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"With Minister Komorowski seated across the table from our negotiators during U.S.-Polish talks on a Status of Forces Agreement, we knew we would come up with an agreement that met both sides’ needs, and we did. His energy, his leadership and his mastery of security issues will be sorely missed by his American colleagu...
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He was an avid skier and ski instructor as well as tennis player. During his university years, he was an active member of the Academic Ski Association (his father was a member of the International Ski Federation) and during his high school years he skied with members of the Catholic Intelligentsia Club (pol. Klub Intel...
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"Later, at the end of his life, he rebuilt the garden at the Komorowski’s ""Dziewanna"" villa on the outskirts of Warsaw. He was married three times and had three sons – Karol and Maciej with Irena Komorowska and Jerzy with Maria Komorowska. His third wife was Ewa Komorowska."
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He was listed on the flight manifest At the last moment he replaced Polish defense minister Bogdan Klich and traveled to Smolensk. He was buried on April 16, 2010 at Powązki Cemetery in Komorowski's family grave (#116/VI). During the church ceremony a tennis racket was placed on his coffin. Members of the government in...
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Alejandro Falla was the defending champion but did not compete this year.Santiago Giraldo won in the final 6–3, 6–3 against Paolo Lorenzi.
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"Walter N Haldeman (April 27, 1821 in Maysville, Kentucky – May 13, 1902 in Louisville, Kentucky) was an American newspaper publisher, owner, and businessman from Louisville, KY, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1844 Mr. Haldeman founded the ""Louisville Courier"", a pro-secessionist newspaper both before and d...
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"Mr. Haldeman became president of the new corporation. The combined paper is still in circulation and currently owned by the Gannett Company. As a businessman, Mr. Haldeman is also known as the founder of Naples, Florida and the owner of the Major League Baseball team, the Louisville Grays; a charter member of the Nati...
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"Walter N. Haldeman was the son of John Haldeman and Elizabeth Newman, and was born in Maysville, KY where he spent his childhood years. He attended Maysville Academy with future prominent Americans' Ulysses S. Grant, William H. Wadsworth, Thomas H. Nelson, and William ""Bull"" Nelson under the tutelage of Professor Wi...
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"Clavaria fragilis, commonly known as fairy fingers, white worm coral, or white spindles, is a species of fungus in the family Clavariaceae. It is synonymous with ""Clavaria vermicularis"". The fungus is the type species of the genus ""Clavaria"" and is a typical member of the clavarioid or club fungi. It produces tubu...
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"The fungus is edible, but insubstantial and flavorless. There are several other small white coral-like fungi with which ""C. fragilis"" may be confused."
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"""Clavaria fragilis"" was originally described from Denmark in 1790 by Danish naturalist and mycologist Theodor Holmskjold, and was sanctioned under this name by Elias Magnus Fries in his 1821 ""Systema Mycologicum"". The Latin epithet ""fragilis"" refers to the brittle fruit bodies. The species was redescribed by Swe...
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"In North America, the fungus has colloquially been called ""fairy fingers"" or ""white worm coral"". In the UK its recommended English name is ""white spindles"". British naturalist Samuel Frederick Gray called it the ""worm club-stool"" in his 1821 ""A Natural Arrangement of British Plants""."
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"The fruit bodies of ""C. fragilis"" are irregularly tubular, smooth to furrowed, sometimes compressed, very fragile, white, up to tall by thick, and typically grow in dense clusters. The tip of the fruit body tapers to a point, and may yellow and curve with age. There is no distinct stalk, although it is evident as a ...
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The basidia (spore bearing cells) measure 40–50 by 6–8 µm, and lack clamps at their bases.
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"""Clavaria fragilis"" is edible, but the fruit bodies are insubstantial and fragile. One field guide says ""its flesh is tasteless and so delicate that it seems to dissolve in one's mouth."" Its odor has been compared to iodine."
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The species occurs throughout the Northern Hemisphere, in Europe, North America, and Asia. In North America, it is more common east of the Rocky Mountains. It has also been recorded from Australia and South Africa. In 2006, it was reported from the Arctic zone of the Ural Mountains, in Russia. The fungus grows in woodl...
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"Similar fungi with simple, white fruit bodies include ""Clavaria acuta"", an equally widespread species that typically grows singly or in small groups rather than in dense clusters and can be distinguished microscopically by its clamped basidia and larger spores; the morphologically similar, but rare ""C. atkinsoniana...
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"In North America, ""Clavaria fragilis"" has been called ""by far our most common ""Clavaria"""". In northern Europe, it is one of a suite of ""CHEG"" fungi (CHEG standing for """"Clavarioid fungi-Hygrocybe-Entoloma-Geoglossaceae"""") considered to be indicator species of old, unimproved grassland (permanent grassland ...
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Miyal Syedan is a village located in Rawalpindi Tehsil Punjab Pakistan. It is in Chountra region and it belongs to Potohar town. It is almost 21 kilometers from Chakbeli khan and about 75 kilometers from Rawalpindi on Rawalpindi Chakwal boundary.
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Chris Shaw (born 1961) is an English documentary photographer.
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"Shaw studied at West Surrey College of Art & Design (now University for the Creative Arts) from 1986-89. In his 2006 monograph ""Life as a Night Porter"", Shaw published photographs taken over a ten-year period whilst working as a night porter at certain London hotels, ""all the time he kept his camera with him, recor...
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Shaw's work is held in the following permanent collections:
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"KTEE (94.9 FM, ""The Tee"") is a radio station broadcasting a Modern Adult Contemporary music format. Licensed to North Bend, Oregon, United States, the station is currently owned by Bicoastal Media Licenses III, LLC. The call letters KTEE were previously licensed to Idaho Falls, Idaho."
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R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) is a 2004 album by Nancy Wilson, featuring Wilson in duet with George Shearing, Toots Thielemans, Phil Woods, and Gary Burton. At the 47th Grammy Awards, Wilson won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, for her performance on this album.
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Alto Saxophone – Andres Boiarsky (tracks: 2, 5), Andy Snitzer (tracks: 2 5), Mike Tomaro (tracks: 2, 5) Arranged By [Strings] – Jay Ashby (tracks: 3) Backing Vocals – Jay Ashby (tracks: 4), Kim Nazarian (tracks: 4) Baritone Saxophone – Jim Germann (tracks: 2, 5) Bass – Dwayne Dolphin (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6 to 11), Rufus R...
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Carlo Lotti (30 March 1916 – 6 March 2013) was an Italian engineer and professor of hydraulic construction. He created the C. Lotti & Associati engineering firm. He was born and died in Rome.
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Lotti graduated from the Roman Institute of Technology at the top of his class. He served in World War II until the ceasefire of September 1943 and then decided to join the liberated southern Italy and became captain. Lotti lectured on “Methodology of hydraulic works” at the Roman Technical University. His professional...
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He founded the association of civil engineers in Italy (OICE) and was the honorary president of the Italian Hydrotechnical Association.
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Lotti participated in numerous projects, from 1957 together with his associates and then as a company C. Lotti & Associati SpA.
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The first project in Africa on behalf UNDP, concerned the economic feasibility of agricultural production and river transport. In 1973 the European Community entrusted Lotti for the construction of a dam on the Sankarani river, tributary to the Niger, near the town of Sélingué. The 35m high dam was completed under the ...
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The project includes a large dam equipped with 3MW hydropower plant and the irrigation scheme for 23000 ha. A second project in the area was the Goronyo Dam with a reservoir of one billion m³.
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The complete basin planning requires the participation of experts from several sectors: hydrology, hydraulics, agriculture, economy, engineering and others. A mathematical is capable of handling all factors together. The methodology was developed at the Harvard University. Important project derived from the collaborati...
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Lotti participated in the international contest for the design of the bridge across the Messina strait. The area of relevant study regarded a new under water foundation procedure. The solution presented received a price but the final choice for construction is based a single span, which will be the longest in the world...
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Lotti went to China for the first time in 1971 with the Italian Foreign Commerce Ministry delegation. Successively, a project for flood control management started in 1982. The Italian Technical Cooperation financed the project. The aim of the projects was not only the development of the plan but included the training o...
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The loss of water in municipal network represents and significant reduction of the available resources. The detection and repair of the losses is a convenient way of finding “new resources”. Lotti carried out several project with help instruments and mathematical models for the search of losses. In Messina, of pipe was...
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"The short-tooth moray (""Gymnothorax kontodontos"") is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the eastern central Pacific Ocean around Fanning Island."
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Hugh Sutherland Valentine (1848 – 10 September 1932) was a 19th-century independent conservative Member of Parliament in Otago, New Zealand. He represented the Waikaia electorate from 1887 to 1890, and then the Tuapeka electorate from 1890 to 1893, when he retired. Valentine died in Dunedin on 10 September 1932, and he...
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Curacao (pronounced Koo-ra-sao), formerly La Curacao, is a large-format retail store chain. Founded in 1978, Curacao is headquartered in Los Angeles with retail locations in California, Arizona and Nevada.
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The company is said to be uniquely positioned to serve Hispanic and Latino Americans. The stores feature Spanish-language signs and bilingual salesclerks. Curacao sells most of its merchandise on credit to over two million private label cardholders. The company's services also include Curacao Travel, Curacao Money Tran...
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Jerry Azarkman opened La Curacao, a consumer-product door-to-door sales company, in Burbank, California. It became popular among Hispanic people who did not have access to credit. Salesmen allowed customers to buy their goods by placing a down payment and then returning to the customer's residence to collect payments o...
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In 1983, La Curacao moved to the Pico-Union district in Los Angeles. By 1984, it had opened its export division, which allowed customers to shop for goods and have them shipped to their families in Mexico and Central America. During the Los Angeles Riots in 1992, the store was burned down and its inventory destroyed. T...
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By 2007, the Curacao stores had ten locations in the Southwestern United States, with nine stores in California and two in Arizona.
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The retailer has expressed plans to further expand into Nevada and Texas and market toward the English speaking communities as well.
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Export is one of Curacao's services. Customers can purchase a product in the United States and have it delivered to Latin American countries. The company has its own warehouses in Mexico and Central America and operates a home-delivery program.
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Curacao philanthropies include relief after the 1994 Northridge earthquake and an annual Children’s Fair.
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"The La Curacao Foundation, or ""Fundacion La Curacao Para Los Niños,"" was established in 2002 to provide assistance to needy children by donating basic home products. It also gives to non-profit organizations."
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KTJN-LP (101.1 FM) is a low-power radio station licensed to Gold Beach, Oregon, United States. The station is currently owned by Totally Jesus Network, Inc.
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Colin Lewis Rattray (28 December 1931 – 19 February 2009) was an Australian politician. He was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1992 to 2004, representing first South Esk and then Apsley. Rattray was born in Scottsdale, and was elected Mayor of Ringarooma in 1981. In 1992 he was elected t...
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The Smolensk air disaster killed all 96 people on board, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria Kaczyńska and dozens of other senior officials. The Polish delegation was heading to Katyn to attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, in which the Soviet NKVD killed about 22,...
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Some early reports were wrong about the number or composition as the official list of victims was corrected in stages; most notably because the flight manifest of passengers only, without names of the crew, lacked the name of the only female member of the nine Biuro Ochrony Rządu (Government Protection Bureau bodyguard...
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Evergreen, also known as Huckabee, is an unincorporated community in Autauga County, Alabama.
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Gymnothorax longinquus is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the southwest Pacific Ocean. It is commonly known as the yellow-gilled reef-eel, yellow-gilled moray, brown moray-eel, or long moray.
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"The Mount Graham red squirrel (""Tamiasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis"") is an endangered subspecies of the American red squirrel (""Tamiasciurus hudsonicus"") native to the Pinaleño Mountains of Arizona. It is smaller than most other subspecies of red squirrel, and also does not have the white-fringed tail that is com...
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The Mount Graham red squirrel is a generally tiny squirrel weighing on average around and measuring about in length. The subspecies also has a tail. Unlike most other squirrels in its species, the squirrels do not have a white-fringed tail. Both females and males share similar markings and features and are typically gr...
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Mount Graham red squirrels behave in a manner similar to most other subspecies of American red squirrel. They are diurnal and do not hibernate during the winter months, but instead carry out activities in the mid-day sun. Mount Graham squirrels usually eat a diet of mixed seeds, conifer cones and air-dried fungi.
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Historically, the Mount Graham red squirrel inhabited about of spruce-fir, mixed-conifer and ecotone zone habitats that were generally at higher elevations throughout the Pinaleño Mountains. Recent data shows that it occurs more frequently at the ecotone zone than the other habitats. When choosing a potential nesting s...
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"The Mount Graham subspecies was believed to be extinct in the 1950s, but was ""rediscovered"" in the 1970s. After its rediscovery, it was suggested for threatened or endangered species status under the Endangered Species Act in 1982. On May 21, 1986, the subspecies was officially recommended to become an endangered sp...
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Habitat loss is also occurring at high levels for a variety of natural and anthropogenic reasons. In 1988, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated most of this area as a refuge, and access to the area is only granted with a special permit. A lightning strike on June 7, 2017, started a fire that might have led to ...
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"Geoffrey Bruce ""Geoff"" Squibb (born 27 October 1946) is a former Australian politician. He was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1990 to 2003, representing Mersey. Squibb was born in Devonport, and was its Mayor from 1985–99. In 1990 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council f...
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"Alpha Gamma (ΑΓ) was an American collegiate fraternity. It was founded at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1867. About 21 chapters developed, with prominent chapters at Washington & Jefferson College, Trinity University, Mercersburg College, Southwestern Presbyterian University, Cumberland University, an...
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Marcelo Demoliner was the defending champion, but he lost against Ricardo Mello in the first round.Marcos Daniel won in the final 7–5, 6–7(5), 6–4 against Bastian Knittel.
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"James Clark Brown (December 1830 – 6 February 1891) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Otago, New Zealand. He stood unsuccessfully in the for ; a contemporary report saying that his loss was due to ""his own inaction"" and also to the small number of miners and settlers on the electoral roll. He was a resident...
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Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS) is a large school district administered by the government of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States and is overseen by the Maryland State Department of Education. With approximately 127,129 students enrolled for the 2009–10 school year, the Prince George's County P...
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Owens Science Center, serving students from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 Imagine Leeland at Foundations Public Charter Schools
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Magnet schools provide a wide range of special or unique subjects, activities and/or learning opportunities, as an enhancement to the Prince George's County Public Schools comprehensive programs. Woodstream Christian Academy, Mitchelleville, Maryland
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Anthony William Fletcher (27 October 1934 – 27 August 2020) was an Australian politician. He was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1981 to 2005, representing first Russell and then Murchison. Fletcher, who was born in Hobart, first entered the Council in 1981; although an Independent, he s...
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The Ministry of National Food Security & Research or Ministry of Agricultulre (, abbreviated as MoA) is a Cabinet-level ministerial department of Government of Pakistan, responsible for implementing, enforcing, developing, and executing the policy on agriculture, rice, livestock, fishing, and farming. The ministry is g...
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Agriculture Prices Commission was established in 1981 and re-constituted as Agriculture Policy Institute (API) in 2006 as attached department with ministry.
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Provide seed certification and quality control cover for various crops and field inspection of the crops of registered varieties and released varieties.
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Regulate the import, export and quarantine of animals and animal products, in order to prevent the introduction or spread of exotic diseases and maintain quarantine services of high standards, to protect the livestock industry of Pakistan and other countries.
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National Veterinary Laboratory is a national institution for service and regulatory support to national livestock wealth. These laboratories are capable of catering needs in advanced applied biotechnology, bacteriology, virology, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, immunology, molecular biology, toxicology, pathology, ...
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The department Quarantines and routinely locust Survey and control.
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Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) is the apex national organization working in close collaboration with other federal provincial institutions in the country to provide science-based solutions to agriculture of Pakistan. The organization promote and coordinate agricultural research, arrange expeditious utili...
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PASSCO is a public Limited Company, its functions include maintaining strategic reserves of wheat and other specified commodities and procurement of food commodities at Government’s fix price.
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Pakistan Oil-seed Development Board (PODB) was established in 1995 to enhance indigenous oil-seed production. PODB serves as an important national institution for the development of oilseed sector in the country, besides providing regulatory and policy framework to this sector.
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Plan, promote, facilitate and coordinate livestock, poultry and dairy sectors development of Pakistan.
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Fisheries Development Board is set up to provide and maintain a platform for enhancing and promoting fisheries sector in Pakistan. The board Coordinates with national and provincial activities with relation to aquaculture and shrimp farming and development of market infrastructure and improvement of marketing of fisher...
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Pakistan Dairy Development Company (PDDC or Dairy Pakistan) has been established to drive the development of the Pakistan dairy sector. Dairy Pakistan is a Public-Private sector joint initiative to bring about structural long term change in the dairy industry in Pakistan. Dairy Pakistan is chartered to coordinate, mana...
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Federal Water Management Cell serves as an arm of the Ministry to deal with all the matters related to irrigation water management and agriculture mechanization.
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The Amsterdam Gate () formed the entrance to the Castle Square () south of Batavia Castle. The gate existed from 1744 up to the 1950s in what is now known as Kota, Jakarta, where it would have stood near the intersection of Jalan Nelayan Timur and Jalan Cengkeh.
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Amsterdam Poort was first built in the 17th century. During the rule of governor-general Gustaaf Willen Baron van Imhoff between 1743 and 1750, the castle of Batavia was expanded. Among the involved works was the demolition of the fort's original southeast wall. A new southeast wall was built further south along the Am...
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"Owing to its location at the Amsterdamse Gracht, the gate was called the Amsterdamse Poort. Other names include ""Pinangpoort"" (, after the trade in pinang that took place there) and ""Kasteelpoort"" (). In 1808, governor-general Daendels commissioned the relocation of the seat of government to Weltevreden. The const...
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The gate was originally part of a baroque gatehouse, large enough to accommodate a small prison. The gatehouse had two storeys and was covered by a dome with a cupola on top. Semi-circular arcades connected the gatehouse to two flanking military buildings. The remains of the gate after the demolitions of Daendels only ...
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"KWCQ (106.1 FM, ""The Beat"") is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Condon, Oregon, United States. The station is currently owned by Jeffery Huffman, through licensee Jacobs Radio Programming, and features a Hot AC format using programming from Cumulus Media's Today's Best Hits network. Until...
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"In 2005, NT Radio LLC applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit for a new broadcast radio station. The FCC granted this permit on June 9, 2005, with a scheduled expiration date of June 9, 2008. The new station was assigned call sign ""KHAL"" on June 3, 2005. After construction an...
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"On July 13, 2012 KWCQ returned to the air with hot adult contemporary, branded as ""103.1 Star FM"", the frequency used in the branding is for translator K276EE 103.1 FM The Dalles, Oregon."
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KWCQ programming is also carried on a broadcast translator station to extend or improve the coverage area of the station on 107.3 FM in Kennewick, Washington. There is a construction permit with the FCC to move the translator frequency to 106.9 MHz.
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The 2010–11 season was Manchester City Football Club's 109th season of football, its ninth consecutive season in the Premier League, and its 14th season in the Premier League since it was first created with Manchester City as one of its original 22 founding member clubs. The team finished fifth in the previous season, ...
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"In the summer transfer window, the club, one of the richest in the world since its 2008 takeover by the Abu Dhabi United Group, spent £126 million on players, including Jérôme Boateng from Hamburger SV, Yaya Touré from Barcelona, David Silva from Valencia, Aleksandar Kolarov from Lazio, Mario Balotelli from Inter Mila...
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"City then stuttered for a couple of games against Sunderland (away) and Blackburn Rovers (at home), bagging only a single home point out of the six despite completely dominating both games, with (according to manager Roberto Mancini) at least 25 missed chances in the Blackburn game alone. City got itself back on a win...
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Supplier: Umbro / Sponsor: Etihad Airways
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"Umbro made a new set of kits for Manchester City whilst they were in their second year of contract with the club. On 2 February 2011, there was a minor ""kit ""faux pas"""" when the Manchester City team wore its regular home team kit for its away fixture against Birmingham City at St Andrew's, a fixture that usually r...
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No explanation had ever come as to why this mix-up occurred (because as per which kits were to be worn in which fixtures was determined before the season even began), or why the referee, Kevin Friend, allowed two teams so similarly clad onto the pitch rather than insist that one of them first change its kit, although B...
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Points at home: 43 Points away from home: 28 Points against 2009/10 Top Four: 9 Points against promoted teams: 18
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Biggest home win: 5–0 vs. Sunderland, 3 April 2011 Biggest home defeat: 0–3 vs. Arsenal, 24 October 2010 Biggest away win: 1–4 vs. Fulham, November 2010 Biggest away defeat: 3–0 vs. Liverpool, 11 April 2011 Biggest home attendance: 47,393 vs. Arsenal, 24 October 2010 Smallest home attendance: 43,077 vs. Fulham, 27 Febr...
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"""Awarded monthly to the manager that was chosen by a panel assembled by the Premier League's sponsor"""
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"""Awarded to the player who scored the most goals in the 2010–11 Premier League season"""
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"""Awarded to the goalkeeper who kept the most clean sheets over the 2010–11 Premier League season"""
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"""The combined best 11 from all teams in the Premier League chosen by the PFA"""
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"""Awarded to the player that receives the most votes in a poll conducted each month on the MCFC OWS"""