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pink or green, only makes me regret the more that the artist's gift should have been brought to subjects so esoteric". Most critics focused on Heads I and VI, remarking favourably on the progression between the two. While some found the inherent violence of the paintings distasteful, Brausen was a skilled publicist and...
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reputation and the value of his panels rose dramatically, and after the showing he was sought after by European, American and African collectors and galleries, commanding prices as high as £ 400 for single works, unusual for a contemporary British artist of the time. == Provenance == Head VI was first exhibited at th...
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writes that two, including Head VI, "stood up to it, and even enhanced its authority as one of the most penetrating studies of human nature and human power". writes that two, including Head VI, "stood up to it, and even enhanced its authority as one of the most penetrating studies of human nature and human power". ...
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= Imagism = Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. Imagism has been described as the most influential movement in English poetry since the activity of the Pre-Raphaelites. As a poetic style it gave Modernism its start in the earl...
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values, such as directness of presentation and economy of language, as well as a willingness to experiment with non-traditional verse forms. Imagists use free verse. Imagist publications appearing between 1914 and 1917 featured works by many of the most prominent modernist figures, both in poetry and in other fields. T...
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90s, such as Alfred Austin, Stephen Phillips, and William Watson, had been working very much in the shadow of Tennyson, producing weak imitations of the poetry of the Victorian era. They continued to work in this vein into the early years of the 20th century. As the new century opened, Austin was still the serving Brit...
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Imagism are to be found in two poems, Autumn and A City Sunset by T. E. Hulme. These were published in January 1909 by the Poets' Club in London in a booklet called For Christmas MDCCCCVIII. Hulme was a student of mathematics and philosophy; he had been involved in the setting up of the club in 1908 and was its first s...
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to discuss plans to reform contemporary poetry through free verse and the tanka and haiku and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage from poems. The interest in Japanese verse forms can be placed in a context of the late Victorian and Edwardian revival of interest in Chinoiserie and Japonism as witnessed in the 1890s ...
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in April 1909 and found that their ideas were close to his own. In particular, Pound's studies of Romantic literature had led him to an admiration of the condensed, direct expression that he detected in the writings of Arnaut Daniel, Dante, and Guido Cavalcanti, amongst others. For example, in his 1911 – 12 series of e...
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La France, 1915, the French critic, Remy de Gourmont described the Imagists as descendants of the French Symbolistes and in a 1928 letter to the French critic and translator René Taupin, Pound was keen to emphasise another ancestry for Imagism, pointing out that Hulme was indebted to a Symbolist tradition, linking back...
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Tower group: his former fiancée Hilda Doolittle (who had started signing her work H.D.) and her future husband Richard Aldington. These two were interested in exploring Greek poetic models, especially Sappho, an interest that Pound shared. The compression of expression that they achieved by following the Greek example ...
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Complete Works of T. S. Hulme ') in Pound's book (also published in Autumn 1912) entitled Ripostes are considered to be first appearances of the word Imagiste (later anglicised to 'Imagists') in print. Aldington's poems, Choricos, To a Greek Marble, and Au Vieux Jardin, were in the November issue of Poetry, and H.D.' s...
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Flint. The latter contained this succinct statement of the group's position: Direct treatment of the "thing", whether subjective or objective. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome. Poun...
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ism does not merely mean the presentation of pictures. Imagism refers to the manner of presentation, not to the subject." == Des Imagistes == Determined to promote the work of the Imagists, and particularly of Aldington and H.D., Pound decided to publish an anthology under the title Des Imagistes. It was first publis...
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Poetry in miniature. Pound's editorial choices were based on what he saw as the degree of sympathy that these writers displayed with Imagist precepts, rather than active participation in a group as such. Williams, who was based in the United States, had not participated in any of the discussions of the Eiffel Tower gro...
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However, it strongly reflects Pound's interest in poems written to be sung to music, such as those by the troubadours and Guido Cavalcanti. The book met with little popular or critical success, at least partly because it had no introduction or commentary to explain what the poets were attempting to do, and a number of ...
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Vorticists with his friend, the painter and writer Wyndham Lewis. Around this time, the American Imagist Amy Lowell moved to London, determined to promote her own work and that of the other Imagist poets. Lowell was a wealthy heiress from Boston whose brother Abbott Lawrence Lowell was President of Harvard University f...
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agist Poets. The first of these appeared in 1915, planned and assembled mainly by H.D. and Aldington. Two further issues, both edited by Lowell, were published in 1916 and 1917. These three volumes featured most of the original poets, (also including imagist poetry by the American poet John Gould Fletcher), with the ex...
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as a movement. == Imagists after Imagism == In 1929, Walter Lowenfels jokingly suggested that Aldington should produce a new Imagist anthology. Aldington, by now a successful novelist, took up the suggestion and enlisted the help of Ford and H.D. The result was the Imagist Anthology 1930, edited by Aldington and incl...
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variable foot and a diction he claimed was taken "from the mouths of Polish mothers". Both Pound and H.D. turned to writing long poems, but retained much of the hard edge to their language as an Imagist legacy. Most of the other members of the group are largely forgotten outside the context of the history of Imagism. ...
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of irrelevant subjective emotions Imagism had later effects that are demonstratable in T. S. Eliot's'Preludes' and 'Morning at the Window' and in D. H. Lawrence's animal and flower pieces. The rejection of conventional verse forms in the nineteen-twenties owed much to the Imagists repudiation of the Georgian Poetry sty...
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a high level of development. Basil Bunting, another Objectivist poet, was a key figure in the early development of the British Poetry Revival, a loose movement that also absorbed the influence of the San Francisco Renaissance poets. Imagism influenced a number of poetry circles and movements.With the Imagists Free vers...
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ch and writing an introduction for the book publication of Ginsberg's Howl (1955). ch and writing an introduction for the book publication of Ginsberg's Howl (1955). ch and writing an introduction for the book publication of Ginsberg's Howl (1955). ch and writing an introduction for the book publication of Gin...
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= Operation Eastern Exit = Operation Eastern Exit was the codename given to the military evacuation of the United States embassy in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991. In late December 1990, violence quickly enveloped the city as armed militants began clashing with government soldiers. On 1 January 19...
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. The two helicopters returned to Guam with the first 61 evacuees. Throughout the day, foreign diplomats and civilians sought refuge at the embassy. Four waves of five CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters each evacuated the embassy compound shortly after midnight on 6 January. The evacuees were transported to Muscat, Oman, whe...
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assy moved to a new, 80-acre (32 ha) compound, 6 miles (9.7 km) from the previous embassy and James K. Bishop was appointed as the United States' ambassador to Somalia. Ambassador Bishop had significant experience in crisis management at US embassies. In 1967, he was at the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon when the Six-Da...
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90. Soon after returning to Washington to prepare for his new appointment to Somalia, he was appointed to a taskforce to deal with the crisis in Liberia, which included a gradual evacuation of American civilians and a rapid closure of the embassy in August. On 1 August, before leaving the US to take up his post in Moga...
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was prepared to do that." In its analysis of Operation Eastern Exit, the Center for Naval Analyses cited the Ambassador Bishop's previous experience and "clear understanding of his role" in the operation as one of the reasons Operation Eastern Exit went so well. Hours after Ambassador Bishop's visit to Central Command,...
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atory evacuation. By 19 December, the number of official US personnel in the city was reduced from 147 to 37; around the same time, fighting between the government and rebels came within about 40 miles (64 km) of Mogadishu. === Collapse of the Barre government === On 30 December, violence escalated "an order of magni...
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block shot the tires of a vehicle carrying another defense official. Attempts by the US and other nations' diplomats, in particular the Italian embassy, to negotiate a ceasefire for foreigners to leave were unsuccessful. Afgoy Road became a "shooting gallery," preventing those in safe-havens outside the embassy from re...
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in the US embassy compound and were evacuated. == Plans, mobilization, and escalating violence == Ambassador Bishop had visited Central Command in August 1990, where he worked with military experts to update the embassy's E & E plan. The first notice that an evacuation of the Mogadishu embassy would be needed came on...
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-130 transport planes and an AC-130, for gunfire support, to Nairobi, Kenya, awaiting clearances to enter Somalia and the ability to safely transfer evacuees from the embassy to the airport. However, the US and other foreign embassies were unable to contact anyone within the government to obtain clearances. It also bec...
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to hold off armed Somalis until the USS Guam and USS Trenton arrived with their helicopters and soldiers, at that time scheduled to arrive on 7 January. The embassy had just six Marine guards, whose job was limited to protecting the chancery. Ambassador Bishop made an urgent request to Washington for two platoons of so...
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minent and the commander of naval forces at Central Command did not want to divert that many ships from the Persian Gulf, thus the decision to send two of the closest ships. Although the two vessels were selected by mid-afternoon on 2 January, the transfer of some personnel from Dubai to Masirah caused a delay of eight...
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Ambassador Bishop's planning with Central Command, the task force was provided outdated information. The former MSG told planners that a new embassy had been planned and was under construction several years prior. In fact, the new embassy was located further inland and, after receiving updated information, task force c...
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acuation == On the evening of 4 January, the final execute order was issued for a 02: 45 launch of two CH-53E Super Stallions to arrive at the embassy at dawn. The 60 soldiers selected for the security detail were issued weapons and ammunition. Two Marine Corps KC-130 refueling tankers were mobilized closer to the ope...
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one of the helicopters, dousing soldiers in fuel and nearly forcing a return to the Guam; problems with the helicopters' navigation system also complicated the refueling rendezvous. The helicopters arrived in Mogadishu at dawn, crossing the coast just south of the harbor at 25 – 50 feet (7.6 – 15.2 m) in altitude on a ...
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y compound) and the golf course in the embassy compound had a black, oil-coated surface — not the familiar green grass that the helicopter crew would recognize.After breaking radio silence (their only direct communication with the embassy was unencrypted) to contact the embassy, they were able to discern it and land at...
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oint Administrative Office (JAO) building, Marine House, and the helicopter landing zone (HLZ) the chancery and JAO buildings (the two "safehaven" buildings where the evacuees were held) Ambassador Bishop clearly explained his rationale to the security detail, which was to avoid any impression that they were intervenin...
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warm. Complications with the only in-flight refueling on the return nearly prevented refueling, which would have forced the helicopters to divert to the Somali desert and await a rescue. At 9: 40, the helicopters arrived on Guam and unloaded the evacuees. === Embassy during the day === No threats came upon the embass...
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ines and SEALs left the embassy at 8: 47 and returned ten minutes later with 22 persons from the OMC (four Americans, a Filipino, and 17 Kenyans). This was the only excursion outside the embassy by the security detail. Throughout the day, foreign diplomats contacted the embassy desiring to be evacuated; the US welcomed...
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January, they realized the Americans would not remain in the city much longer. At the request of Ambassador Bishop, Major Siad agreed to transport the Soviets, but only if he was paid enough; the US embassy paid Major Siad, who returned with the Soviet ambassador and 38 of his staff. The brother of President Barre, who...
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"sticks" to be loaded onto the helicopters and were limited to one piece of luggage apiece. Some attempted to bring more, resulting in problems coordinating their evacuation. Furthermore, many evacuees had pets they wanted to bring, which were not allowed. Most pets were killed by their owners; some were given poison. ...
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lights in the embassy compound to be turned off. === Main evacuation === The main evacuation occurred in the early morning hours of 6 January and consisted of four waves of five CH-46 helicopters. The timing of this phase was determined by range of the CH-46 Sea Knight, which lack aerial refueling capability; the shi...
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Major Siad demanded that the evacuation cease immediately because the Somali government had not granted the US permission to carry out such a military operation. He claimed that he would radio soldiers to shoot down the helicopters if the operation continued. The second and third waves were able to depart without incid...
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assy's evacuation. Somali employees of the embassy — known as foreign service nationals (FSNs) — could not be evacuated. Ambassador Bishop tried unsuccessfully to have these employees airlifted to safer parts of Somalia. Many of the FSNs had sought refuge in the embassy with their families and about 30 were hired as gu...
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Soviet Union, Sudan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom and the chargés of the embassies of Germany, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar. Rather than disembark in nearby Mombasa, as originally thought by the evacuees, the ships were ordered back to Oman — a five-day journey. The sailors and marines made way for the e...
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= 2010 Claxton Shield = The 2010 Claxton Shield was the 57th Claxton Shield tournament, the premier baseball competition in Australia, and was held from 6 November 2009 to 7 February 2010. It was hailed as the precursor to the new Australian Baseball League that will start in the place of the Claxton Shield in late 2...
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12) and Queensland Rams (3 – 21) both failed to qualify for the finals. == Overview == In June 2009, it was announced that the rights to the Claxton Shield had been sold to a new Australian Baseball League (ABL), with ownership split between Major League Baseball's 75 percent share and the 25 percent share owned by t...
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place team directly qualified for the championship series and played against the winner of a playoff series between the second- and third-place teams. During the regular season, games were played on a Friday night and a doubleheader on Saturday; in each doubleheader one of the two games was shortened to seven innings. ...
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the make-up game, and an expanded 21-man roster for the originally scheduled series. === Venues === The 2010 Claxton Shield was contested between five teams from around Australia. In previous years, many of the teams had played their home games at multiple venues. This season each team held their home games at only o...
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follows: == Regular season == † — A game postponed from Round 7, held in Round 8, was played with Victoria Aces as the away team and Queensland Rams as the home team, despite being played at Geelong Baseball Park, Geelong, Victoria. ‡ — A game postponed from Round 3, held in Round 9, was played with South Australia a...
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Patriots. === Statistical leaders === == Finals series == The 2010 Claxton Shield made use of the same finals structure as had been used in the 2009 season. The top three teams at the conclusion of the ten rounds of regular-season games qualified. The second- and third-place teams faced in each other in a best-of-t...
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two of the championship series, Victoria's Matthew Blackmore was named both Claxton Shield Final Series MVP and Pitcher of the Year. === Semi-final series === === Championship series === == Awards == At the conclusion of the finals series, the winner of two awards were announced. Matthew Blackmore won both the Pi...
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= Independiente (Ricardo Arjona album) = Independiente is the thirteenth Spanish-language studio album by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona, released on 23 September 2011. Recorded in the United States and Mexico, it was produced by Arjona with Dan Warner, Lee Levin and Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Tommy ...
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) and Animal Nocturno (1993). Independiente became Arjona's fourth number-one album on the Billboard Top Latin Albums where it debuted for the week ending 22 October 2011. For thirteen non-consecutive weeks it topped the Latin Pop Albums chart, and reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart. It is his fifth consecu...
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ia Se Me Está Poniendo Vieja" was released in May 2012; "Te Quiero" in July 2012, and "Si Tu No Existieras" in November 2012. To promote Independiente, Arjona embarked on his Metamorfosis World Tour. == Background == In 2010, Arjona wanted to change his musical style; after experimenting with using as few instruments...
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them with arrangements looking to exalt their qualities and we end up hiding them". Poquita Ropa became the first album since Adentro which Arjona recorded without Torres. Weeks before the release of Independiente, Arjona issued a letter raising the issue of his past relationships with recording companies. He revealed ...
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Independent ', even when it sounds like extreme freedom, there's a big amount of compromise and the responsibility of being able to administrate, in the best way possible, such independence". Billboard notes that, although other groups have released independent albums following contracts with major labels, Arjona is th...
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and "Quiero" and provided background vocals on the remastered versions of Arjona's past hits. In 5to Piso (2008), Torres produced several tracks; one was the lead single "Como Duele", considered Arjona's "biggest hit in years" by Jason Birchmeier of Allmusic. The album was composed over a one-year period. Most of its p...
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Grotto in Nashville, Tennessee, and mastered by Tom Coyne and Aya Merrill at Sterling Sound in New York City. With Torres'return to producing Arjona regained the classic, trademark sound which Torres helped develop since 2005. == Composition == Independiente opens with "Lo Que Está Bien Está Mal", a Latin pop song an...
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which could better represent the entire album". He described it as "very strong" and "a bit dark". The single marked Arjona's return to his signature, mainstream sound after the Cuban music influenced Poquita Ropa's lead single "Puente", a mixture of salsa and merengue which failed to make an impact in the United State...
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it to his mother, Noemí Morales. He stated that he wrote it "as a gift for my mom on Mother's Day" and that he thought "the idea of including it on the album was very good". As with his single "Señora De Las Cuatro Decadas" (on 1994's Historias), at first he never thought to include the song on an album. "Caudillo" evo...
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several Latin American and European countries. On 4 October, the album was officially released as a digital download and compact disc in most of these same markets as well as North America; an iTunes edition was released as a digital download on the iTunes music store. This version included an album-only video, entitle...
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5 November by Canal de las Estrellas. == Singles == The first single from Independiente is "El Amor", released on 23 August 2011. In the United States it reached number one on the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart (Arjona's fourth number one on that chart, following "Desnuda", "Cuando" and "El Problema") and number one...
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Dulce, the Atitlán lake, Semuc Champey and the Tikal ruins) and directed by Argentine director Joaquín Cambre. Arjona commented that "this video recreates the battle on the couple when someone starts to talk' is the beginning of the end '". "Fuiste Tú" reached number two on the Billboard Top Latin Songs and number one ...
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video for the song was filmed during Arjona's concerts at Vélez Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina during his Metamorfosis World Tour. It marks Arjona's first music video taken from a live performance. The song reached number ten in Mexico and number one on both the Billboard Latin Songs and Latin Pop Songs chart. "Si ...
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in several performances, joining Arjona for "Fuiste Tú". The tour was praised by critics and fans. Natalie Torres of Dia a Dia reported, "Arjona knows how to handle his'girls', with a mix of attitudes from a 'rough' male and seductive lyrics". Jon Pareles of The New York Times commented that "Arjona is one of Latin pop...
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of October 2012, the tour has been performed for close to one million people in more than eight countries. == Commercial performance == Independiente debuted at the top of the Billboard Top Latin Albums for the week ending 22 October 2011, and remained at that position the following week. It was the third album by Ar...
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second run it remained three weeks at the top before being replaced by Maná's Drama y Luz for a week; for its third run at number one, it remained at the top spot for five weeks. For the week ending 2 June 2012, Independiente returned again to number one. For the week it debuted atop both the Latin Albums and Latin Pop...
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single week, dropping to number five the following week. The album also charted on Spain, reaching number 76. The following week it fell off the chart but later re-entered, reaching its peak at number 68. Independiente is Arjona's fourth album to chart in Spain, following Adentro, 5to Piso and Poquita Ropa. On the 2011...
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Recording Industry Association of America for 100,000 copies shipped. In Venezuela, the album was certified double platinum for more than 40,000 copies sold. It was certified gold in Chile for 5,000 copies shipped, and in Colombia for 10,000 copies sold. As of November 2012, Independiente has sold 75,000 copies in the ...
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" (referring to Torres'absence from the production of Poquita Ropa). A contributor to the Colombian website CMI commented that "listening to Independiente is a labyrinth to go through, each song is a huge path that seems to have no end, because it involves imagination, it invites you to dream, to charm, to bewitch. But...
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Grammy Awards of 2013. Arjona does not win the latter award since 2005 with Adentro in a shared win with Mexican singer Julieta Venegas. In February 2013, Independiente received a nomination for "Latin Pop Album of the Year" at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of 2013. == Track listing == All songs written and compos...
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= 2003 Pacific typhoon season = The 2003 Pacific typhoon season was a slightly below average yearlong period of tropical cyclogenesis exhibiting the development of 31 tropical depressions, of which 21 became named storms; of those, 14 became typhoons. Though every month with the exception of February and March featur...
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was also the most intense tropical cyclone of the season with a minimum barometric pressure of 910 mbar (hPa; 26.87 inHg). In late November, Typhoon Lupit devastated areas of Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. The season closed with the dissipation of a tropical depression east of the Philippines on Decem...
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or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names. == Seasonal forecasts == On March 5, 2003, meteorologists from the University College London at the Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) Consortium issued an extended range forecast for the typhoon season, noting the likelihood of near average tropical cyclone...
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their forecasts to indicate a near-average season in their final August forecast update, which predicted 27 tropical storms. The group was very accurate in their forecasts, with their April and August forecasts being the most accurate. Similarly, meteorologists working with the City University of Hong Kong issued a sea...
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west of the International Date Line to the Malay Peninsula, and north of the equator; this was due to the agency's status as the official Regional Specialized Meteorological Center, as designated by the World Meteorological Organization in 1989. The JMA issued forecasts and analyses four times a day, beginning at 0000 ...
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in the same regions, resulting in enhanced tropical cyclogenesis east of the Philippines in 2003; the mean region of development of tropical systems during the year was more southwest than the 1971 – 2000 30-year average. In 2003, the JMA monitored 21 tropical cyclones of at least tropical storm intensity; of those, 14...
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the longest lived Pacific storms on record and was the first typhoon with 1-minute sustained winds of at least 240 km / h (150 mph) in April since Typhoon Isa in 1997. Tropical activity was enhanced from May to June, and during this period the JMA monitored four tropical storms, while the PAGASA monitored a fifth storm...
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esis, with a total of six tropical storms monitored by the JMA, JTWC, and PAGASA. This included typhoons Krovanh and Dujuan, which also struck southeastern China. Typhoon Etau earlier in the month made landfall in Japan, resulting in 17 deaths. Activity was somewhat below average in September, with only one tropical cy...
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tropical system east of the Philippines, though the JMA did not monitor or classify any tropical cyclones during the month. == Storms == In storm information below, wind-speed advisories differ from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) to the JMA as the JTWC uses the United States criteria of 1-minute mean to desi...
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ery remained inconclusive. Nonetheless, the JMA classified the pressure area as a tropical depression west of the Marshall Islands at 0600 UTC on January 15. The JTWC would follow suit by classifying the storm as such at 1800 UTC later that day. At the time, the depression was tracking west-northwest under the influenc...
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00 UTC on January 18. As such, the storm received the name Yanyan. At roughly the same time, the tropical cyclone began to stall east of the Mariana Islands and curve sharply northeastward. Whilst the JTWC indicated that Yanyan peaked in strength late on January 18 with 1-minute sustained winds of 60 km / h (37 mph), t...
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(Amang) === Kujira developed from a broad area of disturbed weather as a tropical depression on April 9 well removed from any landmasses. Shortly after development, Kujira quickly intensified in its early stages, and was upgraded to a tropical storm just two days after cyclogenesis. Strengthening slowed afterwards, th...
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was downgraded to tropical depression strength as it made landfall on Kyushu. Following landfall, Kujira transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on April 25, which persisted until crossing the International Dateline towards the end of April 2003. Shortly after developing, Kujira caused two fatalities in Pohnpei in a...
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0 (¥ 27.8 million) in agricultural damage on Ishigaki Island. One person was killed due to injuries resulting from the waves. In Kyushu, heavy rainfall, peaking at 196 mm (7.7 in) in Ōita Prefecture, was reported. Overall, despite its distance away from land and weak intensity at the time of its sole landfall, Kujira r...
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pression to Tropical Storm Chan-hom. Following the system's naming, Chan-hom temporarily meandered towards the northwest before resuming its northeasterly track. The next day, the storm began to develop an eye; this was reflected with an upgrade by the JMA to typhoon status at 0600 UTC on May 23. Gradual intensificatio...
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wind shear. Early on May 27, Chan-hom had fully transitioned into an extratropical cyclone, and these remnants continued to track towards the northeast. These extratropical remnants dissipated south of the Aleutian Islands the following day. Early in the typhoon's existence, Chan-hom posed a potential threat to Guam, b...
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Tropical Storm Linfa developed as a tropical depression just off the western coast of Luzon on May 25. The disturbance quickly intensified to reach tropical storm intensity a few hours after cyclogenesis. However, intensification leveled off as Linfa executed a small clockwise loop before a subsequent landfall on Luzo...
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rainfall and flooding, killing 41 persons in the archipelago. Precipitation peaked at 723 mm (28.5 in) near Dagupan. Rising floodwaters resulted in the temporary shutdown of government offices and numerous mudslides. In addition, strong winds caused widespread power outages. Overall damage from Linfa in the Philippines...
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28.2 million in damage, much of which occurred in Japan, though the entirety of deaths associated with the cyclone took place in the Philippines. === Severe Tropical Storm Nangka (Dodong) === In late May, an area of disturbed weather began to persist in the South China Sea. The JTWC began to monitor the storm cluster...
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winds of 95 km / h (60 mph), making it a severe tropical storm. However, upon moving through the Bashi Channel, conditions began to deteriorate due to increased wind shear, weakening the system and resulting in its downgrade to tropical depression status by the JMA at 1200 UTC on June 3. Nangka continued to become incr...
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to wind shear. On June 11, the shear decreased enough to allow the convection to organize, and the next day the JMA classified it as a tropical depression northeast of Palau. On June 13, the JMA upgraded it to Tropical Storm Soudelor to the east of the Philippines, and PAGASA gave it the local name "Egay". Soudelor mov...
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weakened the typhoon to tropical storm strengthen on June 19, and later that day the JMA declared the storm as extratropical near the Oki Islands. The extratropical remnants of Soudelor continued to the northeast, crossing northern Japan on June 20 and dissipating on June 24. While offshore the Philippines, Soudelor dr...
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On July 15, the JMA estimated that a tropical depression formed, and the next day the JTWC initiated advisories on Tropical Depression 09W about 665 km (415 mi) east of Yap. A subtropical ridge near Okinawa steered the nascent depression to the west-northwest for much of its duration. With warm waters and favorable u...
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budo maintained peak winds for about 12 hours, before undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle. At 0300 UTC on July 22, Imbudo struck northern Luzon, with 1 minute winds estimated at 205 km / h (125 mph) by the JTWC. It weakened over land, but re-intensified in the South China Sea, striking southern China near Yangjiang...
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aged or destroyed 62,314 houses, causing P4.7 billion (2003 PHP, $ 86 million 2003 USD) in damage. There were 64 deaths in the country. In southern China in Yangjiang, more than 30,000 people evacuated ahead of the storm, and more than half of the trees in the city fell due to strong winds. High winds killed a man in H...
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east of the Philippines on July 15. Tracking westward, intensification was slow and the system remained a tropical depression as it moved across the central Philippines on July 17. Upon moving into the South China Sea, conditions allowed for quicker strengthening, and the cyclone reached tropical storm status on July 1...