title: Go (Flow song)

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"Go!!!" is Flow's fourth single. Its A-side was used as the fourth opening for the popular Japanese anime Naruto. It reached #6 on the Oricon charts in its first week where it stayed on the Oricon's Top 10 for 3 straight weeks. It charted for 22 weeks in total.

Track listing

Covers
The song was covered by Argonavis, a fictional rock band from multimedia franchise Argonavis from BanG Dream! during their pre-debut live Argonavis 0-2nd LIVE -The Beginning- held on September 15, 2018. It was playable in the game Argonavis from BanG Dream! AAside on January 14, 2021 while the full version is included on "Argonavis Cover Collection -Mix-", released on November 17, 2021.

References

External links

2004 singles
2004 songs
Flow (band) songs
Ki/oon Music singles
Naruto songs
Song articles with missing songwriters


title: Naval Reserve Flying Corps

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The Naval Reserve Flying Corps (NRFC) was the first United States Navy reserve pilot procurement program. As part of demobilization following World War I the NRFC was completely inactive by 1922; but it is remembered as the origin of the naval aviation component of the United States Navy Reserve, the Naval Air Reserve.

Background
United States naval aviation inventory was six airplanes at the beginning of World War I. Four operated from Naval Air Station Pensacola and two were assigned to . The Navy organized an unfunded naval militia in 1915 encouraging formation of ten state-run militia units of aviation enthusiasts. The Naval Appropriations Act of 29 August 1916 included funds for both a Naval Flying Corps (NFC) and a Naval Reserve Flying Corps. Students at several Ivy League colleges organized flying units and began pilot training at their own expense. The NFC mustered 42 Navy officers, 6 United States Marine Corps officers, and 239 enlisted men when the United States declared war on 6 April 1917. These men recruited and organized qualified members from the various state naval militia and college flying units into the NRFC.

Wartime
A three-part pilot training program was implemented beginning with two months of ground school, followed by preliminary flight training teaching student pilots to fly solo, and advanced flight training to qualification as a naval aviator with a commission in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps. The first ground school for pilot training was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first class of fifty student pilots arrived on 23 July 1917 for an eight-week program covering electricity, signals, photography, seamanship, navigation, gunnery, aeronautic engines, theory of flight, and aircraft instruments. Later classes received an initial period of indoctrination and preliminary training aboard a receiving ship before assignment to ground school. Those who successfully completed ground school were transferred to naval air stations for flight training. In July 1918 parallel ground school programs began at the University of Washington in Seattle and at Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis; but few graduates of these schools could be counted among the 18,000 naval aviation personnel who reached Europe before the war ended.

United States naval aviation manpower had climbed to 37,407 when the First Armistice at Compiègne ended hostilities on 11 November 1918. Reservists accounted for 82 percent of this number. There were 6,716 officers and 30,693 enlisted men in Navy units, and 282 officers and 2,180 men in Marine Corps units. The number of qualified pilots was approximately 1,600. Awarding of naval aviator precedence list numbers in the sequence of pilot qualification did not begin until January 1918; and some duplicate or fractional numbers were awarded in subsequent attempts to appropriately place pilots qualified before that date.

Several NRFC pilots achieved significant recognition. Charles Hammann was the only Navy pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor during World War I. Stephen Potter of the second Yale University flying unit was the first Navy pilot credited with destruction of an enemy aircraft in aerial combat; and David Sinton Ingalls of the First Yale Unit was the only Navy flying ace of World War I. James Forrestal of the Princeton University flying unit was designated Naval Aviator number 154 and later became the first United States Secretary of Defense.
Other members of the Yale Unit were Naval Aviator # 73 John Martin Vorys and Naval Aviator # 74 Kenneth MacLeish.

Peacetime
Funding was provided in 1920 for fifteen-day training periods at Naval Air Station Rockaway for a limited number of NRFC pilots; but no funding was available in subsequent years. Without the opportunity to continue flying, many pilots failed to re-enroll upon completion of their four-year obligation. Those who did were transferred from the NRFC to the Volunteer Naval Reserve Force. A few reserve pilots were able to fly periodically from Naval Air Station Rockaway, Naval Air Station Anacostia and Naval Air Station Squantum.

References

Air units and formations of the United States Navy


title: Paul Seligson

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Paul Seligson is a British-born English language teacher and writer on the teaching of English as a foreign language. He has been teaching English as a Foreign Language worldwide since 1978 and is well known for his lively, highly practical approach, materials, talks and teacher training. He now works freelance from his home in Brighton, and has evolved into a Latin America specialist.

Education
Seligson received his master's degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and is qualified as a CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) assessor and London Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) examiner.

Career
Seligson  began his teaching career in 1978, with International House in Algeria. Next he worked for the British Council, in locations such as Egypt, Venezuela and Spain, working five year in Valencia as the assistant director of Studies. He has also taught in Brazil, Argentina, Turkey and Mexico.

He began writing in the United States, where he spent a year, then moved back to the United Kingdom, teaching English to immigrants and refugees. He also set up his own language school in Brighton.

His work as a teacher trainer has included  COTE (Certificate for Overseas Teachers of English), DOTE, CELTA, DELTA, FTBE (First Certificate for Teachers of Business English), graduate and post-graduate courses on four continents, as well as a stint from 2000 to 2001 with the Oxford University Press.

Today he freelances as a writer, trainer and speaker at conferences, having given hundreds of sessions in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese and noted for his upbeat style and practical content. Seligson has also worked as a consultant in universities in Europe, North Africa, Asian and Latin America, along with observation programs in Spain, Turkey and Mexico. Seligson strongly believes we can best accelerate teen and adult foreign language learning by anticipating, embracing and building on and around their existing linguistic knowledge. Rather than teach through immersion, as if to children, or through a non-specific, ‘general English programme’ as if to learners in a multi-lingual class, we should be focussing on making creative, efficient use of what they already know.

Hence his new edition of Richmond's English ID series and its follow-on, IDentities 1 and 2, a 6-level teen and adult course, the first and still the only one written specifically for learners from a Romance language background.

Publications
His over forty publications as author, co-author or consultant have targeted primary and secondary students along with adult learners of English. He has also written numerous articles in international magazines.
 "Identities 1 & 2" (Richmond, 2016–2017) Main author, Upper Intermediate & Advanced course in American English [Adults and teens], British English version (2017)
 "English iD" Second Edition; Starter, 1, 2 & 3 (Richmond, 2020) Main author, a four-level course in American English specifically for Spanish and Portuguese speakers in Latin America [Adults and teens]
 "English iD" (Richmond, 2013)
 Essential English 1-5 (Richmond, 2009)
 Awesome 1 to 3 (Richmond, 2008–9)
 American English File Elementary & Pre-Int. (OUP, 2007–8)
 Connexion 1 to 4 (Cultura Inglesa, Brazil, 2004–7)  (series consultant)
 New English File Elementary & Pre-Int. (OUP, 2004–5)
 Power 1 & 2 (Richmond, 2004–5)
 Can Do 1 to 4 (Richmond, 2003–5)
 Interlink 1 to 6 (Cultura Inglesa, Brazil, 2002–4)
 Your Turn Next: Teacher’s Books 1 & 2 (Richmond, 1999)
 Prepositions (Zastrugi, 1998)
 Helping Students to Speak (Richmond Teacher's Handbook series, 1997)
 English File Levels 1 and 2 (Oxford University Press, 1996–7)
 Buzz 1-3 (BBC/Pearson, 1991–4) The first real multiple intelligence-based course for children which won the Duke of Edinburgh award Primary Book of the Year in 1992
 Mosaic 1-3 (Pearson, 1991–4)

Other publications
·	Articles in ETP, EFL Gazette, over 20 international journals & some training via youtube.com
·	Consultant on several books for Turkish universities including academic writing & a dictionary of ELT terminology

References

External links
   Interview with Paul Seligson at Liverpool Online/British Council

Teachers of English as a second or foreign language
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people


title: Wrestling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's freestyle 55 kg

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The women's 55 kg freestyle wrestling competitions at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland was held on 31 July at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Results
Results:

Bracket

Repechage

References

Wrestling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Com


title: Keyboard Maestro

text:
Keyboard Maestro is a closed-source commercial macOS-based application that allows automation of routine functions, such as navigating running applications, opening documents, typing text, expanding abbreviations, and controlling web applications, by means of a visual programming language with support for variables, styled clipboards, functions and text tokens, if-then-else logic, loops and other functions.

Features include recording and designing macros, clipboard history, saved clipboards, and navigation through applications and windows.  Macros are organised into groups which can be limited to operate within certain applications.

Keyboard Maestro was created and first released in 2002 by Michael Kamprath and purchased by Stairways Software in 2004, and has been in continuous development since then.

See also
 AutoHotkey (for Windows)
 AutoIt (for Windows)
 AutoKey (for Linux)
 Automise (for Windows)
 Automator (for macOS)
 Bookmarklet (for Windows)
 iMacros for Firefox (for Windows)
 KiXtart (for Windows)
 Macro Express (for Windows)

References

Further reading

External links

Automation software
Utilities for macOS


title: Bob Bryant (tackle)

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Robert R. Bryant (June 14, 1918 – November 3, 2000) was an American football tackle who played four seasons with the San Francisco 49ers of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC).  He played college football at Texas Tech University and attended Olton High School in Olton, Texas. He was also a member of the Calgary Stampeders of the Western Interprovincial Football Union.

References

External links
Just Sports Stats
CFLapedia
Fanbase profile

1918 births
2000 deaths
Players of American football from Oklahoma
American football tackles
Canadian football tackles
American players of Canadian football
Texas Tech Red Raiders football players
San Francisco 49ers players
Calgary Stampeders players
People from Frederick, Oklahoma


title: Rookie / Stay Gold

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"Rookie" / "Stay Gold" is FLOW's sixth single. It is a double A-Side single.  "Stay Gold" was used as the theme song for the Korean film Make It Big. It reached #32 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 5 weeks.

Track listing

References

2005 singles
Flow (band) songs
Ki/oon Music singles
2005 songs
Song articles with missing songwriters


title: Truncated square antiprism

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The truncated square antiprism one in an infinite series of truncated antiprisms, constructed as a truncated square antiprism. It has 18 faces, 2 octagons, 8 hexagons, and 8 squares.

Gyroelongated triamond square bicupola
If the hexagons are folded, it can be constructed by regular polygons. Or each folded hexagon can be replaced by two triamonds, adding 8 edges (56), and 4 faces (32). This form is called a gyroelongated triamond square bicupola.

Related polyhedra

Snub square antiprism
Although it can't be made by all regular planar faces, its alternation is the Johnson solid, the snub square antiprism.

References

 Snub Anti-Prisms

Polyhedra


title: Amit Mehta

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Amit Priyavadan Mehta (born 1971) is an American lawyer who has served as United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia since 2014. In 2021, Mehta became a judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Mehta has notably presided over cases related to the January 6, 2021 United States Capitol attack. In 2022, he rejected efforts by Donald Trump to dismiss lawsuits accusing the former President of legal responsibility in the attacks.

Early life and education
Amit Priyavadan Mehta was born in 1971 in Patan, Gujarat, India. At the age of one, Mehta moved with his parents, Priyavadan and Ragini Mehta, to the United States. His mother worked as a laboratory technician, while his father worked as an engineer. Mehta was raised in Reisterstown, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore.

Mehta graduated from Franklin High School in 1989. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993 from Georgetown University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. From 1993 to 1994, Mehta worked as a paralegal at the law firm Patton Boggs (now Squire Patton Boggs). He then attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an editor of the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. He graduated in 1997 with a Juris Doctor and Order of the Coif honors.

Early career
He served as an associate at the law firm of Latham & Watkins from 1997 to 1998, leaving to clerk for Judge Susan P. Graber of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1998 to 1999. He served as an associate at the law firm of Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP from 1999 to 2002, and then as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia from 2002 to 2007.

From 2007 to 2014 he rejoined Zuckerman Spaeder, serving as partner from 2010 to 2014. He represented clients in civil and criminal matters before state and federal courts. While in the private sector, he represented former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Federal judicial service

Nomination
On July 31, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Mehta to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to the seat vacated by Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, who took senior status on June 3, 2014. He received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on September 17, 2014. On November 20, 2014 his nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote. On December 13, 2014 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination.

On December 16, 2014, Reid withdrew his cloture motion on Mehta's nomination, and the Senate proceeded to vote to confirm Mehta in a voice vote. He received his federal judicial commission on December 19, 2014.

Tenure

In May 2019, Mehta ruled that accounting firm Mazars had to provide its records of Donald Trump's accounts from before his presidency to the House Oversight Committee in response to their subpoena. In a 41-page opinion, he asserted that Congress has the right to investigate potential illegal behavior by a president, including actions both before and after the president assumed office. The ruling will be appealed by Trump's personal legal team.

In July 2019, Mehta sided with the pharmaceutical firms Merck & Co., Eli Lilly & Co., and Amgen Inc. by blocking a Trump administration rule requiring drugmakers to put prices in television ads, a central part of the president's push to lower the cost of prescription medications. The goal of the rule was to increase transparency; Mehta ruled that requiring big pharmaceutical companies to disclose prices to consumers in television advertisements was something that could be done only by the Department of Health and Human Services if mandated by Congress.

In 2020, Mehta became the presiding judge in the United States v. Google LLC antitrust case. On June 1, 2021, Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Mehta to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

January 6 Capitol attack-related cases
Mehta has presiding over several cases related to the January 6 United States Capitol attack. He has charge of the criminal prosecution of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes for seditious conspiracy. He is also presiding over three civil lawsuits against Trump and multiple associates, in which several members of Congress and two police officers are suing for damages for physical and emotional injuries they allegedly incurred during the attacks.

On February 18, 2022, Mehta issued a lengthy opinion that rejected Trump's claim of "absolute immunity" from lawsuits, finding that his actions were not part of his presidential duties, and that there was plausible evidence to suggest he engaged in a conspiracy with organized groups to use any means, including violence, to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The opinion allows the case to proceed, with the plaintiffs demanding documents, depositions, and other evidence from Trump and members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. Mehta dropped several other co-defendants from the suit, including Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump Jr., and Representative Mo Brooks.

Personal life
Mehta has been described as an avid fan of hip hop music. In a 2015 copyright case regarding the similarity of two songs, Mehta noted in a footnote that he was "not a ‘lay person’ when it comes to hip-hop music and lyrics,” and noted he has "listened to hip hop for decades". American rappers Jay-Z, Eminem, Kanye West and Canadian rapper Drake are among his favorite artists.

See also
List of Asian American jurists

References

External links

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1971 births
Living people
21st-century American judges
American jurists of Indian descent
Georgetown University alumni
Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
People from Reistertown, Maryland
People from Patan district
Public defenders
United States district court judges appointed by Barack Obama
University of Virginia School of Law alumni
Virginia lawyers


title: Days (Flow song)

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DAYS is FLOW's seventh single. Its A-Side was used as the first opening theme song for Eureka Seven. It reached number 3 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 14 weeks.

Track listing

References

2005 singles
2005 songs
Flow (band) songs
Ki/oon Music singles
Anime songs


title: Wrestling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's freestyle 58 kg

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The women's 58 kg freestyle wrestling competitions at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland was held on 30 July at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Results
Results:

Bracket

Repechage

References

Wrestling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Com


title: Maine State Route 160

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State Route 160 (abbreviated SR 160) is part of Maine's system of numbered state highways, located in the southwestern part of the state. It is a north–south highway running  from an intersection with State Route 5 in Limerick to an intersection with State Route 117 in Denmark.

Route description
SR 160 begins in downtown Limerick at SR 5, about  from that route's intersection with SR 11. Heading out of town almost due north, the highway roughly parallels SR 5 for its southernmost . SR 160 nicks the northwestern corner of Cornish, then crosses into Parsonsfield and turns to the northwest, crossing through the eastern and northern sections of town. Turning due north once again, SR 160 crosses the Ossipee River into the town of Porter in Oxford County and intersects SR 25 about  east of the New Hampshire border. SR 160 joins SR 25 eastbound and the two routes run along the northern bank of the river for .

SR 160 splits from SR 25 and turns back to the north, running along the town border between Porter and Hiram. The highway crosses between the western edge of Hiram and northeastern corner of Porter twice before entering Brownfield. SR 160 continues northwest until reaching Main Street, where it abruptly turns northeast towards the town center and crosses SR 5 / SR 113. SR 160 crosses the Saco River before turning due east and crossing into Denmark. The highway continues east as West Main Street into downtown, where it ends at an intersection with SR 117.

Between Limerick and Brownfield, SR 160 is the westernmost north-south highway in the state.

History
Modern SR 160, as first designated in 1933, was  in length and had its southern terminus at SR 25 near Kezar Falls in Porter. In 1937-8, the SR 160 designation was applied to a new routing through Parsonsfield southward to the current terminus in downtown Limerick. SR 160 was co-routed along SR 25 in Porter to connect the two segments, adding  to the route's overall length.

The first highway in Maine designated SR 160 was located in the extreme northern part of the state and ran between Saint Francis and Madawaska in 1925. Following the designation of U.S. Highways in 1926, the eastern end of the route was truncated to Fort Kent, with part of it becoming the northernmost stretch of US 1. The remainder of the route was originally decommissioned, but is now part of SR 161.

Major intersections

See also

References

160
Transportation in York County, Maine
Transportation in Oxford County, Maine
U.S. Route 1


title: Freedom Alliance (Fiji)

text:
The Freedom Alliance (FAP), formerly the Freedom Alliance Party and Fiji United Freedom Party (FUFP), is a currently deregistered political party in Fiji. The party's interim president is Jagath Karunaratne. The party aims to provide a platform for youth.

The party applied for registration in May 2014 but the application was rejected due to insufficient valid signatures. The party lodged a second application for registration in July, and this was accepted on August 1, 2014.

It contested the general election held in September 2014, but did not win any seats.

In June 2018 the party changed its name to the "Freedom Alliance" following the conviction of its leader for sedition. In October 2018 it signed a partnership agreement with the Fiji Labour Party to join forces for the 2018 election. The party submitted a joint list of 25 candidates, including 6 women. However the joint list failed to win any seats, winning only 2,800 votes.

References

2014 establishments in Fiji
Political parties established in 2014
Political parties in Fiji


title: Garden (Summer Edit)

text:
Garden ~Summer Edit~ is FLOW's eighth single. It is a recut single from the original B-Side in their album Golden Coast. It reached #50 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 2 weeks. *

Track listing

References

Flow (band) songs
2005 singles
Ki/oon Music singles
2005 songs
Song articles with missing songwriters


title: Bob Bryant

text:
Bob Bryant may refer to:

 Roscoe Rustling Bob Bryant (d. 1878), American outlaw
 Bob Bryant (tackle) (1918–2000), American football player
 Bob Bryant (end) (born 1937), American football player
 Bob Bryant (politician) (1944–2016), American politician
 Bob Bryant, stuntman and actor, was in Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)

See also
Robert Bryant (disambiguation)
Bobby Bryant (disambiguation)


title: Bobby Bryant (disambiguation)

text:
Bobby Bryant may refer to:

 Bobby Bryant (musician) (1934–1998), American jazz trumpeter
 Bobby Bryant (born 1944), American football player
 Bobby Lynn Bryant (born 1992), American boxer

See also
Bob Bryant (disambiguation)
Robert Bryant (disambiguation)


title: Viaur Viaduct

text:
The Viaur Viaduct (Viaduc du Viaur in French) near Aveyron, was the first large steel bridge built in France.

The 220m arch bridge was completed in 1902 under the direction of Paul-Joseph Bodin. The single track viaduct is located along the Carmaux-Rodez rail line. Built by the Société de Construction des Batignolles, it was the longest metallic arch span built up to that point in time. The viaduct contains an estimated 3800 tons of metal, with a total cost (including the masonry abutments) of around 2 700 000 French francs.

See also
 List of bridges in France

References

Viaducts in France
Bridges completed in 1902
Railway bridges in France


title: Re:member (Flow song)

text:
Re:member is FLOW's ninth single. Its A-Side was used as the eighth opening theme song for the anime series Naruto. It reached #12 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 8 weeks. The single received a Gold certification in January 2014 from the Recording Industry Association of Japan, for reaching 100,000 music downloads.

Track listing
Track listing adapted from Sony Music Entertainment Japan.

References

2006 singles
2006 songs
Flow (band) songs
Ki/oon Music singles
Naruto songs


title: Charlotte Salomon (opera)

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Charlotte Salomon is an opera by Marc-André Dalbavie.  The libretto is by Barbara Honigmann (portions translated into French by Johannes Honigmann) who based much of it on Charlotte Salomon's autobiographical and posthumous work Leben? Oder Theater? The opera was first performed at the Salzburg Festival on July 28, 2014.

Composition
The nature of Leben? Oder Theater? is of an artist fashioning her own life into an artistic creation.  Dalbavie said that the "intrinsically musical and even cinematic qualities of 'Leben? Oder Theater?'" combined with an attraction to real-life drama inspired him to compose an opera based on Charlotte Salomon.  Since Salomon was aiming for a form of communication that combined various arts, Dalbalvie felt that her story needed music. He was quoted as saying "She recreated her life through a work of art." Just as Dalbavie's opera Gesualdo (based on the life of Carlo Gesualdo) incorporates portions of his subject's compositions, so too does Dalbavie incorporate existing music into his opera, such as the "Habañera" from Bizet's Carmen and "Wir winden dir den Jungfernkranz" from Weber's Der Freischütz.

The opera includes a character representing the author Charlotte Salomon (speaking role), and also her fictive creation, named Charlotte Kann (mezzo-soprano).  While the opera (including the role of Charlotte Kann) is sung in French, the character named Charlotte Salomon comments on the action in German.  By the end of the opera, the languages are reversed, representing the integration of the artist her subject.

Dalbavie's orchestrations derives from his analysis of the human voice's acoustic frequencies, a technique used in spectral music as well as alluding to a singing teacher's character in the opera.  Dalbavie described the scoring of the opera—for 65 orchestral musicians (the size of the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra)—as one designed not as much for dramatic impact as for "maximum tonal richness."

Premiere
Charlotte Salomon is in two acts and an epilogue. It was first performed at the Salzburg Festival on July 28, 2014, where it was directed by Luc Bondy. The production involved twenty projections of Salomon's artwork.

Roles

References

Compositions by Marc-André Dalbavie
Operas
Operas set in the 20th century
2014 operas
French-language operas
German-language operas
Operas based on real people
Operas set in France
Operas set in Germany
Cultural depictions of Charlotte Salomon


title: Around the World / Kandata

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"Around The World / Kandata" is Flow's tenth single. "Around The World" was used as the advertising theme song for the Suzuki Swift. It reached #23 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for five weeks.

Track listing

References

Flow (band) songs
2006 singles
2006 songs
Ki/oon Music singles


title: Two Sigma

text:
Two Sigma Investments, LP is a New York City-based hedge fund that uses a variety of technological methods, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and distributed computing, for its trading strategies. The firm is run by John Overdeck and David Siegel.

History

Two Sigma Investments was founded in 2001 by John Overdeck, David Siegel and Mark Pickard. Siegel is a computer science Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who worked for Tudor Investments, and Overdeck is an International Mathematical Olympiad Silver Medalist who subsequently studied mathematics at Stanford University and worked for Jeff Bezos in Amazon.com's early days. The two met at D. E. Shaw & Co., where Siegel held the position of Chief Information Officer and Overdeck the position of managing director. They left to co-found Two Sigma in 2001 with seed funding from Paul Tudor Jones. Pickard served as the President of the firm from its inception until his retirement in 2006.

According to Two Sigma, the firm's name was chosen to reflect the duality of the word sigma. A lower case sigma, σ, designates the volatility of an investment's return over a given benchmark, and an upper case sigma, Σ, denotes sum. By adding together the volatilities of individual positions measured against the benchmark, Two Sigma can amplify forecast signals, the company's website says.

In October 2013, Two Sigma Private Investments announced that it was joining with Stephen Hannahs to form Wings Capital Partners, a commercial aviation private equity, investment, advisory and financing company. In July 2014, it was announced that Simon Yates, Citigroup's global head of equity derivative sales and trading, left the bank to join Two Sigma.

In February 2014, Forbes reported that former Two Sigma employee Kang Gao, aged 29, was prosecuted by the Manhattan District Attorney and is accused of using a remote-access device to view Two Sigma's proprietary trading models and emailing this information to his personal email account, lifting quantitative trading strategies, trading models, a marketing presentation, and a scientific white paper. The case, New York. v. Kang Gao, led to Gao receiving 8 months in jail as of October 2014. In February 2015, Gao pleaded guilty to "illegally accessing and duplicating proprietary and confidential information related to the firm's trading methods."

In 2016, Two Sigma Investments ranked 11th on Penta's Top 100 Hedge Funds.

As of early 2017, Two Sigma had used crowdsourcing options to find trading signals. By March 2017, the fund was running a competition on Kaggle to code a trading algorithm.

The fund managed around $8 billion in November 2011, $23 billion in October 2014, and $32 billion by the end of 2015. , the fund had assets reaching more than $50 billion.  In May 2019, the fund had assets reaching $60 billion. This number slightly dropped to $58 billion in October 2020, after Two Sigma saw losses in its risk premia, absolute return, and macro funds.
The Wall Street Journal reported in October 2023 that a senior vice president had made unauthorized changes to Two Sigma's trading models, leading to different-than-expected investment results, prompting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to open an investigation. Two Sigma remediated its clients who were subscribed to specific funds that suffered losses.

Technology
At the end of 2016, Two Sigma Investments introduced an artificial intelligence challenge called Halite. Halite is a programming game inviting coding enthusiasts to build smart bots whose goal is to gain control of a virtual grid. Due to the success of Halite I, Two Sigma decided to develop a second season of Halite called Halite II. This ran from October 2017 to January 2018, and in this version players competed for control of planets using ships. In October 2022, Two Sigma became a Chainlink node operator to help expand the use cases of blockchain-based hybrid smart contracts.

Fund information

Two Sigma has been noted in the business press for its unusually high rate of return, comparable to its older and more mature competitors D. E. Shaw & Co. and Renaissance Technologies. In October 2014, Two Sigma had raised $3.3 billion for a macro hedge fund in one of the largest new pools of such capital raised since the 2008 financial crisis.

There are a few specialized divisions which focus on private investments, venture capital investments (with a focus on companies operating in the realm of data science), advising institutional clients, and running a high frequency broker-dealer.

References

External links

 Two Sigma Ventures

Hedge fund firms in New York City
Financial services companies established in 2001


title: Tell Me (I'll Be Around)

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"Tell Me (I'll Be Around)" (originally titled "Tell Me Your Name") is a song performed by Shades, issued as the lead single from their eponymous debut album. The song contains a sample of "Who Do You Love" by Bernard Wright. It was the group's highest chart appearance on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #50 in 1996.

Chart positions

References

External links

1996 songs
1996 debut singles
Motown singles
Shades (band) songs
Song recordings produced by Troy Taylor (record producer)
Songs written by Troy Taylor (record producer)
Songs written by Shannon Walker Williams
Songs written by Bernard Wright


title: Colors (Flow song)

text:
"COLORS" is FLOW's eleventh single. The A-Side was used as the first opening theme song for Code Geass. It reached #2 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 16 weeks.

Track listing

Cover version
Cover by fictional rock band Afterglow (Voiced by Ayane Sakura) was added as a playable song in the smartphone rhythm game BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! on December 11, 2021, featured FLOW as a guest performer.

References

Flow (band) songs
2006 singles
2006 songs
Code Geass
Ki/oon Music singles
Song articles with missing songwriters


Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble is the eighth studio album by American rock group Primus. The album is a re-imagining of the soundtrack of the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The album was released on October 21, 2014. It is the first full-length album with Tim "Herb" Alexander since 1995's Tales from the Punchbowl.

Background
Lead singer and bassist Les Claypool told Rolling Stone of his fascination with Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, the 1971 film adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: "I don't think it was until Jaws came along that I was more obsessed with a film, when I started drawing sharks all over my binders and notebooks. Prior to that it was everything Wonka."

During an interview at The Greene Space, Les Claypool explained that one idea for his next record was a cover of The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour. Although this project never came to fruition, he stated that he was glad it didn't work out since he later found out that The Flaming Lips were producing their cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band around the same time.

Music
The track "I Want It Now" is the first Primus song to feature guitarist Larry "Ler" Lalonde on lead vocals.

Drummer Tim Alexander used an intentionally unusual drum kit throughout the album, which contained various rototoms, frying pans, a HAPI UFO drum, and more in addition to his already-large drum kit. About the odd choice of percussion, Alexander explains "It went back to the original meaning of a contraption, which is what a drum set initially was when they were first being put together in the early 1900s. Putting all these things together, I just had all these different sounds to work with them. It made me have to think about what I’m doing to create rhythms using all this stuff."

Promotion
To tie in with the album's Wonka theme, Primus began selling exclusive chocolate "Primus Bars" at live performances. The varieties are named after Primus songs: "Mr. Krinkle Bars" and "Pork Soda Bars" (from Pork Soda), "Professor Nutbutter Bars" (from Tales from the Punchbowl), and "Bastard Bars". "The tour and the album are solely a marketing tool just so we can sell candy bars," jokes Claypool. "That's the whole impetus of this entire project. Because the fucking recording industry rolled over and let this Internet shit all over us. So we had to come up with another income stream, so we're making chocolate bars because you can’t digitize a chocolate bar — yet." On Hollywood, limited edition 'Pork Soda' bars were available.
The last live performance of the album, September 19, 2015, was a live Pay-Per-View event on TourGigs.com

Track listing

Deluxe Edition
In early 2015, Primus' official website announced Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble Deluxe Edition to be released on April 28, 2015. This update reformats the album into Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound, and also includes a bonus live CD that features Primus' signature extended live jams. This was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album.

Shortly after the last live performance of the album, it was announced on Primus' official website that the Deluxe Edition's release date had been delayed until November 20, 2015, and that pre-orders will now include a limited edition box of chocolates. The live CD was replaced with a DVD of custom visuals for each song.

Personnel
Primus
Les Claypool – lead vocals (tracks 2–4, 6–9, 11–13), upright bass (1, 2, 7–11, 13, 14), cello (1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14), bass guitar (3, 4, 6, 10, 12), marimba (1, 8, 14), backing vocals (10), percussion (12)
Larry LaLonde – guitar (tracks 1-11, 13, 14), lead vocals (10)
Tim "Herb" Alexander – drums (tracks 1–4, 6–10, 13, 14)

The Fungi Ensemble
Mike Dillon – vibraphone (tracks 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13), marimba (2, 4, 10), tablas (3)
Sam Bass – cello (tracks 3, 6, 8, 10)

Charts

References

Primus (band) albums
2014 albums
ATO Records albums
Prawn Song Records albums
Willy Wonka


title: Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's floor

text:
The men's individual floor exercise competition of the 2014 Commonwealth Games took place on July 31 at the SSE Hydro arena in Glasgow, Scotland.

Results

Qualification

Qualification took place on July 28 as part of the team and individual qualification event.

Final

References

External links
Official results

Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Answer (Flow song)

text:
"Answer" is FLOW's twelfth single. The title track was used as opening theme song for the live action Detective School Q television series. It reached #7 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 12 weeks.

Track listing

References

2007 songs
Ki/oon Music singles
Flow (band) songs
Song articles with missing songwriters


title: Edward Bate Scott

text:
Edward Bate Scott (3 April 1822 – 2 July 1909) was a pioneering colonist of South Australia who accompanied Edward John Eyre on several journeys and had a later career with the South Australian Police Force.

History

E. B. Scott was born in Gillingham, Kent, of a well-to-do family. His father was James Scott, of the Royal Navy. At the age of 16 years, he emigrated on Duke of Edinburgh to New South Wales, where he had a letter of introduction to John Macarthur, alas dead by the time Scott arrived. After a short time in Sydney he joined his brother John Mansel Scott, Master of the Revenue Cutter Ranger, at Port Phillip, then went to a station at Mount Macedon to experience sheep and cattle farming. This did not last long, as the station owner and his family were all drowned in a voyage from Sydney to Port Phillip, and the station was sold.
In 1839 he joined his friend George Hamilton (later to be appointed Commissioner of the South Australia Police), droving a herd of cattle from Port Phillip to South Australia for William Mundy and Captain Smythe, reaching Adelaide in 1839.

With Edward John Eyre
In Adelaide he met Edward John Eyre and Alfred M. Mundy, (who became Colonial Secretary in the first South Australian Legislative Council under Governor Grey, and was to marry Jane, the eldest daughter of John Hindmarsh). He was invited to join them in an expedition to Western Australia with sheep and cattle, which were shipped from the North Arm of the Port River to Albany, Western Australia, then drove them overland to Perth. To conserve water most of the travelling was done by night. The trip was highly profitable.
Back in Adelaide in 1840, Eyre was organising an expedition to find an overland route to Western Australia, and invited Scott to join him as travelling companion and second in command, sharing in all expenses (apart from a £100 grant from the Government). Eyre wrote in his journal:
"Mr. Scott, who ever since the commencement of our preparations had been most indefatigable and useful in his exertions, was even still more severely tasked on this day. At night, however, we were all amply rewarded by seeing everything completely and satisfactorily arranged; the bustle, confusion, and excitement over; and our drays all loaded and ready to commence on the morrow a journey of which the length, the difficulty, and the result were all a problem yet to be solved."

The party left Government House, Adelaide, on 18 June 1840. Somewhere past Crystal Brook, he wrote:
"My own time, when not personally engaged in conducting the party, was occupied in keeping the journals and charts and in taking observations in the daily register, of the barometer, thermometer, winds, and weather, and in collecting specimens of flowers or minerals. My young friend Mr. Scott was equally busy, for in many of these duties he assisted me, and in some relieved me altogether. ... He was the only sportsman of the party, and upon his gun we were dependent for supplies of wallabies, pigeons, duck, or other game to vary our bill of fare and make the few sheep we had hold out as long as possible. As a companion I could not have made a better selection — young, active, and cheerful— I found him ready to render me all the assistance in his power."

They set up a depot at Mount Arden (north of Quorn), and then Eyre started for the interior, setting out on horseback with one of his Aboriginal assistants and a pack horse to carry provisions, preferring not to subject the others to the difficulties and hazards of exploring unknown country. After 16 days fruitlessly trying to find a way to the interior, he returned.  While Eyre was exploring, Scott was in charge of the depot, collected botanical and geological specimens, and took the routine observations three times a day. The party then moved from Mount Arden to Depot Pool, from which point Eyre again struck out for the interior. He followed Mount Deception Range, examining the watercourses, one of which he named the Scott. Failing to find a way to the centre of the continent, Eyre returned to Depot Pool. Here he rested for a time, and then made another attempt by another route. On 21 or 22 August Eyre wrote: — "Not having seen the native for the last two days I thought I might venture to explore the watercourse we were encamped upon, and set off on horseback immediately after breakfast, accompanied by Mr. Scott. ... Having tied up our horses Mr. Scott and I ascended to the top of the high cliff by winding along the ridges at the back of it. From its summit we had an extensive view, and I was enabled to take several angles. One of these high peaks, in the Mount Deception Range, I named the Scott. ... In the course of the morning Mr. Scott shot a rock wallaby of rather a large species, and many more were seen about the high, perpendicular cliffs, under which we had found water." A few days later Eyre found another watercourse, which her named the Mundy. Eyre ascended Mt. Hopeless on 2 September and returned to the base depot.

Abandoning hopes of reaching the centre of the continent from Depot Pool, Eyre made for Streaky Bay, to make his next base depot on the West Coast. Near Port Lincoln they came to a large rocky watercourse with large pools of fresh water. There they had the pleasure of a swim, and Scott shot several ducks; a welcome addition to their diet. On 1 October 1840, they came to a sheep station, owned by Mr. Driver, of which Mr. Dutton was the manager, where they were treated to hospitality. Dutton was to die two years attempting to drove cattle from Port Lincoln to the head of Spencer's Gulf. Eyre and his party proceeded to Port Lincoln, but found the town in a bad way and unable to supply the provisions they required. Scott hired an open boat from Dr. Harvey and with two men sailed her through a gale to Glenelg walked to Adelaide, and reported to Governor Gawler with Eyre's specimen collections, letters and despatches. Gawler placed a cutter, (presumably , with its own crew) at his disposal and sailed her back to Port Lincoln with the required stores. Eyre wrote:
"Mr. Scott had managed every thing confided to him admirably, and I felt very greatly indebted to him for the ready and enterprising manner in which he had volunteered to undertake the voyage from Port Lincoln to Adelaide in an open boat, and the successful manner in which he had accomplished it"

They set up their next base at Fowler's Bay. Eyre made several attempts to round the head of the Great Australian Bight. In one attempt three of his horses died. He decided to reduce the size of his party, sending two back to Adelaide in the cutter, leaving Scott, the overseer Baxter, one man and two native assistants. Eyre determined to make one more attempt to get round the head of the Bight. On 29 December 1840 he left the depot with Baxter and one of the natives, leaving the sheep, and four horses in charge of Mr. Scott and the other native. On this occasion Eyre reached the head of the Bight and returned to the depot at Point Fowler on 16 Januarv 16 1841.

Eyre would have liked to send Scott with provisions to set up a forward base at Cape Arid, but Gawler had insisted that the cutter not leave the waters of South Australia, so he set off alone with his two native assistants, and Scott returned to Adelaide. Eyre wrote in his journal:
"It now became my duty to determine, without delay, who were to be my companions in the perilous attempt before me. The first and most painful necessity impressed upon me by the step I contemplated was that of parting with my young friend Mr. Scott, who had been with me from the commencement of the undertaking, and who had always been zealous and active in promoting its interests as far as lay in his power. I knew that, on an occasion like this, the spirit and enterprise of his character would prompt in him a wish to remain and share the difficulties and dangers to which I might be exposed; but I felt that I ought not to allow him to do so. I had no right to lead a young and enthusiastic friend into a peril from which escape seemed to be almost hopeless: and. painful as it would be to us both to separate under such circumstances, there was now no other alternative. ... I took the opportunity, whilst walking down the beach with Mr. Soott, of explaining the circumstances in which I was placed, and the decision to which I had been forced. He was much affected at the intelligence, and would fain have remained to share with me the result of the expedition, whatever that might be, but I dared not consent to it."

Eyre, Baxter, three Aborigines, nine pack horses, a Timor pony and six sheep set off from Fowler's bay on 25 February 1841. After a series of privations which included the murder of Baxter on 29 April and the decamping of two of the natives, Eyre and the third Aborigine, Wylie, arrived at a bay near Esperance, Western Australia, where they met with the French whaler Mississippi and were given hospitality and supplies by Captain Rossiter, then on 7 July arrived at Albany. Eyre had achieved his goal, but at a considerable price.

Public servant and pastoralist
Scott assisted Lieutenant Pullen in his task of surveying Lake Albert and the Murray mouth, and in 1841 mate on Pullen's boat Water Witch, which he negotiated from Wellington to Moorundie (5 km downstream from Blanchetown) on the River Murray, a distance of about . This journey helped establish Moorundie (often spelled "Moorundee") as the first European settlement on the River Murray in South Australia, and Eyre (who had explored the area in 1839) was appointed there as the Resident Magistrate and Protector of Aborigines.

He assisted Eyre in founding the Government station at Moorundie, which was established by Governor Grey to protect "overlanders" from the hostile attacks of the natives. He assisted Eyre in mapping parts of the River Darling which had been missed by Major Mitchell. He established a cattle station at North West Bend (near the current-day Morgan), but lost money on the project, as did later lessees and owners Philip Levi and Charles H. Armytage. In 1847 he succeeded Eyre at Moorundie as magistrate, Sub-Protector of Aborigines (appointed 1848), inspector of native police, and returning officer. Eyre left for England and never returned to South Australia. Around this time Scott married and started a family. Scott remained at Moorundie until 1857, when the position was abolished by the Government.

In 1856, he took over Moorna station (later occupied by John Crozier), near Wentworth, New South Wales, where in 1858 he lost everything in a fire.
They headed inland again, to Ki station,  below Euston, New South Wales, where they worked for three years, but were driven back to Adelaide by drought around 1866.

Riverboats

Scott was a passenger from Wentworth on Bunyip in December 1863 when that boat was destroyed by fire just after she entered the Murray. Two crew members and two passengers died in the flames or were drowned. Scott was conspicuous in the rescue of several passengers.

Public servant again
He was appointed acting Protector of Aborigines in 1867; in the first 6 months he travelled  on inspection tours of the 58 depots of this department. and developed outposts for the SA police Force including Overland Corner. In 1869 he was appointed supervisor of the Dry Creek Labor Prison, known as "The Stockade", now Yatala Labour Prison. He resigned October 1892 and was replaced by Robert H. Edmunds (1834 – 12 February 1917). He retired to his home, "Hamilton Lodge", Currency Creek, where he died after a short illness.

Family
Edward married Celia Williams (died 11 January 1892)
Heloise May (20 May 1854 – 9 December 1934) married Thomas William Higgins, son of Lieut-Colonel Higgins J.P. in 1874. Lived Burnt Oak Station, Currency Creek.
Edward Dashwood Scott (9 June 1856 – 16 August 1934) of Hergott Springs
Beresford George "Berry" Scott (9 December 1857 – ca.1934) of Mount Benson near Kingston SE
Francis William "Frank" Scott (8 July 1860 – 15 April 1923) of Barrow Creek
James Hamilton Scott (27 July 1862 7 December 1955) of Hamilton Lodge, Currency Creek
Richard Henry Ki Scott (27 September 1865 – 1 May 1899)
John Wynne Scott (28 July 1867 – 3 December 1967)
Augusta Katherine Winifred (9 October 1970 – 24 May 1904) married Charless Gower Lermitte, M.R.C.S., lived at Gilberton
His brother George Byng Scott (1824 – 17 February 1886) was Stipendiary Magistrate for Naracoorte, Government Resident of the Northern Territory, acting S.M. for Port Adelaide then Mount Gambier. He was father of George Beresford Scott by his first marriage

Recognition
Several geographic features have been named for E. B. Scott:
Scott Bay, Scott Point — near Fowler's Bay and
Scott Creek, Mount Scott — in the North Flinders Ranges near Copley – all named for him by Eyre
Scott River (Queensland) – named by John McKinlay.

References

Australian explorers
Settlers of South Australia
Exploration of Australia
Australian prison officials
English emigrants to colonial Australia
Australian riverboat captains
1822 births
1909 deaths
19th-century Australian public servants


title: Joy Young Rogers

text:
Joy Young Rogers (August 14, 1891 – December 10, 1953) was an American suffragette. She served as an assistant editor of The Suffragist.

Biography
Joy Oden Young was born on August 14, 1891, in Falls Church, Virginia, to Ludwick Craven Young (1841–1930) and  Harriet Noyes Oden (1861–1938).

On May 1, 1916, she delivered a basket of flowers to President Woodrow Wilson, which also contained a request for a suffrage amendment and pro-suffrage messages from women from the western half of America.

She was arrested on July 4, 1917, with Lucy Burns and others, for protesting in front of the White House.  Rodgers was on the staff of The Suffragist and was an organizer for the National Woman's Party. Her sister, Matilda Young, was also an active suffragist.

She died of a heart attack on December 10, 1953.

References

1891 births
1953 deaths
American feminists
American suffragists
American women's rights activists
The Suffragist people
People from Falls Church, Virginia
Activists from Virginia
20th-century American women
20th-century American people


title: Fuyu no Amaoto / Night Parade

text:
"Fuyu no Amaoto / Night Parade" is FLOW's thirteenth single. "Night Parade" is a collaboration between FLOW and Home Made Kazoku. The single has two editions: regular and limited. The limited edition includes a bonus DVD. It reached #19 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 4 weeks. *

Track listing

Bonus DVD Track listing

References

2007 singles
Ki/oon Music singles
Flow (band) songs
2007 songs
Song articles with missing songwriters


title: 2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions

text:
On 31 July 2014, a series of gas explosions occurred in the Cianjhen and Lingya districts of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, following reports of gas leaks earlier that night. Thirty-two people were killed and 321 people were injured.

Event

The explosions
Eyewitnesses reported a smell of gas and white smoke coming out of manholes near Kaisyuan 3rd Road and Ersheng 1st Road in Cianjhen District on 31 July 2014 at 20:46, over three hours prior to the incident. The explosions occurred later at 23:57 on Yisin Road, Ersheng Road, Sanduo Road and Guanghua Road.

Witnesses reported seeing fireballs soaring into the sky and flames reaching 15 stories high. The blasts ripped up roads, trapped and overturned cars and firetrucks, and caused a blackout to the electrical grid. About 6 km of road length were damaged. The explosions reportedly blew cars and motorcycles high up in the air; some vehicles and victims were found at the rooftops of buildings three or four stories high. One street had been split along its length, swallowing fire trucks and other vehicles.

Premier Jiang Yi-huah stated that there had been at least five blasts around the city. The blasts cut gas supplies to 23,600 households, electricity to 12,000 households, and water to 8,000 households.

Firefighters from Kaohsiung City, Chiayi City, Pingtung County, Tainan City and Taitung County rushed to the scene to extinguish the fires and help the rescue efforts. Some of the firefighters also sprayed water on the roads in the hope to reduce the ground temperature. During the incident, four firefighters lost their lives, with two of them going missing; the explosions also injured 22 other emergency workers. The Taiwanese army was also dispatched and arrived at the site within two hours after the initial explosion.

Emergency rooms in hospitals around Kaohsiung were packed with casualties that night, with most of them having suffered cuts and burns. Some of the injured people had to be carried to hospitals by trucks due to the lack of ambulances. All of the casualties were sent to more than 20 hospitals around the city, including Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Yuan's General Hospital, Armed Forces General Hospital, and Kaohsiung Municipal United Hospitals.

Rescue efforts

By the following morning, most of the fires had been fully extinguished or had burnt out by themselves, but a few remained. Paramedics, search and rescue dogs and helicopters swept the area looking for survivors. Heavy construction equipment was brought to the blast site to begin removing debris from the street. Schools and offices were closed on that day and residents were asked to leave their houses to smooth out the search and rescue operations. By afternoon, hundreds of people who fled the explosion scenes had returned home after houses around the explosion areas had been declared safe by the city spokesman. They confirmed that no more explosions could happen and that all of the fire had been put out. Traffic restrictions were put in place on Sanduo, Guanghua, Yixin, and Kaisyuan Roads. Taiwan Area National Freeway Bureau also closed the northbound exit from Sun Yat-sen Freeway to Sanduo Road. However, Kaohsiung MRT and buses were not affected by the search and rescue works.

To help the city in the rescue efforts, at 22:30 on Friday night the Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) shut down their four sets of generators fed with liquid natural gas, even though none of their pipelines had been damaged during the explosions. The shutdown lowered Taiwan's total electricity output by 1,100 MW, or about 2.7% of the total capacity. The decision to stop the supply was reached after a discussion between the Kaohsiung City Government and the oil refinery CPC Corporation, so that road repair and other disaster relief work could proceed without interruption. With their total generation expected to reach 36,970 MW in the peak hours of the coming week, Taipower has an excess capacity of 3,170 MW and thus can still meet the local energy demand in Kaohsiung. As a precaution, China Petrochemical Development Co., which also operates in Kaohsiung, reduced the gas pressure in its propene pipelines.

On Sunday, another 1,885 servicemen were deployed for the search and rescue operation at the explosion sites, bringing the total servicemen deployed during the incident to 5,567 people. Included among the servicemen were the chemical detection troops who continued to monitor any leaking gas. Equipment such as 22 ambulances, three chemical-detection vehicles, 13 excavators, 26 life detecting monitors, and other equipment were also being used in the rescue efforts. The rescue works attracted many passerby to watch, wander, or even for an "adventure date" in conjunction with Chinese Valentine's Day, a move considered disrespectful for the dead. The police had to ask them to leave and ask the public to stay away from the areas where the explosions occurred, citing the fragility of the ground or the ruined buildings around.

Immediate aftermath
The remaining 260 tons of propene inside the damaged pipes was vented out completely by Monday from both of their input and output points. Nitrogen gas was put into pipes ensuring all propene had been removed, a move which had been done earlier by the CPC. The Environmental Protection Administration also had dispatched personnel to Kaohsiung to assist local government in air pollution monitoring.

On 5 August, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutor's Office issued the death certificates of two missing firefighters who had fought the fires caused by the gas explosions, despite their bodies having yet to be found. The prosecutors said that rescuers could not find the bodies and suspected that they might have been vaporized from the explosions.

On 8 August, another gas leak was reported in Cianjhen District shortly before 7:50 a.m causing widespread panic among residents. People who lived within 150 meters radius of Kaisyuan 3rd Road were evacuated the city police department to Kaohsiung Municipal Guanghua Junior High School and Le Chyuan Elementary School, raising concern among residents over their safety. Authorities tried to pin down the source of the gas and they dispatched personnel to the intersection of Yisin and Kaisyuan Roads. The gas concentration level reading peaked at 5,000 ppm at around 11 a.m which was mostly methane. However, by 14:30 the concentration level finally dropped below 10 ppm. Early measurements indicated that at least four gases leaked were methane, propene, ethylene and butane.

On 9 August, the Kaohsiung City Government ordered LCY to halt all of operations until its plan to improve pipeline safety had been reviewed by the government. Should LCY refuse to do so, the government would notify the Taipower and Taiwan Water Corporation to stop providing the company with electricity and water respectively.

Investigation

The Minister of Economic Affairs Chang Chia-juch, acting as the Director of the Central Emergency Operation Center, suspected that the explosions were caused by a propene leak, and the firefighters could not extinguish the fires with water. Emergency workers had to wait until the gas had burnt away after the supply was shut down. It is suspected that the affected pipelines were those used for gas delivery to the petrochemical factory LCY Chemical Corp. (LCY; ).

The affected pipelines were designed and constructed by the government-owned CPC Corporation. However, CPC said that the pipeline system did not show any sign of problems before the explosion. The gas pipelines were approved in 1990 by Vice President Wu Den-yih, who served as mayor of Kaohsiung from 1990 to 1998, and the construction was completed in 1994. The pipelines had not been properly inspected for 24 years.

The Kaohsiung City Government found out that a  pipeline delivering propene to Ren Da Industrial Park was found to encounter abnormal pressure between 20:40 and 21:00 the night the gas leak was discovered.

Pressure in the LCY piping system used to transport propene from one of its suppliers began to show abnormality starting 20:00 Thursday night and 3.77 tons of propene leaked between 20:00 and 21:00 The company did not shut down the pipe until 23:40, 16 minutes before the first gas explosion occurred. The concentration of the propene at the explosion site was abnormally high at 13,000 ppm. In a press conference on Friday, LCY CEO said that the company is fully cooperating with the authorities in the investigation and the company will bear the responsibility if found guilty.

During a press conference on Sunday at the Taiwan Stock Exchange in Taipei, LCY said that it was the responsibility of CPC to design and check the gas pipes. CPC responded that the pipes belonged to LCY and CPC did not have any maintenance contract with them. LCY further explained that detecting pressure drops indicating gas leaks was the responsibility of the China General Terminal and Distribution Corporation (CGTD; ), who transport LCY's petrochemicals through the pipes. LCY claimed they first detected abnormalities when the propene supply completely ceased at 8:49 p.m and returned to normal half an hour later. At 22:35, they detected further problems, shutting down transporting immediately. According to Kaohsiung's top environment official, though, 3.77 metric tons of gas had leaked already between 20:00 and 21:00, and the pipe system was only shut down at 23:40 - just 16 minutes before the explosion.

On 5 August, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office (KDPO) retrieved documents and records related to propene transport after they raided LCY and CGTD offices a day before. Several employees were brought to the prosecutors office for questioning. To better investigate the causes of the accident, KDPO also invited domestic metal and petrochemical experts to the blast areas to collect evidence. On 18 December, the CEO and five employees of LCY Chemical, three employees of China General Terminal and Distribution, and three employees of the Kaohsiung Public Works Bureau were indicted for their role in the incident. The indictment charges these three groups with negligence, due to their failure to inspect or maintain the pipeline.

Reactions

Domestic
President Ma Ying-jeou ordered full rescue efforts to help the blast victims. During his visit to Kaohsiung on Saturday to visit injured patients in hospitals and view the explosion sites, President Ma vowed to fully investigate the cause of the incident and to review the underground piping networks, stressing the need for a more comprehensive design and efficient management.

During his inspection of the damage in Kaohsiung, Premier Jiang Yi-huah, ordered the Taiwanese national flag to be flown at half-mast for three days starting 5 August to commemorate the victims of the gas explosions and also the TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crash a week before in Penghu County.

Vice Premier Mao Chi-kuo said during the rescue and relief effort works that public utilities companies would work hard to resume power and water supplies within three to five days. Taiwan Power Company said that power supply to about 3,900 households in less-affected areas should resume in two days, while temporary overhead lines set up to supply the worst-hit areas were expected to allow electricity to resume in three days. Taiwan Water Corporation said that the city government agreed to temporary water pipelines to supply the affected areas within five days. However, there was no schedule set up to resume the gas supply for the affected areas.

Kaohsiung City Mayor Chen Chu said that schools and offices in the affected districts were closed the day after the explosion to facilitate search and rescue. She ordered gas supply companies CPC Corporation and Hsin Kao Gas to cut off gas delivery along the gas pipelines after the first explosion occurred. Mayor Chen asked President Ma to study and review the underground petrochemical pipeline system in Kaohsiung to avoid similar accidents in the future, which could eventually involve rerouting to avoid densely populated areas. She also asked the central government to help Kaohsiung City Government to replace all of the ageing pipes, many of which have been in operation for a period of 20–30 years, and in some cases for more than 40 years.

The Ministry of National Defense deployed around 1,600 soldiers for the rescue operations, including 131 transport vehicles, 29 ambulances, 3 fire trucks, 3 chemical-detection vehicles, 15 engineering machines and other equipment. The ministry also provided blast victims with free accommodations at military bases.

Mayor Chen's party, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), suspended all of their upcoming municipal and local election activities scheduled for November after an emergency meeting chaired by Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen. DPP also asked other municipalities and counties led by DPP to help with the rescue efforts in Kaohsiung. The ruling Kuomintang party also suspended all of their upcoming activities.

Several major festivals in Taiwan, such as Qixi Festival and Dadaocheng Fireworks Festival, were cancelled as a result of the incident.

The Financial Supervisory Commission announced on Friday that it had instructed insurance companies to provide expedited insurance claims to all affected individuals and businesses in the area. They also stated that individuals and businesses may apply to the Ministry of Economic Affairs for assistance.

Public reactions towards the government have been largely negative, criticizing what was seen as a slow response by the authorities to stop and isolate the gas leak after it was first reported. In wake of the disaster, many local residents have said that the government should relocate the gas pipes away from their neighborhoods. One resident claimed that he had notified city authorities prior to the explosion when he smelled a gas odor near his apartment. However, authorities told him that the situation was under control and had been declared safe after police and firefighters arrived at the scene. Kaohsiung city authorities responded to these criticisms by saying that had residents been evacuated prior to the explosions, there may have been even more fatalities, since most of the injured or dead were those on the roads at the time of the incidents. According to Taipower, staying indoors was the best precaution that could be taken for people facing such a disaster. The Kuomintang caucus of the Kaohsiung City Council sued Mayor Chen Chu for negligence that led to loss of life. The Democratic Progressive Party caucus responded by filing a lawsuit against former Kaohsiung mayor Wu Den-yih, for "illegitimately" allowing the pipelines to be buried. Wu then publicized documents stating that the pipes were installed before his leadership of Kaohsiung.

International

  – Xi Jinping, serving as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, conveyed condolences over the Kaohsiung explosions through the Taiwan Affairs Office. Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits Chairman Chen Deming called Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman Lin Join-sane to convey sympathy for those affected by the incident and said that China is willing to provide assistance if needed. Lin reportedly had thanked Chen for the help offer but said that Taiwan had put its comprehensive disaster relief system to work and it did not need any outside help at the moment.
  – Chief Executive CY Leung expressed sadness on the tragic gas explosion that caused heavy casualties. He made the expression on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong and the people of Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
  – Chief Executive Fernando Chui, on behalf of the Government of Macau SAR of China and Chinese Macau residents, expressed his deep condolences to the victims and their relatives and sincere sympathies to the injured.
  – European Economic and Trade Office expressed its sincere condolences to the families of the explosion victims.
  - French Office in Taipei offered its sincere condolences to the families of Kaohsiung gas explosion victims. Their thoughts are with the families and friends of those injured and had lost their lives.
  – Interchange Association, Japan Representative Mikio Numata sent letters of condolence to President Ma Ying-jeou, Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lin and Association of East Asian Relations Chairman Lee Chia-chin.
  – Singapore Trade Office in Taipei issued a statement extending "deepest condolences".
  – British Trade and Cultural Office was saddened to learn of the gas explosions that caused many loss of lives and injuries.

Relief efforts

A total of ten emergency shelters consisting of several schools and a cultural center were used for the 12,000 people who had evacuated overnight. Many people, including high school students, had volunteered to help the post-disaster relief efforts by helping with the relief supplies distribution and offering of other services, such as counseling.

Dozens of hotels around Kaohsiung offered temporary free lodging, laundry and washroom facilities for the people who were left homeless after their houses were damaged by the blast. Restaurants, supermarkets and convenience stores also provided various kinds of supports.

Relief supplies and works, such as food, blanket, sleeping bags, bottled water, injury and emergency assistance, counseling and funeral arrangements, were made possible by the Tzu Chi Foundation, the Kaohsiung Branch of the Taiwanese Red Cross, the Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation and many other foundations. Religious rituals were also held at the blast sites for grieving relatives who had lost their loved ones.

Donations also came from enterprise sectors, such as Formosa Plastics Group, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc., Foxconn, Kinpo Group, Acer Inc., HTC, E-United Group, Chailease Holding Co., MediaTek, Fubon Financial Holding Co., Capital Bus Company, Taipei Bus Company, Shanghai Commercial Bank, Tripod Technology, RT-Mart, Taiflex and many others. Companies such as FamilyMart, 7-Eleven, Chinese Television Service and Videoland Television Network also organized fund-raising drives and events for the blast victims. Taiwanese businesses operating in Beijing and Shanghai also joined in donating money for the blast victims.

Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-pin offered NT$200,000 to the families of the blast victims. Sean Lien and Ko Wen-je, candidates for Mayor of Taipei in the upcoming municipal elections on 29 November 2014, donated NT$2,000,000 and NT$400,000 respectively. In a joint statement, five leaders from the DPP-controlled counties and municipality pledged to donate one month of their salary to the blast victims, which are Chiayi County Magistrate Helen Chang, Pingtung County Magistrate Tsao Chi-hung, Yilan County Magistrate Lin Tsung-hsien, Yunlin County Magistrate Su Chih-fen and Tainan City Mayor William Lai.

Taiwanese singers such as Kenji Wu, Mayday, and Peter Ho and Chinese mainland singer Ding Dang joined the public in giving donations to support the blast victims, since many of their relatives also live in Kaohsiung.

The Ministry of Culture launched a poetry drive to honor the blast victims posted on the ministry's Facebook page. Culture Minister Lung Ying-tai herself contributed a poem entitled If I Had Known Earlier ().

The Ministry of Health and Welfare has been providing services to hold counseling to help residents to go through posttraumatic stress disorder by mobilizing medical personnel and social workers to the affected district areas. The services will be in place for the next two to three months.

Despite the donations and support Kaohsiung had received, many victims complained that they had to wait in line for more than two hours to get them. Some people were also caught on camera pretending that they were the explosion victims or taking turns in group to get the donations several times more than what they were supposed to get.

As of 7 August, a total NT$2.38 billion worth of donations had been received from companies and individuals, with another NT$1.6 billion funds agreed to be provided by the Executive Yuan.

Restoration works

The initial estimation of the total damage done to Kaohsiung City due to the blast reached around NT$1.9 billion for rebuilding the damaged roads and drainage system. However, the cost may arise higher if the cost to rebuild damaged buildings and to compensate victims are included in order to get their live back on track as soon as possible.

The rebuilding of the 6 km damaged road began on Monday by road resurfacing. Sanduo Road work was done by Maintenance Office of the Kaohsiung City Government, Yisin Road by New Construction Office and Kaisyuan Road by Water Resources Bureau. The restoration works included the repaving of the roads, reparation of the damaged sidewalks and replanting of trees along the road which would cost around NT$600 million. The restoration of the rain water drainage system under the road will take around three months which costs another NT$600 million.

Around 1,500 stores along the damaged roads are affected with the reconstruction work of the roads, which lead the owners to temporarily close their stores due to lack of customers. Some of the business owners at Kaisyuan Road are already looking for relocation than waiting for the roadwork to finish in months. The Economic Development Bureau had received registrations from 1,275 companies so far for compensation related to the disaster. The bureau added that the city government will give tax reductions for the affected stores and will construct temporary paths to allow access to the areas without roadworks, and businesses could also apply for social aid.

In the coming days after the explosions, restoration and reconstruction works had mostly been hampered, delayed or sometimes halted by heavy rain and the excessive flooding around the area due to the rain. Trenches created from the blasts were flooded and water flow was blocked due to the damaged sewage, culverts and drainage system. Water pipes had been utilized to minimize flooding in some areas of the city. Armies and fire fighters also were put on standby ready to be deployed with life rafts whenever needed.

On 20 November 2014, the Sanduo, Kaisyuan and Yishin Roads were finally opened again for traffic after restoration works. In the end of December 2014, in order to revive the economic activities to the affected stores and shops area, the Kaohsiung City Government held lucky draws and other promotional sales to attract consumption at those stores.

Aftermath

The petrochemical industry
Share prices of several Taiwanese petrochemical companies took a dive in the aftermath of the explosions, especially those operating in Kaohsiung, with LCY shares dropping 30% in the days following the explosion.

Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Woody Duh said that the ministry would set up a system soon to help check the underground pipelines and build a database for safety management in the future, starting from Kaohsiung and followed by other cities, municipalities and counties. Duh mentioned that relocation of the Kaohsiung underground pipelines would be considered once the roadworks are completed.

Taipei City Government ordered mandatory inspections of all four major gas pipelines in Taipei within a week after reports of gas leakage smell in Zhongshan and Wanhua Districts for five consecutive days. Great Taipei Gas had earlier inspected the site and found no immediate danger, adding that the firm had sealed the leaks and plans to change the pipes. Still at Zhongshan District, the gas company did some maintenance work to the reported gas leak near Songjiang Road. On Friday, Taipei Deputy Mayor Chen Hsiung-wen led an inspection of a gas storage unit in Neihu District and said that underground gas pipelines crossing Taipei City carry low-pressure gas and do not carry any chemical substances. He also added that major gas suppliers are required to inspect all of their pipelines within a week. The city government also later on launched a website for Taipei residents to check what types of underground cables and pipelines running near their houses, ranging from electric lines, telecommunication lines, and pipelines used to transport sanitized water, waste water, rain water, natural gas and oil.

Few days after the blast, Premier Jiang Yi-huah appointed the Ministry of Economic Affairs to gather and sort out Taiwan's entire underground petrochemical pipeline network information and to establish a management system to avoid similar accidents from happening in the future, adding that such a management system would help local governments to determine which petrochemical pipelines need to be relocated and which ones can stay in place.

A People First Party legislator called on the local governments to form agencies that deal with chemical hazards and employ trained professionals to oversee disaster management, and to better educate firefighters on the nature of different chemicals in order to make correct decisions and reduce casualties.

Criticism and resignation of government officials
On 6 August, Premier Jiang Yi-huah and Economic Affairs Minister Chang Chia-juch came under fire and were asked to step down by demonstrators after Jiang's "Three Noes" remarks on 4 August stating that there were no need for a special provision bill, financial assistance through special budget allocation, and a dedicated agency to administer post disaster relief and reconstruction for Kaohsiung. Also on the same day, residents and DPP councilors of Kaohsiung City Council went to Taiwan Kaohsiung District Court to protest against LCY in an attempt to prevent the company from avoiding compensation payments over the gas blasts. Mayor Chen said that Kaohsiung City Government had frozen firm assets and properties worth around NT$1.9 billion as a precautionary measure.

On 7 August, in order to take the responsibility for the blast, Kaohsiung City Deputy Mayor Wu Hong-mo, Water Resources Bureau Director Lee Hsien-yi, Public Works Bureau Director Chen Tsun-yung and Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit Bureau Director Chen Tsun-yung tendered their resignation, a move which Mayor Chen praised and that she approved and stated that the resignation would take effect after the relief works ended.

In the evening, the Ministry of Economic Affairs issued a statement saying that Minister Chang Chia-juch and Deputy Minister Woody Duh had also tendered his resignation earlier at 10 a.m. to the Executive Yuan due to the difficult political environment as a result of persistent boycott by opposition parties over several economic policies in the past 1.5 years. Despite Premier Jiang Yi-huah efforts to persuade Chang to stay in his ministerial position, the Executive Yuan finally approved his resignation on 10 August and appointed Deputy Minister Woody Duh to replace Chang.

Memorial services
Funerals for the deceased was held on the same day at Kaohsiung municipal mortuary, attended by Vice Premier Mao Chi-kuo, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu, Minister without Portfolio Yang Chiu-hsing, DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen and also LCY Chairman Bowei Lee. Lee bowed his head to apologize to the families of the blast victims, promising them that the company would provide good financial compensation to them.

On 12 August, a national religious service was held in Kaohsiung Arena, bringing together around 10,000 people from 30 local religious groups covering Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Taoism. President Ma Ying-jeou, who also attended the event, commended the soldiers and firefighters who risked their lives in saving life of the people. He reassured the audience that the government would provide the necessary assistance to help Kaohsiung residence back to their normal life as soon as possible. He also expressed his gratitude to the business and volunteers who had made generous contributions to the relief and reconstruction efforts after the blast disaster.

See also

 1992 Guadalajara explosions
 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion

References

External links

 Collection of 360-degree panoramas of the explosions--includes both interior and exterior views.
 Virtual Tour of the Kaohsiung Gas Explosions

2014 in Taiwan
2014 industrial disasters
Explosions in 2014
Explosions in Taiwan
Gas explosions
Industrial fires and explosions
2014 gas explosions
July 2014 events in Asia
2014 disasters in Taiwan


title: The Price to Pay (book)

text:
The Price to Pay is a 2012 autobiography by Joseph Fadelle, an Iraqi man who converted from Islam to Roman Catholicism. It was first published on October 3, 2012 through Ignatius Press.

Synopsis
The book follows Joseph Fadelle's conversion to Roman Catholicism. Fadelle, who was previously named Muhammad, began showing an interest in Catholicism after he was conscripted into Saddam Hussein's army and roomed with Massoud, a Christian. Muhammad sees Massoud's Christianity as shocking and distasteful but as time passes Muhammad finds that he is intrigued by Christianity and eventually converts to Christianity along with his wife. Muhammad, who received baptism and chose to rename himself Joseph, undergoes a great amount of persecution from family members, culminating in them making several death threats against him.

Reception
The New Oxford Review gave The Price to Pay a favorable review and praised Fadelle for including his personal struggles with forgiveness for others, as they felt it "says much about him and the losses he and his wife have endured." CatholicCulture.org president Jeff Mirus also praised the work and recommended it highly.

References

2012 non-fiction books
Autobiographies
Ignatius Press books


title: Stearns Morse

text:
Stearns Morse (1893–1976) was a professor of English and an administrator at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He served as a member of the faculty at Dartmouth for 37 years (1923–1960). Morse was also a candidate for U.S. Senate who ran on the Farmer-Labor Party ticket in 1937.

Early life and education

Morse was born in Bath, New Hampshire, on a farm developed by his grandfather in the 18th century. After beginning his schooling at a one-room schoolhouse in Bath, Morse completed his high school education in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1915 and his master's degree from the school in 1916. After graduating, he worked for Little Brown and Company, a publishing house, and The New Republic. During World War I, he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps.

Career in teaching

Morse served as head of the English Department at the Morristown School in Morristown, New Jersey, from 1921 to 1923. In 1923, he joined the faculty in the English Department at Dartmouth College. Dartmouth named him a professor in 1936 and then dean of freshman in 1946. He served in that role until 1956.

Throughout his life, Morse held an interest in the White Mountains. While teaching at Dartmouth, he co-edited two books on the mountain range: The History of the White Mountains and The Book of the White Mountains. Morse also served as a contributing editor to College on the Hill, a history of Dartmouth prepared for the school's bicentennial in 1969. In 1946, he received an Alfred A. Knopf Fellowship in Biography and History. The fellowship supported his work to write The Yankee Spirit. During his academic career, he published additional books titled: Excerpts from our artistic world and Hopkins of Dartmouth.

Legacy

The Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College contains Morse's correspondences with fellow scholar Lewis Mumford.

Family

Morse married Helen Field Morse on June 27, 1911. They had three sons and one daughter: Richard, Stephen, Sylvia and Stearns Anthony.

References

1893 births
1976 deaths
Dartmouth College faculty
Harvard University alumni
People from Bath, New Hampshire


title: Arigatō (Flow song)

text:
"Arigatou" is FLOW's fourteenth single. It reached #25 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 7 weeks. *

Track listing

References

Flow (band) songs
2008 singles
2008 songs
Ki/oon Music singles
Song articles with missing songwriters


title: Pawan Kumar (wrestler)

text:
Pawan Kumar (born 16 October 1993), is an Indian freestyle wrestler. He represented India at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 86 kg weight class in which he won the bronze medal. He also represented India at the 2014 Asian Games in the 86 kg weight class. His spouse is fellow wrestler Geeta Phogat.

Personal life
Kumar, also known as Pawan Saroha, married Geeta Phogat, an Olympic wrestler, on 20 November 2016.

Career

2014 Commonwealth Games
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, the young wrestler began his maiden CWG campaign in Glasgow, Scotland with a round of 16 matchup against Steve Hill of New Zealand, winning the match 4-0. Kumar met Luigi Bianco of Scotland in the quarter-finals and beat him 5-0. In the semi-finals, Kumar lost out to Tamerlan Tagziev of Canada with the burly Canadian beating him 5-0. There was still a chance of a medal with Kumar competing in the bronze medal match. He faced Muhammad Inam of Pakistan and ended the tightly contested match 6-6. But he was awarded the bronze medal in the particular category since he was the last one to score a point.

2014 Asian Games
The 2014 Asian Games, held in Incheon, South Korea, wasn't as rewarding for Kumar. In the round of 16, Kumar faced off against Sumir Kumar Sah of Nepal and won 4-0. Progressing to the quarter-finals stage, Kumar was up against Mostafajoukar Meisam of Iran but lost 0-4 to the Iranian. With the latter qualifying for the finals, Kumar was given a chance to compete in the repechage round where he met Zhang Feng of China but ultimately crashed out of the tournament, losing 1-3.

References

External links
Profile at International Wrestling Database

Living people
1993 births
Sportspeople from Delhi
Sport wrestlers from Delhi
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India
Wrestlers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Wrestlers at the 2014 Asian Games
Indian male sport wrestlers
Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling
Wrestlers at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for India
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Word of the Voice

text:
WORD OF THE VOICE is FLOW's fifteenth single. Its A-Side was used as the second opening theme song for Persona -trinity soul-. It reached #15 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 6 weeks. *

Track listing

References

2008 songs
Ki/oon Music singles
Flow (band) songs


title: ORRCA

text:
The ORRCA is Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) Bus service to realize Common Bus Routing Systems. The system, initiated by Outer Ring Road Companies Association (ORRCA) - which comprises 24 companies including Cisco, Intel, AOL etc.- is expected to get more IT employees to use buses instead of private vehicles.

Software solutions company RCN Tech  is co-ordinate the operations of the buses (such as maintaining records of bus timings, employees who use the service etc.) along with ORRCA Transport Managers.

The BMTC dedicates around 33 Volvos (AC buses) for Outer Ring Road, Bangalore companies in two shifts - 8-10 am and 5-7 pm.

Features of ORRCA Buses:
 Seat reserved for every passenger
 Bus arrives to prescribed pick up point and drop Points on time
 ORRCA passes can be used for other regular BMTC Volvo buses and Normal buses
 Cost is lesser compare to companies charter buses
 ORRCA Volvos are WiFi-enabled.

ORRCA Bus are coordinated by RCN Tech and passes are distributed by themselves.

References

Transport in Bangalore


title: Charles-Olivier Michaud

text:
Charles-Olivier Michaud is a Canadian writer, director and producer from Saint-Romuald, Quebec. He has worked in English and French language films. His directing credits include 4 Minute Mile, On the Beat (Sur le rythme) and Snow and Ashes.

Filmography
2010 - Snow and Ashes - Writer, director, producer
2011 - On the Beat (Sur le rythme) - Director
2012 - Exile (Exil) - Director
2014 - 4 Minute Mile - Director
2015 - Anna - Writer, director
2023 - Ru - director

References

External links

Film directors from Quebec
Canadian screenwriters in French
Writers from Quebec City
Living people
1979 births


title: World End

text:
WORLD END is FLOW's sixteenth single. Its A-Side was used as the second opening theme song for Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2. It reached number 4 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 10 weeks. *

Track listing

References

2008 singles
2008 songs
Code Geass
Flow (band) songs
Ki/oon Music singles
Anime songs


title: This Is How We Do It (disambiguation)

text:
"This Is How We Do It" is a 1995 song by Montell Jordan.

This Is How We Do It may also refer to:

 This Is How We Do It (album), by Montell Jordan
 "This Is How We Do It" (Grey's Anatomy), a 2011 episode

See also
 "This Is How We Do", a 2014 song by Katy Perry


title: Gahur Castle

text:
Gahur Castle is seven kilometers from Eshtehard Road East - Iran and five kilometers south of the village Mokhtarabad among the mountains, there is a relatively high mountain which is called Mount Gahur. The castle was rebuilt in the time of Sultan Ali Mahjoub but again was destroyed after his death.

References

Castles in Iran
Castles of the Nizari Ismaili state


title: Snow Flake (Kioku no Koshitsu) / Pulse

text:
Snow Flake ~Kioku no Koshitsu~ / Pulse  is FLOW's seventeenth single. PULSE was the official image song of the world’s biggest snowboard event "X-TRAIL JAM in TOKYO DOME ‘08." It reached #24 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 4 weeks. *

Track listing

References

Flow (band) songs
2008 singles
Ki/oon Music singles
2008 songs
Song articles with missing songwriters


title: Boggy Creek

text:
Boggy Creek (also known as Boggy Creek: The Legend Is True) is a 2011 American horror film directed by Brian T. Jaynes, written by Jennifer Minar-Jaynes, and starring Texas Battle, Stephanie Honoré, Damon Lipari, Shavon Kirksey, and Melissa Carnell as college students attacked by legendary creatures that resemble Bigfoot.  Despite its name, it is unrelated to The Legend of Boggy Creek or its two sequels.

Plot

Jennifer takes several of her friends to a remote cabin in Texas, where her father died. There, locals warn them of hostile creatures that, according to legend, murder the men and abduct the women. The creatures, which resemble the legendary Bigfoot, eventually show up and attack Jennifer and her friends.

Cast

Production
Shooting took place in Jefferson and Uncertain, Texas. The film was part of a dispute over funding between the director and an early investor. The matter was eventually taken to court.

Release
Boggy Creek premiered at the sixth Texas Frightmare Weekend in April 2011. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 13, 2011.

Reception

Scott Foy of Dread Central rated it 1/5 stars, and wrote, "Boggy Creek doesn't work as drama, doesn't deliver as horror, and is no fun at all to watch."  Paul Doro of Shock Till You Drop called it "low-rent amateur hour all around".

Novelization
A novelization of the film entitled: Boggy Creek: The Legend is True was released in 2012.

References

External links

2011 films
2011 horror films
American monster movies
American independent films
Bigfoot films
Films set in Texas
Films shot in Texas
2010s English-language films
2010s American films