
QuoteArte (/ɑːrˈteɪ/; French: [aʁte]; German: [ˈa�ʁ�tə]; Association relative à la télévision européenne, "Association relating to European television") is a European public service channel dedicated to culture. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) ARTE, plus two member companies acting as editorial and programme production centres, Arte France in Paris (formerly known as La Sept) and Arte Deutschland in Baden-Baden (a subsidiary of the two main public German TV networks ARD and ZDF).
QuoteShen Yun's eight companies tour for six months each year, performing in over 130 cities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America.[9] Notable venues include the David H. Koch Theater at New York's Lincoln Center in Manhattan;[61] the London Coliseum in London, England; the Dutch National Opera and Ballet in Amsterdam, Netherlands;[62] and the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington, D.C. By the conclusion of Shen Yun's 2010 performance, an estimated one million people had seen the performance worldwide.[9] During Shen Yun's 2024 season, the company's eight touring troupes performed over 800 shows on five continents.[63]
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By 2024, Shen Yun accumulated $266 million in assets mainly through ticket sales and by keeping its costs down through numerous volunteer hours and sometimes taking the personal savings of Falun Gong adherents. In 2015, Shen Yun performers were required to carry $10,000 in cash - the maximum a person can legally carry in without reporting - back to the US after performing in Spain, surrendering the money to Shen Yun management upon arrival.[63] Between 2009 and 2024, The Epoch Times published 17,000 articles related to Shen Yun.[93]
QuoteLithic mulch was another technique of agriculture in the Southwest. Rocks or cobbles were used as a mulch around growing plants and in fields.
The rocks acted as a mulch to preserve moisture, decrease soil erosion, control weeds, and increase nighttime temperatures through radiation and retention of heat by the rocks.[30] In the 1980s, archaeologists discovered that large areas of agave, especially Agave murpheyi, had been cultivated in rock mounds by the Hohokam in the Tucson Basin, near the city of Marana.[31] Seventy-eight square kilometers (almost 20,000 acres) of former agave fields have since been discovered, mostly between Phoenix and Tucson.
Undoubtedly many other fields have been destroyed or are undetected by archaeologists.[32] Northern New Mexico also has the remnants of many fields mulched with rocks. Maize and cotton pollen have been found in soil associated with the rock mounds and mulch.[33]
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