[{"text": "Hugo Heimann (15 April 1859 \u2013 23 February 1951) was a German publisher and Social Democratic politician. Biography. Heimann was born in Konitz, Kingdom of Prussia, the son of Eduard (1818\u20131861) and Marie Heimann. The family moved to Berlin, where he attended the Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster but left school without passing his Abitur. He started an apprenticeship as a bookseller and worked at Nicholas Tr\u00fcbner publishing house in London from 1880 to 1884. He became Tr\u00fcbner's private secretary and returned to Berlin after Tr\u00fcbner's death. Here, he became a partner of the \"J. Guttentagsche Verlagsbuchhandlung\" publishing house and its sole proprietor in 1890. Heimann's publishing house became the official publisher for juridical publications of the Reichsjustizamt, especially regarding the new nationwide civil law code, the B\u00fcrgerliches Gesetzbuch. In 1898, he sold the company, which would become part of Walter de Gruyter in 1919. In 1899, with a donation of 600,000 goldmarks, he founded the Free Public library in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Initially stocked with 7,000 books it soon reached a number of 20,000 volumes and 540 newspapers and magazines. The first floor of the library housed the official archives of the Social Democratic Party, about 8000 printed and numerous handwritten"}, {"text": "documents. The archive included the private library of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, which was systematized under the supervision of Max Schippel. While the bulk of the official archive was moved to the SPD's headquarter in November 1904, 443 books remained at Heimann's library, including a large number of books of Marx and Engels' provenance. Following World War I Heimann gifted the library to the City of Berlin in 1919 which renamed the library \"Hugo Heimannsche B\u00fccherei und Lesehalle\" in 1920. Since opening it had attracted 2.5 million visitors. In 1901 he financed the construction of a row of eight small houses, the Red Houses at Prinzenallee 46, Gesundbrunnen. The property was transferred to several Social Democratic politicians like Karl Liebknecht, Eduard Bernstein and Paul Singer, which, as private real estate was a binding premise for passive electoral rights, allowed them to be elected to the City council. Political career. Heimann joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and became a close friend of August Bebel and Paul Singer. He was a member of the Berlin city council from 1900 to 1932, his fraction's chairman from 1911 to 1925 and the city council chairman from 1919 to 1932. Heimann was"}, {"text": "one of the first eight Social Democrats elected as members of the Prussian House of Representatives under the terms of the Prussian three-class franchise in 1908. Throughout the German Revolution of 1918-1919 Heimann was a People's deputy in Berlin and became a member of the Weimar National Assembly of 1919/20. From 1920 to 1932 Heimann represented the Berlin constituency (Berlin 2) in the Reichstag, he was almost perpetually chairman of the budget committee. Exile in the US. In 1939 Heimann emigrated via the United Kingdom to the United States, where both of his sons, Leonhard and Eduard Heimann, lived. His daughter Johanna remained in Germany and was either deported and killed in a Concentration camp or committed suicide facing her deportation. In exile he was active in the Social Democratic Federation. He did not return to Germany after World War II and died in New York City in 1951. Remembrance. Heimann became the 56th honorary citizen of Berlin in 1926. This was revoked by the Nazis in 1933 but restored in 1947. A memorial plaque at the location of the Red Houses, which were destroyed in World War II, the Hugo-Heimann-Bridge, the Hugo Heimann library (closed in 2015) and the"}, {"text": "Hugo-Heimann-school at Hugo-Heimann-Stra\u00dfe remember him."}, {"text": "Itsaraphap Road (, ) is a main road in Bangkok's Thonburi side (west bank of Chao Phraya River). It is also the location of the Itsaraphap MRT station, the Blue Line extension station and the only underground station on the Thonburi side. It has a starting point at Lat Ya Junction in the area of Khlong San Subdistrict, Khlong San District, where it meets Lat Ya and Tha Din Daeng Roads then westward cuts across Ban Khaek Intersection, where it meets Prajadhipok Road in the areas of Hiran Ruchi and Wat Kanlaya Subdistricts, Thon Buri District, then spans Khlong Bangkok Yai canal on Charoenphat Bridge and into the area of Bangkok Yai District (this phase it also serves as a delineates line between Wat Arun and Wat Tha Phra Subdistricts) and cuts across Pho Sam Ton Junction, where it meets Wang Doem Road, as far as spans Khlong Mon and into the area of Ban Chang Lo Subdistrict, Bangkok Noi District, where it bends slightly north and cuts across Phran Nok Intersection, where it meets Phran Nok and Wang Lang Roads (this phase it also serves as a delineates line between Ban Chang Lo and Siri Rat Subdistricts), as far"}, {"text": "as ending at Ban Noen Junction in the areas of Ban Chang Lo and Siriraj Subdistricts near Thonburi Railway Station and Siriraj Hospital (section Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital), total distance of 4.18 km (2 mi 1,051 yd). It was built in the year 1931 during the King Prajadhipok (Rama VII)'s reign after the construction of a Memorial Bridge linked between Phra Nakhon and Thonburi sides was completed. It was regarded as one of the 11 roads in the Thonburi area traffic expansion project, along with other roads such as Tha Din Daeng, Phran Nok, Somdet Chao Phraya etc. The road was once called \"Chao Krung Thon Road\" (\u0e16\u0e19\u0e19\u0e40\u0e08\u0e49\u0e32\u0e01\u0e23\u0e38\u0e07\u0e18\u0e19, lit: \"the road of the King of Thon Buri\") not long after its construction, however, the King Taksin Monument was built right in the middle of Wongwian Yai, so the name of the road was likewise changed to honour the monarch who declared Siam\u2019s independence from the Burmese. (Itsaraphap means \"independence\" or \"freedom\" in Thai). Although it is short, Itsaraphap Road runs through important places such as Dhonburi Rajabhat University, Bansomdej Chaopraya Rajabhat University, Wat Ratchasittharam, Royal Thai Navy Headquarters, Taweethapisek School, Thonburi Hospital, Wat Chinorot and Chinorot Wittayalai School etc. It also"}, {"text": "runs through three other mosques of Shia sect, namely Kudi Charoenphat, Dilfulla Mosque, and Phadungtham Islam Mosque."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Clarence on 7 March 1931 following the death of Alfred Pollack (). There were three candidates endorsed by the Country Party Results. ! colspan=\"6\" style=\"text-align:left;\" |After distribution of preferences <includeonly> Alfred Pollack () died.</includeonly>"}, {"text": "\"Hit the Back\" is a song by the American singer-songwriter King Princess released as the fourth pre-release single from her first studio album \"Cheap Queen\". On Twitter, Straus claimed the song was \"the anthem for bottoms everywhere\". Live performances. The song was performed on \"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\" and \"Saturday Night Live\" on November 8 and November 23, 2019, respectively, alongside her other single \"1950\". Remix. A remix by Channel Tres was released on January 17, 2020. Personnel. Credits adapted from Tidal."}, {"text": "Cole Keith (born 7 May 1997) is a Canadian rugby union player who currently plays as a prop for the New England Free Jacks of Major League Rugby (MLR). He also represents Team Canada internationally. Rugby career. In 2016 he moved to Victoria, British Columbia, where he joined the James Bay Athletic Association in the BC Premier League and also participated in Rugby Canada\u2019s centralized program. Keith would sign with the Toronto Arrows in 2019 playing with the club till 2022. During this time he would make 46 appearances for scoring 3 tries. He would sign with the New England free jacks in 2023. Being part of 3 straight championship teams. He would also make 8 appearances for Manawatu during the 2023 season. international career Keith previously represented Canada A national team and the U20 team. Keith made his international debut for Canada against Chile on 11 February 2017. Keith was included in the Canadian squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup which was held in Japan for the first time. It also marks his first World Cup appearance."}, {"text": "The 1999 Rado Swiss Open Gstaad was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Roy Emerson Arena in Gstaad, Switzerland and was part of the World Series of the 1999 ATP Tour. It was the 54th edition of the tournament and took place from 5 July until 11 July 1999. Eighth-seeded Albert Costa won the singles title. Finals. Singles. Albert Costa defeated Nicol\u00e1s Lapentti 7\u20136(7\u20134), 6\u20133, 6\u20134 Doubles. Donald Johnson / Cyril Suk defeated Aleksandar Kitinov / Eric Taino 7\u20135, 7\u20136(7\u20134)"}, {"text": "Matthew Pollard (born 16 May 2000) is a South African cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 3 October 2019, for KwaZulu-Natal in the 2019\u201320 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup. He made his List A debut on 6 October 2019, for KwaZulu-Natal in the 2019\u201320 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge."}, {"text": "Tyrese Karelse (born 5 November 2001) is a South African cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 3 October 2019, for South Western Districts in the 2019\u201320 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup. He made his List A debut on 6 October 2019, for South Western Districts in the 2019\u201320 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge. In December 2019, he was named in South Africa's squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup."}, {"text": "Yakshur-Bodya (, , \"Jak\u0161ur-B\u00f6\u010fja\") is a rural locality (a \"selo\") and the administrative center of Yakshur-Bodyinsky District, Udmurtia, Russia. Population:"}, {"text": "The following table shows the world record progression in the mixed 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay. The first world record in the event was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 2019."}, {"text": "The presidents of the Osler Club of London have been:"}, {"text": "Kathrin G\u00f6ring is a German operatic mezzo-soprano, a member of the Oper Leipzig who has appeared at other major opera houses, also in concert and recital, and made recordings. She has appeared in Leipzig in leading roles such as Bizet's \"Carmen\" and Wagner's \"Parsifal\". She sang both Fricka and Waltraute in \"Der Ring in Minden\". Life. G\u00f6ring studied voice at the Musikhochschule Leipzig with Jitka Kovarikov\u00e1 and at the Musikhochschule Dresden with Hartmut Zabel. Even during her studies, she appeared on stage as H\u00e4nsel in Humperdinck's H\u00e4nsel und Gretel and in the title role of Giles Swayne's \"Le nozze di Cherubino\". She has been a member of the Oper Leipzig since the 2002/03 season, where she appeared as Kundry in Wagner's \"Parsifal\", the Mother in \"H\u00e4nsel und Gretel\", the Foreign Princess in Dvo\u0159\u00e1k's \"Rusalka\", in the title role of Bizet's \"Carmen\" and as Clairon in \"Capriccio\" by Richard Strauss, among others. She has appeared there in Wagner's \"Der Ring des Nibelungen\" in several roles, as the goddess Fricka and the Rhinemaiden Wellgunde in \"Das Rheingold\", as Fricka and the Valkyrie Waltraute in \"Die Walk\u00fcre\", and as Waltraute and the Second Norn in \"G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung\". In the project \"Der Ring in Minden\","}, {"text": "she also appeared as Fricka in \"Das Rheingold\" and \"Die Walk\u00fcre\", and as Waltraute in \"Die Walk\u00fcre\" and \"G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung\". Reviews in \"Online Musik Magazin\" noted her rich voice and called her scene warning Br\u00fcnnhilde in \"G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung\" a musical highlight with intense dramatic acting. G\u00f6ring sang as a guest at opera houses including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Aalto Theater in Essen, Theater Chemnitz, Theater Kiel and Theater Bremen. G\u00f6ring sings a broad repertoire of lieder and oratorios. In 2013, she appeared in the first performance in Germany and the first recording of Bruno Maderna's Requiem, which had been assumed lost for decades. She sang with other soloists including Renatus M\u00e9sz\u00e1r, the MDR Rundfunkchor, and the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, conducted by Frank Beermann."}, {"text": "Thomas Nikou (; born 25 June 1980) is a Greek professional basketball player for Eleftheroupoli of the Greek A2 Basket League. He is a tall point guard. Professional career. After playing in the Greek minor leagues, Nikou began his pro career in the 2005\u201306 season, with the Greek 2nd Division club Alimos. He made his debut in the top-tier level Greek 1st Division, in the 2009\u201310 season, with Kavala. He joined Olympiacos' new reserve team of the Greek 2nd Division, Olympiacos B, for the 2019\u201320 season. Personal life. While working as a police officer, Nikou was shot in the mouth, during a bank robbery, on 9 June 2006."}, {"text": "Arziman Rizvanov (; born on 25 October 1999) is an Azerbaijani football midfielder. Career. Club. Rizvanov made his professional debut for Avanhard-2 Kramatorsk in the Ukrainian Second League on 31 August 2019, starting in the home match against Alians."}, {"text": "\"I Lost a Friend\" is a song by American singer-songwriter Finneas from his debut EP, \"Blood Harmony\" (2019). The song was written and produced solely by Finneas. It was released as the second single from the EP on May 3, 2019, through OYOY. An electropop ballad, the song's lyrics address Finneas losing touch with a childhood friend and regretting doing so, as well as wondering why he didn't do anything about it. The song received mainly positive reviews from music critics, several of whom praised the music and production. An accompanying music video was uploaded to Finneas' YouTube channel on September 30, 2019, and was directed by Sam Bennett. In the visual, Finneas wanders around a field as the day turns into night. Finneas performed \"I Lost a Friend\" on \"Jimmy Kimmel Live!\" in December 2019. A remix of the song by Marian Hill was released on December 13, 2019. Background and development. In an interview with WBUR-FM, Finneas explained the song is an autobiographical about a friendship he had that lasted all through high school and had fallen apart. He said, \"We were still best friends, and I felt that there was sort of a raw patch [and] some"}, {"text": "form of resentment or maybe misguided envy. At the time, I wasn't really sure how to deal with that, but I decided that it was probably best to try to write a song about it and not write a song that was vilifying that person in any way or trying to make myself look like the victim.\" He continued by saying the song is about losing someone you love for no reason and wondering who or what is to blame. Finneas told \"Coup de Main\" that he was nervous putting out \"I Lost a Friend\" because it was about an old friend with whom he had reunited again. Finneas would explain that he knew his friend going to hear the song, so he sent it to him first to get his opinion. Finneas told his friend: \"This is how I was feeling at the time, and I'm glad to have you back in my life.\" The song's cover art was created by graphic designer Luke and features a beat-up car in a junkyard. Finneas wrote the song during an afternoon while he was at his parents' house in the summer of 2018. \"I Lost a Friend\" was released for digital"}, {"text": "download and streaming as the second single from Finneas' debut EP \"Blood Harmony\" through his record label OYOY on May 3, 2019. The track was written and produced by Finneas. A remix by Marian Hill was released on December 13, 2019. Composition and lyrics. Ben Kaye of \"Consequence of Sound\" described \"I Lost a Friend\" as an electropop ballad. \"I Lost a Friend\" features minimalist instrumentation that consists of bass guitar, piano, drums, layered harmonies, an aggressive beat, and synthesizer. Finneas later explained the production in an interview with \"Pitchfork\", saying: \"The coolest thing I felt that I found was I had this flute patch that I arpeggiated. [It] sounded kind of percussive ultimately, just in its kind of high end. Having it in this super staccato, randomized, playing a larger scale than it would actually be played on. And that kind of allowed it to build momentum. On the impact of the second chorus, the thing that ended up really making the difference was this sound of [an] RPG going off. That textural sound of all the glass breaking to me is so much more interesting than a crash on a cymbal.\" He told \"Rolling Stone\" the process of"}, {"text": "writing the song was a \"talk-through\", which meant he tried to find rhymes after setting up a line. Finneas showcases the process in the pre-chorus: \"I know I'll be alright/But I'm not tonight/I'll be lying awake/Counting all the mistakes I've made/Replaying fights.\" He discussed the pre-chorus further, saying how common it is for him and others to stay awake at night \"replaying fights\", and also said, \"I find that when I'm in an argument and I'm angry, I can't even form a sentence well.\" Critical reception. \"I Lost a Friend\" was met with mainly positive reviews from music critics. Nicole Almeida of \"Atwood Magazine\" labeled the track a \"slow burning introduction to [\"Blood Harmony\"] and an emotional punch that stops you on your tracks\". Ben Kaye, writing for \"Consequence of Sound\", called the track \"thoughtful\" and \"heartful\". Brittany Spanos of \"Rolling Stone\" said the track \"carries a universal appeal with many fans of the song messaging him about their own friend break-ups in recent months\". For \"NME\", Will Richards was less positive towards the song, saying it \"starts as a run-of-the-mill, earnest singer-songwriter tune, but soars towards the end of stabs of distorted bass,\" comparing \"I Lost a Friend\" to"}, {"text": "Billie Eilish's debut studio album \"When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?\" (2019). Marian Hill's remix was praised by critics. Rania Aniftos of \"Billboard\" described it as a \"sultry remix\" and stated that the remix shifts \"the velvety piano melody into a light, airy beat\". Claire Shaffer and Althea Legaspi of \"Rolling Stone\" noted that while the original features a \"contemplative piano melody\", the remix \"opens with his emotive vocals at the fore, which also get some remix manipulations on the harmonies, and the beats and atmospheric touches lightly buoy his refrains\". Music video and promotion. A music video for \"I Lost a Friend\" was uploaded to Finneas' YouTube channel on June 25, 2019. The video was directed by Sam Bennett and shot in one take in Lancaster, California. In the visual, Finneas wanders drunkenly through a field as the sunset lowers and darkness approaches, wearing a suit and tie. While Finneas continues to across the field, human forms rise and stumble to follow him as he tries to understand what he has done wrong, singing, \"How'd the hell I lose a friend I never had?\" The visual was met with positive reviews from critics. Rachel Hammermueller of"}, {"text": "\"Earmilk\" commended the visual, saying it has \"haunting choreography throughout its one take\", noting the choreography for \"images that represent the emotion and struggle behind the words of the song itself\". Writing for \"Paste\", Molly Schramm praised the choreography, saying it acts more as a \"lyrical dance than a drunken stupor\". Finneas played \"I Lost a Friend\" on piano for \"Paste\" in June 2019. He toured across the United States during October 2019, in support of \"Blood Harmony\". \"I Lost a Friend\" was one of the tracks Finneas performed from the EP on the tour. That same month, Finneas performed \"I Lost a Friend\" at the Austin City Limits Music Festival and was backed up by a live band. In December 2019, Finneas performed the track on \"Jimmy Kimmel Live!\". He performed while sat at a keyboard, with the stage being covered in blue as neon lights showcased an empty apartment set. in hushed vocals, and briefly wandered off the stage during the performance before returning to the keyboard."}, {"text": "\"Let's Fall in Love for the Night\" is a song by American singer-songwriter Finneas from his debut extended play (EP), \"Blood Harmony\" (2019). It was released by OYOY as the lead single from the EP on October 19, 2018. A pop track, the song's lyrics are about a boy dreaming about being with a girl he has never met and wanting to be with her in another world. In August 2020, Finneas released a different version of the track, titled \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night (1964)\", on the deluxe version of the EP, on August 7, 2020. Music critics have compared it to the work of Frank Sinatra. Commercially, \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night\" peaked at number 17 and 24 on the US \"Billboard\" Alternative Songs and Rock Airplay charts, respectively. It has received a gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Music Canada (MC) and ARIA. A music video for the track was uploaded to Finneas' YouTube channel on March 19, 2020 and was directed by Sam Bennett. In it, Finneas goes from playing the ukulele on a rooftop in Los Angeles to performing choreography with several dancers. Finneas toured the United"}, {"text": "States throughout October 2019, with his tour including performances of the track. Background and development. \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night\" was released as the lead single on Finneas' debut extended play (EP), \"Blood Harmony\", for digital download and streaming through his record label OYOY on October 19, 2018. The track was written and produced by Finneas. The song was inspired by a brief encounter Finneas had with a girl while touring Japan to Osaka with his sister Billie Eilish. He told \"Billboard\" in February 2020: \"I was FaceTiming a girl I'd never met every day and knowing there was nothing I could really do about it. I wrote this song about the day I would fantasize having with her.\" Finneas mentioned that it was about \"a million degrees\" in Japan and he would play the song's chords at the end of the day. The chorus would come first, then the first verse. The second verse was revealed by Finneas to have been created at a different date. On August 7, 2020, Finneas released a different version of the track, title \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night (1964)\". Critical commentary said it was inspired by American singer Frank"}, {"text": "Sinatra, and similar artists who sang jazz during the 1940s and 1950s. Finneas explained in a statement when he originally produced the track, it took him down two different directions. One was inspired of the rhythms by Outkast, and the other was by the British virtual band Gorillaz. He goes on to say \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night (1964)\" was inspired by vinyls he listened to when he was younger. He wanted to make a lullaby version that sounded like it was from the 1940s. Ben Kaye of \"Consequence of Sound\" commented that the instrumentation features \"childlike piano notes echoing alongside Finneas' smooth vocals\", while Kate Brayden of \"Hot Press\" and Claire Shaffer of \"Rolling Stone\" mention Finneas sings over a \"marimba and snap tracks\". Composition. \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night\" has been described as a pop track in press reviews. The song reflects Finneas' love of romantic songs. It is about a girl he has never met in person and how he finds comfort by dreaming that they can be together in an alternate universe, but only temporarily. Finneas stated in an interview with \"Billboard\" that he loves pop tracks so much and doesn't put"}, {"text": "a ton of pressure on himself as an artist to always have to write \"the most commercial feeling thing\", and only wants to write songs that he would love to listen to. \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night\" starts with Finneas' \"gentle whispered sweet nothings\" vocals, then continues \"into the heart of traditional song splendor\". According to \"NME\", Finneas' vocals within the song seem to be \"flitting between falsetto flutters and something approaching a rap\". Nicole Almeida of \"Atwood Magazine\" defined the track as an \"acoustic-guitar led song\", and compared it to \"Start of Something New\" from the \"High School Musical\" soundtrack. Reception. Callie Ahlgrim from \"Insider\" described the song as \"irresistibly confident\" and has a \"cheerful ode to having a fling\". \"American Songwriter\"s Paul Zollo praised the song, describing it as \"championing aching melody and essential song craft\", and called it \"[r]omantic, sensual, tuneful, heartfelt, soulful and compellingly conversational\". He concluded that it was \"another perfect song for modern times\". Will Richards, writing for \"NME\", commended the singers vocals, saying it had \"decent results on both ends\". Starr Bowenbank, writing for \"Billboard\" magazine, commented that \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night\" is a \"testament to [Finneas'] songwriting"}, {"text": "talent\". \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night (1964)\" also received mainly positive reviews from music critics. Shaffer viewed the song as an \"original one-night-stand\" and that it \"strips it down to its bare essentials, turning it into modern lounge music\", while Brayden also described it as a stripped-down track and takes \"its bare essentials for a modern lounge atmosphere\". Kaye commented that the song feels like \"[Finneas] [is] rehearsing the song in a jazz club before the doors open and the smoke rushes in.\" Craig Sjodin writing for ABC News Radio depicted it gives \"the tune more of an old-timey feel\". \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night\" debuted at number 34 on the US \"Billboard\" Alternative Songs chart during the week of February 15, 2020. It later rose to number 17 on the Alternative Songs chart during the week of April 17, 2020. The track also peaked at number 24 on the US Rock Airplay chart during the week of April 17. It has received a gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Music Canada (MC). The song was nominated for Best Alternative at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. Promotion. The music video"}, {"text": "for \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night\" was released to Finneas' YouTube channel on March 19, 2020 and received its broadcast on MTV Live, MTVU, MTV International, and the \"Viacom Times Square Billboards\". The music video was directed by Sam Bennett and choreographed by Monika Felice Smith. The visual was shot in one take. It begins with Finneas sitting on a perch playing the ukulele on the rooftop of a building to looking at the Los Angeles skyline. As Finneas continues singing, he is joined by a crew of dancers who perform choreography with him as he gracefully dances throughout the crowd. Finneas ends up sitting back on his perch, crooning the outro of the song as he looks at the camera and laughs. According to MTV, Finneas told them that the hardest part of filming the visual was the beginning scene, in which he sits on a little perch and strums his ukulele, then runs behind the camera to get to the other side of it, only to have to re-enter the frame looking like he did not even sweat slightly while sprinting. The music video was positively received by critics. Madeline Roth writing for MTV described that"}, {"text": "the video for \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night\" is \"finally here for [our] viewing pleasure\". The staff of \"The Howard Stern Show\" commended the choreography, and described it as \"slick\". Ahlgrim dubbed the visual as a \"carefully choreographed dance number\", noting that it opens with Finneas floating around a rooftop at dusk, smiling at the camera and fidgeting with his suit jacket, and described him as \"deeply charming\". Finneas toured throughout the United States during October 2019, in support of \"Blood Harmony\". \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night\" was one of the tracks he performed from the EP during the tour. On February 3, 2020, he played the song on \"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\" and was joined by a live band. In April 2020, Finneas performed an acoustic version of \"Let's Fall in Love for the Night\" during a 50-minute livestream for Verizon Communications and \"One World: Together At Home\", respectively."}, {"text": "Transpacific crossings are voyages of passengers and cargo across the Pacific Ocean between Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. Transpacific voyages frequently cross the International Date Line. The first recorded crossing of the Pacific was achieved by Spain's historic Magellan expedition in March 1521. Commercial transpacific flights have been available since 1935. History. The Spanish expedition of the Portuguese explorer Magellan was the first to cross the Pacific in 1521 and the one to give the ocean its name. After discovering and crossing the Strait of Magellan in November 1520, the expedition sailed northwest across the Pacific for over three months and reached the Philippines in March 1521. Juan Sebastian Elcano would continue the expedition to complete the first world circumnavigation in 1522. The first navigator to cross the Pacific from west to east was Andres de Urdaneta, who discovered the easterly route across the Pacific from the Philippines to Mexico in 1565. The first transpacific trade route in history was the Spanish Manila galleon route which lasted from 1565 to 1815 and followed navigator Andres de Urdaneta's discovery of the easterly route or \"tornaviaje\" in 1565. It ended two and a half centuries later, when most Pacific ports became open"}, {"text": "to world trade. Other early transpacific voyages include those of Spanish navigators Garc\u00eda Jofre de Loa\u00edsa in 1526, \u00c1lvaro de Saavedra Cer\u00f3n in 1527, Alvaro de Menda\u00f1a in 1567 and 1595, and Pedro Fernandes de Queir\u00f3s in 1606. Another early navigator to cross the Pacific from Asia to the Americas was Francisco Gali who completed this journey in 1584. In the 19th century, the first liners built specially for the transpacific ocean service were the \"Empress\" vessels of the Canadian Pacific Railway. After the railway reached the Pacific seaboard in 1885, the liners began operation in 1891. In 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew were the first to cross the Pacific by flight. Smith and Australian aviator, Charles Ulm, arrived in the United States and began to search for an aircraft. Famed Australian polar explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins sold them a Fokker F.VII/3m monoplane, which they named the \"Southern Cross\". Ulm was the relief pilot. The other crewmen were Americans, they were James Warner, the radio operator, and Captain Harry Lyon, the navigator and engineer. In 1935, the beginning of commercial transpacific flights to and from California began operation. On November 22, 1935, \"Pan American Airlines' \"China Clipper\" launched"}, {"text": "its first transpacific flight, covering a distance of 8,000 miles\". The route was ready for passenger service by October 1936. Between March and April 2019, the blind sailor Matsuhiro Iwamoto of Japan and Doug Smith of the United States sailed from San Diego, United States to Fukushima, Japan, making Iwamoto the first blind sailor to cross the Pacific non-stop. Iwamoto's first attempt in 2013 failed when his boat hit a whale."}, {"text": "\"Shelter\" is a song by American singer-songwriter Finneas from his debut EP, \"Blood Harmony\" (2019). The song was released by OYOY as the third single from the EP on August 22, 2019. Finneas had heard that Avicii was looking for songs to produce. Afterwards, he wrote the song and sent it to Avicii's team. Lyrically, the song is about a lover that brings Finneas peace, but also trouble. The song received mainly positive reviews from music critics, several of whom praised the music and lyrical content. A music video for \"Shelter\" was uploaded to Finneas' YouTube channel on September 30, 2019, and was directed by Sam Bennett. In it, Finneas stumbles as backup dancers shove and toss him roughly. Finneas toured the United States throughout October 2019 to support \"Blood Harmony\", with the tour including performances of the song. Background and composition. \"Shelter\" was first written back in 2016 by Finneas. He had heard that Swedish musician Avicii was looking for songs to produce. Following on from this, Finneas wrote the track and sent it to Avicii's team. Finneas has confessed that he doesn't know if Avicii ever heard it. \"Shelter\" was released as the third single from Finneas' debut"}, {"text": "EP \"Blood Harmony\" for digital download and streaming, through his record label OYOY on August 22, 2019. The track was written and produced by Finneas. Critical commentary described \"Shelter\" as a pop-based track. The track features a tropical beat, electric guitar, Latin-based guitars, drum beats, gospel choir effect[s] that appear during the chorus, reverb'd handclaps, bluesy vocal embellishment, and rapid phrasing in the bridge. Tosten Burks, writing for \"Spin\" magazine, noted the track sounds like an Ed Sheeran song. He further commented that the track is built around some \"urgent acoustic guitar strumming\" and a \"plucky melody\" which is very similar to the marimba line in Sheeran's number one hit \"Shape of You\" (2017), and is set in a dance tempo. Lyrically, the track is about a lover that brings Finneas peace but has an undercurrent of trouble. He represents the trouble with the lyrics, \"They call us lucky/But I think we might be cursed/'Cause the way you love me/I could drink the river dry, still die of thirst\". The mood of the track becomes more urgent as it continues: \"Give me, give me shelter/From the storm/Give me, give me shelter/ Keep me warm/I don't wanna think about a life"}, {"text": "without you/I don't wanna go to war but I'm about to\". Critical reception. \"Shelter\" was met with mainly positive reviews from music critics. Writing for \"Substream Magazine\", Valerie Magan described the track as \"vulnerable\", \"heartbreak-tinged\" and \"easygoing\". Ben Kay of \"Consequence of Sound\" noted that \"Shelter\" was \"considerably brighter than the material [Finneas] produces for his sister Billie Eilish\". Madeline Roth of MTV labeled the track as a \"galvanic, acoustic guitar-driven number\". Will Richards of \"NME\" called the song \"vibrant\" and \"huffling\", while mentioning that its \"production saves its average lyrics\". Nicole Almeida of \"Atwood Magazine\" stated that the song it \"prolongs the theme of love, and is a high energy, radio-ready take on seeing someone as your safe haven\", and he called the production on the song a \"remarkable offering a fresh take on a pop anthem about being way too deep in love\". Writing for the \"American Songwriter\", Paul Zollow labeled the track as \"buoyant\" and \"uptempo\". Tanis Smither of \"Earmilk\" mentioned the song has an \"infectious energy\". Promotion. A music video for \"Shelter\" was directed by Sam Bennett and was uploaded to Finneas' YouTube channel on September 30, 2019. The video was directed by Sam Bennett and"}, {"text": "choreographed by Monika Felice Smith, while it was shot in one take. The visual begins with Finneas frantically walking along the Los Angeles river as groups of dancers try to interrupt his journey. \"They call us lucky / But I think we might be cursed / 'Cause the way you love me / I could drink the river dry, still die of thirst.\" Finneas cries as the dancers try to tug and toss him roughly around the empty riverbed, as well as mobbing him. Roth compared the visual to the 1978 film '\"\"Grease\", while praising the choreography, which she described as \"elaborate\" and \"impressive\". Finneas toured throughout the United States during October 2019, in support of \"Blood Harmony\". \"Shelter\" was one of the tracks from the EP that he performed live during the tour. In October 2019, Finneas performed \"Shelter\" at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, being backed up by a live band."}, {"text": "Carsen Twarynski (born November 24, 1997) is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger for the San Diego Gulls of the American Hockey League (AHL). He was drafted in the third round, 82nd overall, by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2016 NHL entry draft. Early life. Twarynski was born on November 24, 1997, in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada. His older brother Brayden was also an athlete; he most recently played as a linebacker for the Saskatchewan Huskies. Playing career. Junior. Growing up in Alberta, Twarynski played with Calgary's Bow Valley Hockey Association until he reached Atom level, in which he transferred to the Blackfoot Chiefs Minor Hockey Association Pee-Wee team for two years. As he aged out of pee-wee level, he competed with the Calgary Bantam AAA Blackhawks and the Calgary Bantam AAA Bisons of the Calgary Buffalo Hockey Associations. After going overlooked in the WHL bantam draft, he played one season with the Okotoks Oilers in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) and Calgary Buffaloes in the Alberta Midget Hockey League (AMHL) before signing with the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League (WHL) as a 16-year-old. Twarynski recorded his first WHL goal during a 9\u20132 win over the"}, {"text": "Lethbridge Hurricanes on September 29, 2014. During his first year of draft eligibility, Twarynski recorded 20 goals for a total of 45 points and described himself as a \"power forward that is good two ways.\" As a result of his play, he was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers with the 82nd overall pick in the 2016 NHL entry draft. After spending two seasons with the Hitmen, Twarynski was traded to the Kelowna Rockets in exchange for Jake Kryski on January 9, 2017. When reflecting on the trade, Twarynski said, \"it was a good move. I was very happy and I think Kelowna has turned out the best, so I was very fortunate.\" Upon the conclusion of the season, Twarynski joined the Flyers' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, but was returned to major junior ice hockey near the start of the 2017\u201318 season. On March 11, 2018, Twarynski concluded his major junior career by signing an entry-level contract with the Flyers. Professional. After attending the Flyers' 2018\u201319 training camp, Twarynski was re-assigned to the Phantoms to start the season. He made his NHL debut on October 4, 2019, which was played in Prague, Czech Republic, as part"}, {"text": "of the NHL Global Series. Although he played the majority of the 2019\u201320 season with the Phantoms, Twarynski was included in the Flyers' training camp for the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs, but he did not make the roster. On July 21, 2021, Twarynski was selected from the Flyers in the 2021 NHL expansion draft by the Seattle Kraken. As a free agent at the conclusion of his contract with the Kraken, Twarynski was unable to attract a contract to remain in North America. On September 27, 2023, Twarynski signed his first contract abroad in agreeing to a deal with Austrian club, the Vienna Capitals of the ICE Hockey League. He began the 2023\u201324 season with the Capitals in adding six goals and 13 points through 27 regular season games. He left Austria through the mid-point of the season after securing a contract in a return to the AHL with the Bridgeport Islanders, the primary affiliate to the New York Islanders, on January 8, 2024. As a free agent at the conclusion of his contract with Bridgeport, Twarynski was signed to a one-year contract to continue in the AHL with the Abbotsford Canucks for the 2024\u201325 season on July 24, 2024."}, {"text": "He made 26 regular season appearances with the Canucks, registering 2 goals and 7 points, before he was traded to fellow Pacific divisional club, the San Diego Gulls on March 11, 2025."}, {"text": "The 1921 Tennessee Docs football team (variously \"Docs\", \"UT Doctors\" or the \"Tennessee Medicos\") represented the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis in the 1921 college football season. The team outscored its opponents 174 to 12."}, {"text": "Lee Kyu-hyung (; born November 29, 1983) is a South Korean actor. Though primarily a musical actor, Lee has also appeared in a variety of Korean films and dramas. In 2017, Lee shot to fame with his portrayal of Yoo Han-yang in tvN's television series \"Prison Playbook\" (2017). He is well known for portraying a wide spectrum of roles on stage and screen. Early life. Lee was born on November 29, 1983, in Seoul, South Korea. His family consists of his parents and an older sister. Lee's interest in acting was inspired by the 1999 Korean film Shiri, and he began to pursue roles in theater in hopes of becoming a movie star. Lee attended Joongdong High School in Seoul, where he was a part of the theatre club. He was accepted into Kyung Hee University's film and theatre department, but dropped out before completing his degree and later graduated from Dongguk University with a major in Theater Studies. Lee made the decision to transfer to Dongguk as it was the alma mater of Choi Min-sik, an actor he admired. Career. Lee Kyu-hyung began his acting career in the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's \" Whistle Theater \" whilst attending college"}, {"text": "and completing his mandatory military service. After graduating, he continued to act in theater, as well as appearing in musicals. Lee made his film debut in 2001 with a minor role in the movie \"Kick the Moon.\" He has since starred in various plays and musicals, most notably with recurring roles in \"Laundry,\" \"Fan Letter\", and \"Gloomy Day\". In 2013, he appeared in the film \"The Face Reader\" after receiving a phone call from a friend that the actor slated to appear had a flat tire and couldn't come to set. In 2017, he played the role of Yoon Se-won, chief of the prosecution's investigation team, in the tvN drama \"Stranger\", raising his profile. He was then cast as Yoo Han-yang, a second-generation tycoon serving in prison for drug use, in tvN's television series \"Prison Playbook\" (2017). Director Shin Won-ho and writer Lee Woo-jung asked him to audition for the role after seeing his performances in the play \"Come See Me\" and the musical \"Fan Letter\". Many viewers connected to his portrayal of the role, showcasing both cute and serious sides of the character, and it led to an increase in popularity for the actor both in Korea and overseas."}, {"text": "Speaking about the character's homosexuality, Lee expressed an awareness of homophobia in Korean society, but stated that he hoped his portrayal of the character could show a simple, human love that audiences could support. Lee was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 3rd Korean Musical Awards for his role as D'Ysquith in the 2018 production of the musical \"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder\". The role required him to play nine different members of the D'Ysquith family, with rapid costume changes throughout the performance. In 2019, Lee appeared as the titular character in the CJ Entertainment production of the musical \"Cyrano\", alongside musical actors Ryu Jung-han, Choi Jae-woong, and Jo Hyung-gyun. The production was met with praise, and was lauded as an improvement from the 2017 production, due in part to the various charms of its leading actors. Following his appearance in \"Cyrano\", Lee starred as Hedwig in the rock musical \"Hedwig and the Angry Inch\", receiving critical acclaim for the powerful vocal performance and skillful acting. In November 2019, Lee reprised his role as the writer Kim Hae-jin in the musical \"Fan Letter\", a Korean musical set during Japanese occupation in the 1930s. Lee also played the"}, {"text": "role of Son Seok-ki in \"Doctor John\". In 2020, Lee is slated to appear in the film \"Stellar\", a fantasy comic drama. And in 2022, he starred in the South Korean series, \"All of Us Are Dead\". Lee will play the titular role of Shakespeare in the play Shakespeare in Love in second half of 2025."}, {"text": "Connor Bunnaman (born April 16, 1998) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward for Mountfield HK of the Czech Extraliga (ELH). Bunnaman played in the Ontario Hockey League for the Kitchener Rangers before being drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. Early life. Bunnaman was born on April 16, 1998, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Playing career. Junior. Growing up, Bunnaman played for the Guelph Jr. Gryphons U16 AAA in the South Central Triple-A Hockey League U16. Following this, he was named to Team OMHA White, where he competed at the OHL Gold Cup U-16 tournament and earned an invitation to Canada\u2019s national under-17 development camp. He was subsequently drafted 31st overall in the 2014 Ontario Hockey League (OHL) draft by the Kitchener Rangers. He scored his first career OHL goal during a 6\u20135 win over the Guelph Storm off an assist from Mike Davies on October 13, 2014. As the Rangers began their playoff berth against the London Knights, he recorded his first post-season goal during Game 2. Bunnaman was drafted in the fourth round, 109th overall, by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. Upon being drafted, Bunnaman stated that he felt he"}, {"text": "would fit in well with the team because he considered himself \"a two-way, power forward. I create space well for others so I think I fit into their system well.\" Prior to the 2017\u201318 season, Bunnaman signed an entry-level contract with the team and was invited to participate in the Flyers' training camp. Upon returning, Bunnaman was named captain of the Kitchener Rangers alongside alternate captains Adam Mascherin, Connor Hall and Jake Henderson. At the night of the announcement, Bunnaman also played in his 200th career OHL game, tying Barry Duench for 41st place in franchise history for regular-season games played. Professional. Philadelphia Flyers. Upon concluding his major junior ice hockey career, Bunnaman joined the Flyers' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, for the 2018\u201319 season. He recorded his first professional goal on October 28, 2018, in a 3\u20131 loss against the Hershey Bears. After a slow start to the season, Bunnaman was moved to the teams' first line after Phil Varone was recalled by the Flyers and played alongside Greg Carey and Nicolas Aub\u00e9-Kubel. By December, he had a goal-scoring streak of three games and recorded the game winning goal during a game against the Belleville"}, {"text": "Senators. Bunnaman ended the season with 32 points in 62 games. After participating in the Flyers' 2019 training camp, Bunnaman made his NHL debut on October 4, 2019, skating 11:06 minutes and recording two shots on goal. He split the 2019-20 season between the Flyers and the Phantoms, but recorded his first career NHL goal on January 13, 2020, against the Boston Bruins. He also joined the Flyers for the 2020 playoffs in Toronto. Florida Panthers. On March 19, 2022, Bunnaman was involved in a trade that sent him along with Claude Giroux, German Rubtsov, and a draft pick to the Florida Panthers in exchange for Owen Tippett and some draft picks. Abroad. On July 31, 2023, as a free agent, Bunnaman was signed to his first contract abroad in agreeing to a one-year contract with Finnish Liiga team K\u00e4rp\u00e4t. At the conclusion of his contract with K\u00e4rp\u00e4t, Bunnaman remained un-signed as a free agent over the summer before opting to continue his career abroad in signing an initial one-year contract with Czech league club, Mountfield HK of the ELH on October 12, 2024. During the 2024\u201325 season, Bunnaman having established himself within Mountfield's forward group, was signed to a"}, {"text": "two-year contract extension on January 17, 2025."}, {"text": "Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hri\u010dina (born May 31, 1990) is a Slovak professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for HK Dukla Michalovce in the Tipsport Liga. Career. Hri\u010dina began his career with HC Ko\u0161ice's junior teams before moving to North America's Canadian Hockey League where he was drafted 27th overall by the Western Hockey League's Regina Pats in the 2008 CHL Import Draft. He played two seasons with the Pats before returning to Ko\u0161ice in 2010. He divided the 2010-11 season with Ko\u0161ice and HC 46 Bardejov of the Slovak 1. Liga before playing for HC '05 Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica in the 2011-12 season. After spending most of the next three season with Bardejov, Hri\u010dina became a full-fledged member of Ko\u0161ice's roster in 2015. On May 30, 2019, Hri\u010dina joined newly-promoted HK Dukla Michalovce for the 2019\u201320 Slovak Extraliga season."}, {"text": "St\u00e9phane Jobard (born 21 February 1971) is a French professional football coach and former player who works as an assistant coach for Saudi Professional League club Al Nassr, under the direction of head coach Rudi Garcia. As a player, he was a midfielder. Playing career. Born in Langres, Jobard played club football for Cercle Dijon and Dijon. Coaching career. Jobard worked as manager of Dijon B and as an assistant manager at Dijon. He left the club in 2018 after being accused of theft, and became an assistant manager of Marseille, before returning to Dijon as manager in June 2019. He was sacked by the club in November 2020. On 15 December 2021, Jobard was hired by Championnat National club Boulogne. He left the club in May 2022. He would go on to join Saudi Professional League club Al Nassr as an assistant coach later that year, working under the direction of head coach Rudi Garcia."}, {"text": "Lake Tr\u00e9n\u00e9 is a small lake located in the Mayo-Kebbi Ouest Region of south-western Chad. It is about 6km by 2km and is fed by the Mayo K\u00e9bbi river that leaves near L\u00e9r\u00e9 and proceeds through the larger Lake L\u00e9r\u00e9."}, {"text": "Cxema (pronounced Skhema) is a Ukrainian organiser of raves in urban spaces in Ukraine and Europe. Its parties have been held several times a year in various post-industrial locations in Kyiv since 2014. Its events have been written about by international media such as Dazed, i-D, Mixmag. Crack Magazine, and Trax. History. Cxema was founded by DJ Slava Lepsheev in Kyiv in the spring of 2014 at a time when the Russo-Ukrainian War right after the 2014 Ukrainian revolution led to an almost total cessation of nightlife. Similar examples in history were British and German raves of the 80s and 90s, which arose under conditions of depressed social reality and economic hardship. In difficult conditions, the culture of raves contrasts with the values of equality, non-violence and bodily freedom. The main features of rave culture are inclusiveness and the ability to attract representatives from different subcultures and communities. These features contributed to the transformation of some raves into large-scale world music festivals. Cxema's 'no face control' policy helped expand the circle of regular visitors and make the event democratic. Production. Architects and light artists are also involved in the organization of Cxema raves. The activity of architects includes setting of"}, {"text": "the stage and other necessary areas. Architects are also arranging the flow of people, creating a coherent visual image and a feeling of freedom, taking into account safety and controlling all ongoing processes. Architects are not limited only to formal solutions, they also reflect social and cultural context, music industry and media art which forms more thoughtful and in-depth results. Due to the recognizable minimalist style and rapid growth in the number of visitors, Cxema became the symbol of Kyiv nightlife. Locations. Cxema parties take place in various post-industrial spaces of Kyiv. Locations for Cxema raves were: Club Otel (in the area of the ribbon fabric factory), the Garage Cooperative \u00ab\u0410\u041a \u0421\u0438\u0433\u043d\u0430\u043b\u00bb, the restaurant \u00ab\u0412\u0456\u0434\u043f\u043e\u0447\u0438\u043d\u043e\u043a\u00bb on the Trukhanov Island, the skate park GAVAN\u042c (under the new Harbour Bridge), club the Cinema, the premises of the \u00abIzolyatsia\u00bb Foundation (in the building of the Kyiv Shipbuilding Plant), Plivka Art Centre (in the building of the National Center of Oleksandr Dovzhenko), at the pavilions of Dovzhenko Film Studio, former Tetra Pak factory. Side projects. Since October 2016 '\u0421\u0445\u0435\u043c\u0430 Backstage' parties have been held in other cities of Ukraine and Europe, featuring Ukrainian artists and musicians from all over the world. Venues have included"}, {"text": "clubs in Lviv, Warsaw, Vilnius, Leipzig, Tresor and Berghain. \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u044f (pronounced Volodya) is a format of night party in Kyiv that combines live guitar and electronic music, where live performances take place alongside DJ sets. It helps to increase the audience of artists in the underdeveloped music scene. The symbol of \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u044f is the auto reflective work of Kyiv artist Vova Vorotniov, which at the same time serves as a visual representation of the new youth formation. The first \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u044f party took place in July 2016. Daytime parties prioritize house music and experimental live performances and only happen in open spaces. The first event took place in August 2019 in the courtyard of the Dovzhenko Film Studio Cxemcast produces podcasts on SoundCloud presenting artists of the Ukrainian and world electronic scene, accompanied by interviews with the authors themselves in Ukrainian and English on the Cxema website."}, {"text": "Volodymyr Zubyk (; born 28 January 1958, in Lviv) is a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 5\u20138th convocations, President of the non-profit organization Association of \"construction enterprises \"Intergal-Bud\". In 2020, he was included in the ranking of the \"100 richest Ukrainians\" (44th position) by \"Focus\" magazine with an estimated capital of $247 million; he was also included in the list of the richest Ukrainians according to Forbes Ukraine, as well as according to Correspondent. In November 2020, Intergal-Bud had 1.13 million square meters of housing under construction that made it the leader in the construction sphere of Ukraine. Education. Lviv Academy of Commerce (1980), engineer-economist, \"Organization of mechanized processing of economic information\". Political career. People's Deputy of Ukraine, 5th convocation, May 2006 \u2013 November 2007, Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, No. 64 in the list. At the time of the election: Director of Economic Affairs and Fundraising at the Child's World () Charity Foundation, Lviv, non-partisan. Member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction (May \u2013 July 2006). In July 2006, he joined the coalition \u2013 the Party of Regions, the Socialist Party of Ukraine, and the Communist Party. Member of the Committee on Legal Policy (since July 2006). People's Deputy of"}, {"text": "Ukraine, 6th convocation, November 2007\u2013 December 2012, Party of Regions, No. 98 in the list. Member of the Party of Regions faction (since 11.2007), member of the Committee on Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (since 12.2007). In the 2012 Parliamentary elections in Ukraine, he ran for the single-member constituency No. 195 (Sosniv district of Cherkasy, Drabiv, Chyhyryn, Chornobayiv districts of the Cherkasy region) as a self-nominated candidate. He got to the parliament, garnering 43.8% of votes, ahead of his main competitor V. Hres. He worked in the Committee on Budgets. On 20 February 2014, he left the Party of Regions. Volodymyr Zubyk was the first to sign a statement to the Verkhovna Rada to take responsibility for the situation in the country and a call to law enforcement officers not to carry out the criminal orders of armed suppression of protests during the Revolution of Dignity (Euromaidan). Zubyk took part in supporting Euromaidan with fuel and tents. Intergal-Bud handed over seven apartments to the families of those killed on the Maidan. People's Deputy of the 8th convocation from October 2014 to May 2019. Elected through self-nomination in constituency No.195, Cherkasy region. Member of the Committee on Construction, Urban Planning and"}, {"text": "Housing and Communal Services. Co-author of Bill #406403 (adopted in the first reading), which the Association of Ukrainian Cities named one of the three most important for decentralization reform. Social activity and charity. In 2014, Zubyk launched the \"Intellect of the Year\" Award, which is given to the most capable students and most innovative teachers of Cherkasy. In June 2014, Zubyk bought ambulances for the Chornobai District Hospital and other local hospitals in the Cherkasy Region. Personal life. He is married to Iryna Dil, who is a well-known Ukrainian fashion designer. Volodymyr Zubyk has six children. In October 2018 he was able to purchase Cypriot nationality for himself, his wife and a daughter."}, {"text": "Adina railway station is a railway station on the Malda Town\u2013New Jalpaiguri line of Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway Zone. It is situated at Gotpara, Adina of Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Total 16 passenger and express trains stop at Adina railway station."}, {"text": "Coccoloba cereifera is a rare species of flowering plant in the knotweed or buckwheat family Polygonaceae. The species is restricted to a single mountain, the Serra do Cip\u00f3, in southern Brazil. The species is notable for its expression of a trioecious sexual system."}, {"text": "Jamal Joratli (b. 1961) is a Syrian painter and businessman based in Greece. Biography. Jamal was born to Ismaili parents in Salamiyah in 1961 and studied mechanical engineering at the University of Aleppo. He now resides and works in Greece, Athens, which he first visited in 1988. He chose Greece \"for its natural light and colors, which cannot be imitated even by the best photoshop application, and for its culture\". Work. Exhibitions of his work have been held in the United States (New York), Germany (D\u00fcsseldorf), Lebanon, Jordan, Dubai, China, and Greece. He held a solo exhibition (\"The Silk Road\") in 2016, first in Athens at the Benaki Museum and then at the Museum of Asian Art of Corfu. In October 2018 the exhibition was transferred to China, at the Dalian Modern Museum. Style. According to , Jamal uses tradition as a basis for his powerful paintings, while real-life motifs are turned into \"flowing colour energies\". With his art, Jamal tries to look behind the surfaces, and to harmonically connect the oriental with the occidental artistic schools. History of art professor Manos Stefanidis regards Jamal as a \"pictor classicus\" \u2013 in the way Giorgio de Chirico used the term, namely"}, {"text": "a painter first addressing the problem of positioning the subject in space \u2013 who integrates modern European painting in his art, \"but with terms of locality and an emphasis on the personal agony of expression\". According to Stefanidis, Jamal acts as a defender of \"cultural reciprocity\" between East and West, leading the artistic revival of the Arab world."}, {"text": "Axel Campeol (born 5 March 2000) is an Italian footballer and content creator who plays as a left-back for Zeta Milano. Club career. Born in Conegliano and raised in Farra di Soligo, Campeol first started playing football at Union Qdp before joining the youth sector of AC Milan, where he spent most of his junior career and started playing for their Under-19 squad in the 2017\u201318 season. That team notably included fellow future professional footballers Gabriele Bellodi, Raoul Bellanova, Tommaso Pobega, Marco Brescianini, J\u00f8rgen Strand Larsen and Frank Tsadjout. In August 2018, he moved to Sampdoria, where he spent one more year with the Under-19s, without receiving any call-ups to the senior squad. On 16 July 2019, Campeol was loaned to Serie C club Vis Pesaro. He subsequently made his professional debut for Vis Pesaro on 25 August 2019, during a game against S\u00fcdtirol: he started the match and was substituted at half-time. He collected nine league appearances during his first professional season. On 17 September 2020, the defender was loaned once more, this time to fellow Serie C side Grosseto. In Tuscany, he established himself as a regular starter in the team, which eventually reached the play-offs' quarter-finals before"}, {"text": "losing to AlbinoLeffe. However, towards the end of July 2021, Campeol announced his retirement at the age of just 21, quoting his growing disillusion with the world of football as one of the main reasons behind his surprising choice. On August 23, he returns playing football and sign with FC Zeta Milano. International career. Campeol has been a youth international for Italy at different stages. He was first called up to represent his country in 2015, when he joined the Under-16 squad. He then took part in the 2017 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (playing in all three games and starting two of them) as Italy was eliminated in group stage. Finally, he won caps for the Under-18 and Under-19 national teams. After retirement. Immediately after retirement, Campeol has kept pursuing a degree in Physical Education at San Raffaele University in Milan: plus, he expressed the desire to give content creation on social media a try, in order to share his personal stories within the world of football. His first opportunity came just a few months after, when he officially joined the staff of \"La Giovane Italia\" (a portal created by journalist Paolo Ghisoni to promote young talents from all over"}, {"text": "Italy) and took over their YouTube channel."}, {"text": "The 2019 World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship is the first edition of the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships competition organized by the World Jigsaw Puzzle Federation (WJPF). It was held between 28 and 29 September in Valladolid, Spain. Organisation. The venue for this first World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship was the C\u00fapula del Milenio. The Championship included three events: team, pairs, and individual. For the Team event, teams of 4 members (also 1 reserve is allowed) make 4 jigsaw puzzles (2 puzzles of 1000 pieces and 2 puzzles of 1500 pieces) in a maximum period of 8 hours, and the fastest team to finish them is the champion. The four members have to do one puzzle and when they finished it they can start the next puzzle. For the Pairs event, 2 members make a jigsaw puzzles of 500 pieces in the maximum period of 90 minutes, and the fastest pair to finish it win the competition. For the Individual event, each individual participant make a jigsaw puzzles of 500 pieces in the maximum period of 2 hours, and the fastest to finish it is the champion. Participants. 39 countries are represented in the first World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship."}, {"text": "\"Under the Influence\" is a song by American musician Chris Brown. It is the third track on the extended edition of his ninth studio album \"Indigo\", which was released on October 4, 2019, by RCA Records. The song was composed by Brown along with Nigerian singer Davido, producer Kiddominant and Tiffany Mckie. \"Under the Influence\" became a sleeper hit in 2022, becoming viral on the TikTok platform. Afterwards, it was officially released as a single, roughly three years following its original release. \"Under the Influence\" received great success internationally, reaching the top ten in more than twenty countries between 2022 and 2023, including United Kingdom, Australia, India, New Zealand and South Africa, while peaking at number 12 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Among the certifications it gained, it was most notably certified diamond by the National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (SNEP), quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), quadruple platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), triple platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (MC), and double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). The song's title became the name of Brown's 2023 European tour. Development and composition. \"Under the Influence\" is an R&B song,"}, {"text": "written by Chris Brown, Nigerian singer Davido and Tiffany Mckie, while its production was handled by Nigerian producer KDDO. The song was included on the expanded edition of Brown's ninth studio album \"Indigo\" (2019). The song marks the third collaboration between Brown and Davido, following Davido's 2019 single \"Blow My Mind\", and their duet \"Lower Body\", also contained on the expanded version of \"Indigo\". Lyrically, in the song Brown expresses his desires while having a passionate sexual encounter, being under the influence of codeine. According to \"Billboard\", Brown on the record \"turns the tempo down several notches\". Marc Griffin of \"Vibe magazine\", said that the song's lyrics \"are coated in temptation, delivering his [second] verse lustfully, rattling off things he would like to do with (and to) his lover\". Critical reception. \"Billboard\" listed \"Under the Influence\" among \"The 10 Best R&B Songs of 2022\". Music video. The music video for \"Under the Influence\" was directed by visual artist Child, and released on October 20, 2022. The clip was recorded in an abandoned warehouse, and features Brown surrounded by female dancers, that perform sexually suggestive moves around him. \"Vibe\", said that the music video shows the singer \"deep in contemplation, sorting"}, {"text": "through his need for her, while other shots feature a gaggle of dancers with glowing eyes seductively enticing Brown with desire\". \"HotNewHipHop\" noted that in the \"sensual\" video, Brown \"kept his choreography to a minimum\", despite his music videos usually featuring complex choreographies performed by the singer himself. Commercial performance. Despite not being initially released as a single, \"Under the Influence\" became a viral sleeper hit in 2022 via TikTok. During the summer of 2022, the song entered the charts in many countries for the first time, reaching the top ten in Australia, Luxembourg, Greece, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Philippines, Singapore, Slovakia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. It debuted at number 36 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 on the September 24, 2022 week, three years following its release. With \"Under the Influence\", Brown became the first R&B singer in history to have over fifty top-40 hits on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The song peaked at number 3 on the \"Billboard\" Global 200, making it Brown's first top ten on the Global 200 chart since the chart was introduced in 2020. The song topped the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, making it Brown's tenth number-one song on the chart. \"Under the"}, {"text": "Influence\" first reached No. 1 on Apple Music's Top 100: Global chart in mid-September 2022. On May 17, 2023, \"Under the Influence\" became Brown's second longest-charting song, without a feature, at 35 weeks. The song surpassed the 33 week tenancy of 2008's \"Forever\". The song is also Brown's longest charting single since his 2005 debut single \"Run It!\" (which ran on the Hot 100 for 38 weeks). \"Under the Influence\" was the tenth most-heard song on U.S. radio in the first half of 2023, with a cumulative 1.142 billion audience impressions across all formats monitored by Luminate. \u201cUnder The Influence\u201d is Brown's first song to ever reach one billion streams on Spotify. Tour. Following the global success of the song, Brown named a concert tour after it. The \"Under the Influence Tour\" was a tour to support Brown's tenth studio album, \"Breezy\" (2022). The opening act for the tour was South African singer Tyla. It began in Ireland on February 11, 2023, and ended in Jamaica on August 27, 2023. The tour included shows in United Kingdom, Europe, Ireland and Jamaica, registering sold out during all the 28 dates scheduled."}, {"text": "Aaviri () is a 2019 Indian Telugu-language horror thriller film written, directed, and produced by Ravi Babu. The film features Neha Chauhan, Ravi Babu, Sri Muktha, Bharani Shankar, and Mukhtar Khan in principal roles. \"Aaviri\" was released on 1 November 2019. Plot. Raj (Ravi Babu) and his wife Leena (Neha Chauhan) move into an old palatial house along with their younger daughter Munni (Baby Sri Muktha), after the accidental death of their elder daughter Shreya. Munni happens to see the ghost of her elder sister who had died due to their father's unattentiveness. The ghost tries to drive Munni away from the house and eventually succeeds. What happens next forms the rest of the story. The ghost tries to get Munni out of the house but is always stopped by her mom and told to go back to her room. Eventually, Munni disappears one day, and it is found that Leena is the one who is possessed. Raj, along with an exorcism expert, tries to communicate with the ghost to find Munni's location and save her. It is then revealed that the ghost is not Shreya's but Janhvi. Janhvi repeatedly blames Raj for her death and that he is the"}, {"text": "cause of her separation from her parents. Meanwhile, it is shown that Munni is in a coffin and has 2 chocolate bars with her that contain nuts (she is allergic). Raj realizes what is happening and narrates the story. Janhvi comes for an interview as an executive assistant and Raj hires her and gets attracted to her. He leaves little gifts on her desk every day expressing that he loves her. On the eve of the company's merger, Raj asks her to send him a copy of an email. While Jahnvi mails him, Raj confronts her to ask why she is avoiding him and his gifts. Janhvi declares she doesn't feel that way leaves the office, and gets to her car. Raj gets into the car to convince her but Jaanvi tries to leave the car, during which Raj pulls her back by the seatbelt, accidentally strangling her and killing her. To save the company's merger and himself from the merger, he hides Janhvi's body and erases footage from the cameras. Janhvi came back as a ghost to haunt him and make him feel the same way her parents felt when they lost their daughter, by killing Munni. After admitting"}, {"text": "this, Raj and the exorcist ask Janhvi for Munni's location but she passes out before she can reveal. While they tried to wake her up, Raj could hear Munni's voice from the box that was trapped with Janhvi earlier. He unscrews the box and saves Munni, also realizes Munni did not eat the chocolates either and she is saved. Reception. The movie generally received negative reviews with critics labelling it dull, predictable and outdated."}, {"text": "The 2020 Davis Cup World Group I play-offs were held on 6\u20139 March. The twelve winners of this round qualified for the 2020 Davis Cup World Group I while the twelve losers qualified for the 2020 Davis Cup World Group II. Teams. Twenty-four teams played for twelve spots in the World Group I, in series decided on a home and away basis. These twenty-four teams are: The 12 winning teams from the play-offs would play at the World Group I and the 12 losing teams would play at the World Group II. Seeded teams Unseeded teams Results summary. China withdrew from its match against Romania because of the COVID-19 pandemic."}, {"text": "Hihintayin Kita sa Langit (\"\") is a 1991 Filipino romantic drama film directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyna. The screenplay, written by Raquel Villavicencio, is loosely adapted from English novelist-poet Emily Bront\u00eb's 1847 novel \"Wuthering Heights\" and transposes the plot of the said novel from the moors of West Yorkshire to the beaches and seaside cliffs (shot in Batanes). The film stars then-real-life romantic partners, Richard Gomez and Dawn Zulueta, in their first film together as leads, modeled on the characters Heathcliff and Catherine. It co-stars Michael de Mesa, Eric Quizon, Jackie Lou Blanco, Jose Mari Avellana, and Vangie Labalan. Produced by Reyna Films, as their first film offering, and distributed by Bonanza Films, it was theatrically released on June 13, 1991. The film was digitally restored and remastered in 4K resolution by ABS-CBN Film Restoration and Central Digital Lab and subsequently released in select theaters on February 27, 2017. Plot. Don Joaquin Salvador adopts a street urchin whom he names Gabriel after his deceased son. Gabriel becomes friends with Joaquin's daughter Carmina, but is hated by Joaquin's other son Milo. After Milo falsely accuses Gabriel of stealing his horse, Joaquin banishes Milo to a relative in Manila. Carmina and Gabriel grow"}, {"text": "up happily together and develop a romantic relationship. After Joaquin dies from an illness, Milo assumes ownership of the Salvador estate. As part of his grudge against Gabriel, he banishes him to the stables and treats him like a servant, to Carmina's disgust. Gabriel and Carmina sneak into a party held by their rich neighbors the Ilustre siblings; Alan and Sandra. Carmina is injured after falling off a tree while watching the party with Gabriel, who is beaten up by Milo and his men when he tries to rescue her. Carmina is confined to the Ilustre house for two weeks, during which she is taken care of by Alan, who falls in love with her. Her absence makes Gabriel jealous of Alan and his relationship with Carmina deteriorates. Alan proposes to Carmina, but she refuses. Gabriel eventually runs away after hearing a conversation between Carmina and her nanny Adora during which the former disparages Gabriel for his poverty. Carmina, who had relied on Gabriel to protect him, despairs at having to live with a lecherous Milo and accepts Alan's marriage proposal. Gabriel spends the next three years amassing a fortune before returning to beat a gambling-addicted Milo in a card"}, {"text": "game for possession of the Salvador estate. He then retains Milo as a servant in the stables in revenge. Gabriel visits the Ilustres and tells Carmina that he still loves her. But Carmina says that he loves Alan and cannot leave him. Gabriel vows to use any means to reclaim Carmina, going as far as to seduce Sandra into falling in love with him and marrying him. A wary Alan tries to stop the marriage, leading to a fistfight with Gabriel before he reluctantly relents. As Carmina tries to convince Alan to stop the wedding, she inadvertently lets slip her continuing feelings for Gabriel and eventually asks for an annulment so that she can be with Gabriel. Feeling betrayed, Alan physically abuses her to the point where she suffers a miscarriage and attempts suicide. Meanwhile, Gabriel and Sandra's wedding pushes through, but their marriage unravels after Gabriel inadvertently mutters Carmina's name while having sex with Sandra. Gabriel is later told by Adora that Carmina is dying. Rushing to Alan's house, Gabriel reconciles with Carmina, who apologizes for not choosing to fight for their love earlier. Gabriel takes Carmina to the balcony, where they profess each other's love before the hills"}, {"text": "where they played together as children. As Alan arrives, Carmina dies in Gabriel's arms, sending the two into grief. After her funeral, Gabriel is shot by Milo and dies on top of her grave. The Ilustres and Adora arrange for Gabriel to be buried next to Carmina, hoping that all of them will now be at peace. As the Ilustres leave, Adora says that Gabriel and Carmina have only started to live, before expressing relief at seeing the spirits of Carmina and Gabriel playing nearby. Production. Casting. Dawn Zulueta, who was in hibernation and considered leaving for the United States in 1990, was given another chance in a film by actress-singer-producer Armida Siguion-Reyna with the role of Carmina Salvador in the first offering of Reyna Films. Filming. In all of the film\u2019s 26 shooting days, only five were spent in Batanes. The rest of the shooting days were shot in Villa Escudero in Tiaong, Quezon. According to Carlos Siguion-Reyna, the film's director, all of the scenes filmed in Batanes were shot in available sunlight, with the support of reflectors, and no camera dollies. In filming the most \"iconic\" scene, the director and Romy Vitug, the film's cinematographer, shot the scene"}, {"text": "in slow motion by shooting at high speed. The lead actors were exhausted from running for the scene as well as the tiresome efforts of the film's staff and crew members. With the film's story containing intimate love scenes, Zulueta agreed to do it with her on-screen partner Richard Gomez and stated they are important. Music. The film's theme song \"Hanggang sa Dulo ng Walang Hanggan\" was originally composed and written by George Canseco. It was performed by Richard Reynoso and arranged by Ryan Cayabyab. Release. \"Hihintayin Kita sa Langit\" was produced by Reyna Films and distributed by Bonanza Films. The film was theatrically released in the Philippines on June 13, 1991, two days before the eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Despite the disaster, the film became a box office success. Digitally restored version. The film was digitally restored and remastered by the ABS-CBN Film Archives in partnership with Central Digital Lab as part of their Sagip Pelikula campaign. The source element used for the film's restoration was the uncut original 35mm picture negative, which was taken from the storage of Reyna Films. The film was first scanned in 4K resolution and converted to 2K resolution for the preparation of its"}, {"text": "restoration. The image restoration took 660 actual manual hours to eliminate and address its defects, including unsteady shots, warps, missing frames, and bumps originating from the print's splice marks. For the color grading, it took 100 actual manual hours to restore the film's color and tonalities, with the assistance and supervision of the film's director and cinematographer. For restoring the film's audio, it was also supervised by the director. It was premiered on February 27, 2017, at the Glorietta 4 Cinema in Ayala Center, Makati, Metro Manila. The premiere was attended by the film's director Carlos Siguion-Reyna; writer Raquel Villavicencio; stars Richard Gomez, Dawn Zulueta, Eric Quizon, Guila Alvarez, and Vangie Labalan; cinematographer Romy Vitug; editor Jess Navarro; and the singer of the film's theme song, Richard Reynoso. It was also attended by Richard Gomez's wife and 4th District of Leyte representative, Lucy Torres-Gomez and the director's family consisting of his wife, actress-writer Bibeth Orteza and children, actor Rafa Siguion-Reyna and Sarah Siguion-Reyna. Television broadcast. The restored version of the film received a free-to-air television premiere on ABS-CBN and its high-definition service on November 26, 2017, as a feature presentation of its \"Restored Classics\" banner for the network's Sunday late-night"}, {"text": "presentation program \"Sunday's Best\". According to AGB Nielsen Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement (NUTAM) ratings, the ABS-CBN broadcast of the film attained a nationwide rating of 1.2%, losing against GMA Network's broadcast of Manny Pacquiao's monthly drama anthology program \"Stories for the Soul\" during its first hour, attaining a 2% rating but won against \"Diyos at Bayan\", also broadcast by GMA Network, which attained a 0.7% rating during its second and last hour. Reception. Critical reception. DJ Ramones of Reverse Delay gave a positive review of the film and described the film's story and visuals as old-fashioned but it continues to give the romantic thrills to both old and new audiences. Indonesian film critic Bavner Donaldo rated the film 4 out of 5 stars and he praised Carlos Siguion-Reyna's direction, acting performances of the Richard-Dawn tandem, and Romy Vitug's photography. Despite he didn't like the tragic ending, the film made him enchanted and it has been his favorite Filipino romantic drama film. Television adaptation. The film was adapted for television by ABS-CBN in 2012. The TV series ran from January 16 through October 24, 2012, and was top-billed by Coco Martin and Julia Montes and original stars Richard Gomez and"}, {"text": "Dawn Zulueta along with an ensemble cast. The song \"Hanggang sa Dulo ng Walang Hanggan\" (performed by Richard Reynoso in the film) was also used as the program's theme song."}, {"text": "The Pakistan cricket team toured the Netherlands to play three One Day International (ODI) matches in August 2022. The ODI series formed part of the inaugural 2020\u20132023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League. It was the first bilateral ODI series between the two teams. Background. Pakistan were originally scheduled to tour the Netherlands in July 2020 to play three ODI matches, ahead of their tour of England. It would have been the first bilateral series between the two sides. Pakistan were also scheduled to play a two-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series against Ireland following this series. However, on 22 April 2020, the Dutch government announced that it had banned all events in the country, both sports and cultural, until 1 September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. In April 2022, both the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the Royal Dutch Cricket Association (KNCB) agreed on rescheduling the series for August 2022. Later the same month both cricket boards agreed the itinerary for the tour, with all the matches taking place in Rotterdam."}, {"text": "Antolin is the Basque form of the masculine given name Antonio in use in the Basque Country. Notable people with this name include the following:"}, {"text": "The Alvin Eskelton Barn, located northwest of Richfield, Idaho in Lincoln County, Idaho, was built . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983. It is a structure, with eight-foot high lava rock (basalt) walls. It was listed on the National Register as one barn in a group of lava rock structures studied together. It has a rounded roof and a hay hood at one end, and is locally called \"the round barn\". It is located about one mile west, and north of Richfield. The barn may have been destroyed: satellite imagery in 2019 shows outline of a destroyed structure at approximately the coordinates given for this barn, at a property on the east side of Chatterly Road in Lincoln County."}, {"text": "This is a list of Ice Road Truckers Season 4 episodes. Season 4 of \"Ice Road Truckers\" premiered on June 6, 2010. Returning drivers. Debogorski, Rowland, Jessee, Hall, and Kelly continue driving the Dalton Highway for Carlile this season. Debogorski had a good season, stopping to help drivers in trouble on multiple occasions. Rowland spent the season trying to avoid the Department of Transport (DOT) Weigh station. Jessee was assigned some of the toughest loads, to be taken over some of the roughest roads. Kelly started out the season with goals to achieve: she wanted to try hauling heavier, bigger loads and have a go at push-truck driving; she also aimed to save enough money to buy back her horse. Both goals she eventually achieved. Route and destinations. Dalton Highway: The truckers make stops at Fairbanks, Coldfoot, Deadhorse and the oilfields of Prudhoe Bay as in Season 3, as well as the following new destinations: Some heavy haul loads bound for Prudhoe Bay originated in Anchorage and reached Fairbanks via the Glenn Highway and George Parks Highway before going on the Dalton. Episodes. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Konturen ( \"Contours\") is the sixth studio album by German singer-songwriter Johannes Oerding. It was released through Columbia Records on 8 November 2019. It debuted atop the German Albums Chart, becoming Oerding's first number-one album in Germany. It was supported by the single \"An guten Tagen\". Background. Oerding named the album \"Konturen\" (\"Contours\") after a line in the song \"Alles okay\": \"Und dieser Dreck auf meiner Haut ist mir endlich so vertraut. Denn diese Spuren und Konturen machen mich aus\" (\"And this dirt on my skin is finally so familiar to me, because these traces and contours make me\"). Oerding said that with his sixth album, he wanted to find his own \"profile more and more\". Oerding recorded \"Ich hab dich nicht mehr zu verlieren\" with singer Ina M\u00fcller, his girlfriend of 10 years. Oerding remarked that if the topic of the song were not separation, \"I would not have done it, everything else I would have found extremely cheesy\". Critical reception. \"Konturen\" received generally mixed reviews from music critics. \"Musicheadquarter\"'s Andy called the album the singer's best effort to date, alongside \"Kreise\". The website \"Mix1\" praised the album for documenting a \"maturation process\" by returning to the singer's roots."}, {"text": "In a negative review, Tony Henning of \"laut.de\" pointed out that the songs are characterized by a high level of \"penetrance and pettiness\" and that the record \"hits the listener where it hurts the most, namely his ears\". Pascal Bremmer of \"Plattentests\" described the songs as \"chumming up\" and that the music would fully satisfy mainstream radio listeners in its \"na\u00efvety\"."}, {"text": "This is a list of \"Ice Road Truckers\" Season 5 episodes. The focus of this season is split between two locations. One group drives the Dalton Highway, moving freight between Fairbanks and Deadhorse with occasional side trips to Nuiqsut and Anchorage. Meanwhile, a second group transports loads between Winnipeg, Manitoba, and several remote communities over winter and ice roads. Returning drivers. Debogorski and Rowland return to Canada, and Yemm (seasons 1 and 2) joins them for this season to drive the ice roads in Manitoba, Debogorski for First Nations Transport, and Rowland and Yemm for Polar Industries (also hauling loads for First Nations for the first eight episodes under a contract through Polar). For Carlile, Kelly and three other truckers haul freight on the Dalton, and Hall appears in two episodes to deliver heavy loads. Kromm returns to train rookie drivers, notably Redmon and Sieber, and later advises Lane Keator to fire Redmon. Final load counts. Canada Alaska Episodes. The on-screen graphics for the type and weight of each load hauled featured in the first four seasons were discontinued in Season 5, now only showing the time of day or temperature depending on the situation. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> References."}, {"text": "This is a list of \"Ice Road Truckers\" Season 6 episodes. The focus of this season is split among three locations, listed in \"Route and destinations\" below. Episodes. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Returning drivers. Debogorski, Rowland, and Yemm continue driving in Canada for this season, moving cargo along the Dempster Highway (Debogorski) and Manitoba's winter roads (Rowland and Yemm). Jessee (seasons 3 and 4) returns to drive the Dalton along with three newcomers, and Hall appears in one episode to help move a modular building up from Fairbanks. Near the end of the season, Veilleux (season 4) is called in to help transport the last loads up to Prudhoe Bay. Molesky and Kromm are involved in training drivers new to driving on the Dalton Highway for Carlile Transportation. Additionally, both Molesky and Kromm independently monitor other drivers' standards and behavior, and advise Fairbanks Terminal Manager Lane Keator if there are issues like those that led to Redmon and \"Porkchop\" being fired. Final load counts. Alaska Canada"}, {"text": "This is a list of \"Ice Road Truckers\" Season 7 episodes. The focus of this season is the winter road network originating in Winnipeg. Episodes. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Returning drivers. Debogorski, Kelly, and Ward relocate to Winnipeg this season and begin driving for Polar Industries. Rowland and Pleskot return as well, leaving Polar to start their own trucking company, VP Express. References."}, {"text": "Leonardo Benedetti (born 6 June 2000) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for club Sampdoria. Club career. Spezia. Benedetti was raised in Spezia youth teams and started playing for their Under-19 squad in the 2017\u201318 season. He was called up to the senior squad during the 2017\u201318 Serie B season, but did not make any appearances. Loan to Sampdoria. On 31 July 2018, Benedetti joined Serie A club Sampdoria on a two-year loan. He spent the 2018\u201319 season with their Under-19 squad. Sampdoria. Loan to Spezia. On 19 July 2019, his rights were bought out by Sampdoria who immediately loaned him back to Spezia for the 2019\u201320 season. He made his professional Serie B debut for Spezia on 21 September 2019 in a game against Perugia. He substituted Matteo Ricci in the 81st minute. That remained his only appearance for Spezia. Loan to Vis Pesaro. On 17 January 2020, Benedetti joined Serie C club Vis Pesaro until the end of the 2019\u201320 season. On 28 August 2020, the loan has been extended. Loan to Imolese. On 3 August 2021, Benedetti moved to Imolese on loan. Loan to Bari. On 12 July 2022, Benedetti moved to"}, {"text": "Bari on loan. International career. Benedetti made his first appearance representing his country on 9 August 2017 in an Italy national under-18 football team friendly against Slovenia."}, {"text": "The 2020 Davis Cup World Group II play-offs were held on 6\u20137 March. The twelve winning teams from the play-offs qualified for the 2020 Davis Cup World Group II and the twelve losing teams would play at the Group III of the corresponding continental zone. Teams. Twenty-four teams played for twelve spots in the World Group II, in series decided on a home and away basis. These twenty-four teams are: The 12 winning teams from the play-offs would play at the World Group II and the 12 losing teams would play at the Group III of the corresponding continental zone. Seeded teams Unseeded teams"}, {"text": "Plaza Nueva ('New Square') may refer to the following places in Spain:"}, {"text": "Mannheim-Waldhof station () is a railway station in the municipality of Mannheim, Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Germany."}, {"text": "Jan-Olov Gullik \"Janne\" N\u00e4ss\u00e9n (born 8 December 1957) is a Swedish curler and curling coach. He is a and a . In 1995 he was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame."}, {"text": "Bogdan Iulian Macovei (1953 \u2013 11 January 2021) was a Romanian handball manager, sports expert and author of books on handball, and European Handball Federation lecturer. Career. He graduated from the I.E.F.S. Macovei is best known for his time as Romania manager twice. He managed his country to 4th place in the 1999 World Championship and to 7th place in the 1990 World Championship and the 2000 Olympic Games respectively. After, in the 2010s, he managed RK Pelister, leading them to a European final in the 2001\u201302 EHF Challenge Cup for the first time in the club's history. Joining Oltchim R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea, he won back-to-back league titles (1999 and 2000) and the silver medal in 2001. Previously at club level, Macovei become the manager of Kometal Gjor\u010de Petrov Skopje guiding them to the EHF Champions League quarter-finals. He also managed Macedonia to 7th place in the 1997. After retirement Bogdan Macovei worked for the Romanian Handball Federation."}, {"text": "The 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie C was a football competition held in Brazil, equivalent to the third division. The competition was originally scheduled to begin on 3 May and end on 8 November, however due to COVID-19 pandemic the tournament was rescheduled for 8 August 2020 \u2013 30 January 2021. Twenty teams competed in the tournament, twelve returning from the 2019 season, four promoted from the 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D (Brusque, Manaus, Ituano and Jacuipense) and four relegated from the 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B (Londrina, S\u00e3o Bento, Crici\u00fama and Vila Nova). The matches Treze v Imperatriz, scheduled for 9 August 2020 (Group A 1st round), and Imperatriz v Jacuipense, scheduled for 15 August 2020 (Group A 2nd round), were postponed after 14 Imperatriz players tested positive for COVID-19. Brusque, Londrina, Remo and Vila Nova were promoted to the 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B. Vila Nova defeated Remo 8\u20133 on aggregate in the finals to win their third title. Format changes. Starting from this edition, the quarter-finals and semi-finals were replaced by a second group stage played by eight teams. They were divided into two groups of four teams each. The top two teams of each group were promoted"}, {"text": "to the S\u00e9rie B, while the group winners qualified for the finals. First stage. In the first stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Wins; 2. Goal difference; 3. Goals scored; 4. Head-to-head (if the tie is only between two teams); 5. Fewest red cards; 6. Fewest yellow cards; 7. Draw in the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (Regulations Article 15). The top four teams of each group advanced to the second stage. Group A. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Group B. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Second stage. In the second stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, the criteria to determine the ranking were the same as used in the first stage (Regulations Article 19). The top two teams of each group were promoted to the S\u00e9rie B. Group winners advanced to"}, {"text": "the finals. Group C. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Group D. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Finals. The finals were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the higher-seeded team hosting the second leg. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would not be used, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the champions (Regulations Article 20). The finalists were seeded according to their performance in the tournament. The teams were ranked according to overall points. If tied on overall points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Overall wins; 2. Overall goal difference; 3. Draw in the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (Regulations Article 21). The matches were played on 23 and 30 January 2021."}, {"text": "The Imperial Schutztruppe for German South West Africa () was the official name of the military formation that maintained the Imperial German rule in its colony of German South West Africa. The Schutztruppe are held responsible for numerous atrocities in the Herero and Nama uprising in 1904. During World War I, the Schutztruppe was defeated by the military of the Union of South Africa. Formation. Heinrich Vogelsang acquired the bay of Angra Pequena and five miles of hinterland for the Bremen tobacconist Adolf L\u00fcderitz on 1 May 1883 from the Nama people in Bethanie. On April 24, 1884 Bismarck telegraphed the German consul in Cape Town that \" is under the protection of the German Empire\". Between October 1888 and July 1889, in the course of a dispute between the Witbooi and the Herero, there had been an expulsion of the German Commissariat and an interruption of German sovereignty in Okahandja. The German Colonial Society engaged \"Hauptmann\" Curt von Fran\u00e7ois to provide security to the territory. In June 1889 he arrived with 21 soldiers, eight staff from the Imperial German Army and 13 volunteers, at the British-held enclave of Walvis Bay. The formal establishment of the Schutztruppe for German South"}, {"text": "West Africa was carried out by the Reich Law of 9 June 1895. The support of these troops was the responsibility of the respective protectorates (\"Reich Law on the Income and Expenses of the Protected Areas\" of 30 March 1892, RGBl. p. 369). Structure. The Schutztruppe in German South West Africa was structured in 12 companies of mounted infantry totalling ca. 2,000 men in July 1914, primarily Germans. The 7th Company, stationed in the northern desert area of the colony, was mounted on imported camels. A single unit, called the Baster Company of non-local Africans was raised and deployed. Relations between the German administration and the natives in this colony had deteriorated to the point that few local Africans were recruited; however, some Boers enlisted in the Schuztruppe due to their desire to establish an sovereign Afrikaner nation independent from British control. The colonial forces for German South West Africa consisted of volunteers from the imperial army and navy (including some Austrians), but essentially consisted of members of German regiments. Before their deployment to Africa these troops were prepared for their special tasks and future environment. Such a training base was at Karlsruhe. Because of the often humid conditions in"}, {"text": "the upper Rhine valley of the Grand Duchy of Baden, the area provided some early acclimatization. The structure of the Southwest African forces was as follows: German Southwest Africa Command at Windhuk (modern Windhoek) consisted of headquarters, administration and legal (judge advocate), medical corps, surveying and mapping units. Northern district command: Windhuk Southern district command: Keetmanshoop At the outbreak of World War I the force had a total strength of 91 officers, 22 physicians, 9 veterinarians, 59 civilian administrators, ammunition technicians, 342 NCOs and 1,444 German other ranks for a total of 1,967 personnel."}, {"text": "The Vivekam\u0101rta\u1e47\u1e0da is an early Hatha yoga text, the first to combine tantric and ascetic yoga. Attributed to Goraknath (also called Gorakshanath), it was probably written in the 13th century. It emphasises mudras as the most important practice. The name means \"Sun of Discernment\". It teaches khecar\u012bmudr\u0101 (which it calls nabhomudr\u0101), mah\u0101mudr\u0101, vipar\u012btakara\u1e47\u012b and the three bandhas. It teaches six chakras and the raising of Kundalin\u012b by means of \"fire yoga\" (\"vahniyogena\"). Sixfold system. Unlike Ashtanga, the eightfold yoga of Patanjali, the \"Vivekam\u0101rta\u1e47\u1e0da\" describes a system of six limbs: asana (posture), breath-restraint (which it calls \"pranasamrodha\"), pratyahara (withdrawal), dharana (concentration), meditation, and samadhi; omitting the first two limbs of Ashtanga, namely the Yamas and Niyamas. The text claims that there are 84 yoga postures, but describes only two. Breath control, as in tantric texts but not otherwise in hatha yoga texts, is said to cause \"udghata\", \"eruption\", making vital energy move upwards in a surge. As in Patanjali's \"Yoga Sutras\", withdrawal lies between breath control and concentration. It compares yogic withdrawal to the sun's shortening its shadow at midday, or a tortoise drawing its legs into its shell. One of the methods given for withdrawal, only in this text, is"}, {"text": "Vipar\u012btakara\u1e47\u012b; the mudra is however described both in the \"Vivekam\u0101rta\u1e47\u1e0da\" and in other texts as a means of trapping vital fluid, bindu. The \"Vivekam\u0101rta\u1e47\u1e0da\" states that yogic concentration is simply a matter of repeating the breath control practice a certain number of times. Similarly, it explains that meditation is extended concentration, and that samadhi is greatly extended meditation \u2013 for 12 hours, all through retaining the breath. Meditation can be with or without attributes (saguna or nirguna); the yogi can meditate on any one of the six chakras. It states that in samadhi, the yogi perceives and feels nothing, and cannot be harmed with weapons. James Mallinson calls this a \"death-like state\" quite unlike the subtly-graded mental state described in Patanjali's \"Yoga Sutras\". Mudras. The \"Vivekam\u0101rta\u1e47\u1e0da\" implies that the (hatha yoga) mudras operate on (Kaula tantra) Kundalini. Mallinson describes this as a \"crude refashioning\", more skilfully achieved in the later \"Khecharividya\", with its account of khechari mudra, and the \"Shiva Samhita\". Mah\u0101mudr\u0101 is used to dry up the body's fluids; this is like other ascetic texts, but opposed to tantric Kundalini practice, where the flow of amrita is meant to be increased. However, the text also seeks to ensure immortality"}, {"text": "by preserving the amrita, using the tongue to press on the upper opening next to the uvula. The contradiction of goals is perpetuated in the compilation of hatha yoga texts, the \"Hathayogapradipika\"."}, {"text": "The Office of the Comptroller General of the Defence () is a department of the Ministry of Defence of Spain that exercises the internal audit of the economic and financial management of the Ministry and of the public agencies dependent on it. Likewise, it is responsible for acting as the military notary in the form and conditions established by the laws and for advising in matters of its competence to the superior and directive departments of the Ministry. The Office is integrated in the Undersecretariat of Defence but it reports to the Comptroller General of the State. The Office of the Comptroller General is integrated by staff from the Military Audit Corps and it is headed by the Comptroller General of the Defence, who is the official responsible for issuing the necessary instructions to ensure proper coordination and unity of judgment. The current comptroller general is divisional general Mar\u00eda Teresa Gordillo L\u00f3pez, who assumed the office on December 2024. She is the first woman to hold the office. History. For much of Spain's military history, the different branches of the Armed Forces were managed by various government departments. In 1977, the three existing military ministries at that time\u2014Army, Navy and"}, {"text": "Air\u2014were unified under the Ministry of Defence. With this unification, a single audit department is created for the entire Ministry. The process was completed in 1985, when the three military audit corps were also unified. Organization chart. The Office of the Comptroller General of the Defence (IGD) is structure through two large structures; one central and another decentralized. Central services. The central structure of the IGD is integrated by: Decentralized services. The decentralized structure of the Office consists of: Comptroller General of the Defence. The position of Comptroller General of the Defense is carried out by a divisional general of the Military Audit Corps. Due to this, the Comptroller General has preference over the other divisional generales and it is responsible for the general inspection of the Military Audit Corps regarding personnel, salaries, traditions and rewards, without prejudice to the powers of the Under Secretary of Defence and the Director-General for Personnel. The Comptroller General has the rank of director-general. Secretariat. The Comptroller General has a secretariat as a direct support body, which is responsible for the registration and administrative management of the files and reports that are processed in the IGD; the computer coordination of the IGD; and the"}, {"text": "functions regarding the military notary."}, {"text": "Sripur Halt railway station is a halt railway station on the Howrah\u2013New Jalpaiguri line of Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway Zone. It is situated at Ballabhpur, Sripur of Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Total 10 passenger trains stop at Sripur Halt railway station."}, {"text": "Heather J. Sharkey (born 1967) is an American historian of the Middle East and Africa, and of the modern Christian and Islamic worlds. Her books and articles have covered topics relating to nationalism, imperialism, colonialism, postcolonial studies, missionary movements, religious communities, and language politics, especially in Egypt and Sudan. She is currently Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Early life and career. Heather J. Sharkey was born and raised in New Jersey. She graduated from Peddie School, and then won a scholarship from the English-Speaking Union to attend Culford School in Bury St. Edmunds, England, for one year. She attended Yale University, where she received a bachelor's degree in Anthropology, \"summa cum laude\" and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She won a Marshall Scholarship from the British government and attended Durham University, where she earned an MPhil degree in Modern Middle East Studies. She pursued her PhD in History at Princeton University, where she specialized in the study of modern Africa and modern Islamic thought. Her dissertation, supervised by Robert L. Tignor, received Honorable Mention for the Malcolm H."}, {"text": "Kerr Dissertation Award in the humanities from the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). Before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002, Sharkey taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1997\u201398); the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1998-2000); and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (2000-2). She was a visiting professor (Professeur Invit\u00e9) at the Institut d\u2019\u00e9tudes de l\u2019Islam et des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s du monde musulman (IISMM) of the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris (2012\u201313). Scholarship. Sharkey's first book, \"Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan\", appeared from the University of California Press in 2003, and received Honorable Mention for the Albert Hourani Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). This book examines how nationalism emerged among a generation of Sudanese Muslim thinkers who worked by day for the British colonial regime, holding mundane jobs, and who gathered by night to compose Arabic poetry and to write essays that enabled them to imagine the Sudan as a land and nation. The book shows how everyday experiences of colonial rule gave rise to cultures of nationalism. Sharkey's second book, \"American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire\", appeared"}, {"text": "from Princeton University Press in 2008. This book studies the history of the American Presbyterian missionaries who, from 1854 to 1967, operated the largest Protestant mission in Egypt, while operating schools, hospitals, and other institutions that appealed to Egyptians Christians and Muslims alike. Sharkey shows how these American missionaries influenced Egyptian society in far-reaching ways, even in the absence of conversions, and how experiences in Egypt reciprocally influenced the missionaries and the church that sent them, with consequences for American Protestant culture and U.S.-Egyptian relations more broadly. Cambridge University Press published Sharkey's third book, \"A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East\", in 2017. Written for Cambridge's Contemporary Middle East series, this book appeals to an audience of general educated readers as well as Middle East history specialists. This book shows how Islamic states \u2013 and especially the modern Ottoman state \u2013 managed religious diversity while devising specific policies towards Muslims, Christians, Jews and members of other religious groups. Sharkey closely studies Ottoman policies towards non-Muslims as \"dhimmi\"s \u2013 protected people subordinate to Muslims in Islamic societies. She considers how these policies evolved or persisted amid social changes and reforms of the nineteenth century, some of which"}, {"text": "ostensibly tried to promote religious equality while advancing ideas about citizenship. Ultimately, she considers how religion \u201cworked\u201d as a framework for government and society, and how it shaped social attitudes and expectations in the years leading up to World War I \u2013 with consequences for the Middle East in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Sharkey has also published three volumes of essays. The first, co-edited with Mehmet Ali Do\u011fan of Istanbul Technical University, is A\"merican Missionaries in the Modern Middle East: Foundational Encounters\". This book appeared from the University of Utah Press in 2011. The second, \"Cultural Conversions: Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missionary Encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia\", appeared from Syracuse University Press in 2013. Building on this work, Sharkey has written many articles on the history of Christian missions and world Christianity. With Jeffrey Edward Green, she published \"The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom\", which appeared from the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2021. With Elena Vezzadini (CNRS, Institut des mondes africaines [IMAF], Paris) and Iris Seri-Hersch (Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Aix-Marseille), she edited in 2015 a special issue of the \"Canadian Journal of African Studies\", on the theme of \u201cRethinking Sudan Studies\u201d after the 2011 secession"}, {"text": "of South Sudan. Her own article in this collection traces the life and \u201cafterlives\u201d of a giraffe who went from Sudan to France in 1826 (and whose skeleton still stands on display in the Mus\u00e9um d'Histoire naturelle de La Rochelle). This article contributes to the study of Franco-Sudanese relations and environmental history in the Nile Valley. Awards and Distinctions. Upon graduating from Yale, Sharkey became a Marshall Scholar to the United Kingdom, where she attended Durham University and earned an MPhil degree in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. She studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo, first, when she was an undergraduate at Yale, in the summer program of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) and years later, when she was an assistant professor at Trinity College, in the CASA III summer program for faculty members. She has received research grants from the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and other organizations. She is a past recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Josephine De K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Fellowship, and Carnegie Scholars Fellowship. She won the Charles Ludwig Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania in 2011."}, {"text": "Shini Somara (born Shini Somarathne; July 30, 1979) is a British mechanical engineer, media broadcaster, producer and author. She has presented \"TechKnow\" on Al Jazeera America and reporting for various BBC shows including \"The Health Show\". Somara has also hosted two educational series of physics and engineering videos on the \"Crash Course\" YouTube channel for PBS Digital Studios. She has been a presenter on BBC America, Sky Atlantic, BBC1, BBC2, and PBS. Early life and education. Somara is the eldest of three daughters born to a Sri Lanka-born mechanical engineer and his Malaysian wife (both studied at South Bank University, formerly Borough Polytechnic Institute). Somara's father runs a mechanical engineering consultancy for building services. Born and raised in London, Somara studied at Henrietta Barnett School, and began her mechanical engineering career at Brunel University London, completing a Bachelors of Engineering before moving on to an engineering doctorate (EngD), which she was awarded in 2003 for her doctoral thesis, \"Dynamic Thermal Modelling Using CFD\". Somara's specialization was in computational fluid dynamics, where computer simulations are used to visualise phenomena invisible to the naked eye, helping engineers to understand how fluids flow. Somara has a published paper in the \"International Journal of"}, {"text": "Ventilation\" titled \"Transient Solution Methods for Dynamic Thermal Modelling within CFD\". Career. Media. Somara's broadcasting career started in 2011 when she presented on the BBC's \"The Health Show\", covering developments in global health. Later that year, she began hosting \"No Kitchen Required\" which aired in 2012 on BBC America. The show involved three professional chefs immersing themselves in alternative culture with tribes and attempting to cook using unfamiliar tribal methods. The first season included trips to Dominica, New Zealand, Thailand and Fiji. In 2013, Somara started working on the Al Jazeera America talk show \"TechKnow\" - a 30-minute show about science and technology. It outlines innovations in technology and science and how they are changing lives of people in America. The shows are recorded with a group of contributors with backgrounds in science and technology. Between 2014 and late 2016, Somara worked on several BBC productions, including \"Tomorrow's Food\", \"Battle of Jutland\" and \"Secrets of Orkney\" with Neil Oliver and Chris Packham, and for Sky Atlantic. In early 2016, Somara started working with PBS Digital Studios on \"Crash Course Physics\" (an online educational resource explaining complicated theories in a simple way with intuitive visuals). She extended her involvement with \"Crash"}, {"text": "Course\" in 2018 with a new series, \"Crash Course Engineering\". In 2020, Somara was a reporter on the scientific program \"Razor\" on CGTN. In January 2021, she was a regular commentator on Science Channel's \"Engineering Catastrophes\". STEM and other work. On 10 February 2017, Somara made a speech to the United Nations about women and girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). On International Women in Engineering Day in June 2018, Somara launched her first podcast called \"Scilence\", to provide a platform for women to speak anonymously about their experiences in STEM and what it is like to work in an industry dominated by males. \"Scilence\" later developed into several more Science podcasts including \"Innervation\", \"eSTEAMd\" and \"Innovators Making a Difference\", as well as \"Mission Responsible\" which was co-created with Dr Simon Clark in 2024. Somara is a mentor at Imperial College London and is on the E&T Innovation Awards advisory board of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Somara has also written seven STEM books for young people including \"Engineers Making a difference\", which was published by Imperial College and The Gatsby Foundation. In 2024, the book was shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize. She"}, {"text": "has written an engineering book for younger readers called \"An Engineer Like Me\", the first in a series of four books (including \"A Scientist Like Me\", \"A Coder Like Me\" and \"A Mathematician Like Me\"). Awards. In 2024 she was recognised as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering."}, {"text": "Two professional wrestling championships have been named WWE Cruiserweight Championship by WWE:"}, {"text": "Panayot Panayotov (; born 28.03.1951) is a Bulgarian pop singer whose emotive songs of the 1980s and 1990s were often featured on national TV. The major themes of his songs were romantic love and \u2013 to a lesser extent \u2013 separation, loss and nostalgia."}, {"text": "Panayot Panayotov may refer to:"}, {"text": "Pierre Encrenaz (born 14 September 1945) is a French astronomer who is a professor at the Universit\u00e9 Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris VI). He was also head of the \u00c9cole doctorale d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique d'\u00cele-de-France. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in December 2000, in the \"Universe Sciences\" section. Biography. After secondary studies at the Lyc\u00e9e Berthollet in Annecy, he entered preparatory classes at the Lyc\u00e9e du Parc in Lyon, then at the \u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure in Paris (student, agr\u00e9g\u00e9 pr\u00e9parateur, sous-directeur) (1965\u20131979). He spent several stays at Princeton and Bell Laboratories (1968\u20131973). He became an astronomer at Paris Observatory (1979\u20131991) and at the \u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure (1973\u20131992). Pierre Encrenaz was a professor at the Pierre et Marie Curie University and a researcher at the Laboratory for the Study of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics (UMR8112 Observatoire de Paris-CNRS-universit\u00e9 de Cergy-Pontoise-universit\u00e9 Paris VI-ENS). Currently, Pierre Encrenaz is a university professor and emeritus at Paris Observatory. Scientific works. Pierre Encrenaz's scientific work focuses on the physics of the interstellar medium (interstellar molecules, isotopes) in our galaxy and a few nearby galaxies. Installation of a microwave laboratory (superconducting junctions) at the ENS and Meudon to observe the Earth's atmosphere, the"}, {"text": "atmosphere of several planets and the interstellar medium in millimetres and submillimetres. Several technology transfers have been carried out (cryogenitors, mixers, shottky). They are divided into three periods: But also: He is author and co-author of more than 400 peer-reviewed articles, and two patents, of which are the most recent: ..., JM Munier, M Gheudin, G Beaudin, P Encrenaz - Optics ..., 2002 - osapublishing.org ..., BJR Davidsson, P Encrenaz, T Encrenaz... - ..., 2015 - science.sciencemag.org ..., P Caselli, E Caux, P Encrenaz... - The Astrophysical..., 2011 - iopscience.iop.org ..., RN Clark, M Crapeau, PJ Encrenaz... - Journal of ..., 2008 - Wiley Online Library ...P Paillou, J Lunine, G Ruffi\u00e9, P Encrenaz... - Geophysical..., 2008 - Wiley Online Library ...RD Lorenz, G Biolluz, P Encrenaz, MA Janssen... - Planetary and Space ..., 2003 - Elsevier ..., J Lunine, R Lopes, P Encrenaz - Geophysical..., 2008 - Wiley Online Library ..., J Crovisier, D Despois, P Encrenaz... - Planetary and Space ..., 2007 - Elsevier ..., SJ Keihm, M Choukroun, C Leyrat, PJ Encrenaz... - Icarus, 2016 - Elsevier He is the author or co-author of several books: Personal life. Encrenaz married Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Encrenaz, another astronomer."}, {"text": "Federico Ravaglia (born 11 November 1999) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Bologna. Career. Bologna. Ravaglia was raised in the Bologna youth teams and started playing for their Under-19 squad in the 2016\u201317 season. During the 2016\u201317 and 2017\u201318 seasons, he appeared on the bench in Serie A matches 40 times, but did not see any playing time. During the 2020\u201321 season he became the Bologna's second keeper (after \u0141ukasz Skorupski) during the season, and he also did his debut for the club in Serie A on 13 December 2020 in a 5\u20131 home loss against Roma. Loan to S\u00fcdtirol. On 10 July 2018, he joined Serie C club S\u00fcdtirol on a season-long loan. He made his professional Serie C debut for S\u00fcdtirol on 5 May 2019 in a game against Monza. He replaced Michele Nardi at half-time. That remained his only appearance for S\u00fcdtirol as he stayed on the bench for the rest of the season. Loan to Gubbio. On 23 July 2019, he was loaned to Serie C club Gubbio. He made his first starting-lineup Serie C appearance for Gubbio on 25 August 2019 in a game against Triestina. Loan to Frosinone."}, {"text": "On 17 July 2021, he was loaned to Serie B side Frosinone. Loan to Reggina. On 21 July 2022, Ravaglia joined Reggina on loan. The loan was terminated early in January 2023 after Nicola Bagnolini suffered a long-term injury and Bologna needed a third goalkeeper. Return to Bologna. On 20 December 2023, Ravaglia started and saved a penalty kick by Lautaro Mart\u00ednez in a 2\u20131 away victory over Inter Milan, in the round of 16 of the Coppa Italia. Honours. Bologna"}, {"text": "Dominic Ondoro (born March 3, 1988, also known as Pius Dominic Ondoro) is a Kenyan long-distance runner best known for holding the course records at Minnesota's Grandma's Marathon and the Twin Cities Marathon. He has won many other major marathons, some multiple times, such as the 2017 and 2023 Houston Marathon in Texas, his two Melbourne Marathon wins in Australia and his unrivaled four Twin Cities Marathon wins in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Running career. At the IAAF-labeled Houston Marathon in 2017, Ondoro ran most of the race with a large group that included Ethiopian Olympians Yitayal Atnafu and Abayneh Ayele. The race had been won by Ethiopians in the previous eight years, but Ondoro sped up in the last two miles to win the race in 2:12:05. Ondoro finished second at the Stockholm Marathon in 2011 in 2:14:23. The same year, he won the Helsinki City Marathon at age 23. He finished in 2:23:24. In 2012, he finished ninth in the Mumbai Marathon in 2:14:56. Later in 2012, Ondoro raced the Great Bristol Half Marathon, winning the competitive race in 1:02:51. His personal best time in a marathon was at the Tiberias Marathon in 2013. The race takes place near the"}, {"text": "Sea of Galilee in Israel. Ondoro was crowned the victor after he finished just seconds ahead of Deribe Melka and Francis Kibiwott Larabal and crossed the finish line in 2:08:00. In 2013, at the Lille Half Marathon in Lille, France, Ondoro finished sixth in his best-ever half marathon race, coming in at 1:01:32, a few seconds behind Abraham Cheroben. In 2014, he became the new course record holder at Grandma's Marathon, which runs from Two Harbors to Duluth, Minnesota, by winning in a time of 2:09:06. The former record was held for 33 years by Dick Beardsley (former winner of the London Marathon). \"I've been honored to hold the record for that long, but now it's time to pass it on,\" Beardsley said after being one of the first people to congratulate Ondoro for his victory. He returned in 2015 and finished in 2:11:17. It was enough for second place, behind his training partner Elisha Barno, who won in 2:10:38. Ondoro won the Melbourne Marathon in back-to-back years: 2013 and 2014. In 2015, he beat out 40,000 other runners to win the Cooper River Bridge Run, a 10K run in South Carolina that is the fifth-largest road race in the"}, {"text": "United States. With a strong headwind, he finished first in 29:22. In 2016, against 36,000 competitors, he won again, finishing in 29:00. The prize each year was $10,000. In 2016 and 2017, he was the back-to-back champion of the Azalea Trail Run in Mobile, Alabama (a 10K run) with times of 28:25 and 28:04, respectively. In May 2016, Ondoro finished third at the Ottawa Marathon in 2:11:39 behind Ethiopians Dino Sefir and Shura Kitata. Ondoro broke another longstanding course record in 2016 at the Twin Cities Marathon. Phil Coppess had set the record in 1985, when he ran the course in 2:10:05, one of the fastest American marathons of all time. The record stood for 31 years. But in the late October morning, Ondoro outran his competition and finished in 2:08:51, taking home $35,000. It was the fastest marathon ever run in Minnesota. Both he and second-place winner Elisha Barno ran faster than the winning time at the 2016 Chicago Marathon. The record-breaking year wasn't the first or last time he would break the tape in the Midwestern race. Ondoro has won the Twin Cities race, which runs from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to St. Paul, four times: 2015, 2016, 2017, and"}, {"text": "2019. He didn't compete in 2018. He won the 2022 Grandma's Marathon in near course-record time. On November 20, 2022, in the cold and wind, he won the Philadelphia Marathon. He started 2023 by winning the Houston Marathon. Early and personal life. Ondoro was born in Kenya and lives in Uasin Gishu County, where many elite marathoners train. He and Elisha Barno, another elite marathon runner, train together in Eldoret, Kenya, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. They have been coached by Kenyan World Championship gold medalist Yobes Ondieki. In 2016, they were represented by agent Scott Robinson. Barno and Ondoro are good friends and both own home construction companies in Kenya. Ondoro has three children."}, {"text": "Antxon or Antx\u00f3n is the Basque form of the masculine given name Antton in use in the Basque Country. Notable people with this name include the following:"}, {"text": "Ekaterine \"Kato\" Mikeladze (1878\u20131942) was a Georgian journalist and feminist who from 1916 fought for women's rights. In order to encourage women to become politically active, she established The Inter-Partial League of Women backed by \"The Voice of Georgian Women\", a newspaper she founded and edited, publishing articles on social and political issues. Thanks to her efforts, in 1919 five women were among the elected members of Georgia's parliament following the country's first democratic election. Biography. Born in 1878 in Kutaisi, Mikeladze completed her school education at the city's St. Nino School. In 1898, already a committed feminist, she responded to assertions of women's limited intelligence by commenting in the journal \"Kvali\": \"The [emancipation] movement will continue until the root causes are eradicated. Science shows the causes of economic and political inequality do not result from inequality in ability or intelligence.\" She went on to study in Moscow (1903) and in Brussels, graduating in Social and Political Sciences. She then spent several years in Paris where she followed developments in women's involvement in politics, including the activities of the British National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and Women's Social and Political Union. Back in Kutaisi in 1916, she strove to"}, {"text": "improve women's participation in politics by establishing the Inter-Partial League of Women and \"The Voice of Georgian Women\", a newspaper promoting the social and political views of women from Georgia and elsewhere in Europe. Legacy. In 2013 the Women's Fund in Georgia established the Kato Mikeladze Award to recognize the work of women's rights activists in the country."}, {"text": "Hamza Massoudi (born 24 January 2000) is a Belgian footballer who plays for Dessel Sport. Career. On 2 August 2023, Massoudi signed a contract with Dessel Sport, on a one-year contract. Personal life. Born in Belgium, Massoudi is of Moroccan descent."}, {"text": "Francois Forget (born in 1967) is a French astrophysicist, specializing in the exploration of the Solar System and planetary environments. He is a research director at the CNRS and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Biography. After graduating from ENSTA Paris in 1991 and subsequently defending his thesis on the study of the planet Mars in 1996, Fran\u00e7ois Forget became a CNRS research fellow in 1998. He created the \"planetology\" team of the Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology (LMD) in 2003 and then headed the \"Solar System\" pole of the Pierre-Simon-Laplace Institute from 2009 to 2017. He worked at NASA between 2004 and 2005 and became CNRS Research Director at the LMD in 2010. Works. Fran\u00e7ois Forget is involved in many space missions such as Mars Express (ESA), ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (ESA), \"New Horizons\" (NASA), InSight (NASA) or Rover ExoMars (ESA). He studies the climate and atmospheres on the telluric planets of the solar system (Mars, Venus, Pluto, Titan, Triton) and on exoplanets. To do this, it has developed digital models designed to simulate environments on these planets in order to analyze space observations, prepare robotic missions, study the habitability of exoplanets and better understand the Earth."}, {"text": "Plaza de San Francisco () is a square in the Casco Antiguo of Seville, Spain. The \"Ayuntamiento\" (City Hall), known as \"Casa consistorial de Sevilla\", built in the 16th century, runs along the entire western side of the square. On the other side of the City Hall is the Plaza Nueva. Both \"plazas\" are connected to the Avenida de la Constituci\u00f3n. History. By the time Seville was reconquered by the Crown of Castile in 1248, a square was already present in this space. It was named Plaza de San Francisco after the Convento de San Francisco, which was the main access to the square between 1268 and 1840. A fish market used to be present in the west side, before the City Hall was built in the 16th century. Part of the hithertho unlocated Roman walls of Romula Hispalis (3rd century AD) were discovered in the plaza in 2021 during the building works of a hotel."}, {"text": "Nelson Felix Balongo Lissondja Vha (born 15 April 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for RFC Seraing. Born in Belgium, he represented the DR Congo at youth level. Club career. On 24 June 2022, it was announced he would join Polish I liga club \u0141KS \u0141\u00f3d\u017a on a three-year deal. On 15 December 2023, his contract was terminated by mutual consent. On 1 February 2024, Balongo joined Challenger Pro League side RFC Seraing. International career. Born in Belgium, Balongo is of Congolese descent. He has represented the DR Congo U20, and the DR Congo U23s. Honours. \u0141KS \u0141\u00f3d\u017a \u0141KS \u0141\u00f3d\u017a II"}, {"text": "The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) is a non-governmental organization which represents family members of people who have been subject to enforced disappearance in Pakistan's province of Balochistan. VBMP records data on enforced disappearances; releases press statements; organises protests, rallies, and hunger strike camps; and facilitates the submission of first information reports and cases to Pakistani police stations and courts. Its Chairperson is Nasrullah Baloch and its Vice Chairperson is Mama Qadeer, while its General Secretary is Sammi Deen Baloch. It alleges that people are disappeared by Pakistan's security agencies, including the Pakistan Army, the Frontier Corps, and its various intelligence agencies including Inter-Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence (Pakistan). The VBMP calls for a political rather than military or violent solution to the low-level insurgency in Pakistan's province of Balochistan. The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (COIOED) was set up by the Government of Pakistan to investigate, trace, and prosecute on behalf of \"such persons as has been picked up/taken into custody by any Law Enforcing/Intelligence Agency, working under the civilian or military control, in a manner which is contrary to the provisions of the law\". In January 2018, it said that only 1,532 cases of enforced disappearances"}, {"text": "were pending, of which only 125 cases were from Balochistan. History of the VBMP. Though the VBMP was formally founded on 27 October 2009, but its members have been active since the first known enforced disappearance, that of Ali Asghar Bangulzai in Balochistan in 2000. Ali Asghar Bangulzai was abducted in 2000 for 14 days and then released; he was abducted against in 2001 and remains missing to this day. Nasrullah Baloch supports the efforts of his family to find his uncle, Ali Asghar Bangulzai. The VBMP takes responsibility for pushing the Supreme Court of Pakistan to order that police stations issue First Information Reports demanded by families of the missing in 2010. In the same period, the VBMP was pushing the Supreme Court of Pakistan to take \"suo motu\" notice of missing persons in Balochistan. In 2011, the mutilated body of Jalil Rekhi, the son of VBMP Vice Chairperson Mama Qadeer was found, \"with bullet wounds and cigarette burns.\" Rekhi was abducted in 2009. On 1 April 2011, VBMP Chairperson Nasrullah Baloch said that 121 bodies had been recovered in just eight months. At the same press conference, he announced hunger strike camps; he also said that he had"}, {"text": "a list of 1,300 Baloch missing persons. In 2012, the current head of the Government Commission Retired Justice Javed Iqbal conducted three days of hearings on Balochistan's missing persons but declared that the government agencies were not involved in abduction and enforced disappearances. On 18 September 2012, VBMP Chairperson Nasrullah Baloch said that he was receiving threats. On 12 September 2013, the Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported that they had received documentation from the home and tribal affairs department of the province of Balochistan that 592 mutilated bodies had been found around the province. The VBMP said that the numbers were under-reported. Dawn also reported that another 132 cases were pending before the Supreme Court and the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances. On 31 December 2013, the VBMP Chairperson Nasrullah Baloch said that 161 Baloch workers were subjected to extrajudicial killings across the province. He also said that 510 \"Baloch political workers\" were picked up by the \"secret services\". The provincial home and tribal affairs denied the accusation, saying that the numbers were lower than those claimed by the VBMP. The VBMP Chairperson also said that Balochistan's Frontier Corps chief was issued a contempt notice by the Supreme Court over"}, {"text": "the issue of missing persons. At the end of 2013, Justice Hani Irfan Muslim, a member of a two-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan hearing cases of Baloch missing persons, called for security to be given to the VBMP chairperson, Nasrullah Baloch. The march began late October, 2013. In June 2014, mass graves were discovered in Tootak, Khuzdar. Chief Justice Tassadug Hussain Jilani eventually took sou motu notice, directing the Inspector General of Balochistan to look into the discovery of mutilated bodies. On 1 April 2014, the Asian Human Rights Commission put out an Urgent Appeal Case warning of threats against VBMP Chairperson Nasrullah Baloch. According to the appeal, Nasrullah Baloch had been receiving threats for over a year from unknown persons claiming to be from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. In 2014, the VBMP led a historic \"long march\" from its capital of Quetta down through Karachi, up through Punjab and Lahore and ending up in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad. In January 2015, the Supreme Court of Pakistan directed the federal government to come up with a list of missing persons after an application from VBMP. In 2016, the BBC reported that over 1000 mutilated bodies had been found"}, {"text": "in Balochistan. The VBMP Chairperson, Nasrullah Baloch, said that most of those disappeared were activists. On April 7, 2016, the VBMP appealed in court for review of the decision about the disposal of missing person's case that was accepted for hearing. The VBMP said that the practice of abduction and the dumping of mutilated bodies was continuing at the same pace. On 11 September 2017, the VBMP Chairman Nasrullah Baloch and the Vice Chairman Mama Abdul Qadeer Baloch urged human rights organisations to establish a joint force on the issue of missing persons. VBMP Chairperson Nasrullah Baloch also said that 41 cases had been sent to the Supreme Court of Pakistan with the consent of families of the missing. On 16 January 2019, Dawn reported that the VBMP suspended its hunger strike camp for the first time in 10 years, for a period of 2 months, after assurances from the provincial government that steps would be taken to return those who have been forcibly disappeared. On 24 June 2019, retired Justice Fazlur Rehman Bazai started hearing cases in Balochistan of missing persons over the course of \"nine consecutive hearings\" that took up 122 cases. On 29 June 2019, Balochistan's Home"}, {"text": "Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove revealed that 200 Baloch missing persons returned home after 1 January 2019, though the Chairperson of the VBMP Nasrullah Baloch put the number far lower, at 103 missing persons. In a news report on 31 December 2018, VBMP Chairperson said he provided a list of 110 missing persons to the provincial government. Six months later, it was reported that the VBMP provided Langove and the provincial government a list of 250 missing persons alongside the 40 cases that were already being heard in a commission set up in Quetta. According to the Chairperson of the VBMP, Nasrullah Baloch, groups of missing persons started returning home in the summer of 2019. On 3 July 2019, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported that 12 people had returned over the preceding 9 days to various homes around Balochistan. This took place during hearings in Balochistan's capital of Quetta, by retired Justice Fazlur Rehman Bazai. The United Nations, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International have condemned enforced disappearances in Balochistan."}, {"text": "Plaza de San Francisco (Saint Francis Square) may refer to:"}, {"text": "Tommaso Cassandro (born 9 January 2000) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defender for club Como. Club career. Bologna. Cassandro started playing for the under-19 squad of Bologna in the 2016\u201317 season. He did not get called up to the senior squad. Loan to Novara. On 13 August 2019, Cassandro joined Serie C club Novara on loan. He made his professional Serie C debut for Novara on 26 August 2019 in a game against Juventus U23, starting the game and playing the whole match. Cittadella. On 29 August 2020, Cassandro joined Serie B club Cittadella on a permanent basis. Bologna retained a buy-back option that may be activated in the 2022\u201323 season. Lecce. On 17 January 2023, Cassandro signed a three-year contract with Lecce. Como. On 15 July 2023, Cassandro signed a four-year contract with Como. On 21 August 2024, Cassandro was loaned to Catanzaro, with an option to buy."}, {"text": "Bernard Maurice Jones II (born 1979) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma and a former magistrate judge of the same court. Early life and education. Jones was born in northeast Oklahoma City, and attended Bishop McGuinness High School. Jones earned his Bachelor of Arts from Southern Methodist University and his Juris Doctor from Notre Dame Law School. Career. Jones was in private practice, where he focused on commercial and labor and employment law, first at Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLP in Columbus, Ohio, and later in the Oklahoma City office of McAfee & Taft. State court service. In 2012, he was appointed as a District Judge for Oklahoma County District Court, where he presided over the family and domestic relations and civil dockets and oversaw the District's Drug Court and Mental Health Court programs. A case Jones presided over drew national attention in 2014 when he ultimately denied a request by an Oklahoma school district to replay a high school football game that was allegedly botched by referees, noting that it was not up to the court to intervene in such a decision. Federal judicial service. Jones"}, {"text": "was appointed as a United States magistrate judge in 2015, and was sworn into office on August 17, 2015. He was the first African American to be appointed to this position in the state of Oklahoma. His service as a magistrate judge was terminated on December 31, 2019 when he was elevated to district judge. On October 2, 2019, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Jones to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. On October 17, 2019, his nomination was sent to the Senate. Jones was nominated to the seat vacated by Judge Joe L. Heaton, who assumed senior status on July 1, 2019. On October 30, 2019, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Oklahoma Senators James Lankford and Jim Inhofe released a statement supporting Jones' nomination. On November 21, 2019, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 19\u20133 vote. On December 18, 2019, the United States Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 88\u20135 vote. On December 19, 2019, his nomination was confirmed by a 91\u20133 vote. He received his judicial commission on December 31,"}, {"text": "2019."}, {"text": "Malahar Halt railway station is a halt railway station on the Howrah\u2013New Jalpaiguri line of Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway Zone. It is situated beside National Highway 81, Belungaon of Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal."}, {"text": "The Flagler Arts and Technology Village (not Food), also known as FATVillage is an arts district located in the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florid\"a\"\".\" FATVillage is a non profit arts district, that welcomes local artists and businesses. FATVillage was created by Doug McCraw and Lutz Hofbauer, with the intention of providing an outlet for young artists and designers to showcase their work. FATVillage allowed creative individuals to be immersed in a community of people with the same interests and goals. FATVillage was put in place for the local artist community in Fort Lauderdale to make their works more accessible to the public. FATVillage is also known for its \"Last Saturday\" Art Walks in which local artists and vendors display and sell their work. Past exhibitions. The exhibitions at FATVillage are contemporary art, and often reflect the artists views on current events. FATVillage debuted their exhibition \u201cRipped From the Headlines\u201d on April 27, 2019. The exhibition included work from 18 artists who displayed their views on topics that have been seen as controversial in media such as the Black Lives Matter Movement, the Me Too Movement, border walls, white supremacy, and the NRA. \u201cRipped From the Headlines\u201d was curated by Elle"}, {"text": "Schorr. Another exhibition featuring contemporary art was \"In Close Proximity\" featuring JohnBob Carlos. Living in FATVillage. Since 2017, there has been over forty housing developments in the works at FATVillage. This increase in the amount of living space in the area can be attributed to, in part, to the increasing attention that FATVillage has brought to the Flagler Village area of downtown Fort Lauderdale. According to Fort Lauderdale Magazine, there are nearly 1,000 multifamily apartment units located in FATVillage. However, given the lack of space available for growth, expansion is expected to slow down as more residents move in to the area. As of 2017, the average price for land in FATVillage is around $350 per square ft of space. Recently, urban development company Urban Street Development, the same team responsible for assisting in the development of FATVillage, announced a new housing project under works in FATVillage. As reported by Ron Hurtbise in the Sun Sentinel, this new project - The Forge Lofts - will be FATVillages first residential development in which buyers can actually own residential property in the area. Before, interested tenants were only able to rent residential space. The brand new, seven-story, 33-unit project is expected to"}, {"text": "be completed by mid-2020. As of now, pre-construction prices currently range from the mid - $300,000 to the mid - $800,000 (Hurtbise)."}, {"text": "The WAFF Women's Clubs Championship () is an international women's association football competition. It involves club teams from countries affiliated with the West Asian governing body WAFF. The competition was first played in 2019, with five teams participating at the time. Safa are the current champions, having won the 2022 edition."}, {"text": "(born in Yamanashi Prefecture, on 14 October 1974) is a Japanese former rugby union player and currently coach. Career. Amino first played rugby in 1993, for Kanto Gakuin University's rugby union team. In 1997 after his graduation, he would join NEC Green Rockets, playing for the club until the end of his career in 2010. International career. Amino debuted for Japan during the test match against South Korea, on 2 July 2000, in Aomori. He was also part of the 2003 Rugby World Cup Japan squad, playing three matches in the tournament, with his last test cap being the pool stage match against United States in Gosford, on 27 October 2003. Coaching career. After his retirement from played rugby in 2010, Amino would coach his former club NEC Green Rockets between 2010 and 2016."}, {"text": "My People, My Country () is a 2019 Chinese anthology drama film, consisting of seven segments directed by seven directors, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yibai, Guan Hu, Xue Xiaolu, Xu Zheng, Ning Hao, and Wen Muye. It stars many of China's top actors, many in supporting roles and cameos. \"My People, My Country\" is produced jointly by Huaxia Film Distribution, Polybona Films and Alibaba Pictures. The film was released in China on September 30, 2019, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the People's Republic of China. It has two sequels, \"My People, My Homeland\" (2020) and \"My Country, My Parents\" (2021). Plot. The Eve. The opening segment by director Guan Hu, \"The Eve\" (), is about an engineer, Lin Zhiyuan (played by Huang Bo), racing against time to perfect an automatic flag-raising mechanism before the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China. Due to a faulty part, they scrounge the neighborhood for resources to build another one. They get many enthusiastic donations, and successfully install the mechanism at dawn. Passing By. The second story \"Passing By\" (), directed by Zhang Yibai, sees Gao Yuan (played by Zhang Yi), a scientist working on China's first atom bomb, who"}, {"text": "had to disappear from his lover in the 1960s. After receiving furlough due to a workplace radiation accident, he encounters her on a bus. She pleads for him to talk to her and reminisces before the bus is stopped by a parade celebrating the successful atomic test. Yuan dies some time later. The Champion. The third story \"The Champion\" (), directed by Xu Zheng, is about how a young boy from Shanghai named Dong Dong (played by Han Haolin) helped his neighbors watch TV for the China women's national volleyball team's Olympic gold medal win in 1984 at the cost of not being able to bid farewell to his crush. Going Home. The fourth story \"Going Home\" (), directed by Xue Xiaolu, is about a Chinese executive delegation and local policemen preparing for the return of Hong Kong from British rule to China in 1997. The 12-second silence between the British and Chinese anthems during the Hong Kong handover ceremony is also reflected in this part. Hello Beijing. The fifth story \"Hello Beijing\" (), directed by Ning Hao, is about a taxi driver who gives a ticket to the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics to a boy from"}, {"text": "the Sichuan earthquake zone, who attempted to steal it, though it was intended to be a birthday gift for his son. The Guiding Star. The sixth story \"The Guiding Star\" (), directed by Chen Kaige, is about a pair of homeless brothers who witness the landing of the capsule of the Shenzhou 11 crewed spacecraft on November 18, 2016, a moment of national pride that touched them. One for All. \"One for All\" (), directed by Wen Muye, follows the story of a top female fighter jet pilot L\u00fc Xiaoran who helps her fellow pilots accomplish a smooth aerial performance at the Military Parade of the 70th Anniversary of the Victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945. Release. On March 20, 2019, the producers announced that the film was slated for release on October 1, 2019, during the National Day. On September 6, 2019, it was announced that the film has been advanced to September 30, 2019. \"My People, My Country\" was distributed by China Media Capital, a major international distributor of Chinese film and television, in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Reception. Box office. With a total gross of over $474 million, \"My People, My"}, {"text": "Country\" currently sits as the 15th highest-grossing non-English film of all time. The film grossed about 369 million yuan (51.62 million U.S. dollars) on its second day of screening. It grossed one billion yuan in three days. The film earned more than 2 billion yuan on its opening weekend. Critical response. Douban, a major Chinese media rating site, gave the drama 8.1 out of 10."}, {"text": "Teddese Lemi Urgesa (born 20 January 1999) is an Ethiopian track and field athlete who specializes in middle-distance running. He competed at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, where he won a gold medal in mixed relay with the Ethiopian team. He represented Ethiopia at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, competing in men's 1500 metres. He also competed in the 1500 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The private provision of NHS services has been considered a controversial topic since the early 1990s. Keep Our NHS Public, NHS Support Federation and other groups have campaigned against the threat of privatisation, largely in England. The 1997 Labour Party manifesto made a specific commitment to end the Conservatives\u2019 internal market in health care, but in government they retained the split between purchasers and providers of healthcare. In 2000 the Labour Government agreed \"A Concordat with the Private and Voluntary Health Care Provider Sector\" with the Independent Healthcare Association. The intention was to increase capacity, particularly in elective care, where private provision was used to bring down waiting lists, in critical care, and in intermediate care facilities. This was followed, in April 2002,by the introduction of prospective payment with nationally set prices for acute, elective activity under \u2018payment by results\u2019. Under patient choice, patients could opt for treatment by a private provider paid by the NHS. The NHS Plan led to the development of independent sector treatment centres which provide fast, pre-booked surgery and diagnostic tests for NHS funded patients separating scheduled treatment from emergency care. These centres played a role in reducing the price paid for \u2018spot purchases\u2019 with"}, {"text": "private providers. Previously when the NHS had made use of the independent sector on an ad hoc basis, it often paid 40-100% more than the equivalent cost to the NHS. In \"The NHS Improvement Plan: Putting people at the heart of public services\", published in 2004, there was an expectation that the independent sector would supply up to 15% of NHS services by 2008, but this figure was not reached. Rules to prohibit NHS consultants from charging \"top-up fees\" to NHS patients for extra services were clarified in 2008 to make it clearer that paying for chemotherapy treatment not available on the NHS would not prevent patients from subsequently accessing NHS treatments. When the coalition government introduced what became the Health and Social Care Act 2012 it appeared to pave the way for a bigger role for private companies, but the impact of austerity on NHS budgets meant that take up of private capacity was low. In September 2018 it was said that the private sector in England had the capacity for around 100,000 additional inpatient procedures in the last six months of 2018-19. Although NHS waiting lists had risen significantly there did not appear to be any concrete plans"}, {"text": "to employ private providers to reduce it. Since early 2017 private provision had been steadily about 6% of the total NHS caseload for elective surgery according to NHS Gooroo. Expenditure. The UK has the fifth largest share of healthcare financed through government schemes out of the 36 OECD member states. According to the Department of Health and Social Care a total of \u00a39.2 billion was paid to private providers in England in 2018-9, or about 7% of the departmental budget (it would be a larger proportion of the NHS budget). This clearly does not include what is spent on primary care, nor spending on medicines or equipment. It was an increase of 14% compared to 2014-15. They report a further \u00a33.43 billion paid to the voluntary and not-for-profit sector and to local councils. These figures are said by the Centre for Health and the Public Interest to be misleading. They calculate the proportion of the NHS budget spent on non-NHS providers as about 26%, about \u00a329 billion. This is managed through 53,000 individual contracts. The official departmental figures distinguish between the \u2018independent sector\u2019, the \u2018voluntary sector\u2019, the \u2018private sector\u2019, and \u2018local authorities\u2019. The money paid to local authorities is intended"}, {"text": "for social care, which is largely privately provided. NHS England spent a further \u00a3830 million on social care directly in 2018-9. There is no definition of the \u2018independent sector\u2019 or the \u2018voluntary sector\u2019. Many private providers are registered charities. Furthermore only services directly commissioned by clinical commissioning groups are included. Services subcontracted by NHS trusts - most commonly elective surgery - are not included. \u00a31.3 billion was spent in this way in 2018-9. Primary care. Since the establishment of the NHS in 1948 most primary care - general practice, dentistry, opticians and pharmacy - has been provided by private contractors, whose staff are not NHS employees. General practitioners, like the other contractors, run businesses, but, unlike them, their income is almost entirely derived from the NHS under the General Medical Services Contract, they are covered by the NHS pension scheme and their services are free to registered patients. Initially the contracts for these private providers were managed by local Executive Councils. In the 1974 reorganisation they were replaced by family practitioner committees. In 1990 these were abolished and they were replaced by family health services authorities. They are now managed by NHS England which spent \u00a314 billion on them in"}, {"text": "total 2018/19. \u00a32.9 billion was spent on private dentistry in 2018-19, with about \u00a32.5 billion spent on private optometry and pharmaceutical services, although this sum has been declining. Hospital services. Campaigning is generally concentrated on hospital services. Large parts of the hospital estate which were previously designated as long-stay geriatric wards were closed in the 1980s and 90s. Such patients were moved to residential care or nursing homes, which are almost entirely privately provided. Previously homes were provided by local authorities but the funding regime was engineered in such a way as to make that unsustainable. Some is regarded as social care, which is means-tested. Continuing healthcare, though paid for by the NHS, is largely privately provided. NHS trusts spot purchasing from private providers, largely to meet NHS targets rose from \u00a3645 million in 2013-14 to \u00a31.3 billion in 2018-19. In May 2018 private providers carried out 43,145 NHS day case electives and 7,720 overnight elective procedures. In May 2021 it was 40,700 day cases and 6,715 overnight electives. NHS commissioning expenditure from non-NHS organisations in England increased by 27% to more than \u00a318 billion in 2020-21 under the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic in England. This includes services provided"}, {"text": "by social enterprises and charities, as well as private corporations. If a private hospital is a registered charity it is exempt from business rates although NHS hospitals are not. Ramsay Health Care UK runs 30 sites providing NHS-funded services. In June 2019 it provided 5,664 inpatient and 6,997 outpatient NHS-funded procedures. It announced in 2019 that NHS referrals had increased by 7.4% and it had benefited from an increase in NHS tariff prices. Independent providers are represented by the Independent Healthcare Providers Network, which stresses the importance of patient choice. In 2019 private hospitals carried out 526,000 elective procedures on NHS patients. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England that fell to 291,000. In March 2020 NHS England block booked most of the private hospital sector\u2019s services, facilities and nearly 20,000 clinical staff at cost price in a deal brokered by the Independent Healthcare Providers Network to expand capacity during with the pandemic. This included about 8,000 hospital beds. This was intended to be used largely for routine surgery. In January 2022 a further three month \u2018covid surge deal\u2019 was negotiated where providers agreed that they would suspend their private activity to \u201cmake facilities and staff available to the"}, {"text": "NHS system\u201d in areas where covid patient numbers or staff absences \u201cthreatened the NHS\u2019s ability to provide urgent care\u201d. The Independent Healthcare Provider Network said that available staffed capacity in the private sector had simply gone unused. This deal would cost the NHS between \u00a375 million and \u00a390 million each month from January to April. If the capacity needed to be fully utilised payments could double. Ambulance services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission reported that ambulance services were relying on private providers because of lack of capacity. Some firms had failed to obtain references or carry out criminal record checks and a lack of staff training was leading to serious patient harm. More than \u00a392 million was spent in 2018/9 on private ambulances and taxis. Mental health. According to health-services scholar John Lister 30% of all mental health spending in 2018-9 was in the private sector and in child and adolescent mental health services 44%. The boundary between healthcare, which is free, and social care, which is means tested, is quite unclear in this area. The process of deinstitutionalisation, which involved the closure of the large asylums, meant the transfer of patients to community care, much of which is"}, {"text": "regarded as social care. In 2019 13% of inpatient beds in England were provided by American companies. According to the Candesic consultancy around \u00a31.8 billion of the \u00a313.8 billion spent by the NHS on mental healthcare in 2018, including non hospital services, went to the private sector. About 25% of NHS mental healthcare beds in England were provided by the private sector, and 98% of their earnings came from the NHS. In August 2022 there were 238 independent NHS mental health providers licensed by the Care Quality Commission in England. 64 were rated either \u201crequire improvement\u201d or are considered \u201cinadequate\u201d. Claire Murdoch of NHS England announced a \u201cvery major quality improvement programme that will focus hugely on inpatient care, and including very much the independent sector\u201d. Controversy. The issue of privatisation of health services was a topic of debate during the 2015 United Kingdom general election. The government's main stance is summed up in this quote: \"(the) use of the private sector in the NHS represents only 6% of the total NHS budget - an increase of just 1% since May 2010\". It is unclear what this statement meant. Some NHS services, such as dentistry, optical care and pharmacy, have"}, {"text": "always been provided by the private sector and, technically, most GP practices are private partnerships. All the drugs, supplies and equipment used by the NHS are privately provided. Taken together this amounts to around 40% of the NHS budget. In addition some NHS organisations subcontract work to private providers. The NHS accounts for 2013/4 show that \u00a310 billion of the total NHS budget of \u00a3113 billion was spent on care from non-NHS providers. The main growth in private provision has been in mental health and community health services. Any Qualified Provider. Any Qualified Provider was a government policy intended to encourage all NHS, private, third sector or social enterprise health service providers to compete for contracts on an equal footing. Scotland. Scottish health boards spent at least \u00a3130,866,841 on private providers from 2015 to 2018, about 0.5% of the budget compared to 7.3% in NHS England."}, {"text": "On 3 October 2019, a police employee at the Paris police headquarters stabbed four of his colleagues to death and injured two others. He was shot dead by police at the scene. Attack. During the early afternoon on 3 October 2019, a police employee stabbed six colleagues at the Prefecture of Police on the \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 in central Paris, killing three police officers and one member of the support staff as well as injuring two others. Police opened fire, killing the attacker in the building's main courtyard. The attack came a day after police went on strike across France over increasing violence towards officers. Attacker. The attacker was reported as being 45-year-old Micka\u00ebl Harpon, an IT specialist who worked in the intelligence unit of the police headquarters for the last 16 years and held a security clearance, giving him access to restricted information like the watchlist of terror suspects, addresses of police officers and data on French citizens and their families who had returned after they fought in the Syrian Civil War. He was born in Fort-de-France in the Caribbean overseas department of Martinique in 1974, and had been deaf since childhood. The murder weapon was a ceramic"}, {"text": "knife of a type undetectable by metal scanners. Investigation. Initial reports suggested a workplace dispute was the motive. The day after the attack, a counter-terrorism investigation was opened, looking into whether the attacker was a radicalised Islamist and the possibility that he may have been in contact with or received support from any terrorist groups. The perpetrator had converted to Islam; according to Paris prosecutor Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Ricard his conversion to Islam took place a decade prior. He attended mosque rituals twice a day. Colleagues had reported Harpon in 2015 for voicing support for the attack on \"Charlie Hebdo\"; nothing was done. The counter-terrorism head said that the attacker had radical and extremist religious views, that started when he justified some violent acts with an Islamist background, stopped wearing Western clothes and to not talking to women excluding those of his family. Ties between Harpon and Salafist men were also confirmed. Before starting the attack, Harpon communicated with his wife, and they exchanged a total of 33 messages. Among those, Harpon wrote \"Allah Akbar\" and \"Follow our much-loved Prophet Muhammad, and meditate on the Quran\". A USB flash drive was found at Harpon's office: propaganda material from the Islamic State of"}, {"text": "Iraq and the Levant, including beheading videos, and details of police officers who worked with him were found inside it. Officers investigated possible links with the 2016 Magnanville stabbing, in which two police officers were killed at their home by Larossi Abballa, an Islamist who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Investigation of Harpon's computer and phone revealed that he searched the internet for \"how to kill infidels\" shortly before the attack. Five people linked to the attacker were arrested on 14 October 2019. Among those five was an imam listed in the \"Fiche S\", a list of individuals deemed potential security threats. France Inter reported in October 2019 that the investigators suspected that the attack was the result of a suicidal delirium, and that the ISIL videos on the USB drive found at Harpon's office belonged to his coworkers. In February 2020 \"Le Parisien\" reported that technical investigation of Harpon's private computer and cellphone confirmed that the attack was terrorist in nature and that sources close to the investigation described a \"hybrid profile\" of terrorism and psychiatric issues. Europol classified the attack as jihadist terrorism in their annual EU Terrorism Situation and Trend report (TE-SAT) released in June 2020."}, {"text": "Political reaction. Following the incident, the police headquarters building was visited by President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister \u00c9douard Philippe, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. The \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 was placed under a lockdown and the Cit\u00e9 station of the Paris M\u00e9tro, located on the island, was closed to passengers. Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner faced calls to resign, which he rejected. Castaner received calls for his resignation from numerous prominent politicians from the entire spectrum from the extreme left to the extreme right. Castaner had said in a press conference that the attacker had never shown any conspicuous behaviour. A day after this statement, when it became public that his coworkers had filed a complaint and that there was no investigation, Castaner said there were \"malfunctions\" that failed to prevent the attack."}, {"text": "Ann Mary Gollifer (born 1960) is a British-Guyanese visual artist currently based in Gaborone, Botswana. Her work \"Mother Tongue\" can be seen on display in the Sainsbury African Galleries, a part of the British Museum's permanent collection. Biography. Gollifer was born in Mabaruma, in the north-west of British Guiana, now the Barima-Waini district of Guyana. Her mother is Warao-Arawak Amerindian and her father is English. In 1962 her parents re-located to the Solomon Islands and at the age of seven she was sent to boarding school at the Ursuline Convent in Brentwood, Essex. She went on to study English Literature and Art History at the University of Edinburgh from 1979, graduating with an honours degree in History of Art in 1983. She then worked in London at Christie's Contemporary Art before moving to Gaborone, Botswana, in 1985. Gollifer worked as a Senior Technical Officer under the directorship of its founder, Alec Campbell, at the Botswana National Museum. During this period, she also worked part-time at the Phuthadikobo Museum in Mochudi with Sandy Grant, the museum's founder and director. From 1991 to 2001 she was part of the committee involved with the administration and facilitation of the Thapong international artists workshops"}, {"text": "in Botswana. Initiated by Veryan Edwards in 1988, Thapong was an off shoot of the Triangle Arts Trust started by Robert Loder and Anthony Caro in 1982. An artist member of the Thapong committee, Gollifer helped organize international workshops as well as smaller local workshops annually and was part of the executive committee responsible for the building of the Thapong Visual Art Centre in Gaborone. Through the Thapong initiative, international artists would gather to share their material practice, which provided Gollifer with networks between artists, art historians and curators, such as Chris Spring, former curator of the Sainsbury African Galleries, British Museum, Polly Savage, SOAS University of London, Goddy Leye, Lutanda Mwamba, Baba Jaak, Vanessa Jackson, Diana Hyslop, Kagiso Patrick Mautloa and David Koloane. Steve Jobson described Gollifer's works in his catalogue statement for the 2009 Artists in Botswana Exhibition, National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone: \"Ann Gollifer is an artist who, through her personal search, has cut a path of innovation, technical and aesthetic excellence and ambitiousness which has made many of us explore our own limitations with more skepticism. Unsurprisingly, we are again subjected to a sensuous treat of the delicate and powerful.\""}, {"text": "Emmanuel Humphrey Tettey Korboe was a Ghanaian politician in the first republic. He served as a regional commissioner for the Eastern Region and later for the Central Region. He also served as a member of parliament for the Yilo-Krobo constituency and later the Somanya constituency. Early life and education. Korboe was born in 1912. He had his early education at Accra Royal School and continued at the O'Reilley Educational Institute. Career and politics. Korboe begun as a clerk to the Abdala Transport Company in 1932. He later became a farmer and a cocoa broker. He was chairman of the Yilo Krobo Local Council, chairman of the Somanya branch of the Convention People's Party (CPP) and chairman of the Volta River District CPP Constituency Council. In 1954 he was elected to represent the Yilo Krobo constituency in the National Assembly. He was appointed Regional Commissioner (Regional Minister) for the Eastern Region in 1957. He held this political position from 1957 to 1965. In 1965 he was appointed Regional Commissioner for the Central Region. He served in this capacity until February 1966 when the Nkrumah government was overthrown."}, {"text": "Probe electrospray ionization (PESI) is an electrospray-based ambient ionization technique which is coupled with mass spectrometry for sample analysis. Unlike traditional mass spectrometry ion sources which must be maintained in a vacuum, ambient ionization techniques permit sample ionization under ambient conditions, allowing for the high-throughput analysis of samples in their native state, often with minimal or no sample pre-treatment. The PESI ion source simply consists of a needle to which a high voltage is applied following sample pick-up, initiating electrospray directly from the solid needle. History. Probe electrospray ionization is an ambient ionization mass spectrometry technique developed by Kenzo Hiraoka et al. at the University of Yamanashi, Japan. The technique was developed to address some of the issues associated with traditional electrospray ionization (ESI), including clogging of the capillary and contamination, whilst providing a means of rapid and direct sample analysis. Since its initial conception, various modified forms of the PESI ion source have been developed, and the PESI-MS system has been commercialized by instrument manufacturing company Shimadzu. Principle of operation. The PESI ion source consists of a solid needle or wire which acts as both the sampling probe and electrospray emitter. The needle is moved up and down along"}, {"text": "a vertical axis, a process which can be either automated or manual. When the needle is lowered to the sampling stage, the tip of the needle briefly touches the surface of a typical liquid sample. During this stage, the needle is held at ground potential. The needle is then raised to be level with the mass spectrometer inlet where a high voltage of 2\u20133 kV is applied. Electrospray is induced at the tip of the needle, producing analyte ions which are drawn into the mass spectrometer for analysis. The mechanism by which ions are formed is believed to be identical to traditional electrospray ionization. As a result, in positive ion mode analytes are often observed as the protonated, sodiated and potentiated ions, depending on the sample and analyte type. Although the amount of sample picked up by the needle is largely dependent on sample viscosity, it has been estimated that just a few picolitres of the sample solution are typically used. Because of this, the technique can be applied to small sample sizes, particularly ideal when limited sample amounts are available. As such a small sample amount is picked up and completely exhausted during the ionization process, issues of contamination"}, {"text": "are severely reduced. Furthermore, the process of sampling and ionization takes just a few seconds, so PESI-MS is suitable for high-throughput analysis. Sequential ionization. A phenomenon observed with probe electrospray ionization is the sequential and exhaustive ionization of analytes with different surface activities. During the development of PESI, it was discovered that analytes could be sequentially ionized throughout the electrospray, thus enabling a temporal separation of components within a sample. In normal ESI, the sample solution is typically continuously supplied through a capillary and the charged droplets contain all sample components, with more surface-active analytes being constantly preferentially ionized. In PESI, surface-active analytes are also preferentially ionized. However, as a finite droplet exists on the tip of the needle, following the depletion of surface-active analytes, the remaining components in the droplet can then be ionized and observed. This can result in the production of distinctively different mass spectra from a single sample over the application of the high voltage for just a few seconds. This effect offers a particular advantage in the analysis of analytes suffering from ion suppression effects. The presence of surface-active analytes or charged solvent additives can result in the suppressed ionization of analytes of interest, resulting"}, {"text": "in low sensitivity or the complete absence of the analyte. The effects of ion suppression can be minimized by reducing the complexity of the sample, for instance through sample extraction techniques such as solid phase extraction, or by separation of analytes of interest using chromatographic separation. However, these sample preparation steps can be laborious, time-consuming and expensive. PESI enables a reduction in ion suppression without the need for sample pre-treatment. By separating the ionization of different analytes, components causing ion suppression can be exhausted before enabling the ionization of components of interest. This has been demonstrated in a number of scenarios, including in the analysis of raw urine, with concentrated components such as creatinine ionization initially, followed by the appearance of previously undetected metabolites. Sheath-flow PESI. As the PESI needle is only applicable to liquid or penetrable solid samples, it cannot be used for the analysis of the majority of dry solid materials. To circumvent this limitation, sheath-flow probe electrospray ionization (sfPESI) was developed, a modification of the traditional PESI technique. The sfPESI ion source consists of a solid needle housed within a plastic sheath (typically a gel-loading tip) filled with a small amount of solvent. The needle protrudes from"}, {"text": "the base of the sheath by approximately 0.1 mm, where a minute solvent droplet is held. The based of based the probe is briefly touched to the sample surface, where a convex solvent meniscus forms between the probe and the sample, wetting the sample and enabling analyte extraction. The chemistry of the solvent can be modified to induce the extraction of particular analytes of interest. After application to the sample, the sfPESI probe is then raised to be level with the mass spectrometer inlet, with solubilised analytes held in the droplet at the tip of the needle, and a high voltage applied. sfPESI offers the same advantages as standard PESI, including the sequential and exhaustive ionization phenomenon, whilst enabling the direct analysis of dry samples. Applications. PESI-MS has proven to be particularly effective in the metabolic analysis of biological materials, having been applied to the analysis of cancerous and non-cancerous breast tissue, as well as brain and liver tissue removed from mice. Interestingly, PESI-MS has recently been applied to the direct analysis of living animals for real-time metabolic profiling. Due to the narrow diameter of the PESI needle and brief sample introduction time, PESI is reasonably non-invasive. As a result,"}, {"text": "the technique has been used to sample from the organs of living anaesthetized animals, specifically to analyse metabolites in the brain, spleen, liver and kidney of a living mouse. In addition to this, PESI-MS has been applied to the on-site analysis of food products for the purpose of quality control, to the detection of herbicides in body fluids to demonstrate exposure, and finally to the detection of illicit drugs in bodily fluids to indicate drug use. Several groups have also harnessed the small size of the PESI probe to achieve single-cell analysis, demonstrating the capability of rapidly detecting metabolites at cellular and subcellular levels. The PESI modification known as sheath-flow PESI has been applied to the analysis of various solid samples in their native state, including pharmaceutical tablets, illicit drugs, food and agricultural products, and pesticides. In addition, sfPESI has been utilised in the field of forensic science for the analysis and identification of fresh and dried body fluids of forensic interest. In this work, sfPESI was also coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS), demonstrating the capability of ion fragmentation for identification of unknown components."}, {"text": "Rao Ranmal (1392 \u2013 27 October 1438), also called Ran Mal or Ridmal, was the Rathore ruler of Marwar from 1428 to 1438. A notable expansionist and skilled warrior, Ranmal is also noteworthy for having twice served as regent of the kingdom of Mewar under two different kings. After having been displaced as heir to Marwar in favour of a younger brother, Ranmal had joined the court of his brother-in-law, Rana Lakha Singh of Mewar. There, he amassed significant influence, eventually becoming regent to his minor nephew Mokal Singh following the death of Lakha in 1421. In 1428, Ranmal returned to Marwar to claim his ancestral throne, left vacant by the deaths of his father and brothers. When Mokal Singh was assassinated five years later, Ranmal once again took on the governance of Mewar, now in the name of Mokal's young son Kumbha. During both his regencies of Mewar, as well as his rule of his own kingdom, Ranmal had launched numerous successful military campaigns against neighbouring states, which included the kingdoms of Gujarat, Bundi, and Malwa. However, he was greatly resented by the nobles of Mewar due to the considerable Rathore influence he brought to the Sisodia kingdom. When"}, {"text": "a Mewari prince was murdered on his orders, a coup was launched against him in 1438, culminating in his assassination and the invasion of Marwar. The latter was left weakened in the aftermath and it took his successor Jodha many years to restore it to its former prominence. Background. Ranmal was born in 1392 as the only son of Rao Chunda, the Rathore ruler of Marwar, by his wife Suram De Sankhali, daughter of Bisal. By right of primogeniture, as the eldest son of his father, Ranmal was initially heir-apparent to the throne. However, under the influence of his favourite wife Sona Mohil, Chunda was persuaded to instead appoint her son Kanha as his successor. In response Ranmal, now disinherited, left Mandore and embarked on a self-imposed exile. Exile in Mewar. Ranmal travelled to Chittor, the fortress-capital of the kingdom of Mewar. There, he was welcomed and given a place at court by the ruler of the state, Rana Lakha Singh, who was the husband of Ranmal's sister Hansa Bai. The prince rapidly gained influence at the Mewari court, with his power reaching its zenith following the death of Lakha Singh in 1421. Hansa Bai, due to the minority of"}, {"text": "her young son Mokal Singh, entreated Ranmal to administer the state on behalf of the new Rana. He fulfilled this role admirably over the following years, launching military campaigns against Mewar's rivals. These include Firuz Khan of Nagaur, Ahmad Shah I of Gujarat and the Hadas of Bundi. However, there was resentment among the nobles at the growing Rathore influence at court, in particular regarding the level of nepotism with which Ranmal awarded high positions. This ill-feeling even extended against the young Rana himself, eventually becoming a factor in his assassination over a decade later. Ruler of Janglu. After securing a position in the Mewar court of Sisodiyas, Ranmal subsequently returned to Janglu of which he became ruler. Further, he carried out incursions into Bhati territory and occupied Bikampur. Reign. Ranmal's father Chunda was killed in battle in 1423 and was succeeded, as the latter had planned, by his younger son Kanha. However, in 1428, Kanha too died and was followed by another of Chunda's sons, who also had a short reign. Seeing an opportunity, Ranmal marched on the capital city, Mandore, at the head of a Mewari army and seized the throne, becoming the new Rao of Marwar. A"}, {"text": "skilled warrior, Ranmal began expanding Rathore territory. He is recorded as conquering the city of Bikrampur after killing a certain Bhati chief named Kelana, possibly referring to Rao Kelana of Pugal, who was among those responsible for killing his father. Further to this, he defeated Hasan Khan, the Pathan ruler of Jalore, and also occupied Nagaur, with the towns of Nadol, Jaitaran and Sojat too being brought under his control. He also introduced some reforms, both in Marwar and earlier in Mewar, including the improvement of the existing systems of weights and measures. Regent of Mewar. In 1433, Rana Mokal Singh was assassinated in a conspiracy, thus once more leaving a small child as ruler of Mewar, now in the person of Mokal's son Kumbha. Hansa Bai, now the queen-grandmother, again called on her brother Ranmal to take charge of the state until the new Rana reached the age of majority. Ranmal, accompanied by some of his twenty-four sons, returned to Chittor, nominally taking up the position of caretaker to his minor great-nephew, though for all intents and purposes, he became the true power in the kingdom. The new regent's first action was to strike the allies of Mewar's rival"}, {"text": "kingdoms of Gujarat and Malwa, the latter of which having sheltered Mokal's killers. The rulers of Bundi, Abu, Bhoola and Basantgarh were crushed and the Sultan of Malwa, Mahmud Khalji, was defeated in the Battle of Sarangpur in 1437. He also began to hunt down the conspirators, with some being killed and others being forced into hiding. One of them, Mokal's paternal uncle Chacha, had his daughter Bharmali taken captive and married by Ranmal. 500 other girls belonging to the families of the fugitives were captured and given out by Ranmal to his favourites. One of Mokal's brothers, Raghavdev, objected to this action and took the women into his protection. He began to grow apprehensive of the growing Rathore influence in the court and started preparing a resistance to Ranmal. Conversely, Ranmal also viewed the Mewari prince as a threat and too launched a conspiracy. Events came to a head when Ranmal invited Raghadev to present him with a traditional robe of honour. However, unknown to the latter, the sleeves of the robe had been sown in such a way so as to restrict his movement. Raghadev was then ambushed by Ranmal's men, who immediately cut down the incapacitated prince."}, {"text": "Assassination. The murder of Raghadev had a profound impact on public opinion of Ranmal, with both nobles and the general population already being resentful of his domination at court. Many grew fearful for the life of the young Rana, prompting chiefs to begin curtailing the regent. Prince Chunda, eldest son and at one-time heir to the late Rana Lakha Singh, was called back to the city to avenge his brother's death. While Chunda re-entered Mewar and removed Rathore outposts outside Chittor fortress, nobles conspired against Ranmal from within. They enlisted the help of Chacha's daughter Bharmali, who was one of the wives of Ranmal. On the night of Diwali, 1438, she plied him with alcohol until he fell into a drunken stupor and tied him to his bed with his own turban. Ranmal was then set upon by assassins sent by the Mewari nobles. In spite of his bonds, he was able to stand upright, but unable to defend himself, he was ultimately killed. The death of Ranmal caused a significant falling out between the kingdoms of Marwar and Mewar, resulting in the former's capital, Mandore, and its surrounding lands being occupied by Mewar's army. It took Ranmal's son and"}, {"text": "successor Jodha (who had barely escaped from Chittor alive himself) several years to reestablish Marwar's former eminence and territory. Family. Ranmal married multiple times, as was common among the Rajput elite. His wives were: He had several sons, many of whom subsequently became ancestors of new Rathore clans. They were:"}, {"text": "Giacomo Satalino (born 20 May 1999) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Sassuolo. Club career. Fiorentina. Satalino started playing for Serie A side Fiorentina's under-19 squad in the 2015\u201316 season. In that season and the next, he appeared on the bench as a backup for the senior squad 26 times in different competitions, but did not see any time on the field. Sassuolo. In July 2017, Satalino transferred to fellow-Serie A club Sassuolo, and spent the 2017\u201318 season in their under-19 squad. In the 2018\u201319 season, he appeared on the bench for the senior squad 17 times, but again did not see any field time. Loan to Renate. On 31 July 2019, Satalino joined Serie C club Renate on a season-long loan. He made his professional league debut on 25 August 2019, in a season-opening game against Giana Erminio. He established himself as first-choice goalkeeper for Renate early in the season. Loan to Cesena. On 1 September 2020, Satalino went to Cesena on loan, also in the Serie C. He began the season as a starter, but was injured in his sixth game; upon recovery from the injury he could not reclaim the first-goalkeeper"}, {"text": "spot that had been taken over by Michele Nardi. Loan to Monopoli. On 15 January 2021, he was loaned to Monopoli. Return to Sassuolo and Serie A debut. Satalino made his Serie A debut for Sassuolo on 22 May 2022 against Milan, on the last day of the 2021\u201322 season with 8 minutes left in the game that Sassuolo lost 0\u20133. Loan to Carrarese. On 2 August 2022, Satalino was loaned by Carrarese. International career. Satalino made his first appearances representing his country internationally in 2014, in friendly games for the under-16 team. He also played at under-17 and under-18 levels. Honours. Sassuolo"}, {"text": "The Sheldrake River () is a river in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. There is a 25 MW hydroelectric power station on the river. Location. The Sheldrake River rises between Lake Manitou and Lake Magpie in a mountainous area where the peaks reach heights of almost . The river flows south in a winding course of , with a series of waterfalls and rapids. The East Sheldrake River, a tributary, joins the main river about upstream from its mouth. It enters the Saint Lawrence to the west of the village of Sheldrake, halfway between Sept-\u00celes and Havre-Saint-Pierre. The entrance to the river is blocked to vessels of any size by a shifting sandbar and a steel bridge. The mouth of the river is in the municipality of Rivi\u00e8re-au-Tonnerre in the Minganie Regional County Municipality. P.J. Touzel, from Jersey, was the first European to settle on the Sheldrake in 1851, where he founded a large fishing station. Lake Touzel, on the course of the Sheldrake river, is named after him. Name. The Innu call the river \"Manto Sipo\", or Manitou River, after the Manitou spirit or life force. They call the Manitou"}, {"text": "River, to the west, \"Manto Sipis\", or Little Manitou River. The river is shown as \"Sheldrake R.\" on the 1829 map of the Saint Lawrence by William Sax. The 1833 map by Captain Bayfield calls it \"Sawbill\". Sheldrake (\"Tadorna\") and Sawbill (\"Mergus\") are both waterfowl in the family Anatidae. The Innu call the Tonnerre River, about to the east, \"Ursuk Sipo\", meaning \"Sawbill River\". Hydroelectric project. A hydroelectric power station on the \"Courbe du Sault\" section of the river was proposed in the early 2000s. It would have a maximum capacity of 25 MW. In September 2007 it was decided that an environmental assessment was needed. In April 2011 it was found that project was unlikely to cause significant adverse environmental effects. In August 2011 it was reported that work had started in March 2010 and the plant was expected to be commissioned by early December 2012. Basin. The Sheldrake River basin is partially in the unorganized territory of Lac-J\u00e9r\u00f4me, partly in the municipality of Rivi\u00e8re-au-Tonnerre. The river basin covers . It lies between the basins of the Chaloupe River to the west and the Tonnerre River to the east. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the"}, {"text": "river basin in sub-regions 6j-T and 6m-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain. Salmon repopulation. In June 2015 the municipality of Rivi\u00e8re-au-Tonnerre signed an agreement with Universit\u00e9 Laval to repopulate the salmon of the Sheldrake River. Fishing had been banned since 2002 due to the critically low number of salmon, and the Ministry of Wildlife carried out a study on how to revitalize the river. The ministry planned to start capturing smolts in the Corneille River, a tributary of the Sheldrake, in 2016. They would be sent to the Tadoussac fish station and to Laval University to be kept until they reached adult size. Roe would be collected and placed in incubators in the Sheldrake electric minicentral. The fry would then be placed in the Sheldrake River. On 9 July 2015 over 89,000 juvenile salmon were released upstream from the impassable Courbe du Sault, a waterfall. The salmon seeding program was part of the C\u00f4te-Nord Atlantic Salmon Habitat Enhancement Program, created as part of the La Romaine hydroelectric complex construction project, a partnership between Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec, the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks (MFFP) and the Quebec Federation for Atlantic Salmon. The municipality of Rivi\u00e8re-au-Tonnerre was providing"}, {"text": "some of the financing and management. The Baie-Trinit\u00e9 Development Corporation was to contribute 200 smolts captured in the Trinit\u00e9 River, which would be raised to the breeding adult stage at Tadoussac and the Aquatic Sciences Research Laboratory at Laval University. Five vertical incubators were to be installed at the Sheldrake River hydroelectric facility, with a capacity of 275,000 eggs per year."}, {"text": "Louisiana's 16th State Senate district is one of 39 districts in the Louisiana State Senate. It has been represented by Republican Franklin Foil since 2020. Geography. District 16 covers south-central East Baton Rouge Parish, including parts of Baton Rouge and all of Inniswold, Oak Hills Place, Village St. George, and Westminster. The district is located entirely within Louisiana's 6th congressional district, and overlaps with the 61st, 65th, 66th, 68th, 69th, and 70th districts of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Recent election results. Louisiana uses a jungle primary system. If no candidate receives 50% in the first round of voting, when all candidates appear on the same ballot regardless of party, the top-two finishers advance to a runoff election. 2019. Initially, Franklin Foil and Steve Carter were exactly tied for second place, leading to a 3-way runoff election. However, following a recount, Foil was found to be the winner by 4 votes, and Carter conceded."}, {"text": "The 2019 WAFF Women's Clubs Championship was the inaugural WAFF Women's Clubs Championship, the West Asian women's club football championship organised by the WAFF. It took place in Aqaba, Jordan, from 3 to 11 October 2019 as a single round-robin. Teams. Five teams from five nations participated in the inaugural competition. Group stage. \"All times are local, AST ().\""}, {"text": "Nitehawk Cinema is a dine-in independent movie theater in Brooklyn, New York City. It operates two locations, in the neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Park Slope. The theater, which offers a menu of food and drinks that can be ordered and consumed while patrons view films, was the first liquor licensed movie theater in the state of New York, and the first movie theater in New York City to offer table service. History. Nitehawk Williamsburg. Nitehawk was founded by Matthew Viragh. Viragh sought to establish a dine-in movie theater in New York City in 2008, after being a regular attendee at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema while living in Austin, Texas, and later working at the Commodore Theatre in Portsmouth, Virginia, the first first-run movie theater in the United States to serve alcohol. At the time, New York state had a Prohibition-era law barring movie theaters from serving alcohol, prompting Viragh to hire a lawyer and a lobbyist to seek the law's repeal. Senate Bill S4772, which authorizes movie theaters in New York state to serve alcoholic beverages, passed the New York State Legislature by broad margins and was signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on August 17, 2011. Nitehawk opened its first"}, {"text": "location, a three-screen theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on June 24, 2011. The theater was the first multi-screen theater in Northern Brooklyn following the closure of the Commodore Cinemas in Williamsburg in 2002. As its opening preceded the passage of Senate Bill S4772 and the modification of the theater's liquor license by several months, alcoholic beverages were initially only served in the front-of-house cafe and not during screenings. Nitehawk Williamsburg is housed in a former industrial building renovated by Caliper Architecture, and was retrofitted to also include a nine-unit apartment building and a custom fa\u00e7ade made from LED lights, zinc, and glass. The theater's menu was developed by Michelin-starred chef Saul Bolton. Nitehawk Prospect Park. In September 2016, Nitehawk announced plans to open a second location, Nitehawk Prospect Park, in Park Slope. It is located in an historic Art Deco movie theater adjacent to Prospect Park that operated as the Sanders Theater from 1928 to 1978, and as the Pavilion Theater from 1996 to 2016. Viragh and the building's owner had discussed converting the theater into a Nitehawk in 2011, but discussions fell through following the opening of Nitehawk Williamsburg. In 2015, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a"}, {"text": "plan that would have partially converted the building into condominiums and shrunk the floor area of the theater. However, an investment firm ultimately purchased the building for $28 million and granted a long-term lease to Nitehawk. Nitehawk Prospect Park underwent renovations through 2016 and 2017, at a cost of \"less than $10 million\". Originally slated to open in fall 2017, renovation delays and the discovery of historic elements from the Sanders theater amid demolition led the opening to be postponed, and it ultimately reopened on December 19, 2018. The theater, which includes seven screens, 650 seats, two kitchens, and two bars, was designed by Think! Architecture and Design. The exterior of the building remained largely unchanged, except for the addition of a new marquee and an enlargement of its windows. In contrast to Nitehawk Williamsburg, Nitehawk Prospect Park screens a greater proportion of family and blockbuster films. Programming. Initially focused on screening first-run films, Nitehawk shifted focus to incorporate a range of first-run, classic, art house, and cult films. Nitehawk holds several regular series of special screenings and midnight movies, including \"The Deuce\" (exploitation films), \"Film Feasts\" (multi-course meals based on the film being screened), \"Nitehawk Naughties\" (erotic films), \"Anime"}, {"text": "After Dark\" (anime films screened in partnership with Anime NYC), and \"A Nite To Dismember\" (an all-night movie marathon held annually on Halloween). Since 2013, Nitehawk has held the Nitehawk Shorts Festival, an annual film festival focused on short films. Nitehawk does not screen advertisements during its preshow, instead showing a montage of clips that are customized for each film; for instance, the preshow for Nitehawk's screenings of \"The Favourite\" included clips from Olivia Colman's comedic work and Yorgos Lanthimos' short films. In addition to its standard menu, Nitehawk offers a special menu for brunch screenings, and limited-time menu items inspired by the current slate of films it is screening. Reception. Nitehawk has been cited as an independent movie theater that has achieved financial success despite the industry's decline in ticket sales, which prompted several independent theaters to close down. The passing of Senate Bill S4772 is noted as having led a proliferation of liquor-licensed dine-in theaters in New York City, including Syndicated in Bushwick, the Metrograph on the Lower East Side, and an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Downtown Brooklyn, with \"The New York Times\" calling Nitehawk \"the granddaddy of swizzle-stick cinema in the city\"."}, {"text": "Bali United Women Football Club is a women's association football club based in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. Founded in 2019, the club is affiliated with men's professional association football club Bali United. It was established in 2019 as part of PSSI's efforts to foster women's football in Indonesia. The team competes in Liga 1 Putri. History. In July 2019, Bali United announced their commitment to take part in the inaugural season of Liga 1 Putri, a women's football competition in Indonesia and formed a women's football team. Bali United Women Football Club were officially introduced on 3 October 2019. Sandhika Pratama was appointed as the club's first head coach, with their inaugural 25-player squad announced on the same day. The nickname \"Srikandi Tridatu\" is taken from the name of Srikandi, one of the figures in the \"Mahabharata\" epic. Srikandi is the daughter of the king of the Panchala Kingdom, who later became a hero in the Bharatayuddha war. The figure of the Srikandi knight is expected to be played by Bali United Women players while on the field. The team's first game back was on 6 October 2019, where they draw 1\u20131 against PSM Putri in the Liga 1 Putri, with"}, {"text": "Fitriya Hilda scoring their first competitive goal."}, {"text": "Adrienne Martine-Barnes (19 January 1942 \u2013 20 July 2015), was an American contemporary, non-fiction and fantasy writer. Biography. Martine-Barnes was born Adrienne Zinah Martinez in Los Angeles in 1942. While in school she wrote two one-act plays which were produced. She attended the University of Redlands and UCLA but did not graduate. In 1964, she married Ronald Hicks, with whom she had one son, Geoffrey. They divorced in 1968. Martine-Barnes moved to New York City and became an agent. She was a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism while living there. In 1972, she married Larry Barnes. Barnes later vanished while camping in California was presumed dead by authorities. She did not write her first novel, \"Never Speak of Love\", until 1982. Many of her novels were based in fantasy and mythology. She also wrote with both Diana Paxson and Marion Zimmer Bradley. She was a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. She died in 2015 in Oregon and was buried in Kingman, Indiana."}, {"text": "Asur (; ) is a 2020 Indian Bengali-language romantic thriller drama film written and directed by Pavel. According to the director, it is a tribute to the sculptor Ramkinkar Baij, but the storyline is inspired from the 2015 \"Deshopriyo Park Durga Pujo\", which made us visualise world's first ever largest Durga murti. Produced by Jeet, Gopal Madnani and Amit Jumrani under the banner of Jeetz Filmworks, it stars Jeet in the titular role, alongsiside Abir Chatterjee and Nusrat Jahan in lead roles. The action sequences are designed by Sunil Rodrigues and Md. Amin Khatib. Originally set to release in December 2019, the film was released on 3 January 2020. Plot. Kigan Mandi is a profoundly passionate artist who easily forgets his immediate surroundings whilst immersed in his own vivid thoughts. Somewhat of an eccentric, Kigan's behaviour frequently results in being suspended from his job as a professor of art at Visva-Bharati. When his photo shoot featuring a female student causes a scandal, the university eventually fires Professor Kigan altogether. Newly unburdened by the dryly dispassionate orderliness of university rules and regulations, the Artist Kigan is delighted by finally having the freedom to exert full creative control as he pursues his"}, {"text": "artistic passions. Kigan begins experiencing visualisations of Goddess Devi Durga in the form of a young girl who always accompanies him in his works. As an expression of his bhakti, Kigan plans his grandest project yet: he wants to create the world's largest Durga murti. Enlisting the help of the well-connected Aditi - his friend ever since they met as young classmates during their own undergraduate arts studies - Kigan overcomes numerous hurdles and eventually succeeds when Aditi's influential father gets the project approved. Kigan's monumental murti of Goddess Durga is installed to much fanfare and the consecration ceremony proves highly popular with the public. With the pujas continually attracting increasingly large crowds of devotees, there is also no shortage of corporate sponsors eager for publicity. Aditi's husband, Bodhi, runs one of these major corporations seeking to secure a prominent role as one of the official sponsors of the puja. Bodhi's personal struggles with inferiority make him add a condition to his sponsorship agreement with the puja committee: he wants Kigan's name removed from all subsequent mentions of the Durga murti. Aditi's father admonishes his son-in-law's pettiness and refuses the agreement entirely. The new company makes terrific marketing of the"}, {"text": "puja through ads, banners etc. So people become very enthusiastic about the puja. Meanwhile, Bodhi is very much depressed as Kigan's creation becomes very popular among people and beats any other puja pandal in terms of crowd. Bodhi plans to demolish Deshbandhu park's puja and take revenge against Kigan. One morning Bodhi reaches the site and meets his old friend Kigan. Bodhi appreciates Kigan's work but tells him that the idol would be no more open as it would be destroyed by Bodhi. Kigan thinks that Bodhi is just joking and tells him that if he can destroy it then he can proceed but the idol will remain as long as Kigan is alive. Bodhi just smiles and goes away. Meanwhile, the puja committee organises a party where Aditi's father introduces Kigan to other guests as Aditi's future husband. Aditi also agrees but Kigan creates a mess by mocking Aditi's father there. He tells he only loves Aditi as a friend and doesn't want to marry her as according to Kigan, Bodhi is the perfect husband for her already. Aditi's father feels embarrassed and suffers a cerebral attack after which he becomes paralysed. Now Aditi turns against Kigan and thinks"}, {"text": "that Kigan is responsible for his father's condition. Meanwhile, Kigan's pandal attracts crowds. Bodhi makes plans to create fake bomb blasts in the puja campus and create a mess. According to his plans a terrible mess occurs at the pandal, several people are stampeded. Bodhi even pays the media to cover this incident exclusively and promote it more seriously than the actual incident, eventually the police authorities ban the puja and order for the dismantle of the idol after puja. Kigan is put into jail for quarrelling with police. Later Bodhi releases Kigan from jail and on way to home he explains Kigan that he took his revenge by getting the puja banned from public. Kigan requests Bodhi to open the puja after 2\u20133 days but Bodhi disagrees. Kigan then challenges Bodhi that he would reopen the puja till immersion. Meanwhile, Kigan owns up to his mistakes to Aditi and they get reunited again. Next day Kigan investigates that only two persons were injured not many and it was a paid fake news. Kigan has meetings with police commissioner, governor regarding reopening of the puja but everywhere he gets negative response. Out of utter depression Kigan goes to Bodhi's house,"}, {"text": "determined that Bodhi is responsible for all this and he would kill Bodhi. Kigan and Bodhi have a fight where Kigan is about to kill Bodhi but then Bodhi's son attacks Kigan with a bat and Kigan falls. Bodhi scolds his son for hitting an elder person but Kigan supports him. Then Bodhi tells that he doesn't want to make his son like Kigan, so he will teach him proper manners. Here Bodhi discloses that his son is not his but actually Kigan's and he has tendered him as his own child and always has been a good father because he wants to make him a gentleman and not an irresponsible person like Kigan. Bodhi also discloses that Aditi has always been loving Kigan though Bodhi has always been a good husband. Even though he has brought up Kigan's child as his own child, Aditi has never developed any feeling towards him, so he decided to finish Kigan who has destroyed his own family for that he has also destroyed his masterpiece creation. Bodhi repents that he is the Asur (villain) and begs pardon from Kigan. Bodhi also discloses that he is not the only one associated with this planning"}, {"text": "but Aditi is also responsible for this. Aditi thought of taking revenge from Kigan after her father's incident so she had been involved in this case. Kigan is completely devastated by listening all this. He thinks that he had been responsible for all this. His work was pious but he forgot all the relationships for his art. So he leaves the place by telling that he is leaving for Nevada where he would stay undisturbed. Meanwhile, Kigan comes to Aditi and questions her about her deeds. Aditi tells that she had done everything for Kigan more than any friend, but Kigan refused her love, he didn't thought of her. So she decided to go against Kigan. But she realised that she had done everything wrong and they can start a new beginning where Kigan, Bodhi and she would live together happily. Kigan can build his idol again in the next puja. But Kigan was desolated and he says that some things cannot be built again and he belongs to the tribe of Asur where yes means yes and no means no. After that he leaves that place. Bodhi's son finds out that in Nevada there is a particular ritual of"}, {"text": "burning of idols by the artists himself. This information strikes Bodhi and he quickly visits Deshbandhu park's puja pandal along with Aditi. But by that time Kigan has set the pandal on fire along with himself. He promises durga that their story will remain forever though the idol will be destroyed. Kigan dies but after some time heavy rain saves the pandal from burning completely and the statue is saved. The governor in Kigan's memorial service announces that Kigan's work would be preserved forever and would be a landmark of dedication towards art, heritage and symbol of sacrifice for love. In the last scene it is seen that Bodhi and Aditi has been reunited and they are watching the statue which is being carried away by a helicopter through Kolkata to some other place and Bodhi's son is seen to be playing with Kigan's measuring tape and dreams to be an artist. The story questions that who is actually the Asur (villain)? As from one angle Bodhi is correct and has specific reasons for going against his dearest friend Kigan. In other angle Kigan is the villain as he had been a failure in understanding real life relationships and had"}, {"text": "always indulged himself in his arts. Soundtrack. The film score was composed by Bickram Ghosh while songs were composed by Bickram Ghosh & Amit Mitra with lyrics written by Sugato Guha & Dipankar Ghosh. The vocals were provided by Mohammed Irfan, Timir Biswas, Iman Chakraborty, Shovan Ganguly, and Ujjaini Mukherjee. Release. The film was released on 3 January 2020."}, {"text": "The Tonight Belongs to You Tour was the first headlining concert tour by American boy band In Real Life. The tour began on September 9, 2018, in Silver Spring, and concluded November 11, 2018, in Cebu City. Background and development. On June 4, 2018, In Real Life announced they would be embarking on a 15-date North American tour. JAGMAC and Spencer Sutherland were announced as opening acts. In August, more North American dates were added. That same month, six dates in the Philippines were announced. Setlist. This setlist is representative of the show on September 12, 2018, in Boston. It does not represent all the shows from the tour."}, {"text": "K Vanlalruata (born 22 April 1985) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 19 September 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 1 November 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Ranji Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 21 February 2019, also for Mizoram, in the 2018\u201319 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He was the captain of Mizoram for the 2018\u201319 Vijay Hazare Trophy."}, {"text": "La criada de la granja is a 1953 Venezuelan telenovela broadcast on Televisa (currently known as Venevisi\u00f3n). It was starring by the Venezuelan actors Jos\u00e9 Torres, best known for his role Tacupay in the 1995 telenovela \"Ka Ina\", and Aura Ochoa. History. \"La criada de la granja\" was the first telenovela that was filmed in Venezuela in the 50s. The telenovela had a duration of 15 minutes, and was broadcast weekly from Monday to Friday at 7 p.m on Televisa, currently known as Venevisi\u00f3n. At that time, each episode was filming live during the telenovela broadcast. Until later with the arrival of the video tape, the episodes could be recorded and subsequently broadcast. There is currently very little data on who wrote the story."}, {"text": "Open mouth operations are communications by a central bank that affect Central Bank interest rates. They are a tool of monetary policy. The term was coined by economists Graeme Guthrie and Julian Wright in the year 2000. While looking at the operations and communications of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, these economists found that communications by the central bank had a much more significant effect on the interest rate than did Central Bank operations. Unbeknownst to most economists, Open Mouth Operations let central banks change interest rates without significantly changing their daily monetary operations. Mario Draghi's 2012 statement that \u201cthe ECB will do whatever it takes to preserve the euro, and believe me, it will be enough\u201d, is an example of a successful Open Mouth Operation used to lower the interest rates of Spanish government bonds: following the announcement, Spanish government bond interest rates dropped 352 basis points without the ECB having to purchase them."}, {"text": "Kumari Taki (born 6 May 1999) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner, who specialises in the 1500 meters. At junior level, he won gold medals in 1500 metres at the 2015 World Youth Championships, and at the 2016 World U20 Championships. He represented Kenya at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, competing in men's 1500 metres."}, {"text": "This table shows the list of all historical monuments classified or listed in South Corsica."}, {"text": "Andrea Meroni (born 9 January 1997) is an Italian football player who plays for club Reggiana. Club career. Empoli. He spent his youth career with Empoli. He did not appear for the club's senior squad. Loan to Cosenza. On 30 July 2016 he joined Lega Pro club Cosenza on loan. He made his professional Lega Pro debut for Cosenza on 6 November 2016 in a game against Casertana. He started the game and played the whole match. He finished the loan with 4 appearances for Cosenza, 2 of them as a starter. Paganese. On 28 July 2017 he signed a 3-year contract with Serie C club Paganese. Pisa. Loan to Paganese. On 31 January 2018 his rights were acquired by Serie C club Pisa, who then loaned him back to Paganese for the remainder of the 2017\u201318 season. Sassuolo. Loan to Pisa. On 31 July 2019 his rights were acquired by Serie A club Sassuolo, who then loaned him back to Pisa on a 2-year term. Pisa was promoted to Serie B for the 2019\u201320 season and Meroni made his debut in the second tier on 15 September 2019 in a game against Cremonese. He started the game and played"}, {"text": "for 72 minutes before being substituted. Loan to Cremonese. On 31 August 2021 he joined Cremonese on loan. Return to Cosenza. On 26 July 2022, Meroni returned to Cosenza on a two-year contract. Reggiana. On 5 July 2024, Meroni signed a two-year contract with Reggiana."}, {"text": "The Students Union of Namibia (SUN) is a students organisation in Namibia. It was formed in 2019 by a break-away faction of the Namibia National Students Organization (NANSO). In 2019 NANSO members were involved in ideological differences over ways in which Namibian students needed to be represented. They accused the president of NANSO, its secretary general and secretary to the students president as being captured by members of the SWAPO Party Youth League. This preceded a public altercation aired on Namibian Broadcasting Corporation news in April 2019. In it, the president of NANSO was chased out of a meeting by student leaders accusing her of \"selling out the struggle to politicians\". This infighting at NANSO, until then the only national students' organisation, caused the suspension of some of its leaders and the withdrawal of a number of its members. Vice president of NANSO Bernard Kavau, Khomas regional coordinator Simon Amunime and president of the International University of Management Students' representative council Sheya Epaphras Ngolo were suspended by NANSO. They subsequently resigned altogether and formed the Students Union of Namibia."}, {"text": "Marlon Williams is a hip-hop guitarist and producer from Los Angeles. He is best known for his work as musical director for Snoop Dogg. He helped launch the careers of Terrace Martin and Kamasi Washington by inviting them to tour and record with Snoop. He has also recorded with Nate Dogg, Warren G, Kendrick Lamar and The Pollyseeds, and was an early member of Fishbone."}, {"text": "S Zorinliana (born 28 November 1974) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 28 September 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 20 November 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Ranji Trophy. He was the captain of Mizoram for the 2018\u201319 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "Rufino Ingl\u00e9s (10 November 1902 \u2013 2 November 1981) was a Spanish actor. He appeared in \"La novia de Juan Lucero\" (1959), \"Salto a la gloria\", and \"Dio perdona... io no!\". He also appeared in \"Balboa\" (1963), \"Goliath Against the Giants\" (1961), \"Tombs of the Blind Dead\" (1972), and \"Juicio final\" (1955)."}, {"text": "(born 6 September 1974 in the Yamanashi Prefecture) is a Japanese former rugby union player who played as lock. Career. Hayano started to play rugby union in 1993 for Teikyo University rugby union team until 1996, when he graduated. A year later, he joined Suntory Sungoliath, where played until 2010, when he retired. He was Suntory's captain in the Top League inaugural season in 200 3. He was also called up by the then-national coach Shogo Mukai for the Japan squad for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, although he did not play any match in the tournament. He also played for Japan A and for the Kanto representative team."}, {"text": "Elia Salim el Hawi (1929\u20132001) (Arabic:\u0625\u0644\u064a\u0627 \u0633\u0644\u064a\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0627\u0648\u064a, ALA-LC:\u0625ly\u0101 slym \u0101l\u1e25\u0101wy) is a major Lebanese critic and writer. He was influenced by many authors that affected the world of literature. His opinions and ideas are also influenced by many philosophical critics. El Hawi was known for his books and publications in the field of literary criticism, his novels, and articles, and for his collaborative work with several philosophers and authors. Biography. Early life and education. Elia el Hawi was born in 1929 in Choueir, a city located in the Matn District of Lebanon. His brother, Khalil el Hawi, is a famous Lebanese poet of the 20th century. Elia El Hawi obtained his elementary education in his home town, then continued his studies at the National Protestant High School in Beirut. Following his high school education, El Hawi continued studying to obtain a teaching degree from the Elementary Teachers Training School in Beirut in 1949. He later went to the Lebanese University and graduated with a degree in the Bachelors of Arts in the year 1956. After obtaining his teaching degree, El Hawi collaborated with colleagues and writers, in order to publish textbooks used in preparing Lebanese students for their exams."}, {"text": "Philosophical Influences. Elia El Hawi was influenced by many poets and authors that left a mark in the history of literature. Among those artists are the authors: Ibrahim El Yaziji, Said Akl, Fawzi Al Maalouf, , and Khalil Mitran. El Hawi's influencers mainly came from the same cultural background and had a similar goal during their career lives. All the authors were conservatives, Catholic Lebanese, who shared the same beliefs and outlooks. Their main focuses were literature, education, and history. As well as wanting to improve the views about the Arab Society, in order to decrease its superficial perspectives. The French critic Ga\u00ebtan Picon\u2019s comparative and critical studies also played a vital role in shaping El Hawi\u2019s opinions and philosophical views. Picon was an author, whose main focus included art, literature critic, and history. Similar to many of his influencers, El Hawi believed that the value of the author or poet does not lie within the subject of a poem or piece of writing, but within the values embedded in the text and the creativity that forms a direct path that takes the reader on a journey to the old days or even the advanced ones. The poet or the"}, {"text": "author describes this creation as \"an innocent and purified soul free from traditions and residues, through which he/she could find the ability to express objectively and personally the meaning of one's existence through conscious and unconscious symbols and reincarnations\". Late life. Elia Salim El Hawi passed away in the year 2001. Literary career. Elia el Hawi mainly wrote poetry that focuses on his Lebanese culture, his personal life, and his interests. In addition to poetry, he also wrote many novels, and he collaborated with several authors. Works and publications. Poetry. This series, includes aspects and information in regards to the works and poets that developed the world of Arabic literature. The series includes discussions of: In this section of the series El Hawi discusses his arts and personality through el Roumi's poetries. Through this, he highlights the significance of Ibn el Roumi in Arabic literature. In the sections regarding Al Nabegha Althebani, Al Hateaa, Al Akhtal, and Almotanabi, El Hawi discusses each author's political views, and personalities, along with discussions about their arts and work. 2.\"The Modern Arabic Poems\" series. 3.\" The Largest Sects of Poetry Worldwide\" series. 4.\" The Stage and its Symbols\" series. 5.\" Explaining Arabic Poetry Divans\""}, {"text": "series. Collaborations. El Hawi also wrote books in collaboration with other authors, including the books: \"The Encyclopedia of Arabic Poems\", in collaboration with Motaa Safadi and under the administration of Khalil Hawi \"The Crucial in Arabic Literature\", famous Arabic book used in Lebanese schools, written in collaboration with Ahmad Abo Haka, Joseph Al Hashem and Ahmad Abo Asaad. Moreover, Elia el Hawi has several articles published in the literature pages, cultural supplements and specialized journals. Theaters and Plays. Elia el Hawi additionally had work related to the theater. The author dealt with material such as the ancient Greek Theater of Basilisk, Soulful, and Euripides. Furthermore, El Hawi wrote a series of analytical and comprehensive studies, starting from the Greek era and ending with the modern theater, represented by \"Beckett\" and \"UNESCO\". In his comprehensive studies, he compared the differences in attitudes between characters of the old and modern theaters in relation to the change and development in human and psychological attitudes."}, {"text": "History. The ECAC Northeast tournament began in 1972, after several teams formed the first third-tier ice hockey conference. For the first three years the championship was only a single game between the teams judged to be the top two in the conference. Because all games between ECAC teams regardless of division were counted the teams with the two best records weren't necessarily invited to play. In 1975 the tournament was expanded to 4 teams with one of the four chosen as the host. Host teams were dropped after 1977 with the higher-seeded teams playing at home afterwards. With the conference ballooning to more than two dozen teams, the conference tournament was expanded to 8 for 1984. Two years later the conference split into North and South divisions with each holding an individual 6-team postseason tournament and the two champions meeting to decide the conference champion. When the conference divided itself into three divisions for the 1992\u201393 season, the divisional tournament was scrapped and replaced with a single 8-team series. The top teams from each division were seeded 1\u20133 according to their overall conference records while the five teams with the best remaining conference records were seeded 4\u20138. In 1998 the"}, {"text": "conference abandoned divisional alignments but did not change the form of the conference tournament. A year later the four Division II programs in the conference played in a separate Division II tournament, allowing the remaining 14 teams to vie for the official ECAC Northeast championship with the champion receiving an automatic bid to the National Tournament."}, {"text": "Welsh Fire () are a franchise 100-ball cricket side based in the city of Cardiff. The team represents the historic counties of Glamorgan, Gloucestershire and Somerset in the newly founded competition called The Hundred, which took place for the first time during the 2021 English and Welsh cricket season. Both the men's and women's teams play their home games at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff. History. Welsh Fire was founded in June 2019 as one of eight teams to take part in the inaugural season of The Hundred. The team was jointly run by Glamorgan, Somerset and Gloucestershire County Cricket Clubs. It was reported that the side might be renamed as Western Fire, to allay concerns in Somerset and Gloucestershire that they were not sufficiently represented by the side, but this did not come to fruition. In July 2019, the team announced that former South Africa and India coach, and current Royal Challengers Bangalore coach Gary Kirsten had been appointed as the men's team coach. The women's side was due to be managed by Matthew Mott, a former Glamorgan coach and the current Australia women's team coach, but he withdrew and was replaced by his assistant coach, Mark O'Leary. The inaugural"}, {"text": "Hundred draft took place in October 2019 and saw the Fire claim Jonny Bairstow as their headline men's draftee, and Katie George as the women's headliner. They are joined by Somerset wicketkeeper-batsman Tom Banton, Glamorgan batsman Colin Ingram, and England batter Bryony Smith. Steve Smith and Mitchell Starc were selected as the flagship \u00a3125,000 signings in the first round and are two of the side's three overseas players. With Ingram and Banton already occupying the \u00a3100,000 slots, Welsh Fire sat out the second round. Ravi Rampaul and Ben Duckett were selected in the third round for \u00a375,000 and Simon Harmer, along with Afghanistan's Qais Ahmed (the team's third overseas player), were bought for \u00a360,000 in the fourth. Liam Plunkett and Ryan ten Doeschate were the picks in the fifth round for \u00a350,000 and Gloucestershire duo David Payne and Ryan Higgins were selected in the sixth round for \u00a340,000. Danny Briggs and Leus du Plooy complete the squad, having both been bought for \u00a330,000 in the final round. The final place in the squad will go to an outstanding performer in next season's Vitality Blast 20-over competition. Australian Meg Lanning was the next pick for the ladies' team. Honours. Men's honours."}, {"text": "The Hundred Women's honours. The Hundred Ground. Both the Fire men's and women's sides play at the home of Glamorgan County Cricket Club, Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground, in the west of Cardiff city centre. The women's side had been due to play some matches at Gloucestershire's Bristol County Ground and Somerset's County Ground, Taunton but both teams were brought together at the same ground as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Seasons. Men's team. Notes"}, {"text": "Aristidi Kolaj (born 9 April 1999) is a professional footballer who plays for Italian club Crotone. Born in Italy, he has represented Albania at youth level. Club career. Como. He spent most of his youth career at Lega Pro club Como. He was called up to the senior squad in early 2017, but didn't make any appearances. Sassuolo. In July 2017 he was transferred to Serie A club Sassuolo, where he played for their Under-19 squad in the 2017\u201318 and 2018\u201319 seasons. He was called up to the senior squad once for a Coppa Italia game, but remained on the bench. Loan to Pro Patria. On 2 September 2019 he joined Serie C club Pro Patria on loan. He made his professional Serie C debut for Pro Patria on 22 September 2019 in a game against Siena. He substituted Giuseppe Le Noci in the 89th minute and scored the only goal of the game in added time. The loan was renewed for the 2020\u201321 season on 26 August 2020. Alessandria. On 15 July 2021, he signed with Alessandria. Pescara. On 12 August 2022, he joined Pescara. On 1 September 2023, Kolaj moved to Lumezzane on loan with an option to"}, {"text": "buy. On 17 January 2024, he was loaned to Sorrento. Crotone. On 13 August 2024, Kolaj moved to Crotone on a three-year contract."}, {"text": "Citronen Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. The name of the fjord was given by Danish Arctic explorer Eigil Knuth during the Danish Peary Land Expedition of 1947\u20131950. It was named after Danish freedom fighter J\u00f8rgen Haagen Schmith, whose codename was Citronen. History. In 1993 zinc and lead deposits were discovered in this fjord. They are considered to be the largest yet unexploited zinc deposits in the world and the exploitation of the Citronen mine is in the preparation phase. Australian Ironbark Zinc corporation and the People's Republic of China are involved in the mine projects of the Citronen Fjord. Geography. Citronen Fjord is an offshoot on the southern shore of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord. It is located in Hans Egede Land, from Cape John Flagler, at the fjord entrance. The fjord is roughly oriented in a north\u2013south direction. It is only in length and there is no glacier discharging at the head of the fjord."}, {"text": "Taha Hussein Yaseen (; born 1 January 1998) is an Iraqi sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He represented his country at the 2019 World Championships without advancing from the first round. Earlier that year he finished sixth at the 2019 Asian Championships. International competitions. 1Disqualified in the final Personal bests. Outdoor Indoor"}, {"text": "Maltese law allows possession of various types of firearms on shall-issue basis. With approximately 28 civilian firearms per 100 people, Malta is the 18th most armed country in the world. History. In 1931, the \"Arms Ordnance\" was enacted under British colonial rule which allowed firearm possession on may-issue basis. In 2005 new firearm law was passed and went into effect in 2006. The law removed police's discretion in granting firearm licenses. In 2013, the law was amended once again changing some firearm categories, for example requiring a license to own blank-firing guns and eliminating license requirements for harpoons. Current law. Maltese law divides firearm licenses into following categories: To get a firearm license one must join a shooting or collectors club for training, which will issue a recommendation letter for the police, after which applicants must pass knowledge on firearm safety and the Arms Act. After successfully completing every step, one will get a license. Carrying loaded firearms outside of hunting grounds or a shooting range is illegal. Fully automatic firearms are allowed only if they were produced before 1946. Firearm ownership. There are 129,423 registered firearms (or 25 per 100 people) in Malta, including 66,000 shotguns, 18,992 pistols, 17,241"}, {"text": "rifles, 7,552 revolvers, 1,023 tactical shotguns, 705 submachine guns, 565 general purpose machine guns, 43 assault rifles, 28 cannons, 11 firearms concealed in walking sticks, four mortars and two rocket launchers. They are owned by 39,143 registered firearm owners."}, {"text": "Psicothema is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering psychology. It was established in 1989 in Asturias, Spain, and is published by the University of Oviedo's Psychology Faculty and the Psychological Association of the Principality of Asturias. The editor-in-chief is Jos\u00e9 Mu\u00f1iz. According to the \"Journal Citation Reports\", the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 1.551."}, {"text": "John Burdett (1657\u20131726) was a Church of Ireland priest in Ireland during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Burdett was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College there. He was Dean of Clonfert from 1692 until his death in July 1726"}, {"text": "G Lalbiakvela (born 28 January 1988) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 19 September 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 1 November 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Ranji Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 21 February 2019, also for Mizoram, in the 2018\u201319 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy."}, {"text": "Delev (Bulgarian: \u0414\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0432) is a Bulgarian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Deleva. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset (also EPSG registry) is a public registry of geodetic datums, spatial reference systems, Earth ellipsoids, coordinate transformations and related units of measurement, originated by a member of the European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) in 1985. Each entity is assigned an EPSG code between 1024 and 32767, along with a standard machine-readable well-known text (WKT) representation. The dataset is maintained by the IOGP Geomatics Committee. Most geographic information systems (GIS) and GIS libraries use EPSG codes as Spatial Reference System Identifiers (SRIDs) and EPSG definition data for identifying coordinate reference systems, projections, and performing transformations between these systems, while some also support SRIDs issued by other organizations (such as Esri). History. The dataset was created in 1985 by Jean-Patrick Girbig of Elf, to \"standardize, improve and share spatial data between members of the European Petroleum Survey Group\". It was made public in 1993. In 2005, the EPSG organisation was merged into International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP), and became the Geomatics Committee. However, the name of the EPSG registry was kept to avoid confusion. Since then, the acronym \"EPSG\" became increasingly synonymous with the dataset or registry itself."}, {"text": ", born 14 October 1974 in Yamanashi Prefecture, is a Japanese former rugby union player. He played as centre. Career. Nanba first played in 1992 for the Sagamidai Technical High School, where he was a driving force for his team's second National High School Rugby Tournament consecutive victory in 1994. In 1995, he graduated from high school and played for the Teikyo University rugby union club. In 1999, Nanba graduated from university and joined Toyota Verblitz, where he would play until his retirement in 2011. At international level, Nanba first represented Japan during the test match against Fiji in Tokyo, on 20 May 2000. He was also called up for the Japan squad for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, where he played his last international test cap, during the match against France, in Townsville, on 18 October 2003."}, {"text": "The 2010 Anaheim mayoral election was held on November 2, 2010, to elect the mayor of Anaheim, California. It saw the election of Tom Tait. Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan."}, {"text": "Bootstrap Studio is a proprietary web design and development application. It offers a large number of components for building responsive pages including headers, footers, galleries and slideshows along with basic elements, such as spans and divs. The program can be used for building websites and prototypes. It is built on the popular Electron framework, and is cross-platform. History. Bootstrap Studio was launched on October 19, 2015 with a post on Product Hunt where it reached number 4 in the Product of the Day category. Version 2.0 of the software was released on January 22, 2016 and brought JavaScript editing, multi-page support and improved the CSS support. Version 4.0 was launched on November 1, 2017. The release added support for the Bootstrap 4 framework and CSS grid, filters, position sticky and blend mode CSS properties. On August 22, 2019, Bootstrap Studio was officially introduced into the GitHub Student Pack, making it available to students from around the world. Bootstrap Studio v6.7.0 updated Bootstrap to v5.3.3 on May 30, 2024."}, {"text": "The Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS) is the official non-profit society for the scientific field of Operations Research in Greece. The society is a member of the European umbrella organization, the Association of European Operational Research Societies, and of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies. History. HELORS was created in 1963, aiming to promote the tools and methodologies of Operational Research (OR) and Scientific Management, for the benefit of the Greek economy and society. In 1984 the Macedonia-Thrace annex of HELORS was founded, aiming primarily at the growth of OR in the greater area of Balkans and at the amelioration of the structures and communication of the HELORS members of northern Greece. HELORS corporate headquarters are located in Athens, where administrative council sits, in privately owned offices. Pioneering Hellenic OR Researchers in one of the first meetings of HELORS in the 60's are displayed on the photo. Governance. HELORS is managed by a board of 11 members. The Board consists of the president, two vice presidents, a general secretary, a special secretary, a cashier and five members of the General Council. Board members are elected by the members of HELORS every two years, in the premises of the society"}, {"text": "in Athens. The current president is Nikolaos Matsatsinis. Since HELORS establishment, its Presidents have been the following: Membership. Currently (2019), the society has about 200 members - individuals and institutions from academia, industry and administration. Working Groups. For better organization and efficiency, the HELORS operates in working groups. Currently the following working groups have been approved and operate specialized in different topics: The Multicriteria Decision Analysis group has already organized thirteen (13) meetings in Multicriteria Analysis and one (1) seminar on Multiple Criteria Decision Aid. In the near future, more working groups are expected to approve and operate. Publications. HELORS issues the scientific journal Operational Research: An International Journal \u2013 ORIJ. ORIJ publishes high quality scientific papers that contribute significantly to the fields of Operational Research and Management Science (OR/MS). As of the beginning of 2008, ORIJ is published by Springer. Operational Research - An International Journal (ORIJ) Impact Factor for 2017 is 1.816 (Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports). Awards. The 'National Award and Operational Research Gold Medal' is awarded annually by HELORS to distinguished Greek researchers with outstanding contribution to the Operational Research field. To date, the following awards have been awarded: Conferences. HELORS has organized 30 National Conferences,"}, {"text": "with more than 6000 participants and announcements, as well as 11th International and 4th Balkan Conferences. The MCDA Working Group has additionally organized 13th meetings and 1 seminar on Multiple Criteria Decision Aid. Among those conferences was the: HELORS has undertaken to organize the next EURO conference: \"1st Meeting of the Hellenic Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (Chania 2003)\""}, {"text": "Nikos Kenourgios (; born 8 September 1998) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Armenian Premier League club Pyunik. Career. Early career. Kenourgios passed through the academies of Alimos and PAS Giannina before beginning his professional career at Aittitos Spata followed by Sparta. Zulte Waregem. After a trial in the summer of 2019, Kenourgios earned a contract with Belgian top flight club with Zulte Waregem, where he made 25 total league and cup appearances with two goals in the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons. Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti. From Zulte, Kainourgios moved on to Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti, but would dissolve his contract before the end of the season prior to the club\u2019s insolvency. Athens Kallithea FC. In August 2022, Kenourgios joined Athens Kallithea FC. FC Pyunik. On 6 July 2025, Pyunik announced the signing of a contract with Kenourgios."}, {"text": "Veritas International University (VIU) is a non-profit accredited Christian university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 2008, the university began as a seminary before transitioning to a university with the addition of undergraduate and post-graduate degrees. The university now offers doctoral degrees as well. History. Veritas International University was established by Norman Geisler and Joseph Holden in Early 2008 as Veritas Evangelical Seminary in Santa Ana, California. The founders envisioned a school which would become like Southern Evangelical Seminary for the western U.S. Beginning with the objective to introduce Christian leaders into classical Christian apologetics, the seminary expanded degree programs, including archaeology, Biblical History, Education, and Theology. The first classes were held at Calvary Chapel Bible College while it was based in Murrieta Hot Springs prior to a main campus being established in Santa Ana. Veritas International University was accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS) in 2014, and is recognized by the United States Department of Education. The name change to Veritas International University was approved in late 2017, and implemented in January 2018. Academics. Veritas International University has nine-degree programs, held within three schools: Veritas College & Seminary, VIU School of Archaeology, and the"}, {"text": "VIU Norman L. Geisler School of Apologetics. Each school is part of the university, emphasizing their respective areas of study that includes Christian studies, Biblical studies, Theological studies, Near Eastern archaeology and history, apologetics, missions, and pastoral studies. \"The Best Schools and Colleges\" ranked Veritas International University's graduate program in Christian apologetics as the sixth best in the United States. Government grants of $96,732 constituted 20% of the institution's total revenue for 2023. The chairman of the school's board of directors is vaccine developer Dr. Luman Wing. Doctrinal stance. Veritas International University has an evangelical doctrinal statement that emphasizes \"three legs\" of biblical authority: inspiration, infallibility, and biblical inerrancy. In addition to its approach to biblical studies, Veritas maintains a focus on classical theology, apologetics, and Thomistic philosophy. Campus. Veritas International University's main campus is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The university has additionally begun more distance learning programs."}, {"text": "Maurice Edelbaum (1906\u20131984) was an American criminal lawyer from New York. Edelbaum was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was educated in New York City public schools before graduating from Fordham University School of Law in 1928. In 1957, he represented Vincent Gigante in his trial for shooting Frank Costello to help Vito Genovese usurp the top position in Luciano Crime Family. In 1967, Edelbaum served as a lawyer for Stephen H. Kessler, a former medical student who was found not guilty by reason of insanity after being charged with murdering his mother-in-law. The same year, Edelbaum also was a lawyer for John (Sonny) Franzese, a bank robber in the Colombo crime family. Two years later, Edelbaum defended a Tammany Hall leader, Carmine De Sapio. Despite his attempt to prove his innocence, De Sapio was found guilty of conspiracy to bribe a water commissioner and extort contracts from Consolidated Edison. His sentence was set to two years in prison. Edelbaum was also notorious for his defense of Anthony Provenzano. Edelbaum died on August 10, 1984, in Washington Manor Nursing Home in Hollywood, Florida."}, {"text": "The Mods is a 2014 Italian animated children's short film created by Antonio Padovan and Alessandro Portincasa, about a snake and a dinosaur trying to build a model of a T-Rex. The film's characters are nonverbal and were intended to star in a series of stories. \"The Mods\" won an award at the Giffoni Film Festival in 2015. Plot. Soya the snake is building a \"3D puzzle\" or model of a T-Rex. The ground shakes as his clumsy friend Michelino, an actual miniature T-Rex, lumbers along and, seeing the blueprints, becomes interested in what Soya is doing and wants to help, to Soya's annoyance. Soya has already had to start over due to the ground shaking from Michelino's heavy steps but then Michelino accidentally knocks the model down a second time. Frustrated, Soya gives up and swallows the model's pieces rather than rebuild them. Lights similar to X-rays seem to flash as Michelino jumps up and down, such that the jumbled pieces becomes visible inside Soya, changing their configuration with each bound by Michelino. Eventually, they are reassembled as they are supposed to be in Soya's body, which now looks like a T-Rex. Production and related works. Background. Raised in"}, {"text": "Bologna, Alessandro Portincasa obtained a master's degree in computer graphics and moved to Scotland, where he worked in the production of feature films and shorts as a rigger. In 2011 he returned to Italy and became a technical director and partner at the AliMik animation studio. Italian-born writer and director Antonio Padovan moved to New York City, where he eventually received a scholarship to the New York Film Academy and initially made films about common people and their problems. \"The Mods\" was his first animated film project and his first film made in Italy. Music. \"The Mods\" is nonverbal, the characters' utterances amounting to exclamations or grunts, but there is an original score produced by 93 Steps, an audio production company based in Northern Italy near Venice, and Los Angeles, founded by its executive team Francesco Libralon and Lorenzo Scagnolari. Series. \"The Mods\" was conceived as the first episode of a series of \"short stories inspired by the world of toys and fantasy.\" The \"Mods\" page on the AliMik website features a brief animated POV shot of Soya and Michelino setting up a camera to film themselves. As of 2019, a full series has not been realised, but a few"}, {"text": "other short sequences were made both before and after \"The Mods\". \"Introducing Michelino\". A 35-second animation titled \"Introducing Michelino\" was uploaded to Behanc\u00e9 in October 2013, in which Michelino's steps shake the 3D logo of AliMik. As Michelino stands up the letter \"k\", the dot on the letter \"i\" falls off. \"Merry Christmas from AliMik\" and \"Happy Holidays\". A six-second Christmas video featuring both characters was uploaded in December 2014. A sixteen-second video of Michelino standing in snow, dressed in winter holiday attire but with exposed, shivering legs, was also uploaded. Release and reception. \"The Mods\" played primarily at Italian film festivals in 2014 and 2015, including Giffoni, the largest children's film festival in the world, where it was part of the \"Elements +3\" section. and won the Giotto special prize. The short's first screening outside of Italy but within Europe was at the Annecy Animation Festival. Other festivals where it played in Europe in 2016 included Zl\u00edn in May\u2013June and Berwick in September. The short was shown outside of Europe for the first time at the Seattle Children's Film Festival in early 2016. Other American festivals followed, including the BAM Kids Festival on 27 and 28 February, and the"}, {"text": "REDCAT International Children's Film Festival in April\u2013May 2016. Critical response. Official reasons given for the short's award cited its \"original\" storyboard and animation, \"supported by a strong sound design which amazed the audience\"; the world of Soya and Michelino is \"off-beat\" and the characters are \"funny and creative\"."}, {"text": "Jaime Andrade Moscoso (1913 \u2013 23 April 1990) was an Ecuadorian sculptor specializing in realism and expressionism, along with abstractions near the end of his life. He was best known for his ability to sculpt from a wide variety of materials, including marble, wood, metal, rolled wire, and volcanic stone. He has added work within the realm of drawing, watercolor, and other murals. Life. Attended the schools of the Christian Brothers, then entered the Quito School of Fine Arts in 1928, then later the New School of Social Research in New York in 1941. For a brief time he was the pupil of well known Italian sculptor Luigi Cassadio. He would then return to the School of Fine arts as a professor. In 1954 for 2 years he was the director of the Art Department of the St. Louis Country Day School and In 1962 Jaime founded and became a director of the Ecuadorian Institute of Folklore."}, {"text": "Lalhruaizela (born 30 December 1996) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 12 November 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Ranji Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 21 February 2019, for Mizoram, in the 2018\u201319 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He made his List A debut on 10 October 2019, for Mizoram in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy."}, {"text": "Lalhmangaiha (born 17 November 1983) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 2 October 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 1 November 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Ranji Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 27 February 2019, also for Mizoram, in the 2018\u201319 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy."}, {"text": "Riccardo Spaltro (born 19 February 2000) is an Italian football player who plays as a right-back for club Cerignola. Club career. SPAL. He started playing for the Under-19 squad of SPAL in the 2016\u201317 season. He has not been called up to the senior squad. Loans to Serie D. In 2017\u201318 and 2018\u201319 he was loaned to Serie D clubs Clodiense and Arzignano respectively, achieving promotion to Serie C with Arzignano. Loan to Cavese. On 9 July 2019 he signed his first professional contract with SPAL and was loaned to Serie C club Cavese for the 2019\u201320 season. He made his professional Serie C debut for Cavese on 25 August 2019 in a game against Picerno. He started the game and was substituted in the 77th minute. Return to SPAL. Upon his return from the Cavese loan, he made his Serie B debut for SPAL on 10 April 2021 against Lecce. Renate. On 20 January 2022, he moved to Serie C club Renate. Crotone. On 25 August 2022, Spaltro signed with Crotone who purchased his rights from SPAL (which, in turn, earlier bought him back from Renate)."}, {"text": "INS \"Nilgiri\" is the lead ship of the stealth guided missile frigates being built by Mazagon Shipyard Dock Limited for the Indian Navy. Construction. The keel for \"Nilgiri\" was laid down on 28 December 2017 and the vessel was launched on 28 September 2019. The ship embarked for its maiden sea trials on 25 August 2024. The ship was delivered to the Indian Navy on 20 December 2024. The ship was initially scheduled to be commissioned in December 2024 but the timeline was later shifted. The ship was commissioned on 15 January 2025 along with and . Service history. The commissioning commanding officer of \"Nilgiri\" is Captain Nitin Kapoor. The ship reached its homeport Visakhapatnam under the Eastern Naval Command on 22 June 2025."}, {"text": "Justin Blake Johnson (born May 23, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for Rinascita Basket Rimini of the Italian Serie A2. He played college basketball for Western Kentucky. Early life. Johnson grew up in Inez, Kentucky with his brother Braxton Johnson and initially attended Sheldon Clark High School in Inez. He transferred to Perry County Central High School after his sophomore year to follow Sheldon Clark's head coach, Kevin Spurlock. As a senior, Johnson averaged 21.9 points and 17.6 rebounds per game and was named to the first team All-State by the Associated Press and the \"Lexington Herald-Leader\". College career. Johnson played four seasons for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. He was a key reserve for the team as a true freshman, averaging 4.8 points (fifth on the team) and 4.1 rebounds (third) per game. He became a starter for WKU as a sophomore, leading the team with 14.9 points and 7.9 rebounds per game in 34 games played (26 starts). He led the team again in points per game with 14.5 and led Conference USA in rebounding with 9.4 per game and in double-doubles with 14 and was named second team All-Conference USA. After the season, Johnson left the"}, {"text": "basketball program to join the school's football team as a tight end. He ultimately left the football team during summer training camp to return to basketball for his senior season. In his senior season, Johnson again led the Hilltoppers with 15.7 points per game and also repeated as the conference leader with 9.4 rebounds per game and was named first team All-Conference USA. Professional career. Dinamo Academy Cagliari. Johnson signed with Dinamo Academy Cagliari of Serie A2 Basket on July 16, 2018. In his first professional season, Johnson averaged 16.7 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 29 games played. Pistoia. Johnson signed with Pistoia of Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) on July 11, 2019. The 2019\u201320 season had a disastrous ending: it got interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic and saw Pistoia relegated in the Serie A2 for the 2020\u201321 season. Reggio Emilia. Johnson remained in Italy also for the 2020\u201321 season, signing a one-year deal with Reggio Emilia. He inked a two-year extension with the team on July 21, 2021. Riesen Ludwigsburg. On July 15, 2022, he has signed with MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL)."}, {"text": "Scaevola enantophylla, commonly known as climbing fan-flower,is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a scrambling vine with yellow fan-shaped flowers, and the only species in the genus with leaves arranged opposite. Description. \"Scaevola enantophylla\" is a scrambling vine up to long, it may be smooth or with soft, short hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, finely toothed, arranged opposite, long, wide, tapering to a point on a short petiole. The fan-shaped flowers are borne in cymes in leaf axils on a peduncle up to long, bracteoles triangular shaped, usually up to long, and each flower on a pedicel up to long. The yellow corolla long, smooth on the outside, thickly bearded on the inside, and the wings up to wide. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit narrowly egg-shaped, black, long, smooth or with occasional hairs. Taxonomy. \"Scaevola enantophylla\" was first formally described in 1873 by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in \"Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae\". Distribution and habitat. Climbing fan-flower grows near forests on the east coast of Queensland."}, {"text": "Lalrempuia (born 15 January 1993) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 19 September 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 20 December 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Ranji Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 24 February 2019, also for Mizoram, in the 2018\u201319 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy."}, {"text": "\"I'll Never Get Enough of You\" is a song by Australian singer Samantha Sang from her 1979 album, \"From Dance to Love\". It was written by Jeanne Napoli, Gary Portnoy and Judy Quay. Air Supply version. \"I'll Never Get Enough of You\" was covered in 1981 by English/Australian soft rock duo Air Supply on their sixth album, \"The One That You Love\". The LP had previously produced three top 5 singles in the United States. Since the group already had another album pending, \"I'll Never Get Enough of You\" was not released as a fourth single in either North America or Europe. However, the label released the single in East Asia, including Japan, where it became a top 10 hit in late 1981."}, {"text": "K Lalhmingmawia (born 14 March 1989) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 1 November 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Ranji Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 21 February 2019, also for Mizoram, in the 2018\u201319 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He made his List A debut on 10 October 2019, for Mizoram in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy."}, {"text": "The Bundesbank bunker was the German central bank's bunker in Cochem (Rheinland-Pfalz) for the preservation of an emergency currency. From 1964 to 1988, the Deutsche Bundesbank stored up to 15 billion marks in the top-secret facility, to protect West Germany from a national economic crisis in the event of potential hyperinflation that might be caused by the Cold War. History. In the years of the Cold War there was always the danger that a conflict between the West (NATO) and the Eastern bloc (Warsaw Pact) could break out. The Federal Republic of Germany was endangered by its position as a border state between the two blocs. For this reason, various security measures were taken in the Federal Republic, such as the government bunker built at this time at Ahrweiler. A similar bunker for the preservation of currency reserves was built for the then of Rheinland-Pfalz at the Spechtm\u00fchle near Lorscheid in the district of Trier-Saarburg. There was a concern that the Eastern bloc might introduce large numbers of counterfeit banknotes into West Germany to cause hyperinflation. Therefore, a reserve emergency currency was stored so that purchasing power could be maintained. For this purpose, a special series of the German Mark,"}, {"text": "the BBk II, was printed. The money stock was randomly checked every three months by a Bundesbank auditor. Apart from these auditors, nobody was allowed to enter the bunker. In 1988, the emergency currency was destroyed and the bunker was initially left empty. In 1994, the Deutsche Bundesbank sold the investment to . Lockers for customers were installed in a vault of the bunker, but most of the complex remained untouched. The entire facility, consisting of the above-ground plot with two large camouflage dwellings and the underground bunker and vault system, was sold in 2014 for less than 500,000 euros to a Treis-Karden entrepreneur, who repaired the bunker and turned it into a museum. The zoning plan was changed in 2015 for this purpose, but group tours have been offered since the end of 2015. Since March 2016, the bunker at Cochem is also open to individuals for guided tours as an official documentation site; a shuttle bus runs from May to the end of October from Endertplatz in Cochem to the bunker. The former camouflage homes were converted into a hotel. Location and structure. The 1,500-square-metre bunker was built by the Deutsche Bundesbank between 1962 and 1964 in the"}, {"text": "Cond district of Cochem, near the Hunsr\u00fcck, some 30 metres below the surface. Cochem was deliberately chosen for the location because the Moselle valley offers a very good protection, for example against a nuclear blast. Furthermore, it is on the left bank of the Rhine. Frankfurt am Main is 108 km east as the crow flies and was thus closer to the inner German border and the Fulda Gap. The above-ground part of the plant, on a 8,700 square metre site, was disguised as a training and recreational home of the Deutsche Bundesbank in a residential area. The bunker has a main and an emergency access. The bunker can be accessed via the main entrance, located at 35, Am Wald, or through the basement of the training centre. The emergency exit is located in the cooling tower in the back of the garden and is camouflaged by trees and shrubs. To protect the bunker, a security system with sensors was installed in the walls of the vaults, which reacted to shocks and noise. When an alarm was triggered, the local police were automatically notified, but they did not know what was in the bunker. Only the director of the installation"}, {"text": "could enter the bunker and listen to noises in the vault by means of an intercom. The vault itself could only be accessed by a few employees of the Bundesbank from Frankfurt, as the associated keys were not stored on site. In the event of a nuclear war, the bunker would have protected up to 100 civilians who could have survived two weeks there. In addition to the vaults, there were also sleeping and working rooms, a warning post and a radio room with a direct connection to the Ministry of the Interior. The system had its own electricity supply by diesel generators and 18,000 litres of fuel reserves; the drinking water supply was secured by means of deep well secured and a 40,000 litre tank. The air supply for breathing was ensured by a sand filter."}, {"text": "S. A. M. Hussain was an Indian politician belonging to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He was elected as a member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Triplicane in 2001. He died on 6 August 2019 at the age of 80."}, {"text": "Marco Spina (born 25 January 2000) is an Italian football player who plays as a right winger for club Gubbio. Club career. SPAL. He was called up to the senior squad of SPAL several times during the 2018\u201319 Serie A season, but did not make any appearances. Loan to Gozzano. On 23 July 2019 he joined Serie C club Gozzano on loan. On 25 August he made his professional Serie C debut for Gozzano as a 58th-minute substitute replacing Mart\u00edn Rolle in a 2\u20132 away draw against Alessandria. He first appeared in the starting lineup on 21 September in a 2\u20131 away win over Pro Vercelli, he was replaced Giovanni Bruzzaniti after 53 minutes. Vibonese. On 1 September 2020 he signed with Vibonese. Crotone. On 31 August 2021, he signed with Serie B club Crotone and was loaned back to Vibonese for the 2021\u201322 season. On 26 July 2022, Spina was loaned by Gubbio. On 25 August 2023, the loan to Gubbio was renewed for the 2023\u201324 season. Gubbio. On 24 January 2025, Spina returned to Gubbio on a permanent basis."}, {"text": "Lalnuntluanga (born 26 July 1986) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 19 September 2018, for Mizoram in the 2018\u201319 Vijay Hazare Trophy."}, {"text": "Michael T. Sangma was an Indian politician. He was elected as a member of Meghalaya Legislative Assembly from Tikrikilla in 2013. He died of heart attack on 13 August 2019 at the age of 41."}, {"text": "Edgeout Records (stylized as EDGEOUT Records) is an American independent record label, founded by Tony Guanci and Cheryl Benson-Guanci in 2018. Its releases are distributed through Universal Music Group, with which it signed an exclusive global label services agreement in December 2018. Edgeout signs bands to \"upstream\" to one of Universal's labels, or alternately it has distribution division which provide services to bands/artists that meet specific criteria. The label also runs an artist development program called The Studio, which it uses to identify potential signees. Edgeout signs established artists with specialty projects and musicians to sole distribution deals. Based in Los Angeles, Edgeout opened a second office in Nashville on October 12, 2021. Label activity, 2019-present. Edgeout announced its first signing, The Jacks, in January 2019. The Jacks debut EP single, \"Walk Away,\" premiered May 17, 2019. The single is from their debut, self-titled EP, released June 28, 2019. The album was produced by Grammy-nominated Matt Wallace and mixed by Grammy winner Andrew Scheps at Sunset Sound Recorders in Los Angeles. In November 2019, the band released a holiday single, a rock version of \"In the Bleak Midwinter,\" based on an 1872 work by English poet Christina Rossetti. In advance"}, {"text": "of their second EP, Remember You, the group released the first single \u201cJust A Little Bit\u201d on January 23, 2020. and a second single Threw It All Away on March 3, 2020. The EP was released on March 6, 2020, and was produced by Grammy winner Joe Chiccarelli. On September 17, 2021, The Jacks released a specialty-project album, titled Slowdance. The label signed its second band, The Revelries, a pop-rock/alternative band in the winter of 2019. The Revelries first single \"Clich\u00e9 Love\" was released on April 30, 2021, followed by several further single releases. On May 6, 2022, the band released \"Best For You.\" The Revelries prior singles were compiled into a self-titled album, The Revelries on September 9, 2022. Edgeout signed its first established artist, DJ Ashba, in March 2020. Ashba (stylized as ASHBA) released his debut single, \"Hypnotic (featuring Cali Tucker, the daughter of Tanya Tucker)\" on August 14, 2020. Ashba will be releasing several more singles with different vocalists. Ashba's second single, \"Let's Dance (Ft. James Michael)\" was released October 16, 2020, and the official music video was released on October 23, 2020. Ashba released his latest single, titled \"Bella Ciao\" on October 29, 2021. Ashba then"}, {"text": "released \"Malosa\" on July 29, 2022. On November 10, 2023, Ashba released 'Party Tonight' ft. Dia with an accompanying music video. The label announced their signing of Bluphoria, on February 1, 2021. The alternative/blues/psych rock band is from Eugene, Oregon southwest of Portland, although they moved to Nashville in January 2022. Bluphoria released their debut single, titled 'Set Me Up' on August 19, 2022. Bluphoria released 'Walk Through The Fire' on October 21, 2022. On January 27, 2023, the band released a single, 'Ain't Got Me,' followed by 'Columbia' on March 31, 2023. They released their debut self-titled album with the label on May 5, 2023. On June 14, 2024, the band released an EP titled \"Bluphoria Live (Live At The East Iris Live Night Event/2023).\" In December 2021, Edgeout released a holiday EP, titled Rock'n Holiday. The EP features three holiday tracks, including Ashba's \"A Christmas Storm,\" The Revelries \"Jingle Bells,\" and The Jacks \"In The Bleak Midwinter.\" Northern California alternative pop-punk trio Stratejacket signed to Edgeout Records in September 2021. The band released their debut single titled \u2018Bad Start\u2019 on September 22, 2023. A second single was released on March 1, 2024 - titled \"Be My Drug.\" On"}, {"text": "May 10, 2023, StrateJacket released their self-titled five track EP. The band released another single titled \"End of Time\" on July 19, 2024. StrateJacket released a third single titled \"Dreamcatcher\" on August 30, 2024. On October 11, 2024, the band released their debut album \"Bad Start.\" On August 21, 2023, Edgeout signed New Zealand rock band Like A Storm. The band released the single \"Sinners & Saints\" on September 15, 2023. On June 28, 2024, they released another single titled \"Yeah!\" with featuring artists Kellin Quinn of Sleeping with Sirens and Hyro the Hero. On August 2, 2024, they released a second single with Hyro The Hero titled \"All __ (Live It Up).\" The band released a third single titled \"Final Countdown\" on September 13, 2024."}, {"text": "The following lists events that happened during 1880 in the Kingdom of Belgium."}, {"text": "Brahmanapalli Balaiah was an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He was elected as a member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Kamareddy in 1978. He died of heart attack on 21 February 2019."}, {"text": "Ingrid Louis (born 23 September 1977) is a former swimmer who competed for Mauritius in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Career. Louis began swimming in 1985 after the Indian Ocean Island Games. She competed in the women's 50 metre freestyle finishing 53rd out of 55 competitors with a time of 29.56 seconds. She retired in 2002 and became an insurance agent after working in shipping and marketing."}, {"text": "Cheryl J. Franklin (born 11 September 1955) is a science fiction and fantasy writer. Biography. Cheryl Jean Franklin was born in Pasadena, California, on 11 September 1955. Franklin graduated from the University of Redlands with a degree in Mathematics. After graduation she got a position as a systems analyst with Rockwell. Franklin worked as a communications systems analyst for Boeing in Anaheim in California from 1976 to 2001. Franklin suffered from vision issues and this was what initially prompted her to write. She created her first novels with DAW books and she has been a contributor for Locus Magazine. Her work was included in the DAW 30th Anniversary anthology. She is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. Her work received good reviews and was well received."}, {"text": "Claustrofobia is a Brazilian death/thrash metal band from S\u00e3o Paulo, formed in 1993. The band is considered one of the seminal underground extreme metal bands in Brazil, with fans around the world, particularly in United States of America and Eastern Europe. History. The band started in 1993 in Leme, S\u00e3o Paulo. In the years the band participated in the underground scene, becoming one of the most important death/thrash metal bands in Brazil. The band has toured through South America and Europe, sharing the stage with Iron Maiden, Slayer, Soulfly, Destruction, In Flames, Brujeria, Napalm Death, Vader, Krisiun, Helmet, Hate Eternal, Ratos de Por\u00e3o, Paul Di'Anno, Anthrax, Testament, Sepultura and Kreator. The band did a cross-country U.S. tour with Master in the summer of 2019 before heading back to Brazil to open for Slayer's last show in Brazil on 2 October 2019. Two days later, they went on to play the Palco Sunset stage at Rock in Rio, in Rio de Janeiro, on 4 October 2019. Discography. DVD. In March 2015, the band released their first DVD, titled \"Visceral\". The DVD contains live shows and a documentary about the 20-year history of the band."}, {"text": "Kim Mi-soon () is a South Korean Paralympic archer. Kim is from Andong, South Korea. She began archery in 2010 and made her international debut in 2014. She competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics where she won bronze medals in the Women's individual compound open and Team compound open events. She also won a gold medal at the 2015 World Para Archery Championship in the individual compound open event."}, {"text": "Aarush Bhagwat (born 12 September 2003) is a Hong Kong cricketer. He was a member of Hong Kong's Twenty20 International (T20I) squads for the 2019\u201320 Oman Pentangular Series and the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. He made his T20I debut for Hong Kong, against Oman, on 5 October 2019. In November 2019, he was named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup in Bangladesh. He made his List A debut for Hong Kong, against India, in the Emerging Teams Cup on 18 November 2019. Later the same month, he was named in Hong Kong's squad for the Cricket World Cup Challenge League B tournament in Oman. Prior to his international debut, he had also previously played for the Hong Kong Under-19 National cricket-team at the 2018 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup and the Asian Cricket Council's Eastern Region tournament in July 2019. Alongside this, he was also a part of the Hong Kong Under-16 Cricket Team at the 2019 ACC Under-16 Eastern Region Asia Cup."}, {"text": "is a Japanese racewalking athlete. He studied at Toyo University. Ikeda won a bronze medal in 20 kilometres race walk at the 2019 Asian Race Walking Championships in Nomi. He represented Japan at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, competing in 20 kilometres walk. He won a silver medal at 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the same event. In February 2025, Ikeda was banned for anti-doping violations for four years from November 2024 with results from June 2023 disqualified. His blood samples showed abnormalities alleged to indicate tampering."}, {"text": "The 2019 CS Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy was held in November 2019 in Dongguan, China. It was part of the 2019\u201320 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dance. The International Skating Union announced on July 22, 2019 that the Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy would replace the canceled Asian Open Figure Skating Classic on the same dates. Entries. The International Skating Union published the full list of entries on October 3, 2019."}, {"text": "The following lists events that happened during 1881 in the Kingdom of Belgium."}, {"text": "Nasrulla Rana (born 11 September 2002) is a Hong Kong cricketer. In September 2019, he was named in Hong Kong's Twenty20 International (T20I) squads for the 2019\u201320 Oman Pentangular Series and the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. He made his T20I debut for Hong Kong, against Oman, on 5 October 2019. He was a member of Hong Kong's squad for the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup in Bangladesh, and made his List A debut against Nepal, in the same tournament. Later the same month, he was named in Hong Kong's squad for the Cricket World Cup Challenge League B tournament in Oman. Prior to his international debut, he had also previously played for the Hong Kong Under-19 National cricket-team at the 2018 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup and the Asian Cricket Council's Eastern Region tournament in July 2019."}, {"text": "Raag Kapur (born 22 February 1999) is a Hong Kong cricketer. In September 2019, he was named in Hong Kong's Twenty20 International (T20I) squads for the 2019\u201320 Oman Pentangular Series and the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. He made his T20I debut for Hong Kong, against Nepal, on 6 October 2019."}, {"text": "Cubanichthys pengelleyi, the Jamaican killifish, is a species of killifish from the family Cyprinodontidae, the pupfishes, which is endemic to Jamaica. It is found in shallow, crystal clear waters with a depth of and a pH of 8.2). These have a substrate consisting mainly of sand with some softer patches of silt. This species hides among aquatic vegetation. Its prey consists of damselfly and dragonfly larvae, the larvae of other aquatic insects, ostracods, copepods and snails. The specific name honours the Jamaican physician and medical officer Charles Edward Pengelley (1888\u20131966) who obtained the type."}, {"text": "Gabriele Carannante (born 27 February 1999) is an Italian football player. He plays for club Grosseto. Club career. He spent the first several seasons of his senior career in Serie D. On 2 September 2019 he joined Serie C club Pianese on loan from Parma. He made his professional Serie C debut for Pianese on 15 September 2019 in a game against AlbinoLeffe. He started the game and was substituted at half-time. On 14 September 2020 he was loaned to Legnago. On 28 January 2021 he moved on loan to Turris. On 17 September 2021, he joined Casertana in Serie D."}, {"text": "Lincoln G Asquith (born 3 April 1964), is a male former athlete who competed for England. Biography. Asquith finished third behind Todd Bennett in the 200 metres event at the 1984 AAA Championships. Asquith finished fifth in the 100 metres at the 1985 AAA Championships but was the leading British athlete and therefore considered the British 100 metres champion. Asquith represented England and won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay event with Daley Thompson, Mike McFarlane and Clarence Callender, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. From 2006 until 2010 he was the escort of the visually impaired athlete Libby Clegg."}, {"text": "Pyre () is a novel by Perumal Murugan that describes a love story within social caste-induced hatred. It was originally published in Tamil in 2013 and subsequently translated into English by Aniruddhan Vasudevan in 2016. The novel was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017. It was also selected for the International Booker Prize longlist 2023. The Tamil version is dedicated to R. Ilavarasan, a young Dalit man who was discovered dead on a railway track after his inter-caste marriage had brought about violence from his community. Plot summary. The novel is set in Kattuppati, a remote Tamil Nadu village in Southern India. Kumaresan and Saroja, newly married, arrive by bus to live at Kumaresan's house on a rock in the village. Their marriage is an inter-caste one, performed in secret after they eloped from Saroja's house in Tholur, and Kumaresan believes that no one shall know about Saroja's different caste if they deny it. When they reach their house, Marayi, Kumaresan's mother, curses her ill-luck that her son married Saroja. Her dirge attracts the attention of many village residents who flock to the house to see the new bride and tease her about the marriage. They"}, {"text": "do not believe that a person as fair as Saroja would belong to the same caste as them. As days pass by, Saroja has to put up with Marayi's constant insults and the village folks' questions and comments about her caste. A visit to Kumaresan's grandparents turns sour as his grandfather hits him and says that he has brought disgrace upon the family. Saroja is reminded about their affair in Tholur where Kumarasen had come to work with Bhai Anna's help. Kumarasen worked in a soda-bottle packing and distributing unit for Soda Bottle Bhai and was Saroja's neighbor. They often stole glances at each other until some soda bottles exploded in Kumaresan's hands and Saroja left him some food. Knowing that her father and brother would never approve of their marriage, Saroja ran away with Kumarasen to get married. At their village, a council decides to boycott them from any social gathering and a public well. Kumarasen and Saroja are still invited to a coming-of-age ceremony of a distant relative from another village. Kumarasen tries to settle down with a soda-bottle distributing business spread across a few villages. He takes Saroja with him to Virichipalayam, where he has found a"}, {"text": "shop with money raised from friends. Saroja hopes he would settle down in Virichipalayam and away from his village. They buy a plateful of presents for the ceremony they are invited to. They decide to go directly to the temple where the ceremony will be held rather than walk down with other people from their village. At the ceremony, Kumarasen is humiliated by his uncle and asked to leave immediately. Back home, Kumarasen discovers that Saroja is pregnant. Saroja believes that a child's coming would convince Kumarasen to leave the village with her. Kumarasen has to leave the village for a couple of days to visit his shop but Saroja urges him to come back at night however late it is. That night, Saroja goes to the bushes near the rock to defecate and overhears Marayi conspiring with other villagers to kill her in Kumaresan's absence. Determined not to get caught, she hides herself deep within the shrubbery. When the villagers realize where she is, they set the bushes alight from all sides with Saroja within it, just as Kumaresan's cycle is heard returning to the village. Themes. Describing the subject, Aniruddhan Vasudevan, the translator of the novel wrote in"}, {"text": "the translator's note: This is a novel about caste and the resilient force that it is, but it is also about how strangely vulnerable caste and its guardians seem to feel in the face of love, and how it often seems to assert itself both in everyday acts of discrimination as well as in moments of most unimaginable violence. Caste intolerance. Penguin India's description of the novel describes its caste theme, \"Despite the strident denials of the young couple, the villagers strongly suspect that Saroja must belong to a different caste. It is only a matter of time before their suspicions harden into certainty and, outraged, they set about exacting their revenge. A devastating tale of innocent young love pitted against chilling savagery, Pyre conjures a terrifying vision of intolerance.\" A review says that the caste atrocities in the novel indicates \"violence and complicity... by the assent of the majority\". Throughout the story, Saroja and Kumaresan have to face caste-based humiliations in the form of fiery words and dehumanising physical abuse. Though Saroja's exact caste or its hierarchical relationship with Kumaresan's caste is unknown to the villagers, her fair skin, as opposed to their dark skins, becomes reason enough for"}, {"text": "them to suspect her caste. The inter-caste marriage becomes a reason for \"defilement\" of the caste purity of the entire village from which, therefore, Kumaresan and his family is boycotted. Contrast between city and village life. The novel is set in multiple locations and life in the city is often contrasted with life in the village. Through symbols of \"hard rocky surface(s)\" and a \"barren, harsh\" landscape, the village describes the \"ossified impermeable social structure organised around caste lines which does not allow any social fluidity\". In contrast, the city is free, where \"[Saroja] can flash a smile and is reciprocated by a smile\". Reviewers have also pointed out the rich evocation of the \"Kongu\" land in the story, accepting that Murugan's \"eloquent' language and \"razor-sharp metaphors\" bring nature to life in the village scenes, especially with paragraphs like: She had never set her bare feet on a rock before. It touched her with the combined sensation of Kumaresan\u2019s soft hands and his rough embrace, the memory of which made her shiver with pleasure every time she walked on the rock\u2019s surface. But she had to be cautious. Even a slight tumble and her toenails might get wrenched out, or"}, {"text": "she might fall feet first. Eventually, she got used to walking barefoot on the rock. Like a child learning to walk, she carefully placed one foot in front of another. One review, however, criticizes the representation of country life as bland, something that Murugan has painted as \"alien and exotic\" in order to engage the reader who has never been to rural India. Another review, which advocates similar concerns, dismisses it as an issue with the setting of the novel, which it claims is set in the 1980s."}, {"text": "The Philomathean Clubhouse is a historic clubhouse in Stockton, California and served the Philomathean Club, a women's club. Its building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The Philomathean Club (\"philomath\", from the Greek, meaning \"lover of learning\") began in 1893 from a reading group of nine women. The club was formally organized eventually, and joined the California Federation of Women's Clubs in 1900. The group included a book discussion club and hosted speakers regarding contemporary political and social topics, supported literacy programs, as well having as more social functions such as tea and playing cards. It met in various venues including the public library, the Yosemite Theatre, the Elks Hall and the Hotel Stockton. It grew to have more than 300 women members in 1910, when it began a process to build its own building. The club chose to quit the California Federation of Women's Clubs in 1943 but continued to operate and contribute to Stockton. At one point, the roll included 700 members. and as of 2012 it had around 70. The , two-story building was built during 1911-12 by local contractor William E. Wood. It is Craftsman in style. On February 9, 1912,"}, {"text": "the women's club began meeting in the clubhouse. The clubhouse includes an upstairs lecture hall, which also served as a ballroom. The lower level housed a kitchen and meeting rooms. Historic photographs at the Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library, show finely dressed Stocktonians on the front porch of the clubhouse in the 1930s. In 1982, the membership wished to retain control over its building so it voted not to be included in Stockton's Magnolia Historical District. Following the Philomathean Club's decision, there were several break-ins at the clubhouse. At the same time, maintenance costs grew and membership diminished. In 2000, the City of Stockton purchased the building for $25,000 with the intention of using it to host public events. Due to the city's bankruptcy dealings in 2013, creditors pressed them to put for sale many historic properties, including the Philomathean Clubhouse. However, the terms of the city's deal with the club was that a new owner must allow the club to use the building on the condition the club maintains at least 10 members. Soon after the city removed the clubhouse from the list of properties for sale. In 2015 it was sold to a newly formed"}, {"text": "foundation named the Philomathean Foundation, whose goal was to make improvements to the building and use it for public events. The price of the sale was $28,500 despite a valuation of $400,000. At the time, the building was in such disrepair that city documents estimated it needed over $540,000 in renovations, the majority of the cost relating to the roofing. As of 2016, work was still being done to the building to make it accessible to the public with the goal of it being used for weddings, cultural events, banquets, and more. By 2019, just before the outbreak of COVID-19, significant repairs had been made, but due to the pandemic the building has not been available for rental."}, {"text": "The 2006 Anaheim mayoral election was held on November 7, 2006, to elect the mayor of Anaheim, California. It saw the reelection of Curt Pringle."}, {"text": "VO5 is an American nu-disco and funk band from Madison, Wisconsin formed in 2005. Career. In 2015 VO5 released the album \"Dance Originality\". A music video for the single \"Dance Originality\" won the VOTD.TV award and was on rotation on MTV. VO5 has shared a stage with disco legends the Village People and KC and the Sunshine Band. VO5 performed at the 2012 Scott Walker recall election mass protests alongside Michelle Shocked. Their song \"Cheddar Revolution\" was included in the \"Cheddar Revolution: Songs of Uprising\" CD compilation. During the 2010 US Senate election, a video of VO5 performing the song \"Wonder Woman\" along with candidate Tammy Baldwin gained national attention after Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson campaign employee Brian Nemoir questioned Baldwin's \"heartland values\" for dancing at a gay rights parade. Tommy Thompson was forced to apologize for his aides' \"gay-baiting\" in a TV ad and Baldwin went on to win the election."}, {"text": "The Gallery of Matica Srpska (, ) is one of the largest and oldest galleries in Serbia. It is located in the central zone of Novi Sad, next to Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection. The Gallery was established on 14 October 1847, with contributions from Sava Tekelija who left a valuable family portrait collection to the Matica Srpska, and other Serb merchants who made endowments and donations to the gallery. The building of Gallery of Matica Srpska was declared a Monument of Culture of Great Importance in 1979. The Gallery of Matica Srpska has acted as an independent institution apart from Matica srpska since 1958. Collections in The Gallery of Matica Srpska mostly consists of paintings from all periods of the national history of art."}, {"text": "Teodors Sp\u0101de (7 March 1891 \u2013 25 July 1970) was a Latvian naval officer. A World War I and Russian Civil War veteran, he held commanding positions in the Latvian navy from 1931 to 1940. After the Soviet occupation of Latvia, Sp\u0101de was deported from the country. He died in exile in the Kazakh SSR and was reburied to his homeland in 1990. Early career. Sp\u0101de was born into a fisherman's family in Ventspils, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1891. He was trained as a mechanical engineer at the Riga Polytechnic Institute, which he graduated in 1914. He was drafted in the Imperial Russian Baltic Fleet at the outset of World War I. He advanced from a position of \"michman\" to that of a torpedo boat commander and ended up as a commanding officer at the Black Sea Navy Brigade Headquarters in Batumi, where he married a Georgian woman in 1917. After the fall of the Russian Empire, he joined the navy of the People's Republic of Ukraine in early 1918 and, following a peace treaty between Ukraine and the Central Powers, pledged his loyalty to the Democratic Republic of Georgia. In Georgian service Sp\u0101de commanded a detachment"}, {"text": "of cutters in Batumi. In June 1918, the Ottoman troops took control of Batumi and made the town's garrison, including Sp\u0101de, captive. Released in October 1918, Sp\u0101de joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of South Russia, a White party to the Russian Civil War. He was promoted to Senior Lieutenant and put in charge of the Sevastopol port. In March 1920, Sp\u0101de, together with the defeated White forces, was evacuated to Constantinople, where he accepted Latvian citizenship and returned to Latvia with his wife. Latvia and exile. Sp\u0101de joined the Latvian military in 1926 and received training at the French Naval Academy in 1928. In 1931, as a Captain 2nd Rank, he was placed in command of the Latvian Coast Guard squadron. He was promoted to Captain 1st Rank in 1933 and admiral in 1938. That same year, he was appointed the chief of the Latvian navy. After the Soviet occupation in 1940, Sp\u0101de was released of his command and in less than a year he was deported to Siberia. Having spent several years in labour camps, Sp\u0101de was freed in 1954, but was still prohibited from returning in Latvia. The former admiral worked as an accountant at a"}, {"text": "hospital in Temirtau in Kazakhstan, where he died in 1970. His remains were reburied to Latvia in 1990."}, {"text": "Anthropocosmic Nest is the second album by The Messthetics. Unlike their debut album, which was recorded after having only been together for a short while, this album was recorded after a great deal of touring. Guitarist Anthony Pirog estimates the band played about 200 gigs and therefore had a chance to perform the songs live for a while before recording them. Reception. In a review for AllMusic, Mark Deming called the album \"a must for anyone with a taste for music that's smart, challenging, and exciting,\" and wrote: \"\"Anthropocosmic Nest\" pushes the trio's boundaries on all sides... The three musicians... [have] created a greater shared language and the conversation is richer, more potent, and more deeply rewarding\" in comparison with their debut album. Justin Cober-Lake of \"Spectrum Culture\" stated that, although the album \"runs just a touch too long,\" it \"finds new ways to blend a hard rock rhythm with more outre approaches to jazz guitar.\" He commented: \"With \"Anthropocosmic Nest\", the group solidifies who they are. While each members' past remains a considerable part of the trio's context, the Messthetics are becoming an entity distinctly their own.\" \"Exclaim!\"'s Vish Khanna noted that, on the album, the musicians outdid their"}, {"text": "debut \"simply by getting to know each other a lot better.\" He described the recording as \"dynamic, revealing a patient, thoughtful approach to songwriting, which, beyond exhibiting the band's musical proficiency, is a real signifier of genuine friendship and trust.\" Writing for \"Dusted\", Jennifer Kelly remarked: \"All three musicians play very well, and they've obviously gotten more intuitive and engaged with one another. But it's too much skill and too little viscera for my taste.\" A writer for \"PBS 106.7FM\" stated that the album \"perfectly captures the trio's current live dynamic, complete with improvisational tangents, playful experimentation, and cathartic sprawl.\" Caleb R. Newton of \"New Noise Magazine\" called the album \"a captivating musical adventure\" and \"a gripping little glimpse of a new universe to be explored,\" featuring \"wild rhythms that are sometimes jazzy and sometimes noisy,\" with \"pieces [that] consistently come together with a stunningly smooth power.\" The album was featured in Bandcamp's \"The Best Punk on Bandcamp\" for September 2019."}, {"text": "Numanus Remulus is a Rutulian appearing in Book 9 of Virgil's \"Aeneid\". He is the brother-in-law of the Rutulian prince Turnus and is killed by the Trojan prince Ascanius, son of Aeneas and future king of Alba Longa. Numanus is a minor character in the Aeneid and is otherwise unknown in Latin literature; he appears only within the episode in which he is killed in \"Aeneid\" 9 (\"Aen.\" 9.590-637). Virgil uses Numanus to highlight and contrast ancient ethnic stereotypes. Numanus gives a boasting speech (\"Aen.\" 9.598\u2013620) which contrasts Italian 'toughness' to the 'softness' of the Trojans (though both Italian and Trojan ethnic groups must come together to form the Roman identity in the \"Aeneid\"). Such ethnic contrasts have a long history in ancient epic, going back to Homer. Virgil may also use the episode as a coming-of-age narrative for Ascanius: Numanus is reported to be Ascanius' first kill on the battlefield (\"Aen.\" 9.590\u2013592)."}, {"text": "The 2002 Anaheim mayoral election was held on November 5, 2002, to elect the mayor of Anaheim, California. It saw the election of Curt Pringle."}, {"text": "Brainless Killers is an indie short film released in October 2015 and directed by Ren Thackham. On its release at the 2015 Sydney Indie Film Festival it won awards for Best Film, Best Thriller and Best Special Effects in the short film category."}, {"text": "Anderson functions describe the projection of a magnetic dipole field in a given direction at points along an arbitrary line. They are useful in the study of magnetic anomaly detection, with historical applications in submarine hunting and underwater mine detection. They approximately describe the signal detected by a total field sensor as the sensor passes by a target (assuming the targets signature is small compared to the Earth's magnetic field). Definition. The magnetic field from a magnetic dipole along a given line, and in any given direction can be described by the following basis functions: formula_1 which are known as Anderson functions. Definitions: The total magnetic field along the line is given by formula_8 where formula_9 is the magnetic constant, and formula_10 are the Anderson coefficients, which depend on the geometry of the system. These are formula_11 where formula_12 and formula_13 are unit vectors (given by formula_14 and formula_15, respectively). Note, the antisymmetric portion of the function is represented by the second function. Correspondingly, the sign of formula_16 depends on how formula_17 is defined (e.g. direction is 'forward'). Total field measurements. The total field measurement resulting from a dipole field formula_18 in the presence of a background field formula_3 (such"}, {"text": "as earth magnetic field) is formula_20 The last line is an approximation that is accurate if the background field is much larger than contributions from the dipole. In such a case the total field reduces to the sum of the background field, and the projection of the dipole field onto the background field. This means that the total field can be accurately described as an Anderson function with an offset."}, {"text": "Eisold is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The following lists events that happened during 1882 in the Kingdom of Belgium."}, {"text": "The following lists events that happened during 1883 in the Kingdom of Belgium."}, {"text": "B\u00e1rbara Alejandra Mu\u00f1oz Bustamante (born 2 January 1992) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a defender. Club career. Mu\u00f1oz spent five seasons with Santiago Morning from 2020 to 2024. International career. Mu\u00f1oz played for the senior team of Chile at the 2014 South American Games and the 2014 Copa Am\u00e9rica Femenina. Honours. Chile"}, {"text": "Bhaluka Road railway station is a railway station on the Howrah\u2013New Jalpaiguri line of Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway Zone. It is situated at Kariali of Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Total 24 passengers and express trains stop at Bhaluka Road railway station."}, {"text": "Denisse Alejandra Orellana Betancourt (born 8 November 1996) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a defender for Club Universidad de Chile and the Chile women's national team. International career. Orellana made her senior debut for Chile on 15 September 2017."}, {"text": "The Office of the Comptroller General of the Social Security (, IGSS) is the department of the Spanish Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration responsible for the internal audit and accounting duties of all the entities that integrate the Social Security system. Although integrated into the Ministry for Social Security, the Office reports directly to the Comptroller General of the State. The IGSS was created in December 1977. The current comptroller general of the Social Security is Sonia P\u00e9rez-Urr\u00eda Ventosa, who assumed office on December 10, 2020. Powers. The Office has powers related to: Organization chart. The Office of the Comptroller General of the Social Security (IGSS) is structure through two large structures; one centralized and another decentralized. Central services. The central structure of the IGSS is integrated by: Decentralized services. The decentralized structure of the IGSS consists of: Each comptroller delegation has an Accounting Office and a Financial Control Unit. Likewise, multiple Delegated Comptrollers may be attached to the aforementioned delegations, with the functions and competences established by the Comptroller General of the Social Security. These delegated auditors are appointed, at the proposal of the Comptroller General, among officials of the Higher Audit and Accounting Corps of the"}, {"text": "Social Security Administration. Comptroller general. The head of the Office is the Comptroller General of the Social Security. The Comptroller General is appointed by royal decree at the joint proposal of the Ministers of Social Security and of Finance and at the initiative of the Comptroller General of the State Administration. The Controller General of the Social Security is replaced in case of vacancy, absence or illness by the Deputy Director-General for Audit and Control of the Social Security System. Failing that, the substitution will fall to the oldest Deputy Director-General by appointment and, if equality occurs, in the oldest by age."}, {"text": "Parker Thomson (1932\u20132017) was an American lawyer. Early life and education. Thomson was born in Troy, New York, to a history professor from Russell Sage College. During his childhood, he attended Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, and later The Albany Academy before coming to Princeton University where he majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and wrote his dissertation on the \"U.S. Foreign Policy and the Schuman Plan\". Career. Lawyer career. Initially trained in Harvard Law School, Thomson joined Hogan Lovells. From 1968 to 1983 he worked closely with Dan Paul, fellow Harvard graduate, to form Paul & Thomson law firm. During his time as a lawyer, Thomson represented periodicals such as \"Miami Herald\" in \"Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo\" case in 1974 and \"The New York Times\" as well as corporations such as AT&T and Bank of America. He also did many pro bono cases for various organizations, including League of Women Voters, the Audubon Society, and Miccosukee tribe. Two years after Paul & Thomson law firm split, Thomson became a chairman of the Dade County Fair Campaign Practices Committee. The same year, he also became a critic of Miami electoral campaigns, criticizing the"}, {"text": "candidates for being racist toward minorities. During those timers, he along with Dade Republican Party chairman Jeb Bush and Dade Democratic Party chairman Richard Pettigrew formulated a statement of fair campaign practices, a pledge candidates could sign to keep prejudice out of politics. That pledge eventually led to Maurice Ferr\u00e9 dropping two advisors from his campaign for racist attack against his rival Marvin Dunn. Thomson was also a mentor to Rafael Pe\u00f1alver, a Miami lawyer who succeeded him as chairman of the committee. In 1998, Thomson represented Gianni Versace family, winning injunction following reports of stolen autopsy photos of the slain fashion designer. He also defended Teresa Earnhardt, the wife of Dale Earnhardt, who wanted to put her husband's autopsy photos under protection. The settlement was then signed by Teresa Earnhardt and the U.S. Supreme Court in 2001, which granted news organizations expert permission to examine the photos without making them public. Philanthropy. As a philanthropist, Thomson led a drive to create the $300 million Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, which opened in 2006. He and his daughter, Meg Daly, had collaborated along with Jorge A. Plasencia in a non-profit organization, Friends of the Underline. At"}, {"text": "the organization, Thomson served as director and was an advocate for transforming Miami-Dade Metrorail into a 10-mile neighborhood park. Death and legacy. Following his death in November 2017, in Coral Gables, Florida, The Florida Bar created awards in Thomson's honor which is awarded to journalists in two categories: $500 and $250."}, {"text": "Spavinaw Creek is a stream that begins in Arkansas and flows west into Oklahoma. The mouth is at located at Lake Hudson. The creek drains 400 square miles of the Ozark Mountain foothills and farm land. Two lakes, Lake Spavinaw and Lake Eucha, were impounded to create water supplies for the city of Tulsa approximately 55 miles away. Description. The actual source begins as a drainage basin and a mostly dry to intermittent brook in northwest Arkansas, flowing west into Oklahoma, picking up intermittent drainage, run-off, and tributaries such as Brush Creek, Dry Creek, Columbia Hollow Creek, Rattlesnake Creek, Cloud Creek, Cherokee Creek, Hog Eye Creek, Spring Branch, and Wolf Creek, that is the Decatur waste discharge point, and others. The creek drains 400 square miles of Ozark Mountain foothills and is a tributary of Grand River. Dams. The first dam was built in 1923 creating Lake Spavinaw as part of the Spavinaw Water Project. Much of the town of Spavinaw had to be relocated to higher ground. The purpose of the lake was to supply water to the city of Tulsa. The creek was dammed a second time in 1952, creating Lake Eucha as an expanded storage for the"}, {"text": "Spavinaw system. Water quality. The land usage was shown in a 2002 study to be predominantly livestock and poultry with a small percentage of row crops. There were 54,172 head of cattle and calves, 128,066,609 Broilers & chickens, and the number of Hogs & pigs was not determined in Delaware County, OK. There were 40,251 head cattle and calves, 37,154,935 Broilers & chickens, and 285,661 in Benton County, AR. The result of water quality testing showed a high concentration of phosphorus resulting in algae growth. A major tributary to Lake Eucha, Beaty Creek, was found (2004 study) to be impaired by pathogens, specifically Enterococcus. There can be many causes of contamination such as faulty septic systems, wildlife and livestock grazing fecal bacteria, unstable stream banks, municipal and industrial storm water and waste water discharge, commercial fertilizer, pet waste, soil erosion, and \"confined/concentrated animal feeding operations\" (CAFOs) such as the many poultry farms. The Decatur, Arkansas waste water treatment plant also includes waste from a poultry processing plant. Large poultry operations are considered point sources whereas smaller operations are not but cumulatively contribute to the phosphorus loading in the watershed. The city of Tulsa brought court proceedings that resulted in a"}, {"text": "ruling for a reduction in discharge of phosphorus from the city of Decatur and poultry producers in the watershed to improve water quality as well as reduce treatment costs. Both Lake Spavinaw and Lake Eucha have been designated as \u201csensitive public and private water supply\u201d (SWS) and \u201cnutrient limited watershed\u201d (NLW). Any increase in discharge must receive prior approval. 72 poultry producers in Oklahoma and 22 in Arkansas are cooperating in the best management practices (BMP) to reduce nutrients in the watershed."}, {"text": "Julia Mary Avis (born 2 February 1963) is a female former track and field athlete who competed for England in the discus throw. Biography. Avis a member of Barnet Ladies, finished third behind Lynda Whiteley in the discus throw event at the 1983 WAAA Championships. Avis became the British discus throw champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1985 WAAA Championships. In addition she also won the 1985 UK Athletics Championships title. Avis represented England in the discus event, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland."}, {"text": "The 6th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1984 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1983. As follows, there was only a Worst Picture category with provided commentary for each nominee, as well as a list of films that were also considered for the final list but ultimately failed to make the cut (26 films total)."}, {"text": "Anto\u015b is a Polish masculine given name that is a diminutive form of Antoni, Antonin and Antonius that is used in Poland. Anto\u015b, Antos or Anto\u0161 may either be a surname or given name. As a surname it is derived from the Antonius root name. Notable people with these names include:"}, {"text": "Catherine Ann Cullen was the first Poetry Ireland poet in residence and is a writer. Biography. Catherine Ann Cullen was born in Drogheda, County Louth. She has an M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from Middlesex University, London. Her work has won a gold award for Poetry and Folklore from the American Parenting Products Association. In 2016 and 2009 Cullen won the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Award. In 2018 she was a recipient of a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship for her work. She has held several residencies in schools and was for three years (2016 to 2019) A&L Goodbody Writer in Residence at St Joseph's Co-Ed School, East Wall, Dublin 3, for which she was awarded the 2017 Business to Arts Award for Best Use of Creativity in the Community. She is part of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive at University College Dublin. Her work has been included in many anthologies and has been broadcast on RT\u00c9. Cullen has worked as a lecturer in journalism and a radio producer based in Dublin. In 2019 she was made the inaugural Poet in Residence at Poetry Ireland for two years."}, {"text": "Narendra Singh is an Indian politician and a member of the 17th Lok Sabha. Narendra Singh may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Peder Reedtz (1531 - 21 September 1607), a favourite of Frederick II of Denmark, was avener, lensmann and landowner. He owned H\u00f8rbygaard and Tygestrup (now Kongsdal) at Holb\u00e6k. Early life and education. Reedtz was born at Schultendorp in Mark Brandenburg, the son of Michel Reedtz of Schultendorp and Sophia Lambertsdatter Bomstedt. He lost his parents in an early age. He received a military education in Germany, France and Livland. Career. Reedtz came to Denmark at the outbreak of the Northern Seven Years' War where he maintained particularly close ties to Daniel Rantzau. He left the country in 1570 but soon returned and was in 1872 appointed \"hofjunker\" and the following year as avener. Reedtz resigned from the position as avener in 1580 and was instead granted the fiefs of Sor\u00f8 (until 1584) and Antvorskov (until 1478). In 158788, he served as \"lensmann\" of Kors\u00f8r. After his marriage he was also granted the fief of Salt\u00f8 for his and his wife's lifetimes. Holdings. In 1586, Frederick II presented him with H\u00f8rbygaard at Holb\u00e6k. In 1587, he acquired Tygestrup from the king in exchange for some of his wife's property in Jutland. He dissolved the village and replaced it by a manor"}, {"text": "(later renamed Kongsdal). An in inscription on the building expressed his gratitude towards the king. He lost many of his privileges at the royal court when Frederik II died. Personal life. Reedtz married Karen Rostrup (died 1636) a daughter of J\u00f8rgen R. (died 1563) and Margrethe Andersdatter Skeel (died 1568 or later), on25 February 1582 at Copenhagen Castle. He was the father of Frederik Reedtz. He died at Tygestrup on 21 September 1607 and is buried at H\u00f8rby Church."}, {"text": "Mark Iosifovich Graev (\u041c\u0430\u0440\u043a \u0418\u043e\u0441\u0438\u0444\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u0413\u0440\u0430\u0435\u0432, 21 November 1922, Moscow \u2013 22 April 2017) was a Russian mathematician. He is known as one of the namesakes in the Gelfand\u2013Graev representation. Education and career. Graev received his doctorate in 1947 from Lomonosov Moscow State University with thesis \"Free topological groups\" under the supervision of Alexander Kurosh. Graev was a professor at the Scientific Research Institute of System Development of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Moscow circle of Israel Gelfand, with whom he wrote several books. Graev was the co-author with Gelfand and Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro of volume 5 (\"Integral Geometry and Representation Theory\") and the co-author with Gelfand and Naum Ya. Vilenkin of volume 6 (\"Representation Theory and Automorphic Functions\") in the 6-volume monograph series \"Generalized Functions\". In 1966 Graev was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Moscow. His ICM presentation \"Theory of Representation of Groups\" was joint work with Alexander Kirillov."}, {"text": "Aart Brederode (22 March 1942 \u2013 8 May 2020) was a Dutch field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Ma Chau island (, not to be confused with Ma Shi Chau island), is an uninhabited outlying island of Hong Kong located in the Soko Islands group about 4km south to Lantau Island. Since June 2022, Ma Chau Island is designated as part of South Lantau Marine Park. The park aims to protect the Chinese White Dolphins and Finless Porpoises population around the Soko Islands. Geology. According to the Civil Engineering Services Department, Ma Chau Island is composed mostly of Fan Lau Porphyritic Granite."}, {"text": "Sebo Ebbens (born 31 October 1945) is a Dutch field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Otto ter Haar (9 August 1943 \u2013 29 September 2016) was a Dutch field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Keepapitchinin is a history blog written by American historian Ardis E. Parshall,) who specializes in Mormon history. The site was founded in 2008, whose namesake comes from a humorous newspaper published sporadically between 1867 and 1871 and was pseudonymously written by George J. Taylor, Joseph C. Rich, and Heber John Richards (the fathers of whom each served at the time as apostles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Parshall received an award in 2010 for her \"Keepapitchinin\" essay \"Beards\" from the Association of Mormon Letters and was awarded by the \"Bloggernacle\" as 2010 Best Blogger and 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2013 Best Solo Blog. Parshall's article \"'Pursue, Retake & Punish\u2019: The 1857 Santa Clara Ambush\" received the 2005 Dale L. Morgan Award of the Utah State Historical Society. From 1993 until 2013, Parshall provided extensive professional research, editorial and administrative assistance to fellow independent historian William P. MacKinnon in delving through Utah-based records archives, especially in reference to the U.S. military expedition known in the mid-19th century the \"Mormon Rebellion\" and locally within the then State of Deseret as \"Johnston's Army.\" In addition to assisting MacKinnon, Parshall has supplied her research to Matthew Grow, W. Paul Reeve,"}, {"text": "Nathan Oman, and Steven C. Harper. According to a 2019 \"Salt Lake City Tribune\" article, over the years \"Keepapitchinin's\" content \"has appeared, unattributed, in newsletters, magazines, blogs, books and other volumes. Several 'stolen posts' were abbreviated versions of papers Parshall presented at professional meetings, including the Mormon History Association.\" Historian Matthew Grow stated \"perhaps the best biographical writing on international Mormons resides on Ardis Parshall\u2019s blog \"Keepapitchinin\".\""}, {"text": "Ewald Kist (born 22 January 1944) is a Dutch former field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Colonel Dr. Roman Sondermajer CMG (Serbian: ) (28 February 1861\u2013 30 January 1923) was a Royal Serbian Army physician who served as Chief Surgeon of the Royal Serbian Army, Chief Surgeon and Director of the Military Hospital and Chief of the Medical Staff of the Serbian Supreme Command during World War I. From German-Polish origins, he came to Serbia as an assistant professor and never left, among his many contributions is the introduction of Aseptic practice into the operating room and the surgical treatment of hernia in conscripts. Dr. Sondermajer is considered the founder of Serbian war surgery. Early life and career. Sondermajer was born in Czernowitz, capital of the Duchy of Bukovina, Austrian Empire (present-day Chernivtsi in Ukraine), a son of Franciszek Sondermeier, native of Bavaria, and a Polish mother. He had a brother called Adam. He finished high school in Lviv and received his medical degree in 1884, from the Polish Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w, specializing in surgery. After graduating he worked as assistant professor, in the Department of Surgery, under Professor Jan Mikulicz-Radecki. In 1889, recommended by Dr. Mikulicz-Radecki, and at the invitation of Serbia's Chief of Medical Staff, Colonel Dr. Mihailo Markovi\u0107, Dr. Sondermajer left Krak\u00f3w"}, {"text": "for Serbia. He was immediately assigned to the Army Medical Service with the rank of captain, his first duty was to set up a Surgical Department at Belgrade Military Hospital. In the upcoming period, he became the director of the hospital as well as head of the surgery department, a position he kept from 1889 to 1910. Dr. Sondermajer initiated the construction of a new military hospital in Vra\u010dar, the works started in 1903, he personally oversaw and controlled the construction. In 1905 he became Colonel. In 1909, with the new building finished, he became the chief of the hospital. At the time it was the most modern hospital in Serbia. Balkan Wars. On 17 October 1912 the First Balkan War started when Serbia and Greece declared war on the Ottoman Empire after Bulgaria and Montenegro, Dr. Sondermajer is appointed Chief of the Medical Service of the Ministry of War.<ref name=\"The Balkan Wars 1912/1913\"></ref> Well aware of the importance of sanitation in maintaining combat effectiveness, Dr. Sondermajer issued strict orders regarding the matter. In December 1912, there were 34 reserve military hospitals in Belgrade, where, besides Serbian doctors, over a hundred foreign doctors were working too. In the whole of"}, {"text": "Serbia, there were only 370 doctors, out of which 296 were selected for the war field. Medical staff consisted of about 200 nurses, among them were Serbian women from respectful urban families who worked with foreign nurses; twenty Serbian women doctors joined the medical corps, they were called up under the general mobilisation, as well as by order of the Ministry of War. The Ottoman army was decisively defeated by the coalition but a month later the Second Balkan War started when Bulgaria turned against its two former allies in a surprise attack. A heavy battle followed in which the Serbian army lost 16,000 soldiers and the Bulgarians 25,000. Attacked from all sides, Bulgaria demanded armistice. The peace was made on 10 August 1913. By this peace treaty the Balkan wars ended, the first, a liberation war, and the second, a tragic Balkan war. With the war ended, Dr. Sondermajer was reinstated as director of the Military Hospital in Vra\u010dar. He remained in that position until 1914. First World War. Chief Surgeon to the Supreme Command. In the first days, of July 1914 Germany and Austria-Hungary decided on war, the war was announced to the Serbian government via an open"}, {"text": "cable on 28 July 1914. Belgrade was bombed on the same evening. In spite of its weaknesses, Serbia was determined to defend itself and fight her third war in a short period of time. Dr. Sondermajer was appointed Chief Surgeon to the Supreme Command. The great typhus fever epidemic appeared in the late autumn of 1914, after the second Austrian offensive. By December the Austro-Hungarian troops were pushed out of Serbia for the second time in ten days. Around 50,000 wounded and sick remained in hospitals. Great problems with the lack of accommodation and food were affecting not only hospitals but the civilian population as well, besides that, there were around 50,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners that had to be accommodated and fed too. Dr. Sondermajer established a large field hospital using army barracks to care for the sick and wounded, it was located near Kragujevac. Flora Sandes, who started as a volunteer British nurse, recalled the conditions at the hospital in Kragujevac and meeting Dr Sondermajer for the first time: Inspector General of Medical Service. Dr. Sondermajer was appointed Inspector General of Operations, in that position he had to inspect the military medical institutions, combating typhus was the priority, physicians, medics,"}, {"text": "nurses, soldiers, and civilians all were affected. His wife Stanislava and his daughter Jadviga both nurses on the battlefield died of the disease. Between 1 December 1914 and 1 January 1915 the number of people suffering from infectious diseases in hospitals in the warzone increased threefold from 3152 to 10816. The number of physicians and para-medical staff that Serbia had at the beginning of the war was not sufficient; the Medical Corps was inadequately and insufficiently equipped; there was no causal treatment since this was the pre-antibiotic era, and there was a general weakness of the entire population, which also contributed to the mass morbidity and mortality. The decision was made to ask officially, through embassies in Great Britain, France, and Russia, for immediate help in the form of 100 physicians to suppress the epidemic. Great Britain was first to respond, and their Government made a decision to send a mission to Serbia comprising 25 military medical officers, the British Military Hospital attached to the Serbian Army being the official name of the unit, as well as the Scottish Women's Hospitals. In October 1915 Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian and German forces launched a new offensive, the Serbs continued fierce resistance and gradually"}, {"text": "withdrew. On 25 November, the Serbian High Command issued the order to retreat through Montenegro and Albania, to join the Allies and continue the war out of the country. The Serbian High Command emphasised that its army was not in a favorable condition for a counteroffensive, but that capitulation was viewed as a worse choice. Dr. Sondermajer and his two sons crossed the snowy Albanian mountains in the arduous winter retreat with the rest of the Serbian army, with no food and medical supplies. Chief of Medical Staff. In 1916, after the dismissal of Dr. Lazar Gen\u010di\u0107, Dr. Sondermajer became Chief of Medical Staff of the Serbian army. The Serbian Army and its 151,920 soldiers arrived in Salonika from Corfu in April 1916. Dr. Sondermajer personally chose a site for the field hospital, it was on the shore of Lake Ostrovo. Tents were put up: four wards of forty beds each, ten beds per tent, an operating theatre, an automobile parts and garage tent, mess tent, office tents, and accommodation tents. The field hospital started immediately receiving Serbian soldiers from the front lines, it was known as the Ostrovo Unit. According to many testimonies, Dr Sondermajer was esteemed and loved"}, {"text": "by the troop who called him \"Dr. Sonder\". Later years. After the war he became director of the Military Hospital in Novi Sad and chairman of the Military Medical Committee from 1920 to 1923. He went on to perform over 5,000 operations. Dr. Sondermajer died in Belgrade, on 30 January 1923 at the age of 62. Family. Dr. Roman Sondermajer married Stanislava Duri\u0107, daughter of Minister of Defence General Dimitrije \u0110uri\u0107, and granddaughter of Minister of Education Dimitrije Mati\u0107, Stanislava Sondermajer was a member of the Circle of Serbian Sisters, a humane society of volunteer nurses, following the Austro-Hungarian attack on Serbia, the Circle of Serbian Sisters relocated from Belgrade to the wartime capital Ni\u0161, where its members worked in the town's hospital, collecting money and clothes for the wounded. Stanislava died of illness in 1914. Dr. Roman Sondermajer and Stanislava had four children, three sons and one daughter, every member of the family volunteer in the wars, two of their children died during the First World War."}, {"text": "Nakrah (Sabaean: NKR\u1e24 [M], and \"Nikra\u1e25um\") was an ancient South Arabian god of protection and salvation worshiped in the Minaean Kingdom. The place of worship of the deity is located in today's Jawf in northern Yemen. It is located near the village Ma'in, the ancient Qarnawu. Around his sanctuary was a sacred precinct bounded by nine inscription stones. The site is located around the hill Darb al-\u1e62ab\u012b. In Baraqish there are temples that were created In honor of Nakrah. Adolf Grohmann assumed that Nakrah was a sun goddess, which stood in Ma'in next to the moon god Almaqah and Venus Athtar. However, Jacques Ryckmans and W. W. M\u00fcller, said that Nakrah was a male god."}, {"text": "Heiko van Staveren (born 21 October 1942) is a Dutch field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The 5th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1983 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1982. From this point forwards, the Stinkers have not done an expanded ballot on any of the remaining Worst Picture ballots. As follows, there was only a Worst Picture category with provided commentary for each nominee, as well as a list of films that were also considered for the final list but ultimately failed to make the cut (29 films total)."}, {"text": "Vincenzo Mustacciolo (born 17 March 2000) is an Italian football player. He plays for Athletic Club Palermo. Club career. He started his senior career in Serie D with Troina. On 31 January 2018, he signed with Parma (in Serie B at the time), who loaned him back to Troina for the rest of the 2017\u201318 season. For the 2018\u201319 season he joined Serie C club Siracusa on loan. He made his professional Serie C debut for Siracusa on 25 September 2018 in a game against Paganese. He substituted Marco Palermo in the 81st minute. He made his first start for Siracusa on 21 October 2018 in a game against Potenza. He finished the loan with 16 appearances, including 9 in the starting line-up. On 27 July 2019 he joined Ravenna on loan, again in the Serie C. On 13 August 2021, he signed with Serie D club Acireale. On 4 December 2021, he moved on loan to Patern\u00f2, also in Serie D. On 30 December 2021, he signed for Troina. In July 2022 he then moved to Oratorio S. Ciro E Giorgio, and then to CUS Palermo in January 2023. In the summer 2023, Mustacciolo joined Athletic Club Palermo."}, {"text": "Piet Weemers (born 9 April 1946) is a Dutch field hockey player. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Bristow is an unincorporated community in Marlboro County, South Carolina, United States. Geography. Bristow is located at latitude 34.419 and longitude \u201379.618. The elevation is 128 feet."}, {"text": "Juan Jos\u00e9 Alvear Calleja (born 25 September 1941) is a Spanish field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Dmitry Aleksandrovich Samoilov (; 31 December 1922 \u2013 15 August 2012) was a Soviet fighter pilot who flew in World War II and later Korea, during which he became credited as a flying ace and was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Early life. Samoilov was born on 31 December 1922 to a working-class Russian family in Kokand, located in present-day Uzbekistan. In 1940 he completed his 9th grade of school in Elektrostal, and later that year he graduated from the Noginsk aeroclub. After joining the military he trained at the Kachin Military Aviation School of Pilots, graduating in September 1941. He then graduated from the Konotop Military Aviation School of Pilots in February 1945, becoming a flight instructor there afterwards. In 1946 he was transferred to the 171st Fighter Aviation Regiment, and in 1948 to the 139th Regiment, before being sent to the 523rd Fighter Regiment in July 1950 as a senior pilot. That summer the unit was sent to the Russian Far East with other parts of the 303rd Fighter Division, and in March 1951 they were sent to Manchuria, China where they underwent intense training before first entering combat in Korea on 1 June 1951."}, {"text": "Korean War. As one of the few pilots in his regiment who had not flown in combat before, Samoylov initially flew with his more experienced counterparts, including Aleksandr Karasyov and Grigory Okhay. Due to his inexperience he became separated from his squadron commander during a flight, but managed to survive the incident, with much guilt over having endangered himself and his commander. It was not until 9 September 1951 that he was credited with an aerial victory after he badly damaged the F-86 of Donald Jabush, although Jabush was able to land his damaged plane. His next credited aerial victory took place the next day after he damaged another F-86, and during a later mission that day he was credited with shooting down an F-84. His next credited aerial victories were attacks on F-86 fighters in October. Later that month he attacked a B-29, causing damage that led to it losing control and fatally crashing while on approach to landing. Another credited victory that day was the downing of an F-84, although some sources indicate the aircraft suffered a compressor failure as cause of its crash. The last time Samoylov was officially credited with an aerial victory was on 4"}, {"text": "November 1951, an incident indicated to have involved an F-86. Postwar historians credit him with an additional aerial victory on 5 January 1952 during a flight with Grigory Okhay in which he encountered an F-84, but there are no documents from his regiment supported the claim. Shortly after being made a flight commander in January 1952, he was made deputy commander of the 2nd squadron the next month. However, he did not hold that position for very long, since his regiment made its last sortie taking place on 20 February 1952 before being sent back to the USSR. Throughout the conflict Samoylov flew 161 sorties and accumulated 128 hours and 54 minutes of flight time in combat. Postwar. After returning from Korea he remained in the Air Force, being promoted to squadron commander within his regiment in 1957. In March 1958 he became the deputy commander for flight training in the 224th Fighter Regiment before entering the reserve in July 1960. After graduating from an Engineering College in 1965 he worked as an engineer in Elektrostal until 1988. He lived there for the remainder of his life until he died on 15 August 2012."}, {"text": "Port Warren is an unincorporated community located within Greenwich Township in Warren County, New Jersey. Inclined Plane 9 West of the Morris Canal was located here. It was the largest plane of the canal and also one of only three double-track planes. The plane tender's house is now the Jim and Mary Lee Morris Canal Museum. The interaction of the Lopatcong Creek with the canal resulted in building an overflow and waste weir downstream of the inclined plane."}, {"text": "Antonio Nogu\u00e9s (born 27 April 1945) is a Spanish field hockey player. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Jos\u00e9 Sall\u00e9s (born 27 July 1947) is a Spanish field hockey player. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics, the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Agust\u00edn Masa\u00f1a D\u00edaz (born 7 July 1946) is a Spanish field hockey player. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Juan Quintana Bosch (born 20 November 1946) is a Spanish field hockey player. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Jorge F\u00e1bregas (born 26 July 1947) is a Spanish field hockey player. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics, the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Rafael Cami\u00f1a (born 16 August 1944) is a Spanish field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Davide Mastaj (born 30 April 1998) is an Italian footballer who plays for La Biellese. Club career. Parma. He started his senior career in the fifth-tier Eccellenza league with Colorno. After joining the youth team of Parma on loan for the 2016\u201317 season, Parma signed him on a permanent basis on 30 August 2017. He played for their Under-19 squad in the 2017\u201318 season. He was called up to the senior squad 14 times, but remained on the bench in all those games. Loan to Trapani. On 31 August 2018, he joined Serie C club Trapani on a season-long loan. He made his professional Serie C debut for Trapani on 17 March 2019 in a game against Virtus Francavilla. He replaced Daniele Ferretti in the 74th minute. He finished his loan with making just that one appearance. Loan to Carpi. On 2 September 2019, he moved to another Serie C club Carpi on a season-long loan. Personal life. Born in Italy, Mastaj is of Polish descent."}, {"text": "Siskin (foaled 25 February 2017) is an American-bred Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He was one of the best juveniles in Europe in 2019 when he won his first four races including the Marble Hill Stakes, Railway Stakes and Phoenix Stakes. He maintained his unbeaten record on his three-year-old debut when he took the Irish 2000 Guineas but suffered his first defeat when facing older horses for the first time in the Sussex Stakes. At the end of the year he was retired from racing and exported to Japan to become a breeding stallion. Background. Siskin is a dark bay or brown colt bred in Kentucky by his owner Khalid Abullah's Juddmonte Farms. The colt was sent to race in Europe and entered training with Ger Lyons at Dunsany, County Meath in Ireland. He was sired by First Defence, who recorded his biggest win when taking the Forego Stakes over seven furlongs on dirt at Saratoga Race Course in 2008. As a breeding stallion he is best-known as the sire of Close Hatches. Siskin's dam Bird Flown showed modest racing ability, winning one minor race from five starts in France, but was a half-sister to the dam of Close Hatches. Her dam"}, {"text": "Silver Star was a full-sister to Xaar and one of numerous major winners descended from the American broodmare Best In Show (foaled 1965). Racing career. 2019: two-year-old season. Siskin was ridden in all of his races as a juvenile by Colin Keane. On his racecourse debut, the colt started at odds of 2/1 for a minor race over six furlongs at Naas Racecourse on 11 May and won \"comfortably\" as he took the lead in the last quarter mile and came home two and three quarter lengths clear of the Aidan O'Brien-trained Harpocrates. Thirteen days later the colt was stepped up in class for the Listed Marble Hill Stakes at the Curragh and started the 11/8 favourite ahead of four opponents headed by Harpocrates and his stablemate King Neptune (winner of the First Flier Stakes). After tracking the leaders Siskin took the lead a furlong from the finish and accelerated away from the field to win by two and a half lengths. Ger Lyons commented \"He's very straightforward and has been from day one. I'd love to tell you how difficult it is to train him and how brilliant I am, but it's push button stuff when you have horses"}, {"text": "like this. He has a fantastic temperament\". On 29 June at the Curragh Siskin moved up to Group 2 class and was made the 4/6 favourite for the Railway Stakes. The best of his four opponents appeared to be the Aidan O'Brien-trained pair Monarch of Egypt and Fort Myers. Keane settled the favourite in third place behind Fort Myers and Romero before sending him to the front with a furlong and a half left to run. Siskin went clear of the field and won \"easily\" by two and a half lengths from Monarch of Egypt despite being eased down in the final strides. The Group 1 Phoenix Stakes, which was run over six furlongs on soft ground at the Curragh on 9 August, saw Siskin start the 10/11 favourite ahead of Monarch of Egypt, with the other three runners being Royal Lytham (July Stakes), Mount Fuji and Think Big. After settling in a close fourth place, Siskin moved up to take the lead approaching the final furlong and kept of well to win by three quarters of a length and a head from Monarch of Egypt and Royal Lytham. After the race Lyons said \"My confidence was shot all week"}, {"text": "with the rain, purely because we knew he was better on a faster gallop. His forte is that burst of speed that he still showed there. I think he's a very smart horse\". Siskin bypassed the seven furlong National Stakes and was instead sent to England for the Middle Park Stakes over six furlongs at Newmarket on 28 September. He was strongly fancied for the race but was withdrawn after becoming highly agitated and rearing up in the starting stalls. Khalid Abdullah's racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe said \"We\u2019ve got no really good explanation... For that suddenly to happen is bizarre... He just flipped.\" In the official rating of European two-year-olds for 2019 Siskin was rated the seventh-best juvenile of the year, fourteen pounds inferior to Pinatubo. 2020: three-year-old season. The flat racing season in Ireland was disrupted by the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Irish 2000 Guineas was run three weeks later than usual on 12 June at the Curragh with no spectators allowed. Siskin, making his first appearance for more than ten months, started the 2/1 favourite in a race which saw a six-horse entry from O'Brien's Ballydoyle stable (described by Ger Lyons as a \"football team\") comprising Armory (Futurity"}, {"text": "Stakes, Lope Y Fernandez (Round Tower Stakes), Royal Lytham (July Stakes), Monarch of Egypt, Vatican City and Fort Myers (Star Appeal Stakes). The other four runners were Sinawann (runner-up in the Juvenile Stakes), Fiscal Rules, Free Solo and Rebel Tale. Siskin settled in seventh place as Fort Myers and Royal Lytham set the pace, and was switched to the left in the last quarter mile, bumping Armory as he did so, after struggling to obtain a clear run. Lope Y Fernandez took the lead but Siskin accelerated gain the advantage inside the final furlong and won by one and three quarter lengths from Vatican City. After an inquiry by the racecourse stewards the result was unaltered. Lyons, who was winning his first Classic race commented \"This means everything, it means 30 years' hard graft for everybody - to win a Guineas was always my number one and hopefully it's the first of many... That was hard work and full credit to Colin Keane. You don't get a Guineas handed to you and they both stood up when it was needed. If there was a kink in that horse then he wasn't going to go through that gap.\" On 29 July"}, {"text": "Siskin was sent to England for the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse in which he was matched against older horses for the first time. He started the 9/4 favourite but sustained his first defeat as he was beaten into third place behind the four-year-olds Mohaather and Circus Maximus beaten one and a quarter lengths by the winner. For his next start the colt traveled to France contest the Prix du Moulin over 1600 metres at Longchamp Racecourse but failed to reproduce his best form as he finished a well-beaten fourth of the six runners behind Persian King. On his final racecourse appearance Siskin started at odds of 8/1 for the Breeders' Cup Mile at Keeneland on 7 November. He never looked likely to win and came home ninth behind the upset winner Order of Australia. At the end of the year it was announced that Siskin had been retired from racing and had been sold to stand as a breeding stallion in Japan. In the 2020 World's Best Racehorse Rankings, Siskin was rated on 119, making him the equal 57th best racehorse in the world. Stud career. Siskin began his stud career at the Shadai Stallion Station on Hokkaido with"}, {"text": "an initial fee of \u00a53.5 million (approximately \u00a326,000/\u20ac29,000). He covered 20 mares in 2021."}, {"text": "Emma Oosterwegel (; born 29 June 1998) is a Dutch track and field athlete competing in the combined events. She won the bronze medal in the heptathlon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Oosterwegel has won four Dutch national titles, mostly in the pentathlon. She was born in Deventer, and is a Soil, Water and Atmosphere student at Wageningen University."}, {"text": "Amdouni is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "A children's news program is a type of news program that is specifically aimed at children, usually 6\u201314 years olds, rather than an adult audience. The programme is usually made by the network's news and current affairs department, rather than the children's department. As the programme is aimed at a much younger audience from ordinary adults focused news programme, there are significant differences in the style and make-up of the programme. These are for example: the programme has news stories that children would be interested in, usually avoiding deep political and business news and more dealing with popular cultures such as music and television. The programme is presented in with much lighter tone, with the language being much simpler and less complex and has graphics and sounds that are much more colourful. Usually, the news presenters are much younger than regular news presenters and acting in a much more informal environment than regular newscasters, with casual clothing and either standing or sitting on a chair, rather than behind a desk. Some presenters use the programme in the past as a platform to later work as a formal newscaster or correspondent. History. No one network is responsible for the creation of"}, {"text": "a news programme aimed at children. CBS first broadcast a series of news clips aimed at children in 1971 under the title of \"In the News\". However, in 1972, the first channel to broadcast a new segment for children was by the BBC with \"John Craven's Newsround.\" Accounts tended to avoid the political emphasis of adult news and instead sought to build an \u2018'interesting'\u2019 agenda. In the same year, Sweden's SVT started broadcasting a weekly news roundup programme called \"Barnjournalen\" (Children's Journal). Later the Netherlands' NOS created a children's show \"Jeugdjournaal\" (Youth Journal) in 1981."}, {"text": "Miellet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Austria competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland from 9 to 22 January 2020. Freestyle skiing. Lisa Titscher also qualify to the Games, but she crashed during before the Olympics training session in Reiteralm, and didn't travel with team. Luge. The first nominated Selina Egle broke a foot during the training. Re-nominated is Madlen Lo\u00df for the single event, an Austrian double will not start. Short track speed skating. One Austrian skater achieved quota place for Austria based on the results of the 2019 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships. Speed skating. One Austrian skater achieved quota place for Austria based on the results of the 2019 World Junior Speed Skating Championships."}, {"text": "Marcia Elizabeth Farr (born March 25, 1944) is an American sociolinguist and ethnographer; she is an Emerita Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as an Emerita Professor of Education and English at the Ohio State University. Biography. Farr was born in Berkeley, California on March 25, 1944. Relocating to Ohio later that year, she attended Upper Arlington schools, graduating from its high school in 1961, and from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1965 with a BA in English. She then moved to Washington, D.C. and taught high school English in Prince Georges County, Maryland, and subsequently received an MA in Linguistics from American University. Farr continued her education, receiving a PhD in Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1976, partially supported by National Science Foundation fellowships. That year she started working at the U.S. National Institute of Education directing its program on writing research. In 1982 Farr joined the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where she remained for twenty years, retiring as an emerita professor. During that period she founded and edited two academic book series: \"Advances in Writing Research\", 1982\u201392, and \"Written Language\", 1992\u20132000. She then taught at"}, {"text": "the Ohio State University for another ten years, retiring as an emerita professor from that institution as well, in 2012. Work. As a sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist, Farr studies oral and written language use in social and cultural context, as well as how these various local ways of using language and literacy affect the teaching and learning of academic literacy. Her research has been funded by grants from the Spencer Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as by the US Census Bureau. In the early 1990s Farr began a long-term ethnographic study of language and culture among a transnational social network of Mexican families in Chicago and in their village-of-origin in Michoac\u00e1n, Mexico. A pair of edited books explore language and/or literacy practices in a variety of Chicago communities, including African American, African, Lithuanian, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, \"White\" working and middle class, Swedish, Mexican, and Puerto Rican. A third edited book (with Lisya Seloni and Juyoung Song), \"Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education: Language, Literacy, and Culture\", explores the implications of ethnolinguistic diversity for education."}, {"text": "Antonine is a Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian feminine given name that is a form of Antonina and a diminutive form of Antonia that is used in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Greenland. It is also a masculine name. Notable people with this name include the following individuals:"}, {"text": "Luca Zamparo (born 19 November 1994) is an Italian football player who plays for club Torres on loan from Vicenza. Club career. He made his professional Serie C debut for Triestina on 25 March 2012 in a game against S\u00fcdtirol. He played the first 9 seasons of his senior career in Serie C and Serie D. After becoming the second-best goalscorer in 2018\u201319 Serie D group D and helping his team Reggiana with promotion to Serie C, on 10 July 2019 he signed a 3-year contract with Serie A club Parma, who immediately loaned him to Serie C club Rimini. On 8 January 2020, Parma announced that the loan to Rimini has been terminated and he has been loaned back to Reggiana for the rest of the season. The loan contract contained the obligation for Reggiana to purchase his rights which were activated after his first league appearance for them. On 5 August 2022, Zamparo moved to Virtus Entella. On 15 January 2024, he was loaned by Padova. On 1 July 2024, Zamparo signed a two-year contract with Vicenza."}, {"text": "Jamaica competed at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, from 27 September to 6 October 2019."}, {"text": "Norway competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland from 9 to 22 January 2020. Curling. Norway qualified a mixed team of four athletes. Speed skating. One Norwegian skater achieved quota place for Norway based on the results of the 2019 World Junior Speed Skating Championships."}, {"text": "Contigo () was a right-wing political party in Peru. Led by former congressmen Gilbert Violeta, Salvador Heresi and Juan Sheput, Contigo participated in the 2020 parliamentary snap election and the 2021 general election, on both occasions earning a low share of votes in comparison to the success of its preceding organization, Peruvians for Change, which achieved the Peruvian presidency with Pedro Pablo Kuczynski at the 2016 general election. The party was officially dissolved following the 2021 general election for not passing the electoral threshold. History. In February 2019, Peruanos Por el Kambio (PpK), the party that had led Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to the presidency in 2016, and that in theory, served as the official government party of Mart\u00edn Vizcarra's government, declared itself in reorganization and announced the creation of a party assembly to evaluate a probable name change. Kuczynski himself presented his irrevocable resignation to the presidency of PpK on 4 February 2019. Shortly after the announcement of reorganization of the party, nine of the eleven PpK congressmen (the absent were Gilbert Violeta and Juan Sheput) met at the Government Palace with President Vizcarra and the members of the Council of Ministers, and agreed to continue supporting the government. It"}, {"text": "could be seen that the PpK bench had been divided into two factions: a majority, headed by Jorge Mel\u00e9ndez and Sergio D\u00e1vila, who wanted to continue supporting the government completely; and another, commanded by Violeta and Sheput, supported by what was left of Vizcarra's estrangement from the PpK party was further aggravated by the revelation that the Construction Club had contributed US$100,000 for the 2016 Kuczynki campaign. Party leaders (Violeta, Heresi and the PpK general secretary Jorge Villacorta) agreed to hold Vizcarra responsible for controlling the financing of the campaign, as revealed in conversations on WhatsApp leaked to the press. On 2 March 2019, the PpK party assembly agreed to change its name to Contigo. They also made official the registration of Juan Sheput which until then had only been extended an invitation. The Contigo leadership said that the party supported Vizcarra \"100%\" and considered that the PpK bench in Congress should also change its name. But the PpK congressmen, with the exception of Violeta and Sheput, agreed to keep the original name, considering that the name with which the citizens had chosen them should be respected. Violeta and Sheput then asked the bench for a temporary license, but it"}, {"text": "did not accept and even opened a disciplinary process. Given this, both congressmen decided to quit the Peruvians for Change caucus, which was thus reduced to nine members (6 March 2019). None of these nine members of the PpK bench, including Mercedes Araoz and Carlos Bruce, is a member of the party; the last member, Clemente Flores, resigned from Contigo that same day. The party ceased to exist in the aftermath of the 2021 general election, in which the party participated without a presidential nominee and one congressional list only in Lima. Virtually impossible to pass the electoral threshold, Contigo obtained less than 0.1% of the popular vote, effectively losing its registration as a party."}, {"text": "John Williams Hicks (14 November 1938 \u2013 8 January 2021) was a New Zealand field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Hicks died on 8 January 2021, and his ashes were buried at Onerahi Cemetery in Whang\u0101rei."}, {"text": "Ken Murphy (born 1966/1967) is an Irish business executive. He has been the chief executive (CEO) of Tesco since October 2020. Early life. Murphy was born in Cork, Ireland. He was educated there at Christian Brothers College, and earned a bachelor's degree from University College Cork, and later attended the six-week Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School. He is a qualified accountant and worked as an accountant at Coopers & Lybrand after graduating from University College Cork in 1988. Career. Murphy started his career at Procter & Gamble. When he was 22, Murphy became a finance director at Alliance UniChem, a drugs wholesaler which became part of Boots UK. In 2013, Murphy became managing director of health and beauty, international and brands at Boots. After Walgreens took over Boots in 2014, he rose to become chief commercial officer and president of global brands at the parent company, Walgreens Boots Alliance. In October 2019, it was announced that Murphy would become CEO of Tesco. He succeeded Dave Lewis on 1 October 2020. In May 2024 the Tesco PLC annual report revealed that Murphy had received a \u00a310 million pay package for the year to February 2024, doubling his prior year's"}, {"text": "earnings. This comprised \u00a34.7 million in pay and bonuses, up from \u00a34.3 million, with the rest from shares that were awarded to Murphy when he joined and paid out after he surpassed a number of performance targets. Personal life. Murphy is married with three children."}, {"text": "Michel Spiro (born 24 February 1946 in Roanne, Loire, France) is a French physicist. Biography. Michel Spiro attended the high school Jean-Puy de Roanne. Spiro obtained the baccalaur\u00e9at in 1963, with a specialisation in elementary mathematics. After this, he attended the school Lyc\u00e9e Louis-le-Grand to prepare his entry exam at the \u00c9cole polytechnique. He completed his graduate studies in theoretical physics in 1969. He joined the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in 1970, as an engineer. He was promoted to the position of director of the Particle Physics Section of the Department of Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Associated Instrumentation (DAPNIA ) in 1991 and led the section until 1999. He became charg\u00e9 de mission of the CEA and assistant scientific director in Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), responsible for astroparticle physics and neutrinos. He took over the leadership of DAPNIA in 2002. From 2003 to 2010 he was appointed director of Institut national de physique nucl\u00e9aire et de physique des particules (IN2P3) in CNRS. Spiro obtained his PhD from University of Paris-Sud, Orsay in 1976. His early research in particle physics led him, as a member of the UA1 experiment, to participate in"}, {"text": "the discovery of the intermediate bosons W and Z. He then turned to study particles from the cosmos by participating in the GALLEX solar neutrino detection experiment. He became then the spokesperson of the microlensing search experiment EROS(Experience de Recherche d'Objets Sombres). From 1983 to 1999, Professor Spiro lectured quantum mechanics, then stellar equilibrium and evolution and finally energy and environment at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique. From 2010 to 2013 he was President of CERN Council. His presidency overlapped with the start of LHC physics. Since then Spiro helds the position as research director emeritus at the CEA. Michel Spiro was president of the French Physical Society from 2016 to 2017 and president-elect for International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) as of 2018. In October 2019 Spiro was asked to replace IUPAP president Kennedy J. Reed who wanted to step down for personal reasons. As of 2025 Spiro continues as IUPAP past president under the presidency of Silvina Ponce Dawson. In June 2020, Michel Spiro was appointed chair of the CERN and Society Foundation Board, a foundation to support and promote the mission of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and disseminate its benefits to the wider public."}, {"text": "In March 2024, he was appointed chair of the Curie and Joliot-Curie Association, succeeding to Edouard Brezin. Spiro chaired during 2022 and 2023 the steering committee of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD2022). He also contributed towards the proclamation on August 25, 2023, by the United Nations General Assembly, of an International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development 2024 to 2033. In this framework he chairs The Earth-Humanity Coalition during the year 2024. Works and publications. Scientific articles. The database INSPIRE-HEP has recorded more than 200 scientific articles signed by Spiro."}, {"text": "Germany competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland from 9 to 22 January 2020. Germany competed with 90 athletes across 16 sports. Medalists. Medals awarded to participants of mixed-NOC teams are represented in italics. These medals are not counted towards the individual NOC medal tally. Curling. Germany qualified a mixed team of four athletes. Short track speed skating. Two German skaters achieved quota places for Germany based on the results of the 2019 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships."}, {"text": "Roger Clifford Capey (27 February 1945 \u2013 2 March 2000) was a New Zealand field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Capey died on 2 March 2000."}, {"text": "Lemi is a municipality in Finland. Lemi may also refer to"}, {"text": "Aurora Gil (born in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico), is a Mexican actress, best known for her role as Josefina Aguilar in Telemundo's series \"Se\u00f1ora Acero\". Previously she had a recurring role in the HBO series \"Capadocia\". Her most recent work was in \"La usurpadora\", remake of the 1998 telenovela of the same name, and where she played Teresa Bernal. Gil studied acting at the Center for the Performing Arts of the Northwest of the INBA, and also studied performing arts at the center of Argos Comunicaci\u00f3n; Casazul. In 2016 she obtained her first nomination at the Your World Awards for Best Super Series Actress, but she was not a winner."}, {"text": "Lemi may refer to the following people:"}, {"text": "Tam N\u00f4ng District may refer to several rural districts in Vietnam:"}, {"text": "The 2020 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (SHC) was the 133rd staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament, since its establishment in 1887. The 2020 fixtures were announced in October 2019. Games were initially scheduled to begin on 9 May 2020. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games, the competition was delayed before beginning on 24 October 2020 and ending on 13 December 2020. Laois returned to the Leinster Championship for the first time since 2017, replacing Carlow who were relegated in 2019. Tipperary entered the competition as the defending champion, attempting to retain the title for the first time since 1965. Galway eliminated Tipperary with a defeat in the All-Ireland SHC quarter-final. In the final, held at Croke Park on 13 December 2020, Limerick won the competition with a 0\u201330 to 0\u201319 win against Waterford. It was the team's ninth title, as well as a first title since 2018. Waterford's Stephen Bennett was the competition's top scorer, finishing with 1\u201354. Format. Initially, the 2020 All-Ireland hurling championship format was to feature five-team groups in both Leinster and Munster and the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists in the format"}, {"text": "introduced in 2018 for an initial three-year period. At the GAA Congress on 29 February 2019 it was decided to expand the Leinster Hurling Championship from five to six teams, beginning in 2021. This meant there would be no relegation from the Leinster Hurling Championship in 2020 and that the winners of the Joe McDonagh Cup would be promoted. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland, some changes were announced on 26 June 2020. The format reverted to knockout provincial championships, along with qualifiers, similar to the 2017 format. The two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists did not compete in the senior championship. The draws for the Munster and Leinster Senior Hurling Championships took place live on RT\u00c9's Six One news on Friday 26 June. Leinster Championship. Participating counties (5): Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Laois, Wexford Quarter-finals (1 match): This are one match between the first two teams drawn - the other three teams receive a bye. One team is eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the semi-finals. Semi-finals (2 matches): The winners of the quarter-final join the other three teams to make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to"}, {"text": "the final. Final (1 match): The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. The Leinster champions advance to the All-Ireland semi-finals and the Leinster runners-up advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals. Munster Championship. Participating counties (5): Clare, Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford Quarter-finals (1 match): This are one match between the first two teams drawn - the other three teams receive a bye. One team is eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the semi-finals. Semi-finals (2 matches): The winners of the quarter-final join the other three teams to make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the final. Final (1 match): The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. The Munster champions advance to the All-Ireland semi-finals and the Munster runners-up advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals. All-Ireland Championship. Qualifiers round 1 (2 matches): The six teams who failed to reach a provincial final enter this round. These are two matches between the first four teams drawn - the other two teams receive a bye. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the qualifiers round 2. Qualifiers round 2 (2 matches): The winners of"}, {"text": "the qualifiers round 1 join the other two teams to make up the qualifiers round 2 pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the quarter-finals. Quarter-finals (2 matches): The winners of the preliminary quarter-finals join the Leinster and Munster runners-up to make up the quarter-final pairings. Teams who may have already met in the provincial championships are kept apart in separate quarter-finals. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the semi-finals. Semi-finals (2 matches): The winners of the quarter-finals join the Leinster and Munster champions to make up the semi-final pairings. Teams who may have met in the provincial finals are kept apart in separate semi-finals where possible. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the final. Final (1 match): The two winners of the semi-finals contest this game. Team changes. From Championship. Relegated to the Christy Ring Cup Excluded from the Championship Teams. General information. Ten counties will compete in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship: five teams in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship and five teams in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship. Provincial championships. Munster Senior Hurling Championship. Five of the six Munster"}, {"text": "counties participate. Kerry compete in the Joe McDonagh Cup. The competition is entirely knock-out. Qualifiers. Of the six teams who don\u2019t reach their provincial final (three from the Leinster championship and three from the Munster championship) four are drawn, two from Leinster versus two from Munster, to play in round one of the qualifiers, subject to the requirement that the two beaten provincial quarter-finalists play in round one. The two teams given byes play the round one winners in round two. The winners of round two competed in the two All-Ireland quarter-finals against the beaten Leinster and Munster finalists. Semi-finals. The Leinster and Munster champions play the winners of the two quarter-finals. Live televised games. RT\u00c9, the national broadcaster in Ireland provided the majority of the live television coverage of the hurling championship in the fourth year of a five-year deal running from 2017 until 2021.Sky Sports also broadcast a number of matches and have exclusive rights to some games. Sky Sports televised all of its live Championship games as part of its basic package on Sky Sports Mix. Awards. \"The Sunday Game\" team of the year was picked on 13 December the night of the final. The panel consisting"}, {"text": "of Donal \u00d3g Cusack, Jackie Tyrell, Ursula Jacob, and Shane Dowling picked Gear\u00f3id Hegarty as the Sunday game player of the year. In February 2021, the 2020 \"PwC All-Stars\" winners were presented at Dublin's Convention Centre. Gear\u00f3id Hegarty was named as the All Stars Hurler of the Year with Eoin Cody named the All Stars Young Hurler of the Year."}, {"text": "Walid Cheddira (; born 22 January 1998) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Napoli. Born in Italy, he plays for the Morocco national team. Club career. Cheddira spent the first four seasons of his senior career in the lower, non-professional tiers of Italian football. On 10 July 2019, Cheddira signed a three-year contract with Serie A club Parma, who loaned him to Arezzo in Serie C on 22 July. He made his professional Serie C debut on 25 August, as a starter in a game against Lecco. After half a season, Parma sent Cheddira on loan to Lecco on 31 January 2020, and to Mantova on 4 September. On 18 July 2021, Cheddira joined Bari on loan, who made the deal permanent on 30 June 2022, signing a contract until June 2025. On 20 August 2023, Cheddira was signed by Napoli and loaned to Frosinone for the 2023\u201324 season. On 27 August 2024, Cheddira moved on a new loan to Espanyol in Spain. International career. Cheddira was born in Italy and is Moroccan by descent. He was called up to play for the Morocco national team for two friendlies against Chile and Paraguay on 23"}, {"text": "and 27 September 2022, respectively; he made his debut against Chile as a second-half substitute in a 2\u20130 win. On 10 November 2022, Cheddira was named in Morocco's 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. He made his competition debut as an 82nd-minute substitute in the round of 16 against Spain, a penalty shoot-out victory for Morocco following a 0\u20130 draw after extra time. In the quarter-finals against Portugal, Cheddira came on in the 65th minute, and was sent off for two yellow cards in stoppage time. Morocco won 1\u20130. Honours. Bari Individual Orders"}, {"text": "Debjani may refer to the following people:"}, {"text": "Teuntje is a Dutch given name that is a diminutive form of the feminine names Antonia and Antoinette and masculine names Antonius, Anton, Antoon and Anthonis used in Netherlands, Suriname, South Africa, Namibia, Belgium and Indonesia. Notable people with this name include the following individuals:"}, {"text": "Mustang Bio is an American clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Worcester, MA, U.S. Operating as a partner company of Fortress Biotech, Mustang Bio develops CAR-T immunotherapies and gene therapies for multiple diseases, including hematologic cancers, solid tumors, and X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (X-SCID). History. Mustang Bio was founded in 2015 and in the same year became a partner company of Fortress Biotech. In April 2017, Manuel Litchman took over as CEO of Mustang Bio, and in October of the same year, the company signed a lease with the University of Massachusetts Medicine Science Park in Worcester, MA, for a manufacturing facility to support the clinical development and commercialization of CAR-T products for glioblastoma and acute myeloid leukemia. Until 2018, the company's studies focused mainly on cancer-fighting therapies and cell therapies. After licensing a gene therapy for X-SCID from St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Mustang Bio expanded its efforts to immunodeficiency treatments. In April 2019, it was announced that the gene therapy developed by St. Jude's showed positive results in a trial involving eight infants suffering from X-SCID. Mustang Bio expects to fully take over the trial from St Jude by 2020. In May 2019, Mustang Bio"}, {"text": "raised $32 million in an underwritten public offering to fund its continued development of products for the treatment of blood cancers, solid tumors, and rare genetic diseases. Therapies and treatments. Alongside the X-SCID therapy developed in partnership with St Jude (MB-107), Mustang Bio is conducting research and trials on CAR-T therapies for several diseases, including glioblastoma (MB-101, partnered with City of Hope National Medical Center), acute myeloid leukemia (MB-102, partnered with City of Hope National Medical Center), and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (MB-106, with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center). In May 2019, an oncolytic virus licensed from Nationwide Children's Hospital for the treatment of malignant glioma (MB-108) was granted Orphan Drug status by the Food and Drug Administration. Also in May 2019, the company began recruiting patients for a trial at City of Hope for the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma (MB-104). In August 2019, Mustang Bio entered into a license agreement with CSL Behring for the Cytegrity stable producer cell line."}, {"text": "Apex was a Polish heavy metal, hard rock and progressive rock band. It was started in 1980, in Prudnik. History. The band was formed in 1980 in Prudnik. It performed mostly hard rock songs and ballads. It was considered to be one of the best rock bands in Opole Voivodeship. In 1986 the band won the Polskie Radio Program III eliminations to the \"\u015apiewajmy Poezj\u0119\" contest in Olsztyn. In 1987 the band performed at the Drrrama festival in Pruszcz Gda\u0144ski. It was dissolved in 1988."}, {"text": "Tonnerre River (Thunder River) may refer to:"}, {"text": "Evelyn Carslaw n\u00e9e Evelyn Jane Lochhead Workman (8 March 1881 \u2013 19 September 1968) was a Scottish landscape painter and illustrator. Biography. Carslaw was born in Glasgow and attended the Glasgow School of Art from 1897 to 1907. She then studied in Paris and travelled extensively, painting landscapes in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, working in both oils and watercolours. In 1905 she married a surgeon, Dr RB Carslaw, and together they had five children. The family lived at Rhu on Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute and were keen sailors. In 1944 Dr Carslaw published \"Leaves from Rowan's Logs\", an account of a yacht cruise around the west coast of Scotland, which contained numerous illustrations by Evelyn Carslaw. Later in life she lived at Helensburgh and became friends with Norah Neilson Gray. Carslaw was a member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists from 1905 and also exhibited several paintings with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts."}, {"text": "Ruthanna Emrys is an American science fiction and fantasy writer best known for The Innsmouth Legacy series: \"The Litany of Earth\", \"Winter Tide\", and \"Deep Roots\". Biography. Emrys is a contributor to science fiction and fantasy magazines, including \"Strange Horizons\", \"Analog\", and Tor.com. She has also written under the name R. Emrys Gordon. She has cited Geraldine Brooks, Octavia E. Butler, Marge Piercy, and Robert Anton Wilson as influences on her writing. She is best known for The Innsmouth Legacy series, which has \"Winter Tide\" as its first novel. In \"The Verge\", Andrew Liptak discusses \"Winter Tide\", writing \"Along with a previous novelette called \"The Litany of Earth\", it subverts Lovecraft's notorious racism by making his monsters - which were often thinly veiled stand-ins for people of color - sympathetic protagonists.\" In a review of \"Winter Tide\", Liptak further explains \"The Litany of Earth\" is \"helpful to read before \"Winter Tide\"; it provides a bit of context for the world, and for Aphra's situation. It's free online, and included in the ebook edition.\" With regard to \"Litany of the Earth\", Noah Berlatsky writes for \"The Verge\" the \"real horror in this story update isn\u2019t fish-people; it's violent prejudice, as seen"}, {"text": "from the monsters\u2019 perspective.\" In 2017, Emrys spoke with NPR, stating \"\"In Winter Tide\", I wanted to talk about how we rebuild community after genocide, and how rebuilt community is always changed from what we had before. And I wanted to talk about all those readers over the years who didn't question the Deep One concentration camps.\" \"Publishers Weekly\" writes in its review of \"Winter Tide\", \"Emrys\u2019s characters are more openly comfortable with the supernatural than Lovecraft's horror-struck mortals, and her sensitive comparisons of Aphra's experience to those of other confined and displaced peoples make the novel historically relevant and resonant.\" Ana Grilo writes for the \"Kirkus Reviews\" blog that \"Winter Tide\" \"offers a Lovecraftian tale with Lovecraftian mythos, without Lovecraftian racism.\" A review of \"Deep Roots\" by a librarian posted to the Los Angeles Public Library website states \"\"Winter Tide\" and \"Deep Roots\" are complex and compelling works of fantasy that help illuminate not only where we\u2019ve been, but also where we are. While they are based on the works of a known racist, these books feature characters that are diverse and inclusive.\" In a review of \"Deep Roots\" for \"Booklist\", Emily Whitmore writes, \"Once more, Emrys is true"}, {"text": "to the world of Lovecraft, and fans will appreciate her attentiveness to the Cthulhu mythos even as she takes the world and flips it on its head to fit her needs.\" In a review of \"Imperfect Commentaries\", a collection of 25 stories and poems, \"Publishers Weekly\" writes, \"Emrys's tales abound with magic and marvels, but her focus is on the nuances that define the humanity of her characters, seen most perceptibly in \"The Litany of Earth,\" which introduces the protagonist of her novels \"Winter Tide\" (2017) and \"Deep Roots\" (2018): a descendant of the amphibious race in Lovecraft's \"The Shadow over Innsmouth\" whose persecution has echoes of the plight of contemporary refugees. The author's frequent feminist and queer spins on familiar fantasy tropes add an exhilarating freshness.\" Jason Puckett writes in a review for \"Library Journal\", \"\"Aliens\" here means many things: literal serpentine extraterrestrials, but also strange gods adopting human form, and, most interestingly, semi-human outsiders assimilating into American culture and humans undergoing transformations into new or very old things.\" In 2022, Emrys published \"A Half-Built Garden\" \u2013 a first-contact novel set in a near-future world, where decentralized, self-governed watershed networks managed to replace corporations and nation states as the"}, {"text": "primary means of societal organization. While these networks managed to start a journey of recovery from climate change and environmental damage, the arrival of alien species threatens both this progress and the new balance of power. The novel is praised for its interesting solarpunk world-building. She lives near Washington, D.C., with her wife and children."}, {"text": "Laffing Time is a 1959 feature film starring Gloria Jean and El Brendel and directed by Alf Goulding. The film's producer, Edward Finney, also took the leading comic role, under the pseudonym \"Eddie Finn.\" Plot. Well-meaning but clumsy husband Musty Suffer (Eddie Finn) lives with his wife Sally (Gloria Jean) and his tough-talking mother-in-law (Nina Varela). His Swedish-dialect pal is next-door neighbor Efrem Blobbs (El Brendel). Musty and Blobbs plan an elaborate birthday party for Musty's daughters Betsy and Netsy (Jane and Janette Carty). When the tax collector (Brad Olson) takes Musty's handy money, Musty and Blobbs stage the party themselves. Still in need of cash, Musty and his family hire on as servants for a society matron, whose important dinner party goes from bad to worse. History. In 1959 producer Finney had seen a newspaper report that former singing star Gloria Jean was now working as a hostess, in a restaurant with Hollywood clientele. Finney had always been a Gloria Jean fan, and he sponsored her return to the screen. The finished film, edited by Finney himself, was retitled \"The Madcaps\" for release in 1964. Finney recut it and shot additional scenes for a new children's-matinee version, \"Tobo the"}, {"text": "Happy Clown\" (1966)."}, {"text": "Guba (Cyrillic: \u0413\u0443\u0431\u0430) is a gender-neutral Slavic surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Maria Tash (born Maria Tashjian in West Islip, New York) is a jewelry designer and retailer. Tash founded the eponymous Maria Tash, a New York-based luxury piercing and fine jewelry brand. The brand specializes in body piercing, ear curation, and fine jewelry design. Originally founded in New York City in 1993, Maria Tash has since expanded globally. Tash's work, under her eponymous brand, has combined elements of mainstream piercing culture with fine jewelry, coining the term \u201cCurated Ear\u201d to refer to an ear pierced with fashionable intention and under the direction of piercing experts. Early years and education. Originally from West Islip, New York and raised in New York City, Maria Tash (birth name Maria Tashjian) attended Columbia University and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She also attended King's College in London, England. Career. Tash opened her first studio, Venus Modern Body Art, in 1993 in Manhattan's East Village, specializing in navel piercings and jewelry. Venus Body Arts later became Venus by Maria Tash until eventually Tash decided to use her own name for the shop. While first specializing in navel jewelry, the shop later become known for a variety of ear piercing styles. Tash launched a line of international"}, {"text": "stores with its flagship location opening in New York City in 2004. In 2016, the brand began expanding globally with the opening of a shop at Liberty London. Maria Tash has since opened permanent locations in Rome, Dublin, Harrods London, and Dubai. In November 2018 she opened her second freestanding location outside New York City with a 2,000 sq. ft luxury boutique in The Dubai Mall. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Maria Tash began to offer complimentary virtual appointments through FaceTime and Google Hangouts in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Arabic. Design and cultural impact. Tash modified several industry standard methods of assembling jewelry to create pieces that better fit the wearer. These include a \u201cthreaded\u201d style earring backing and \"invisible set\" diamonds, which are notched and set below the crown. Tash's designs are often smaller and more subtle than the traditional punk-style heavy piercings that were popular in the early 1990s, when Tash began piercing. Her designs have been worn by Hailey Bieber, Rihanna, Ashley Graham, Queen Rania and Maritta Hallani."}, {"text": "Amos Bartelsmeyer (born 25 July 1994) is a German middle and long-distance runner. He represented Germany at the 2019 World Athletics Championships and 2020 Summer Olympics competing in the men's 1500 metres. He competed collegiately for the Georgetown Hoyas, where he was a seven-time All-American and won six Big East Conference titles. He now works as a volunteer assistant coach for the Washington Huskies, where he also trains full time. Personal bests. Outdoor Indoor"}, {"text": "Foros (formerly named \"Fobos\" from 1983 to 2014) is a Latvian icebreaking salvage tug. She was built at W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 Helsinki Shipyard, Finland, and delivered in 1983."}, {"text": "Gabriela Ch\u00e1vez may refer to:"}, {"text": "In the early morning of November 15, 1959, four members of the Clutter family Herb Clutter, his wife, Bonnie, and their teenage children Nancy and Kenyon were murdered in their rural home just outside the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Two ex-convicts, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, were found guilty of the murders and sentenced to death. They were both executed on April 14, 1965. The murders were detailed by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel \"In Cold Blood\". Background. Herbert \"Herb\" Clutter was a prosperous farmer in western Kansas. His oldest daughters, Eveanna and Beverly, had moved out and started their adult lives. His wife Bonnie had reportedly been incapacitated by clinical depression and physical ailments since the births of her children, although this was later disputed. Nancy Clutter, 16, and Kenyon Clutter, 15, attended Holcomb High School. Richard \"Dick\" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith were two ex-convicts, recently paroled from the Kansas State Penitentiary. Floyd Wells, a former cellmate of Hickock's, had been a farmhand for Herb Clutter. Wells told Hickock that Clutter kept large amounts of cash in a safe. However, Clutter did not have a safe and transacted all of his business by check."}, {"text": "After speaking with Wells, Hickock hatched the idea to steal the safe and start a new life in Mexico. He contacted Smith, another former cellmate, about committing the robbery with him. According to Truman Capote, the author of \"In Cold Blood\"a non-fiction novel detailing the Clutter family murders Hickock described his plan as \"a cinch, the perfect score\". Murders. On the evening of November 14, 1959, Hickock and Smith drove more than across the state of Kansas, heading for the Clutter residence to execute their plan. In the early morning of November 15, the pair arrived in Holcomb, located the Clutter home, and entered through an unlocked door while the family slept. Upon rousing the Clutters, they pushed Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon into a bathroom on the second floor of the house, then led Herb to his first-floor office. After their initial search for a safe failed, they retrieved the other three members of the family from the bathroom. Bonnie's hands were tied in front of her; she was gagged, then tucked into bed in a room on the second floor. Nancy's hands were tied behind her\u2014inexplicably, she was not gagged\u2014and tucked into bed. Then the men took Herb and"}, {"text": "Kenyon to the basement. First they gagged Kenyon, tied his hands behind his back, and tied the rope to an overhead steam pipe in the furnace room. Then they decided to cut him free and move him to the adjoining playroom, bound and gagged; they set him at an oblique angle on the small couch and stuffed a white pillow behind his head, presumably to make him more comfortable. Finally, the killers bound and gagged Herb and pushed him down onto a mattress box on the concrete floor in the furnace room. Smith stayed in the furnace room while Hickock returned upstairs to resume his search for the safe. A short time later, Hickock returned to the basement, disappointed and angry at finding no safe. The pair had already planned to leave no witnesses, and they briefly debated what to do. Finally, Smith\u2014known to occasionally be unstable, and prone to fits of rage\u2014slit Herb Clutter's throat, then shot him in the head. Moments later, Smith and Hickock reentered the playroom, where Smith shot Kenyon to death. They headed upstairs, then to the second floor, where they entered Nancy's room and shot her to death. Lastly they shot Bonnie Clutter in"}, {"text": "the side of her head. Each of the four victims had been killed by a single shotgun blast to the head, though Herb's throat was cut as well, and the killers retrieved each spent shell. Recounting later the sequence of the night's events, Smith claimed that he had stopped Hickock from raping Nancy. Having killed all four members of the family, Hickock and Smith fled the crime scene, taking with them a Zenith portable radio belonging to Kenyon Clutter, a pair of binoculars belonging to Herb Clutter and less than $50 () in cash presumed to have been left over from a $60 check Herb Clutter had cashed the day before. It was generally known in the area that Herb preferred paying by check, and he seldom carried on his person or kept in the house significant amounts of cash. His billfold and several items were found scattered about in his first-floor bedroom, but no cash was found there. Smith later claimed in his oral confession that Hickock had murdered Nancy and Bonnie. When asked to sign his confession, however, Smith refused. According to Capote's \"In Cold Blood\", Smith wanted to accept responsibility for all four killings because, he said,"}, {"text": "he felt \"sorry for Dick's mother\". Smith added, \"She's a real sweet person\". Hickock always maintained that Smith had murdered all four victims. Victims. The four victims: Approximately 1,000 mourners attended the Clutter family funeral, packing the First Methodist Church in Garden City, Kansas, county seat of Finney County, seven miles east of Holcomb. A majority of that crowd were also present at the burial at Valley View Cemetery, on the north edge of Garden City. The parents' graves are in the center, marked by a double headstone. Nancy's grave and single headstone is just to the left; that of Kenyon is just to the right. Perpetrators. The two perpetrators: Smith and Hickock were arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 30, six weeks after the murders, after a dogged investigation by members of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. After they had been extradited back to Kansas, their trial was held at the Finney County Courthouse in Garden City. Both Smith and Hickock were found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder, and they were sentenced to death. On April 14, 1965, they both were hanged at the Kansas State Prison near Lansing, just north of Kansas City. Hickock was"}, {"text": "executed first and was pronounced dead at 12:41 am; Smith followed shortly afterward and was pronounced dead at 1:19 am. \"In Cold Blood\". Before the killers were captured, author Truman Capote learned of the Clutter family murders and decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author, Harper Lee. Together, they interviewed local residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. The killers, Hickock and Smith, were arrested six weeks after the murders and were eventually executed by the state of Kansas in 1965. Capote ultimately spent six years working on his book. When finally published in 1966, \"In Cold Blood\" was an instant success. , it is the second-best-selling true crime book in publishing history, behind Vincent Bugliosi's 1974 book \"Helter Skelter\", about the Charles Manson murders."}, {"text": "Wonder Valley is a 1953 American film starring Gloria Jean. It was shot in Arkansas in 1951 and is considered a lost film. It is believed to be the first motion picture shot entirely in Arkansas."}, {"text": "Lavora Barnes (born 1964/1965) is an American political executive who served as the chair of the Michigan Democratic Party from 2019 to 2025. She is the first African-American woman elected to be the position and the second woman. Early life and education. Barnes was born in North Carolina and grew up in Virginia. She graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1987. Career. Before moving to Michigan, she was the Virginia press secretary for the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign and later worked in his administration. In 2004, Barnes became a staffer in the Michigan House of Representatives. She worked the Communications director for the Michigan House Democratic Caucus three years later. She also worked as Oakland County's deputy clerk and the state director for the Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign. In 2015, she became the Michigan Democratic Party's chief operating officer before party chair four years later. In her campaign for the state chair in 2019, she received endorsements from Brandon Dillon, Gretchen Whitmer, and state Attorney General, Dana Nessel."}, {"text": "Arafi is an Arabic surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Song of Songs 5 (abbreviated as Song 5) is the fifth chapter of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book is one of the Five Megillot, a collection of short books, together with Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther, within the Ketuvim, the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible. Jewish tradition views Solomon as the author of this book (although this is now largely disputed), and this attribution influences the acceptance of this book as a canonical text. This chapter opens with the man's response to his lover's consent in the closing verses of chapter 4, but the second part of the chapter relates the refusal of the woman to welcome the man into her room at night, and when she changes her mind, he already disappears; in the next part she looks for him in the city and in the final section (verses 10 onwards) she describes to the daughters of Jerusalem how fair the man is. Text. The original text is written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 16 verses. Textual witnesses. Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew"}, {"text": "are of the Masoretic Text, which includes the Codex Leningradensis (1008). One fragment containing a part of this chapter was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, assigned as 4Q107 (4QCantb); 30 BCE-30 CE; extant verse 1). There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; formula_1B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: formula_1S; 4th century), and Codex Alexandrinus (A; formula_1A; 5th century). Structure. The Modern English Version (MEV) identifies the speakers in this chapter as: The start of the fifth chapter and the close of the fourth chapter are not in the same verse in all versions of the Bible: the Vulgate version of chapter 5 starts with \"\", which is the end of the woman's speech in the in most other versions: Analysis. Male and chorus: tasting and enjoy the garden (5:1). This verse contains the man's closure of the dialogue at the end of the previous chapter; the call to eat and drink implies consummation. John Gill notes that the words closing the dialogue should not have been separated from the rest of the exchange in chapter"}, {"text": "4. Verse 1. [The Beloved/the Man] \"I have come to my garden, my sister, my spouse;\" \"I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;\" \"I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;\" \"I have drunk my wine with my milk.\" [To His Friends] \"Eat, O friends!\" \"Drink, yes, drink deeply,\" \"O beloved ones!\" Female: A second search at night for her dream lover (5:2-8). In this part, the woman refuses to welcome her lover into her room at night (either in reality or a dream; cf. ), but when she changes her mind, the man already disappears. She looks for him in the city, then the watchmen (the guards) found her and beat her up. She appeals for help to the daughters of Jerusalem about her lovesick condition. \"I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.\" Chorus: Challenge to compare the male lover (5:9). The \"daughters of Jerusalem\" want to know what the male lover looks like. Female: descriptive poem for the male (5:10-16). The"}, {"text": "woman describes her lover from head to toe in a wa\u1e63f or descriptive poem, using the imagery of fauna and flora for his head, then metals and precious stones for the rest of his body. This \"wa\u1e63f\" and the other ones (; ; 7:2-10a (7:1-9a English)) theologically demonstrate the heart of the Song that values the body as not evil but good even worthy of praise, and respects the body with an appreciative focus (rather than lurid). Hess notes that this reflects 'the fundamental value of God's creation as good and the human body as a key part of that creation, whether at the beginning () or redeemed in the resurrection (, )'. \"His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.\" Musical settings. The phrase \"Veniat dilectus meus\" and variant texts such as antiphons based on it have been set to music, for instance in Gregorian chant, and by composers including Alessandro Grandi and Pietro Torri."}, {"text": "The For U Tour was the second and last headlining concert tour by American boyband In Real Life, in support of their first studio album, \"She Do\" (2019). The tour began on October 2, 2019, in Cleveland, and concluded on October 29, 2019, in Seattle. Background and development. On August 24, 2019, In Real Life announced they would be embarking on their second headlining tour. Dates were announced on August 26. Jenna Raine was announce as the opening act with Asher Angel and Elle Winter also opening on selected dates."}, {"text": "Lin Qiang (; born 13 January 1960) is a former Chinese footballer. Club career. Born in 1960 in Wuhan, Hubei, Lin joined Hubei Youth Football Team in 1976. During his time playing youth football in Hubei, Lin was \"borrowed\" by Guangdong Youth for a tour of Japan. Lin later played senior football for Hubei Football Team. Following retirement, Lin joined the police, managing the Wuhan Police Football Team. International career. On 4 December 1983, Lin made his debut, as a substitute, for China in a 2\u20131 win against Australia. \"Scores and results list China's goal tally first.\""}, {"text": "Angad Vir Singh Bajwa (born 29 November 1995) is an Indian sport shooter who competes in the skeet discipline. In 2018, he became the first shooter to set the skeet final round world record of 60 out of 60. Career. At the 2015 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuwait City, the trio of Bajwa, Anant Naruka and Arjun Mann won the gold medal in the men's skeet junior team event. Bajwa also won gold in the junior individual event. Bajwa participated in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta where he shot 119 out of 125 and failed to qualify for the final. He won the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Shotgun Championships in Kuwait City by shooting a world record 60 in the final round of the men's skeet competition. This was India's first ever gold medal in the skeet discipline in a continental or world-level tournament. Making a comeback after an illness, Bajwa won the bronze medal at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples. At the 2019 Asian Shooting Championships, he won gold in the men's skeet event after a shoot-off with fellow Indian Mairaj Ahmad Khan, who settled for silver. As a result of this, both Bajwa and"}, {"text": "Khan bagged 2020 Summer Olympics quota places for India. Bajwa also won silver in the mixed team event, with Ganemat Sekhon, in the same competition. At the 2021 ISSF World Cup in New Delhi, Bajwa won the gold medal in men's skeet team event with Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Gurjoat Siingh Khangura. Bajwa finished 18th in men's skeet event at the 2020 Summer Olympics with a score of 120/125. Personal life. Angad is an alumnus of Sherwood College, Nainital, batch of 2013. As of 2018, Bajwa is pursuing a BBA from the Manav Rachna University. He studied in Canada for some time while representing India in shooting competitions, before returning to India in 2015. His father Gurpal Singh Bajwa owns a hospitality business in Canada."}, {"text": "Carslaw is a British surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "There's a Girl in My Heart is a 1949 American musical comedy film directed by Arthur Dreifuss, starring Lee Bowman, Elyse Knox, Gloria Jean and Peggy Ryan. It was released by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation with many former contract stars from Universal Pictures. Filming started 25 July 1949. Reception. The \"Los Angeles Times\" said it was \"Full of jingly merry singing and dancing.\""}, {"text": "Bismuth is a metallic chemical element with symbol Bi and atomic number 83. Bismuth may also refer to: People. Bismuth is also a French-language surname. People with the name include:"}, {"text": "Charles Clarke (20 February 1719 \u2013 16 November 1780) was an English numismatist and antiquarian. He served as vicar of Elm from November 1762. Clarke was born in Kensington, into the supposedly ancient Clarke family. He attended Oxford from 1736, where he failed to graduate, going on to take holy orders. Clark's first and only numismatic work \"Some conjectures relative to a very antient piece of money\" (1751), which incorrectly identified a recently discovered coin, proved to be an utter failure. It was refuted swiftly and unsympathetically by numismatist George North, who correctly identified the coin as a common Peny-yard pence. Even if some unassociated conclusions were true, Clarke was humiliated, feeling his \"reputation and character\" damaged by North's response. Clarke attempted some later publications, including a bitter refutation of one of North's works, but none ever came to fruition. Other than his \"Conjectures\" and a poorly regarded genealogy (published posthumously), none of Clarke's antiquarian work survives. Feeling a conspiracy against him, Clarke stopped paying his dues to the Society of Antiquaries, and was finally kicked out in 1765. In 1762, he retired to Elm, serving as a vicar, where he remained for the rest of his life. Early life"}, {"text": "and family. Charles Clarke was born in Kensington, London on 20 February 1719, as the seventh son of Rupert Clarke of Heston (1674\u20131748), attorney of the Court of King's Bench, and Dorothy Clarke, \"n\u00e9e\" Radcliffe. Charles Clarke composed an account of the family's genealogy, published posthumously in \"The Gentleman's Magazine\". The article claimed the family descended from Ranulf le Meschin, Norman magnate of Cumberland, tracing the family through several administrators and merchants, up to himself. Clarke was first educated at Winchester College, then entering Balliol College, Oxford. Here, he matriculated on 9 December 1736, aged 17. Clarke seems to have attended until at least September 1738, not graduating afterwards, though he later took holy orders at the university. Career. In 1751, Clarke published a short, 26-page pamphlet, entitled \"Some conjectures relative to a very antient piece of money lately found at Eltham in Kent\". This book concerned a coin, now known as the \"Eltham Coin\", found by a labourer in Eltham in 1750, which Clarke found to be well preserved and having the \"\"adorandi rubigo\" [offering rust]\" of much age. Clarke claimed the coin was an exceptionally rare coin from the reign of Richard I (r. 1189\u20131199), citing its similarity"}, {"text": "to some seals of Richard I. This thesis met with a reply, in 1752, from the fellow numismatist, Reverend George North, in his \"Remarks on 'Some Conjectures...\"'. North's \"Remarks\" inescapably proved the coin was, rather than an exceptional artifact: The Peny-yard pence was an ordinary coin, well known to numismatists at the time, with none of the remarkable features Clark had fancied. North's merciless remarks proved a humiliation for Clarke, as he attempted to recover by his reputation in a refutation of North, 'Remarks on an Epistolary Dissertation on some Supposed Saxon Gold Coins', refuting a treatise which had been appended to his \"Remarks\". Clarke advertised the retort several times, and it was apparently read before the Society of Antiquaries of London but, by the time of his death, it had never materialised in print. North responded to these advertisements mockingly in a letter to Andrew Ducarel: In his \"Conjectures\", Clarke had appended a more successful essay: 'Remarks on a dissertation on Oriuna, the supposed wife of Carausius'. \"Oriuna\" was a name, referenced in the coins of the self-declared Emperor of Britannia, Carausius, whose supposed identity was being hotly debated between numismatists Patrick Kennedy and William Stukeley, with Kennedy proposing"}, {"text": "her as the emperor's guardian goddess, and Stukeley proposing his wife. Clarke correctly concluded that the name did not refer to a person, but was rather a misreading of the Latin word \"fortuna\" on Carausius' poorly preserved coins. Clarke's vindication here did little to comfort his ego. Records survive of several works Clarke attempted after the \"Conjectures\". Announced in the \"Conjectures\", apparently to be his principal work, a volume entitled \"The Hebrew, Samaritan, Greek, and Roman Medallist\" was never published. Clarke claimed, in his 1815 genealogy, that he had attempted to read two dissertations to the Society of Antiquaries, but was refused \"through the persuasion of two drones, P. C. Webb and C. D.\". After this incident, Clarke refused to pay his dues to the Society, and was removed in 1765, owing eleven years worth of dues. If Clarke made any further antiquarian inquiries, these do not survive, barring his 1815 genealogy, which historian C. E. A. Cheesman regards as \"no less muddled and misleading than his earlier numismatic work\". On 22 September 1762, Clarke was appointed to the vicarage of Elm, Cambridgeshire by Bishop of Ely, Matthias Mawson. On 16 March 1773, Clarke was nominated to be the poor"}, {"text": "vicar of Canterbury or Ely who was to be given a sum of money from the royal bounty for his upkeep, but Thomas Robins Ellis (d. 1788), clergyman at Whittlesey, won the funds instead. Clarke maintained this position at Elm until his death. Personal life and death. Clarke was married twice. His first marriage was to Elizabeth Archer, and his second to the widow of Christopher Southgate, Sarah Southgate. Clarke had no children of his own, but adopted two of Southgate's from her former marriage. Clarke died on 16 November 1780, in Elm. He was buried in All Saints Church, Elm, where, over the priest's door, a memorial tablet is placed."}, {"text": "An Old-Fashioned Girl is a 1949 American musical comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott, directed by Arthur Dreifuss and starring Gloria Jean. Jean had just made two films for Dreifuss at Columbia, then signed to do two more for the director. It was made by Vinson Productions for Eagle-Lion. Filming started 20 September 1948."}, {"text": "Zbigniew Kowalski (born 20 December 1958) is a Polish former footballer who played as a midfielder. Football. Kowalski is most well known for his time with Lechia Gda\u0144sk. He made his Lechia debut on 31 July 1977 in the Polish Cup against Stal Stalowa Wola. In his first 4 seasons Kowalski made 52 league appearances before Lechia were relegated at the end of the 1981\u201382 season. Despite being relegated to the third tier, it was a time which would become an historic period for the club. The 1982\u201383 season saw Lechia winning the III liga with Kowalski playing in five games of Lechias winning Polish Cup run, beating Piast Gliwice in the final 2\u20131. The following season Lechia won the Polish Super Cup final as Lechia won by beating the Polish champions Lech Pozna\u0144 1\u20130, but Kowalski was not part of that squad. He also played in both games as Lechia faced European footballing giants Juventus in a European competition due to the previous season's cup win. Lechia also won promotion to the top division that season by winning the II liga for the 1983\u201384 season. Kowalski left Lechia the following season after 26 league games in the club's two"}, {"text": "promotion seasons. Honours. Lechia Gda\u0144sk"}, {"text": "Watkins Yachts and Marine was an American boat builder, based in Clearwater, Florida. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats. The company was founded by the four Watkins brothers, Redford, Richard, Robert and Gary in 1973 and ceased operations while a division of the McLaughlin Body Company in 1989. History. The company was founded by the four Watkins brothers in 1973 in a small rented facility, with the first sailboat, the Watkins 23 introduced that same following year. The 23 was a modified version of the Helsen 22, produced with permission of the designer and owner of Helsen Yachts, Johannes Helsen. In 1977 the design was modified with a fiberglass interior and headliner and was re-designated as the Watkins 23 XL. The brothers assumed company responsibilities: Redford Watkins was in charge of advertising, Richard Watkins production, Robert Watkins purchasing and Gary Watkins handled sales. The company was launched right after the Arab oil embargo and the resulting 1973 oil crisis and sailboats sold well in the economic conditions of the time, providing quick success for the fledgling company. The Watkins 17 was introduced in 1975 as a one-design racer. Most of the boats built went to"}, {"text": "a single sailing club. Naval architect Walter Scott was enlisted to assist with the Watkins 27 design in 1977. The boat became a quick commercial success, with 514 copies of the design built, making it the company's best seller. It competed in the same market as the Catalina 27. In 1981 a pilothouse version was made available as the Watkins 27P, although only seven were built. The company had been producing fewer than 50 boats per years, but the simultaneous building of three different models by 1977 required larger facilities and the company purchased an existing building that was renovated and improved for boat production. Separate areas were established for a fiberglass shop and final assembly. In 1978, 160 Watkins 27s alone were sold. By 1979 the company had more than 20 dealers. In the late 1970s the industry suffered from two effects, high interest rates and market saturation of a product that did not wear out. The brothers decided to sell the company to a new investor from Chicago in August 1979, having built almost 600 boats over the six years since the company founding. The company was merged with boat building company, Auroraglas which had been bought by"}, {"text": "the same investor. The former owner of Auroraglas, Al Larson then became president of Watkins Yachts. The company bought the molds and tooling for the Columbia Yachts and Coronado series of designs after that company went out of business. The Watkins 36, Watkins 32 and Watkins 25 were all modified from Columbia designs. The company acquired the rights to the Portman 36 and modified it to become the Watkins 36C with a center cockpit and the Watkins 36AC with an aft cockpit. The new company needed new management with the departure of the Watkins brothers and Larson hired Dennis Robbins as the production manager. Larson had known Robbins from his time at Endeavour Yachts. He also hired an experienced fiberglass shop supervisor whom Robbins had worked with at Irwin Yachts. Larson assumed the sales and design duties. The smaller boats were phased out, including the 17 and 23XL models. Only one 17 and four 23s were completed under the new management. In 1982 the investor sold his share of the company to Larson and the Watkins 32 was introduced, replacing the 36 in the line. In 1983 the Watkins 23 was introduced, derived from the Columbia T-23. In 1984 the"}, {"text": "27 was replaced with the Watkins 29, which was a modification of the 27 design. The Watkins 32 was modified in 1984 with a reverse transom and redesigned interior to become the Watkins 33. The Watkins 36 ceased production. In 1986 the company was purchased by the McLaughlin Body Company and the sailboat line was renamed \"Seawolf\". The company changed its emphasis to power boats and sailboat production dropped to only one or two per month. In 1988 the Watkins 29 received a reverse transom similar to the 33 as was renamed the Watkins 30. Production of the Watkins branded boats ending in November 1989, with a total of 1491 boats built. The company was wound up by its parent company, with the power boat line sold to a Grand Cayman Island company in about 1991 and the remaining sailboat line sold to a local businessman who was not able to restart production. Some of the sailboat tooling was sold, the Watkins 25 tooling was sold to Compaq Yachts and it was modified to become the Compac 25. Much of the remaining molds were scrapped and the building was sold to a plumbing supply contractor. The McLaughlin Body Company remains"}, {"text": "in business, but no longer produces watercraft. Boats. Summary of boats built by Watkins Yachts, by year:"}, {"text": "The Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) is an international think tank, focusing on economic growth and climate change mitigation. It was created in September 2015 and is based in London. The commission currently contains 32 commissioners from a selection of individuals and company and government leaders. Activities. The primary activity of the commission is publishing reports and position papers. They are typically supported by a body of readily available or explicitly commissioned data sets provided by various independent or industry-related organizations. The findings of reports are then reviewed through a broad consultation process within and outside of the commission. Finally, the report or position paper is redacted and generally understood to constitute the collective view of the ETC commission. Although individual commissioners may disagree with particular findings or recommendations, the general direction of the arguments developed in the publications is guided by consensus. Publications. Since its founding in 2015, the commission has published two extensive reports and half a dozen papers. For example, \"Pathways from Paris \u2013 Accessing the INDC Opportunity\", is a 25-page study of INDCs (i.e. the plans developed by individual countries and submitted at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris). This investigation highlighted the mechanisms various"}, {"text": "countries utilize in order to reduce emissions and identify opportunities for further reductions. News outlets of general interest and the specialized press reported summaries of these reports. Both reports outlined below were cited as reference to several articles in a 2018 special report edition of The Economist magazine. \"Better Energy, Greater Prosperity\". This 120-page report recognized the opportunity to halve global carbon emissions by 2040. According to the report, it is possible to simultaneously ensure economic development and access affordable, sustainable energy for all, while reducing carbon emissions by half the current output. The report suggested four strategies to be concurrently implemented: According to the report, the strategies listed above would have reduced fossil fuel consumption by 30%, but 50% of energy needs would have needed to be met with fossil fuels. This, the report explained, could be solved by optimizing usage of these sources by switching from coal to gas, by preventing methane leakages, and by stopping routine flaring. Another area of optimization would come from carbon capture or sequestration such as underground storage, and finally a decrease in fossil fuel use. The report suggested two solutions for energy policy: Mission Possible. This 172-page report focused on the \"hard"}, {"text": "to abate sectors\", namely: Collectively, these sectors currently represent approximately 30% of energy emissions, with the potential to increase to 60% by 2050 (due to the reduction of the share owed to other sectors, and to the demand growth in these hard to abate sectors). The report concluded that full decarbonization of these sectors is feasible and the cost to the global economy would be less than 0.5% of GDP by 2050. It also identifies cement, plastics and shipping as the most challenging sectors, due to process emissions, end-of-life emissions and the fragmented nature of the maritime industry respectively. The feasibility if not inevitability of some of these transitions, for example these concerning the industrial production of ammonia, are echoed (or in some cases originate from) the respective industry sectors. Funding. The ETC is funded by various businesses and organizations, including major oil and gas companies \u2013 this was a source of concern from many observers. Current or past sponsors include Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BHP Billiton, Energy Systems Catapult, CO2 Sciences, the European Climate Foundation, the Grantham Foundation and the UN Foundation. Regardless of funding every Commissioner has an equal voice and participation in ETC activities."}, {"text": "The 2019\u20132020 Championship League was a professional snooker tournament, taking place over most of the 2019-20 snooker season from 7 October 2019 to 5 March 2020 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, England. The event features seven group stages before a finals stage in March 2020; the first four played in October, two in January, and the final group played in March. It was the 13th staging of the Championship League. The event featured a total prize fund of \u00a3182,400 with the winner receiving \u00a320,700. The losing finalist received \u00a36,000 more than the winner due to having played in all groups starting from Group 3. Martin Gould was the defending champion, having won the 2019 edition of the tournament, beating Jack Lisowski 3\u20131 in the final. However, Gould did not participate in this event. Scott Donaldson won the tournament, having qualified from group four and defeated Graeme Dott 3\u20130 in the final. This was the first professional snooker title of Donaldson's career. Tournament format. The Championship League was a professional snooker event that took place between 7 October 2019 to 5 March 2020 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, England. All matches were the best of 5 , and played"}, {"text": "as a round-robin, with seven groups consisting of seven players. From each group the top four players qualified for a knockout round, the winner of which qualified for an eighth \"winners group\". The lowest two players of each group are eliminated and the remaining four move to the next group, where they are joined by three more participants. The winners group is played in the same way, with the winner of the knockout phase named as champion, and a place at the 2020 Champion of Champions. The event was sponsored by sports betting company BetVictor; and was broadcast via streaming on various betting websites, as well as on zhibo.tv in China. Prize fund. The breakdown of prize money for the 2019\u201320 Championship League is shown below. Tournament summary. Group 1 was played on 7 and 8 October 2019, where Neil Robertson defeated Ryan Day 3\u20132 in the final. The second group was played on 9 and 10 October, with Stuart Bingham defeating Mark Selby 3\u20131 to win the group. After this, Selby and Barry Hawkins declined to continue, and were replaced by Xiao Guodong and Ben Woollaston, but both were eliminated in the third group. Group 3 was played on"}, {"text": "21 and 22 October 2019, with Gary Wilson defeating Kyren Wilson 3\u20130. The group 3 matches saw a record number of century breaks made in a Championship League group with a total of 24, beating the record of 23 from the previous year's Winners' Group. The fourth group was played on 23 and 24 October 2019. Scott Donaldson defeated compatriot Graeme Dott 3\u20130 in the final. Group 5 was played on 6 and 7 January 2020. Mark Williams won all six of his group matches, but lost in the first round against David Gilbert 2\u20133. Anthony McGill defeated Gilbert in the final to win the group. On 8 and 9 January 2020 in group six; Judd Trump won after a 3\u20131 victory over Graeme Dott. Trump also made the highest break of the tournament, a 145 in group six. Group 7 was played on 2 and 3 March 2020. Dott defeated Williams 3\u20131 to be the last qualifier. The Winners' Group was played on 4 and 5 March 2020. On the first day, Trump made his 700th career century break in his round-robin match against McGill. The four players who qualified from the Winner's Group were Trump, Dott, McGill and"}, {"text": "Donaldson. Donaldson defeated Trump 3\u20131, whilst Dott beat Williams 3\u20132. Donaldson won his first professional tournament with a 3\u20130 victory over Dott in the final. Due to the additional prizes for frame wins, Donaldson was awarded a total of \u00a320,700 throughout the tournament. Group 1. Group 1 was played on 7 and 8 October 2019. Neil Robertson was the first player to qualify for the Winners' Group. Group 2. Group 2 was played on 9 and 10 October 2019. Stuart Bingham was the second player to qualify for the Winners' Group. Group 3. Group 3 was played on 21 and 22 October 2019. Gary Wilson was the third player to qualify for the Winners' Group. Matches. Barry Hawkins and Mark Selby withdrew from the tournament prior to group 3 play. Group 4. Group 4 was played on 23 and 24 October 2019. Scott Donaldson was the fourth player to qualify for the Winners' Group. Group 5. Group 5 was played on 6 and 7 January 2020. Anthony McGill was the fifth player to qualify for the Winners' Group. Group 6. Group 6 was played on 8 and 9 January 2020. Judd Trump was the sixth player to qualify for the"}, {"text": "Winners' Group. Group 7. Group 7 was played on 2 and 3 March 2020. Graeme Dott was the seventh and final player to qualify for the Winners' Group. Winners' Group. The Winners' Group was played on 4 and 5 March 2020. Scott Donaldson defeated Graeme Dott to win the tournament. Century breaks. A total of 104 century breaks were made during the event."}, {"text": "Gulnara Tasimovna Bekirova (; born 21 February 1968) is a Crimean Tatar historian, writer, and member of PEN International. In her work as a historian she was a consultant in the creation of the movie \"Haytarma\". As a writer, she has produced numerous papers and books about interethnic relations of deported Crimean Tatars and their fate under Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian governance. She has criticized Russian textbooks for depicting Crimean Tatars as inferior and supporting in xenophobic stereotypes of Crimean Tatars from the Soviet era. As an active writer for RadioFreeEurope she has written articles on \"krymr\" about the present situation in Crimea as well as the role of Crimean Tatars in the Red Army and the Crimean Tatar civil rights movement."}, {"text": "A Calculated Risk, published in 1992, is American author Katherine Neville's second novel. It is a financial thriller. Synopsis. Verity Banks is the senior woman executive at the Bank of the World, a global financial institution. She heads the department of Electronic Funds Transfer but finds herself stonewalled when she makes any proposal to step up the bank's computer security. Verity soon decides to prove the weakness of the bank's security by stealing from the very systems she has worked to protect. Upon hearing her plan, her mentor Tor sets a challenge to see which of them can steal a billion dollars and subsequently invest it to earn thirty million in three months - upping the stakes dramatically. Reception. \"A Calculated Risk\" received positive reception when it was published in 1992 \u2014 not only in the literary sector, but in the financial media and university business courses. Over 15 years later, during the financial meltdown of 2009, it reappeared on many independent bestseller lists. \"The New York Times Book Review\" praised Neville's plotting, and found it to be \"more plausible because of her intimate knowledge of how international banking works\". The \"Los Angeles Daily News\" called it \"dizzying (and) enjoyable\","}, {"text": "while the \"Los Angeles Times\" commended the \"fine degree of tension\"."}, {"text": "A consumer green energy program is a program that enables households to buy energy from renewable sources. By allowing consumers to purchase renewable energy, it simultaneously diverts the utilization of fossil fuels and promotes the use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. In several countries with common carrier arrangements, electricity retailing arrangements make it possible for consumers to purchase \"green\" electricity from either their utility or a green power provider. Electricity is considered to be green if it is produced from a source that produces relatively little pollution, and the concept is often considered equivalent to renewable energy. Although electricity is the most common green energy, biomethane is sold as \"green gas\" in some locations. In many countries, green energy currently provides a very small amount of electricity, generally contributing less than 2 to 5% to the overall pool of electricity offered by most utility companies, electric companies, or state power pools. In some U.S. states, local governments have formed regional power purchasing pools using Community Choice Aggregation and Solar Bonds to achieve a 51% renewable mix or higher, such as in the City of San Francisco. By participating in a green energy program a consumer may"}, {"text": "be having an effect on the energy sources used and ultimately might be helping to promote and expand the use of green energy. They are also making a statement to policy makers that they are willing to pay a price premium to support renewable energy. Green energy consumers either obligate the utility companies to increase the amount of green energy that they purchase from the pool (so decreasing the amount of non-green energy they purchase), or directly fund the green energy through a green power provider. If insufficient green energy sources are available, the utility must develop new ones or contract with a third party energy supplier to provide green energy, causing more to be built. However, there is no way the consumer can check whether or not the electricity bought is \"green\" or otherwise. In some countries such as the Netherlands, electricity companies guarantee to buy an equal amount of 'green power' as is being used by their green power customers. The Dutch government exempts green power from pollution taxes, which means green power is hardly any more expensive than other power. Green energy and labeling by region. European Union. Directive 2004/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the"}, {"text": "Council of 11 February 2004 on the promotion of cogeneration based on a useful heat demand in the internal energy market includes the article 5 (\"Guarantee of origin of electricity\" from high-efficiency cogeneration). European environmental NGOs have launched an ecolabel for green power. The ecolabel is called EKOenergy. It sets criteria for sustainability, additionality, consumer information and tracking. Only part of electricity produced by renewables fulfills the EKOenergy criteria. United Kingdom. The Green Energy Supply Certification Scheme was launched in 2010: it implements guidelines from the Energy Regulator, Ofgem, and sets requirements on transparency, the matching of sales by renewable energy supplies, and additionality. Green electricity in the United Kingdom is widespread, and green gas is supplied to over a million homes. United States. The United States Department of Energy (DOE), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) recognizes the voluntary purchase of electricity from renewable energy sources (also called renewable electricity or green electricity) as green power. The most popular way to purchase renewable energy as revealed by NREL data is through purchasing Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). According to a Natural Marketing Institute (NMI) survey 55 percent of American consumers want companies to increase"}, {"text": "their use of renewable energy. DOE selected six companies for its 2007 Green Power Supplier Awards, including Constellation NewEnergy; 3Degrees; Sterling Planet; SunEdison; Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power; and Silicon Valley Power. The combined green power provided by those six winners equals more than 5 billion kilowatt-hours per year, which is enough to power nearly 465,000 average U.S. households. In 2014, Arcadia Power made RECS available to homes and businesses in all 50 states, allowing consumers to use \"100% green power\" as defined by the EPA's Green Power Partnership. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that supports the organizational procurement of renewable electricity by offering expert advice, technical support, tools and resources. This can help organizations lower the transaction costs of buying renewable power, reduce carbon footprint, and communicate its leadership to key stakeholders. Throughout the country, more than half of all U.S. electricity customers now have an option to purchase some type of green power product from a retail electricity provider. Roughly one-quarter of the nation's utilities offer green power programs to customers, and voluntary retail sales of renewable energy in the United States totaled more than 12 billion kilowatt-hours in"}, {"text": "2006, a 40% increase over the previous year. In the United States, one of the main problems with purchasing green energy through the electrical grid is the current centralized infrastructure that supplies the consumer's electricity. This infrastructure has led to increasingly frequent brown outs and black outs, high CO2 emissions, higher energy costs, and power quality issues. An additional $450 billion will be invested to expand this fledgling system over the next 20 years to meet increasing demand. In addition, this centralized system is now being further overtaxed with the incorporation of renewable energies such as wind, solar, and geothermal energies. Renewable resources, due to the amount of space they require, are often located in remote areas where there is a lower energy demand. The current infrastructure would make transporting this energy to high demand areas, such as urban centers, highly inefficient and in some cases impossible. In addition, despite the amount of renewable energy produced or the economic viability of such technologies only about 20 percent will be able to be incorporated into the grid. To have a more sustainable energy profile, the United States must move towards implementing changes to the electrical grid that will accommodate a mixed-fuel"}, {"text": "economy. Several initiatives are being proposed to mitigate distribution problems. First and foremost, the most effective way to reduce USA's CO2 emissions and slow global warming is through conservation efforts. Opponents of the current US electrical grid have also advocated for decentralizing the grid. This system would increase efficiency by reducing the amount of energy lost in transmission. It would also be economically viable as it would reduce the amount of power lines that will need to be constructed in the future to keep up with demand. Merging heat and power in this system would create added benefits and help to increase its efficiency by up to 80-90%. This is a significant increase from the current fossil fuel plants which only have an efficiency of 34%. Asia. India. India's Ministry of Power notified 'Green Energy Open Access' Rules to accelerate ambitious renewable energy programmes by enabling provisions to incentivize the common consumers to get Green Power at reasonable rates through Electricity (Promoting Renewable Energy Through Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2022 on 06.06.2022 Small-scale green energy systems. Those not satisfied with the third-party grid approach to green energy via the power grid can install their own locally based renewable energy"}, {"text": "system. Renewable energy electrical systems from solar to wind to even local hydro-power in some cases, are some of the many types of renewable energy systems available locally. Additionally, for those interested in heating and cooling their dwelling via renewable energy, geothermal heat pump systems that tap the constant temperature of the earth, which is around 7 to 15 degrees Celsius a few feet underground and increases dramatically at greater depths, are an option over conventional natural gas and petroleum-fueled heat approaches. Also, in geographic locations where the Earth's Crust is especially thin, or near volcanoes (as is the case in Iceland) there exists the potential to generate even more electricity than would be possible at other sites, thanks to a more significant temperature gradient at these locales. The advantage of this approach in the United States is that many states offer incentives to offset the cost of installation of a renewable energy system. In California, Massachusetts and several other U.S. states, a new approach to community energy supply called Community Choice Aggregation has provided communities with the means to solicit a competitive electricity supplier and use municipal revenue bonds to finance development of local green energy resources. Individuals are"}, {"text": "usually assured that the electricity they are using is actually produced from a green energy source that they control. Once the system is paid for, the owner of a renewable energy system will be producing their own renewable electricity for essentially no cost and can sell the excess to the local utility at a profit. In household power systems, organic matter such as cow dung and spoilable organic matter can be converted to biochar. To eliminate emissions, carbon capture and storage is then used."}, {"text": "Nina Irene McClelland (21 August 1929 \u2013 16 August 2020) was an American chemist. She was dean emeritus and professor of chemistry at the University of Toledo. Early life and education. McClelland was raised by her mother Lillian McClelland, who worked as a foreign language teacher. Growing up, McClelland took vocal lessons and was taught six languages by her mother. McClelland's aunt, Fern Mervos, was a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Toledo. McClelland says she was very close to her aunt and as a child would visit her at work. McClelland graduated from Gibsonburg High School and pursued a degree in mathematics at the University of Toledo. She eventually earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from the University of Toledo before graduating with a doctoral degree in environmental chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1968. Career. In 1967, while earning her PhD, McClelland became involved with the American Chemical Society. The next year, McClelland was named president and chief executive officer of the National Sanitation Foundation International. During her time at the National Sanitation Foundation, McClelland led the International Clean Water program and served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee"}, {"text": "on Water Treatment Chemicals. She also created a Water Quality Index to report water quality in lakes, rivers and streams. After the Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in the 1970s, McClelland also helped create the governmental standard for chemicals to treat drinking water. In 1986, McClelland sat on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Advisory Committee. In 1991, McClelland was the recipient of the Walter S. Mangold Award from the National Environmental Health Association. In 1993, McClelland spoke in front of the United States Congress Committee on Environment and Public Works to promote cost-effective treatments to assist smaller, isolated communities in accessing clean drinking water. In 1995, McClelland was awarded chairwoman emeritus status and started her own, independent consulting firm. As well, McClelland was later elected American Chemical Society Board of Directors Chair. McClelland was appointed an adjunct professor of chemistry at the University of Toledo in 2003. She was also the recipient of an honorary degree from the university. Two years later, she was honored with the Wham Leadership Medal from the American National Standards Institute. In 2008, McClelland was promoted to interim dean of the college of arts and sciences. Her duties included improving the college of arts"}, {"text": "and sciences strategic assessment. The interim honorific was dropped in 2010. She was also inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame. The following year, McClelland was named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society and retired. In 2014, McClelland was the recipient of the University's Gold T Award for her \"outstanding career accomplishment.\" Two years later, in 2016, McClelland was the recipient of the National Wildlife Federation's Women in Conservation Award for her contributions to promoting clean energy and protecting clean water supplies. She was also honored by the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society and granted a symbolic key to the city of Toledo. In April, McClelland was one of five women given the Dr. Alice H. Skeens Outstanding Woman Award. In 2019, McClelland was honored in front of the United States Congress for her accomplishments in preserving clean water. The University of Toledo also dedicated a new Laboratory for Water Chemistry and Environmental Analysis in her name. She died on August 16, 2020, at the age of 90."}, {"text": "Nunzio Lella (born 28 July 2000) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Venezia. Club career. Bari. He is a product of youth teams of Bari. In 2016\u201317 and 2017\u201318 seasons he was occasionally called up to the senior squad but didn't see time on the field. Cagliari. Following Bari's bankruptcy, on 3 August 2018 he joined Serie A club Cagliari. He mostly spent the 2018\u201319 season with their Under-19 squad. He was called up to the senior squad 5 times, but didn't make any appearances. Loan to Olbia. On 17 July 2019 he joined Serie C club Olbia on a season-long loan. He made his professional Serie C debut for Olbia on 25 August 2019 in a game against Siena. He started the game and was substituted after 65 minutes The loan was renewed for the 2020\u201321 season on 28 August 2020. On 12 August 2021 he extended his contract for Cagliari until 2024; on the same day he returned to Olbia, once again on loan. Venezia. On 25 August 2023 he joined Venezia on a three-year contract. Return to Bari. On 29 August 2024, Lella returned to Bari on loan with an option"}, {"text": "to buy."}, {"text": "The Surface Pro X is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft. It was developed alongside and was announced on 2 October 2019 alongside the Surface Pro 7 and Surface Laptop 3. Updated hardware was announced alongside Surface Laptop Go and Surface accessories on October 1, 2020 and September 22, 2021. The device starts at $899.99 USD / \u00a3849.99. The Surface Pro X comes with a Microsoft SQ1 or SQ2 ARM processor, which the company claimed has three times the performance of an x86 MacBook Air, whilst also having a 13-hour battery life. This is due to the increased power efficiency of ARM processors compared to traditional x86 processors. Microsoft has previously used ARM processors in the discontinued Surface RT and Windows Phone devices. Microsoft now offers a Wifi-only version of the device as announced at their Surface Event on September 22, 2021. Configuration. The Surface Pro X starts at US$899.99 / \u00a3849.99 for the least expensive model with 8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage. The device can be bought with either 8 GB or 16 GB RAM. Users can also choose between 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB of storage. Hardware and design. The Surface Pro"}, {"text": "X is the 7th addition to Surface Pro lineup alongside the Surface Pro 7. Microsoft markets the tablet as a \"go-anywhere, do-anything PC\". Microsoft claims the Surface Pro X's battery can last up to 13 hours of use. Compared to the Surface Pro 6, the Surface Pro X is slimmer and has rounder edges featuring a matte black finish construction in platinum and black finish. The device contains 2 USB-C ports, an eSIM and a SIM card slot for LTE, a removable SSD, and the Surface Connect port for charging. There are no microSD card slot and headphone jack on the tablet, requiring its users to use dongles and USB-C or Bluetooth enabled headphones. The device's screen is a 13-inch touchscreen display, with smaller bezels compared to other Surface Pro devices. The device uses Microsoft SQ1 or SQ2 ARM processors co-developed by Qualcomm, based on the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 1 and Gen 2 processors respectively. A Qualcomm X24 LTE modem is also featured in the device for both processors. Software. The Surface Pro X comes pre-installed with an ARM-based version of Windows 10, which supports ARM32 and ARM64 UWP and desktop apps from the Microsoft Store or from other sources."}, {"text": "x86 applications can be run through emulation, addressing a major issue of Windows RT. Emulation of x64 applications is an upcoming feature that is already available to Windows Insiders for testing. In addition, Hyper-V can be installed on ARM64 devices such as the Surface Pro X running the Pro or Enterprise editions of Windows 10."}, {"text": "Stockton, California, held an election for mayor on June 7, 2016 and November 8, 2016. It saw Michael Tubbs unseat incumbent mayor Anthony Silva Tubbs became the youngest mayor in Stockton's history and its first African American mayor. Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan."}, {"text": "L\u1ed9c Ninh may refer to several places in Vietnam:"}, {"text": "Motes Creek is a long 3rd order tributary to the Haw River, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Course. Motes Creek rises on the divide between it and Cane Creek, about 4 miles northeast of Saxapahaw in Alamance County, North Carolina and then flows east to the Haw River at Saxapahaw, North Carolina. Watershed. Motes Creek drains of area, receives about 46.5 in/year of precipitation, and has a wetness index of 423.14 and is about 39% forested."}, {"text": "The 1925 Tennessee Docs football team (variously \"Docs\", \"UT Doctors\" or the \"Tennessee Medicos\") represented the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis in the 1925 college football season."}, {"text": "Cladonia borealis, commonly known as the boreal cup lichen, is a species of lichen in the genus \"Cladonia\". Description. Cladonia borealis is yellowish green to brown in color. It occurs in North and South America, Antarctica, Eurasia and many on islands. The ascoma, when present is apothecial. Biochemistry. Its secondary metabolites include 4-O-demethylbarbatic acid, barbatic acid, rhodocladonic acid and usnic acid."}, {"text": "The Mexican Geological Society (in Spanish: Sociedad Geol\u00f3gica Mexicana) is a Mexican learned society founded in 1904. Among the founders was geologist Dr. Jos\u00e9 G. Aguilera who also was the first president of the society. The society publishes the journal \"Bolet\u00edn de la Sociedad Geol\u00f3gica Mexicana\"."}, {"text": "Roland Bottomley (1880-1947) was a British born American stage and film actor from Liverpool, England. Some sources have him born in 1878 and others in 1879. He came to America circa 1913 and settled in California. He first made movies for the Kalem Company. By the 1920s he acted at Paramount, Fox, Universal and for Thomas H. Ince. After his last film in 1925 he returned to Broadway for the remainder of his career. Bottomley died in New York at the beginning of 1947."}, {"text": "XHSCBI-FM is a community radio station on 102.9 FM in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico. The station is owned by the civil association Kahal Sembradores de Futuro, A.C. History. Kahal Sembradores de Futuro filed for a community station on May 12, 2017. The station was approved on January 23, 2019."}, {"text": "Newsela is a literacy educational technology company founded by Matthew Gross. Newsela news content is free with a registered account and additional resources are available by subscription. Background. History. While former teacher Matthew Gross was working on the Common Core standards roll out in New York, he was disappointed to discover outdated textbooks that were labeled \"Common Core-Aligned\". One of Gross's children struggled with reading. After meeting with his son's assistant principal, he felt like she had given up on his son. Gross decided to start Newsela in 2013 for his son and to make a larger impact in education. Partnerships. Newsela's partnership with The Virginia School Consortium for Learning (VaSCL) enables members to access Newsela at a discounted rate, as of December 2020. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Newsela announced a partnership with NWEA to help teachers differentiate instruction. After a student takes a MAP Growth assessment, Newsela will automatically show teachers content at that student's reading level. BrainPop and Newsela formed a partnership on October 10, 2017. Users can access Newsela's resources directly from BrainPop's topic pages. Newsela editor-in-chief Jennifer Coogan partnered with the American Press Institute to help combat fake news websites in the United States"}, {"text": "in October 2016. Features. Newsela offers news articles that can be customized to match a student's reading level. Newsela's texts come from publishers including the Associated Press and Encyclopedia Britannica. The company offers supplemental instructional materials, including assessments, lessons and professional development. English language arts (ELA), Social Studies, Science and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) content are available in English and Spanish. Due to concerns about mature content, Newsela has created Newsela Elementary, with articles targeted toward elementary school students. Newsela also created Newsela PRO, a paid upgrade for teachers to use more features."}, {"text": "Elinor Busby (born September 30, 1924) is an American science fiction writer and fanzine editor. In 1960, she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award. Biography. Elinor Doub was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1924. She married editor and writer F. M. Busby in 1954. They had one daughter, Michele. Literary career. Elinor and F. M. Busby co-edited the fan magazine \"Cry of the Nameless\" (later renamed \"Cry\"), which won the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1960. They had previously been nominated in 1959 and were nominated again in 1962. Elinor was awarded a Fan Activity Achievement Award for fan achievements, presented at Corflu in 2013. Busby was a dedicatee of Robert A. Heinlein's 1982 novel \"Friday\", and her husband a dedicatee of Heinlein's later novel, \"The Cat Who Walks Through Walls\". F. M. Busby died in 2005; Elinor subsequently donated his papers to Rivera Library's Special Collections Department."}, {"text": "Lieutenant General Knut Georg Hilding Kring (24 April 1899 \u2013 22 September 1971) was a Swedish Army officer. His senior commands include Commandant in Boden Fortress, Inspector of the Army Signal Troops, military commander of the VII Military District, Quartermaster-General of the Swedish Army and head of the Swedish Army Quartermaster Corps and Vice Chief of the Royal Swedish Army Supply Administration and commanding officer of the Quartermaster Administration of the Swedish Armed Forces. Early life. Kring was born on 24 April 1899 in F\u00e4rila, Sweden, the son of \"fanjunkare\" Eric Kring and his wife Alma (n\u00e9e Jonzon). Career. Kring was commissioned as an officer in Uppland Artillery Regiment (A 5) in 1920 with the rank of second lieutenant. Kring was promoted to lieutenant in 1925, served as a \"r\u00e9p\u00e9titeur\" at the Artillery and Engineering College from 1926 to 1928, and served in the Svea Artillery Regiment (A 1) in 1928. He then served as captain in the General Staff in 1933 and as a teacher at the Artillery and Engineering College from 1934 to 1937. Kring served in the Gotland Artillery Corps (A 7) in 1937 and was head of the Communications Department in the Defence Staff from 1939"}, {"text": "to 1945. He was also a member of the National Swedish Transport Commission (\"Statens trafikkommission\") from 1939 to 1945 and the Board for the Wartime Protection of Power Stations (\"Krigsskyddsn\u00e4mnden f\u00f6r kraftanl\u00e4ggningar\") from 1942 to 1945, as well as of the 1942 Aviation Investigation (\"1942 \u00e5rs flygutredning\") and the 1942 Investigation for Protective Measures of Power Stations (\"1942 \u00e5rs utredning f\u00f6r skydds\u00e5tg\u00e4rder vid kraftanl\u00e4ggningar\"). Kring was promoted to major in 1940 and to lieutenant colonel in 1942. He was promoted to colonel in 1945 and served in the Sm\u00e5land Artillery Regiment (A 6) the same year. Kring became colonel in the General Staff Corps in 1946 and served as head of the Royal Swedish Army Staff College from 1946 to 1949. He was then regimental commander of Sm\u00e5land Artillery Regiment from 1949 to 1951 and served as Commandant in Boden Fortress from 1951 to 1954. During this time, Kring also served as acting military commander of the VI Military District from 1951 to 1954. He served as Inspector of the Swedish Army Signal Troops from 1954 to 1955 when he was promoted to major general. Kring's next appointment was as military commander of the VII Military District in Gotland from"}, {"text": "1955 to 1957. He was a member of the National Swedish Board of Economic Defence from 1957 to 1964 and he served as the Quartermaster-General of the Swedish Army and Vice Chief of the Royal Swedish Army Supply Administration from 1957 to 1963. In 1963, Kring was appointed head of the Quartermaster Administration of the Swedish Armed Forces, serving until 1964 when he retired from active service and was promoted to lieutenant general. Personal life. In 1933, he married Anna Wetterling (1898\u20131998), the daughter of Sven Wetterling and Ida H\u00f6gstr\u00f6m. They had one daughter, Britta (born 1935). Death. Kring died on 22 September 1971 and was buried on 27 October 1971 in Djursholm Cemetery."}, {"text": "R12 is a middle Neolithic cemetery located in the Northern Dongola Reach on the banks of the Seleim Nile palaeochannel of modern-day Sudan. The site is dated to between 5000 and 4000 BC. \"Centro Veneto di Studi Classici e Orientali\" excavated the site, within the concession of the Sudan Archaeological Research Society and after an agreement with it, between 2000 and 2003 over three digging seasons. The first was in 2000, and 33 graves were discovered. The second was in 2001, and another 33 graves were discovered. The third was in 2003, and the last 100 graves were discovered. There are 166 graves total at the site. Contents of the graves include ceramics, animal bones, grinding stones, human skeletons, and plant remains. Excavation. The R12 cemetery is held within a mound-like formation spanning 1400m2. The mound is 2.9 meters above the surface of the plain. The cemetery within the mound has an area of about 650m2. The mound is a layer of Nile silt on top of an irregular sandy deposit. Underneath these two layers is a regularly deposited silt layer. Over the past 7000 years, wind and water have eroded the mound causing it to have the morphology that"}, {"text": "it did before excavation. Because some of this wind and water eroded the lower part of the mound, some skeletal remains and artifacts breached the body of the mound. These processes of erosion did not affect the graves in the top of the mound. This made them easily detectable as compared to the graves at the lower part. Grave contents. Some of the graves have filled with gravel or stones from processes of erosion. The graves were dug through the upper silt layer. Mud was placed on the walls of the grave to prevent falling sand. After the person was placed in the grave, they filled the grave with silt or small pebbles. The people buried in the graves were usually placed on their left side. Direction of the body was aligned with the cardinal directions. It appears that when new graves were dug, they cut into older graves. The graves often contained pottery, tools, bone spatulas, mammal bone perforators. Bodies were adorned with ivory bracelets, stone and ivory bangles, stone necklaces, lip plugs, and stone pendants. Graves also contained pebbles, beads, and marine shells. Children were buried with furniture or distinctive signs of family. These children seem to have"}, {"text": "had the same treatment as adults. This is a sign that status is attributed at birth. Pottery. Ninety-five percent of the graves at R12 contain pottery. There are between one and nine pottery vessels in any given grave. At least 220 pottery vessels were found in total. Most of the pottery is made from fine sand temper and fired in an earthen kiln. Sometimes, the fine sand temper pottery contains mica. Other materials that the pottery could be partially made from are chaff, limestone splinters, and shells. The pottery was decorated and then smoothed and polished. Some of the pottery had stripes and was so polished that it gained a metallic brightness. Red or black spots were found on some of the pottery. This was caused by oxidation or reduction processes. There is evidence that the pottery was not made for only funerary purposes. Many of the pots show signs of prolonged use over fire which shows that they were used many times before being placed in the graves. When a grave has more than one pot, they have similar or identical decorations. It is possible that this signifies that a certain group of people or family is associated with"}, {"text": "a decorative motif. Bowls. Most of the pottery found are bowls. These bowls were mainly hemispherical and were either restricted (47%) or unrestricted (32.5%). A distinctive type of bowl at R12 is a composite contour bowl with a carinated profile with the upper body going from straight to concave. The bowls ranged from a height of 2 cm to over 14 cm. The bowls found in Period 1 of R12 are composite with a sinuous profile. These bowls also have a complex decorated motif of dot impressions. Bowls with a rising lug handle, small bowls with depressions on the rim, and small colanders were only found in children's graves. Jars. Another form of pottery found are jars (12.5%). They range in shape from ovoid to globular. The jars ranged from a height of 10 cm to over 40 cm. A jar with covered with ochre powder and a complex dot decoration was found. Caliciform beakers. A third form of pottery found at R12 are caliciform beakers (8%). Sixteen complete beakers were found along with several fragments. Four different types of caliciform beakers were found at R12. The first type is decorated with wide horizontal bands. These bands are either dotted"}, {"text": "or are incised lines separated by undecorated bands. The internal rims had chains of hatched triangles. These caliciform beakers were between 20.6 cm and 33 cm in height. The second type is decorated with hatched, oblique, regularly spaced bands covering the entire beaker. The rims are rounded on the inside and slightly flared out. The rims are decorated with clusters of dotted parallel lines. The third group of beakers have the same geometric pattern, rounded rim, rim decoration, and are between 18.4 cm and 21.5 cm tall. The fourth group of beakers are generally squat in shape and have thin horizontal bands with hatched dotted lines and rounded rims. The surface of the beakers are purposely imprecise, making the beakers seem less elegant than the other groups of beakers. Jewelry. Most of the jewelry found at R12 are bead bracelets, necklaces, and stone pendants. There are also a few examples of stone bracelets and ear or lip plugs. Jewelry is present in 21.69% of the graves at R12. Jewelry was found in 11 male graves, 9 female graves, and 14 child graves. Jewelry is absent in graves of people over the age of 50. This could suggest that jewelry was"}, {"text": "only available to a certain group within the population. Grave 92 included a bead-belt. Grave 60 contained a person wearing headband made out of ostrich eggshell beads. Thirteen bead blanks were found inside a shell in Grave 38. They were made from agate and quartz flakes reduced to a cylindrical shape. After this, they were polished and perforated. This grave was also home to the only in situ perforator found at R12, bone beads in various stages of production, thousands of ostrich eggshell beads, several pendants, and sandstone palettes. This particularly rich assemblage suggests this person may have been an artisan who specialized in the production of stone jewelry, with the perforator and palettes as their tools. Other beads were made from ochre, amazonite, or ostrich eggshells. Amazonite beads were made into a teardrop shape. It seems that all beads buried in R12 graves were constructed by the same people that utilized the cemetery. Ochre beads had the most specialized production because they are the most regular in measurement. Bracelets and necklaces. Fifteen bracelets were found at R12 across a total of nine graves. Forty necklaces were found at R12 across a total of 39 graves. Similar necklaces have been"}, {"text": "found at other Neolithic cemeteries in Nubia and Sudan. These bracelets and necklaces were made from various types of beads. Stone jewelry. Pendants, bangles, and lip/ear plugs are the common forms of stone jewelry found at R12. The stone pendants were made of small elongated pebbles of agate, carnelian, quartz, white and variegated stones. Sometimes the pendants were used as bracelets. Similar pendants are found in other Neolithic cemeteries in Sudan and Nubia. Stone bangles are made from a white stone that has not been identified. They were worn on the upper arm. There are no other objects like them found in any other Neolithic cemetery and there is no evidence for how they were made. Three lip plugs and one possible ear plug were found at R12. The three lip plugs are made of zeolite and are angular with a conical extremity. They were found in two separate graves. The third lip plug was found on the surface. Grave 18 possibly had an ear plug. In general, lip and ear plugs are common in other Neolithic cemeteries in Sudan and Nubia. There is no evidence for how the ear and lip plugs were made. Lithic tools. 539 lithic tools"}, {"text": "and pieces were found from a total of 48 graves at R12. These tools and pieces are flakes, blades, cores, and debris. Because of the overabundance of flakes in the distribution, it can be assumed that the production was for flakes and blades were occasional byproducts. The most common material found in the graves is flint possibly taken from a nearby gravel deposit containing quartz, agate, carnelian, and chert. Debitage. Most of the debitage consists of flakes as a result of being struck by a hard-hammer. Not all of the debitage were complete. A majority of these flakes came from single-platform cores. There are also flakes from opposed-platform and multi-platform cores. Primary flakes are underrepresented which is strange because they are the first step of core flaking. Half of the debitage are flakes that still have part of the cortex. Most of the blades are single-platform core blades with flat butts. The lengths and widths of the flakes were distributed regularly meaning that the production of the flakes reached standardization. However, there is no evidence for any specific core preparation technique. Cores. There were a total of 51 cores recorded at the R12 site. Most of the 51 cores are"}, {"text": "made of flint from Nile pebbles. They were also made from quartz, agate, and one core from flint not from Nile pebbles. Three of the cores show blade scars. The others are flake cores. Some of the cores are found with their original debitage. Most core are single-platform which could be because they are less elaborate than multi-platform cores and thus easier to make. Sixteen of the thirty six single-platform cores are made of quartz. This is notable because quartz does not flake well. Nine of the cores are multi-platform cores. Multi-platform cores have more use than single-platform cores. Tools. 135 tools were found at R12. Most of the tools were made of flint from Nile pebbles. Geometrics were the most common tool type found and are made from the finest raw materials. Backed pieces were the second most common tool type found followed by end-scrapers, perforators, notches/denticulates, and varia. The only type of geometric tool found are lunates. In some instances, the difference between lunates and backed pieces was ambiguous. The backed pieces found at R12 are different than other Northern African backed pieces in that they are not made on blades and are not elongated. Four scraper tools"}, {"text": "were found. Two perforators were found. Four notch/denticulates were found. Ritual and social context. Because the differing tools found at R12 is smaller than the actual amount of tools created by the people of R12, archaeologists can only make hypotheses about what the people were doing. It is also hard to tell which tools the people of R12 created and which tools were accumulated through trade. Even though the pottery at R12 shows change over the 600 active site years, the lithic assemblage does not. Most of the lithics seem to have been created for burial as they do not show signs of wear. Male and female graves contained lithics at significant percentages. This could mean that there was a somewhat equal division of labor. Grave 38 is considered the richest grave excavated at R12 and contained an adult male buried with the set of bead blanks discussed previously, bone tools, three large bowls, a small jar, and 87 lithic pieces, making this grave have the largest amount of lithics. He also was wearing a bracelet made from pebbles and a necklace made from carnelian, agate, amazonite, and shell beads. The presence of lithics and other artifacts in this grave"}, {"text": "could represent wealth in terms of quantity and variety of materials. Other stone tools. Stone tools are globally characteristic of the Neolithic. The stone tools found at R12 consist of axes, palettes, mace-heads, grinders, and other stone objects. Although most had known usage, many of the stone objects seem to have no purpose. The stone tools were mainly made from syenite, sodalite, soapstone, sandstone, and pumice. These materials were most likely obtained from the Nubian Desert and a nearby igneous formation. Axes. There were 48 stone axes found from a total of 26 graves. The axes could have been used as an adze, for butchering, or as weapons. The axes at R12 are highly variable in length, width, and thickness. Because axes were found in male, female, and child graves, it is hard to tell social context of the axes. Mace-heads. There were eight mace-heads were found at R12 within a total of seven graves. They were made from granite and pumice. The mace-heads made of pumice are the first ever found in Sudan. Six of the maces had a biconical shape, one had an ovoid shape, and one was disk-shaped with rising edges around the central hole. Mace-heads usually"}, {"text": "are a symbol of power. At R12, they only found in male and child graves. This possibly means that mace-heads have a social context and may only be associated with men or children. Stone palettes. There were 50 stone palettes found at R12 within a total of 27 graves. They were usually made from sandstone or granite. The red and yellow staining on the sandstone palettes indicates that they were probably used to grind red and yellow ochre to make pigments. Peoples of R12 most likely used these pigments on themselves and animals as well as on the surface of pottery. The granite palettes were used to grind malachite and amazonite which are assumed to be used as pigments. The three different classes of stone palettes are rectangular, ellipsoidal, and irregular. Stone palettes are evenly represented in male, female, and child graves. Grinding stones and grinders. Only a few grinding stones were found at R12 within a total of six graves, both male and female. The grinding stones were made from sandstone and limestone and were ovular in shape. They are thinner, lighter, and have finer surfaces than found at Mesolithic sites in Sudan. Grinders probably served the same purpose"}, {"text": "as palettes. They are made from sandstone and occasionally pumice. The grinders were rectangular, ellipsoidal, trapezoidal, or round. The small round grinders are also found in other Neolithic settlements in Sudan. Animal remains. Eighteen different mammal, bird, and mollusc taxa were found at R12. This large variety of animals is evidence that the people in the Nile river Valley used aquatic resources and hunted animals. Because these remains are found in a cemetery context, it is likely that the remains found are not representative of the living population at the time R12 was occupied. A likely reason that there is a large amount of cattle found at R12 is that cattle maintained a prestigious status in this area of Africa at the time. Mammals. Mammals found at R12 include bovids, cattle, sheep, goats, gazelles, monkeys, elephant, hippopotamus, and a dog/fox. Bovids. Bovid bones comprise a large amount of animal remains at R12. Because the bones were treated and turned into tools, it is hard to identify many of them taxonomically. However, the bones themselves are well preserved. Cattle are the most abundant taxon at R12. The remains are either cranial or postcranial bones. Fifty nine cattle skulls were analyzed from"}, {"text": "R12. Thirty one of the skulls could be identified as male while only two could be identified as female. Having more male cattle skulls shows the possibility of male cattle being symbols of prosperity, prestige, and power. Before being buried, the cattle show signs of being specially treated. The frontalia were cut off and cutting off the skin of the cattle left cut marks on the frontalia of many skulls. More than 40 cattle ribs were found across a total of 18 graves. All but three of the ribs were split longitudinally and the sides of the split were smoothed. A total of 21 sheep were found at R12. The most common bone from the sheep found was the tibia. Two complete sheep skeletons were found. Four tibiae of goats were found within a total of three graves. Three of the tibiae were formed into unfinished objects. One of the tibiae was formed into a spatula. There were many bones that could not be ascertained whether they belonged to goat or sheep. Birds. Birds found at R12 include ostrich, Helmeted Guinea fowl, and unidentified birds. Ostrich. Ostriches are the largest living bird in the world. Although many of the beads"}, {"text": "at R12 were created from ostrich eggshells, there is no evidence that ostrich themselves were located on or near the site. However, it is known that ostrich did live in this region of Africa. In general, ostrich bones are not well represented in the archaeological record. Ostrich most likely provided a variety of resources to the people of R12. Ostrich feathers were made into ornaments or fans. Ostrich eggs were used as food, vessels, and beads. Helmeted Guinea fowl. Today, the Guinea fowl family is local to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The Helmeted Guinea fowl are the most widespread of this species. There were three Helmeted Guinea fowl found at R12. There is no evidence that humans modified these bones, so their purpose is unknown. Molluscs. Molluscs found at R12 include bivalves and gastropods. Bivalves. There were 60 bivalve specimen were found throughout a total of 29 graves. A common bivalve found at R12 is the Nile oyster. These oysters are indicators of well-oxygenated and fast moving river water. Gastropods. There was one gastropod shell and many gastropod shell fragments found at R12. The gastropod species \"Limicolaria cailliaudi\" was not eaten and thus must likely have served a symbolic"}, {"text": "or ornamental function. The gastropod species \"Pila ovata\" and \"Pila wernei\" were most likely a source of food and possibly a protective charm against infertility and drowning. Other gastropod species were included in necklaces. Nerite gastropod shells were also found at R12. These shells are specifically interesting because they inhabit the Red Sea. This indicates that the people of R12 were utilizing trade routes. Archaeobotany. Plant remains at R12 mostly consist of grass inflorescence in the form of white powdery deposits. These grasses are typically phytolith morphotypes of Panicoideae grasses. There are also trace amounts of an admixture of culms and leaves. The first samples of \"Hordeum\" sp. (cereal grains) and \"Triticum\" sp. (wheat) were found, making them the first sample of these genera at R12. Plant remains at R12 provide evidence for use of plants and argue against the view that there was only pastoralism in this area during the middle Neolithic. Plant remains found at R12 predate the earliest Egyptian plant remains. Specifically, evidence of Triticeae predates evidence of farming in Egypt. This shows a possible earlier connection between regions in the Sahara Desert and southwest Asia than previously thought. Based on this evidence and evidence from similar"}, {"text": "deposits at Ghaba, some suggest that domesticated cereals were introduced 500 years earlier than previously thought. However, it is still unknown if many of these plants were grown locally or imported. Plant material found in graves at R12 give evidence of the importance of the role of plants in ritual burial. Social structure. The spatial distribution of R12 gives insight to the social structure of the people who created the cemetery. Within the cemetery, there is no segregation between males and females nor between adults and children. Because there is roughly and equal number of males and females it is possible that R12 was a non-polygamous society. Based on the artifacts found in the graves, the population has been split into three categories. The first category is people buried with no or few grave goods. This category comprises 68% of the population. Forty-three individuals buried at R12 have no grave goods. However, it is possible that erosion and human disturbances affected these graves, inflating the number of graves with no goods. The second category is people buried with a larger amount of grave goods. The third category is people buried with an even larger number of grave goods. As the"}, {"text": "number of objects in the grave increases, there are less graves. The third category comprises 20% of the population. The three categories could potentially signify a difference of wealth or rank. The distribution of objects, classes of objects, and presence and number of pottery are relatively the same. However, social status is explained more by amount of items rather than quality of items. This supports the idea that there were three segmented groups in the population based on wealth. Wealth seems to be distributed equally between males and females. Because children were found with grave goods, it is possible that status was ascribed and that there was family status. The children found with mace heads could signify a symbol of their family or lineage authority. Some grave goods such as animal remains, axes, and grinding stones could signify that the people of R12 were hunting. The lithic industry and plant remains could signify agricultural activities. Shells signify trade and contact with the Red Sea area. Cattle, sheep, and goat breeding were definitely a significant part of the society. This is known from animal remains and frequency of bucrania. Based on this evidence, it is likely that this was a pastoralist"}, {"text": "society that engaged in some hunting practices as well. Gebel Ramlah. Gebel Ramlah is a Neolithic site that is located in Egypt. It is known for its six pastoral cemeteries including the world's oldest known infant cemetery. Dental samples of people at Gebel Ramlah and people at R12 were compared to see if there was any biological relatedness between these two groups of people. Teeth from 59 individuals from Gebel Ramlah were examined. Teeth from 50 individuals from R12 were examined. Teeth from both sites ranged in quality from poor to fair. Each tooth was evaluated under 36 different traits. Based on the traits of the teeth, it was concluded that people from Gebel Ramlah and people from R12 were not closely biologically related. Even though there was no biological relation between these groups, they did share many cultural similarities. Objects found in graves at each site include pottery, ground stone, lithics, personal adornments, pigments, and animal remains. Both sites had similar pottery in the form of beakers. Even though there were these cultural similarities, there were also cultural differences. Bodies at Gebel Ramlah were placed on their right side in a flexed position, while bodies at R12 were placed"}, {"text": "on their left side. Climate. Today rainfall in the Dongola reach region of Sudan is an average of 23 mm a year, making the climate dry. While the site was active, the inter-tropical convergence zone was further north than where it is now. Because of this, there was more rainfall and the area experienced flooding from the Nile River. The rain and flooding allowed for the presence of vegetation, animals, and aquatic resources."}, {"text": "Events in the year 1852 in Belgium. Monarch: Leopold I Head of government: Charles Rogier (to 31 October); Henri de Brouck\u00e8re (from 31 October)"}, {"text": "Stockton, California, held an election for mayor on June 5, 2012 and November 6, 2012. It saw Anthony Silva unseat incumbent mayor Ann Johnston. Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan."}, {"text": "James Coor (before 17371795) was an architect, builder, politician and leader in North Carolina. Early life. Coor was probably born in England before 1737. He was invited by Thomas Webber of Maryland to come to Maryland to be a naval architect. Webber owned land in New Bern, North Carolina, where Coor ended up building a house for Webber and his house own house near Webber. This house stands today and is called the Coor-Gaston House. Coor may also have designed two other buildings in New Bern, a Masonic lodge and the New Bern Academy. These buildings were not completed until after Coors death, however. Coor was also architect of the Smith-Whitford House in New Bern. Coor also designed and built the Coor-Bishop House in New Bern in about 1767. As a skilled architect, Coor may also have been involved in building the Tryon Palace in New Bern. Political career. Coor served three terms representing Craven County in the Province of North Carolina House of Burgesses between 1773 and 1775. As war with Britain loomed, he served on the New Bern Council of Safety. He represented Carven County in the North Carolina Provincial Congress in the second, third, fourth and fifth"}, {"text": "sessions. He played a role in the adoption of the Halifax Resolves and in the creation of the first North Carolina State Constitution in 1776. After statehood, he represented Craven County twelve times in the North Carolina Senate of the North Carolina General Assembly between 1777 and 1787, serving as Speaker in 17861787. There is no evidence that James Coor served in the militia during the American Revolution. He was on a committee to develop regulations for the militia during the Halifax Provincial Congress. There are several pay vouchers to James Coor, esquire, for services during the Revolution. There is a letter from James Coor to George Washington written in 1790. In this letter, he states that he was a naval officer for the port of Beaufort. Death. James Coor died on December 28, 1796, as noted in the \"New Bern North Carolina Gazette\" on December 31, 1796. James was a slave owner. He emancipated two of his slaves in his will."}, {"text": "Community Behavioral Health (often initialized as CBH) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a behavioral health Medicaid managed care organization, CBH is contracted by the city of Philadelphia to manage the delivery and payment of mental health and substance use services to Philadelphia's Medicaid recipients. It is a component of and works in tandem with the city's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS). History and operations. In 1994, Pennsylvania announced plans to integrate state and federally managed health care funding for Medicaid recipients into HealthChoices, Pennsylvania\u2019s managed care program. This led to the official establishment of CBH in February 1997, making it one of the first city-operated behavioral health managed care organizations (BH-MCO) in the United States. In 2003, CBH launched a school-based behavioral health program and in 2013 the Evidence-based Practice and Innovation Center was launched. In 2023, over 802,250 Philadelphians were eligible for Medicaid; of these, over 100,700 used services covered by CBH. Total expenditures for those services totaled to over $860,000,000. Its 2018 budget was over $900,000,000\u2014with additional assets totaling over $160,000,000\u2014placing it in the top eleven Philadelphia non-profits by income. Pew Charitable Trusts notes that CBH is one of"}, {"text": "the largest contracted recipients of city funds in Philadelphia. CBH contracts with nearly 200 Medicaid-enrolled and licensed service providers to deliver behavioral health services to enrolled members in Philadelphia. CBH authorizes payment for a continuum of behavioral health services, including outpatient mental health, substance use disorder (SUD), inpatient psychiatric hospital, residential, and telehealth treatments. At the end of 2018, CBH extended a tobacco-free policy to all inpatient substance use treatment centers in Philadelphia. This policy raised objections from local advocates, who claimed it increased the rate of treatment drop-out. Donna E.M. Bailey is the current CEO. She was named the permanent CEO on March 19, 2024."}, {"text": "Matthew Ramsden (born 23 July 1997) is an Australian middle-distance runner. He won a gold medal in 1500 metres at the 2019 Oceania Athletics Championships in Townsville. He represented Australia at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, competing in men's 1500 metres. Ramsden studied a Bachelor of Commerce/Law at Deakin University. Personal bests. Outdoor Indoor"}, {"text": "The unified scattering function was proposed in 1995 as a universal approach to describe small-angle X-ray, and neutron scattering (and in some cases light scattering) from disordered systems that display hierarchical structure. Concept. The concept of universal descriptions of scattering, that is scattering functions that do not depend on a specific structural model, but whose parameters can be related back to specific structures, have existed since about 1950. The prominent examples of universal scattering functions are Guinier's Law, and Porod's Law, where \"G\", \"R\"g, and \"B\" are constants related to the scattering contrast, structural volume, surface area, and radius of gyration. \"q\" is the magnitude of the scattering vector which is related to the Bragg spacing, \"d\", \"q\" = 2\u03c0/\"d\" = 4\u03c0/\u03bb sin(\u03b8/2). \u03bb is the wavelength and \u03b8 is the scattering angle (2\u03b8 in diffraction). Both Guinier's Law and Porod's Law refer to an aspect of a single structural level. A structural level is composed of a size that can be expressed in \"R\"g, and a structure as reflected in a power-law decay, -4 in the case of Porod's Law for solid objects with smooth, sharp interfaces. For other structures the power-law decay yields the mass-fractal dimension, \"d\"f, which"}, {"text": "relates the mass and size of the object, thereby partially defining the object. For instance, a rod has \"d\"f = 1 and a disk has \"d\"f = 2. The prefactor to the power-law yields other details of the structure such as the surface to volume ratio for solid objects, the branch content for chain structures, the convolution or crumpled-ness of various objects. The prefactor to Guinier's Law yields the mass and volume fraction under dilute conditions. Above the overlap concentration (generally 1 to 5 volume percent) structural screening must be considered. In addition to these universal functions that describe only a part of a structural level, a number of scattering functions that can describe a single \"structural level\" have been proposed for some disordered systems, most interestingly Debye's scattering function for a Gaussian polymer chain derived during World War II, where \"x\" = \"q\"2\"R\"g2. reverts to at low-\"q\" and to a power-law, \"I\"(\"q\") = \"Bq\"\u22122 at high-\"q\" reflecting the two dimensional nature of a random walk or a diffusion path. refers to a single structural level, corresponding to a Guinier regime and a power-law regime. The Guinier regime reflecting the overall size of the object without reference to the internal"}, {"text": "or surface structure of the object and the power-law reflecting the details of the structure, in this case a linear (unbranched), mass-fractal object with mass-fractal dimension, \"d\"f = 2 (connectivity dimension of 1 reflecting a linear structure; and minimum dimension of 2 indicating a random conformation in 3d space). In the 1990s it became apparent that single structural level functions similar to would be of great use in describing complex, disordered structures such as branched mass-fractal aggregates, linear polymers in good solvents (\"d\"f ~ 5/3), branched polymers (\"d\"f > 2), cyclic polymers, and macromolecules of complex topology such as star, dendrimer, and comb polymers, as well as polyelectrolytes, micellar and colloidal materials such as worm-like micelles. Further, no analytically derived scattering functions could describe multiple structural levels in hierarchical materials. The observation of multiple structural levels is extremely common even in the case of a simple linear Gaussian polymer chain describe by which is statistically composed of rod-like Kuhn units (level 1) which follow \"I\"(\"q\") = \"Bq\"\u22121 at the highest-q. Common examples of hierarchical materials are silica, titania, and carbon black nano-aggregates composed of solid primary particles (level 1) displaying Porod scattering at highest q, , which aggregate into fairly"}, {"text": "rigid mass-fractal structures at intermediate nanoscales (level 2), and which agglomerate into micron-scale solid or network structures (level 3). Since these structural levels overlap in a small-angle scattering pattern, it was not possible to accurately model these materials using and various power-law functions such as . For these reasons, a global scattering function that could be expanded to multiple structural levels was of interest. In 1995 Beaucage derived the Unified Scattering Function, where \"i\" refers to the structural level starting with the smallest size, highest \"q\". \"q\"i* is defined by, and \"k\" has a value of 1 for solid structural levels (:formula_1) and approximately 1.06 for mass-fractal structural levels (:formula_2). recognizes that all structures display the behavior of at largest sizes, that is all structures exhibit a size, and if the structure is randomly arranged that size manifests as a Gaussian function in small-angle scattering governed by the radius of gyration with larger objects displaying a smaller standard deviation, or larger \"R\"g. At high-\"q\" fails to describe the structure because it reflects an object with no surface or internal structure [8]. The second term in gives the missing information concerning the surface or internal structure of the object by way"}, {"text": "of the power \"P\"i and the prefactor \"B\"i (as well as how \"P\"i and \"B\"i relate to \"G\"i, and \"R\"g,i). Beaucage realized that the problem of obtaining a generic multi-level scattering function lay in since a power-law could not extend infinitely to low-\"q\" and yield a finite intensity at \"q\" => 0. Also, such a function would over power in the range of \"q\" where is appropriate. Reference provides one of several possible derivations of , using as an example of a power-law regime. A vector, r, can be visualized as the vector connecting interference points between an incident beam and the scattered beam. r = 2\u03c0/q where q \"= 4\u03c0/(\u03bb sin \u03b8/2)\" is the scattering vector in inverse space. Scattering occurs when two fringe points separated by r contain scattering material. If material is located at |r|/2 destructive interference occurs. So within a solid object there is always material at a position |r|/2 that negates scattering form material separated at |r|. Only at the surface do conditions of contrast occur. describes scattering from a smooth sharp interface which results in scattering that is proportional to the surface area and decays with \"q\"\u22124. The volume of a scattering element in"}, {"text": "this case scales with \"V\" ~ \"r\"3. Scattering involves binary interference so is proportional to (\u03c1\"V\")2 ~ \"r\"6. The number of these V domains is proportional to the surface area divided by the area of a domain, \"N\" ~ \"S\"/\"r\"2. So the scattering intensity follows \"I\"(\"q\") ~ \"SV\"2/\"r\"2 ~ \"Sr\"4 ~ \"Sq\"\u22124. At small size scales, at high q, for an oddly shaped object with a smooth/sharp interface, the structure appears to be a flat surface and the described approach is appropriate. As the size scale of observation, \"r\", approaches \"R\"g at low \"q\" this model fails because the surface is no longer planar. That is, the scattering even in figure 1 relies on both ends of the vector, r, being coplanar and arranged as indicated (the specular condition) with respect to the incident and scattered beams. In the absence of this orientation no scattering occurs. The curvature of the particle, which is related to the radius of gyration, extinguishes surface scattering at low-\"q\" in the Guinier regime. Incorporating this observation in Porod's law in the original derivation is not possible since it relies on a Fourier transform of a correlation function for surface scattering. Beaucage arrived at through a"}, {"text": "new derivation of based on randomly placed particles and adoption of this approach to modification of . Beaucage derivation of Guinier's Law. Consider a randomly placed vector r such that both ends of the vector are in the particle. If the vector were held constant in space, while the particle were translated and rotated to any position meeting this condition and an average of the structures were taken, any object would result in a Gaussian mass distribution that would display a Gaussian correlation function, and would appear as an average cloud with no surface. The Fourier transform of results in . Limitations to power-law scattering at low-q. Power-law scattering is restricted to sizes smaller than the object. For example, within a mass-fractal object such as a polymer chain described by the normalized mass of the chain, \"z\", scales with the normalized size, \"R\" ~ \"R\"eted/\"l\"k, with a scaling power of the mass-fractal dimension, \"df\", \"z\" ~ \"Rd\"f. Considering scattering elements of size \"r\", the number of such elements in a particle scales with \"N\" ~ \"z\"/\"rd\"f, and the mass of such a particle \"n\" ~ \"rd\"f, so the scattering is proportional to \"Nn\"2 or \"rd\"f ~ \"q\"-\"d\"f. At low-\"q\" the"}, {"text": "vector r \"~ 1/q approaches the size of the particle. For this reason the power-law regime ends at low-q. One way to consider this is to think of the vector ra\" beginning and ending in the particle, Figure 2 (a). This vector meets the mass fractal condition if the particle is a mass-fractal. In Figure 2 (b) the vector rb separating two points, does not meet the mass-fractal condition, but with a translation of the particle by d the mass fractal condition can be met for bothe ends of rb, (c). In scattering we are considering all possible translations of the particle relative to one end of the vector r being located within the mass-fractal particle. The probability of moving the particle to meet the mass-fractal condition for both ends of the vector is less than 1 if r is close to the particle size. If the particle were of infinite size this probability would always be 1. For a finite particle Figure 2 shows that the reduction in probability for a scattering event at large sizes can be viewed as a reduction in the length of the vector r. This is the basis of the Unified Function. Rather than"}, {"text": "directly determining the scattering function, the reduction in r related to this translation is calculated. Since r is related to 2\u03c0/q we consider an effective increase in scattering vector q to q*. The relationship between q and q* is determined by first considering the consequence of the translation in Figure 2 on the correlation function based on the Gaussian derivation of Guinier's Law [8]. This analysis results in a modifying factor of, Following the Debye relationship, this factor can be incorporated into q yielding the transform, where, as shown in Figure 2 in terms of q* = 2\u03c0/r*. References and demonstrates that for strong power-law decays is equivalent to, which allows for the direct use of a modification of as, For mass-fractal power-laws this approximation is not perfect due to the shape of the correlation function at low-q as described in. A good approximation is to include a constant \"k\" whose value is about 1.06 for \"d\"f = 2, so that is replaced by, In general for mass fractals it is found that k ~ 1.06 is a good approximation and k = 1 for surface fractal scattering. With this modification, power-law scattering is compatible with Guinier scattering and the"}, {"text": "two terms can be summed in a Unified Equation, can describe a single structural level and can closely replicate , equations for polydisperse spheres, rods, sheets, good solvent polymers, branched polymers, cyclic polymers, as demonstrated in and related publications. A wide range of disordered materials including mass and surface fractal structures can therefore be described using the Unified Approach. For hierarchical materials with multiple structural levels can be extended using a Gaussian cutoff at high-q for the power-law function which is common to equations for rods, disks and other simple scattering functions such as described in Guinier and Fournet, where it is taken that \"R\"g,0 = 0. This function has been used to describe persistence in polymer chains in good and theta solvents, branched polymers, polymers of complex topology such as star polymers, mass fractal primary particles/aggregates/agglomerates, rod diameter/length, disk thickness/width and other complex hierarchical structures. The lead cutoff term in assumes that the structural level i is composed of structural levels i-1. If this is not true, a free parameter can substitute for Rg,i-1 as described in. is quite flexible and it has been extended as a Hybrid Unified Function for micellar systems where the local structure is a"}, {"text": "perfect cylinder or other structure. Implementation of Unified Function. Jan Ilavsky of Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source (USA) has provided open user code to perform fits using the Unified Function in the Igor Pro programing environment including video tutorials and an instruction manual."}, {"text": "The International Maritime Security Construct (IMSC) is a consortium of countries whose official stated aim is the maintenance of order and security in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Bab-el-Mandeb, and Southern Red Sea, particularly regarding maritime security of global oil supply routes. It was formed on 16 September 2019 in Bahrain, by the United Kingdom, Australia, Albania, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Lithuania, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. The operational arm of the IMSC is Coalition Task Force SENTINEL (CTF SENTINEL). The security construct was formed by U.S. in 2019 after oil tankers were allegedly attacked by Iran. The coalition also aims to address the oil tankers seizure by Iran in the region's waters. The IMSC's primary task is monitoring international waters of the region to ensure the freedom of navigation of merchant vessels plying their trade in the area. Formation. Early in summer 2019 near the Strait of Hormuz, a Norwegian tanker and a Japanese tanker were attacked, and the British tanker Stena Impero was seized by Iranian naval forces. Shortly thereafter, the IMSC was formed \"in support of regional and international efforts to deter and counter threats to maritime navigation"}, {"text": "and global trade in order to secure freedom of navigation in the Gulf amid heightened regional tensions after attacks on oil tankers that were widely blamed on Iran, as well as to address Iran's illegal seizure of tankers in the region.\" Several Persian Gulf countries signed on to IMSC in mid-September in the wake of Iranian cruise missile attacks on the Saudi Arabian Abqaiq oil facility. It was joined by countries from the Baltics in 2020. U.S. Air Force General Paul Selva, Vice Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, describes the purpose of the IMSC as protecting the freedom of navigation in the waters of the region and the commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Middle East defines its role as strictly defensive. IMSC is a flexible and temporary construct that can scale operations to conditions in the maritime environment. There are currently eight nations supporting IMSC, with several other nations in various stages of joining the organization. The IMSC is not part of the U.S. Maximum Pressure Campaign against Iran and does not play a part in United Nations sanctions enforcement against any nation. IMSC has no affiliation to any political agenda other than protecting freedom"}, {"text": "of navigation on the high seas. Ships, aircraft, and maritime forces for IMSC are sourced from Coalition force contributions to operations within the Middle East. Forces supporting IMSC are prohibited from simultaneously accomplishing other national missions that would conflict with the IMSC mandate. Operations. IMSC, through the operational arm of Coalition Task Force SENTINEL, conducts overt security patrols of the waters of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, and the Southern Red Sea. Significant maritime industry engagement, reconnaissance, and intelligence support enable the IMSC coalition to target areas of concern, and to accomplish their major objectives of deterring state-sponsored malign maritime activity while reassuring the merchant industry by ensuring maritime security and freedom of navigation. Command. The IMSC is a political construct of willing nations who share common desires to ensure freedom of navigation within the Middle East, therefore, there is no single IMSC Commander. Command and staffing for the operational arm of IMSC, Coalition Task Force SENTINEL, is shared between coalition countries. Commanders are 1-star navy flag officers nominated from within IMSC Coalition nations and typically serve four to six months terms. Coalition Task Force SENTINEL is headquartered in Manama, Bahrain. US Navy Rear Admiral Alvin"}, {"text": "\"Bull\" Holsey (who concurrently served as Commander of US Carrier Strike Group ONE) assumed command for the formation and development of initial operating capability of Coalition Task Force SENTINEL. He was relieved on January 30, 2020, by Royal Navy Commodore James Parkin (the Commander of the UK Littoral Strike Group). At this point, in conjunction with the completion of initial staffing, CTF SENTINEL achieved full operating capability. Parkin handed over command to Royal Navy Commodore Robert Bellfield in April 2020."}, {"text": "Pak Kum-chol (; 1911 \u2013 May 1967) was a North Korean politician. Having been a guerrilla during the anti-Japanese struggle, he became a high-ranking politician after the liberation of Korea. Pak aligned himself with his former guerrilla brothers in arms from the Kapsan Operation Committee () to form a faction within the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) called the \"Kapsan faction\". This faction sought to replace Kim Il Sung with Pak. Kim retaliated by purging the faction in 1967 in what is known as the Kapsan faction incident. Pak was sent to work at a factory in the countryside and was either executed or died by suicide in May 1967. Early life. Pak Kum-chol was born in 1911 in Kapsan, Kanky\u014dhoku Province, Japanese Korea (now in South Hamgyong Province, North Korea). He participated in communist guerrilla activities in since the early 1930s. Pak encountered Kim Il Sung in 1936. Pak became a founding member of the underground Kapsan Operation Committee, which fought alongside Kim against the Japanese. After the liberation of Korea, members of the committee participated in North Korean politics as part of the guerrilla faction of Kim Il Sung. Political developments resulted in the Kapsan guerrillas being"}, {"text": "seen as a separate faction, called the \"Kapsan faction\" after the original Kapsan committee. Pak became the leader of this faction. Kapsan faction incident. The Kapsan faction sought to replace Kim Il Sung in a 1967 event that became known as the Kapsan faction incident. Pak had risen in rank to become the vice premier of the state. He was formally the fourth-highest-ranking member of the Political Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), but in truth the second most influential. Pak was annoyed by the ballooning cult of personality of Kim Il Sung and how it neglected the experiences of people like him who had sacrificed a lot to the country during the liberation of Korea. Pak gathered many influential supporters around him, including , Kim To-man, , , Ko Hyok, Ha Ang-chon (), and . The Kapsan faction sought to name Pak the successor of Kim Il Sung. As an initial move, they helped Kim Il Sung purge Kim Chang-nam (), a prominent political theorist, but only to make room for Pak. The faction members started exalting Pak's words as \"teachings\" equal to those of Kim Il Sung. An album from 1964 had and Pak Kum-chol's photos"}, {"text": "printed next to that of Kim Il Sung. When Pak Kum-chol's wife Choe Chae-ryon died, Kim To-man, who was the Director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the party, produced a work called \"An Act of Sincerity\" () \u2013 described variously as either a film or a stage play \u2013 that portrayed her devotion to her husband. Kim Il Sung disapproved of it and implied that it exhibited misplaced loyalty. Kim To-man also had Pak's birthplace rebuilt. An unauthorized biography on Pak was apparently made while dissemination of propaganda materials on Kim Il Sung was neglected. These actions were perceived of as ultimate acts of disloyalty toward Kim Il Sung. Pak was soon condemned by Choe Yong-gon, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, of proliferating \"feudal, Confucian ideas\". Pak was accused of not supporting the party's military line; he openly ridiculed Kim Il Sung's slogan \"one against a hundred\" by concluding that a literal interpretation of it could not be true. Production plans that were his responsibility, it was said, were not met. Pak was accused of promoting the old Kapsan Operation Committee members into important posts. At the fifteenth plenum of the fourth Central"}, {"text": "Committee of the WPK, on 4\u20138 April, Kim had more than 100 faction members formally expelled from the party. Pak was sent to work in a factory in the countryside and was either executed or committed suicide in May 1967."}, {"text": "Catherine A. M. Clarke is a British academic. She serves as the Chair in the History of People, Place and Community at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, where she is Director of the Centre for History of People, Place and Community and Director of the Victoria County History. She is a specialist in the Middle Ages and has published on power, place and identity in medieval Britain. Education. Clarke received her BA from the University of Oxford in 1998 and her MA from the University of Reading in 1999. She earned her PhD in 2003 from the Department of English at King's College, London. Her doctoral thesis was titled \"The Locus Amoenus in Old English: Guthlac A and its Cultural Context\". Clare Lees and Jane Roberts served as Clarke's doctoral supervisors. Career. Clarke taught at Swansea University and University College, Oxford, and was appointed to a personal chair at the English Department of the University of Southampton in 2012, where she remains a visiting professor. She was appointed chair at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, in 2019; within this role she is Director of the Victoria County History, a national"}, {"text": "project founded in 1899 to write the history of English counties. Clarke has led major Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded projects on medieval places and their interpretation, such as \"City Witness: Place and Perspective in Medieval Swansea\". Her project \"The St Thomas Way\" developed a new heritage route from Swansea to Hereford, inspired by medieval pilgrimage. In 2016 Clarke delivered the Denys Hay Lecture at the University of Edinburgh: 'Place machines: memory, imagination and the medieval city'. She is the Director of CARMEN: The Worldwide Medieval Network, and programme coordinator for Anglo-Saxon Studies at the annual Leeds International Medieval Congress. She previously held a Visiting Fellowship at the Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington. Clarke has written for \"The Conversation\" and appeared on Channel Four historical documentaries."}, {"text": "Anatoly Illarionovich Shirshov (\u0410\u043d\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0301\u043b\u0438\u0439 \u0418\u043b\u043b\u0430\u0440\u0438\u043e\u0301\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u0428\u0438\u0440\u0448\u043e\u0301\u0432, 8 August 1921, Kolyvan, Novosibirsk Oblast \u2013 28 February 1981, Novosibirsk) was a Soviet mathematician, known for his research on free Lie algebras. He proved the Shirshov\u2013Witt theorem, which states that any Lie subalgebra of a free Lie algebra is itself a free Lie algebra. Life. Anatoly was born on the 8th of August 1921 in the village Kolyvan near Novosibirsk. In 1939 he graduated from secondary school in the city of Aleysk of the Altai Territory and in the same year entered Tomsk University. After the first year, he transferred to the correspondence (\"distance education\" or \"learning by mail\") department and worked as a mathematics teacher in Aleysk. One of the streets of Aleisk is named after Anatoly Shirshov. In 1942 A. I. Shirshov volunteered for the front as part of 6th Rifle Corps of Siberian Volunteers. He fought on the West, Kalininsky, and 2nd Belorussian Fronts. He was awarded the medal of the Front Order on the 2nd Belorussian Front, No. 0813 dated 07/16/1945, \"For Military Merit\". Beginning in 1946 A. I. Shirshov worked at the Stanichno-Luhansk secondary school in the Luhansk Oblast and studied in the correspondence department of Voroshilovgrad Pedagogical"}, {"text": "Institute, graduating there in 1949. In 1950 Shirshov was accepted as a graduate student at Moscow State University under the supervision of A. G. Kurosh. In 1953 Shirshov introduced the concept of \"regular words\", now called Lyndon words after Roger Lyndon, who published the idea in 1954. In 1958 A. I. Shirshov defended his higher doctoral dissertation \"On some classes of rings that are nearly associative\" and received his Russian Doctorate of Sciences degree. From 1960 until his death A. I. Shirshov worked at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, while being a professor at Novosibirsk State University. From 1960 to 1974 he was deputy director of the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics. He was also the head of the department of algebra from 1960 until his death. He was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1964. Scientific contribution. Anatoly Shirshov was a pioneer in several directions of associative, Lie, Jordan, and alternative algebras, as well as groups and projective planes. His name is associated with notions and results on Gr\u00f6bner\u2013Shirshov bases, the Composition-Diamond Lemma, the Shirshov\u2013Witt Theorem, the Lazard\u2013Shirshov elimination process, Shirshov's Height Theorem, Lyndon\u2013Shirshov words, Hall\u2013Shirshov bases, Shirshov's Theorem on the Kurosh"}, {"text": "problem for alternative and Jordan algebras, and Shirshov's Theorem on the speciality of Jordan algebras with two generators. Shirshov's ideas were used by his student Efim Zelmanov for the solution of the Restricted Burnside problem."}, {"text": "Bromus pacificus, the Pacific brome, is a perennial grass native to the Pacific coast of North America. \"Bromus pacificus\" has a diploid number of 28. Taxonomy. \"Bromus pacificus\" is often misidentified as various species of \"Bromus\" sect. \"Ceratochloa\", including \"B. carinatus\" and \"B. sitchensis\". B. pacificus resembles these species with its large and open panicles, but its lemmas are rounded or slightly keeled as compared to the flattened lemmas of \"B.\" sect. \"Ceratochloa\". In addition, \"B. pacificus\" typically occurs only near the coast of British Columbia while species of \"B.\" sect. \"Ceratochloa\" are more widely distributed, including habitats in California where \"B. pacificus\" has been misidentified. Description. \"Bromus pacificus\" lacks rhizomes and grows tall. The smooth culms are wide at their base and have five to nine nodes. The brownish culms are relatively pubescent, with hairs up to long, though culms are occasionally glabrous with hairs only adjacent to nodes. The leaf sheaths remain closed for most of their length, being open for only . Leaf sheaths are glabrous or pilose with hairs long, and lack auricles. The membranous and glabrous ligules are long. Leaf blades are long and wide, with an adaxial surface covered with hairs up to long"}, {"text": "and a glabrous abaxial surface. Margins are smooth or slightly serrated. The open panicles are long and wide, with spreading or nodding branches. The spikelets are long and number one to six per branch. The rachillas can sometimes be visible at maturity. Spikelets have six to eight florets. Glumes are pubescent, with hairs up to long. The one-nerved lower glumes are long, and the three-nerved upper glumes are long. The seven-nerved lemmas are long and wide, and are covered with appressed hairs up to long. Awns are long. Paleas are typically shorter than lemmas, being long, with dense cilia up to long. The dark brown anthers are long. Distribution and habitat. \"Bromus pacificus\" occurs along the Pacific coast as its specific epithet indicates. It occurs from southeastern Alaska down to central Oregon; most often it occurs in the coast of British Columbia. Habitats include moist ravines, shaded forests, wet thickets, saline beaches, ditches, and road verges, from in elevation."}, {"text": "Anders Birger \"L\u00f6vet\" L\u00f6\u00f6f (born 11 May 1961) is a Swedish curler. He is a and a . In 2002 he was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. Personal life. His sister is Annika L\u00f6\u00f6f, ."}, {"text": "The Pashashibou River () is a river in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Location. The Pashashibou River rises in Lake Costebelle and flows south for to Pashashibou Bay on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The river is scarcely navigable in a canoe for the first from its mouth, and then becomes no more than a stream. Its mouth is about west of Natashquan. The mouth of the Pashashibou River is in the municipality of Aguanish in the Minganie Regional County Municipality. The shoreline extending to both sides of the river mouth is protected by the Pashashibou Bay Waterfowl Concentration Area (Aire de concentration d'oiseaux aquatiques de la Baie Pashashibou), an IUCN Management Category IV region designated in 2005 and managed by the Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks. Name. The Innu of Natashquan call the river \"Pihu Hipu\", which means \"river with a lynx\". Jacques Cartier named the bay Havre sainct Nicollas in 1535. The present name is derived from the Innu language term \"pishi-shebau\". This can be interpreted as meaning \"sharp rock\" or \"dry river\". Description. The \"Dictionnaire des rivi\u00e8res et lacs de la province de Qu\u00e9bec\" (1914) says, Basin."}, {"text": "Part of the river basin is in the unorganized territory of Lac-J\u00e9r\u00f4me and part in the municipality of Aguanish. The river basin covers . It lies between the basins of the Little Watshishou River to the west and the Nabisipi River to the east. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the river basin in sub-regions 6j-T and 6m-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain."}, {"text": "Bolo, also known as Bulu, is a sweet, round bread of Sephardi Jewish origin which is commonly prepared by Tunisian Jews, Libyan Jews, and Italian Jews, among others, for the high holidays such as Rosh Hashanah and for other special occasions. Overview. Bolo is a sweet, round bread commonly flavored with anise, although it can contain nuts or other flavorings. The bread can be eaten at any time but is most common during the Jewish High Holiday season. The bread was very popular among the Sephardic Jewish community of North Africa, and with their exodus to Israel, France, and North America, it has become a part of the local Jewish cuisine in these countries as well. Sephardic Jews continue to make bolo to this day. It is eaten by Persian Jews as well, who call it bulu."}, {"text": "Agafya \"Halyna\" Andriivna Kuzmenko (; 1897\u20131978) was a Ukrainian teacher and anarchist revolutionary. After moving to southern Ukraine, she became a prominent figure within the ranks of the Makhnovshchina, a mass movement to establish a libertarian communist society. Kuzmenko spearheaded the movement's educational activities, promoted Ukrainization and acted as an outspoken advocate of women's rights. Along with her husband, the anarchist military leader Nestor Makhno, in 1921 she fled into exile from the political repression in Ukraine. While imprisoned for subversive activities in Poland, she gave birth to her daughter Elena Mikhnenko, whom she brought with her to Paris. Following the death of her husband, the outbreak of World War II saw her deportation for forced labour, first by the Nazis and then by the Soviets. After her release, she spent her final days with her daughter in Kazakh SSR. Biography. On , Agafya Andriivna Kuzmenko, later known as Halyna Andriivna Kuzmenko, was born in Kyiv. After her birth, her parents moved to the village of , in the Elisavetgrad Raion of the Kherson Governorate (now Kirovohrad Oblast). Her father, a former farmer, worked for Southwestern Railways, before returning to farming when Halyna was 10 years old. In 1916, Kuzmenko"}, {"text": "graduated from the Women Teachers Seminary in Dobrovelychkivka and was subsequently appointed to a primary school in the small southern Ukrainian village of Huliaipole, where she taught the history of Ukraine and the Ukrainian language, as part of the newly-established Ukrainian State's curriculum. Revolutionary activities. One of Kuzmenko's friend had warned her against going to Huliaipole, citing stories of a \"bandit by the name of Makhno\". In the spring of 1919, she met this Nestor Makhno and began a romantic relationship with him. By the summer of 1919, she had become his wife. Some accounts claim that their wedding was held at a church in Kuzmenko's hometown of Pishchanyi Brid, although Kuzmenko later denied that they ever had a church wedding. Like her new husband, who was commonly known throughout southern Ukraine as \"Batko\" (), Kuzmenko was also bestowed an honorific: \"Matushka\" (). Thereafter she became a leading participant in the Makhnovshchina, a mass movement to establish a libertarian communist society in southern Ukraine. Kuzmenko took part in the creation of the Commission for Anti-Makhnovist Activities and actively fought within the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine as a machine gun operator. As a prominent female figure within the Makhnovshchina, she"}, {"text": "became a \"tireless defender\" of women and their rights, reportedly having personally executed a number of Makhnovists that committed rape. Kuzmenko spearheaded the region's educational initiatives, which were inspired by the work of the Catalan pedagogue Francesc Ferrer. As president of the regional Teachers' Union, she influenced a number of teachers to join the Makhnovshchina, with a number of teachers from her own hometown even being executed by the Red Army for their Makhnovist sympathies. Her educational efforts were focused on the funding of these activities, organizing the education in the border territories controlled by the Makhnovists, the management of schools by joint teacher-parent councils, and the development of new school curricula. At the same time, efforts were made to feed the often poor school-children. Before the military defeat of the anarchists, the system was generally well-received by peasants, teachers, and the children alike. Kuzmenko also led a small group of intellectuals in promoting the Ukrainization of the Makhnovshchina, working specifically to increase the use of the Ukrainian language in Makhnovist publications and attempting to influence the movement towards Ukrainian nationalism. This group encouraged a brief rapprochement between the Makhnovists and the Ukrainian People's Republic in September 1919, while also"}, {"text": "taking a decisive stance against the White movement and putting forward a libertarian approach to national liberation. But following the discovery of a nationalist plot to overthrow Makhno and integrate the Insurgent Army into the Ukrainian People's Army, allegedly involving Kuzmenko herself, the Makhnovists turned against the forces around Symon Petliura and dislodged the remaining nationalists from the movement's leadership. Ukrainian cultural workers continued their activities within the Makhnovshchina, with Kuzmenko herself continuing her own Ukrainization efforts, but nationalist tendencies were decisively marginalized within the movement, as the anarchist theory of internationalism won out. In the wake of the siege of Perekop in November 1920, the Bolsheviks turned on the Makhnovists, who were put on the back foot. During the subsequent period of guerrilla warfare, the Soviet historian Mikhail Kubanin alleged that the influence of Kuzmenko's \"chauvinistic group\" increased, with the Makhnovshchina gravitating more towards Ukrainian nationalism, while many of its anarchist ideologues began to exit the movement. Makhno himself rejected this charge, claiming that Kubanin had confused anarchist theories of autonomy with nationalism. While the American historian Frank Sysyn later rejected that Makhno had ever been a nationalist, he also disputed Makhno's own claims that Kuzmenko had not been"}, {"text": "a nationalist, stating that \"it does not coincide with what is known about her.\" Isaac Teper maintained that she continued to espouse nationalist views until 1922, only losing her sympathies towards Ukrainian nationalism during her time in exile. On 13 August 1921, Kuzmenko joined her husband and 100 cavalry in a retreat towards Poland. During the course of the retreat, they passed through Pishchanyi Brid, where she attempted to convince her parents to come with them. But they refused and were shot soon after by the pursuing Red Army. After a series of clashes with the Red Army, which left Makhno gravely wounded, on 28 August, they crossed the Dniester into Romania. They briefly stayed at an internment camp in Bra\u0219ov, before Kuzmenko and Makhno were granted permission to move to Bucharest. Exile. Following a tense period of negotiations between the Romanian and Ukrainian Soviet governments over the extradition of the Makhnovists, on 11 April 1922, they quit Romania and crossed the border into Poland. Kuzmenko, Makhno and 17 of their supporters were subsequently moved to an internment camp in Strza\u0142kowo, where they were held for half a year. On 18 July, Kuzmenko went to Warsaw to request that the"}, {"text": "government allow their release, but she was quickly dismissed by the Ministry of Home Affairs. She then met with representatives of Soviet Ukraine, with whom she discussed their plan for the Makhnovists to lead a separatist uprising in Galicia, asking in exchange for money and support for the disaffected Makhnovist internees. On 22 July, she submitted a request for a visa to visit the Ukrainian Soviet capital of Kharkiv, while also demanding the release of all anarchist political prisoners, the end of political repression, and the extension of a number of civil liberties in Ukraine, offering the complete disarmament of the Makhnovist movement in return. However, these terms were met only with passivity from the Ukrainian Soviet government, which was attempting to entrap the Makhnovists into an anti-Polish conspiracy, hoping that this would subsequently lead to extradition. Soon after, the Makhnovists were accused by the Polish government of plotting a Soviet-backed separatist uprising in Galicia and charged with treason. While imprisoned and awaiting trial, on 30 October 1922, Kuzmenko gave birth to her daughter: Elena Mikhnenko. The trial of the Makhnovists eventually resulted in their acquittal, to which Kuzmenko responded with astonished excitement. On 3 December 1923, the Makhnovists were"}, {"text": "finally released from custody and issued with residence permits, granting Makhno and Kuzmenko leave to remain in Toru\u0144. They arrived in the city a few weeks later, first staying in a local hotel and then finding an apartment, albeit one with an expensive rent. The strain of life in exile, combined with their constant surveillance and occasional arrest by the authorities, led to a deterioration in Kuzmenko's relationship with Makhno. During this period, the couple frequently argued and Makhno even accused Kuzmenko of having had an affair with their co-defendant Ivan Khmara. The family eventually moved to Paris, where Kuzmenko and Makhno worked odd jobs in order to make enough money to sustain themselves. In 1927, the couple finally divorced, with Kuzmenko leaving Paris to join an organization of pro-Soviet Ukrainian exiles, within which she made repeated unsuccessful attempts to return to Ukraine. By March 1934, Makhno's health had completely deteriorated and Kuzmenko moved him to a hospital, visiting him regularly during his final days and standing by his side when he died. She attended his funeral with their daughter, but she was reportedly too overcome with grief to speak. A few months later, she sent a letter to the"}, {"text": "anarcho-syndicalist journal \"Probuzhdenie\", in which she defended her late husband from a defamatory article published in the nationalist paper \"Nova Pora\", categorically denying a number of charges against him and writing a brief biography of him and the Makhnovshchina. She also took care of the manuscripts for the second and third volumes of Makho's memoirs, entrusting them to an aid committee which in turn passed them onto Volin for publication. Kuzmenko remained in France with her daughter until the outbreak of World War II, when they were captured by the Nazis and deported to Berlin, where they were used as forced labour. Following the Battle of Berlin, they were arrested by the Soviets and extradited to Kyiv, where Kuzmenko was sentenced to eight years of hard labour in Mordovia, on charges of counterrevolutionary agitation. In the wake of the death of Stalin and the Khrushchev Thaw, Kuzmenko was allowed to reunite with her daughter in Dzhambyl, where she worked in a cotton factory, living in the Kazakh city until her death on 23 March 1978. Controversy around alleged diary. According to Roberts Eidemanis, on 29 March 1920, a diary was discovered in the possession of Feodora Gaenko, who had been"}, {"text": "killed during a Red assault against Huliaipole. Dated from 19 February to 26 March 1920 and written in the Ukrainian language, this diary was attributed to \"Makhno's wife\". The document presents Nestor Makhno as an alcoholic and depicts cases of extrajudicial punishment by the Revolutionary Insurgent Army against requisitioning units, all told from the perspective of a woman observing the insurgent campaign first hand. The document was found in Eidemanis' archives by the Soviet historian , who used it as a source in depicting a clash between violent peasant insurgents and urban officials. The document was dismissed as counterfeit by Peter Arshinov and Nestor Makhno himself, who instead claimed that the diary which had been kept by him and Kuzmenko was used for Arshinov's own history of the Makhnovshchina. But since Kubanin published his book about the Makhnovshchina in 1927, the diary has remained a key source in Soviet historiography of the Makhnovshchina. It was only in the 1960s, during her interview with the Russian historian , that Kuzmenko confirmed the legitimacy of the diary. She clarified that she had begun keeping the diary, in a notebook she had been given by Feodora Gaenko, as her husband had wanted her"}, {"text": "to record a history of the Makhnovshchina. She also claimed that the diary had been seized by Red cavalrymen, who had stopped her and Gaenko's wagon, and that it later appeared in a Soviet newspaper \u2013 directly disputing Arshinov's denials. As to the contents, Kuzmenko claimed that she did not remember what she had written and could not attest to the accuracy of the events depicted in the published version, specifically disputing the characterisation of Makhno as an alcoholic. The document's authenticity has been disputed to varying degrees in Makhnovist historiography. Vladimir Litvinov claimed it had been forged by the Cheka and that Kuzmenko's own admission had been a lie, in order not to bring her and her daughter under further scrutiny by the authorities. Sean Patterson disputed that Kuzmenko had any reason to lie, noting that Kuzmenko's account of the seizure of the diary differed drastically from that of Eidemanis, whom he accused of historical revisionism for the purpose of propaganda, detailing differences between the original text and the \"falsified version\" published by Eidemanis. Both Patterson and Alexandre Skirda claimed that the diary's authenticity could only be established through graphological analysis. Michael Malet also dismissed it as an unreliable"}, {"text": "source for specific events, due to a lack of corroborating evidence, while Colin Darch concluded his own analysis on the diary's authenticity by holding the text as a valuable primary source."}, {"text": "The Dingle International Film Festival (DIFF\":\" Irish Gaelic: \"F\u00e9ile Scann\u00e1n Idirn\u00e1isi\u00fanta an Daingin\") was a film festival held annually in March that took place between 2007 and 2019 in Dingle, Ireland. History. Established in 2007 by Maurice Galway, the festival screened a number of films over the years, including the World Premiere of We'll Always Have Dingle, a documentary about Galway founding the festival. The film played in 2010 and again in 2011. Galway won the Gregory Peck award at the festival in 2019. Notable guests have included inventor Garrett Brown, Gabriel Bryne, Laura Dern, Ned Dowd, Aidan Gillen, sound engineer Tom Johnson, Sarah Miles, Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Barbara Kopple, Maureen O Hara, Sir Alan Parker, Jack Reynor, Saoirse Ronan, Jim Sheridan and Scott Wilson. Festival closing. The festival closed its doors for financial reasons in July 2019. The \"Animation Dingle Film Festival\", an \"offshoot\" of DIFF, will continue. The 2020 presentations, scheduled for 20\u201321 March 2020, was cancelled due to COVID-19 but winners were announced via a live-stream awards announcement presented by JAM Media. Awards. The Gregory Peck Award for Excellence in the Art of Film. The family of iconic Hollywood actor Gregory Peck presented a career achievement"}, {"text": "award at the festival. Peck's great grandmother Catherine Ashe hailed from Annascaul in the Dingle Peninsula. Peck was a cousin to Thomas Ashe, founding member and battalion commander of the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising who later died in prison as the result of a hunger strike. Notable recipients at Dingle IFF are Gabriel Byrne, Jim Sheridan, Jean Jacques Beineix, Stephen Frears and Laura Dern. In 2014, the Peck family began presenting the award at the San Diego International Film Festival in the actor's native hometown. Other recipients include Alan Arkin, Patrick Stewart, Annette Bening, Keith Carradine and Laurence Fishburne. Animation awards. In 2015, the festival held an awards ceremony in association with Animation Ireland. Recipients of the Murakami Award have included Jimmy T. Murakami, Richie Baneham, Tomm Moore and Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. Non-competition events. The Irish Film Board has hosted a selection of critically acclaimed Irish films. Classic films like \"Ryan's Daughter\" (1970) have opened the festival."}, {"text": "David E. Weinstein II (born 1964) is an American economist. Since 1999, he has served as the Carl S. Shoup Professor of Japanese Economy at Columbia University. Before teaching at Columbia, Weinstein taught at University of Michigan and Harvard University. He also served on the Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1990."}, {"text": "is a Japanese video game designer working for Nintendo. He was involved as a level designer in the development of numerous games in the \"Super Mario\" and \"The Legend of Zelda\" series. Speaking about his work on the action-adventure \"\", he specified his contributions as the conception of routes, the placement of enemies and the creation of environments. Yamamura's level design philosophy takes into account experienced players skipping areas, with him stressing \"the importance of omission and its effects\". A regular visitor of amusement arcades, he collects used circuit boards. He is also referred to by the nickname . In 2006, his work on the map and level design of \"New Super Mario Bros.\" was nominated for the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Award in the category \"Game Design\". The pigeon character Yamamura that debuted in the platform game \"Super Mario Maker\" is named after Yasuhisa Yamamura."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 New Mexico State Aggies men's basketball team represented New Mexico State University during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Aggies were led by third-year head Chris Jans, and played their home games at the Pan American Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico as members of the Western Athletic Conference. They finished the season 25\u20136, 16\u20130 in WAC play to win the WAC regular season championship. They were set to be the No. 1 seed in the WAC tournament, however, the tournament was cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the WAC Tournament cancellation, they were awarded the WAC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. However, the NCAA Tournament was also cancelled due to the same outbreak. Previous season. The Aggies finished the 2018\u201319 season 30\u20135, 15\u20131 in WAC play to win the WAC regular season championship. They defeated Chicago State, Texas-Rio Grande Valley, and Grand Canyon to win the WAC tournament. As a result, they received the WAC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament where they lost in the first round to Auburn. Schedule and results. Source: !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| WAC Regular Season !colspan=9 style=| WAC tournament"}, {"text": "Alexander Hay, Lord Fosterseat (c.1560\u20131640) was a 16th/17th century Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice. Life. He was the son of Alexander Hay (d.1594) Clerk Register of the High Courts in Edinburgh. His country estate was at Fosterseat House, in northern Scotland (historically this name appears both near Elgin and near Forfar). Fosterseat appears to be a corruption of Ferester Seat. He also had a house in Edinburgh in or close to the Royal Mile. He trained as a lawyer and was a judge in Edinburgh. In February 1604 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice under the title of Lord Fosterseat, elected alongside Sir Lewis Craig of Wrights Land. He retired as a Lord of Session in 1629 and died in 1640. Family. He was married to Catherine Skene, the daughter of John Skene, Lord Curriehill. His brother-in-law through marriage as Sir Robert Richardson of Pencaitland. His daughter Helen Hay (b.1620) was the second wife of Archibald Johnston of Warriston House near Edinburgh and was mother to James Johnston."}, {"text": "Ellen Nan Junn is an American academic administrator. In July 2016, she became the 11th president of California State University, Stanislaus. She is the first Korean-American woman president appointed in the U.S. to a four-year public institution. Early life and education. Junn was born in Champaign, Illinois, the daughter of immigrants from Korea. She was raised in Jenison, Michigan. Junn earned a bachelor's degree in experimental and cognitive psychology from the University of Michigan. She earned a master's degree and PhD in cognitive and developmental psychology from Princeton University. In addition, she holds a management development program certificate from Harvard University, and CSU-Knight Collaborative program certificate from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Higher Education. Career. Junn has worked at California State University for 33 years, working at five other CSU campuses prior to joining Stanislaus. She began her career as an assistant psychology professor at California State University, San Bernardino. She has also taught and held leadership positions at the Dominguez Hills, San Jose State, Fresno and Fullerton campuses. She has led initiatives such as the African American Student Success and Hispanic Student Success task force at San Jose State and the Women\u2019s Campus"}, {"text": "Connection and the Asian Faculty and Staff Association at California State Fresno. Junn is widely published and has peer-reviewed research and journal articles. She also has numerous community leadership roles and has worked as an academic professor. Personal life. Junn is married to Allan Greenberg, with whom she has one son."}, {"text": "The 23rd Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 2001 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 2000. The most nominated film of the year was \"Battlefield Earth\" with nine nominations, which also had eight wins. There were no listed percentages of votes for each nominee; however, this would resurface with next year's ballot. Dishonourable mentions are also featured for Worst Picture (32 total). Films with multiple wins and nominations. The following films received multiple nominations: The following films received multiple wins: Dissolution of Franchise Pictures. On August 19, 2007, Franchise Pictures was sued by its investors and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after it emerged that it had fraudulently overstated the \"Battlefield Earth\" budget by $31 million."}, {"text": "This Is Congo is a 2017 documentary film by American filmmaker and photographer Daniel McCabe. It was distributed by Dogwoof and produced by Turbo/Vision Film Company, T-Dog Productions, Sabotage Films and Thought Engine. The film features a voice over by Ivorian actor Isaach de Bankol\u00e9. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival as an out of competition title, and had a screening at TIFF Bell Lightbox in April 2018. Reception. \"This Is Congo\" received positive reviews from film critics. Cath Clarke of \"The Guardian\" rated it 3 stars out of 5, saying it is \"a long read about the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\". Clarke also said its potted history will \"frustrate experts as superficial\". In a review for \"The New York Times\", Ben Kenigsberg said the film provides a lot to admire and that the \"sheer scope of the subject matter might be even better served by the capaciousness of a mini-series\". \"Los Angeles Times \" writer Gary Goldstein described it as \"vivid\" and \"immersive\", noting its characters \"provide a haunting window into a deeply anarchic world too-rarely glimpsed\". Guy Lodge of \"Variety\" magazine said the film \"excels when trading in details that can't be"}, {"text": "more substantively gleaned from written history and journalism.\" Boyd Hoeij of \"The Hollywood Reporter\" applauded the film's combat scenes, but criticized McCabe for \"omitting things that are equally important for an understanding of the Kivu Conflict\". Ed Potton of \"The Sunday Times\" awarded the film 3 stars out of 5, describing it as \"hard-hitting and often harrowing\". \"The New Yorker\"s Peter Canby said the film \"covers a specific episode of the country's more general violence\". In addition, Canby highlighted the character Colonel Ndala as the standout among the four characters. In a review for \"Point of View\" magazine, Pat Mullen said the film \"works viscerally and has a great impact at an emotional level\" and that McCabe \"implores audiences to bear witness to crimes to which previous generations turned a blind eye\". Alan Scherstuhl of \"The Village Voice\" described the film's footage as \"harrowing, raw and intimate\". The \"Financial Times\" writer Nigel Andrews granted the film 3 stars out of 5, saying McCabe's multiple portraiture \"enthral\". L. Kent Wolgamott of \"Lincoln Journal Star\" said the film tells the war-torn story of the DRC through \"the testimony of four people, vintage news clips and raw, riveting footage from the battlefields and"}, {"text": "displaced person camps\". In \"The London Economic\", journalist Wyndham Hacket Pain opined that although the documentary \"may tell a story that is familiar from new reports and articles, it has rarely been told in such a meditative and poetic manner.\" David D'Arcy of \"Screen Daily\" commended McCabe for presenting the DRC story with a \"grim element of surprise\", but ended up saying the documentary's multiple perspectives \"can feel lopsided\". Reviewing for International Policy Digest, David Ferguson said \"This Is Congo\" was \"beautifully photographed, and perfectly captures the often stunning landscape between violent bursts of war and personal fright\"."}, {"text": "Robert Conness (1867/68 \u2013 1941) was an American stage and film actor. Born in 1867 or 1868 he began in the theatre in 1894 and performed in vaudeville and on Broadway. He began in silent film in 1910 and made his last film appearance in 1918. He was married to actress Helen Strickland."}, {"text": "Stockton, California, held an election for mayor on June 3, 2008, and November 4, 2008. It saw the election of Ann Johnston."}, {"text": "Jane Kibii (born March 10, 1985) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in marathon races and other road running events. She is from Moiben. Kibii has won the California International Marathon, the Twin Cities Marathon (twice), and Grandma's Marathon along with several other top 10 finishes in major marathons. Kibii has also won several competitive half marathons, and dominated fast \"SacTown\" 10 mile race in Sacramento, California. Her lifetime prize winnings total more than $100,000. Early life. Kibii started running at age eight, from home to school in a daily commute. She joined the cross country and track teams in her Kenyan hometown and won her first race in Uganda, taking home $200, an amount of money she had never seen at that point in her life. Kibii splits her time between Kenya and Auburn, California, with her daughter. She has been open about the challenge of being a professional runner and a single parent. She gained a unique sponsorship as a professional runner: a solar panel company, BioLite, sponsored her as she sought to get electricity in her rural home in Kenya. She has saved most of her earnings from competitive running to build her parents a home"}, {"text": "in Kenya. She is also sponsored by BioLite which is lighting, cooking, and energy products (solar lighting) for off the grid communities and camping. Career. After competing in track during high school in Kenya, Kibii transitioned to longer runs and moved to the United States. In 2009, she won the Carlsbad Half-Marathon from 2009 in a time of 1:12:33. Her first marathon was in the same year: the Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas Marathon. She finished fifth in 2:40:12. She continued her training and began getting faster. She returned to Carlsbad and won the half marathon again, in 2010 and 2011. Also in 2011, she finished fourth place at the Philadelphia Half Marathon with a time of 1:10:25. In 2014, Kibii raced the California International Marathon and finished second. In 2015, she won the Bay to Breakers 12K. In a breakthrough, she raced Grandma's Marathon in the summer. She kept ahead of Lindsey Scherf and passed Sarah Kiptoo in the last mile to win in 2:32:06, netting $11,500. In 2016, Kibii won the San Diego Half Marathon in 1:14:47. She also raced the Twin Cities Marathon in Minnesota, which had more than 10,000 runners registered. She won in a (then)"}, {"text": "personal best time of 2:30:01. She returned in 2017, and she defended her title. In 2017, Kibii finished 2nd in the Los Angeles Marathon. In 2018, she repeated her win in the Bay to Breakers 12K. In 2019, Kibii finished second at the New Orleans Half Marathon, fifth at Los Angeles Marathon and first in the SacTown 10 Mile race for the fifth year in a row. At CIM, she lined up as the favorite and crossed the finish line with a new PR: 2:29:31. In 2020, the Sacramento Running Association named Kibii the 2019 Athlete of the Year. She went on to place 3rd in the Los Angeles Marathon (2:36:04), one of the last major races to run before the COVID-19 pandemic canceled or postponed races across the world."}, {"text": "Aki Juusela (born June 28, 1991) is a Finnish professional ice hockey left winger. Juusela previously played in Liiga for \u00c4ss\u00e4t and made his debut for the team during the 2011\u201312 season. After two seasons, he moved to Lemp\u00e4\u00e4l\u00e4n Kisa of Mestis on August 1, 2013. After a failed try-out with V\u00e4sterviks IK, Juusela was further down a division, signing for HC Satakunta of the Suomi-sarja before returning to Mestis with KooKoo. On August 17, 2015, Juusela signed for TUTO Hockey. He stayed for three seasons before returning to \u00c4ss\u00e4t on April 30, 2018. On May 30, 2019, Juusela moved to Slovakia to sign for HK Dukla Michalovce of the Tipsport Liga."}, {"text": "Epcot Forever was a limited-time fireworks show that premiered on October 1, 2019, at Epcot. \"Epcot Forever\" served as an interim replacement for \"\" until its long-term replacement, \"Harmonious\", premiered in 2021. It took the form of a celebration of Epcot's musical history. The show celebrated the park's 37-year history, featuring fireworks, music, lighting, lasers, and special effects kites set to new arrangements of music originating from some of the park's classic attractions, such as Journey Into Imagination, Spaceship Earth, Soarin', Tapestry of Nations and Universe of Energy. The show was also made to celebrate the past, present, and future of Epcot. The show closed on March 16, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but reopened on June 29, 2021, alongside the return of the Happily Ever After fireworks show. However, on January 10, 2023, Disney announced the show will temporarily return to Epcot beginning April 3, 2023 until December 4, 2023, as part of Disney's centennial celebration, replacing its successor, \"Harmonious\", which then played its last show the night prior. Show summary. \"Epcot Forever\" is structured around medley of Epcot music and the voices of children quoting different attractions, with some archival audio of Walt Disney from the EPCOT"}, {"text": "film also being incorporated into the opening and closing. Special editions. New Year's Eve Countdown Edition. On December 31, 2019, this segment continued to be used after \"\", which is the tag returned on New Year's Eve 2020. Fourth of July. On July 4, 2023, the Independence Day tag as titled The Heartbeat of Freedom that was used from 2006 to 2019 for \"IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth\" and 2022 for \"Harmonious\" was used once again after the show's regular performance, which is part of The Walt Disney Company's centennial celebration."}, {"text": "\"Bandit\" is a song by American rappers Juice Wrld and YoungBoy Never Broke Again, released as a single on October 4, 2019. It served as the final single released by Juice Wrld as a lead artist before his death, suffering from a seizure at Chicago's Midway Airport on December 8, 2019, a few days after his 21st birthday. It was later added to Juice Wrld's second studio album \"Death Race for Love\" as a bonus track. Written alongside producer Nick Mira, the song peaked at number ten on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100, becoming NBA YoungBoy's highest-charting single on the chart and Juice Wrld's second top ten single following \"Lucid Dreams\", which peaked at number two on the Hot 100 in 2018. The artwork, featuring a crossover of Juice Wrld and NBA YoungBoy's likeness beneath a bandana, was created by Max Cohen and Robert Gotham. Lyrics. The song's lyrics feature Juice Wrld rapping about stealing a girl's heart, calling himself \"the definition of a bandit\". Music video. The music video, released on October 4, 2019, was directed by Cole Bennett and features Juice Wrld on a bayou boat ride, during which he holds baby alligators, as well as YoungBoy performing"}, {"text": "wheelies on a quad bike. It was filmed in YoungBoy's hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and at his residence in Gonzales, Louisiana."}, {"text": "Hilding may refer to:"}, {"text": "Manuela Schwerzmann (born 5 August 1976) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Schwerzmann toured internationally as a junior in 1993 and 1994, during which time she appeared in the occasional professional tournament, but didn't pursue a tennis career beyond this. She played in the juniors at Wimbledon. In 1994 she featured in a tie for the Switzerland Federation Cup team, against Canada in Frankfurt. Her only appearance came in a doubles dead rubber partnering Miroslava Vavrinec, which they lost to Jill Hetherington and Rene Simpson."}, {"text": "Harrison Foster Williams (born March 7, 1996) is an American athlete and former U.S. Champion in the decathlon. In 2019, he participated at the World Athletics Championships, finishing 14th. In 2023, Williams set a new lifetime best of 8630 points to win the 2023 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships and become U.S. Champion in the decathlon for the first time. This score also put him 31st on the global all-time list and booked his place at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, where he finished 7th. In 2024, Harrison came 3rd at the 2024 United States Olympic track and field trials, thereby securing his first Olympic berth and a spot on Team USA for the 2024 Olympics. Personal bests. Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted. Personal life. Williams attended Memphis University School, where he competed in track & field. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Product Design in 2019."}, {"text": "\"Jump\" is a song recorded by French DJ and record producer David Guetta and Dutch DJ and record producer duo Glowinthedark. It was released on 11 August 2019 for free downloading, then on 3 October 2019, through What a Music and Parlophone. The song was composed by Theron Thomas from American duo R. City, David Guetta and Albert Harvey from the Dutch duo. These last two artists also produced the track. Background. David Guetta and Glowinthedark already worked together, like on their collaboration for the song \"Clap Your Hands\", which was a part of David Guetta's 2014 album \"Listen\", and on a remix of Fat Joe and Remy Ma song \"All The Way Up\" in 2016. Guetta also signed Glowinthedark song \"Ain't a Party\" in 2013, to his Jack Back Records label. The Dutch duo also worked with Guetta himself on his albums and remixed some David Guetta songs, such as \"Hey Mama\", \"Mad Love\", \"2U\" and \"Dirty Sexy Money\". \"Jump\" marks their third collaboration. They then played the song in several other festivals, such as Tomorrowland or Barcelona Beach Festival. Before it was officially released, the song was first enjoyed by some people who were lucky to get free"}, {"text": "downloads for a limited time. Indeed, it was initially a limited free download for fans, in August 2019, before it was released as a single on digital download and streaming platforms on 3 October 2019. Critical reception. \"EDM.com\" staff noted the presence of \"energetic vocals [which] set the energy level of the track early on, with rumbling bass kicks sounding out underneath\". They remarked that the song has \"elements of South American and Middle Eastern effectively, marrying the two influences to yield a cohesive whole\", meaning according to them that the three artists \"clearly recognize how diverse the crowd is that gathers at the foot of the main stage\". In the same way, Katie Bain from \"Billboard\" remarked that the single is endowed \"with a Caribbean twist\". Writing for \"Dancing Astronaut\", Farrell Sweeney wrote that it \"incites what the title promises with its high energy mixed with commanding undertones\". Endowed with \"a Caribbean-infused drop\" built by \"framed frantic vocals with high-pitched accents\", he deemed the song \"a perfect addition to a festival or a club set [which] is sure to keep the listeners dancing\"."}, {"text": "Vigilance is a fireboat operated by Long Beach, California. It is the second of two large fireboats Long Beach commissioned and the largest on North America's West Coast. \"Vigilance\" and \"Protector\" were designed by Robert Allan Limited, a firm known for designing many widely admired tugboats, fireboats and support vessels. \"The\" \"Vigilance\" is propelled by a pair of Voith-Schneider propellers, an advanced propulsion system that bears some resemblance to helicopter propulsion, and enable instantaneous changes in the propeller thrust. It is 108 feet long, with a maximum speed of 13 knots. The ship's ten water cannons can pump 41,000 gallons per minute, more than four times as much as its predecessors. The cannons are able to throw water up to in the air, and up to away. In addition to firefighting duties, \"Fireboat 20\" and its sister-ship have air-tight crew compartments and a decontamination chamber, so they are equipped to respond to the releases of hazardous material, in particular they can respond to radiological, poison gas, or germ warfare attacks. The vessels pumps can de-water flooded structures. The vessels are highly automated, and require only a crew of four. They can transport 12 additional individuals. Part of the cabin can"}, {"text": "serve as an emergency infirmary. The pair of vessels was budgeted at $51 million. Operational career. \"The Vigilance\" was commissioned on November 13, 2017. \"The Vigilance\" and its sister ship \"Protector\" helped celebrate the 2019 Great Pacific Air Show."}, {"text": "Virginia Fox Brooks (January 29, 1893 \u2013 1971), also known as Virginia Fox-Brooks Vernon or Virginia Vernon, was an American actress, playwright, translator, and journalist. With her husband, Frank Vernon, she translated dramatic works into English. During World War II, she worked with the Entertainment National Service Association (ENSA) to produce shows for the troops. Early life. Virginia Fox Brooks was born January 29, 1893, the daughter of Joseph Brooks, a theatre manager. (Some sources give her birthdate as 1894 or 1899.) Her parents were from Tennessee and Virginia. She studied music in France with Jacques Isnardon at the Paris Conservatory, and toured in Europe with singer Yvette Guilbert as a young woman. \"If I ever do anything really fine,\" Brooks said of Guilbert in 1919, \"I feel that I shall owe it to her, to the privilege of daily association with so marvelous an artist, to all that I have learned through my intimate friendship with her.\" Stage and writing. Fox Brooks sang at the Op\u00e9ra-Comique in Paris. She appeared on Broadway in \"The Adventures of Lady Ursula\" (1915), \"Trilby\" (1915), \"Ghosts\" (1915), \"The Great Lover\" (1915\u20131916), \"Getting Married\" (1916\u20131917), \"Sinbad\" (1918\u20131919), and \"The Passing Show of 1918\". She"}, {"text": "also appeared in the London productions of \"The Great Lover\" (1920\u20131921), and \"The Love Match\" (1922). With her husband, Frank Vernon, she co-wrote the English versions of French and Russian plays, including Simon Gantillon's \"Maya\" (1928), Ren\u00e9 Berton's \"After Death\" (1928), Vladimir Kirshon's \"Red Rust\" (1930), Alfred Savoir's \"Little Catherine\" (1931), \"The Poet's Secret\" (1933), Henry Bordeaux\"'s Shattered\" (1935), \"Quet's\" (1935), and Sacha Guitry's \"Villa for Sale\" (1963). She also adapted \"Journey's End\" into French with Lucien Besnard (1930), Laurence Housman's \"Victoria Regina\" (1937) into French with Andr\u00e9 Maurois, and translated Noel Coward's \"Private Lives\" into French in 1933, and she went on to translate other works by Coward, including \"Blithe Spirit\". The Vernons co-wrote \"The Diary of a Murderer\" (1934, based on Tristan Bernard's \"Aux Abois\"), and co-edited \"Modern One-Act Plays from the French\" (1935). Other books by Virginia Vernon included \"Beauty Products\" (a novel), \"Parcel Parade\" (1939, another novel), and \"Enchanting Little Lady\" (1964, a biography). World War II and after. Vernon's husband died early in World War II, in France. During the war she was involved in organizing entertainment for the troops as Chief Welfare Officer with ENSA, and traveled extensively, from India, China, and Thailand to"}, {"text": "Iceland, Tunisia, and Egypt. She landed at Normandy soon after D-Day. For her war work, she was given an MBE, as well as five campaign medals. In 1947 she wrote about Canadian topics for the \"Daily Mirror\". She judged and spoke at a regional drama festival in Quebec that year, and became a member of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques. In 1950 and 1951 she reported on fashion news from Paris. Personal life. Virginia Fox Brooks married British theatrical producer Frank Vernon in 1925, as his second wife. She was widowed when Frank died in 1940, in France. Some of her papers are in the Imperial War Museum Department of Documents."}, {"text": "Julia Nesheiwat is an American academic, business executive and former government official who served as the 10th homeland security advisor in the Trump administration from 2020 to 2021. She also held various positions in the Bush and Obama administrations. Since 2022, Nesheiwat has been the vice president of policy and insights for TC Energy. Early life and education. The daughter of Jordanian Christian immigrant parents, Nesheiwat is one of five children; she was raised in Umatilla, Florida. Nesheiwat earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stetson University, a Master of Arts from Georgetown University, and a PhD from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She is the sister of Jaclyn Stapp and Janette Nesheiwat. Career. Army service. Commissioned in 1997, Nesheiwat served as a U.S. Army military intelligence officer, leaving the Army as a captain. She served consecutive deployments for which she was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. She subsequently served at senior levels on a White House commission, in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and in numerous senior economic and national security roles in the State Department spanning the Bush, Obama, and Trump Administrations. Academics. After earning"}, {"text": "her doctorate in science and engineering, Nesheiwat lectured on the geopolitics of energy, climate, and technology in the 21st century at Naval Postgraduate School\u2019s National Security Affairs Department, Stanford University, and at the University of California, San Diego. Government service. Nesheiwat was an international affairs fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations and served on the Governing Advisory Council for the World Economic Forum. Nesheiwat also served on the Governing Advisory Council for Clean Energy at the World Economic Forum and was appointed as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Energy Resources. She also served as the energy policy advisor in the department\u2019s economic bureau, was the ex officio committee member for the Florida Ocean Alliance, as well as appointed as the Global Ambassador by the World Green Building Council. Nesheiwat was involved in efforts to keep families informed and win the release of U.S. citizens held hostage on foreign soil, through a new office partnered with Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell which combines resourced from the Defense and State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Treasury Department. Nesheiwat served as the former U.S. Deputy Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs from August 2015 to August 2019. In August"}, {"text": "2019, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had appointed Nesheiwat as the state's first chief resilience officer. Florida is only the third state (joining Rhode Island and Oregon) to have \"designated resilience offices with clear executives that report directly to the governor.\" In this role, she was tasked with preparing Florida for the \u201cenvironmental, physical and economic impacts\u201d of sea level rise, confirmed by a 2014 national climate assessment. Nesheiwat has supported the scientific consensus on climate change and its impact on the state of Florida. Nesheiwat is serving as a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council also focused on energy, climate, arctic policy, and national security and was appointed as US Commissioner on the US Arctic Research Commission. Homeland security advisor. On February 20, 2020, \"Politico\" reported that President Donald Trump would select Nesheiwat to be his new homeland security advisor, according to an administration official and another person familiar with the matter.\" Robert C. O'Brien later confirmed Nesheiwat's appointment, praising her as a person who has \"extensive national security experience, which will be invaluable for this important role.\" Personal life. Nesheiwat is married to Mike Waltz, who has served as U.S. national security advisor under President Trump since 2025. Waltz"}, {"text": "and Nesheiwat have a son together. They live in St. Johns County, Florida."}, {"text": "Georgia\u2013Slovenia relations are the bilateral relations between Georgia and Slovenia, two European nations with a communist past that established their bilateral ties in 1993. Their relations have been highly represented with a close diplomatic partnership, with Slovenia being one of the staunch supporters of Georgia's territorial integrity and pro-Western path. Slovenia is a member of the EU, which Georgia applied for in 2022. Both nations are members of the COE. And Slovenia is with Montenegro is Sectoral dialogue partner countries of the BSCE. History. The diplomatic relations between Georgia and Slovenia were established on 18 January 1993:, less than two years after the independence of both states (Georgia from the USSR and Slovenia from Yugoslavia). Slovenia has consistently supported Georgia's territorial integrity in the face of Russia's military occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In 2008, Prime Minister Janez Jan\u0161a of Slovenia stated following a meeting with his Czech and Latvian counterparts in the aftermath of the Russo-Georgian War, We are united on the need to ensure peace, stability, territorial integrity in Georgia and the broader region and to give the region a European perspective. Slovenia was one of the several nations to call on Russia to follow its ceasefire"}, {"text": "obligations during a 2015 Council of Europe meeting and to withdraw its military troops from Abkhazia and South Ossetia. That same year, Slovenia became the 21st member state of the European Union to ratify in a 69\u20133 vote of its National Assembly the EU-Georgia Association Agreement. Slovenia has consistently voted in favor of the Georgia-sponsored United Nations resolution calling for the return of internally displaced persons to Abkhazia and South Ossetia since 2008. Bilateral ties have been enhanced by the high amount of high-level meetings and visits between the two countries. While Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili held several meetings with the Slovenian Foreign Affairs Minister, President Giorgi Margvelashvili became the first Georgian head of state to pay an official visit to Slovenia in July 2016, during which bilateral agreements were signed on economic cooperation and visa liberalization and a \"Bench of Friendship\" was inaugurated on Ljubljana's Tbilisi Street. On 26 May 2018, to celebrate the 100 years since the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, the Ljubljana Castle was lit up with Georgia's red and white flag colors. As a member of NATO, Slovenia has consistently supported Georgia's attempt to seek closer relations and an ultimate membership with"}, {"text": "the Organization. Slovenian military experts participated in the 2017 \"Noble Partner\" military exercises in Georgia. On 13 June 2019, Slovenia became the 14th country of the Schengen Zone to recognize Georgia as a \"safe country\", highlighting Georgia's political and economic reforms, and thus removing Georgian citizens' right to seek asylum in Slovenia. Both countries' capitals, Ljubljana and Tbilisi, have a sister city partnership, as well as Georgia's Kutaisi and Slovenia's Maribor. Diplomatic missions. Georgia appointed its first ambassador to Slovenia in 2001, when it accredited its ambassador to Austria to also cover its relations with Ljubljana. Following a short period in 2004 when the Georgian ambassador operated from Georgia itself and then from Slovakia, an embassy of Georgia was opened in 2014 in Slovenia. The embassy is located at 7 Cankarjevacesta Street in Ljubljana. Notable heads of the mission have been: Slovenia accredited its first ambassador to Georgia in 1999. Until 2007, the Slovenian ambassador resided in Athens. Since then, the ambassador of Slovenia to Ukraine has also covered Georgia. Bilateral agreements. Georgia and Slovenia have signed seven bilateral agreements, including Two more bilateral agreements were signed during Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili's official visit to Slovenia in 2016, notably on"}, {"text": "economic cooperation and on visa liberalization between Georgia and Slovenia."}, {"text": "Hallur Gissurarson (died 1230) was an Icelandic lawspeaker in the 13th century and later a monk and abbot, at both Helgafellsklaustur and \u00deykkvab\u00e6jarklaustur. He was a member of the Haukd\u00e6lir family clan, son of Gissur Hallsson, also a lawspeaker, and his wife, \u00c1lfhei\u00f0ur \u00deorvaldsd\u00f3ttir. He was the brother of \u00deorvaldur Gissurarson and Magn\u00fas Gissurarson, a bishop at Sk\u00e1lholt."}, {"text": "Allan D. Gilmour is an American businessman and former university president. In his role as chief financial officer and former vice chairman of Ford Motor Company, he was the highest ranking, openly gay executive of a Fortune 100 company. Early life and education. Allan Dana Gilmour was born on June 17, 1934 in Barnet, Vermont, and was raised on Maplemont Farm in Barnet. He is the oldest son of Marjorie Fyler Gilmour (1906-1987), a homemaker, and Albert Davis Gilmour (1900-1980), a dairy cow dealer. Like his father, Gilmour attended Exeter and graduated in 1952. He was classmates with Jay Rockefeller. After Exeter, Gilmour attended Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in economics in 1956. He enrolled at the University of Michigan Law School, became uninterested in legal studies, and then transferred to University of Michigan Business School. Gilmour finished his MBA requirements in three semesters, and graduated in 1959. He also worked as a teaching fellow and studied for a PhD at Michigan. Career. Ford Motor Company. In 1960, Gilmour was hired as a financial analyst at Ford Motor Company. Throughout his initial thirty-five year career at Ford, he served as vice president of external and personnel affairs,"}, {"text": "vice president and controller, chief financial officer and a member of the board of directors (1986), executive vice president for international automotive operations (1987), president of Ford Automotive Group (1990), president of Ford Motor Credit Company, and vice chairman (1993), the number two position in command. Gilmour was the leading candidate to become Ford's chairman and chief executive officer on two separate occasions. In 1989, he was thought to be the choice of outgoing CEO Donald Petersen, yet was passed over for Red Poling. In 1992, Gilmour was passed over again, this time for Alex Trotman. After being rejected twice for CEO, Gilmour, who was not openly gay, decided to retire from Ford in 1995 at age 60. In December 1996, Gilmour came out as gay in an interview with a Detroit LGBTQ publication. He is recognized as the first corporate executive to be identified as gay and to serve as chairman or vice chairman of a Fortune 100 company. In 2002, Gilmour, returned to Ford as chief financial officer, and retired three years later in 2005. In total, Gilmour worked at Ford for thirty-eight years. Gilmour was the principal owner of a Ford-Chrysler dealership located in St. Johnsbury, Vermont."}, {"text": "Wayne State University. In 2010, Gilmour was named interim president of Wayne State University. In 2011, the Board of Governors at Wayne State University unanimously elected Gilmour to serve as university president. In 2012, Gilmour underwent treatment for prostate cancer. In 2013, he retired from the university. Upon his retirement, Gilmour donated his salary that he earned during his tenure back to the university in the form of an endowed scholarship gift to honor his husband, Eric Jirgens. Personal life. In the spring of 1994, Gilmour met Eric Jirgens, who is twenty-eight years younger than him, at a dinner party in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. In 1995, Gilmour and Jirgens co-founded the Gilmour-Jirgens Fund that has donated millions of dollars to charity, including lesbian and gay organizations. The fund is managed by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. In 2015, Gilmour and Jirgens married, and the couple live in Birmingham, Michigan. Gilmour has two brothers: Richard Doug Gilmour, who died in 2022, and John GIlmour, who preceded Richard in death. Boards and affiliations. Gilmour co-chaired a capital campaign for University of Michigan that raised $1.4 billion. He also served as an honorary co-chair of The Michigan Difference Campaign that raised $3.2"}, {"text": "billion, the largest amount by a public university in the United States. Gilmour has served as a member of the board of directors of DTE Energy Company, Whirlpool Corporation, Ford Motor Co., US West, MediaOne Group, Prudential Financial, Dow Chemical, Whirlpool and Universal Technical Institute. In 1995, he served as chairman of the Henry Ford Health System. In addition, Gilmour served as a trustee or board member of several organizations, including the University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Regional Chamber, Detroit Zoo, Downtown Detroit Partnership, Foundation for Detroit\u2019s Future, Business Leaders for Michigan, Citizens Research Council, Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan, and St. Johnsbury Academy. He was instrumental in starting the HOPE (Helping Others through Partnerships and Education) Fund at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan that provides grants and technical support to LGBTQ individuals and families."}, {"text": "Julian, sometimes numbered Julian I, was the patriarch of Antioch for about five years from 471 until 475 or 476. He was a Chalcedonian and a \"fairly well-known person\". His election as patriarch at a synod in Antioch was arranged by the Emperor Leo I on the advice of Patriarch Gennadius of Constantinople to replace the Miaphysite patriarch Peter the Fuller, who was exiled by Leo on 1 June 471. Julian held the patriarchate through the remainder of the reign of Leo I and that of Leo II. In the unrest that followed Leo II's death, the Miaphysite Basiliscus seized the imperial throne and restored Peter the Fuller to the patriarchate. When Peter arrived in Antioch, Julian was so upset that he died \"of vexation\", according to Theodorus Lector. Julian may the Julian who commissioned the treatise \"Against the Aposchists\" (i.e., schismatics, the Miaphysites) from John of Scythopolis, but it is more likely that Julian of Bostra was the Julian in question."}, {"text": "Eskilstuna-Kuriren () is a Swedish regional newspaper, based in the city of Eskilstuna, with a local office in nearby Str\u00e4ngn\u00e4s. It is the largest regional newspaper in the S\u00f6dermanland region. History. The first edition of \"Eskilstuna-Kuriren\" was published on 8 December 1890. It celebrated 125 years in December 2015. The paper is currently published in Berliner format, and has been published six days a week since 1915. Since the start, the paper's political position has always been liberal, with longstanding close but informal links to the Swedish Liberal Party. The editorial page was supportive of campaigns for free speech, workers' rights to unionize, male-female equality, and universal suffrage. During the 20th century, its editorials argued for free-market economic principles, typically in opposition to successive Social Democrat governments, and for restrictive policies on alcohol sales, generous foreign aid, and nonrestrictive migration policies. It took a highly critical view of totalitarian ideologies, including Communism and Fascism. During the Second World War, longtime editor in chief J. A. Selander's strong anti-Nazi stance brought the paper into conflict with Swedish coalition government policy of the time, which sought to appease Berlin to avoid a German invasion. Newspaper issues were repeatedly confiscated by the authorities,"}, {"text": "and Selander was put on trial, but acquitted. In modern times, Selander has had a street named after him in Eskilstuna. A statue by artist Richard Brixel has been erected near the Eskilstuna-Kuriren building. In 2015, a Russian government report accused \"Eskilstuna-Kuriren\" of unprecedentedly \"aggressive\" negative coverage of Russia. Editor in chief Eva Burman linked the accusation to the fact that the paper had investigated a Swedish far-right group involved in systematic harassment of journalists and politicians, which, according to a previous investigation by \"Dagens Nyheter\", had financial links to Russian and Ukrainian businessmen. \"Eskilstuna-Kuriren\" and \"Folket\". The historical rival of \"Eskilstuna-Kuriren\" in Eskilstuna was \"Folket\", created in 1905 as a split from \"Eskilstuna-Kuriren\". The two papers represented rival political tendencies, with \"Eskilstuna-Kuriren\" promoting liberal politics and \"Folket\" being linked to the Swedish Social Democratic Party. \"Folket\" suffered a steady decline from the mid-1980s: \"For one hundred years, the newspapers carried on a local struggle, but over time it became increasingly unequal,\" noted a 2006 Swedish government investigation of the situation for print media in the country. By 2002, the difference was stark: \"Eskilstuna-Kuriren\" was published in 32,200 copies daily, while \"Folket\" had declined to 7,500 copies and was no"}, {"text": "longer financially viable as an independent paper. Eskilstuna-Kuriren AB consequently bought 95 percent of Folket in 2003, acquiring the last remaining ownership shares in its former rival in 2011. Despite being purchased by its rival, \"Folket\" continued to be published an editorially independent, social-democratic daily until 2012, when it was reduced to a weekly. It carried on in this form for some time, but finally ceased publication in 2015, after 110 years of independent existence, with a print run of less than 3000 and only three remaining employees. Expansion, acquisitions, and sale. The company Eskilstuna-Kuriren AB is owned by a foundation, Eskilstuna-Kurirens stiftelse, founded in 1940, whose purpose is to \"safeguard Eskilstuna-Kuriren in perpetuity as an independent organ of national, spiritual, and personal freedom in accordance with the ideas of liberalism.\" In 1955, Eskilstuna-Kuriren AB acquired \"Strengn\u00e4s Tidning\", a competitor liberal daily that had been published in Str\u00e4ngn\u00e4s since 1845. Ever since, it has been published under the name \"Strengn\u00e4s Tidning\" in that city, but the two editions differ only slightly beyond the front page. Today, the editions are largely identical but retain separate frontpages and some unique local content. In 1965, another regional liberal newspaper, \"Katrineholms-Kuriren,\" in Katrineholm, was"}, {"text": "bought by Eskilstuna-Kuriren. In 2003, it acquired its traditional social-democratic rival in Eskilstuna, Folket (see above), and in 2007, \"S\u00f6dermanlands Nyheter\" (in Nyk\u00f6ping). Eskilstuna-Kuriren also acquired a minority share in Mittmedia AB, a major publisher of regional dailies in Sweden, in the mid-2000s. In 2014, the paper founded the company S\u00f6rmlands Media to control its publications. Despite the preceding years of expansion, the paper suffered from the structural transformation of the news market, leading to declining subscription rates and cutbacks. In 2018, S\u00f6rmlands Media was sold to Norrk\u00f6pings Tidningar Media AB (NTM), a major publisher of Swedish regional dailies, in which Eskilstuna-Kuriren AB then acquired a significant minority share. Eskilstuna-Kuriren's printing house, Eskilstuna-Kurirens tryckeri AB (Ektab), was included in the deal along with a printing house in Nyk\u00f6ping acquired with S\u00f6dermanlands Nyheter. \"Eskilstuna-Kuriren\" today. In 2018, the combined print run of the editions in Eskilstuna (\"Eskilstuna-Kuriren\") and Str\u00e4ngn\u00e4s (\"Strengn\u00e4s Tidning\") reached 23 800 copies. The editor in chief and publisher (\"ansvarig utgivare\") is Ulrika Sj\u00f6blom."}, {"text": "Salmonberry or salmonberries may refer to:"}, {"text": "Martina Lautenschlager (born 18 July 1988) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Lautenschlager played in a doubles rubber for the Switzerland Fed Cup team in 2004, as a member of a young and inexperienced Swiss squad for a tie against Canada in Dorval, Quebec. Switzerland won the tie and Lautenschlager got her opportunity in a doubles dead rubber, partnering Timea Bacsinszky. The pair were beaten in two tiebreak sets by M\u00e9lanie Marois and Marie-\u00c8ve Pelletier. While competing on the junior circuit she also played in some professional tournaments and won an ITF doubles title at Lenzerheide in 2005. She left the professional tour in 2006."}, {"text": "Yiqun Lisa Yin () is a Chinese-American cryptographer and independent security consultant. Yin is known for breaking the SHA-1 cryptographic hash function, for developing the RC6 block cipher, and for her service as editor of the IEEE P1363 project for the standardization of public-key cryptography. Education and career. Yin was a student at Peking University from 1985 to 1989, and earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics there. She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study, and completed her Ph.D. there in applied mathematics in 1994. Her dissertation, \"Teaching, Learning, and Exploration\", concerned computational learning theory and online algorithms; it was supervised by Michael Sipser. She worked as a researcher at RSA Laboratories from 1994 to 1999, and as director of security technologies at NTT's Palo Alto Laboratory for Multimedia Communications from 1999 to 2002, before becoming an independent consultant. She also worked as a visiting researcher at Princeton University and Tsinghua University. From 2016 to 2019, Yin was the chief security officer and chief cryptographer of Symbiont. Contributions. Yin was the editor of the IEEE P1363 project for the standardization of public-key cryptography. With Ron Rivest, Matt Robshaw, and Ray Sidney, she was one of the"}, {"text": "designers of RC6, a block cipher with symmetric keys that was one of five finalists for the 1997\u20132000 Advanced Encryption Standard competition. In 2005, with Wang Xiaoyun and Hongbo Yu, Yin demonstrated an unexpected high probability of collisions (two different data values with the same hash) in the SHA-1 cryptographic hash function, originally designed by the National Security Agency. Their work caused SHA-1 to be considered as broken, and it has since fallen out of use."}, {"text": "All Is Well () is a 2011 film by Angolan filmmaker Pocas Pascoal. It was shown at the Malta Film Festival and Germany's Africa Alive Festival's 2014 edition. The film has a duration time of 94 minutes. Plot. The film deals with a pair of young, teen-aged sisters, the sixteen-year old Aida and the seventeen-year old Maria, escaping Angola to live in Lisbon, Portugal during 1980, in order to escape the Angolan civil war of that era. The pair make it to Lisbon, where life proves to be harsh for the two African women. They have a hard time adapting to their new country and its customs and culture, but then a tragic event changes their lives once again. Reception. \"All Is Well\" received mixed reviews from critics. Oscar Moralde of \"Slant Magazine\" praised Pascoal's depiction of the challenges of Angolan refugees and its impact on the bond between Alda and Maria. Moralde also praised the characterization of Alda and Maria themselves, writing that \"Pascoal is steadfast in presenting Alda and Maria as people, not symbols\". Robert Koehler's review for \"Variety\" was more critical, stating that the cast \"lack[ed] a sense of character nuance\" and criticizing the dialogue and filmography"}, {"text": "as unimpressive. Justin Lowe of \"The Hollywood Reporter\" wrote that while Pascoal accurately captured the difficulties of refugees, \"the film's near-relentless negativity becomes wearying\". Awards. The film won many international awards, including the:"}, {"text": "The 104th edition of the Tour of Flanders one-day cycling classic was held on 18 October 2020, as the 20th event of the 2020 UCI World Tour. The race started in Antwerp and finished in Oudenaarde, Belgium, covering a distance of 241 km. Mathieu van der Poel of the Netherlands won the race, just ahead of Belgian Wout van Aert. The race was originally scheduled on 5 April 2020, serving as the 14th event of the 2020 UCI World Tour, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic On 17 March 2020 the organisers announced the race would not run on the planned date; on 5 May it was rescheduled for 18 October. The men's event was slightly reduced in distance, because of the unprecedented end-of-season slot and in order to deal with the intense October campaign. Teams. The teams participating in the race were: UCI WorldTeams UCI Professional Continental teams"}, {"text": "Ella Boynton Kaiser Carruth (January 5, 1881 \u2013 March 13, 1974) was an American librarian and writer. She wrote the children's novel \"She Wanted To Read\" in 1966. Early life. Carruth was born in 1881 in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Flora Stone Mather College and Western Reserve University which are both in Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1903. In 1907, Carruth married mathematics professor William M. Carruth, who taught at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She worked for the Kirkland Library in Clinton as a part of the Board of Trustees and helped lead the creation of the library's Historical Room. She wrote for many publications including the \"Journal of Home Economics\" and \"Yankee\". She sometimes wrote under the pen name Delane Heath. After her husband died in 1943, Carruth moved to Winter Park, Florida, in Alabama to live at a hotel. While in Winter Park, she worked as a part of the Winter Park Library and the Science Library at Rollins College. Career and death. Carruth wrote the 1966 children's novel \"She Wanted To Read\" which is based on the life of American educator Mary McLeod Bethune. The"}, {"text": "novel was published when Carruth was 85 years old. \"She Wanted To Read\" has been taught in American schools as part of the curriculum. She wrote for magazines including \"Table Talk\", \"Best Years\", and \"Science Digest\". Her planned second novel \"The Education of Zora Neale Hurston\" was rejected by publishers. Carruth died on March 13, 1974, and was buried in Clinton, New York."}, {"text": "Vanzago\u2013Pogliano is a railway station in Italy. Located on the common section of the Domodossola\u2013Milan, Luino\u2013Milan and Porto Ceresio\u2013Milan lines, it serves the town of Vanzago. Services. Vanzago\u2013Pogliano is served by line S5 of the Milan suburban railway network, operated by the Lombard railway company Trenord."}, {"text": "Cameron Joyce (born 6 June 1992) is a field hockey player from Australia. Personal life. Cameron Joyce was born and raised in Port Pirie, South Australia. Career. Club level. Throughout his junior career, Joyce played hockey for Risdon Hockey Club in Port Pirie. Following his move to Adelaide, South Australia, Joyce began playing for Port Adelaide District Hockey Club in Hockey SA's Premier League competition. State level. Joyce plays representative hockey for his home state, South Australia in . His last representation at junior level was at the 2013 Under\u201321 Australian Championship in Brisbane. In 2015, he represented the SA Hotshots for the last time in the Australian Hockey League in Darwin. In 2019, Joyce represented South Australia for the first time in four years during the inaugural tournament of Hockey Australia's new domestic national league, Hockey One. He is a member of SA's team, the Adelaide Fire. National level. Cameron Joyce was a member of the Australia U\u201321 national team, the 'Burras', from 2011 to 2013. During his junior national career, Joyce captained the team twice in 2013, at the AYOF and Junior Oceania Cup, winning gold at both. Joyce last represented the Burras at the 2013 Junior World"}, {"text": "Cup, where the team finished fifth."}, {"text": "Paul Nii Teiko Tagoe was a Ghanaian politician. He served as a minister of state and a member of parliament during the first republic. He was a regional commissioner (Regional Minister) for the Greater Accra Region, first parliamentary secretary and also a member of parliament for the Ga Rural electoral district. Early life and education. Tagoe was born on 6 January 1914 in Accra. He began his elementary schooling at the Koforidua Methodist School. He was later transferred to the Bishop School in Accra. He later joined the Government School and then Christ Church Grammar School. He had his secondary education at the Accra Academy. Career. After his secondary education, Tagoe gained employment at O'Reilley Institute. There he taught for a couple of years and left to take up a job as a nurse-dispenser in training. He worked as a nurse-dispenser for another couple of years then joined the Army. There, he was attached to the Royal Pay Corps. He remained with the army until 1947 when his group was demobilised. In 1948 Tagoe joined the Cocoa Marketing Board (Export Control Division). In 1952 Tagoe joined the Cocoa Purchasing Company. After three years of service he was promoted to Regional"}, {"text": "Manager. In 1956 the Cocoa Purchasing Company went into liquidation as a result of the Jibowu Commission and Paul Tagoe was relieved of his duties. In July 1960 he was appointed a Commercial Officer at the Ghana Supply Commission. He held that post until 1963. Politics. During the political agitations of the late 1940s, Tagoe joined the Convention People's Party (CPP) and was appointed Secretary of the Accra Branch of the CPP. In 1952 he was made the private secretary to the Minister of Commerce. He worked in this capacity for about 10 months before joining the Cocoa Purchasing Company. In 1956 after he was relieved of his duties at the Cocoa Purchasing Company he was employed as the private secretary to the then Regional Commissioner of the Eastern Region; Emmanuel Humphrey Tettey Korboe. After about 10 months in this position, he became the assistant national organizer of the CPP. In 1963 when Tawia Adamafio lost his seat as a member of parliament representing the Ga Rural electoral district due to the treason allegations levelled against him, Tagoe stepped into his shoes as the member of parliament representing the Ga Rural electoral district. In August 1964 he was appointed Regional"}, {"text": "Commissioner for the Greater Accra Region (Special Commissioner for Accra Rural). In 1965 he was appointed First Parliamentary Secretary. He served in this capacity until February 1966 when the Nkrumah government was overthrown. Personal life. Tagoe married Matilda Quacoo, a fishmonger in 1939 however, the marriage was dissolved in 1957. Together, they had four children. He married a second wife; Afua Amartey in 1939 this marriage also dissolved in 1959. He had two children with the latter. In 1960, he married teacher and business woman Patience Omolora Davies. Together, they had seven children and were together until Patience's death in 1989. Tagoe died two years later in 1991."}, {"text": "Canal (Ward 16) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. Since its creation in 2007 it has returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the boundaries were changed and the ward decreased in population, but continued to return four councillors. Boundaries. Located in the north of Glasgow, the ward includes Possilpark and Milton as well as Ruchill, Firhill, Hamiltonhill, Parkhouse, Lambhill, Port Dundas and part of Cowlairs, consisting of the streets to the west of the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line railway tracks which form the ward's eastern boundary (the exception is a small section of the Colston neighbourhood on the eastern side of the tracks which is included to Canal ward; however, this area is further divided with everything north of Colston Road belonging to the adjoining town of Bishopbriggs in East Dunbartonshire). The west boundary is the Port Dundas branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal, which gives the ward its name. The 2017 changes added more territory west of the main canal (which was previously the boundary but now lies mostly within the ward), taking in the Cadder neighbourhood from the Maryhill/Kelvin ward,"}, {"text": "along with a large area around Balmore Road which is almost uninhabited. In contrast, the more densely populated North Kelvinside neighbourhood was reassigned to the Hillhead ward. Election results. 2022 election. 2022 Glasgow City Council election 2017 election. 2017 Glasgow City Council election 2012 election. 2012 Glasgow City Council election 2007 election. 2007 Glasgow City Council election"}, {"text": "This is a discography of Native American flute player R. Carlos Nakai."}, {"text": "Forky Asks a Question is an American animated television series of short films produced by Pixar Animation Studios based on the \"Toy Story\" franchise, and is set after the events of \"Toy Story 4\". It is the third Pixar short series, following the \"Cars Toons\" and \"Toy Story Toons\". The series focuses on the character of Forky (voiced by Tony Hale) as he asks his friends different questions about life. The short series was announced in June 2019 during Disney+ Investor Day 2019, before the release of \"Toy Story 4\". Bob Peterson created, wrote, directed and narrated the series, and was produced by Mark Nielsen. Jake Monaco provided the score for all ten episodes. \"Forky Asks a Question\" aired from November 12, 2019, to January 10, 2020, on Disney+. The series received positive reviews who praised the humor, animation, and script. Premise. Set sometime after the events of \"Toy Story 4\", handmade toy Forky asks his friends (the characters of the \"Toy Story\" franchise) different questions about life. Episodes. All episodes were directed and written by Bob Peterson. Production. Development. On Disney Investor Day 2019, Pixar's chief creative officer, Pete Docter, revealed that a new series of shorts, based on"}, {"text": "\"Toy Story 4\"s Forky, titled \"Forky Asks a Question\", was in development for Disney+, with Tony Hale set to reprise his role from \"Toy Story 4\". Hale said that the series is about \"these questions that maybe people are embarrassed maybe to ask, but they really don't know\". Bob Peterson wrote and directed the series, and was produced by producer of \"Toy Story 4\", Mark Nielsen. The series is produced at Pixar Animation Studios. Casting. On June 12, 2019, when the series was announced, it was confirmed that Tony Hale would reprise his role from \"Toy Story 4\" in the series. On June 18, Hale revealed during an interview that he already recorded his lines as Forky for the series. A week later, Nielsen revealed that Carol Burnett, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Betty White would reprise their roles from \"Toy Story 4\", as Chairol Burnett, Melephant Brooks, Carl Reineroceros, and Bitey White, respectively, during the series. Nielsen said the characters have \"considerable screen time\" compared to their appearances in the film. During the D23 Expo on August 23, 2019, it was revealed that John Ratzenberger would reprise his role as Hamm in the series. On October 30, 2019, Wallace"}, {"text": "Shawn and Kristen Schaal were revealed to be reprising their roles as Rex and Trixie, respectively. Music. Jake Monaco composed the series' score. Monaco said that \"Forky's character is so animated ... There are so many movements and facial expressions and the voice acting that Tony Hale does is just incredible. He is enough to carry any scene by himself\". He also said that Peterson \"wanted the music to simply disappear into the background\", to which he gave the score \"a little bit of a jazz vibe\". A soundtrack for the series' first season, featuring Monaco's score, and two tracks written by Monaco and Toby Sherriff, was released on February 28, 2020. Release. \"Forky Asks a Question\" was released on November 12, 2019, on Disney+. The series consists of ten episodes released weekly, with each episode being 3 to 4 minutes long. A clip from the series was shown at the D23 August 2019. The series' first trailer was released on October 30, 2019. Reception. Critical response. On Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 83%, based on twelve reviews, with an average rating of 7.95/10. Its critical consensus reads, \u201cShort and sweet, \"Forky Asks a Question\" is"}, {"text": "fun and funny enough to work for fans.\u201d On Metacritic, the series has a weighted average score of 64 out of 100, based on five critics, indicating \u201cgenerally favourable reviews.\u201d Joel Keller of \"Decider\" praised the humor of the series, acclaimed the quality of the animation, and found that the script manages to be entertaining for both adults and kids. David Griffin of \"IGN\" rated the first episode of the series 9 out of 10, found the show to be very amusing and educational, stated that the animation reaches the level of Pixar's theatrical movies, and praised the performance of Tony Hale as Forky. Emily Ashby of \"Common Sense Media\" rated the show 4 out of 5 stars, stating: \"\"Forky Asks a Question\" centers on the breakout star character of \"Toy Story 4\" as he ponders the big questions about the world and how it works. Each of the 10 short episodes sees one of his toy friends helping Forky learn things like what it means to be a friend, what defines art, and what time is. Forky absorbs information at a preschooler's pace, which means his focus changes a lot and he gets distracted at times, but he always"}, {"text": "manages to sum up the main point succinctly and thoughtfully. This hilarious extension of a beloved character is a must-see for Forky fans of all ages\"."}, {"text": "Ante \u017divkovi\u0107 (born 21 May 1993) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a forward with Posu\u0161je. Career. \u017divkovi\u0107 was trained through the HNK \u0160ibenik academy system and made his professional debut in the Croatian First League in 2011. In 2014, he was loaned to play abroad in the Canadian Soccer League with Toronto Croatia. During the 2014 playoffs, he contributed two goals in the preliminary match against SC Waterloo Region. In the sound round, he registered a goal against Kingston FC and was featured in the CSL Championship match against York Region Shooters. In 2017, he signed with NK Novigrad in the Croatian Second League. After a season with Novigrad, he played with NK Dugopolje, where he finished as the club's top goalscorer. In 2019, he played abroad for the second time with NK Aluminij in the Slovenian PrvaLiga. On 8 August 2020, \u00dcmraniyespor of the TFF First League signed \u017divkovi\u0107. In June 2021, he joined Bosnian Premier League club Borac Banja Luka. \u017divkovi\u0107 debuted for Borac in a 2021\u201322 UEFA Champions League qualifying round against Romanian side CFR Cluj on 6 July 2021. In 2022, he was loaned to league rivals FK Radnik Bijeljina. In June 2022,"}, {"text": "he signed a contract with FK Kuk\u00ebsi in the Kategoria Superiore. His contract with the Albanian club was terminated around December 2022 with allegations that the club employed physical force in order for \u017divkovi\u0107 to consent. In the winter of 2023, he signed with Hebar Pazardzhik in the Bulgarian First League. He departed the club in the summer of 2023. Following his departure from Bulgaria, he signed with Chindia T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te in Romania's Liga II in September 10, 2023. He returned to the Bosnian top-tier league to sign with Posu\u0161je on January 12, 2025. Honours. \u0160ibenik External links."}, {"text": "The Paper mill at Velk\u00e9 Losiny is a historic mill in Velk\u00e9 Losiny in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It was founded in the late 16th century and is manufacturing handmade paper to this day. The four-hundred-year continuity of traditional handmade paper production is unparalleled in Central Europe and in 2001 the paper mill was declared a Czech national cultural monument. History. The paper mill was built sometime between 1591 and 1596 by Jan Zierotin the Younger at the site of a former grain mill. The first evidence of the mill existence is proven by the oldest watermark dated 1596 - a Zierotin coat of arms depicting a lion with a crown standing on three hills. Over the centuries the paper mill was in possession of many stationery-manufacturing families and masters. Throughout the 17th and 18th century the paper mill was a supplier of writing and scratch paper as well as of paperboard. In 1729, the mill acquired a revolutionary invention - the hollander beater - to prepare paper pulp. It was probably the first device of its kind in Moravia. Despite the efforts of the Zierotin owners to improve and modernize the production process, the paper mill"}, {"text": "tenant at that time failed to succeed in the competition, especially with paper mills at \u0160umperk. In 1778 John Louis, the Count of Zierotin, sold the mill to the stationers master Matthias Werner the Younger. Under his ownership the paper mill flourished again. The boom of the industrial paper production in the mid-19th century Europe put many paper manufactories out of business. In Velk\u00e9 Losiny the production survived thanks to the entrepreneurship of Anton Schmidt older, whose family bought the mill in 1855. In 1913 the mill was modernized and started using hydroelectric power for its croft, textile and paper production. Discovery of the excellent filtration properties of the hand-made paper and later the renaissance of its use within the artistic circles allowed the stationery craft in Velk\u00e9 Losiny to survive the difficult economic periods in the 20th century. In 1949 the paper works were nationalized and became part of the national enterprise \"Ol\u0161ansk\u00e9 pap\u00edrny\". In 2006 an independent company \"Ru\u010dn\u00ed pap\u00edrna Velk\u00e9 Losiny a.s.\" was founded. Recognition. The manufactory is one of the oldest still operating businesses of its kind in Europe. Handmade paper is still produced here from cotton and flax using traditional processes. It was declared a"}, {"text": "Czech cultural monument in 1958 and in 2002 it became the national cultural monument. It is also applicant for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. In 2007 the Czech National Bank issued a 2500 CZK commemorative gold coin as part of the \"Industrial Heritage Sites\" series. The coin was designed by Lubo\u0161 Charv\u00e1t."}, {"text": "Here Today is a 2021 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Billy Crystal, from a screenplay that he wrote with Alan Zweibel. It stars Crystal, Tiffany Haddish, Penn Badgley, Laura Benanti, and Louisa Krause. The film was released on May 7, 2021, by Stage 6 Films. Plot. Charlie Burnz is walking to work, having to remind himself of the directions, demonstrating that his memory isn't strong. He arrives at the studio where he has a storied career as a successful comedy screenwriter. Later, sitting in on a pitch meeting, Charlie goes on a lunch date with someone who won it at an auction. Meeting Emma Payge, she explains her cheating ex-boyfriend won the auction as Charlie is his hero. By taking his lunch date, she gets some revenge. They get on well, but she has a severe allergic reaction to her shellfish. Accompanying her to the hospital, Emma claims Charlie is her adoptive dad. He gets stuck with the bill and later has to stab her with an Epi pen. He has enjoyed himself but doubts he will see her again. Charlie meets with his physician, who talks of his early stage of dementia. He hasn't told his family"}, {"text": "nor his employer. That night, Charlie attends a recorded discussion of one of his most successful movies. Interviewed by Bob Costas with the film's director Barry Levinson and lead actors Sharon Stone and Kevin Kline, Charlie forgets the names of his fellow panelists, playing it off as a joke. Afterwards, Charlie is surprised by Emma, who attends to support him, as she now genuinely likes him. She also repays him for the hospital visit. Charlie accompanies Emma to her job as a singer for a band, and is very impressed by her talent. Afterwards, he explains the unfinished novel she saw is meant to be a memoir celebrating his life with his late wife Carrie and his children Rex and Francine. Charlie admits writer's block and also has a strained relationship with the kids. The same night, Emma asks Charlie how he met Carrie in a message. This helps him focus and he begins to write his novel. In a flashback, Charlie and Carrie met by chance while walking on the same beach. After light conversation, he invites her to his house to remove tar from her feet. They hit it off, declaring their love for each other after a"}, {"text": "few dates. Later, Charlie has a breakdown when his route to work is blocked. Then, during a live show, he has an episode. Angry at the cast member who can't enunciate properly, thereby ruining jokes with his poor performance, Charlie walks onstage. He critiques the actor and engages the crowd, the performance is lauded and goes viral. Although everyone initially thinks Charlie was simply engaged in brilliant improv, it soon becomes apparent that he is unwell. Emma rushes to the studio after seeing the live show, explaining Charlie's situation. Darrell writes a tribute to him online, providing cover for what happened. Meanwhile, Francine thinks Charlie was drunk and is disgusted. Charlie\u2019s granddaughter Lindsay arrives unexpectedly at his home while Emma is out. She tearfully explains that she overheard Francine blame Charlie for Carrie's death behind his back. He embraces his granddaughter, saying he will take them somewhere special to cheer her up. When Francine finds Lindsay is missing, she and Rex go to Charlie's, finding Emma also looking for him. They soon realize he took a rideshare service, so they track him to the country. As they all drive to him, Emma tells Rex and Francine about his dementia. They"}, {"text": "find Lindsay in tears as Charlie had an episode and ran into the woods without her. Realizing they are at their childhood cabin, Francine and Rex rush to find Charlie. He wholeheartedly apologizes for his past mistakes. The family tearfully embraces and forgives him, and also accepts Emma as part of the family. Forward in time, Charlie and Emma are at the cabin on Lake Charlie with Rex, Francine, Lindsay, and Darrell. Francine and Rex reminisce about their childhood as Darrell transcribes the stories for the book. At the sunset, they all go together to the lake to watch it. Charlie sees Carrie's spirit watching it alongside them, and smiles. Production. In September 2019, it was announced Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal would star in the film and serve as producers, while Crystal would also direct from a screenplay co-written with Alan Zweibel. In October 2019, Louisa Krause, Penn Badgley, Laura Benanti, Alex Brightman, Anna Deavere Smith and Nyambi Nyambi joined the cast of the film, with principal photography commencing in New York. Filming wrapped around Thanksgiving. Release. In April 2021, Stage 6 Films acquired distribution rights to the film and set it for a May 7, 2021, release. The"}, {"text": "film was released during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, just 18 days after the final U.S. states had opened the national vaccination program to all residents aged 16 and over. For example, Regal Cinemas, the second largest theatre chain in the United States, was still phasing in the reopening of its theatresa process that would take some weeks to complete. Reception. Box office. \"Here Today\" grossed $2.8million domestically (United States and Canada) and $0.1million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $2.9million. It opened at No. 7 at the domestic box office, and spent two non-consecutive weeks in the Top10. Critical response. Writing for \"Variety\", Owen Gleiberman called the film \"both winning and mushy\" and said: \"What's good about the movie is that Crystal, who co-wrote and directed it, has an inside knowledge of the showbiz comedy world\u2026 the prickly vivacity with which he portrays it roots the movie in something real.\""}, {"text": "Alessandro Agostinelli (; born 1965) is an Italian writer, journalist and poet. Alessandro Agostinelli (; 1965) is an Italian writer, journalist and poet. Early life. Born in Follonica, he obtained a Ph.D. in \"history of visual arts and show business\". Journalism. He worked for Radio 24, Radio Tre Rai, Il Riformista, Il Fatto Quotidiano and L'Unit\u00e0. He also worked with the magazines \"Polis\" and \"Zone\". Travel journalism. One of his topic of interest is the concept of \"travel\". He writes the travel blog \"Atlante\" for the weekly magazine L'Espresso and was of the author of the Lonely Planet's guides in Italian for Tuscany and also specifically for Florence (in 2014). He is the president of the \"Societ\u00e0 Italiana Viaggiatori\" and the director of the Festival del Viaggio. In 2011 he published \"Honolulu baby\", a book of anecdotes and histories about the Hawaiian Islands but also about the role of writing during travel. In 2018 he celebrated the 500th year from Leonardo Da Vinci's death with a trip from Vinci to Amboise, in France. American culture. He wrote a biographical novel about Charlie Parker, \"Benedetti da Parker\", and the essay \"Individualismo e Noir\" about U.S. cinema and specifically the economical and"}, {"text": "social roots of the noir genre and its relationship with the western one. Poetry. His poetic production dates back to the beginning of the century and is inspired by \u201cexistential and travel themes\". His poetries have been translated in Spanish, French, English and German and published in different Western counties. He has published in Spain his anthological poetry book titled \"En el rojo de Occidente\". In 2014 he became in charge of \"Poesia serie rossa\", the editorial collection about poetry of the ETS publisher, one of the few new ones started in Italy at the time. In 2019 he wrote the preface to the anthology \"Dix po\u00e8tes italiens contemporains\" published in France by \"Le bousquet-la barthe\"."}, {"text": "He Jia (; born 16 August 1951) is a former Chinese footballer. Club career. He was born in 1951 in Guangzhou, Guangdong. He began his career at Guangdong. In 1979, He captained Guangdong in the inaugural Guangdong\u2013Hong Kong Cup, scoring in the second leg. In 1982, Jia left Guangdong, moving to Hong Kong in the process. Following the influx of mainland Chinese players into the Hong Kong First Division, He joined South China in 1983. International career. On 15 June 1975, He made his debut for China in a 1\u20130 win against North Korea. He played three times for China at the 1976 AFC Asian Cup, scoring once. On 6 October 1977, He scored the opening goal against the United States in China's first game of their first tour to the Western Bloc. \"Scores and results list China's goal tally first.\""}, {"text": "Peter Ladhams (born 14 January 1998) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). AFL Career. Port Adelaide (2017\u20132021). Ladhams was selected with Pick 9 in the rookie draft by . After spending his first two seasons playing in the SANFL, Ladhams made his debut against in Round 10 of the 2019 AFL season. He kicked his first goal and behind in that game against . In 2020, Ladhams was handed a three match suspension for breaching the AFL's COVID-19 protocols, after he and teammate Dan Houston had invited unauthorised visitors into their home. Sydney (2022\u2013present). He was traded to at the end of the 2021 AFL season along with Pick 16 in the 2021 AFL draft for Pick 12 and a future third-round pick. Ladhams kicked his first goal for in their 63 point win against at Optus Stadium. Statistics. \"Updated to the end of the 2022 season\". ! colspan=3 | Career ! 43 !! 23 !! 13 !! 303 !! 296 !! 599 !! 117 !! 85 !! 652 !! 0.5 !! 0.3 !! 7.0 !! 6.9 !! 13.9 !! 2.7 !! 2.0 !! 15.2 !! 6"}, {"text": "This is a list of rural localities in Tyumen Oblast. Tyumen Oblast (, \"Tyumenskaya oblast\") is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Western Siberia region of Siberia, and is administratively part of the Urals Federal District. The oblast has administrative jurisdiction over two autonomous okrugs: Khanty\u2013Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Tyumen Oblast including its autonomous okrugs is the third-largest federal subject by area, and has a population of 3,395,755 (2010)."}, {"text": "USFC \"Phalarope was an American fish culture and fisheries science research vessel that operated along the coast of New England. She was part of the fleet of the United States Commission on Fish and Fisheries, generally referred to as the United States Fish Commission, from 1900 to 1903 and in the fleet of its successor, the United States Bureau of Fisheries, as USFS \"Phalarope from 1903 until 1917 and again from 1919 until fiscal year 1933. She was in commission in the United States Navy as the patrol vessel USS \"Phalarope from 1917 to 1919, seeing service during World War I. Before her United States Government service, she was the steam yacht Adelita\". Service history. Early history. The vessel was constructed as the steam yacht \"Adelita\" in the East Boston section of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1881. In private use, her home port was Boston. U.S. Fish Commission. Several years after the U.S. Fish Commission had identified a requirement for a large and seaworthy steamer capable of operating well offshore to support its stations in New England for both fish culture and fisheries science research, the United States Congress authorized the purchase of such a vessel on 3 March 1899. The"}, {"text": "Fish Commission chose \"Adelita\", purchased her on 23 November 1899, and renamed her \"Phalarope\". She was commissioned as USFC \"Phalarope\" in May 1900. The Fish Commission assigned her to its station at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She soon established the annual routine for her career, which involved supporting fish-culture work at Woods Hole and on the Potomac River at the fish hatchery at Bryans Point, Maryland. In June 1903, \"Phalarope\" transported live lobster fry from the fish hatchery at the Fish Commission's Woods Hole station to the Rhode Island Commission of Inland Fisheries floating laboratory at Wickford, Rhode Island, which participated in Fish Commission experiments in breeding lobsters. U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (1903\u20131917). By an Act of Congress of 14 February 1903, the U.S. Fish Commission became part of the newly created United States Department of Commerce and Labor and was reorganized as the United States Bureau of Fisheries, with both the transfer and the name change effective on 1 July 1903. As USFS \"Phalarope\", \"Phalarope\" became part of the Bureau of Fisheries fleet and continued her annual routine of supporting fish-culture activities at Woods Hole and Bryans Point. During fiscal year 1904 (1 July 1903\u201330 June 1904), new copper tanks"}, {"text": "were installed aboard \"Phalarope\" and alterations were made to her engine room and cabin. During the research seasons of both 1904 and 1905, she joined the Bureau of Fisheries research vessel in dredging the waters in the vicinity of Woods Hole as part of a biological survey of the area's marine life, contributing to an ultimate goal of compiling and cataloguing records of the distribution of all the fauna and flora of the region. An accident in 1905 prevented \"Phalarope\" from completing her dredging operations in western Buzzards Bay that summer and delayed further dredging there until 1907, but \"Phalarope\" returned to the dredging operations, joining \"Fish Hawk\" and the launch \"Blue Wing\" in them in the summers of 1906, 1907, 1908, and 1909. By November 1912, \"Phalarope\" was involved in the autumn collection of cod eggs off Sagamore, Massachusetts, for the Woods Hole station. In early 1913, she operated on the Potomac River to collect yellow perch eggs from commercial fishermen and transfer them to a scow anchored in Occoquan Bay on the river's Virginia shoreline that had been converted into a floating fish hatchery. From late November 1913 to 9 January 1914, she again collected cod eggs off"}, {"text": "Sagamore. In autumn 1914, the Bureau of Fisheries stationed her off Plymouth, Massachusetts, for the collection of cod eggs. Each spring from 1915 through 1917, she operated on the Potomac River to assist in hatching American shad. U.S. Navy. The United States entered World War I on 6 April 1917, and on 19 May 1917 the United States Navy took over \"Phalarope\" for war service. After converting her for use as a patrol vessel, the Navy commissioned her as USS \"Phalarope\" on 6 December 1917. The Navy assigned \"Phalarope\" to the section patrol and based her at Woods Hole. She patrolled from Woods Hole through the end of World War I on 11 November 1918 and in its immediate aftermath. After the Navy decommissioned her, it handed her back to the Bureau of Fisheries on 29 July 1919 and officially transferred her back to the Bureau on 2 August 1919. U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (1919\u20131930s). \"Phalarope\" once again became USFS \"Phalarope\". The Bureau of Fisheries reported to the United States Secretary of Commerce in 1919 that the Navy had returned her in good condition. Under an executive order dated 24 May 1919 addressing the disposition of vessels the Navy no"}, {"text": "longer required, the Navy transferred several decommissioned patrol vessels, including and , to the Bureau of Fisheries, which took possession of \"Calypso\" and \"Cobra\" at Quincy, Massachusetts, in July 1919. After her own return to the Bureau, \"Phalarope\" towed \"Calypso\" and \"Cobra\", which the Bureau had renamed USFS \"Merganser\" and USFS \"Petrel\", respectively, to Woods Hole. She then towed \"Merganser\" and \"Petrel\" to the Norfolk Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Virginia, so that they could be loaded aboard the U.S. Navy collier for transportation to the Territory of Alaska, where they were to serve as fishery patrol vessels. After the Bureau took possession of the former Navy patrol vessel \u2013 which the Bureau renamed USFS \"Fulmar\" \u2013 at Quincy in October 1919, \"Phalarope\" towed her to Woods Hole. \"Phalarope\" returned to her routine pre-war duties, supporting fish culture work at the Bureau of Fisheries stations at Woods Hole and on the Potomac River at Bryans Point, Maryland, and later at Fort Humphreys, Virginia. Due to a lack of operating funds during fiscal year 1922 (1 July 1921\u201330 June 1922), her operations were very limited, only occurring at Woods Hole and only during August 1921; her crew was occupied during July, September,"}, {"text": "and October 1921 with getting USFS \"Fulmar\" prepared for fisheries work and with transferring \"Fulmar\" from Woods Hole to her new home port at Charlevoix, Michigan. During the summer and autumn of 1923, \"Phalarope\" made several cruises in Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound using a young-fish trawl and plankton nets to support a study of the seasonal distribution of the species occurring in the Woods Hole area in relation to temperature, salinity, and other physical factors and particularly in relation to the other organisms occurring with them. The information gathered for the study also formed the basis for a later study of the food of larval fish. Late in October 1923 she was stationed at the eastern entrance to the Cape Cod Canal for the annual collection of cod eggs for the Bureau of Fisheries Woods Hole fish hatchery. During the summer of 1924, \"Phalarope\" joined the Bureau of Fisheries steamer in using seining and trawling to conduct a survey of the coast between Mount Desert, Maine, and Woods Hole to support an investigation of the early development of cod, haddock, and pollock off the New England coast by gathering information on the migrations, feeding habits, and enemies of the"}, {"text": "young fish after they leave the surface waters and enter the shallow shore zone. During the rest of fiscal year 1925 (1 July 1924\u201330 June 1925) she followed her usual routine of fish culture work at Woods Hole and Bryans Point. A 1962 publication of the Bureau of Fisheries\u2032 successor organization, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, described \"Phalarope\"\u2032s typical working day at the Bureau's Woods Hole station during the 1920s as follows: The working day at the Fisheries Laboratory usually started with a collecting trip to fish traps, or for dredging or taking plankton samples. The small coal-burning steamer \"Phalarope\" under the command of Capt[ain] R. N. Veeder, was used for this purpose. Fisheries biologists and M[arine] B[iological] L[aboratory] investigators interested in making a trip were welcome. A group desiring to get aboard usually gathered by 9:00 a.m. at the Fisheries dock. Many persons wanted to watch the dredging or seining and were not concerned with obtaining the material. Robert A. Goffin, collector for the Fisheries Laboratory, and two fish culturists formed the collecting crew. With the exception of long trips, which sometimes lasted the whole day, the \"Phalarope\" would return about noontime, early enough for the participants"}, {"text": "to change and be ready for their luncheon, which was served by the MBL mess hall sharply at 1:30 p.m. The collecting trip became so popular, especially when the weather was good, that the number of passengers on board had to be restricted to conform to safety regulations enforced by the United States Coast Guard. If something exciting happened during the trip, for instance the catch of a big shark or large moonfish, everybody would dash to one side of the vessel and cause a dangerous list. In later years, Capt[ain] Veeder refused to take more than 20 persons aboard. In addition to the material needed for research at the Fisheries and collected by the scientists themselves or under their supervision, the \"Phalarope\" brought live fishes for the aquarium, which was open to the public every day of the week. United States Department of Commerce records list \"Phalarope\" as being in the Bureau of Fisheries fleet as of 30 June 1932 but not as of 30 June 1933, indicating that the Bureau retired her sometime during fiscal year 1933 (1 July 1932\u201330 June 1933)."}, {"text": "KXZZ (100.1 FM, \"100.1 Hank FM\") is a commercial radio station licensed to Dayton, Nevada, and serving the Reno metropolitan area and Lake Tahoe. It is owned by Lotus Communications and broadcasts a classic country format. The radio studios are on Plumb Lane in South Reno. KXZZ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 12,000 watts. The transmitter is near Sunil Pandit Road on McClellan Peak northeast of Carson City. Programming is also heard on an FM translator in Crystal Bay, Nevada, K240CA at 95.9 MHz. History. On June 10, 1983, the station first signed on as KLKT. It later used the call sign KZAK from late 1990 to 1997. That year, it switched its call sign to KTHX-FM. The call sign referred to the station's branding as \"The X\". The station aired an adult album alternative (AAA) format. On September 27, 2021, the station announced through their social media that the \"X\" format would \"retire\" later that day; at 5:19p.m., after playing \"Here's Where the Story Ends\" by The Sundays (immediately followed by simulated audio of a DJ leaving the studio and turning off the lights, branded on the station's online playlist as simply \"goodbye X\"- intentionally lowercase- and"}, {"text": "a brief moment of silence), KTHX-FM dropped its longtime AAA format after 24 years on the frequency and 31 years as a whole, and began stunting with instrumental jazz and big band music with sweepers stating that the station was \"on hold\", and emphasizing that \"\"We\" will enjoy\" the upcoming change to the station, set for 10 a.m. on September 30. At the promised time, KTHX-FM flipped to adult hits, branded as \"100.1 We FM\", launching with a typical-for-radio run of 10,000 songs commercial-free, the first being \"Get the Party Started\" by P!nk. Coinciding with the change, Lotus also applied to change the station's call sign to KWEE, which took effect on October 5. The KTHX-FM call sign was transferred to another station owned by Lotus, at 94.5 MHz in Sun Valley, Nevada, an ESPN Radio Network affiliate that previously used the call letters KUUB. By the end of the format's run, it had rebranded as \"100.1 The Hits\". On March 25, 2024, at 5 p.m., the station flipped to classic country as \"100.1 Hank FM\". The station changed its call sign to KXZZ on March 26."}, {"text": "Edvard Sandvik Tagseth (born 23 January 2001) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Nashville SC. Career. Liverpool. Edvard Tagseth first caught the attention of the public when he played Norway Cup in 2014 for his hometown team Neset. He later signed a deal with Liverpool as a 14 year old. The first year he trained one week with the Academy every month while the second year he trained two weeks every month. When he turned 16 years old he became a full-time part of the Liverpool F.C. Reserves and Academy. He stayed there until the summer of 2019, when he chose not to renew his contract with the Academy. Rosenborg. Tagseth then later joined Rosenborg in August 2019. He made his first-team debut on 3 October when he came on as a substitute in Rosenborg's Europa League match against PSV Eindhoven. Three days later he got his first start in a league match against Haugesund. Nashville SC. On 19 November 2024, MLS club Nashville SC announced that Tagseth would join the club in January 2025."}, {"text": "Constraints is a quarterly peer-reviewed, scientific journal, focused on constraint programming, constraint satisfaction and optimization. It is published by Springer and was founded in 1996. Its 2018 impact factor is 1.106. Abstracting and indexing. The journal is abstracted and indexed in:"}, {"text": "David Gaines (born October 20, 1961) is an American composer. Biography. He wrote the first orchestral symphony to incorporate texts written in Esperanto, and an Esperanto choral song, \"Povas Plori Mi Ne Plu\" (\"I Can Cry No Longer\"), which concerns the former military situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This song won First Prize at the 1995 World Esperanto Association's \"Belartaj Konkursoj\" (competitions in the field of \"Belles lettres\") in Tampere. Gaines holds degrees in music composition from Northwestern University, American University, and Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Conservatory of Music. His Esperanto symphony, available as a CD with Vit Micka conducting and Kimball Wheeler singing mezzo-soprano, was premiered by the Moravian Philharmonic in Olomouc, Czech Republic in October 2000. The four movements feature texts originally written by renowned Esperantists including L. L. Zamenhof and Marjorie Boulton, as well as Bulgarian poet Penka Papazova and Gaines himself. Within the Esperanto movement, Gaines serves as an advisory board member of the Esperantic Studies Foundation and holds the title of Honorary President of the Music Esperanto League (\"Muzika Esperanto-Ligo\")."}, {"text": "Haraldsgade () is an approximately 1.1 km long street in the outer N\u00f8rrebro and \u00d8sterbro districts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Tagensvej in the southwest to Lyngbyvej in the northeast. Skjolds Plads Station, a station on the Copenhagen Metro City Circle Line, is located at the beginning of the street. The station takes its name after Skjolds Plads, a small square located off the east side of the street. The southwestern end of the street was closed to through traffic in connection with the opening of the metro station. History. The street originates in an old country lane that connected Tagensvej and Lyngbyvej across R\u00e5dmandsmarken. Grundtvigs H\u00f8jskole, a folk high school, opened in an old farm by the road on 3 November 1856. The folk high school was given the name Marielyst after N.F.S. Grundtvig's second wife, Marie Toft, and was financed through a public collection on the occasion of Grundtvig's 70th birthsday. It relocated to Lyngby Agricultural School's former premises in 1890. The street received its current name in 1880. A masterplan for redevelopment of the surrounding area was created but the area was at the turn of the century still dominated by market gardens. The northernmost part"}, {"text": "of the street turned east to meet Lyngbyvej in a right angle. This short section of the street was renamed Ragnagade in 1920. Haraldsgade was instead continued straight northeastwards to meet Lyngbyvej a little further to the north. This new section of the street was initially given the name Ny Haraldsgade (\"New Harald Street\") but renamed Haraldsgade in 1930. Lauritz Knudsen, a manufacturer of electric watches and other appliances, established a factory at No. 53 in 1932. It existed until 1968. Notable buildings and residents. One of the older apartment buildings in the street is Haraldsgade 7\u20139. The building is from 1912 to 1915 and was designed by Charles Jacob Schou. The housing dev elopement at Haraldsgade 8 is from 1936 and was designed by Arthur Wittmaack and Vilhelm Hvals\u00f8e. At the northern end of the street is a development of so-called building association houses constructed by Arbejdernes Byggeforening to provide affordable housing for working-class families. A number of other such developments are scattered across the city. It was constructed in 1931-1932 and is thus one of the youngest of these developments. The architect was Christen Larsen. Public art. A memorial was in 1956 unveiled at the site where Grundtvigs"}, {"text": "H\u00f8jskole (Marielyst H\u00f8jskole) was once located. It was designed by Hans Wilhelm Larsen and Tue Myling-Petersen and. \"Larva\" a granite sculpture by Lily Troels\u00f8 Borring meant for children to vlinmb on, was installed at the entrance to Haraldsgade Post Office (Studsg\u00e5rdsgade 1) in 1993. Transport. Skjolds Plads Station, a Copenhagen Metro City Circle Line station, is located at the beginning of the street. The main staircase is located in the central reservation of the street and faces Tagensvej. A secondary staircase is located at Skjolds Plads."}, {"text": "Sir Edwin Sandys ( \u2013 15 March 1608) was an English politician, MP for Andover 1586\u20131587. He was the eldest son of Miles Sandys (brother of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York) and his first wife Hester Clifton. Sandys and his brothers may be the \"Sandes\" who appear in the registers of Eton College, in which case Edwin Sandys attended 1574\u20131575. He entered the Middle Temple in 1579. On 2 June 1586 he married Elizabeth Sandys, daughter of William, 3rd Baron Sandys of The Vyne. (Despite the name, the two families had different origins: the family of Archbishop Sandys originated in Cumbria, while the Barons Sandys had their seat at The Vyne, Hampshire.) They had three sons, of which the youngest, but the only one to leave children, was Colonel Henry Sandys, 5th Baron Sandys. Sandys was elected MP for Andover in 1586, but sat in only one Parliament. In the following Parliament of 1589, Sandys was replaced by his brother-in-law Thomas Temple. He was knighted in Ireland in 1599, and was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire from February to November 1606. He died on 15 March 1608."}, {"text": "Lenka Zdeborov\u00e1 (born 24 November 1980) is a Czech physicist and computer scientist who applies methods from statistical physics to machine learning and constraint satisfaction problems. She is a professor of physics and computer science and communication systems at EPFL (\u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne). Life. Zdeborov\u00e1 was born in Plze\u0148 and attended a local grammar school where she excelled in math and physics. After living in France with her family and working at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), she and her partner moved to Switzerland in 2020. They are currently raising their two children there. Education and career. Zdeborov\u00e1 earned a master's degree in physics at Charles University in 2004, and 2008, completed an international dual doctorate (\"en cotutelle\") at both Charles University and University of Paris-Sud. Her doctoral advisors were V\u00e1clav Jani\u0161 at Charles University, and Marc M\u00e9zard at Paris-Sud. After postdoctoral research at the Center for Nonlinear Studies of Los Alamos National Laboratory, she became a researcher for the French Centre National de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 2010, posted at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission's Institut de physique th\u00e9orique - IPhT Saclay in Paris-Saclay. She also earned a habilitation in"}, {"text": "2015 at the \u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure (Paris). After receiving her habilitation, she undertook a research fellowship in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Since 2020, she has been working at EPFL (\u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne) as an Associate Professor of physics, and of computer science and communication systems in the Schools of Basic Sciences and of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC), and is the head of Laboratory of Statistical Physics of Computation. Recognition. Zdeborov\u00e1 won the CNRS Bronze medal in 2014. In 2016, the \u00c9cole Normale sup\u00e9rieure (Paris) gave her the Philippe Meyer Prize in theoretical physics for her work in Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems. She is the 2018 winner of the Ir\u00e8ne Joliot-Curie Prize for young female scientists earned by standing out throughout her career.. She was also received the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship of the American Mathematics Society and gave her Gibbs lecture in 2021."}, {"text": "Springburn/Robroyston (Ward 17) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. Created as Springburn, in 2007 and in 2012 it returned three council members, using the single transferable vote system. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the boundaries were changed, the ward increased in size and population (the latter by 20%), was renamed \"Springburn/Robroyston\" and returned four members. Boundaries. Located in the north of Glasgow, the original core of the ward centred around the district of Springburn (including the neighbourhoods of Stobhill, Old Balornock, Petershill and Balgrayhill), as well as part of Cowlairs (streets to the east of the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line railway tracks which form the ward's western boundary), and part of Colston (streets to the east of Springburn Road and south of Colston Road - north of this belongs to the adjoining town of Bishopbriggs in East Dunbartonshire which forms the northern boundary). The 2017 changes were substantial: the southern boundary was moved north from the M8 motorway to the Cumbernauld Line railway, with the Royston, Germiston and Sighthill neighbourhoods assigned to a new Dennistoun ward along with commercial/industrial land at Blochairn and St Rollox. However, territory further east was reassigned from"}, {"text": "the North East ward into the Springburn ward, which was renamed as a result: Robroyston, Barmulloch, Wallacewell, Balornock and the streets in Millerston within Glasgow were all added; the eastern boundary is now with North Lanarkshire. Election results. 2022 election. 2022 Glasgow City Council election 2017 election. 2017 Glasgow City Council election 2012 election. 2012 Glasgow City Council election 2007 election. 2007 Glasgow City Council election"}, {"text": "The Canadian Academy of Independent Scholars is a former association of independent scholars in Canada. One of the largest organizations for independent scholars in the world, it is patroned by John Ralston Saul. The academy was founded at Simon Fraser University, where it grew out of a series of informal discussions among academics known as the Philosophers' Caf\u00e9 that began in the late 1990s. The organization became inactive in 2020 following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada."}, {"text": "Pyrrocoma liatriformis is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Its common names include Palouse goldenweed and smallhead goldenweed. It is native to the northwestern United States, where it is endemic to the Palouse prairie, growing in grassland dominated by blue bunchgrass. It is a perennial herb growing from a taproot, producing one to three stems up to 70 centimeters (28 inches) in length. The stems are erect and hairy. Leaves near the base of the plant are larger and rounder than the leaves connected to the stem, which are lanceolate and hairy. Basal leaves measure 80\u2013310 millimeters long and 9\u201330 millimeters wide, whereas cauline leaves measure 30\u2013120 millimeters long and 5\u201320 millimeters wide. The inflorescence is four to five heads arranged in a raceme. Each head is composed of 17\u201325 yellow ray florets, each 6\u201314.5 millimeters in length, as well as 35\u201360 disc florets, each 7\u201311 millimeters in length. Originally known only from eastern Washington and adjacent northern Idaho, a joint survey by the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management in 2011 confirmed the presence of \"P. liatriformis\" in extreme northeastern Oregon. The same survey also found another goldenweed species not previously found"}, {"text": "in Oregon, the similar \"P. scaberula\", which is native to Idaho grasslands in the Snake River Canyon. The species is classified by NatureServe as imperiled. Since much of the native Palouse prairie has been converted for agriculture, habitat loss is a primary factor threatening this species, along with competition from invasive weeds. It is not listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act."}, {"text": "Darwin S. Karr (1875\u20131945) was an American stage and silent film actor. He appeared in over 140 films up to 1922. He began appearing in films by the Vitagraph company. He was married to Florence Bindley. Personal life and death. Karr was married to Florence Bindley. On December 31, 1945, Karr died of complications cardiovascular disease (CVD) follow heart attack. His body was cremated at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S (Los Angeles Country)."}, {"text": "Claudia Nicole Torres Garc\u00eda (born 28 February 2000) is a Dominican footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for American college Bridgeport Purple Knights and the Dominican Republic national team. International career. Torres has appeared for the Dominican Republic at the 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification."}, {"text": "The 2020 Auburn Tigers baseball team represented Auburn University in the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Tigers played their home games at Plainsman Park. Previous season. The Tigers finished 38\u201328 overall, and 14\u201316 in the conference. The Tigers won the Atlanta Regional and the Chapel Hill Super Regional in the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball tournament to advance to the College World Series for the first time since 1997. Schedule Source:"}, {"text": "Libros Schmibros is a lending library located in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, a predominantly Latinx neighborhood. The diversity among the residents means there is great \"language diversity within Boyle Heights\" as there are many bilingual individuals. Local libraries in the Boyle Heights area started closing on Mondays, and not one of the public libraries offered \"bilingual story hours for children\". The literary desert forming in Boyle Heights and the lack of access to bilingual media were the founders' of Libros Schmibros, David Kipen and Colleen Jaurretche, primary motivations in creating the lending library. History. The library was founded by University of California: Los Angeles (UCLA) professors David Kipen and Colleen Jaurretche in 2010. Since its opening, over 20,000 books have been circulated in the community of Boyle Heights among the over 2,000 members of the lending library. with a large collection of bilingual books. In 2018, the lending library relocated across the street to the \"corner of Boyle Avenue and East First Street\" and into the historic Boyle Hotel, a landmark for the city of Los Angeles with great significance to Boyle Heights. The hotel was originally a social hub for many residents of Boyle Heights until the building eventually"}, {"text": "fell into disrepair. The city of Los Angeles declared it a historical landmark which lead to the building's renovation in 2012. The application process for the Boyle Hotel location was competitive, but co-founder Kipen won the property through an essay contest. Libros Schmibros has since been redesigned. In September 2019, the co-founders hired the Rachel Allen Development Architecture Research (RADAR), a local interior design firm, to reorganize and redecorate their new location. The redesign has made the 800 square foot space more colorful and more open. The lending library has been working towards achieving their goal of providing all individuals regardless of background or wealth with books. Significance. Libros Schmibros' objective is to put \"low-or no-cost books into all hands, native and immigrant, Eastside and West\". Their mission statement highlights the fact that Libros Schmibros' intention is to bring the community of Boyle Heights regardless of an individual's background, together. The lending library's focus on supplying bilingual books has served community members that speak one language, multiple languages, or even those that do not speak English. Libros Schmibros specifically provides opportunities for children to engage with literature and books. At the lending library, they offer monthly Children's Reading Hour, services"}, {"text": "that put writers into local classrooms, and activities like Bicycle Libraries in collaboration with The Metabolic Studio, which gives students and children the ability to have libraries on the move with model bikes that have book carriers. Libros Schmibros frequently introduces new programs, services, and activities to keep members of the Boyle Heights community interacting with literature."}, {"text": "Francesca Manfredi (Reggio Emilia, 1988) is an Italian author. Biography. In 2015, Francesca was one of the authors who produced the theatre series \"6Bianca\" for Turin's Teatro Stabile. She holds courses at Turin's creative writing school Scuola Holden, which was founded in 1994 by Italian author Alessandro Baricco. Here, she met the American literary agent Andrew Wylie, on the occasion of a guest lecture that he held, and he later became her representative. Some of her works were published on the Italian magazine \"Linus\" and on the newspaper Corriere della Sera. In an interview, she claimed to have been influenced by Raymond Carver's minimalism. Her first collection of short stories, \"Un buon posto dove stare\" was awarded the \"Premio Campiello\" in the \"Opera Prima 2017\" section. In 2019, she published her first novel, \"L'impero della polvere\" with the publishing house \"La nave di Teseo\"."}, {"text": "Hu Yamei (; 27 April 1923 \u2013 3 October 2019) was a Chinese physician and medical researcher. She served as President of Beijing Children's Hospital, and co-founded Beijing Hu Yamei Children's Medical Research Institute (BHI). She was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. A specialist in the treatment of pediatric leukemia, she cured more than 700 children. Biography. Hu was born into a wealthy businessman's family on April 27, 1923. In 1941 she was accepted to Yenching University, and transferred to Peking University in March of the following year. In 1946, she joined the underground organization of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Shortly after joining the Communist Party, she came to practice at the Beijing Private Children's Hospital. Hu has pioneered research on childhood leukemia in China since 1976., when she was 53 years old. In 1981, Hu became president of Beijing Children's Hospital, a affiliated hospital of the Capital Normal University. Hu was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) in 1994. In 2011, Hu founded the Beijing Hu Yamei Children's Medical Research Institute (BHI) with academician Zhang Jinzhe. On August 6, 2009, the then Premier Wen Jiabao visited her in Beijing. Hu died"}, {"text": "of illness in Beijing, aged 96. Hu was a delegate to the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th National People's Congress. Hu was also a delegate to the 12th and 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party."}, {"text": "Mateja Kraljevic (born 1 September 1993) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Born in Menziken, Kraljevic represented Switzerland in a 2009 Fed Cup tie against Australia in Mildura, as a 15 year old. She appeared in both a singles and doubles match, which were both dead rubbers. In the singles she upset her much higher ranked opponent Jessica Moore in three sets, then partnered with Amra Sadikovi\u0107 in the doubles against Jelena Dokic and Rennae Stubbs, which was abandoned midway through the second set due to bad light. Kraljevic, a right-handed player, won her only ITF title in the doubles at \u0160ibenik in 2011, which was her final year on tour. She gave up on tennis to complete her schooling and went on study medicine."}, {"text": "Dudkino () is a rural locality (a village) in Oktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. Dudkino is located 18 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Serkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dyakonovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Styopantsevskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. Geography. Dyakonovo is located 35 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Korovintsevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yerofeyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Posyolok Nikologory, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 266 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Yerofeyevo is located 24 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Stepkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vasa Pomori\u0161ac (15 December 1893 \u2014 9 September 1961) was a Serbian artist and professor at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. He worked as a painter, stained glass window maker, etcher, printmaker and he was also an art critic. He is considered an expressionist painter in the same category as his contemporaries Mihajlo Petrov, Ivan Radovi\u0107, Petar Dobrovi\u0107, and Jovan Bijeli\u0107. Biography. Pomori\u0161ac was born in the Serbian town of Modo\u0161 (now Ja\u0161a Tomi\u0107) in what was then part of the Austrian Empire. He first studied painting with Stevan Aleksi\u0107 until 1913, when he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was briefly a student of Gabriel von Hackl, Franz von Stuck and Angelo Jank. At Munich, he met fellow student \u017divorad Nastasijevi\u0107 (1893-1966), who became a close friend. His studies were interrupted by a period of national service between 1914 and 1918, when he served in the Austrian Army at the Russian front and after surrendering to the Russians, he joined the First Serbian Volunteer Division which participated with the Russians and Romanians against the Central Powers in the Battle of Dobruja, where he was wounded. Pomori\u0161ac was taken to a Moscow hospital"}, {"text": "where he soon recovered and spent the next year convalescing and at the same time familiarizing himself with the art treasures of the city and the works of great Russian painters. As a non-combatant, he was transferred from Imperial Russia to Greece, where he received the status of a \"war painter\" at the Photographic section (\"Fotografska sekcija\") of the Serbian Supreme Command (\"Vrhovna komanda\") in Salonika and worked in the Thessaloniki Atelier. After the war, on his return to Belgrade in 1919 he visits a Munich alumnus Ljubo Babi\u0107 in Zagreb and enrolls in life-drawing classes given by Beta Vukanovi\u0107 at the Arts and Crafts School in Belgrade. After graduation, with his friend Ljubomir Ivanovi\u0107 he visits Serbian monasteries and copies frescoes and murals in Serbian villages in Hungary and Romanian Banat. He then went to London where he attended classes at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art while learning the craft of stained glass painting. He trained in London from 1920 to 1924 where he specialized in drawing and architecture at Saint Martin's (1921-1922) and took extra courses in stained glass painting at London's Central School of Art and Design (1922-1924), becoming the first"}, {"text": "known Serbian artist to work in that medium. There he spent time visiting museums, galleries and castles studying all kinds of aspects of arts and architecture but found England still under the influence of John Ruskin. He attended lectures by artist Percy J. Delf Smith, sculptor George Frampton, and architect William Lethaby whose visions followed the modern European trends, including his own. He returned to Belgrade in 1924. Since he was out of work, he accepted a commission from the Roman Catholic Church community in Ja\u0161a Tomi\u0107 to paint an altar icon in the Catholic Church, then being restored in the neo-Gothic style. At the School of Arts and Crafts, he replaced Beta Vukanovi\u0107 as a teaching master from 1930 to 1931. In Belgrade, Pomori\u0161ac's stained glass work gave the Cvijeta Zuzori\u0107 Art Pavilion \"a trendy Art Deco look\". Paris was his home from 1935 to 1939. Since 1942 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgarde and since 1950 at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. He was a member of the Association of Warrior Painters and Sculptors of the 1912-1918 Wars, Lada, among the founders of \"Zograf\" (Painters) and the Association of Qualified"}, {"text": "Fine Artists in Belgrade. In 1944 he became a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS). In addition to engaging in the original painting, he often copied frescoes from our medieval churches and monasteries, which he exhibited in London and Paris, and gave three copies of frescoes from Manasija monastery to the Maritime Office at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Art career. Vasa Pomori\u0161ac believed that art was an organic part of society. It must be grounded in traditional creativity and such as to oppose modernism that is foreign to our cultural mentality. The \"Zograf\" (Painters) group was formed around this ideology and contained artists of the same or similar orientation - painters Stanislav Belo\u017eanski, \u017divorad Nastasijevi\u0107, Zdravko Sekuli\u0107, Josin Car, Ilija Kolarovi\u0107, Svetolik Luki\u0107, Radmila Milojkovi\u0107, Zdravko Sekuli\u0107 and architects Bogdan Nestorovi\u0107 and Branislav Koji\u0107. Modernist criticism saw them as a national anachronism and therefore inappropriate to the new age. Pomori\u0161ac especially emphasized his attachment to the past, Serbian and Byzantine, which he knew well and brought into his painting spiritually. He often copied murals from our medieval churches and monasteries that he exhibited in London and Paris. He was a very popular portrait"}, {"text": "painter and often expressed himself in that genre. Basically, his stylistic development ranged from moderate constructivism, through neo-classicism to cool, monochrome colorism. It is a very special and distinguished phenomenon in Serbian painting between the two world wars. Pomori\u0161ac is Serbia's first painter to paint on glass. Of his many works of this kind, which he produced before Belgrade became a victim of Axis and Allied bombing in World War II, only pieces that remained are the stained glass in the Old Palace and the Metropol Hotel. He is the author of a banknote, issued by the National Bank of Yugoslavia, of 100 dinars, dated July 15, 1934, and of 1,000 dinars, dated September 6, 1935, which was not put into circulation. Both notes feature compositions inspired by national history. He is also the author of 1,000 dinars banknote, man and woman in national costume, with many details and symbols, but of a dark color, bearing the date of May 1, 1942, published by the Serbian National Bank, during the period of Nazi occupation."}, {"text": "Zhartsy () is a rural locality (a village) in Oktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2010. Geography. Zhartsy is located 21 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Agafonovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zhary () is a rural locality (a village) in Mstyora Urban Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2010. Geography. Zhary is located 29 km northwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ramenye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zhelnino () is a rural locality (a village) in Posyolok Nikologory, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 23 as of 2010. Geography. Zhelnino is located 26 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ivankovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zaborochye () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 39 as of 2010. Geography. Zaborochye is located on the Istok River, 8 km north of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Artemkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zavrazhye () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. Zavrazhye is located on the Klyazma River, 17 km east of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Oltushevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Han Qiwei (; 2 November 1933 \u2013 1 October 2019) was a Chinese hydraulic engineer and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Biography. Han was born in Songzi, Hubei, on 2 November 1933. In 1956 he graduated from today's Wuhan University. From 1962 to 1980 he worked at the River Research Laboratory, Changjiang Academy of Sciences. He worked at China Water Conservancy and Hydropower Research Institute since 1980. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) in 2001. He died of illness in Beijing, aged 86."}, {"text": "Zarechny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Mstyora Urban Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 321 as of 2010. Geography. Zarechny is located on the Tara River, 22 km northwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Slobodka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Chisholm Commercial Historic District is the historic business district of Chisholm, Minnesota, United States. It consists of one and two-story commercial buildings as well as some civic buildings and a park, all constructed after a fire on September 5, 1908, destroyed the community's original downtown and before the Wall Street Crash of 1929 put an end to Chisholm's early-20th-century heyday. The district comprises both sides of Lake Street West between Central Avenue and 4th Avenue West, as well as some properties on the east sides of Central Avenue and 1st Avenue. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016 for its local significance in the themes of commerce, entertainment/recreation, and social history. The district was nominated for its association with the establishment of Chisholm as an economic, social, and civic hub on the Mesabi Range. At the time of its National Register nomination, the historic district consisted of 55 contributing properties. There were also 31 non-contributing properties, either constructed after 1929 or altered in ways that compromised their historical character."}, {"text": "Zakharovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Paustovskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Zakharovka is located 26 km south of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Klimovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kim Clijsters and Janette Hus\u00e1rov\u00e1 were the defending champions, but none competed this year. Clijsters decided to focus on the singles tournament, which she ended winning. Maria Sharapova and Tamarine Tanasugarn won the title by defeating Elena Tatarkova and Marlene Weing\u00e4rtner 6\u20131, 6\u20134 in the final."}, {"text": "Zelyonye Prudy () is a rural locality (a village) in Styopantsevskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. The village is located on the Vazhel River, 10 km south from Styopantsevo, 41 km south-west from Vyazniki."}, {"text": "Zlobayevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Paustovskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 51 as of 2010. Geography. Zlobayevo is located on the Indrus River, 39 km south of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ananyino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zobishchi () is a rural locality (a village) in Oktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 32 as of 2010. Geography. Zobishchi is located 15 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Luknovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zolotaya Griva () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population is 2 as of 2010. It is 7 km northeast of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ivanovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ivanovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Ivanovka is located 4 km north of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zolotaya Griva is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ivankovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Posyolok Nikologory, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Ivankovo is located 25 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zhelnino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Igumentsy () is a rural locality (a village) in Oktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2010. Geography. Igumentsy is located 14 km west of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolshoy Kholm is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ilevniki () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 23 as of 2010. Geography. Ilevniki is 11 km southeast of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yar is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ilyina Gora () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 34 as of 2010. Geography. Ilyina Gora is located on the Klyazma River, 17 km east of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Perovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Isayevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Paustovskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. Geography. Isayevo is located 15 km south of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Babukhino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Isakovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Mstyora Urban Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2010. Geography. Isakovka is located on the Tara River, 28 km northwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krutovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kalikino () is a rural locality (a village) in Oktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. Geography. Kalikino is located 12 km west of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Oktyabrsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kality () is a rural locality (a village) in Mstyora Urban Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Kality is located 19 km northwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Timino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kamenevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Paustovskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Kamenevo is located 26 km southeast of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Glinishchi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kika () is a rural locality (a village) in Oktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 29 as of 2010. Geography. Kika is located 10 km west of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Senkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chiara Valerio (born 3 March 1978) is an Italian author and essayist. Early life and education. Valerio was born in Scauri, in the province of Latina as part of the Lazio region, in 1978. Although she went on to live in Rome, she spent her childhood and youth in Scauri. She studied and later taught mathematics for many years. With a thesis about probability, Valerio obtained a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Naples Federico II, and started working as editor. Career. Valerio began her career as editor for the Italian magazine \"Nuovi Argomenti\", and contributed to the literary blog \"Nazione Indiana\". During her career, she wrote for the radio and theatre, and worked with the newspapers \"Domani\", \"La Repubblica\", \"Il Sole 24 Ore\", and \"L'Unit\u00e0\", the magazine \"Vanity Fair\", the weekly publication \"L'Espresso\", and the monthly publication \"Amica\", as well as with the cultural broadcasting \"Pane quotidiano\" on the Italian national television channel Rai 3, among other TV programms. Valerio directed the series \"Narrativa.it\" for the publishing house Nottetempo, which is dedicated to the emerging writers of Italian fiction. Together with Anna Antonelli, Fabiana Carobolante, and Lorenzo Pavolini, she started working as editor for the radio broadcast \"Ad"}, {"text": "alta voce\" and \"L'isola destra\" on Rai Radio 3. In 2010, one of her radio plays, titled \"\u00c8 vostra la vita che ho perso\", was broadcast on Radio 3. Valerio participated in the writing of the main character of Nanni Moretti's film \"Mia Madre\", together with Moretti, Valia Santella, and Gaia Manzini, as well as in that of Gianni Amelio's film \"Tenderness\", together with Amelio and Alberto Taraglio. In 2018, she became an editor-in-chief for the section dedicated to Italian narrative of the publishing house Marsilio, and ideated the PassaParola series. In October 2016, Valerio was named cultural director for Tempo di Libri, the newly created Milan book fair. Her pamphlet \"Matematica \u00e8 politics\" was part of the five finalists for the 2021 Galileo Literary Prize for Scientific Dissemination. With Michela Murgia, she wrote the theatre show \"Phon \u2013 Istruzioni per l'uso\", bringing it to the stage on 9 May 2022 at the Teatro Carcano in Milan. In 2023, Valerio worked as editor for the 22th edition of the book fair Pi\u00f9 libri pi\u00f9 liberi, and wrote her second pamphlet, published by Giulio Einaudi and titled \"La tecnologia \u00e8 religione\". In 2024, she wrote \"Chi dice e chi tace\", which"}, {"text": "was published by Sellerio Editore and nominated to the Premio Campiello. Awards. In 2004, Valerio won the Premio Carver Narrativa for \"A complicare le cose\". In 2007, the literature festival of the city of Mantua, Festivaletteratura, chose Valerio as the Italian author for \"Yound Writings 2007\". In 2014, she won the Premio Fiesole Narrativa Under 40 with \"Almanacco del giorno prima\". In 2020, she won the Premio Mondello for \"Il cuore non si vede\". In 2022, Valerio won the Premio The Bridge Narrativa for \"Cos\u00ec per sempre\"."}, {"text": "Natasha Wanganeen (born 20 June 1984) is an Aboriginal Australian actress. She is known for her starring role in the 2002 feature film \"Rabbit-Proof Fence\" and numerous television roles. She made her debut as co-writer and co-producer in a 2022 short film, an Indigenous sci-fi drama entitled \"Bunker: The Last Fleet\", about an alien invasion of Australia. She also played the lead in the film. Early life. Wanganeen was born in Point Pearce, South Australia, moving to Port Adelaide when she was five years old. She is a Ngarrindjeri, Narungga, Kaurna and Noongar woman. Career. Wanganeen appeared in \"Rabbit-Proof Fence\" (released 2002), playing a dormitory boss at the age of 15, and the made-for-TV film \"Jessica\" directed by Peter Andrikidis and released in 2004. In 2017, she starred as a zombie-killer in the dystopian thriller \"Cargo\". Also in 2017, she played the role of Gilyagan in Kate Grenville's play \"The Secret River\" presented during the Adelaide Festival in March, having previously played a different role in the 2015 two-part TV series of the same name. She played Mary, mother of a talented gymnast, in feature film \"\", released in 2019, and in the same year played a ghoul in the"}, {"text": "horror film \"Dark Place\". In June 2020, Wanganeen was writing a script for her own independent film, \"Battle of the Ancestors\", set 60,000 years ago against a backdrop of Aboriginal mythology, including Dreamtime stories and characters she knows from here childhood years. She is being supported by Screen Australia and the South Australian Film Corporation in this endeavour, and is in talks with local production companies who are interested in seeing it made. Wanganeen was on the jury for the Feature Fiction and Documentary awards at the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival. Television roles include playing Mary Ann Bugg, a late 19th-century bushranger, in \"Drunk History Australia\" (Network 10, 2020) and a chef in \"Aftertaste\" (Closer Productions/ABC Comedy, 2021). She plays a government official in \"2067\", a sci-fi thriller feature film directed by Seth Larney released in 2020. Originally intended as a sci-fi series, \"Bunker: The Last Fleet\", co-written by Wanganeen, Stephen Potter, and Rowan Pullen, directed by the latter two, and co-produced by the three of them and others, was inspired by Afrofuturism. It was first released as a short film, with the intention of growing into a feature film. It had its Australian premiere at the St Kilda Film"}, {"text": "Festival in June 2022, with multiple screenings following around Australia (including Revelation Perth International Film Festival and Adelaide Film Festival) and internationally. Wanganeen plays Tjarra, an Aboriginal warrior in Australia 37 years in the future, and Kaurna elder Uncle Fred Agius plays the role of an elder. Trevor Jamieson (who is a cousin) gave cultural advice and also plays a role in the film. The film was filmed entirely in the South Australian desert. As the first Aboriginal sci-fi move, it is described as a \"cheeky take on the First Fleet in Australia\". In 2023, she appeared in Ivan Sen's mystery, crime drama \"Limbo\", which was nominated in 'competition section' at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, to be held from February 16 to 26, 2023. Activism. In 2018, Wanganeen advocated for greater cultural diversity in Australian screen culture, saying \"There are not enough black faces on our screens and talking about it is a constructive conversation that we need to have\". She expressed her pleasure at the portrayal of Aboriginal people in \"Cargo\" (2017) as \"living free and strong on the land\". Wanganeen was one of the organisers of the Black Lives Matter protest in Adelaide on 6 June"}, {"text": "2020, which focussed on racism and injustices against Indigenous Australians, in particular high rates of incarceration and Aboriginal deaths in custody. Personal life. Wanganeen lives in Port Adelaide. She is related to Australian rules footballer Gavin Wanganeen, and actor and playwright Trevor Jamieson is a cousin."}, {"text": "Rebecca Barnett is a New Zealand professional squash player. She represents New Zealand national women's squash team in international competitions. Her twin brother Jonathan Barnett is also a squash player. She is also one of the prominent squash players to have represented New Zealand in international level. Career. Barnett developed an interest initially in advertising during the early part of her career as a youngster. She also took an interest in broadcasting, however she changed gears to pursue her higher studies at the Massey University in Palmerston North. She also pursued her career as a squash player playing for the Lower Hutt Mitchell Park Squash Clib while spending her first year as a college going student at the Massey University. She and her brother competed at the 2012 New Zealand Junior Open and interestingly both of them emerged as winners in their respective singles events. She emerged at the youth level notably at the 2013 Women's World Junior Squash Championships where she reached quarter finals and for her reputed performance in the competition, she was named in the New Zealand squad for the 2014 Women's World Team Squash Championships. She also made few international appearances since 2011 prior to her"}, {"text": "maiden Women's World Team Squash Championships. However New Zealand were knocked out of the first round of the tournament. In 2018, she was also awarded the Rookie Marketer of the Year by Loyalty New Zealand."}, {"text": "State Route 235 (SR 235) is a north\u2013south state highway in Middle Tennessee. It connects Dickson to Cunningham via Sylvia, Vanleer, and Slayden. Route description. SR 235 begins in Dickson County as the unsigned companion route of US 70 Business in Dickson at an intersection with US 70/SR 1 (Henslee Drive/College Street). They go west along College Street to pass through a business district and by a hospital to have an intersection with SR 46 (Mathis Drive). The highway then passes through downtown, where it has an intersection with SR 48 (Church Street), before passing through neighborhoods and coming to another intersection with US 70/SR 1 (Henslee Drive), which is now concurrent with SR 46. Here, US 70 Business ends and SR 235 turns west on US 70/SR 1/SR 46 for a short distance before splitting off and turning north along West End Avenue, concurrent with SR 46. SR 46/SR 235 head northwest to leave Dickson and pass through residential areas, where SR 235 splits off to follow Sylvia Road and becomes signed for the first time. SR 235 heads north through farmland to pass by the Dickson County Municipal Airport before passing through the community of Sylvia. Shortly thereafter,"}, {"text": "SR 235 becomes concurrent with SR 49 and heads northwest to pass through Vanleer along Broad Street and School Street. SR 235 then splits off along Slayden-Marion Road to leave Vanleer and head north to pass through Slayden before entering hilly terrain and crossing into Montgomery County. The highway winds its way north through rural and hilly terrain as Marion Road for the next several miles before coming to an end just west of Cunningham at an intersection with SR 13."}, {"text": "is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in NPB for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Professional career. Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. On October 26, 2017, Takahashi was drafted by the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks in the 2017 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. On April 22, 2018, Takahashi pitched his debut game against the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters as a starting pitcher. In 2018 season, he finished the regular season with a 12 Games pitched, a 0\u20131 Win\u2013loss record, a 3.00 ERA, a 15 strikeouts in 30 innings. And he pitched against the Hiroshima Toyo Carp as a relief pitcher in the 2018 Japan Series. On March 31, 2019, Takahashi won the game for the first time in the Pacific League. Through 2019, he was 12-6 with two saves and a 3.34 ERA in 62 games (3 starts). On October 20, he pitched against the Yomiuri Giants as a starting pitcher, and won the game for the first time in the Japan Series. And he was honored with the 2019 Japan Series Excellent Player Award. On November 26, Takahashi was honored with the 2019 Pacific League Rookie of the Year Award and 2019"}, {"text": "Pacific League Speed Up Award in NPB AWARDS 2019. In 2020 season, Takahashi hurt his left thigh during spring training. As a result, he pitched as a relief pitcher in the 2020 season and finished the regular season with a 52 Games pitched, a 4\u20132 Win\u2013loss record, a 2.65 ERA, a 23 Holds, a 29 strikeouts in 51 innings. In the 2020 Japan Series against the Yomiuri Giants, He pitched in Game 2 and Game 4 as a relief pitcher, with no hits no runs in both games and a Hold in Game 4 to contribute to the team's fourth consecutive Japan Series champion. In 2021, takahashi finished the regular season with 11 Games pitched, a 1\u20131 Win\u2013loss record, a 5.82 ERA, a 14 strikeouts in 34 innings. In 2022, he pitched only 4 Games, a 0\u20130 Win\u2013loss record, a 13.50 ERA, a 2 strikeouts in 3.1 innings. In 2023, Takahashi played as a starting pitcher but only pitched in 5 games. Yomiuri Giants. On November 6, 2023, Takahashi and Keisuke Izumi were traded to the Yomiuri Giants exchange for Adam Brett Walker. International career. Takahashi represented the Japan national baseball team in the 2015 Summer Universiade, 2018 MLB Japan"}, {"text": "All-Star Series, 2019 exhibition games against Mexico, and 2019 WBSC Premier12 tournament. On October 18, 2018, he was selected at the 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series. On October 1, 2019, he was selected at the 2019 WBSC Premier12. He led the tournament in groundouts induced, with 21. Pitching style. Takahashi is a tall pitcher and he has a style of delivery that transitions from starting at windup position with his baseball glove raised above the head to finishing submarine with a low release point. He throws a fastball of over 140 km/h (87 mph) (tops out at 146 km/h, 90.7 mph) unusual for submarine pitchers. And he throws a curveball, a sinker and a slider. His pitching style is called Reiwa no Submarine (\u4ee4\u548c\u306e\u30b5\u30d6\u30de\u30ea\u30f3)."}, {"text": "Dillwynia elegans, also known as parrot-pea or eggs and bacon, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with more or less cylindrical, grooved leaves and yellow flowers with red markings. Description. \"Dillwynia elegans\" is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has stems that are hairy when young but become glabrous later. The leaves are crowded, linear, more or less cylindrical with a longitudinal groove and long. The flowers are arranged in pairs in leaf axils, in clusters near the ends of branches. The flowers are on peduncles with egg-shaped to lance-shaped bracts long and shorter bracteoles. The flowers are yellow with red markings, the sepals long and the standard petal long but much broader. Taxonomy. \"Dillwynia elegans\" was first formally described in 1839 by Stephan Endlicher in \"Novarum stirpium decades editae a Museo Caesario Palatino Vindobonensi\" from a specimen growing in Charles von H\u00fcgel's garden. The specific epithet (\"floribunda\") means \"profusely flowering\". This species is regarded as a synonym of \"Dillwynia floribunda\" var. \"teretifolia\" by the National Herbarium of New South Wales. Distribution and habitat. The native range of"}, {"text": "\"D. elegans\" is from Port Jackson to areas east of Rylstone, where it grows in rocky sandstone hills in heath to dry sclerophyll forest. Use in horticulture. Dillwynias are not often grown in cultivation. They can be propagated from scarified seed and grown in partially shaded to sunny areas where they produce vibrant yellow flowers. Germination occurs 3-4 weeks after the seeds have been planted. Most species will tolerate heavy pruning. The flowering time is between spring and mid-winter."}, {"text": "William Ward Pinkett, Jr. (April 29, 1906\u2014March 15, 1937) was an American jazz trumpeter and scat vocalist active during the Harlem Renaissance. A respected sideman recognized as a \"hot\" trumpet and with a versatile ear, he played and recorded with various bands in New York City. His career was cut short by alcoholism. Discography. All recordings took place in New York City. An asterisk (*) indicates vocal in addition to trumpet. Original issues. The year and label information for the first vinyl release. Lost, unissued, or posthumous releases. Over the years alternate and unissued takes have been released in compilations of various bandleaders. In the table below, the first date indicates the recording date. The year of issue follows the label information for the first release."}, {"text": "The 2020 LSU Tigers baseball team represented Louisiana State University in the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Tigers played their home games at Alex Box Stadium. On March 11, the Southeastern Conference released a news statement announcing the restriction of fans at all SEC home spring athletic games, including baseball. On March 12, the Southeastern Conference released a new statement announcing the suspension of all athletics until as early as March 30. These announcements came after the COVID-19 pandemic has swept throughout the United States. On March 16, Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards announced the cancelation, closure, and postponements for facilities and events with more than 50 people until April 13, thus stopping all baseball games in the state of Louisiana until that date. Previous season. The Tigers finished 40\u201326 overall, and 17\u201313 in the conference. The Tigers won the Baton Rouge Regional in the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball tournament before losing the Baton Rouge Super Regional to Florida State. Preseason. SEC Coaches poll. The SEC coaches poll was released on February 6, 2020 with the Tigers predicted to finish tied for third in the Western Division. Preseason All-SEC teams. \"First Team\" Reference: Schedule Source:"}, {"text": "Auld Lang Syne is one of the oldest houses on the island Nantucket, Massachusetts and is located at 6 Broadway in Siasconset. The oldest part of the house was constructed around 1675 making it possibly older than the more well-known Jethro Coffin House. Auld Lang Syne was constructed by Michael [or Micah] Coffin, who employed Native Americans to fish for him while he remained ashore to do the cooking. The house grew from a rectangular structure with a great room and two small chambers to the south. In the eighteenth century it evolved into a T-plan structure with low shed-roof extensions. It was expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with warts on the south side, a kitchen at the north side, and a shed. Some had speculated that the house was moved to the current location from an earlier location at a fishing village in Pedee near Quidnet, but there's no evidence to support this. The house was owned by Captain Henry Coleman and his heirs from the eighteenth century to 1937 when it was acquired by architect Sartain Smith and then his heir Mishi Kamiya and then her sister Matsuko (Dorothy) Suga. In the early 1990s Max Johnson"}, {"text": "then purchased and restored the house which was then in deteriorating condition and near collapse; Sam Daniel bought the house in 2002."}, {"text": "Gilbert Laporte is a full professor of operations research at HEC Montr\u00e9al. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management. Laporte has been awarded the Order of Canada and the Innis-G\u00e9rin Medal. Education. Laporte earned a bachelor's in mathematics from McGill University and a master's degree from Lancaster University. He moved to London with his wife to pursue a PhD from the London School of Economics in operational research. Career. Upon earning his PhD, Laporte joined the Computer Science Department at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al as a research assistant. In 1976, he was appointed assistant professor at HEC Montr\u00e9al. Four years later he was promoted to associate professor and eventually to full professor in 1986. In the 1990s, he was the recipient of the 1994 Award of Merit from the Canadian Operational Research Society and the 1999 Jacques-Rousseau Prize for Interdisciplinarity from the Association canadienne-fran\u00e7aise pour l'avancement des sciences (Acfas). In 2001, he was named in the inaugural Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management and was awarded the Grand Prize for Teaching Excellence by HEC Montr\u00e9al. As he continued in academia, Laporte continued to be recognized for his contributions in the field of operations research and quantitative methods. In"}, {"text": "2004, Laporte received the Glover-Klingman Award and TSL Best Paper Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The next year, Laporte was named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. In 2007, Laporte was the recipient of the Innis-G\u00e9rin Medal from the Royal Society of Canada for his sustained contribution to the literature of the social sciences. The 2008\u201309 academic year was proven to be successful for Laporte. In April, Laporte was the recipient of the G\u00e9rard-Parizeau Award. In June, Laporte was named an honorary member of the Omega Rho Honor Society from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. In 2012, Laporte was named the third most influential researcher in the field of management in Canada by the Hirsch-Index Benchmarking of Academic Research. He tied with Danny Miller for the Pierre Laurin Award. At the conclusion of the 2013\u201314 Academic term, Laporte received the international honour of the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Laporte took sabbatical leave from HEC from June 1 to December 31, 2015, and again from June 1, 2016, to December 31, 2016. Prior to"}, {"text": "announcing his sabbatical, Laporte renewed his Canada Research Chair. Upon his return, Laporte's academic achievements were recognized by the Eindhoven University of Technology with an honorary doctorate on April 22, 2016. By 2017, Laporte was credited with being the \"world's most productive and influential author in operations research and management science\" by Omega \u2013 The International Journal of Management Science. During that academic year, he was the recipient of the 2017 Prix d'excellence FRQNT and the Urgel-Archambault award in physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering. Laporte became the first HEC Montr\u00e9al professor to ever receive this distinction. The following year, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Li\u00e8ge and received the 2018 Marie-Victorin award from the Quebec government. In December 2018, Laporte was honoured with the Order of Canada. In 2019, Laporte received many accolades for his research. Such as, being elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His research continued to advance and he was eventually awarded the Best Paper Award from the Production & Operations Management Society. By April, Laporte had been recognized as one of the world's most productive and influential authors in the fields of computer science and electronics based on"}, {"text": "the Google Scholar index. In June 2019, Laporte became only the third researcher to become a fellow of the Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization. He also serves as an associate editor for the \"Journal of the Operational Research Society\". In 2021, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He was also awarded the 2021 Killam Prize in Engineering Personal life. Laporte married full professor Ann Langley on August 3, 1974. Their daughter is an assistant professor at \u00c9cole de Technologie Sup\u00e9rieure."}, {"text": "Giovanni Zoboli (22 July 1821 - 1884) was an Italian composer. Born in Naples, Zoboli studied music at that city's Albergo dei Poveri, where his instructors included Paolo Cimarosa, Gennaro Parisi, and . He concluded his studies in 1843, deciding initially to pursue a career in church music; in 1850 he was named to the faculty of his alma mater, teaching counterpoint and composition. During his career he also directed the municipal band of Ariano Irpino. As a composer Zoboli produced symphonic and instrumental works as well as operas. He died in the city of his birth. All of his operas were premiered at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples. Operas. Source:"}, {"text": "This is a list of rural localities in Voronezh Oblast. Voronezh Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Voronezh. Its population was 2,335,380 as of the 2010 Census. Anninsky District. Rural localities in Anninsky District: Bobrovsky District. Rural localities in Bobrovsky District: Bogucharsky District. Rural localities in Bogucharsky District: Buturlinovsky District. Rural localities in Buturlinovsky District: Ertilsky District. Rural localities in Ertilsky District: Kalacheyevsky District. Rural localities in Kalacheyevsky District: Kamensky District. Rural localities in Kamensky District: Kantemirovsky District. Rural localities in Kantemirovsky District: Kashirsky District. Rural localities in Kashirsky District: Khokholsky District. Rural localities in Khokholsky District: Liskinsky District. Rural localities in Liskinsky District: Nizhnedevitsky District. Rural localities in Nizhnedevitsky District: Novousmansky District. Rural localities in Novousmansky District: Olkhovatsky District. Rural localities in Olkhovatsky District: Ostrogozhsky District. Rural localities in Ostrogozhsky District: Paninsky District. Rural localities in Paninsky District: Petropavlovsky District. Rural localities in Petropavlovsky District: Povorinsky District. Rural localities in Povorinsky District: Ramonsky District. Rural localities in Ramonsky District: Repyovsky District. Rural localities in Repyovsky District: Rossoshansky District. Rural localities in Rossoshansky District: Semiluksky District. Rural localities in Semiluksky District: Talovsky District. Rural localities in Talovsky District: Ternovsky"}, {"text": "District. Rural localities in Ternovsky District: Verkhnekhavsky District. Rural localities in Verkhnekhavsky District: Verkhnemamonsky District. Rural localities in Verkhnemamonsky District: Vorobyovsky District. Rural localities in Vorobyovsky District:"}, {"text": "WAMM may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Wednesday Night War or Wednesday Night Wars refers to a period of mainstream televised American professional wrestling in which All Elite Wrestling (AEW)'s \"Dynamite\" debuted on TNT opposite WWE's \"NXT\" on USA Network in a competition for Nielsen ratings each week. The ratings war lasted from October 2, 2019, to April 7, 2021. This was the first direct competition between two major promotions since Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, later Impact Wrestling), briefly moved their flagship series, \"Impact!\", to Monday nights opposite \"WWE Raw\" in 2010, and over 20 years following the original Monday Night War that lasted from 1995 to 2001. AEW won the ratings battle almost every week in both total viewership and in the viewership from the key 18\u201349 age demographic, and on April 13, 2021, \"NXT\" moved to Tuesday nights, ending the Wednesday Night Wars. History. Origins. 2000s\u20132010s: Post-Monday Night War. After the \"Monday Night War\", with the bankruptcy and subsequent acquisitions of both World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), WWE became the dominant professional wrestling company in the United States. In 2008, WWE began to take a family-oriented approach, in which all of its programming received a rating of TV-PG. In"}, {"text": "2010, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which targets an adult audience, moved their flagship, weekly series, \"Impact!\", to Monday nights on Spike TV opposite \"Raw\" from January to May 2010. \"Impact!\" suffered from low ratings and ultimately returned to their regular Thursday night timeslot on May 13, 2010. The move itself was panned by critics and viewers. In the tenth anniversary reprint of R.D. Reynolds and Bryan Alvarez's \"Death of WCW\", the authors compared the move to the original Monday Night War, writing that TNA did not have the audience that WCW did, pointing out that \"WCW Saturday Night\" typically did better than WWE shows did in the weekend timeslots. Reynolds and Alvarez also wrote that TNA did not have the financial resources that WCW did. 2012: \"NXT's\" revamp. In 2012, \"WWE NXT\" was revamped to focus exclusively on its developmental talent, with FCW (WWE's former developmental territory) being relaunched under the NXT brand. NXT became a webcast on WWE's official website, before later airing on Hulu and the WWE Network. During this period Triple H took charge of NXT. In the years since the revamp, NXT garnered critical acclaim for its more grounded storylines and sports-based presentation compared to"}, {"text": "WWE's \"main roster\" programming, with fans and pundits eventually viewing the brand as its own distinct entity and its TakeOver specials to be superior in quality to WWE's monthly pay-per-views. 2018\u20132019: The formation of All Elite Wrestling. On January 10, 2018, Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks, members of the stable known as The Elite, announced an independent event called All In, which was scheduled for September 1 of that year at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Tickets for the event went on sale on May 13, and sold out in less than 30 minutes. The event was attended by 11,263 people, making it the first event in North America not held by WWE or WCW to sell 10,000 tickets or more since 1993. Four months after All In, Cody, The Young Bucks, and \u201cHangman\u201d Adam Page left New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Ring of Honor and announced plans to start a new wrestling promotion. The promotion, which became known as All Elite Wrestling (AEW), began operations on January 1, 2019, and announced that its first event, Double or Nothing, would be held on May 25 of that year. Ten days before Double or Nothing was held, AEW"}, {"text": "reached a deal with WarnerMedia to broadcast a weekly show on TNT, which would later become known as \"Dynamite\". On July 24, 2019, AEW announced that \"Dynamite\" premiered on Wednesday, October 2 and was broadcast live every week. The premiere of \"Dynamite\" marked the return of professional wrestling to a Warner-owned network after TNT broadcast the final episode of \"WCW Monday Nitro\" on March 26, 2001. AEW has been described as \"the first major promotion to compete financially with WWE since the closure of WCW\". 2019: \"NXT's\" move to USA Network. In August 2019, it was announced that \"NXT\" would be moving to USA Network, marking the show's first broadcast on USA Network since December 20, 2017, and expanding the program to a live, two-hour format. Critics felt that the move was an attempt to counterprogram \"Dynamite\", which would premiere two weeks later. \"NXT\" premiered on USA Network on September 18, 2019. However, due to scheduling overlap with the final episodes of original series \"Suits\", only the first hour of \"NXT\" was broadcast on USA Network for its first two weeks while the second hour was shown on WWE Network. In its first two weeks, \"NXT\" drew 1.179 and 1.006"}, {"text": "million viewers respectively. Wednesday Night Wars. 2019: The debut of \"Dynamite\". On October 2, 2019, \"Dynamite\" debuted on TNT, which averaged 1.409 million viewers and approximately 878,000 viewers in 18-49. This number was touted by TNT as the most successful premiere show in over 5 years for TNT. According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the first 15 minutes of Dynamite was watched by a whopping 1.625 million viewers and 1.015 million in 18-49. \"NXT\" made their full two-hour debut on USA Network on the same night, which averaged 891,000 viewers and 415,000 in 18-49. \"Dynamite\" beat \"NXT\" in the ratings among both viewers in the 18\u201349 range and total viewers for its first seven episodes. \"NXT\" began to gain ground when WWE announced that the brand's wrestlers would compete at that year's Survivor Series, officially endorsing NXT as WWE's \"third brand\". Competitors from the \"NXT\" brand went on to win three of the five triple-threat matches at the pay-per-view, which saw NXT Women's Champion Shayna Baszler defeat Raw Women's Champion Becky Lynch and SmackDown Women's Champion Bayley in the main event. These developments helped \"NXT\" to place first in the ratings for three out of the six"}, {"text": "remaining weeks of 2019, which culminated in a match where Rhea Ripley defeated Shayna Baszler to win the women's championship on the December 18 episode. \"NXT\" ran unopposed on December 25, the final Wednesday of 2019, as \"Dynamite\" did not air due to Christmas Day. 2020: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both \"NXT\" and \"Dynamite\" began broadcasting empty arena shows in March 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both shows stopped touring and started broadcasting from fixed venues. \"NXT\" was broadcast initially from Full Sail University and later, from October 2020, the WWE Performance Center. \"Dynamite\" was initially held at Daily's Place, an amphitheater adjacent to TIAA Bank Field. AEW later taped shows at the Nightmare Factory training facility in Norcross, Georgia, in late March and early April, taping up to six weeks of episodes preparing for that year's Double or Nothing pay-per-view. As live sports were allowed to resume in the Jacksonville area by early May, AEW returned to Daily's Place, which became AEW's home base for over a year. For the 18 months head to head Dynamite would be beat NXT in mostly every Demographic except people over the age of 50 which NXT had a"}, {"text": "wider margin over Dynamite and helped score a handful of wins in Total Viewers. During the latter half of 2020 NXT\u2019s P18-49 (Which Networks and Advertisers prioritise) began to weaken while Dynamite\u2019s was only increasing. Which led to beginning talks about NXT possibly moving to a different night. 2021: \"NXT\" moves to Tuesday and end of the Wednesday Night Wars. On March 30, 2021, it was reported that \"NXT\" would move to Tuesday nights on April 13, 2021. In January, USA Network's parent company, NBCUniversal, announced it would shut down NBCSN by the end of the year, with certain sport programming rights moving to USA and streaming service Peacock. WWE confirmed the move to Tuesdays as part of a multi-year renewal agreement. The move to Tuesday nights brought an end to the Wednesday Night Wars. Following the end of the Wednesday Night Wars, both programs benefitted in the Nielsen ratings without the direct competition. \"NXT's\" April 13 episode averaged 805,000 viewers with a 0.22 rating in the 18-49 demographic. This viewership number was an increase from the 768,000 viewers who tuned into night one of the NXT special the previous Wednesday. The next day, \"Dynamite\" drew over 1.219 million viewers"}, {"text": "to TNT, up 77% from the prior week\u2019s 688,000 almost doubling Total Viewers. This was \"Dynamite's\" best viewership number since its debut episode on October 2, 2019. AEW also placed 2nd that evening in the Cable Top 150 with a 0.44 rating in the 18-49 demographic, their best key demographic rating since the October 23, 2019 episode of \"Dynamite\"."}, {"text": "Dennistoun (Ward 22) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council; used since the 2017 local election, it is one of two created from the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland's 5th Review. The ward returns three council members. Boundaries. Located east of Glasgow city centre, the ward is centred around Dennistoun, although does not include all of the district - the \"Reidvale\" streets to the south of Duke Street are within the Calton ward. It was created in 2017 from the East Centre ward (the Dennistoun, Milnbank and Haghill neighbourhoods), the Springburn ward (the Royston, Germiston and Sighthill neighbourhoods along with commercial/industrial land at Blochairn and St Rollox) and a small part of the Anderston/City ward (the Ladywell neighbourhood and the grounds of Glasgow Royal Infirmary)."}, {"text": "Giorgio Fontana (born 22 April 1981) is an Italian writer currently living and working in Milan. Biography. Born and raised in the province of Varese, Fontana studied Philosophy at the University of Milan, and graduated with a final dissertation on Hilary Putnam's internal realism. In 2007 he published his debut novel \"Buoni propositi per l'anno nuovo\" (Mondadori), which was followed by \"Novalis\" (Marsilio) in 2008. With his narrative report on immigrants in Milan \"Babele 56. Otto fermate nella citt\u00e0 che cambia\" (Terre di Mezzo), he became one of the finalists for the Premio Tondelli in 2009. In 2011, he released \"La velocit\u00e0 del buio\", an essay on Berlusconism and Italian identity (Zona). \"Per legge superiore\" (2011) won several literary prizes, such as the Premio Racalmare - Leonardo Sciascia 2012, the Premio lo Straniero 2012 and the 26th edition of the Premio Chianti. The book had seven reprints and has been translated into French (Seuil) German (Nagel&Kimche), Dutch (Wereldbibliotheek) and Spanish (Libros del Asteroide). \"Morte di un uomo felice\" (Sellerio 2014) brings the justice and law diptych \u2013 started with \"Per legge superiore\" \u2013 to a close. The book won the Premio Campiello 2014 and the Premio Loria 2014 and was"}, {"text": "translated in eight countries. After a brief novella (\"Un solo paradiso\", Sellerio 2016) he published the vast family saga \"Prima di noi\" (Sellerio 2020), which won several prizes. In 2019 he also published a comic book about the Deep Sea Slum in Nairobi, \"Lamiere\" (Feltrinelli), in collaboration with Danilo Deninotti e Lucio Ruvidotti. At present, he lives and works in Milan. He is one of the scriptwriters for the weekly comic \"Topolino\", the popular Italian weekly newspaper containing illustrated tales with Mickey Mouse. He also collaborates with the Sunday magazine of \"Sole 24 ore\" and other Italian magazines, and teaches creative writing at Scuola Holden and Scuola Belleville."}, {"text": "George Papagheorghe (born 22 June 1982, in Constan\u021ba) a.k.a. Jorge and at times GE\u00d8RGE is a Romanian singer, dancer and TV host, specially for the talent competition \"Rom\u00e2nia danseaz\u0103\" on Antena 1 starting 2013. Career. Beginnings. George Papagheorghe was born in Constan\u021ba on the Black Sea in an artistic family as his father was a well known celebrity performing in social gatherings, bars and at weddings in Macedonia. He performed at school while 11 in classical opera pieces accompanied by piano. After graduation, he specialized in management at Academia de Studii Economice in Bucarest. Musical career. In band Cocktail. He was cast by Media Pro Music when he was 20 to be in a musical band called Cocktail in 2002 with other members being Mihai D\u0103sc\u0103lescu, Sandrina Agape, Raluca Coman, \u0219i Teodora Vasu and in 2003 took his band to the Romanian version of \"Popstars\" broadcast on Pro TV. They won the series with their song \"P\u00e2n\u0103-n zori\" collecting 212 points. The band released the self-titled album \"Cocktail\" with the hit \"Ei \u0219i ce\" gaining them more popularity. The band also released the hit \"Lumea-i a mea\". and \"Prietenii\". The album was produced by Bogdan Popoiag, Dan Griober and Marius"}, {"text": "Moga. But facing financial difficulties and unstable political conditions in Romania, Cocktail folded in 2005. Stage and acting career. In 2007\u20132008 he appeared in the stage production \"Micul Paris\" with Aurelian Temi\u0219an and Maria Buz\u0103 and in the show \"3007-Terra Maimu\u021belor\" at Circul Globus theatre. He collaborated with the blind Romanian singer star George Nicolescu having a charting hit \"\u00cendr\u0103gostit\" in 2008. In April 2009, he took part in an operatic role in a musical version of \"Romeo and Juliet\" in partnership production between Budapest State Opera and Bucharest-based Theater National Operetta \"Ion Dacian\". Papagheorghe had the lead role as Romeo and Simona Nae the lead role as Juliet. He also made voice-overs in Romanian with Disney films like in the role of Flynn Rider in \"O poveste \u00eenc\u00e2lcit\u0103\" (\"Tangled\" in English) (2010) and in \"Regatul de ghea\u021b\u0103\" (Romanian version of \"Frozen\", 2013). Solo music career. In 2014, he had a major hit with \"Nu ne potrivim\" featuring CRBL. In 2015 he had another hit \"Nimeni nu-i perfect\" featuring singer JO. This was followed by \"Detector de minciuni\" featuring Amna in 2016. Television career. With the demise of Cocktail in 2005, Papagheorghe moved to television presenting \"Fete de ga\u0219c\u0103\" on"}, {"text": "Euforia TV. He also took part in the Romanian dance competition \"Dansez pentru tine\" without making it to the final. In 2010, he was offered by channel Antena 1, to co-present with Alina Cri\u0219an, a former member of the band ASIA, in a musical competition show \"C\u00e2nt\u0103 dac\u0103 po\u021bi!\" (meaning Sing if you can!) which followed 8 competitors, in groups of two, competing in four rounds to win the title. He appeared in \"Te cunosc de undeva!\" (the Romanian version of \"Your Face Sounds Familiar\") in the first 2 seasons of the show in 2012 and 2013 winning season 2. Papagheorghe is best known however for hosting the danse show \"Rom\u00e2nia danseaz\u0103\" on Antena 1. In 2017 he hosted the emission Super Potriveala on Kanal D Romania. Discography. Singles. In band Cocktail Solo"}, {"text": "7 Days to Vegas (also known as Walk to Vegas) is a 2019 American comedy film directed by Eric Balfour. Vincent Van Patten is the co-writer along with Steve Alper. The film stars Vincent Van Patten, Ross McCall, Paul Walter Hauser, Eileen Davidson, James Van Patten, Willie Garson, Lucas Bryant, Don Stark, John O'Hurley, Chad Lowe, Jennifer Tilly, James Kyson, Danny Pardo, Christina Vidal, Joseph Siprut, Aron Eisenberg, Denise DuBarry, and Kara Weinraub. \"7 Days to Vegas\" would be Eisenberg's last performance as he died on September 21, 2019, one day after the film's release. Plot. Hollywood big shots bet on anything in \"sin city\". Duke is a washed up former actor still living in LA. He runs a local poker game with a variety of characters. One day a director Sebastian joins the game and quickly becomes the best player. While Sebastian is a stereotypical douchebag Hollywood director he has access to the people with more money willing to play and Duke partners up with Sebastian to make more and more money. The guys have side bets on everything from can you make a paper ball into trash can for $500 to can the little person blindfolded on the"}, {"text": "roof jump into the pool safely. (Spoiler...he makes it). The game grows bigger and bigger and Sebastian's true colors start to show more and more. He always has an angle and if you make a prop bet with him you can be sure he\u2019s rigged the odds in his favor. Sebastian doesn\u2019t need the money - it\u2019s all about winning for him. For Duke this is his only source of income and he steadily saves wads of cash buried in his yard until he\u2019s saved up over $1,000,000. Through a Ponzi scheme run by Sebastian's friend Duke loses everything and Sebastian brags he never invested a dime with the guy. This is when Duke has had enough and decides to put in motion a series of events that ends with a bet on Duke walking to Las Vegas in 7 days 280 miles with pages of rules and stipulations. Duke gets $1,000,000 and puts it up against Sebastian's $5,000,000 that Duke can do it. The guys pile in an RV and follow Duke on his 7 day journey filled with prop bets along the way. There are plenty of double crosses and things are never what they seem and in"}, {"text": "the end everyone gets what they deserve... or do they? Release. \"7 Days to Vegas\" was released in theatres on September 20, 2019. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 24, 2019, by Gravitas Ventures. Critical response. Sheri Linden of \"The Hollywood Reporter\" wrote in her review: \"\"Walk to Vegas\" does not take itself too serious.\" Richard Roeper of the \"Chicago Sun-Times\" wrote in his review: \"Gambling insiders will recognize the authentic representation of that world throughout the movie. But even if you don't know a busted straight from a royal flush and you've never heard of a prop bet until now, \"7 Days to Vegas\" works as a broad and funny comedy about some truly bent but hilarious characters.\" He gave the film 3/4 stars. Bruce Fessier of \"The Desert Sun\" wrote in his review: \"Its characters are eccentric, if not psychologically disturbed.\""}, {"text": "This article contains a list of heads of state of Paraguay since its independence in 1811 to the present day. Background. After Paraguay proclaimed independence from the Viceroyalty of the R\u00edo de la Plata, its first effective head of state was utopist Jos\u00e9 Gaspar Rodr\u00edguez de Francia. He ruled the country from 1814 until his death in 1840, ensuring very little outside contact or influence. Since the establishment of the office of President of the Republic in 1844, during the family dictatorship of the L\u00f3pez family (1841\u20131870), Paraguay had 51 presidents. Between the end of the Paraguayan War in 1870 and the 1954 coup d'\u00e9tat, the country had 44 presidents; 24 of them were forcefully removed from power. Eventually, Army General Alfredo Stroessner, supported by the Armed Forces and the right-wing Colorado Party, seized power in the 1954 \"coup d'\u00e9tat\". Relying on the military and the party as the \"twin pillars\" of his rule, and ruling in the single-party system until 1962, Stroessner was elected for eight consecutive terms before being ousted in the 1989 coup d'\u00e9tat. His 35-year-long rule was one of the longest in history by a non-royal leader. List of officeholders. Died in office"}, {"text": "WSVG may refer to:"}, {"text": "Oleksiy Miacheslavovych Danilov (; born 7 September 1962) is a Ukrainian politician who was the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine from 2019 to 2024, when he was replaced by Oleksandr Lytvynenko, the former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service. Early life and early career. Danilov graduated in 1981 from the Starobilsk State Farm Technical School with a degree in veterinary medicine. In 1981 he began working as a veterinary in a farm in Voroshilovgrad (currently Luhansk). From 1983 to 1987, he worked as a veterinarian in Voroshilovgrad's park \"1 May\". From 1987 to 1991 he worked as a private veterinarian. From 1991 to 1994 he was engaged in private entrepreneurship. Political career. Danilov was Mayor of Luhansk from 1994 to 1997. Aged 31 years, he was the youngest ever mayor of Luhansk. In the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election Danilov unsuccessfully ran for a parliamentary seat in electoral district 103 as an independent candidate. In 1999, Danilov graduated from the University of Luhansk as a licensed history teacher. In 2000, he received a master's degree in management from the East Ukrainian Volodymyr Dahl National University. In 2000, he also received a law degree from the Luhansk"}, {"text": "State University of Internal Affairs. In the early 2000s, Danilov was a member of the Yabluko party (which was renamed Party of Free Democrats during his membership). In the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election he ran unsuccessfully for parliament on the party list. In 2000, Danilov was an adviser to the parliamentary Committee on Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship. From October 2001 to February 2005, he founded the Luhansk Initiative and was its chairman. At the same time, he was as deputy director of the Institute for European Integration and Development (IEID). Danilov served as the Governor of Luhansk Oblast in 2005. Danilov was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2006 for the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. In the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Danilov ran for re-election to parliament for the Party of Free Democrats, but was again unsuccessful. After leaving parliament he returned to his previous position of deputy director of the IEID. Danilov rose to national prominence on the strength of appearances \"on Ukraine's highly-rated national prime time talk show, where he takes on the country's oligarchs, illegal privatizations, the machinations of Russia's fifth column in Ukraine, and \"treasonous\" votes in past parliaments.\" Danilov was Deputy Secretary of the National Security"}, {"text": "and Defense Council from 23 July to 3 October 2019. Since 3 October 2019 he is the Secretary (deputy Chairman, President Volodymyr Zelensky is the formal chairman) of this board. On 24 January 2022, Danilov said that the movement of Russian troops near Ukraine's border was \"not news\" and \"we don't see any grounds for statements about a full-scale offensive on our country\". During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Danilov urged men eligible for mobilisation to not \"hide behind a woman's skirt\". After the 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion Danilov posted a video of the burning bridge alongside a black-and-white clip of Marilyn Monroe singing \"Happy Birthday, Mr. President\" \u2013 a reference to Putin turning 70 the same day. On 6 April 2023, Danilov stated about a possible peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, which would freeze the conflict and leave the annexed territories of Ukraine, including Crimea, in Russia's possession, that \"If Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposes peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow, he will commit political suicide.\" On 15 March 2024, Danilov was interviewed by Francis Dearnley from The Daily Telegraph. In the interview he was asked multiple questions on the current situation of the war. On the topic"}, {"text": "of western aid to Ukraine, he said that Western aid needs to be on time and: \"If we had a sufficient number, Avdiivka would not be an issue\". He also stated that Putin is \"Hitler's siamese twin\" and that Putin's objective in the war is to exterminate the Ukrainian people and restore the Soviet Union. He then said in a response to a question about NATO troop deployments to Ukraine: \"We don't need your soldiers, we need help with weapons. If such assistance is provided, then we are ready to put an end to the issue of Russia once and for all. To finally remove their poisonous teeth so that they will not bite anyone else in the world.\" He had been appointed as the next Ukrainian ambassador to Moldova on 29 March 2024, but this did not happen, with Paun Rohovei being officially appointed by decree on 7 February 2025 instead. Political views. In October 2021, Danilov said that he believed that it would be better for Ukraine to be a presidential republic than a parliamentary-presidential one. Danilov argued that it would only be \"possible to make a leap forward\" with a \"responsible person who understands what they are"}, {"text": "going for.\" Family. Danilov is married to Lyudmyla Volodymyrovna Danilova (Peregudova). The couple have four children and seven grandchildren. His granddaughter Mariya (known as Masha Danilova) is a singer."}, {"text": "John Barton O'Hara (January 13, 1944 \u2013 February 22, 1992) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Southwest Texas State University\u2013now known as Texas State University\u2013from 1983 to 1989, compiling a record of 36\u201341. O'Hara died in 1992 on a Caribbean cruise while he was a member of the University of Iowa coaching staff."}, {"text": "Dario Voltolini (Turin, 1959) is an Italian writer. His style has often been described as \"minimalism\", though the author describes his writing as spontaneous and far from the patiently refined work of minimalism master Raymond Carver. Biography. After graduating in Turin, he was co-founder of the blog \"Nazione Indiana\", a collective whose members include writers and intellectuals. He has written many novels and short stories and teaches at the writing school Scuola Holden in Turin. He collaborates to the section \"Tuttolibri\" in the Italian newspaper La Stampa."}, {"text": "The 2020 Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team represented the University of Alabama in the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Crimson Tide played their home games at Sewell\u2013Thomas Stadium. Previous season. The Crimson Tide finished 30\u201326 overall, and 7\u201323 in the conference. SEC media poll. The SEC media poll was released on February 6, 2020 with the Crimson Tide predicted to finish in last place in the Western Division. Schedule Source:"}, {"text": "WBOX is a radio station broadcasting on 920 AM in Bogalusa, Louisiana. The station is owned by Best Country Broadcasting, LLC, and carries a country format. In 1965, the station was boycotted by the Ku Klux Klan during a turbulent civil rights struggle in Bogalusa, earning the station and its manager national attention but driving its ownership out of town. History. Early years. WHXY signed on the air March 1, 1954. The station was originally owned by the Bogalusa Broadcasting Corporation, controlled by Charles Holt and Dave Matison, and broadcast during the day on 920 kHz. The station was acquired by J. A. Oswald in February 1959 for $35,500; coinciding with the change of ownership, WHXY became WBOX on March 6, 1959. In 1961, Oswald sold the station to Magic City Broadcasting Corporation, a group of businessmen from St. Louis, for $80,000. Civil rights strife and KKK boycott. In October 1964, WBOX owner Ralph Blumberg joined a group of community leaders seeking to maintain racial tranquility. He also sponsored an address that was to be given by Brooks Hays to a racially mixed audience. The Ku Klux Klan, which had a prominent role in town, did not respond kindly, intimidating"}, {"text": "organizers and forcing the address to be canceled. On March 18, 1965, six bullet holes were found in WBOX's transmitter building, which was located in a vacant field four miles northeast of town. That same day, Blumberg began broadcasting editorials claiming that the KKK was threatening an economic boycott of WBOX's advertisers. Threats were also made against Blumberg and his family, while he received harassing telephone calls \"all night long\". Two nights later, at a meeting of Klansmen at the Hotel Bentley in Alexandria, one speaker confirmed that the Klan was involved for \"putting that station out of business\", referring to WBOX. As a result, the ranks of WBOX's advertisers dwindled from 75 to just six. In order to keep the station on the air despite losing more than 90 percent of its advertisers to the KKK boycott, broadcasters elsewhere in the United States stepped up. New York public relations consultant Mortimer Matz bought 100 commercials, each consisting of a reading of the preamble of the Constitution of the United States, to be aired on WBOX. The Greater New York Broadcasters Committee, with the support of the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters, also began raising funds to keep the station afloat."}, {"text": "Blumberg attempted to appease the KKK by canceling his editorials, but the intimidation continued. The boycott had the effect of driving Blumberg out of town. He moved his family to St. Louis twice, with the second time being on the advice of an FBI agent. Late in 1965, he moved to New York City and became a reporter at WCBS-TV. Blumberg testified in January 1966 before the House Un-American Activities Committee; he was awarded the 1965 Paul White Award by the Radio-Television News Directors Association and the Lee De Forest Award by the National Association for Better Radio and Television for his actions. Post-boycott years. In late 1965\u2014though not approved until March 1966\u2014WBOX was sold to Pearl River Broadcasting Corporation for a financial loss; the $71,500 sale price was less than the $80,000 that Magic City had paid in 1961. The principals of Pearl River were Wayne E. Marcy, owner of an electronics company, and oil company employee William D. Womack. Womack, in a letter to the editor of \"Broadcasting\" a year later, declared that many advertising accounts, including virtually all of the local clients, had returned to WBOX. Marcy bought out Womack's interest in 1972, and Moseley-Smith Broadcasting, which"}, {"text": "owned a station in Boca Raton, Florida, acquired WBOX in 1974 for $130,000. 1978 saw Northlake Audio acquire WBOX for $220,000. Northlake was primarily owned by the Hall family, including Purvis M. Hall III, who was an announcer and program director; station manager Stephen Moses also owned five percent. Northlake received approval to relocate the transmitter to a new site and begin broadcasting at night, which went into effect in 1980. The Halls also made another major improvement: the launch of sister FM station WBOX-FM 92.7 (now 92.9), licensed to Varnado, in November 1985. The two stations initially carried different formats, with 920 airing country music and 92.7 adopting an adult contemporary sound. WBOX-AM-FM was sold to Bogue Chitto Communications for $325,000 in 1988; the sale made the pair sisters to four radio stations in Mississippi. Both stations changed to contemporary country formats. In 1992, WBOX applied to revert to daytime-only operation. Best Country Broadcasting, owned by Ben Strickland, acquired WBOX-AM-FM for $150,000 in 2002. On October 26, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission issued an Order to Pay or to Show Cause for WBOX-AM-FM to pay delinquent regulatory fees totaling just over $21,000 covering fiscal years 2002, 2012 through 2019,"}, {"text": "and 2022. Best Country was given sixty days to pay the past due fees or show cause why \"these regulatory fees are inapplicable or should otherwise be waived or deferred.\" The Notice officially constitutes the initiation of a proceeding to revoke the licenses if Best Country fails to respond."}, {"text": "Erich Gr\u00f6ner (16 March 1901, in Berlin \u2013 21 June 1965) was a German historian of naval warfare and shipbuilding. Early life and education. Erich Gr\u00f6ner was born on 16 March 1901 in Berlin, then capital of the German Empire. From 1910 to 1918, he attended the He published his first treatise, \"A History of Maritime Trade and Sea War Shipping\", at 15 years of age. Gr\u00f6ner enlisted voluntarily into the \"Kaiserliche Marine\" in 1918."}, {"text": "This article contains a list of presidents of Ecuador, since the independence from Gran Colombia (1830) to the present day. Background. Juan Jos\u00e9 Flores was the first constitutional president of Ecuador, declaring the separation of the State of Ecuador from Gran Colombia, maintaining its presidential government structure, which has remained until the present day. Between 1830 and 1845, the office of President of the Republic was elected indirectly, that is, through the legislature. The first presidents were mostly elected through Constituent Assemblies, a tradition in the politics of Ecuador which remained until 1967, with Otto Arosemena being the last constitutional president elected through the Constituent Assembly. This is one of the reasons why Ecuador has had 20 Constitutions since its foundation, many of them created with the intention of legitimizing the government of a president. Since 1869, the president is elected by popular vote; however, it should be borne in mind that during the 19th century, Ecuador lived a census democracy: only men with sufficient income and decent office voted, being Francisco Robles the first president elected by direct vote. Between 1906 and 1944, during the Liberal Revolution, the elections were held in a generally fraudulent or corrupt manner, so"}, {"text": "the year 1944 is estimated as the beginning of democracy in Ecuador. Between 1906 and 1947, there was no office of Vice President. Between 1947 and 1970, the president and vice president were elected separately. Since 1979, the president and vice president are elected by direct suffrage on the same ballot. Since 1998, a candidate who obtains more than 40% of votes can also win, provided he has a difference of at least 10% over the second candidate. All these percentages are calculated on the total valid votes (that is, without counting null and blank votes). The history of Ecuador has been full of instability, usually centered on the figure of the President of the Republic, which is why Ecuador's political culture has been traditionally called \"caudillista\". During the 19th century, the country was torn apart twice after the overthrow of the presidents Francisco Robles and Ignacio de Veintemilla, with regional governments seeking access to national power. Until 1947, the majority of the constitutional presidents of the Republic came to power through coups d'\u00e9tat, exercising dictatorial power which would be legitimized through the implementation of new constitutions, so that the governance and stability of the presidents has been usually weak,"}, {"text": "which is why there has been many presiding and interim presidents. There were two military dictatorships in the country (1963\u20131966 and 1972\u20131979) before democracy returned with the election of Jaime Rold\u00f3s Aguilera. From 1996 to 2005, 3 constitutional presidents were overthrown (Abdal\u00e1 Bucaram, Jamil Mahuad and Lucio Guti\u00e9rrez). The left-wing populist government of Rafael Correa (2007\u20132017) has been the most stable in national history, being able to remain in power constitutionally without interruptions for 10 years and 4 months. Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Velasco Ibarra is the longest-serving president since he held office for a total of 12 years, 10 months and 6 days and was elected President 5 times (1934\u201335, 1944\u201347, 1952\u201356, 1960\u201361 and 1968\u20131972)."}, {"text": "Frank Edis Singleton (August 29, 1887 \u2013 August 11, 1935) was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach at Louisiana Tech University, then known as Louisiana Industrial Institute, in 1902, compiling a record of 1\u20131\u20131."}, {"text": "Rain, Part 2 is a live EP from Planetshakers, recorded in Planetshakers Conferences in the Philippines and Malaysia. It was released on 12 April 2019 by Planetshakers Ministries International and Venture3Media. Critical reception. Joshua Andre, of \"365 Days of Inspiring Media\", considered that only one song (\"Only Way\") on the album had \"emotional impact\", but conceded that it is \"the most personal and emotional song that Planetshakers have ever recorded\", and noted that it was inspired by lead singer Joth Hunt's surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. Rating the album three stars for \"Jesus Freak Hideout\", Bert Gangl considered it to be \"pleasant enough\", but felt that the band had reached \"the point of diminishing returns\"."}, {"text": "East Centre (Ward 18) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. On its creation in 2007 and in 2012 it returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the boundaries were changed, but four members were still returned. Boundaries. Located in the east of Glasgow, the core of the ward since 2007 includes Carntyne, Cranhill and Riddrie, with the northern boundary being the M8 motorway). The 2017 changes were substantial: the Dennistoun, Milnbank and Haghill neighbourhoods in the west of the original territory were removed and assigned to a new Dennistoun ward, whereas the neighbourhoods of Barlanark, Budhill, Greenfield, Lightburn and Springboig were added to East Centre from the Baillieston ward. The southern boundary is the North Clyde Line railway. Election Results. 2022 Election. 2022 Glasgow City Council election 2017 Election. 2017 Glasgow City Council election 2012 Election. 2012 Glasgow City Council election 2007 Election. 2007 Glasgow City Council election"}, {"text": "Harold E. Wise (1903 \u2013 February 27, 1969) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio from 1947 to 1948, compiling a record of 6\u201311\u20131. Wise was a 1928 graduate of Ohio University and was an associate director of the school's alumni board. A native of Wheeling, West Virginia, Wise later worked for Columbia Gas of Ohio. He died on February 27, 1969, at his home in Columbus, Ohio."}, {"text": "Ascanio Celestini (born 1 June 1972) is an Italian actor, director, writer and playwright. Biography. Born in Rome to parents with ancestry also from Lombardy and Veneto in northern Italy, Ascanio Celestini studied anthropology and literature at university. He approached the world of theatre in the late nineties, acting in some commedia dell'arte performances. In 1998, along with Gaetano Ventriglia, Celestini wrote and performed in his first play, \"Cicoria. In fondo al mondo, Pasolini\". In the period from 1998 and 2000, he wrote the trilogy \"Milleuno\", about the importance of the oral tradition. He was the scriptwriter and actor in \"Radio clandestina\" (2000), a play on the Ardeatine massacre; followed by \"Cecafumo\" (2002), a retelling of some fairy tales from Italian folk tradition; \"Fabbrica\" (2002), a tale on three generations of workers, from the late 19th century to the nineties; \"Scemo di guerra. 4 giugno 1944\" (2004, which premiered at the Venice Biennale) based on his father's war stories; \"La pecora nera. Elogio funebre del manicomio elettrico\" (2005), a story on asylums and the consumer society. In 2002 he was awarded the special category of the Premio Ubu \"for his ability of singing today's history as if it was a"}, {"text": "myth, and vice versa\". In the following years, more than a dozen awards were attributed to his literary and theatrical texts. In 2006 and 2007, he performed in Milan (Piccolo Teatro) and Brussels his play \"Appunti per un film sulla lotta di classe\", an ever-changing performance whose attempt is to keep up with the variation of the situation of precarious work in Italy. The style of his works can be defined as \"teatro di narrazione\". The actor-author acts as a filter between the public and the protagonists of the show. One of the main features of his plays is their minimalist setting, as well as the movements of the actors, which are reduced to a minimum. Most of his plays have become books and some of them (\"Storie di uno scemo di guerra\", \"La pecora nera\") were originally authentic novels. In 2006 he participated in the film \"My Brother is an Only Child\" by Daniele Luchetti. In 2007 he filmed the documentary \"Parole Sante\", about the biggest Italian call centre of the time (in Cinecitt\u00e0, Rome) and the precarious conditions of its workers. At the same time, Celestini released his first LP, also entitled \"Parole sante\": a compilation of many"}, {"text": "of the songs of his plays and of the homonymous documentary and some unreleased tracks. Celestini also participated several times in French and Belgian events (Festival de Li\u00e8ge, International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Italian Institute of Culture in Paris, Festival des Libert\u00e9s), in Italian music festivals, radio broadcasts, TV programs and movies, and received a large number of awards for his performances and works. Awards. \u2022 2002: Premio Ubu, special section<br> \u2022 2004: Premio Gassman, best young talent<br> \u2022 2005: Premio Fiesole Under 40 Fiction<br> \u2022 2005: Premio Ubu, new Italian works section<br> \u2022 2006: Premio Flaiano<br> \u2022 2006: Premio Citt\u00e0 del Diario, awarded by the Archivio Diaristico Nazionale<br> \u2022 2010: Sulmonacinema Film Festival: Best Actor for the movie \"La pecora nera\"<br> \u2022 2011: Ciak d'oro 2011, Miglior Opera Prima, for the movie La pecora near.<br> \u2022 2011: Bobbio Film Festival: Premio \"Gobbo d'oro\" for the Best Movie of 2011, for the movie \"La pecora nera\"<br> \u2022 2011: Premio Dess\u00ec<br> \u2022 2016: Animav\u00ec - Cinema d'Animazione e Arte Poetica, Bronzo Dorato Arte teatrale Works. Plays. \u2022 \"Cecafumo. Storie da leggere ad alta voce\". Roma, Donzelli, 2002 (testo e CD audio)<br> \u2022 \"Fabbrica. Racconto teatrale in forma di lettera\". Roma,"}, {"text": "Donzelli, 2003 (testo e CD audio)<br> \u2022 \"Radio Clandestina. Memoria delle Fosse ardeatine\". Roma, Donzelli, 2005 (testo e DVD; con un'introduzione di Alessandro Portelli)<br> \u2022 \"Cicoria. In fondo al mondo, Pasolini\" (insieme a Gaetano Ventriglia), in Simone Soriani (a cura di), \"Cicoria. Del teatro di Ascanio Celestini e di Gaetano Ventriglia\". Corazzano - PI, Titivillus 2006<br> \u2022 \"Laika\" 2015<br> \u2022 \"Che fine hanno fatto gli indiani pueblo?\" 2017 Fiction. \u2022 \"Storie di uno scemo di guerra\". Roma, 4 giugno 1944. Torino, Einaudi, 2005<br> \u2022 \"La pecora nera\". Elogio funebre del manicomio electrico. Torino, Einaudi 2006<br> \u2022 \"Lotta di Classe\". Torino, Einaudi, 2009<br> \u2022 \"Io cammino in fila indiana\". Torino, Einaudi, 2011<br> \u2022 \"Pro patria\". Torino, Einaudi, 2012<br> \u2022 \"Barzellette\". Torino, Einaudi, 2019 Discography. \u2022 \"Parole sante\", Radio Fandango, 2007 Filmography. Actor. \u2022 \"My Brother Is an Only Child\", directed by Daniele Luchetti (2006)<br> \u2022 \"A Question of the Heart\", directed by Francesca Archibugi (2009)<br> \u2022 \"Tutti gi\u00f9 per aria\" , directed by Francesco Cordio (2009)<br> \u2022 \"Una montagna di balle\", directed by Nicola Angrisano (2009)<br> \u2022 \"La pecora nera\", directed by Ascanio Celestini (2010)<br> \u2022 \"Viva la sposa\", directed by Ascanio Celestini (2015)<br> \u2022 \"Achille Tarallo\", directed by Antonio Capuano"}, {"text": "(2018) Director and screenwriter. \u2022 \"Senza paura\" - documentary (2004)<br> \u2022 \"Parole sante\" - documentary (2007)<br> \u2022 \"La pecora nera\" (2010)<br> \u2022 \"Viva la sposa\" (2015)"}, {"text": "\"Blurred Lines\" is a song by Robin Thicke. Blurred Lines may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Meadow Creek is a long 2nd order tributary to the Haw River, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Course. Meadow Creek rises on the divide between it and Toms Creek (Cane Creek), about 6 miles south of Mebane in Alamance County, North Carolina and then flows southwest to the Haw River about 4 miles northwest of Saxapahaw, North Carolina. Watershed. Meadow Creek drains of area, receives about 46.3 in/year of precipitation, and has a wetness index of 435.67 and is about 50% forested."}, {"text": "The testosterone regulations in women's athletics are a series of policies first published in 2011 by the IAAF (now World Athletics) and last updated following a court victory against the athlete Caster Semenya in May 2019. The first version of the rules applied to all women with high testosterone, but the current version of the rules only applies to athletes with certain XY disorders of sexual development, and set a 5 nmol/L testosterone limit, which applies only to distances between 400 m and 1 mile (inclusive), other events being unrestricted. Athletes are allowed to compete in the restricted events with medical suppression of testosterone (by contraceptive injections or pills, or physical castration), although in practice many have chosen to switch to unaffected events, most notably the 200 m. Semenya case. In 2009, 18-year-old Caster Semenya won the women's 800 m World Championship. This caused international headlines, when it was reported that she would be subject to sex testing. Semenya was cleared to compete again almost a year later. However, she had been told by the IAAF that she would have to suppress her testosterone below 10 nmol/L using medication. 2011 rules. In April 2011, the IOC and IAAF issued statements"}, {"text": "following meetings between the two. The IAAF issued a new policy for male-to-female transgender athletes, and a second policy on the 'eligibility of females with hyperandrogenism to compete in women's competition'. The 2011 IAAF 'hyperandrogenism policy' stated that: The policy mentioned a three step process, the first a physical examination 'including clinical signs of virilization (physical appearance, deepness of voice, body hair etc), genital characteristics (clitoral hypertrophy)', the second a hormone test, principally the androgenic sex steroids, but also possibly other hormones, and the final stage a full genetic test. An athlete would be eligible to compete if her testosterone level was below 10 nmol/L, or if she could prove that 'she has an androgen resistance such that she derives no competitive advantage'. A non-exhaustive list of conditions said to cause hyperandrogenism was provided: Some of these conditions are XY DSDs, while others are XX conditions. The permissible testosterone limit was set based on the testosterone levels of women with PCOS, plus a further five standard deviations. 99% of the female athletes at those competitions had testosterone levels below 3.08 nmol/L. However, a study of endocrine profiles in 693 elite female and male athletes published in 2014 found that only"}, {"text": "13.7% of the elite female athletes had high levels of testosterone while as many as 16.5% of the elite male athletes had low levels of testosterone. The authors noted that there is \"complete overlap of the range of concentrations seen [between the genders]. This shows that the recent decision of the IOC and IAAF to limit participation in elite events to women with a 'normal' serum testosterone is unsustainable.\" The rules are and were controversial, with suggestions that such restrictions are discriminatory. There is evidence that women with DSDs from developing countries were subjected to partial clitoridectomies and gonadectomies following the introduction of the regulations. Dutee Chand case. In 2013 Indian government introduced 'hyperandrogenism regulations' more restrictive than those published by the IAAF. These regulations stated that \"intersex female sports persons with elevated androgen production give rise to a particular concern\". The regulations provided that such intersex athletes could compete if their testosterone was less than 2 nmol/L, and where the testosterone level was higher than that, they would be subject to a medical panel which would evaluate based on such factors as lack of secondary female sexual characteristics, undescended testes, and other factors. In June 2014, Dutee Chand, an"}, {"text": "Indian athlete, was investigated under these regulations, and subsequently excluded from selection for the Indian team. A case was filed with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and it was found that the IAAF and Indian authorities had failed to prove that the regulations were proportionate, fair and necessary. Therefore, the rules were suspended from 24 July 2015 in an interim ruling. Controversy at the 2016 Olympics. The suspension of the IAAF test for testosterone levels led to controversy in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, in particular related to the participation and performance of South African middle distance runner Caster Semenya. Competitors Lynsey Sharp and Joanna J\u00f3\u017awik spoke out about their belief that Semenya has a competitive advantage. This brought into question the legitimacy of the silver and bronze medallists who were suspected of also having XY-specific Disorders of sex development (DSD) like Semenya. Silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba later confirmed having an XY-specific DSD in a 2019 interview. 2017 testosterone study. The 2015 interim CAS ruling gave the IAAF two years to find evidence that endogenous (as distinct from exogenous, aka doping) testosterone is a benefit to female athletes. This was published 10 July 2017, almost two years from the"}, {"text": "ruling. The study found that there was no correlation between endogenous testosterone and sporting performance for women in most events. However, for the 400m, 400m hurdles, 800m, hammer and pole vault, a correlation was shown. The study covered the 2011 and 2013 World Championships. Further to a previous study by the same author covering the 2011 WCs only, where it was noted that there were several samples with testosterone above the normal female level, at least five due to doping, and at least five due to an intersex condition, the 2013 WC was found to have no cases of athletes with high testosterone, as the IAAF rules were being enforced at that time. An accompanying opinion noted that intersex athletes were 140 times more represented in female athletics than in the wider population. 2018 rules. Although the 2017 study found justification for a link between endogenous testosterone and sporting performance 400-800m events, and the hammer and pole vault, the IAAF's next set of rules, published April 2018, covered events 400 m to 1 mile, inclusive, and did not include the hammer or pole vault. Because of this, it was widely suggested that the IAAF were specifically targeting Caster Semenya. The"}, {"text": "IAAF rules excluded athletes from competing in the specified events, unless they reduced their testosterone below 5 nmol/L, a lower level of testosterone than previously, suggested to be a more realistic limit for testosterone for women without DSDs. The regulations were published 23 April 2018, to be effective from 1 November 2018. Unlike the previous regulations, conditions such as PCOS and tumours were no longer included in the restricted conditions, which were: The list of conditions were now mostly XY DSD, but congenital adrenal hyperplasia was still included. On 19 June 2018, Semenya announced that she would legally challenge the IAAF rules, and the rules were suspended pending the resolution of the case. Revised 2019 rules. Semenya lost her case, in the Court of Arbitration for Sport on 1 May 2019. During proceedings it was revealed that Semenya has 5\u03b1-reductase deficiency, and it was argued that although her hormones are different from both normal male and normal female biology, the advantage afforded by testosterone in the male level is sufficient as to justify the restrictions. The IAAF also revealed that: \"The DSD Regulations expressly and emphatically stress that they do not connote any judgment or questioning of an individual's sex"}, {"text": "or gender identity. They are also careful not to spell out that they apply only to 46 XY individuals with fully functioning testes.\" Despite this, the IAAF revised the rules to exclude the XX DSD CAH, and released an accompanying statement and FAQ explaining that the regulations ONLY apply to individuals with XY DSDs and testes. These new rules came into effect on 8 May 2019. The legal case divided commentators such as Doriane Coleman, who testified for the IAAF, arguing that women's sport requires certain biological traits, from commentators such as Eric Vilain, who testified for Semenya, arguing that \"sex is not defined by one particular parameter ... for many human reasons, it's so difficult to exclude women who've always lived their entire lives as women \u2014 to suddenly tell them 'you just don't belong here.'\" Semenya appealed the decision to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. On 3 June 2019, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court advised that they had \"super-provisionally instructed the IAAF to suspend the application of the 'Eligibility Regulations for the Female Classification for athletes with differences of sex development' with respect to the claimant [Semenya]\" until the court decides whether to issue an interlocutory injunction."}, {"text": "On July 30, 2019, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court reversed its earlier ruling that had suspended the Court of Arbitration for Sport decision and the IAAF rules. For that reason, Semenya, silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba and Olympic bronze medalist Margaret Wambui missed the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha in October 2019, while continuing legal appeals. The number 3 ranked 400 meter runner for 2019, Aminatou Seyni had to switch events to a weaker event, the 200 metres, in order to adhere to this rule. On September 8, 2020, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court issued a ruling denying Caster Semenya's appeal. In November 2020 Semenya announced that she will file an appeal against the IAAF testosterone rule at the European Court of Human Rights. In July 2019, Semenya said that the ongoing issue has \"destroyed\" her \"mentally and physically\". At the 2020 Olympics. At the 2020 Olympics a number of athletes, all from African countries, were withdrawn from their events because they did not meet the eligibility regulations: The three 400m runners switched to the 200 m, where Mboma won the silver medal, with Masilingi also reaching the finals, while Seyni was eliminated in the semi-finals. The success of 18-year-old"}, {"text": "Mboma resulted in further debate about the eligibility of DSD athletes to compete in women's sport, with World Athletics President Sebastian Coe saying that WA would continue to monitor the situation. Niyonsaba competed in the 5000 m, where she was disqualified for lane infringement after running among the leaders in her heat. Niyonsaba also competed in the 10000 m, where she finished 5th in a National Record."}, {"text": "Billie McBride (March 4, 1927 \u2013 May 10, 2017) was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame for barrel racing in 2018. She won the barrel racing world championship title four times. Life. Billie McBride was born Billie Hinson on March 4, 1927, in Copperas Cove, Texas. In 1937, McBride witnessed a barrel racing event at a rodeo at 10 years old. From then on, she wanted to be a barrel racer. Career. About 10 years later, the Girls Rodeo Association (now the Women's Professional Rodeo Association) was established in her hometown of San Angelo, Texas, and she joined, becoming a charter member. She became the association's first star by competing almost exclusively in barrel racing. For the latter half of the 1950s, she reigned over the event. The GRA was formed by women who competed in multiple events such as tie-down roping and roughstock. McBride tried her hand at roping momentarily. However, she returned to barrel racing and dominated it. She won the reserve championship in 1954, then won four straight championships, all on her horse Zombie. The record stood until Charmayne James broke it 1988. McBride also held several leadership roles in the GRA. For 13 years she"}, {"text": "held roles that included the president, vice president, and secretary roles. She was part of the team of ladies who attempted to get the barrel racing included as part of the National Finals Rodeo and produced by the Rodeo Cowboys Association (now the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association). However, she was successful in getting them a spot in the National Finals Steer Roping for the women which made the way for the barrel racing to join the NFR eight years later. She was a four-time barrel racing world champion. In December 1955, 1956, 1957, and 1958, she won said world title. Death and legacy. She was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1980. Her horse \"Zombie A\" was inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2012. McBride died at 90 years old on May 10, 2017, in San Angelo, Texas."}, {"text": "Kitovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Styopantsevskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. Kitovo is located 43 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Edon is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Western Congolian forest\u2013savanna mosaic is an ecoregion of Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, and Gabon. Geography. The forest\u2013savanna mosaic covers a region of dissected plateaus lying between the Congo Basin on the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The lower Congo River passes through the ecoregion. The ecoregion is bounded on the northwest by the humid Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests, which extend north from the Congo River along the Atlantic coast. The Northwestern Congolian lowland forests lie to the north and northeast. The Southern Congolian forest\u2013savanna mosaic bounds the ecoregion on the east, south of the Congo River. The Angolan miombo woodlands lie to the southeast and south. The Angolan Scarp savanna and woodlands lies to the southwest along the Atlantic coast, extending south from the Congo River's mouth. The cities of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, capitals of the two Congo republics, are in the ecoregion, located opposite one another on the Congo River. Other cities in the ecoregion include Matadi and Cabinda. Climate. The climate is tropical, with little seasonal variation. Mean maximum temperatures range from 30 \u00b0C in the lowlands to 21 \u00b0C on the high plateaus, and mean minimum temperatures"}, {"text": "range from 21\u00ba to 15 \u00b0C. Rainfall averages 1200 mm per year, increasing to 1400 mm at the transition to the coastal and Congolian rainforests. Flora. The ecoregion is a mosaic of wooded grassland with patches of forest. It includes areas of dry evergreen forest on the Bateke Plateau in the Republic of the Congo, and gallery forests along rivers, particularly the Congo. The species composition of the gallery forest is similar to the Congolian forests to the east. Mabwati is a dense dry forest community which grows on deposits of Kalahari sand in the eastern portion of the ecoregion, and extend into the adjacent Southern Congolian forest\u2013savanna. The trees \"Marquesia macroura, Marquesia acuminata, Daniellia alsteeniana\", and \"Berlinia giorgii\" are characteristic of mabwati's dense canopy. Fauna. The ecoregion is home to several large mammal species. African buffalo (\"Syncerus caffer\"), waterbuck (\"Kobus ellipsiprymnus\"), bushbuck (\"Tragelaphus scriptus\"), southern reedbuck (\"Redunca arundinum\"), yellow-backed duiker (\"Cephalophus silvicultor\") and common duiker (\"Sylvicapra grimmia\") are widespread. Lions (\"Panthera leo\") are the top predator. The African forest elephant (\"Loxodonta cylcotis\") was once widespread but is now threatened and limited in range. The critically endangered western lowland gorilla (\"Gorilla gorilla gorilla\"), and endangered central chimpanzee (\"Pan troglodytes troglodytes\")"}, {"text": "are found north of the Congo River. Adam's horseshoe bat (\"Rhinolophus adami\") and the velvet climbing mouse (\"Dendroprionomys rousseloti\") are endemic to the ecoregion. The forest horseshoe bat (\"Rhinolophus silvestris\") is a limited-range species, that lives in the forest-savanna and the rainforests north of the Congo River. There are two endemic bird species, the white-headed robin-chat (\"Cossypha heinrichi\") and orange-breasted bush shrike (\"Laniarius brauni\"). The western Congo worm lizard (\"Monopeltis guentheri\") and Cambondo screeching frog (\"Arthroleptis carquejai\") are endemic to the ecoregion. Protected areas. 6.42% of the ecoregion is in protected areas. Protected areas in the ecoregion include Cangandala National Park, Mayumba National Park, Lop\u00e9 National Park, Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, Bat\u00e9k\u00e9 Plateau National Park, Conkouati-Douli National Park, Mangroves Marine Park, Ogoou\u00e9-L\u00e9k\u00e9ti National Park, Luki Biosphere Reserve, Bombo-Lumene Hunting Area, L\u00e9fini Wildlife Reserve, N'Sele Nature Reserve, Tsoulou Wildlife Reserve, Ngyanga Nord Wildlife Reserve, Mont Fouari Wildlife Reserve, Tchimpounga Wildlife Sanctuary, and Lessio-Louna Wildlife Sanctuary."}, {"text": "Klimovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Paustovskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 76 as of 2010. Geography. Klimovskaya is located 27 km south of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Oktyabrskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kubecka or Kube\u010dka is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Klyuchevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Paustovskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Klyuchevo is located south of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zlobayevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kozlovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Mstyora Urban Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 67 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Kozlovka is located 28 km northwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Barskoye Tatarovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kozlovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 153 as of 2010. Geography. Kozlovo is located 13 km north of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Palkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Moray David Shaw McLaren (1901\u20131971) was a Scottish writer and broadcasting executive. Life. Moray was born in Edinburgh in 1901 the son of Dr John Shaw McLaren FRCSE of 14 Walker Street in Edinburgh's fashionable West end He went to Merchiston Castle School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and spent time in Paris. He worked as assistant editor on the \"London Mercury\", before joining the staff of the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he was assistant editor of \"The Listener\" in 1929. McLaren moved back to Scotland in 1930 as a BBC Scottish Region radio executive, acting as deputy to David Cleghorn Thomson, his work \"Return to Scotland\" of that year laying emphasis on his Roman Catholic background. He announced his interest in Scottish nationalism in 1931 by supporting George Malcolm Thomson's pamphlet \"The Kingdom of Scotland Restored\". During the 1930s, McLaren was transferred to other posts within the BBC. He worked on the \"Radio Times\" under Eric Maschwitz. He was in the Talks department. He originated a series on Scottish forensic oratory, from which John Gough's trial drama on Madeleine Smith originated. He was moved in 1935 to become assistant director of Drama and Features under Val Gielgud. During World"}, {"text": "War II, he was involved in the Polish section of the Political Warfare Executive. A friend of R. H. Bruce Lockhart who ran the Executive, he was head of its Polish Region, from 1940 to 1945. In a period of poor health, McLaren lost his income. He was supported at this time by Evelyn Waugh. One of the founders of the Edinburgh Gateway Company, Lennox Milne (1909\u20131980), was McLaren's wife. The Company worked with him to produce radio scripts. From 1953 he lived at 29 Inverleith Row in north Edinburgh with his actress wife, Lennox Milne, dying there on 12 July 1971."}, {"text": "Komlevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Komlevo is located 17 km southeast of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kudryavtsevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Koptsevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Posyolok Nikologory, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 56 as of 2010. Geography. Koptsevo is located 25 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gridinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rain, Part 1 is a live EP from Planetshakers. This album was released on 18 January 2019 by Planetshakers Ministries International and Integrity Music. The EP from Planetshakers was recorded in Melbourne, Australia, at Planetshakers Church. Critical reception. Joshua Andre, specifying in a three and half star review for 365 Days of Inspiring Media, Overall a solid and competent EP that still needs improvement and work, but also continues my interest for Planetshakers a bit more; this first EP in a new series doesn't compare to the tracks on Heaven And Earth yet. However these tracks are on the whole inspiring and hopeful and can be cried out and sung to Jesus during times of joy and hardship. Rating the album three stars for Jesus Freak Hideout, Bert Gangl says, In its defense, the Planetshakers collective is undoubtedly talented, as anyone who has sifted through their last few EPs to pick out the strongest compositions can testify. And fans who love radio-based pop/worship are likely to find Rain (Part 1) right up their alley. That said, a few more months between successive offerings would almost surely provide the Melbourne-based outfit the time needed to replenish their creative juices and turn"}, {"text": "out a truly noteworthy next release."}, {"text": "Baillieston (Ward 20) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. On its creation in 2007 and in 2012 it returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the boundaries were changed: the ward decreased in size and population, and returned three members. Boundaries. Located in the far east of Glasgow, the core of the ward since 2007 includes Baillieston as well as Barrachnie, Garrowhill, Springhill, Swinton, Wellhouse, Easthall, Daldowie and Broomhouse with the northern boundary being the M8 motorway) and the eastern and southern limits being the city borders with North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire. The 2017 changes saw the neighbourhoods of Barlanark, Budhill, Greenfield, Lightburn and Springboig removed and assigned to the East Centre ward. Election results. 2021 by-election. Esteemed Labour councillor Jim Coleman was disqualified on 28 January 2021 after failing to attend online and in-person council meetings for six months. A by-election for the seat was held 18 March 2021. SNP candidate and former ward councillor David Turner won the seat. 2012 election. November 2008 by-election. On 6 November 2008, a by-election was held following the death of Labour councillor David Hay on 27 September"}, {"text": "2008. The by-election was won by Labour's Andy Muir. September 2008 by-election. On 18 September 2008, a by-election was held following the election of John Mason as the MP for Glasgow East on 25 July 2008. The by-election was won by the SNP's David Turner."}, {"text": "Korovintsevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Styopantsevskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 37 as of 2010. Geography. Korovintsevo is located 35 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Stepantsevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fred Mariani is an American former college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York from 1998 to 2008, compiling a record of 46\u201368. He was the final head coach for the Iona Gaels football program, which was discontinued following the 2008 season. A resident of Saddle River, New Jersey, Mariani played high school football at Don Bosco Preparatory High School and collegiately for the Saint Joseph's Pumas football team."}, {"text": "Drewniak is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Korshunikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Oktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Korshunikha is located 14 km west of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Likhaya Pozhnya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kostenevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Mstyora Urban Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Kostenevo is located 17 km northwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yandovy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kourkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 142 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Kourkovo is located 12 km west of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Korshunikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Angela B\u00fcrgis (born 3 November 1979) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. B\u00fcrgis was a member of Switzerland's 1996 Fed Cup team, appearing in five ties as a doubles player. She won three of her five doubles rubbers, two of which came while partnering Martina Hingis and included a win over Croatia's Mirjana Lucic and Iva Majoli. On the professional tour she reached a best singles ranking of 424 and twice featured in the qualifying draw of the WTA Tour tournament in Zurich, but otherwise spent her career on the ITF Circuit, where she won a singles title at Tortosa in 1996. Following her professional career, B\u00fcrgis played varsity tennis in the United States at the University of Minnesota, earning selection in the All-Big Ten Team in both 2003 and 2004."}, {"text": "Krutovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Mstyora Urban Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. Geography. Krutovka is located 29 km northwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zhelobikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krutye () is a rural locality (a village) in Paustovskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2010. Geography. Krutye is located 16 km south of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vorobyovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krutye Gorki () is a rural locality (a village) in Oktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 265 as of 2010. Geography. Krutye Gorki is located 16 km south of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vorobyovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kudryavtsevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 39 as of 2010. Geography. Kudryavtsevo is located 16 km east of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Perovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kuzmino () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Kuzmino is located on the Shumar River, 20 km southeast of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Smenki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kurbatikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Paustovskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 27 as of 2010. Geography. Kurbatikha is located on the Motra River, 43 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Aleshkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lapino () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 65 as of 2010. There are two streets. Geography. Lapino is located on the Klyazma River, east of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pirovy-Gorodishchi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lipovskaya Usadba () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2010. Geography. Lipovskaya Usadba is located on the Klyazma River, 11 km east of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shchekino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Likhaya Pozhnya () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 81 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Likhaya Pozhnya is located on the Suvoroshch River, 15 km west of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Korshunikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Frank Edwin Wood (February 26, 1891 \u2013 January 1, 1972), incorrectly identified as Frank E. Worth in current media guides, was an American football coach and mathematics professor. Education. Wood received a B.A. from Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas in 1912, an AM degree from the University of Kansas in 1914, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1920. Coaching career. He served as the head football coach at the University of New Mexico in 1917, accepting duties on short notice while regular coach Ralph Hutchinson was called into military service during World War I. Academic career. Wood served as a faculty member at a number of institutions, including Northwestern University, Princeton University, the University of Oregon, as well as the University of New Mexico. Football statistician. Wood, billed as a \"nationally known football statistician,\" wrote a football column for the\" Wisconsin State Journal\" carried by the Central Press Association. National championship selections. In his column, Wood made the following national championship selections for college football."}, {"text": "Log () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2020. Geography. Log is located 11 km east of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rudelyovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Luknovo () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Oktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2,434 as of 2010. There are 24 streets. Geography. Luknovo is located 15 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Starygino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Malovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Posyolok Nikologory, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 214 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Malovskaya is located 25 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nikologory is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Maloye Vysokovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Oktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 265 as of 2010. Geography. Maloye Vysokovo is located 25 km southwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolshevysokovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Malye Lipki () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 144 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Malye Lipki is located 8 km northwest of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolshiye Lipki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Malye Udoly () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorod Vyazniki, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 72 as of 2010. Geography. Malye Udoly is located on the Istok River, 11 km northeast of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolshiye Udoly is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2020 Florida Gators baseball team represented the University of Florida in the sport of baseball during the 2020 college baseball season. Florida competed in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Home games were played at Alfred A. McKethan Stadium on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus, in the final season at the ballpark. The team was coached by Kevin O'Sullivan in his thirteenth season as Florida's head coach. The Gators entered the season looking to return to the College World Series after an early regional exit in last year's Lubbock Regional. The season was cut short in stages by March 17 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gators finished with a 16\u20131 record, tied for the best in the country, and ranked No. 1 in all major polls. A tightly contested road sweep of the Miami Hurricanes helped propel Florida to the top spot in the rankings. Not knowing at the time it would be their final game, the Gators saw their 11-game winning streak over Florida State come to an end in the last game played at McKethan Stadium. Previous season. The Gators finished the 2019 season with a 34\u201326 record, compiling a 13\u201317 mark in the"}, {"text": "SEC. 2019 MLB draft. The Gators had five players drafted in the 2019 MLB draft. Players in bold are signees drafted from high school that will attend Florida. Preseason. SEC media poll. The SEC media poll was released on February 6, 2020, with the Gators predicted to finish in second place in the Eastern Division. Schedule Source: 2020 MLB draft. The Gators did not have anyone selected in the 2020 MLB draft."}, {"text": "The boys' singles of the tournament 2019 BWF World Junior Championships was held from 7 to 13 October 2019. The defending champions is Kunlavut Vitidsarn from Thailand. Seeds. Kunlavut Vitidsarn (champion) Brian Yang \"(fourth round)\" Liu Liang \"(fifth round)\" Li Yunze \"(semifinals)\" Syabda Perkasa Belawa \"(third round)\" Bobby Setiabudi \"(quarterfinals)\" Meiraba Maisnam \"(third round)\" Christian Adinata \"(fourth round)\" Georgii Karpov \"(second round)\" Christo Popov \"(final)\" Tomas Toledano \"(third round)\" Kok Jing Hong \"(fourth round)\" Yonathan Ramlie \"(semifinals)\" Ernesto Baschwitz \"(second round)\" Luka Ban \"(second round)\" Setthanan Piyawatcharavijit \"(fifth round)\""}, {"text": "The girls' singles of the tournament 2019 BWF World Junior Championships held from 7 to 13 October 2019. Goh Jin Wei from Malaysia was the champion in the last edition. Seeds. Phittayaporn Chaiwan \"(semifinals)\" Zhou Meng \"(final)\" Benyapa Aimsaard \"(fourth round)\" Putri Kusuma Wardani \"(quarterfinals)\" Han Qianxi \"(fourth round)\" Vivien Sandorhazi \"(fourth round)\" Riko Gunji (champion) Yasnita Enggira Setiawan \"(fourth round)\" Anastasiia Shapovalova \"(fourth round)\" Talia Ng \"(third round)\" Dai Wang \"(semifinals)\" Hung En-tzu \"(quarterfinals)\" Atitaya Povanon \"(third round)\" Stephanie Widjaja \"(quarterfinals)\" Clara Lassaux \"(first round)\" Milena Schnider \"(first round)\""}, {"text": "Shivendrasinh Abhaysinhraje Bhosale is an Indian politician and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a descendant of Shivaji I, founder of the Maratha Empire. He is heir to the Satara royal family. He was elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Satara constituency from 2004 to 2019 as a member of the Nationalist Congress Party. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. Ssc passed from Annasaheb Kalyani Vidyalaya Satara. Personal life. He is son of Abhaysinh Raje Bhosale who was also MLA in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Satara constituency. Udayanraje Bhosale is his cousin."}, {"text": "North East (Ward 21) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. On its creation in 2007 and in 2012 it returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the ward boundaries were redrawn with a smaller size and population, and it returned three members. Boundaries. Located in the far north-east of Glasgow, the core of the ward since 2007 includes neighbourhoods between the M8 motorway and the city boundary with North Lanarkshire: Easterhouse, Provanhall, Garthamlock, Craigend, Ruchazie, Hogganfield, Provanmill and Blackhill as well as the village of Gartloch, all bordered by open ground, much of which is within the Seven Lochs Wetland Park. The 2017 changes removed the Robroyston, Barmulloch, Wallacewell and Balornock neighbourhoods located to the west of the M80 motorway, as well as the streets in Millerston within Glasgow, which were added to the Springburn ward. Following the alterations, it was the ward covering the largest area in the city, but with the lowest population spread the most thinly across the territory. A 2019 specific review caused the removal of a few streets of modern housing at Cardowan from the North East ward and the Glasgow"}, {"text": "council area, re-allocating them to the Stepps, Chryston and Muirhead ward of North Lanarkshire along with the rest of the developments in that area, addressing an anomaly dating back to when the boundary crossed open fields. Election results. 2022 election. 2022 Glasgow City Council election 2017 election. 2017 Glasgow City Council election 2012 election. 2012 Glasgow City Council election 2007 election. 2007 Glasgow City Council election"}, {"text": "2020 in Bellator MMA was the twelfth year in the history of Bellator MMA, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. Bellator held 18 events in 2020. Background. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Bellator would go on hiatus after its 240th numbered event on February 22, 2020. The promotion would resume holding events with Bellator 242 on July 24. On September 11, 2020, it was announced that Bellator telecasts would move to CBS Sports Network, starting October 1, after Viacom's re-merger with CBS Corporation in 2019. Prior to the announcement, CBS Sports Network debuted the recap series \"Bellator MMA: Recharged\" on April 25, 2020. Bellator 248, which was held on October 10, would be the first MMA event to be held by a major promotion in France since the sport was legalized in January. Bellator 238. Bellator 238: Budd vs. Cyborg took place on January 25, 2020 at The Forum in Inglewood, California. The event aired live on DAZN. Background The event featured a Bellator Women's Featherweight World Championship bout between the champion Julia Budd and former Strikeforce, Invicta, and UFC champion Cris Cyborg. Results Bellator 239. Bellator 239: Ruth vs. Amosov took"}, {"text": "place on February 21, 2020 at WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. The event aired live on Paramount Network and DAZN. The event featured a welterweight bout between Ed Ruth and undefeated Yaroslav Amosov. Results Bellator 240. Bellator Dublin/Bellator 240 took place on February 22, 2020 at 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland. Background This was the first event of the second year of the Bellator European Series. The event was to be headlined by a bantamweight bout between James Gallagher and Cal Ellenor. However, on February 4, it was announced that Gallagher pulled out of the event due to a back injury, thus a women's featherweight bout between Leah McCourt and Judith Ruis was bumped to the main event. The fights billed as Bellator 240 will be held on tape-delay on Paramount Network and DAZN and will feature a lightweight bout between former Bellator Lightweight World Champion Brent Primus and Peter Queally. However, Queally pulled out due to injury. Primus instead fought Chris Bungard. Results Bellator 241 (Cancelled). Bellator 241: Pitbull vs. Carvalho was a scheduled event to take place on March 13, 2020 at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut. The event was scheduled to be live on DAZN. Background"}, {"text": "The event was expected to feature a Bellator Featherweight World Championship bout between the champion Patr\u00edcio Freire and Pedro Carvalho. A heavyweight between former UFC Heavyweight Champion Josh Barnett and Ronny Markes was expected for the event. The original meeting was scheduled for Bellator 235, but Barnett was pulled out an hour before the fight due to illness and the fight was rebooked for this event. Reports came out stating that Barnett was pulled due to a failed drug test, but Mike Mazzulli, head of the Mohegan Tribe Athletic Department, announced that the reports were false. However on March 4, it was announced that Barnett was officially off the card, which Mazzulli announced that a failed medical test was the reason for Barnett's removal and Bellator then announced that Matt Mitrione would replace Barnett against Markes. On March 13, the day of the event, Bellator President Scott Coker announced that the event would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Cancelled Fight card Bellator 242 (Cancelled). Bellator 242: Bader vs. Nemkov was a scheduled event to take place on May 9, 2020 at SAP Center in San Jose, California. The event was scheduled to be live"}, {"text": "on Paramount Network and DAZN. Background The event was expected to feature a Bellator Light Heavyweight World Championship bout between the champion Ryan Bader and Vadim Nemkov. On March 30, Bellator announced that the event would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Cancelled Fight card Bellator London 3 (Cancelled). Bellator London: Gallagher vs. Ellenor was a scheduled event to take place on May 16, 2020 at SSE Arena in London, England as part of the Bellator European Fight Series. The event was scheduled to be live on Channel 5. Background The event was expected to feature a bantamweight bout between rivals James Gallagher and Cal Ellenor. On March 30, Bellator announced that the event would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Cancelled Fight card Bellator 243 (Cancelled). Bellator 243: Carmouche vs. Bohm was a scheduled event to take place on May 29, 2020 at Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, California. The event was scheduled to be live on Paramount Network and DAZN. Background The event was expected to feature a women's flyweight bout between former UFC title contender Liz Carmouche and Mandy Bohm. On March 30, Bellator announced that"}, {"text": "the event would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Cancelled Fight card Bellator 244 (Cancelled). Bellator 244: Chandler vs. Henderson 2 was a scheduled event to take place on June 6, 2020 at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois. The event was scheduled to be live on DAZN. Background The event was expected to feature a rematch between former Bellator world champion Michael Chandler and former UFC and WEC world champion Benson Henderson, with Chandler having won the first bout. Additionally, a semi-final matchup in the Bellator Featherweight World Grand Prix between former bantamweight champ Darrion Caldwell and A.J. McKee was scheduled for the card. On April 21, Bellator announced that the event would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Cancelled Fight card Bellator 242. Bellator 242: Bandejas vs. Pettis took place on July 24, 2020 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The event aired live on Paramount Network and DAZN. Bellator 242 marked the organization's return to live events following a shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was held behind closed doors without fans in attendance. Results Bellator 243. Chandler vs. Henderson 2 was initially scheduled to"}, {"text": "take place at Bellator 244 on June 6, 2020 at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois. However, the event was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was announced that the bout was rescheduled as the main event of Bellator 243 set to take place on August 7 from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The event aired live on Paramount Network and DAZN. Background The event featured a lightweight rematch between former three-time Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler and former WEC and UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson. To set up for Bellator Lightweight Title contention. Results Bellator 244. Bader vs. Nemkov was initially scheduled to take place at Bellator 242 on May 9, 2020 at SAP Center in San Jose, California. However, the event was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was announced that the bout was rescheduled as the main event for Bellator 244 set to take place on August 21 from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The event aired live on Paramount Network and DAZN. Background The event featured a men's light heavyweight championship match between the current two-division champion Ryan Bader and the number one contender Vadim Nemkov. Results Bellator 245. Bellator 245:"}, {"text": "Davis vs. Machida II took place on September 11, 2020 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Background The event featured a light heavyweight bout between former Bellator Light Heavyweight World Champion Phil Davis and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida. The two previously met at UFC 163 where Davis won by a controversial split decision. Results Bellator 246. Bellator 246: Archuleta vs. Mix took place on September 12, 2020 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Background The event featured a bout for the vacant Bellator Bantamweight World Championship between former featherweight title challenger Juan Archuleta and Patchy Mix. At the weigh-ins, DeAnna Bennett and Keoni Diggs both missed weight for their respective bouts. Bennett weighed in at 131.7 pounds, 5.7 pounds over the non-title flyweight limit of 126.0 pounds, and Diggs weighed in at 157 pounds, 1 pound over the non-title lightweight limit of 156 pounds. Both bouts proceeded at catchweights and both fighters were fined a percentage of their respective purses, a percentage that went to their opponents. This would be the last Bellator event to air on Paramount Network. Results Bellator Milan 2. Bellator Milan: Edwards vs. van Steenis was a mixed martial arts event"}, {"text": "scheduled for September 26, 2020 from Milan, Italy and marked the organization's eighth European Series event. The event aired on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom and featured a middleweight bout between Fabian Edwards and Costello van Steenis. Results Bellator 247. Bellator 247: Jackson vs. Kielholtz was a mixed martial arts event held on October 1, 2020 from Milan, Italy. Background This was the first Bellator MMA event to air on CBS Sports Network. The event was expected to feature a welterweight bout between Paul Daley and Derek Anderson. The day of the weigh-ins, Daley notified Bellator officials that he would not make weight. Daley weighed in anyway, 2.5 pounds over the welterweight weight limit of 171 lb. Daley was hospitalized and Bellator announced that the bout was canceled. The women's flyweight bout between Kate Jackson and Denise Kielholtz was bumped to the main event. Results Bellator Dublin 3 (Cancelled). Bellator Dublin: Queally vs. Pitbull was supposed to take place on October 3, 2020 at 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland. The event was cancelled by Bellator as they announced an event for October 1. Background The event was supposed feature a lightweight bout between Peter Queally and Patricky Freire. Cancelled Fight"}, {"text": "card Bellator Milan 3. Bellator Milan: Gallagher vs. Ellenor took place on October 3, 2020 at Allianz Cloud in Milan, Italy as the ninth event in the Bellator European Series. The event will be live on Channel 5 in the UK. Background The event featured a bantamweight bout between rivals James Gallagher and Cal Ellenor. Results Bellator 248. Bellator Paris/Bellator 248 was a mixed martial arts event scheduled for October 10, 2020 from Paris, France. It was the first major MMA event held in France since the sport was legalized back in January. Background This was the first event where a leading MMA organization held a live event in front of a paying audience in France. One thousand tickets were made available and were all sold out within 48 hours. The Bellator Paris portion of the card aired on Channel 5 and featured a heavyweight bout between former title challenger Cheick Kongo and Timothy Johnson. The two previously met at Bellator 208 where Kongo won by knockout the first round. The Bellator 248 portion of the card aired on CBS Sports Network and featured a welterweight bout between Michael Page and former Cage Warriors Welterweight Champion Ross Houston. The bout"}, {"text": "was later updated to a 175-pound catchweight contest. Results Bellator 249. Bellator 249: Cyborg vs. Blencowe was a mixed martial arts event held on October 15, 2020 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. This event aired live on CBS Sports Network. Background The event featured a Bellator Women's Featherweight World Championship bout between the champion Cris Cyborg and former title challenger Arlene Blencowe. A middleweight prelim bout between Curtis Millender and Joe Schilling was canceled after it was revealed by Schilling that one of his cornermen tested positive for COVID-19. A catchweight bout between Patricky Freire and Jeleel Willis was scheduled to be the co-main event of the event. However, the bout was removed from the card when the Mohegan Tribal Athletic Commission deemed Freire unable to compete due to what was termed an undisclosed medical issue. Results Bellator 250. Bellator 250: Mousasi vs. Lima was a mixed martial arts event held on October 29, 2020 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. This event aired live on CBS Sports Network. Background The event featured a bout for the vacant Bellator Middleweight World Championship between current Bellator Welterweight World Champion Douglas Lima and former Bellator middleweight world"}, {"text": "champion Gegard Mousasi. Nick Newell was scheduled to face Zachary Zane in a lightweight bout and Veta Arteaga was scheduled to Desiree Yanez in a women's flyweight bout. However, both bouts where cancelled when Newell and Arteaga tested positive for COVID-19. Results Bellator 251. Bellator 251: Manhoef vs. Anderson was a mixed martial arts event that took place on November 5, 2020 from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. This event aired live on CBS Sports Network. Background The event featured a light heavyweight main event between Melvin Manhoef and UFC veteran Corey Anderson. Results Bellator 252. Bellator 252: Pitbull vs. Carvalho was a mixed martial arts event held on November 12, 2020 from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. This event aired live on CBS Sports Network. Background The event featured a Bellator Featherweight World Grand Prix Quarter-Final bout for the Bellator Featherweight World Championship between the champion Patricio Freire and Pedro Carvalho. The bout was originally booked for Bellator 241, but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results Bellator 253. Bellator 253: Caldwell vs. McKee was a mixed martial arts event scheduled for November 19, 2020 from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville,"}, {"text": "Connecticut. This event aired live on CBS Sports Network. Background The event featured a Bellator Featherweight World Grand Prix Semi-Final bout between Darrion Caldwell and A. J. McKee. Results Bellator 254. Bellator 254: Macfarlane vs. Velasquez was a mixed martial arts event held on December 10, 2020 from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. This event aired live on CBS Sports Network. Background The event featured a Women's Flyweight main event for the Bellator Women's Flyweight World Championship between Ilima-Lei Macfarlane and Juliana Velasquez. At weigh ins, Goiti Yamauchi weighed in at 162.8 pounds, 6.8 pounds over the lightweight limit. The bout against PFL veteran, Nate Andrews was cancelled. Mohegan Sun commission head, Mike Mazzulli, said that from now on Yamauchi will be required to fight at Welterweight, 170 pounds. A women's featherweight bout between Marina Mokhnatkina and Jessica Borga was scheduled for this event but cancelled a week before for unknown reasons. This would be the last card to air on CBS Sports Network; all Bellator cards will air exclusively on Showtime beginning in April 2021. Results"}, {"text": "The boys' doubles of the tournament 2019 BWF World Junior Championships will be held from 7 to 13 October 2019. The defending champions is Di Zijian/Wang Chang from China. Seeds. Di Zijian / Wang Chang \"(final)\" Leo Rolly Carnando / Daniel Marthin (champions) Dai Enyi / Feng Yanzhe \"(semifinals)\" William Jones / Brandon Yap \"(fourth round)\" Rory Easton / Ethan van Leeuwen \"(quarterfinals)\" Takuma Kawamoto / Tsubasa Kawamura \"(semifinals)\" Thanawin Madee / Ratchapol Makkasasithorn \"(third round)\" Ooi Jhy Dar / Yap Roy King \"(third round)\" Tanadon Punpanich / Sirawit Sothon \"(fourth round)\" Chen Zhi-ray / Cheng Kai-wen \"(fourth round)\" Dwiki Rafian Restu / Bernadus Bagas Kusuma Wardana \"(fourth round)\" Joan Monroy / Carlos Piris \"(fourth round)\" Howin Wong / Aaron Yong \"(fourth round)\" Egor Kholkin / Georgii Lebedev \"(second round)\" Rasmus Espersen / Marcus Rindsh\u00f8j \"(fourth round)\" Wei Chun-wei / Wu Guan-xun \"(third round)\""}, {"text": "The 2018 Corpus Christi mayoral election was held on November 6, 2018, and December 18, 2018, to elect the mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas. The general election, held on November 6, 2018, did not produce a winner (elections for the mayoralty of Corpus Christi require a majority); therefore, a runoff was required and held on December 18, 2018. The runoff election resulted in the re-election of Joe McComb, this time for a full two-year term."}, {"text": "The girls' doubles of the tournament 2019 BWF World Junior Championships will be held from 7 to 13 October 2019. The defending champions is Liu Xuanxuan/Xia Yuting from China. Seeds. Nita Violina Marwah / Putri Syaikah \"(quarterfinals)\" Li Yijing / Luo Xumin \"(semifinals)\" Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma / Amalia Cahaya Pratiwi \"(final)\" Lin Fangling / Zhou Xinru (champions) Pornpicha Choeikeewong / Pornnicha Suwatnodom \"(third round)\" Christine Busch / Amalie Schulz \"(quarterfinals)\" Melani Mamahit / Tryola Nadia \"(quarterfinals)\" Bengisu Er\u00e7etin / Zehra Erdem \"(second round)\" Dounia Pelupessy / Milena Schnider \"(second round)\" Leona Michalski / Emma Moszczynski \"(fourth round)\" Asmita Chaudhari / Annie Lado \"(second round)\" Aditi Bhatt / Tanisha Crasto \"(fourth round)\" Kaho Osawa / Hinata Suzuki \"(semifinals)\" Julie Franconville / Caroline Racloz \"(third round)\" Anastasiia Kurdyukova / Anastasiia Shapovalova \"(third round)\" Lucie Krpatov\u00e1 / Kate\u0159ina Zuz\u00e1kov\u00e1 \"(second round)\""}, {"text": "WBOX-FM is a radio station broadcasting on 92.9 FM in Varnado, Louisiana. The station is owned by Best Country Broadcasting, LLC, and carries a country format. The station is co-owned with WBOX 920 in Bogalusa. WBOX-FM is an affiliate of the LSU Sports Radio Network and carries LSU football, men's and women's basketball, and baseball games. History. WBOX-FM signed on the air in November 1985. While a sister to WBOX 920 AM, the two stations initially carried different formats, with 920 airing country music and 92.7 adopting an adult contemporary sound. WBOX-AM-FM was sold to Bogue Chitto Communications for $325,000 in 1988; the sale made the pair sisters to four radio stations in Mississippi. Both stations changed to contemporary country formats. The station was required to move to 92.9 from 92.7 as a result of an upgrade proposal for station WQCK licensed to Clinton, Louisiana (now WBKL). Best Country Broadcasting, owned by Ben Strickland, acquired WBOX-AM-FM for $150,000 in 2002. On October 26, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission issued an Order to Pay or to Show Cause for WBOX-AM-FM to pay delinquent regulatory fees totaling just over $21,000 covering fiscal years 2002, 2012 through 2019, and 2022. Best Country was"}, {"text": "given sixty days to pay the past due fees or show cause why \"these regulatory fees are inapplicable or should otherwise be waived or deferred.\" The Notice officially constitutes the initiation of a proceeding to revoke the licenses if Best Country fails to respond."}, {"text": "The Volleyball 2019\u201320 V.League Division 1 Women's was the 26th tournament year and the 2nd top level women's tournament of the newly branded and reorganized V.League (Japan). It was held from October 12, 2019 \u2013 January 26, 2020. Clubs. Conferences. The 2019-20 V.League Division 1 Women will be divided into two conferences of six teams each: Premier and Star. Foreign players. The total number of foreign players is restricted to one per club world wide, and one per club from ASEAN nations. Schedule. Regular Round begins October 12, 2019 (Saturday) and ends December 29, 2019 (Sunday). Matches are played every Saturday and Sunday. The Empress' Cup Final Round which has usually been contested during the last week of December is scheduled for March 25\u201329, 2020 -- after the season is over. Season standing procedure. The 2019-20 V.League Season brings new rules for how teams will be ranked for the Regular Round. Previously teams were ranked by: Beginning with the 2019-20 season teams will be ranked in the Regular Round by: Regular Round Results. In-Conference Leg 1. Standings after Leg 1. Four teams from Premier Conference are 2 matches behind, and two teams from Star Conference are 1 match behind--due to"}, {"text": "cancelled matches opening weekend. The five cancelled matches have been rescheduled for the end of the season: In-Conference Leg 2. Standings after Leg 2. Four teams from Premier Conference are 2 matches behind, and two teams from Star Conference are 1 match behind--due to cancelled matches opening weekend. The five cancelled matches have been rescheduled for the end of the season: Final stage. Final 8. Teams will receive advantage points based on their regular season performance and add the Final 8 results There will be two groups for the Final 8 Group A Group B 3 matches in each group (round robin) Top 2 teams from each group advance to semifinals. Points will determine final rank (different from Regular Round) Tiebreakers for Final 8 (if tied on points) Final 8 Group A Round Robin Final 8 Group B Round Robin Challenge 4. The teams finishing 5th and 6th in their conference will be placed into the Challenge 4; 5th place teams receive 1 advantage point, 6th place teams receive zero. A three team round robin takes place over three days. The top two teams stay in V1. The bottom two teams will playoff against V2 1st and 2nd place finishers"}, {"text": "in the V.Challenge Match: If the V2 team does not have an S1 license, they will not play the match. V.Challenge Match. Held 22-23 February 2020 Participating teams: V1 11th and 12th place teams (3rd and 4th from the Challenge match); V2 1st and 2nd place teams If either of the V2 teams do not meet the 2020-21V.LEAGUE S1 license requirements, their prospective V.Challenge Match will not be held and the team will remain in V2 while the V1 team remains in V1. There are no advantage points given. The matches will each be a two match series of 5 set matches (3,2,1,0 point system). The team with the highest number of wins will be the winner. If the teams split 1\u20131, Points will be the first tie-breaker Points are awarded as follows: Ranking method: The Challenge Match between 11th place V1 finisher PFU BlueCats and 2nd place V2 finisher GSS Tokyo Sunbeams () was not contested. The Sunbeams do not meet the V1 license requirements and remain in V.League Division 2. The BlueCats remain in V.League Division 1. All Star Game. Due to the coronavirus the event was cancelled."}, {"text": "Pranaya Meenukalude Kadal () is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language romantic drama film co-written and directed by Kamal and produced by Johny Vattakuzhi under the banner of Dani Productions. The film stars Vinayakan, Dileesh Pothan, Saiju Kurup, Gabri Jose, Riddhi Kumar and Joe John Chacko. The film was released on 4 October 2019 by Frames Inevitable. Soundtrack. The soundtrack is composed by Shaan Rahman and lyrics by BK Harinarayanan and Rafeeq Ahamed. Release. The official trailer of the film was unveiled by Muzik247 on 4 September 2019. The film was released, theatrically, on 4 October 2019. The film is available online from April 2020 onwards."}, {"text": "The mixed doubles of the tournament 2019 BWF World Junior Championships will be held from 7 to 13 October 2019. The defending champions were Leo Rolly Carnando/Indah Cahya Sari Jamil from Indonesia, but lost to Feng Yanzhe and Lin Fangling from China in the final. Seeds. Leo Rolly Carnando / Indah Cahya Sari Jamil \"(final)\" Feng Yanzhe / Lin Fangling (champions) Ratchapol Makkasasithorn / Benyapa Aimsaard \"(semifinals)\" Jiang Zhenbang / Li Yijing \"(semifinals)\" Sirawit Sothon / Pornnicha Suwatnodom \"(third round)\" Yap Roy King / Gan Jing Err \"(quarterfinals)\" Ethan van Leeuwen / Annie Lado \"(second round)\" Rory Easton / Hope Warner \"(fourth round)\" William Jones / Asmita Chaudhari \"(third round)\" Egor Kholkin / Mariia Sukhova \"(third round)\" Andre Timotius Tololiu / Dinda Dwi Cahyaning \"(second round)\" Tsubasa Kawamura / Kaho Osawa \"(third round)\" Aaron Sonnenschein / Leona Michalski \"(fourth round)\" Lev Barinov / Anastasiia Boairun \"(fourth round)\" Kenji Lovang / Juliette Moinard \"(fourth round)\" Rasmus Espersen / Christine Busch \"(fourth round)\""}, {"text": "Vijaykumar Bheemanna Khandre was an Indian physician and politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He was elected as a member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Bhalki in 1989 and 1994. His father Bheemanna Khandre was a Minister of Karnataka Government and his younger brother Eshwara Khandre is serving as Working President of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee. He died of cardiac arrest on 29 April 2019 at the age of 60."}, {"text": "A statue of Fan Zhongyan is installed outside the Suzhou railway station in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China."}, {"text": "Rain, Part 3 is a live EP from Planetshakers. This album was released on 9 August 2019 by Planetshakers Ministries International and Venture3Media. Critical reception. Lins Honeyman gave the EP a score of six out of ten for \"Cross Rhythms\". Joni Davies gave the EP a four and half star review in \"Louder Than the Music\"."}, {"text": "M. Sathyanarayana was an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He was elected as a member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Chamundeshwari in 2008. He died on 6 June 2019 at the age of 74."}, {"text": "Umesh Bhat Bhavikeri was an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He was elected as a member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Ankola in 1989. He also served as the Chairman of Lok Shiksha Trust. It publishes a Kannada newspaper the \"Samyukta Karnataka\". Death. On 13 August 2019, he died of a heart attack in Bengaluru at the age of 72."}, {"text": "Wolfgang Maria Ohlh\u00e4user (born 6 December 1941 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt) is a German painter. Life and work. Wolfgang Ohlh\u00e4user is a son of the sculptor Walter Ohlh\u00e4user and his wife Helene (n\u00e9e Deichmann). From 1956 to 1959 he trained as a graphic artist. In 1967 he became a freelance graphic artist in Mannheim. Since 1973 he lived in the Heidelberg area. In 1975 he began as an art painter and specialized in the old-master painting techniques resin oil glaze and egg tempera. At the UNESO-Sopot-Gdansk Festival of Fine Artists in 1978, Ohlh\u00e4user received the bronze medal. In 1982 he received a scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. Since 1993 until 2020, he has had teaching assignments every year, some several times, at art academies and universities in Nepal and Thailand, such as Tribuhvan University in Kathmandu-Nepal, the College of Fine Arts in Ladkrabang-Bangkok and the Department of Fine Arts in Phuttamonthon-Bangkok. From 1987 to 2010 he lived in the Castle Langenzell. He had his Atelier on an upper floor and could use rooms for art exhibitions downstairs. In 2010, he decided to move to Weinheim on the Badische Bergstrasse. Regular trips took him to Nepal and Tibet, where he made extensive"}, {"text": "mountain hikes, and to Thailand, where he often spent many months. After his respective return to Langenzell, he immersed himself in painting the landscapes seen on the trips and the people living in them. Paintings. Almost all of his paintings are privately owned or owned by museums, academies, universities and embassies, or owned by the state of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, the cities of Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Mannheim, Bangkok, the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Goethe-Institut Kathmandu (Nepal), Gallery Ban-Phuan-Bankabi (Thailand), Museum College of Fine Arts (Suphanburi, Thailand), Ministry of Science and Art (Stuttgart), Employment Office (Heidelberg), Regional Councils in T\u00fcbingen, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Embassy of the Kingdom of Thailand (Bonn), Cultural Office of the City of Heidelberg and Cultural Office Rhein-Neckar-Kreis. Reverence for nature, a special relationship between nature and man, the naturalistic and the visionary, magic realism and surrealism, and a delicate rendering of details in large paintings combine in his artworks. \"The works of Wolfgang Maria Ohlh\u00e4user lead to the essence and the essence of nature - reflect the visible, let the invisible guess. With the painting art of old masters he dared already for 50 years the jump into the surreal - merges this with the real, creates new reality. Wolfgang Maria Ohlh\u00e4user is"}, {"text": "also a bridge builder between these - perhaps also between foreign worlds, as well as between the Western, which is foreign to the Eastern. He is a role model for many artists around the region of the Himalayas, the \"place of snow\", and he has trained many in academies and colleges there. In a ... time, in which the gift of creation - \"Mother Nature\" - ... is fragmented and dismembered, Wolfgang Maria Ohlh\u00e4user creates with his landscapes places that become paradises of the soul and senses for us.\" (Quote: Sabine Theis-Kr\u00f6mer, Rupert Kr\u00f6mer) Exhibitions. Since 1969 there have been numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, then in Thailand, Singapore, Yogyakarta Indonesia, in Kathmandu Nepal and further in many German cities and cultural centers. His first solo exhibition in 1969 was in Mannheim. In the following decades, his paintings were shown every year at several exhibitions, of which only a selection is mentioned here: His last vernissage was on November 24, 2019, at the Hector Sport-Centrum in Weinheim. The exhibition planned for 2020 in Schwetzingen had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and was postponed in planning until 2021."}, {"text": "External links. Video: Wolfgang Maria Ohlh\u00e4user - Wanderer ferner Welten"}, {"text": "Jai Krishan Sharma (11 February 1943 \u2013 10 September 2019) was an Indian teacher, agriculturist and politician belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected as a member of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Santokhgarh in 1998. He served as President of Himachal Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party from 2000 to 2003. He died on 10 September 2019."}, {"text": "Satish Kumar Chauhan was an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He was elected as a member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Bhainsdehi in 1985. He died on 29 March 2019 at the age of 58."}, {"text": "Rodion Ruslanovich Amirov (; ; 2 October 2001 \u2013 14 August 2023) was a Russian professional ice hockey forward who played with Salavat Yulaev Ufa in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was drafted in the first round, 15th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. Playing career. Amirov played youth hockey within the system of his hometown club, Salavat Yulaev Ufa. He appeared for their Junior Hockey League (Russia) (MHL) affiliate, Tolpar Ufa, and their Supreme Hockey League (VHL) affiliate Toros Neftekamsk, before making his debut with Salavat Yulaev Ufa in the top-level Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) during the 2019\u201320 season. In October 2020, Amirov was selected 15th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the pandemic-delayed 2020 NHL Entry Draft. As a 19-year-old in his second KHL season, Amirov appeared in a career-high 39 games for Salavat Yulaev during the 2020\u201321 season. His nine goals and 13 points ranked third among under-20 skaters in the league. In nine playoff games, however, he did not record a point. On 15 April 2021, Amirov agreed to a three-year entry-level contract with the Leafs. He moved to Toronto for the spring and worked with the Leafs'"}, {"text": "development staff, but did not appear in any games for the Leafs or their minor league affiliates. While in Toronto, he lived with fellow Russian Leafs prospect Semyon Der-Arguchintsev Amirov returned to Russia for the 2021\u201322 season. From 29 September to 6 December 2021, he did not play any KHL games due to a shoulder injury. He recorded an assist in his return to the Ufa lineup, despite playing barely more than one minute. He did not play at all in the next two games. In 10 KHL games that season, he totaled one goal and three points. Illness and death. On 22 February 2022, Amirov's agent, Dan Milstein, announced on Twitter that Amirov had been diagnosed with a brain tumor and was undergoing treatment. The announcement shared that Amirov was receiving treatment in Germany and was skating and working out regularly. Leafs general manager Kyle Dubas confirmed the report the next day. In the fall of 2022, Amirov received chemotherapy in Toronto, and attended the Maple Leafs' season opener against the Washington Capitals, where he was announced as an honorary member of the roster. Afterward, Amirov returned to his family home in Ufa to continue treatment. At this point,"}, {"text": "his treatment left him unable to train; according to his father Ruslan, the doctors had deemed the cancer inoperable, and Rodion was given between three and six months to live. For the last eight months of his life, Amirov was rendered blind from the cancer, as it had spread to his optic nerve. Despite his vision loss and his time away from hockey, Amirov signed a one-year contract extension with Salavat Yulaev on 10 May 2023. Amirov died on 14 August 2023, in Munich, Germany, where he was receiving treatment. His death was announced that day, by Milstein via Twitter."}, {"text": "T. K. Nallappan was an Indian politician belonging to Communist Party of India. He was elected as a member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Perundurai in 1980. He died on 26 July 2019 at the age of 87."}, {"text": "Roni Hirvonen (born 10 January 2002) is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for Oulun K\u00e4rp\u00e4t in the Liiga. He was drafted 59th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, ranking within the top ten of European skaters of the NHL Central Scouting Bureau. Playing career. Liiga. Hirvonen played in 152 career games in Liiga with HIFK and \u00c4ss\u00e4t. In 2021\u201322, his third year in Liiga, Hirvonen posted 9 goals and 26 points through 46 games. He returned to Liiga for the 2022\u201323 season where he scored 15 goals and 28 points in 57 games. North American career. Hirvonen was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the second round, 59th overall, in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. Hirvonen was signed to a three-year, entry-level contract with the Maple Leafs on 13 May 2022. On 7 July 2023 while attending the Maple Leafs development camp, he suffered a concussion when flattened by another prospect, former Sarnia Sting captain Nolan Dillingham-Morelli. He returned to action in September during a rookie tournament, playing alongside Dilligham-Morelli. Hirvonen was invited to the Maple Leafs' 2023 training camp, but was"}, {"text": "assigned to their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Toronto Marlies, for the start of the 2023\u201324 season. In his second AHL game on 15 October 2023, Hirvonen suffered a serious eye injury after being struck by a stick. He returned to the team on 28 January 2024. Return to Liiga. After his entry-level contract with the Maple Leafs, as a pending restricted free agent, Hirvonen opted to return to his native Finland and was signed to a one-year deal with K\u00e4rp\u00e4t of the Liiga on 16 June 2025. International play. Hirvonen has played for Finland at several tournaments. He played for the team at the 2019 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, where he led the team in scoring, but Finland finished fourth. At the 2021 World Junior Championship, Hirvonen scored six points in seven games and Finland won the bronze. In his final tournament, he captained the team at the 2022 World Junior Championship, scoring seven points in seven games and taking the silver medal."}, {"text": "TNT Limited may refer to:"}, {"text": "Kasper Simontaival (born 11 January 2002) is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for KalPa in the Liiga. He was drafted 66th overall by the Los Angeles Kings in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft."}, {"text": "Shivlal Sharma was an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He was elected as a member of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Chachiot in 1985. He died of cardiac arrest on 21 April 2019 at the age of 80."}, {"text": "Khvicha Supatashvili (; born 31 March 1969) is a Georgian chess International Master (IM) (1993) and Georgian Chess Championship winner (1992). Career. As a chess player. In the 1990s, Khvicha Supatashvili was one of the leading Georgian chess players. In 1992, he won Georgian Chess Championship. In 2002, in Moscow he participated in FIDE World Chess Championship, in which in first round he lost Alexey Dreev. Khvicha Supatashvili played for Georgia in the Chess Olympiads: Khvicha Supatashvili played for Georgia in the European Team Chess Championships: Khvicha Supatashvili played for Georgia in the World Youth U26 Team Chess Championship: In 1993, Khvicha Supatashvili was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title. As a chess coach. In recent years, Khvicha Supatashvili has rarely participated in chess tournaments, because he has begun his coaching career. From 1995 to 2011 years, he was a personal coach of Maia Chiburdanidze and during this period of time, Chiburdanidze became a semifinalist of the Women's World Chess Championship for two times. As a result of being a head coach of the Georgian women's Olympic team, the team got the second place on The 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. Since 2004, he was also working with the"}, {"text": "Georgian men's team, concretely, with Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Baadur Jobava, Giorgi Kacheishvili, Zviad Izoria, Mikheil Mchedlishvili, Levan Pantsulaia, Tamaz Gelashvili, Konstantine Shanava, David Jojua, Tornike Sanikidze, Giorgi Margvelashvili, David Arutinian, Merab Gagunashvili, Dawit Schengelia, Valeriane Gaprindashvili. As for the women's team, except Maia Chiburdanidze, Supatashvili trained grandmasters \u2013 Nino Khurtsidze, Salome Melia, Lela Javakhishvili, Maia Lomineishvili, Meri Arabidze, Sopiko Khukhashvili, Natalia Edzgveradze. Since 2014, Supatashvili has been a personal trainer for Nana Dzagnidze. Under training with Supatashvili, Dzagnidze showed the best result - 8 (eight) point from 9 (nine) at The 41st Chess Olympiad in 2014, on the women's first board. Also, in 2017, as a result of being the winner of the European Individual Championship in Riga and the winner of the World Blitz Chess Championship in Riyadh, Dzagnidze was nominated as a world's best female chess player. In 2019, on the European Team Chess Championship in Batumi, Georgia, she was the best on the women's first board. In 2020, Dzagnidze won FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Lausanne, Switzerland. Also, since 2014, Supatashvili has been a trainer of Nino Khomeriki, who won the European Youth Chess Championships in 2015 and 2016. In the 2014\u20132018 years, Supatashvili was working with Irakli"}, {"text": "Beradze and Giorgi Sibashvili. In 2014, Sibashvili won the second prize in the European Youth Chess Championship. In 2014, Supatashvili was the head coach of Batumi Chess Club \"Nona\" that became the winner of the European Chess Club Cup (2014). Recognition. Supatashvili is the owner of the Georgian state awards \u2013 Honor Medal (2000 year) and Order of Honor (2008 year) chevalier. Achievements in the women's team:"}, {"text": "Felipe Moreira Roque (born 19 May 1997) is a Brazilian volleyball player. He is a current member of the Brazil men's national volleyball team. On club level, he plays for Brazilian club V\u00f4lei S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9."}, {"text": "Mikael \"Micke\" Ljungberg (born 23 August 1961) is a Swedish curler. He is a and a . In 2003 he was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame. Personal life. His wife is Swedish curler Lena M\u00e5rdberg, she played on ."}, {"text": "Marisa Jossa (15 September 1938 \u2013 19 November 2023) was an Italian television actress. In 1959 she won the title of Miss Italia, winning the crown on 30 August 1959. Life and career. Marisa Jossa was born on 15 September 1938. Her daughter Roberta Capua was also awarded the Miss Italia title in 1986. Jossa died on 19 November 2023, at the age of 85."}, {"text": "Milangarh railway station is a railway station on the Howrah\u2013New Jalpaiguri line of Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway Zone. It is situated beside National Highway 81 at Daulatpur, Milangarh of Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal."}, {"text": "Xu Chi (; 15 October 1914 \u2013 22 December 1996) was a Chinese writer. A modernist poet and essayist in his early life, he later worked as a journalist and focused on writing reportage literature. He became widely known in China for his biographies of the mathematician Chen Jingrun (\"Goldbach's Conjecture\") and the geologist Li Siguang (\"The Light of Geology\"). The , China's highest award for reportage literature, was established in 2002 in his memory. Early life and career. Xu was born on 15 October 1914 in Nanxun, Zhejiang, Republic of China. His original name was Xu Shangshou (\u5f90\u5546\u5bff). He chose the pen name Xu Chi (meaning \"late\") as he wanted to live an unhurried life, although he later said he did not succeed at that. Xu studied at the School of Literature of Soochow University. He began composing poetry in 1931, and published his first works in 1934. When he was 22, he published his first poetry collection \"A Twenty-Year-Old\" (\u4e8c\u5341\u5c81\u4eba). His early poetry was influenced by Western literary modernism. Starting in 1936, he wrote essays which were later published in two collections. His essays were influenced by Ernest Hemingway. Early People's Republic of China. After the founding of"}, {"text": "the People's Republic of China in 1949, Xu worked as a journalist for the \"People's Daily\". He visited the battlefield of the Korean War twice and the construction sites of Anshan Steel and the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge multiple times. He published a number of poetry and essay collections in this period, including \"War, Peace, Progress\" and \"Songs of the Republic\". From 1957 to 1960, he served as deputy editor-in-chief of \"Shi Kan\" (\u8bd7\u520a), China's foremost poetry journal. In 1960, Xu settled in Wuhan and began to focus on reportage writing. He published several books in this period, including the acclaimed \"Under the Qilian Mountains\" (\u7941\u8fde\u5c71\u4e0b), about the art scholar Chang Shuhong and the geologist Sun Jianchu (\u5b59\u5065\u521d). After the Cultural Revolution. After the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966\u20131976), during which numerous intellectuals and scientists were persecuted and murdered by Red Guards, Xu wrote \"The Light of Geology\" (\u5730\u8d28\u4e4b\u5149), highlighting the contributions of the geologist Li Siguang. Soon afterward, he wrote \"Goldbach's Conjecture\" (\u54e5\u5fb7\u5df4\u8d6b\u731c\u60f3), a biography of the mathematician Chen Jingrun, who had proved the Chen's theorem despite being persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. First published in \"People's Literature\" in January 1978, it was reprinted on the \"People's Daily\""}, {"text": "a month later and became a national sensation. Chen Jingrun became a household name in China and received a sackful of love letters from all over the country within two months. Xu was awarded the National Reportage Literature Prize three times, for \"The Light of Geology\", \"Goldbach's Conjecture\", and \"Xingtian Wu Ganqi\" (\u5211\u5929\u821e\u5e72\u621a), which is about the construction of the Gezhouba Dam. Personal life. Xu had three older sisters and a younger brother. His brother, Xu Shunshou, was a founder of China's aircraft manufacturing industry. His third sister, Xu He (\u5f90\u548c), married Wu Xiuquan, who served as Vice Foreign Minister of China. Three of his siblings, including Xu Shunshou and the two other sisters, died in the Cultural Revolution. Xu married Chen Song (\u9648\u677e) in Shanghai on the New Year's Day of 1936. They had two daughters and a son. After the death of Chen Song, Xu married Chen Binbin (\u9648\u5f6c\u5f6c) in his later years, but his second marriage ended in divorce soon afterwards. The actress Bai Ling is Chen Binbin's daughter from a previous marriage. Death and legacy. After his divorce, Xu lived alone in Wuhan and suffered from poor health. In the night of 22 December 1996, he"}, {"text": "jumped to his death from his hospital room, aged 82. In 2002, the China Reportage Literature Association and the government of Huzhou city established the Xu Chi Reportage Prize, which is considered China's highest prize in the field. It is awarded every two years in Nanxun, Xu's hometown."}, {"text": "Butibori is the Municipal council in district of Nagpur, Maharashtra. History. Butibori is a Municipal Council city in district of Nagpur, Maharashtra. References. 5. Butibori First Update Portal aamchibutiborinews"}, {"text": "WGVL (channel 23) was a television station in Greenville, South Carolina, United States, which broadcast from 1953 to 1956. The station was the first to operate in Greenville, but like many early ultra high frequency (UHF) stations, the arrival of new stations on the very high frequency (VHF) band imperiled its ability to secure programming and viewers. WGVL signed off the day that WSPA-TV signed on channel 7, having fought for years alongside fellow UHF station WAIM-TV in Anderson to prevent the television station from being built; the case lingered into 1960, well after the station ceased broadcasting. History. WGVL signed on August 1, 1953, under the ownership of the Greenville Television Company; the station's first network program was a baseball game from ABC, aired after opening ceremonies at its studios in Calhoun Towers. WGVL's transmitter site and tower were the former WMRC-FM plant on Paris Mountain. In its first months of operation, channel 23 was an affiliate of ABC, NBC and DuMont; the NBC affiliation would be lost when Greenville's first VHF station, WFBC-TV (channel 4), signed on the air at the start of 1954. The station's existence, however, turned into a struggle for survival that played out in"}, {"text": "the courts for almost all of its existence. The Spartan Radiocasting Company of Spartanburg, which owned two radio stations there (originally WORD and WDXY-FM, later sold to buy WSPA-AM-FM) and was the permittee for a second VHF station, to broadcast on channel 7. The Spartan TV station was originally approved to broadcast from Hogback Mountain, closer to Spartanburg, but sought to move to Paris Mountain, which was then home of WFBC-TV and WGVL and closer to Greenville. For Spartan, this was a necessary condition of obtaining the CBS television affiliation for channel 7; CBS had refused to grant it to a station on Hogback, which it reckoned too close to WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina. By March 1954, WGVL had already lost $75,000; at that time, its petition to deny the Spartan move to Paris Mountain was denied by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as had been petitions from WAIM-TV (channel 40) in Anderson and the Sterling Telecasting Company of Spartanburg, which held the construction permit for WSCV (channel 17) in that city. WGVL and WAIM took the case to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, seeking injunctive relief from the FCC ruling, in the summer"}, {"text": "of 1954. Despite the legal fight it was facing, by the fall of 1954 WGVL-TV had increased its broadcast hours, signing on for three hours in the morning and six hours in the evening on weekdays plus extended weekend operating hours. On January 31, 1955, the appeals court heard arguments by WGVL and WAIM against the WSPA-TV authorization on Paris Mountain, having obtained six months prior a restraining order preventing Spartan from building its transmitter facility until the case was heard (though the studios were near completion and initial preparations had been made on Paris Mountain). While WGVL and WAIM-TV claimed that the FCC should not have granted the application without giving them a hearing, the commission argued that they did not have standing to show injury that would be caused by WSPA-TV going on air, and that the procedure the stations sought to use was the improper forum to delay such a grant. WGVL's stakes became even higher when\u2014even though WSPA-TV had already secured a CBS affiliation for when it would sign on\u2014the network affiliated with WGVL in the fall of 1955, with ABC and DuMont programs continuing to air. Even though WGVL and WAIM won a hearing at"}, {"text": "the FCC, the hearing examiner's recommendation would not be favorable to them. Examiner James D. Cunningham recommended the FCC approve the WSPA-TV move to Paris Mountain, saying that the UHF stations \"failed to make a satisfactory showing\" as to the economic damages they would incur and that, because UHF converters were widely distributed in their broadcast areas, they would not be at a disadvantage. WGVL and WAIM counsel asked for oral argument on the decision, warning that it would be \"aggravating the forces now making for unequal competition in the television field and hastening the trend towards complete obliteration of UHF\". The FCC made a final decision in favor of Spartan on March 9, 1956, reaffirming many of the arguments made by the hearing examiner. When the appeals court gave its approval for WSPA-TV, WGVL and WAIM announced their intentions to leave the air. On Sunday, April 29, 1956, WSPA-TV signed on; the night before, WGVL-TV announced that Sunday would be their final day of telecasting, beginning a silence that would last at least 60 days, if not longer. The WGVL and WAIM appeals were heard in June 1956; the appeals court found that the FCC had erred in approving"}, {"text": "the Paris Mountain move for WSPA-TV and threw the case back to the FCC. The commission reaffirmed the grant yet again in 1957, saying that what misrepresentations about loss of service that WSPA had made in its filing were more than compensated for by the service provided to new areas, and that there was no intent to deceive on WSPA's part. WGVL and WAIM won again at the appeals court, which in 1958 ordered the record reopened because it did not find the misrepresentations excusable and said the FCC failed to justify the losses of service. The UHF stations also charged that Senator Strom Thurmond and former governor James F. Byrnes were appealed to by Spartan's Walter Brown to plead the company's case with FCC commissioners. WGVL finally withdrew from the proceedings on February 23, 1960, having never returned to the air."}, {"text": "Tomiaki is a masculine Japanese given name. Written forms. Tomiaki can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples: The name can also be written in hiragana \u3068\u307f\u3042\u304d or katakana \u30c8\u30df\u30a2\u30ad."}, {"text": "Harischandrapur railway station is an important railway station on the Howrah\u2013New Jalpaiguri line of Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway Zone. It is situated beside National Highway 81 at Harischandrapur of Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Toatal 34 trains including number of express trains stop at Harischandrapur railway station. This station serves Harishchandrapur I and Harishchandrapur II Community Development Block. Trains. Major Trains available from this railway station are as follows:"}, {"text": "Kitaura may refer to:"}, {"text": "FloSports is an over-the-top subscription sports broadcaster and streaming service. The company is based in Austin, Texas, United States, and was founded in 2006. FloSports streams live sporting events to audiences around the world. History. Launch. FloSports was founded in 2006 by Martin Floreani, Mark Floreani (collegiate athletes) and Madhu Venkatesan based in Austin, Texas. Martin designed the website's prototype with the aim of covering collegiate sports with the same detail that ESPN gives to the NFL and NBA. The brothers raised U.S. $10,000 in seed money from John Rainbolt and started covering wrestling and track events. Co-founder Mark captured the service's first original broadcast, Ryan Hall's U.S half-marathon record, from the back of a pickup truck using a handheld camera. Lo-fi footage, engine noise digital interference and fog impacted the quality of the broadcast. However, having the only footage of Hall's record-breaking run caused a surge in the website's popularity. By 2017 the company had 256 employees and 25 Web video channels. They changed their business model to a subscription-based service in 2012 and doubled their revenue over the following two years. Fundraising. The company raised $8 million in Series A and a further $21 million in Series B"}, {"text": "financing in 2016 led by DCM Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. By 2019, the company had grown to 250 employees and raised a further $47 million in series C. Acquisitions. The company acquired DirtonDirt.com, a grassroots racing streaming and content platform, in September 2019. In June 2020, FloSports purchased Speed Shift TV and acquired 400 races, with a focus on grassroots racing. FloSports acquired TrackWrestling in early 2021, a deal that increased the number of wrestling events that will be streamed on its FloWrestling service and brought wrestling analytics to the platform. In October 2021, it was announced that FloSports had acquired HockeyTech, an ice hockey streaming platform and sports data provider. Streaming partnerships. FloSports announced a partnership with WWNLive in 2016 to run a streaming service dedicated to wrestling. In December 2018, FloRacing signed a broadcast agreement with the United States Auto Club for its midget and sprint car series. In May 2019, the Colonial Athletic Association selected FloSports as its lead media partner becoming the first college conference to pick a streaming OTT, direct-to-consumer company as their primary distribution platform. FloSports became the local broadcaster for two Major League Soccer teams for the 2019 season: D.C. United"}, {"text": "and FC Cincinnati, an expansion team. The company faced technical issues during early broadcasts due to inaccurate geofencing restrictions. The organization pledged a full refund, and offered the club's season ticket holders a discount on its annual subscription fees. FloSports promised additional soccer broadcasts and shoulder programming to justify its subscription fee that largely never materialized. D.C. United and Flosports ended their four-year contract prematurely in October 2019. D.C. United opted to stream its final regular season match on its website for free. FC Cincinnati announced its matches would no longer be available through FloSports in June 2020. In January 2020, NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee and motorsports legend, Tony Stewart, awarded streaming rights to the Eldora Speedway and All Star Circuit of Champions to FloSports. In the Spring 2020, FloSports launched FloBaseball. Later in 2020, the company signed a multi-year partnership with ECHL to broadcast professional hockey starting with the 2021 season. FloSports expanded its wrestling offering through a partnership with United World Wrestling, the global governing body for the sport, in late 2020. In 2021, USA Cycling signed a 3 year broadcast partnership with FloSports. FloSports will also be the NGB's (national governing body's) official sponsor. The Unbound"}, {"text": "Gravel race, a cycling race covering various distances, has never been broadcast before due to remote locations and rough terrain. FloSports became the first to broadcast the race in June 2021 and will stream the race again in 2022. FloSports signed a multi-year streaming deal with USA Gymnastics, the national governing body for gymnastics, in 2021. In late 2021, NASCAR announced a partnership to stream its grassroots racing series on FloRacing starting in 2022. Series that were broadcast on FloRacing that year included the ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series West, ARCA Menards Series East, NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, and NASCAR Pinty's Series and NASCAR Weekly Series. Several tracks on the Modified and Weekly Series had been broadcasting on the service prior to the announcement (Eldora, Oswego, Stafford). Over 280 NASCAR grassroots events were anticipated to be broadcast in 2022 (out of a total of approximately 2000 total events broadcast on the service). In March 2023, the IBJJF announced that the Campeonato Brasileiro de Jiu-Jitsu would be included in their offering of events streaming on FloGrappling from 2023 onwards. In July 2023, AIGA Champions League announced that all their future events would stream exclusively on FloGrappling. In September 2023, Quintet"}, {"text": "announced that all of their future events would be streaming on FloGrappling, starting with Quintet 4 on September 10, 2023. Broadcasting deals. In early 2023, Brazilian channel Combate announced a broadcasting deal with FloGrappling starting on May 22, 2023 to show both their grappling content and original documentaries. Technology. In 2019, the company introduced apps for Android and smart TV apps. In October 2019, FloSports rebranded, and expanded its distribution with the release of an Android app. In 2020, FloSports began working on a Watch Party feature for their apps that would allow fans to watch events together, virtually. Programming. FloSports streams live and on-demand events for over 25 different sports categories. Grappling. Who's Number One (WNO). \"Who's Number One\" also known as \"FloGrappling WNO Championship\" is a grappling event series streamed on FloSports and organised since 2019 by its subdivision FloGrappling. It presents elite grapplers from around the world competing across different weight divisions and rule sets. The events encompass both gi and no-gi Brazilian jiu-jitsu matches. Controversy. FloSports's contract with USA Gymnastics was canceled one year into a five-year agreement after backlash from organizers. The website had previously linked to nude photos of McKayla Maroney that were taken"}, {"text": "when she was still a minor. In 2017, less than a year after partnering with WWNLive, they sued the latter company claiming they were misled about Pay-Per-View revenue. The suit was dismissed after the contract was made public, and it was revealed that FloSports was upset with WWNLive's use of funds. In 2016, the US Olympic Committee revoked FloSports' media credentials after they repeatedly published footage that NBC held exclusive rights to. For several years their subscription model has emphasized the per-month price, while the actual subscription was billed annually. As a consequence, in 2022 a class action lawsuit was filed against FloSports in New York federal court due to their business practices. The suit claimed that FloSports misleads customers into believing they are only being charged a monthly fee \u2014 rather than the full annual fee \u2014 when they first sign up for the sports streaming service.' FloSports later settled this case out of court in November 2023."}, {"text": "The Governor of Gyeonggi Province () is the head of the local government of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, who is elected to a four-year term. List of governors. Appointed governors (before 1995). From 1946 to 1995, the Governor of Gyeonggi Province was appointed by the President of the Republic of Korea. Directly elected governors (1995\u2013present). Since 1995, under provisions of the revised Local Government Act, the Governor of Gyeonggi Province is elected by direct election. Elections. Source:"}, {"text": "Rahul Kanwal is an Indian TV news anchor and journalist working as CEO and Editor-in-Chief at NDTV, worked as News Director at India Today before joining NDTV. He was the anchor host of the prime-time show \"Newstrack\" on weekdays and the interview-based show \"Jab We Met\" on India Today TV. Education and career. Kanwal studied at St. Joseph's College, Allahabad. He then studied journalism at Delhi University. He is a Chevening scholar and did a program in International Broadcast Journalism at Cardiff University. He won a Rory Peck Trust grant for a course in Hostile Environment Journalism. Kanwal started his career in 1999 as an anchor-cum-reporter with Zee News and joined Aaj Tak in 2002. He has also served as the Editor-at-Large of Aaj Tak and India Today in TV Today Group. In 2019, Kanwal interviewed India's union minister, Piyush Goyal, and questioned the minister over the Balakot strikes. He was criticized for simulating a skirmish between CRPF and Naxal insurgents in his TV show. Awards. In 2013, Kanwal was awarded the best anchor at the Indian Television Academy Awards. He was awarded the National annual award as part of the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation in 2016. In 2019,"}, {"text": "he was awarded in the Best Anchor category at the Exchange4media News Broadcasting Awards."}, {"text": "Marufatu Abiola Bawuah (born 25 September 1968) is a Ghanaian financial executive and businesswoman. In 2014, she became the managing director/chief executive officer of United Bank for Africa, making her the first woman to hold that position. She has won several awards for her work which includes the 2016 Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana Marketing Woman of the Year and the Finance Personality of the Year Award at the Ghana Accountancy and Finance. Education. Bawuah grew up in Aflao and had her secondary level education at the Achimota School. She furthered her education at the University of lagos in Nigeria, where she acquired a Bachelor of Science degree in Actuarial Science. She later earned a Bachelor of Law (LLB) from the University of London. She holds a diploma in marketing from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) and an Executive of Master of Business Administration (EMBA) in finance from the University of Ghana. In the area of leadership, she holds several qualifications from Harvard Business School, Columbia, University of New York, INSEAD and Institut Villa Pierrefeu in Switzerland. Career. She is currently the regional chief executive officer (CEO) of United Bank for Africa, in charge of six"}, {"text": "countries comprising Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Prior to that, she worked with Standard Chartered Bank as a Business Relationship Officer, CAL Bank as a relationship manager, the Strategic African Securities as an authorised dealing broker, and with the then Bentsi-Enchi and Letsa (now Bentsi-Enchil, Letsa and Ankomah) law firm as an investment officer. In January 2023, Abiola Bawuah became the first female CEO of UBA Africa.. Personal life. She is married with three children."}, {"text": "Sir Joseph Anthony Dwyer (20 June 1939 \u2013 16 October 2021) was a British civil engineer and businessman. He joined Wimpey in 1955 and spent 44 years with the firm, becoming chief executive officer and chairman. Dwyer was responsible for repositioning Wimpey as a housebuilder by swapping its contracting arm for Tarmac's housing division. Wimpey subsequently saw a 30-fold increase in pre-tax profits. Dwyer served as chairman of the British part of TransManche Link, which built the Channel Tunnel and, after his 1999 retirement from Wimpey, served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. In the early 2000s he was chairman of the Liverpool Vision urban regeneration company and oversaw \u00a32 billion of capital investment in regeneration projects including refurbishments of Lime Street station and King's Dock and construction of Liverpool Arena. Dwyer was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Merseyside in 2008 and a non-executive director of Cross London Rail Links in the same year. Career with Wimpey. Joeseph Dwyer was born in Liverpool in 1939. He joined the construction firm of George Wimpey in 1955 at the age of 16. Dwyer worked initially as a junior engineer on a site in Liverpool and was responsible for drawing up"}, {"text": "work schedules. With Wimpey Dwyer worked on the refurbishment of the Victorian Cammell Laird shipyards in Birkenhead. Whilst working on this project he enrolled onto a part-time course at what is now Liverpool John Moores University, studying three nights a week for five years. During the 1980s Dwyer survived a helicopter accident whilst travelling to one of the firm's open-cast coal mining operations. For a time he was feared dead as his accident was confused with another on the same day that killed a family travelling to Alton Towers. In the early 1990s Dwyer was appointed head of the British Contractors Group, part of TransManche Link - the Anglo-French consortium formed to build the Channel Tunnel. He clashed occasionally with Sir Alastair Morton, chairman for the client Eurotunnel, but later denied there was any animosity between the two. Dwyer served as chairman and chief executive officer of Wimpey. He became convinced that contracting was a \"mug's game\" with high risk and low reward and sought to reposition the firm as a more profitable housebuilder. Dwyer was seen as the mastermind behind Wimpey's \u00a3700 million asset swap with Tarmac: Tarmac received Wimpey's construction and materials operations in exchange for its housebuilding"}, {"text": "division. Wimpey subsequently became a major housebuilding firm and saw pre-tax profits grow from \u00a315 million to \u00a3451 million. Dwyer left Wimpey in 1999; the same year that Tarmac demerged its construction operations to form Carillion (which entered liquidation in 2018). Later career. After his departure from Wimpey Dwyer was appointed chairman of the Liverpool Vision urban regeneration company. This company was established to provide an economic stimulus for the regeneration of the city which had declined in population from one million people to around 400,000 and gained a reputation for high unemployment and crime rates. Dwyer was responsible for bringing Tesco CEO Terry Leahy onto the board and led a \u00a32 billion programme of capital investment. Under his leadership Liverpool Vision refurbished Lime Street station, regenerated King's Dock and established a training scheme to accommodate 2,000 apprentices a year. Dwyer was responsible for the cancellation of the Fourth Grace landmark building scheme, designed by Will Alsop, on cost grounds. This decision led to the resignation of Labour politician Joe Anderson from the board of Liverpool Vision. Dwyer was also responsible for the decision not to proceed with the construction of a new stadium for Everton F.C. at King's Dock."}, {"text": "Dwyer believed the stadium should have been owned and operated by the public sector and also had concerns that Everton could not raise the necessary capital investment to proceed with the scheme. He instead proceeded with a project to construct the Liverpool Arena on the site as a venue for smaller sporting and musical events. Dwyer was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2001 Birthday Honours for his services to Liverpool Vision. Dwyer was also involved in several professional societies and served as president of the Chartered Institute of Building. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FEng, later FREng) and in 1998 served as president of the Chartered Institute of Building. In 1999 he was appointed to an Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) working party to manage the integration of the Board of Incorporated & Engineering Technicians (BIET) into the ICE. This was a difficult task as although members of the BIET did not want full chartered engineer status they complained that the associate and technician membership grades had little influence within the institution. Dwyer was appointed president of the ICE for the November 2000 \u2013 November 2001 session, he was the first"}, {"text": "president to receive a knighthood during their term of office. On 23 July 2008, Dwyer was appointed a non-executive director of Cross London Rail Links, the company set up to manage the construction of Crossrail in the capital. In the same year he was appointed Deputy lieutenant of Merseyside. He died on 16 October 2021, at the age of 82."}, {"text": "Sankarapandiapuram is a panchayat village in Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu, India. Initially, the village came under Sattur taluk, it is now a part of the newly formed Vembakottai taluk. It is located on the way from Sattur to Sankarankovil or Rajapalayam via Elayirampannai route. The village has two sections namely Kila (Meaning: East) and Mela (Meaning: West) Sankarapandiapuram with around 500 households. The total population of the village is 1026 of which 497 males and 529 females. Geography and Climate. Sankarapandiapuram is located close to the border of the Tenkasi and Thoothukudi districts. The closest town to the village is Kovilpatti which is 19.3 km away. The climate of Virudhunagar district is hot and dry coupled with low relative humidity. This climate prevails in Sankarapandiapuram too. Language. The main language of the village is Tamil. Though Tamil is the official language, unofficially Telugu is spoken by the majority of the village population. This scenario is common in several villages of Tamil Nadu. Telugu spoken in this village and nearby villages is a variant of Telugu of Andhra Pradesh. This is likely due to the incorporation of Tamil words over a period of time. The presence of Telugu-speaking people can"}, {"text": "be seen in several districts of Tamil Nadu. Bird sanctuary. Sankarapandiapuram is well known for its bird sanctuary in the district. The birds namely Egrets, Ibis, Storks and Herons visit the village during monsoon season (October) for breeding and their stay will continue until the end of April. Most of these birds are believed to come from overseas, particularly in Australia and Nigeria. According to the locals, the village has a few centuries old a massive tamarind tree, many decades-old neem and other tree species that can shelter the birds. These birds obtain their food mainly from nearby Vembakottai and Irukkankudi reservoirs. The people of this village have requested the Government of Tamil Nadu to establish a bird sanctuary in the village due to the frequent visits by the people from nearby villages and cities. During the Deepavali festival, people in this village avoid using firecrackers to protect the birds from being displaced. Industry. The main livelihood of Sankarapandiapuram is agriculture. Most of the farmlands rely on rainfall for the cultivation of crops. Northeast Monsoon is the main source of rainfall that starts around October and ends in December. The black loamy soil of the area is renowned for the"}, {"text": "cultivation of cotton. Other crops such as black gram, green gram, red gram, sesame, cumbu, ragi, maize, chilli and cholam are also cultivated. Some traditional varieties of cumbu, cholam and some minor millets are still cultivated here. Some years ago, an attempt to grow lime fruit by a farmer in this village showed a promising outcome that encouraged other farmers to follow. In addition to agriculture, Sankarapandiapuram has a few fireworks and match industries which employ people throughout the year. Dog breed. Sankarapandiapuram along with Chippiparai and nearby villages are well known for a dog breed known as Chippiparai. Chippiparai is a panchayat village located 6.6 km southwest of Sankarapandiapuram. The name Chippiparai was coined for the dog breed because of its origin in Chippiparai and adjoining areas. Chippiparai is a famous dog breed and is considered a pride of Tamil Nadu. It is an ancient dog breed used by kings, known for its physical feature, braveness, speed, intelligence and friendliness to humans. Festival. Sankarapandiapuram has many temples for Hindu deities namely Kaliamman, Vinayagar, Perumal, Onnamman and Rachathiamman. Every year, the celebration of the village Pongal takes place in the second week of the Tamil month Chithirai. This is a"}, {"text": "two days event celebrated by the village people and their relatives grandly. After the Pongal celebration, a prevailing custom is to organise traditional folk music and dance. This is based on a belief among the locals that following such a custom would bring good fortune to the village. In addition, separate Pongal celebrations for Onnamman and Rachathiamman are taking place every year. Notable people. R. Srinivasan Naidu a former member of the legislative assembly of the Sattur constituency (1967-1971) from the Swatantra Party was born in this village. Schools. Two schools are present in Sankarapandiapuram, they are Government Primary and Higher Secondary Schools. Sankarapandiapuram Melam. Melam or Mathalam is a percussion musical instrument commonly played during special occasions in Tamil Nadu. At Sankarapandiapuram, there is a melam group called 'Ganeshan melam' which is notable for their outstanding performance at festivals."}, {"text": "Kim Chon-gyun (, born 17 March 1960) is a North Korean politician and served as President of the Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea since 2014. In May 2016, he was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. He was reelected in March 2019."}, {"text": "Ghana Senior High School may refer to:"}, {"text": "is a fictional character in the 2018 video game \"Octopath Traveler\", where she serves as one of its eight protagonists. She was designed by character designer Naoki Ikushima, and is a dancer seeking information about the murder of her father and the fall of House Azelhart, a quest that takes her to various locations across the world. Primrose was one of the first characters introduced, alongside Olberic, in \"Octopath Traveler\"s demo, and was intended to have a more heavy and adult story, with her writer, Kakunoshin Futsuzawa, using \"Game of Thrones\" as a basis. A character in \"Octopath Traveler II\", Agnea Bristarni, was designed to be a dancer whose disposition is \"cheerful and sunny\" to contrast Primrose. Primrose has been criticized for her role in \"Octopath\", with criticism pointed at the conflicting nature of her as a seductress and the sexism and misogyny that her plot is built around. She was also criticized for how her story is used to depict the world as being terrible for women. Concept and creation. Primrose was created for the 2018 video game \"Octopath Traveler\", designed by character designer Naoki Ikushima and written by Kakunoshin Futsuzawa. She is a dancer who is seeking information"}, {"text": "on and revenge for the murder of her father. Primrose is described by sound producer Yasunori Nishiki as having a femininity that exudes sadness and melancholy. Primrose's story is themed around revenge, but the creators wanted to create a sense of wistfulness as well for her music theme. They added metallic sounds to the theme to represent a desert setting. Futsuzawa wrote her scenario to be heavy and adult, having watched \"Game of Thrones\", making Primrose a character who emphasizes both her feminine charm and strength in the face of human filth. She and fellow Octopath protagonist Olberic were made playable in the first demo due to their relative proximity to other characters and for them showing the appeal of the game's mechanics best. She was one of the game's earliest characters created, and she went through a number of different scenarios, including one where she was a female soldier named Shannon. \"Octopath Traveler II\" introduces a Dancer character named Agnea Bristarni, who Ikushima intentionally gave a \"cheerful and sunny disposition\" to contrast Primrose's \"dark past.\" She is voiced by Laura Post in the English version of \"Octopath Traveler\". Appearances. Primrose appears in \"Octopath Traveler\", as one of eight characters"}, {"text": "that players can choose to select from the start. If they do not select her to start, they must later recruit her. Her story sees her pursuing the men responsible for the murder of her father in Noblecourt, leading her to search for them, her only knowledge being a crow tattoo on different parts of their bodies. She worked as a dancer during her search, enduring the abuse of her master, Helgenish, until she finally sees one of the men she was hunting. She attempts to pursue him, with her friend Yusufa distracting Helgenish so she could do so. She sees Helgenish accept a map from the man, pursuing them, only to find Helgenish, who murders Yusufa in front of her. Primrose kneels before Yusufa as she dies, and proceeds to kill Helgenish before taking the map and leaving to pursue the man in Stillsnow. When she arrives in Stillsnow, she finds a former worker of House Azelhart, Arianna, who became a prostitute due to its fall. She is able to find the man named Rufus before exacting revenge, with Rufus telling her to go to Noblecourt to find the truth. In Noblecourt, she reunites with various former members of"}, {"text": "House Azelhart, including Simeon and Revello, who aide her in her search for the second man. They ultimately discover that the second man was Albus, a captain thought to have died, whom she exacts revenge upon. However, Simeon stabs her, revealing himself to be the third man, leaving her to die; however, Revello saves her life. Primrose pursues Simeon into Everhold, where she finds a play prepared by Simeon to mock Primrose's life. She moves past it before finding Simeon; he attempted to dissuade her revenge, but she kills him, fully exacting her revenge. She visits her father's grave, not sure what to do with her life now, but decides to continue dancing. She later joins her fellow travelers on the Gate of Finis to battle Galdera. Primrose, along with Olberic, appears in \"Final Fantasy Record Keeper\". Primrose returns as an extra superboss on Octopath Traveler II alongside the other travelers of the first game. She is fought alongside Therion, H\u00b4Annit and Cyrus and can be fought after the player completes the main game. Reception. Primrose has received mixed reception, though she was popular among players. Her theme song was the most popular of the music in \"Octopath\". Some critics,"}, {"text": "such as Mat Smith of \"Engadget\", found her story the highlight of the game, while others, such as Kirk Hamilton of \"Kotaku\" felt it was clich\u00e9d. Brittany Vincent of \"SyFy Wire\" praised Primrose for her \"unique\" personality and storyline. \"Famitsu\" writer Nishikawa-kun exclaimed that they initially went with Primrose because of her sex appeal, though they regretted choosing her for such a reason after they experienced her storyline, which they compared to a \"dark shounen manga.\" They liked Primrose's mixture of femininity, coldness, and sweetness. \"Siliconera\" writer Jenni Lada found parallels between Primrose and Ophilia, particularly in how their similar past yet differing circumstances inform how they interact with others. Lada points out how Ophilia, having been raised in a nurturing environment, has gameplay mechanics built around nurturing others, while Primrose, lacking that environment, has mechanics built around using people. \"The Gamer\" writer Stephanie Minor was drawn to Primrose's route due to the revenge aspect and the antagonist; however, she eventually felt that it was more style than substance, feeling that the antagonist twist lacked weight since the character was not introduced until later, and that Primrose didn't develop much by the end of the story. She compared the story"}, {"text": "negatively to Alfyn's, who she argued has his beliefs challenged, which in turn makes players question their own beliefs. \"Game Rant\" writer Devin Friend discussed how Primrose was the \"coldest\" character besides perhaps Therion, and how this contrasts with Agnea Bristarni, the Dancer from \"Octopath Traveler II\", who is much happier. He added that they both differed in terms of gameplay and stories. Primrose has been criticized as oversexualized, with Edwin Evans-Thirlwell of \"Eurogamer\" regarding her gameplay mechanic of seducing people to help her in battle to be problematic due to Primrose's backstory of misogyny and sex trafficking. Jess Joho called her a \"grotesque cliche,\" criticizing the writers for using \"women's trauma to give a thin character some semblance of personality or depth,\" while noting that this element is forgotten during lighthearted moments. Joho also finds issue with the relative darkness of her story compared to the relatively \"rosy\" stories of everyone else. \"Eurogamer\" writer Hirun Cryer criticized the handling of Primrose, discussing how \"Octopath\" \"repeatedly screamed\" through her about how women are sexualized and abused in the world, saying that the series treats women in an \"unnecessarily nasty\" way."}, {"text": "OpenVINO is an open-source software toolkit for optimizing and deploying deep learning models. It enables programmers to develop scalable and efficient AI solutions with relatively few lines of code. It supports several popular model formats and categories, such as large language models, computer vision, and generative AI. Actively developed by Intel, it prioritizes high-performance inference on Intel hardware but also supports ARM/ARM64 processors and encourages contributors to add new devices to the portfolio. It sees great use in AI Sound Processing drivers when tied with Intel's Gaussian & Neural Accelerator (GNA). Based in C++, it offers the following APIs: C/C++, Python, and Node.js (an early preview). OpenVINO is cross-platform and free for use under Apache License 2.0. Workflow. The simplest OpenVINO usage involves obtaining a model and running it as is. Yet for the best results, a more complete workflow is suggested: OpenVINO model format. OpenVINO IR is the default format used to run inference. It is saved as a set of two files, *.bin and *.xml, containing weights and topology, respectively. It is obtained by converting a model from one of the supported frameworks, using the application's API or a dedicated converter. Models of the supported formats may also"}, {"text": "be used for inference directly, without prior conversion to OpenVINO IR. Such an approach is more convenient but offers fewer optimization options and lower performance, since the conversion is performed automatically before inference. Some pre-converted models can be found in the Hugging Face repository. The supported model formats are: OS support. OpenVINO runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS."}, {"text": "As sequel to protests in 2011, 2012 and 2013, Iraqi citizens have also in 2015 up until 2018 often and massively protested against the corruption and incompetence in their government which according to analysts and protesters had led to long-running problems in electricity supplies, clean water availability, Iranian interference in Iraqi politics, high unemployment, and a stagnant economy. The \"muhasasa\" quota agreements of 2003\u20132006 (distributing ministerial positions including budgets over 'ethnic and religious groups', thus undermining and obliterating any sense of Iraqi national unity) were considered the root of most of those Iraqi problems. Background. Twelve years incompetent and corrupt politics. The elite cartel and \"muhasasa\" system, ruling Iraq since 2003, holding that governmental posts and power should be proportionally distributed over the political parties or over the \"ethnic, religious and sectarian groups\" of Iraq, had, according to many analysts and protesters, led to twelve years of incompetent government up to 2015, failing public services, neglected infrastructure, massive youth unemployment (30% in 2014), political patronage and self-enrichment of politicians hence corruption hence a depleted public purse, Iranian political infiltration, sectarian violence, economic underdevelopment, and had therefore already for years drawn widespread popular criticism. In 2011, demonstrations against the corruption of"}, {"text": "the government under then-ruling prime minister Nouri al-Maliki (2006\u20132014) had been suppressed by detainment and intimidation of the organizers. His successor, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, had taken office in 2014 with promises of tough action against corrupt practices, and indeed the graft had become less open but the mechanisms of corruption were still in place. Long-running problems. The most obvious failure \u2013 blamed by analysts and protesters on the \"muhasasa\" system (see above) \u2013 was the government's inability to reliably provide electricity, which was commonly provided only twelve hours a day but often in the cities only a few hours per day. Another long-running problem triggering the Iraqi protests in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, especially in Basra, a city in the centre of the southern Iraqi oil industry but with a relatively low socio-economic development and living standard, was the shortage of fresh drinking water, due to five factors: 2015: Protests and reform resolutions. All the years of smouldering discontent (see above) escalated in the summer of 2015 into public street protests when a lasting decline in (oil generating 96% of the state's income) and a strong increase of military expenditures (due to the war on ISIL) strongly affected"}, {"text": "the state's ability to satisfy the needs and demands of the people. In July 2015, protests sparked in Basra, triggered mainly by the poor electricity supplies (see above). During the protest on 16 July, a man was killed in a clash with police. On another protest on 19 or 20 July in Basra, again \"violence erupted\". Those protests spread to more cities. On Friday 31 July 2015, hundreds protested in capital Baghdad over the enduring problem of electricity power outages, which they blamed on government corruption. On Saturday, 1 August, another protest was held in Basra, in front of the provincial governor's office, over frequent electricity blackouts and salty tap water (see above, section 'Long-running problems'). The same day, a large crowd in the Shia Islamic holy city of Karbala marched from the vicinity of the holy Imam Husayn Shrine to the provincial governor's office, protesting the electricity blackouts, chanting: \"You are stealing from us in the name of religion\", and saying: \"Those people have high salaries and electricity 24 hours a day.\" On 2 August, in Nasiriyah and Najaf, hundreds protested over electricity and corruption, and in Hillah a thousand people protested over poor public services. On Friday 7"}, {"text": "August 2015, several thousand protested at Baghdad's Tahrir Square, carrying Iraqi flags, chanting: \"All of you together to the court, all of you are thieves\". In contrast to the demonstration of 31 July which had been organized by secular groups, the one on 7 August was backed by \"the powerful Shiite factions\", and by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani who was (and is) regarded as the voice of Shiite moderation, revered by millions of Iraqis, and Iraq's \"supreme religious authority\". In a sermon during the Friday prayers delivered by his aide and spokesman Ahmed al-Safi in Karbala, ahead of the demonstration that day, al-Sistani stated that Prime Minister Abadi needed to be \"more daring and braver in his reforms\" combatting the corruption in his government: Abadi \"should make the political parties accountable and identify who is hampering the march of reform, whoever they are\", Mr al-Safi added. Similar protests were held that day in Shiite cities like Basra, Najaf, Nasiriyah and Karbala. Two days later already, on 9 August, Abadi released a first package of reforms, including the abolition of a great number of non-essential government posts responsible for vast expenditures. On 11 August, the Iraqi parliament, pressured by the mass"}, {"text": "protests and the appeals from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, unanimously approved Abadi's reforms, and also announced their own plan to replace the system of awarding governmental positions to party loyals with professional recruitment criteria. On 16 August 2015, Abadi issued a second package of reforms, considerably reducing the number of ministries. After August 2015, weekly protests over perceived corruption and mismanagement and Baghdad's failure to provide basic services such as electricity held on, peacefully, into the next year. 2016. Developments up to early 2016. When Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi came to power in 2014, he had promised to stamp out corruption (see above, section \u2018Background\u2019). In to create a sense of political unity, to improve the failing economy, and to cut off the political and financial corruption. Iraq's system of sharing government positions among political parties, which often resulted in unqualified ministers and other officials, had often been criticized for encouraging such corruption. Therefore, Abadi in February 2016 had proposed a fundamental change to the cabinet, replacing the party-affiliated ministers with non-partisan \"professional and technocratic figures and academics\". Civilian sit-in, pressing for new cabinet. Weekly protests over financial and administrative corruption and the lack of basic services were still going"}, {"text": "on, since August 2015 (see ). The Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, also leader of the second largest party in parliament, around 17 March 2016 backed these protesters, and asked his followers to start a sit-in on 18 March at the gates of the Green Zone in Baghdad where the parliament is based. So, on Friday, 18 March, thousands of Sadr-supporters held their Friday prayers in a main street near the Green Zone in Baghdad and then set up tents for a sit-in, to pressure the parliament to agree with PM Abadi's plan for replacing party-affiliated cabinet ministers with non-partisan people. In his call on 17 March, Sadr had branded the Green Zone \"a bastion of support for corruption\" but also asked his followers to refrain from violence should they be stopped by security forces. Riot police initially blocked the protesters but then relented and let them march almost to the entrance of the Zone. Waving Iraqi flags, the protesters chanted: \"Yes, yes, to Iraq; no, no, to corruption!\" Around 26 March 2016, Muqtada al-Sadr also started his own sit-in, inside the Green Zone, urging Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to do what he had announced in February: install a \"government of"}, {"text": "independent technocrats\" free of influence from \"the political blocks\" within parliament. On 31 March, those \"blocks\" gave in and agreed to pass Abadi's new cabinet within ten days. Sadr ended his sit-in and asked his followers to end theirs. Within two weeks, however, the \"heads\" of those \"political blocks\" in parliament changed their minds and between them again agreed to maintain \"the political power-sharing agreement and deepen the influence of the political blocks over top government posts and decisions\". Parliament blocks renewal of cabinet. On 13 April 2016, the speaker of Parliament, Salim al-Jabouri, ended a parliamentary session before parliament could vote on Prime Minister Abadi's proposed new cabinet list. That incited more than 170 MPs (in a parliament counting only 329 seats) to rebel against speaker Jabouri and begin a sit-in inside the parliament, chanting against \"the power-sharing agreement\" and \"the heads of political blocks\". (Another source counted \"more than 100 MPs\" holding that sit-in.) \"Days of chaos\" in parliament followed, the sit-in-rebelling MPs on 14 April \"voted to dismiss speaker al-Jabouri\", in presumably a procedurally invalid voting. On 18 April 2016, again thousands of Muqtada al-Sadr followers protested in Baghdad for reforms. For three weeks, up to 26"}, {"text": "April, in which parliament repeatedly failed to vote on a new cabinet list, the parliament could not agree on a new line-up of non-partisan ministers, proposed by PM Abadi. Massive demonstration against 'quotas and parties'. Muqtada al-Sadr, Shia cleric and leader of political party Sadrist Movement, on Tuesday 26 April 2016 called on his supporters to show up again in Baghdad at the Green Zone, where the government and parliament are based, to \"frighten\" MPs from \"powerful parties\" unwilling to approve the cabinet's reshuffle, announced by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in February 2016 (see above), and \"compel\" them to accept the prime minister's reforms, and again protest against the government's failure to provide basic commodities like water and electricity. Hundreds of thousands of Sadr-followers that day gathered in Tahrir Square in Baghdad and marched towards the heavily-fortified Green Zone, chanting that politicians \"are all thieves\". \"The political quotas and the parties that control everything are the reason for the failure of the government,\" protesters explained. That Tuesday, only a handful of ministers were approved by the parliament, the voting couldn't be completed due to disruptive behaviour of a dozen Members of Parliament, throwing water bottles towards the Prime Minister and"}, {"text": "preventing him from speaking. Occupation of parliament by Sadr-supporters. On 30 April 2016, again the Iraqi parliament didn't vote on the full proposal of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for replacing party-affiliated cabinet ministers with non-partisan people (see above), because too few members (less than the 165 members required) had showed up. Muqtada al-Sadr, Shia Islamic cleric and leader of the political party Sadrist Movement, in a televised news conference again condemnded the political deadlock, criticised the \"corrupt [officials] and quotas\" \u2013 backed later by Iraqi President Fuad Masum who agreed that \"burying the regime of party and sectarian quotas cannot be delayed\" \u2013 and stated that he was \"waiting for the great popular uprising and the major revolution to stop the march of the corrupt\". Thousands of Sadr's followers after that speech of Al-Sadr came to the Green Zone of Baghdad again, hundreds of them this time broke through the barricades of the Green Zone and stormed the parliament, and occupied the parliament's chamber. Security forces again did not clash with protesters, nor attempted to stop them from entering the parliament; members of a Sadrist armed group checked the entering protesters on the carriage of explosives while the remaining thousands"}, {"text": "of Sadr's protesters at the gates chanted: \"Peaceful !\" Some protesters nevertheless began ransacking or rampaging parts of the parliament building. Security forces declared a state of emergency. Then, on a call from Muqtada al-Sadr to evacuate the parliament and set up tents outside, the protesters set up a camp on the lawn outside the parliament and, by pulling barbed wire across an exit road, effectively stopped some scared MP's from fleeing the parliament building and the chaos. 2017. Protests against election committee. On Saturday 11 February 2017, thousands of followers of Muqtada al-Sadr \u2013 a Shia Islamic cleric and also oppositional politician of political party Sadrist Movement \u2013 held a protesting rally in the capital Baghdad, demanding an overhaul and replacement of the High Electoral Commission (election committee) which they, on the orders of al-Sadr, accused of corruption. Sadr himself claimed, that the commission members were loyal to his Shia rival and former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki. Security forces fired tear gas and rubber-coated bullets at the protesters; five protesters and two policemen were killed, 320 protesters and seven police officers wounded. The Iraqi security forces sealed off routes leading to Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. Later that day, six"}, {"text": "or seven Katyusha-type rockets purportedly were fired at the Green Zone from within Baghdad, but with no casualties reported. On Friday, 24 March 2017, again thousands of Muqtada al-Sadr followers protested in downtown Baghdad for the same purposes as in February: the accusation that the Iraqi election committee would be \"corrupt\" and that therefore, unless that committee would be overhauled, al-Sadr and his (Shiite) followers would boycott the upcoming Iraqi provincial elections. Al-Sadr instead incited his followers to join a \"reform revolution\". Against corruption, failing government. Just like in the summers of 2015 and 2016, protests in Iraq's south were held also in the summer of 2017 in response to corruption, unemployment and failing public services. 2018. Six causes for protest. The motives for the public protests in Iraq in 2018 were at least partly the same as in 2011, 2012\u201313, 2015, 2016 and 2017: First wave of protests. Protests in 2018 started in Basra in June, just like previous years demanding improved public services and jobs. The protest movement this year was hardly or not organised, and not united behind one clear goal or agenda; it consisted of at best loosely connected groups, often with (partly) different grievances or"}, {"text": "motivations. The protesting mood was tightened when on 8 July in Basra a first protester was shot dead by security forces. Soon, the protests spread through all southern and central Iraq (where Shia Islam is prevailing or strongly present) and in capital Baghdad. On 10 July 2018, protesters around Basra blocked roads leading to oil fields, but due to strong security measures around the oil installations there was no risk of Iraq's oil production being seriously disrupted. On Friday 13 July, in Najaf, protesters targeted offices of parties and militias with close ties to Iran (like Kata'ib Hezbollah, Dawa, Badr and Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq), shut down Al Najaf International Airport for a while, and government offices were sacked. On 14 or 15 July, the Internet in the Iraqi Shi'ite heartland (the country south and east of Baghdad) was blocked by the authorities, to stop the spreading of the protests. Just like in 2015, the Shi'ite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani around 15 July 2018 spoke out in support of the protesters. On 15 July, In the province of Basra, a poster of Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was burnt on a main street. In two"}, {"text": "weeks in July 2018, 46 protests were counted in Basra province. By 20 July, ten protesters had been killed, by security forces or by rivalling civilian groups or individuals. Around 20 July, Prime Minister Abadi announced $3 billion in emergency funds to restore water, electricity and health services in Basra and develop further infrastructure and promised jobs for civilians living near the oil fields and in Basra. Second wave of protests. Due to negotiations for a new government since the May 2018 general elections still dragging on, the money promised in July 2018 to help overcome Basra's urgent problems (see above) still hadn't materialised by September 2018. Early September, a cholera outbreak in Basra, caused by contaminated drinking water, evoked a second, more violent outburst of protests that year. The tap water in Basra being severely contaminated brought 30,000 people in need of medical treatment within ten days. Citizens and officials suspected Iran to have pumped contaminated water into Iraqi territory. On 3 September, one of the leaders of the protests, tribesman Makki Yassir al-Kaabi, was killed in Basra by security forces. Early on 4 September, Prime Minister Abadi promised to address the water pollution crisis in Basra, but offered"}, {"text": "no specifics. Later that day, the heavy rioting in Basra began, with demonstrators setting the Basra governor's building on fire; seven protesters that day were shot dead by security forces. On 6 September 2018, more official buildings in Basra were set on fire; on 6 or 7 September the offices of the state-run Iraqiya TV station in Basra were attacked. On Friday, 7 September, protesters stormed and torched the Iranian consulate in Basra. They also burned Iranian flags and pictures of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei while chanting: \"Iran out, out!\" Also the headquarters in Basra of most Iran-backed militia groups like Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, Badr Organisation and Kata'ib al-Imam Ali, and of all further political parties connected to Iran, were torched. Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most prominent Shia cleric, that day stated: the suffering of Basra is the result of \"successive governments of quotas\" and \"cannot change if the new government would be formed on the same basis and standards\". Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the largest coalition in parliament since the May 2018 elections, tweeted at Prime Minister Abadi: \"quickly release Basra's money and give it to clean hands to start at once with (\u2026) development projects\". On 8"}, {"text": "September 2018, a student was shot dead by one of those militias in Basra because he was protesting outside their office. The three-way-tensions in Basra between tribes, militias and government had for a long time been exacerbated by unclearness and confusion over the separation of competencies between the local and the federal authorities. Between 3 and 10 September 2018, in Basra province, twelve protesters were killed, and 75 protests were counted. On 8 September, Prime Minister Abadi again promised extra funds for Basra, like he had pledged in July 2018. Around 10 September, the organisers of the protests in Basra disassociated themselves from the violence which they blamed on \"vandals\", and called further demonstrations off. Another leader of those September protests, sheikh Wessam al-Gharrawi, was killed in November 2018 by unknown attackers. Protests in Basra lasted at least until December 2018 (and Iraqi protests would be resumed in October 2019)."}, {"text": "Banbury Hillfort, or Banbury Hill Camp, is an Iron Age hillfort, about south of Sturminster Newton and north-west of the village of Okeford Fitzpaine in Dorset, England. It is a scheduled monument. Description. The fort is on a low hill: a single bank encloses a roughly circular area of about . The site has been affected in the past by ploughing. Where best preserved, the rampart is wide and above the interior, with an external ditch, visible in places, of width and depth . There is an original entrance on the west side, protected by an external bank wide and high, with traces of an external ditch. This bank, branching out from the north west part of the rampart, runs south-west and then curves towards the fort, so that there is a passage into the fort from the south, at one point down to about wide. There are no traces of remains in the interior. The rampart (ascertained as a result of excavation in 1986 of a trench for a water pipe) has been found to be of local limestone, with some fragments of flint and chert."}, {"text": "Procter & Gamble (P&G) Pakistan is a Pakistani consumer goods company based in Karachi. It is a subsidiary of American multinational company Procter & Gamble. It is based in Karachi, Pakistan. P&G is operating in fabric care, baby care, hair care, feminine care, beauty and personal care, oral care and healthcare sectors in Pakistan. History. Procter & Gamble (P&G) Pakistan was founded in August 1991 as a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble. In 1994, P&G acquired a soap-manufacturing facility at Hub, Balochistan and began production of Safeguard soaps in Pakistan. In 2002, P&G tripled its soap manufacturing capacity with an additional investment of . In 2004, P&G began manufacturing PuR water purifier in its Hub, Balochistan plant. The plant had a production capacity of 50 million sachets annually. In December 2010, P&G commissioned its Bin Qasim plant in Karachi. In 2019, P&G made an additional investment of to produce hair care products such as Pantene and Head & Shoulders at its Port Qasim plant in Karachi. In September 2024, P&G sold its Hub soap manufacturing plant to Nimir Industrial Chemicals Limited. Plants. P&G operates a plant in Bin Qasim Port, Karachi. Previously, it operated a plant in Hub, Balochistan."}, {"text": "Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Pierre (born 23 February 1974) is a retired Belgian football midfielder. Career. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Pierre spent most of his career playing in his native Belgium, with two short spells in France at N\u00eemes Olympique and in Romania at FC Universitatea Craiova. He opened the score in the first minute of the game for Standard Li\u00e8ge in the 2000 Belgian Cup Final, which was eventually lost with 4\u20131 in favor of Genk. In the 2000\u201301 season Pierre played for RSC Anderlecht, helping the team win the league title. International career. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Pierre played 8 games at international level for Belgium, making his debut when he came as a substitute and replaced Christophe Lauwers in the 61st minute of a friendly which ended 0\u20130 against Russia. He also appeared in a 3\u20130 away victory against San Marino and in a 0\u20133 home loss against Netherlands at the 1998 World Cup qualifiers. Conviction. On 20 December 2014 Pierre was involved in a road accident while driving his car in Fexhe-le-Haut-Clocher. He did not stop at a red light in an intersection and hit a 58-year old woman who died. He had 0.66 mg of alcohol per liter of breathing air, 1.51 grams of"}, {"text": "alcohol per liter of blood and he was traveling at 70 km/h, also in the past he was condemned for a road accident in which a person was hurt. He was convicted and sentenced to 34 months in jail in 2017; this was reduced on appeal in 2018 to 200 hours of community service. Honours. Standard Li\u00e8ge RSC Anderlecht"}, {"text": "Marco Casto (born 2 June 1972) is a retired Belgian football defender."}, {"text": "Vladimir Dimitrov (; born 11 April 1968) is a Bulgarian chess Grandmaster (GM) (1993). Biography. In the 1990s and 2000s, Vladimir Dimitrov was one of the leading Bulgaria chess players. He participated in the individual Bulgarian Chess Championship finals many times, in 2006 in Svilengrad he won the bronze medal. Vladimir Dimitrov's international chess tournaments successes include: Vladimir Dimitrov played for Bulgaria in the Chess Olympiads: Vladimir Dimitrov played for Bulgaria in the European Team Chess Championships: Vladimir Dimitrov played for Bulgaria in the Men's Chess Balkaniads: In 1988, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title and received the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title five years later."}, {"text": "Olivier Besengez (born 19 September 1971) is a retired Belgian football defender."}, {"text": "is a Japanese politician who currently serves as Governor of Hokkaid\u014d. He previously served as mayor of Y\u016bbari city for two consecutive terms from 2011 to 2019. He had also served in Regional Sovereignty Strategy Office of Cabinet Office and as a chief of General Affairs Division in General Affairs Department at Tokyo Governor's Office. Early life and career. Suzuki was born in Kasukabe city of Saitama Prefecture and was raised in Misato City in the same Prefecture. He attended Misato High School in Misato City. He lived with his mother due to divorce of his parents. He was not able to attend college due to economic problems. At 18 years of age he passed the Tokyo Metropolitan Staff Employment Examination and entered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in April 1999 as an employee. In April 2000, he took admission at Hosei University and graduated from the faculty of law in 2004. In University, he served as captain of the boxing club and was the runner-up in 2002 at National Sports Tournament in Boxing Competition. During this time as an employee of Tokyo, he joined the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Public Health Bureau (currently the Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Welfare Bureau), Tokyo"}, {"text": "Metropolitan Institute of Public Health (currently the Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Safety Research Center), the Tokyo Metropolitan Kita Medical Center, and the Health and Welfare Bureau and policy Department. After his tenure in Control Division of Welfare Department of health and Affairs Department as chief of General Administration Division, in January 2008 he was sent to Yubari from Tokyo as city official. In 2010, he was transferred to the Regional Sovereignty Strategy Office of the Cabinet Office as the head of the General Affairs Division of the General Affairs Department of the Tokyo Governor's Headquarters (currently Tokyo Metropolitan Government Policy Planning Bureau). In the same year, he participated in Yubari government. In November 2010 he showed his intention to run in the Yubari mayoral election and retired from Tokyo Metropolitan Government. He ran independently for mayor election. In April 2011 at the age of 30 years and 1 month Suzuki became the youngest ever mayor to be elected from any city of the country. He was supported by LDP and Komeito. In March 2013, Naomichi Suzuki was selected as \"Young Global Leaders\" by the World Economic Forum hosting the Davos Conference. In 2014, he participated in the Ministry of Finance"}, {"text": "as Financial System Council as an expert. In April 2015, he was re-elected as Mayor of Yubari. In November, he received the \"Best Dresser Award\" from the Japan Men's Fashion Association. On 29 January 2019, he announced his intention to run without affiliation in the Hokkaido governor's election following the expiration of his term as Mayor. In an interview he told reporters that the LDP and Komeito will support him. On 7 April 2019, he was elected for the first time by defeating the opposition party unification candidate in the Hokkaido Governor's Election. He was the youngest prefectural governor at the time. Suzuki's policies include the creation of the \"Hokkaido Cheering Committee\". Suzuki ran for reelection for governor in 2023, defeating other three candidates in a landslide with over 75% of the vote."}, {"text": "Marylen Ng Poau Leng (born 19 December 1987) is a badminton player from Malaysia. She was the women's doubles champion at the 2010 National Circuit Grand Prix Finals with Woon Khe Wei. Partnered with Lim Yin Loo, she became the semi-finalist at the 2008 Vietnam Open a BWF Grand Prix tournament. She represented her country at the 2010 Asian Games and 2011 Southeast Asian Games, and helped the team win the bronze medal in 2011 Southeast Asian Games. Achievements. BWF International Challenge/Series. \"Women's doubles\" BWF International Challenge tournament BWF International Series tournament BWF Future Series tournament"}, {"text": "Donald Van Durme (born 23 August 1967) is a retired Belgian football defender. Honours. Club. Anderlecht"}, {"text": "Claude Verspaille (born 21 June 1964) is a retired Belgian football defender and later manager."}, {"text": "Giovanni Seynhaeve (born 21 July 1976) is a retired Belgian football defender."}, {"text": "Danny Lenie (born 17 October 1967) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back."}, {"text": "Eric de Koeyer (born 22 February 1967) is a retired Dutch football goalkeeper."}, {"text": "Ibrahim Bohari (born 21 January 1978) is a retired Central African Republic football striker."}, {"text": "The Man Without Gravity () is a 2019 Italian fantasy drama film Directed by Marco Bonfanti, written by Marco Bonfanti and Fabrizio Bozzetti and starring Elio Germano, Michela Cescon and Elena Cotta, the film was released on November 1, 2019 on Netflix. Plot. The plot of the film revolves around the child Oscar (Elio Germano) who, when being born, flies away lighter than a balloon. Oscar comes to light on a stormy night, in the hospital of a small town, and immediately we understand that there is something extraordinary about him : he does not obey the law of gravity. He floats in the air, hovers in the lightest breeze like a balloon, in front of the incredulous look of the mother and grandmother. The child grows closely protected and sheltered - with only one friend, a little girl called Agata who knows his secret. When nosy neighbours cause the police to step in and request that Oscar be sent to school with all the other children, the two women decide to move to a remote village to keep him safe. Surrounded by books, Oscar grows up in this little village until the day he decides that the whole world"}, {"text": "must know who he really is. He is \"The Man without Gravity\" . Release. \"The Man Without Gravity\" was released on November 1, 2019 on Netflix."}, {"text": "Adriano Alves da Cruz (born 27 August 1974) is a retired Brazilian football defender."}, {"text": "Salt Palace may refer to:"}, {"text": "Dejan Nikoli\u0107 (; born 27 April 1969) is a Serbian football manager and former player. Playing career. Nikoli\u0107 started out with Sloboda U\u017eice and played in the Yugoslav Second League for three seasons (1988\u201389, 1989\u201390, and 1990\u201391). He also spent some time at Napredak Kru\u0161evac (1993\u201394 and 1994\u201395) and Mladost Lu\u010dani (1995\u201396), before moving abroad to Belgian club Mouscron in 1996. After returning to his homeland, Nikoli\u0107 played for Hajduk Kula (1998\u201399) and Hajduk Beograd (1999\u20132000) in the First League of FR Yugoslavia. Managerial career. After hanging up his boots, Nikoli\u0107 served as manager of numerous Serbian First League and Serbian League West clubs, including Mladost Lu\u010dani and Ma\u010dva \u0160abac. He was also manager of Budu\u0107nost Kru\u0161ik 2014 and Kolubara on two occasions. Honours. Ma\u010dva \u0160abac"}, {"text": "Vikruthi () is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film directed by Emcy Joseph and produced by A. D. Sreekumar, Ganesh Menon and Lakshmi Warrier. The film stars Suraj Venjarammoodu and Soubin Shahir in the lead roles. The film is based on true events that occurred on a Kochi Metro train, where a picture of a sleeping hearing/speech-impaired man was taken and shared online by a passenger assuming he was drunk. It upsets the man and his family after it goes viral. The film was released on 4 October 2019. The film was remade in Tamil as \"Payanigal Gavanikkavum\". Plot. Eldho and his wife Elsy are both hearing and speech impaired. After spending two nights in the hospital where his daughter was admitted, Eldho travels back home on a Kochi Metro train but he falls asleep. Another passenger, Sameer, finds this amusing and decides to post a picture of Eldho online, labelling him a drunkard. The rest of the movie explores the troubles Eldho and his family face when he is recognized by people as the \"Kochi Metro Drunkard\", as well as how Sameer deals with the consequences of his actions. Production. The film marks the debut of Emcy Joseph"}, {"text": "as a film director. He is the founder of PERAKA MEDIA, the AD Film Production House in Kochi. He has also published \"LAVA\", a collection of eight stories written in a cinematic style. Soundtrack. The soundtrack was composed by Bijibal with lyrics by Santhosh Varma. Release. The film was released theatrically on 4 October 2019. Box office. The film grossed approximately \u20b93.85 crore in its first week run in Kerala."}, {"text": "Neboj\u0161a Mladenovi\u0107 (born 19 October 1967) is a Serbian retired football striker."}, {"text": "Roman S\u0142owi\u0144ski (born 16 March 1952) is a Polish computer scientist and professor. From 2019 to 2022 he was Vice President of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a Professor and Founding Chair of the Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems at the Institute of Computing Science, Pozna\u0144 University of Technology, Poland. Since 2003 he is also a professor at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. His research focuses on the methodology and techniques of intelligent decision support, combining Operational Research and Artificial Intelligence. Education and employment. Roman S\u0142owi\u0144ski was born in Pozna\u0144, Poland, on 16 March 1952 into the family of Lech S\u0142owi\u0144ski, a professor of Polish philology, and Melania n\u00e9e Michalska. He earned his undergraduate degree from the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Pozna\u0144 University of Technology in 1974, followed by his doctorate (PhD) in 1977, his habilitation (DSc) in 1981. He got the professor title in 1989, and since 1991 he has held the post of Full Professor at the Pozna\u0144 University of Technology. Since 2003 he also works as a professor at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He became a Corresponding Member"}, {"text": "of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2004, and an Ordinary Member in 2013. Since 2013 he has been a member of Academia Europaea. In 2024, he was elected as a Foreign Correspondent Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna (L'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna). In 2011-2018 he held the post of Chairman of the Pozna\u0144 Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2015 he was elected Chairman of the Committee on Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2019 he was elected by the General Assembly of the Polish Academy of Sciences to the post of Vice President of the Academy for the 2019\u201322 term. Other posts he has held include: Research activity. Roman S\u0142owi\u0144ski is a paradigm-creator in the field of intelligent decision support. He has authored or co-authored 14 books and more than 550 research articles, including more than 400 in major scientific journals (Web of Science \"h\"=63, Scopus \"h\"=71, Google Scholar \"h\"=95). He has been the advisor for 28 PhD students, of whom 16 have themselves gone on to become professors. Aside from the Pozna\u0144 University of Technology, he has also lectured at the Paris Dauphine University, ,"}, {"text": "University of Catania, University of Osaka, Yokohama National University, University of Missouri, Laval University in Quebec and several others. Since 1999 he has been the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Operational Research . H S\u0142owi\u0144ski's research is on the topic of using rough sets in decision analysis. He started this work in 1983 with the founder of the rough set concept, the late Zdzis\u0142aw Pawlak, and continued with Salvatore Greco and Benedetto Matarazzo since the early 1990s. He organized the First International Workshop on Rough Set Theory and Applications that took place in Pozna\u0144 in 1992. Non-scientific activity. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Social Council to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Pozna\u0144; in 2006-2010 he was a board member of the Polish section of the Aid to the Church in Need organization. Awards and distinctions. Prof. S\u0142owi\u0144ski has been decorated with the following awards and distinctions: For his scientific activity, he has received numerous awards and honors, including the EURO Gold Medal in 1991, the Foundation for Polish Science Award in 2005, the Humboldt Research Award by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2022, the Prime Minister's Science Award in 2020, the Polish Academy of Sciences Science"}, {"text": "Award in 2016. In 2003, he received the Scientific Award of the City of Pozna\u0144, and in 2018, the title of \"Meritorious for the City of Pozna\u0144\". He received 6 Honorary Doctorates: from Facult\u00e9 Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium) in 2000, from Universit\u00e9 Paris Dauphine (France) in 2001, from Technical University of Crete (Greece) in 2008, from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China) in 2018, from Hellenic Mediterranean University (Greece) in 2022, and from University of West Attica (Greece) in 2024. In 2022, he was promoted by the Prime Minister of France to the rank of \"Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques\" (\"Officer in the Order of Academic Palms\")."}, {"text": "Marios Kyriakou (born 13 January 1974) is a retired Cypriot football defender."}]