significant levels of local ownership within the city's manufacturing sector. The group established the Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company with $600,000 in capital. Wick, who emerged as the steel company's first president in 1900, appointed Campbell as secretary. The word "Iron" was dropped from the company's name in 1905. Although the company's focus began with sheet and tube, it eventually became one of the nation's most important steel producers with a varied product line.
In 1923, Youngstown Sheet and Tube purchased the assets of the Brier Hill Steel Company (also located in Youngstown, at Brier Hill), as well as the facilities of the
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Steel and Tube Company of America in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, Indiana, making it the fifth largest steel maker in the United States and the largest employer in the Mahoning Valley.
The home plant of YS&T was known as the Campbell Works located in Campbell and Struthers, Ohio. This plant contained four blast furnaces, twelve open hearth furnaces, several blooming mills, two Bessemer converters, a slabbing mill, a butt-weld tube mill, a hot strip mill, seamless tube mills, and and bar mills at the Struthers Works. The Brier Hill Works consisted of two blast furnaces named Grace and Jeannette, twelve open hearth furnaces, a blooming mill, a intermediate blooming mill, a round mill, and
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plate mills, and an electric-weld tube mill. During much of the Depression, the Brier Hill works was shut down, but it reopened in 1937. Much of the reopened plant's production comprised tube rounds for the Campbell seamless tube mills. Due to the imbalance of ironmaking and steelmaking facilities at the two plants, rail shipments of molten iron "hot metal" were made from Campbell to Brier Hill from 1937 until 1979.
In 1916, Sheet and Tube workers at the East Youngstown plant rioted during a strike over working conditions, which resulted in most of the town's business district being burned to the ground. The strike was quelled by the arrival of National Guard troops. After the riots, East Youngstown
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was renamed Campbell in honor of the company's President. In 1937, Youngstown Sheet and Tube played a prominent role in the Little Steel Strike, along with Republic Steel, Inland Steel, Bethlehem Steel, and Weirton Steel. The so-called "Little Steel" group, led by Republic's Tom Girdler, operated independently of United States Steel, which had previously signed a labor agreement with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and its subordinate Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC). Violence during this strike resulted in the deaths of workers in Chicago and Youngstown.
In 1952, during the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman attempted to seize American steel mills in order to avert
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a strike. This led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision of "Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer", which limited presidential authority.
The company abruptly closed its Campbell Works and furloughed 5,000 workers on September 19, 1977, a day remembered locally as "Black Monday." The Brier Hill Works and the company's plants in Indiana were sold to Jones and Laughlin Steel, later acquired by Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV), a conglomerate. The Brier Hill Works closed in 1979 as part of a continued wave of steel mill closings that devastated the Youngstown economy. The Brier Hill Works was eventually reopened in 1986 by Cargill Corporation, under the name North Star Steel. In 2002, Cargill sold the
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operations to recycling minimill Vallourec Group, a French conglomerate. The Indiana Harbor mill continues operating, owned by ArcelorMittal.
# Present day.
In 2014 the trademark, name and logo, which were expired, were acquired by a Youngstown resident. The company currently operates under the Youngstown Sheet and Tube name at www.sheetandtube.com. The company promotes economic redevelopment in Youngstown, and has partnerships with local manufacturers. It currently has an online shop where people can purchase apparel and consumer goods, and has a long term plan of opening up its own factory in the Youngstown area.
# Notable employees.
- Joseph G. Butler, Jr., American industrialist and
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philanthropist, founder of the Butler Institute of American Art.
- James A. Campbell, first Secretary of the Board, 1900, appointed Company president 1904, President of American Iron and Steel Institute during World War I.
- Pete Mauthe, WWII-era president, elected to College Football Hall of Fame.
- Ernest L. Webster, Los Angeles, California, City Council member, 1927–31.
# See also.
- "Burnet v. Logan"
- Steel Valley (Ohio-Pennsylvania)
# References.
- Blue, Frederick J.; Jenkins, William D.; Lawson, William H.; Reedy, Joan M. (1995). "Mahoning Memories: A History of Youngstown and Mahoning County". Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company. .
- Ruminski, Clayton J. "Iron Valley: The
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Logan"
- Steel Valley (Ohio-Pennsylvania)
# References.
- Blue, Frederick J.; Jenkins, William D.; Lawson, William H.; Reedy, Joan M. (1995). "Mahoning Memories: A History of Youngstown and Mahoning County". Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company. .
- Ruminski, Clayton J. "Iron Valley: The Transformation of the Iron Industry in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley, 1802—1913" (Ohio State University Press, 2017).
# External links.
- Youngstown Sheet and Tube versus Sawyer
- Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Steel Seizure Case. Records, 1952. 5365. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
- The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
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Ethical banking
An ethical bank, also known as a social, alternative, civic, or sustainable bank, is a bank concerned with the social and environmental impacts of its investments and loans. The ethical banking movement includes: ethical investment, impact investment, socially responsible investment, corporate social responsibility, and is also related to such movements as the fair trade movement, ethical consumerism, and social enterprise.
Other areas of ethical consumerism, such as fair trade labelling, have comprehensive codes and regulations which must be adhered to in order to be certified. Ethical banking has not developed to this point; because of this it is difficult to create a concrete
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definition that distinguishes ethical banks from conventional banks. Ethical banks are regulated by the same authorities as traditional banks and have to abide by the same rules. While there are differences between ethical banks, they do share a desire to uphold principles in the projects they finance, the most frequent including: transparency and social and/or environmental values. Ethical banks sometimes work with narrower profit margins than traditional ones, and therefore they may have few offices and operate mostly by phone, Internet, or mail. Ethical banking is considered one of several forms of alternative banking.
# History.
Since old time Christian communities were based on the anti-materialism
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of Jesus, banking was ethical and any form of "Usura" (interest lending), was considered as immoral.
In England, King Offa of Mercia in 791, then King Alfred the great (849-899), as well as King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), outlawed usurers.
Mainstream financial banks have had varying relationships with corporate social responsibility and ethical investment. However, a clearer movement has emerged since the 1990s. With changing social demands, and as more is known about the effects that banks can have through their lending policies, banks have begun to feel pressure from the general public, NGOs, governments, regulatory bodies and others to consider their social and environmental impact.
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Environmentally and socially conscious business practices.
In general banks play an intermediary role in the economy; because of this the possibility for banks to contribute to sustainable development is extensive. Banks have efficient and tested credit approval systems, which gives them a comparative advantage in knowledge (regarding sector-specific information, legislation and market developments). Banks are experienced and capable of weighing risks and attaching a price to these risks; because of this banks can fulfill an important role in reducing the information asymmetry between market parties and allow them to make better decisions. When depositors allow a bank to invest for them they
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may assume that the bank will attempt to select investments to maximize their returns. However, if clients are concerned with more than the simple monetary return and they, for instance, are interested in the costs to society and to the environment, then they may need to turn to an ethical bank which takes their ethics and morality into account when investing.
Some businesses externalize costs onto the environment and society. Aiming to create a more equitable distribution of costs in society, banks can raise interest rates or apply tariffs on loans given to clients and projects with high external costs. This would mean that companies would pay more if their business caused extensive environmental
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damage; taking some of the cost off of society as a whole and putting it on the company. This sort of tariff differentiation could stimulate the internalization of environmental costs in market prices. Through such price differentiation, banks have the potential to foster sustainability..
Banks may be able to support progress toward sustainability by society as a whole—for example, by adopting a ‘carrot-and-stick’ approach, where environmental and social front-runners would pay less interest than the market price for borrowing capital, while environmental laggards would pay a much higher interest rate. Banks can also develop more sustainable products, such as environmental, social, or ethical
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investment funds. By investing selectively based on values, ethical banks can promote socially/environmentally responsible companies and penalize those who do not conform to these standards. But there is a risk that banks could simply adopt certain practices that make them appear ethical (see greenwashing) while not adopting other practices that would have a greater impact.
# Ethical initiatives.
Numerous ethical banks (as well as some conventional banks) allow customers to contribute to organizations that have positive societal/environmental impacts either in the local community or in developing countries. Examples include an evaluation of the energy efficiency of a home and potential improvements
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in this; carbon-offsets; credit cards that benefit charities or lower interest rate loans for low emission cars.
# Community involvement.
Ethical banks excel in community involvement, as do other financial institutions such as credit unions. Community involvement is not limited to ethical banks as conventional banks also partake in such actions. The following are a few examples of community involvement done by ethical banks, credit unions, and conventional banks:
- Affordable housing projects (ex. Vancity & Citizens bank)
- Projects to improve financial literacy in the community
- Give local scholarships & sponsorships.
- Financially support community events (for ex. each year TD Canada
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trust donates to a local cause).
# Environmental standards for lending.
The environment is a key focus for ethical banks as well as for some conventional banks that believe adopting more environmentally ethical practices to be to their advantage. Banks operating in this field are often referred to as sustainable or green banks.
In general bankers "consider themselves to be in a relatively environmentally friendly industry (in terms of emissions and pollution). However, given their potential exposure to risk, they have been surprisingly slow to examine the environmental performance of their clients. A stated reason for this is that such an examination would ‘require interference’ with a client's
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activities." While the desire not to interfere with the business of the client is valid, it could also be noted that banks are required to interfere in the business of their clients regularly to ensure that the clients’ business plan is viable before issuing them a loan. The kind of analysis that all banks partake in is termed a single bottom line analysis (this analysis only considers financial performance). It is arguable whether or not performing a triple bottom line analysis (an analysis that takes into account environmental, social, and financial performance) would be any more intrusive.
# Internal vs. external banking ethics.
Conventional banks deal with mostly internal ethics, ethical
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banks add to internal concerns by applying external ethics.
### processes in banks.
Internal ethics are concerned with the well being of employees, employee and customer satisfaction, benefits, wages, unionization, fair sex and race representation, and the banks environmental standing. Environmentally the potential combined effect of banks switching to more environmentally friendly practices (i.e. less paper use, less electrical use, solar power, energy efficient light bulbs, more conscientious employee travel policies with concern to commuting and air travel) is huge. However, when compared with many other sectors of the economy banks do not incur the same burden of energy, water and paper
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use. Many times such energy efficient changes are not based on moral concern but on cost efficiency.
### products of the banks’ relationships/products.
External ethics are concerned with the wider ramifications of banks actions. External ethics looks at the impacts that their business practices, such as who they loan to or invest in, will have on society and the environment. In applying external ethics, one looks at how the products of banks can be used unethically, for example how borrowers use the money that is lent out by the bank.
## Discussion.
Banks are often reluctant to broaden the scope of their external ethical policies because of the significant nature of the changes. However,
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by incorporating ethics that account for societal costs in their practices, banks may improve their reputation.
Ethical banking is a relatively new sector and this relatively undeveloped nature causes some problems. These problems can be divided into two categories: the first concerns depositors, and the second concerns ethical banks.
In the first category lies the issue of understanding how ethical banks measure or qualify their ethical policies. For example, when Vancity/Citizen Bank states ‘we seek to work with organizations that demonstrate a commitment to ethical business practices,’ the depositor is unable to understand what ‘seek’ means. These claims do not reveal to potential depositors
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how the bank evaluates or uses these statements. Even when given the opportunity to view an accountability report it is difficult to truly understand what their screening processes are. For example, the Van City Accountability Report for 2006/07 (for Van City credit union and Citizens Bank in Canada) states:
"the Ethical Policy requires that all business accounts are screened at the time of account opening by the staff person dealing with the member. Social and environmental risks of larger business banking loans (non-credit-scored loans) are assessed at the time of the loan application, guided by the Ethical Policy and Lending Policies."
This statement does not give the reader the information
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they needs to understand the criteria used in assessing clients. However statistics such as that given by the Cooperative Bank (UK), stating that in 2003 they reviewed 225 potentially problematic financial opportunities and of these 20% were found to be in conflict with their ethical statements and were subsequently denied further business, costing the bank 6,887,000 pounds, give the consumer the impression that the banks’ proposed ethics, however ambiguous, are being taken seriously.
Another issue in this category is that of codes of conduct. Many ethical banks as well as conventional banks voluntarily join larger bodies that put forth certain regulations that, according to the rules set by
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the body, should be followed by members. Such outside bodies could act as overarching institutions that could guarantee a certain level of conformance with certain regulations. An example of this in the United States is the Food and Drug Administration. Depositors who use ethical banks do not have this assurance because there is no external regulatory body that sets minimum acceptable legal standards.
In the second category ethical banks face obstacles such as losing business and consumer support to conventional banks, and having to regulate above and beyond the present international legal systems.
According to Cowton, C. J., and P. Thompson, "banks that had signed the United Nations Environment
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Programme (UNEP) Statement, a voluntary industry code that promulgated environmental stewardship, transparency, and sustainable development, did not act significantly different than the non-signatories." They concluded that, for codes to be more effective; regulators, monitors, and methods of enforcement need to be in place. This problem is similar to the problems faced by the fair trade movement. Both the fair trade movement and ethical banks rely on people to pay extra for known ethical goods. There is a limit to how much more people will pay for that guarantee, after that point further initiatives will undercut the banks income and therefore are likely to not be followed.
Losing business
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to banks that do not screen so strictly is a problem for ethical banks. Many times ethical banks must work with much lower budgets because of this. Ethical banks exclusion of unethical borrowers often results in the borrowers going to other banks, this brings up the importance of industry wide regulations. One way of raising the industry wide regulations would be for citizens to apply pressure on banks. Without this rise it is difficult to impede unethical businesses from finding a bank to finance their projects. A rise in regulations that deal with moral topics is not out of the question. The current industry wide codes, for example, prohibit the financing of illegal drug production. This reflects
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