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Entrance to the Paradise Village Grand Marina Villas, Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit, Mexico A gated community (or walled community) is a form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences.
After Balmer was succeeded by Satya Nadella (who has placed a larger focus on software and cloud computing) as CEO of Microsoft, it took a $7.6 billion write-off on the Nokia assets in July 2015, and laid off nearly the entire Microsoft Mobile unit in May 2016.
In France, there is an ongoing social, political, and legal debate concerning the wearing of the hijab and other forms of Islamic coverings in public. The cultural framework of the controversy can be traced to France's history of colonization in North Africa, [1] but escalated into a significant public debate in 1989 when three girls were suspended from school for refusing to remove their ...
James Donald Bowman was born on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio, [12] [13] to Beverly Carol (née Vance; born 1961) and Donald Ray Bowman (1959–2023). He is of Scots-Irish descent. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] His parents divorced when he was a toddler. [ 13 ]
"Korea" is the modern spelling of "Corea", a name attested in English as early as 1614. [5] [6] "Corea" is derived from the name of the ancient kingdom of Goryeo. [7]Korea was transliterated as Cauli in The Travels of Marco Polo, [8] of the Chinese 高麗 (MC: Kawlej, [9] mod.
Gamma-ray sensors are also used for measuring the fluid levels in water and oil industries. [17] Typically, these use Co-60 or Cs-137 isotopes as the radiation source. In the US, gamma ray detectors are beginning to be used as part of the Container Security Initiative (CSI). These machines are advertised to be able to scan 30 containers per hour.