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Nexter and HDS sign a strategic partnership for the modernisation of the Greek Army's IFV fleet with the PHILOCTETES VBCI MkII.
Press Release, Versailles, 05 April 2022: Nexter has signed a strategic partnership with Hellenic Defence Systems (HDS) to meet the Greek Army's requirement for modernised infantry fighting vehicles with the PHILOCTETES.
By joining forces with HDS, a state-owned company specialised in the design, development and production of weapon and missile systems, and ammunition, Nexter is offering a combat system that meets the highest quality standards and whose success will benefit Greek industry. This partnership fully contributes to the strengthening of the Franco-Greek relationship in the field of Defence.
Named PHILOCTETES in reference to the mythological hero of the Trojan War, this infantry combat system is a VBCI MkII, in its infantry combat vehicle version, equipped with a T40 turret. A benchmark in its field, the VBCI is an 8×8, 32-tonne vehicle that is highly modular thanks to its various versions (armoured personnel carrier, command post, 120mm mortar, medevac and vehicle recovery), capable of carrying a 13-tonne payload, and engaged in all the French army's major operation theatres. During these engagements, Nexter has received important feedback and unanimous opinions from the soldiers who have gone into combat under the optimal protection of its armoured body. In addition, PHILOCTETES has a reinforced motorisation thanks to a new 600hp engine which ensures very high tactical, strategic and operational mobility.
In addition to these qualities, the firepower of the T40 turret can be added. The turret is remotely operated and equipped with the 40mm CTA gun and a MBDA medium range missile launcher (MMP). The 40 CTA, which already arms the French Army's JAGUAR EBRC turret, fires the various 40mm telescoped munitions that represent the future of medium-calibre munitions: high explosive, airburst, and arrow shells capable of piercing up to 140mm of armoured steel. As a result, the latest generation weaponry of the T40 turret offers the PHILOCTETES a response capacity to all modern land-based threats on the battlefield.
Thus, PHILOCTETES perfectly meets the Greek Army's requirements for mobility, protection, modularity and firepower.
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Book 2, Chapter 9
The postwoman didn't look like Calay expected. She was weathered, face scoured by decades of exposure to the elements. She wore a heavy green canvas overcoat and a wide-brimmed hat of woven flax. Sunspots dotted her long, strong-looking hands, and when he let his eyes travel down from her face to her fingertips, he noticed there was still grit under her nails.
He stared at those callused, dirty-nailed hands and recalled the first time he'd ever heard of letters. Alfend Linten had received one at the clinic, delivered by a courier in a tidy uniform with a little bow-tied scarf. Calay, then just a boy of nine or so, had asked what was the point of sending a courier with nothing more than a scrap of paper. Deliveries for the Indigents' Clinic, sure. Personal deliveries for Mr. Linten, less frequently but still plausible. But who would send a man all the way across the city for a single sheet of paper?
Alfend had explained that this was no ordinary paper. It was a letter from an old friend of his, he said. A friend who lived all the way across the Continent, on the shore of a whole separate ocean.
He'd been too young then to understand the power a man could wield with the written word. Old enough to understand that Alfend was doing a gravely important thing, teaching him the beginnings of those scribbles. An illegal thing, until he acquired his permit.
Calay had never given letter-carriers themselves much thought, but he'd always assumed they were upper-crusty in some way. Because literacy in Vasile was reserved for those with either a title to their name or a particularly useful, regulated profession, it made sense that those who delivered them would be as well.
Fascinating, then, that this one looked like she'd rolled right off some nomad caravan.
She'd gathered them all to her wagon, parked in Medao's northernmost wagonyard. A wide-bodied wooden structure, the thing was two stories tall, home to a comfortable pillow-strewn living quarters in which Calay currently sat, along with Gaz and Riss and the entire crew. And the postwoman, Leonór, who was laying down the final details of the job.
Slouching back a little on his pillow, Calay watched across the rounded table as the letter-carrier and Riss spoke. Leonór regretted the secrecy, she said, but it was a necessity: she'd planted whispers along the Continental Post routes of a wagon-jacking. Their target was an individual who fancied himself a fence.
"He won't be able to resist it," she said. "Turning over a wagon, that's a big-ticket score. I've half a mind to believe he only robbed me to add it to his list of accolades."
Calay breathed out the beginnings of a laugh. So they were chasing after some glory hound. That would make it easier.
"So we rendezvous with the fence if he's still camped in the location your scouts advised," said Riss. "But… what of the wagon?"
Leonór tapped a single, ragged-nailed fingertip to the table.
"Let him keep it for all I care," she said. "Provided he compensates you fairly."
"And how exactly will we get home?" Torcha cut in. "If we sell him our wagon?"
Riss shot her a look, begged her with silent eyes to just stay quiet. But Leonór took the question with a smile, crows' feet tightening at the corners of her eyes.
"With the price this wagon will fetch on the backchannels, you'll certainly be able to afford a horse home."
Calay swept his eyes around the meeting chamber, took in the solid wooden frame and the narrow bunks nailed to the far wall. He'd heard tales of the war-wagons that roamed the Continent's flatter terrain. Like great landborne ships, carrying enough cannons that they could take Medao's navy gun-for-gun. Wagons were serious business down south.
"It's part of our compensation package," Riss explained to the crew at large. "In addition to our retainer and other, as-yet-specified favors."
That's a whole mountain of compensation, he thought. Unsure as he was on southern or central-Continential geography, he wondered what aspect of this job justified the sky high price tag. Salt flats and desert was treacherous terrain, he supposed. But nobody had gasped in horror or expressed shock that they'd be going there. They'd have to buy extra water, all right, but the destination elicited no surprise or despair.
He shot a look across the table toward Riss. Her expression was typically pensive; it gave away nothing. Riss always looked like she was thinking hard at the negotiation table. If only she were a little more ethically flexible, he might have invited her to his card games. She could bluf along with the best of them, he reckoned.
It occurred to him that he'd been with Riss for a year now. She'd never treated the company like a dictatorship. They sat at a round table, nobody lording over the head of it. If he had questions, he could bloody well ask them, couldn't he?
Calay cleared his throat. "I can't help but notice that's a fine price for what sounds like straightforward work," he said.
Leonór's eyebrows crept up a little. She regarded him from the shade of her hat.
"So you're wondering what I'm not telling you, eh?" she asked.
"We're aware there were some highly sensitive details about this contract," Riss chimed in. "Hence meeting you in person. Hence all the cloak and dagger. I admit I've been wondering too, but I respect that it's a sensitive situation."
Leonór graced Riss with a weather-beaten smile. "That's why I always prefer to work with recon," she said. "Recon types understand discretion."
If only you knew, Calay thought. Working in Medao, burying himself in mercenary jobs, settling into an apartment with a balcony and a morning routine—Calay was so discreet whole days passed where he never thought about his magick at all. Some days it felt like he was domesticating himself right out of being a sorcerer.
"This job is going to require wits, conviction, and caution because the individual who stole my deliveries is a highly wanted man." She said it calmly, not bothering to imbue the words with any theatrics. "His name is Nuso Rill. And if you haven't heard of him, I'm sure someone on your team can fill you in."
The air seemed to leak from the room in one great, collective breath. Calay watched Riss and Adal for their reactions. Riss' eyes tightened. Adal's went wide. That twitched a hint of a smile onto his mouth, though he buried it quickly.
"I'm more familiar with his brother," Calay volunteered. Anvey Rill and his riots. The crazy bastard had stirred dissent in Vasile since Calay was a boy, sometimes with success and sometimes with periods of extended jail time. Last Calay knew, he was rotting in the cells for plotting to blow up the Leycenate.
"He's a highwayman," Adal said. Calay knew that much. Fortunately, Adal continued. "Though that's simplifying things a great deal. He's a highwayman with a terrifically efficient gang, and he has a finger in every black market there is. Down here they hate him because he desecrates tombs. Up north they hate him because his men made the roads unlivable unless you paid their taxes."
Calay tilted a look toward Adal, curious. "And do they hate him in your hometown, too?"
Surprisingly, Adal laughed. He scratched at the back of his neck, awkwardly averting his eyes off toward Riss. "Well," he said. "My family runs riverboats. So in all honesty, he's made us a great deal of money."
Calay coughed a snicker into a curled fist, then let it trail off and politely set his eyes upon their client.
"So that's the big reveal, huh?" he asked. "You expect us to knock over the Continent's most wanted man?"
Leonór gave him another of those thin smiles that seemed to rise more in her eyes than on her mouth. "No," she said. "I'll do the knocking-over myself. All you have to do is find him."
The meeting dissolved into logistics prattle. Calay was less interested in that. Were he in charge of the outing himself, he'd have paid closer mind. But Riss hadn't failed them yet when organizing all that crap herself, so he left her to it.
After a while, Gaz posed a question to their client that did capture Calay's interest.
"What were you carrying that was so interesting Nuso Rill would risk his life to steal it, anyhow?"
Leonór paused mid-sentence, glancing over to Gaz and staying quiet a beat. She looked him over, seemed to be considering whether to even answer. Calay leaned forward on his elbows, expressing nonverbal interest. Riss leaned in, too.
"Privacy is important to the Post," Leonór said. "People wouldn't trust us with their correspondence if they knew there was a chance it would be inventoried or peeped at."
"So you're saying…"
She nodded at Gaz, confirming. "I have no idea. I don't know whether he was after a single parcel, a single letter, or the entire bag just to say he'd done it."
And that? Boy, that sent Calay's mind reeling with possibilities. What could be contained in a small parcel or letter that was so valuable the most wanted man in the land would risk tangling with this crazy, hard-bitten old bitch? Information, of course, could be priceless. But he'd understood via Hadjo at cards that the war winding down meant the espionage market had really dried up down here.
So what could it be, then? Smuggling routes? Veins of priceless ore? Dirt on someone important?
They concluded the meeting, his thoughts still racing. He promised Riss that he and Gaz would arrive at the appropriate time, but they'd be taking the next couple days to pack their bags and prepare for time abroad.
From the time Alfend had scooped him up off the street, Calay had lived in his places of work. He'd slept in the surgical chamber of Alfend's clinic at first, on a spare cot set aside. Later, Alfend had let him move into the upstairs loft. And later still, Calay had moved Gaz in. He liked it, sleeping above the clinic. The constant bustle of patients, orderlies, and visitors. The Vasile of his youth was packed tightly with people, too many of them for his neighborhood to ever truly fall quiet. He'd never be a farm boy, never long for the silence of the wilderness.
So his current lodgings suited him just fine.
He and Gaz rented a warm, airy flat above a cobbler's. The walls were thick, the windows let in plenty of light, and the polished brick floor was a cool, pleasant thing to stroll upon in the mornings. It had a narrow salon that overlooked the river, even. Though by no means luxurious, it was warm and secure and bright and high up, all descriptors which Calay had never thought in a hundred years would apply to a place he lived.
So what if there was a shrivelled old woman downstairs determinedly pounding tacks into bootsoles all the live-long day. Calay's mind filtered the noise out.
They'd already packed most of their things for the upcoming expedition, neither of them being particularly fussy travellers. He'd wound down his card game for the time being, promised the regulars tales of excitement and adventure when he returned.
For the moment, he sat on a scuffed armchair in the salon, watching thin curls of cloud move across the sky and trying to look dispassionate while Gaz made a big, stupid fuss over him. He had his mangled, mutated arm stretched out atop a small side table. Gaz held it by the wrist. In his other hand, he gripped a pair of small gardening shears that looked just comically tiny.
"Is this really necessary?" Calay asked, watching as Gaz trimmed tiny, budding purple flowers off a vine that sprouted up between his knuckles. "I'm fairly certain if I leave the glove on they'll just die and save us all this trouble."
Snip, snip went the shears. "Seems a waste," Gaz said.
Calay glanced past him to the bank of thin windows that lined the salon's southern wall. Small trellises leaned against the bottom of each window, creepers and vines slowly taking them over, crawling up and around the wooden stakes like leafy snakes. It had started as a joke, Gaz harvesting the plants that sometimes sprouted off his arm. Now, though, the joke appeared to have grown into a fully fledged hobby.
"Who's going to look after those while we're away, anyhow?" Calay asked. "I don't want someone rummaging around up here."
Gaz snipped the base of the vine, a little flick of the shears that Calay didn't actually feel. He had a small glass of water ready, dangling the vine down into it. Some of them sprouted roots when harvested this way, others did not and died. Fortunately, the supply seemed to be limitless.
"Gonna move 'em over to Riss' place," Gaz explained. "She's got that big courtyard. And they're going to have a housekeeper 'round while we're all away."
Calay's bark and bone fingers twitched. He suppressed a laugh. "Right."
"You've been quiet since we got back," Gaz said, carrying the glass over to a window sill. "What's on your mind?"
"The mailbag." Calay saw no point in beating around the bush. "I'm dying to know what was in that woman's mailbag. My mind won't shut up about it."
Gaz spent a couple minutes fussing over his window-boxes, checking the soil and dashing a bit of water into some of the plants. Calay watched him do this often but he never quite seemed to pick up on all the patterns, what needed watering when and how much. It seemed a very inexact science.
"Been wondering that, too," Gaz said. "You have any feelings about going toe to toe with Rill?"
"Not really." Calay scratched at his jaw. "Be interesting to meet him, I suppose. See if the legend aligns with the man. Somehow, he's almost turned out to be the least interesting part of this job."
"What's the most interesting part?" Gaz walked past him as he asked this, headed for the hallway. Before he could disappear, Calay leaned forward and grabbed him by the wrist.
"The most interesting part by far…" Calay tapped his fingertip to Gaz's palm for emphasis. "Is devising how I'm going to read everything in that mailbag without anyone else finding out."
Gaz's face crinkled up doubtfully. He didn't retract his hand, but he gave Calay one of those long dubious stares of his.
"Think about it," Calay insisted. "Whatever was in there, Nuso Rill risked exposing himself to get it. This letter-carrier has reached out to us, given us a wagon, promised us untold riches if we can recover it. This can't just be for her pride, Gaz. Old gal is keeping some sort of juicy secret, mark my words."
It was either something valuable or something forbidden. And either of those could be of great use to Calay.
"I'm sure I don't have to tell you to be careful."
Calay gave Gaz's hand a fractional squeeze before relinquishing his grip.
"When am I ever not?"
He'd made a career out of being careful. His very existence was one of perpetual risk. And fortunately, he'd have long hours on the road to devise a failproof strategy.
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Can you recall the trolley buses around the city streets? Particularly in Rundle and Hindley Streets, which were always so busy but so narrow, and continuously packed with people, bikes, cars and trolley buses.
Our trolleybus system was part of public transport around Adelaide for roughly 30 years from the 1930s to the late 1950s.
Photo by Doug Colquhoun from Wikimedia Commons. The trolleybus system was part of public transport around Adelaide for roughly 30 years
During the Great Depression, Adelaide's Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT) needed to expand services, but finances prevented laying new tracks. A decision was made to trial trolleybuses, and a converted petrol bus began running experimentally on the Payneham and Paradise lines. The trial was a success, and a permanent system was opened in 1937.
This new system began operations with a fleet of double-decker trolleybuses running to Tusmore. Extensions to Port Adelaide, Semaphore and Largs Bay were opened in 1938.
You might remember that the drivers of these buses had to use a variety of 'tools' to ensure that the trolley poles of their buses took the correct wires especially where routes diverged. Some of those tools were such things as a 'trolleyboom', a long stick which was kept on the side of the bus and was used to turn buses around.
Another device was a 'frog'. This is when the conductor would get off the bus, go to a nearby pole and pull a wire connected to a set of points. This could be a bit hazardous for the conductor because of the heavy traffic, as he'd have to run after his bus to catch it after it had passed through the Frog.
There was also the 'automatic frog' which operators were nervous using, as they could easily lose their poles through a slight error in judgement.
Photo by Henk Graalman© from Flickr photo sharing. Used on the trolleybus services to Tusmore, Port Adelaide, Semaphore and Largs.
In service from 1937 to June 1957. Displayed in Victoria Square during the 100 years on transit in Adelaide celebrations.
In a recent post about trolleybuses on the ARW Facebook page, Trevor Martin Bowen remembered riding on the Trolley bus. "I remember boarding the bus in Hindley Street. My father also drove the trolley buses, He tells the story of how he brought the over-head wires down at Botanic roundabout one evening because he didn't lift his foot off the power as he was supposed to (those were the days when the drivers would hurry back to the depot to knock off to get to the Hackney Hotel before 6pm closing). Needless to say that dad wasn't popular for causing the hold-up that night."
Colin Alfred Chessman thought trolleybuses were fantastic. "Very quiet and smooth and good to ride in. They also had very fast acceleration. We used to get a double decker sometimes and stand right at the front on the top deck and watch the world whiz by from the Port into the city. Can't remember how long it took. I just remember it being good fun. I guess I would have been eleven or twelve."
And Col Penney recalled "They used to have a turn loop off Hindley Street, that they turned left at 'Star Grocery' to Light Square, where the bus did a "U" turn, stopped, pulled the poles down, then used gravity to turn right to go back on to Hindley Street, once again pulling up to allow the conductor to reconnect the poles back to live wires."
I often catch the bus to and from work in the city these days and I sometimes ponder about the reaction that commuters of today would have to trolleybus transport with its regular stops and starts, poles coming off wires and conductors losing sticks during peak hour traffic.
Maybe, just maybe, they might enjoy the experience.
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The trolley bus passed where I lived at 288 Hindley Street at Grays Estate so I was very familiar with them. The wires were attached to our two storey building which still stands today. At the end of the war when we were sent home from school I bought lots of streamers and joyfully threw them over the buses as they came past our balcony. They were so quiet and as a child I thought their tyres were just so-oh big!
Neil Dwiar November 27, 2014 at 9:21 pm #
Remember walking over to Port Road with my Nan and Pop to catch the trolleybus down to a bustling Port Adelaide, watching the big ships turn around at the end of Commercial Road, and from memory the buses used to run every 5 minutes or so. Great fun sitting in the front row pretending to drive the bus.
Neil H Usher July 1, 2016 at 1:47 pm #
During the 1950's I would spend school holidays in Adelaide & used to love getting on a single or double decker trolley bus & going into the city from Rose Park. The buses left the Tusmore / Beaumont terminus and went through the city to Port Adelaide, Largs Bay & Semaphore. I have always been fascinated with the trolley buses and have been out to the Tramways Trust museum at Saint Kilda on more than one occasion when in Adelaide.
Gerry Savill April 10, 2019 at 7:48 pm #
In my mid to late teens, I used to regularly travel on the trolley bus to and from Woodville Rd and the City via Port Rd.. On the return journey I recall watching out for the big "M" neon sign at Mitchell.s Garage which let me know I was almost home. I used to love looking down from the top deck of the trolley bus and would invariably let a single decker go by and wait for the next double decker. The wait wasn't very long, the frequency of the service if I remember correctly was about six or seven minutes in the peak, a frequency not matched by any public transport service in Adelaide today, sixty years later. . .


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Q: Casting nested ienumerable dynamic to custom classes I have these classes:
public class mDiagnosis {
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    public string xName {get;set;}
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}

public class mICNconcepts {
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}

And this ienumerable dynamic: tDiagnosis, where one of it's field is another (Focus) is another ienumerable dynamic.
I'm trying to cast the dynamic entities to the custom classes, but the nested one errors at .Select(j => new mICNconcepts() {
var tDiagnosis = AsList(App.Data["Diagnosis"]);
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The first ".Select(i => new mDiagnosis()" works fine. It's the second one that gives problems.
Perhaps a particular way 2sxc resolves these entities? They are both dynamic.
Please don't close just because the other topic mentions the same error. The issues don't seem to be related.

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If you've been reading my First Force Series (and I sooo hope you have) you've most likely noticed team member, Stewart Little. Who??? Yep, he shares a name with that ornery little mouse Stuart Little, and he does not appreciate it at all! In fact Little (as his teammates call him) doesn't seem to appreciate much of anything. He's a brooding character who has very little dialogue in the books. He's been described as a huge man, muscled, wide chest, not particularly attractive, and his default expression—a scowl. And even though Little is indeed a surly character, he is beloved by his team—they know in a crisis situation that he will have their backs—he would put his life on the line in a New York minute for any one of them.
The interesting thing about Little is that Jack Haliday's daughter, Lil, isn't intimidated by the big man one bit. In fact she's given him a nickname: Little Big Man. Lil finds it most fascinating that his name is Little and yet he is so big. As hard-bitten as this character is towards almost everyone, he has a soft spot for Lil—his face lights up when she is around, and why not? Jack's daughter has endeared herself to all of the First Force Series readers. They love the curly-haired pixie and all her antics.
"I absolutely love Jack's daughter, Lil. She is so cute and adorable and brought some real life to everyone's life she touched." Says Girl with a Pen blogger/reviewer, Victoria Zumbrum.
"Lil was just a doll!" Kathy, an Amazon customer wrote of Lil on her five-star review.
So I supposed the question is: why is Stewart Little so unhappy? What is it that haunts him down to his very soul? And will he ever find a way to get past whatever it is that tortures him? Hmmm … guess you'll have to continue reading the series to discover the answers to those question. In the meantime, I hope you'll enjoy this little snippet I've included from the next book, slated to release in September, To the Brink.
"Hold up a minute," Stewart Little called. He opened the back door of the SUV to hand each of the girls several gift cards. "Here ya go ... some Disney dollars to spend. Have a good time, and for God's sake don't get lost. I don't want the team to have to fly down to Orlando to find your sorry butts." He sounded more like a Grizzly Bear roaring than a man bearing gifts.
"Thank you, Little Big Man," Lil squealed in delight. Little Big Man was the name Lil had given the big team member, whose name was Little. He was as cantankerous as thunder snow in January, yet somehow those little girls were able to look beyond the harshness that inhabited his core to find the love that lie within the scoured layers beneath.
"Gracious," Pat added with a smile on her lips and in her voice.
Each girl gave him a kiss on his cheek. He scolded, "Now quit fussin', it's just some lousy gift cards. Put your seatbelts on, Haliday's drivin'," he told them as he closed the door to walk away.
"This was very kind, Senor Little," Bebe told him as he passed her on his way to his pickup.
"It was nothin'. Have a good time," the man of few words replied, while holding the vehicle door open and helping her inside, and then with his head bowed and his eyes focused on the pavement beneath his feet, he hurried away. Rayne and Silja exchanged knowing grins before slipping into their assigned vehicles. They were amused by the flush washing over Little's cheeks.
So there you have it—Stewart Little is a surly character, but what lies beneath that solid exterior that he carefully guards? I hope you continue or your decide to begin reading the First Force Series to find out!
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I like the sound of Stewart. Brooding can be very interesting to read.
thanks for the fun story!!! Congrats on the series :) Thanks for sharing!
Oh I enjoyed that snippet! Thanks for sharing about your book!
Love the exchange between Lil and Stewart.
I haven't read any of the First Force Series yet but I sure will after reading this. I particularly love the talk between little Lil and Stewart Little as they are going to Disney World.


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New Scene From Tiana's Bayou Adventure Revealed, Splash Mountain at Walt Disney World to Close in January
Skyler Shuler December 2, 2022 2 min read
Fans of Splash Mountain at the Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World better ride the attraction while they still can. We are getting closer to its closing to make way for its retheme to Tiana's Bayou Adventure, inspired by the hit film Princess and the Frog.
On Friday, the Disney Parks Blog shared a brand new first look at a scene for the attraction, which features the new characters Walt Disney Imagineering is creating specifically for this attraction. In Tiana's Bayou Adventure, you'll join Princess Tiana and jazz-loving alligator Louis during Mardi Gras season as they prepare to host a one-of-a-kind celebration for the people of New Orleans. This new scene is the thrilling moment you first drop into the bayou and encounter some friends both new and familiar.
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The story takes place after the ending of the film around 1927. Tiana's Palace has become enough of a success that Tiana and Naveen decided to expand their business and establish an employee-owned food cooperative, Tiana's Foods, which has purchased an old salt mine to serve as a headquarters. As Tiana prepares to host a large party for Mardi Gras, she and the guests journey into the bayou to find a key ingredient for the festivities.
Anika Noni Rose, Bruce Campos, Jenifer Lewis, and Michael-Leon Wooley will all return to reprise their voice roles of Princess Tiana, Prince Naveen, Mama Odie, and Louis.
Splash Mountain at Walt Disney World Resort will be closed starting January 23, 2023, so we can begin the next phase of this attraction's development. Additional information about Splash Mountain at Disneyland Resort will be shared at a later date.
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A Win For Nauru
The government of Nauru has secured a victory over funds management giant Firebird in the NSW Supreme Court, overturning a ruling that had threatened to cripple the small nation's economy
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The government of Nauru has secured a victory over funds management giant Firebird in the NSW Supreme Court, overturning a ruling that had threatened to cripple the small nation's economy and prevent it from providing basic services to its citizens.
The NSW Supreme Court ruled two years ago that the Nauruan government owed $16 million to Firebird when a deal over government bonds went south.
The small Pacific nation did not pay any of the money, causing the debt to swell to $30 million ($FJD 50.5m).
All the Nauru government's funds, contained in 30 Australian-based Westpac bank accounts, was later frozen, leaving it unable to pay its public servants.
The country was facing the imminent shut down of services to its citizens, as well as asylum seekers imprisoned in detention centres under Australia's off-shore processing regime.
The Nauruan government's accounts were to be garnished until the debt was repaid.
But Nauru went back to the NSW Supreme Court to challenge the decision this week, arguing that, as a sovereign nation, it was immune from the orders previously issued by the court.
The Australian government also entered the legal battle, arguing that if Nauru's bank accounts were garnished there was a risk the $11 million in aid which it recently sent to Nauru for health and education would be diverted to pay the Japanese creditors.
On Friday, Acting Justice Young rejected Nauru's argument that it needed to be able to pay its public servants.
However, he ultimately accepted the Nauruan government's position that it was immune from the judgment under section 9 of the Immunity Act which holds that "a foreign state is immune from the jurisdiction of the courts of Australia in a proceeding".
Firebirds' argument that their case met the criteria for an exception under the Immunity Act because the matter was a "commercial transaction" was rejected.
It is understood Nauru's bank accounts could now be re-opened within a week.
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Michael Kent Benson (nacido el 27 de diciembre de 1954 en New Castle, Indiana) es un exjugador de baloncesto estadounidense que disputó once temporadas en la NBA y una más en la liga italiana. Con 2,08 metros de altura, jugaba de pívot.

Trayectoria deportiva

Universidad
Su etapa universitaria la pasó jugando con los Hoosiers de Indiana, equipo que dirigía el mítico Bobby Knight. Allí consiguió ganar el título de la NCAA en 1976, siendo nombrado mejor jugador del torneo, en una temporada invicta para su equipo. En 1976 y 1977 fue incluido en el primer equipo All-American.

Profesional
Fue elegido en la primera posición del Draft de la NBA de 1977 por Milwaukee Bucks, equipo en el que jugó durante dos temporadas y media, y donde no demostró lo ofrecido en su etapa universitaria.

En febrero de 1980, fue traspasado a cambio de Bob Lanier a Detroit Pistons, donde permaneció durante 6 temporadas, mejorando un poco sus números, pero sin llegar a lo que se esperaba de un número uno del draft.

Sus dos últimos años como profesional los pasó en Utah Jazz y en Cleveland Cavaliers, donde tan solo disputó dos partidos.

En once años en la NBA promedió 9,1 puntos y 5,7 rebotes por partido.

Acabó su carrera jugando una temporada en Italia, en el Pallacanestro Cantù.

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Baloncestistas de los Milwaukee Bucks
Baloncestistas de los Detroit Pistons
Baloncestistas de los Utah Jazz
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Riverside south bank, west of the Tower. Battersea - power/park/dogs
Post to the east Nine Elms
Post to the west Battersea west of the Park
Post to the south Battersea Longhedge
Battersea Park
This square covers the eastern half of the park
Battersea Park covers what was Battersea Fields, an area sometimes used for dueling. The park was sometimes seen as replacing an area which had become notorious. It replaced Tivoli Tea Gardens and the Red House Tavern and its grounds. The land was purchased about 1828 by the Marquess of Westminster, who leased it to. Cubitt who wanted to turn this marshland into a park' -an Act of Parliament was passed to allow them to buy land for housing with some of it set aside for the park. Work began in 1848 on land cultivated by allotment-holders and market gardeners. At high tide there were floods and there were difficulties in buying up the riverside frontage. The Lammas lands and common rights of St Mary, Battersea, were abolished in 1853. Street sweepings delivered by barge were used to build an embankment five feet above high-water mark forming a causeway between the park and river. The park was laid out by Pennethorne, Architect of the Office of Works and 4 acres opened 1864. In the 1890s in the early days of cycling it became the fashionable place for cycling before breakfast. There were landscaped serpentine lakes, an enclosed Old English Garden with pergolas and roses, a children's zoo and an Herb Garden. During both World Wars, anti-aircraft guns and barrage balloons were installed here. There were also air raid shelters were dug, allotments and a pig farm set up
Festival Gardens. The park was restyled as the Festival of Britain Gardens in 1951. The northern parts of the park became the "Pleasure Gardens" with a new water-garden and fountains, "Tree-Walk", the Guinness Clock and the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Branch Railway. Another addition was Battersea Fun Fair, with roller coasters, swings, roundabouts and other attractions.
All Weather Pitches. These are on the south side of the park and marked out for football and hockey. These originally had a "cinder" surface, but in 1989 they changed to the astro turf and have since been re-refurbished.
Athletics Ground. The Athletics Ground, which lies towards the eastern boundary of the park, was, until the beginning of 20th, part of the area of open grassed sports grounds.
Bandstand. This is in Central Avenel. In the centre of the Avenue is a bandstand constructed in 1988 to replace that from the 19th. Plane trees mark the original circle around the bandstand
Bowling Green. This dates from 1880 with, a small brick pavilion added in 1930.
Cafe by H. A. Rowbotham, 1939. Has been known as Park Café, Café Lakeside and currently La Gondola al Parco
Carriage drives. These four drives curve round the edge of the park and into the centre where they meet Central Avenue
Children's Zoo. As well as animals – all small and friendly – there are various rides and adventure games, a café shop and other facilities.
Entrance. From Queen's Circus – this is the main entrance. It has an outer pedestrian gateway of Portland stone in the Arts and Crafts style. The wrought-iron pedestrian gates and ramped carriage gates from 1891.
Entrance from Queenstown Road leads onto the northern carriage drive; although a lodge (Ranelagh Lodge) was proposed for the entrance it is doubtful whether it was ever built
Henry Moore sculpture. This is on the north bank of the Ladies Pool. The three standing figures were erected on the site chosen by Moore in 1950.
Sculpture. Single Form by Barbara Hepworth. This dates from 1962 which is a bronze over 10 feet high. It is a memorial to Dag Hammarskjold, the UN Secretary General who died in a plane crash in 1961
Ladies Pond. This is north of the main lake.
Lake The 15-acre, surrounded by dense plantations, is the most extensive and romantic of in London municipal parks in the 19th. The ambitious original layout was, probably designed by John Gibson, the superintendent. It was horticultural focus of the Victorian design and is in the lowest part of the park, surrounded by tree-clad earth mounds which enclose the Subtropical Garden of 1863. To the south the mounds surround the deer enclosure. The lake has a serpentine outline and there is artificial rockwork and a cascade made by W Pulham
Boathouse. This dates from 2002 and is a galvanised steel and wrought timber structure which visually floats on the lake and is clad in long strip copper. This is a building which has to accommodate a diversity of functions. There is a fleet of rowing and pedal boats
London Recumbents Bicycle hire. In 1993 bikes for the disabled were heavy and unstable. This scheme aimed to offer unusual bikes and to give an experience above and beyond the confines of the high street.
Millennium Arena – sports facilities
Nature Reserve - American Ground. This was originally part of Gibson's arrangement of shrubberies and had planting of predominantly North American plants. They covered extensive earthworks associated with the construction of the road leading to Chelsea Bridge. The area has since been developed as a nature reserve. The reserve is named after an enthusiastic local naturalist and keen recorder of the park's wildlife, Brian Mist. Butterflies are particularly abundant in Mist's Pitch.
Plaque dedicated to the ANZAC forces in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915.
Plaque to the 5397 Australian Aircrew personnel lost in action during the Second World War.
Pump House. The pump house was designed by James and William Simpson and is north of the lake. It has 'VR/1861' in a stone roundel above the doorway. It was constructed in 1861 to house the pump and steam engine used to pump water to the lake and cascade. The machinery was disposed of when it was refurbished in 1992 and it now houses an exhibition on the history of the park plus a classroom and art galleries.
Rosery. This is a small garden with formal planting beds. It is now part of an enlarged deer enclosure.
Russell Page Garden. This formed the central part of the Festival site.
Experimental radio station. Introduced here in the Second World War. The park is also listed as an airfield and this appears to relate to work by the RAF Experimental Workshops, based in Kirtling Street to the east
Thrive Garden. This is a project to bring gardening to disabled people.
War memorial. This is the 24th Division memorial by Eric Kennington. It shows three soldiers with rifles and tin hats on a small round plinth with Serpents round their feet. This was set up in 1924
Battersea Park Road
Dogs' Home. This began in 1860 as The Temporary Home for Lost & Starving Dogs set up by Mary Tealby in Holloway, moving to Battersea in 1871 and taking in cats from 1883. In 1898 they opened a site at Hackbridge – the first of several outside central London. At Battersea Architect Clough Williams-Ellis, designed a new cattery Whittington Lodge, which is still used as offices. Statues of two begging dogs. Moved here from Holloway in 1875.
Battersea Park Road Station. This station was originally 'Battersea Park, York Road', or 'York Road (LCDR)', and was at the junction with Prince of Wales Road near the Dog's Home. It was positioned across the high-level lines of the London Chatham and Dover Railway crossing Battersea Park Road. It was built 1866–7 designed by Charles Driver with Sir Charles Fox & Son. Entrances either side of the bridge led to a booking hall and waiting room beneath the tracks. It was then renamed Battersea Park Road in 1877, closed in 1916, and demolished in 1923. All that remains are some Gothic arches set into railway arches ear the Dogs' Home
Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St.Joseph. Battersea Park mission was established by Canon Drinkwater of Clapham Common. The land was bought for the church in 1868 from the liquidators of the abortive West London Wharves and Warehouses Company. Sketches for a church were prepared by C a Buckler in 1867 and a small version of this was opened in 1869. It became the Lady Chapel of a larger church in 1879 built by John Adams, a local architect. In 1881 Fr William Connolly, extended the Mission Schools and the priest's house. These buildings are arranged around a close which may be the work of F A Walters. The church bombed in the Second World War and there were thus Post-war alterations.
St Joseph's Boys School. Single-storey buildings of 1882. The school was run at first by the Xaverian Brothers (a religious institute named after Saint Francis Xavier & dedicated to Roman Catholic education. to which additions were made in 1891 This front originally had small porthole lights only, the present windows being later insertions. In 1974 the school moved and became a parish centre. St Joseph's Playgroup was the last to use this building which is now derelict.
Battersea Power Station site
Hills' naphtha and vitriol works. One of several such works set up by the Hills family in London and elsewhere. This one was run by Arthur Hills
Flora Tea Gardens. This seems to have originally been the Regency Tea Gardens extant in 1822. They were run by a Mr. Faulkner, who developed a particular strawberry, described by Loudon – indicating that this was a horticultural centre as well as a place of entertainment.
Southwark and Vauxhall Water Works. This was an amalgamation between the Vauxhall and the Southwark Water companies. In 1845 they promoted a Parliamentary Bill to amalgamate and became the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company formed later that year. The Southwark Company had built a waterworks at Battersea Fields on a site of about twelve acre with a reservoir, a filter-bed, engine-house, boiler-house and superintendent's residence—all designed by William Anderson and built by Joseph Bennett. An iron main connected the works to the company's existing supply pipes at Elephant and Castle. The works included a 130ft standpipe to ensure a steady pressure before the water reached the mains. Following competition with the Vauxhall Water Works Company a merger was agreed and a new company, the Southwark & Vauxhall Water Company was set up in 1845. The Battersea works were enlarged in 1845–6. The engine house was extended – and this is the building which remains and a second standpipe erected. However their water quality was very poor. In the early 1850s it became mandatory for water to only be extracted up river of the tidal reaches of the Thames and in 1855 the company built a new intake at Hampton. A new, circular filter-bed was added at Battersea to meet the increased demand and later a bigger engine house and engine and a third 180ft high standpipe. In the 1869s the railway into Victoria cut part of the site and the filter bed. More filter beds and a bigger reservoir were built. Their water continued to be of poor quality and uncovered filter beds in Battersea continued to be used until 1900. Eventually the company was taken over by the new Metropolitan Water Board. It closed in 1903 and was obliterated in the 1920s. The surviving engine house is in the square to the east. The site became waste land.
South Lambeth Goods Depot GWR. This was built as late as 1911–13 when land in the south-west corner of the waterworks site and next to Battersea Park Road were bought by the Great Western Railway Company. This included a siding for the Metropolitan Water Board. The goods shed built in 1913 had a Hennebique reinforced-concrete frame and brick infill. Above it were storeys of warehousing, and a basement for bacon, butter and other foods. There were also concrete stables, a garage and an office. The site was extended in 1928. There was a milk depot here plus bottle storage and general provisions. It had the third largest concentration of Great Western Railway employees in London. It closed in 1970 and the buildings were all demolished.
Battersea Power Station. This was two power stations in one building. West a Station built 1929/37 and East B Station built 1944/45 – and the second building completed its four chimney layout. It was originally built by the power private companies as the London Power Company - in the early 1939s as a defensive move against nationalisation .It was coal fired. The, now disuse, wharf was built in 1929-35, by S. L. Pearce, engineer-in-chief, with H. N. Allot as consultant engineer. It is one of the first examples in England of contemporary industrial architecture, and set the pattern for the power stations of the next two decades. It is one of the largest brick buildings in the world and its outline is square and bold in art deco style.It has a steel frame with brick cladding. J. Theo Halliday was the architect for the brick exterior, and the interior with giant pilasters faced in faience, marble-lined walls, and bronze doors with sculptured panels. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was brought in as consultant on the exterior when the building was already under construction and was responsible for the parapet and the bases to the fluted chimneys. Innovative features were, in the earlier part - water sprays to clean the chimneys. Bronze doors show a muscular chap pulling a switch. There is a plaque to Faraday. Post Second World War hot water was piped over the river to flats in Churchill Gardens. On the north bank was a closed walled accumulator. The site includes two tunnels under the Thames, one with electricity cables and a walkway in the centre. It ceased generating electricity in 1983, but is a both a landmark and a cultural reference point. Its dereliction since closure has accelerated despite many plans for its re-use. It is now being converted to flats.
Chelsea Bridge
Chelsea Bridge The first bridge here, called Victoria Bridge, was opened in 1858 and despite being publicly owned was a toll bridge, designed by Thomas Page. It was designed to access Battersea Park but its construction was delayed by the work on the Victoria Embankment. It was soon clear that it was inadequate and it was strengthened in 1863-64, and again after it had been taken over by the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1879. It was Very expensive to maintain and both the Middlesex County Council and London County Council wanted to demolish it... The present bridge was built in 1934-37 is also a suspension bridge designed by Ernest James Buckton and Harry John Fereday of Rendel Palmer & Tritton. It represented a major step forward in British bridge design. Its foundation and piers built in steel sheet-piled cofferdams were the same similar position to the previous structure, but of completely new construction. The main suspension cables were made of 37 locked coil ropes bundled to form a hexagon. The contractors were Holloway Brothers, Furness Shipbuilding Supplied the steelwork and the cables were by Wright's Ropes Ltd. As there was so much fir used in the decking that the new bridge was opened by the Prime Minister of Canada. A temporary bridge was built alongside it during the Second World War, just in case. In 2004 a new curved footbridge was built beneath the southern end of Chelsea Bridge this is intended as part of the Thames Path.
Grosvenor Bridge
This was originally called the Victoria Bridge. It originated when the London Brighton and south Coast railway opened what they called their Pimlico terminus at the end of what is now Queenstown Road, on the river in 1856. In 1858 the Victoria Station and Pimlico railway got Parliamentary consent for a bridge from there to what is now Victoria Station. . The original bridge dates from the mid 19th. It was built by Sir John Fowler for the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway on 1860 to carry two tracks into Victoria Station – in mixed gauge because of use by the Great Western Railway - and was the first railway bridge across the Thames in central London. Because it had to be high enough not to impede the navigation locomotives had to negotiate a gradient 1:50 to cross. But on reaching the north bank the line ad to drop to reach the canal along which the line was planned to go. The bridge was widened by Sir Charles Fox in 1866 to carry the London Brighton and South Coast Railway and London Chatham and Dover Railway. This was designed to cut out a lot of curves and bottlenecks on the south side ad to remove the broad gauge track. By 1907 it consisted of three different bridges on common piers with different foundations. It was rebuilt in 1963–67 and a tenth track added to designs by Freeman Fox & Partners for the Southern Region of British Rail. It is said to be the busiest railway bridge in the world.
Prince of Wales Drive
Gas Holder site. This was a gas storage area for the London Gas Light Company whose manufacturing base was to the east on the south side of Battersea Park road. The holders are currently being demolished. They are: four, five and six. These were all designed by the London Gas Light Company's engineer, Robert Morton. The tans were dig nu John Aird and Sons. Four and five were built by Joshua and William Horton of Smethwick. Six was built by Ashmore and While, of Stockton on Tees. Seven is a MAN holder - Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg. It was built by R&J Dempster. R&J Dempster under license
Engineer's House. Designed by Robert Morton
St Mary's Girls and Infants School, designed by C.A. Buckler in 1869.
Notre Dame High School for Girls. This was originally originally a Higher Grade School. It is now a Seventh Day Adventist church;
All Saints Church. This replaces the earlier church burnt down in 1969. It was built in 1978,
Vicarage 1890. Plain -brick linked to the new church
Queen's Circus
This was laid out by John Mowlem & Company for the London County Council for the Festival of Britain in 1951 but it originated in the 1860s
Public Lavatories. This is now an estate agents, previously it was an architect's office. An ornate Old English composition 1899 by the park entrance.
Site of All Saints. The church dated from 1883 and was burnt down in 1969. It was replaced by flats by Sir. Keay & Partners, 1979
Arch 75. Plaque to Short Brothers. in June 1906 the Short Brothers moved here from central London. This was because Charles Rolls had chosen the brothers to build his entry for the first Gordon Bennett international balloon race in 1906. Shorts built about thirty balloons here filled with gas from the adjoining gas works. in 1908, the brothers set up a formal partnership but they had already built a glider here for J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, to his designs. Although they began to manufacture elsewhere, lighter-than-air work continued here until 1919. In 1909 Frank McClean ordered Short No. 1. designed and built at Battersea however it was under-powered, too heavy and refused to fly. the Shorts also received a contract from the Wright brothers to build six Model 'A' Wright Flyers. this was the first contract for batch production of aircraft to be placed in the United Kingdom. They also built Short No. 2, for J. T. C Moore-Brabazon and he flew this on a circular flight of one mile to win the 'Daily Mail' prize They were thus the UK's first sellers of a functional aeroplane and the foundation of the UK's aircraft industry may be dated from this point. Shorts moved to Rochester and then to Belfast and are now part of the Canadian firm Bombardier
Wright Brothers. This British firm was in the arches adjacent to Shorts. Howard and Warwick Wright came from a background in Black Country engineering. They came to London with a motordealership and became involved in motor racing before the Great War. They also became involved with Short Brothers and took premises adjacent to them. Warwick Wright went with Brabazon to France in 1908 to learn to fly a Voisin biplane. Howard Wright then embarked on the construction of a Voisin type biplane of his own design. In 1908 they began to build aeroplanes under licence from the American Wright Brothers. At the time Howard Wright was probably the leading British aeroplane constructor. Some aircraft used the Metallurgique engine supplied by Warwick Wright.and Tom Sopwith was an important customer who won the Baron de Forrest prize with a Howard Wright 1910 biplane. Claude Grahame-White flew to his own wedding reception in his Howard Wright plane. The brothers' partnership broke up in 1911 but both went on to distinguished careers in aeronautics, motor manufacture and design, and speed boats.
Queenstown Road
The road dates from the mid-19th as part of the development of the area which included Chelsea Bridge and Battersea Park. It was originally Victoria or Queens Road but plans for development were stunted through the building of the railway lines parallel to it and semi-concealed behind a high brick wall,
West London Docks and Warehouses. Because of the difficulty in building posh houses The Commissioners in 1864 sold the land east of Queenstown Road to the West London Docks & Warehouses Company, for a proposed riverside canal basin, docks, wharfage and bonded warehousing connected to the railways. This did not survive the banking collapse of 1866 and was wound up.
Marco Polo House. This post modern office block was built in 1987 to designs by Pollard. It was faced with Neopariés a crystallized glass-ceramic material from Japan with a similar appearance to marble. It was used as offices by the Observer newspaper, and British Satellite Broadcasting television. Later the QVC television shopping channel. In 2006 the site was bought by a Russian consortium, Anastasia Ltd, and it has since been demolished
In 1852 the West End of London & Crystal Palace Railway was set up. It was to run under Battersea Park Road and go to a terminus next to the Thames near Chelsea Bridge, east of Queenstown Road. The land alongside Queenstown Road was bought from the Battersea Park Commissioners'. It was not planned to take this line across the river but there would be an ambitious south bank terminus. It was finally built under Bidder in 1857–8 and under the London Brighton and South Coast Railway. In 1857the LBSCR promoted the Victoria Station and Pimlico Company to take the railway over the river and into what would become Victoria. Other railways began to want to use the crossing, the West London Extension Railway plus the GWR, which needed 'mixed-gauge' track. Then the London, Chatham & Dover Railway in 1860, when they started running into Victoria Station. They also built a line from Beckenham Junction to Victoria via Herne Hill, Brixton and added – south of this square – the Longhenge Works. In 1862 the LCDR engaged Sir Charles Fox to propose a solution to 'the Battersea tangle'. This entailed replanning the whole approach to Victoria south of the river with high-level tracks on viaducts which passed over the LSWR and Battersea Park Road west of the previous lines, before running on to the river bridge. Future improvements consisted of widening lines
LBSCR Battersea Loco Base was set up in 1868–70 and consisted of two of what was eventually three circular running sheds beneath the new high-level viaducts in the final run-up to the river. This base never undertook manufacture or major repairs, but its goods and engine depots here gradually extended along most of the east side of Queenstown Road facing Battersea Park. By the 1890s the carriage shed had gone leaving open sidings while later the goods shed were replaced on an enlarged scale. The goods shed was occasionally used for small post-war railway exhibitions,
Battersea Park Depot. IN 1858 The WELCPR had built a small timber engine shed south north of the later Gasholder Station. For lack of space new locomotive accommodation were in old fashioned roundhouses. A third roundhouse was added in 1889–90 south of and linked to the western shed. The depot was sealed off by an impressive brick wall, probably of about 1900, which ran along Queenstown Road's east side. The depot lost business and status after the Southern Railway was created in 1923 and It closed in 1934, The western roundhouses became a road vehicle maintenance depot, while by the 1980s the eastern one had become a builders' merchant's store. They were demolished in 1986.
River Bank
Dorman Long & Co. This site was between Farmiloes (on the square to the east) and the current site of Battersea Power Station. From 1893 these were stockyards and engineering factories and also included Dawnay & Company and Homan & Rogers. Dorman Long's works, was extended in the early 1900s, and then during the Great War when the firm was taken under government control. There were two enormous open-ended steel-framed workshops, each about 150ft long. Steel beams and sections were brought by sea from Middlesbrough and unloaded at the quayside for assembly. They remained here until the early 1960s
Battersea Power Station site (see above)
The Red House. This was a pleasure garden on the banks of the Thames slightly to the west of what is now Battersea Power Station. It opened before the 1720s, when it was the end point of a rowing match, and lasted until 1854. At times it had a bad reputation – with a lot of drinking, rough sports and little regard for the Sabbath. It included a pigeon shooting ground.
Battersea Wharf. This was the name for the open expanse at the river end of the railway yards and was used for goods transhipment. It continued in use up until 1970.
Battersea Pier. This was between Chelsea Bridge and the rail bridge. It was used for steamer services, but also became the name for railway installations at that pint – signal box, junction and so on. A new pier has recently been built for the clipper service
Battersea Park and Steamboat Pier Station. This station opened in 1860 and replaced the original 'Pimlico terminus' built before the rail services crossed the river .It was opened by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway as 'Battersea. The Chatham Company trains picked up passengers from riverboats here but Victoria passengers were not allowed to get off because it was a Brighton Company station. Two years later it was renamed 'Battersea Park' and closed in 1870. It was at the southern end of Grosvenor Railway Bridge,
Battersea Park Pier. This lay about half way along the parks riverside. It was been used by steamers.
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Viet Nam protects sovereignty in East Sea
Viet Nam stakes East Sea claim
East Sea talks make progress in Da Nang
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Le Hai Binh
HA NOI (VNS) — Negotiations for a code of conduct of parties in the East Sea (COC) will be discussed at the upcoming ASEAN Summit in Malaysia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Le Hai Binh said yesterday.
The event will also appraise the impacts of the financial crisis, the sluggish recovery of regional economies, disaster management and climate change along with regional maritime and aviation security and safety issues, he added.
The 26th ASEAN Summit, to be held in Malaysia from April 26-27, will focus on issues such as the ASEAN Community and its post-2015 vision as well as the bloc's centrality.
Founded in August 1967, ASEAN consists of 10 countries - Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.
Binh also commented on Viet Nam's stand in the free trade agreement (FTA) negotiation with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and the role of Cuba in the approaching Summit of the Americas.
He said the signing and implementation of a FTA would be a great and important step, lifting the time-honoured relationship between Viet Nam and EEU members to a new height.
Binh told the media that Viet Nam and the EEU issued a joint statement on the conclusion of negotiations on the agreement in December last year and are looking to sign the document within the first half of this year.
Commenting on Cuba's role in the Summit of the Americas, which will be held in Panama City, Panama, on April 10-11, Binh said Viet Nam believed Cuba would exert efforts to contribute to peace, stability, co-operation, and development on the continent. — VNS


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However, not all used vehicles are covered under the law. If the vehicle had more than 100,000 miles at the time of sale, had a purchase price less than $3,000, or was more than seven model years old, then the vehicle is not covered under the Used Car Lemon Law. Furthermore, the law does not cover all of the vehicle's parts. Click this link for a list of Covered Items However, if your vehicle is not covered under the Used Car Lemon Law, the dealer may have broken other laws, such as the Consumer Fraud Act. When the firm reviews your claim, a skilled lawyer will look for violations of other laws.
Additionally, the dealer cannot substitute a 50/50 warranty (owner and dealer each pay half of the repair costs) or a service contract/extended warranty unless it provides at least the same coverage as the lemon law warranty. The dealer cannot sell the vehicle "as-is" unless the vehicle has 60,000 to 100,000 miles at the time of sale and you signed a written waiver of the warranty.
Do I have a Claim under the Used Car Lemon Law?
The vehicle must have a "material defect" which substantially impairs the use, value or safety of the vehicle. The defect must be one of the parts covered under the Lemon Law. It may be difficult to know whether your vehicle's problem qualifies as a material defect. During your free consultation, the attorney reviewing your case will evaluate whether your vehicle's problem qualifies under the lemon law.
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If your vehicle qualifies as a lemon under the law, then the dealer is required to buy the vehicle back from you and refund the full purchase price to you or the lienholder (if applicable), less certain taxes, fees and charges. Whether you bought your used vehicle from a dealer on McCarter Highway in Newark, near Route 1 and 9 in Elizabeth, or anywhere else, The Law Office of David C. Ricci, LLC is here to fight for your rights and get you all the relief you deserve.
"Covered item" means and includes the following components of a used motor vehicle: Engine—all internal lubricated parts, timing chains, gears and cover, timing belt, pulleys and cover, oil pump and gears, water pump, valve covers, oil pan, manifolds, flywheel, harmonic balancer, engine mounts, seals and gaskets, and turbo-charger housing; however, housing, engine block and cylinder heads are covered items only if damaged by the failure of an internal lubricated part.
Transmission Automatic/Transfer Case—all internal lubricated parts, torque converter, vacuum modulator, transmission mounts, seals and gaskets.
Transmission Manual/Transfer Case—all internal lubricated parts, transmission mounts, seals and gaskets, but excluding a manual clutch, pressure plate, throw-out bearings, clutch master or slave cylinders.
Front-Wheel Drive—all internal lubricated parts, axle shafts, constant velocity joints, front hub bearings, seals and gaskets.
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Home > Events > Olympics > Summer > Sports > Volleyball > Beach Volleyball
Beach Volleyball at the Olympics
Beach volleyball was first introduced at the 1992 Games as a demonstration sport, and was a new addition as an official sport at the Olympic Games in 1996. Indoor volleyball has been officially played at the Olympic Games since 1964, though it appeared earlier as a demonstration sport.
US player Karch Kiraly is the only player who has won both indoor and beach volleyball Olympic gold medals.
The best all-time performing beach volleyball player at the Olympic Games is US player Kerri Walsh three gold and one bronze from 2004 to 2016.
about volleyball at the Olympics
see also Indoor Volleyball at the Olympics
Who are the Greatest Volleyball Players at the Olympics.
more information about Beach Volleyball
List of Olympic Sports
Olympics Extra
The next Olympics will be the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, followed by the Winter Olympics 2022 in Beijing. Check out the list of olympic sports, as well as discontinued and demonstration sports.


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Paul D. Brazill is the author of A Case Of Noir,Guns Of Brixton and The Neon Boneyard. He was born in England and lives in Poland. He is an International Thriller Writers Inc member whose writing has been translated into Italian, German and Slovene. He has had writing published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Mammoth Books of Best British Crime 8,10 and 11, alongside the likes of Ian Rankin, Neil Gaiman and Lee Child. He has edited a few anthologies, including the best-selling True Brit Grit – with Luca Veste. His blog is here.


It's the same way another man died two years ago. Buck has been accused of drugging young black men in his apartment and evading prosecution because of his political ties.
LOS ANGELES—Timothy Dean died of a methamphetamine overdose in the home of wealthy Democratic donor Ed Buck, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed for the first time to The Daily Beast.
Dean died Jan. 7 of the same drug that killed Gemmel Moore at Buck's home in 2017, Det. Quilmes Rodriguez, the homicide investigator on Dean's case, confirmed.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office previously declined to press charges against Buck after 26-year-old Moore died at at Buck's West Laurel Ave. apartment. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department re-opened Moore's case following Dean's death.
Investigators are now close to presenting their case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney, Rodriguez said.
"We hope to finish our reports in the near future then will present the case to the [District Attorney's] office for their consideration," he said. "We just bring forth the facts, and they decide whether to file charges or not," he said.
Buck has faced allegations of drugging young black men in his second-story apartment and evading prosecution because of his political ties. He has not been charged in either death.
Buck's attorney Seymour Amster says that Dean arrived at Buck's already under the influence on January 7. "We stand by our position that Mr. Dean reached out to Mr. Buck on the night of his death and not vice versa," Amster previously told The Daily Beast.
Five of Dean's friends previously told The Daily Beast that Dean, who knew Buck for two decades, feared him.
The news that Dean died of a drug overdose came on what would have been his 56th birthday Monday.


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Q: SQL - Split string to columns by multiple delimiters There appear to be numerous solutions to this problem, however my solutions needs to be dynamic as the number of delimiters changes from between 0 and 3 and needs to be relatively efficient as it will be running across >10m rows across 5 loops.
As example:
  US

  US-AL

  US-AL-Talladega

  US-AL-Talladega-35160

The solution would need to be able to deposit each item in a Country, State, County, ZIP field with a NULL field if the information is not within the string.
Any comments on the best approach would be appreciated or even point me in the direction of where I may have possible missed a solution would be much appreciated

A: Another option is with a little XML in concert with a CROSS or OUTER APPLY
Example
Declare @YourTable table (YourCol varchar(100))
Insert Into @YourTable values
 ('US')
,('US-AL')
,('US-AL-Talladega')
,('US-AL-Talladega-35160')

Select A.*
      ,B.*
 From @YourTable A
 Outer Apply (
                Select Country = xDim.value('/x[1]','varchar(max)')
                      ,State   = xDim.value('/x[2]','varchar(max)')
                      ,County  = xDim.value('/x[3]','varchar(max)')
                      ,ZIP     = xDim.value('/x[4]','varchar(max)')
                From  (Select Cast('<x>' + replace(YourCol,'-','</x><x>')+'</x>' as xml) as xDim) as A
             ) B

Returns
YourCol                 Country State   County      ZIP
US                      US      NULL    NULL        NULL
US-AL                   US      AL      NULL        NULL
US-AL-Talladega         US      AL      Talladega   NULL
US-AL-Talladega-35160   US      AL      Talladega   35160

A: you will need a delimited splitter. Like DelimitedSplit8K from http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/
; with tbl as
(
    select  col = 'US'          union all
    select  col = 'US-AL'           union all
    select  col = 'US-AL-Talladega'     union all
    select  col = 'US-AL-Talladega-35160'
)
select  t.col,
        max(case when ItemNumber = 1 then Item end) as Country,
        max(case when ItemNumber = 2 then Item end) as State,
        max(case when ItemNumber = 3 then Item end) as County,
        max(case when ItemNumber = 4 then Item end) as Zip
from    tbl t
        cross apply dbo.[DelimitedSplit8K](t.col, '-')
group by t.col


Create the page "Terrain" on this wiki!
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...here the raycast hit. It is useful for placing a lot of items on top of a terrain.
.... Also make the branch slightly longer so it extends a little bit into the terrain. This will help with reducing lod artifacts from the terrain being simplified when far away.
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*[[CreateTerrainBaseboards]] - Creates baseboards for a Terrain. *[[NeoLightMapExport]] - A Wizard to export lightmap from your terrain and save it in .png file.
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...a plane with more than 2 faces because this is the typical setup of e.g. a terrain.
...p://www.wolfquest.org/ WolfQuest learning game]. Now a part of Unity 2.0's terrain system.
... particularly important in 2.0, where you want to match colors between the terrain textures and detail objects).
This editor script for export lightmap from selected terrain and save it image in Asset folder. Based on LightmapExport.cs fro Island De .../Editor'' and the '''"Export LightMap"''' menu items will appear in the '''Terrain''' menu once it is compiled.


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Tribute to Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf Performed in Astana
By Malika Orazgaliyeva in Culture on 17 September 2016
ASTANA – The capital's KazMedia Centre hosted a musical performance "Happy People Sing" Sept. 17 dedicated to the 100th birthdays of the late Frank Sinatra and Edith Piaf.
Iren Aravina. Photo credit: Alexei Li
The production was a collaboration of musicologist and singer Iren Aravina, who wrote the script, and ARTiSHOCK Theatre actress and director Galina Pyanova, who is staging the performance.
Chingiz Kapin portrays Frank Sinatra
The concert featured one of the most popular and desirable Kazakh actors Chingiz Kapin as Sinatra and actress Aisulu Azimbayeva portraying Piaf. The music was performed by famous band Jazz House, with principal vocal parts performed by Aravina and Alexei Timofeyev.
Aisulu Aizembayeva. Photo credit: Alexei Li
The play is a kind of journey through Piaf's and Sinatra's careers. The destinies of both vocalists always excited historians, writers and filmmakers in theatre and cinema. Although there are many performances and films about each singer individually, none has been presented showing them together.
"This is not my first project, as I produced some musical performances with different ensembles. But this is the first time I have worked on such a large-scale project. We set a difficult task, as there was no written script of a play. As for the actors, they are young and emotional. They both are unique personalities. I greatly respect them and I am excited to work with them. Now the preparation for the premiere is in full swing," said Aravina in an interview for The Astana Times in May.
She explained the decision to combine the works of the two outstanding musicians.
"Sinatra and Piaf sang practically about the same things. They sang about feelings of love in different forms, from the light flirting to the deepest drama. We wanted to show this palette of feelings and how much they are close in spirit as the artists."


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