[{"text": "Moffie is a 2019 biographical war romantic drama film co-written and directed by Oliver Hermanus. Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Andr\u00e9 Carl van der Merwe, the film depicts mandatory conscription into the notorious South African Defence Force (SADF) during apartheid through the eyes of a young closeted character Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Br\u00fcmmer) as he attempts to hide his attraction to another gay recruit (Ryan de Villiers) in a hostile environment. The title derives from a homophobic slur in South Africa used to police masculinity. The film had its world premiere release at the Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2019. It also had its special screenings at other film festivals and received a number of accolades in various categories. Its original 2020 theatrical release was disrupted by the Covid 19 pandemic. Distributed by Curzon Cinemas in the UK and IFC Films in the US, it was made available to stream and released in select cinemas in 2021. Synopsis. The film begins in 1981, with South Africa's white minority government embroiled in a brutal proxy conflict in Angola and Namibia. A shy teenager, Nicholas van der Swart, like all white South African"}, {"text": "males over 16, is forced to undergo two years of compulsory military service in the SADF. He keeps his head down whilst the sadistic sergeants brutalise and train the recruits to hate and kill, policing their every move. The threat of shame, abuse, and worse looms over any who fail to conform to an ideal of Afrikaner hypermasculinity. There are details that set Nicholas apart: that, despite his Afrikaans surname from his stepfather, he is English-speaking; and as he finds quiet solidarity in and connection with another recruit Dylan Stassen, that he is gay, the latter of which is a punishable crime and could land him in the ominous Ward 22 if he were found out. Production. The film is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Andr\u00e9 Carl van der Merwe, which the author based on his own diary entries from his time in the SADF. It tells the story of Nicholas discovering his sexuality in a dangerous context, and the irony and trauma of being forced to defend a regime that oppresses him and an ideology he does not agree with. Eric Abraham and Jack Sidey bought the rights and approached Oliver Hermanus with the"}, {"text": "adaptation. Hermanus, whose family were affected by Apartheid, was initially skeptical of the white focus of the film, but found the memoir eye-opening and saw its potential to challenge. A few drafts later, he got to work on the script himself, widening the scope to examine the hate politics and toxic white masculinity that Apartheid tried to indoctrinate into a generation of men, both agents and property of the state, using Nicholas as a point of view. Sidey and Hermanus were able to take liberties with the source material and narrative structure. Jaci Cheriman hosted a nationwide casting call over the course of a year, scouting from professional agencies to local schools and drama clubs. The cast underwent bootcamp training with a military adviser. The crew worked with actors to develop the characters, incorporating stories from real-life veterans. The film was shot in academy ratio and colour graded to resemble the photography of the time. Principal photography took place in early 2019 across the Western Cape. The crew scouted period-appropriate sites. Filming locations included Saron, Hopefield, and Grabouw. The ending scene was filmed on Windmill Beach in Simon's Town. As it took time to procure 80s train cars, the train"}, {"text": "scenes were filmed last in the Overberg between Caledon and Elgin. Reception. On Rotten Tomatoes, of critic reviews are positive, with an average rating of . The website's critic consensus reads: \"\"Moffie\" uses one South African soldier's story to grapple against a series of thorny questions \u2013 with rough yet rewarding results.\" On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 69 out of 100 based on 12 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. The film was nominated for the Best Film category at the London Film Festival 2019. It received two nominations at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, for the Queer Lion Award and Venice Horizons Award. The \"Hollywood Reporter\" ranked the film to be among the best of 2021 so far as to early July 2021. Adaptations. \"Moffie\" was also imagined as a dance work in 2012 by Standard Bank Young Artist Award recipient Bailey Snyman. Snyman's version premiered at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in 2012 to critical and acclaimed reception. The dance version was also performed at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg in August 2012 and at the State Theatre in Pretoria in December 2012. The work was revived for performances at the Artscape Theatre in Cape"}, {"text": "Town in January 2015. In June 2024, a stage monologue of \"Moffie\", adapted by Philip Rademeyer and presented by the Fugard Theatre Archive, premiered at Riverside Studios in West London, with Kai Luke Br\u00fcmmer reprising the lead role."}, {"text": "Kyle Lindsay Allman Jr. (born September 2, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for T\u00fcrk Telekom of the Turkish Basketbol S\u00fcper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroCup. He played college basketball for the Cal State Fullerton Titans. Early life. Allman was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He attended St. John's Preparatory School for three years before transferring to the High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture before his senior year. He averaged 20 points and seven rebounds per game as a senior. College career. Allman played four seasons for the Cal State Fullerton Titans. He was a key reserve for the team as a true freshman, averaging 5.1 points per game. He became a starter for the Titans as a sophomore and averaged 10.2 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game. Allman enjoyed a breakout season in his junior year, recording a career-high 19.5 points while also averaging 3.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game in 32 games played (30 starts) and was named first team All-Big West Conference. Allman was named the 2018 Big West Conference tournament Most Valuable Player after scoring 26 points, six rebounds, three assists and three steals against UC Irvine"}, {"text": "in the conference championship game. As a senior, Allman was named first team All-Big West for a second straight season after averaging 17.5 points, three rebounds, and two assists per game. He finished his college career with the most games played in school history with 127 and fifth in points scored with 1,680. Professional career. Lavrio. Allman was added to the Toronto Raptors Summer League roster after going unselected in the 2019 NBA draft, but only appeared in one game and was not offered a contract by the team. Allman signed with Lavrio of the Greek Basket League on July 26, 2019. He averaged 11.1 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game in his rookie season. VEF R\u012bga. On July 18, 2020, Allman signed with VEF R\u012bga of the Latvian\u2013Estonian Basketball League. Paris Basketball. On July 20, 2021, he has signed with Paris Basketball of the LNB Pro A. Dar\u00fc\u015f\u015fafaka. On June 29, 2023, he signed with Dar\u00fc\u015f\u015fafaka Lassa of the Basketbol S\u00fcper Ligi (BSL). Be\u015fikta\u015f. On November 1, 2023, he signed with Be\u015fikta\u015f of the Basketbol S\u00fcper Ligi (BSL). T\u00fcrk Telekom. On July 9, 2025, he signed with T\u00fcrk Telekom of the Turkish Basketbol S\u00fcper Ligi (BSL)."}, {"text": "K\u014dta, Kota, Kouta or Kohta (written: , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:"}, {"text": "H\u00f2a B\u00ecnh (also written as \"\", lit. \"peace\") may refer to:"}, {"text": "Joe Blade is a video game published by Interceptor Micros on their Players budget label for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC in 1987. It reached the top of the UK game charts, replacing \"Renegade\". In Germany, the game peaked at number 7. It was ported to the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Atari 8-bit computers, MSX, Amiga, and Atari ST. A sequel, \"Joe Blade 2\", was published in 1988. Another sequel, \"Joe Blade 3\", was released in 1989. Gameplay. The first \"Joe Blade\" title portrayed Blade as a lone commando sent into an evil mastermind's complex to release a number of diplomats. Reception. Ron Stewart for \"Page 6\" said \"It is not a great game, but for under a tenner what do you expect. There is enough game play here to keep you going for a while.\" Arnie Katz & Joyce Worley for \"Ahoy!'s AmigaUser\" said \"\"Joe Blade\" is an exceptionally well programmed product. Its animated illustrations and jaunty soundtrack give it an edge over numerous other 'storm-the-fortress' epics\". \"Computer and Video Games\" said \"Nice and cheap with ace graphics, \"Joe Blade\" certainly cuts it. A good buy.\" \"Crash\" said \"extremely playable and addictive.\""}, {"text": "Frederic Arnold Kummer Sr. (August 5, 1873 \u2013 November 22, 1943) was an American author, playwright and screenwriter. He also used the pseudonym Arnold Fredericks. Several of his works were made into movies. A caricature of him is on the wall of Sardi's restaurant. Early life. Frederic Arnold Kummer was born in Catonsville, Maryland, to Arnold Kummer. His father was a banker and his mother was of a Quaker family. He was educated in public schools and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Career. Kummer became a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and assistant editor of the \"Railroad Gazette\". He also became the president of a wood block paving company, but the company failed during the Panic of 1907. Kummer then became an author. Kummer wrote stories and plays. He wrote the play \"The Painted Woman\" which premiered at the Auditorium Theatre in 1917. It came to Baltimore in 1938 as the opera \"Captive\", with music by Gustav Strube. In testimony to the House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities, he was name by Counsel Robert Lynch as a member of the executive committee of the XV International Brigade, a volunteer military unit which fought for the pro-socialist"}, {"text": "Republic of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Personal life. Kummer built a house in Guilford, Maryland. Following this, he relocated to West Lafayette, and later Park Avenue in Baltimore. Kummer married twice. He first married playwright Clare Kummer (born Clare Rodman Beecher) in 1895. They had two daughters, Marjorie (who married English actor Roland Young) and Frederica. They divorced during 1903 (she was remarried to Arthur Henry in 1910). Kummer also had three more children. His son Frederic Arnold Kummer Jr. was also an author. In 1927, Kummer was hospitalized at Union Memorial Hospital and newspapers falsely reported his death. He died on November 22, 1943, at his home at 1501 Park Avenue in Baltimore. He was buried at Loudon Park Cemetery. Legacy. A Liberty Ship was named after him during World War II."}, {"text": "\"M.I.A\" is a song by English singer Cher Lloyd. Released on 11 October 2019, under Universal Music Group, the song marked her first solo release following her comeback \"None Of My Business\" in October 2018. An accompanying video directed by Raja Virdi was premiered on YouTube on the day of the song's release. Background and promotion. Lloyd began teasing the song on 3 October 2019 by posting cryptic images of the acronym on her social media spelling out the title. In an interview with Euphoria, Lloyd stated that \"the whole concept behind that song was being at a party that you really really don't want to be at, but you want to be with that person and you'd rather be anywhere else if it means that you get to be with that person\". Lloyd embarked on a week-long radio tour in the UK from 10\u201317 November 2019, where she did acoustic sessions and interviews in promotion of the song. In terms of live performances, she performed the song live once at the German TV show \"ZDF-Fernsehgarten\" on 13 October 2019. The song failed to achieve much chart success at all due to poor promotion, however it did spend 4 weeks"}, {"text": "on Ultratop Wallonia under top 50 chart. Critical reception. Lilly Pace of \"Billboard\" stated \"The infectious new song recounts the singer's time at a bad party, where she asks someone she has her eye on to run away with her.\" Writing for \"Idolator\" Mike Neid stated: \"'M.I.A', [Lloyd's] latest is a bright anthem that finds her convincing a potential partner to leave a party. And she makes a damn good case. 'Let's make a quick getaway. This party's shit anyway. Or we could go M.I.A.'\" Music video. The official video to the single premiered on YouTube the day of the song's release. It was shot at the Barbican Estate. The music video depicts Lloyd performing choreography with backup dancers on different settings of the Barbican. The video was produced by Phase Films and directed by Raja Virdi. In an interview with Billboard, Cher stated \"This song is a mood, it's about capturing a feeling. I wanted the video to mirror exactly that. I wanted the vibe to feel playful, expressive, and fun. Every look gives a great insight into who I am and my personality.\" Track listing. Digital download / streaming Digital download / streaming (Cahill Edit) Personnel. Credits adapted"}, {"text": "from YouTube Music."}, {"text": "Krishnankutti Rajan (born 26 May 1973) is an Indian politician who has served as the Minister for Revenue and Housing of Kerala since 2021. He previously served as the Chief Whip of the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2019 to 2021. He is a Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly since 2016 representing Ollur. He is also a member of the Kerala State Executive Committee of Communist Party of India and national secretary of AIYF. Personal life. Son of Shri P. Krishnankutti Menon and Smt. K. Remani; born at Anthikad on 26 May 1973. He is married to Smt. Anupama N."}, {"text": "Cheslyn Hay is a civil parish in the district of South Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England. It contains two listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Both the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to \"buildings of national importance and special interest\". The listed buildings consist of a row of cottages with a timber framed core, and a war memorial."}, {"text": "Wakeley is a hamlet and former civil parish from Hertford, now in the parish of Westmill, in the East Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. In 1881 the parish had a population of 10. History. The name \"Wakeley\" means 'Waca's wood/clearing'. Wakeley was recorded in the Domesday Book as \"Wachelei\". \"Wakely\" is recorded as an alternative name for \"Wakeley. The surname Wakeley derives from the village. Wakeley was an extra-parochial tract, in 1858 it became a separate civil parish, on 25 March 1883 the parish was abolished and merged with Westmill. Wakeley is a deserted medieval village which once had a church."}, {"text": "When Lights Are Low may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 2001 Durham mayoral election was held on November 5, 2001, to elect the mayor of Durham, North Carolina. It saw the election of Bill Bell, who unseated incumbent mayor Nick Tennyson. Results. Primary. The date of the primary was October 9, 2001."}, {"text": "Javon Kinlaw (born 3 October 1997) is a Trinidadian American professional football defensive tackle for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Jones County Bobcats and South Carolina Gamecocks and was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft. Kinlaw has also played for the New York Jets. Early life. Kinlaw spent part of his childhood homeless in Washington, D.C. after immigrating from Trinidad and Tobago with his mother and two siblings. He attended Goose Creek High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina. College career. Kinlaw played his freshman season for the Jones County Bobcats in Ellisville, Mississippi, before transferring to the University of South Carolina in 2017. In his first year at South Carolina in 2017, he played in all 13 games with 10 starts and had 20 tackles. In 2018, he started all 12 games and had 38 tackles and 4.5 sacks. Kinlaw returned to South Carolina for his senior season in 2019. Professional career. San Francisco 49ers. Kinlaw was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round (14th overall) of the 2020 NFL draft. The 14th overall pick was acquired"}, {"text": "originally from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after the 49ers traded down with the first round pick (13th overall) they originally acquired in the DeForest Buckner trade. He signed his four-year rookie contract with the team on 26 June 2020, worth a fully guaranteed $15.48 million, including an $8.8 million signing bonus. During Week 10 against the New Orleans Saints, Kinlaw recorded his first career sack on quarterback Taysom Hill during the 27\u201313 loss. Kinlaw was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list by the team on 18 November 2020, and activated on 27 November. In Week 12 against the Los Angeles Rams, Kinlaw intercepted a pass thrown by Jared Goff and returned it for a 27-yard touchdown during the 23\u201320 win. This was his first career interception and touchdown. Kinlaw was named Pepsi Rookie of the Week for his performance against the Rams. As a rookie, Kinlaw appeared in 14 games and started 12. He recorded 1.5 sacks, 33 total tackles, one interception, and four passes defended. He was named to the PFWA All-Rookie Team. On 30 October 2021, Kinlaw was placed on injured reserve. He played in four games on the 2021 season. On 15 October 2022, Kinlaw was placed on"}, {"text": "injured reserve. He was activated on 23 December. He started in all six of his regular season appearances and the 49ers' three postseason games. On 29 April 2023, the 49ers declined the fifth-year option of Kinlaw's rookie contract, making him a free agent in the 2024 offseason. In the 2023 season, Kinlaw appeared in all 17 games and started six. He finished with 3.5 sacks, 25 total tackles, and three passes defended. New York Jets. On March 14, 2024, Kinlaw signed a one-year contract with the New York Jets. Washington Commanders. On March 14, 2025, Kinlaw signed a three-year $45 million contract with the Washington Commanders."}, {"text": "Savinder Singh (born 2 June 1938) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Sunita Sharma is reportedly India's first woman cricket coach and a former cricketer. Having trained dozens of first-class and international cricketers, she received the Dronacharya Award in 2005. Early life and playing career. A sports fan from childhood, Sharma played kho kho at the national level before gradually developing interest in cricket. Having lost her father at age four, it was her mother who advised her to take up the relatively more popular sport of cricket so that she could make a career out of it. Sharma soon rose up the ranks as a medium pace bowler and was selected in the national team. She claims that despite being part of the playing eleven of a Test match against Australia in 1975 she was left out on the morning of the match. Coaching career. Noticing her lack of interest in academics, Sharma's mother enrolled her into a cricket coaching programme in Janki Devi Memorial College in Delhi. In 1976, she became the first woman to receive a coaching diploma from the National Institute of Sports in Patiala. According to Sharma, people were reluctant to send their children to her as they preferred male coaches but \"people found out that I"}, {"text": "am equally capable as compared to my male colleagues\" after one year. She credited the media who used to \"write about me and appreciate my work. All that gave me enough strength to carry on initially.\" Over the years, Sharma coached dozens of men and women cricketers who went on to play at international and first-class level. She is reportedly India's first woman cricket coach. Some of her women trainees who played at the international level are Manimala Singhal, Shashi Gupta, Anju Jain, and Anjum Chopra. Between 1975 and 1990, Sharma also conducted coaching camps for international cricketers where the likes of Shantha Rangaswamy, Diana Edulji, Gargi Banerji, Sandhya Agarwal and Shubhangi Kulkarni underwent training. She was the coach of Deep Dasgupta, who played for the men's national team, since he was seven years of age. Since the early-1980s, she trained Indian team probables at Sports Authority of India's National Stadium Cricket Academy in Delhi. She later worked as a coach and manager of the women's national team. She briefly worked on the national women's team selection committee until 2015 when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) removed her because she had not played international cricket. In"}, {"text": "July 2002, the Women's Cricket Association of India (WCAI) recommended her for the Dronacharya Award. She received the award in 2005."}, {"text": "The 2019 UK Music Video Awards were held on 23 October 2019 to recognise the best in music videos from United Kingdom and worldwide. The nominations were announced on 25 September 2019. British singer FKA Twigs led the nominations with seven."}, {"text": "Francis Belavantheran (born 5 June 1948) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics, the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "is a character in Nintendo and Game Freak's \"Pok\u00e9mon\" franchise, introduced in the 2016 video games \"Pok\u00e9mon Sun\" and \"Moon\", being a central character in the story, and has appeared in numerous Pok\u00e9mon media. Concept and creation. In the Japanese version, Lillie uses 'watakushi', a personal pronoun which, when used outside of formal situations, makes a character seem either \"prim and proper\", \"cultured\", or \"snobby\". Appearances. Lillie first appears in \"Pok\u00e9mon Sun\" and \"Moon\". At the start of the game, she escapes from the Aether Paradise, a conservation area owned by the Aether Foundation, with the Legendary Pok\u00e9mon Cosmog, whom she nicknames Nebby. Professor Kukui takes her on as his assistant after this, providing shelter for her and Nebby. After Nebby wanders off and the player character rescues it, she helps the player on their Island Challenge around the Alola region, while researching Nebby's origins. Later, Nebby is captured and brought to Aether Paradise. The player, their rivals Hau and Gladion, and Lillie, break into the Paradise to rescue Nebby, confronting the head of the organization, Lusamine, who is revealed to the player to be her and Gladion's mother. After Nebby evolves into Cosmoem and Lusamine disappears through a portal"}, {"text": "to the Ultra Space, a realm that links to numerous dimensions, that she forced Nebby to create, Lillie and the player head to the Altar on Poni Island, where using the mysterious items, the Sun Flute and the Moon Flute, they are able to get Nebby to evolve into either Solgaleo or Lunala, depending on the game version. They follow Lusamine into Ultra Space and rescue her. She departs for the Kanto region alongside her mother at the end of the game. She later appears in \"Pok\u00e9mon Ultra Sun\" and \"Ultra Moon\", where she has a more prominent role and acts more as an assistant character than in \"Sun\" and \"Moon\". In these games, she does not depart for Kanto, and instead becomes a trainer in Alola, assisting the player in stopping Team Rainbow Rocket in the postgame. She also appears in mobile game \"Pok\u00e9mon Masters\", paired with Clefairy, and has alternate pairings with Ribombee, Lunala, Polteageist, and Comfey. Lillie appears in the \"Pok\u00e9mon\" anime, as a classmate of Ash Ketchum and a student of the Pok\u00e9mon School. Lillie first appeared in the first episode of \"\". In the anime, she has a fear of Pok\u00e9mon, but slowly grows to"}, {"text": "become used to them. She partners with an Alolan Vulpix nicknamed Snowy, which hatched from a Pok\u00e9mon egg, as her main Pok\u00e9mon companion. She also appears in the second episode of \"Pok\u00e9mon Evolutions\", which recounts the events that took place at the Altar on Poni Island as they are depicted in the Ultra games. Just like the games, Lillie plays the Sun Flute. In manga, Lillie appeared in the \"Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon\" chapter of \"Pok\u00e9mon Adventures\" as a shy preteen girl who stays with Professor Kukui's wife. She is later revealed to be the younger sister of Gladion. Promotion and reception. The company Good Smile has produced multiple figurines of Lillie. A Nendoroid figurine was released in November 2017 depicting Lillie and the Pok\u00e9mon Cosmog. She received another Nendoroid figurine as well as a Figma figurine, both of which were revealed at Wonder Festival 2018. People who pre-ordered the Figma figurine from either Good Smile or Pok\u00e9mon Center Online got a hand dryer or hair brush respectively. Lillie has also appeared multiple times in the Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game in its \"Sun and Moon\" expansion sets. Since her appearance in \"Pok\u00e9mon Sun\" and \"Moon\", Lillie has"}, {"text": "received mostly positive reception. She is a popular character for fans of \"Sun\" and \"Moon\". Chris Carter of \"Destructoid\" regarded her as one of the best aspects of \"Sun\" and \"Moon\". Alex Donaldson of \"VG247\" found Lillie \"endearing\", citing the \"snappy\" English localization for this. While Nick Wanserski did not think her decision to give up her \"pacifist\" ways to be justified, he nevertheless found the resolution with her mother to be well executed. Allegra Frank and Simone de Rochefort of \"Polygon\" regarded Lillie as one of the best women in video games in 2016. They note the emphasis the games put on her story, and how she works to overcome her limitations and comes out of her tribulations stronger. Frank also praised \"Ultra Sun\" and \"Ultra Moon\" for expanding on her story even further. She gave her praise for her appearance in the 999th and 1000th episodes of the \"Pok\u00e9mon\" anime, praising how it handles her fear of Pok\u00e9mon and calling her \"sympathetic.\" Dan Van Winkle of \"The Mary Sue\" expressed hope that a followup to the \"Sun\" and \"Moon\" games would star Lillie in the setting of \"Pok\u00e9mon Red\" and \"Blue\". Fellow contributor to \"The Mary Sue\" Paige"}, {"text": "Lyman regarded Lillie as the highlight of the game due to her character arc and the friendship that developed between the player character and Lillie. Meanwhile, Emily Reuben of \"Ball State Daily\" criticized \"Sun and Moon\" for devoting too much time to Lillie and taking away from the player character's story. She further criticized \"Ultra Sun\" and \"Ultra Moon\" for expanding her significance."}, {"text": "Sri Shanmuganathan (born 2 January 1947) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics, the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Ameen-ud-Din bin Mohamed Ibrahim (20 November 1947 \u2013 10 November 2015) was a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "is the protagonist from Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi's manga series \"Dr. Stone\". Beginning in April 5738 AD, it has been over 3,700 years since a mysterious flash petrified nearly all human life. A 16-year-old genius named Senku Ishigami is suddenly revived to find himself in a world where all traces of human civilization have been eroded by time. Senku sets up a base-camp and begins to study the petrified humans in order to determine the cause of the event. Senku was created by Inagaki to be a unique type of superhero as, while he does not possess supernatural powers, he stands out through his knowledge of science in order to help create a new civilization. He was based on the antagonistic Agon Kongo from \"Eyeshield 21\" whom the author wanted to portray in a more positive way. In the anime adaptation of the series he is voiced by Y\u016bsuke Kobayashi in Japanese and Aaron Dismuke in the English dub. Critical response to Senku's character has been positive, appearing in multiple polls of popularity and winning the 4th Crunchyroll Anime Awards of Best Protagonist. Reviewers enjoyed the character's personality and relationship with the supporting characters as well as his rivalry with"}, {"text": "Tsukasa Shishio. Creation and development. Riichiro Inagaki created Senku as an alternative of superheroes rarely explored in fiction as Senku does not possess any supernatural power. Inagaki thought about the average person. For the average person to accomplish something, he would need to keep working and build up towards whatever the goal is. He claims that he wondered \"what's a cool way to portray that average person working hard for their goal?\" To amplify that idea of not being able to do anything was the idea of petrification; Senku was created with the idea of being the embodiement of \"working diligently by counting for a couple thousand years\". Inagaki further wanted to make Senku as a unique character in the manga to the point the other characters are listed as \"non-Senku\" as he wanted to explore relationships where the cast develop a bond together. Originally, Senku was named Gaku as that kanji, \u5b78, stands for \"study\". However, he felt it was too academic and changed to as it meant \"Thousand skies\". Inagaki further claimed that Senku will never develop fantasy powers as it would contradict the realistic setting provided ever since the beginning. Inagaki professes to use a method of"}, {"text": "character creation that he refers to as \"acting.\" Essentially, Inagaki often reuses set types of characters in new settings for his works, and in the case of Senku, he essentially reused the character of Agon from his previous serialization, \"Eyeshield 21\". He professes that he likes the type of curt, no-nonsense character that both Agon and Senku embody. Since Agon in only showed that type of character's bad sides, and wanted to do the opposite for \"Dr. Stone\". The scientific focus of the series means that Inagaki has to stick as closely to reality as possible which often needed research. In order to make Senku look cool, Inagaki often asks Boichi to draw a certain background when Senku comes across with finding a new item like \"Hydroelectric power plant acquired!!\" In regards to the series' message, Inagaki wanted readers to understand Senku's \"power\" and his ambitions, using his knowledge of the past to make a stronger future. Artist Boichi said that he related to Senku in regards to the philosophies to life such based on how the artist went from writing in Korea to Japan based on his desires, seeing the manga as a competition to help manga artists in"}, {"text": "the same way Senku assists society through his skills. Voice actor Y\u016bsuke Kobayashi mentioned that the intonation of the names were not really clear until they started recording. Kobayashi also voiced the series' mascot, Mecha Senku, who highly resembles the main character. Before voicing him for the English dub, Aaron Dismuke watched the original Japanese episodes, to capture the feeling of the original work, finding it challenging to do. Dismuke further commented that Senku has a tendency to make expositions of creating items such as preparing meals to the point Senku is \"all over the place\". Anime director Shinya Iino said \"least 50% or more is the character Senku, who's a very unique character.\" with praise given to Kobayashi's work. As a result, he found Dismuke's work challenging as he had to have the same appeal as Kobayashi. In regards to Senku's characterization, Iino was conflicted with how to modify his facial expressions for emotional scenes. He further compared Senku with Inagaki to the point Senku might be an author avatar of the manga author. Appearances. Senku is a prodigy who excels in multiple fields of science, with a special love of astronomy and space exploration. In the series' beginning"}, {"text": "causes Senku and the entire population to be petrified for thousands of years. After awakening in the \"Stone World\", he sets to restore civilization by reinventing their lost technology and discovering a \"cure\" for the petrification. Though somewhat arrogant, he is actually very noble and kind-hearted as he considers science as a means to elevate all people and having unshakeable faith in his friends. Senku and Taiju prepare enough revival fluid to free one person from stone, with Taiju choosing Yuzuriha to be first subject. However, the recently revived Tsukasa reveals to Senku his intention to murder petrified adults to create a world free of corrupt adults, clashing with Senku's ideals of reviving everyone. As Senku relinquishes the recipe to save Yuzuriha and is given the choice of either abandoning science or dying, he recalls how he developed his love of science and became friends with Taiju. Refusing to abandon science, Senku prepares to die at Tsukasa's hands. After faking his death to keep Tsukasa from hunting him, Senku befriends the residents of Ishigami Village and becomes their chief, finding out that he is a legend in the village's community at the same time thanks to the influence through one"}, {"text": "of the villagers' ancestors, who happens to be Senku's late adopted father Byakuya, one of the original petrification survivors. He meets sorcerer named Chrome who has come on his own Senku makes him his apprentice. Senku unveils the pile of tungsten for final preparation. After being crushed into a fine powder, it needs to be heated at an extremely high temperature for it to become usable. While Senku readies the tungsten powder, he charges Chrome and Kaseki to create a method of pinpoint high-temperature heating using everything they have learned since Senku's arrival in the village. Tsukasa and Hyouga prepare for the upcoming attack on Ishigami Village. Senku discuss bringing more men from Tsukasa's Empire to their side. Following several battles, Senku demands a truce from Tsukasa in return for reviving his sister Mirai who Tsukasa learns is alive. Using the revival-fluid, Mirai is revived. Following Hyoga's defeat and Tsukasa entering cryosleep, Senku was able to get the remnants of the Empire of Might to merge with the Kingdom of Science where he leads the Five Wise Generals. Senku calls an assembly where he announces that they will find the secret of the petrification. He also reveals that they will"}, {"text": "construct a ship to explore the world. Reception. Popularity. Senku has been a popular character. \"Gadget Ts\u016bshin\" listed Senku's catchphrase \"This is exhilarating!\" in their 2019 anime buzzwords list. At the 4th Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2020, Senku was awarded Best Protagonist. Y\u016bsuke Kobayashi's performance as Senku was one of the nominees for Best Voice Artist Performance (Japanese). He also topped both Western and Eastern \"Dr. Stone\" manga polls from 2019. \"Otaku USA\" regarded Senku as one of the smartest characters in anime. In another Crunchyroll poll, Senku was voted as the most popular character of the series. In 2022, he was also nominated at the 6th Crunchyroll Anime Awards in the \"Best Boy\" category, for his role in the \"Stone Wars\" season of \"Dr. Stone\". Two of Senku's international voice actors were nominated for the \"Best Voice Artist Performance\" category at the eighth edition in 2024, namely Taleb Alrefai (Arabic) and David Brau (Castilian); the former won the award while the latter lost to Joel G\u00f3mez Jimenez's Denji, respectively. Critical response. Critical response to Senku's character has been generally positive. \"Spin Maker\" website saw Senku as a likable character as he is \"like a cross between MacGyver and Jimmy"}, {"text": "Neutron\". Similarly, \"Manga.Tokyo\" called Senku a mix between Dexter from \"Dexter's Laboratory\" and Rintaro Okabe from \"Steins;Gate\", finding him to be a fun lead, and despite acting like a mad scientist, it is easy to notice that Senku cares about others according to the reviewer. \"Anime UK News\" found his design impressive, comparing him to Yugi Mutou's hair, and felt that Senku's quest to restore modernity seems possible. \"Comic Book Resources\" found Senku to be balanced as despite his intelligence, Senku's strength is often downlplayed for comic relief as he finds it difficult to carry heavy objects. The same website made an entire article centered around Senku, calling him \"a hero at heart though, not the reclusive, eccentric Dr. Frankenstein type\" with derivations form little pleasure or meaning from deep personal connections. Writers have commented on Senku's relationships portrayed in the narrative, most notably the members from Ishigami Village and his rivalry with Tsukasa. Initially, \"Manga.Tokyo\" said that the dynamic between Senku and Taiju was similar to \"Pinky and the Brain\" series and found that the duo has interesting interactions. \"Anime UK News\" also saw Senku's quest to increase the firepower of the Ishigami Village as a build up to"}, {"text": "the eventual second season which explores the fight against Tsukasa's forces. \"Otaquest\" and IGN praised Senku's characterization and actions in the plot as how he influences his student Chrome who has no knowledge of Senku's science. Senku's rivalry with Tsukasa was also the focus of the series' themes involving science against strength, with \"Medium\" website regarded the second anime season as the most important parts it adapted. Furthermore, the website noted that the final twist in their war is controversial. \"Anime News Network\" noted that ever since the first volume, Boichi gave Senku and Tsukasa's rivalry a major effect and noted how Senku still the latter as a murderer even if his rival destroy humans' statues. \"Comic Book Bin\" enjoyed the clash in the ninth volume between such forces to the point of calling it the best part of the manga. Both of Senku's voice actors Aaron Dismuke's and Kobayashi's works as Senku's actors have been praised by the media. In an article by the Japanese \"AnimeAnime\" website, Senku was listed as the second best Kobayashi character behind Subaru Natsuki from \"\"."}, {"text": "AEW Dark, or simply Dark, is an American professional wrestling streaming television program that was produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW), running from October 8, 2019, to April 25, 2023, on AEW's YouTube channel. The program featured matches taped either before or after the preceding episode of \"Rampage\" (if it was live), a pay-per-view, or at Soundstage 21 in Universal Studios Florida, which served as the main location for the tapings of \"Dark\"s weekly episodes. Prior to this, it was taped before and after the preceding episode of AEW's flagship program, \"Dynamite\", and had featured segments highlighting the previous week's \"Dynamite\" and interviews with AEW personalities. The show was originally hosted by Tony Schiavone and Dasha Gonzalez in a studio called the \"AEW Control Center\". Both \"Dark\" and its spin-off, \"\", were canceled due to the addition of AEW's television program, \"Collision\". History. On October 2, 2019, All Elite Wrestling's (AEW) flagship program, \"Dynamite\", premiered on TNT. During the event, there were four dark matches, two before and two after the live broadcast. During the media scrum following this event, AEW President and Chief Executive Officer Tony Khan stated that the dark matches would become available to"}, {"text": "view on video in some form. On October 5, then-AEW Executive Vice President and wrestler Cody Rhodes announced a sister program to \"Dynamite\" called \"AEW Dark\", which would be the home of AEW's dark matches. On October 8, the program began airing on Tuesdays at 8pm Eastern Time (ET) on AEW's YouTube channel. During the week of a pay-per-view (PPV), however, \"Dark\" would air on Friday as the go-home show; this continued until May 2021 for that year's Double or Nothing PPV. Unlike the dark matches of other wrestling promotions, which generally do not affect storylines, these matches on \"Dark\" were part of AEW's storylines and counted towards the wrestlers' match statistics. During the November 5 episode, Tony Schiavone announced AEW Spanish commentator Dasha Gonzalez would be his co-host going forward. Schiavone and Gonzalez hosted segments on \"Dark\" from the \"AEW Control Center,\" highlighting matches and storylines within AEW. On December 31, AEW aired a special episode called \"AEW Dark \u2013 2019 Year in Review\", featuring highlights of the show from the past year. On February 24, 2021, AEW announced that a new spinoff of \"Dark\" would premiere on Monday, March 15 titled \"\". This was the promotion's third program,"}, {"text": "after \"Dynamite\" and \"Dark\", and aired on Monday nights at 7pm ET, also on AEW's YouTube channel. With the premiere of \"Rampage\" in August 2021, Khan said that \"Dynamite\" and \"Rampage\" would be AEW's core properties, while their YouTube shows, \"Dark\" and \"Elevation\", would be their peripheral properties, essentially their developmental shows. With \"Rampage\" airing in the 10pm ET slot on Fridays, it replaced \"Dark\" as the go-home show for pay-per-views. On August 27, 2021, it was revealed that \"Dark\" would begin being taped at its own set within Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida at Soundstage 21\u2014the same studio which previously hosted weekly episodes of \"TNA Impact!\"\u2014while \"Elevation\" would continue to be taped in conjunction with \"Dynamite\". The first set of tapings for \"Dark\" at Universal Studios occurred on September 11, 2021. AEW taped \"Dark\" episodes about once a month, recording four shows per taping with each show lasting about 90 minutes. During the weeks that \"Rampage\" or \"Battle of the Belts\" aired live, AEW taped \"Dark\" in conjunction with that program. AEW had also occasionally taped \"Dark\" in conjunction with \"Elevation\", notably in December 2021. \"Dark\" aired its last episode on April 25, 2023. Both Dark and \"Elevation\" were"}, {"text": "canceled in preparation for the addition of AEW's television program, \"Collision\", which premiered on TNT in June 2023. This was due to an amended deal with AEW's broadcast partner Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), in which all of AEW's programs would air exclusively on WBD's channels. It was also reported that \"Rampage\" would begin showcasing younger wrestlers, essentially becoming what \"Dark\" and \"Elevation\" were for the company."}, {"text": "Where the Action Is is an American music-based television variety show. Where the Action Is may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Croatia competed at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, from 27 September to 6 October 2019."}, {"text": "Joseph Johnson (born 20 October 1945) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Shara is a female given name and may refer to:"}, {"text": "\"Jopping\" is the debut single by South Korean pop group SuperM. It was released on October 4, 2019 as the first single from the eponymous debut extended play by SM Entertainment and Capitol Records. Composition and lyrics. \"Jopping\", a combination of words jumping and popping, is the lead track off SuperM\u2019s self-titled debut EP. The song features heavy electro-pop influences with references to brit-pop sounds. The song uses cinematic-style horns and a groovy beat. A fusion of pop-rock, R&B, and hip-hop genres can be heard in the vocal and rap talents of each member. Music video. Filmed in the UAE desert and Dubai\u2019s urban jungle, the futuristic video features supercars and bikes in action, while a helicopter sits pretty in the background. The Meydan Bridge, Business Bay and Sheikh Zayed Road\u2019s famous skyline are also spotted on \u2018Jopping\u2019 video at one point, while Al Khail Road and the deserted landscape of Ras Al Khor also features in the 4.44 long video. Live performances. The group performed \"Jopping\" for the first time on a showcase at the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles on October 5, 2019. On October 9, 2019 the group made their American TV debut on \"The Ellen"}, {"text": "DeGeneres Show\" performing the song. On February 11, 2020 the group performed the song on \"Jimmy Kimmel Live!\". Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from album's liner notes."}, {"text": "Yang Siow Ming (born 1 July 1946) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics. Yang was born in Kuala Kangsar to schoolteacher parents. The family later moved to Malacca, where Yang attended Malacca High School. He began his hockey career there, representing the school even as a first-former. He played other sports while in high school, and was named the school's Sportsman of the Year for five years running, but eventually dropped his other sports to focus on field hockey. He did not try out for the Malaysian team for the 1964 Olympics as he was sitting for his Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia examinations that year, but two years later he represented his country at the 1966 Asian Games. There, he met his wife-to-be Thong Nyok Seen, a daughter of then-Olympic Council of Malaysia general secretary Thong Poh Nyen. Yang went on to represent Malaysia again at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1971 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games. After the 1972 Summer Olympics, he retired from sport and married Thong, with whom he had one son, Eugene. He took up teaching positions at Kajang High School in Selangor and then"}, {"text": "at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, and in 1996 became director of coaching at the Malaysian Hockey Federation, a position which he held until 1999. He was inducted into the Olympic Council of Malaysia's Hall of Fame in 2015. As of 2020, he lived with his son and daughter-in-law, and had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease."}, {"text": "Harnahal Singh Sewa (born 29 October 1946) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Koh Chong Jin (born 1 August 1947) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Segolame Boy (born 7 November 1992) is a Motswana footballer who plays as a midfielder for Township Rollers in the Botswana Premier League. Segolame Boy was first spotted representing a Selibe-Phikwe local side in the constituency tournaments, the lowest level of Botswana football. Having impressed talent scouts, he was signed by Serowe-based club Miscellaneous and would spend two seasons with them plying his trade in the Botswana Premier League. In 2014 he moved to Premier League giants Township Rollers and quickly became a mainstay in their first eleven, even attracting attention from the more lucrative South African Premier Division. In just five years with the Gaborone club Boy won four Premier League titles, a Mascom Top 8 Cup, and was part of the history-making Rollers squad which played in the 2018 CAF Champions League group stage, cementing his name in Rollers folklore. International career. Boy made his Botswana debut aged 21 in 2014 under then coach Peter Butler (footballer, born 1966). Deployed as an attacking midfielder behind the strikers, he played the entire game as the Zebras lost 2\u20130 to Senegal in a 2015 AFCON qualifier. \"Scores and results list Botswana's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each"}, {"text": "Boy goal.\" Honours. Club. Township Rollers"}, {"text": "Shamuganathan Jeevajothy (born 14 November 1948) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Timothy Maxwell Delve Cocks (born 29 September 1952) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Cocks represented the Schools team at the 1970 annual Craven Week tournament. After school, Cocks played for the Natal under\u201320 team and thereafter for the Natal Currie Cup side. In 1979, Cocks was in the South African Barbarians side that toured to the United Kingdom under manager Chick Henderson, alongside players such as Divan Serfontein and Errol Tobias. Cocks toured with the Springboks to South American during October 1980. He did not play in any test matches on tour, but played in three tour matches, scoring two tries for the Springboks. On thirteen occasions he was selected on the replacement bench for the Springboks, but never made on to the field in a test match."}, {"text": "Kuldip Singh Uijeer (born 16 May 1943) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Loong Whey Pyu (born 24 April 1945) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Ensemble coding, also known as ensemble perception or summary representation, is a theory in cognitive neuroscience about the internal representation of groups of objects in the human mind. Ensemble coding proposes that such information is recorded via summary statistics, particularly the average or variance. Experimental evidence tends to support the theory for low-level visual information, such as shapes and sizes, as well as some high-level features such as face gender. Nonetheless, it remains unclear the extent to which ensemble coding applies to high-level or non-visual stimuli, and the theory remains the subject of active research. Theory. Extensive amounts of information are available to the visual system. Ensemble coding is a theory that suggests that people process the general gist of their complex visual surroundings by grouping objects together based on shared properties. The world is filled with redundant information of which the human visual system has become particularly sensitive. The brain exploits this redundancy and condenses the information. For example, the leaves of a tree or blades of grass give rise to the percept of 'tree-ness' and 'lawn-ness'. It has been demonstrated that individuals have the ability to quickly and accurately encode ensembles of objects, like leaves on a tree,"}, {"text": "and gather summary statistical information (like the mean and variance) from groups of stimuli. Some research suggests that this process provides rough visual information from the entire visual field, giving way to a complete and accurate picture of the visual world. Although the individual details of this accurate picture might be inaccessible, the 'gist' of the scene remains accessible. Ensemble coding is an adaptive process that lightens the cognitive load in the processing and storing of visual representations through the use of heuristics. Operational definition. David Whitney and Allison Yamanashi Leib have developed an operational and flexible definition stating that ensemble coding should cover the following five concepts: Opposing theories. Some research has found countering evidence to the theory of ensemble coding. Limited visual capacity. Vision science has noted that although humans take in large amounts of visual information, adults are only able to process, attend to, and retain up to roughly four items from the visual environment. Furthermore, scientists have found that this visual upper limit capacity exists across various phenomena including change blindness, object tracking, and feature representation. Low resolution representations and limited capacity. Additional theories in vision science propose that stimuli are represented in the brain individually"}, {"text": "as small, low resolution, icons stored in templates with limited capacities and are organized through associative links. History. Throughout its history, ensemble coding been known by many names. Interest in the theory began to emerge in the early 20th century. In its earliest years, ensemble coding was known as Gestalt grouping. In 1923, Max Wertheimer, a Gestalt psychology theorist, was addressing how humans perceive their visual world holistically rather than individually. Gestaltists argued that in object perception, the individual object features were either lost or difficult to perceive and therefore the grouped object was the favored percept. Although Gestaltists helped define some of the central principles of object perception, research into modern ensemble coding did not occur until many years later. In 1971, Norman Anderson was one of the earliest to conduct explicit ensemble coding research. Anderson's research into social ensemble coding showed that individuals described by two positive terms were rated more favorably than individuals described by two positive terms and two negative terms. This research on impression formation demonstrated that a weighted mean or average captures how information is integrated rather than the summation. Additional research during this time explored ensemble coding in group attractiveness, shopping preferences, and"}, {"text": "the perceived badness of criminals. The current era. Findings by Dan Ariely in 2001 were the first data to support the modern theories of ensemble coding. Ariely used novel experimental paradigms, which he labeled \"mean discrimination\" and \"member identification\", to examine how sets of objects are perceived. He conducted three studies involving shape ensembles that varied in size. Across all studies, participants were able to accurately encode the mean size of the ensemble of objects, but they were inaccurate when asked if a certain object was a part of the set. Ariely's findings were the first that found statistical summary information emerge in the visual perception of grouped objects. Consistent with Ariely's findings, follow-up research conducted by Sang Chul Chong and Anne Treisman in 2003 provided evidence that participants are engaging in summary statistical processes. Their research revealed that participant's maintained high accuracy in encoding the mean size of the stimuli even with short stimuli presentations as low as 50 milliseconds, memory delays, and object distribution differences. Additional research has demonstrated that ensemble coding is not limited to the mean size of objects in the ensemble, but that additional content is extracted, such as average line orientation, average spatial location,"}, {"text": "average number, and statistical summaries such as the variances are detected. Observers are also able to extract accurate perceptual summaries of high-level features such as the average direction of eye gaze of grouped faces and the average walking direction of a crowd. Levels of ensemble coding. People have the ability to encode ensembles of objects along various dimensions. These dimensions have been divided into levels that vary from low-level to high-level feature information. Low-level feature information. Low-level ensemble coding has been observed in various psychophysical areas of research. For example, people accurately perceive the average size of objects, motion direction of grouped dots, number, line orientation, and spatial location. High-level feature information. High-level ensemble coding extends to more complex, higher level objects including faces. Independence of low- and high-level information. Some findings suggest lower-level and higher-level information may be processed by independent cognitive mechanisms Social vision and ensemble coding. Based on the early work of Anderson, it appears that humans integrate semantic as well as social information into memory using ensemble coding. These findings suggest that social processes may hinge on the same sort of underlying mechanisms that allow people to perceive average object orientation and average object direction of"}, {"text": "motion. In recent years, ensemble coding in the field of social vision has emerged. Social vision is a field of research that examines how people perceive one another. With the addition of ensemble coding, the field is able to explore people perception, or how people perceive groups of other people. This specific research area focuses on how observers accurately perceive and extract social information from groups and how that extracted information influences downstream judgments and behaviors. In 2018, seminal research introducing the use ensemble coding in the field of social vision was conducted by Briana Goodale. Goodale's research found that humans can accurately extract sex ratio summaries from ensembles of faces and that this sex ratio provides an early visual cue signaling sense of belonging and fit within group. Specifically, this research found that participants felt a stronger sense of belonging to a given ensemble as members of their own sex increased in the perceived ensemble. Additional research has uncovered that in as little as 75 milliseconds, participants are able to derive the average sex ratio of an ensemble of faces. Furthermore, within that 75 milliseconds, participants were able to form impressions based on the perceived sex ratio and make"}, {"text": "inferences about the group's perceived threat. Specifically, this research found that groups were judged as more threatening as the ratio of men to women increased. In 2023, researchers found that people can accurately gauge the average trustworthiness of multiple faces presented together, even at very brief exposure times (as short as 250 ms). The findings suggest that our brains efficiently extract a summary statistic of facial features from crowds, enabling quick social judgments that may influence behavior."}, {"text": "Julia Margaret Flesher Koch (born April 12, 1962) is an American socialite and philanthropist who is one of the richest women in the world. As of May 2025, her fortune was over $74.2 billion. She inherited her fortune from her husband, David Koch, who died in 2019. Life. Julia Margaret Flesher was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on April 12, 1962. Her family came from a farming background, but when she was born, her parents, Margaret and Frederic Flesher, owned a furniture store called Flesher's. She spent her early childhood in Indianola, Iowa, then when she was eight years old her family moved to Conway, Arkansas, where her parents started a clothing store called Peggy Frederic's, which she considered \"a beautiful, beautiful shop\". By 1998, her mother still lived in Conway but her father had moved back to Indianola. After graduating from the University of Central Arkansas and working as a model, Flesher moved to New York City in 1984, where she worked as fashion designer Adolfo's assistant and did fittings for Nancy Reagan. She met David Koch on a blind date in January 1991, although they did not continue dating at the time. She later described her reaction: \"I'm"}, {"text": "glad I met that man because now I know I never want to go out with him\". However, the two met again at a party later that year and started dating. She stopped working in 1993, and they got married in May 1996 at David Koch's house on Meadow Lane in Southampton. In December 1997, she made what the \"New York Times\" called her \"New York society debut\" at the Met Gala. She was co-chairwoman of the gala that year, along with Anna Wintour and Patrick McCarthy. McCarthy said she was \"one of those people who occur in New York every few years...she's beautiful, she loves fashion, she knows how to entertain, she's married to an extraordinarily rich man.\" Julia and David Koch had three children. Julia and David Koch spent years living in an apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue, but in 2004 they moved to an 18-room duplex at 740 Park Avenue. According to \"\", David Koch bought the apartment for about $17 million from the Japanese government, which previously used it to house their permanent representative to the United Nations. In 2018, the couple also bought an eight-bedroom townhouse in Manhattan from investor Joseph Chetrit for $40.25 million."}, {"text": "David Koch died in August 2019, and Julia Koch and their three children inherited 42% of Koch Industries. As a result, she was listed by \"Bloomberg\" as the richest woman in the world and was included on \"Forbes\"' list of the 10 richest women in the world in 2020. In 2022, Koch put the apartment at 740 Park Avenue on the market; a spokesperson said that she wanted to sell it because she was spending more time at houses in Southampton and Palm Beach. Koch is on the board of directors of Koch Industries. She tends not to seek public attention. Philanthropy. Koch is president of the David H. Koch Foundation, which says it has given over $200 million to causes related to science and medical research, education and the arts as of 2022. She also established the Julia Koch Family Foundation, which donates to healthcare, educational and cultural organizations. Between 2007 and 2017, Koch and her spouse donated an average of $63 million annually, including donations to the arts and medical research. During her husband's lifetime, they donated $1.2 billion to various causes such as the Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History,"}, {"text": "the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. In 2020 the David H. Koch fund donated about $1 million to Duke University, in 2021 it donated about $1 million to Columbia University, and around 2023 it gave $5 million to the Cox Science Center and Aquarium in Palm Beach, Florida. From David Koch's death to the beginning of 2023, the fund did not receive any additional revenue. In 2012, Koch made a $10 million gift to the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, creating the David H. and Julia Koch Research Program in Food Allergy Therapeutics within its Jaffe Food Allergy Institute. In 2016, she donated $10 million to establish the David & Julia Koch research clinic for allergy and asthma at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University. Koch has also given to LSA Family Health Services and NYU Langone, establishing the Julia Koch Endowed Scholarship. Roy I. Davidovitch is the current Julia Koch Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and director of NYU Langone's Hip Center. In 2024, she donated $75 million to NYU Langone through the Julia Koch Family Foundation for the construction of the Julia Koch Family Ambulatory Care Center, a medical"}, {"text": "office tower in West Palm Beach, Florida. Koch is a member of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Board of Trustees, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Board of Trustees, and the Venetian Heritage Foundation's Board of Directors. She was formerly on the board of directors of the School of American Ballet."}, {"text": "Danielle Monique Etienne (born 16 January 2001) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for Southern Conference team The Citadel Bulldogs. Born in the United States, she represents Haiti at international level. International career. Etienne represented the Haitian National Team at various levels. Etienne competed at the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship in Nicaragua, the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship in Trinidad and Tobago, the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France, the 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship in the United States and the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship in the Dominican Republic. She made a senior appearance debut on October 3, 2019, vs. Suriname. Danielle scored her first goal for the senior women's team in Haiti's historic 21\u20130 win over the British Virgin Islands in 2023 World Cup Qualifiers. In February 2023, Etienne was called up to the senior team that again made history defeating Senegal and Chile in playoff matches in New Zealand securing their first ever appearance in the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup Finals. Etienne competed in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup making an appearance against China in a 1-0 loss in the group stage. Personal life. Etienne is the daughter of"}, {"text": "former Haitian International and Long Island Roughriders forward Derrick Etienne and the younger sister of Darice Etienne and Haitian International winger Derrick Etienne Jr. Danielle Etienne attended Paramus Catholic High School before joining Fordham University. Etienne returned to the national team two months after giving birth to her son Ezekiel, and earned a place in Haiti's final roster competing in the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup Finals only seven months after giving birth."}, {"text": "Carol Rhodes Sibley (1902\u20131986), \"nee\" Rhodes, was a prominent civic activist in Berkeley, California. Sibley is perhaps best known as a member of the Berkeley School Board from 1961 to 1971, and sometimes its president, during a time when Berkeley became one of the first cities in the country to racially desegregate its schools. With her husband Robert, Sibley was also deeply involved in the community life of the University of California, Berkeley. Biography. Carol Bates Rhodes was born on 4 April 1902 to Charles Elbert Rhodes and Mary Bates Rhodes (n\u00e9e Mary Williamson Bates, 1868-1944). She grew up with an older brother (Charles Elbert Rhodes, Jr.) and a younger sister (Ruth Mary Rhodes), in Upstate New York. She graduated in 1919 from Lafayette High School in Buffalo, as valedictorian and class poet. Her father was a Presbyterian minister and \"taught every summer at Chautauqua Institution.\" Houseguests when she was growing up included Norman Thomas and Pearl S. Buck. Sibley began college studies at Wellesley College in 1919, graduating in 1923. From 1923 to 1943 she was married to Paul Johnston, giving birth to two children, Mary Carol (b. 1925) and James Irvin II (b. 1927). They divorced in August,"}, {"text": "1943. From 1941 to 1943, Carol Johnston was Alumnae Secretary for Wellesley College, and \"travelled to nearly every Wellesley Club in the U.S.A. because alumnae could not come to College and President McAfee felt it was vital that they be kept in touch.\" On 6 December 1943, in Washington, D.C., she married Robert Sibley (1881-1958), a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, who was an executive manager of the California Alumni Association (1923-1949), and later became director and president of the East Bay Regional Park District (1948-1958). She moved to Berkeley to be with him in June, 1944. The Sibleys lived for many years in a house known as Allanoke at the corner of Le Roy Avenue and Ridge Road in Berkeley. The house \"in the 1940s and '50s in particular... was a center of UC Berkeley social life and was designated a city of Berkeley Landmark in 1986.\" In 1958, when Carol and Robert Sibley were traveling together in France, Robert died unexpectedly of a heart attack Sibley was elected to the Berkeley School Board in 1961, giving the board \"for the first time... a four-to-one liberal majority.\" Because of their support for school desegregation,"}, {"text": "Sibley and another board member, Sherman J. Maisel, were subjected to a recall election on October 6, 1964, in which they retained their seats, and their detractors experienced a \"rout,\" by a margin of about 23,000 to 15,000 votes. Sibley received the 1973 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal for distinguished service to the Berkeley community. Sibley received the 1975 alumna achievement award from Wellesley College. Sibley was the focus of an oral history published in 1980 by the Regional Oral History Office of the University of California, Berkeley, based on nine interviews conducted from 21 April to 3 August 1978. Sibley died in 1986, and a memorial service was held at First Congregational Church. Works by Sibley. Oral history through University of California Berkeley: Other works: Sibley's oral history states that wrote \"about 48 articles for the California Monthly on subjects of special interest to women, 1944-1949.\""}, {"text": "Adrian Maycsell (born 26 October 1941) is a Mexican field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The Ecuadorian ambassador in Beijing is the official representative of the Government in Quito to the government of the People's Republic of China."}, {"text": "Jos\u00e9 Antonio Prud'homme (born 30 October 1947) is a Mexican field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Zeno Fern\u00e1ndez (25 June 1940 \u2013 7 May 2016) was a Mexican field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Alix E. Harrow (born November 9, 1989) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her short fiction work \"A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies\" has been nominated for the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award, and in 2019 won a Hugo Award. Her debut novel, \"The Ten Thousand Doors of January\" (2019), was widely acclaimed by mainstream critics, lauded by general audiences during voting at Goodreads Choice Awards and Locus Awards, and nominated for multiple first novel literary awards and speculative fiction awards. She has also published under the name Alix Heintzman. Life and career. Alix E. Harrow was born on November 9, 1989, in the United States and grew up in Kentucky. She enrolled at Berea College at age sixteen, where she completed a bachelor's degree in history in three years. She then went on to earn a master's degree in history from the University of Vermont. Before working as a full-time writer, Harrow was an academic historian who taught as an adjunct professor of African and African American history at Eastern Kentucky University. Her first novel, \"The Ten Thousand Doors of January\" (2019), was received with critical acclaim and nominated"}, {"text": "for multiple awards, including the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award for best novel. A second novel, \"The Once and Future Witches\" (2020), won a British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award). A more recent novella, \"A Spindle Splintered\" (2021), was nominated for a Hugo Award for best novella. Harrow has also written short fiction for \"Shimmer Magazine\", \"Strange Horizons\", \"Tor.com\", and \"Apex Magazine\". This has produced a Hugo Award\u2013winning 2018 short story called \"A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies\" (published by \"Apex\"). Harrow lives in Virginia. Bibliography. \"Fractured Fables\" series. Novellas"}, {"text": "Humberto Guti\u00e9rrez (born 26 November 1946) is a Mexican field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Woking Convict Invalid Prison was constructed in mid-19th-century England, primarily to hold male invalid convicts who previously had been billeted on hulks and had been moved to the temporary invalid prison at Lewes. The concept of a prison specifically for invalids was seen as progressive at the time. It opened its doors to the first prisoner, William Strahan, in April 1859 and formally received the first tranche of invalid prisoners in March 1860. The prison closed in 1889 due to a decline in the number of invalid prisoners. Construction. In 1852 an Act of Parliament was passed to allow the London Necropolis and Mausoleum Company to purchase 2,200 acres of land to the west of Woking from the Earl of Onslow. This was to be the site of a large new cemetery that was expected to hold over 28 million bodies. The site was opened in 1854. By 1857 the company was reporting significant losses and attempting to economise. They had decided to reduce the number of staff, and put extra efforts into securing expensive sales from high-profile burials. At its annual general meeting in February 1858, the company reported that money was due from the government for land already"}, {"text": "sold to them, but which had not been paid for yet. Joshua Jebb, the Surveyor-General of Convict Prisons, earmarked this land as a suitable site for his newly conceived Invalid Convict Prison. On 28 April 1859 the one wing of the prison was considered complete enough to house prisoners, at which point 94 were transferred from the temporary invalid prison at Lewes. Work continued with the building of the prison whilst the inmates were in situ. Reports state that throughout the construction, as many as 200 men were working on the building at any given time, and post April 1994 of those were convicts. On 26 October 1861, The Hon. Spencer Walpole laid the foundation stone for the prison chapel, in the company of Jebb and various officials from Mr Myers' company who were tasked with the construction of the whole. History. By 1852 the government was already in discussion about whether the use of transportation as punishment was a viable option for criminals in future. Joshua Jebb's 1852 report on \u2018Discipline & Management of convict prisons and disposal\u2019 went into detail about the comparative costs of transportation against maintaining prison accommodation in England. The existing process for prisoners with"}, {"text": "long sentences was: 1. 12 months of separate (solitary) confinement. 2. Labour on public works. 3. Ticket of leave in a colony followed by a pardon, conditional or otherwise dependent on crime, character, and behaviour throughout the sentence. With the end of transportation in sight, the process for inmates undertaking public works overseas, and those invalided before or during their sentence, needed a significant review. A new idea formed, that after the period of separation, prisoners would be sent to larger district prisons to carry out the remainder of their sentence engaged in works for the good of the country. These prisons, it was suggested, should be built using public funds and \u201cBetween 1842 and 1877, 90 prisons were built or added to\u201d. During the later years of transportation, prison hulks such as the \"Defence\" and the \"Stirling Castle\" were utilised to confine inmates considered \u201cinvalid\u201d or too weak to undertake any public works. On 14 July 1857 the \"Defence\" spontaneously caught fire and had to be scuttled to prevent further damage. The 150 prisoners on board were transferred to Millbank, and then to a temporary holding facility at Lewes Prison. Throughout this time, Joshua Jebb conceived a plan to"}, {"text": "hold all inmates of an invalid type in a single prison unit, to allow for better care and concentrate all costs in one area. The formal opening of the prison was in 1860 which started the transfer of prisoners to the newly constructed Woking from Lewes. The Governor, John Sandham Warren, from the \"Defence\" & Lewes Temporary Invalid Prison, moved with the prisoners to Woking and oversaw Woking Prison as governor until 1865. From 1862, the healthy inmates of Woking were engaged in the building of Broadmoor Criminal Asylum. Description. The prison covered 63 acres and was documented, during construction, as expecting a wall 18 feet high. It held, on average, 650 inmates at any one time and contained both a hospital ward and an insane inmate ward. Later developments. In 1889 the prison was closed down and all remaining inmates were transferred to Dartmoor, Broadmoor and other surrounding prisons. In the 1890s the plot was taken over by the military and renamed Inkerman Barracks. Over the succeeding decades, various regiments were hosted at the barracks, including military police and a war hospital. In the 1970s the site was purchased by Woking Borough Council who began demolition to make way"}, {"text": "for a new residential area. The street names, such as Raglan Road and Inkerman Way, reflect its military history. Notable inmates. The prison was home to many notable inmates during its tenure, including:"}, {"text": "Ziaur Rahman Khan (11 September 1945 \u2013 24 April 2021) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician, lawyer and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Dhaka-13 constituency. Early life. Khan was born in Old Dhaka of Dhaka district. His father Ataur Rahman Khan was the Chief Minister of East Pakistan in 1956 and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh in 1984. He studied at St Edmund's School at Shillong and then at Faujdarhat Cadet College Career. Barrister Ziaur Rahman Khan was a senior lawyer in the Bangladesh Supreme Court. He was elected to parliament from at that time Dhaka-13 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1991, 15 February 1996, 12 June 1996 and 2001. Ziaur Rahman Khan was defeated from Dhaka-20 constituency as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the ninth parliamentary elections of 2008. He did not contest in the general elections of 2018."}, {"text": "St. Mary the Virgin is a parish church in the united benefice of Chiddingstone, Penshurst, Chiddingstone Causeway and Fordcombe in the episcopal Diocese of Rochester. It is a Grade II* listed building with Historic England."}, {"text": "Robert Villase\u00f1or (born 24 July 1944) is a Mexican field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2019 is an act of the Scottish Parliament. The act made provisions for the inclusion of sexual orientation and transgender status in the Census. Provisions. The provisions of the Act include:"}, {"text": "Jorge Bada (born 17 August 1944) is a Mexican field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "La Ribera, also spelled \"La Rivera\", just \"Ribera\" or \"Rivera\", is a district of the Bel\u00e9n canton, in the Heredia province of Costa Rica. Geography. La Ribera has an area of km2 and an elevation of metres. Demographics. For the 2011 census, La Ribera had a population of inhabitants. Transportation. Road transportation. The district is covered by the following road routes: Rail transportation. The Interurbano Line operated by Incofer goes through this district."}, {"text": "Sir Arthur Smout (18 November 1888 \u2013 21 February 1961) was first Director-General of Small Arms Production for the British Armed Forces during World War II and later became Director-General of Ammunition Production at the Ministry of Supply. Before the war Smout was managing director of Imperial Chemical Industries metals group and later served on the company's board of directors until 1953. Early life. Arthur John Griffiths Smout was born in Birmingham, England on 18 November 1888, the eldest of three brothers. He was educated at King Edward's School in Birmingham, and Birmingham Municipal Technical School. Smout started his career in 1905 as a student apprentice at Elliott\u2019s Metal Co in Birmingham, while also studying part-time at Birmingham University and gaining the full technological certificate of the City and Guilds of London Institute in 1909. He worked in various analytical chemistry and metallurgy positions at Elliot\u2019s and by 1920 he had become works manager of the various Elliot\u2019s factories. Business career. From 1924 to 1934 Smout was production director of Elliott\u2019s Metal Co, which became part of Imperial Chemical Industries in 1928. He was appointed joint managing director of Imperial Chemical Industries metals group and then from 1936, chairman of"}, {"text": "I.C.I. Metals, Ltd which had factories in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Leeds, Manchester and Swansea. In 1944 he was appointed to the ICI main board and remained as a Director until 1953. During his time with the company Smout was responsible for their ammunition and metal production. After retiring from Imperial Chemical Industries in 1953 Smout was appointed chairman of Murex Ltd., and Murex Welding Processes, Ltd. Military service. During World War I Smout\u2019s application to join active service was refused and he was transferred to the army reserve, as his work with Elliot\u2019s was regarded as war work. According to his brother, Arthur invented a metallic amalgam which was used in shells which shot down the first Zeppelin over London. Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Smout hosted a visit by King George VI to the ammunition production at the Imperial Chemical Industries site in Witton on 26 October 1939. Smout was appointed first Director-General of Small Arms Production for the British Armed Forces and then (in 1944) Director-General of Ammunition Production at the Ministry of Supply. He received his knighthood for his war time service in 1946 from King George VI. Post-War career. In 1948, Smout bought the"}, {"text": "330 acre Sherriffs Lench Farm in Worcestershire and farmed it (initially with his son Michael as manager) until his death in hospital in Birmingham on 21 February 1961, aged 72. His farm diaries and memoranda books for the period 1948 to 1961 are held in the Worcester county archives. Personal life. Smout was married to Annie Hilda Follows and they had five sons. His youngest son, Christopher Smout, is a historian, and the current incumbent of the post of Historiographer Royal. Another son, His Honour David Smout, QC, was an Official Referee. Arthur gave much of his time to the advancement of science and to public service, particularly in his native city of Birmingham, where he was President of the Birmingham branch of the British Chamber of Commerce, a Life Governor and member of the Council of Birmingham University and a Justice of the Peace serving as a City Magistrate at 500 sittings from 1942 to 1961. He was also president of the Institute of Metals, a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, a fellow of the Institution of Metallurgists, and vice-president of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of"}, {"text": "Wales in 1954, in recognition of the work he had done for industry in the Swansea area and his contribution to technological education. Coat of arms. After his knighthood Arthur was awarded a coat of arms from the College of Arms. The Latin motto, \"Non Sibi Sed Toti\", means \"Not For Self But For All\". The five stars represent Arthur's five sons and the two pears represent Arthur and his wife."}, {"text": "Qabbani is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Lucia Lucas (born July 3, 1980) is an American transgender baritone. On March 1, 2018, it was announced that she would become the first transgender person to perform a principal role on an American operatic stage. Biography. Lucas grew up in Sacramento, California. She studied French horn and voice at California State University, Sacramento and then did graduate work at the Chicago College of Performing Arts. She moved to Germany in 2009. She began her transition in November 2013. She began to take estrogen and antiandrogens in July 2014, and underwent facial feminization surgery in September. In 2016, she had gender reassignment surgery. On May 3, 2019, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lucas starred in Mozart's \"Don Giovanni\" with the Tulsa Opera. The performance is the subject of the 2020 feature documentary \"The Sound of Identity\", directed by James Kicklighter. Subsequently, Lucas became the first transgender baritone to appear with the English National Opera in London on 5 October 2019, playing Public Opinion in \"Orpheus in the Underworld\" at the London Coliseum. Lucas played Lili Elbe in the world premiere of Tobias Picker\u2019s new opera, \"Lili Elbe\" on October 22, 2023. Personal life. Lucia Lucas married contralto Ariana Lucas in 2009."}, {"text": "KURT (93.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve the community of Prineville, Oregon. The station is owned by David Harms and Brent Hample, through licensee H&H Broadcasting, LLC, and broadcasts H&H's Christian worship format known as \"Worship 24/7\". The station was assigned the KURT call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on December 10, 2015."}, {"text": "The rolling stock on Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and Light Rail Transit (LRT) includes several models of electric multiple units and people mover systems respectively. They are primarily operated by SBS Transit and SMRT Trains. Work trains. SMRT Trains was known to use the following vehicles for maintenance of way as of 2015: In addition, SBS Transit has used a two-car MFV supplied by a joint venture between Plasser and Theurer and Speno and a railgrinder from Harsco and the Land Transport Authority is known to have procured multi-function vehicles and railgrinders from MERMEC of Italy and Harsco respectively for the Downtown Line and Thomson\u2013East Coast Line, general maintenance vehicles for the Downtown Line from Gemac Engineering Machinery, as well as Bo-Bo battery-electric locomotives from CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive. Engineering trains are also known to be interchangeable across different lines as shown with photos of a transfer of a multi-function vehicle between Bishan Depot and Kim Chuan Depot. Contractors such as Gammon Construction are also known to have brought in their own work trains such as tampers for trackwork projects; SMRT used up to 14 road-rail vehicles provided by Gammon during the sleeper replacement from 2013 to 2016."}, {"text": "Puranmal (died 19 January 1534) was a sixteenth-century Rajput ruler of Amber. Life. Puranmal ascended to the throne after his father's death, Prithviraj Singh I, in 1527. His succession was likely based on the fact that his mother, a daughter of Rao Lunkaran of Bikaner, was Prithviraj's favourite wife. However, his ascension was controversial and led to conflicts within the Kachwahas. This internal strife allowed neighbouring rulers to take advantage of the situation. It was during these circumstances that Mughal emperor Humayun is said to have provided support to Puranmal. Later, some sources state that Puranmal took a submission policy regarding the Mughals and fought alongside them, thus initiating the long relationship between Amber and the Mughal empire. According to the \"Akbarnama\", Puranmal died in the Battle of Mandrail in 1534, while fighting under Humayun's brother Hindal Mirza against Tatar Khan. However, other sources disagree with this, instead stating that it was Hindal he was battling against when he was killed. This is said to have resulted from the Mughal prince making incursions into the territory of Puranmal's kinsman, Raimal, for whom the Raja died fighting in the Battle of Anaseri. Yet another version states that Puranmal was overthrown by"}, {"text": "his brother, Bhim Singh, who subsequently seized the throne. Regardless, it was Bhim Singh who succeeded Puranmal, rather than the latter's sons. His descendants later formed the Puranmalot sub-clan, one of the \"twelve chambers\" of the House of Kachwaha."}, {"text": "Peter Nichols (15 February 1928 \u2013 11 January 1989) was an English newspaper journalist and author on history, politics and society. He was based in Rome, from where he reported, between 1957 and his death. Biography. Peter Nicols was born in England at Portsmouth, which he would later describe (to a southern Italian audience) as \"a sort of British Taranto\" (\"...un tipo di Taranto britannica\"). He was the only son of Walter Ernest Nichols (1898\u20131974) by his marriage to Beatrice Alice Jutsum.(1898\u20131980). He studied at the University of Oxford from where he emerged with a degree in History. A career in journalism followed. In 1953 he joined The Times of London, at that time under the editorship of William Haley, and accepted a posting as a foreign correspondent, reporting from Berlin and Bonn till 1957. That year his transfer to Rome marked the start of more than three decades during which he provided newspaper editors in London with lucid and scholarly analyses and reports on Italian customs and politics. One of his best journalistic contacts was the enduring - and according to at least one fellow journalist rather sinister - prime minister Giulio Andreotti. Nichols also established and sustained excellent"}, {"text": "contacts at the Vatican. He produced a number of books: they were written in English but made available also in Italian language versions. \"Italia Italia\" was translated into more languages, and in 1976 was reported to have received a \"book of the year\" accolade. \"The Pope's divisions: The Roman Catholic Church today\", published in 1981, takes its title from a 1935 quotation attributed to Josef Stalin, who was scoffing at the absence of \"real world military power\" available to Pius XI. Peter Nichols spent his final months in enforced retirement due to ill health. He died of a brain haemorrhage at his home in Bracciano (Rome) a few weeks short of what would have been his sixty-first birthday. Personal. Peter Nichols married, firstly, Marie Pamela Foulkes (1928-2017) at Portsmouth in 1950, which was followed by the births of their four children between 1951 and 1957 His second marriage, in 1974, was to the film star Paola Rosi, and was followed, some nine years later, by the birth of his third son. He was so captivated by his young wife's beauty that he kept a greatly enlarged nude photograph of her on the wall of the living room in their Rome"}, {"text": "apartment, somewhat to the discomfort of (certain of) their visitors. Appreciation. In 1985, at the thirty-eighth Borgighera International Salon of Humour (\"Salone Internazionale dell'Umorismo di Bordighera\"), and despite being a non-Italian, Nichols was the recipient of that year's \"Golden Palm\" (\"Palma d'Oro\") award in recognition of the \"subtle irony\" which was a constant strand in his prose. Paolo Filo della Torre, in an affectionate obituary, would recall that \"the admiration for Nichols was such that his ironical observations on the behaviour of the Italians, however cutting, and especially of the Italian political class, were always forgiven. His pen was \"never\" dipped in poison, and he was able to get his jokes across without rancour, as though writing about a real friend\". In 1987, he was honoured with the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (dubbed a \"Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana\"). Back in England the Queen conferred on him the Order of the British Empire. In 1999 Paola Rosi/Nichols marked the tenth anniversary of her late husband's death by announcing to the press that the (then) Australian newspaper proprietor Rupert Murdoch had dedicated a room to Peter Nichols in his private museum, devoted to \"the most significant"}, {"text": "personalities of the twentieth century\"."}, {"text": "Brett David Wade (born June 24, 1993) is a former professional Canadian football defensive lineman. He played U Sports football for the Calgary Dinos and played in the CJFL for the Regina Thunder. Professional career. Wade was drafted by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the second round, 15th overall, in the 2018 CFL Draft and signed with the team on May 20, 2018. He played in his first professional game on August 10, 2018 against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He recorded both his first defensive tackle and first quarterback sack against the BC Lions on September 29, 2018. He finished the 2018 season with one tackle and one sack in five games played. Wade re-signed with the Tiger-Cats on January 22, 2021. He retired from football on June 29, 2021."}, {"text": "Peer Lisdorf (born 31 March 1967) is a former Danish association footballer and coach who played as a left midfielder, right midfielder, and a centre-forward. He played professionally for first-tier football team Br\u00f8ndby IF and participated in both the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Champions League. Having played for Br\u00f8ndby IF, he later became the assistant manager of the team in 2012, and also the coach for the Br\u00f8ndby IF women's team and other teams in the Elitedivisionen, Denmark's highest-league football league for women. His last position in the sporting industry was as the head coach of HB K\u00f8ge's women's team; after this, Lisdorf claimed that he would retire. Club career. Lisdorf was born in Germany and started his footballing career in Denmark's Br\u00f8ndby IF's youth team. From his position as a midfielder, Peer moved onto the professional team, Br\u00f8ndby IF, in the highest Danish league. Peer was a young talent, scoring the first goal in his debut, and was awarded a sponsorship car before he could even legally drive. For each debut Peer made throughout his career, the team he was in either won or drew. In addition, every game played by Lisdorf in the UEFA Champions League, in"}, {"text": "which he was mostly in the starting eleven, resulted in a win or a draw. Management career. After retiring from playing association football in 2001, Peer trained to become a coach and was granted a UEFA Pro Licence. He became the assistant manager of Br\u00f8ndby IF under the head coach, Aurelijus Skarbalius, until 2013. Peer Lisdorf also became head coach of the Br\u00f8ndby IF's women's team, in Denmark's highest-league football division, Elitedivisionen. Under Lisdorf's management, the team enjoyed huge success, winning the league four times. Lisdorf later moved on to manage Ballerup-Skovlunde Fodbold, and after this, became the coach for HB K\u00f8ge's women's team (HB K\u00f8ge Kvindeelite). Even though it was HB K\u00f8ge Kvindeelite's first time in the Elitedivisionen, Lisdorf led them to win the title (the first in their entire history), and even led them to the Champions League qualification. After winning the Danish championship, the team ran off the pitch, picked up Lisdorf and carried him onto the pitch, bringing him multiple beers and chanting his name. Outside football. Peer has two younger brothers, Bj\u00f8rn and Jens, who are twins. His younger brother, Bj\u00f8rn, also played professional football for some time, and is now a live streamer and"}, {"text": "an associate of Ice Poseidon. Jens has been known to occasionally appear on Bj\u00f8rn's livestreams."}, {"text": "KDJA (94.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve the community of Terrebonne, Oregon. The station is owned by TheDove Media Inc. History. After Sunriver Broadcasting Corporation won the station at auction in 2012 with a high bid of $53,000, KCOE initially received Program Test Authority to operate on 106.5 MHz on August 31, 2015, but was then ordered by the Federal Communications Commission to immediately halt its broadcasts because the new station interfered with air-to-ground aviation communications. In the wake of the order from the FCC, Sunriver filed to change KCOE's frequency to 94.9 MHz and began operating on that frequency on October 27, 2015. It simulcast the sports radio programming of KCOE 940. On March 24, 2017, Sunriver switched the call letters of the AM and FM stations, with the FM becoming KICE. It then proceeded to shut down the 940 AM facility, which broadcast from a leased tower site that had been sold, with the AM looping a message to invite listeners to retune to 94.9 FM. In August 2020, KICE was sold to The Dove Media, and in October 2020, KICE switched from sports to a simulcast of religious-formatted KDOV 91.7 FM Medford. The sale"}, {"text": "was consummated on October 26, 2020, at a price of $315,000. On June 11, 2022, the station changed call letters to KDJA."}, {"text": "Rachid Sabbagh () is an independent Tunisian politician who joined the Ali Laarayedh cabinet in 2013 as defense minister."}, {"text": "Camilo Echeverri Correa (born March 16, 1994), known mononymously as Camilo, is a Colombian singer, musician and songwriter. Born in Medell\u00edn, Antioquia, his accolades include six Latin Grammy Awards and three Grammy Award nominations. He is known for his singles \"Vida de Rico\", \"Una Vida Pasada\" with Carin Leon, \"Tutu\" alongside Pedro Cap\u00f3 and Shakira, and collaborations like \"Tattoo Remix\" with Rauw Alejandro, \"CONTIGO VOY A MUERTE\" with Karol G and \"Desconocidos\" with Mau y Ricky and Manuel Turizo. His music is generally categorized as Latin pop with a mix of urbano music and is noted for his romantic lyrics and treble voice. He debuted in 2008, after winning the talent show \"\" in 2007. He is also known for writing and producing hits for other artists including Becky G and Natti Natasha's \"Sin Pijama\" and Anitta's \"Veneno\". Life and career. 1994\u20132018 Early life and career beginnings. Camilo Echeverry was born in Medell\u00edn, Antioquia in 1994. His family home did not have a radio, but housed a collection of records by artists such as The Beatles, Shakira, Charly Garcia, Facundo Cabral, Mercedes Sosa, and Pink Floyd. He recalled, \"That was my first seed, since I was little, my dream was"}, {"text": "to inherit that.\" He formed a musical duo with his sister, Manuela, and auditioned for \"XS Factor\" with her, but the pair did not reach the final round of the competition. After winning the show as a solo artist the following year in 2007, Camilo began his career with the release of the single, \"Reg\u00e1lame Tu Coraz\u00f3n\". In 2008, Camilo made appearances on Colombian telenovelas \"Super P\u00e1\" and \"En los tacones de Eva\", as well as the children's program \"Bichos\". He released the 2010 mixtape \"Tr\u00e1fico de Sentimientos\" and shortly after its release, Camilo decided to take a break from releasing his own music. In 2015, he moved to Miami, Florida, where he then furthered his career by writing songs for other artists, including \"Sin Pijama\" by Becky G and Natti Natasha, \"Veneno\" by Anitta, and \"Ya No Tiene Novio\" by Sebastian Yatra with Mau y Ricky. \"Ya No Tiene Novio\", released in August 2018, garnered over 517 million views on Youtube by March of the next year. 2018\u2013present: Success as a solo artist. Upon re-launching his solo career, Camilo made changes to his image. He eschewed his previously clean-cut style in favor of a more bohemian look, complete with"}, {"text": "a handlebar moustache. In 2018, he released the song \"Desconocidos\" with Manuel Turizo and Mau & Ricky. The ukulele-tinged reggaeton song peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Airplay chart. Following the success of \"Desconocidos\", Camilo revealed in February 2019 that he had signed with Sony Music Latin. On 22 February 2019, Camilo performed at the Venezuela Live Aid concert in C\u00facuta, Colombia, a town located on the border with Venezuela. He reflected on the experience by explaining \"It was a concert that moved me a lot. It was not easy, but so many people are suffering. I felt happy to be a part of raising global awareness to show what is happening in Venezuela is a tremendous injustice.\" He released the video and single for \"No Te Vayas\" as his mainstream debut on 28 March 2019, and by August of that year, the video had reached more than 59 million views on Youtube. His 2019 song \"La Boca\" with Mau & Ricky was certified triple-platinum. After the release of the song, he made his US television debut, performing \"La Boca\" and \"No Te Vayas\" at the 2019 Premios Juventud in Miami. He released the song \"Tutu\" in"}, {"text": "collaboration with Puerto Rican singer Pedro Cap\u00f3, which reached the number two position on the Latin Pop Airplay chart. Describing the lyrical content of the song, Camilo explained, \u201cThis song is who I am, what I feel every time I get on a stage or when I see my girlfriend.\u201d Camilo released his first studio album \"Por Primera Vez\" on 17 April 2020, which debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart and number five on the Top Latin Albums chart. The album contains the singles \"Tutu\" and \"Favorito\" alongside breakout songs like \"La Mitad\" with Christian Nodal and \"El Mismo Aire\" which was later re-released with Pablo Albor\u00e1n. At the 21st Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Camilo received six nominations, winning the award for Best Pop Song for \"Tutu\". In March 2021, he released his album \"Mis Manos\" which included some collaborations with artists such as Evaluna Montaner, Mau y Ricky, El Alfa, and Los Dos Carnales. His album was a candidate for Album Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Album at the Latin Grammy Awards. In September 2022 Camilo released \"De Adentro Pa Afuera\" an album which featured collaborations with Myke Towers, Alejandro Sanz, and"}, {"text": "others, followed in May 2024 by \"cuatro\", a contemporary tropical album heavily influenced by genres Camilo heard while growing up including Pambiche, Cumbia, and Salsa music. Since re-launching his solo career, Camilo has collaborated with global pop artists like Shawn Mendes in \"KESI Remix\", Selena Gomez in \"999\", Camila Cabello in \"Ambulancia\", and Diljit Dosanjh in \"Palpita\". Musical style. Camilo's music is generally characterized as Latin pop and reggaeton. Suzette Fernandez of \"Billboard\" labeled his music as \"romantic pop songs fused with urban beats\". His vocals have been described as \"distinctly delicate\". He cites Uruguayan singer Jorge Drexler as a major influence on his work. Personal life. In February 2020, he married Evaluna Montaner, a singer. She is the daughter of the Argentine-Venezuelan singer and songwriter Ricardo Montaner and sister of the Venezuelan duo Mau y Ricky, after five years of dating. They have two daughters."}, {"text": "Pata de mulo cheese is a type of cheese made from ewe's milk in the Tierra de Campos \"comarca\" of Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Spain. It originated as the aged version of the Villal\u00f3n cheese, a fresh cheese made in Villal\u00f3n de Campos, Valladolid. For its elongated shape it became known as \"pata de mulo\", literally \"mule's leg\". This shape was achieved by moulding the cheese by hand in a cheesecloth. Several pata de mulo cheeses made by Los Payuelos have been awarded prizes at the World Cheese Awards, including Super Gold (\"curado\", 2013) and Silver (\"semicurado\", 2017). It is a cheese of intense pressing and enzymatic coagulation. It is made with pasteurized sheep's milk, it is later submerged in brine and left to mature for 3 to 6 months. Its can be described as compact paste and its interior blind or without eyes, practically friable or laminar. It is bone white in color that can become ivory white in the most cured. The bark is yellow in color with a hint of ochre. Its shape is tubular and on the palate it is reminiscent of cured sheep cheese, although it has a more salty and oily point. It can be"}, {"text": "paired with wines from the Ribera del Duero and also with dry whites."}, {"text": "The First Michigan Territorial Council was a meeting of the legislative body governing Michigan Territory, known formally as the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan. The council met in Detroit in two regular sessions between June 7, 1824, and April 21, 1825, during the term of Lewis Cass as territorial governor. Background. Since its creation from part of Indiana Territory in 1805, the government of Michigan Territory had consisted of a governor, a secretary, and three judges; the governor and judges together formed the legislative branch of government. This was the first stage of territorial government outlined in the Northwest Ordinance. An election called by Governor Cass in 1818 to decide whether to move to the second stage of government\u2014an elected legislature\u2014failed largely due to concerns over the cost that would be borne by the territory. Public discontent with the first stage government continued to mount, until in 1822 hundreds of residents petitioned Congress for reform. An act of Congress on March 3, 1823, created a four-year term for the judges and transferred the powers of the territory to the governor and a legislative council of nine people serving terms of two years. Members of the council were to"}, {"text": "be appointed by the president of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate, from a slate of 18 people chosen in a general election. Leadership and organization. Abraham Edwards was president of the council; John P. Sheldon, Edmund A. Brush, and George A. O'Keefe clerks; and Morris Jackson sergeant-at-arms. Members. Per the act of March 3, 1823, the nine members of the council were appointed by President James Monroe, chosen from the top 18 vote-earners in a general election. In addition to the appointed members listed below, the slate of names sent to the president included Louis Baufet, William Brown, Harry Conant, Laurent Durocher, Francois Navarre, Ebenezer Reed, Solomon Sibley, and Benjamin F. Stickney."}, {"text": "Cormick may refer to:"}, {"text": "\"Words of Love\" is a 1957 song written by Buddy Holly. Words of Love may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Mukuria 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 Mukuria of Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar."}, {"text": "Havoc Motorcycles is a Canadian company that manufactures heavyweight street motorcycles. It is notable as the only motorcycle manufacturer registered with Transport Canada in Atlantic Canada, and one of only four Canadian-owned and operated motorcycle manufacturers. The others are BRP-Bombardier Recreational Products (Quebec), Lito Motorcycles (Quebec), and Thug Cycles (Alberta). History. Havoc Motorcycles was founded in Prince Edward Island in 2014. The company's launch was announced in September 2015 with the launch of its first prototype model, the \"Iron Flight: Mike Tyson Special Edition\" a themed motorcycle featuring graphics licensed from Mike Tyson, entertainer and former heavyweight boxing champion. In 2016, Havoc Motorcycles formed a partnership with the Wild West Motor Co., an established United States manufacturer of hand-built motorcycles in operation since 1987, for technology transfer and licensing of high-horsepower street motorcycle designs. The Wild West Gunfire, a dragster-inspired motorcycle, formed the basis for two of Havoc Motorcycles' next models, and companies cooperated in the launch of the Havoc 124SS that was unveiled in February 2017. In 2019 the company introduced the Havoc 127 VooDoo, a cruiser with 1960s retro styling."}, {"text": "Priscilla MacKenzie \"Kenzie\" Bok (born June 30, 1989) is the administrator of the Boston Housing Authority. She previously served as a member of the Boston City Council, representing District 8, which includes Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway\u2013Kenmore, Mission Hill, and the West End. She is also a lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University, where she teaches intellectual history and history of philosophy. Bok was elected to the City Council in the November 2019 election. In 2023, Mayor Michelle Wu appointed Bok to become the head of the Boston Housing Authority. Early life. Bok was born in Boston on June 30, 1989 and grew up in the Bay Village neighborhood. Before her admission to Harvard in 2007, she had been educated at the John Winthrop School in Boston, the Park School, and Milton Academy (2007). Bok's family had been involved in the Ward 5 Democratic Committee going back two generations. Bok is the granddaughter of lawyer and civic activist John F. Bok and his wife, energy executive and lawyer Joan Toland Bok. She is the great-granddaughter of astronomers Bart Bok and Priscilla Fairfield Bok. Academic career. Bok served as student president of the Kennedy Institute of Politics while she was"}, {"text": "a Harvard undergraduate, where in 2011 she earned her B.A. summa cum laude in intellectual history. In 2010, she was awarded a Marshall Scholarship, then continued studies at the University of Cambridge (St John's College), where she earned her M.Phil. in Political Thought & Intellectual History in 2012 and then her Ph.D. in History in 2016. While at Cambridge, she was awarded for her academic work the St John's Benefactors Scholarship, the Quentin Skinner Prize, the Sara Norton Prize, and the Thirwall Medal and Prince Consort Prize. Bok is an intellectual historian who specializes in the young John Rawls and his path to writing A Theory of Justice. As a Harvard University lecturer on social policy and intellectual history, she also teaches a course on \"Justice in Housing.\" She has published peer-reviewed articles on the philosopher John Rawls in \"Modern Intellectual History\" and the \"Journal of the History of Ideas\". Political and government career. Bok interned for the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign at its Chicago headquarters, then, following the election, was an intern in 2010 at the White House. She later served as budget director for At-Large Boston City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George and as senior advisor for policy"}, {"text": "and planning at the Boston Housing Authority (BHA). Bok has long been an advocate in support of affordable housing. As a policy advisor at the BHA, (the city agency focused on the management, preservation, and creation of affordable housing), she led the successful effort to make an immensely impactful alteration to the manner in which the agency valued Section 8 housing vouchers. This moved the agency away from valuing the vouchers at a flat rate for every neighborhood in the Boston metropolitan area without factoring in market prices of different areas to varying those rates. BHA data demonstrated in late 2022 that this change allowed more voucher recipients to move into more expensive neighborhoods, which are considered \"high-opportunity\" areas. This is expected to help integrate the city in regards to race and income. Boston City Council. Bok declared her candidacy for the Boston City Council in April 2019 following the decision of Josh Zakim to not seek a third term as councillor for District 8. PBS Boston affiliate WGBH described Bok as an \"affordable housing expert and community leader\" and as \"senior adviser for policy and planning at the Boston Housing Authority and the former chair of Boston's Ward 5"}, {"text": "Democratic Committee.\" At Harvard, where she is both a summa cum laude graduate and a lecturer, she teaches a course in \"Justice and Housing\" and serves on the board member at the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance. Before the preliminary election, Bok was endorsed by \"The Boston Globe\", U.S. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, and numerous local organizations and politicians. In the September 2019 preliminary election, Bok received the largest percentage of votes for district 8 (50%), followed by Jennifer Nassour, former head of the Massachusetts Republican Party. In the November 2019 general election, Bok won the seat with 70% of the vote, and took office on January 6, 2020. Bok led the council's budget processes during part of her tenure on the Boston City Council. She was also the leading figure in addressing the council's input in the city's distribution of funding from the American Rescue Plan Act. In 2023, Emma Platoff of \"The Boston Globe\" described Bok as, \"one of the council's foremost policy wonks and procedural experts \u2013 and often one of [Mayor] Wu's best council allies.\" Bok is believed to have attempted to secure support to be elected by her fellow councilors as the council's president for the session"}, {"text": "of the council that began in 2022. However, she was unsuccessful and Ed Flynn was instead elected. Administrator of the Boston Housing Authority. In April 2023, Mayor Michelle Wu appointed Bok to serve as administrator of the Boston Housing Authority. She left the City Council to serve. On April 5, 2023, Bok offered her letter of resignation to the Boston City Council effective April 28. Bok began her transition into the office in May 2023 with plans to take office sometime in the summer of 2023 after her predecessor, Kate Bennett, departed. She is among the youngest individuals to ever head the agency. Personal life. Bok is a longtime member and vestry member at Trinity Church in Boston's Copley Square."}, {"text": "Worlds may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 2018\u20132020 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Continental Cup were a beach volleyball double-gender event. NORCEA is the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation. The winners of the event qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Pleasance Pendred (15 July 1864 \u2013 29 September 1948) was a British campaigner for women's rights, an activist and suffragette who during her imprisonment in Holloway Prison went on hunger strike as a consequence of which she was force-fed. Early life. She was born on 15 July 1864 as Kate Pleasance Jackson in Lutterworth in Leicestershire, the daughter of Thomas Jackson, a grocer, and Elizabeth \"n\u00e9e\" Pendred; her late maternal aunt was called Pleasance Pendred (1843\u20131858). In 1881 aged 16 Kate Jackson was a Pupil Teacher at Osney House School in Oxford. By 1891 she and her now widowed father were boarders at 46 Langdon Park Road in Hornsey; by this time she was a School Board Teacher. Ten years later Kate Pleasance Jackson was still living at Langdon Park Road, and here she was to stay until at least 1927. Career and initial involvement in women's suffrage. For 25 years she worked as a teacher in London but was an active member of the Hornsey branch of the Women's Social and Political Union which is probably why she adopted the name 'Pleasance Pendred' as her employers were not likely to look favourably on her activities on behalf of women's"}, {"text": "suffrage. From 1909 until 1910 as 'Miss Jackson' she was the Literature Secretary for the Hornsey branch of the WSPU (renamed 'North Islington' in summer 1910) but she resigned from this office as stated in the 30 September 1910 issue of \"The Suffragette\". However, she continued to work as a collector of money and object donations for the Hornsey branch of the WSPU until October 1912. Militant action, trial and imprisonment. She resigned her teaching post just before she began her militant action for the WSPU on 28 January 1913 when she and three other women smashed the windows of various shops including an antiquities shop at 167 Victoria Street and of government offices in Westminster. During her trial in February 1913 she gave the name Pleasance Pendred and under that name she was sentenced to four months hard labour in Holloway Prison. As she was sentenced Pendred used the dock to complain publicly concerning the treatment received by herself and the other suffragettes arrested with her at Rochester Row Police Station. She stated that the Home Secretary Reginald McKenna had lied when he said that the four arrested women slept on camp beds in their cells and that they"}, {"text": "were supervised by women warders. She claimed that in fact her cell had a plank bed, the sanitary arrangements were disgusting and that five times during the night a male warder had come into her cell. The jury requested that the Chairman of the Sessions investigate these claims. In Holloway Pendred went on hunger strike for about two months during which period she was forcibly-fed, suffering illness as a result. The 4 April 1913 issue of \"The Suffragette\" recorded: \"On her partial recovery, Miss Pendred who is still confined to her bed, continued the hunger strike, and is now being fed by cup.\" On her release from prison Pendred received a hunger strike medal from the WSPU for her outstanding bravery. On her early release from prison she received a welcome picnic from the Hornsey branch of the WSPU, as recorded in \"The Suffragette\" on 11 July 1913. Release, death and legacy. After her release from prison in 1913 she held a few talks for the North Islington (formerly Hornsey) WSPU branch and is last recorded as a speaker in August 1913. Her article 'Why Women Teachers Break Windows' was published in \"Woman's Press\", with a copy of it being"}, {"text": "republished in the \"Daily Herald\" on 25 February 1913. She died in Lewes in Sussex in 1948 having never married. Her Holloway brooch and Hunger Strike Medal issued by the WSPU and named to her as Pleasance Pendred was auctioned in 2001, selling for \u00a33,600."}, {"text": "Maksim Tujkovi\u0107 was an early 18th-century Serbian monk of the Cetinje monastery who often traveled as an icon painter and woodcarver. He learned his craft and art at the Boka Kotorska School of Dimitrijevi\u0107-Rafailovi\u0107 in Risan. He is best known for his paintings in the monastery of Nikoljac, the Patriarchate of Pe\u0107 and the Sarajevo church, where his pieces of art can be seen alongside famous works by older painters. He was one of the best Serbian icon painters of the first half of the eighteenth century. A contemporary of Rafailo Dimitrijevi\u0107, Maksim Tujkovi\u0107 was born in the village of Tujkovi\u0107a, near Kotor, around the turn of the 18th century (1700), and in time he became known professionally as Maksim Tujkovi\u0107 the \"zograf\". His first known works are two throne icons in the church of Holy Mary (\"Sv. Gospo\u0111a\") at Njegu\u0161i, on the right central icon of Jesus Christ with the apostles, dating from 1720. There it mentions the children of Stani\u0161a Radonji\u0107 -- Vukosav, Jovo, and Marko -- evidently the \"ktitor\" of the project. In that same church, Stani\u0161a Radonji\u0107 is mentioned in an inscription by another contemporary painter Rafailo Dimitrijevi\u0107 from 1756. In the monastery of Nikoljac Tujkovi\u0107"}, {"text": "worked on the completion of the iconostasis in 1723 and this is where his best carving work is located."}, {"text": "Alexei Voronov (born September 29, 1977) is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Career. Voronov began his career with his hometown team Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg who later became Spartak Yekaterinburg and Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg. He played with the team from 1993 to 2003, playing in the Russian Superleague until their relegation to the Vysshaya Liga 2001. He then moved to Sputnik Nizhny Tagil of the Vysshaya Liga in 2003 and stayed for four seasons before returning to Yekaterinburg in 2007 to join Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, a new team founded the previous year to replace the former Dinamo-Energija team that folded in 2006. He then spent a season with Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk before returning to Avtomobilist for the 2009\u201310 KHL season, playing 44 games and scoring six goals and seven assists. Voronov then spent the next two seasons in the Supreme Hockey League for Sputnik Nizhny Tagil and HC Mechel Chelyabinsk as well as in the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship for Beibarys Atyrau. After two seasons of inactivity, Voronov signed with Hungarian team Debreceni HK of the MOL Liga for one season. He then spent a year with HK Dukla Michalovce of the Slovak 1. Liga before moving to the United Arab Emirates to play"}, {"text": "for White Bears Dubai in the Emirates Ice Hockey League in 2016. He spent two seasons with the team, after which he retired for the second time in 2018."}, {"text": "The Treaty of Vossem was signed on 6 June 1673, between Frederick William, Elector Brandenburg and Louis XIV of France; England, then a French ally against the Dutch, was included as a party to the terms but not a signatory. It was ratified by both parties on 20 July. Previously a Dutch ally, Frederick William withdrew from the Franco-Dutch War, in return for subsidies and fortresses on the Upper Rhine captured by the French. He rejoined the war on the side of the Dutch in July 1674. Background. After the 1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, Louis XIV decided acquiring the Spanish Netherlands first required him to defeat the Dutch Republic, previously an ally. Supported by M\u00fcnster and the Electorate of Cologne, he planned to attack across their vulnerable eastern border, using the Duchy of Cleves, a possession of Frederick William, uncle of William of Orange. As French intentions became clear, the Dutch negotiated with Frederick William for the defence of Cleves. He agreed to provide 20,000 men but finalising terms was delayed by his demand for the Dutch-held towns of Rheinberg, Orsoy, Buderich and Wesel. By the time the agreement was signed on 6 May, it was too late for his"}, {"text": "troops to intervene. He also faced a threat from Sweden, with whom he disputed ownership of lands in Pomerania; the French paid them subsidies to remain neutral but promised military support against Brandenburg 'if needed'. The 1672-1678 Franco-Dutch War began when the French declared war on 6 April; they invaded on 4 May and quickly over-ran most of the Republic. Rheinberg, the last Dutch position on the Rhine, surrendered on 9 June and they abandoned Arnhem on 16 June; only the IJssel water Line stopped the French advance. The attack also threatened the Holy Roman Empire, already concerned by French expansion in the Rhineland, especially the seizure of the strategic Duchy of Lorraine in 1670. At the same time, Emperor Leopold was dealing with a French-backed revolt in Hungary and suspected Brandenburg-Prussia of seeking to drag him into war on behalf of their Dutch Calvinist co-religionists. However, by mid June, the Dutch seemed close to collapse and on 23 June, he signed an alliance with Frederick William, followed by another with the Republic on 25th. The treaty tied Frederick William to Imperial strategy and Leopold viewed preventing French gains in the Rhineland as a higher priority than helping the Dutch."}, {"text": "His commander, Raimondo Montecuccoli, was ordered to remain on the defensive and avoid direct conflict, while chaotic logistics made supplying the troops almost impossible. Angered by the lack of action, the Dutch stopped paying Fredrick William subsidies; unable to feed his army and lacking support, he agreed an armistice with France in April 1673. Terms. Terms were negotiated with Louis, who was based at Vossem, Belgium, outside Leuven, signed on 6 June and ratified on 20 July. In return for agreeing 'not to help the king's enemies', the French handed over the forts taken from the Dutch, and agreed an immediate payment of 300,000 livres, with an additional 100,000 per year for the next five years. Handing over the Rhine fortresses was a net gain for France; doing so released their garrisons and the towns could be retaken anytime they wished, while much of the subsidies were never paid. Aftermath. Frederick William was condemned by his former allies, particularly his nephew William, who never wholly trusted him again and excluded him from the Quadruple Alliance of August 1673. Formed to oppose French expansion, this consisted of the Republic, Spain, Emperor Leopold and the Duke of Lorraine. In May 1674, the"}, {"text": "Imperial Diet declared war against France, which theoretically bound all members of the Empire, including Brandenburg-Prussia. Mutual suspicions meant Frederick William did not enter the alliance until July 1674; despite taking most of Pomerania during the Scanian War, he was isolated and forced to return most of his conquests at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1679."}, {"text": "Jean Sothern (December 5, 1893 \u2013 April 14, 1964) was an American actress in silent films, vaudeville, and radio. She had leading roles in silent films and became popular before World War I. Life and career. Sothern was born on December 5, 1893, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sothern starred alongside Theda Bara in the 1915 silent film, \"The Two Orphans\", as one of the title characters. It was followed by her well known portrayal of the character of Myra on the film serial \"The Mysteries of Myra\". In 1930, Sothern auditioned with Columbia Broadcasting to perform with their dramatic radio department. On radio, Sothern was heard regularly on \"Majestic Theater of the Air\" and played Katie on \"Robinson Crusoe, Jr.\" Sothern died from esophageal cancer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on April 14, 1964."}, {"text": "Justin Jamal Jefferson (born June 16, 1999) is an American professional football wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the LSU Tigers, where he won the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship as a junior before being drafted by the Vikings in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft. Jefferson has been named to the Pro Bowl and the All-Pro team in four of his first five seasons and has amassed the most receiving yards through a player's first five seasons in NFL history. In 2022, at 23 years old, he became the youngest player to lead the league in receptions (128) and receiving yards (1,809), earning Offensive Player of the Year honors. Early life. Justin Jamal Jefferson was born on June 16, 1999, to John and Elaine Jefferson. He attended Destrehan High School in Destrehan, Louisiana. A low three-star prospect, ranked by 247Sports as the nation's 308th best wide receiver coming out of high school, he committed to Louisiana State University (LSU) to play college football. College career. Jefferson played at LSU for three years under head coach Ed Orgeron. 2017\u20132018. After appearing in two games and not"}, {"text": "recording a catch in his first year at LSU in 2017, Jefferson was their leading receiver in 2018 with 54 catches for 875 yards and six touchdowns. He scored his first collegiate touchdown on a 65-yard reception from Joe Burrow against Ole Miss on September 29, 2018. He had two games going over the 100-yard mark with 108 in a victory over Georgia and 117 in a victory over Arkansas. 2019. In the Tigers' second game of the 2019 season, Jefferson had nine receptions for 163 yards and three touchdowns in a 45\u201338 victory on the road against Texas. On October 12, against Florida, he had ten receptions for 123 yards and a touchdown in the 42\u201328 victory. In the SEC Championship, against Georgia, he had seven receptions for 115 yards and a touchdown in the 37\u201310 victory. Jefferson and the Tigers qualified for the College Football Playoffs with an undefeated record in the 2019 season. He had a historic performance in the Peach Bowl, catching 14 passes for 227 yards and four touchdowns against the Oklahoma Sooners in the College Football Playoff Semifinals at the Peach Bowl. All four touchdowns came in the first half, setting a College Football"}, {"text": "Playoff game record and tying the record for any bowl game. In the National Championship against Clemson, he had nine receptions for 106 yards in the 42\u201325 victory. In his junior season, Jefferson led the country with 111 receptions. His 18 receiving touchdowns ranked second in the country\u2014behind only teammate Ja'Marr Chase\u2014and his 1,540 receiving yards were ranked third. He had eight games going over the 100-yard mark. On January 15, 2020, Jefferson announced that he would forgo his senior season and enter the NFL draft. Professional career. 2020. Jefferson was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round with the 22nd overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft. The Vikings previously obtained the 22nd selection as part of a blockbuster trade that sent wide receiver Stefon Diggs to the Buffalo Bills, a trade that has been considered by many around the league as one of the \u201ctop win-win deals ever.\u201d Jefferson signed a four-year, $13.12 million contract with the team, with a $7.1 million signing bonus. Jefferson was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list by the team on July 27, 2020, before being cleared and activated a week later. Jefferson made his debut in Week 1 against the Green"}, {"text": "Bay Packers, recording two receptions for 26 yards. He made his first start of the season in a Week 3 game against the Tennessee Titans, where he had his first big breakthrough by finishing with 175 receiving yards and a touchdown on seven receptions, but the Vikings lost 31\u201330. He followed up that performance the next week with four receptions for 103 yards in a 31\u201323 win over the Houston Texans. In doing so, he became just the fifth rookie wide receiver in Vikings history to have back-to-back games with at least 100 yards receiving. During Week 6 against the Atlanta Falcons, Jefferson finished with nine receptions for 166 receiving yards and two touchdowns . In Week 13 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Jefferson recorded nine catches for 121 yards and a touchdown during a 27\u201324 overtime win, in this game he broke the 1,000 receiving yard mark. In Week 15 against the Chicago Bears, Jefferson broke Randy Moss' Vikings rookie receiving record by catching eight passes, putting him at 74 receptions, surpassing the 69 catches Moss had in 1998. By the season's end, Jefferson had set the NFL record for most receiving yards (1,400) by a rookie in NFL history"}, {"text": "after surpassing Anquan Boldin's 1,377 yards in 2003 (although his record would be broken by his former LSU teammate Ja'Marr Chase the following season). He was one of only two rookies named to the 2021 Pro Bowl, alongside defensive end Chase Young of the Washington Football Team. He was named Rookie of the Year by the \"Sporting News\". He was named to the NFL All-Rookie Team. He was ranked 53rd by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2021. 2021. Jefferson's season started strong, putting up over 100 receiving yards against the Seattle Seahawks, Detroit Lions, and Los Angeles Chargers over the first eight games of the season. In Week 11, Jefferson had eight catches for 169 yards and two touchdowns in a 34\u201331 win over the Packers, earning NFC Offensive Player of the Week. In Week 13, Jefferson caught 11 passes for 182 yards and a touchdown in a 29\u201327 loss to the Lions. Jefferson's 464 yards and three touchdowns through four games in the month of November earned him NFC Offensive Player of the Month, the first of his career. During Week 16, Jefferson passed Odell Beckham Jr. for most receiving yards by a player"}, {"text": "in his first two NFL seasons. Jefferson finished the season with 1,616 receiving yards, good for second-most in the NFL in 2021, and just 16 yards short of Randy Moss's single-season franchise record. Jefferson was named to the 2022 Pro Bowl, joining Randy Moss and Sammy White as the only three Vikings wide receivers to make Pro Bowls in each of their first two professional seasons. For the second consecutive year, Jefferson was named a second-team member of the AP All-Pro team, missing a spot on the first-team by a single vote. He was ranked 17th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2022. 2022. Against the Packers in Week 1, Jefferson caught nine passes for 184 yards and two touchdowns in the 23\u20137 win. During Week 4 against the New Orleans Saints at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Jefferson finished with 147 receiving yards and a rushing touchdown as the Vikings won 28\u201325. The following week against Bears, Jefferson caught a career-high 12 catches resulting in 154 yards receiving in the 29\u201322 win. Jefferson's third catch of the game marked 227 career receptions, surpassing Randy Moss for the franchise record of the most receptions in the first"}, {"text": "three years of a career. Against the Buffalo Bills in Week 10, Jefferson caught 10 passes for a career-high 193 yards and a touchdown as the Vikings went on to win 33\u201330 in overtime. One of Jefferson's catches came with two minutes left in the fourth quarter where on 4th down and 18, Jefferson made a one-handed catch for 32 yards, wrestling the ball away from Bills cornerback Cam Lewis on the way to the ground. The catch was widely heralded as one of the greatest of all time, and the play was named the NFL Play of the Year award at the end of the season. His arm sleeves and gloves from the game were also put on display in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He earned NFC Offensive Player of the Week for his game against the Bills. In Week 12, against the New England Patriots, he had nine receptions for 139 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown in the 33\u201326 victory. In the game against the Patriots, Jefferson passed Moss for the most receiving yards in a player's first three seasons. He won NFC Offensive Player of the Month for November. In Week 14 against the"}, {"text": "Lions, Jefferson recorded 11 receptions for 223 yards, setting the Vikings single-game record for receiving yards, in the 34\u201323 road loss. Additionally, in week 15 against the Indianapolis Colts, Jefferson recorded 12 receptions for 123 yards and a touchdown, setting his season total to 1,623 yards, a new career high. Against the Packers in Week 17, he was held to one catch on five targets for 15 yards, the lowest stats in a game of his career. During the same game, Jefferson appeared to inadvertently hit a referee with his helmet out of clear frustration, and received no punishment for the incident. He earned first-team All-Pro honors and a third Pro Bowl nomination for his career. Jefferson finished the 2022 regular season with a league-leading 128 receptions for 1,809 yards and nine total touchdowns (eight receiving, one rushing). He won the Offensive Player of the Year award, as well as being a final candidate for the league MVP award. He was ranked second by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2023. 2023. On April 25, 2023, the Vikings picked up the fifth-year option of Jefferson's rookie contract. Jefferson started the 2023 regular season with nine receptions"}, {"text": "for 150 yards in a 20\u201317 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 1. Four days later, he had 11 receptions for 159 in a 34\u201328 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 2. In Week 3, against the Los Angeles Chargers, he had seven receptions for 149 yards and a touchdown in the 28\u201324 loss. In Week 4, he had two receiving touchdowns against the Carolina Panthers in the 21\u201313 victory. On October 11, 2023, the Vikings placed Jefferson on injured reserve, due to a hamstring injury suffered in Week 5 against the Kansas City Chiefs. The Vikings activated Jefferson off of injured reserve on November 28, 2023. In his return against the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 14, Jefferson caught two passes for 27 yards before leaving with a chest injury in the second quarter. Despite missing seven games due to injury, Jefferson still managed to finish the 2023 season with over 1,000 receiving yards. During the season, he set an NFL record for most receiving yards through a player's first four seasons. He was ranked 18th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2024. 2024. On June 3, 2024, Jefferson signed a"}, {"text": "four-year, $140 million contract extension that includes $110 million guaranteed, keeping him under contract with the Vikings through the 2028 season. The deal made Jefferson the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL at an average of $35 million per year. In Week 2, Jefferson caught a 97-yard touchdown pass and achieved 400 career receptions in a 23\u201317 win over the San Francisco 49ers. He also tied Lance Alworth for the fastest player in NFL history to achieve 6,000 career receiving yards, doing so in 62 games. In Week 11 against the Tennessee Titans, Jefferson passed Torry Holt for the most receiving yards in a player's first five NFL seasons. Jefferson eclipsed 1,000 receiving yards in Week 13 against the Arizona Cardinals, becoming the fourth receiver in NFL history to record 1,000 yards in each of his first five seasons. After a career-long six game touchdown drought, Jefferson had his first multi-touchdown performance of the season in Week 14 against the Atlanta Falcons, finishing with 132 yards and two scores in a 42\u201321 victory. In Week 16, he had ten receptions for 144 yards and two touchdowns in a 27\u201324 win over the Seattle Seahawks. He finished the 2024 season with 103"}, {"text": "receptions for 1,533 yards and ten touchdowns. Personal life. His brothers, Jordan and Rickey, also played college football at LSU. Their father, John, played Division II college basketball. On April 27, 2021, Jefferson was the first NFL player to have a reference in \"Fortnite\" with the dance, the Griddy."}, {"text": "Sally Soames (n\u00e9e Winkleman; 21 January 1937 \u2013 5 October 2019) was a British newspaper photographer. She worked for \"The Observer\" for a period from 1963, and after a spell as a freelance, for \"The Sunday Times\" (1968\u20132000). Biography. Soames was born in London into a Jewish family, the only daughter of Fay and Leonard Winkleman. She had two brothers, Barry and Allen. Her father was a businessman, art connoisseur and a member of the Communist Party. She was educated at King Alfred School in Golders Green, and St Martin\u2019s College of Art, both in London. Soames won an \"Evening Standard\" photography competition, winning five guineas, for her photograph of a youth in Trafalgar Square on New Year's Eve, 1960. \"My first photograph was my best photograph. What I was doing was fearless; in latter years I was more professional, a bit institutionalised\", she told Barbara Hodgson in 2010. Her first regular work as a photographer was for \"The Observer\" in 1963. After a period as a freelance, during which time her work also appeared in also appeared in \"The Guardian\", \"Newsweek\" and \"The New York Times\", Soames joined the staff of \"The Sunday Times\" in 1968, remaining with the"}, {"text": "newspaper until 2000. She photographed world leaders, including Menachem Begin and several British prime ministers. She did not restrict herself to portraits of the prominent, which Soames described as being \"photographs of people\", but worked in war zones as well. Working as a photojournalist, she documented the 1973 Arab\u2013Israeli War with \"Sunday Times\" reporter Nicholas Tomalin who wrote in his last dispatch, while bombs around them were exploding, that Soames was \"the first Englishwoman photographer to stand bolt upright throughout (an air attack) snapping pictures as if she were covering a golf tournament\". Soames suffered Posttraumatic stress disorder after witnessing Tomalin's death during the conflict. Her experience of PTSD did not stop her from returning to the middle east on many occasions and she developed an affection for Israel. Out of personal interest, rather than for professional or financial reasons, she lived in Auschwitz for several days in autumn 1979. In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, the international day of remembrance for the Holocaust, Soames photographs were exhibited at the Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street in Manhattan from May to August 1982. Soames worked exclusively in black and white, almost always using available natural light. She refused to"}, {"text": "work in colour, which she considered a form of \"vulgarity\", although newspapers had by then switched to colour printing. Soames had a strong preference for the Nikon FM2 camera and, in the early 1990s, searched London for examples in the belief it was about to be discontinued. Her work was used by numerous television and film companies in the UK and the US. She engaged with her subjects to be able to photograph them as convivially as possible. In 1967, it was possible for her to spend half a day with director Orson Welles, but the encroaching publicity machine meant she was able to spend only three and a half minutes to photograph Sean Connery some years later, but used the first two minutes to talk with Connery. In 2010 Soames nominated as her Best Shot ever the trio showing Rupert Murdoch in 1981 announcing his purchase of Times Newspapers, flanked by his editors Harold Evans and William Rees-Mogg. Personal life and death. Soames lived in London her whole life. In 1956, she married Leonard Soames, owner of the Snob high street clothing chain, while still a student at St Martins. The couple had a son three years later, but"}, {"text": "divorced in 1966. Trevor Soames is a barrister and photographer. Physical mobility problems from having to move heavy equipment around brought her career to an end in 2000. Her nieces are Claudia and Sophie Winkleman, respectively a television presenter and actress. Soames died on 5 October 2019 aged 82, at her home in North London. Her portraits are held in two London collections, the National Portrait Gallery (Edward Heath and Salman Rushdie) and Victoria and Albert Museum (Rudolf Nureyev and Lord Denning). She donated her personal collection of photographs and documents to the Scott Trust Foundation. Collections. Soames' work is held in the following permanent public collections:"}, {"text": "Boophis popi is a nocturnal species of skeleton frog endemic to the forests of Madagascar. It is characterized by its red irises and distinctly elevated reticulations on the dorsum. It is brown and gray, has slender limbs, a pulsating call, and is slightly larger than similar frogs in its genus. The species was described in 2011 and is named after the company \"pop-interactive GmbH\". Taxonomy. \"B. popi\" is one of many species in the genus of skeleton frogs, and is in the \"B. goudoti\" group. It was described by J\u00f6rn K\u00f6hler, Frank Glaw, Gon\u00e7alo M. Rosa, Philip-Sebastian Gehring, Maciej Pabijan, Franco Andreone, and Miguel Vences in their 2011 paper titled \"Two new bright-eyed treefrogs of the genus \"Boophis\" from Madagascar\", and named after the German company \"pop-interactive GmbH\", which has supported biodiversity research and conservation. Through molecular genetics, it was found to be closely related to \"Boophis fayi\" and \"Boophis boehmei\". Description. \"B. popi\" has distinct bright red outer irises, beige inner irises (with a brown vessel-like pattern) surrounded by a black ring, with blue in the iris periphery. The frog is brown-colored with several black and beige spots on its body, and the flanks have brown and yellow marks"}, {"text": "as well. The throat and chest are beige and gray, and the belly is light brown with small brown spots. Its limbs are gray with brown patterns. Preserved specimens tend to be lighter in color. Its throat and chest are smooth, its belly is granular, and it has white tubercles around its cloaca. Its arms are somewhat slender, its lower arms have fringes, and there is a pointed dermal appendage on the elbow. The fingers follow a 1<2<4<3 pattern of length, with the second finger being distinctly shorter than the fourth. It has slender hind limbs as well as a dermal appendage on its heel. It has five toes, which follow the pattern of length 1<2<3=5<4. Females are larger in size than males. Though it appears to be morphologically similar to the other frogs in \"Boophis\", there are several key differences that make \"B. popi\" a different species. Visually, \"B. popi\" is most similar to \"B. axelmeyeri\", but is smaller in size (it has a smaller SVL, or snout-vent length) and has a less pointed snout when viewed from above. It typically has a larger SVL than \"B. boehmei\". When compared to \"B. rufioculis\", \"B. popi\" has smaller cloacal tubercles"}, {"text": "and shorter hindlimbs. \"B. popi\" also has distinct elevated reticulations on the dorsum, while similar frogs do not. It is placed in the genus \"Boophis\" because of the intercalary element in between its last two fingers and toes, nupital pads, and the lack of femoral glands in males. Behavior. \"B. popi\" is a nocturnal tree frog and is active on vegetation near slow-flowing streams during the rainy season. \"B. popi\" calls contain two short series of pulsating notes, one with three notes and the other with two notes. Note duration varies from 18 to 29 ms and the pauses between notes range from 97 to 120 ms. Its pitch is similar to \"B. boehmei\" and \"B. quasiboehmei\", but is slightly lower as its larger body size predicts. However, the calls of those in the \"B. goudoti\" group are very similar and are not unique to \"B. popi\" in particular. Habitat and distribution. \"B. popi\" can be found in the montane rainforest in central Madagascar. Its population is decreasing, and common threats include development, agriculture, mining, logging, fire, and invasive species and diseases."}, {"text": "In the Long Ago is a 1913 silent film short directed by Colin Campbell. It was produced by the Selig Polyscope company and released by the General Film Company. Alternately the film is called The Long Ago."}, {"text": "Zen 4 is the name for a CPU microarchitecture designed by AMD, released on September 27, 2022. It is the successor to Zen 3 and uses TSMC's N6 process for I/O dies, N5 process for CCDs, and N4 process for APUs. Zen 4 powers Ryzen 7000 performance desktop processors (codenamed \"Raphael\"), Ryzen 8000G series mainstream desktop APUs (codenamed \"Phoenix\"), and Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series HEDT and workstation processors (codenamed \"Storm Peak\"). It is also used in extreme mobile processors (codenamed \"Dragon Range\"), thin & light mobile processors (codenamed \"Phoenix\" and \"Hawk Point\"), as well as EPYC 8004/9004 server processors (codenamed \"Siena\", \"Genoa\" and \"Bergamo\"). Zen 4 is the first microarchitecture whose chips (Ryzen 7000) use the AM5 motherboard socket. Features. Like its predecessor, Zen 4 in its Desktop Ryzen variants features one or two Core Complex Dies (CCDs) built on TSMC's 5 nm process and one I/O die built on 6 nm. Previously, the I/O die on Zen 3 was built on GlobalFoundries' 14 nm process for EPYC and 12 nm process for Ryzen. Zen 4's I/O die includes integrated RDNA 2 graphics for the first time on any Zen architecture. Zen 4 marks the first utilization of the 5"}, {"text": "nm process for x86-based desktop processors and also marks the return of 5.0 GHz clock rate to any AMD processors for the first time since the AMD FX-9590. On all platforms, Zen 4 supports only DDR5 memory and LPDDR5X in mobile, with support for DDR4 and LPDDR4X dropped. Additionally, Zen 4 supports new AMD EXPO SPD profiles for more comprehensive memory tuning and overclocking by the RAM manufacturers. Unlike Intel's XMP, EXPO is marketed as an open, license- and royalty-free standard for describing memory kit parameters, such as operating frequency, timings and voltages. It allows to encode a wider set of timings to achieve better performance and compatibility. However, XMP memory profiles are still supported. EXPO can also support Intel processors. All Zen 4 Ryzen desktop processors feature 28 (24 usable + 4 reserved) PCI Express 5.0 lanes. This means that a discrete GPU can be connected by 16 PCIe lanes or two GPUs by 8 PCIe lanes each. Additionally, there are now 2 x 4 lane PCIe interfaces, most often used for M.2 storage devices. Whether the lanes connecting the GPUs in the mechanical x16 slots are executed as PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 can be configured by the"}, {"text": "mainboard manufacturers. Finally, 4 PCIe 5.0 lanes are reserved for connecting the south bridge chip or chipset. Zen 4 is the first AMD microarchitecture to support AVX-512 instruction set extension. Most 512-bit vector instructions are split in two and executed by the 256-bit SIMD execution units internally. The two halves execute in parallel on a pair of execution units and are still tracked as a single micro-OP (except for stores), which means the execution latency isn't doubled compared to 256-bit vector instructions. There are four 256-bit execution units, which gives a maximum throughput of two 512-bit vector instructions per clock cycle, e.g. one multiplication and one addition. The maximum number of instructions per clock cycle is doubled for vectors of 256 bits or less. Load and store units are also 256 bits each, retaining the throughput of up to two 256-bit loads or one store per cycle that was supported by Zen 3. This translates to up to one 512-bit load per cycle or one 512-bit store per two cycles. Other features and improvements, compared to Zen 3, include: Products. Desktop. Raphael. On August 29, 2022, AMD announced four Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors. The four Ryzen 7000"}, {"text": "processors that were launched on September 27, 2022 consist of the Ryzen 5 7600X, Ryzen 7 7700X, and two Ryzen 9 CPUs: the 7900X and 7950X. The processors feature between 6 and 16 cores. A further three models were added to the Ryzen 7000 desktop processors lineup on January 10, 2023, after a keynote by AMD at CES that announced them alongside 3D V-Cache variants of Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 processors, which drop the X in the name of the first CPUs in the lineup. These three models are the Ryzen 5 7600, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 9 7900, which feature a lower TDP of 65 W, and come bundled with stock coolers, unlike the X-suffix processors. The Ryzen 9 7900X3D and 7950X3D processors with 3D V-Cache were released on February 28, 2023, followed by the Ryzen 7 7800X3D on April 6. Phoenix. The \"Phoenix\" desktop APU's were launched on January 8, 2024 as the \"Ryzen 8000G\" series for the AM5 socket and marketed as first desktop processor to feature a dedicated AI Accelerator branded as \"Ryzen AI\". On April 1, 2024, AMD quietly released the Ryzen 8000 series of desktop processors without integrated graphics. Storm Peak. \"Storm"}, {"text": "Peak\" is the codename given to Ryzen Threadripper 7000X HEDT and Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000WX workstation processors, announced by AMD on October 19, 2023, and released on November 21, 2023. The Threadripper 7000X HEDT lineup consists of three models ranging from 24 to 64 cores, while the Threadripper PRO 7000WX workstation lineup encompasses six models ranging from 12 to 96 cores. Mobile. On January 4, 2023, AMD announced its \"Phoenix\" and \"Dragon Range\" series of mobile processors based on Zen 4 at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The Phoenix processors target the mainstream notebook segment, feature an AI accelerator branded as \"Ryzen AI\", similar to Apple's Neural Engine, and are of a monolithic chip design, while the Dragon Range processors target the high-end segment, providing core counts up to 16 cores and 32 threads, and are built on a multi-chip module design, utilizing an I/O die and up to two core complex dies (CCDs). Phoenix. The Phoenix mobile processors are named as the \"Ryzen 7040\" series, and include U, H, and HS-suffix variants. Dragon Range. The Dragon Range mobile processors are named as the \"Ryzen 7045\" series, and consist of HX, and HX3D suffix models only. Hawk Point. Hawk"}, {"text": "Point is a refresh of Phoenix mobile processors, named as the \"Ryzen 8040\" and \"Ryzen 8045\" series, released on December 6, 2023. It features a 60% faster NPU compared to the 7040 series. Hawk Point Refresh. Hawk Point Refresh is a Refresh of Hawk Point mobile processors, named as the \"Ryzen 200\" series similar to Intel Core Ultra model numbering, specification similar to Hawk Point, released on Q2 2025. Server. Genoa, Bergamo, and Siena. On November 10, 2022, AMD launched the fourth generation (also known as the 9004 series) of EPYC server and data center processors based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture, codenamed Genoa. Genoa features between 16 and 96 Zen 4 cores, alongside PCIe 5.0 and DDR5, designed for enterprise and cloud data center clients. Zen 4c. Zen 4c is a variant of Zen 4 featuring smaller Zen 4 cores with lower clock frequencies, power usage, reduced L3 cache per core, and is intended to fit a greater number of cores in a given space. Zen 4c's smaller cores and higher core counts are designed for heavily multi-threaded workloads such as cloud computing. A Zen 4c CCD features 16 smaller Zen 4c cores, divided into two Core Complexes (CCX)"}, {"text": "of 8 cores each. The 16 core Zen 4c CCD is 9.6% larger in area than the regular 8 core Zen 4 CCD. The Zen 4c CCD die size measures at 72.7 mm2 compared to the 66.3 mm2 die area for the Zen 4 CCD. However, an individual Zen 4c core has a smaller footprint than a Zen 4 core, meaning that a larger number of smaller cores can be fitted into the CCD. A Zen 4c core is about 35.4% smaller than a Zen 4 core. In addition to the reduced core footprint, die space is further saved in the Zen 4c CCD via the use of denser 6T dual-port SRAM cells and an overall reduction of L3 cache to 16MB per 8-core CCX. Zen 4c cores have the same sized L1 and L2 caches as Zen 4 cores but the cache die area in Zen 4c cores is lower due to using denser SRAM and slower cache. The through-silicon via (TSV) connection arrays, which are used for vertical die stacking in Zen 4 3D V-Cache CCDs, are removed from the Zen 4c CCD to save silicon space. Even though the Zen 4c core has a smaller footprint, it"}, {"text": "is still able to maintain the same IPC as the larger Zen 4 core. Unlike Intel's competing Gracemont E-cores, Zen 4c features 2 threads per core with simultaneous multithreading. The IPC of a Zen 4c core is closer to that of a Zen 4 core than an Intel Gracemont E-core IPC is to a P-core. Additionally, Zen 4c supports the same instruction sets as Zen 4 such as AVX-512 which is not the case with Intel's P-cores and E-cores. Intel's Gracemont E-cores lack support for the AVX-512 instructions contained in Golden Cove P-cores. The Zen 4c core launched on June 13, 2023 with three Epyc Bergamo SKUs: 9734, 9754 and 9754S. The 9754S SKU features 128 Zen 4c cores but only 128 threads rather than the full 256 threads as simultaneous multithreading is disabled. Zen 4c launched in Epyc 8004 series processors, codenamed \"Siena\", on September 18, 2023. With up to 64 cores and 128 threads, Siena is designed with a lower cost platform in mind for entry-level server, edge computing, and telecommunications segments where higher energy efficiency is a priority. Zen 4c made its debut outside of server processors in the Ryzen 7040U series, codenamed \"Phoenix 2\", which launched"}, {"text": "on November 2, 2023. The Ryzen 3 7440U and Ryzen 5 7545U processors feature both standard Zen 4 cores and smaller Zen 4c cores."}, {"text": "The Washington Diplomats were an American soccer club based in Washington, D.C. The club was formed in 1974 when the North American Soccer League (NASL), itself founded in 1968, granted a franchise to a Washington, D.C.\u2013based business group. The team played all their home games at RFK Stadium in 1974, but in 1975 and 1976 they played most of their games at W.T. Woodson High School in Northern Virginia, including all of their 1976 games. They played indoor home matches at the neighboring D.C. Armory. After a lackluster beginning to the franchise, the Diplomats qualified for the playoffs and increased average game attendance in each of their last three years of existence. Additionally, in their final year, the Diplomats were able to sign the future European Player of the Century Johan Cruyff. After the 1980 season the Diplomats folded when then owner, the Madison Square Garden Corp., had accumulated losses of $6 million and team president Steve Danzansky could not gather enough money to keep the team alive. After the original Diplomats folded following the 1980 season, the Detroit Express moved to Washington to become the new Diplomats. This team only lasted for one season. Below is a non-exhaustive list"}, {"text": "of players who played at least one league match for the Diplomats."}, {"text": "Kiara Parker (born October 28, 1996) is an American track and field athlete who specializes in sprint. She represented the United States at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, winning a bronze medal in 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay. After an undefeated senior season at Westlake High School in Waldorf, Maryland, Parker enrolled at the University of Arkansas. Competing in the indoor and outdoor sprints, Kiara was an eight time All-American for the Razorbacks. As of 2019, she is the school record holder in both the 100m meters (11.02) and 60 meters (7.15). She is sponsored by Asics."}, {"text": "Natalliah Whyte (born 9 August 1997) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who specializes in sprint. She represented the Jamaica at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, winning a gold medal in 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay. In 2014, she competed in the girls' 200 metres event at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics held in Nanjing, China. Career. She won gold with team Jamaica in the women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay at the 2019 World Championships, and was also a 100 metres finalist. She attended Auburn University, competing for the Auburn Tigers from 2017 to 2018, before transferring to Florida Atlantic University. She now trains at MVP International in Florida, an extension of the Jamaica-based MVP Track Club. She is coached by Henry Rolle who originally recruited her to Auburn."}, {"text": "Noah Katterbach (born 13 April 2001) is a German professional footballer who plays as a left-back for club Hamburger SV. He has won the Fritz Walter Medal in Gold in two consecutive year groups (under-17 and under-19). Club career. Katterbach spent the majority of his youth career at 1. FC K\u00f6ln, starting at the under-8 level. In 2018, he was awarded the Fritz Walter Medal in Gold, honouring the best German player in the under-17 age group. On 5 October 2019, he made his professional debut for the club in a 1\u20131 draw against Schalke, making him the youngest player to appear in the Bundesliga that year. During the 2019\u201320 season, Katterbach established himself in the club's first team squad and made 18 league appearances. In May 2020, it was announced that he had signed a contract extension keeping him at K\u00f6ln until 2024. On 19 August 2020, Katterbach was awarded the Fritz Walter Medal in Gold for the second time, this time honouring him as the best German player in the under-19 age group. On 18 January 2022, K\u00f6ln announced on their website that they had transferred Katterbach to the Swiss Super League club FC Basel. On the same"}, {"text": "day, Basel announced in a press-release that Katterbach had signed a one calendar year contract with them, including the option of a definitive transfer. On 30 January, after playing in three test games, Katterbach made his domestic league debut in an away game at Swissporarena as Basel played against Luzern. He was shown a yellow card in the 52nd minute, but also gave the final pass in the 85th minute as Darian Males scored the team's second goal, as FCB achieved a 3\u20130 victory.<ref name=\"fcb-matchcenter-2021/22-FCL-FCB\"></ref> He scored his first goal for the club in the home game in the St. Jakob-Park on 19 February 2022. It was the last goal of the game as Basel won 3\u20130 against Lausanne-Sport.<ref name=\"fcb-matchcenter-2021/22-FCB-LS\"></ref> At the end of the loan period, the club decided not to activate the take-over option on the player. During his time with the club Katterbach played a total of 42 games for Basel scoring the afore mentioned one league goal. 21 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, two in the Swiss Cup, ten in the UEFA Europa Conference League and nine were friendly games. On 17 January 2023, Hamburger SV announced on the club's website that"}, {"text": "they had signed Katterbach on a loan contract until the end of the 2022\u201323 season. On 31 January 2024, Katterbach returned to Hamburger SV on a long-term contract. International career. Katterbach has represented Germany at several youth levels, beginning with the U 16 team in 2017. Most recently, he played for his country's U 20 squad. Honours. Club Individual"}, {"text": "Public School No. 63, also known as Campus North School, is a historic school building located in the Kensington-Bailey neighborhood of Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The original section was built in 1917, and is two stories above a ground floor, giving the appearance of a three-story red brick building with Classical Revival detailing. The original H-shaped plan consisted of classrooms located in the wings, with gymnasium, swimming pool and auditorium located centrally. Northeast and northwest corner additions were built in 1925. The building is an example of a typical standardized public school plan developed by city architect Howard L. Beck. The school has been redeveloped as an apartment building known as The Lofts at University Heights. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016."}, {"text": "The Mayi were a clan of Muslim Rajputs which controlled the Narhat-Samai chieftaincy in modern-day Nawada district of Bihar. History. The progenitor of the Mayi clan was Nuraon Khan whose family arrived in South Bihar in the 17th century from Delhi. Following the families conversion to Islam, they retained their original clan name. Nuraon Khan had two sons, Azmeri and Deyanut who worked for a Rajput King of Sisodiya clan as revenue farmers. Kamgar Khan waged war on neighbouring zamindars and seized their land. However, he was a staff of the Deo Raj who was also expanding his chieftaincy. Despite the Mayi's owing much of their power to the Rajput and the Mughals, Kamgar Khan frequently defied them and attempted to assert the Mayi's independence. Eventually, Afghan mercenaries had to be used to put down the rebellions of Kamgar Khan. Kamgar Khan's descendant was Akbar Ali. Under his rule, Narhat Samai was owed a large amount of unpaid revenue to the British East India Company. To escape his debts, he participated in the 1781 revolt where certain zamindars attempted to rid themselves of British rule. Akbar Ali's attempt to gain independence failed however, and his estate was confiscated and he"}, {"text": "fled to Delhi."}, {"text": "Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu (born 17 May 1982) is a Kosovan jurist and politician serving as the sixth president of Kosovo since April 2021, having previously served as acting president from November 2020 to March 2021. She also served as Speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo from 2020 to 2021. Born and raised in Titova Mitrovica, SFR Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo), Osmani studied law at the University of Pristina and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She worked as an advisor to the president of Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu before she was elected to the Assembly. Osmani held the position of Speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo from February 2020 to March 2021. She served as Kosovo's acting president following the resignation of President Hashim Tha\u00e7i. Upon her election as president, Osmani became the second woman to hold the position, as well as the first person to have served as both acting president and president of Kosovo. Osmani successfully ran on an anti-corruption platform and has expressed a desire to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia. Since taking office, Osmani has returned the flag of Dardania as the official symbol of the presidency. Her efforts have emphasized the importance of individual action in"}, {"text": "addressing climate change while securing support at the highest political levels. Early life and education. Vjosa Osmani was born on in Titova Mitrovica, Kosovo, then a part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia to ethnic Albanian parents. She grew up with four siblings, and completed her primary and secondary education in her hometown. Osmani was a teenager during the Kosovo War, and she once stated that she \"can still feel\" the barrel of an M70 rifle that a soldier forced into her mouth after her home in Mitrovica had been raided. Osmani received a BA degree in Law from the University of Pristina (Kosovo) in 2004. She then pursued graduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, earning an LLM in 2005, followed by an SJD degree in 2015. Her doctoral dissertation addressed the applicability of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) in Kosovo as Kosovo's legal status has evolved since 1988, when the CISG first entered into force. Career. Osmani has been a teaching assistant at the University of Pristina since 2006, a lecturer at RIT Kosovo since 2010, and has been invited multiple times as a visiting professor at"}, {"text": "the University of Pittsburgh between 2009 and 2015. Osmani's political career began in her teens, as an activist for the centre-right Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). On 27 August 2009, she was elected chief of staff for then president Fatmir Sejdiu. Osmani had also served as legal counsel and foreign policy advisor to the president. She was a member of the Assembly of Kosovo for three terms, and once received the largest number of votes for a female politician in Kosovan parliamentary history. Osmani contributed to the independence of Kosovo, as the president's representative for the Constitution Commission, the body that prepared the Kosovan constitution. She represented Kosovo in a case at the International Court of Justice, where she defended the legality of Kosovo's independence. As part of her parliamentary duties, Osmani served as the chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Diaspora and Strategic Investments and the Committee on European Integration. She also served as the vice-chair of the Committee on Constitutional Reforms in Kosovo. In 2014, Osmani clashed with LDK leadership, including party leader Isa Mustafa, when she criticized the LDK for forming a coalition government with its long-time rival party, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), breaking"}, {"text": "a previously made pledge. Osmani also boycotted the presidential election in 2016, in which PDK leader Hashim Tha\u00e7i was elected president as part of the coalition agreement. Osmani was viewed as a possible prime minister of Kosovo by the LDK in the 2019 snap parliamentary election. While campaigning for the election, she said the Kosovan people were ready for a female prime minister, and that she could fight corruption and make free market reforms for Kosovo. She lost the election to Albin Kurti, leader of the left-wing anti-establishment party Vet\u00ebvendosje, and had received 176,016 votes. On , Osmani was removed from her position as her party's deputy leader, after LDK leader Mustafa called for her dismissal due to her public opposition of decisions made by the party. Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti replaced her as LDK deputy leader. Osmani later quit the LDK altogether on , stating that the party had left her no choice, but adding that she would return if the party were reformed. 2021\u2013present: Presidency. In 2020, Osmani was appointed acting president of Kosovo after President Tha\u00e7i resigned following an indictment by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor's Office in The Hague. In preparation for the 2021"}, {"text": "Kosovan parliamentary election, Osmani announced the founding of her own political party, Guxo, on . She also aligned with Kurti's Vet\u00ebvendosje party. Running on an anti-corruption platform, both parties scored landslide victories, and Osmani personally received more than 300,000 votes. The election also gave women a third of the 120-seat parliament and an unprecedented six positions out of fifteen in the cabinet. In contrast, the LDK, Osmani's former party, did very poorly in the elections, as predicted by LDK members who had publicly criticized the earlier ouster of Osmani in 2020. The LDK lost roughly half of its seats in parliament, and party leader Mustafa resigned on . On , the assembly elected Osmani as Kosovo's president during its third round of voting. Although the vote was unattended by two opposition parties as well as a party representing the ethnic Serb minority in Kosovo, 82 members of the 120-seat parliament cast their votes during the second day of the extraordinary session. She won 71 of the votes, while 11 votes were declared invalid, and was subsequently sworn in for a five-year term later that day, becoming Kosovo's second female president. Osmani said that she hoped to normalize relations between Kosovo"}, {"text": "and Serbia, while also calling for Belgrade to apologize for the war that led to Kosovo's declaration of independence and to prosecute those who had committed war crimes. Before taking the oath of office, Osmani resigned from the leadership of Guxo. Newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs Donika G\u00ebrvalla replaced her as Guxo's head. Personal life. In 2012, Osmani married Prindon Sadriu, an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They have twin daughters. Osmani speaks Albanian, English, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish. Honours and accolades. During Osmani's master's studies at the University of Pittsburgh, the university presented her with the Excellence for the Future Award twice. In 2017, the University of Pittsburgh Center for International Studies awarded her the Sheth International Young Alumni Achievement Award for her contribution to democracy and human rights. On 28 February 2022, Osmani was awarded with the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr.h.c.) from the Ankara University. On 21 August 2024, Osmani was honored with the M100 Media Award by M100 Sanssouci Colloquium."}, {"text": "Yours to Keep may refer to:"}, {"text": "Maano Ditshupo (born 20 January 1985) is a Motswana midfielder playing for Township Rollers in the Botswana Premier League. He is a full Botswana international, having made six appearances for the Zebras. Considered one of Botswana's best talents of all time, Ditshupo started playing football at a very young age and was part of a team called Elden Brothers which included players living in the same ward as him. He made his professional debut with Maun Terrors and later moved to Satmos. He played only one season for the Selibe-Phikwe giants before they loaned him to Northern Irish club Lisburn Distillery when he went to visit his sister in Northern Ireland. Upon returning to Botswana Ditshupo joined Botswana Premier League giants Extension Gunners and truly became a household name, winning one FA Cup and earning his first national team cap. During his stay at the Peleng club he greatly impressed Township Rollers, who signed him in 2012. With them he would win five Premier Leagues and one Mascom Top 8 Cup. Given the captain's armband in 2015, Ditshupo led Rollers to four successive league titles, a cup and a historic CAF Champions League group stage appearance. He is considered one"}, {"text": "of Rollers'greatest ever captains. International career. Ditshupo made his Botswana debut on 4 August 2010 in an international friendly against Zimbabwe, which Botswana win 2\u20130. 2011 2013-14, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 2017-18"}, {"text": "The 1979 Durham mayoral election was held on November 6, 1979 to elect the mayor of Durham, North Carolina. It saw the election of Harry E. Rodenhizer Jr., who unseated incumbent mayor Wade L. Cavin. Results. Primary. The date of the primary was October 9."}, {"text": "PSS \"Remeliik II\" is a Guardian-class patrol boat in the service of Palau's Division of Maritime Law Enforcement, built, and provided by Australia to replace the Pacific Forum patrol boat . In the late 1980s and early 1990s Australia helped its smaller neighbours, in the Pacific Forum by building small patrol boats so they could protect their own sovereignty. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), had extended an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the shores of all maritime nations, and for small Island nations in the Pacific protecting their EEZ would be an overwhelming problem. The original patrol boats were designed for a lifetime of approximately thirty years, and, prior to reaching this date, Australia designed and started building replacement vessels. The s are larger, and more capable than the original vessels. But, like the original Pacific Forum boats, they were designed to use commercial off-the-shelf components, so they would be easier to maintain in small isolated shipyards. Delivery. \"Remeliik II\" was scheduled for delivery in June 2020. Melissa Price, Australian Minister for Defence Industry, handed the vessel over to Paluan officials on September 18, 2020. The handover was delayed due to the quarantine of"}, {"text": "the Palauan crew in order prevent the spread of COVID-19. Operational career. \"Remeliik II\" was commissioned on December 4, 2020. On December 15, 2020, \"The Guardian\" reported that the \"Remeliik II\" detained a Chinese fishing vessel for illegal fishing. of sea cucumbers was found on board the fishing vessel. Sea cucumbers can be sold for $800 per kilogram, in Asian markets. The detention of the vessel raised potential health concerns. At that time, in December 2020, Palau had been one of a very small number of countries that had no confirmed cases of COVID-19. The crew of the Chinese vessel were placed in quarantine. Palauan health officials were concerned that laying charges against the Chinese crew, and trying them would expose Palauans to a high risk of infection."}, {"text": "Zoning is the process of dividing land in a municipality into zones in which certain land uses are permitted or prohibited. Zoning may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Johan Hendrik Potgieter Strauss (born 27 September 1951 in Alberton, Gauteng, South Africa) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Strauss played for Transvaal and the Springboks. He made his international debut in the third test against the visiting All Blacks on 4 September 1976, at Newlands, Cape Town. Strauss played a further two tests for the Springboks, the last being against the touring South American Jaguars on 26 April 1980 at the Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg."}, {"text": "Maurice Slater is an Irish former association football player who played as a defender. Career. Slater was part of the roster of the North American Soccer League (NASL) team Washington Diplomats, usually wearing the number three shirt. He played one season with the \"Dips\" in the 1974 NASL season, making five appearances and registering one assist. The Diplomats would finish last in the Eastern Division."}, {"text": "Tomasz Kap\u0142an (born 14 January 1984) is a Polish professional pool player. He won the 2011 European Pool Championships in the discipline of Straight pool. He has played on the Euro Tour since 2009, reaching the semi-finals on three occasions, most recently at the 2018 Treviso Open. Kaplan has reached the final on one occasion, at the , losing to Mateusz \u015aniegocki."}, {"text": "The Russian Civil War (1917\u20131922) was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the two Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. Civil wars in the Russian Tsardom included: Civil wars in the Russian Federation include: For actions against the Russian Government under President Vladimir Putin during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, see:"}, {"text": "Bhim Singh (died 22 July 1537) was a sixteenth-century Rajput ruler of Amber. He was the eldest son of his father, Raja Prithviraj Singh I, by his wife Bala Bai, a daughter of Rao Lunkaran of Bikaner. Some sources allege that Prithviraj died at the hands of Bhim, who in turn was later killed by his own son Askaran. However, according to historian Jadunath Sarkar, these claims of patricide lack credibility since their sources are anonymous and undated. Bhim is also said to have overthrown his predecessor and brother Puranmal, though this too is uncertain. Bhim only reigned for three and a half years before dying on 22 July 1537. He was succeeded in quick succession by two sons, Ratan Singh and Askaran, before the throne eventually passed to his younger brother Bharmal."}, {"text": "Geronimo or Ger\u00f3nimo is a masculine given name, the Italian and Spanish form of Jerome. Jer\u00f3nimo is an alternative Spanish spelling of Ger\u00f3nimo. It is also a surname. People with the name include:"}, {"text": "Buffalo Public School No. 24, also known as Public School 59, is a historic school building located in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood of Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The original section was built in 1901, and is a three-story, seven-bay, I-shaped, red brick building over a raised basement with Renaissance Revival detailing. The building incorporates sandstone, terra cotta, and pressed metal details. It was the first school to offer special education within the City of Buffalo school system. The school has been redeveloped as an apartment building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016."}, {"text": "Fabrizio Chiti (born in Florence, 7 July 1971) is an Italian biochemist noted for his work on Protein aggregation and amyloid. Education. Chiti is a graduate in Biological Sciences of the University of Florence (Italy). He attained a PhD degree (D.Phil) in Chemistry in 2000 at the University of Oxford in UK. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florence, Italy, with Giampietro Ramponi as a supervisor (2000\u20132002) and at the University of Cambridge, UK, under the supervision of Chris Dobson (2002). Research and career. He was appointed as an Associate (2002) and then Full Professor (2010) at the University of Florence in Biochemistry. Chiti provided contributions in the field of misfolding and aggregation, particularly in the field of amyloid He rationalized how amino acid mutations induce protein aggregation and edited an equation to predict the effect of mutations on the aggregation of an unfolded protein, which led to a search by many investigators of algorithms with predictive power on essential aspects of protein aggregation. He also correlated the toxicities of abnormal protein oligomers with specific structural properties of them. His 2006 review with Chris Dobson on protein misfolding, amyloid formation and human disease, later updated"}, {"text": "as a new report, is a reference paper in the field of amyloid and received, as of October 2019, more than four thousands citations in scientific publications."}, {"text": "Nirvana Inn is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language psychological horror film directed by Vijay Jayapal and produced by Stray Factory, Uncombed Buddha, Stop Whinging and Harman Ventures. The film stars Adil Hussain, Rajshri Deshpande, Sandhya Mridul. and Saandeep Mahaajan. It follows the story of a boatman who becomes the caretaker of a Himalayan resort after an attempted suicide. \"Nirvana Inn\" was one of the 29 projects selected for the program, Busan Asian Project Market at the Busan International Film Festival. It premiered under the \"A Window on Asian Cinema\" section at the 24th Busan International Film Festival. The film was released on OTT platform \"Cinemapreneur\" on 11 December 2020. Production. Director Vijay Jayapal said that the idea of the film came to his mind after reading an article about the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash where the pilot had crashed the plane, since he was having some suicidal thoughts. He said, \"I was quite intrigued and disturbed by this story and the underlying themes of death and guilt.\" He then worked on the story for the next year and a half with an idea to make \"The Shining\" meets \"Winter Sleep\". Principal photography began in October 2018 in Manali, Himachal Pradesh and"}, {"text": "Kerala. Talking about the films title, Vijay said \"[it] was a deliberate choice of title. It refers to the cycle of birth and death and reincarnation.\" Jayapal had heard a series of strange growls from the roof on a resort in Kerala where he was on a family trip. He decided to use them in the film to show the character's guilt. He said, \"You don't know whether the growling is real or just in his mind. It's meant to amplify his fear.\" After scouting for locations in Lonavala and Uttarakhand, Jayapal settled for a hotel in Manali for the film's setting. He wrote the dialogues of the film in a mix of Hindi and Assamese feeling that the \"story determines the language because language is the tool used to communicate the story.\" Most of the scenes in the film were shot during the day of Manali's winter in 2018. The film ran out of funds for the post production process when they received a grant from the Asian Cinema Fund, with which he finished the film's sound mixing and colour grading. Reception. Anupam Kant Verma of \"First Post\" wrote: \"Adil Hussain-starrer works best when exploring its protagonist's tortured psyche.\""}, {"text": "Arunkumar Shekhar of \"The New Indian Express\" wrote: \"A thriller at a surface level that is wholly enjoyable for the way it uses a lot of Hitchcockian elements in the script like Tamil films and serials of yore.\""}, {"text": "Sottsass (foaled 24 March 2016) is a French Thoroughbred racehorse. In a career which ran from August 2018 to October 2020 he ran nine times and won five races, including three at the highest Group One level. He showed promise as a two-year-old in 2018 when he won the second of his two starts. In the following year he was beaten on his seasonal debut but then developed into a top-class middle distance performer with wins in the Prix de Suresnes, Prix du Jockey Club and Prix Niel. In his four-year-old season in 2020 he won the Prix Ganay before concluding his career by winning the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Background. Sottsass is a chestnut colt with a white blaze and a white sock on his right hind leg bred in France by the Ecurie Des Monceaux. In August 2017 the yearling was consigned to the Arqana sale at Deauville and was bought for \u20ac340,000 by Oceanic Bloodstock. He entered the ownership of Peter Brant's White Birch Farm and was sent into training with Jean-Claude Rouget. The colt was named by Brant after the Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass. He was from the fifth crop of foals sired"}, {"text": "by the Aga Khan's stallion Siyouni whose biggest win came in the 2009 running of the Prix Jean-Luc Lagard\u00e8re. His other offspring have included Laurens and Ervedya. Sottsass is the third foal of his dam Starlet's Sister who had previously produced Sistercharlie and My Sister Nat (Prix Bertrand de Tarragon). She showed little racing ability, failing to win in three starts in France, but was a great-granddaughter of Alea who produced Noalcoholic and was the female-line ancestor of the Preakness Stakes winner Red Bullet. Racing career. 2018: two-year-old season. Sottsass began his racing career in a contest for unraced juveniles over 1600 metres at Deauville Racecourse on 21 August in which he came home fourth of the nine runners, more than eight lengths behind the Freddy Head-trained winner Lone Peak. On 26 October at Clairefontaine Racecourse the colt started at odds of 2.7/1 for a maiden race and recorded his first success as he won by three lengths from Flop Shot. 2019: three-year-old season. On his three-year-old debut Sottsass was stepped up in class for the Group 3 Prix La Force over 1800 metres at Longchamp Racecourse on 7 April and came home fifth behind Shaman in a seven-runner field."}, {"text": "In the Listed Prix de Suresnes over 2000 metres on soft ground at Chantilly Racecourse on 2 May he was ridden as in all of his previous starts by Christophe Soumillon. He was made the 2.1/1 favourite and won by six and a half lengths from Battle of Toro. Cristian Demuro took the ride on 2 June when Sottsass contested the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club over 2100 metres at Chantilly and went off the 13/1 fifth choice in a fifteen-runner field. The Poule d'Essai des Poulains winner Persian King started favourite, while the other fancied runners included Zarkallani (ridden by Soumillon), Slalom (Prix Noailles), Roman Candle (Prix Greffulhe), Raise You (Fairway Stakes), Cape of Good Hope (Blue Riband Trial Stakes) and Kick On (Feilden Stakes). Sottsass raced in mid-division as Motamarris set the pace, but began to make rapid progress approaching the last 400 metres. He gained the advantage 200 metres from the finish and stayed on well to win \"readily\" by two lengths from Persian King. After the race Demuro said \"Without really trying, I found myself directly behind Persian King, and he took me into the race with his acceleration. I knew he was the horse"}, {"text": "to beat, and once I was past him, it was easy\". After a break of more than three months Sottsass returned on 15 September for the Group 2 Prix Niel (a major trial race for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe) over 2400 metres at Longchamp and started the 1/2 favourite against four opponents. With Demuro in the saddle he was restrained in the early stages before making progress on the inside rail in the straight. He briefly looked unlikely to obtain a clear run but accelerated through a gap to take the lead in the closing stages and won by one and a quarter lengths from Mutamakina with Mohawk a short neck away in third place. On 6 October Sotsass was made the 6.6/1 second favourite for France's most prestigious race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe over 2400 metres on very soft ground at Longchamp. Ridden by Demuro he raced in mid-division before making steady progress in the straight and finishing third behind Waldgeist and Enable. In the 2019 World's Best Racehorse Rankings Sottsass was given a rating of 123, making him the sixteenth best racehorse in the world and the best three-year-old. 2020: four-year-old season. On 11"}, {"text": "May, the day on which French racing restarted after the COVID-19 outbreak Sottsass began his third campaign in the Group 2 Prix d'Harcourt over 2000 metres on very soft ground at Longchamp. Starting the 2/5 favourite he was restrained towards the rear before moving into contention in the straight but was unable to accelerate in the closing stages and came home fourth of the nine runners behind Shaman, Way To Paris and Simona. In the Prix Ganay over 2100 metres at Chantilly on 14 June, Sottsass started favourite against four opponents, namely Shaman, Way To Paris, Simona and Palomba. With Demuro in the saddle, he raced in third place before going to the front 200 metres from the finish and held off a late challenge from Way To Paris to win by a head. Rouget's assistant Jean-Bernard Roth commented \"He's an emotive horse and he didn't run up to form in his comeback, not for the first time. But where would be the point in having the horse at 100 per cent on May 11? What I liked was how calm he was today. He was a very backward horse who is now maturing and I think he'll reach that"}, {"text": "full maturity this year. You don't have to cover him up anymore, you can ride him any way you want. He's just a very good horse and he has that acceleration that the good ones have.\" After a two-month break Sottsass returned in the Group 3 Prix Gontaut-Biron over 2000 metres at Deauville Racecourse in August in which he started favourite but was beaten a neck into second place by the five-year-old gelding Skalleti, with the pair finishing well clear of the other five runners. Colin Keane took the ride when the colt was sent to Ireland to contest the Irish Champion Stakes over ten furlongs at Leopardstown Racecourse on 12 September. Starting the 5/1 third choice in the betting he tracked the leaders for most of the way but was unable to make any significant progress in the straight and came home fourth behind Magical, Ghaiyyath and Armory. On 4 October Sottsass, with Demuro back in the saddle, made his second attempt to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and went off the 7.3/1 fourth choice in the betting behind Enable, Stradivarius and Persian King. The other seven contenders, in a race run on heavy ground, were In"}, {"text": "Swoop (German Derby), Raabihah (Prix de Psyche), Gold Trip (Prix Greffulhe), Way To Paris, Deirdre, Chachnak (Prix du Prince d'Orange) and Royal Julius (Premio Presidente della Repubblica). Sotsass settled in third place as Persian King set a slow pace and was ideally places in the closely-bunched field when the pace increased abruptly entering the straight. He overtook Persian King 200 metres from the finish, saw off the challenge of Gold Trip on the outside and repelled the late charge of In Swoop to win by a neck. After the race Rouget said We've worked all year for this. Our entire aim for 2020 was this, and it's not been easy with the changes to the calendar. We've never been able to do quite what we wanted with the horse. But these last few days, I've really felt he was in top form. It was a difficult choice to go to Leopardstown, but we decided that the shorter distance would sharpen him up and it was the right choice. Everything was designed to have him at 100% today and the result is there\", while Demuro commented \"I think it was won at the start... when I realized we were not going"}, {"text": "that fast, I felt confident he could outsprint them in the straight. It was a big help and I knew his turn of foot would kill off the others.\" Two days after his victory in the Arc it was announced that Sottsass had been retired from racing and would begin his career as a breeding stallion at the Coolmore Stud in 2021. Peter Brant commented \"I am a big believer that a horse should go to stud when they are ready, when they look fine like a shiny penny, and not beat up. The horse has done everything in the world I could have asked him for... He\u2019s a beautiful horse.\""}, {"text": "Izzet Khanim Mirzaaga Orujova (Azerbaijani: \"\u0130zz\u0259t Xan\u0131m Mirz\u0259a\u011fa Orucova\"; 16 September 1909 \u2013 22 April 1983) was an Azerbaijani chemist and actress. She was the first Azerbaijani film actress, starring in the film \"Sevil\" (1929), and an important figure in the Azerbaijani women's rights movement for her portrayal of a liberated young woman in the film. She later enjoyed a distinguished academic career, being one of the first female chemistry students in Azerbaijan and the country's first female oil engineer. Her research on improving motor oils was important to the war effort of the Soviet Union in World War II and earned her the Order of the Badge of Honour. Throughout her scientific career she authored hundreds of works, held talks internationally, and was awarded numerous other awards. Early life. Izzet Khanim Mirza-Age Orujova was born in Baku on 16 September 1909. Orujova's father was a gardener named Mirza Agha. She was the eldest of five children and had sisters and brothers. Acting. Orujova was, at the age of 19, noticed while on a walk in Baku by film director and playwright Jafar Jabbarly. At the time, Idayatzadeh and Jabbarly were searching for actresses suitable for portraying the main role"}, {"text": "in the film \"Sevil\" (1929), a film based on a play of the same name by Jabbarly. \"Sevil\" is about themes such as freedom and equality, the struggle for women's rights, and the disappearance of the old world and its traditional customs; the main character in the film was an Azerbaijani girl named Sevil, who is kicked out by her husband Balash but takes fate in her own hands, studies in Moscow and takes off her hijab as a statement of liberation and emancipation. Though Balash attempts to return to Sevil, after she returns from Moscow, she refuses him after having realized that she does not need him. Though Azerbaijani women had long not been allowed to appear in films and there were already several Armenian girls considered for the role, Jabbarly was adamant that an Azerbaijani girl had to play the role, both to stay true to his source material and as a bold challenge to society. The challenge was made especially daunting since Orujova filmed without a hijab; to ensure her safety, Jabbarly personally drove Orujova to and from filming. Though Orujova's father at first forbade her from appearing in the film, he was convinced after repeated meetings"}, {"text": "with Idayatzadeh and Jabbarly. Izzat and her sisters were after the filming of \"Sevil\" among the first Azerbaijani women to remove their hijab. The premiere of the film, which was attended by Orujova's entire family, convinced more women to throw off their hijab, including Orujova's mother. Orujova was the first Azerbaijani film actress and \"Sevil\" was the first Azerbaijani film with sound. Orujova's performance as a liberated young woman had a large impact on the evolving women's rights movements in the country. After the premiere of \"Sevil\" on 3 September 1929, Orujova's successful performance in the film inspired Jabbarly to write a further film script with her in mind for the main role, \"Almaz\". The death of Jabbarly in 1934 meant that he was not involved in the film's production. \"Almaz\" was eventually filmed and released in 1936, produced by Jabbarly's friends and with Orujova starring in the film. In \"Almaz\", Orujova portrays the teacher Almaz who arrives in a village and struggles with the ignorance and illiteracy of the locals. Academic career. Orujova was one of the first female students of chemistry in Azerbaijan and the country's first female oil engineer. While a student, she also worked as a"}, {"text": "typist to help support her family. In 1932, Orujova graduated from the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University in Baku as a petrochemical technologist. As a scientist, Orujova developed new methods for producing oil additives, which improved the quality of motor oils. She worked at the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University from 1932 to 1959. Her improvements to motor oils were important for the war effort of the Soviet Union in World War II and she worked continuously on oils throughout the war. Orujova defended her doctoral thesis in 1947, becoming a Doctor of Technical Sciences. From 1959 to 1967, she worked as a laboratory director at the Institute of Petrochemical Processes in Baku. In 1972 Orujova became a professor and the director of the Institute of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. She was one of the first Azerbaijani women to work as an academic at the Academy of the Sciences, working there until 1971. Later she worked at the Institute of Additive Chemistry, from 1971 to 1983, as the head of its additive composition preparation laboratory. As a scientist, Orujova represented chemistry in Azerbaijan internationally and held talks in countries"}, {"text": "such as Portugal, Hungary, Germany and Canada. She was a chairman of the German-Azerbaijani Friendship Society and was on the editorial board of the \"Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia\" (1976\u20131987). In total, she authored more than 300 scientific works. Orujova was awarded with the in 1970. She was throughout her scientific career also awarded numerous other awards, including the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and the Order of the Badge of Honour. The Badge of Honour was awarded to her for her contributions to the Soviet war effort in World War II. Personal life. Orujova's husband, Movsum Ismayilzade, was arrested by the Bolsheviks as an enemy of the people in 1937 and only narrowly avoided execution. He divorced Orujova in anticipation of his arrest to save her from repressions, which could have included exile to Siberia. After having been forced into exile for several years, Ismayilzade was allowed to return to Azerbaijan but he was forbidden from seeing Orujova and from living in Baku. As a consequence, Orujova raised their son, Yilmaz, alone. Orujova died in Baku on 22 April 1983 at the age of 73. The additive composition preparation"}, {"text": "laboratory at the Institute of Additive Chemistry was renamed in her honor. On 7 October 2009 a memorial evening was hosted in Orujova's honor at the Museum Centre of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth. She may have been the basis of the Statue of a Liberated Woman in Baku, which was inspired by \"Sevil\"."}, {"text": "The Texas Iraqi Campaign Medal is a campaign/service award of the Texas Military Department issued to service members of the Texas Military Forces. The Texas Iraqi Campaign Medal was established by Senator Kirk Watson in Senate Bill 356, authorized by the Eighty-second Texas Legislature, and approved by Governor Rick Perry on May 28, 2011. Effective September 01, 2011. Texas Government Code, Chapter 437 (Texas Military), Subchapter H. (Awards), Section 355 (Other Awards), Line 13."}, {"text": "\u00c9douard van den Corput (1821\u20131908) was a Belgian physician and medical researcher who was professor of clinical medicine and therapy at the Universit\u00e9 libre de Bruxelles. Life. Van den Corput was born in Brussels on 20 April 1821. His father, Henri-Joseph van den Corput, was a pharmacist and would also become a university professor in the city. Embarking initially on university studies in classics and philosophy, he switched to pharmacology after his father's death in 1841, in order to qualify to run the family business. He graduated as a pharmacist in 1845, taught some courses on pharmacology in Brussels, and attended Bonn University for further studies in chemistry. He worked as a pharmacist in Brussels while studying for the degree of doctor of science, and then doctor of medicine. He was a founding member of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de pharmacie. From 1860 to 1874 he worked as a physician and a teacher in the city hospitals in Brussels. In 1871 he became a professor at the university, teaching clinical medicine and general medical therapy, including pharmacodynamics. He published widely on chemistry, pharmacy, technology, therapies, medical ethics, and the history of medicine, in a variety of journals. By 1857 he was on"}, {"text": "the editorial board of the \"Journal de m\u00e9decine, de chirurgie et de pharmacologie de Bruxelles\", serving until 1887. From 1894 to 1900 he sat in the Belgian Parliament as senator for Brussels. He was also an amateur artist and an avid art collector. He died in Brussels on 22 February 1908."}, {"text": "The Type 15 (, also designated ZTQ-15), codenamed the Black Panther (), is a Chinese third generation light tank family operated by the People's Liberation Army Ground Force, People's Liberation Army Navy Marine Corps, and People's Liberation Army Air Force Airborne Corps. The tank has also been exported to the Bangladesh Army. It is the effective successor to the Type 62 light tank that was retired from the Chinese army in 2013. The export version of the tank is known as VT-5. Development. During development, the Type 15 was repeatedly sighted by Chinese citizens, with sightings as early as 2011. The Type 15 entered mass production in 2016. In December 2018, the tank was officially acknowledged to be in active service. It was showcased in the 70th National Day parade on October 1, 2019. Design. Overview. The Type 15 is designed to fulfill the requirement for a lighter, more mobile modern tank that can effectively operate in highland/plateau, woodland and water-rich regions where the heavier Type 99 and Type 96 main battle tanks might have difficulties traversing. In high altitude regions like Tibet, the air becomes thin and engines start to lose power. Heavily armored vehicles such as T-72 and"}, {"text": "T-90 main battle tanks will have difficulty to traverse in the hypoxic environment, but the Type-15 light tank can operate at high altitudes with its powerful engine and oxygen generators. Type-15 is also much more mobile than heavier main battle tanks due to its light weight and high power-to-weight ratio. Armament. The Type 15 light tank features a fully stabilized 105 mm rifled gun, which is reportedly superior to the old ZPL-94 105 mm rifled gun fitted on Type 88 and Type 59 tanks. It is reported that the main gun has an effective firing range of 3 km and is compatible with all standard NATO 105 mm tank ammunition. The sustained fire rate is supported by a bustle-mounted autoloader system, which reduces the crew to 3. The Type 15 tank can hold 38 rounds of various 105 mm shells. The ammunition selections include APFSDS, HEAT and HE (High explosive) rounds and gun-launched ATGM. APFSDS and HEAT rounds are used against enemy armor while HE round is used against enemy infantry positions, light/non-armored vehicles, buildings, and field fortifications. The APFSDS projectiles are capable of penetrating of armored steel at . The penetration capabilities of 105 mm APFSDS are not considered"}, {"text": "as sufficient to penetrate the front armor of modern main battle tanks such as T-90 or VT-4. To defeat well-protected opponents, the tank would use the 105 mm gun-launched ATGM with tandem high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warheads, offering much higher penetration. The missile reportedly has a range of 5 km and is capable of engaging low-flying helicopters. Other armament includes a QJT-88 5.8 mm coaxial machine gun, a remotely controlled weapon station mounted on the turret roof, which is fitted with QLZ-04 35 mm automatic grenade launcher and QJC-88 12.7 mm heavy machine gun. Electronics. Type 15 features modern sensory and fire control systems, including laser rangefinder, advanced ballistic computer, meteorological sensors, gunner thermal imaging sight, millimeter-wave radar, and commander's panoramic sight. The fire control system supports automatic target tracking, hunter-killer capabilities, and commander takeover. Other equipment includes air conditioning system, oxygen-production equipment for the crew, command and control equipment, battlefield management system, and navigation suite fitted with both inertial navigation system (INS) and satellite navigation system. Protection. Unlike previous Chinese tanks with carousel-style autoloader, the ammunition in Type 15 is retrieved from a tail autoloader with blowout panels. The ammunition is stored in the turret bustle for improved safety. The"}, {"text": "Type 15 tank features two sets of armor packages providing different tactical mobility. Standard armor package features steel armor protection with additional layers of advanced composite armor panels covering the tank turret, hull, and two sides, with additional lightweight explosive reactive armor blocks protecting the front hull. The enhanced package features thicker explosive reactive armor (ERA) blocks, in addition to the composite armor panels underneath, covering the whole tank turret and hull. ERA mounted armor-skirt and slat armor can also be mounted on the side and rear side of the tank hull for additional protection. Enhanced armor set is designed for open area battle under heavy defensive conditions. The Type 15 light tank is fitted with a laser warning sensor system to detect incoming rangefinding and anti-tank missiles, and the tank can automatically deploy smoke grenades in dischargers if the tank is being illuminated by enemy laser beam. Chinese-designed active protection system can be mounted on export-oriented VT-5 variant as per customer request. Other protective features include chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) protection, and fire suppression system. The vehicle also features oxygen generators to aid in high-altitude operations. Mobility. The Type 15 is powered by a 1,000 hp (746"}, {"text": "kW) electronically controlled diesel engine, with hydro-mechanical full automatic transmission. The tank is also capable of neutral steering and features hydropneumatic suspension. Due to its lighter weight, the Type 15 tank can be more easily airlifted. Xi'an Y-20 transport planes can only carry one Type 99 tank but can carry up to two Type 15 tanks and achieve long-range deployment of 7,800 kilometers. ZTQ-15 can also be paradropped by the transport aircraft. Operational history. During the China-India border dispute along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in June 2020, Type 15 tanks were reportedly deployed in the Tibetan Plateau. Variants. Designation for military version. Armored recovery vehicle based on Type 15 chassis. Different design similar to the ZTQ-15 that is made for export. There are noticeable design differences. The driver's hatch on the VT-5 is positioned at the center front hull whereas the ZTQ-15 driver's hatch is located on the left. The upper front hull of the VT-5 is noticeably curved whereas the ZTQ-15 is straight. The modular add-on armor kits are also noticeably different. Unmanned version of the VT-5. Customized variant of VT-5 made for Bangladesh Army. The main armament 105 mm rifled gun is improved with thermal sleeve"}, {"text": "and fume extractor system. The tanks are equipped with GL-5 APS, but the remote-controlled 12.7 mm machine gun is replaced with a manual one."}, {"text": "The 2019 Democratic Alliance Federal Council chairpersonship election was held on 20 October 2019 to elect the new Chairperson of the South African Federal Council of the Democratic Alliance (DA), after the incumbent James Selfe had announced his retirement in June 2019. The members of the party's Federal Council elected the new chairperson. Helen Zille was elected to the position. Background. In June 2019, James Selfe announced his retirement from the post of Chairperson of the Federal Council of the DA. He served in the post for almost two decades under the leadership of Tony Leon, Helen Zille and Mmusi Maimane. The leadership position is similar to that of the role of Secretary-General of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). In recent months, the DA had been plagued by infighting and disorder. The party unsuccessfully tried to grow its vote share in the May 2019 national elections, only to be met with its first electoral decline in its history. This consequently caused leadership uncertainty within the party. Candidates. The candidate nomination process closed on 4 October 2019 at around 17:00. Four candidates declared their intention to contest the election and were as follow: Results. On 20 October 2019, DA Spokesperson"}, {"text": "Solly Malatsi tweeted that Helen Zille had been elected to the post. The party soon confirmed her election."}, {"text": "This page details Northern Ireland national football team records and statistics; the most capped players, the players with the most goals, and Northern Ireland's match record by opponent and decade. Player records. Most capped players. \"after the match against .\" Top goalscorers. \"after the match against .\" Most captaincies. \"after the match against .\" Most clean sheets. \"after the match against .\" Hat-tricks. The result is presented with Northern Ireland's score first. Red cards. The result is presented with Northern Ireland's score first. Performance. Performance by competition. \"after the match against .\" Performance by manager. \"after the match against .\" Performance by venue. \"after the match against .\" Performance by confederation. \"after the match against .\" Performance by decade. \"after the match against .\" All-time records. Head to head records. \"after the match against .\" FIFA members yet to play against Northern Ireland. \"after the match against .\" Competitive record. Champions Runners-up Third Place Fourth Place FIFA Rankings. \"Last updated 27 March 2023\""}, {"text": "The Blue Envelope Mystery is a lost 1916 silent film drama directed by Wilfrid North and starring Lillian Walker. It was produced by the Vitagraph Company of America. Future star Adolphe Menjou has one of his earliest appearances in the film."}, {"text": "Stad is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Nordfjord. The municipality includes much of the northern shore of the Nordfjorden as well as the Stad peninsula. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Nordfjordeid. Other villages in the municipality include Selje, Barmen, Ervik, Flatraket, Hoddevik, Hoddevika, H\u00e5vik, Leikanger, Mogrenda, St\u00e5rheim, Haugen, Kj\u00f8lsdalen, Heggjabygda, and Lote. The municipality is the 152nd largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Stad is the 119th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 9,543. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 9.6% over the previous 10-year period. The Stad Ship Tunnel is a planned canal and tunnel to bypass the Stad peninsula in Stad Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. When built it will be the first full-size ship tunnel in the world and will allow boats to avoid traveling around the Stad peninsula\u2014a particularly dangerous sea route. General information. The municipality of Stad was established on 1 January 2020 when Selje Municipality, Eid Municipality, and the Bryggja area of V\u00e5gs\u00f8y Municipality were merged to form one large municipality. Name. The municipality is named after the"}, {"text": "Stad peninsula () which is located in the western part of the municipality. The name is identical to the word which means \"stop\", \"halt\", or \"hesitation\". The name possibly was used for the peninsula because of the rough waters around it which often caused seafarers here to wait for better weather. Coat of arms. The coat of arms was granted on 15 May 2019 for use starting on 1 January 2020 when the municipality was established. The blazon is \"Azure, \" (). This means the arms have a teal-colored field (background) and the charge is a two-part design with St. Sunniva on the left and a fjord horse on the right. The charge has a tincture of argent which means it is commonly colored white, but if it is made out of metal, then silver is used. The arms are an informal impalement of the old arms of the two municipalities of Selje and Eid which were merged in 2020 to form Stad. These two figures were chosen because the region is well known for its own race of horses, called the Fjording, that are very common and popular in the area. The Fjording is characterised by its white and"}, {"text": "black mane. The woman is a depiction of Saint Sunniva, the royal Irish missionary who died as a martyr on the island of Selja while trying to convert the locals to Christianity. Later, the Selje Abbey was built on the spot where she died. She was later named the patron saint of the Norwegian Diocese of Bj\u00f8rgvin and all of Western Norway. The municipal flag has the same design as the coat of arms. Churches. The Church of Norway has six parishes () within the municipality of Stad. It is part of the Nordfjord prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bj\u00f8rgvin. Geography. Stad Municipality is located in the northwesternmost part of Vestland county, in the Nordfjord region. It includes the Stad peninsula and the islands of Barm\u00f8ya, Ven\u00f8ya, and Selja. The Sildagapet bay, the North Sea, and the Vanylvsfjorden lie on the western sides of the municipality. The Nordfjorden runs along the south side of the municipality. Hornindalsvatnet, the deepest lake in Europe, is partially located in the municipality. Stad Municipality is bordered to the southwest by Kinn Municipality, to the north by Vanylven Municipality, Sande Municipality, and Volda Municipality (in M\u00f8re og Romsdal county). The municipalities of Bremanger and"}, {"text": "Gloppen lie to the south, across the fjord. Stryn Municipality lies to the east. Government. Stad Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor is indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council. The municipality is under the jurisdiction of the Sogn og Fjordane District Court and the Gulating Court of Appeal. Municipal council. The municipal council of Stad is made up of 31 representatives that are elected to four year terms. The tables below show the current and historical composition of the council by political party. Mayors. The mayors () of Stad:"}, {"text": "Degol Woyane is a \"tabia\" or municipality in the Dogu'a Tembien district of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. It includes Dabba Selama, the oldest monastery of Ethiopia, and the most inaccessible in the world. The \"tabia\" centre is in Zala village, located approximately 10 km to the west of the \"woreda\" town Hagere Selam. Geography. The \"tabia\" stretches down west of Melfa, along the westernmost ridge of Dogu'a Tembien. The highest peak is T'afa (2580 m a.s.l.) and the lowest place Addi Welo (1990 m a.s.l.). Geology. From the higher to the lower locations, the following geological formations are present: Springs. As there are no permanent rivers, the presence of springs is of utmost importance for the local people. The following are the springs in the tabia: Livelihood. The population lives essentially from crop farming, supplemented with off-season work in nearby towns. The land is dominated by farmlands which are clearly demarcated and are cropped every year. Hence the agricultural system is a permanent upland farming system. Population. The \"tabia\" centre Zala holds a few administrative offices and some small shops. The main other populated places in the \"tabia\" are: Religion and rock churches. Most inhabitants are Orthodox Christians. The"}, {"text": "following rock churches are located in the \"tabia\": The almost inaccessible Dabba Selama monastery () is assumed to be the first monastery established in Ethiopia, by Saint Frumentius. The intrepid visitor will climb down, then scramble over narrow ledges along precipices, and finally climb an overhanging cliff. The mesa also comprises a church hewn in Adigrat Sandstone, in shape of a small basilica. The carvers attempted to establish four bays as well as with a recess. The pillars are rounded (which is uncommon) and expand at either end, supporting arches that appear as triangles. Women are not allowed to do the ascent, nor to visit monastery or church. Independently from the difficult access to the monastery, the surrounding sandstone geomorphology is unique. The Amani'el church in May Baha () has also been carved in Adigrat Sandstone. Behind a pronaos (1960s), the rock church has cruciform columns, flat beams and a flat ceiling, a single arch, and a flat rear wall without apse. Windows give light to the church itself. Emperor Yohannes IV was baptised in this church. History. The history of the \"tabia\" is strongly confounded with the history of Tembien. Schools. Almost all children of the \"tabia\" are schooled,"}, {"text": "though in some schools there is lack of classrooms, directly related to the large intake in primary schools over the last decades. Schools in the \"tabia\" include Atse Yohannes school in Zala. Roads and communication. A rural access road links Zala to the main asphalt road in Hagere Selam. It is also connected through a disused road to Werkamba in the West. Tourism. Its mountainous nature, monastery and rock church make the \"tabia\" fit for tourism. Geotouristic sites. The high variability of geological formations and the rugged topography invites for geological and geographic tourism or \"geotourism\". Geosites in the \"tabia\" include: Birdwatching. Birdwatching (for the species, see the main Dogu'a Tembien page) can be done particularly in exclosures and forests. The following bird-watching sites have been inventoried in the \"tabia\" and mapped. Trekking routes. Trekking routes have been established in this \"tabia\". The tracks are not marked on the ground but can be followed using downloaded .GPX files. All treks require good physical condition and will take (at least) a full day. \"Inda Siwa\", the local beer houses. In the main villages, there are traditional beer houses (\"Inda Siwa\"), often in unique settings, which are a good place for resting"}, {"text": "and chatting with the local people. Most renown in the \"tabia\" are Accommodation and facilities. The facilities are very basic. One may be invited to spend the night in a rural homestead or ask permission to pitch a tent. Hotels are available in Hagere Selam, Werqamba, Abiy Addi and Mekelle. More detailed information. For more details on environment, agriculture, rural sociology, hydrology, ecology, culture, etc., see the overall page on the Dogu'a Tembien district."}, {"text": "Douvas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Andrzej Piotr \u015awierniak (born February 22, 1950, in Wa\u0142brzych) is a Polish mathematician, specializing in bioinformatics and control theory. Biography. In 1972 he obtained a master's degree in automation engineering at the Faculty of Automation of the Silesian University of Technology, and in 1975 he received a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Silesia in Katowice. In 1978, at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science of the Silesian University of Technology, he received his doctoral degree technical sciences. There, based on scientific achievements and his habilitation monograph, he was awarded in 1988 his Habilitation (higher doctoral degree). In 1996 he became a professor of technical sciences. He became a full professor at the Silesian University of Technology at the Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science and the director of the Institute of Automatic Control at this department. He became a member of the Automation and Robotics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Committee of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Central Commission for Degrees and Titles (Section VI - Technical Sciences), the Committee of the Scientific Research Committee (Electronics, Automation and Robotics, Information Technology and Telecommunications, T-11"}, {"text": ") and the Appeals Team of the Science Council at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education; Science Council; Appeal Team. In 2019 he became a member of the (Council of Scientific Excellence), the nation's highest distinction in the discipline of biomedical engineering. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society."}, {"text": "Florence Youree (born April 19, 1933) is a ProRodeo Hall of Fame cowgirl. She assisted in getting barrel racing into the National Finals Rodeo (NFR), which only had men's events at the time. Life. Florence Youree was born Florence Johnson on April 19, 1933, in Duncan, Oklahoma. Youree and her sister, Sherry Combs Johnson, grew up outside Addington, Oklahoma. They practiced musical chair races on horseback. When they discovered barrel racing, they started practicing right away. Florence married Dale Youree, a calf roper, in 1950. They went on the road and brought her sister along. She won the girl's all-around title in 1966. Her sister, Sherry, won the barrel racing world championship in 1962. Sherry's horse, Star Plaudit, was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. Youree's granddaughter, Janae Ward, won the barrel racing world championship in 2003. Career. Youree spent significant time promoting the sport of barrel racing. Under the hands of Youree and other women, it became a standardized event in rodeo. She also participated in bringing the Girls Rodeo Association (GRA) to a nationally-sized organization. Youree and her husband organized the Barrel Futurities of America, the Oklahoma Youth Rodeo Association, and the Youree Horsemanship Camps. Youree was"}, {"text": "the director of the GRA. From 1960 to 1964, she was the president. She was also the secretary-treasurer, from where she contributed the most. During this period, she spent time trying to get barrel racing included at the NFR. First, she presented the idea to the Rodeo Cowboys Association. They liked the idea, but they allowed it to be decided by the people in Oklahoma City. In the spring of 1967, Youree had wrangled meetings with Stan Draper and then Clem McSpadden, the general manager. This sealed the deal. As a competitor, Youree was in the top 15 six times. She won the all-around title in 1966. Honors. Youree was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 1996. She was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 2009."}, {"text": "Savva Novikov (born 27 July 1999) is a Russian cyclist, who currently rides for Russian amateur team Cycling Sport Club Olymp. 2nd Team pursuit, National Track Championships 1st Overall Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan) 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 3 2nd Overall Tour of Romania 1st Stage 4 3rd Points race, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships 3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese 2nd Grand Prix World's Best High Altitude 5th Overall Tour of Mevlana 5th Grand Prix Mount Erciyes 2200 mt 7th Road race, National Road Championships 9th Grand Prix Velo Erciyes 9th Grand Prix Central Anatolia 3rd Overall Istrian Spring Trophy 3rd Syedra Ancient City 4th Overall Five Rings of Moscow"}, {"text": "City Bureau is an American non-profit organization based in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is a non-profit newsroom with a stated mission \"to equip every community with the tools it needs to eliminate information inequity to further liberation, justice and self-determination.\" It was founded in 2015. History. City Bureau was founded in October 2015 by Bettina Chang, Andrea Hart, Darryl Holliday, Harry Backlund. Its goal was to help address the lack of news coverage of Chicago's South and West Sides as well as the lack of diversity in newsrooms. It received early grants from Illinois Humanities and the McCormick Foundation and in 2018 was awarded a $1 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation. City Bureau has trained over 80 journalists a and co-published articles with a number of different journalism outlets. City Bureau won the March 2016 Sidney Award. City Bureau has also won an Online Journalism Awards for their Documenters.org project, Projects. Documenters. Through the Documenters program, City Bureau trains and pays community members to attend local government meetings and report back on them. As of October 2019, over 1000 people had enrolled in the program. In conjunction, City Bureau has helped to develop a City Scrapers"}, {"text": "toolkit, an open-source tool for gathering and standardizing information about all of the different public meetings in a city. The program has also expanded beyond Chicago with a pilot program in Detroit. Police accountability. Much of City Bureau's early reporting and community outreach focused on police accountability. They co-published stories with newspapers including \"The Guardian\" and the \"Chicago Reader\" about misinformation in the aftermath of police shootings. The latter article focused on the role that the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police played in shaping the narrative around shootings involving members of the Chicago Police Department and won a Sidney Award for outstanding investigative journalism. When the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force published their lengthy report following the murder of Laquan McDonald, City Bureau and several Documenters partnered with the Invisible Institute and Smart Chicago Collaborative to generate an annotated version of the report that readers could then contribute their own stories overtop."}, {"text": "Michal Gutwald (born 17 June 1993) is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman who plays for Anglet Hormadi \u00c9lite in the French Ligue Magnus. He previously played with Cracovia Krak\u00f3w in the Polska Hokej Liga. Career. Gutwald began his career with HC Kladno and made his debut for the senior team during the 2011\u201312 Czech Extraliga season where he played one game. After spending the following season with HC 07 Detva of the Tipsport liga in Slovakia, Gutwald returned to Kladno in 2013. Gutwald spent the 2016\u201317 season in Slovakia, playing in the Tipsport Liga for MsHK \u017dilina during the regular season, and in the 1. Liga for HK Dukla Michalovce during the playoffs. On 1 November 2017 Gutwald moved to the United Kingdom to sign for the Braehead Clan based in Glasgow, Scotland. After two seasons with the Clan, he moved to fellow Scottish team the Fife Flyers on 8 August 2019. In August 2020, Gutwald moved to Polish side Cracovia Krak\u00f3w. In 2021, Gutwald moved to French Ligue Magnus side Anglet Hormadi \u00c9lite."}, {"text": "Brely Evans is an American actress, singer, songwriter, producer, author and comedian. She was a member of the 1990s R&B group Emage. She moved into acting and appeared in films such as \"Sparkle\" (2012) and \"The Man in 3B\" (2015) and the 2019 Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera, \"Ambitions\". She starred in BET drama series \"The Family Business\" (2020\u20132022) and \"Haus of Vicious\" (2022\u2013present). Life and career. Evans was born and raised in Oakland, California. She was a member in the early 1990s R&B group Emage. Their only album, \"Soul Deep,\" was mostly produced by D'Wayne Wiggins from Tony Toni Ton\u00e9 and was released in 1994 by Mercury Records. Their only notable single, \"The Choice Is Yours,\" reached #81 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Evans later received a bachelor\u2019s degree in marketing in Los Angeles and landed a job in Larrabee Sound Studios. She also became a session singer, sang backup on several Warren G songs, and worked on Dr. Dre\u2019s debut studio album, \"The Chronic\". By the end of the 2000s, Evans worked as a real estate agent and sold her first home to Queen Latifah. Evans later had a minor role in the 2010 romantic comedy"}, {"text": "\"Just Wright\" starring Latifah. In 2010s, Evans began acting in films such as \"He's Mine Not Yours\" (2011), \"Note to Self\" (2012), and the 2012 remake of \"Sparkle\". She co-starred in the Regina King-directed drama \"Let the Church Say Amen\", and appeared in David E. Talbert's \"Suddenly Single\" (2013), \"Black Coffee\" (2014), \"The Man in 3B\" (2015), and played the leading role in \"You Can't Fight Christmas\" (2017). On television, Evans had a recurring roles on BET drama series \"Being Mary Jane\" from 2014 to 2015, and TV One comedy series \"Born Again Virgin\" in 2015. In 2019, Evans was cast in two series regular roles. First, a female lead on the Bounce TV comedy series \"Last Call\" opposite Charles Malik Whitfield. Later that year, she began starring in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, \"Ambitions,\" playing Rondell Lancaster, the sister of Atlanta Mayor Evan Lancaster (Brian J. White). The series was canceled after one season. In 2020 she co-starred in the made-for-television movie \"Steppin' Back to Love\", starred in the first season of Urban Movie Channel horror-anthology series \"Terror Lake Drive\", and the Urban Movie Channel comedy-drama series \"For the Love of Jason\". In 2020, Evans was"}, {"text": "cast as Sonya Duncan in the second season of BET crime drama series \"The Family Business\". She was promoted to series regular for the fourth season. In 2022 she co-starred opposite Meagan Tandy in the thriller film \"Stalked Within\" and played the lead in the romantic drama film \"Single Not Searching\". Later in 2022 she starred opposite Tami Roman in the BET drama series \"Haus of Vicious\". The following year, Evans starred opposite Denise Boutte in the TV One and Lifetime drama film \"A Mother's Intuition\", and the comedy-drama \"Whatever It Takes\" alongside Tami Roman, A.J. Johnson and Kandi Burruss. In 2023, Evans starred as GeGe in the We TV drama series \"Kold x Windy\"."}, {"text": "Buffalo Public School No. 77 is a historic school building located in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. It was built in 1927, and is a three-story, rectangular, brick building with Classical Revival detailing. It has a courtyard plan with a double-height gymnasium at one end and a double-height auditorium at the other. The building is an example of a typical standardized public school plan developed by Ernest Crimi. The school building has been redeveloped as senior housing and a neighborhood community center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017."}, {"text": "Gail Rizzo (born 2 February 1979) is a Maltese former swimmer and current swimming coach who represented Malta at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Career. At the 1996 Summer Olympic Games Rizzo finished 50th out of 55 competitors in the women's 50m freestyle in a time of 28.43 seconds, 48th and last in the women's 100m freestyle with a time of 1:02.19 and 33rd out of 36 in the women's 100m backstroke with a time of 1:07.61. Rizzo set a national record of 2:25.66 in the 200m backstroke in May 1997. The record lasted until 2019. She later became head coach of Neptunes WPSC."}, {"text": "Vansittart was launched at New York in 1807, under another name. She was captured c.1814 and new owners gave her the name \"Vansittart\". She was initially a West Indiaman. Then between 1817 and 1837 she made seven voyages as a whaler in the British Southern Whale Fisheries. Thereafter she was a merchantman sailing out of Shields. She foundered on 2 February 1855. Career. \"Vansittart\" first appeared in \"Lloyd's Register\" in 1815 with W.Mills, master, changing to R.Creig, Hughes & Co., owners, and trade London\u2013Antwerp, changing to London\u2013West Indies. The \"Register of Shipping\" (\"RS\") showed her with M Mills, master, changing to R. Craigie, Hughs & Co., owner, and trade London\u2013Antwerp, changing to London\u2013Antigua. It also showed her as an American prize. Whaler. \"Lloyd's Register\" for 1818 showed \"Vansittart\" with J.Bennett, master, Benett & Co., owners, and trade London\u2013South Seas. It also showed her as having been built in New York in 1807. 1st whaling voyage (1817\u20131819): Captain James Daniel Bennett sailed from London on 28 July 1817, bound for the Isle of Desolation. He returned on 28 September 1819 with 400 casks of oil and 750 seal skins. 2nd whaling voyage (1819\u20131823): Captain Thomas C. Hunt sailed from London on"}, {"text": "17 December 1819, bound for the New South Wales fishery. He returned on 8 April 1823 with 470 casks of whale oil. 3rd whaling voyage (1823\u20131826): Captain Bacon sailed on 17 June 1823, bound for New Zealand and the waters off Japan. At some point William Beacon became master of \"Vansittart\". On 20 January 1825, the Bennett whaler wrecked on Jarvis Island. Fortuitously \"Vansittart\", Captain Beacon, and \"Francis\", Captain Thomas Hunt, arrived in May. Each ship took part of \"Mary\"s crew. \"Vansittart\" arrived at Sydney in July with 16 crew members from \"Mary\", including the second officer. \"Vansittart\" returned to England on 30 August 1826 with 400 casks of whale oil. 4th whaling voyage (1826\u20131829): Captain David Barney sailed on 1 December 1826, bound for Peru. \"Vansittart\" returned on 16 July 1829. 5th whaling voyage (1829\u2013?): Captain William Blakely was both \"Vansittart\"s master and owner on this voyage. 6th whaling voyage (1831\u2013?): Thomas Gustard was \"Vansittart\"s master on this voyage. Blakely was still her owner, together with some partners. 7th whaling voyage (1834\u201337): Captain Thomas Hunt sailed in 1834. He returned on 4 April 1837 with 470 casks of whale oil. Later career. \"LR\" for 1837 showed \"Vansittart\" with R.Murray,"}, {"text": "master, changing to I.B.Shipley, Hart, owner, and trade London\u2013Petersburg. She had undergone a large repair in 1837. Hart moved \"Vansittart\"s homeport to South Shields. On 19 February 1854 \"Vansittart\" ran aground on the Sunk Sand. She was on a voyage from South Shields to London. She was refloated and put in to Ramsgate. \"LR\" for 1854 showed \"Vansittart\" with I.Wallis, master, R.Hart, owner, and trade Shields\u2013Mediterranean. Fate. \"Vansittart\" foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Finisterre, Spain, on 2 February 1855. \"Adventure\" rescued her crew. \"Vansittart\" was on a voyage from South Shields, to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire."}, {"text": "Henri-Joseph van den Corput (1790\u20131841) was a Belgian pharmacist who became professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Universit\u00e9 libre de Bruxelles. Life. Van den Corput was born in Antwerp in 1790, to a family originally from Holland. He studied chemistry in Paris and graduated as a pharmacist there. He set up a pharmacy in Brussels, and after the Belgian Revolution of 1830 was appointed chief pharmacist to the newly formed Belgian army. He served on a number of government and civic commissions on medical qualifications and medical practice, including the revision of the Belgian pharmacopoeia, and was particularly active during the 1826\u20131837 cholera pandemic, which reached Brussels in 1832. He taught pharmacy and toxicology at the Free University of Brussels from 1834 until his death. He collected a large variety of natural history specimens and exotic plants, in 1827 being the first in Belgium to grow vanilla fruit. He died in Brussels on 28 April 1841."}, {"text": "Arminda Aberastury de Pich\u00f3n Rivi\u00e8re (1910\u20131972), known as La Negra, was an early Argentinian psychoanalyst. She was born in Buenos Aires. Through her brother Frederico, who suffered from mental illness, she came to meet Enrique Pichon-Rivi\u00e8re, and married him in 1937. She joined a local, mostly European group interested in psychoanalysis. Receiving a training analysis from \u00c1ngel Garma, one of the group, Arberastury then developed the analysis of children in the style of Melanie Klein and Sophie Morgenstern. She led a seminar on the area, 1948 to 1952, for the Argentinian Psychoanalytic Association. She committed suicide in 1972."}, {"text": "Kaone Vanderwesthuizen (born 1 December 1994) is a Motswana footballer playing for Township Rollers F.C. in the Botswana Premier League. International career. Vanderwesthuizen made his Botswana debut in a 2\u20130 loss to Eritrea in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 2017-18"}, {"text": "25 Years Later is the sixteenth studio album by European-American pop group The Kelly Family. It was released by license to Airforce1 Records, a division of Universal Music, on 25 October 2019 throughout most of Central Europe. Track listing. All tracks produced by Thorsten Br\u00f6tzmann, Jeo Mezei, and Elephant Music."}, {"text": "The NAU Black-headed Gull is a Chinese two seat, high wing ultralight first flown in 2011. Design and development. Design of the Black-headed Gull began at Nanchang Aviation University (NAU) in 2008. It first appeared in public, unflown, in November 2010 at Airshow China, held at Zhuhai. The first flight was made in early June 2011. Its cantilever wing is rectangular in plan and is mounted with 2.5\u00b0 of dihedral. Ailerons and flaps fill the whole trailing edge. The flaps are Fowler-type and can be set, electrically, at deflections of 0\u00b0, 15\u00b0 or 30\u00b0. The fuselage is built with a mixture of carbon (9%) and glass fibre materials with epoxy sandwich. Its Rotax 912 engine is conventionally nose-mounted and drives a three-bladed propeller. The cabin is largely under the wing, with each of its side-by-side seats accessed by an upward-hinged side door. Dual control is fitted. The fuselage tapers rapidly to the rear, ending in a swept, approximately parallelogram profile fin and rudder. The Black-headed Gull has a T-tail. Its rectangular plan, all-moving elevator has a central trim tab. The Gull has tricycle gear with its mainwheels on arched, cantilever carbon fibre, faired legs. The nose leg is similarly faired."}, {"text": "All three wheels are semi-enclosed in fairings. A ballistic recovery parachute is fitted. Operational history. At Airshow China it was described as suitable for agricultural and forestry work as well as aerial photography. It could also serve as a trainer. Only two examples are known to have been completed by 2014, though there were reports of interest in Hong Kong and Taiwan."}, {"text": "Upstarts is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Udai Singh Pawar and Produced by Janani Ravichandran and Jawahar Sharma. The film stars Priyanshu Painyuli, Chandrachoor Rai and Shadab Kamal in the lead roles and follows the story of three college graduates who create a startup and the events that follow. It was released on 18 October 2019 on Netflix. \"Upstart\" was announced by Netflix among the nine films to be made by them. Raja Krishna Menon served as the creative producer. Reception. Aditya Shrikrishna of \"The New Indian Express\" wrote, \"\"Upstarts\", written by Pawar and Ketan Bhagat, doesn\u2019t romanticise the idea of startup and its culture.\" Shikha Desai of \"The Times of India\" rated the film two-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote, \"At the crux of this business drama is the struggle that manifests itself as service vs profit, making it an important ode to the Indian start-up culture.\""}, {"text": "Emilie Ashurst (Hawkes) Venturi (6 July 1821 \u2013 16 March 1893) was an artist, writer, and activist who pushed for reforms in nineteenth-century Britain. She was the primary English translator of the works of Giuseppe Mazzini, the renowned Italian intellectual, and his devoted disciple. She corresponded with Mazzini, the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, the artist James McNeill Whistler, the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, the activist Josephine Butler, and the Irish politician John Dillon. She also painted portraits and published essays, translations, and some fiction. She and her first husband, Sidney Milnes Hawkes (1821-1905), separated in 1854. After her divorce was granted in 1861, she married the Italian patriot Carlo Venturi (c. 1831-1866) and became known as Madame Venturi. Their marriage ended with Carlo\u2019s sudden death from a stroke. She also published as E.A.V and Edward Lovel. She belonged to a family, the Ashursts, who agitated for reforms across three generations and were the central figures in the \"Muswell Hill Brigade\". Early life. She was the youngest of five surviving children of Elizabeth Ann Brown and William Henry Ashurst. Her father was a prominent solicitor who supported anti-slavery, Chartism, the repeal of the Corn Laws, the creation of the Penny Post,"}, {"text": "the end of Church Rates, and the unification of Italy. Her mother, Elizabeth Ann Brown, hailed from working-class origins in London. Her siblings were Elizabeth Ann Ashurst Bardonneau-Narcy, who was among the first to translate George Sand\u2019s novels into English; Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld, who developed a close tie with Mazzini and worked for a variety of reform movements with her husband James Stansfeld; Matilda Ashurst Biggs, who was part of the international network of anti-slavery activists and developed a friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Lloyd Garrison; and William Henry Ashurst, junior, who worked as the solicitor for the Post Office. Adult life. Italian Unification. Venturi considered Giuseppe Mazzini as another brother almost from the time he met the Ashursts in 1844, and she worked tirelessly for the cause of Italian unification. She was a fierce advocate for his ideas about freedom and duty and took a lead role in promoting his ideas in England. Her interpretations shaped how his audience understood him and she was an important chronicler of current events. Venturi published six essays about Mazzini\u2019s ideas in addition to three translations of his major works, including \"The Duties of Man\". She also collected about 1500 of"}, {"text": "his letters to her family for publication in three volumes as \"Mazzini\u2019s Letters to an English Family\". She died before completing the project and handed it off to her friend Elinor Francis Richards. The Ashursts called Mazzini their \u201cAngel\u201d and supported him personally, politically, and financially. Venturi travelled throughout Italy and Switzerland raising money and gathering support for Mazzini. She was also a passionate advocate for Irish independence. She considered herself the adopted mother of John Dillion and corresponded with him in the last years of her life. She died on the 16th March 1893 and was buried in the dissenters section of the western side of Highgate Cemetery in the Ashurst family vault. Women\u2019s rights advocacy. After Italy was unified, Venturi worked to increase women\u2019s independence in society. She served as the editor for the journal of the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts (\"The Shield\") from 1871-1886, a cause supported in Parliament by her brother-in-law James Stansfeld. She was on the executive committee for the reform of the married women\u2019s property laws and co-wrote (with Josephine Butler and others) a pamphlet arguing their case, \"The Legislative Restrictions on the Industry of Women considered"}, {"text": "from the Women\u2019s Point of View\" (1872). Venturi and her sisters signed the 1866 petition for women\u2019s suffrage presented to Parliament by John Stuart Mill and she joined the Women\u2019s Franchise League in 1889. She served on a committee to support the Union side during the American Civil War. She also was a member of the Vigilance Association for the Defense of Personal Rights. Art career. In the 1870s Venturi tried her hand at writing fiction. Under a pseudonym, she published a novel (as Edward Lovel, \"The Owl\u2019s Nest in the City\") on a dare from her friend Jane Welsh Carlyle when they argued about whether a woman could write a novel without a sentimental ending. She also published a short story, \"A Dull Day in a Dull Port on the Mediterranean\". But her passion was visual art. She showed portraits at various exhibitions in the early 1850s, including two at the British Institution and a portrait of Arethusa Milner Gibson at the Royal Academy in 1853. Testifying to her cultural stature, her own portrait was shown at the Royal Academy and the South Kensington Museum. Venturi's illustrations also appeared in print. She took her skill seriously, apprenticing with established"}, {"text": "artists in London and in Italy. She gave her portrait of Mazzini to his mother as a gift. It still hangs today in Mazzini\u2019s house, now the Museo del Risorgimento in Genoa. She also painted portraits of the Cowen family in Newcastle and other political figures such as Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin and Louis (or Lajos) Kossuth. Later in her life she befriended James McNeill Whistler, her next door neighbor on Cheyne Walk (now Lindsey Row) in Chelsea. She owned several of his works (including \u201cChelsea in Ice\u201d now held by the Colby Museum of Art) and discussed art with him and his mother in person and through correspondence. It was Venturi who introduced Thomas Carlyle to Whistler who then painted his portrait, \"Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 2\". She was also close with the famous American actress Charlotte Cushman and her lover, the sculptor Emma Stebbins. Publications. For a complete list, see Ashurst Research 1862. (Dec 1869), 63-73."}, {"text": "Lily Augusta Long (1862 - 1927) was an American poet and novelist. Early life. Long was born in 1862 in St. Paul, Minnesota. She decided to become a writer when she was 11 years old while her family was living in Oregon. After moving back to St. Paul with her parents, she graduated high school and later took an elective course at the University of Wisconsin. As a student, she submitted verses and sketches to local papers. A few of her poems were published in \"Unity\". In 1887, two of her stories appeared in the magazine \"Overland\" and \"Current\". Long edited and contributed to \"Women's Record\". Career. Long wrote short stories and poems for \"Harper's Weekly\". Under the pseudonym Roman Doubleday, she wrote pulp mysteries for \"The Popular Magazine\" and novels. In a review from \"The Brooklyn Daily Eagle\" of \"The Hemlock Avenue Mystery\", F. Dana Reid wrote, \"Roman Doubleday's new story, \"The Hemlock Avenue Mystery\" presents and excellent example of a skillfully constructed mystery romance, where the denouement is so successfully concealed that the reader will have no solution of the puzzle before the time arrives for the revealing flash of the limelight\". A review in \"The Boston Globe\""}, {"text": "said, \"Roman Doubleday has the ability to crate character, a talent that adds greatly to this kind of fiction\". Death. Long died on September 8, 1927, in St. Paul."}, {"text": "Semi-global matching (SGM) is a computer vision algorithm for the estimation of a dense disparity map from a rectified stereo image pair, introduced in 2005 by Heiko Hirschm\u00fcller while working at the German Aerospace Center. Given its predictable run time, its favourable trade-off between quality of the results and computing time, and its suitability for fast parallel implementation in ASIC or FPGA, it has encountered wide adoption in real-time stereo vision applications such as robotics and advanced driver assistance systems. Problem. Pixelwise stereo matching allows to perform real-time calculation of disparity maps by measuring the similarity of each pixel in one stereo image to each pixel within a subset in the other stereo image. Given a rectified stereo image pair, for a pixel with coordinates formula_1 the set of pixels in the other image is usually selected as formula_2, where formula_3 is a maximum allowed disparity shift. A simple search for the best matching pixel produces many spurious matches, and this problem can be mitigated with the addition of a regularisation term that penalises jumps in disparity between adjacent pixels, with a cost function in the form formula_4 where formula_5 is the pixel-wise dissimilarity cost at pixel formula_6 with disparity"}, {"text": "formula_7, and formula_8 is the regularisation cost between pixels formula_6 and formula_10 with disparities formula_7 and formula_12 respectively, for all pairs of neighbouring pixels formula_13. Such constraint can be efficiently enforced on a per-scanline basis by using dynamic programming (e.g. the Viterbi algorithm), but such limitation can still introduce streaking artefacts in the depth map, because little or no regularisation is performed across scanlines. A possible solution is to perform global optimisation in 2D, which is however an NP-complete problem in the general case. For some families of cost functions (e.g. submodular functions) a solution with strong optimality properties can be found in polynomial time using graph cut optimization, however such global methods are generally too expensive for real-time processing. Algorithm. The idea behind SGM is to perform line optimisation along multiple directions and computing an aggregated cost formula_14 by summing the costs to reach pixel formula_6 with disparity formula_16 from each direction. The number of directions affects the run time of the algorithm, and while 16 directions usually ensure good quality, a lower number can be used to achieve faster execution. A typical 8-direction implementation of the algorithm can compute the cost in two passes, a forward pass accumulating"}, {"text": "the cost from the left, top-left, top, and top-right, and a backward pass accumulating the cost from right, bottom-right, bottom, and bottom-left. A single-pass algorithm can be implemented with only five directions. The cost is composed by a matching term formula_17 and a binary regularisation term formula_18. The former can be in principle any local image dissimilarity measure, and commonly used functions are absolute or squared intensity difference (usually summed over a window around the pixel, and after applying a high-pass filter to the images to gain some illumination invariance), Birchfield\u2013Tomasi dissimilarity, Hamming distance of the census transform, Pearson correlation (normalized cross-correlation). Even mutual information can be approximated as a sum over the pixels, and thus used as a local similarity metric. The regularisation term has the form formula_19 where formula_20 and formula_21 are two constant parameters, with formula_22. The three-way comparison allows to assign a smaller penalty for unitary changes in disparity, thus allowing smooth transitions corresponding e.g. to slanted surfaces, and penalising larger jumps while preserving discontinuities due to the constant penalty term. To further preserve discontinuities, the gradient of the intensity can be used to adapt the penalty term, because discontinuities in depth usually correspond to a"}, {"text": "discontinuity in image intensity formula_23, by setting formula_24 for each pair of pixels formula_6 and formula_10. The accumulated cost formula_27 is the sum of all costs formula_28 to reach pixel formula_6 with disparity formula_16 along direction formula_31. Each term can be expressed recursively as formula_32 where the minimum cost at the previous pixel formula_33 is subtracted for numerical stability, since it is constant for all values of disparity at the current pixel and therefore it does not affect the optimisation. The value of disparity at each pixel is given by formula_34, and sub-pixel accuracy can be achieved by fitting a curve in formula_35 and its neighbouring costs and taking the minimum along the curve. Since the two images in the stereo pair are not treated symmetrically in the calculations, a consistency check can be performed by computing the disparity a second time in the opposite direction, swapping the role of the left and right image, and invalidating the result for the pixels where the result differs between the two calculations. Further post-processing techniques for the refinement of the disparity image include morphological filtering to remove outliers, intensity consistency checks to refine textureless regions, and interpolation to fill in pixels invalidated"}, {"text": "by consistency checks. The cost volume formula_36 for all values of formula_37 and formula_16 can be precomputed and in an implementation of the full algorithm, using formula_3 possible disparity shifts and formula_40 directions, each pixel is subsequently visited formula_40 times, therefore the computational complexity of the algorithm for an image of size formula_42 is formula_43. Memory efficient variant. The main drawback of SGM is its memory consumption. An implementation of the two-pass 8-directions version of the algorithm requires to store formula_44 elements, since the accumulated cost volume has a size of formula_45 and to compute the cost for a pixel during each pass it is necessary to keep track of the formula_3 path costs of its left or right neighbour along one direction and of the formula_47 path costs of the pixels in the row above or below along 3 directions. One solution to reduce memory consumption is to compute SGM on partially overlapping image tiles, interpolating the values over the overlapping regions. This method also allows to apply SGM to very large images, that would not fit within memory in the first place. A memory-efficient approximation of SGM stores for each pixel only the costs for the disparity values"}, {"text": "that represent a minimum along some direction, instead of all possible disparity values. The true minimum is highly likely to be predicted by the minima along the eight directions, thus yielding similar quality of the results. The algorithm uses eight directions and three passes, and during the first pass it stores for each pixel the cost for the optimal disparity along the four top-down directions, plus the two closest lower and higher values (for sub-pixel interpolation). Since the cost volume is stored in a sparse fashion, the four values of optimal disparity need also to be stored. In the second pass, the other four bottom-up directions are computed, completing the calculations for the four disparity values selected in the first pass, that now have been evaluated along all eight directions. An intermediate value of cost and disparity is computed from the output of the first pass and stored, and the memory of the four outputs from the first pass is replaced with the four optimal disparity values and their costs from the directions in the second pass. A third pass goes again along the same directions used in the first pass, completing the calculations for the disparity values from the"}, {"text": "second pass. The final result is then selected among the four minima from the third pass and the intermediate result computed during the second pass. In each pass four disparity values are stored, together with three cost values each (the minimum and its two closest neighbouring costs), plus the disparity and cost values of the intermediate result, for a total of eighteen values for each pixel, making the total memory consumption equal to formula_48, at the cost in time of an additional pass over the image."}, {"text": "Service Creek is a long 2nd order tributary to the Haw River, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Course. Service Creek rises in a pond at Glen Raven in Alamance County and then flows northeast and makes a turn southeast to the Haw River about 0.25 miles east of Burlington, North Carolina. Watershed. Service Creek drains of area, receives about 45.8 in/year of precipitation, and has a wetness index of 432.18 and is about 13% forested."}, {"text": "Alopoglossus kugleri, also known commonly as Kugler's largescale lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is endemic to Venezuela. Etymology. The specific name, \"kugleri\", is in honor of Swiss geologist Hans Gottfried Kugler. Description. Dorsally, \"A. kugleri\" is black. Ventrally, it is brick red. Geographic range. \"A. kugleri\" is found in northwestern Venezuela, in the states of Aragua, Carabobo, and Falc\u00f3n. Habitat. The preferred natural habitat of \"A. kugleri\" is forest, at altitudes from sea level to ."}, {"text": "Alopoglossus myersi is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. It is found in Panama, Colombia and Venezuela."}, {"text": "Three Women is a 2019 non-fiction book by Lisa Taddeo. It is her debut book and was published on July 9, 2019, by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. It covers the sexual and emotional lives of three women from different backgrounds and regions of the United States. It debuted at number one on \"The New York Times\" non-fiction best sellers list and received mostly positive reviews from critics. Summary. The book covers the sexuality of three women: Lina, a suburban Indiana mother whose teenage rape disrupts the course of her life; Maggie, a seventeen-year-old high school student in North Dakota who becomes entangled in an illegal affair with her married English teacher; and Sloane, a successful restaurant owner in the Northeast whose husband watches her have sex with other men and women at her request. Taddeo spent eight years writing the book, driving across the country six times to embed herself in the lives of the three women. Publication. \"Three Women\" was published on July 9, 2019, by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. \"Three Women\" debuted at number one on \"The New York Times\" Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction best-sellers list on"}, {"text": "July 28, 2019. It spent eleven weeks on the list. The book also debuted at number two on \"The New York Times\" Hardcover Nonfiction best-sellers list on July 28, 2019. It spent eleven weeks on the list. Reception. In June 2020 it won the narrative non-fiction book of the year at the British Book Awards. Television series. In July 2019, Showtime gave a series commitment to a television adaptation of the book. In July 2021, the project gave production a series order with Shailene Woodley starring and Taddeo as executive producer. In February 2023, the series was moved to Starz."}, {"text": "The tenth season of the stop-motion television series \"Robot Chicken\" began airing in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim, on September 30, 2019, containing 20 episodes. Episodes. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Alopoglossus plicatus, Taylor's largescale lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia."}, {"text": "A Contraluz may refer to:"}, {"text": "Alopoglossus romaleos is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. It is endemic to Colombia."}, {"text": "Alash'le Grace Abimiku is a Nigerian executive director of the International Research Centre of Excellence at the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria and a professor of virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who takes interest in the prevention and treatment of HIV. Early life and education. Abimiku was born in Nigeria. She studied microbiology at Ahmadu Bello University. She moved to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1983 and a PhD in 1998. Here she specialised in retrovirology and protection against infection caused by the bacteria \"Campylobacter jejuni\". Research and career. After earning her doctorate, Abimiku worked as postdoctoral researcher with Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute, where she developed collaborations between scientists in her home country of Nigeria and researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She was one the founders that helped in the establishment of the IHVN Campus project in 2004 with IHVN partnering with the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the United States. Gallo and Abimiku opened the International Center for Scientific Culture\u2014World Laboratory AIDS Research Center in Jos. Whilst Abimiku"}, {"text": "had planned to isolate a particular strain of HIV, she found she had to concentrate on basic screening and community education. Eventually, she studied the HIV strain that is prevalent in Nigeria; identifying that it was the non-B subtype related to the HIV subtype G. Abimiku called for African strains to be included in AIDS Vaccine studies. In 2004 she helped to establish a partnership with Nigeria using funding from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Abimiku studies the role of HIV in disease pathogenesis and the effects of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV co-infection. She has considered the molecular epidemiology and evolution of subtypes and resistance of HIV, the development of cohorts for HIV epidemiological studies and the epidemiology of selected viruses. People in Nigeria are most likely to suffer more from this TB and HIV in the world, which makes them more likely to suffer from multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), an airborne disease. In 2010 Abimiku and the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria opened a Biosafety Level-3 laboratory, the first of its kind in Africa, to research the prevalence of MDR-TB. The laboratory, which is containerised with pre-filters to withstand the dry and dusty winds can also assess"}, {"text": "for extremely drug-resistant TB (XDRTB). It includes a negatively pressurised laboratory that allows for the handling of infectious agents. This laboratory supported the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets and early diagnosis. In 2012 Abimiku developed an International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (IBSER) repository that can process and store biological samples. The repository was supported by the National Institutes of Health Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3 Africa) program, which was initiated by Charles Rotimi. She has been involved with the PEPFAR transition to a situation where local governments and indigenous organisations are responsible for caring for d individuals. The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria is acting to support the move toward local ownership. In 2018 she co-founded the International Research Centre of Excellence located in the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria. The centre will focus on building the capacity of African scientists as well as supporting research that affects the country. Academic service. Abimiku is a member of the advisory group of the University of Cape Town and the World Health Organization Research and Development Blueprint. She served as the chair of the board of the African Society of Laboratory Medicine, as well as a member of the board"}, {"text": "of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research. She previously served on the World Health Organization HIV vaccine advisory committee and AIDS Vaccine program. She serves on the Wellcome Trust Longitudinal Population Studies Committee. Selected publications. Her publications include;"}, {"text": "Cornelius Abraham \"Dave\" Frederickson (born 17 August 1950 in Lichtenburg, North West, South Africa) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Frederickson played for the Transvaal Schools team at the 1968 Craven Week tournament and at age group level played for the Transvaal under\u201320 team and he also represented Western Province at under\u201320 level. Frederickson made his international debut for the Springboks in the second test against the visiting British Lions on 22 June 1974, at Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria. Frederickson played a further two tests for the Springboks, the last being against the touring South American Jaguars on 3 May 1980 at Kings Park Stadium, Durban."}, {"text": "All Sides may refer to:"}, {"text": "Several ships have been named Vansittart:"}, {"text": "All My Tomorrows may refer to:"}, {"text": "Alopoglossus stenolepis is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. It is endemic to in Colombia, mainly near Cali."}, {"text": "Weldu Negash Gebretsadik (born 12 November 1986) is a Norwegian athlete competing in long-distance events. Representing Norway at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, he competed in men's marathon. He finished in 24th place. In 2018, he competed in the men's marathon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships held in Berlin, Germany. He did not finish his race."}, {"text": "Stony Creek is a long 4th order tributary to the Haw River, in Alamance and Caswell Counties, North Carolina. Course. Stony Creek rises at Cherry Grove, North Carolina in Caswell County on the divide between Stony Creek and Country Line Creek of the Dan River. The creek then flows south into Alamance County and through two impoundments, Lake Burlington and Stony Creek Reservoir, to meet the Haw River at Hopedale, North Carolina. Watershed. Stony Creek drains of area, receives about 46.2 in/year of precipitation, and has a wetness index of 423.81 and is about 45% forested."}, {"text": "Elmoadab Tabriz Football Club (, \"Bashgah-e Futbal-e Elmuadab Tebriz\") is an Iranian football club based in Tabriz, Iran who compete in Azadegan League. The club bought the licence of Shahrdari Tabriz in Azadegan League in 2019."}, {"text": "Alopoglossus vallensis is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. It is endemic to Colombia. References."}, {"text": "Almost Persuaded may refer to:"}, {"text": "Stephen (; died after 1176) was a Hungarian prelate in the twelfth century, who served as Archbishop of Kalocsa in the first half of the 1170s. As one of the confidants of the pretender G\u00e9za, he strongly opposed the rule of King B\u00e9la III, who therefore deprived from his dignity in 1176. Career. Church historian J\u00f3zsef Udvardy identified his person with that certain Stephen, who served as chancellor and royal chaplain for queen mother Euphrosyne of Kiev in 1163, when issued the royal charter of Stephen III, who confirmed the privileges of the Archdiocese of Split. Stephen was also styled as member (or presumably provost) of the collegiate chapter of Titel by the document. The archiepiscopal tenure of Stephen was mentioned only by one of the entries of the \"Annales Posonienses\" under the year 1187. Accordingly, he was deprived from his dignity in that year. Early scholars, including Gy\u00f6rgy Pray and Istv\u00e1n Katona accepted the data without doubt and interpreted the term \"deponitur\" as the burial of Stephen. J\u00f3zsef Udvardy examined other events that were recorded during that year's entry and put the correct date to 1176. Accordingly, Stephen belonged to those magnates and prelates, including Queen Euphrosyne, who supported"}, {"text": "the claim of Duke G\u00e9za to the Hungarian throne against his elder brother B\u00e9la III, who arrived from the Byzantine Empire to ascend the kingship. B\u00e9la's coronation took place on 18 January 1173, performed by an unidentified Archbishop of Kalocsa (possibly Chama), thus Stephen definitely did not yet hold the position during that time, in accordance with Udvardy's narration. B\u00e9la imprisoned his younger brother, but G\u00e9za escaped from prison and fled to Austria in 1174 or 1175. It is possible that Stephen accompanied the pretender, along with the former judge royal Lawrence. Later, G\u00e9za tried to persuade Sob\u011bslav II of Bohemia to help him meet Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor against B\u00e9la III, but Sob\u011bslav seized G\u00e9za and handed him over to the Hungarian king in 1176 or 1177. His faithful partisan, \"comes\" Vata was blinded, while Archbishop Stephen was officially deprived from his dignity around the same time. His successor, Andrew was transferred from the Diocese of Gy\u0151r to the Archbishopric of Kalocsa in 1176 (it is possible that he was elected in the absence of Stephen, who fled Hungary by that time). According to historian Ferenc Makk, the author of the \"Annales Posonienses\", mixing up the name and"}, {"text": "dating the event over ten years later, in fact recorded the temporary disposal of Archbishop Andrew by B\u00e9la III around 1178 and such \"Archbishop Stephen\" never existed. Nevertheless, historian Attila Zsoldos accepted Udvardy's argument and added the name of Stephen with the year 1176 in his archontology."}, {"text": "The 1991 Durham mayoral election was held on November 5, 1991, to elect the mayor of Durham, North Carolina. It saw the return of past mayor Harry E. Rodenhizer Jr. to the office, as he unseated incumbent mayor Chester L. Jenkins. Results. Primary. The date of the primary was October 9."}, {"text": "Melfa is a \"tabiya\" or municipality in the Dogu'a Tembien district of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia and ancient capital of Tembien. The \"tabia\" centre is Melfa village itself, located approximately 3 km to the west of the \"woreda\" town Hagere Selam. Geography. The \"tabia\" stretches down from the ridge at 2700 m a.s.l. towards Zelekwa/Ruba Dirho River (2150 m a.s.l.). Geology. From the higher to the lower locations, the following geological formations are present: Geomorphology and soils. The main geomorphic unit is the Hagere Selam Highlands. Corresponding soil types are: Springs. As there are no permanent rivers, the presence of springs is of utmost importance for the local people. The following are the springs in the tabia: Reservoirs. In this area with rains that last only for a couple of months per year, reservoirs of different sizes allow harvesting runoff from the rainy season for further use in the dry season. Overall they suffer from siltation. Yet, they strongly contribute to greening the landscape, either through irrigation or seepage water. In Melfa there is: Livelihood. The population lives essentially from crop farming, supplemented with off-season work in nearby towns. The land is dominated by farmlands which are clearly demarcated"}, {"text": "and are cropped every year. Hence the agricultural system is a permanent upland farming system. Melfa, and more precisely the May Sa'iri school is one of the first places in Ethiopia where Ecosan toilets were built. Population. The \"tabia\" centre of Melfa holds a few administrative offices and some small shops. The main other populated places in the \"tabia\" are: Religion and church. Most inhabitants are Orthodox Christians. Most important church in the \"tabia\" is Melfa Maryam. History. The history of the \"tabia\" is strongly confounded with the history of Tembien. As of the 19th Century, both oral traditions and written documents mention that the rulers of Tembien were based in Melfa. Best known is Emperor Yohannes IV, born in Melfa, and whose forefathers had managed to gain power through marriage with all the surrounding ruling families. Kassa (the future emperor Yohannes) controlled the Tembien highlands and later the whole of Tigray; ultimately he crowned himself king of kings of Ethiopia in 1872. However, Emperor Yohannes IV did not establish his capital in Melfa (due to relative inaccessibility), but in Mekelle and Adwa - these towns were well connected to the Red Sea and to inner Ethiopia. Yet, Yohannes kept"}, {"text": "strong links with Tembien, as indicated by the establishment of a (locally paved) horse-track between Melfa and Mekelle. In 1951, Gebru Gebrehiwot, the new governor, decided to create a new capital of Tembien. First the location of Melfa was chosen. As the inhabitants of Melfa rejected the idea, Hagere Selam was created as a new town. In the 1980s, the area became again a temporary capital in war-faring Ethiopia: the TPLF party established its HQ in a cave in nearby Mahbere Sillasie, whereas the EPDM used a cave in Melfa. Roads and communication. A rural access road links Melfa to the main asphalt road in Hagere Selam. Schools. Almost all children of the \"tabia\" are schooled, though in some schools there is lack of classrooms, directly related to the large intake in primary schools over the last decades. Schools in the \"tabia\" include May Sa'iri school. Tourism. Its mountainous nature and proximity to Mekelle makes the \"tabia\" fit for tourism. Geotouristic sites. The high variability of geological formations and the rugged topography invites for geological and geographic tourism or \"geotourism\". Geosites in the \"tabia\" include: Trekking routes. Trekking routes have been established in this \"tabia\". The tracks are not marked"}, {"text": "on the ground but can be followed using downloaded .GPX files. \"Inda Siwa\", the local beer houses. In the main villages, there are traditional beer houses (\"Inda Siwa\"), often in unique settings, which are a good place for resting and chatting with the local people. Most renown in the \"tabia\" are Accommodation and facilities. The facilities are very basic. One may be invited to spend the night in a rural homestead or ask permission to pitch a tent. Hotels are available in Hagere Selam and Mekelle. More detailed information. For more details on environment, agriculture, rural sociology, hydrology, ecology, culture, etc., see the overall page on the Dogu'a Tembien district."}, {"text": "Jatinder Verma, MBE (born 1954), is a British theatre director and activist, who in 1977 co-founded the British Asian theatre company Tara Arts, leading it as artistic director. Biography. Born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, he moved with his family to Britain as a 14-year-old in February 1968. He attended York University and Sussex University. Verma was one of the co-founders of Tara Arts, a British Asian theatre company that was created in response to the racial tensions in Britain in the late 1970s. Verma directed Tara's very first production (an adaptation of a Tagore play) at Battersea Arts Centre in August 1977. Later on, Tara Arts got its own theatre on Garratt Lane, Earlsfield in South London. Regarded as one of the pioneers of British Asian theatre, Verma has received numerous honours, including an MBE for his services to the arts in the 2017 New Year Honours. Verma led Tara Arts as Artistic Director since inception before stepping down after 43 years. He had initiated, and managed the project through to its completion in 2016, a total rebuilding of Tara Theatre, its headquarters. It included using the yellow bricks from the original building, now"}, {"text": "a distinct, warm, welcoming feature of its new auditorium, foyer and exterior."}, {"text": "And I Thought About You may refer to:"}, {"text": "Conor Timmins (born September 18, 1998) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Colorado Avalanche, 32nd overall, in the 2017 NHL entry draft. Playing career. Junior. Timmins played minor midget with the Southern Tier Admirals of the South-Central Triple A Hockey League. He was selected in the 4th round (79th overall) of the 2014 OHL Priority Selection by the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. Timmins started his first season of junior hockey with the Thorold Blackhawks of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League before being traded to the St. Catharines Falcons. He debuted for the Greyhounds in the 2015\u201316 season, scoring 13 points in 60 games. In the 2016\u201317 season, Timmins scored 61 points (7 goals and 54 assists) and played in the CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game. Going into the 2017 NHL entry draft, Timmins was ranked the 18th best North American skater by NHL Central Scouting. He was taken by the Colorado Avalanche with the first selection of the second round (32nd overall). Timmins returned to the Greyhounds for the 2017\u201318 season, scoring 41 points (8 goals, 33 assists) in 36 games. He signed a"}, {"text": "three-year, entry-level contract with the Avalanche on March 2, 2018. Professional. Timmins suffered a concussion at the end of his final season in junior hockey, and he continued to have symptoms that kept him from playing in any games for the Avalanche or their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Colorado Eagles in the 2018\u201319 season. On October 1, 2019, the Avalanche announced that Timmins had made the opening-night roster. He made his NHL debut on the Avalanche's third defensive pairing in a 5\u20133 season opening victory over the Calgary Flames on October 3, 2019. After his second game with the Avalanche, Timmins was reassigned to the Colorado Eagles on October 7, 2019. At the conclusion of his entry-level contract, as a restricted free agent, Timmins was traded by the Avalanche along with a first-round selection in 2022 and conditional third-round draft selection in 2024 to the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for starting goaltender Darcy Kuemper on July 28, 2021. He was later signed by the Coyotes, to a two-year, $1.7 million contract extension on August 6, 2021. Six games into his tenure with Arizona, Timmins suffered a knee injury that required season ending surgery. Returning to health to open"}, {"text": "the 2022\u201323 seasonc with the Coyotes, Timmins appeared in two games before suffering another injury on October 15, 2022. On November 8, Timmins was re-assigned on a conditioning assignment to AHL affiliate, the Tucson Roadrunners, appearing in six games registering three assists. In returning to the Coyotes following completion of his conditioning re-assignment, Timmins was traded by Arizona to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Curtis Douglas on November 23, 2022. He made his Maple Leafs debut on December 6, 2022 against the Dallas Stars after spending time with Toronto's development team. He picked up eight assists in his first ten games with the Maple Leafs. Timmins scored his first career NHL goal on January 8, 2023 in a 6\u20132 win over the Philadelphia Flyers. Timmins' play was good enough to warrant Maple Leafs' management to sign him to a two-year contract on February 9 ahead of restricted free agency. However, after the NHL trade deadline and the acquisition of veteran defencemen, Timmins was pushed out of the lineup by the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs. Timmins had an excellent 2023 training camp, leading the league in pre-season scoring. However, he suffered an undisclosed injury in a pre-season game versus"}, {"text": "Montreal on September 29, 2023. He was placed on injured reserve and was not activated until November 24 and made his season debut that night versus the Chicago Blackhawks. Entering his final season under contract with the Maple Leafs, in 2024\u201325, Timmins assumed third-pairing duties while in the midst of his first injury-free professional season. Having established a season high with 51 appearances, due to salary cap roster implications Timmins was traded by the Maple Leafs alongside Connor Dewar to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for a fifth-round selection in 2025 on March 7, 2025. In an increased offensive role on the blueline with the Penguins, Timmins posted 1 goal and 7 points through 17 games to end the season. As a pending restricted free agent, on June 28, 2025, at the 2025 NHL entry draft, Timmins was again on the move after he was traded by the Penguins alongside Isaac Belliveau to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for Connor Clifton and a second-round selection. International play. Timmins was selected to Canada's under-20 team for the 2018 World Junior Championships in Buffalo, New York, winning gold. He scored 5 points in the tournament, including an assist on the game-winning goal"}, {"text": "in the gold-medal game. He also led the tournament in plus/minus at +15."}, {"text": "Scaevola gracilis is a plant in the family Goodeniaceae, native to the Kermadec Islands and Tonga. It was first described in 1856 by Joseph Dalton Hooker. In 1998, William Russell Sykes united the Tongan \"Scaevola porrecta\" with the Kermadec Islands \"S. gracilis\". The specific epithet, \"gracilis\", is a Latin adjective meaning \"slender\". Conservation status. In both 2009 and 2012 it was deemed to be \"At Risk - Naturally Uncommon\" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, and this New Zealand classification was reaffirmed in 2018 (due to its restricted range), but with the further comment that it is safe overseas."}, {"text": "Ada of Holland (1208 \u2013 15 June 1258) was a Dutch abbess of Rijnsburg Abbey from 1239. Ada was born in about 1208 to Willem I, Count of Holland (ca. 1168-1222) and Aleid van Gelre (ca. 1178-1218). She first appears in written records in 1233 and in 1239 she moves from being a nun to being the abbess of Rijnsburg Abbey. Because the abbey had been donated by her family she was allowed to be called the Lady of Rijnsburg. Problems arose in 1244 when her brother, Otto III van Holland, required that she should refer important decisions to him and other clergy and monarchs. She appealed to the pope, Innocent IV, who ruled in her favour. He confirmed her autonomy and also allowed the abbey the right to receive donations from novices entering the abbey. Ada's authority was further undermined when her cousin sold the abbey and Ada was obliged to use her own money to repurchase it. Van Holland died in Rijnsburg Abbey on 15 June 1258."}, {"text": "Khanakorn Pianchana (18 December 1969 \u2013 7 March 2020) was a Thai judge who made a suicide attempt in October 2019 in order to protest against interference in the justice system, and died in a second, fatal suicide attempt in March 2020, after being subject to investigations following his actions. At the time of his first suicide attempt, he was a senior judge in the Yala Provincial Court in south Thailand. Early life and career. Khanakorn Pianchana born on 18 December 1969 in Bangkok. He studied for secondary education at Phuyai Tepleela School. After he graduated with a law degree from Ramkhamhaeng University, he started his career at the Central Bankruptcy Court in 2004 as a judge. He was transferred to Pattani and subsequently Yala in 2019. He was a Vice Presiding Judge of the Yala Provincial Court at the time, a province that located in South Thailand insurgency region. First suicide attempt. At first, Khanakorn was supposed to release his verdict in August 2019. Khanakorn told the accused, that he was being forced from above to convict. On 4 October 2019, in the Yala province court in the area of South Thailand insurgency, the defendants were waiting for the"}, {"text": "verdict from judge Khanakorn, on murder and firearms charges. He then began to give a speech and broadcast it to social media via cell phones. One phone began making a sound of calls. Khanakorn ignored every one and people began banging the locked doors from the outside. Khanakorn continued loudly speaking for almost an hour, reading a 25-page manifesto which was interpreted by local media as being a protest against standards in the Thai legal system. He claimed senior judges tried to rewrite a ruling with a case he was presiding over. He said \"I will not alter my verdict because giving death sentences would be too much bad karma.\" Khanakorn turned back then recited a judicial oath and shot himself in the chest with a pistol, after he acquitted the defendants' charges due to lack of evidence. He undertook surgery following the incident and later survived because the injuries were not life-threatening. He was afterwards transferred to the Court of Appeal Region 5 in Chiang Mai in his family's reside city. Second suicide attempt. Before the suicide, Judge Khanakorn uploaded a two-page letter on his Facebook page. He claimed that he had been questioned to disciplinary measure and had"}, {"text": "criminal charge brought on Firearms Act against him after he had expressed his concerns about the interference into certain rulings. He later committed suicide and died on 7 March 2020 at his home in Chiang Mai. Later, Pheu Thai Party called for a government investigation to establish if there were irregularities at the court. Personal life. Before Khanakorn moved to Yala, he lived in Chiang Mai with his family. He was a piano teacher in a leading private music school."}, {"text": "American Landscape may refer to:"}, {"text": "Wasabi receptor toxin (WaTx) is the active component of the venom of the Australian black rock scorpion \"Urodacus manicatus\". WaTx targets TRPA1, also known as the wasabi receptor or irritant receptor. WaTx is a cell-penetrating toxin that stabilizes the TRPA1 channel open state while reducing its Ca2+-permeability, thereby eliciting pain and pain hypersensitivity without the neurogenic inflammation that typically occurs in other animal toxins. Etymology. This scorpion toxin was named WaTx because it targets TRPA1 in a similar fashion as plant-derived irritants, such as mustard oil and wasabi. These irritants activate the TRPA1 channel in peripheral primary afferent sensory neurons, subsequently eliciting their pungent taste as well as sinus clearing and eye stinging. Sources. WaTx originates from the venom of the Australian Black Rock Scorpion (\"Urodacus manicatus\"). Chemistry. Family. WaTx belongs to the \u03ba-KTx family, as it shows similarities in the disulfide bonding pattern. The KTx family is classified into four subfamilies: \u03b1-, \u03b2-, \u03b3-, and \u03ba-KTx. Unlike other KTx subfamilies, \u03ba-KTx scorpion toxins form cysteine-stabilized \u03b1-helical hairpins (Cs \u03b1/\u03b1), whereas \u03ba-KTx spider and crab toxins form cysteine-stabilized antiparallel \u03b2-sheets (Cs \u03b2/\u03b2). UniProt's curated classification states: \"short scorpion toxin superfamily, potassium channel inhibitor kappa-KTx family, kappa-KTx 1 subfamily\". Structure. WaTx"}, {"text": "is a macromolecule with an estimated weight of 3.86 kDa, which consists of 33 amino-acid residues. Its amino-acid sequence is as follows: 1 9 13 23 27 33 ASPQQAKYCYEQCNVNKVPFDQCYQMCSPLERS The pattern of cysteine residues in the amino acid sequence, which is underlined above, indicates an independent Cys9-Cys27, Cys13-Cys23 disulfide bonding pattern. The two disulfide bridges connect two parallel \u03b1-helices with a \u03b2-turn. The disulfide bonding pattern stabilizes the rigid and compact helical hairpin structure at two points, contributing to the stable tertiary structure of the protein. The hairpin contains four basic residues that enable passive diffusion across the membrane. Two features of the protein structure have been associated with cell-penetrating properties that are uncommon for peptide toxins. Firstly, a patch (or predominance) of basic residues is located at the open end of the hairpin, where the amino- and carboxy-terminal meet. Secondly, the amino-terminal in WaTx exhibits a dense dipole moment. Other proteins with the ability to penetrate the plasma membrane include HIV Tat and \"Drosophila\" penetratin. However, these proteins have no sequence resemblance to WaTx. Homology. The amino-acid sequence of WaTx bears little resemblance to other peptides in terms of homology. Nevertheless, its structure places it in the \u03ba-KTx family."}, {"text": "Although the toxin was discovered to be cell-penetrating, there is no sequence similarity to classical cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs). Target. WaTx targets TRPA1, one of about 30 transient receptor potential channels. WaTx is both potent and selective for TRPA1. Other known TRP-channels are not activated by the toxin. WaTx has an effect on human TRPA1 (hTRPA1), while it does not have an effect on to rat and snake TRPA1 (rsTRPA1). Mode of action. WaTx penetrates the plasma membrane instead of following standard routes, subsequently accessing the interior of the cell. The basic residues and dipole moment on the helical hairpin structure enable the passive diffusion of WaTx. Once the toxin arrives in the cell, it activates TRPA1 via an intracellular domain in the lower part of voltage-sensing segments S1-S4 called \u2018the allosteric nexus\u2019. The allosteric nexus is located at the region where the TRP-like domain, pre-S1 helix and cysteine-rich S4-S5 linker meet. This inner cavity is a common binding site to reactive electrophilic ligands\u2014and now WaTx. This locus is a key regulatory site for stimulus integration and propagates conformational changes to the channel's gate. When activated, the open-state TRPA1 allows the flow of positively charged sodium and calcium ions into the"}, {"text": "cell. Electrophilic ligands make covalent modifications to specific cysteine residues in the cytoplasmic amino-terminus that increase the probability of channel opening. Although both Na+ and Ca2+ can enter TRPA1, the channel normally has a preference towards Ca2+ and the intracellular calcium concentration increases more rapidly than the sodium concentration. WaTx interacts differently with the channel compared to reactive electrophiles. WaTx non-covalently binds to the allosteric nexus and initiates interactions with an integrated complex between the N-terminal cysteine-rich linker (S4-S5) and C-terminal TRP-like domains. This prevents the open channel from closing, as opposed to increasing the probability of opening, and results in a prolonged duration of the channel's open state. With WaTx bound in open state, TRPA1 lacks a preference for Ca2+ over Na+, which accounts for the lower calcium permeability. Consequently, both electrophilic ligands and WaTx trigger a pain response, but the calcium levels that result from WaTx are too low to initiate subsequent neuropeptide release and neurogenic inflammation. This suggests that WaTx may act only to open the ion permeation gate of TRPA1, without dilating the selectivity filter (dilation of the selectivity filter having been proposed to underlie enhanced calcium permeability of TRPA1 after activation by classical electrophilic irritants)."}, {"text": "Toxicity. WaTx elicits acute thermal and mechanical hypersensitivity. This response has been proven phenotypically proven by injecting WaTx in the hind paw of mice, which leads to dose-dependent nocifensive behavior. However, WaTx does not cause the local edema that is typical for noxious electrophiles. This lack of swelling indicates that WaTx fails to promote the release of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)\u2014a hallmark of neurogenic inflammation. Treatment. There is no immediate danger after being stung by an Australian Black Rock Scorpion. The wound should be washed and cleaned, after which medical advice should be sought. Therapeutic use. So far, there are no pharmacologicals based on (the mode of action of) WaTx. However, understanding the mechanisms of WaTx's interaction with TRPA1 may aid in the development of therapeutics targeting TRPA1, which is considered a promising target for treating pain, itch and neurogenic inflammation syndromes that involve nociception."}, {"text": "Ann Dale (born 1948) is a researcher, public advocate and environmental policy analyst. She is known for her research on community sustainability. Life and work. Originally from Ottawa, Dale is a professor of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. She studied at Carleton University, earning a degree in psychology in 1975 and a degree in public administration in 1994. She previously worked in the Canadian federal government where in 1988 she founded the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy. In 1999, she completed her doctorate in National Resources Sciences from McGill University. During the 1990s, Dale worked as a senior associate at the University of British Columbia's Sustainable Development Research Institute. In her current work she has served on a number of national and international organizations related to community development, environmental causes and the impact of climate change. These include serving as a director of the World Fisheries Trust and serving on the National Advisory Committee on Energy Efficiency. She is a fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Advisory Committee on Energy Efficiency. Dale was also involved in creating the National Environmental Treasure,"}, {"text": "a people's trust for the environment. The Treasure funds capacity building for Canadian organizations to address issues in environmental education, infrastructure and communications. She has previously served as president of the Canadian Biodiversity Institute. Dale has led several major research projects related to sustainability. She was the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development from 2004 to 2014. She is also a lead of the Canadian Consortium for Sustainable Development Research. More recently, she has been engaged as the principal investigator of the M3 Project. This interdisciplinary team is focused on developing local strategies for addressing the impact of climate change in British Columbia, which is funded by the Pacific Institute for Climate Change Studies. Awards and nominations. Some awards and nominations are:"}, {"text": "Havi (Hava) Dreifuss () is a professor of history at the University of Tel Aviv and head of the Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at Yad Vashem. She specializes in the history of the Holocaust in Poland and Polish-Jewish relations during World War II. She received her doctorate in history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005."}, {"text": "Rhett Gardner (born February 28, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward currently playing for HC CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Dallas Stars and Philadelphia Flyers. Early life. Gardner was born on February 28, 1996, in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada to parents Rob and Renee Gardner. Playing career. Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Gardner was drafted in the second round of the 2011 Western Hockey League (WHL) Bantam Draft by the Spokane Chiefs while captaining the Moose Jaw Generals. However, he never played for the team as his rights were traded to Brandon Wheat Kings on January 10. Following the trade, Gardner informed the Wheat Kings he would not report to them as he had committed to play NCAA Division I collegiate ice hockey with the North Dakota Fighting Hawks men's ice hockey team. While attending Vanier Collegiate Institute, Gardner played with the Okotoks Oilers of the Alberta Junior Hockey League. During the 2013\u201314 season, he earned AJHL All-Rookie Team honors after recording 13 goals and 24 assists in 52 games. As a result of his play, he was selected to represent Team Canada at"}, {"text": "the World Junior A Challenge, winning a bronze medal in 2013. Collegiate. Gardner joined the North Dakota Fighting Hawks as a freshman for their 2015\u201316 season, where he helped them win their first NCAA Championship title in 16 years. During the season, he tied for fourth on the team with 11 goals which also ranked second-most among freshmen. He also won 280 faceoffs, which was the second-most in program history. In January 2016, Gardner was named National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) Rookie of the Week after scored four goals over two games. As he helped the team clinch their NCAA title, Gardner became the first former Okotoks Oiler player to win a national title. He finished his rookie campaign being named to the NCHC's 2015\u201316 Academic All-Conference Freshman Team. Prior to his sophomore season, Gardner was drafted in the fourth round, 116th overall, by the Dallas Stars in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. He returned to the Fighting Hawks for their 2016\u201317 season where he set a new career high in points, assists, and power-play goals. At the conclusion of the season, Gardner was again selected for the NCHC Academic All-Conference Team. On April 11, 2017, Gardner was named an"}, {"text": "assistant captain alongside Trevor Olson and Johnny Simonson for the 2017\u201318 season. Professional. On March 19, 2019, having concluded his collegiate career, Gardner was signed to a two-year, entry-level contract with the Dallas Stars. He was subsequently assigned to the Stars' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Texas Stars, for the remainder of their 2018\u201319 season. Gardner recorded his first professional assist on Colin Markison\u2019s game-winning goal during a 5\u20132 win over the Iowa Wild on March 29, 2019. Gardner was invited to participate in the Dallas Stars' 2019 training camp prior to the start of the 2019\u201320 season but was re-assigned to the AHL on September 17. He was re-called to the NHL on October 4 prior the Texas Stars' opening night. Gardner made his NHL debut on October 5 against the St. Louis Blues, logging four faceoff wins and one hit in 12:04 time on ice. He played in six more games for Dallas, posting eight shots on goal and seven hits, before being re-assigned to the AHL. Upon joining the Dallas Stars, he records his first career NHL assist in a 2\u20131 shootout win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on March 14. His point, an assist, came"}, {"text": "off a goal from Joe Pavelski who had redirected Joel Kiviranta's shot on goal. A few games later, on March 21, 2021, Gardner scored his first NHL goal in a game against the Nashville Predators. On June 24, 2021, Gardner was signed to a two-year, $1.5 million contract extension with the Stars. The deal is two-way for the 2021\u201322 season and one-way for 2022\u201323 season. On July 1, 2023, Gardner left the Stars organization as a free agent in signing a two-year, two-way contract with the Philadelphia Flyers. After two seasons in the Flyers organization, Gardner left North America to sign a two-year contract with HC CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League on July 8, 2025."}, {"text": "The 2015 Greensboro mayoral election was held on November 3, 2015, to elect the mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina. It saw the reelection of Nancy Vaughan. Results. Primary. The date of the primary was October 8."}, {"text": "The Special Group (SG) is the black ops unit of Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), the foreign intelligence agency of India. It is responsible for covert and paramilitary operations and is known as 4 Vikas, 22 SF and 22 SG. Its responsibilities include conducting operations with which the Government of India may not wish to be overtly associated. Established in 1981, it was raised in the following year under Project Sunray. Its existence was previously unknown to the public. There are a total of four SG squadrons ,with each squadron consisting of four troops and each troop consisting of 25 personnel. Each troop has a specialized skill-set. SG draws its personnel from all the branches of Indian armed forces, primarily from the Special Forces. History. Origins. The Special Group was created in 1981 as a classified unit under Research and Analysis Wing tasked with undertaking covert operations. The Directorate General of Security, which was a confidential organisation created with assistance from the CIA after the Sino-Indian War of 1962, was put under the control of R&AW in 1968. In 1982, \"Project Sunray\" was initiated by the Directorate, under which an officer from the Para SF of the Indian Army was"}, {"text": "tasked with raising a unit comprising 250 personnel. In early 1983, a group of six personnel were sent to a confidential military base in Israel. There they received training from a specialist team of Mossad for a few weeks. This team, which had earlier rescued hostages from Uganda's Entebbe airport with some assistance from R&AW, was composed of commandos from the Sayeret Matkal. The original mandate of the SG was similar to that of the British Special Air Service and included counterterrorism and hostage rescue. However, this mandate was later transferred to the National Security Guard. The current mandate of the SG is not fully known. Security at International summits in 1983. The Non-Aligned Movement summit and Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 1983 was conducted under the direct supervision of the SG to prevent any untoward event. The Non-Aligned summit was particularly important since it would cement India's position as the leader of the movement. Operation Sundown. \"Operation Sundown\" was the code name of a covert plan in which the Special Group was to abduct Sikh extremist leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale from Guru Nanak Niwas in the Golden Temple complex, Amritsar. A unit was formed to prepare for Operation"}, {"text": "Sundown in the Sarsawa Air Force Base in Uttar Pradesh. In December 1983, an officer from the Counter-Revolutionary Warfare Wing of the British Special Air Service arrived in India to provide advice regarding the plan. Extensive rehearsals were also carried out. The operation was never started due to the then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi's rejection on religious grounds; the operation may have hurt the religious sentiments of the Sikh people. In addition there was a risk of numerous civilian casualties as a collateral damage of the operation. Other options such as negotiations subsequently failed and the law and order situation in Punjab continued to deteriorate. Operation Blue Star. By the end of 1983, the security situation in Punjab was worsening due to the erupting separatist militancy. \"Operation Blue Star\" was the code name of the Indian military action carried out between 1 and 8 June 1984 to remove militant religious leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers from the buildings of the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) complex in Amritsar, Punjab. A few days before the operation began, the Special Group arrived in Amritsar. The Special Group was tasked to create an executable plan for this. A senior officer"}, {"text": "from the British Special Air Service was secretly recruited to provide advice for this plan to the SG, after being cleared by then British PM Margaret Thatcher. A group of SG personnel clad in black uniforms, armed with AK-47 rifles and Night vision goggles, began the assault on 6 June 1984. The Special Group was responsible for the eventual death of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and Shabeg Singh during Operation Blue Star, despite the 1 Para (SF) claiming credit for it. This is associated with the fact that they were shot dead using AK-47 rifles. Such rifles, which were purchased secretly from Europe, were present exclusively with the SG at that time. Prime Ministerial security till 1985. In the aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, SG personnel provided security to the Prime Minister of India until the creation of the Special Protection Group in 1985. Black operations. The Special Group has undertaken black operations outside India. In the late 1980s, it rescued a political prisoner in Bangladesh after being ordered to do so by the Prime Minister of India. After a civil war started in Sri Lanka in 1983, India used it as an opportunity to"}, {"text": "curtail foreign influence in the country; India provided training and equipment to the militant groups fighting in the war. The Special Group was involved in providing training assistance to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the most prominent militant group. Planned raid near Kahuta nuclear facility. During the 1999 Kargil war, the Indian government had planned a raid near the Kahuta nuclear facility in Pakistan and had asked the Special Group to prepare for it. Ultimately, however, the raid was called off. Planned operation in Kandahar, Afghanistan. When the Indian Airlines flight 814 was forced by hijackers to land in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in December 1999 the SG was instructed to be ready for a potential rescue effort. Their mission was to clear a path for the National Security Guard to enable them to reach the aircraft and conduct an anti-hijacking operation. The plan entailed eliminating the members of the Taliban in the vicinity of the aircraft. However, public pressure eventually forced the Indian government to scrap the plan. The government agreed to the demand of the hijackers to swap imprisoned militants in exchange for the civilian passengers. Counter-insurgency operations in Kashmir. The Special Group are known to be involved in"}, {"text": "the ongoing counter-insurgency operations in the Jammu and Kashmir region across the Line of Control. Overview. Organisation. The Special Group functions under the Directorate General of Security (DG Security) of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), which is India's foreign intelligence agency. The unit serves under the command of the prime minister through the Cabinet Secretariat. Within RAW, the Secretary (Research) is responsible for the Special Group. The SG is headquartered at Sarsawa in Uttar Pradesh. Its personnel are volunteers recruited from all the branches of the Indian Armed Forces, primarily from the Special Forces. After serving in the SG on deputation, its personnel return to their original units. SG personnel are distributed in three to four companies. An SG team is kept on high alert for contingencies round the clock. There are a total of four SG squadrons, with each squadron consisting of four troops. Each troop has a specialized skill-set. The SG has dedicated branches specialising in intelligence gathering, operational planning, communications and training. Responsibilities. The responsibilities of the Special Group includes clandestine intelligence operations and covert operations, with which the Government of India may not wish to be overtly associated. The SG is also responsible for developing tactics"}, {"text": "and training procedures for other special forces of India. Training and equipment. The Special Group is considered to be the most capably trained special forces unit of India and is considered to be very well equipped. The SG is reportedly provided with the newest equipment and it uses the transport aircraft of the Aviation Research Centre."}, {"text": "Peter Julian is the name of:"}, {"text": "Beautiful Friendship may refer to:"}, {"text": "Nicholas Caamano (born September 7, 1998) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who is currently under contract with Grizzlys Wolfsburg of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). He previously played for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). Early life. Caamano was born on September 7, 1998, in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada to parents Joe and Amalia Caamano. Playing career. Born and raised in Ancaster, Caamano attended Bishop Tonnos Catholic Secondary School while playing with the Hamilton Jr. Bulldogs minor midget team. After committing to play for the Plymouth Whalers, who drafted him in the second round of the 2014 Ontario Hockey League (OHL) Priority Selection, he enrolled at the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park. Caamano played for the Flint Firebirds, Plymouth Whalers and Hamilton Bulldogs in the Ontario Hockey League, and was drafted by the Stars in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. He scored his first career NHL goal against the Washington Capitals on October 8, 2019. Upon returning to the AHL, Caamano was nominated as their representative for the IOA/American Specialty AHL Man of the Year award for his outstanding contributions to the Central Texas community. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Caamano played 24 games in the 2020\u201321 NHL season"}, {"text": "with the Dallas Stars, while he also enrolled in economics, sports management and personal finance classes at Southern New Hampshire University. After spending the 2021\u201322 season playing in the AHL with the Texas Stars, Caamano underwent back surgery in September 2022, and was placed on the non-roster injured reserve list and is expected to be out for at least three months. Following six professional seasons within the Stars organization, Caamano left the club as a free agent and opted to pursue a career abroad after signing a one-year contract with German club, Grizzlys Wolfsburg of the DEL, on July 26, 2024."}, {"text": "Siviter is an English surname of Roman origins. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Waddilove is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Nathwani is an Indian (Gujarati) surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Rescue Story is the second studio album of the American Christian rock singer Zach Williams released on October 4, 2019, on Essential record label. The album peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. Christian Albums chart and at 111 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart. The 10-track album includes the title track single \"Rescue Story\". Three other tracks \"Walk With You\", \"Heaven Help Me\" and \"There Was Jesus\" (the latter featuring Dolly Parton) also appeared on the \"Billboard\" Christian Songs chart. Personnel. Choir (Tracks 3-5 & 8-10)"}, {"text": "Indosylvirana is a genus of ranid frogs endemic to South and Southeast Asia. Species. There are 13 species:"}, {"text": "Guram Sherozia (born 29 November 1986) is a Georgian TV presenter, Blogger, traveler, marketer and lecturer. Sherozia was born in Poti, Samegrelo, Georgia. He graduated from Tbilisi State University, earned a master's degree at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, and then continued his studies and research in a PhD program at Ilia State University. He started his academic career in 2011 at Ilia State University while working in his first managerial position at TBC Bank JSC. Later in 2013, he launched his blog and became a TV presenter for the business program on Palitra TV. Later he became the TV presenter for one of the most popular shows in Georgia, Imedi's morning program. By 2017 he already had his own TV program on Georgian Public Broadcaster."}, {"text": "Marek Biro (born 8 February 1988) is a Slovak professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for GKS Tychy of the Polska Hokej Liga. Career. Biro played junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League for two seasons for the Windsor Spitfires, who drafted him 18th overall in the 2006 CHL Import Draft. In 2008, he made his Tipsport Liga debut with his hometown team HC Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica where he played for three seasons until 2011 Biro then had spells with HC Ko\u0161ice and HK Dukla Tren\u010d\u00edn before rejoining Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica. He then spent the 2013\u201314 season with \u0160HK 37 Pie\u0161\u0165any before returning to Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica once more the following season. On 17 May 2015 Biro joined Orli Znojmo of the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga. He then made another return to Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica on 22 May 2018."}, {"text": "Between the Earth and the Stars may refer to:"}, {"text": "Peter Bertran (born 5 March 1996) is a Dominican Republic tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 461 achieved on 23 December 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 455 achieved on 14 August 2023. Bertran represents the Dominican Republic at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 1\u20131. Bertran played college tennis at the University of South Florida from 2015 to 2018 after playing his freshman year at the University of Georgia. Junior career. As a junior, Bertran achieved a career high ranking of No. 97 in the world junior rankings by the International Tennis Federation. In 2014, he reached the main draw of the 2014 French Open Junior Championships before losing to Karen Kachanov in the 1st round and reached the 2nd round of the qualifying draw in the Wimbledon Junior Championships."}, {"text": "The Letters Patent Constituting the Office of Governor-General of New Zealand is a royal decree and a part of the uncodified New Zealand constitution. Sometimes known as the Letters Patent 1983, the instrument has been amended twice (in 1987 and 2006) since its original issue in 1983. The letters patent\u2014essentially an open letter from Queen Elizabeth II that is a legal instrument\u2014constitutes the office of governor-general as the monarch's representative in the Realm of New Zealand, vests executive authority in the governor-general, establishes the Executive Council to advise the governor-general, and makes provision for the exercise of the governor-general's powers should the office be vacant. Background. The 1917 Letters Patent was issued by King George V and counter-signed by the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir George Shuster, and sealed by the Great Seal of the United Kingdom. The 1917 Letters Patent were issued following the proclamation of the Dominion of New Zealand in 1907, renaming the office of \"governor\" to \"governor-general\". New Zealand adopted the Statute of Westminster in 1947 and letters patent then became the responsibility of the New Zealand Government, not the United Kingdom. It was not until the 1960s, with the appointment of the"}, {"text": "first New Zealand-born governor-general, Arthur Porritt, on the advice of Prime Minister Keith Holyoake, that the New Zealand Government decided that the 1917 Letters Patent needed updating. Following 1975 Australian constitutional crisis (where a governor-general dismissed a serving prime minister), greater urgency was given to reviewing the governor-general's powers. In 1976, the Prime Minister's Department asked lawyer (now Dame) Alison Quentin-Baxter and her husband Professor Robert Quentin-Baxter to review the Letters Patent 1917. In anticipation of new letters patent being issued, Parliament passed the Seal of New Zealand Act 1977. The review of the 1917 Letters Patent was completed in 1980. The Cabinet Office published the review, recommending new letters patent be issued. Following the report, draft Letters Patent were circulated with the governments of Niue and the Cook Islands, who gave their informal approval. Prime Minister Robert Muldoon wanted the Queen to sign the Letters Patent during her 1981 Royal Tour of New Zealand. This did not eventuate as Labour Party backbenchers refused to support the idea, believing that the royal tour had been timed to be close to the 1981 general election (Labour's front bench, including party leader Bill Rowling, David Lange and Geoffrey Palmer, all supported the"}, {"text": "Queen signing during the Royal Tour). It was not until 26 September 1983 that an Order-in-Council was issued requesting the Queen's signature. The Queen signed the Letters Patent on 28 October 1983, and soon after they were counter-signed by Muldoon, and sealed by the Seal of New Zealand. This was the first time a New Zealand prime minister had signed the document, symbolising that it had been \"patriated\"\u2014that is, made a New Zealand legal instrument. The new Letters Patent came into force on 1 November 1983. Style. The Letters Patent are written as though they are an open letter from the Queen, although they are in fact a legal instrument (specifically, a royal decree) made under the Royal Prerogative, and are treated as statute law. The 1980 review of the 1917 Letters Patent drew on the experience from the Canadian Letters Patent, 1947 created after Canada adopted the Statute of Westminster 1931. The style was criticised as \"quaint, and certainly belonging to a century other than the 21st.\" Realm of New Zealand. Clause I of the Letters Patent defines the Realm of New Zealand as consisting of New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and the Ross Dependency. (The governor-general"}, {"text": "of New Zealand is also separately titled the Governor of the Ross Dependency). This definition of the Realm of New Zealand recognised the new constitutions of the Cook Islands and Niue granted self-government. Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of New Zealand. Clause I of the Letters Patent constitutes the office of \"Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of New Zealand\". The full title is rarely used, and usually \"Governor-General\" is used because the commander-in-chief role is largely ceremonial also. Clause II of the Letters Patent states that the governor-general is appointed by the sovereign, and serves \"...during Our pleasure.\" Clause II does not spell out that the sovereign makes the appointment on the sole advice of the New Zealand prime minister, and that governors-general usually serve a term of five to six years in office. The commission appointing the governor-general, known as the Terms of Appointment, defines this term (which can be extended, as was the case in 2006 with Dame Silvia Cartwright) and is counter-signed by the New Zealand prime minister, signifying the reality that appointment is on the prime minister's advice. The governor-general is commander-in-chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, but the Letters Patent does not further elaborate on this. The Defence"}, {"text": "Act 1990 further defines the role of commander-in-chief. The Letters Patent delegates the sovereign's executive authority in the governor-general, and adds: This is a requirement that the governor-general act within statute law in force. Executive Council. Clauses VII-X of the Letters Patent establishes the Executive Council to advise the governor-general on the execution of his or her prerogative powers. Implicit in the Letters Patent is the requirement for the governor-general to act only on the advice of the Executive Council. The governor-general can act on the advice of a specific minister responsible, should this be specifically defined in statute. Following a general election, the governor-general exercises his or her reserve powers to appoint a party leader as a member of the Executive Council and prime minister. Then, on the prime minister's advice, the governor-general appoints the remaining members of the Executive Council (whether inside or outside Cabinet). Royal prerogative of mercy. Clause XI of the Letters Patent defines the exercise of prerogative of mercy in New Zealand. The governor-general acts on the advice of the responsible minister\u2014in the case of the prerogative of mercy that is the minister of justice. The governor-general has the power to grant a pardon, reduce"}, {"text": "a sentence, or refer a case back to the courts for reconsideration. Amendments. 1987. Following the general election, a constitutional crisis arose where the outgoing Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, apparently refused to implement the advice of the incoming Prime Minister, David Lange. One resolution to the crisis, canvassed by Deputy Prime Minister Jim McLay, was the replacement of Muldoon as party leader and therefore prime minister by the governor-general, following a vote of no-confidence by caucus. This would have left the governor-general with no advisers, as there were no sworn-in members of Parliament to be members of the Executive Council. Following a review of constitutional law, a new Constitution Act, replacing the 1852 Imperial statute, was passed in 1986 and came into force from 1 January 1987. Section 6 of the new Constitution Act specified that members of the Executive Council had to be members of Parliament, but only after a period of 40 days. At the same time, an amendment to the Letters Patent 1983 was signed off. Clause VIII of the Letters Patent, on the composition of the Executive Council, amended the Letters Patent 1983 from 1 January 1987 to align with the provisions of the new Constitution"}, {"text": "Act. The 1987 amendment was recommended to the Queen by then Prime Minister David Lange. 2006. In 2006 a further set of amendments to the Letters Patent were made. The first amendment reflected the recent creation of the Supreme Court of New Zealand: Clause XII specifies that, in the absence of the governor-general, if a chief justice of New Zealand is not available to become the administrator of the Government then the position falls to the \"next most senior Judge of the New Zealand judiciary\" (before the clause referred to the president of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand). There was also a second amendment: Clause XV, requiring the governor-general to have the permission of the monarch to leave New Zealand, was revoked entirely. This recognised the increasing number of times the governor-general was travelling overseas to represent New Zealand. The 2006 amendments were recommended to the Queen by then Prime Minister Helen Clark."}, {"text": "Leon Israr Bashir is a Norwegian actor, screenwriter and film director. Career. He was born in Oslo to Pakistani parents. Bashir started his acting career on 1997. As an actor, Bashir is best known for the films Izzat, Tomme T\u00f8nner and the TV series Codename Hunter. He has also appeared in the TV series \"Familiesagaen De syv s\u00f8stre\", \"Fox Gr\u00f8nland\" and \"Schpaaa\". As a screenwriter, he has written screenplays for the films Izzat and \"Tomme T\u00f8nner\". He was nominated for Best Actor award at Amanda Award for his role in \"Gjengangere\"."}, {"text": "Elaine Margaret Burdett (born December 22, 1996) is an American soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper. Early life. Burdett grew up in Las Vegas and played club soccer for Heat FC. Arizona Wildcats. Burdett played collegiate soccer at the University of Arizona in the Pac-12 Conference, becoming the winningest goalkeeper in school history and setting a record for most clean sheets in program history with 26 shutouts. She finished with a 79.7% career save percentage. While in Arizona, Burdett also played with local Women's Premier Soccer League side FC Tucson. Professional career. Orlando Pride. Burdett went undrafted in the 2019 NWSL College Draft but joined Orlando Pride on trial during preseason and was signed to the team's supplemental roster on April 10 ahead of the 2019 season. She made her professional debut on October 5, starting in the penultimate game of the season at home to Washington Spirit. Burdett earned an NWSL save of the week award in Orlando's 3\u20130 loss. Burdett was waived on June 21, 2020, ahead of the start of the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup. \u00c5land United. In December 2021, Burdett signed with Finnish Kansallinen Liiga team \u00c5land United ahead of the 2022 season."}, {"text": "Anita Burdman Feferman (July 27, 1927 \u2013 April 9, 2015) was an American historian of mathematics and biographer, known for her biographies of Jean van Heijenoort and (with her husband, logician Solomon Feferman) of Alfred Tarski. Life. Feferman was born on July 27, 1927. She was originally from Los Angeles, and attended Hollywood High School and the University of California, Los Angeles before earning a bachelor's degree in 1948 from the University of California, Berkeley. She became a schoolteacher in the Oakland, California school system, and earned another degree in teaching from UC Berkeley. In 1956 her husband Solomon Feferman took a position at Stanford University, and she moved with him and their two daughters from the East Bay to the San Francisco Peninsula. She died on April 9, 2015. Books. At Stanford, Feferman became a member of a biography seminar led by Barbara A. Babcock and Diane Middlebrook. Her first biography, of Jean van Heijenoort, was \"Politics, Logic, and Love: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort\" (Jones and Bartlett, 1993), also published as \"From Trotsky to G\u00f6del: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort\" (CRC Press, 2001). With Solomon Feferman, she was the co-author of a biography of Alfred Tarski,"}, {"text": "\"Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic\" (Cambridge University Press, 2004)."}, {"text": "Fuck Yo Feelings is a mixtape by American musician Robert Glasper. It was released on October 3, 2019 through Loma Vista Recordings, his first one with that music label. Recording sessions took place at Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles, at Sound Inn Studio in Tokyo, and at More Than Enough Studios. Production was handled by Glasper himself, with co-producers Chris Dave, Derrick Hodge and Curtis Jews. It features guest appearances from Affion Crockett, Andra Day, Baby Rose, Bilal, Bridget Kelly, Buddy, Denzel Curry, Herbie Hancock, James Poyser, Mick Jenkins, Mos Def, Muhsinah, Queen Sheba, Rapsody, SiR, Song Bird, Staceyann Chin, Terrace Martin, YBN Cordae and Yebba. The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, but lost to Thundercat's \"It Is What It Is\"."}, {"text": "Trialen was an explosive developed in Germany. It was used during World War II in the V-1 flying bomb and Arado E.377 glide bomb, among other weapons, as an enhanced blast explosive. Trialen was the German equivalent of the British explosive Torpex, though its production was hindered by a shortage of the aluminium powder that was added to increase its explosive power. It comprised a mixture of TNT, hexogen, and aluminium powder in varying proportions for each of three versions, known as trialen (or filler) 105, 106 and 107 respectively. The proportions for each version were:"}, {"text": "Abraham Edwards (November 17, 1781 \u2013 October 22, 1860) was an American physician and politician in the U.S. state of Michigan. He served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 and was president of the Michigan Territorial Council for a majority of its existence. Biography. Abraham Edwards was born in Springfield, New Jersey, on November 17, 1781. He was the eldest son of Captain Aaron Edwards. He studied medicine and became a licensed physician in 1803. He was appointed a surgeon in the U.S. Army in 1804 and was stationed in Fort Wayne, where he met his wife. When she became ill in 1810, he resigned his commission and moved to Dayton, Ohio, to practice medicine. He was elected to the Ohio General Assembly in 1811, representing Montgomery County in the Ohio House of Representatives. Service during the War of 1812. In the prelude to the War of 1812, Edwards was appointed captain in the 19th Infantry Regiment, and his unit joined with General William Hull's army marching toward Detroit to defend it from the British. He was selected to fill a vacancy as the surgeon for the 4th Infantry Regiment and remained in that post until Hull's"}, {"text": "surrender of Detroit to Isaac Brock on August 16, 1812. He was taken prisoner but was paroled and allowed to return home to Dayton. After being exchanged for a British officer, he resumed service as a captain in charge of recruiting at Chillicothe, Ohio, until November 1813. He took 200 men of the 19th Regiment to Detroit in December 1813 at the order of General Lewis Cass, then accompanied Cass to Albany, New York, to attend Hull's court-martial. Edwards then traveled to Washington, D.C., where he was promoted to the rank of major and placed in charge of the quartermaster's stores in Pittsburgh, where he served for the rest of the war. Following the resumption of peace, Edwards was given the opportunity to remain in the army as a captain, but he chose to return to private practice and moved his family to Detroit in October 1815. Political career. In Detroit, Edwards resumed his interest in politics and was elected president of the city's board of trustees in 1816 and 1817. This gave him the opportunity to meet and host President James Monroe on his visit to Detroit in 1818. Edwards served as treasurer of the University of Michigan in"}, {"text": "1821 and then on its Board of Trustees from 1822 to 1837. The Territory of Michigan held an election in 1823 that chose 18 people\u2014including Edwards\u2014from whom President Monroe was to select nine to form the First Michigan Territorial Council, a new legislative body to replace the governor and judges that had previously governed the territory. Edwards was one of the nine Monroe appointed, and was elected president of the council at its first session, a position which he held for the next eight years. Edwards left Detroit in 1828, along with his wife and ten children, and started west with three covered wagons. They traveled for 18 days before stopping in the settlement of Beardsley's Prairie in Cass County, Michigan, where they built a new home. The village was later renamed Edwardsburg after him. He was appointed register in the land office established in White Pigeon in 1831, and the family moved there. The land office moved again in May 1834, to Kalamazoo, and the Edwards family again moved with it. He stayed in his position at the land office until 1849, when he was removed by President Zachary Taylor because he was a Democrat. In 1852, Edwards served"}, {"text": "as an elector for Michigan, casting his vote for the Democratic nominees, Franklin Pierce and William R. King. Edwards died in Kalamazoo on October 22, 1860. Family. Edwards married Ruth Fessenden Hunt in Fort Wayne in June 1805. She was the daughter of the fort's commandant, Colonel Thomas Hunt. Among their ten children were Thomas, Alexander, Henry, Alice, and Julia."}, {"text": "Alessandra Casella is an economist, researcher, professor, and author. Currently, she is an Economics and Political Science professor at Columbia University. Life. Casella received her bachelor's degree with a summa cum laude in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University, Milan, in March 1983. She furthered her studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she received her master's degree and Ph.D. in economics, 1988. Her thesis focused on hyperinflation and the real exchange rates and supply shocks in the economy. After graduating, Casella's research continues to focus on economics, with more specific interests in public economics, experimental economics, and political economy. In 2019, Casella was the director of the Columbia Laboratory for the Social Sciences, and a fellow in both the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge and the British Center for Economic Policy Research. She is the author of two books: \"Networks and Markets. Contributions from Economics and Sociology\" and \"Storable Votes: Protecting the Minority Voice.\" Career. Academic. Casella started her teaching career at UC Berkeley as an assistant professor from 1987 to 1993. From 1996 to 2010, she was the part-time Director of Studies at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, School for"}, {"text": "Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) based in Paris, France. In the time between her career in UC Berkeley and Directorship at EHESS, Casella became an associate Professor of Economics at Columbia University, New York, from 1993 till 1997. Her career with Columbia University continued where she eventually became a professor of economics at Columbia University in 1997 until current. Since then, Casella has taught Ph.D. courses in \"Experimental Methods in Political Economy\" and \"Special Topics in Political Economics\". She has also taught undergraduate classes in political economy and experimental economics. Since 2017, Casella has also become a professor of Political Science at Columbia University."}, {"text": "Come Morning may refer to:"}, {"text": "The was a Japanese court document issued to the \"daimy\u014d\" of the Satsuma and Ch\u014dsh\u016b Domains in November 1867 in the build-up to the Meiji Restoration of January 1868."}, {"text": "Mart\u00edn Mendaro (born 1 August 1973 in Montevideo) is a former Uruguayan rugby union player and a current coach. He played as a centre. He played for Carrasco Polo Club in the Campeonato Uruguayo de Rugby. He had 47 caps for Uruguay, from 1992 to 2003, scoring 4 tries, 20 points on aggregate. He was called for the 1999 Rugby World Cup, playing in two games, without scoring. He would be called once again for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, where he played in three games, remaining scoreless. After finishing his player career, he became a coach. He was first head coach at Carrasco Polo Club, joining Tr\u00e9bol Paysand\u00fa in 2017/18, where he won the Campeonato Uruguayo de Rugby the same season."}, {"text": "Tang Xijing (; born January 3, 2003) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. She is the 2019 World all-around silver medalist, matching Jiang Yuyuan at the 2010 World Championships for the highest all-around finish for a Chinese woman in World or Olympic history. She is also the 2020 Olympic silver medalist on balance beam and the 2022 Chinese national all-around champion. At the junior level she is the 2018 Youth Olympic balance beam champion and uneven bars bronze medalist. She unofficially announced her retirement on March 20, 2024, on her alternate Weibo account. Junior gymnastics career. Tang won the gold medal as part of the Chinese team with He Licheng, Qi Qi, Yin Sisi, and Zhao Shiting at the 2018 Asian Junior Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia. Individually, she won the gold on balance beam ahead of Yin and Eum Doh-yun of South Korea. Tang won the bronze medal in the all-around at the 2018 Chinese National Championships behind Luo Huan and Zhang Jin. She won silver with the Beijing team and placed fourth in the uneven bars final. Tang competed at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she qualified third into the all-around final and all event"}, {"text": "finals except vault. She placed fourth in the all-around after falling twice on beam. In event finals, Tang won gold on balance beam ahead of Russia's Ksenia Klimenko and Great Britain's Amelie Morgan, and bronze on uneven bars behind Klimenko and Giorgia Villa of Italy. She also placed fourth on floor. Senior gymnastics career. 2019. Tang was named to the Chinese team for the 2019 City of Jesolo Trophy with Liu Tingting, Qi Qi, and Zhang Jin, where they won the silver medal behind the United States. She individually placed fourth in the all-around and won silver on the uneven bars. At the 2019 Chinese National Championships, she won silver with the Beijing team and on balance beam behind junior Ou Yushan, as well as fourth in the all-around. Tang was named to the Chinese team for the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, alongside Chen Yile, Li Shijia, Liu Tingting, Qi Qi, and Zhang Jin. She helped the team qualify in second behind the United States and was the first reserve on uneven bars. Tang failed to qualify to the all-around final due to the two-per-country rule. She competed on vault, where she debuted a new double-twisting Yurchenko vault,"}, {"text": "uneven bars, and floor during the team final to help China place fourth behind the United States, Russia, and Italy after the team counted three falls. Tang replaced Liu in the all-around final after Liu's withdrawal. Despite qualifying in 21st place to the all-around, since she was replacing sixth-place qualifier Liu, she was seeded in the top rotating group. Tang hit four strong routines to win a surprise silver medal in the all-around behind five-time world champion Simone Biles of the United States and ahead of 2019 European Games Champion Angelina Melnikova of Russia. She recorded the second-highest beam score of the day behind Biles. This finish marks the highest placement of a female Chinese gymnast in World Championships or Olympic history, matching Jiang Yuyuan's second-place finish at the 2010 World Championships. It was also the first all-around medal won by a Chinese woman at the World or Olympic level since Yao Jinnan's bronze medal at the 2011 World Championships. 2020. After the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tang competed at the delayed Chinese National Championships in September. As the reigning World all-around silver medalist, Tang was a favorite for the title. In the"}, {"text": "qualification round, which also served as the team final, Tang and Qi Qi led the Beijing provincial team to a fourth consecutive silver medal. Individually, a major error on uneven bars and a fall on balance beam caused Tang to miss qualifying for both of those event finals and to enter the all-around final in sixth place. However, a strong performance on floor featuring a new full-twisting double tuck allowed her to qualify to that final in third place behind Qi and reigning national champion Shang Chunsong. After qualifications, Tang said she felt physically stronger and that she hoped to overcome her pattern of making errors in the first round of a competition. In the all-around final, Tang improved on her qualifications performance to place fifth in the two-day combined all-around standings. Tang recorded the top beam score of the day by a wide margin after landing her new double pike dismount and earned the fourth-highest score on both vault and floor exercise. Another major error on the uneven bars prevented her from making the all-around podium, with her training mates Wei Xiaoyuan and Qi Qi ultimately taking silver and bronze. In the floor exercise final, Tang also placed fifth"}, {"text": "with a clean routine, less than a tenth from the podium. 2021. On 3 July, Tang was selected to represent China at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Lu Yufei, Ou Yushan, and Zhang Jin; they finished seventh as a team. On 3 August she competed in the balance beam event final and won the silver medal behind compatriot Guan Chenchen. 2022. Tang competed at the 2022 Asian Championships in June. While there she helped China place first as a team. Individually she won silver in the all-around behind Zhang Jin and on the uneven bars behind Wei Xiaoyuan. At the Chinese National Championships Tang placed first in the all-around. Additionally she placed third on uneven bars behind Luo Rui and Wei Xiaoyuan and eighth on floor exercise."}, {"text": "Travis Creek is a long 3rd order tributary to the Haw River, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Course. Travis Creek rises in Guilford County on the divide between Travis Creek and Buffalo Creek. Travis Creek then flows east into Alamance County to meet the Haw River about 3 miles north of Glen Raven, North Carolina. Watershed. Travis Creek drains of area, receives about 46.0 in/year of precipitation, and has a wetness index of 443.11 and is about 36% forested."}, {"text": "Sipho Owen Ndlovu (born 7 October 1994) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chicken Inn FC and the Zimbabwe national football team. He played for Bulawayo City F.C. between 2016 and 2018. Career. International. Ndlovu made his senior international debut on 26 March 2017 in a 0-0 friendly draw with Zambia."}, {"text": "Engelbert van den Daele (1496\u20131556) was chancellor of Brabant, lord of Leefdael and Wilderen. Life. Van den Daele was born to a patrician family in Mechelen in 1496. After graduating doctor of law from Leuven University he was, on 17 January 1540, appointed to the Great Council of Mechelen. On 18 October 1540, Charles V appointed him chancellor of Brabant in succession to Adolph Van der Noot. The States of Brabant initially objected to the appointment on the basis of the Charter of Liberties of Brabant specifying that only Brabanters could hold such office. Van den Daele countered that those holding a barony in Brabant were accounted Brabanters, and he had been awarded the lordship of Leefdael two weeks prior to his appointment. He was sworn in on 26 August 1541. In October 1541 he took part in negotiations for the marriage between Christina of Denmark and Francis I, Duke of Lorraine. His first wife was Marie Ruffault, daughter of Jean Ruffault, knight, lord of Neufville and treasurer general of finance. His second wife was Fran\u00e7oise de Sauvage, daughter of the chancellor of Burgundy. He died in Brussels on 21 December 1556. He and his second wife were buried in"}, {"text": "Brussels Minster."}, {"text": "Sarah Hutchings \"n\u00e9e\" Reneer (born September 27, 1984) is an American composer of contemporary opera, art song, and choral works. Life and career. Hutchings was born Sarah Reneer in Lexington, Kentucky, on September 27, 1984, and raised in Durham, North Carolina, where she had her first music lessons at the age of four. Hutchings received her Bachelor of Music degree in 2007 from Western Carolina University, her Master of Music degree from Florida State University in 2010, and her Doctor of Musical Arts from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2013. She has studied under Ladislav Kub\u00edk, Clifton Callendar, Michael Fiday, Joel Hoffman, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Hutchings is married to operatic baritone Mitchell Hutchings and lives in Boca Raton, Florida. Works. Hutchings's compositions include four short operas, art songs, and a choral work. Reception. Alex Baker in \"Parterre Box\" described the score Hutchings's opera \"Twenty Minutes or Less\" as having \"imaginatively captured the tonal shifts, moving from spiky, rollicking ensembles to a series of introspective Bernstein-esque arias.\" In her review of the opera, Anne Midgette of the \"Washington Post\", wrote that Hutchings composed \"appealingly for instruments, with a sinuous muted trombone adding a big-band flavor, but needed work"}, {"text": "setting the text so that it could be understood.\""}, {"text": "Fire & Brimstone is the fifth studio album by American country rock artist Brantley Gilbert. It was released on October 4, 2019 via Big Machine Records' Valory imprint. The album includes the singles \"What Happens in a Small Town\", a duet with Canadian country singer Lindsay Ell and \"Fire't Up\". \"Fire & Brimstone\" debuted at number nine on the US \"Billboard\" 200 with 36,000 album-equivalent units, of which 28,000 were pure album sales. A deluxe edition of the album featuring the single \"Hard Days\" was released on October 2, 2020. Content. The album is Gilbert's fifth overall, and his third for the Valory imprint of Big Machine Records, to which he has been signed since 2011. It includes a total of fifteen tracks, some of which Gilbert released online prior to the album's release. The song \"Not Like Us\" was used in advertising for NASCAR in mid-2019. Vocal collaborators on the album include Willie Nelson and his son Lukas (of Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real), Colt Ford, Jamey Johnson, and Alison Krauss. Canadian country singer Lindsay Ell is featured on the lead single, \"What Happens in a Small Town\". Critical reception. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated it"}, {"text": "3.5 out of 5 stars, stating that \"Maybe it doesn't have enough intensity to live up to its titular promise, but \"Fire & Brimstone\" nevertheless is a cohesive record that shows Gilbert in firm grasp of his craft.\" Dan MacIntosh of \"Country Standard Time\" gave a largely positive review, noting a \"spiritual\" theme on some songs including the title track, while also praising \"Man That Hung the Moon\". His review called the album \"quality if not exactly country\", leaning more toward rock. Commercial performance. \"Fire & Brimstone\" debuted at No. 1 on \"Billboard\"s Top Country Albums based on 36,000 album equivalent units, of which 28,000 are in traditional album sales. It also debuted at No. 9 on Billboard 200. It sold a further 5,700 copies the second week. It has sold 70,300 copies as of March 2020, and 127,000 consumed units as of February 2020. Personnel. Adapted from AllMusic and liner notes."}, {"text": "Hamza Sahli (born 10 May 1993) is a Moroccan athlete who specializes in long-distance events. He won a bronze medal in half marathon at the 2019 African Games. Representing Morocco at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, he competed in men's marathon and finished 8th. Sahli competed in the men's marathon at the 2020 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Interrobang is the eighth studio album by American rock band Bayside. Background. In September 2018, the group released \"Acoustic Volume 2\", which featured acoustic re-workings of their back catalogue. It was promoted with a two-leg US tour: first leg in November and December, with the second in January and February 2019. Release. On August 20, 2019, the band released the single \"Prayers\". On September 20, \"Interrobang\" was announced for release the following month. Alongside this, a music video was released for the title-track, directed by Megan Thompson. The group held a battle-of-the-bands contest where people could vote for locals acts to open for the band on their headlining tour later in the year. On September 27, \"Bury Me\" was made available for streaming. \"Interrobang\" was released on October 4 through Hopeless Records. In November and December, the group embarked on a headlining US tour. \"Heaven\" was released on 7\" vinyl as a Record Store Day 2020 release. Reception. The album received favorable reviews from critics."}, {"text": "Crazy Enough may refer to:"}, {"text": "George Blake Grinell (November 11, 1823 \u2013 December 19, 1891) was an American merchant and financier. Grinnell was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, the son of George Grinnell Jr. (also spelled Grennell), state senator and U. S. representative, and Eliza Seymour Perkins. He was educated in the public schools of Greenfield, and as a boy went to Auburn, New York, employed in the bank of his uncle, James Seymour. In 1843 he came to New York City, and took a position in the wholesale dry-goods house of his cousin, George Bird. In 1857 he became a partner, and on the death of his cousin he continued the business until 1861, forming a partnership with Levi P. Morton (later Governor of the New York and Vice President of the United States) under the firm name of Morton, Grinnell & Co. which was a successful operation until the breaking out of the Civil War, when it failed along with many other businesses. In 1866 he formed a partnership with Wellington Clapp, with Horace F. Clark as special partner, for the business of stockbroking. The firm was very successful, and was largely employed by Cornelius Vanderbilt. On the retirement of Clapp in 1869, Grinnell"}, {"text": "continued the business until 1873, when he retired. In his early life Grinnell was, at different times, director in various organizations and corporations, of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and various banks. He was a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Grinnell married Helen Alvord Lansing, daughter of Dirck Cornelius and Laura (Alexander) Lansing, on December 21, 1848. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and for many years vestryman of the Church of the Intercession, Manhattan. His son George Bird Grinnell became a noted explorer and conservationist."}, {"text": "Carolina Cristina Alves is an associate professor at the University College London Institute for Innovation and Social Purpose. She previously was the Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics at Girton College at the University of Cambridge. She is a co-founder of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics D-Econ, and an editor of the \"Developing Economics\" blog (DE Blog). She sits on the Rebuilding Macroeconomics Advisory Board (RM Advisory Council), the Progressive Economy Forum Council (PEF) and Positive Money . Career. Alves graduated from S\u00e3o Paulo State University in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in economics, and then the Universidade Estadual de Campinas with a Masters in the Sociology in 2007. Alves earned her PhD in Economics from SOAS University of London in 2017. She is a member of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group (CSOG) and the Alternative Approaches to Economics Research Group at the University of Cambridge. She has been a Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics at Girton College at the University of Cambridge since October 2017. She is also a College Teaching Officer in Economics at Cambridge. Alves is a co-founder of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics, a \"network of economists that aim to promote inclusiveness in economics\" in"}, {"text": "academic content and in the field's institutional structures. Known as \"D-Econ\", the organization works to promote an approach to the study of economics that encompasses the diversity of identity, the diversity of approaches, and decolonization in order to combat institutional structures that have created the \"homogenous composition of the profession\". Current and upcoming projects involve the creation of a database of marginalized scholars, guidelines for inclusive practices for organizations and conferences, and a network of organizations and activists with like-minded visions. Alves is also a member of the organization's steering committee. As a member of the Rebuilding Macroeconomics Advisory Group, Alves is a part of a research initiative aimed at re-invigorating macroeconomics and bringing it back to the fore as a policy-relevant social science. The organization supports \"creative\" research that may impact real-world economic issues. Alves is also a co-editor of the Developing Economics blog, which takes a critical approach to creating discussion and reflection in the field of developing economics. She has contributed several articles of her own, including \"Unanswered Questions on Financialisation in Developing Economies\" and \"The Financialization Response to Economic Disequilibria: European and Latin American Experiences\". Research and academic work. Alves' research focuses on macroeconomics, international macro-finance,"}, {"text": "political economy and Marxian economics. Before her PhD, Alves focused on issues relating to financial capital, the labour theory of value, and social classes. During her MPhil, she looked at the historical and theoretical development of the relationship between value and labour in economics. While doing her MPhil, she was also a research assistant for the State of S\u00e3o Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP \u2014 BR) on a project concerning income transfer strategies for governments. Her PhD thesis, titled \"Stabilisation or financialisation: examining the dynamics of the Brazilian public debt\", examined Brazilian public debt between 1994 and 2014 and the vicious cycle between financial liberalization, high interest rates, and the growth of domestic public debt. After the completion of her PhD, Alves has further studied fiscal and monetary policy through an analysis of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank's literature on public debt management and its impact on the development of government bond markets. Since early 2019, Alves has been organizing a special issue of the \"Cambridge Journal of Economics\" that examines the financialization process in both developing and emerging economies, a concept stemming from conversations about the risks of financial liberalization and globalization. Selected scholarships. Synthesis Report: Empirical"}, {"text": "analysis for new ways of global engagement Together with Vivienne Boufounou, Konstantinos Dellis, Christos Pitelis and Jan Toporowski, Alves produced a synthesis report looking at the increasing integration of developing and emerging economies into the global financial system through the increasing cross-border flows of capital. They argue that a close examination of net capital flows cannot explain this integration, while the increasing involvement of the private sector in the external debt of developing countries does reflect this increasing integration into the financial system. Such integration increases these countries' exposure to various financial risks and subjects their economies to different factors that drive these capital flows. The authors point out that the increased participation of developing and emerging economies in the world's financial system represents potential for the development of new multilateral relationships, and these economies can also be a crucial source of finance for the European continent at a time of financial distress. This paper was published as a FESSUD working paper in August 2016."}, {"text": "Perenchio is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Clive Farai Augusto (born 26 July 1994) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a forward for CAPS United and the Zimbabwe national football team. Club career. Born in Harare suburb Mabvuku, he started his career at DT Africa United before spells at second level sides Twalumba and Darwin. In 2015 he moved to Ngezi Platinum with whom he clinched promotion to the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League. He then scored 14 goals in 17 matches for Chicken Inn, but left them after only 8 months in August 2019 for Maritzburg United after becoming unsettled at the club. Augusto returned to Zimbabwe in August 2021, signing for CAPS United after an unsuccessful period in South Africa with Maritzburg United and then Uthongathi."}, {"text": "The Passport is a 2018 Iranian short film written and directed by Hanieh Bavali. It won Creativity Award at A Show For A Change film festival in California and Audience award of Ongezien Kort festival in Belgium. also film was screened at many festivals in various cities of US and elsewhere. Plot. A young photographer takes passport photos of others who want to leave Iran, while he must stay."}, {"text": "Allanoke Manor or Allanoke, is a historic private residence in Berkeley, California. The main part of Allanoke has the address 1777 Le Roy Avenue, and its former carriage house has the address 2533 Ridge Road, each about one block north of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The home was declared by the City of Berkeley, a Berkeley Landmark in November, 1986. It is also known under the variant spelling Allenoke or Allenoke Manor, or as the Robert Sibley House, and the Allen G. Freeman House. History. Allanoke Manor was designed by Ernest Coxhead, and built in 1903, completed in 1904. It is built with clinker bricks in a cross between Georgian and Dutch colonial styles. In the Fall of 1904, it was the site of \"a series of cello and piano recitals performed by Frederick Stickney Gutterson and his wife, Minnie Marie.\" Allanoke Manor's first owner, Allen Gleason Freeman (1853-1930), was born in Flushing, Michigan and a fruit merchant. In 1887 he married Jessie Katherine Marsh (1858-1940) Mr. and Mrs. Freeman were Unitarian Universalists. In 1919, the Freemans erected a carriage house, described by Thompson as \"Allanoke carriage house\", across Le Roy street at 2533 Ridge Road."}, {"text": "Designed by architect Clarence Tantau, the carriage house was late observed to include a gate post with the name \"Allanoke\" engraved on it. Allanoke survived the 1923 fire, which destroyed many nearby Berkeley buildings. In the late 1980s, the university was offered but declined to purchase the estate. Allanoke was then acquired by Frederick M. Binkley (1924\u20132006) and his wife Marian Frances (1924\u20132017), who restored Allanoke to single-family use. On 16 July 2018, Allanoke was sold to the New Bridge Foundation. In a 2017 letter sent to Berkeley's Landmarks Preservation Commission, local researcher Daniella Thompson stated that the correct spelling of the manor's name is Allanoke. She supplied several reasons, including that \"this name appears on the gate-post of the carriage house at 2533 Ridge Road.\" Thompson authored an article on the website of the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association that contains photographs of the \"Allanoke\" spelling on the carriage house gate-post, as well as newspaper notices of the 1904 recitals, and Mrs. Freeman's will from 21 Sept 1938. Notable residents. Allanoke was the home of Robert Sibley and Carol Sibley. Robert Sibley (1881-1958), a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, who was an executive manager of"}, {"text": "the California Alumni Association, as well as director and president of the East Bay Regional Park District (1948-1958). His wife Carol Sibley (1902-1986) was a prominent local civic activist who played a pivotal role in Berkeley's school desegregation in the 1960s."}, {"text": "Killian Basba Geeke Nikiema (born 22 June 2003) is a professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for ADO Den Haag. Born in the Netherlands, he plays for the Burkina Faso national team. Club career. Nikiema began playing football with the youth academy of Voorschoten '97 at the age of 4 and played as winger, before switching to become a goalkeeper at 15. He joined the youth academy of ADO Den Haag in 2016, and signed his first professional contract with them on 9 May 2019. International career. Nikema was born in the Netherlands to a Burkinab\u00e9 father and Dutch mother, and is a youth international for the Netherlands. Nikiema made his professional debut for the Burkina Faso national team in a friendly 1\u20130 win over Libya on 4 September 2019."}, {"text": "Diamond Cut may refer to:"}, {"text": "3-Chloromethcathinone (3-CMC), also known as clophedrone, is a synthetic substance belonging to the cathinone class of psychoactive compounds. It is very similar in structure to other methcathinone derivatives such as 3-MMC and 4-CMC. Unlike cathinone, which occurs naturally in the khat plant Catha edulis, 3-CMC is not found in nature and is solely produced through chemical synthesis. First detected in 2014, 3-CMC gained attention for its stimulating effects that are described to be similar to the effects of mephedrone and, to a lesser extent, those of MDMA and cocaine. 3-CMC has been sold online as a designer drug mainly in European countries such as Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, and Sweden. It is a controlled substance in many countries. Use. Recreational. The perceived effects are said to resemble those of 3-MMC, users report reduced effects and a shorter duration in comparison. Effects include stimulation, euphoria, and increased confidence, libido, and sociability. It can be administered orally or through nasal insufflation. The acute effects of 3-CMC last 1 to 4 hours, depending on the administration method. After effects, like difficulty sleeping, can last 3 to 12 hours longer. Availability. 3-CMC has been available in Europe since 2014. According to the European Monitoring"}, {"text": "Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) it has been detected in 25 European countries with the majority of drug seizures in Poland and the largest quantities in the Netherlands. The amount of 3-CMC seized in Europe has increased yearly from 2014 to 2021 indicating an increase in production and availability. Large seizures of 3-CMC by customs are reported to originate from India. Adverse effects. There are limited amounts of research available on the effects of 3-CMC. The effects are likely comparable to those of other cathinones of which it is known exposure can result in symptoms such as tachycardia, hypertension, and episodes of psychosis. Users also report other side effects including an increase in body temperature, sweating, anxiety, and dry mouth. Toxicity. Information on the toxicity of 3-CMC is scarce, with only exploratory cytotoxicity studies conducted. Between November 2019 and June 2021, the EMCDDA reported ten deaths linked to 3-CMC exposure in Poland (7 cases) and Sweden (3 cases). Other substances were found in six cases, with alcohol being the only additional substance in two cases. Causes of death included multi-organ trauma caused by a traffic accident, toxic effects of 3-CMC, and intoxication with various substances. Details such as"}, {"text": "dosage and administration routes are lacking. Chemistry. The chemical name of 3-chloromethcathinone (3-CMC) is 1-(3-chlorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)-1-propanone. It is a N-alkylated and ring-substituted cathinone derivative. The drug is the analogue of bupropion in which its \"N\"-\"tert\"-butyl group has been replaced with an \"N\"-methyl group. Another related compound is 3-chlorocathinone (3-CC). Isomers. 3-CMC is a chloromethcathinone, which has two other positional isomers, namely 2-CMC and 4-CMC. These differ in the position of the chlorine atom on the phenyl ring. As well as 3-CMC, these molecules are both known designer drugs. Since 3-CMC contains a chiral center, there are two enantiomers, namely (\"S\")-3-CMC and (\"R\")-3-CMC. The products are most likely on the market as a racemic mixture of the two enantiomers, since separation would result in very high costs. Synthesis. 3-CMC is commonly synthesized starting from 3-chloropropiophenone. 3-chloropropiophenone is subjected to alpha halogenation using bromine. Subsequently, methylamine acts as a nucleophile and displaces bromide in a nucleophilic substitution to form a racemic product. Cathinones are usually unstable as a freebase, so the product is often treated with HCl or HBr to form a hydrochloride or hydrobromide salt, respectively. Pharmacology. Pharmacodynamics. The pharmacology of 3-CMC is expected to be very similar to the pharmacology for"}, {"text": "other mephedrone analogs (methcathinones). These molecules interact with monoamine transporters, in particular the dopamine transporter (DAT), norepinephrine transporter (NET), and serotonin transporter (SERT). The main function of these transporters is to terminate monoamine transmission by reuptake of the released neurotransmitters. Interaction of psychoactive drugs with the monoamine transporters inhibits this reuptake leading to an increase in the concentration of dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin in the synaptic cleft. Additionally 3-CMC and other mephedrone analogs are monoamine releasing agents (MRAs). They are transported into the cytoplasm of the nerve terminal through the monoamine transporters where they increase in the release of monoamine neurotransmitters. Releasers are thought to be more effective at raising monoamine levels since they enhance the pool of neurotransmitters available for release. Psychostimulants differ in their relative affinity for DAT, SERT and NET. In a study done on brain cells of male rats 3-CMC was found to interact on a relatively similar level with DAT and NET as mephedrone, while it interacts significantly less with SERT. Another study done on male rats also concludes that 3-CMC causes more release of dopamine in proportion to serotonin whereas mephedrone releases relatively more serotonin. 3-CMC produces hyperlocomotion, a psychostimulant-like effect, in rodents. It"}, {"text": "substitutes for cocaine in drug discrimination tests in monkeys. The drug is less potent in substituting for cocaine than methcathinone, which has been theorized to be due to its greater capacity to induce serotonin release and to thereby inhibit its own reinforcing effects. Pharmacokinetics. Cathinones are typically metabolized in the body through processes such as oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis, and conjugation reactions, primarily occurring in the liver. There is still limited information about the metabolism of 3-CMC in humans or animals, as it has not been extensively studied. However, a mechanism has been proposed for the biotransformation processes of 3-CMC based on the metabolism of structurally similar cathinones, which involves the formation of several metabolites, including dihydro-3-CMC, \"N\"-desmethyl-3-CMC, and \"N\"-desmethyl-dihydro-3-CMC. Legal status. As of March 2022, the European Commission has taken new measures to control the psychoactive substance of 3-CMC. This decision is based on a risk assessment conducted by the EU Drugs Agency (EMCDDA) in November 2021. Since 3-CMC was prohibited in China (October 2015), it was found that most of the production was manufactured in India and little of the substance supply originates from inside Europe. Several European countries were ahead of the European Commission report by (generically) controlling"}, {"text": "the substance. Nowadays, in almost all countries 3-CMC is prohibited."}, {"text": "This article attempts to list the oldest buildings in the city of Varna, Bulgaria, including the oldest temples and any other surviving structures. In some instances, buildings listed here were reconstructed numerous times and only fragments of the original buildings have survived. Some dates are approximate and based on architectural studies and historical records. In order to qualify for the list a structure must: This consciously excludes ruins of limited height, roads and statues. Other structures. The following are old constructions that do not fit the above criteria for a building, typically because they are ruins that no longer fit the height requirement specified above."}, {"text": "Peter Labilliere (1725-1800), also known as Peter Labelliere, was a British Army Major who is notable for being buried upside down on Box Hill near Dorking in Surrey. Biography. Labilliere was born in Dublin on 30 May 1725 to a family of French Huguenot descent (his family was from Aulas, in the Gard department). He joined the British Army at the age of 14, becoming a major in 1760. After leaving the army he became a political agitator and was accused in 1775 of bribing British troops not to fight in the American War of Independence, although he was never tried for treason. Throughout the 1770s and 80s Labiliere corresponded regularly with both Benjamin Franklin (at that time the American representative in France) and the Long Island wax sculptor Patience Wright. The effect of his anti-war protests on British public sentiment is uncertain, although he appears to have attracted a following of over 700 like-minded adherents, and the army was required to rely on German mercenaries, as recruitment of British troops for the war became increasingly difficult. Labilliere moved to Dorking from Chiswick in around 1789, living in a small cottage called \"The Hole in the Wall,\" on Butter Hill,"}, {"text": "and often visiting Box Hill to meditate. With old age he became increasingly eccentric and neglected his own personal hygiene to such an extent that he acquired the nickname \"the walking dung-hill\". Labilliere died on 6 June 1800. In accordance with his wishes he was buried head downwards, on 10 or 11 June on the western side of Box Hill above The Whites. In the presence of a crowd of thousands that included visitors from London as well as the local \"quality gentry\", Labilliere was buried without any religious ceremony, having reportedly said that the world was \"topsy-turvey\" and that it would be righted in the end if he were interred thus. But this preference was not mentioned in his \"Book of Devotions\": rather he there said that he wished to emulate the example of St Peter, who was crucified upside-down according to tradition. Former and current memorial stones. Labilliere\u2019s grave, on a steep incline above the River Mole, was originally marked with a small, cube-shaped stone bearing the inscription: Peter Labelliere, aged 76 years, an eccentric resident of Dorking, was buried here head downwards, on 11 June 1800 Note the spelling Labelliere is used, whereas all surviving manuscripts indicate"}, {"text": "that he spelt his name Labilliere. He is also believed to have been 75 years old when he died (and not 76). The current stone, installed in the late 1950s, is on level ground, several metres to the east of the actual burial site. Although it gives his correct age at death, the stone erroneously states that Labilliere was buried in the month of July. Literary longevity. Labelliere's story was recorded (under that spelling) by John Timbs in his \"English Eccentrics and Eccentricities\", published in 1866. He then earned a mention (continuing the 'e' spelling) in Edith Sitwell's 1933 book \"The English Eccentrics\", which surely draws on Timbs' description, and through which he came to feature in W.H. Auden's 1940 book of poems \"New Year Letter\" (\"The Double Man\" in the United States) (Part 1, ll. 368-82): [We] Get angry like Labelli\u00e8re, Who, finding no invectives hurled Against a topsy-turvy world Would right it, earning a quaint renown By being buried upside-down; Unwilling to adjust belief, Go mad in a fantastic grief Where no adjustment need be done, .. Also from the Sitwell account, he appears as a character in the 1964 chamber opera \"English Eccentrics\", by Malcolm Williamson."}, {"text": "Denise Cook is a New Zealand Paralympian who competed in athletics. At the 1984 Summer Paralympics, she won gold medals in the Discus C5 and Shot Put C5, and silver medals in the Club Throw C5 and Javelin C5."}, {"text": "Charan Sanit Wong Road (, ) is a main road in Bangkok's Thonburi side (west bank of Chao Phraya River), it is named in honour of Luang Charan Sanit Wong (ML Charan Sanitwong), the former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Its name has been misspelled as \u0e08\u0e23\u0e31\u0e25\u0e2a\u0e19\u0e34\u0e17\u0e27\u0e07\u0e28\u0e4c in Thai according to the 1999 Royal Institute Dictionary. Charan Sanit Wong Road runs through the three districts of Bangkok, namely Bangkok Yai, Bangkok Noi and Bang Phlat. It begins at Phet Kasem Road (Highway 4), at the corners of the Tha Phra Intersection, Tha Phra MRT station. It heads northwest through the Wat Tha Phra, Tha Phra Police Station, The Kingdom of Lesotho Consulate, Wat Chao Mun, Siam Technological College, Sesawech Vidhaya School, and entrance to Wat Di Duad (Soi Charan Sanit Wong 12), cuts across Phanitchayakan Thon Buri Road (Soi Charan Sanit Wong 13) at Phanitchayakan Thon Buri Junction, and crossing the Khlong Mon and passes the Wat Pho Riang with Wat Bang Sao Thong, as well as the Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) Thon Buri. The road intersects Fai Chai Intersection, where it cuts Phran Nok and Phutthamonthon Sai 4\u2013Phran Nok Roads, then bend to the northeast through Bang Khun Si"}, {"text": "Market, Makro Charan Sanit Wong Branch, and Charansanitwong Railway Halt in the area of Bang Khun Non and passes the Bang Khun Non Junction including the ancient temple Wat Suwannaram, before crossing Khlong Bangkok Noi near Wat Si Sudaram or formerly known as Wat Chi Pa Kao. It runs through Borommaratchachonnani Intersection, where it meets Borommaratchachonnani and Somdet Phra Pinklao Roads on the boundary between Arun Amarin of Bangkok Noi and Bang Bamru with Bang Yi Khan of Bang Phlat near two prominent department stores PATA and Central Plaza Pinklao beneath Borommaratchachonnani Elevated Highway. From here, it fully enters Bang Phlat, passes Phong Sap Market and Wat Ruak Bang Bamru with runs continuously as far as Bang Phlat Intersection, where it meets Sirindhorn and Ratchawithi Roads near Wat Sing and Krung Thon Bridge. Specifically, this phase it can be considered parallel to Samsen Road in Phra Nakhon side (east bank of Chao Phraya River). Then head northeast across Khlong Bang Phlat into the area of Bang O passes Yanhee Hospital and Wimuttayarampittayakorn School, before ending at the foot of Rama VII Bridge in Bang Kruai, Bang Kruai District, Nonthaburi Province. Currently, the entire distance of Charan Sanit Wong Road is"}, {"text": "served by the extension MRT Blue Line (Bang Sue\u2013Tha Phra), which has been open since 2020. In the area of Bang Phlat that the road runs through, there are also two communities that conserve traditional Thai ways of life and play, were the creation of the Khon mask (Soi Charan Sanit Wong 71) and the angklung band of the local elderly (Soi Charan Sanit Wong 89, also known as Saeng Thong Community). And Soi Charan Sanit Wong 86 is the location of Masjid Bang O, a historic masjid is remarkable with the architecture that combines Renaissance, Baroque, and Indian. In addition, Soi Charan Sanit Wong 27, also known as Soi Buppha Sawan used to be the centre of \"luk thung\" (Thai country music) bands during the 1960s and 1970s, it was home to a number of luk thung band agents."}, {"text": "The IT cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar, also known as Silicon Valley of Germany, is one of the most important locations of the IT and high-tech industry worldwide. It is concentrated in the Rhine-Main and Rhine-Neckar metropolitan regions. The IT cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar is the largest IT cluster in Europe. 50 percent of the worldwide revenue of the hundred largest European software companies is generated by companies in this region. The Rhine-Main-Neckar region also has one of the most important biopharmaceutical, fintech, finance and consulting clusters in Europe. In addition to universities such as Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt and University of Frankfurt and research institutions such as the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and ATHENE, software companies such as SAP SE, Software AG and T-Systems also have their headquarters in the region. Importance in the world. In 2010, the French venture capital firm Truffle Capital published in its study \"Truffle 100 European Clusters\" that the Rhine-Main-Neckar region accounts for 50 percent of the worldwide revenue of the hundred largest European software providers. It compared the Rhine-Main-Neckar region as an IT cluster with Silicon Valley as the \"Silicon Valley of Europe\". According to this study, the Rhine-Main-Neckar IT cluster combined more than 12.5 billion euros"}, {"text": "in software-related sales in 2009. The next largest European IT cluster was Paris with 2.4 billion euros. In a 2009 study, the region was compared with IT clusters such as Oulu (Finland), Bangalore (India) and Silicon Valley. In contrast to the Silicon Valley, the main business area of the companies in the region is enterprise software. According to a study by the European Commission, Darmstadt has the best cluster among all EU regions in the emerging industries. Emerging industries means future technologies that the EU attaches particular importance to for growth in Europe. Darmstadt also has the best biopharmaceutical cluster in Europe. The Rhineland-Palatinate region, which partly belongs to the Rhine-Main-Neckar region, ranks second among the biopharmaceutical clusters. The region is one of the most important locations for IT security research worldwide. Darmstadt has the renowned ATHENE, the national center for research in security and privacy in Germany and the largest research institute for IT security in Europe. According to an analysis by Startup Genome, a company specialising in the analysis of startup ecosystems, the Rhine-Main region is also home to one of the world's most important startup ecosystems in the field of IT security and fintech. Importance in Germany."}, {"text": "The IT cluster Rhein-Main-Neckar is part of the \"Spitzencluster\" Software-Cluster, which also includes other regions. In January 2010, the Software-Cluster won the German government's \"Spitzencluster\" competition, the equivalence to the German Universities Excellence Initiative for clusters. The cluster's goal is to enable the transformation of companies into digital companies. This cluster consists of the centers Darmstadt, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Saarbr\u00fccken and Walldorf. Since 2017, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research has supported the cooperation between the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt with companies and research institutions from Silicon Valley, Singapore and Bahia, Brazil. In a competition, the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media awarded Darmstadt the title of \"Digital City\" in 2017. This victory is intended to turn Darmstadt into a digital model city. In 2016, the Federal Ministry of Finance decided to make the region around Darmstadt the pre-eminent hub for the digital transformation of the economy. According to a study by the auditing firm Ernst & Young from 2018, 24% of all Fintechs in Germany have settled in the Rhine-Main-Neckar region, with Frankfurt being considered the centre. This makes the Rhine-Main-Neckar region one of the most important locations"}, {"text": "for the fintech industry in Germany. According to a study from 2013, the Rhine-Main region has the best cluster in Germany in the financial and consulting industry. According to the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) is one of the best universities in Germany in terms of research in computer science and the University of Mainz in the natural sciences. According to the report of the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2018, in the period under review from 2014 to 2016 the TU Darmstadt received the highest number of competitive grants in the field of computer science and the University of Mainz the highest number of competitive grants in the natural sciences. In a competitive selection process, the DFG selects the best research projects from researchers at universities and research institutes and finances them. The ranking is thus regarded as an indicator of the quality of research. In a nationwide competition by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, the Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt was honoured as founding university. Resident universities. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is not located directly in the IT-Cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar, but is adjacent to it and has nevertheless contributed to its development."}, {"text": "Michelle Kalivati (n\u00e9e Hadfield) is a New Zealand Paralympian who competed in athletics. At the 1984 Summer Paralympics, she won gold medals in the 200m 3 and Pentathlon 3, and silver medals in the 100m 3 and Slalom 3."}, {"text": "Bargery is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Lygo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Ribose is a simple sugar and carbohydrate with molecular formula C5H10O5 and the linear-form composition H\u2212(C=O)\u2212(CHOH)4\u2212H. The naturally occurring form, , is a component of the ribonucleotides from which RNA is built, and so this compound is necessary for coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes. It has a structural analog, deoxyribose, which is a similarly essential component of DNA. is an unnatural sugar that was first prepared by Emil Fischer and Oscar Piloty in 1891. It was not until 1909 that Phoebus Levene and Walter Jacobs recognised that was a natural product, the enantiomer of Fischer and Piloty's product, and an essential component of nucleic acids. Fischer chose the name \"ribose\" as it is a partial rearrangement of the name of another sugar, arabinose, of which ribose is an epimer at the 2' carbon; both names also relate to gum arabic, from which arabinose was first isolated and from which they prepared . Like most sugars, ribose exists as a mixture of cyclic forms in equilibrium with its linear form, and these readily interconvert especially in aqueous solution. The name \"ribose\" is used in biochemistry and biology to refer to all of these forms, though more specific names for"}, {"text": "each are used when required. In its linear form, ribose can be recognised as the pentose sugar with all of its hydroxyl functional groups on the same side in its Fischer projection. has these hydroxyl groups on the right hand side and is associated with the systematic name (2\"R\",3\"R\",4\"R\")-2,3,4,5-tetrahydroxypentanal, whilst has its hydroxyl groups appear on the left hand side in a Fischer projection. Cyclisation of ribose occurs via hemiacetal formation due to attack on the aldehyde by the C4' hydroxyl group to produce a furanose form or by the C5' hydroxyl group to produce a pyranose form. In each case, there are two possible geometric outcomes, named as \u03b1- and \u03b2- and known as anomers, depending on the stereochemistry at the hemiacetal carbon atom (the \"anomeric carbon\"). At room temperature, about 76% of is present in pyranose forms (\u03b1:\u03b2 = 1:2) and 24% in the furanose forms (\u03b1:\u03b2 = 1:3), with only about 0.1% of the linear form present. The ribonucleosides adenosine, cytidine, guanosine, and uridine are all derivatives of \u03b2--ribofuranose. Metabolically important species that include phosphorylated ribose include ADP, ATP, coenzyme A, and NADH. cAMP and cGMP serve as secondary messengers in some signaling pathways and are also"}, {"text": "ribose derivatives. The ribose moiety appears in some pharmaceutical agents, including the antibiotics neomycin and paromomycin. Synthesis and sources. Ribose as its 5-phosphate ester is typically produced from glucose by the pentose phosphate pathway. In at least some archaea, alternative pathways have been identified. Ribose can be synthesized chemically, but commercial production relies on fermentation of glucose. Using genetically modified strains of \"B. subtilis\", 90 g/liter of ribose can be produced from 200 g of glucose. The conversion entails the intermediacy of gluconate and ribulose. Ribose has been detected in meteorites. Structure. Ribose is an aldopentose (a monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms that, in its open chain form, has an aldehyde functional group at one end). In the conventional numbering scheme for monosaccharides, the carbon atoms are numbered from C1' (in the aldehyde group) to C5'. The deoxyribose derivative found in DNA differs from ribose by having a hydrogen atom in place of the hydroxyl group at C2'. This hydroxyl group performs a function in RNA splicing. The \"-\" in the name -ribose refers to the stereochemistry of the chiral carbon atom farthest away from the aldehyde group (C4'). In -ribose, as in all -sugars, this carbon atom has the"}, {"text": "same configuration as in -glyceraldehyde.Relative abundance of forms of ribose in solution: \u03b2--ribopyranose (59%), \u03b1--ribopyranose (20%), \u03b2--ribofuranose (13%), \u03b1--ribofuranose (7%) and open chain (0.1%). For ribose residues in nucleosides and nucleotide, the torsion angles for the rotation encompassing the bonds influence the configuration of the respective nucleoside and nucleotide. The secondary structure of a nucleic acid is determined by the rotation of its 7 torsion angles. Having a large amount of torsion angles allows for greater flexibility. In closed ring riboses, the observed flexibility mentioned above is not observed because the ring cycle imposes a limit on the number of torsion angles possible in the structure. Conformers of closed form riboses differ in regards to how the lone oxygen in the molecule is positioned respective to the nitrogenous base (also known as a nucleobase or just a base) attached to the ribose. If a carbon is facing towards the base, then the ribose is labeled as endo. If a carbon is facing away from the base, then the ribose is labeled as exo. If there is an oxygen molecule attached to the 2' carbon of a closed cycle ribose, then the exo confirmation is more stable because it decreases the"}, {"text": "interactions of the oxygen with the base. The difference itself is quite small, but when looking at an entire chain of RNA the slight difference amounts to a sizable impact.A ribose molecule is typically represented as a planar molecule on paper. Despite this, it is typically non-planar in nature. Even between hydrogen atoms, the many constituents on a ribose molecule cause steric hindrance and strain between them. To relieve this crowding and ring strain, the ring puckers, i.e. becomes non-planar. This puckering is achieved by displacing an atom from the plane, relieving the strain and yielding a more stable conformation. Puckering, otherwise known as the sugar ring conformation (specifically ribose sugar), can be described by the amplitude of pucker as well as the pseudorotation angle. The pseudo-rotation angle can be described as either \"north (N)\" or \"south (S)\" range. While both ranges are found in double helices, the north range is commonly associated with RNA and the A form of DNA. In contrast, the south range is associated with B form DNA. Z-DNA contains sugars in both the north and south ranges. When only a single atom is displaced, it is referred to as an \"envelope\" pucker. When two atoms"}, {"text": "are displaced, it is referred to as a \"twist\" pucker, in reference to the zigzag orientation. In an \"endo\" pucker, the major displacement of atoms is on the \u03b2-face, the same side as the C4'-C5' bond and the base. In an \"exo\" pucker, the major displacement of atoms is on the \u03b1-face, on the opposite side of the ring. The major forms of ribose are the 3'-endo pucker (commonly adopted by RNA and A-form DNA) and 2'-endo pucker (commonly adopted by B-form DNA). These ring puckers are developed from changes in ring torsion angles; there are infinite combinations of angles so therefore, there is an infinite number of transposable pucker conformations, each separated by disparate activation energies. Functions. ATP is derived from ribose; it contains one ribose, three phosphate groups, and an adenine base. ATP is created during cellular respiration from adenosine diphosphate (ATP with one less phosphate group). Signaling pathways. Ribose is a building block in secondary signaling molecules such as cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) which is derived from ATP. One specific case in which cAMP is used is in cAMP-dependent signaling pathways. In cAMP signaling pathways, either a stimulative or inhibitory hormone receptor is activated by a signal"}, {"text": "molecule. These receptors are linked to a stimulative or inhibitory regulative G-protein. When a stimulative G-protein is activated, adenylyl cyclase catalyzes ATP into cAMP by using Mg2+ or Mn2+. cAMP, a secondary messenger, then goes on to activate protein kinase A, which is an enzyme that regulates cell metabolism. Protein kinase A regulates metabolic enzymes by phosphorylation which causes a change in the cell depending on the original signal molecule. The opposite occurs when an inhibitory G-protein is activated; the G-protein inhibits adenylyl cyclase and ATP is not converted to cAMP. Metabolism. Ribose is referred to as the \"molecular currency\" because of its involvement in intracellular energy transfers. For example, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP) all contain the -ribofuranose moiety. They can each be derived from -ribose after it is converted to -ribose 5-phosphate by the enzyme ribokinase. NAD, FAD, and NADP act as electron acceptors in biochemical redox reactions in major metabolic pathways including glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, fermentation, and the electron transport chain. Nucleotide biosynthesis. Nucleotides are synthesized through salvage or de novo synthesis. Nucleotide salvage uses pieces of previously made nucleotides and re-synthesizes them for future use."}, {"text": "In de novo, amino acids, carbon dioxide, folate derivatives, and phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate (PRPP) are used to synthesize nucleotides. Both de novo and salvage require PRPP which is synthesized from ATP and ribose 5-phosphate by an enzyme called PRPP synthetase. Modifications. Modifications in nature. Ribokinase catalyzes the conversion of -ribose to -ribose 5-phosphate. Once converted, -ribose-5-phosphate is available for the manufacturing of the amino acids tryptophan and histidine, or for use in the pentose phosphate pathway. The absorption of -ribose is 88\u2013100% in the small intestines (up to 200 mg/kg\u00b7h). One important modification occurs at the C2' position of the ribose molecule. By adding an O-alkyl group, the nuclear resistance of the RNA is increased because of additional stabilizing forces. These forces are stabilizing because of the increase of intramolecular hydrogen bonding and an increase in the glycosidic bond stability. The resulting increase of resistance leads to increases in the half-life of siRNA and the potential therapeutic potential in cells and animals. The methylation of ribose at particular sites is correlated with a decrease in immune stimulation. Synthetic modifications. Along with phosphorylation, ribofuranose molecules can exchange their oxygen with selenium and sulfur to produce similar sugars that only vary at the"}, {"text": "4' position. These derivatives are more lipophilic than the original molecule. Increased lipophilicity makes these species more suitable for use in techniques such as PCR, RNA aptamer post-modification, antisense technology, and for phasing X-ray crystallographic data. Similar to the 2' modifications in nature, a synthetic modification of ribose includes the addition of fluorine at the 2' position. This fluorinated ribose acts similar to the methylated ribose because it is capable of suppressing immune stimulation depending on the location of the ribose in the DNA strand. The big difference between methylation and fluorination, is the latter only occurs through synthetic modifications. The addition of fluorine leads to an increase in the stabilization of the glycosidic bond and an increase of intramolecular hydrogen bonds. Medical uses. -ribose has been suggested for use in management of congestive heart failure (as well as other forms of heart disease) and for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in an open-label non-blinded, non-randomized, and non-crossover subjective study. Supplemental -ribose can bypass part of the pentose phosphate pathway, an energy-producing pathway, to produce -ribose-5-phosphate. The enzyme glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH) is often in short supply in cells, but more so in diseased tissue, such as in"}, {"text": "myocardial cells in patients with cardiac disease. The supply of -ribose in the mitochondria is directly correlated with ATP production; decreased -ribose supply reduces the amount of ATP being produced. Studies suggest that supplementing -ribose following tissue ischemia (e.g. myocardial ischemia) increases myocardial ATP production, and therefore mitochondrial function. Essentially, administering supplemental -ribose bypasses an enzymatic step in the pentose phosphate pathway by providing an alternate source of 5-phospho--ribose 1-pyrophosphate for ATP production. Supplemental -ribose enhances recovery of ATP levels while also reducing cellular injury in humans and other animals. One study suggested that the use of supplemental -ribose reduces the instance of angina in men with diagnosed coronary artery disease. -Ribose has been used to treat many pathological conditions, such as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and myocardial dysfunction. It is also used to reduce symptoms of cramping, pain, stiffness, etc. after exercise and to improve athletic performance."}, {"text": "The Texas Afghanistan Campaign Medal was an campaign/service award of the Texas Military Department formerly issued to service members of the Texas Military Forces. The Texas Afghanistan Campaign Medal was established by Senator Kirk Watson in Senate Bill 586, authorized by the Eighty-second Texas Legislature, and approved by Governor Rick Perry on May 28, 2011. Effective September 01, 2011. Texas Government Code, Chapter 437 (Texas Military), Subchapter H. (Awards), Section 355 (Other Awards), Line 14."}, {"text": "Abigail Pamela Seldin (born January 1988) is an American philanthropist, higher education expert, and edtech entrepreneur. She is Chief Growth Officer at Scholarship America and co-founder of the Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation, having previously served as its CEO. She is known for founding College Abacus, a net price calculator aggregator company, which she sold to Educational Credit Management Corporation (ECMC Group). In 2020, she founded SwiftStudent, a free financial aid tool for students. Early life and education. Seldin was born in January 1988 to Judith Seldin-Cohen and David Seldin. She attended Phillips Academy, followed by the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 2009 with a BA and MS degree in anthropology. While in college, Seldin curated a gallery exhibition, \"Fulfilling a Prophecy: The Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania\", at the Penn Museum. The exhibit highlighted how the cultural heritage of the Lenape people survived their displacement after contact with European settlers in the 17th century. In 2008, Seldin was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where she pursued a DPhil in social anthropology. However, she did not complete this degree. She completed a fellowship in cultural heritage tourism at Hong Kong Tourism Board as a Henry Luce"}, {"text": "Scholar. In 2015, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Education category. Career. In 2012, Seldin and her husband, Whitney Haring-Smith, co-founded College Abacus, a web tool that allows prospective students to compare individualized financial aid packages from American colleges and universities. She served as chief executive officer until it was acquired by ECMC Group, a student loan collection agency, in 2014. After the acquisition, she served as VP of Innovation at the Washington DC office of ECMC Group. Under Seldin's leadership, debt-repayment and other data from the Obama Administration's College Scorecard initiative were incorporated into College Abacus. Seldin was a candidate for the role of chief operating officer for the Office of Federal Student Aid during the Biden administration. In 2021, Seldin published a research report on fraud and links to sex trafficking in certain schools which offer massage therapy certification. The report on sex trafficking and federal financial aid, which studied 18 institutions in five states, was cited as a rationale for an investigation by the United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform in summer 2021. In January 2024, Seldin became Chief Growth Officer at Scholarship America. Seldin currently serves on the"}, {"text": "board of Open Campus, and Association of American Rhodes Scholars. She previously served on the boards of the Temple University Hope Center, the Montgomery College Foundation. She frequently writes on the topics of educational policy and student financial aid, as seen in a number of publications, including \"HuffPost\", \"The Hill\", Salon.com, \"The Philadelphia Inquirer\", and \"CNN\". Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation. In 2019, she co-founded the Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation, a charitable organization In a 2021 interview, Seldin described how she and her husband were inspired to found the foundation because of what they saw as an opportunity to fund nonprofit organizations that could help reform both policy and public opinion. The Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation helped to establish a partnership between the National Head Start Association and the Association of Community College Trustees which is relocating Head Start centers to community college campuses in the United States. This initiative is intended to increase the availability of on-campus childcare and reverse the trend of declining enrollment and staffing shortages at Head Start centers. The first Head Start relocation associated with the project opened in August 2023. SwiftStudent. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation created a no-cost online service called SwiftStudent, to help students submit a financial"}, {"text": "aid appeal to their institution's aid office. SwiftStudent was named a finalist in \"Fast Company\"'s World Changing Ideas Awards. As of 2020, the Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation had partnered with 17 colleges and higher education organizations to test features of SwiftStudent with focus groups of students and financial aid officers. SwiftStudent is operated by FormSwift, which was acquired by Dropbox in 2022. Civic Mapping Initiative. The SHSF released the SHSF Public Transit Map in 2021, which found that 57% of community colleges were accessible by public transit and an additional 25% could be made accessible by extending existing bus lines. In 2022, the SHSF launched the Civic Mapping Initiative, a research center which maps the accessibility of public transit and identifies opportunities for improving accessibility through public policy. The initiative has published analyses and interactive maps of public transit access to community colleges across the United States, as well as statewide and regional maps. The SHSF Public Transit Map map was cited in the introduction of the bipartisan Promoting Advancement Through Transit Help (PATH) to College Act in 2021. The Civic Mapping Initiative's work was cited in the PATH to College Act's reintroduction in 2023. The initiative has also partnered with the"}, {"text": "National Head Start Association to map the distances between public transit stops and Head Start centers. The Civic Mapping Initiative's findings have led to collaboration between local and national organizations in several states to relocate bus stops closer to Head Start centers, to make the centers more accessible to students and parents. The cities of Memphis, Tennessee and Alexandria, Virginia attributed their decisions to relocate transit stops closer to Head Start centers to data provided by the Civic Mapping Initiative. The Civic Mapping Initiative was acquired by the National League of Cities in December 2023. Personal life. Seldin met fellow Rhodes Scholar Whitney Haring-Smith in 2009 and they married in Florida in 2012."}, {"text": "Laiz\u0101ns is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Luis Vega Gonz\u00e1lez (born 16 July 1960) is a Spanish mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations. Vega graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid with a bachelor's degree in 1982 and received his doctorate in 1988 from Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) under Antonio Barba with thesis \"El multiplicador de Shr\u00f6dinger la funci\u00f3n maximal y los operadores de restriction\". Vega was a Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago as a postdoc. He taught, as an assistant professor, until 1993 at the UAM and then at the University of the Basque Country, where he received a full professorship in 1995. He was the scientific director of the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) from 2013 to 2019. For brief periods (mostly in the summer) from 2000 to 2008, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was for brief periods a visiting professor at MSRI, Paris 12, Paris 13, \u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure, \u00c9cole polytechnique, Institut Henri Poincar\u00e9, the University of Cergy-Pontoise, the Ennio de Giorgio Center of the University of Pisa, and the University of Washington. He was twice at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is a co-editor of the \"Journal of Evolution Equations\""}, {"text": "(since 2009) and the \"Journal of Fourier Analysis and its Applications\" (since 2010) and general editor of \"La Revista Matem\u00e1tica Iberoamericana\" (since 2011). In 2006 Vega was Invited Speaker with talk \"The initial value problem for nonlinear Schr\u00f6dinger equations\" at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and received the Premio Euskadi de Investigaci\u00f3n in 2012. He received the Blaise Pascal Medal in 2015."}, {"text": "Country Hits is the fifth compilation album by Anne Murray, released in 1987 by Capitol Records. Track listing. All track information and credits were taken from the CD liner notes."}, {"text": "The Lake-Side Terrace Apartments is a historic apartment building at 7425-7427 South Shore Drive in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1922\u201323, the building is an example of a courtyard apartment, a popular apartment style in early 20th century Chicago. As the building adjoins Lake Michigan, its courtyard opens toward the lake; the courtyard is also elevated to enhance its lake view. Chicago architect Eric Edwin Hall designed the Tudor Revival building. The four-story brick building features limestone entrance and window surrounds, Tudor arched entrances to the courtyard, and a battlement along the roof. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1984."}, {"text": "Kaffe is a clean room design of a Java Virtual Machine. Kaffe may also refer to:"}, {"text": "D\u00e1vid \u0160olt\u00e9s (born 5 February 1995) is a Slovak professional ice hockey right winger player who currently playing for HC MONACObet Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica of the Slovak Extraliga. \u0160olt\u00e9s played junior hockey in the Western Hockey League for the Prince George Cougars, who drafted him 4th overall in the 2013 CHL Import Draft. He played two seasons for the Cougars between 2013 and 2015 before returning to his native Slovakia with his hometown team HC Ko\u0161ice. On January 25, 2019, \u0160olt\u00e9s was traded to HC '05 Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica for J\u00e1n S\u00fdkora."}, {"text": "Anne C. Morel (also published as Anne C. Davis, died July 22, 1984) was an American mathematician known for her work in logic, order theory, and algebra. She was the first female full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington. Education and career. Morel graduated in 1941 from the University of California, Los Angeles. She began graduate study in mathematics in 1942 at the University of California, Berkeley, but left her studies to serve in the WAVES (the United States Naval Women's Reserve) during World War II. She returned to her studies in Berkeley in 1946, and completed her Ph.D. in 1953. Her dissertation, \"A Study in the Arithmetic of Order Types\", was supervised by Alfred Tarski, and concerned ordinal arithmetic. After two years as an assistant professor at Berkeley, and positions at the University of California, Davis and the Institute for Advanced Study (1959\u20131960), she joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Washington in 1960, and became a tenured associate professor there in 1961. Eventually she became the first female full professor of mathematics there, and for many years she was the university's only female professor of mathematics. Research contributions. As part of her thesis work, in"}, {"text": "1952, Morel found two different countable order types whose squares are equal. After Wac\u0142aw Sierpi\u0144ski simplified her construction, they published it jointly. In 1955, Morel published a converse to the Knaster\u2013Tarski theorem, according to which every incomplete lattice has an increasing function with no fixed point. Her 1965 paper with Thomas Frayne and Dana Scott, \"Reduced direct products\", provides the main definitions of reduced products in model theory. It was published after several important applications of those definitions had already been discovered, and has been called a \"classical reference paper\". Her only publication with her advisor, Alfred Tarski, was a brief announcement of related research using reduced products in connection with the compactness theorem in mathematical logic. Among other results, it provided a proof of the compactness theorem using ultraproducts. With Chen Chung Chang, she also used reduced products to show that a sufficient condition for properties to be preserved under direct products, derived by Alfred Horn, was not also a necessary condition. Topics in her later research included group theory, semigroups, and cofinality in universal algebra. Her final publication, published posthumously, was \"Cofinality of algebras\" (1986). Personal life. During her war service, Morel met and married Alan Davis, another"}, {"text": "mathematician. However, their marriage was not successful, and Davis took a position at the University of Nevada, Reno while Morel returned to her studies at UC Berkeley. They divorced in 1955. In Berkeley, Morel began an affair with her advisor Alfred Tarski in 1950, at approximately the same time as another student mistress of Tarski, Wanda Szmielew, left Berkeley to return to Poland. Tarski was married, to Maria Witkowska (whom he had married in 1929), but when Morel divorced her husband Alan Davis in 1955, Tarski offered to divorce Maria and marry Morel instead. However, she turned him down. Instead, in 1957, she married Delos Morel, a lawyer. Although the Morels and the Tarskis remained on friendly terms until at least 1960, Morel eventually came to view Tarski's treatment of his other female students as \"taking advantage of his position of power in a way she now viewed as unacceptable\". The Morels had two daughters, Jeanne (born 1958) and Verena (1962\u20132002). Morel died on July 22, 1984. Her husband Delos became the Chief Administrative Law Judge on the Washington State Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals, and died in 2008."}, {"text": "Jere Austin (born John Van Akin Austin; March 24, 1876 \u2013 November 12, 1927) was an American silent film actor from Minnesota. He began in appearing in films in 1914, and made his last appearance in Cecil B. DeMille's \"King of Kings\" (1927). Austin had entered films with the Kalem Company. Austin died of cancer in Los Angeles, California in 1927, aged 51."}, {"text": "Nuvance Health is an American not-for-profit health system with facilities spanning from New York State's Hudson Valley region to western Connecticut. Nuvance Health was formed in 2019 when Health Quest and Western Connecticut Health Network merged. In early 2024, Nuvance Health announced it was merging with Northwell Health. It employs approximately 2,600 physicians and 12,000 ancillary staff, and serves approximately 1.5 million residents. Member hospitals. The following hospitals are part of the Nuvance Health system: The Nuvance Health organization is divided into West and East sections, where the New York locations are generally part of the West section and Connecticut locations are generally part of the East section. Exceptions include Sharon Hospital, which is part of the West section. Training programs. For resident physicians. \"*these specialties have multiple residency programs, each headquartered at different hospitals\""}, {"text": "The Rank and File Mobilising Committee (RFMC) was an umbrella group which coordinated left wing groups to campaign for increased democracy within the Labour Party. The RFMC operated from 1980 to 1981, during which time it defended the mandatory reselection of MPs (won at the 1979 Party Conference), secured an electoral college for the election of Labour Leaders and provided the organising base for Tony Benn's 1981 Deputy Leadership campaign, which narrowly lost with 49.6% of the vote. Founding. Following the successful campaign to change Labour Party rules to make it easier to deselect sitting Labour MPs at Labour Party Conference 1979, the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory suggested to the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy that a group be established to defend these reforms and campaign for greater democracy within the Labour Party. The RMFC was founded in May 1980 as a result of these discussions. Tony Benn records the founding of the RMFC in his diary of 30 May 1980: \"Frances Morell rang to tell me about the Rank and File Mobilising Committee, which is working to get together the CLPD, LCC, Institute for Workers' Control, Independent Labour Publications and the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory,"}, {"text": "to agree on a programme of party democracy. In the evening we had a party, a sort of new left gathering, with Frances, Ken Livingstone of the GLC, Victor Schonfield, Audrey Wise, Tom Litterick, Chris Mullin, James Curran, a lecturer at PCL, his wife Margaret, George Osgerby, one of James's Students, Dick Clements and Biddy, Geoff Bish [then head of the Labour Party research department], Dawn Primarolo, Jon Lansman of CLPD, Peter Hain and others. These are the people who have formed the Rank and File Mobilising Committee and, when the time comes, they will be the people who organise the Benn election campaign.\" Campaigning aims. The groups brought together as RFMC had extensive disagreements on general political aims and tactics, however they were united in their desire for greater democracy within the Labour Party and all recognised that collaboration would increase their chances of success. The RFMC agreed five constitutional campaigning objectives which aimed to increase party democracy. The below table reflects the slightly different formulations of these campaigning objectives. Campaigning activities. In the months leading up to the 1980 Labour Party Conference the RFMC organised 20 large rallies across the country in support of the Left's agreed campaigning"}, {"text": "aims. RFMC printed 10,000 copies of the campaigning broadsheet \"Mobilise for Labour Democracy\" which included a statement of aims from Tony Benn, articles setting out the case for democratic reforms of the party and descriptions for how activists could get involved in selling the broadsheet, organising meetings and passing resolutions in their Labour Party and Trade Union branches. Jon Lansman, then secretary of the RFMC, set out the campaigning activities of the group in the early months of the campaign:\"All the organisations have buried the sectarian hatchets which have divided the campaign for party democracy in the past. Numerous CLPs have expressed their support already and many more will follow; but it has been much more than paper commitments. Throughout the country, party and trade union activists are meeting on their own initiatives to organise rallies, to distribute our broadsheet \"Mobilise for Labour Democracy\" and to ensure that motions are sent to conference on the democratic issues.\" Commission of Inquiry. Following that year's Labour Party Conference, where rule changes were passed making it easier to deselect MPs, the NEC set up a Commission of Inquiry in September 1979 in response to demands from Trade Union leaders for a review of"}, {"text": "party operations and democracy. The Labour Right hoped that this NEC Commission could be the vehicle for halting or reversing the reforms to party democracy. Election of Labour Party leaders. In the 9 Labour Party Leadership elections from 1922 to 1976 only the MPs of the Parliamentary Labour Party could vote. CLPD had organised motions to Labour Party Conference in 1979 calling for an extension of the franchise to include affiliated trade unions, Constituency Labour Party members and socialist societies, but had been defeated. The NEC Commission suggested (contrary to the wishes of then Labour Leader James Callaghan) that party leaders should be elected by an electoral college consisting of 50% MPs, 25% Trade Unions, 20% Constituency Parties and 5% socialist societies. The RFMC opposed this proposal and organised against it, circulating a CLPD motion which criticised the NEC Commission proposals on grounds that they \"would make the Parliamentary Party dominant and under-represent trade unions and constituency parties\". At Labour Conference in 1980 a motion was passed which supported the principle of widening the franchise for electing the party, but none of the motions specifying a particular balance between the component parts of the franchise was successful. An emergency resolution"}, {"text": "was then passed calling for a special conference in January 1981 to decide the issue. At the Wembley Special Party Conference in 1981 RFMC successfully, and narrowly, organised to secure a victory for an electoral college comprised 30% Parliamentary Labour Party, 30% Constituency Labour Party and 40% affiliated organisations. This has been described as the second \"major victory\" for the Labour Left in increasing party democracy, along with the successful campaign for mandatory reselection at the 1979 Labour Party Conference. However, James Callaghan resigned before the new rules were in place in order to ensure that his successor would only be decided by the MPs of the Parliamentary Labour Party in the hope that his intended successor Denis Healey would win. Healey lost to Michael Foot. Tony Benn's Deputy Leadership Campaign and dissolution. The RFMC has been described by Labour historians as providing the \"main base for the campaign to elect Tony Benn as the Party's Deputy Leader\". Benn's campaign narrowly lost with 49.6% of the vote. The decision to dissolve the RFMC was taken in October 1981, shortly after that year's Labour Party Conference and the Deputy Leadership election which took place at that year's Conference. Legacy. Labour Historian"}, {"text": "Patrick Seyd described RFMC's legacy:\"The RFMC was a unique organisation in the history of the Labour Left. For a period the Labour Left was united around one issue (limiting the powers of Labour parliamentarians) and the multitude of organisations operated together as a single unit. \""}, {"text": "Litsy is an iOS and Android social media application and website that is based around reading books. It was launched in April 2016. Some book releasers have used it for their marketing. History. Litsy was founded by Todd Lawton and Jeff LeBlanc, founders of the apparel and gift company Out of Print. They had the idea of fans of Out of Print being able to connect with each other. The website was launched in April 2016 and was designed similarly to Instagram and Twitter, however, it is meant only for books. The book title information comes from Google and Ingram. Lawton stated, \"I think we may be the first apparel company that has transitioned into becoming a tech startup\". It is not considered to be an extension of the earlier company. The book cataloging social network LibraryThing acquired Litsy in 2018. The acquisition allows Litsy to access LibraryThing's book database and for users to sync the services. It received 20,000 users from spring 2016, to June 10, 2016. A version for Android was later released as well as a website. Features. Users can make three types of posts which are a quick blurb, a quote, or a review and all"}, {"text": "posts can have a maximum of 300 characters. Posts can be marked as having spoilers when they are submitted. They can also \"like\" books, upload photos, use emojis, and create virtual stacks of books. Every user has a \"Litfluence\" score which shows how influential each one of them is on Litsy. Some publishers, bookstores, and authors have used the application for promotion of their books. Joe Hill promoted his novel \"The Fireman\" before it was published, which gained user attention. Penguin Random House and Harper Perennial use Litsy to promote their books. Reception. Neilie Johnson of Common Sense Media wrote, \"This app is an interesting mashup of social media and books, but its glitches and emphasis on status hamper it\" and that \"it's simpler than Goodreads\"."}, {"text": "Sa\u011f\u0131r is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "George Moroko (born 5 January 1957) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for Western Suburbs, Cronulla and St. George in the early 1980s. Biography. A Western Suburbs junior, Moroko had a stint in Brisbane playing for Souths, before being lured back to the Sydney club for the 1981 NSWRFL season. He was used as a second rower at Western Suburbs, then switched to the front row when he played at Cronulla in 1983 and 1984. Moroko, who captained Cronulla, finished his career with two first-grade games at St. George in 1985 and was captain of the club's reserves premiership that year. His son, Nick, played in the Toyota Cup for Cronulla."}, {"text": "The Capitol is a 1,800-capacity live music venue in Hanover, Germany. It has hosted artists such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rory Gallagher, Iggy Pop and Robin Trower. It is located in a building erected in 1930 built in Brick Expressionism style and uses rooms of a former cinema."}, {"text": "Javier M\u00e1rquez G\u00f3mez (born January 30, 1992), better known by his ring name Dulce Gardenia, is a Mexican \"luchador\" (or professional wrestler). He is working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), as a \"t\u00e9cnico\" (\"Good guy\") wrestling character. As Gardenia, M\u00e1rquez portrays an \"ex\u00f3tico\" character, who is presented as effeminate and homosexual in the ring. His ring name is in part an homage to Dizzy Gardenia, who was one of the earliest \"ex\u00f3tico\" wrestlers in the 1940s. Professional wrestling career. M\u00e1rquez initially trained under Ka\u00edn in Torre\u00f3n, Coahuila, making his in-ring debut in 2013. He took the ring name \"Dulce Gardenia\" (\"Sweet Gardenia\") in part as a tribute to Dizzy Gardenia (real name Sterling Davis), one of the original \"ex\u00f3tico\" characters in the 1940s. He kept training while gaining in-ring experience as well, learning from \u00c1guila Roja, C\u00f3ndor de Oro and Gran Markus and Halc\u00f3n Suriano. He later met \u00daltimo Guerrero, who felt that M\u00e1rquez was wasting his time working locally in Torre\u00f3n and invited him to Mexico City, to train at Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's (CMLL; \"World Wrestling Council\") wrestling school. M\u00e1rquez was scheduled to wrestle Silver King during a tour of the United Kingdom, under the"}, {"text": "ring name \"Charro del Mysterio\", but missed the flight due to issues with his visa documentation, and ended up missing the UK tour where Silver King would die during a match. Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (2019\u2013present). Gardenia made his CMLL in-ring on June 25, 2019 as he teamed up with Drone and Fuego to defeat the trio of Misterioso Jr., P\u00f3lvora and Virus. Shortly after he was introduced to CMLL's TV audience as he made a highly publized debut on CMLL's main show, Super Viernes, winning a singles match over Disturbio that was presented as part of CMLL's LBGT+ celebration and with an in-ring endorsement by Sofia Alonso, the daughter of CMLL owner Paco Alonso. For CMLL's 86th Anniversary Show, Gardenia's first major show appearance, he, Diamante Azul, and Tit\u00e1n defeated El Hijo del Villano III, Hechicero, and Rey Bucanero by disqualification in the second match of the night of CMLL's biggest annual show. Gardenia participated in his first major CMLL tournament in October as he was teamed up with Volador Jr. for the \"Gran Alternativa\" tournament. For the annual \"Gran Alternativa\" tournament CMLL teams up a rookie with an established CMLL veteran for a tag team tournament to"}, {"text": "help elevate the ranking of one or more of the rookie competitors. Gardenia and Volador Jr. defeated Esp\u00edritu Negro and Mr. Niebla in the first round, followed by a win over El Coyote and El Terrible, before the team lost to Fugaz and M\u00edstico in the semi-finals of the tournament. Starting in late October, Dulce Gardenia became involved in a storyline feud with Kawato-San, with the two facing off in six-man tag team matches throughout November and December. Kawato and Gardenia both agreed to \"bet\" their hair in a \"lucha de apuestas\" match, which would become the main event of the 2020 \"Sin Piedad.\" On January 1, 2020, Gardenia defeated Kawato-San two falls to one, forcing Kawato-San to shave his hair. Later the same month, Gardenia was part of New Japan Pro-Wrestling's \"Fantastica Mania\" tour. Personal life. M\u00e1rquez is a single father of three, living in Torre\u00f3n."}, {"text": "Momtaj Iqbal is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and a former member of parliament for Sunamganj-4. She was married to Major (retired) Iqbal Hossain Chowdhury, former Jatiya Party minister. Career. Iqbal was elected to parliament from Sunamganj-4 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 2008. Death. Iqbal died on 17 April 2009."}, {"text": "Alexander Zalivin (born July 15, 1990) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for MHk 32 Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161 of the Tipsport Liga. Zavalin previously played six games for HC Dynamo Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League during the 2016\u201317 season."}, {"text": "The 2019 UK Seniors Championship was a snooker tournament, that took place at the Bonus Arena in Kingston upon Hull, England, from 24 to 25 October 2019. It was the second event of the 2019\u201320 World Seniors Tour, following the 2019 and preceding the 2020 editions of the World Seniors Championship. The event featured a total prize fund of \u00a324,500 with the winner receiving \u00a310,000. Ken Doherty was the reigning champion, having won the 2018 edition of the tournament, defeating Igor Figueiredo 4\u20131 in the final. However, Doherty did not take part in the event. Michael Judge won the tournament, beating Jimmy White 4\u20132 in the final. There were five century breaks made during the tournament, the highest being a 114 made by Judge in the second frame of the final. Format. The UK Seniors Championship is a snooker tournament first held in 2017. The event was open to players over 40 who are not in the top 64 of the world rankings. The 2019 event took place on 24 and 25 October 2019 at the Bonus Arena in Kingston upon Hull, England. The event featured a field of 12 participants, with four players receiving a bye into the quarter-finals."}, {"text": "Matches were played as the best-of-5 , with the final being played as the best-of-7. The winner of the 2018 UK Seniors Championship, Ken Doherty, did not appear at the event. The first round and the first two matches of the quarter-finals were played on the first day of the event, with the remaining matches held on 25 October. Prize fund. The breakdown of prize money is shown below: Summary. The first four matches made up the first round. The oldest man in the field, Cliff Thorburn, trailed 0\u20132 behind but won the next two frames. However, his opponent, Patrick Wallace, won the . Dennis Taylor lost his first round match to Rodney Goggins as a whitewash 0\u20133. Michael Judge defeated Willie Thorne, also on a deciding frame, while Rory McLeod defeated Sean Lanigan 3\u20131. In the quarter-finals, Wallace won a second deciding frame to beat John Parrott 3\u20132, whilst Stephen Hendry defeated Goggins by the same scoreline. Jimmy White, who had won three of the last four World Seniors events, defeated McLeod on a deciding frame. In the final quarter-final Judge defeated James Wattana 3\u20131. The semi-finals featured Judge defeating Hendry 3\u20132, with White defeating Wallace 3\u20130. Judge defeated"}, {"text": "White 4\u20132 in the final. White made a break of 101 in the opening frame, but Judge made the highest break of the event, a 114 in the second frame to tie the match. White won the third frame to lead 2\u20131, but Judge won the next three frames to win the match 4\u20132. After the match, Judge called White his \"hero\" and that winning the event was \"a dream come true\". Main draw. The results from the event and shown below; players in bold denote match winners. Century breaks. A total of five century breaks were made during the tournament. The highest break was a 114 made by Judge in the second frame of the final. In making the highest break, Judge was awarded a Chamberlain 1875 watch."}, {"text": "The Lang Ayre is a beach on the west side of Ronas Hill, Northmavine, Shetland. At in length it is the archipelago's longest. It is accessed either by a long walk from the top of Collafirth Hill down the Burn of Monius, or by sea. The beach's sand is red, eroded from the up to high red granite cliffs towering above it. Etymology. The name \"Lang Ayre\" comes from the Shetland dialect words \"lang\" (long) and \"ayre\" (shingle beach). Access. The Lang Ayre is situated north of the mouth of Ronas Voe, and is about from the nearest road, so it is considered quite remote, even by Shetland standards. Many walkers visiting the beach also undertake a walk to the summit of Ronas Hill en route. The beach is most easily accessed on land by following the Burn of Monius down a steep-sided ravine east of Ketligill Head. The final descent down to the beach is aided by a rope which is left at the site for public use. The route most commonly taken to reach the Lang Ayre over Ronas Hill is prone to low-lying mist, so walkers are advised to be familiar with the use of a map"}, {"text": "and compass to be able to navigate back in poor visibility. The beach can also be accessed by sea, often by canoe or kayak, taking the most sheltered route via the Blade, Ronas Voe. The beach is directly exposed to the Atlantic Ocean, so westerly and north-westerly winds can be challenging to those small craft."}, {"text": "Herman Vander Linden (1868\u20131956) was a Belgian historian who was a professor at the University of Li\u00e8ge. Life. Vander Linden was born in Leuven on 27 April 1868 and was educated in the state secondary school there. He graduated doctor of philosophy from Ghent University in 1891, with a thesis on the constitution of the medieval city of Leuven. His teachers were Henri Pirenne and Paul Fredericq. He visited a number of German universities and studied at the Ecole des Chartes in Paris (1892-1894). In 1895 he obtained a special doctorate in historical sciences with a thesis on merchant guilds in the medieval Low Countries. From October 1895 to October 1903 he taught history and geography in a state secondary school in Antwerp. In 1903 he was appointed to a lectureship in the University of Li\u00e8ge. His private library was destroyed in the sack of Leuven in 1914. He and his family became refugees in England, returning after the end of the German occupation of Belgium in World War I. Together with F. L. Ganshof he edited the 1926 Festschrift for Henri Pirenne, \"M\u00e9langes d'histoire offerts \u00e0 Henri Pirenne par ses anciens \u00e9l\u00e8ves et ses amis \u00e0 l'occasion de sa"}, {"text": "quaranti\u00e8me ann\u00e9e d'enseignement \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 de Gand, 1886-1926\". Vander Linden retired from teaching in 1938. He was an active contributor to the \"Biographie Nationale de Belgique\", and from 1935 to 1944 secretary of the committee responsible for publishing it. Under the German occupation of Belgium during World War II, one of his sons was arrested as a member of the Resistance, and died in a German concentration camp in 1942. Herman Vander Linden died in Korbeek-Lo on 15 April 1956."}, {"text": "Jiucailing () is a mountain in Dao County, Hunan, China. It is the main peak of Dupang Mountains. Geography. Jiucailing abounds with alpine plants. The main wild animals in the mountain are Cabot's tragopan, Macaque, Flying squirrel, Pangolin, Hoplobatrachus tigerinus, Baeolophus, and Chrysolophus."}, {"text": "Cameron Wade is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for St. George. Biography. A utility player, Wade grew up in the small South West Queensland town of Charleville. Most of his first-grade appearances at St. George came as a winger, but he was also capable of playing five-eighth and elsewhere in the back-line. Wade debuted for St. George in 1990 and scored the winning try in the club's win over Canterbury in round 17, which in turn caused him to injure a hamstring. Not featuring again that year, he remained with St. George for two more first-grade seasons, amassing 19 games in total. Wade returned to Toowoomba where he played, captained and coached the Newtown Lions in the Toowoomba Rugby League competition throughout the 1990's."}, {"text": "Family Business is an album by Ronnie Penque. His second solo album, it was released on August 30, 2019. Ronnie Penque is a singer, songwriter, and musician. He is perhaps best known for playing bass guitar in the band New Riders of the Purple Sage. The musicians on \"Family Business\" include NRPS members Buddy Cage, David Nelson, Michael Falzarano, and Johnny Markowski, along with other like-minded musical artists such as Mark Karan and Mookie Siegel. Critical reception. In the \"Asbury Park Press\", Alex Biese wrote, \"The album, recorded at the Jam Room Music Complex in Howell, is a lush, 10-track survey of the jammier side of American music, from the adventurous anthem \"Wookie Kids\" to the lush and tender ballad \"Wondering\" and the country-rock shimmer of \"Emma Lynn\". Half the album has the distinct, shining presence of Penque's New Riders bandmate Buddy Cage on pedal steel guitar.\" Track listing. All songs written by Ronnie Penque except where noted. Personnel. Musicians Production"}, {"text": "Spruce Run Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church, also known as Spruce Run Lutheran Church, is located at 442 West Hill Road in the Spruce Run section of Lebanon Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The congregation is a member of the New Jersey Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The congregation was organized in 1774 by thirteen members who worshiped in the barn of Frederick Fritts in the summer, and in his home during the winter. Initially, services were conducted every four weeks, and were exclusively in German. In 1861, Spruce Run Lutheran Church was the site of the first convention of the New Jersey Synod of churches. The new Synod met there again in 1868. Church building. The first church building was built in 1800. Of frame construction from yellow poplar, the church was known as the \u201cred church.\u201d This was a Union church, combining Reformed and Lutheran congregations. In 1835 a new stone church was built to the left of the old frame church. The cornerstone for the present church building was laid on July 30, 1870, and the church was dedicated on March 9, 1871. Cemetery. The original cemetery is located across the road, featuring"}, {"text": "\u201cGod\u2019s Acre\u201d at the top of the entrance gate. It is the oldest church cemetery in the township. Clergy. The church\u2019s first pastor was Reverend William Graf, who began serving the congregation in 1774. His formal call as pastor began in July 1775; he served until 1800, as part of a circuit of six other area Lutheran churches. On September 2, 1834, the church called its own pastor, Rev. Robert Collyer. From that time on the church maintained complete independence from the other circuit churches. List of clergy. The church has had 22 pastors, comprising 23 pastoral tenures (Rev. Steven Traver served twice, from 1900-1905 and 1927-1947)."}, {"text": "Khalid Taha (born February 15, 1992) is a German mixed martial artist currently competing in the bantamweight division. A professional since 2013, he has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Rizin Fighting Federation. Mixed martial arts career. Early career. Taha started fighting MMA professionally in 2013. He has fought under numerous organizations, notably German MMA Championship, Fair Fighting Championship and Rizin Fighting Federation. Ultimate Fighting Championship. Taha made his UFC debut on July 22, 2018, at against Nad Narimani. He lost the fight via unanimous decision. Taha was scheduled to face Boston Salmon on November 30, 2018, at . However, Taha was pulled from the event due to a torn ACL and the bout was cancelled. The pairing was rescheduled at UFC 236 on April 13, 2019. He won the fight via technical knockout in round one. Taha was scheduled to face Bruno Gustavo da Silva on September 7, 2019, at UFC 242. However, on August 21, it was reported that the bout was moved to UFC 243. Taha won the fight via a submission in round three. On December 23, 2019, Taha received one year USADA suspension for tested positive for furosemide (diuretics) in an in-competition urine sample"}, {"text": "provided on Oct. 6 2019 where Taha took a medicine for reducing inflammation and swelling in his eyes which contained furosemide. He became eligible to compete again on October 6, 2020. Taha was expected to face Jack Shore on November 7, 2020, at . However, Shore was removed from the bout in late-October due to undisclosed reasons and replaced by Raoni Barcelos. Taha lost the fight via unanimous decision. This fight earned him the \"Fight of the Night\" award. Taha faced Sergey Morozov on July 17, 2021, at UFC on ESPN 26. He lost the fight via unanimous decision. Taha was scheduled to face Mario Bautista on February 19, 2022, at UFC Fight Night 201. However, Taha had to pull out off the bout due to undisclosed reasons. Taha was scheduled to face Taylor Lapilus on September 3, 2022, at UFC Fight Night 209.; but on August 23, Lapilus forfeited from the event due to a broken hand, and he was replaced by Cristian Qui\u00f1\u00f3nez. He lost the fight via technical knockout in round one. After the loss, it was announced that Taha was no longer on the UFC roster. Personal life. Taha is of Lebanese descent."}, {"text": "Normal People is a romantic psychological drama made for television produced by Element Pictures for BBC Three and Hulu in association with Screen Ireland. It is based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Sally Rooney. The series follows the relationship between Marianne Sheridan (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell Waldron (Paul Mescal), as they navigate adulthood from their final days in secondary school to their undergraduate years in college. The series was primarily written by Rooney, Alice Birch and Mark O'Rowe and directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald. The series was released on BBC Three in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2020, followed by weekly airings on BBC One. It premiered on RT\u00c9 One in Ireland on 28 April. In the United States, the series was released in its entirety on Hulu on 29 April. The series has received critical acclaim, with praise for the performances, directing, writing, aesthetics, and its portrayal of mature content. At the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, the series was nominated for four awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor for Mescal and Outstanding Directing for Abrahamson. Premise. The show follows Marianne Sheridan and Connell Waldron through their time at secondary school in County Sligo"}, {"text": "on Ireland's Atlantic coast, and later as undergraduate students at Trinity College Dublin. Among her peers at secondary school, Marianne is regarded as an oddball, but she denies caring about her social standing. Despite her academic achievements, her home life is complicated by her dismissive mother, Denise, and her resentful brother, Alan. Her father is deceased and is later revealed to have been domestically abusive, though her family avoids mentioning him. Connell is an athletic, high-achieving student living with his single mother, Lorraine, who is employed by Denise as a house cleaner. He is popular in school, though he remains silent while Marianne is constantly bullied. This creates complexity and points of contention as their relationship develops. In addition to that, both characters struggle to articulate their feelings and misread each other's intentions. With both continuing to attend Trinity College (Connell at the suggestion of Marianne), their paths cross repeatedly over the years. Through the next years they form a unique and intense bond, navigating the ups and downs of intimacy, identity, adulthood, grief and emotional vulnerability. Production. Development and casting. In May 2019, it was announced that BBC Three and Hulu ordered 12 episodes based on the novel that"}, {"text": "would premiere 2020 starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal as Marianne and Connell, respectively. Sarah Greene and Aisl\u00edn McGuckin were also announced as part of the cast. Sally Rooney herself would help with the adaptation alongside writers Alice Birch and Mark O'Rowe. Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald would direct and the Irish company Element Pictures would produce the series. Filming. Principal photography began on location in County Sligo and Dublin in May 2019. Tubbercurry primarily made up the fictional town of Carricklea, with Streedagh Point along Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way used for beach scenes, Knockmore House in Enniskerry, County Wicklow for the Sheridans' residence, a terraced home in Shankill, Dublin for the Waldrons' residence, and Hartstown Community School in Clonsilla, Fingal, County Dublin for the secondary school scenes featuring real-life students in the background. Students from Trinity College Dublin were also featured in the series while filming at the university. Scenes at Marianne's Dublin flat were shot on Wellington Road in the affluent area of Ballsbridge. Although set in Trieste in the novel, filming took place in Central Italy, primarily in and around Sant'Oreste, Stimigliano, and the villa \"Il Casale\" on Tenuta di Verzano, in Lazio. They waited until February"}, {"text": "2020 to film the Sweden scenes in Lule\u00e5 so snow would be on the ground and the Baltic Sea frozen over for Marianne to walk on. Music. The series also featured music from \"The Young Will Eat The Old\", the debut album from Irish hip hop duo Tebi Rex. Release. The first look pictures came out on 1 November 2019. BBC Three and Hulu released their own teasers on 17 January 2020, followed by trailers on 31 March 2020. The 12 episodes became available as a BBC Three box set on BBC iPlayer on 26 April, followed by a BBC One airing on 27 April. The series became available on Stan in Australia on 27 April and began airing on RT\u00c9 One in Ireland on 28 April. The series premiered in the US on Hulu on 29 April. The series has been sold to over 20 broadcasters worldwide. In June 2020, Abrahamson directed Edgar-Jones and Mescal in a one-off spoof short episode as part of RT\u00c9 Does Comic Relief, in which Marianne and Connell give confessions to a priest played by Andrew Scott. Reception. Critical response. The series has received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the series has a 91%"}, {"text": "rating, with an average score of 8.2/10 based on 91 reviews. The site's critic consensus states, \"Anchored by Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal's vulnerable performances, \"Normal People\" is at once intimate and illuminating, beautifully translating the nuances of its source material.\" On Metacritic the series has a score of 82 out of 100 based on reviews from 25 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". Caroline Framke of \"Variety\" magazine wrote: \"With its trifecta of elegant writing, directing, and acting, Hulu's \"Normal People\" is just as bleak and uncompromising as Rooney's novel\u2014a feat, and one that takes several episodes to fully absorb. In fact, it took me until about halfway through to understand just how much it was affecting me. ... As Marianne and Connell's relationship grows deeper, \"Normal People\" becomes as immersive as the book that inspired it, making you both crave and dread knowing\u2014or perhaps more accurately, experiencing\u2014what happens next.\" The production has received particular praise for its realistic portrayal of intimate content and the work of Ita O'Brien as the show's intimacy coordinator. The nudity sparked debate on Irish radio, with callers to Joe Duffy's \"Liveline\" saying it was inappropriate. The series has been widely praised by major critics and"}, {"text": "publications. Linda Holmes of NPR described \"Normal People\" as \"a lovely series, not just to binge, but perhaps to dole out to yourself a couple of episodes at a time\" while CNN described it as \"perfectly [understanding of] the desires we place on communication technologies and the ways they nearly always come up short\" and \"irresistible in abnormal times\". Prathyush Parasuraman of Film Companion wrote: \"Rarely have I seen the sort of cultural dialogue that I saw post the release of Normal People in April 2020, when it was released in the UK. Based on Sally Rooney's namesake book, the story follows Marianne and Connell through the later years of their high-school, their years at college, and the post-collegiate restlessness, failing to be what one wished for oneself only years ago. It's set in and around Ireland, with brief detours to sunny Italy and snowy Sweden.\" The \"Irish Independent\" noted that the series glosses over references to \"The Communist Manifesto\" and Doris Lessing's feminist novel \"The Golden Notebook\", which Rooney, who has described herself as a Marxist, included in the book. Viewing figures. \"Normal People\" reportedly gave BBC Three its best ever week on iPlayer (26 April to 3 May),"}, {"text": "receiving over 16.2 million programme requests across the 12 episodes, about 5 million of which were from 16- to 34-year-olds, and bringing BBC Three requests up to 21.8 million, doubling the previous record of 10.8 million from the release of the first series of \"Killing Eve\". Seventy per cent of BBC Three requests that week were for \"Normal People\" and a quarter had finished all 12 episodes. It became the most-streamed series of the year on the BBC, with 62.7 million views from April to November 2020. The first two episodes were reported to have been watched on RT\u00c9 One by an average of 371,000 viewers with an additional 19,000 on RT\u00c9 One +1 and 301,000 streams on RT\u00c9 Player, becoming the most watched opening of a drama series on RT\u00c9 Player. Thirty per cent of 15- to 34-year-olds watching TV were watching \"Normal People\". The finale had over 319,000 viewers, 33% of the total RT\u00c9 audience and 20% increase over the previous week. In June 2020, it was reported that \"Normal People\" had garnered over 3 million views on RT\u00c9 Player, breaking the previous record for the streaming service of 1.2 million, which was held by the fourth series"}, {"text": "of \"Love/Hate\". Awards and nominations. \"Normal People\", has received widespread praise for its nuanced portrayal of the complex relationship between Connell and Marianne, two young adults navigating love, identity, and personal growth.With 57 nominations and 19 wins across prestigious awards, including the BAFTAs and the Emmys, the series has been praised for its exceptional writing, powerful performances, and exploration of complex relationships"}, {"text": "Ge(II) dicationic complexes refer to coordination compounds of germanium with a +2 formal oxidation state, and a +2 charge on the overall complex. In some of these coordination complexes, the coordination is strongly ionic, localizing a +2 charge on Ge, while in others the bonding is more covalent, delocalizing the cationic charge away from Ge. Examples of dicationic Ge(II) complexes are much rarer than monocationic Ge(II) complexes, often requiring the use of bulky ligands to shield the germanium center. Dicationic complexes of Ge(II) have been isolated with bulky isocyanide and carbene ligands. Much more weakly coordinated Germanium (II) dications have been isolated as complexes with polyether ligands, such as crown ethers and [2.2.2]cryptand. Crown ethers and cryptands are typically known for their ability to bind metal cations, however these ligands have also been employed in stabilizing low-valent cations of heavier p-block elements. A Ge2+ ion's valence shell consists of a filled valence s orbital but empty valence p orbitals, giving rise to atypical bonding in these complexes. Germanium is a metalloid of the carbon group, typically forming compounds with mainly covalent bonding, contrasting with the dative bonding observed in these coordination complexes. History. In 2007, a Ge(II) based dication was"}, {"text": "reported by Rupar, Staroverov, Ragogna and Baines in which a Ge(II) unit is coordinated by three bulky N-heterocyclic carbene ligands. Later in 2008, Rupar, Staroverov and Baines isolated a weakly coordinate Ge(II) dication using cryptand[2.2.2], also the first example of a non-metallic mononuclear dication complexed with a cryptand. In this report, a Ge(II) cation is encapsulated within [2.2.2]cryptand with two triflate counter ions. The crystal structure of this Ge cryptand[2.2.2] (CF3SO3)2 salt reveals a lack of coordination between the encapsulated Ge(II) cation and the triflate anions. Since these reports, similar cationic Ge(II) complexes have been prepared employing crown ethers, azamacrocycles, and bulky isocyanide ligands. Synthesis. In the preparation of Ge(II) cationic complexes, triflate is often chosen as a counter anion as it is relatively weakly coordinating. GeCl2\u2022dioxane is often used as a starting material, as it is a convenient source of Ge(II). Ge(II) cryptand[2.2.2]. The Ge(II) cryptand[2.2.2] complex was prepared by the addition of cryptand to a solution of N-heterocyclic carbene stabilized GeCl(CF3SO3) in tetrahydrofuran. The products obtained from this reaction are summarized below. The germanium cryptand salt precipitated from solution as a white powder, and the identity was established using proton NMR and crystal X-ray diffraction. The carbene stabilized"}, {"text": "germanium chloride side products (structures given below) were identified in solution after the reaction. Ge(II) crown ethers. Ge(II) cationic species have been isolated with several crown ether ligands, including [12]crown-4, [15]crown-5, and [18]crown-6. Rupar et al. reported the synthesis of various germanium crown ethers employing GeCl2\u2022dioxane as the source of Ge(II). Trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate (Me3SiOTf) was used to displace chloride ligands with a more weakly associating triflate ligand. The resulting germanium crown ether complexes can adopt different geometries and cation charges depending on the size of the crown ether and the nature of the anionic ligand, summarized in the figure below. Only the Ge complex with [12]crown-4 is able to fully exclude counter anions from coordinating to Ge to give a dicationic complex. The larger crown ethers do not form sandwich complexes with Ge, and leave room for an anion to associate with the encapsulated Ge. These complexes were characterized with NMR, X-ray crystallography, Raman spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. Ge(II) carbene complex. The Ge(II) carbene stabilized dication reported by Rupar et al. was prepared by treating GeCl2\u2022dioxane with an N-heterocyclic carbene (1,3-diisopropyl-4,5-dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene) to give the GeCl2 carbene complex. Upon treatment with trimethylsilyl iodide and excess carbene, the dicationic complex consisting of"}, {"text": "three carbene ligands to one Ge atom was formed. Ge(II) 2,6-dimethylphenyl isocyanide complex. A Ge(II) dication stabilized by 4 isocyanide ligands was prepared by mixing GeCl2\u2022dioxane and 2,6-dimethylphenyl isocyanide in toluene (scheme given below). Three molecules of GeCl2 are required per four molecules of the isocyanide ligand, as the counter anion is GeCl3\u2212. This complex was crystallized from toluene, and was characterized by X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy. Structure and bonding. The geometry of these Ge(II) complexes is not adequately described by VSEPR theory due to the nature of the lone pair on Ge(II). VSEPR theory is used to predict geometric distortions about atoms with nonbonding electrons (lone pairs), but in some cases heavier main group elements can violate VSEPR theory, displaying a stereochemically inactive or \"spherically symmetric\" lone pair, deemed the inert-pair effect. Ge(II) complexes can possess stereochemically active or inactive lone pairs, depending on the ligand. To further assess the nature of the electronic structure of Ge(II) dicationic complexes, natural bond orbital (NBO) computational analysis is often employed. Cryptand and crown ethers. The bonding in such Ge(II) polyether complexes is believed to be mainly ionic in character, differing from the expected mainly covalent character typical of most germanium"}, {"text": "compounds. This lack of a covalent interaction is exemplified in the relatively long Ge-O distances observed in crystal structures of Ge crown ether and Ge cryptand complexes. Ge-O covalent single bonds are expected to be approximately 1.8 \u00c5 in length. The crystal structure of the Ge(II) cryptand[2.2.2] complex reveals a much longer Ge-O distance of 2.49 \u00c5, similarly the Ge-O distances range from 2.38-2.49 \u00c5 in the Ge(II) ([12]crown-4)2 sandwich complex. For the Ge(II) cryptand[2.2.2] complex, NBO analysis reveals the Ge(II) cation does not participate in any covalent bonding and that the lone pair on the Ge(II) resides in a purely s orbital, indicating a stereochemically inactive lone pair. This lone pair orbital of Ge(II) within cryptand[2.2.2] is depicted to the right. In the Ge(II) crown ether complexes presented above, only the sandwich complex with [12]crown-4 clearly bears a stereochemically inactive lone pair, suggested by the high symmetry of the complex. The Ge(II) complexes with [15]crown-5, and [18]crown-6 show geometric distortions likely due to the activity of the Ge(II) lone pair. Carbenes and isocyanides. The bonding in Ge(II) dications stabilized by carbenes and isocyanides is believed to be more covalent in nature compared with the bonding in the polyether complexes."}, {"text": "Furthermore, the positive charge in these complexes can be quite delocalized. In the Ge(II) carbene dication complex reported by Rupar et al., the Ge-C bonds are 2.07 \u00c5 in length, only marginally longer than expected Ge-C bond lengths. This suggests that the Ge-carbene interaction is not dative, but more covalent in nature. Limiting resonance forms for the Ge(II) carbene dication can be drawn (shown below), with the Ge(II) bearing the full +2 charge, or with the carbenes forming covalent bonds to the Ge center giving each ligand a +1 charge and the Ge a -1 charge. Natural population analysis, a computational technique associated with NBO assigns a charge of +0.64 to the Ge atom, indicating that charge delocalization is significant, and that the structure is best described as an intermediate between the two limiting representations. This compound adopts a pyramidal geometry, with a stereochemically active lone pair on Ge. Similar to the Ge(II) carbene complex, the Ge-C bond lengths in the Ge(II) (2,6-dimethylphenyl isocyanide)3 structure range between 2.03-2.07 \u00c5, typical for expected Ge-C bonds. The ligands adopt a distorted tetrahedral structure about the germanium center in the crystal structure. NBO analysis of the Ge(II) isocyanide dication reveals a partially filled"}, {"text": "Ge p orbital as a frontier orbital of this complex, depicted to the right. The nature of the frontier orbitals change upon consideration of the GeCl3\u2212 counter anions in the NBO analysis. The NBO analysis also reveals a charge of +0.74 on Ge, with some positive charge delocalized on the isocyanide ligands. Geometry optimizations for both singlet and triplet electron configurations were performed for this complex, and the singlet was found to be favored by 48.6 kcal/mol. Reactivity. The weakly coordinated Ge(II) cations are Lewis acids. Due to this weak coordination, such Ge(II) crown ether complexes could be useful for the preparation of other germanium compounds. Bandyopadhyay et al. have investigated the reactivity of a GeOTf+ [15]crown-5 complex, and found that the weakly coordinating triflate could be exchanged for H2O or NH3. Addition of water to a solution of GeOTf+ [15]crown-5 in dichloromethane results in the formation of the dicationic water complex, as depicted in the figure below. This water adduct was isolated and the structure was determined by X-ray crystallography, making it the first characterized Ge(II)-water adduct. Further addition of bulk water to this complex results in decomposition. Upon treatment with base, this water adduct [Ge[15]crown-5\u00b7OH2]2+can be deprotonated to"}, {"text": "give the hydroxide adduct [Ge[15]crown-5\u00b7OH]+. Upon deprotonation to give the hydroxide adduct, the Ge-O bond becomes shorter and stronger. NBO analysis identifies the H2O-Ge[15]crown-5 interaction as a donor-acceptor interaction, while the HO-Ge[15]crown-5 interaction is identified as a polar single bond. This reactivity presents a potential strategy for the preparation of new Ge complexes. The empty p orbitals of Ge(II) dications make them potential \u03c0-acceptors for transition metal complexes. Intriguingly, dicationic Ge(II) complexes have been shown to act as ligands for Au(I) and Ag(I). Raut and Majumdar report the use of a bis(\u03b1-iminopyridine) ligand to prepare a Ge(II) dicationic complex that coordinates to the electron rich Au(I) or Ag(I) metal centers. The bonding in such complexes is best described by \u03c3-donation of the Ge(II) lone pair to the transition metal, and \u03c0-back donation from the filled transition metal d orbitals to the vacant Ge(II) p orbitals. This unusual activity for Ge(II) is under investigation for possible applications in catalysis."}, {"text": "The 2017 Durham mayoral election was held on November 7, 2017, to elect the mayor of Durham, North Carolina. It saw the election of Steve Schewel. Results. Primary. The date of the primary was October 10, 2017."}, {"text": "Hashem Ali (1945\u20132009) was an early plastic artist in Yemen. Background. After his birth in the village of (Duwailah) in Mukalla, his father took him to Indonesia. He lived there 13 years of his first years, where he studied in a Chinese school to the sixth primary. He then returned with his family to Hadramout. And then moved to Aden. Then to Taiz where he settled in Taiz and founded his own studio there. He made his studio open to all young talents, educated and trained until he died in 2009. Participated in many exhibitions inside and outside Yemen. One of the founders of the art movement in Yemen, he studied many plastic artists."}, {"text": "Berkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 187 as of 2010. Geography. Berkovo is located 3 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kameshkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bliznino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2010. Geography. Bliznino is located 22 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Laptevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Borodino () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 29 as of 2010. Geography. Borodino is located 28 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Synkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bryzgalovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 234 as of 2010. Geography. Bryzgalovo is located 14 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nazarovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Burakovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Burakovo is located on the Nerl River, 39 km west of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zapolitsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vakurino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2010. Geography. Vakurino is located on the Talsha River, 18 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasnoznamensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Varkhomeyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 198 as of 2010. Geography. Varkhomeyevo is located on the Talsha River, 18 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Posyolok imeni Gorkogo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vereshchagino () is a rural locality (a village) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 144 as of 2010. Geography. Vereshchagino is located 7 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ch\u00e2teau de Coulogne was a castle in Coulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. History. In 1214, the castle was slighted by Ferdinand, Count of Flanders. The castle fell to the English in 1347. It was handed over to the English as part of the Treaty of Br\u00e9tigny in 1360. Francis, Duke of Guise ordered the destruction of the castle in 1558."}, {"text": "Volkovoyno () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 552 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Volkovoyno is located 5 km south of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kameshkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bobi\u0107, Bobic or Bobi\u010d is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Robert Demoulin (1911\u20132008) was a professor of contemporary Belgian history at the University of Li\u00e8ge. Life. Demoulin was born in Huy on 8 May 1911. He attended a state secondary school in Huy, and then the University of Li\u00e8ge, where he studied history. He graduated Ph.D. in 1932, with a thesis on the Belgian Revolution of 1830. In the mid-1930s he prospected in archives in Paris, London and The Hague, attending Charles Webster's seminar at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Fran\u00e7ois Simiand's lectures at the Coll\u00e8ge de France. In 1938 he succeeded Herman Vander Linden lecturing on Belgian and contemporary history in Li\u00e8ge. He was called up as a lieutenant in the reserves in 1940, and spent much of the Second World War as a prisoner of war in Germany, organising courses and lectures for fellow prisoners. In absentia he was appointed full professor in Li\u00e8ge in 1943. He married the classical philologist Marielle Marique, and the couple had four children after the war. He resumed his academic duties in Li\u00e8ge in 1945. In 1946\u20131947 he travelled in the United States as a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation, visiting the universities of Yale, Harvard, Chicago and"}, {"text": "Columbia. He was particularly impressed by the interdisciplinarity of the Yale Institute of International Studies. In his seminars at the University of Li\u00e8ge, he became a pioneer in the use of press reports as historical source material. In 1955 he was a co-founder of the Centre interuniversitaire d'histoire contemporaine (CIHC), and in 1969 took part in founding the \"Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine\". He retired from teaching in 1981, but continued to publish. He died in Li\u00e8ge on 27 March 2008."}, {"text": "Vorynino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Vorynino is located 26 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gorki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Voskresenskoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2010. Geography. Voskresenskoye is located 37 km south of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pirogovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vtorovo () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 990 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Vtorovo is located 20 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mirny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Theodore Delevoryas (July 22, 1929 \u2013 June 29, 2017) was an American paleobotanist who was an expert on Mesozoic fossil plants. Biography. Delevoryas received his undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts in 1950, and earned his master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign in 1951. He pursued his Ph.D. from Illinois and graduated in 1954. Delevoryas became an assistant professor at Michigan State University from 1955 to 1956, before being hired as an instructor at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He left Yale for a professorship at the University of Illinois in 1960, but returned to Yale in 1962. He was appointed as a professor and as an associate curator of paleobotany at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. In 1972, he left Yale for a position as professor of botany at The University of Texas at Austin. Delevoryas served as president of the Botanical Society of America in 1974 and president of the International Organisation of Palaeobotany from 1978 to 1981. He retired from U.T. in 1995, but was brought back on as a professor emeritus in 1998. Throughout his career, he published over 100 scholarly articles on fossil ferns, conifers, and cycads."}, {"text": "Marty Froelick (born March 12, 1958) is an American runner. In 1987, he won the Twin Cities Marathon, one of the largest races in the nation at the time. He finished with a time of 2:10:59, which remained his career-best marathon time. Running career. Froelick graduated Scarborough High School in Houston, Texas, before enrolling at Rice University, also in Houston. At Rice, he ran track in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His teammate Jeff Wells, an Olympic Trials-qualifying runner, was able to challenge him in workouts. Froelick suffered through some injuries during two of the years. But he reemerged in 1981 to become the 10,000 meters Southwest Conference champion. His best college time for the 10,000 was 29:14.9, which remains the second-best time ever run by a Rice University student. In 1983, he was fronting several races, and ran a personal best in the 10,000 meters: 28:53.7. The same year, he ran his first marathon in Houston. He finished third, clocking a time of 2:12:47. Nine months later, he ran the New York City Marathon, finishing 26th in a time of 2:15:12. Froelick ran several other road and track races, including the Beijing Marathon, and then returned to his"}, {"text": "hometown for the Houston Marathon in 1985. He beat the other professional runners in the fast-growing metro marathon, and he took home the first-place medal and $20,000 prize purse. In 1986, he also ran multiple races and sought to defend his marathon win. He led the pack of runners through streets filled with spectators, but at the end, came in second to Paul Cummings. Froelick ran the Twin Cities Marathon in October 1986 and finished fifth. He returned to Minnesota again in September 1987 to run the City of Lakes 25K. He swept the field, finishing first in a course-record 1:04:31. A month later, October 11, 1987, Froelick toed the line at the Twin Cities Marathon a second time. Many of the 6,488 registrants were wearing long-sleeve shirts and sweatpants, but Froelick wore his shorts and a red singlet. The low temperature for the day was the coldest of any Twin Cities marathon mornings\u201423 degrees F. As the temperature warmed, Froelick led the pack. At the 15-mile mark only two others remained with him: Paul Gompers and Mark Curp. But Froelick pulled away with five miles to go, and put 40 seconds between him and Gompers, who would finish second."}, {"text": "Froelick snapped the tape in 2:10:59, taking first place and netting $25,000 in prize money. His time stood as the fastest marathon in the United States in 1987."}, {"text": "Jamal al-Din al-Ghaznawi (), was a Sunni Hanafi jurist, theologian, and Kalam scholar of the Maturidi school. Name. Jamal al-Din Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Mahmud b. Sa'id b. Nuh al-Qabisi, widely known as al-Taj al-Hanafi. Birth. The date of his birth is unknown, nor are there many authentic circumstances related of his life. Life. Not much of his early academic life is known nor documented except that many have mentioned his knowledge and his written works. He lived in Aleppo for a period of time, and worked as a lecturer at al-Madrasa al-Nuriyya. Teachers. Amongst his teachers was 'Ala' al-Din al-Kasani, author of Bada'i al-Sana'i (d. 587/1191), who died about a hundred years after Sarakhsi. Books. Among his printed works are: and many more other works. Death. He died in 593 A.H. = 1196/7 A.D. in Aleppo, Syria and he was buried near the supposed tomb of the Islamic prophet Ibrahim, according to Ibn al-'Adim, in his book \"Bughyat al-Talab fi Tarikh Halab\"."}, {"text": "Vysokovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 52 as of 2010. Geography. Vysokovo is located 13 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kunitsyno is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gavrilsevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2010. Geography. Gavrilsevo is located 25 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Neverkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gatikha () is a rural locality (a selo) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 693 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Gatikha is located 22 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Leontyevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Glazovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Glazovo is located on the Pechuga River, 23 km northwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krutovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gorki () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 61 as of 2010. Geography. Gorki is located 27 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vorynino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gorki () is a rural locality (a selo) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 61 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. The village is located 19 km north-east from Vtorovo, 7 km south from Kameshkovo."}, {"text": "Gorodok () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. Geography. Gorodok is located 16 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kurmenevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Grezino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Geography. Grezino is located 41 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Orgtrud is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Davydovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 86 as of 2010. Geography. Davydovo is located 30 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Filyandino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Delevoryas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Brigadier General Nicolas J-L Pilon , is a Canadian Army officer who has served as the Commandant of RMC Saint-Jean since August 9, 2019. Previously he served as the Commanding Officer of the 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment and served in Haiti as Chief of Staff of the United Nations Military Forces on the MINUSTAH Stabilization Mission. Due to his efforts in the MINUSTAH Stabilization Mission he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. Biography. Nicolas J-L Pilon graduated with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston Ontario in 1996. He later obtained a master's degree in Defense Studies from RMC and completed the Strategic Security and Defense Studies course from the Royal College of Defense Studies. He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General on 13 May 2021 and appointed the Director General Defence Force Planning."}, {"text": "Dvoriki () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2010. Geography. Dvoriki is located 24 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pozharnitsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dmitrikovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2010. Geography. Dmitrikovo is located on the Pechuga River, 18 km west of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zauichye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Druzhba () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 796 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Druzhba is located 7 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Reedy Fork is a long 3rd order tributary to the Haw River, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Variant names. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as: Course. Reedy Fork rises in Forsyth County on the divide between Reedy Fork and Kerners Mill Creek. Reedy Fork then flows east into and through Guilford County to meet the Haw River in Alamance County about 0.5 miles east of Ossipee. Watershed. Reedy Fork drains of area, receives about 45.5 in/year of precipitation, and has a wetness index of 429.86 and is about 31% forested."}, {"text": "Zhuikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. Geography. Zhuikha is located 28 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Aksentsevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ella Mundhenke Russell (c. 1868 \u2013 March 6, 1956) was an American suffragette, businessperson, and politician. She was president of the Everett Suffrage Club. Russell \"famously defended women's right to vote before a crowd of 6,500 during a Billy Sunday crusade\", and advanced the women's suffrage cause in the city of Everett and the state of Washington. In 1924, she won the nomination as the Republican candidate for the state senate in her district, but was defeated at the election by a Republican \"sticker\" candidate. Biography. Russell was born in Illinois in about 1868, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Mundhenke. She had worked as a schoolteacher in Illinois for five years, and in Washington for two years. She married Charles E. Russell, a wood shingle miller, with whom she had four daughters and a son. Russell assisted her husband with the shingle business during his lifetime, and carried on operating the mill after his death in 1925. Political career. In 1910, Russell was president of the Everett Suffrage Club, which campaigned for the right of women to vote, and for the rights of working women. Under Russell's leadership, the club wrote in the \"Labor Journal\" on November 4, 1910:"}, {"text": "\"IF YOU WERE A GIRL WORKER: 'No woman in silks and satins, whose only care is how she may keep her social light burning brighter than her rival's has any right to stand in the way of the rights of the woman who toils.'\" Regarding widows with children, it continued: \"No woman, whose home interests are well cared for, has any right to stand in the way of the rights of the woman who has carried her mate to the grave.\" In the same year, Russell was present at an event organised by the Billy Sunday campaign. One of the women speaking at the event opposed women's vote, saying that \"a woman's role was to teach her sons to vote properly.\" She also claimed that she had been subjected to harassment by the Everett Suffrage Club. Russell asked to speak and when denied, stepped up on a bench and began addressing the crowd, estimated at 5,500 or 6,500 people. Reporting the confrontation, \"Votes for Women\", at that time an official organ for the Washington State Suffrage Association, wrote: \"This event became the rallying point of an enthusiasm for suffrage which has put Everett in the forefront of the campaign. Mrs."}, {"text": "Russell is resourceful, she has rallied about her many able women and many novel schemes have been devised to further the cause of suffrage in Snohomish and adjoining counties\". The Everett Suffrage Club was honored by \"Votes for Women\" \"for having been one of the most successful clubs in the state in gaining local media attention\". Washington state became the fifth in the US to allow women to vote, ratifying Amendment 5 to the state constitution (Amendment to Article VI Sec. 1), granting women the right to vote, on November 8, 1910. In 1914, Russell stood as a Democratic candidate for the 48th district in the Washington House of Representatives. In 1922, she stood unsuccessfully as a Republican candidate for the House of Representatives in Thurston County. In 1924, she was successful in winning the Republican nomination for the Washington State Senate for that district, defeating the sitting Republican senator, Phillip H. Carlyon, by two votes. Russell had put to Carlyon eleven questions, including one which, reports stated, \"caught the public's fancy\": \"Is it true that since your entry into the legislature of this state, some 18 years ago, you have had no calling or occupation other than political \u2013"}, {"text": "in other words, no visible means of support?\" Although Russell had won the nomination, Carlyon stood in the election as a \"sticker candidate\" and won. Russell contested the result, claiming that, having lost the nomination, Carlyon had no qualification to run; that stickers with his name had been placed over Russell's name, so that those intending to vote \"straight\" Republican voted for him; and that some state employees campaigned for Carlyon. Carlyon filed a protest against the hearing into Russell's complaint. Russell's case was dismissed unanimously, and Carlyon retained the senate seat."}, {"text": "Zauichye () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Zauichye is located on the Uyechka River, 23 km west of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pigasovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ivashkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. Ivashkovo is located 15 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vysokovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ivishenye () is a rural locality (a village) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2010. Geography. Ivishenye is located north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mikshino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Istomino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Geography. Istomino is located 12 km south of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mishnevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "John Bull ( 14 January 1642) was an English self-proclaimed prophet who claimed to be one of the two witnesses of the Book of Revelation, alongside Richard Farnham. Through the late 1630s and early 1640s, they established a small religious following surrounding their prophesies. Originating from Colchester, and working as a weaver in London, Bull first came to the attention of the authorities in a crackdown on the \"sectaries or schismatiques\" of London, in early 1636. As members of a private conventicle and religious dissenters, both Farnham and Bull were arrested and interrogated on 16 April. With both men imprisoned, pamphleteer Thomas Heywood recorded their outlandish views in a 1636 tract, with the supposed prophets claiming to have power over the elements, and that it was their fate to be \"slaine at Hierusalem\" and \"rise again\". Sensational literature surrounded the pair, and often emphasized their reputed group of female followers. Bull petitioned Archbishop Laud for his case to be heard at trial in 1638, but was not released until before 1641. By 1641, Bull was sick with the plague and, contrary to their prophesies, both prophets died in January 1644. After Bull's death, and in absence of their prophesied resurrection,"}, {"text": "Farnham and Bull's small group of followers claimed they had risen, and were converting the ten tribes of Israel, after which they would \"reign forever\". With their following diminishing, Bull and Farnham's lives served as fodder for pamphleteers during the subsequent years of religious tumult. Early life. John Bull is an uncertain figure, and little is known of his life before his claimed prophethood. Ariel Hessayon, writing for the \"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography\", has used the scant evidence to construct a narrative of his early life. He possibly originated from Colchester, Essex, as two locals in the 1630s were later recorded as knowing him. Biographer of Farnham, John Walter, notes that Farnham had also come from Colchester, as a 1642 pamphlet asserts. Hessayon considers it equally possible that he either became proficient as a weaver here or learned his trade in London, where he later resided, although no freeman by Bull's name was accepted into London's Worshipful Company of Weavers between 1600 and 1646. Arrest and imprisonment. By early 1636, Bull was working as a weaver in St Botolph without Aldgate, when a complaint was made concerning the \"sectaries or schismatiques\" of London. The king's commissioners for causes ecclesiastical"}, {"text": "had been notified that throughout London, and in many other places, \"there are at this present [...] sundrie sorts of Separatists and sectaries, as namely Brownists, Anabaptists, Arrians, Thraskists, Famalists, Sensualists, Antinomians, and some other sorts\". On 20 February 1636, John Wragg, a messenger of majesty's chamber, was tasked by the commissioners with entering any places where \"privat Conventicles or meetings\" were suspected and rooting out \"seditious and unlawfull writings and papers\", utilising \"all other his highnes officers ministers and subjects whatsoever\" in his search. At this time, Bull and Farnham seemed to be members of one such \"privat Conventicle\" together, as the Puritan author Rose Thurgood, in her \"A Lecture of Repentance\" records that she \"reasoned with my brothers Richard Farnam & John Bull concerning prayer\". Bull and Farnham confronted her and According to Naomi Baker, a prominent scholar of Thurgood's work, this position reflected a radical Calvinist belief in the \"death of the self\", as the agency of individual believers is erased for that of God alone. After her initial outrage at these radical teachings, Thurgood came to accept Farnham and Bull as spiritual advisors, and Baker has speculated on a later personal connection with the two, as"}, {"text": "Farnham's wife, Elizabeth Addington, has been proposed as the scribe of Thurgood's lecture. Bull and Farnham were arrested via Wragg's warrant and examined on 16 April 1636. The year of their arrest, a pamphlet was published by Thomas Heywood, entitled \"A True Discourse of the Two infamous upstart Prophets\" (1636), concerning Bull and Farnham, now imprisoned. The pamphlet recorded the \"examinations and opinions\" of the two, taken on 16 April. Heywood observed Bull was \"besotted with the like Lunacy [to Farnham], constantly affirmeth also that he is a Prophet: and one of these two witnesses before spoken of, in all things agreeing with his brother Farnham, and that hee shall also be slaine at Hierusalem where Christ suffered, and shall rise againe.\" They apparently held that \"their prayer [...] can command the clouds to showre downe raine\", and that, despite speaking only poor English, they \"shall be inspired with the Holy Tongue\" at Jerusalem and \"be able to speake all Tongues and Languages\". Bull and Farnham's tale was apparently widespread enough that Farnham felt the need for his own testimony of his beliefs, dispelling rumours that he had claimed to be the Second Coming of Christ, and instead asserting that"}, {"text": "he and Bull were the \"two witnesses\" of , who, the Book of Revelation recorded, would \"prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth\". Heywood was hostile to Bull's prophesies, observing they seemed \"to smell of the Sect of the Thraskites and Sabbatarians\", and entreating the reader to \"pitty their ignorance\" and \"wondrest at their impudence\". Bull was imprisoned on 4 May 1636, residing in Bridewell Prison, where Farnham joined him in 1638, after brief stints at Newgate Prison and Bedlam. In 1638, after apparently enduring months of hard labour, he petitioned Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud to be brought to trial, protesting the \"labour of beating hemp, to the afflicting of his weak body, and the being companion of all manner of rogues, to the vexation of his soul\", and beseech him that \"if he be a false prophet, it is your duty to deal with him as the word of God requires\". Farnham wrote similar petitions, successively soliciting the help of Archbishop Laud, the Privy Council, and the King of England, Charles I. Release, death and legacy. An anonymous and posthumous newsbook biography of the two, \"False prophets discovered\" (1642), reports that at some point"}, {"text": "after their imprisonment, Bull had \"gone abroad at his pleasure\" while Farnham grew sick. By December 1641, Bull too was reportedly \"shut upp in an house visited with the sicknes\". By 1642, Bull, Farnham, and a Richard Curtains, were living together in \"Curtains house in Rosemary lane\". Contrary to their prophesies, both men would die here. Farnham died and was buried on 4 January 1642, met with accounts from Bull and three of their female followers, three days later, that he had been resurrected. John Bull was buried ten days later, on 14 January 1642, at St Mary Matfelon. Hessayon speculates that, shortly before his death, Bull was baptised by a follower of the separatist Henry Jacob. After both prophets' death, and in absence of the risen Bull and Farnham, Elizabeth Addington (Farnham's second wife) alongside several of their female followers, professed that both Bull and Farnham had risen from the dead, setting out to convert the ten tribes of Israel, according to \"False prophets discovered\". This group, \"esteemed by understanding men to be women of good parts, honest of conversation, and very ready in the Scriptures\", believed that, after this mission, the prophets would return to England and \"Richard"}, {"text": "Farnham should be king upon David's throne and John Bull should be priest on Aaron's seat and they should reign forever.\" The fate of Bull and Farnham's followers is unrecorded, but historian Jerome Friedman speculates they \"eventually followed other charismatic leaders\". According to Walter, Farnham and Bull \"enjoy[ed] a different sort of afterlife\" to that of their professed prophethood, serving as \"good copy for the pamphlet writers\" during \"the religious turmoil of the early 1640s\". Popular literature abounded, detailing their supposed female following and outlandish views. The sensationalist newbook, \"False prophets discovered\", recorded Farnham's marriage to a \"Mrs. Haddington\", one of his reputed female followers and a \"women of fine parts\", despite the fact her husband was alive, and at sea, leading to her imprisonment for bigamy."}, {"text": "Magic state distillation is a method for creating more accurate quantum states from multiple noisy ones, which is important for building fault tolerant quantum computers. It has also been linked to quantum contextuality, a concept thought to contribute to quantum computers' power. The technique was first proposed by Emanuel Knill in 2004, and further analyzed by Sergey Bravyi and Alexei Kitaev the same year. Thanks to the Gottesman\u2013Knill theorem, it is known that some quantum operations (operations in the Clifford group) can be perfectly simulated in polynomial time on a classical computer. In order to achieve universal quantum computation, a quantum computer must be able to perform operations outside this set. Magic state distillation achieves this, in principle, by concentrating the usefulness of imperfect resources, represented by mixed states, into states that are conducive for performing operations that are difficult to simulate classically. A variety of qubit magic state distillation routines and distillation routines for qubits with various advantages have been proposed. Stabilizer formalism. The Clifford group consists of a set of formula_1-qubit operations generated by the gates (where \"H\" is Hadamard and \"S\" is formula_2) called Clifford gates. The Clifford group generates stabilizer states which can be efficiently simulated"}, {"text": "classically, as shown by the Gottesman\u2013Knill theorem. This set of gates with a non-Clifford operation is universal for quantum computation. Magic states. Magic states are purified from formula_1 copies of a mixed state formula_4. These states are typically provided via an ancilla to the circuit. A magic state for the formula_5 rotation operator is formula_6 where formula_7. A non-Clifford gate can be generated by combining (copies of) magic states with Clifford gates. Since a set of Clifford gates combined with a non-Clifford gate is universal for quantum computation, magic states combined with Clifford gates are also universal. Purification algorithm for distilling |\"M\"\u3009. The first magic state distillation algorithm, invented by Sergey Bravyi and Alexei Kitaev, is as follows. Input: Prepare 5 imperfect states. Output: An almost pure state having a small error probability. repeat Apply the decoding operation of the five-qubit error correcting code and measure the syndrome. If the measured syndrome is formula_8, the distillation attempt is successful. else Get rid of the resulting state and restart the algorithm. until The states have been distilled to the desired purity."}, {"text": "Kamenovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 56 as of 2010. Geography. Kamenovo is located 9 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Edemskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Karyakino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2010. Geography. Karyakino is located 34 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nesterkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Dark Harbor 17 1/2 is a 25 ft 10 in long class of sailboat designed by B.B.Crowninshield in 1908 as a daysailer and racer. The mainsail is gaff rigged, with a jib that attaches to the masthead and bow. The displacement hull has a full keel hull with lead ballast and classic lines. It has a 25 ft 10 in length overall and a waterline length of 17 1/2 ft. Original construction was caravel planking over steam bent frames, although boats can also be built with modern methods such as cold moulding or strip planking. Decks can be built traditionally or using plywood sheathed in fibreglass. The class was originally called the Manchester 17 1/2 after Manchester, Massachusetts, where the design first sailed. Its popularity spread to several summer communities in Maine, and was adopted by the Tarratine Yacht Club in Dark Harbor on the island of Islesboro, which renamed the boat the Dark Harbor 17 1/2. About 200 boats had been built by 1935, with some still sailing today. New examples continue to be built with boats being sailed across America, Europe and the South Pacific. The class is similar to the Dark Harbor 12 1/2."}, {"text": "Old World Village is a German enclave in Huntington Beach, California. It features shops, restaurants, a chapel, and a hotel. Many of the proprietors of its businesses live above their establishments. This live-work arrangement is unusual for Orange County. About 40 families live in the village. When it opened in 1978, the proprietors were primarily from Germany and Austria, but the Village has become more ethnically diverse over time. History. In 1952, Josef Bischof emigrated from Germany to the United States. He was inspired by Ports O' Call Village in San Pedro, to create the shopping center Alpine Village in Torrance in 1965. Wanting to have spaces to both live and work in the same place, he split with his business partners from Alpine Village to found Old World Village in 1978. Ownership of the 53 live-work units is distributed among private owners, with governance administered through a homeowners association. As of 2007, the Bischof family continued to own several of the commercial and residential properties. Controversies. In the 1980s, the village experienced an internal feud, with owners of the live-work establishments accusing Bischof of a \"reign of terror\". An initial $2.1 million judgment in favor of the merchants was"}, {"text": "later reduced to $1.25 million (). In a separate case, Cathy Justine Adams, who operated the \"Old World Psychic Reader\" from 1985, was arrested and charged with grand theft after defrauding clients of over $400,000 in cash, jewelry, and vehicles. She pled guilty in 1991 to three felony counts and agreed to repay $150,000 in restitution to avoid prison time. In the early 2000s, the village experienced a series of antisemitic incidents reported by the owners of a Jewish gift shop, including vandalism, threatening phone calls, and hate-related graffiti. These incidents were part of broader tensions among some residents and businesses, and although they gained media attention, others in the village described the community as generally peaceful. Description. Old World Village is active with various shops, cafes, and event venues. Its architecture evokes a stylized version of Europe, with cobblestone streets, stucco facades, and painted murals contributing to its distinct ambiance. Festivals. The Village holds annual German events, including an Oktoberfest and dachshund races. Over time, events for other ethnic and cultural groups have been held at the Village, including Greek, Irish, Scottish, and South American festivals. The village also hosts weddings and quincea\u00f1eras. Legacy. Old World Village was parodied"}, {"text": "in the television series \"Arrested Development\" as the fictional English enclave \"Wee Britain\". The village has also served as a filming location, often doubling for European settings due to its Bavarian-style architecture. It has appeared in television shows such as \"Hell's Kitchen\" and \"Welcome to Chippendales\", and is part of Huntington Beach's broader efforts to attract film and television production."}, {"text": "Lin Mei-hong (born 1959) is a Taiwanese choreographer. Lin began dancing with the Lanyang Dance Troupe in Taiwan, then moved to Italy and Germany for further training. She has spent the majority of her career in Europe, with the Ballet in Plauen, Theater Dortmund, and Staatstheater Darmstadt. In 2013, Lin became artistic director for the ballet of the Austrian Landestheater Linz. Lin has produced adaptations of \"The House of Bernarda Alba\", \"Macbeth\", and \"Carmina Burana\", among others. She has also choreographed \"Die Brautschminkerin\", which was nominated for a Der Faust award in 2011. Life and career. Lin was born in Luodong, Yilan County, Taiwan, in 1959. As children, the four Lin sisters took ballet and piano classes. Lin Mei-hong then participated in the first classes held by Gian Carlo Michelini's Lanyang Dance Troupe, founded in 1966, and joined the troupe itself around the age of 10. Aged 16, she pursued further study at the National Dance Academy, where she was trained in ballet. Near the end of her time in Italy, Lin attended a performance by the Tanztheater Wuppertal, led by Pina Bausch. Lin subsequently enrolled at the Folkwang Hochschule, where she graduated in 1989. That year, Lin returned to"}, {"text": "the Lanyang Dance Troupe as choreographer. Lin began as director in 1991 of the . Between 1997 and 2002, Lin served as artistic director of the ballet at Theater Dortmund. She joined Staatstheater Darmstadt as artistic director in 2004. While affiliated with Staatstheater Darmstadt, Lin was also director of Lanyang Dance Troupe. In 2006, Lin received the German Artist of the Year Award. In 2013, Lin began work as artistic director of TANZLIN.Z, of the Landestheater Linz in Austria. While at the Landestheater Linz, she has worked with Taiwan-based artists, such as the Romanian choreographer Constantin Georgescu. Works. Lin choreographed \"Kavalan Princess\" by Taiwanese playwright Yu Yuan-keng in 1999. In 2003, Lin produced an adaptation of \"The Beautiful Game\". In her tenure with Staatstheater Darmstadt, Lin has produced adaptations of several widely known works, such as \"Jesus Christ Superstar\" (2005), \"The House of Bernarda Alba\" (2005), \"Macbeth\" (2005), \"The Juliet Letters\" (2006), \"Ainadamar\" (2007), \"Carmina Burana\" (2008), and \"H\u00f4tel du Nord\" (2008). Lin's original works, such as \"Violett, Lila, PurPur\", have also been performed by Staatstheater Darmstadt. The 2010 performance of a second original work \"Schwanengesang\" (\"Swan Song\") during the Taiwan International Festival, was the first time Lin had staged"}, {"text": "a dance in Taiwan since starting her career in Europe. In 2011, Lin premiered \"Die Brautschminkerin\" (\"Bridal Makeup\"), based on Li Ang's \"Rouged Sacrifice\", in turn inspired by Taiwan's February 28 incident. \"Die Brautschminkerin\" was nominated for the German Theatre Association's Der Faust award. Her second performance in Taiwan took place in 2018. \"The Little Mermaid\" linked the Hans Christian Andersen story of the same name with Oscar Wilde's \"The Birthday of the Infanta\". Lin returned to Taiwan in 2019 to perform \"Die Brautschminkerin\". Writing for the \"Taipei Times\" in 2019, Diane Baker observed that full-length contemporary ballet performances were rarely staged in Taiwan, naming Taiwan natives Allen Yu and Lin, as well as Ballet Preljocaj, Hong Kong Ballet, and Ballet am Rhein in the full list of performers. Personal life. Lin is married to theatre manager Bernhard Helmich."}, {"text": "Hudouzhou Island () was a sandbar island in Yangtze River Delta. The island was inhabited by Chinese during the 5th century AD and used as a penal colony where criminals were sent to work in salt fields. The settlement of Tongzhou (), which developed into modern day Nantong, was founded on Hudouzhou. In the late Tang period, Hudouzhou ceased to exist as an island when it merged with land on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the territory became part of the newly formed Jinghai District ()."}, {"text": "A\u00efssa Boudechicha (; born 13 April 2000) is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for MC El Bayadh. Club career. Boudechicha started his career with his hometown club OBM Medjana before joining CA Bordj Bou Arreridj, where he spent seven years. On August 30, 2019, Boudechicha signed a four-year contract with French club Bordeaux. In August 2023, he joined MC El Bayadh."}, {"text": "Weldon Charles Goodman (born April 23, 1957) is a former American football running back who played for the St. Louis Cardinals. He played college football at University of Cincinnati. Goodman led the Cincinnati Bearcats in 1983 in receptions with 51. He also scored the second and final TD in the Bearcats' win against defending National Champion Penn State. Prior to entering the NFL, he was a member of the United States Marine Corps."}, {"text": "Rama Akkiraju is an Indian-born American computer scientist. She is vice president of AI/ML for IT at Nvidia and performs research in the field of artificial intelligence. Akkiraju started her career at the T. J. Watson Research Center in New York and later moved to IBM Almaden Research Center. She served as the Distinguished Engineer and Director of Engineering at IBM's Watson Division from 2015 to 2019. Akkiraju was named an IBM Fellow in 2019. She has been an IBM Master Inventor since 2014. Education. Akkiraju received her MBA at New York University, Stern School of Business in 2004, where she earned a gold medal for highest academic excellence. She received her M.S. in Computer Science from Utah State University in 1995 and her B.Tech. in Electronics engineering from JNTU College of Engineering, in Andhra Pradesh, India in 1993. Professional contributions. Akkiraju served as the President for ISSIP, a Service Science professional society for 2018, and actively drives AI projects through ISSIP. Akkiraju is the co-chair for the AI Council at CompTIA industry forum. Akkiraju has served as program committee chair, and program committee member for various academic conferences & journals including those organized by IEEE, ACM, ICSE, and ASPLOS."}, {"text": "While at IBM, Akkiraju led the \"People Insights\" on the IBM Watson team, developing technologies to infer personalities, emotions, tone, attitudes, and intentions from social media data. Akkiraju has co-authored over 100 technical papers. Akkiraju has 45+ issued patents and 25+ pending. She is the recipient of 4 best paper awards in AI and Operations Research areas from AAAI and INFORMs. Akkiraju has delivered many keynote addresses, podcasts and blog posts on artificial intelligence, bias, AI for IT operations(AIOps) etc."}, {"text": "Nikhil Chaudhary is an environmentalist, urban-planner, architect, and cartoonist from Maharashtra, India. Works. His work has been featured as contributing to a growing movement to use comics as advocacy tools for environmental and urban issues. He is a contributing author to the recent book, \"Longform: An Anthology of Graphic Narratives\". Most recently, his work was featured in the documentary-series, \"Compass\" by the TRT World - on an episode investigating the role of art and artists addressing Gentrification."}, {"text": "Elections to Three Rivers District Council took place on 6 May 2021 alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom. 13 of the 39 seats were elected: the seats elected were last contested in the 2016 election. The election was originally scheduled to take place on 7 May 2020, however elections were delayed nationwide by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Liberal Democrats held control of the council."}, {"text": "Jinghai District, formerly Jinghai County, is a district of Tianjin, China. Jinghai may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Kizhany () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. Geography. Kizhany is located 13 km south of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mostsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kiryushino () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Kiryushino is located 11 km northwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Koverino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kolosovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 47 as of 2010. Geography. Kolosovo is located 19 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vakhromeyevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasnoznamensky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 184 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Krasnoznamensky is located on the Talsha River, 19 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vakurino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2019 CMLL D\u00eda de Muertos was a lineup of two professional wrestling supercard events, scripted and produced by the Mexican \"Lucha Libre\" promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), held to celebrate the Mexican Day of the Dead. The shows took place on November 1 and November 3, 2019, in CMLL's main venue, Arena M\u00e9xico, in Mexico City, Mexico. Many of the wrestlers working the shows wore traditional D\u00eda de Muertos face and body paint for the event. Losing wrestlers from each show were dragged to \"El Inframundo\" (\"The Underworld\"; in actuality a side entrance in the arena) by a group of wrestlers dressed up as minions of the ruler of the underworld. It was the sixth annual D\u00eda de Muertos celebration hosted by CMLL. As part of the shows, Sans\u00f3n defended the \"Rey del Inframundo\" (\"King of the Underworld\") championship that he won at the 2017 D\u00eda de Muertos show and successfully defended on the 2018 show. The November 3 show featured a Singles match between \"Micro-Estrellas\" Microman and Chamuel. Production. Background. Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre held its inaugural \"D\u00eda de Muertos\" show on October 31, 2014. As a promotion, children in costumes were admitted to the"}, {"text": "show for free. CMLL held a second show on November 2, 2014. Both shows included CMLL's ring girls, known as \"Edcanes\", and various wrestlers dressed in traditional \"D\u00eda de Muertos\" garb. CMLL also held a haunted house attraction in the basement of Arena M\u00e9xico before each show. CMLL has held shows to celebrate the holiday annually since 2014, making 2019 the sixth year. Storylines. The 2019 Dia de Muertos shows featured twelve professional wrestling matches scripted by CMLL, with some wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. Wrestlers portrayed either heels (referred to as \"rudos\" in Mexico) or faces (\"t\u00e9cnicos\" in Mexico) as they performed. The show starred the Mexican god of death, Amotlamini, who directed his minions throughout the show. Amotlamini was portrayed by young wrestler Retro. At the 2017 D\u00eda de Muertos show, Sans\u00f3n outlasted El Cuatrero, Diamante Azul, Forastero, Hechicero, Mistico, Soberano Jr. and Valiente in a \"torneo cibernetico\" elimination match to become the first ever \"Rey del Inframundo\" (\"King of the Underworld\"). Sans\u00f3n was given a championship belt as a tournament trophy, which is not defended outside of the Dia de Muertos tournament. The following year, at the 2018 D\u00eda de Muertos show Sans\u00f3n successfully defended the \"Rey"}, {"text": "del Inframundo\" championship against Templario. On October 18, CMLL announced that Sans\u00f3n would be defending the \"Rey del Inframundo\" title on the November 1 show, with the challenger to be determined by an elimination match held on October 29. CMLL later announced the 10 wrestlers who would compete in the \"torneo cibernetic\": Rey Cometa, Universo 2000 Jr., Audaz, Disturbio, Dulce Gardenia, P\u00f3lvora, Star Jr., Tiger, Black Panther and Virus. During the same press conference CMLL announced that the \"Micro-Estrellas\" Microman and Chamuel would face off on the Sunday November 3 \"D\u00eda de Muertos\" show, continuing their feud that saw Microman defeat and unmask Chamuel at the CMLL 86th Anniversary Show."}, {"text": "Krasnoramenye () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2010. Geography. Krasnoramenye is located on the Klyazma River, 32 km south of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Penkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kruglovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 51 as of 2010. Geography. Kruglovo is located 20 km west of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pigasovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krutovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2010. Geography. Krutovo is located 23 km west of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novosyolka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kunitsyno () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2010. Geography. Kunitsyno is located 13 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vysokovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kurmenyovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. Geography. Kurmenyovo is located 18 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yuratino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Laptevo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 101 as of 2010. There is one street. Geography. Laptevo is located 21 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bliznino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Jinghai () was a historic county that existed on the northern bank of the Yangtze River Delta in what is now the city of Nantong in Jiangsu, China. In the 5th century CE, the sandbar of Hudouzhou emerged in the Yangtze River Delta. In the late Tang dynasty, Hudouzhou became connected to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and was named Jinghai. Jinghai Military Commission was established in the area, which was controlled by a family with the surname Yao for half a century. The economy was based on agriculture and salt production, and a city wall was built around the main settlement. In 958, the Later Zhou dynasty established the Tongzhou Prefecture, with Jinghai and Haimen as its subordinate counties. Jinghai was expanded as the capital of the prefecture, and eventually became known as Tongzhou. After the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, prefectures were abolished and Tongzhou was renamed as Nantong."}, {"text": "Pan-Icarian Brotherhood is a fraternal society organized on January 26, 1903 by eleven Ikarian men in Verona, Pennsylvania. The \"Icarian Brotherhood of America\" (also known as \"Ikaros\") was finalized on July 17, 1905 with the establishment of a chapter from the State of Pennsylvania. History. Early Ikarians in North America experienced near in-humane working conditions as they worked for about sixty to seventy hours a week. These workers shared sleeping quarters with several others, taking turns sleeping as not enough beds were provided. These conditions forced early Ikarians in America to help each other and realize the need for brotherhood. Icarian Brotherhood. On January 26, 1903, eleven men from Pittsburgh namely: \"Demetrios Vassilaros, Vasilios Triantafillou, John Pamphilis, Stamatis Kratsas, Emmanuel Pamphilis, Nikolaos Vassilaros, Angelo Tsantes, Anastasios Diniacos, John Lardas, Nicholas Paralemos, and John Mavrikes\" met for the purpose of forming an organization. The Icarian Brotherhood of America was born and the first chapter in Pennsylvania was acquired on July 17, 1905. The organization's funds were from the dues collected on members per month which are to cover burial expenses, insurance for sick and disabled Ikarians. The Artemis and Icaros. Ikarian's population in America increased and the brotherhood started to think"}, {"text": "of giving aid to Icarian people and started to collect funds for different projects. A rivalry and disagreement developed between the members from northern and southern Icaria as who should benefit from the group's philanthropy. The Northern Icarian members formed the \"Pan-Ikarian Beneficial Society\" \u201cArtemis\u201d and was officially chartered in 1910. The Artemis group focused on the construction of a harbor at Evdilos while the Icaros focused in the construction of a school building in Agios Kyrikos Each group held separate activities including the celebration of Ikaria's Independence. The rivalry existed for several years, and efforts were made to unite the two groups. The two rival groups finally united in 1916. The Artemis group was not successful in raising funds, unlike the Icaros who had already raised funds for the school building project. At this time, the Artemis realized the importance of Icaros' school building project and started to contribute. The Artemis has evolved into a private club while the Icaros continued to flourish. Knights and Ladies of Ikaria. In 1922, the \"American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association\" (AHEPA) was organized. Vasilios Isidoros Chebithes used his public relations skills and establish AHEPA chapters evolving the organization into the largest Hellenic organization"}, {"text": "in the United States. The non-provision of establishing a chapter in the by-laws of the Icarian Brotherhood of America, the brotherhood have not formed any chapter outside Allegheny County. Chebithes bypass this and created the Knights and Ladies of Icaria (KALOI) with the Icarians of Akron, Ohio in 1931. Pan-Icarian Brotherhood of America. Finally in 1934, a meeting of KALOI, Icaros and Artemis were held to create a united Icarian organization. With the merging of KALOI chapters and the Icarian Brotherhood, Pan-Icarian Brotherhood of America was established. Pan-Ikarian Brotherhood of Australia \"Ikaros\" Inc.. In 1958, a Pan-Ikarian Brotherhood was founded in Adelaide, South Australia, modelled after their American counterparts. In 1986 the Brotherhood purchased a hall at Arthur Street, Unley, where they continue to operate today. There is also an Ikarian brotherhood based in Sydney, New South Wales. Structure. The brotherhood's structure is similar to the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association and other American fraternal organizations in which dues are paid by members and the organization was governed by a national governing body as elected. The membership was open to all Ikarians and Fournians (neighboring island) as per the brotherhood's constitution. Chapters. The brotherhood now has 28 active chapters: Pan-Icarian"}, {"text": "Foundation. The \"Pan-Icarian Foundation\" was the charitable arm of the Pan-Icarian Brotherhood that administers the philanthropic endeavors of the organization."}, {"text": "Leontyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2010. Geography. Leontyevo is located 25 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dvoriki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Loshaikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2010. Geography. Loshaikha is located 19 km northwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Saulovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "S\u00e9bastien Bouchard is a Canadian Army brigadier-general who serves as Commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC). He served previously as Commanding Officer of the Second Canadian Division Support Group in Montreal, as Deputy Chief of Staff (Strategic) at the Canadian Joint Operations Command, and as the Commanding Officer for National Support Element (NSE) for OP ATHENA Career and education. Bouchard graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, and would later obtain his master's degree in defense studies from the Canadian Forces College. Bouchard served as Commandant of RMC during the COVID-19 Pandemic and made the decision to send most officer cadets to learn from home during the duration of the pandemic. On February 9, 2021, Bouchard announced his intention to retire from the Canadian Armed Forces."}, {"text": "Lubenkino () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Lubenkino is located 34 km south of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pirogovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lubentsy () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 199 as of 2010. Geography. Lubentsy is located on the Pechuga River, 20 km northwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novaya Pichuga is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Makarikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 33 as of 2010. Geography. Makarikha is located 13 km west of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dmitrikovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lagos State Transport Corporation also known as LSTC was a state owned public transport service that operated from 1958 up to the early 1990s. At its peak which was during the years preceding the Nigerian Second Republic, LSTC provided extensive bus coverage within the commercial city of Lagos. The main equipment of the corporation was the Mercedes chassis and models 1313 and 1617. History. Municipal transport service. In 1958, Lagos Town Council acquired the Zarpas bus service which was operating thirty route permits and 47 buses, the service was licensed to operate in the suburbs of Obalende, Yaba, Apapa, Idi-Oro, Mushin and Ikoyi. The acquired operation was named Lagos Municipal Transport Service and it became the first government owned public bus service in Lagos State. In the late 1950s, this service competed with four licensed operators, in this group included Benson bus services and Oshinowo Transport. When the Lagos Town Council became the Lagos City Council, the municipal service was renamed Lagos City Transport Service. One of the council members, Julius Adeola Odeku was appointed chairman of the newly incorporated company. The outward growth in demography from Lagos Island and its environs towards the mainland caused an increased demand for"}, {"text": "commuting that LSTC was unable to satisfy. Additional operators were allowed to complement the public bus operation leading to the entry of licensed companies operating adapted or unconventional vehicles such as Molue, a lorry chassis, Bolekaja known also as mammy wagon and Kiakia/danfo, which are minibuses. The operators were given permit to operate specific inward and outward routes usually between Iddo, Lagos and Lagos Mainland. Many of the companies went into business with used lorries and buses of varying quality and with speed as a key strategy causing a perception of a bus service bordering on recklessness. To meet demand of commuters, between 1962 and 1965, LSTC expanded with the purchase of Mercedes buses but operational deficiencies and rise of licensed and unlicensed operators hampered profitability. The influx of kiakia, bolekaja and molue buses affected the profitability of the municipal service and when the government intended to regulate the licensed and unlicensed operators through new orders, it caused a road blockade by drivers and the deflation of tires on city buses. Statewide. In 1977, the Lagos City Transport Corporation formed the foundation of the new Lagos State Transportation Corporation. New services introduced included express bus service during the peak periods"}, {"text": "of 6:00am \u2013 10:00am and 2pm - 7pm, excursion, inter-state and contract services. The service underwent its peak passenger load in 1980 when about 76 million trips were taken by customers. Major bus stops included Ikeja, Mile 2, Oshodi and Race Course. Beginning in the second republic, technical inefficiencies, corruption and competition eroded the passenger share of LSTC. From an average of 240 operating buses in 1978, the average fell to 110 in 1983. Decline. Services declined by 1991 and the state government gradually winded down the corporation by leasing its fleet to private operators."}, {"text": "Mayisha Akbar (born Elaine Hook, October 22, 1952) established the Compton Junior Posse Youth Equestrian Program, an after-school program for inner-city children in Los Angeles, California. Life. Mayisha Akbar was born Elaine Hook in Torrance, California, on October 22, 1952. She grew up in government housing projects in Harbor City, Los Angeles. The area is partially rural, more so in Akbar's early days. Akbar's mother says that she had an affinity for animals, especially horses. Her mother would peer out of the window to see what animal she was bringing home each day. She would also nurse sick animals back to health. A scholarship enabled her to attend Loyola Marymount University, earning a B.A. in Sociology and Education. Akbar planned to teach after graduation. However, the real estate boom of the 1970s altered her plans. She became a real estate broker who worked in many different markets. Compton Jr. Posse. In the middle of some real estate research, she discovered an agricultural piece of Compton, California, named Richland Farms. The community has a \"cowboy flavor\" and combined with Akbar's affinity to horses in her childhood made owning the farm quite enticing. With a recent divorce in her past and wanting"}, {"text": "to give her three children the experiences provided by this community, it did not take her long to make a significant decision. So, in the 1980s she moved her family into an area called Richland Farms. Akbar's children naturally made friends in the neighborhood and ended up becoming \"pied pipers\u201d to the many \u201clatch key\u201d children they met. As Akbar interacted with her children's new friends, she discovered that they often needed the necessities of life. Then Akbar started to supply the children with places to meet, sleepovers, fun events, and equestrian events. After these sleepovers, no parents came looking for them. Rather than ejecting the children, she told the friends that, \"there\u2019s lots of work around here and if you wanna stay and continue to ride you gotta help take care of the horses!\" As time progressed, Akbar noticed that many of the friends were not in school or those in school were doing poorly. So then she told them, \"If you want to continue to ride you\u2019ve got to be in school and getting good grades. If there\u2019s a problem we\u2019ll get you tutoring.\" Akbar also realized as time went on that the boys especially needed alternatives to"}, {"text": "gangs or drugs as a life choice. The need for a formal organization became clear. She started Compton Jr Posse in her ranch and made a difference in thousand of lives. The youth care for and ride horses. She has received numerous accolades. When Akbar retired in 2019, the students took over the program. Some former students founded the Compton Cowboys."}, {"text": "Maryinka () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2010. Geography. Maryinka is located 63 km south of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pirogovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mikshino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 47 as of 2010. Geography. Mikshino is located 20 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ivishenye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mirny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 611 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Mirny is located 22 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pishchikhino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Alexander Konychev (born 25 July 1998 in Verona) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . He is the son of famous former professional cyclist Dimitri Konyshev, and was born in Italy while his father was competing for the team. 2nd Overall Giro di Basilicata 5th Road race, National Under\u201323 Road Championships 8th Gran Premio della Liberazione 1st L'\u00c9toile d'Or 2nd Coppa Collecchio 4th Coppa Bernocchi 5th Road race, National Under\u201323 Road Championships 6th Grand Prix d'Isbergues 5th Road race, National Road Championships 2nd Cupa Max Ausnit 9th Overall Tour of Istanbul 1st Stage 1 Tour of Ma\u0142opolska"}, {"text": "Mishnevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 72 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Mishnevo is located 10 km south of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Istomino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mokeyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 33 as of 2010. Geography. Mokeyevo is located 26 km southeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vorynino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Annette Glenn ( Williams; born November 19, 1963) is an American politician from Michigan. Glenn was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from District 98 from 2019-2023. Early life. A native of Idaho, Annette Glenn earned a bachelor's degree in Public Administration from Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. While a student, Glenn was the chairperson of Boise State University College Republicans. Career. Glenn started her political career as a staff member for the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senator Bob Dole's Presidential Campaign. At age 24, Glenn became the chairperson of Ada County (Boise) Republican Party. In 2016, while Glenn's husband was receiving chemotherapy treatment, she attended meetings and sat in Michigan House sessions with him. In August 2018, Glenn won the primary election for Michigan House of Representatives from District 98. On November 6, 2018, Glenn won the election and became a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from District 98. Glenn defeated Sarah Schulz with 52.03% of the votes. In November 2020, Glenn won reelection for Michigan House of Representatives from District 98. Glenn defeated Sarah Schultz with 58.68% of the votes. In February 2021, Glenn announced her candidacy for"}, {"text": "Michigan Senate from the District 36. She lost the election in November 2022. Personal life. Glenn's husband is Gary Glenn, a politician. They have five children. Glenn and her family live in Midland, Michigan."}, {"text": "CMLL D\u00eda de Muertos (Spanish for \"Day of the Dead\") is the collective name of a series of annually occurring \"lucha libre\" (or professional wrestling) supercard shows promoted by Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Starting in 2014, CMLL has held specially themed shows to celebrate \"D\u00eda de Muertos\" with a special edition of their CMLL Super Viernes show closest to November 2. Some years the celebrations extended to shows held on Saturday and Sunday as well but the focal point has been the Friday night shows in Arena M\u00e9xico. There has been a total of eleven events promoted focusing on the \"D\u00eda de Muertos\" celebration, with the first taking place in 2014. The October 31, 2014 \"D\u00eda de Muertos\" show was the first of CMLL's \"Dia de los Muertos\" celebrations and began a tradition of CMLL holding a major show to celebrate the Latin American holiday. As part of their \"Dia de los Muerte\" celebrations CMLL admitted all children in costumes for free for the show. CMLL held a second \"Dia de los Muerte\" celebration on Sunday November 2 as well. Both shows included the \"Edcanes\", CMLL's ring girls and various wrestlers dressed up in"}, {"text": "traditional \"D\u00eda de Muertos\" garb. In 2014, CMLL also turned the basement of Arena M\u00e9xico into a haunted house attraction before each show."}, {"text": "Brownie Lake is a lake in Hennepin County, Minnesota, and within the city limits of Minneapolis. It is the northernmost lake in the Minneapolis Chain of Lakes (Brownie Lake, Cedar Lake, Lake of the Isles, Bde Maka Ska, and Lake Harriet). It is within Brownie Lake Park, and administered by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB). Hydrology. Brownie Lake is a meromictic lake, which means there are two layers of water in the lake with differing physical and chemical conditions, and which do not intermix in spring and fall as occurs in most lakes in the northern temperate zone. It is one of two meromictic bodies of water in Minneapolis, the other being Spring Lake. A chemocline separates the top layer of the lake, which contains dissolved oxygen, from the bottom layer, which is anoxic. There are no natural inflows to Brownie Lake, but it receives storm sewer runoff from six locations around the lake. Water flows out through a canal connecting Brownie to Cedar Lake, which is hydrologically connected to Lake of the Isles and Bde Maka Ska. Brownie Lake is part of the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District. A distinguishing feature of Brownie Lake is the high concentrations"}, {"text": "of dissolved iron (Fe), which have historically been between 1 and 2 mmol/L in the bottom part of the lake, and still exceed 1 mmol/L today. From 1950 until the 1990s, an industrial cooling outlet from what was the Prudential Office Building with average total iron concentrations of 7 \u03bcmol/L was discharged into Brownie Lake at a rate of 50,000 gallons per day. Therefore, surface concentrations of dissolved iron were higher in the 1970s (~ 2 \u03bcmol/L) than they are today (< 1 \u03bcmol/L). Total phosphate concentrations in Brownie Lake can reach 46 \u03bcmol/L. In 2014, Brownie had total phosphorus levels considered eutrophic by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). Because it is meromictic with abundant dissolved iron, phosphate can be shuttled out of surface waters through adsorption onto iron oxide minerals that form at the chemocline, which then sink and dissolve, releasing phosphate. Some of the phosphate inputs are likely anthropogenic. A pumping station was created in 1957 to pump water from Bassett Creek into Brownie Lake in order to maintain the desired water levels in the Chain of Lakes. In 1966, water from the Mississippi River was pumped into Bassett Creek, which then entered Brownie. Concerns about elevated"}, {"text": "phosphate from the rivers being transferred into the Minneapolis city lakes resulted in the dismantling of the program in the 1990s. Brownie receives stormwater inputs from Minneapolis and St. Louis Park. Doubling of sodium and chloride ions in the surface and bottom waters from the 1970s to 2010s was caused by the use of road salt in de-icing. Sodium and chloride are equimolar throughout the lake, signifying a source from the halite (NaCl). Minnesota began using salt to de-ice roads in 1950. Past stormwater inputs from nearby Interstate 394 were likely a direct source of salt. Road salt has been linked to enhanced chemical stratification in Twin Cities lakes, including Brownie Lake. While lake lowering initiated the onset of meromixis (see History), road salt pollution stabilizes the lake against intermixing. Geology. The geology of Minneapolis in the vicinity of Brownie Lake generally consists of lower Paleozoic carbonates and clastic rocks overlain by unconsolidated Pleistocene glacial sediments. Holocene alluvium and wetland sediments are also found adjacent to the lake. The uplands immediately surrounding Brownie Lake are composed of a mixture of sands, gravels, and glacial tills deposited during the Last Glacial Maximum by the Laurentide Ice Sheet between 16,500 and 13,900"}, {"text": "cal yr BP. These deposits include a mixture of sediments derived from both northwest- and northeast-sourced glacial ice, with northeast-sourced sediments containing a greater abundance of iron-rich rocks from the Lake Superior region. Brownie Lake lies on the edge of a buried bedrock valley filled with as much as 300 feet of glacial debris. The buried valleys in the Twin Cities region likely represent river incision from previous interglacials, which were filled with sediments during the Last Glacial Maximum. These buried valleys have little surface expression, but are associated with clusters of lakes, and locally influenced the course of modern rivers and streams. A bicycle guide to the Geology of the Chain of Lakes includes a stop at Brownie Lake. Natural history. Open water plants in Brownie Lake include yellow and white water lilies, coontail, pondweeds, and lesser duckweed. The aquatic invasive species Eurasian watermilfoil and curly-leaf pondweed are also present. The surrounding area is composed of altered forest/woodland, prairie, and dry-mesic forest/woodland. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reports a number of fish taxa in Brownie Lake including black bullhead, black crappie, bluegill, hybrid sunfish, largemouth bass, northern pike, pumpkinseed, tiger muskellunge, walleye, yellow bullhead, yellow perch, bowfin (dogfish),"}, {"text": "common carp, white sucker, fathead minnow, and golden shiner. Phytoplankton predominate over zooplankton in Brownie Lake. In recent monitoring (2012), Cryptomonads (Cryptophyta) were most abundant in winter. Chrysophyte populations peaked in April, while Dinoflagellates (Pyrrhophyta) and green algae (Chlorophyta) both peaked in June. The summer was then dominated by cyanobacteria (Cyanophyta), with an increase in Cryptomonad (Cryptophyta) abundance by October. Brownie Lake is inhabited by methanogenic archaea in the anoxic bottom waters, which produce methane (CH4; natural gas). A population of methanotrophic bacteria at the chemoclineconsume methane diffusing out of the anoxic portion of the lake by reaction with oxygen. A new species of bacteria was discovered from Brownie Lake in 2021 and named \"\"Candidatus\" Chlorobium masyuteum\". This organism is photosynthetic, and uses sunlight energy to convert dissolved iron into rust. The epithet \"masyuteum\" was derived from the Dakota phrase mas\u2019y\u00fate, meaning \u201ceats iron\u201d. History. The land surrounding Brownie Lake was purchased by William McNair shortly after the land west of the Mississippi River was opened for white settlement in 1857. McNair named the lake \"Brownie\", after a nickname of his daughter, Agnes McNair. It was formerly called \"Hillside Harbor\". Brownie Lake was then acquired by the expansion of the"}, {"text": "Glenwood Park, now Theodore Wirth Park, in 1907. In 1867 the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company built a railroad track across the southern end of Brownie Lake. In 1883 James J. Hill took over the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad and expanded the track into a double track mainline that connected the wheat fields west of the Mississippi to the flour mills of Minneapolis. The expansion of the railroad embankment in 1883 filled in the southwestern arm of Brownie Lake, and reduced the surface area of Brownie Lake by 34%. The lake's surface area was further decreased by 56% between 1913 and 1917 after channels were constructed to connect Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles (1913), and Cedar Lake and Brownie Lake (1916). The hydraulic connections reduced the lake level of Brownie Lake by 2 to 3 meters, which drew Brownie Lake down into its steep-sided local catchment, significantly reducing its surface area, and increasing shelter from wind. It is most likely that Brownie Lake became meromictic as a result of the significant decrease in the ability of wind to impart energy to the surface of the lake, both due to sheltering and reduced maximum fetch (the maximum"}, {"text": "distance the wind can travel across the water). When the wind no longer mixed oxygenated surface water with the bottom waters of Brown Lake, sedimentary iron became soluble and was mobilized into the anoxic bottom water at a concentration several hundred times greater than the surface water, increasing the relative density of the bottom water and beginning a positive feedback system in which other ions such as sodium and chloride could also accumulate, further minimizing the probability that wind energy would be sufficient to mix surface water into the increasingly dense bottom water. The onset of meromixis likely occurred by 1925. The land west of Brownie Lake, which had been a part of Theodore Wirth Park, was sold in 1952 to the Prudential Insurance Company. It was sold to Target Corporation in 1994. Target Corporation relocated employees from this site in 2015, and put the property on the market. Recreational facilities. Brownie Lake is encircled by a packed dirt walking path. An additional paved multi-use path, the Cedar Lake Trail, runs north-south along Cedar Lake Parkway, just to the east and elevated above Brownie Lake. This path is part of the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway. Within Brownie Lake Park,"}, {"text": "a 1.4-mile single track mountain biking trail loops along the western slope of the Brownie Lake basin. This trail connects to the Glenwood Loop and the Southwest Wirth loop, and all trails are maintained by Minnesota Off-Road Cyclists. This was the first \"Black Diamond\" trail in Minneapolis, built in 2016. Motor boats are not permitted on Brownie Lake. A canoe/kayak rack is stationed near the dirt boat ramp at the northwest end of the lake, and rack spaces can be rented from the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. In the winter, the Chain of Lakes Ski Trail extends for 1 km from the tunnel to Cedar Lake, across the lake and up the western side of the basin, connecting up with the Theodore Wirth Park trails. Trails are maintained through a partnership of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and the Loppet Foundation. Trail passes are available from the Loppet Foundation."}, {"text": "Mostsy () is a rural locality (a selo) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2010. Geography. Mostsy is located 16 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kizhany is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nazarovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 56 as of 2010. Geography. Nazarovo is located 14 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bryzgalovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Neverkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 48 as of 2010. Geography. Neverkovo is located 25 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pozharnitsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nerlinka () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Nerlinka is located on the Nerl River, 25 km west of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kruglovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nesterkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 72 as of 2010. Geography. Nesterkovo is located 34 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Karyakino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novaya Bykovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 252 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Novaya Bykovka is located 29 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lesnoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novaya Zarya () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 79 as of 2010. Geography. Novaya Zarya is located on the Pechuga River, 21 km northwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novosyolka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novaya Pechuga () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 177 as of 2010. Geography. Novaya Pechuga is located 20 km northwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lubentsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bronius Kazys Balutis (1880\u20131967) was a Lithuanian diplomat. He worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania in 1919\u20131928 and was involved in many of the major international negotiations of the period. He was the Lithuanian envoy to United States (1928\u20131934) and to the United Kingdom (1934\u20131967). With the help of his uncle, Catholic priest Juozas \u017didanavi\u010dius, Balutis graduated from a teachers' seminary in Sk\u0119pe (Poland) and a school for land surveyors in Pskov (Russia). He was drafted for the Russo-Japanese War but decided to escape to the United States where his uncle had founded a Lithuanian parish in Amsterdam, New York. In the United States, Balutis worked as a cartographer at Rand McNally for six years and as editor of the Lithuanian weekly \"Lietuva\" for seven years. He joined the cultural life of Lithuanian Americans and was a member of the (SLA) and chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Patriots (). Balutis started his diplomat career when he was delegated to represent Lithuanian Americans at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The delegation was recalled in December 1919 and Balutis was offered a job dealing with \"particularly important matters\" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kaunas. Balutis"}, {"text": "was involved in negotiating essentially every major international agreement in the difficult post-war years. He was involved in negotiating the Latvia\u2013Lithuania border and the Soviet\u2013Lithuanian Peace Treaty of July 1920. During the Polish\u2013Soviet War, Balutis was a member of the Lithuanian delegation that concluded the Suwa\u0142ki Agreement of October 1920 with Poland. After Poland staged the \u017beligowski's Mutiny and captured Vilnius Region, Balutis represented Lithuania at the mediation efforts by the League of Nations. When Lithuania staged the Klaip\u0117da Revolt in January 1923 and captured Klaip\u0117da Region, Balutis and Vaclovas Sidzikauskas negotiated the Klaip\u0117da Convention which was concluded in May 1924. Though Balutis sympathized with the Lithuanian Nationalist Union, he stayed away from party politics and survived many cabinet changes at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was offered the post of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at least three times, including during the coup d'\u00e9tat of December 1926, but he refused. Pushed by Prime Minister Augustinas Voldemaras, Balutis agreed to join the Lithuanian Diplomatic Service and become the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States in 1928. In 1934, he was reassigned as the envoy to the United Kingdom. When Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union"}, {"text": "in June 1940, the Lithuanian diplomats refused to accept the new Soviet rule and continued to represent independent Lithuania thus preserving the legal continuity of the Lithuanian state. Balutis continued his duties as the Lithuanian envoy until his death in 1967. Biography. Early life and education. Balutis was born on though later in life Balutis always indicated that he was born on 29 December 1879. He was the eldest surviving child (an older sister died in infancy). His parents were educated and his first cousin once removed was painter Antanas \u017dmuidzinavi\u010dius. His birth record recorded his surname both in Polish (Balewicz) and in local Dz\u016bkian dialect (Baliucis); he started consistently using Balutis when he moved to the United States. He attended a primary school in \u016adrija for five years. Balutis' uncle Juozas \u017didanavi\u010dius, a Catholic priest, took Balutis to Sk\u0119pe (Wymy\u015blin) where he was teaching at a pedagogical seminary. With uncle's help, Balutis graduated from the pedagogical seminary with distinction in 1898. After the graduation, Balutis worked as a teacher in the P\u0142ock district and helped his brother to attend the same seminary. In 1901, Balutis applied to a school for land surveyors in Pskov and graduated in 1904. He"}, {"text": "was drafted to the Russo-Japanese War but decided to escape to the United States where his uncle \u017didanavi\u010dius had founded a Lithuanian parish in Amsterdam, New York. Balutis arrived to the United States in February 1905 and lived with his uncle. In early 1906, Balutis enrolled into the Valparaiso University which provided introductory English courses, charged low tuition fees, and provided an opportunity to cover some of the tuition by manual labor. Therefore, it was a favorite university among the newly arrived Lithuanian Americans who struggled with English and with finances. Balutis studied English and calculus used in civil engineering. He joined a Lithuanian student society and became its chairman. The university agreed to establish a two-hour daily class on the Lithuanian language and, when the first lecturer left for another job, Balutis became the teacher. Cartographer. After six months at Valparaiso, Balutis got a job at Rand McNally as a cartographer and worked there for six years. He later used his mathematical education to decode and develop his own diplomatic ciphers. As a cartographer, Balutis decided to prepare and publish a detailed map of ethnographic Lithuania in Lithuanian. He wanted to mark every inhabited locality and geographic object (lakes,"}, {"text": "rivers, etc.). In this effort, he was hindered by the lack of a list with Lithuanian typographic names \u2013 there were some maps and lists but they were in Russian, German, Polish. Therefore, Balutis spent considerable amount of time \u2013 he estimated some 5,000 hours \u2013 collecting data on the proper and accurate Lithuanian place names. He interviewed Lithuanian immigrants, corresponded with local parish priests to determine locality's ethnic composition, etc. Unable to cover entire Lithuania, he published a color map of Suvalkija, his native ethnographic region, in 1915. Its scale was 1:252,000 and it is the only known Lithuanian map to use the Paris meridian. It marked about 3,000 inhabited locations and drew a line between Lithuanian and Polish-inhabited areas. However, due to World War I, the map was not noticed or utilized by the Lithuanian society and maps of other parts of Lithuania were never published. Lithuanian American activist. Balutis joined the Lithuanian American cultural life. He attended a Lithuanian conference in Philadelphia on 22 February 1906, which was inspired by the Great Seimas of Vilnius and organized by Jonas \u0160li\u016bpas and . After the conference, Balutis delivered public speeches in Amsterdam and Schenectady about the event and"}, {"text": "raised money for Lithuanian textbooks to be published by Jonas Basanavi\u010dius in Vilnius. He joined the (SLA) and attended its congress in Chicago in May 1906. He delivered a speech on the importance of education which was well received. The following year, he returned to the SLA congress as a deputy secretary and member of the literary commission. He returned to SLA congresses in 1908\u20131910 and 1914 working to draft SLA's constitution and otherwise improve its organization and procedures. He also joined the Association of Lithuanian Patriots () which was established in 1896 but suffered a decline. Balutis became its chairman in 1907. Together with Juozas Gabrys, he undertook an ambitious project to collect and publish all writings of Vincas Kudirka, editor of Lithuanian newspaper \"Varpas\". The six volumes (a total of 1,770 pages) were published in 1909. Balutis further organized events to commemorate the 50th birth anniversary of Kudirka thus invigorating the society, but resigned as its chairman in 1910. Balutis also joined the Birut\u0117 choir established by Mikas Petrauskas. Newspaper editor. In March 1912, he became deputy editor of the Lithuanian weekly \"Lietuva\" edited by Juozas Adomaitis-\u0160ernas. Balutis effectively took over the newspaper and edited it until June"}, {"text": "1919. He disliked both major branches of the Lithuanian movement \u2013 the socialist and Catholic camps \u2013 and advocated for the \"middle road\", i.e. Lithuanian nationalism. As an editor, Balutis stayed away from party politics and instead valued fact checking, polite discussions, and arguments based on facts. A the same time, Balutis studied at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and graduated with a master's degree in 1916. During World War I, \"Lietuva\" published a daily two-page supplement with news from the war and Lithuania that was also edited by Balutis. In 1919, Lithuania Americans inspired by the American Liberty Bell decided to gift a bell to Lithuania. The bell was decorated with the coat of arms of Lithuania and a quatrain by Balutis declaring that those who do not defend liberty are not worth it. The Lithuanian Liberty Bell reached Lithuania in 1922 and is kept at the Vytautas the Great War Museum. International negotiator. After the outbreak of World War I, Balutis joined the Lithuanian National League of America (), organized by Jonas \u0160li\u016bpas in October 1916. When the Council of Lithuania declared independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1918, Balutis was a delegate at the large conference organized"}, {"text": "on 13\u201314 March 1918 in New York to support the declaration. The conference elected the Lithuanian Executive Committee chaired by which was supposed to lobby for the Lithuanian political aspirations in Washington, D.C. Balutis attended meetings of the Lithuanian National League of America and the Lithuanian Executive Committee, and, together with , was delegated to represent Lithuanian Americans at the Paris Peace Conference. He departed to Europe on 9 July 1919. The Lithuanian delegation in Paris, headed by Augustinas Voldemaras, was not officially recognized or invited to the Peace Conference. Balutis was in charge of monitoring the press and trying to publish pro-Lithuanian articles. He later became delegation's secretary responsible for note taking, archives, and finances. He also worked to obtain economic aid (financial loans, medical supplies, weapons for the newly established Lithuanian Army) until the delegation was recalled in December 1919. Balutis was offered a position at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kaunas. He was assigned \"particularly important matters\" putting him third in the ministry's hierarchy after minister Augustinas Voldemaras and deputy minister Petras Klimas. In this capacity, Balutis negotiated with Poland regarding an exchange of prisoners of war and with Latvia regarding the Latvia\u2013Lithuania border. In March"}, {"text": "1920, he was promoted to director of the Political Department of the ministry. Balutis was in charge of maintaining direct contact with the Lithuanian delegation that negotiated the Soviet\u2013Lithuanian Peace Treaty which was concluded in July 1920. When the Red Army captured Vilnius, the proclaimed capital of Lithuania, Balutis had to negotiate with the Soviets regarding the status of the city and Red Army's breaches of Lithuania's neutrality in the Polish\u2013Soviet War. While Lithuanian and Polish armies clashed in the Suwa\u0142ki Region, diplomats sparred at the League of Nations. Balutis was a member of the six-men Lithuania delegation that concluded the Suwa\u0142ki Agreement with Poland on 7 October 1920 under pressure and supervision of the League. During the negotiations, every evening, Balutis had to drive to Kalvarija to confer with the Lithuanian government. The lead Polish negotiator, Mieczys\u0142aw Mackiewicz, was Balutis' classmate from the primary school in \u016adrija. Poland began the \u017beligowski's Mutiny just hours after the Suwa\u0142ki Agreement was concluded and captured Vilnius starting a long and bitter diplomatic fight over the Vilnius Region. When the League proposed to hold a plebiscite in Vilnius, Balutis headed a Lithuanian delegation to outline the logistics on how and when the plebiscite"}, {"text": "should be carried out. His primary task was to break the negotiations without putting Lithuania at fault. He used the same tactics when he negotiated with Poland regarding the Hymans' Plans that called for some sort of union between Poland and Lithuania in the spirit of the former Polish\u2013Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the Klaip\u0117da Revolt in January 1923, Balutis and Petras Klimas helped Prime Minister Ernestas Galvanauskas to coordinate Lithuanian diplomatic communication with the League of Nations. Together with Vaclovas Sidzikauskas, he later negotiated with a three-member commission, chaired by American Norman Davis, of the League of Nations regarding the future of the Klaip\u0117da Region (Memel Territory). The League decided on an unofficial exchange: Lithuania would receive the Klaip\u0117da Region for the lost Vilnius Region. After lengthy and difficult negotiations, the Klaip\u0117da Convention was concluded in May 1924 and Klaip\u0117da became an autonomous region of Lithuania. Balutis also negotiated the Soviet\u2013Lithuanian Non-Aggression Pact of September 1926. In May\u2013June 1927, Balutis negotiated with Tadeusz Ho\u0142\u00f3wko regarding security issues and failed attempt to normalize the relationship with Poland. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Balutis was promoted to the director of the Political Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in March 1920. A year"}, {"text": "later, the ministry was reorganized into separate departments dealing with Western (headed by Balutis), Eastern, and Central Europe. However, it was not an efficient structure and was abandoned within few months. Balutis resumed directorship of the Political Department. In 1923, due to budget cuts, Political and Economy Departments were merged into one. Balutis continued to head the combined department as during the tenure of Mykolas Sle\u017eevi\u010dius, who was Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs at the same time, was effectively in charge of the ministry. In his memoirs, Balutis claimed that he had heard rumors about the preparations for the coup d'\u00e9tat of December 1926, but did not take them seriously. On the day of the coup he was ordered to take over the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Sle\u017eevi\u010dius was arrested. Despite sympathizing with the Lithuanian Nationalist Union, Balutis refused. The major concern was that Poland could use the internal crisis as an excuse to intervene in Lithuanian affairs. One of Balutis' priorities was to communicate the developments to Lithuanian diplomats abroad. In March 1927, the ministry added the position of the general secretary (i.e. vice minister) which was assumed by Balutis. Balutis continued to work at the"}, {"text": "Ministry of Foreign Affairs until July 1928. He worked under ten different cabinets and eleven Ministers of Foreign Affairs. His status was approaching that of a permanent secretary. He was offered to become the Minister of Foreign Affairs at least on three occasions, but refused. Envoy to the U.S. and UK. In his memoir, Balutis claimed that he wanted to remain in Kaunas and continue working at the ministry, but Prime Minister Augustinas Voldemaras and President Antanas Smetona pushed him to choose a post in either London or Washington D.C. Reportedly, the move was also motivated by Balutis' frequent gambling. Balutis served as the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to United States from 1 July 1928 to 31 May 1934. The Lithuania\u2013United States relations were friendly, United States followed the general policy of isolationism and generally stayed out of European politics, and there was very little foreign trade between the two countries. Therefore, the Legation of Lithuania in Washington, D.C. mainly worked on matters of the sizable Lithuanian American community. Balutis was received with suspicion that he arrived as an agent of the new authoritarian regime of President Smetona, which was unpopular with the Lithuanian Americans. Balutis, however, promised to"}, {"text": "stay away from political intrigues. He served as the envoy during the Great Depression and advised the Lithuanian government to exchange U.S. dollars to gold. During Christmas 1933, Balutis received an order to return to Kaunas from where he was to head a trade delegation to London and remain there as the new envoy. He officially became the envoy to United Kingdom and Holand on 1 June 1934. The new post presented the opposite challenges from the work in the United States: the Lithuanian community in the United Kingdom was relatively small, but London was at the center of European politics and an increasingly important trade partner with Lithuania. At the time, the Legation of Lithuania in London employed about twenty people. Envoy of occupied Lithuania. After Lithuania concluded the Soviet\u2013Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty in October 1939 and agreed to station up to 20,000 Soviet troops in Lithuania on a permanent basis, Lithuanian envoys Stasys Lozoraitis, Petras Klimas, and Balutis prepared a memorandum with contingency plans for the possible Soviet occupation. They advised strengthening the army, depositing funds abroad, reinforcing the 1934 Baltic Entente alliance with Latvia and Estonia, and making preparations to establish a government-in-exile, but nothing tangible was"}, {"text": "accomplished. When Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union in June 1940, the Lithuanian Diplomatic Service refused to accept the new Soviet rule and continued to represent independent Lithuania thus preserving the state continuity. The new People's Government of Lithuania responded by revoking diplomats' \u2013 including Balutis' \u2013 citizenship, forbidding them to return to Lithuania, and confiscating their property. Afraid of bomb damage during The Blitz, the legation moved all its furniture to a warehouse in Bermondsey. The warehouse suffered a direct hit and the furniture was lost. No longer receiving funding from Lithuania, Balutis and the legation faced bankruptcy, but Balutis managed to get a loan of \u00a31,500 (). After the war, he sold the legation building at 19 Kensington Palace Gardens to the Syrians for \u00a311,000 () and purchased a smaller house at 17 Essex Villas for \u00a35,500 (). It was put in Balutis' name so that the Soviet Union could not confiscate it. The Lithuanian legation lived on the proceeds from the sale until 1951 when it started receiving funds from Washington D.C. from the proceeds of selling pre-war Lithuanian gold reserves kept by the Federal Reserve. Due to financial difficulties, the legation's staff was reduced to"}, {"text": "just Balutis and secretary Vincas Balickas. Balutis' position was further complicated by the Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942 and his removal from the list of officially recognized and accredited diplomats in the United Kingdom (together with Latvian and Estonian representatives, his name was moved to an appendix listing people of certain diplomatic status without naming the country they represented). The Baltic diplomats unofficially received advice from the Foreign Office to continue their work as if nothing happened. The legation helped hundreds of Lithuanian displaced persons straighten out their identity and immigration paperwork. Balutis organized assistance to some 10,000 Lithuanians who immigrated to the United Kingdom after the war. Balutis frequently corresponded with Mykolas Krupavi\u010dius, chairman of the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania (VLIK), and acted as a mediator between VLIK and the Diplomatic Service and in their disagreement on who was the ultimate representative of the Lithuanian hopes to restore independence. Balutis also established and maintained contacts with MI6, the British foreign intelligence service (his main contact was Alexander McKibben codename Sandy). Balutis worked on freeing up pre-war Lithuanian gold reserves (some 2.9 tonnes) held by the Bank of England. Initially, England froze the reserves and refused to transfer"}, {"text": "it to either Lithuanian diplomats or the Soviet Union; however, in 1967, the First Wilson ministry used the reserve in settling mutual claims with the Soviet Union. Despite the difficulties, Balutis continued his duties as the Lithuanian envoy until his death in 1967. After Balutis' death, the legation was taken over by Balickas who continued to represent Lithuanian until 1993. Personal life. In 1910, Balutis married Marija Rehenmaher of mixed Russian and German parentage whom he met in Pskov. They had one daughter, Ada, but their marriage was troubled. British diplomat Thomas Hildebrand Preston compared Marija to Madame de Sta\u00ebl and claimed that she was a close friend with Sofija Smetonien\u0117, the First Lady of Lithuania. In summer 1940, Marija and Ada traveled to Lithuania for a vacation, but were caught by the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. Separately, they managed to escape from occupied Lithuania and reunite in Stockholm. After the war, they moved to Toronto, Canada and later Los Angeles, United States. Marija died on 3 January 1960 and was buried in the Forest Lawn Cemetery."}, {"text": "Sofia Gurevitsh (1880\u20131942) was a Belarusian Jewish educator. She was the founder of the Sofia Gurevitsh Gimnazye, an academy (secondary school) in Vilnius that promoted the use of Yiddish as a respected language for all purposes, including education. Biography. Born in Minsk, her father was a lumber merchant, wealthy enough to send her to a school for aristocratic women in St Petersburg, Russia where she studied pedagogy and natural sciences. She taught in Russian schools near Vitebsk before moving to Vilna in 1905 (according to Katz; Harshav says 1902). At that time Vilna had begun to support a number of Yiddish schools at various levels. Along with Gurevitsh, Dveyre Kupershteyn (also known as Deborah Cooperstein; 1854\u20131939) also established a girls' school that originally taught in Russian before making what was then a bold switch in 1920 to teach entirely in Yiddish. Her school at first offered only four grades before expanding to offer another four. In contrast, Gurevitsh's academy began as a high school for Jewish girls at a time when this was a novelty. After World War I, when it was one of two Yiddish high schools in Vilna, the academy became a co-educational institution. Gurevitsh's academy produced many"}, {"text": "students who survived World War II and who worked as academicians, artists, librarians, authors, and educators in Israel, the United States, and Lithuania itself. One of them, Aaron Garon, wrote a memoir about the academy, entitled \u201cS\u00f3fye Gur\u00e9vitsh un ir v\u00edlner gimn\u00e1zye\u201d (\"Sofia Gurevich and her Vilna Academy\"), that was published in 1995 in \"Oxford Yiddish 3\"; he credited Gurevitsh along with his parents for his achievements. Another student, Benjamin Harshav, who taught at Yale University, discusses the academy in an oral history as part of the Wexler Oral History Project; his mother, who had taught at the school, took it over when Gurevitsh was forced to leave. In the 1930s Vilna came under Polish control and Yiddish educational establishments in general were banned. Gurevitsh in particular was banned because she did not speak Polish. She left Vilna for Russia, where she had two brothers who were senior officials in the Ministry for Heavy Industry. She died in Gorki. References."}, {"text": "Louise Paullin (1848 \u2013 18 April 1910), sometimes seen as Louisa Paullin\",\" was an American stage actress. Birth and early life. Louise Elizabeth Paullin was born at Biddeford, Maine, in 1848 and was the eldest daughter of James Rue Paullin and his wife Susan Frances Vickery. Her parents were both actors and Louise made her stage debut at an early age when they were living at Boston, Massachusetts. The family relocated to California in 1855 and, in the following year, Louise and her brother Edgar sang and danced in several variety companies either managed by or including her father (said to have twenty years of theatrical experience) and were \u201cvery amusing to the audiences\u201d. In March 1857, as a member of John S. Potter\u2019s company, she appeared at Columbia in \u201cher favourite character Little Pickle\u201d in the two-act burletta \"The Spoiled Child\", and was \u201csaid to be one of the most interesting and promising children on the stage\u201d. Immediately afterwards, when the Paullins toured to entertain mining settlements in the Stockton neighbourhood, it was reported that Louise was \u201cthe star character... and a better and more faithful delineator of childhood passion is seldom found\u201d, while the \u201cunaffected sweetness of her"}, {"text": "beautiful countenance\u201d was \u201cworth a dollar a minute to look at\u201d. She was one of the few personalities whom the veteran actor Walter Leman could later recall from time spent in California during this period. In October 1858 some of San Francisco\u2019s most prominent citizens (including E. W. Burr, Thomas O. Larkin and Samuel Purdy) sponsored a benefit performance for \u201cthe talented\u201d Louise in the role of \u201cLittle Eva\u201d in a Tom show at Maguire\u2019s Opera House, then the city\u2019s principal theatre. She was described as having \u201coften excited her audience to tears\u201d in this role when, in the following year, she made national headlines by running away with a man in his twenties formerly employed by her father and dismissed for displaying inappropriate intimacy towards Louise. The 11-year-old girl was recognised while travelling on a steamer from San Francisco, bound for Panama, and was taken off the vessel at Acapulco and restored to her parents. In the following month it was announced that her father had removed her from the stage. This came at a particularly inopportune moment for the family: James Paullin had been entirely incapacitated (and was left permanently lame) after breaking a leg some months earlier"}, {"text": "and Louisa\u2019s earnings of about four dollars a day at the Union Theatre were largely supporting the family. Juvenile career. Louise was again performing by August 1860 when she played the slave boy \u201cPaul\u201d in an early production of Dion Boucicault\u2019s \"The Octoroon\", at the Metropolitan Theatre in Sacramento, and shortly afterwards she headed the bill as \u201cthe well-known and talented comedienne, vocalist and danseuse\u201d in performances by Pickering & King\u2019s Dramatic Troupe at Nevada City. Over the next three years she toured California with various minstrel groups, including those managed by Charley Backus, Billy Burch, and Bray & Carl, and at intervals reprised her character of \u201cLittle Eva\u201d in which, in 1863, she was accompanied by her father in the part of \u201cShelby\u201d. In 1862 she was travelling with the Backus troupe when the horses drawing the light stage wagon in which she was a passenger broke loose on a downhill run and, in attempting to leap from the vehicle, Louise caught her leg in a wheel and was dragged along for some distance. She survived with no more than serious bruising. She ceased appearing as a professional entertainer on marriage in 1865 but in the 1870s, under her"}, {"text": "married name, was one of Oakland\u2019s \u201cmost popular choir and concert singers\u201d. Later career. Returning to the stage in 1880, she appeared as \u201cDonna Antonina\u201d in the Emelie Melville Opera Company\u2019s production of Richard Gen\u00e9e\u2019s \"The Royal Middy\" at San Francisco\u2019s Bush Street Theatre and then, for the same company and at the same venue, as \u201cRuth\u201d in \"The Pirates of Penzance\" and (alongside Sylvia Gerrish) as \u201cLieutenant Dragonette\u201d in \"The Weathercock\". In September the same year she made her first Broadway performance as \u201cMiss Isabella\u201d in William A. Mestayer\u2019s three-act musical play \"The Tourists in a Pullman Palace Car\" at New York\u2019s Fifth Avenue Theatre. Under contract with the John A. McCaull Comic Opera Company she next appeared on Broadway in the younger Johann Strauss\u2019s operetta \"The Queen's Lace Handkerchief\" at the Casino Theatre. This was staged as the Casino\u2019s inaugural presentation in October 1882, and the cast, with Paullin in the role of the King and Lily Post as the Queen, were supported by a chorus of sixty and an orchestra of forty. She toured Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities with this production, returning in late December for its further one hundred and thirty performances at the Casino."}, {"text": "With Lillian Russell, Madeleine Lucette Ryley and Digby Bell she appeared in the McCaull production of Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s \"The Sorcerer\" at the Casino in 1883. In 1884 she was seen in the adaptation \"Fantine\" at the Boston Museum and toured theatres in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania in the Boston-based \u201cGrand Fairy Musical Ballet Spectacle\u201d \"Zanita\". Returning to California in 1885, she joined William T. Carleton\u2019s Opera Company and took the title role in Gen\u00e9e\u2019s \"Nanon\" in which she gave, said the \"Daily Alta\"\u2019s critic, \u201ca delightful performance\u2026 her singing having very much improved since we used to hear her in the Emelie Melville troupe and she is more beautiful than ever\u201d. With the same company she played \u201cYum-Yum\u201d in \"The Mikado\" at the Baldwin Theatre in San Francisco and afterwards on local tour. On leaving the company she was replaced by Fanny Rice. In 1889 she starred in \"Ardriell\", a comic opera staged at the Broadway Union Square Theatre. Critic Alan Dale commented that \"Miss Paullin can certainly make herself heard, and that is about all that can be favorably said about her performance, which was characterized by an intense lack of refinement, and a pretty well defined"}, {"text": "mispronunciation of the English language.\" The correspondent for London\u2019s \"The Era\" was less hostile in his review: although dismissing the production as a triviality, he found its principal redeeming feature was that \u201cMiss Paullin sang well in the title role\u201d. In 1897 she appeared as \u201cJuliette\u201d in \"The Geisha\" at Chicago\u2019s Columbia Theatre. Paullin tried her hand at adapting a musical comedy from the German in 1888, when she wrote \"Our Baby's Nurse\", which was produced that year in Philadelphia. She was a popular face on cigarette cards in the 1880s. She also lent her image to endorse \"Burdock Blood Bitters\", a digestive aid, Lion Coffee, skin care products, and Vin Mariani. Lawsuit. In 1886, Paullin lost a purse containing over $1,500 at a Philadelphia theatre, after she fainted on stage during \"The Bohemian Girl\". She sued the stage manager of the Carleton Opera Company, Charles Caspar Fais, saying that he stole the money from her. The case was tried in Philadelphia in 1888, and was in the New York headlines for a week, until \"the real thief\", the prop man at the theatre, confessed that he found the money and spent most of it. Personal life. Louise Paullin married"}, {"text": "twice. Her first husband, Robert Edwin Ogilby (a son of Sir David Ogilby), had gone to California during the Gold Rush and, in addition to pursuing mining interests, became a drawing instructor at the University of California. The couple were living in the household of Louisa\u2019s parents at San Francisco in 1880 with their two daughters Clara, aged 15, and Edith, aged 12. Edith became an actress, under the name Edith Paullin, and was several times married, lastly to Hart O. Berg. In 1883, Louisa was living at 183 Lexington Avenue, New York City, under her married name of Ogilby, and in September 1885, described as a widow, she married the theatrical agent Henry B. Warner in Manhattan. She died in New York on 18 April 1910, at which time her wealth was estimated at $250,000. Her husband, Warner, had died on August 28 in the previous year and, like him, she was cremated at Rosehill, Linden, New Jersey."}, {"text": "The Jeffery\u2013Cyril Historic District is a national historic district in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district comprises a cluster of six apartment buildings on Jeffery Boulevard, 71st Place, and Cyril Avenue. All six buildings were built between 1927 and 1929. Apartments had become a popular housing choice for middle-class families by the 1920s, when South Shore was developed; due to zoning restrictions, however, the district is the only large group of apartments in the neighborhood. The apartments reflect the diversity of late 1920s architecture; in fact, while architect Paul F. Olsen designed three of the buildings, he used a different style for each of them. Five of the buildings use revival styles, which were popular at the time, with examples of Georgian Revival, Gothic Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, and Tudor Revival designs; the remaining building features the then-emerging Art Deco style. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 5, 1986."}, {"text": "The following is a list of Vancouver International Film Festival award winners. Award winners by year. 2015. The 34th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from September 24 to October 9, 2015. The VIFF Industry Conference \u2013 the premier media conference in Western Canada \u2013 runs from September 30 to October 3, 2015. 2016. The 35th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from September 29 to October 14, 2016. 2017. The 36th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from September 28 to October 13, 2017 BC Spotlight Awards Canadian Awards Impact Awards Audience Awards 2018. The 37th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from September 27 to October 12, 2018. BC Spotlight Awards Canadian Awards Impact Awards Audience Awards Sustainable Production Excellence Awards 2019. The 38th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from September 26 to October 11, 2019. BC Spotlight Awards Canadian Awards Impact Awards Audience Awards 2020. The 39th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was held from September 24 to October 7, 2020. BC Spotlight Awards Canadian Awards International Awards VIFF Immersed Awards VIFF Immersed Volumetric Market (Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios Special Prize) 2021. The 40th annual Vancouver International Film Festival was"}, {"text": "held from October 1 to October 11, 2021. BC Spotlight Awards Canadian Awards International Awards VIFF Immersed Awards Award winners by award. Most Popular Canadian Film. Most Popular Canadian Film Vancity People's Choice Award for Most Popular Canadian Film VIFF Most Popular Canadian Film Award Most Popular International Film. Most Popular International Film Rogers People's Choice Award for Most Popular International Film VIFF Most Popular International First Feature Award"}, {"text": "Christopher Roper, 2nd Baron Teynham (b. Dec. 1561 d. 16 Apr. 1622) was an English peer. He became the second Baron Teynham in 1618, after the death of his father, John Roper, 1st Baron Teynham. Christopher was the eldest son of John Roper, of Lynsted, Kent, and his wife Elizabeth Parke. The Ropers (whose original surname had been Musard) were an old Kentish family with strong Catholic connections."}, {"text": "Kwaku Fortune is an Irish actor. Early life and education. Fortune is from Roundwood, County Wicklow. He is of Ghanaian descent on his mother's side. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Acting from The Lir Academy at Trinity College Dublin in 2017. Career. Fortune's early work includes roles in various short films and the main role of Tobi in 2011 RT\u00c9 miniseries \"The Importance of Being Whatever\". Post-graduation from The Lir, Fortune landed the role of Finn in the 2017 film \"Kissing Candice\". He then made his stage debut with \"Playboyz\", a modern interpretation and version of J.M. Synge's \"The Playboy of the Western World\", which featured in the 2017 Dublin Theatre Festival. In 2018 Fortune took part in \"On Raftery's Hill\" and a stage adaptation of the novel \"Asking for It\" by Louise O'Neill. Fortune was on the Diversity on Screen panel at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival. He played the role of Julian in the Sophie Hyde directed 2019 film \"Animals\". That same year, Fortune narrated the perspective of Leon in an audiobook of \"The Flatshare\" by Beth O'Leary alongside Carrie Hope Fletcher for Macmillan Audio. Theatre-wise, Fortune reprised his role in \"Asking for It\" as"}, {"text": "well as starring in \"Peat\" and \"They Float Up\"."}, {"text": "Qi Qi (, ; born September 28, 2003) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. Best known as a vault and floor specialist, she is a two-time Chinese national vault champion (2018, 2020), the 2020 Chinese national floor champion, and a ten-time medalist at the Chinese Artistic Gymnastics Championships. On the junior level, she is the 2018 Asian all-around, vault, and floor exercise champion. Career. Junior. 2017. Qi competed at the senior-level 2017 Chinese National Championships, where she qualified in 16th place to the all-around final with the top vault score in the qualification round. She placed second in the team final representing the Beijing provincial team and also placed second in the vault final behind Liu Jinru. Qi was the only gymnast in the final to earn an execution score above 9.000 on either vault, which she achieved on her double-twisting Yurchenko (DTY). 2018. Qi won the gold medal as part of the Chinese team with He Licheng, Tang Xijing, Yin Sisi, and Zhao Shiting at the 2018 Junior Asian Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia. Individually, she won the all-around ahead of Zhao and Lee Yun-seo of South Korea, as well as both vault and floor. At the 2018 Chinese National Championships,"}, {"text": "Qi tied with Liu Jinru for the title on vault. She also won a second consecutive silver with the Beijing team and placed fourth in the floor final behind Liu, Yin Sisi, and Zhao Shiting. Senior. 2019. Qi made her senior international debut as a member of the Chinese team at the 2019 City of Jesolo Trophy with Liu Tingting, Tang Xijing, and Zhang Jin, where they won the silver medal behind the United States. She individually placed twelfth in the all-around and won bronze on floor behind Americans Sunisa Lee and Emma Malabuyo. At the 2019 Chinese National Championships, Qi qualified in seventh place to the all-around final, third place to the vault final, and fifth place to the beam final. During the team final, which also served as the all-around final, Qi and Tang Xijing led the Beijing provincial team to a third consecutive silver medal. Qi recorded the top vault and floor scores of the day and landed the Silivas (double-twisting double tuck) skill on floor exercise for the first time in competition. Individually, Qi improved her ranking from qualifications to finish sixth all-around. In event finals, Qi upgraded her second vault to a Chusovitina to win"}, {"text": "the silver medal behind Liu Jinru and won bronze on beam behind junior Ou Yushan and Tang. In September, after recording the top floor score at the final internal test, Qi was named to the Chinese team for the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany alongside Chen Yile, Li Shijia, Liu Tingting, Tang Xijing, and alternate Zhang Jin. In the qualification round, Qi competed on vault and floor to help the team qualify in second behind the United States. Qi was the last qualifier for the vault final, but did not make the floor final after electing not to compete the Silivas. In the team final, she hit both of her routines, but China finished in fourth behind the United States, Russia, and Italy after the team counted three falls. Qi finished fifth in the vault final. 2020. Qi competed at the 2020 Chinese National Championships in September. In the qualification round, which also served as the team final, she qualified in 5th place to the all-around final and in first place to both the vault and floor exercise finals. Qi and Tang Xijing led the Beijing provincial team to a fourth consecutive team silver medal. In the all-around final,"}, {"text": "Qi hit four routines cleanly to move up the rankings and win the bronze medal behind Liu Tingting and Wei Xiaoyuan. She recorded the highest score of the night on floor exercise by a wide margin after sticking her opening Silivas and introducing a one-and-a-half twist through to triple twist second tumbling pass, and recorded the second-highest vault score behind Zhang Jin. In event finals, Qi won gold on vault ahead reigning Asian champion Yu Linmin and three-time and reigning national vault champion Liu Jinru. Qi recorded the highest difficulty score (5.8 for her Chusovitina) and the highest execution score (9.000 for her DTY) among all competitors. On the last day of competition, which coincided with her 17th birthday, Qi won her first national floor exercise title ahead of Wu Ran and Lu Yufei. Qi was the most decorated gymnast of the competition with two gold medals, a silver, and a bronze."}, {"text": "Nela is a Croatian, Czech and Slovak feminine given name that serves as a diminutive form of Antonela and Antonie in Croatia, Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is also a Danish, German, Norwegian and Swedish given name that serves as a short form of Cornelia in Denmark, Greenland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria, Namibia, and parts of Switzerland, Hungary and Romania. It is also a surname. Notable people with this name include the following:"}, {"text": "Mrs. Lowe may refer to:"}, {"text": "Kochi State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Ernakulam Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is Maxi of CPI(M). Local self-governed segments. Kochi Assembly constituency is composed of the following 20 wards of the Kochi Municipal Corporation (Fort Kochi zone and Mattancherry zone), and two Gram Panchayats in Kochi taluk: All of the above 20 wards are included in Kochi taluk. Members of Legislative Assembly. The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Kochi Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies: Election results. Percentage change (\u00b1%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election. 2021. There were 1,81,842 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election. 2016. There were 1,71,356 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election. 2011. There were 1,58,548 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election."}, {"text": "WEAKEND (usually represented in all caps, but sometimes referred to as Weakend) is a 2003 Canadian short experimental film created by video artist Daniel Cockburn, made through a remix of audio and video from \"The 6th Day\", a Hollywood feature film about cloning starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Commissioned by \"famefame\" for the third biennial Tranz Tech Media Art Festival, the work was awarded the Jury prize. Synopsis. Video and audio of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Adam Gibson from \"The 6th Day\" is loosened up and reworked by a videomaker, subjecting him to \"a cruel series of digital replications\". It opens with \"dreamed double encounters,\" followed by \"the looped abyss of eyes within eyes, a mosaic of multiplying greetings\" (\"I'm Adam Gibson\"), a looped descent, a montage of Schwarzenegger's reaction shots (slowed), and a pulsing screen atop a screen in which \"even the frames are replicating\". The manipulation stops with the arrival of the Sabbath, when \"the videomaker rests,\" and the Schwarzenegger of his creation appears to be perimitted to speak angrily for himself, demanding that he be left alone. The videomaker replies, calling his creation a \"Frankenstein\", and exults in his own powers to digitally re-create him yet again. Themes and analysis."}, {"text": "Like some of creator Daniel Cockburn's earlier shorts, \"WEAKEND\" was a commission, the single criterion of which in this case was that all media derive from Roger Spottiswoode's \"The 6th Day\" (2000). The figure in the frame: the camera or the mirror. In 2005, Mike Hoolboom considered the moment of confrontation from the perspective of the fictional creation, which he contended may represent the modern everyman under \"the pressure of too many cameras, the relentless surveillance of the supremely visible, the inflated surrogate, multiplied and sprayed across screens around the world\", or, ourselves \"inside a matrix of branded zones, which we announce with the clothes we put on as images, the picture foods we eat, the sitcoms we are busy living\", and asks: \"What happens when a mirror looks at itself?\":Here at last, in this weakened state, philosopher Schwarzenegger is allowed to muse on his too many years spent replicating, offering us warning and prophecy about our own hopes, even as he runs out of his own. He is spoken by the artist, like we are spoken by language, though here in the gridlocked codes of narrative we can see the tensions of power at work as an image is"}, {"text": "made to appear (\"as if\" \u2013 behind every image is the promise of \"as if\") as if it hoped only to escape its own finitude, its limits, sensing that something else might lie outside the frame. Hoolboom concluded that \"longing and limits\" were the heart of the work. The artist and the God complex. Hoolboom and others also recognize that Cockburn explicitly replays this remix of \"The 6th Day\" \"as an ingenious creation myth\", following \"the inference of the source film's title\" referring to the . He imposes \"a calendar structure\", applying a creationist metaphor and thereby broadens it into a consideration of \"the relationship of an artist to materials\". As Hoolboom put it in 2013, \"In order to be a media artist, one must be God, the father, the one who controls. Or else one is the son, the subject, the controlled.\" The artist's video clips and editing are \"divinely employed\", imposing his will \"on his newest digital son\", an action movie star:Schwarzenegger's visibility and stardom means only that his exposure to the author's interventions are maximized. The bigger the star, the easier it is to tear a stripe off him, to demote him to the status of video"}, {"text": "art subject. Arnold is recast as the lead in a video art movie, where heroic rescues have been abandoned, and there is no escaping the digital manipulations of his new father. Anxiety in the digital age. Many of Cockburn's short pieces express a form of technophobia, and he states in an interview with Mike Hoolboom that he is particularly perturbed by digital video, and that phobia pervades several of his short works; in this case, it is the subject of the work who is consigned to \"digital hell\" rather than himself (\"doing to Arnold what I usually do to myself\"). He freely admitted that digital video \"scares the crap out of me, more so than film by a long shot.\"The Other Shoe\" was a not-very-veiled plea for the virtues of film over those of digitalia; \"Metronome\" alludes to the physical experience of life in a digital age... Governor Schwarzenegger is condemned to the seven circles of digital hell in \"WEAKEND\"... Production. Background. In the mid 2000s, Cockburn was making several videos and short films any given year. In 2003, in addition to \"WEAKEND\", he made \"The Impostor (hello goodbye)\", \"Denominations\" and the first version of \"AUDIT\". Cockburn came to video"}, {"text": "after first working with Super 8, 16mm and linear video editing, and, as noted above, was uncomfortable with digital video as a medium on philosophical grounds:Whatever you say about it, a film frame is an object which bears the physical imprint of reality. A videotape is an object which bears an analogically encoded imprint of reality. This is still somehow acceptable to me \u2014 but once you get into digital video, and the tape-object is merely a carrier for various file formats, for language that humans will never be able to comprehend (though they may have invented it), it seems somehow heretical that we should think that the image and sound which spew out the other end of this tape/computer actually embody a connection to reality. Bearing a resemblance and embodying a connection are two different things. Commission. \"WEAKEND\" was created for \"Attack of the Clones\" at the 2003 Tranz Tech Media Art Biennial. Around a dozen artists responded to an open call by media-art collective famefame to produce a video using only images and sound from \"The 6th Day\", the idea being that just as the film is about cloning, so the artworks would all be \"little clones\" of"}, {"text": "the film, \"each fighting to have its own voice in a sea of sameness.\" As Cockburn put it: \"All videos in the program would have the same DNA, so to speak, all clones of the original 35mm opus.\" Development and editing. \"WEAKEND\" was made by splicing together images and words from \"The 6th Day\" on video. Cockburn was \"very excited about the project\" at first, \"until I finally watched the film and was so underwhelmed by its content and images that I felt sullenly noncommittal.\" Cockburn felt that the short was only a \"series of digital gimmicks to perpetrate upon Arnold\" which, while fun, were hardly \"enough\". \"So I felt I needed to give them some context and use (and also expiate my moral twinges at playing with Arnold so cruelly, doing to Arnold what I usually do to myself) by giving Arnold the epilogue in which he criticizes the proceedings.\" Release. \"WEAKEND\" premiered two days after another of Cockburn's shorts, \"The Impostor (hello goodbye)\" at the festival where they were both commissioned, Tranz Tech, the third biennial media art festival, in the \"Attack of the Clones\" section, at Latvian House, on 11 October 2003. Anthology film. Beginning in 2009,"}, {"text": "\"WEAKEND\" began to be shown along with a selection of Cockburn's other films, under the collective title \"You Are In a Maze of Twisty Little Passages, All Different\", the actual programme varying with the venue. Home media. A 55-minute DVD (for exhibitions and educational institutions) of one version of the anthology film \"You Are in a Maze of Twisty Little Passages, all Different\" was released in 2009. Reception. Critical response. Norman Wilner appreciates how Cockburn repurposes clips from \"The 6th Day\" into a \"dissertation on artistic control and character manipulation,\" a \"fascinating fractal treatment that engages fully with themes the source material barely understands.\" Mike Hoolboom similarly avers that none of the other entries for the \"Attack of the Clones\" were as \"finely tuned\" as Cockburn's, and the \"cut and paste monologue\" is \"hilarious\"."}, {"text": "Fujinuma (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Syr ibn Abi Bakr ibn Tashfin () (d. 1113) was a Berber military commander for the Almoravid empire. He is considered one the greatest military tacticians that Ibn Tashfin had. Biography. Syr belonged to the Banu Turgut clan, of the Lamtuna, a Berber tribe belonging to the Sanhaja confederation. Syr ibn Abi Bakr was the son of Abu Bakr Tashfin. He was Yusuf ibn Tashfin\u2019s nephew and he married Ibn tashfin's sister Hawwa and had a daughter and a son; Fatima and Yahya. He was one of the great generals of Yusuf ibn Tashfin and one of his principal collaborators. Appointed governor of Meknes and the region of Maklata and Fazaz, around 1077-8, he later attended the Battle of Sagrajas where he distinguished himself. When Yusuf decided to dethrone the kings of Taifas, he appointed Syr Governor of al-Andalus and charged him with all the affairs connected with it. He commanded an expedition that routed Alvar Fanez in Almodovar, who came to the aid of al-Mu'tamid. Seizing Seville in 1091, he was appointed governor of the city, a position he filled for twenty years. He will extend his governorship on Badajoz in 1094, seize Carmona, Ni\u00e9bla and attend the headquarters"}, {"text": "of Al\u00e9do. In 1104-1105, he routed in the region of Seville, a Castilian army and in May 1111, he seized Santarem. Three years later, going with his wife Hawwa and his daughter Fatima to Marrakech, to present her to 'Ali, he died suddenly around Seville in 1113, leaving the succession to his son Yahya. His daughter Fatima gave birth to the governor, Muhammad ibn Fatima."}, {"text": "Tony Cote (born Antoine Cote; 1935\u2013July 31, 2019) was the first elected Chief of the Cote First Nations and creator of the Saskatchewan First Nations Summer and Winter Games. Born on the Cote Reserve in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Cote was known for his philanthropy for First Nations people in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Cote also served as a bombardier with the 81st Field Regiment in the Royal Canadian Artillery from 1952 to 1958. Personal life. Born on the Cote Reserve in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, in 1935, Cote was the youngest child of Frank and Ellen Cote and great-grandson of Chief Gabriel Cote, a spokesman for the Saulteaux communities during the signing of Treaty 4. After enduring the residential school system in Saskatchewan - having attended St. Phillips Residential School - Cote joined the Canadian Army in 1952 at the age of 17. In 1953 Cote married his wife, Sadie Friday, and they went on to parent seven children together. Cote spent nearly six years as a bombardier in the 81st Field Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery, served 14 months fighting in the Korean War, and was released from service in 1958 with a UN Korea Special Services Medal. Cote died on July"}, {"text": "31, 2019, at the age of 84. Political career. Between 1967 and 1995, Cote held a number of positions within Alberta and Saskatchewan politics. Cote served as welfare administrator and recreation director of the Cote First Nations until 1970, when he was then elected chief of Cote First Nations reserve. From 1969 until 1980, Cote was appointed as education community development officer, recreation director, and executive treasurer of finance for the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (now known as the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations). Cote also served as a political advisor for the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations for 17 years between 1978 and 1995. From 1990 to 1995, Cote acted as executive director of the Saskatchewan Indian Housing Commission. Additionally, Cote held positions as special advisor to the regional director of the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission with the federal government, executive director for NOR-SASK Native Outreach Inc., and served twice as chief of the Yorkton Tribal Council - from 1973 to 1976 and 1995 to 2000. In 2001 and 2002, Cote held the position of Coordinator Officer for the Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans Association, where he pushed for the recognition of benefits owed to First Nations soldiers -"}, {"text": "ultimately leading to benefit packages being awarded to Saskatchewan First Nations veterans. In addition to Cote's political career, he was known for his contributions to First Nations sport in Saskatchewan and Alberta and his philanthropizing work for First Nations people and communities. Cote spearheaded a number of housing improvement and employment projects in First Nations communities and co-founded the First Nations University of Canada, where he worked until 2015. Contributions to sport. After being elected recreation sports director in 1969, Cote began to develop sport and recreation programs and infrastructure in Saskatchewan First Nations communities. Cote was notably responsible for the construction of an outdoor ice rink in the Cote First Nations and for the Cote Recreational Complex which housed the first artificial ice surface in Saskatchewan First Nations. Cote is also responsible for creating, managing, and coaching a number of First Nations sports teams. After the opening of the Cote Recreational Complex, Cote established and acted as president of the first all-Native Junior \"B\" hockey team in Saskatchewan. Cote followed this by creating and managing the \"Wagonburners\" - Saskatchewan's first all-Native Old-timers hockey team - who won the Saskatchewan East Division in 1977. Additionally, Cote managed the Cote Selects"}, {"text": "women's fastball team between 1974 and 1978, bringing the team to a number of tournaments around North America. Outside of his role as manager and coach, Cote was instrumental in the creation of sport programs and events for First Nations communities. Cote is most well known for creating the inaugural Saskatchewan First Nations Summer Games, which now includes a Winter edition and is known as the Tony Cote Summer and Winter Games. The Summer and Winter editions of the Tony Cote Games run in opposite years of one another and feature biennially, including teams from both Saskatchewan and Alberta. Awards and recognition. Cote received a great deal of recognition for his role with sport and development of First Nations communities. Cote was awarded the 1974 Tom Longboat Award - an award which recognizes Aboriginal individuals for their contributions to sport in Canada. In 2008, Cote was awarded with the Saskatchewan Order of Merit for \"recognition of excellence, achievement and contributions to the social, cultural and economic well-being of the province and its residents\". Additionally, Cote was inducted to the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame on June 18, 2011."}, {"text": "The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan (, ) is the supreme constitutional court of Uzbekistan. Its tasks include reviewing whether proposed laws conflict with the Constitution of Uzbekistan, and whether laws of the Republic of Karakalpakstan conflict with the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Under Article 95 of the Constitution, it is also tasked with authority to approve the President of Uzbekistan's decision to dissolve the Oliy Majlis. The court's decisions are final and unappealable. The court is made up of seven judges, including the chairman and deputy chairman. One of the judges must be a representative of Karakalpakstan. The Senate of Uzbekistan elects the judges by majority vote, from among candidates recommended by the Supreme Judicial Council and nominated by the president. They are elected to terms of five years. The judges elect the chairman and deputy chairman from among themselves. The chairman of the court since 2014 (re-elected in 2017) has been Mirbabaev Bakhtiyar. The law establishing the Constitutional Court was adopted on May 6, 1993. A second law was adopted in 1995, and the first judges were elected to the court in December 1995. The current law on the Constitutional Court was adopted by"}, {"text": "the Supreme Assembly in 2017."}, {"text": "Baroda Assembly constituency is one of the 90 constituencies in the Haryana Legislative Assembly of Haryana, a state in northwest India. Baroda is also part of Sonipat Lok Sabha constituency. Members of the Legislative Assembly. ^ bypoll"}, {"text": "Yaama Ngunna Baaka 2019 was a corroboree festival conceived by Bruce Shillingsworth, with a vision of initiating dialog with Elders. The festival comprised a series of corroborees by the rivers in Walgett, Brewarrina, Bourke, Wilcannia and Menindee. About twelve dance groups participated, and many travelled with them in convoy to each of the corroborees. The corroboree at Wilcania was hosted by the Barkindji. The Barkindji fear their culture, which relates closely to the river, is being destroyed. The Tal-Kin-Jeri Dance in Australia Group came from Adelaide and performed at the closing night near Menindee."}, {"text": "Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice (; abbreviated ) is a liberal political party in Ethiopia. It was formed in May 2019 from the merger of the Patriotic Ginbot 7, Ethiopian Democratic Party (EDP), All-Ethiopian Democratic Party (AEDP), Semayawi Party, New Generation Party (NGP), Gambella Regional Movement (GRM), and Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party. In July 2019, ye-Ethiopia Ra'iy Party (ERaPa) also merged into EZeMa. The party's logo consists of scales of justice with a large pencil acting as a pole connecting the scales. Its leader is Berhanu Nega, and its deputy leader is Andualem Aragie. Yeshiwas Assefa and Chane Kebede are chairperson and deputy chairperson, respectively. On 25 May 2023, several founders of the party resigned from membership, citing irreconcilable differences and the party's increasingly close connection with the ruling Prosperity Party."}, {"text": "Sara Uribe Cadavid (born November 28, 1990) is a Colombian model and TV host. She rose to fame in 2012, being one of the winners of the second season of Colombian reality TV show \"Protagonistas de Nuestra Tele\" on RCN. Early life. Uribe was born in Andes, Antioquia. Her mother worked selling arepas while her father worked harvesting coffee. They lived in the municipality of Andes until Uribe was about 3 years old and then moved to Medell\u00edn as her parents fell apart. While in Medell\u00edn, she lived in her grandmother's house until problems emerged within the family. As a child, she faced many struggles, one of the most prominent being not having a secure income for her family so she started working from a very young age selling candies at school and getting part-time jobs such as selling clothes. At 14, she started modeling for various agencies doing advertising for several well-known trade-marks in Colombia. Career. Finishing high school she was offered a college scholarship from her high school's principal, allowing her to pursue the studies she wanted. She decided to pursue a career in Business Administration, soon later leaving it to study Social Communication. As part of the"}, {"text": "final terms of her studies she worked for Teleantioquia as a TV host for shows such as \"Venga a mi pueblo Antioque\u00f1o\" in 2009 and for Cosmovisi\u00f3n in the show \"Modelos Televisi\u00f3n\". She also participated in the beauty contest \"Miss Gaming Colombia\" in 2012, ending up winning the title. In 2012, Uribe was cast as one of the contestants of the reality TV Show \"Protagonistas de Nuestra Tele\" on RCN being the winner. This show boosted her career, allowing her to work as a host for several TV shows mainly on RCN. Nonetheless, she has worked in different TV networks such as Canal 1 in the show \"Lo s\u00e9 todo\" in 2017 and Caracol TV in \"La Kalle\" and \"La vuelta al mundo en 80 risas\", the latter being in 2019."}, {"text": "Chaman Mahal is a palace in the Bhopal district of Madhya Pradesh, India. It was built by Afghan Commander Dost Mohammad Khan, who was the ruler of Islamnagar in 1715. It is located 11 km away from Bhopal, capital of Madhya Pradesh. 'Chaman' means garden and hence the palace is also known as Garden palace, having an attractive garden in the middle of palace with multiple fountains. The Chaman Mahal is made of sandstone in Mughal and Malwa style of architecture and has 12 gates at the entrance, with Bengali-influenced drooping eaves. It is a red sandstone structure built by Dost Mohammad Khan. It is also known as Islamnagr fort. It is surrounded by gardens and fountains, and is ornamented with floral motifs. It has charbagh style garden. The ruined palace has a Mughal water garden and a hamam (Turkish bath)."}, {"text": "Alocasia cuprea is a species of plant in the genus \"Alocasia\" native to Borneo. This species derives its name, cuprea, from the unusual coppery appearance of the leaves, which are up to 60 cm (24 inches) long. This color is especially pronounced on juvenile leaves, and the back of the leaf is a deep purple, but there is also a greener leaf form of the plant. While rare in cultivation, \"A. cuprea\" has been known outside its native habitat since it was brought to Europe in the 1850s by Thomas Lobb for Veitch Nurseries."}, {"text": "Nuh is one of the 90 assembly constituencies in the Haryana Legislative Assembly of the Indian state of Haryana. It is a part of the Nuh district and is also one of nine assembly constituencies in the Gurgaon Lok Sabha constituency. It was previously part of the Faridabad Lok Sabha constituency before the Gurgaon Lok Sabha constituency was re-established in 2008. Since its formation, the seat has been occupied primarily by Rahim Khan Clan and Khurshid Ahmed Clan from the political families in the region. Chaudhary Rahim Khan and Chaudhary Khurshid Ahmed have been elected to the Legislative Assembly the most number of times."}, {"text": "\"Destiny\", also titled \"Destiny (Sleepless)\", is a song by UK garage duo Dem 2. It was released as a single in late 1997 and also in 1998 and reached No. 58 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 1 on the UK Dance Singles Chart. Impact and legacy. Alexis Petridis, writing for \"The Guardian\" in 2019, looking back at the genre after 20 years, listed \"Destiny\" at number 13 in his list of his 20 best UK garage tracks. Simon Reynolds, writing in \"The Wire\", called \"Destiny\" \"the UK blueprint for two-step.\" In 2017, \"Mixmag\" included \"Destiny\" in their list of the \"12 best late-90s UK garage records\", and in 2019 included the song in their list of \"40 of the best UK garage tracks released from 1995 to 2005\", saying \"At a time where the garage house style started to evolve into a faster two-step sound, Dem 2 mastered the new style. 'Destiny' has an undeniable UK flavour, embalmed in fast, energetic pulses and choppy vocal cuts.\" In December 2017 for \"Dummy Mag\", UK duo Original Dodger, formerly known as Artful Dodger, included \"Destiny\" in their list of the \"10 best UK garage tracks\". Redbull.com included the song in"}, {"text": "their list of \"10 underground UK garage classics that still sound fresh today\". Capital Xtra included the song in their list of \"The Best Old-School Garage Anthems of All Time\". \"Gemtracks\" included the song in their list of the \"top UK garage songs between 1995\u20132005\". A1. \"Destiny\" (Original Mix) - 5:00 A2. \"Destiny\" (Dem 2 Junkie Luv Dub Mix) - 6:16 B. \"Destiny\" (New Horizons Remix) - 6:45"}, {"text": "John Hallam (died 1537), conspirator, was a native of Cawkeld, Yorkshire, and had much local influence and popularity. Life. A determined Romanist, he strenuously opposed King Henry VIII's supremacy and the suppression of the monasteries. The \"Act of Convocation for the Abrogation of Certain Holydays\" was passed in August 1536. When the priest at Kilnick announced that the king had suppressed St. Wilfrid's Day, Hallam angrily protested, and persuaded the villagers to keep the feast. When the news of the Pilgrimage of Grace in Lincolnshire (1536) arrived, Hallam, who was at Beverley, read Robert Aske's proclamation, exhorting the people of the East Riding to restore the old religion and re-establish the monasteries, and took the pilgrim's oath himself. He was made one of the captains of the rebel forces between Beverley and Duffield, and marched with the Beverley contingent under William Stapleton to capture Hull. Hallam remained there as governor; but when the rebellion was suppressed he was ousted by Rogers, the mayor, and Alderman Eland, both being knighted for their services. Hallam shared in the general pardon, but in January 1537 he, with Sir Francis Bigod and others, concocted the second pilgrimage. From Settrington, their headquarters, Bigod marched to"}, {"text": "Beverley, and Hallam to Hull, which place he and his followers entered on market day disguised as farmers. They were discovered and pursued. Hallam was captured and dragged inside the Beverley gate just as Bigod's troop arrived. He was summarily tried, convicted, and hanged in January 1537. [Ross's Celebrities of the Yorkshire Wolds, 1878, p. 71; Oldmixon's History, 1839, i. 102; Stow's Chronicle, p. 573; Hall's Chronicle, p. 239; Rapin, i. 815; Sheahan and Whellan's History of Yorkshire, i. 189.]"}, {"text": "John Evans (governor) may refer to:"}, {"text": "Ellenabad is one of the 90 constituencies in the Haryana Legislative Assembly in India. Ellenabad is a part of Sirsa Lok Sabha constituency. Bharat Singh Beniwal is incumbent member of Haryana Legislative Assembly from Ellenabad since 2024. Members of Legislative Assembly. ^By-Poll"}, {"text": "Novki () is a rural locality (a village) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 58 as of 2010. Geography. Novki is located 8 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vereshchagino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novki () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,616 as of 2010. There are 23 streets. Geography. Novki is located 5 km east of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Druzhba is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novosyolka () is a rural locality (a village) in located in the Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2010. Geography. Novosyolka is located on the Pechuga River, 21 km northwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novaya Zarya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novskoye () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 44 as of 2010. Geography. Novskoye is located 30 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Davydovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mark Anthony Ruffin (born September 24, 1956) is an American broadcaster, producer, and writer. He has won the regional Chicago / Midwest Emmy Awards two times, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award. Ruffin has been the Program Director/On-Air host for Sirius XM's Real Jazz channel since 2007. Ruffin received both the Jazz Journalists Association's Career Excellence Award in Broadcasting and the Duke Dubois Humanitarian Award from Jazz Week in 2017. Ruffin is on the board of jurors for the Peabody Awards. Biography. Mark Anthony Ruffin, was born in Chicago, IL on September 24, 1956. Ruffin's parents had a record store on the west side of the city for the first eight years of his life. He grew up in the suburb town of Maywood, Illinois where he graduated from Proviso East High School and studied Radio/TV and music at Southern Illinois University/Carbondale. Mark is the father to three sons: Melcolm Xavier Ruffin, Sidney-Bechet Mandela Ruffin, and Kenyatta Hents Philips-Ruffin. Career. Before rising to prominence in North America, Ruffin was a presence in Chicago jazz radio for over 25 years, where he was also Jazz Editor at Chicago Magazine from 1982 to 2007. He has had a varied multi-tasked"}, {"text": "career in radio, television, journalism, recorded music, and film \u2013 with a focus on Jazz and American culture in all the mediums. Radio. Since 2007, Ruffin has been the Program Director and On-Air host for Sirius XM's Real Jazz channel. 1980\u20132000, he started as an operations engineer at WBEZ-FM/Chicago. In 1980, he got his first on-air opportunity through the Jazz Institute of Chicago. From there: 1981\u20131985, Jazz Music Director WDCB/Glen Ellyn, 1985\u20131988, Music Director-WBEE-AM/Chicago, 1988\u20131996, Producer/Announcer WNUA/Chicago. 1996\u20132000, Announcer/Producer WBEZ/Chicago. 2002\u20132007, Ruffin joined Miles Ahead Incorporated which produced, Miles Ahead and Listen Here, two syndicated shows featuring him and Grammy Award-winning annotator and broadcaster Neil Tesser. The latter show was distributed by WFMT Satellite Network and was heard on up to 120 stations in the U.S. and Canada. Ruffin was the original producer of the nationally syndicated Ramsey Lewis Show which was distributed by Westwood One in the 1990s. Since that time he has produced nationally syndicated programs for Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Dr. Robin Smith, Bruce Lundvall, Marcus Miller, Christian McBride, Don Was, Joey DeFrancesco and others. Television. 2000\u20132007 Ruffin was a cultural correspondent for the Chicago PBS television station WTTW-TV. His pieces on Jazz and"}, {"text": "American culture were presented on the televisions shows Artbeat Chicago and Chicago Tonight. He won two Emmy Awards while at WTTW. 2014\u20132017 Ruffin was a recurrent moderator and host of the AOL Build Speaker Series where he was featured interviewing a number of personalities including Don Cheadle, Jon Batiste, Harry Connick Jr., Herb Alpert and many others. Journalism. Ruffin was the Jazz Editor of Chicago Magazine from 1982 to 2007, Contributor at Down Beat Magazine 1985\u20132005, Jazz Stringer at Chicago Sun-Times 1989\u20131997, Music Editor at N'Digo Magazine 1995\u20132005 and contributed to Jazziz, JazzUSA.com, Playboy, Ebony, Illinois Entertainer and many other publications. Records. Annotator. Ruffin has numerous annotation credits."}, {"text": "Panipat City is one of the constituencies in the Haryana Legislative Assembly of Haryana a northern state of India. Panipat City is also part of Karnal Lok Sabha constituency."}, {"text": "John Hallam (1941-2006) was a British character actor. John Hallam may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Ostrov () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 27 as of 2010. Geography. Ostrov is located 5 km west of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Posyolok imeni Artyoma is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Palashkino () is a rural locality (a selo) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 38 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Palashkino is located 28 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chistukha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Patakino () is a rural locality (a selo) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 137 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Patakino is located on the Klyazma River, 15 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mostsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Penkino () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 403 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Penkino is located on the Klyazma River, 30 km south of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasnoramenye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Time Nahi Hai (also known as \"Life Mein Time Nahi Hai Kisi Ko\") is a Hindi film released on 18 October 2019. The film stars Krushna Abhishek, Rajneesh Duggal, Shakti Kapoor, Rajpal Yadav, Yuvika Chaudhary, Govind Namdev, Aanjjan Srivastav, Sunil Pal, Tiku Talsania, Hemant Pandey, Ramandeep Kaur and others. The film is directed by Manoj Sharma and produced by Manish Rander, Shyamsunder Malani, Rajesh Rander, Vishnu Sharda and Sanjay Garg. Online Marketing by Sudhanshu Kumar. Time Nahi hai has been shot on location in Udaipur, Rajasthan."}, {"text": "This is a list which includes a photographic gallery, of some of the structures of historic significance in Nogales, Arizona. Nogales is a city in Santa Cruz County, Arizona which lies on the border of Mexico and is separated from the town of Nogales, Sonora in Mexico by a 20-foot-high row of steel beams, also known simply as the \"Wall\". Nicknamed the \"Gateway to Mexico\" the two cities share a rich history that dates back thousands of years ago when ancient native people's trade routes went through the combined area. Brief history. The area where Nogales is located was inhabited by the Anasazi, an early Native-American tribe. The waters provided by the Santa Cruz River, Sonoita Creek and Harshaw Creek were ideal for fishing. The land was also ideal for agriculture and ranching. Ruins of the ancient settlements and petroglyphs of the Anasazi have been found by archaeologists. The region was later inhabited by the Hohokam, Apache and Yaqui tribes who built their communities along the river and creeks. In 1539, Spanish explorer Fray Marcos de Niza entered the area near Lochiel on the Mexican border. He continued on his journey to Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico also known as the"}, {"text": "Seven Cities of Cibola. Marcos de Niza is credited with being the first European in what is now the State of Arizona. The prehistoric migratory route used by the ancient Indians was later named \"El Camino Real\" which is Spanish for \"The King's Highway\". The main Native-American tribes in the area at that time were the Sobaipuri and Papago tribes. In 1692, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino came to the area as a missionary. His main objective was to convert the natives to Catholicism. The area became part of his \"La Mission en Guevavi\". For the next two decades, he traveled through Southern Arizona spreading the Catholic faith and teaching the native people how to farm. Groves of walnut trees at one time covered the mountain pass that bridged the areas where the present-day Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico are located. The name of Nogales means \"black walnut\" in Spanish. The mission period was ended in 1768 by a decree of Charles III of Spain. In 1821, the Mexican War of Independence between Mexico and Spain came to an end and the territory of New Spain, which included Arizona, was ceded to Mexico. American settlers. In 1854, the United States"}, {"text": "purchased the region from Mexico in what is known as the Gadsden Purchase. Anglo-Americans of European descent from the East Coast of the United States began to arrive in the area. The vast Spanish land grants that had been established were broken up as settlers from the east moved west to homestead and ranch. The new settlers were protected from the constant attacks of the Apaches by the United States Military. However, The majority of the troops were withdrawn from the area upon the outbreak of the American Civil War. Fort Buchanan, which was actually a small garrison established in 1856 near Sonoita, was overrun by the Apaches. Thus, the miners, ranchers and farmers in the region were without protection from the Apaches and many of them moved to other areas. The Civil War between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) ended in 1865. In 1867, the United States Army established a military post called Camp Crittenden close to Sonoita. The camp, which later was renamed Fort Crittenden, was involved in a campaign against the Apache with the intention of protecting the American pioneers in the area. The miners, ranchers and farmers returned to the area once"}, {"text": "more. The border \"Wall\". Tensions along the border started to rise with the Mexican Revolution which began in 1910. However, the Nogales area within the United States border had a military garrison of ten thousand men made up mostly of African-Americans soldiers from the 25th Regiment. The military buildup and related business growth attracted many businesses to Nogales, some of which remain today. In 1913, there was a violent battle between the Mexican Forces and Pancho Villa and his men in Nogales, Sonora. Villa and his men were victorious and occupied the area. In 1915 a second battle took place, this time Villa's men fired across the border line into the United States. U.S. cavalrymen crossed the border into Mexican territory and engaged Villa's troops. Another situation which caused tensions to rise between the U. S. and Mexico was that Germany began to encourage Mexico to declare war on the United States and take back its former territories during World War I. Thus, the United States kept a keen observation on the border to make sure that smugglers would not supply Mexico with guns and that refugees fleeing to the United States did not belong to an international espionage team"}, {"text": "backed by the Germans. The first border fence between the two nations was built between 1909 and 1911. They were actually a barbed wire fence installed by the U.S. government on the border to prevent cattle from wandering between the countries. Felix B. Pe\u00f1aloza, the \"Presidente Municipal\" (which in Mexico is the term used for the word Mayor) of Nogales, Mexico, ordered construction of a fence running along the boundary line between his city and Nogales, Arizona. The fence in Nogales was built by Mexican workers. A metal obelisk marked the international border in both Nogales. American and Mexican sentries patrolled the line. A firefight broke out between the American and Mexican sides of the fence when on August 27, 1918, an unidentified man tried to cross over to the Mexican side and refused to halt when ordered by a U.S. customs inspector. Both sides began to shoot at each other and at the end of the incident, which is known as the Battle of Ambos Nogales, 12 Mexicans and Americans were killed, including Mayor Pe\u00f1aloza. Today, the fence is now a 20-foot-high row of steel beams, recently reinforced with razor wire. Pimeria Alta Historical Society and Museum. According to"}, {"text": "the website of the Pimeria Alta Historical Society and Museum, Housed in the Old Nogales City Hall, constructed in 1914, the museum provides information on the history of the Pimeria Alta and welcomes visitors to the border area. The society was formed in 1948, when a group of 28 concerned citizens got together to preserve the rich and exciting history of the area. The city of Nogales, Arizona was incorporated in 1893. The fact that a property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places does not mean that the property is safe from being demolished by its owner. According to Jim McPherson, Arizona Preservation Foundation Board President: The city has three historic districts and various individual properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places Properties pictured. Districts. According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation: \"a local historic district is an entire area or group of historic structures deemed significant to the city's cultural fabric that are protected by public review. This can include downtown commercial areas, main streets, waterfront districts, and residential districts.\" The following Districts are pictured and/or have images related to them: Buildings. The following is a brief description of some of the pictured"}, {"text": "buildings which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Historic houses. The houses in Nogales of historical significance which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places and which are pictured are the following: Educational institutions. Educational institutions in Nogales of historical significance. Others. Other places of historical significance include:"}, {"text": ", known mononymously as , is a Japanese drummer from Ishikari. In 2018, at age 8, she gained international attention for an online video in which she covered Led Zeppelin's \"Good Times Bad Times\", which was uploaded to Vimeo as her entry for the 2018 Hit Like a Girl contest. As of October 2019, the video has 3.2 million views and David Grohl, Ian Paice, and Robert Plant all praised the video and her drumming capabilities. She has stated that John Bonham, Chris Coleman, and Benny Greb are her favorite drummers and Rage Against the Machine her favorite band. Childhood and career. Soma started drumming at age 2 and performing in concerts at age 4. In 2015, she began playing in her family's band, Kaneaiyoyoka, with her parents, Akifumi and Rie Soma. At age 6 during her kindergarten years, she released her first music CD. Soma and her family have discussed how Japan and its traditional school system has been stifling to her music career and aspirations, preventing her from playing drums during her school life because of her higher skill level than the other students. She also spoke out against the idea of collectivism in Japan that prevents individuality"}, {"text": "and the idea of any individual person standing out as unique. Performances. When she was 8, she appeared as the youngest performer ever recorded at the Rising Sun Rock Festival and later at Summer Sonic Festival on the stage reserved for Fall Out Boy. She went on to be a guest drummer for Cyndi Lauper on her last tour day at the Tokyo Orchard Hall. She has appeared twice on the American television talk show \"Ellen\" and in advertisements for sports apparel maker Nike, Italian luxury fashion brand Moncler and Japanese casual wear designer Uniqlo. Her online videos have been viewed over 70 million times. She was listed by \"Newsweek Japan\" as one of the top 100 Japanese people that the world respects. In July 2025, Soma, alongside Roman Morello (son of Tom Morello), Revel Young Ian (son of Scott Ian), and Hugo Weiss performed in the pre-recorded performance of Jack Black's cover of \"Mr. Crowley\" for Ozzy Osbourne's and Black Sabbath's farewell concert Back to the Beginning."}, {"text": "Pirogovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2010. Geography. Pirogovo is located 36 km south of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lubenkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pishchikhino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2010. Geography. Pishchikhino is located 23 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mirny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Plyasitsyno () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 85 as of 2010. Geography. Plyasitsyno is located 18 km northwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sergeikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 363 Arsakawan earthquake took place c. 363. It affected the cities of Arsakawan (modern Do\u011fubayaz\u0131t in eastern Turkey) and Salat (modern Sisian in Armenia). The earthquake is described in the hagiography \"The Life of Saint Nerses\" (8th century). The narrative describes the destruction of the city of Arsakawan, which had been constructed by the king Arshak II (reigned 350\u2013368). All the inhabitants were reportedly crushed by the city's collapse. All that was left of the city were \"wood and stone debris\". Other Armenian sources speak of the city's destruction, without mentioning the earthquake. They attribute the city's destruction to a plague. The historian Stephen Orbelian (13th century) connects this earthquake to a military campaign of the king Shapur II (reigned 309\u2013379) against the Armenian province of Siwnik' (modern Syunik Province). In Orbelian's narrative, Persian slaves of Shapur were scaling an artificial hill, in an attempt to reach the church of Salat. Then the earthquake occurred, and the Persians were thrown aside. Those who had climbed to the top of the hill were killed by the earthquake. Orbelian's narrative reports that the church of Salat was buried by the earthquake, along with all its treasures. But that it was later"}, {"text": "rediscovered. Following another earthquake, further relics of this lost church were reportedly discovered. The more recent earthquake had detached the stones of a chapel, leading to the discovery. An \"odorous emanation\" was released by this second earthquake, according to Orbelian. The historian Movses Dasxuranci (10th to 11th century) gives a similar report on the earthquake. It describes the Sasanian Army climbing a mound to reach the church of Salat. The earthquake reportedly took place when they had reached the top of the mound. The army fled in fear of the earthquake, along with their general At'askoday. The historian Josef Markwart (20th century) theorized that this earthquake was identical to the 358 earthquake that affected Nicomedia (modern \u0130zmit). However, this identification is not confirmed by primary sources."}, {"text": "Pozharnitsy () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Pozharnitsy is located 24 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dvoriki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Posyolok imeni Artyoma () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 366 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. The settlement is located 5 km west of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ostrov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Posyolok imeni Gorkogo () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2,342 as of 2010. There are 17 streets. Geography. The settlement is located 18 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vakhromeyevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "This was the tenth season of Barnes Football Club. Barnes participated in the first season of the F.A. Cup, but were unable to progress further than the second round. The club was eliminated by Hampstead Heathens after a replay, despite playing both matches at home with a man advantage."}, {"text": "Monica Lakhanpaul FRCPCH is a British Indian consultant paediatrician at Whittington Health NHS Trust, and Professor of Integrated Community Child Health at University College London (UCL). She was Deputy Theme Lead for Collaborations in Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care \u2013 North Thames, and is currently Adjunct Professor at Public Health Foundation India, UCL Global Strategic Academic Advisor (India), National Patient and Public Engagement Lead for the NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre and NIHR National Specialty Lead for Children. Early life and education. Lakhanpaul grew up in Leeds. She graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine (distinction; paediatrics) from the University of Manchester in 1992, and with a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Nottingham in May 2003. Lakhanpaul also gained her Doctorate in paediatrics and child health in 2003. Clinical and research career. Following on from receiving her doctorate, Lakhanpaul took up simultaneous senior lecturer and consultant paediatrician appointments at the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, respectively. In 2012, Lakhanpaul took up her professorship at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Heath, and in 2016 she was appointed head of the Department of Population, Policy and Practice. She continues to practice clinically as"}, {"text": "a paediatrician in London, and through her Global Strategic Academic Advisor (India) roles, leads on strategy and delivery of partnerships and collaboration between UCL and South Asia and India. Lakhanpaul's research is multi-disciplinary and translational with particular focus on research programs with a cross-sector, multi-disciplinary, structured and collaborative approach. Her work spans from clinical trials to participatory methods including public engagement and working with the arts and humanities to improve outcomes for vulnerable children, with a focus on the UK and India. She particularly focuses on disability, asthma and nutrition as exemplar public health issues in South Asian families to optimise their health and later risk for non-communicable disease. Lakhanpaul has been instrumental in establishing the PANChSHEEL study around integrated health, education and environmental intervention to optimise infant feeding practices through school and Anganwadi networks in India and has been widely reported on both in the UK and India. This is a collaboration between University College London, Save the Children, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Lakhanpaul established the Nurture Early for Optimal Nutrition (NEON) study to determine whether transferring health models from resource poor countries and implementing them in deprived localities in the UK"}, {"text": "could lead to clinically and cost-effective interventions within the NHS. Working with parents and healthcare professionals, Lakhanpaul also established Acutely Sick Child Safety Netting Information Needs (ASK SNIFF) which provides resources to help families with young children understand signs and symptoms of acute illness. It forms part of a larger program of work aiming to develop an intervention package to improve the management of acutely sick children. She is currently leading the Children in Homeless Accommodations Managing Pandemic Invisibility Or Non-Inclusive Strategies (CHAMPIONS) project based at University College London, in partnership with De Montfort University, The Children's Society, British Association for Community Child Health and others. Lakhanpaul co-founded the cross-sector Health Education Engineering and Environment (HEEE) Platform, and was Program Director for Children and Young People, UCL Partners Academic Health Sciences Network. In 2023, Professor Lakhanpaul was named National Patient and Public Engagement Lead for the NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre and, in 2024, she was invited to the South Asian Health Foundation 25th anniversary event at the House of Lords and the launch of their \u2018Health Inequalities: Full Stop - The hidden crisis affecting children and families in temporary accommodation in the UK' report which she co-authored. In February"}, {"text": "2024, she was invited to become Clinical Advisor to Happy Baby NGO and Barnardo's children's charity and, in July 2024, she became a Churchill Fellow selected by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Later, in September 2024, Lakhanpaul started her role as the NIHR National Specialty Lead for Children and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science (Hon DSc) by De Montfort University for her contributions to child and adolescent health worldwide."}, {"text": "Joshua Simmonds (born 4 October 1995) is a field hockey player from Australia. Personal life. Joshua Simmonds was born and raised in Ringwood, Victoria. He is a member of the Victorian Institute of Sport, and has referenced Floyd Mayweather as his sporting hero. Career. Club level. At club level, Joshua Simmonds plays hockey for KBH Brumbies in the Victorian Premier League. He has also played for YMCA Coastal City Hockey Club in the Western Australia Premier Competition. State level. Throughout his youth, Joshua Simmonds represented his home state, Victoria, in all domestic competitions. In 2014, Simmonds was recruited by the NT Stingers in the Australian Hockey League as an import player. Following his AHL debut for the Northern Territory, Simmonds returned to play for the VIC Vikings from 2015 onwards. This included winning the championship at the 2016 edition. Following the overhaul of the AHL in 2018, Simmonds was selected to represent HC Melbourne in Hockey Australia's new domestic league, Hockey One, in 2019. National teams. Under\u201321. Joshua Simmonds made his junior international debut for the Australia U\u201321 side in 2015, at the Sultan of Johor Cup, where the team finished fifth. In 2016, Simmonds went on to represent the"}, {"text": "side again; at the Sultan of Johor Cup and Junior World Cup. Kookaburras. Following two years in the national development squad, Simmonds made his senior international debut for the Kookaburras in 2018 during a test match against Argentina in Darwin, Northern Territory. He then went on the represent the team during the International Hockey Open. In November 2018, Simmonds was named in the Kookaburras squad for the 2019 calendar year. Simmonds started 2019 in the Kookaburras team during the FIH Pro League in Melbourne, Victoria. Simmonds continued to represent the team during the Pro League, culminating with a gold medal in Amstelveen, following a 3\u20132 win over Belgium. Simmonds was selected in the Kookaburras Olympics squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The team reached the final for the first time since 2004 but couldn't achieve gold, beaten by Belgium in a shootout."}, {"text": "The Secret Life of Arnold Bax is a 1992 British TV movie directed by Ken Russell, who also stars in the title role as composer Arnold Bax. It was one of eight musical drama documentaries directed by Russell for The South Bank Show on London Weekend Television between 1983 and 2002. The film focuses on the composer's complicated relationship with pianist Harriet Cohen (played by Glenda Jackson) while at the same time seeking inspiration for his music from the dancer Annie. As with all of Russell's films on composers the drama serves as a showcase for the music. Set in 1948, when the film Oliver Twist (with music by Bax) had just been released, the film mostly uses earlier compositions such as \"The Garden of Fand\", \"Tintagel\" and the Symphony No 2 as its soundtrack. Lewis Foreman was musical adviser. Ken Russell fell in love with Hetty Baynes during filming, and she became his wife from 1992 until 1999. Glenda Jackson appeared in her last acting role before becoming a Member of Parliament."}, {"text": "Poyfai Malaiporn (also spelled Poifai and Poifhai, , , born 14 January 1971 in Fao Rai District, Nong Khai Province, Thailand) is a Thai luk thung and mor lam singer. Early life. He was born in Nong Khai Province. His birth name is \"Duangjan Malai\", but he uses \"Poyfai\" as his stage name. Career. He started performing on stage in 1994, as a member of mor lam band \"Sieng Isan\", presented by Noknoi Uraiporn. After being a member of Sieng Isan for 2\u20133 years, he became a solo artist. He was associated with Topline Diamond, a famous record label in Thailand, has many popular songs including \"Mun Tong Thon\", \"Katoey Pra Tuang\", \"Talok Oak Hak\", etc. He was a hard liquor consumer since he was 18 years old and couldn't work for entertainers full-time. He quit drinking in 2017 with help and encouragement from his wife."}, {"text": "The 2019 Prince Edward station attack, also known as the 31 August MTR station incident (), was an incident in which Hong Kong police indiscriminately attacked passengers while arresting protesters who were returning home via Prince Edward station, on the night of 31 August 2019, after a protest was held that same day. The event was described as the police version of the 2019 Yuen Long attack, and the police have been criticised as acting like terrorists. Rumours have been circulated that several protesters were beaten to death at the station, but the police have rejected allegations. However, for over a year on the last day of each month, pro-democracy supporters continued to leave white flowers and bowed as a sign of mourning, until they were stopped by more stringent enforcement of the national security law by police. The attack is known in Hong Kong as the 831 incident, after the date 31 August. Timeline. According to several news reports, some protesters conducted flash mobbing on MTR lines, damaging Mong Kok MTR station. They clashed with counter-demonstrators in one of the cabins of the Kwun Tong line train which was heading towards Tiu Keng Leng, as well as on the"}, {"text": "platform. The counter-demonstrators were armed with weapons including hammers and box cutters. Videos showed the police Raptor Squads arriving at Prince Edward station, clubbing and pepper-spraying travellers without arresting them. They also conducted arrests of others who were on the platform and on stationary trains on the Kwun Tong line. According to one passenger of the Central-bound train on the Tsuen Wan line, not all of the passengers in his cabin were protesters; other witnesses also accused the police of attacking those passengers without reason. The train then went to Yau Ma Tei station, where the injured passengers were evacuated by medics; bloodied bandages, tissues and umbrellas littered the scene. The station was closed soon afterwards by the police, even journalists and paramedics were not allowed to enter. One paramedic was reportedly waved a banner with the words \"Hindering aid operations is violating International humanitarian law\". After the raid, seven people were sent to hospital. An additional three people from the initial Kwun Tong line conflict had been sent to the hospital via Yau Ma Tei station, before the arrival of the officers of the Hong Kong Fire Services Department. The fire department also admitted that the police who arrived"}, {"text": "before them had temporarily blocked the access of the platforms, delaying the rescue. It was reported that it took the injured over 2.5 hours to reach the hospital. A total of 65 people were arrested as of 1 November for involvement in the incident. The police accused the suspects of \"unauthorised assembly,\" \"criminal damage,\" and \"obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty\". However, it was reported that a counter-demonstrator armed with a hammer was not among those arrested, despite witness' claims that he had injured several people. According to the police, two arrested suspects, aged 33 and 13, were formally charged for \"possession of offensive or lethal weapons\". Their cases were mentioned in the court for the first time on 2 September. The second mention of their cases were queued in November. 62 people were under bail as of 1 November. Another teen, aged 15, was released in October without charges. The court refused his application for a protective order. Aftermath. The Hong Kong Fire Services Department's preliminary initial records had changed from 10 to 7 injured. On 6 September 2019, several sit-in protests were reported in September wherein protesters demanded MTR to release the footage"}, {"text": "of the closed-circuit television and were \"calling on police to apologise for excessive violence\". One of the exits of the MTR station became an unofficial memorial wall with flowers and messages. Despite attempts to destroy the memorial by other residents, flowers and messages were re-built by the protesters. On 31 October, another protest was held near the station to mark the two month commemoration of the incident. However, the protest, which did not have a permit from the police, resulted in a clash between protesters and the police, with at least three people injured and least one protester arrested. It was also reported that the protesters had vandalised traffic lights and the exits of Mong Kok MTR station, as well as starting a fire on nearby Nathan Road. One of the teens who was injured by the police filed a civil lawsuit against the Hong Kong Police Force, alleging that the attacks against him constituted assault and he was therefore entitled to damages. On 10 November 2021, a male student of the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts pleaded guilty at the District Court to the rioting charges of damaging station property, and threatening passers-by with a cane. Justice Douglas"}, {"text": "Yau said that Wan was a \"frontline offender\" and \"wantonly vandalised\" the station's control room. The starting point for sentencing was four years. With consideration of Wan's guilty plea, the sentence handed out was 40 months. Reactions. Critics also made sarcastic comments about the police, claiming they were blatantly lying. During the press meeting, the police claimed they were able to distinguish innocent citizens from their arrest targets. They claimed there were \"undercover violent protesters\" that had changed clothes to blend in, and denied attacking people indiscriminately. Amnesty International Hong Kong called for an investigation into the police conduct after the Special Tactical Squad stormed Prince Edward station and beat and pepper-sprayed the passengers inside. The Hong Kong Bar Association accused the police of abusing its power, claiming \"Video footage from the Prince Edward MTR station last Saturday night show riot police launching indiscriminate attacks, without any apparent lawful excuse, and using pepper spray on passengers inside a train compartment or hitting them with batons, especially since the officers in question left the train carriage afterwards without making any arrests\". Both the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (PORI; a successor of HKU ) and CUHK Centre for Communication and"}, {"text": "Public Opinion Survey made opinion polls for the protest and incidents. In the CUHK's fifth survey for the whole protest, 52% of interviewees believe the rumour that the police had killed citizens during the 31 August raid in the MTR station. In PORI's survey, conducted in October, 48% of interviewees believe the rumour. Critics urged the government to establish an Independent Commission of Inquiry, by invoking the Commissions of Inquiry Ordinance, to respond to the situation. A day before the second anniversary of the incident, a local reporter said he had received mail containing a large razor blade and an anonymous message that he should keep quiet about 831 to protect his family. For more than a year after the incident, pro-democracy supporters came to the station on the last day of each month to mourn the fatalities they believed had occurred during the attack. More stringent enforcement of the national security law by Hong Kong police ended this. A man holding flowers was taken away on the fifth anniversary of the protests in 2024 after bowing."}, {"text": "Justice Sanjay Yadav (born 26 June 1959) is an Indian Judge and currently serving as Judicial member of Lokpal of India. He is former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. He has served as acting Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court and Madhya Pradesh High Court. He has also served as Judge of the Allahabad High Court and Madhya Pradesh High Court. Career. Born on 6 June 1959. Enrolled as an Advocate on 25 August 1986. He practiced on Civil, Revenue and Constitutional side in the Madhya Pradesh High Court. He was appointed Deputy Advocate General of Madhya Pradesh. He was elevated as Additional Judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court on 2 March 2007 and Permanent on 15 January 2010. He was appointed Acting Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court with effect from 6 October 2019 to 2 November 2019 and from 30 September 2020 to 2 January 2021. He was transferred as Judge of Allahabad High Court on 8 January 2021. Appointed Acting Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court on 14 April 2021. He was appointed Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court on 10 June 2021 and took oath on 13 June 2021. He retired on"}, {"text": "25 June 2021. In, March 2024 he was appointed as a Judicial member of Lokpal where he will serve until March 2029."}, {"text": "Dabwali Assembly constituency is one of the 90 constituencies in the Haryana Legislative Assembly of Haryana, a state in northwest India. Dabwali is also part of Sirsa Lok Sabha constituency. Aditya Chautala is the current MLA from Dabwali."}, {"text": "\"The Drop\" is a song by Australian rock band Regurgitator. The song was released in October 2004 as the lead single from the band's fifth studio album \"Mish Mash!\", which was recorded in a bubble in Federation Square, Melbourne, as part of Australian music channel, Channel V's \"Band in a Bubble\" program, in which the band entered a small glass recording studio while the public could watch the band work, or tune into a 24-hour digital cable television channel. Upon release, \"The Drop\" was the 10th most added song to radio and has become a top 5 request on Channel V. The song peaked at number 69 on the Australian ARIA Charts. The song was voted in at number 85 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2004."}, {"text": "Posyolok imeni Karla Marksa () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,434 as of 2010. There are 16 streets. Geography. The settlement is located on the Naromsha River, 12 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bryzgalovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Posyolok imeni Kirova () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 380 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. The village is located 8 km north-west from Posyolok imeni Karla Marksa, 14 km north from Kameshkovo."}, {"text": "Posyolok imeni Krasina () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 351 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. The settlement is located on the Seksha River, 16 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tyntsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Hibar Systems Ltd was a Canadian manufacturer of automated, precision liquid dispensing and filling systems. Hibar was started in 1974 when German-born Canadian engineer Heinz Barall developed a prototype of a precision metering pump that would dispense a small, precise amount (two microlitres) of electrolytes into button cell batteries. Barall took his prototype to one of the world's largest battery companies, where representatives were so impressed with its flawless performance, they kept the prototype and ordered more. Building on its success in the battery industry, over the next 40 years, Hibar started building precision liquid dispensing systems for other industries, such as filling printer ink cartridges, putting pharmaceuticals into vials, and packaging cosmetics. The company also continued to supply its products to the battery production industry and developed new vacuum filling systems for lithium-ion battery applications. Hibar's technology caught the eye of Tesla, Inc., which builds battery-electric vehicles and battery energy systems. Tesla quietly acquired Hibar sometime in 2019, which was first revealed in an October 2019 filing with the Canadian government. The purchase came amid an acquisition spree where Tesla bought six other small companies with expertise in automation or battery technology. Tesla merged the company into its operation,"}, {"text": "removing the Hibar signage from in front of the Richmond Hill office building in 2020 and changing the legal name on Hibar's website to Tesla Toronto Automation ULC in 2021."}, {"text": "Posyolok imeni Frunze () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 64 as of 2010. Geography. The settlement is located on the Pechuga River, 23 km west of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kruglovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Posyolok sanatoriya imeni Lenina () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 23 as of 2010. Geography. The settlement is located on the Klyazma River, 33 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Trofimovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Privolye () is a rural locality (a village) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 63 as of 2010. Geography. Privolye is located on the Uvod River, 17 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pobochnevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pridorozhny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2010. Geography. Pridorozhny is located 9 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dmitriyevsky pogost is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ruchkino () is a rural locality (a village) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2010. Geography. Ruchkino is located on the Talsha River, 18 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Arefino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ryabinovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2010. Geography. Ryabinovka is located 19 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tyntsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ferozepur Jhirka is one of the 90 constituencies in the Haryana Legislative Assembly of Indian state of Haryana. Ferozepur Jhirka is also part of Gurgaon Lok Sabha constituency. This constituency has been primarily been occupied by the Shakrulla-Naseem clan from the political families in the region. Members of the Legislative Assembly. ^By poll"}, {"text": "Elisa Antonia Dur\u00e1n Barrera (born 16 January 2002) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Colo-Colo. Club career. Dur\u00e1n played for Colo-Colo U-17 team in 2017 and 2018, winning the championship in both seasons. In 2019, Dur\u00e1n graduated to Colo-Colo's first team, debuting at the Chilean women's football championship. During the season, Dur\u00e1n scored a goal on her team's victory against rivals Universidad de Chile. International career. Dur\u00e1n was part of the Chile's U-17 squad that competed at the 2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship. In 2019, Dur\u00e1n was selected as part of the team that competed at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup held in France, being the youngest player of the squad. She did not play at the World Cup. In both 2020 and 2022, she made appearances for the under-20 team in the South American Championships and the 2022 South American Games."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 New Mexico Lobos women's basketball team represented the University of New Mexico during the 2018\u201319 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Lobos were led by fourth year head coach Mike Bradbury. They played their home games at Dreamstyle Arena and are a member of the Mountain West Conference. Previous season. They finished the previous season 24\u20137, 14\u20134 in Mountain West play to finish in second place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West Conference women's basketball tournament to San Diego State. They received an automatic bid to the Women's National Invitation Tournament where they got upset by Denver in the first round. Schedule and results. !colspan=9 style=| Exhibition !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Mountain West Women's Tournament See also. 2019-20 New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team"}, {"text": "Margaret \"Peg\" McCray, also known as Peggy Thompson, Peggy or Peg Fenwick and Peg Padover (November 9, 1907 \u2013 November 5, 1987), was an American screenwriter and playwright who worked in the U.S. and French film industries, best known for writing the scripts for \"Whirlpool of Desire\" and \"All That Heaven Allows\". Early life and education. McCray was born in New York City in 1907, daughter of Edward McCray, a lawyer, and his wife Anna Royce Carr. When McCray was six years old, her mother died, and her father died in 1914 when she was seven. McCray and her younger brother were adopted by Ellen Dustin Thompson and her husband William S. Thompson in 1917, and added the surname Thompson to their names. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where she attended the Sacred Heart Convent School and the Mary Institute. She spent a year in France as a child, attending a school at St Germain, Paris, and also had a Belgian governess. She studied at the University of California at Los Angeles for a year, then left and worked as a secretary for Hollywood director Rowland Lee. Career. McCray worked at Paramount Pictures studio in New York, for"}, {"text": "four years. She did no original writing during that time, but did some continuity writing, and, fluent in French, she worked on the French adaptation of \"Honor Among Lovers\" (then known as \"Strictly Business\"). She moved to Paris, France, in about 1931. Using the name Peggy Thompson, she worked for the Vandor Company on the English version of \"Don Quixote\" (1933). She also wrote the story on which the film \"\" (1935) was based. Her original title for it was \"A Kiss in the Dark\", and she sold it for $5,000. A contemporary review also credits Peggy Thompson for \"cutting\" (ie editing) the film, along with E. T. Gr\u00e9ville and Curt Alexander. The film had made about $2,000,000 by the end of 1939, and McCray expressed regret that she had not sold it for a percentage of its earnings. During 1935, she worked in England with Basil Dean at Associated Talking Pictures, Ealing. There, she wrote the scenario for \"Midshipman Easy\" and assisted with the adaptation of Eleanor Smith's novel \"Ballerina\" for the screen (its film title was \"The Men in Her Life\"). She also wrote skits for Gracie Fields. \"Remous\" was released in the US in 1939 as \"Whirlpool"}, {"text": "of Desire\" after American film censors had banned it over several years. By that time, McCray had worked on two films in the US, including \"King of the Newsboys\" (1938), and a French film about Alpine life and sports, which contained \"no more sex\". She reportedly found it embarrassing to see billboards proclaiming, \"See Peggy Thompson's 'Whirlpool of Desire' - hotter even than Ecstasy.\" In 1942, using the name Peggy Fenwick, she wrote a Christmas play called \"Among Those Present\", which was performed at a church near Allentown, Pennsylvania. During World War II, she worked for the United States Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP) as a script reviewer. Among the films she reviewed were \"In Old Oklahoma\", \"A Song to Remember\", \"Gung Ho!\", \"Bataan\", and \"So Proudly We Hail!\". In 1950, under the name Peg Fenwick, she wrote a stage play called \"Meet the World\", which the \"Los Angeles Times\" described as \"an impressive stage event\", in which Fenwick showed \"considerable understanding of present-day international problems ... in the parallel she drew with the founding of the United States.\" The play starred Jeff Chandler and celebrated accomplishments of UNESCO. Fenwick then worked for Universal International Pictures."}, {"text": "She adapted Ben Lucien Burman's novel \"Blow for a Landing\". The film, retitled \"Mississippi Landing\", was to star Audie Murphy, though the project was ultimately shelved. She also adapted the novel \"All That Heaven Allows\" by Edna Lee and Harry Lee into the screenplay for a film of the same name. The film starred Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson and Agnes Moorehead. The \"Evening Sun\" of Baltimore described Fenwick's script for \"All That Heaven Allows\" (1955) as \"shrewdly and urbanely intelligent.\" Fenwick wrote her final script in about 1958. During the 1960s, she worked for the U.S. State Department, advising on women's affairs in the Far East and Europe. Personal life. She married Saul K. Padover, a professor and author, in 1957. She was a member of the League of Women Voters, and also worked as an activist in Brooklyn Heights to improve sanitation in the area in the 1970s. Her brother, Edward \"Ted\" McCray Thompson, was a reporter for the \"St. Louis Post-Dispatch\", \"St. Louis Globe-Democrat\", and \"St. Louis Star-Times\" and the author of a book called \"Leg Man\". He died in 1957. Selected works. Screen: Stage:"}, {"text": "Amanit is a \"tabia\" or municipality in the Dogu'a Tembien district of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. The \"tabia\" centre is Addi Qeshofo village, located approximately 15 km to the southeast of the \"woreda\" town Hagere Selam (as the crow flies). Geography. The \"tabia\" stretches down southbound over an elongated ridge between Inda Sillasie River and Addi Keshofo River towards Giba River. The highest place is a hill east of Gudeli (2230 m a.s.l.) and the lowest place at the junction of Inda Sillasie and Giba Rivers (1448 m a.s.l.). Geology. The two main geological formations are Antalo Limestone in most of the \"tabia\", and Adigrat Sandstone on the slopes towards the river gorges. Quaternary alluvium and freshwater tufa occur in the valley bottoms. Geomorphology and soils. The main geomorphic units, with corresponding soil types are: Water. Springs and irrigation. There is permanent water in the main rivers, but located deep in the gorges, they are difficult of access. It is used for irrigation, and occasionally for drinking water. Hence, the presence of springs is of utmost importance for the local people. The following are the springs in the tabia: Ponds. In this area with rains that last only for"}, {"text": "a couple of months per year, reservoirs of different sizes allow harvesting runoff from the rainy season for further use in the dry season. There are many traditional surface water harvesting ponds, particularly in places without permanent springs, called \"rahaya\"; they continue to be maintained and expanded. In addition, \"Horoyo\", household ponds, have recently been constructed through campaigns. Vegetation and exclosures. The \"tabia\" holds several exclosures, areas that are set aside for regreening. Wood harvesting and livestock range are not allowed there. Besides effects on biodiversity, water infiltration, protection from flooding, sediment deposition, carbon sequestration, people commonly have economic benefits from these exclosures through grass harvesting, beekeeping and other non-timber forest products. The local inhabitants also consider it as \u201cland set aside for future generations\u201d. In this \"tabia\", some exclosures are managed by the EthioTrees project. They have as an additional benefit that the villagers receive carbon credits for the sequestered , as part of a carbon offset programme. The revenues are then reinvested in the villages, according to the priorities of the communities; it may be for an additional class in the village school, a water pond, conservation in the exclosures, or a store for incense. The following exclosures"}, {"text": "are managed by the Ethiotrees project in Amanit municipality: Livelihood. The population lives essentially from crop farming, supplemented with off-season work in nearby towns. The land is dominated by farmlands which are clearly demarcated and are cropped every year. Hence the agricultural system is a permanent upland farming system. Especially the youngsters will go to the deep gorge of Giba river to harvest incense from Boswellia papyrifera trees. Population. The \"tabia\" centre Addi Qeshofo holds a few administrative offices, a health post, a primary school, and some small shops. There are a few more primary schools across the \"tabia\". The main other populated places are: Religion and churches. Most inhabitants are Orthodox Christians. The following churches are located in the \"tabia\": History. The history of the \"tabia\" is strongly confounded with the history of Tembien. Roads and communication. The main road Mekelle \u2013 Hagere Selam \u2013 Abiy Addi is far away from the \"tabia\". A rural access road links most villages to Togogwa in Debre Nazret, where there is public transport to Mekelle and Hagere Selam. Schools. Almost all children of the \"tabia\" are schooled, though in some schools there is lack of classrooms, directly related to the large intake"}, {"text": "in primary schools over the last decades. Schools in the \"tabia\" include Amanit school. Tourism. Its mountainous nature and proximity to Mekelle makes the \"tabia\" fit for tourism. Geotouristic sites. The high variability of geological formations and the rugged topography invites for geological and geographic tourism or \"geotourism\". Geosites in the \"tabia\" include: Birdwatching. Birdwatching (for the species, see the main Dogu'a Tembien page) can be done particularly in exclosures and forests. The following bird-watching sites have been inventoried in the \"tabia\" and mapped. Trekking routes. Trekking routes have been established in this \"tabia\". The tracks are not marked on the ground but can be followed using downloaded .GPX files. Loops allow detailed visits of Addi Lihtsi village and its incense landscapes \"Inda Siwa\", the local beer houses. In the main villages, there are traditional beer houses (\"Inda Siwa\"), often in unique settings, which are a good place for resting and chatting with the local people. Most renown are in May Genet: Accommodation and facilities. The facilities are very basic. One may be invited to spend the night in a rural homestead or ask permission to pitch a tent. Hotels are available in Hagere Selam and Mekelle. Rooms are for"}, {"text": "rent in the nearby Togogwa (Debre Nazret), a place that hosts pilgrims on their way to the Dabba Hadera monastery. More detailed information. For more details on environment, agriculture, rural sociology, hydrology, ecology, culture, etc., see the overall page on the Dogu'a Tembien district."}, {"text": "Vecinos is a Mexican television series. It may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Joseph Jefferson (1829\u20131905) was an American stage actor. Joseph Jefferson may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Wohlleben is a surname. Notable people with the name include:"}, {"text": "The 22701 / 22702 Visakhapatnam\u2013Guntur Uday Express is a Double-decker AC chair Car train of the Indian Railways connecting in Andhra Pradesh and in Andhra Pradesh. It was first introduced between Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada Jn. It was later extended up to Guntur Jn. It is currently being operated with 22701/22702 train numbers on five days a week. It operates at an average speed of 55 km/h. Coach composition. Utkrisht Double Decker Air Conditioned Yatri Express will be double-decker trains with 40% additional passenger capacity. They will run on busy route by Indian Railways with features of LED screen display to show information about stations, train speed etc. and will have announcement system as well, Vending machines for tea, coffee and milk, Bio toilets in compartments as well as CCTV cameras. UDAY Express has a total of 10 coaches; 3 coaches with Dining facility with seating capacity of 104 Seats each and 5 coaches without dining with seating capacity of 120 seats. The remaining two will be power cars. Service. It averages 50 km/h as 22701 Uday Express starts from Visakhapatnam, covering 381 km in 7 hrs 40 mins and 55 km/h as 22702 Uday Express starts from Guntur, covering 381"}, {"text": "km in 6 hrs 55 min. Traction. Both trains are hauled by a Visakhapatnam-based WAP-7 locomotive on its entire journey."}, {"text": "Ho\u00e0ng Y\u1ebfn (Ho\u00e0ng Y\u1ebfn Chibi, born 1995) is a Vietnamese singer and actress. Ho\u00e0ng Y\u1ebfn may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Gra\u017evydas Lukinavi\u010dius is a Lithuanian biochemist. His scientific interest and main area of research is focused on labeling of biomolecules and visualization using super-resolution microscopy. He is co-invertor of DNA labeling technology known as Methyltransferase-Directed Transfer of Activated Groups (mTAG) and biocompatible and cell permeable fluorophore \u2013 silicon-rhodamine (SiR). Both inventions were commercialized. He is studying labeling methods and apply them for chromatin dynamics visualization in living cells. Early life. He was born in the family of an electrician and a land development specialist. Lukinavi\u010dius finished secondary school in Jurbarkas. Research. Lukinavi\u010dius completed his bachelor's degree and master's degree in biochemistry at the Vilnius University in 2000 and 2002 respectively. During this period he worked as a research assistant in Saulius Klima\u0161auskas group and investigating conformational movements of the catalytic loop of DNA methyltransferase. Later he became interested in S-Adenosyl methionine analogues which can be cofactors for methyltransferases. He collaborated with Elmar Weinhold from RWTH Aachen University and learned chemical synthesis and received his PhD in biochemistry at Vilnius University, Lithuania in September 2007. This led to the development of a new DNA labeling method, the Methyltransferase-Directed Transfer of Activated Groups (mTAG). This method was applied for optical DNA mapping"}, {"text": "and for a profiling epigenetic modifications by several research groups. After obtaining his PhD, he moved to \u00c9cole polytechnique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne for postdoctoral research where he continued on working with protein labeling methods in group of Kai Johnsson. He improved SNAP-tag protein labelling technology by developing a new biocompatible fluorophore, silicon-rhodamine (SiR). During this period, he began a collaboration with Stefan Hell to perform one of the first super-resolution microscopy experiments of living cells. In 2016, Stefan Hell invited Lukinavi\u010dius to the Department of NanoBiophotonics of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in G\u00f6ttingen. He has continued working on fluorescence labeling of biomolecules and started a Chromatin Labeling and Imaging group in 2018. Publications. His most-cited publications, according to \"Google Scholar\" are:"}, {"text": "The Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe minibus accident took place on October 5, 2019 near Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe village in Ialomi\u021ba County, south-eastern Romania. It was the worst accident in Romania in recent years. Incident. The minibus had left for a short time from the village of Munteni-Buz\u0103u, Ialomi\u021ba county and headed for Bucharest. Around 05.00 in the morning, the minibus, operated by the CDI transport company, was smashed by a truck which was running on the opposite side of the road. The truck driver is alleged to have fallen asleep at the wheel, leading to the truck leaving its lane. The victims were transported to Bagdasar Arseni and Floreasca hospitals in Bucharest. Reactions. The company Mega Image states in a Facebook post: \"According to the first informations transmitted by IPJ Ialomi\u021ba spokesperson, the accident was caused by the driver of the TIR entered the counter, entering full collision with the minibus in which they were our colleagues. We are with the grieving families and we will support them in all the necessary steps\". The Transport Minister, R\u0103zvan Cuc, states in a Facebook post: \"Because the Romanians are waiting for us, those who care about us, solutions, especially in such situations, I decided to"}, {"text": "convene at 4:00 pm an operational committee with all the decision makers involved to take the necessary measures so that such tragedies do not recur. There will be a period of massive traffic jams to track down transportation companies and drivers who do not comply with the law, and we will apply drastic new measures in this area. Condolences to the families who are going through a difficult ordeal!\". The President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, said during a campaign event for his re-election: \"Today I received an awful message. There was a terrible accident between Urziceni and Slobozia, with ten dead and almost ten seriously injured. It made me very sad. Condolences, I'm very sorry! Let us understand from here that the lack of infrastructure kills as well as corruption kills. This criminal negligence of the PSD costs the lives of Romanians\"."}, {"text": "Sterling USD 376 is a public unified school district headquartered in Sterling, Kansas, United States. The district includes the communities of Sterling, Alden, Saxman, and nearby rural areas. Schools. The school district operates the following schools:"}, {"text": "Christian Carl Magnussen (31 August 1821, Bredstedt18 July 1896, Schleswig) was a German painter, primarily of genre scenes. Biography. He began his artistic career as a student of Herman Wilhelm Bissen at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. From 1846 to 1848, he was in Rome, where he sketched and painted scenes from daily life. In 1848, when his application for a scholarship at the Academy was rejected, he became involved in the First Schleswig War, on the German side. Following the Danish victory, he settled in Hamburg and became a portrait painter. There, he made the acquaintance of Georg Christian Lorenz Meyer, a local politician, and fell in love with his daughter, Meta. From 1851 to 1852, Meyer financed a stay in Paris for him, during which he studied with Thomas Couture. After returning, in 1853, he married Meta. Her inheritance enabled them to live in Rome. They stayed for seven years altogether, during which time they held an almost continual open house. Their most notable frequent guests included the painters, Ludwig Knaus, , the brothers and , as well as the art historian, Wilhelm L\u00fcbke. They were especially good friends with the poet, Hermann Allmers."}, {"text": "Most of the works he created there were either idealized portraits of women or scenes from Italian folk life. When relations between Austria and Italy became strained and war appeared imminent, he took his family back to Germany and settled in Hamburg, where he once again became a portrait painter. In 1875, they moved to Schleswig, which by then had become part of Germany. Instead of painting, he focused on operating a woodcarving school and attempting to revive the techniques of the \"Old Masters\". He also worked on restoring carvings in churches throughout the area, but it is now the general opinion that his rigorous restorations robbed the works of their value as historical items. His activities included collecting furniture and various church pieces; over 500 in all. In 1894, when his school had proven to be financially unsuccessful, he placed his collection in the new Museum of Applied Arts in Copenhagen, as an exhibition for sale. It was purchased in its entirety by Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, and is now on exhibition as part of the \"Cumberland Collection\" at S\u00f8nderborg Castle Another significant part had been acquired by Justus Brinckmann in 1887 for display at the Museum"}, {"text": "f\u00fcr Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. Altogether, he had sixteen children from two marriages; including the sculptor Harro Magnussen, the ceramicist , and the painter and writer,"}, {"text": "Lyons USD 405 is a public unified school district headquartered in Lyons, Kansas, United States. The district includes the communities of Lyons, Mitchell, Pollard, and nearby rural areas. Schools. The school district operates the following schools:"}, {"text": "Philippe B\u00e9laval (, born 21 August 1955) is a French high-ranking official. He has been president of the Centre des monuments nationaux since 2012. Life. Born in Toulouse, Belaval graduated from the Institut d'\u00e9tudes politiques de Toulouse (class 1975). He is a former student of the \u00c9cole nationale d'administration, and was an auditor of the 58th national session of the Institut des hautes \u00e9tudes de d\u00e9fense nationale. He has been a member of the Conseil d'\u00c9tat since 1979."}, {"text": "Moonnam Pralayam is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed by Ratheesh Raju M.R and written by S.K. Vilwan based on Kerala floods and its after effects. The film was produced by Devasia Kuriakose under the banner of Niagara Movies. It stars Ashkkar Soudaan, Sai Kumar, Bindu Panikkar, Kulappulli Leela, V. Suresh Thampanoor and Anil Murali. The story of the film follows the happenings at a relief camp opened in a church at Kainakary in Kuttanad. It was filmed in 18 days. The film was theatrically released on 2 August 2019. The film was theatrically released on 2 August 2019. Soundtrack. The soundtrack is composed by Raghupathy and Manithamara and lyrics are by Manithamara. Sachithandan Puzhankara"}, {"text": "Ardis E. Parshall (born 1959) is an \"independent historian\" who researches Latter-day Saint history. Parshall has published her research on her blog, \"Keepapitchinin\". In addition to her research work, Parshall worked for \"the Salt Lake Tribune\" as a historical writer from 2005 to 2011. She also published a book entitled, \"The Corianton Saga\". Parshall has co-edited books including \"\" and \"Dime Novel Mormons\". Research. According to W. Paul Reeve, Parshall conducts research that highlights individuals whose stories are largely unknown. In a Salt Lake Tribune article, Reeve expressed that \"Ardis [E. Parshall] is one of the most dogged researchers working in the Mormon past\" and that \"[s]he recognizes...little scraps of history, and their connections to bigger contexts, and is a pro at discovering people who otherwise have been forgotten. According to a \"Salt Lake Tribune\" article, Parshall's research has been used by others \"without attribution\" on \"several\" occasions. The \"Tribune\" article stated that this \"[lack of] attribution\" occurs \"frequently\" in the realm of religious research. Quoting media ethics analyst Kelly McBride, the \"Tribune\" article noted that \"publishers want to attract [religious] audience[s] 'without the elbow grease you should do and without crediting those who did.'\" \"Keepapitchinin\". \"Keepapitchinin\" is a Latter-day"}, {"text": "Saint history blog created by Parshall. Author and editor Gary James Bergera highlighted \"Keepapitchinin\" as a blog that \"feature[s] some of the most provocative Mormon-related discussions taking place today.\" Professor Jared Farmer called \"Keepapitchinin\" \"a box of treasures,\" praising Parshall's \"expert historical commentary\" included on \"Keepapitchinin\". In 2010, Parshall made a blog post entitled, \"The Best Beards in Mormon History: Results Show.\" This post won a blogging award from the Association for Mormon Letters. In addition to the Association for Mormon Letters blogging award, Parshall's \"Keepapitchinin\" won several Bloggernacle awards, published on a blogging website: \"Wheat and Tares\". In 2008, \"Keepapitchinin\" won a Bloggernacle award for \"Best New Blog.\" In 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2013, Parshall's blog won a Bloggernacle award entitled, \"Best Solo Blog.\"Parshall's \"Keepapitchinin\" also won Bloggernacle awards for the \"Best Historical Post\" in 2008 and the \"Best Doctrinal Post\" in 2010. The \"Century of Black Mormons\" project. According to W. Paul Reeve, the \"Century of Black Mormons\" project is a \"digital history project\" that \"recover[s]...the identities of Black Latter-day Saints\" who lived between 1830 and 1930. Parshall contributes to the University of Utah's \"Century of Black Mormons\" project as a \"contributing scholar.\" Additionally, Parshall works as a"}, {"text": "member of the project's advisory council, with Reeve also being a member of the advisory council. Recognitions. John Whitmer Historical Association. In 2018, Parshall received an award from the John Whitmer Historical Association alongside Michael Austin. Together, Parshall and Austin won the Association's \"Best Anthology\" award for their work on \"Dime Novel Mormons\". Mormon History Association. As noted by JSTOR, the Mormon History Association (MHA) is \"an independent non-profit...organization devoted to all aspects of the scholarly study of the Mormon past.\" In 2024, the MHA awarded individuals for their work related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Community of Christ. MHA identified Parshall as \"a pioneer in Mormon Studies public history\" who has made \"major contributions\" to Latter-day Saint public history. MHA named an award after Parshall entitled the Ardis E. Parshall Public History Award. This award is given to individuals who \"rigorous[ly]\" contribute to public history. The award was first distributed in 2021 to Parshall, herself, for her blog, \"Keepapitchinin\". Contributions to other scholars. Parshall's research has been used by many Latter-day Saint scholars. Among these are Steven C. Harper (referenced Parshall's research in his work entitled \"First Vision: Memory and Mormon Origins\"),"}, {"text": "Nathan Oman (received \"research notes\" from Parshall when writing an academic article entitled, \"The Blessing That's Anticipated Here Will Be Realized in the Next Life\"), W. Paul Reeve (referenced Parshall's research in his book entitled, \"Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness\"), and Matthew Grow (mentioned Parshall's research in his academic article entitled, \"Biography in Mormon Studies\"). Selected literary works. \"The Corianton Saga\". In 2022, Parshall wrote \"The Corianton Saga\", which provides insight into the life of Corianton, a man referenced in the \"Book of Mormon\". Although briefly mentioned in the \"Book of Mormon\", Parshall stated that Corianton's story was \"arguably the most popular and well-known narrative from the Book of Mormon\" for \"earlier generations of Latter-day Saints.\" In \"The Corianton Saga\", Parshall supports this claim by exposing readers to various forms of media that highlighted Corianton's story. \"Dime Novel Mormons\". This work was co-edited by Parshall and Michael Austin in 2017. \"Dime Novel Mormons\" highlights four examples of dime novels that \"represent[ed] different aspects of the Mormon image.\" The four novels highlighted in \"Dime Novel Mormons\" were published between the years 1870 and 1903. \"Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia\". Parshall co-edited \"Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia\""}, {"text": "alongside W. Paul Reeve. The \"Encyclopedia\" was published in 2010. \"Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia\" includes discussions about various topics related to the LDS Church and its history. More specifically, the book highlights various \"[e]ras\" in Latter-day Saint history. It also discusses \"[e]vents,\" \"[p]eople,\" and \"[i]ssues\" related to its history."}, {"text": "Miss Earth United States 2018 was the 14th Miss Earth United States pageant, held at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, on July 14, 2018. Andreia Gibau of Massachusetts crowned her successor Yashvi Aware of Maryland (representing Midatlantic) as Miss Earth United States 2018. Aware represented the United States at the Miss Earth 2018 pageant in the Philippines. Pageant. Pageant activities took place from July 10\u201314, 2018 in the Washington metropolitan area, which included a service day in Washington, D.C., with delegates from the Teen, Miss, and Elite divisions cleaning up trash within the National Mall. Additionally, delegates are scored on their social media activity leading up to the national pageant, as well as their environmental project that occurred in June for the organization's \"Think Local, Act Global\" initiative. All phases of the pageant were available via livestream on the Miss Earth United States Facebook page. Preliminary rounds. Preliminary rounds took place on July 12 and July 13, 2018, at the Crystal City Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. Delegates competed in a public speaking presentation, and on-stage the following day for runway, swimwear, and evening gown. The runway and swimwear preliminaries were hosted by Brittany Payne,"}, {"text": "Adele Scala, and Leslie Jackson, with Payne returning to host the evening gown preliminary alongside Andreia Gibau. Finals. During the final competition, the top 20 competed in runway, while the top 12 also competed in swimwear and evening gown. The top five delegates also competed in an on-stage question round and were scored on their response to: \"What do you do to inspire others to be green?\" Delegates. Delegate information provided by the Miss Earth United States organization."}, {"text": "Ryakhovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2010. Geography. Ryakhovo is located 18 km northwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Saulovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Saulovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 29 as of 2010. Geography. Saulovo is located 16 km northwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ryakhovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Semenigino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2010. Geography. Semenigino is located 22 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mikshino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sergeikha () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 902 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Sergeikha is located 20 km northwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Plyasitsyno is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ananta Saha (born 12 September 1996) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 6 October 2019, for Railways in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 5 November 2021, for Railways in the 2021\u201322 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy."}, {"text": "How to Write History () is the title of a study by the classical Syrian writer Lucian, which may be considered the only work on the theory of history-writing to survive from antiquity. Themes. The first part of Lucian\u2019s essay involved a critical attack on contemporary historians. Lucian maintained that they confused history with panegyric, overloaded it with irrelevant details, and weighed it down with overblown rhetoric. Lucian recommended instead the virtues of clear narration, and the valorisation of truth. He argued that the historian should write for all times, as \u201ca free man, fearless, incorruptible, the friend of truth\u201d; and held up the work of Thucydides as the legislative template for all subsequent historians. He argued that the \"historian's sole task is to tell the tale as it happened\" which is latter reflected in works of von Ranke among others."}, {"text": "Serebrovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 96 as of 2010. Geography. Serebrovo is located 17 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Imeni Kirova is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Simakovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 118 as of 2010. Geography. Simakovo is located 15 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Imeni Krasina is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Simonovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 25 as of 2010. Geography. Simonovo is located 32 km south of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lubenkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sosnovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 63 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Sosnovka is located 15 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Malygino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Staraya Nikola () is a rural locality (a pogost) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2010. Geography. The village is located 2 km north from Posyolok imeni Gorkogo, 17 km north from Kameshkovo."}, {"text": "Stupino () is a rural locality (a village) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 101 as of 2010. Geography. Stupino is located on the Seksha River, 16 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Imeni Kirova is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Unsquare is a 2008 studio album by Maybe Monday, a San Francisco based experimental electroacoustic improvisation music ensemble featuring guitarist Fred Frith, koto player Miya Masaoka and saxophonist Larry Ochs. It is their third album and includes guest musicians Gerry Hemingway, Carla Kihlstedt, Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins. \"Unsquare\" was recorded at East Side Sound Studio in New York City on November 18, 2006, and was released by Intakt Records in Switzerland in January 2008. Reception. In a review of \"Unsquare\" at \"All About Jazz\", Kurt Gottschalk called Maybe Monday \"a ridiculously strong trio\", and described their collaboration with Hemingway, Kihlstedt, Mori and Parkins on this album as \"a dizzying, fascinating set of music\". Clifford Allen wrote at \"Bagatellen\" that Maybe Monday are not unlike the British free improvisation group AMM. He noted that which instruments are producing which sound is not important \u2013 it is the combination of those sounds that matters, the \"subsuming of the parts to the whole\". Allen added that \"to parse \"Unsquare\" would be a disservice to the breadth of its canvas \u2013 this is a very rich recording of electro-acoustic improvisation.\" Jason Bivins wrote in \"Cadence\" that the inclusion of the four guests \"unsettl[ed]"}, {"text": "the group in just the right ways and thicken[ed] the sound provocatively\". He was impressed that they did this \"without weighing the music down or sacrificing space\". Bivins described \"Unsquare\" as a \"very fine record\". Reviewing \"Unsquare\" in \"DownBeat\", Bill Shoemaker was initially concerned that the presence of guests on Maybe Monday's third album would upset the \"alluringly precarious elegance and intensity\" of their earlier work. But he was pleased at how \"keenly ensemble-minded\" the guests are, and that they appear to have \"infallible instincts for when less is more and when more is much more\". The album's pieces \"pivot between sparseness and density, altering a consistently bracing mix of acoustic and electronic elements\". Shoemaker felt that the way the instruments connect, \"the twacks of koto and low-register harp; the gravelly drones of guitar and laptop; the smudges of reeds and bowed strings\", explains the growing interest in electro-acoustic improvisation. Track listing. All tracks composed by Maybe Monday. Sources: Liner notes, Discogs. Personnel. Sources: Liner notes, Discogs. Sound and artwork. Sources: Liner notes, Discogs."}, {"text": "Suslovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Suslovo is located 12 km south of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mishnevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Synkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Penkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Synkovo is located 28 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Borodino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Terekhovitsy () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 126 as of 2010. Geography. Terekhovitsy is located 6 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kameshkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The epic battle of Ain Albu Gomaa () was a military operation carried out by revolutionary groups in the city of Deir Ezzor in early June 1925 against the French forces during the Great Syrian Revolution. Deir Ezzor within the Great Syrian Revolution. There were contacts between the leaders of the Great Syrian Revolution and some patriots of Syrian east area as Mohammed \u0650Al-Ayyash, who met in Damascus with Dr. Abdul Rahman Shahbandar, leader of the People's Party, and discussed with him the issue of extending the revolution to the Euphrates region and opened a front against the French to disperse their forces and ease the pressure on the rebels of Ghouta and Jabal al-Arab, after returned Al-Ayyash from Damascus he started to arouse the enthusiasm of the people of Deir Ezzor and invite them to fight, and agreed with his brother Mahmoud to go to the villages of the Albu Saraya clan that living west of Deir ez-Zor and which have a strong friendship with his father Ayyash Al-Haj, to form revolutionary groups with them to strike the French forces. Al-Ayyash managed to form a revolutionary group of thirteen armed men who were ready to take any military action"}, {"text": "against the French forces, They are: Some people worked with the French at translation centers and others. Still, they were at the service of the revolutionaries which They were bringing news to Mohammed \u0650Al-Ayyash about the situation and movements of the French and their activities and the timing of their military operations and Al-Ayyash guides the revolutionaries to strike the French forces. The operation. In early June 1925, the translators informed Mohammed \u0650bey Al-Ayyash that a military vehicle carrying four French officers who had come from France to inspect the French military construction departments in Mandatory Syria and Greater Lebanon, accompanied by their French driver, would leave Deir Ezzor on its way to Aleppo. He instructed his brother Mahmoud to set up an ambush in the area of Ain Albu Gomaa on the road to Deir Ezzor Al-Raqqa, where the highway runs through very deep valley and has a narrow stone bridge. When the military vehicle arrived, the revolutionaries attacked and arrested the officers and took them with their car after they took their weapons to a desert called \"Al-Aksiyya\", and threw them with their driver in one of the abandoned wells where they died. The French were mad for"}, {"text": "losing contact with their officers, and began an extensive campaign included planes to search for them. When they found their bodies and inquired from the informants about the names of the revolutionaries, they sent a sizeable military force equipped with heavy guns and planes to attack Albu Saraya clan and blockade it. French planes began bombing the villages of the clan, it was a horrific and devastating bombardment where the houses destroyed on the heads of children and women and killed the livestock and burned farms and crops, Some civilians were killed and among them were \"Hanash Al-Mousa Al-Ani,\" \"Ali Al-Najras,\" and a woman who was pregnant. Many were wounded by bullets and shrapnel from planes bombs, All of this was to pressure on the people to surrender the revolutionaries. When the French is convinced that the bombing did not work, they resorted to a despicable means where they threatened to arrest the women of the revolutionaries, their mothers and sisters until the revolutionaries surrender themselves to the French, when the news arrived at the revolutionaries, they emerged from their hideouts and surrendered themselves to avoid arresting their women. The trial of revolutionaries. Revolutionaries were tried in Aleppo, where The"}, {"text": "family of Ayyash Al-Haj appointed lawyer Fathallah Al-Saqqal to defend her, The court heard (officer Bono) head of the French intelligence in Deir Ezzor, who said: If each of the criminals, who committed this terrible offense deserve dying once, the gang leader Mohammed Al-Ayyash is deserve hanging twice. The French High Commissioner in Beirut, Maurice Sarrail, issued Decision No. 49S / 5 in August 1925, which ordered the exile of all members of the Ayyash Al-Haj family to the city of Jableh, Mahmoud \u0650Al-Ayyash and 12 of his companions were sentenced to death. The execution was carried out by firing squad on 15 September 1925 in the city of Aleppo. Mohammed \u0650Al-Ayyash was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on the island of Arwad in Tartous city."}, {"text": "Tyntsy () is a rural locality (a selo) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 148 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Tyntsy is located 18 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ryabinovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nansen Land is a peninsula in far northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. The Arctic wolf is present in the peninsula. The northern shore facing the Lincoln sea slopes evenly and is fertile for the area, being the northernmost limit of certain plant species. History. Nansen Land was named after Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen (1861\u20131930) at the time of Knud Rasmussen's Thule expeditions. American geologist William E. Davies called the wider range north of J.P. Koch Fjord and Frederick E. Hyde Fjord the \"Nansen-Jensen Alps\", with the westernmost foothills in Nansen Land, stretching past the De Long Fjord area across Roosevelt Land and the Roosevelt Range, and reaching all the way to Johannes V. Jensen Land in the east. Geography. Nansen Land is located to the northeast of Freuchen Land, east of Sverdrup Island, and west of Borup Island and Amundsen Land. The westernmost headland is Cape Payer and the northernmost headland is Cape Mohn, the northern end of an island at the entrance of De Long Fjord, separated from Nansen Land by a narrow sound. The peninsula is bounded to the west by the Mascart Sund, to the southwest by the J.P. Koch"}, {"text": "Fjord and to the east by the Brainard Sund () and Thomas Thomsen Fjord, a branch of the De Long Fjord system. The peninsula is cut by faults roughly from east to west. To the southeast lies the Hans Tausen Ice Cap and to the south the Sirius Pass, a broad valley connecting J.P. Koch Fjord in the west and Brainard Sund in the east in the area where the peninsula is attached to the mainland and its ice cap. Northwestern Nansen Land is deeply indented on its Lincoln Sea shore. The main indentations are Jewell Fjord and Gardiner Fjord. The interior is mountainous and partly glaciated. Elevations reaching are found in the central part of the peninsula."}, {"text": "Riemke may refer to:"}, {"text": "Barend Jan (Baas) Terwiel (born 24 November 1941) is a Dutch-Australian anthropologist, historian and Thai studies scholar. He has written books on ethnology of Tai peoples and Ahom, the history and culture of Thailand as well as historical travel of Europeans to mainland Southeast Asia. He retired in 2007, although he still writes about Thailand, releasing a new edition of his book \"Thailand's Political History\" in 2010. He authored 11 articles over 47 years from 1972 to 2019 for Journal of the Siam Society. Education. Terwiel was born in Ginneken near Breda in the Netherlands. After his military service in Netherlands New Guinea, Terwiel had to spend a few days in Bangkok due to a lack of transport capacity, which aroused his interest for Thailand. He completed his studies at the Utrecht University with a \"candidaats\" degree in Cultural Anthropology in 1965 and a \"doctorandus\" degree in anthropology, Pali and the History of Buddhism in 1967. For his doctoral studies, he moved to the Australian National University where he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1972. For his dissertation project, he had himself ordained as a Buddhist monk and lived for a year in a village monastery in central Thailand to"}, {"text": "explore ceremonies and religious practice of Thai Buddhism from an inner perspective. Career. From 1972 to 1974 Terwiel worked as a coordinator training volunteers at the Dutch Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam. Then, he became a lecturer at the Faculty of Asian Studies of the Australian National University in Canberra, where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1982 and Reader in Asian History in 1991. In the same year, he was appointed Professor at the Institute of Ethnology of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. In 1992, Terwiel moved to the Asia and Africa Institute of the University of Hamburg where he held the Chair of Languages and Cultures of Thailand and Laos until his retirement in 2007. Publications. Terwiel, B. J.(1979). \"Seven probes in rural South East Asia : socio-economic and anthropological\". South East Asian Review Office for the Centre for South East Asian Studies. Terwiel, B. J. (1980). \"Field Marshal Plaek Phibun Songkhram\". University of Queensland Press. Terwiel, B. J. (1983). \"A history of modern Thailand, 1767-1942\". University of Queensland Press. Terwiel, B. J. (1989). \"A window on Thai history\". Editions Duang Kamol. Terwiel, B. J. (1989). \"Through travellers\u2019 eyes : an approach to early nineteenth-century Thai"}, {"text": "history\". Editions Duang Kamol. Terwiel, B. J., Diller, A., & Chonthir\u0101 Sattay\u0101watthan\u0101. (1990). \"Thon Tai (d\u014d\u0113m) mai dai y\u016b th\u012bn\u012b\". M\u016b\u2018angb\u014dr\u0101n. Terwiel, B. J., & Ranoo Wichasin. (1992). \"Tai Ahoms and the stars : three ritual texts to ward off danger = Tamr\u0101 d\u016bangd\u0101o Thai \u02bb\u0100hom : \u02bb\u0113kkas\u0101n sado\u031c khro\u031c 3 samn\u016ban\". Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University. Terwiel, B. J. (1994). \"Monks and magic : an analysis of religious ceremonies in central Thailand\" (3rd rev. ed). White Lotus. Terwiel, B. J., & Ch\u0101ich\u01b0\u0304n Khamd\u01e3ngy\u014d\u031cttai. (2003). \"Shan manuscripts.\" F. Steiner. Terwiel, B. J. (2008). \"A traveler in Siam in the year 1655 : extracts from the journal of Gijsbert Heeck\". Silkworm Books. Terwiel, B. J. (2010). \"The Ram Khamhaeng inscription : the fake that did not come true\" (1. Aufl). Ostasien Verlag. Terwiel, B. J. (2011). \"Monks and magic revisiting a classic study of religious ceremonies in Thailand\" (New ed). NIAS. Terwiel, B. J. (2011). \"Thailand\u2019s political history : from the 13th century to recent times\". River Books. Terwiel, B. J. (2012). \"\u201cSiam\u201d : ten ways to look at Thailand\u2019s past.\" Ostasien Verlag. Terwiel, B. J., & Wichasin, R. (2018). \"Tai Ahoms and the Stars : Three Ritual Texts to Ward"}, {"text": "off Danger.\" Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program Publications. https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501719004"}, {"text": "Karen Lavinia Pugh (born Q3, 1965), is a female former athlete who competed for England. Biography. Pugh finished second behind Lynda Whiteley in the discus throw event at the 1984 WAAA Championships and second behind Julia Avis at the 1984 WAAA Championships. Pugh represented England and won a bronze medal in the discus event, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. Pugh finished third during four consecutive years at the AAA Championships from 1986 to 1989."}, {"text": "The Tikhiy Don () is a \"Vladimir Ilyich\"-class (project 301, BiFa125M) Soviet/Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga \u2013 Neva basin. The ship was built by VEB Elbewerften Boizenburg/Ro\u00dflau at their shipyard in Boizenburg, East Germany, and entered service in 1977. 2004\u20132015 owned and operated by Grand Circle Cruise Line. Her home port is currently Rostov-on-Don. Features. The ship has restaurant, bar, conference hall and library."}, {"text": "The following is a list of former and current Australian sailboat racing associations. Current associations are affiliated with and recognised by Australian Sailing (AS) unless noted otherwise."}, {"text": "The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KS\u010cM) held a leadership election on 23 October 2021. MEP Kate\u0159ina Kone\u010dn\u00e1 was elected the new leader. Background. KS\u010cM received only 8% in 2017 legislative election and was reduced to 15 seats. Party's support in opinion polls was reduced since then and party's members became worried that party might not enter parliament during next legislative election. In October 2019 party's opponents of incumbent leader Vojt\u011bch Filip started to focus on \u00dast\u00ed region Governor Old\u0159ich Buben\u00ed\u010dek as a potential candidate for leader. Buben\u00ed\u010dek was endorsed by Josef Sk\u00e1la who ran against Filip during previous elections. Buben\u00ed\u010dek stated that he doesn't plan to run, as he believes that party should be run by someone younger. Petr \u0160im\u016fnek announced his candidacy on 5 October 2019. Olomouc regional organisation held a Conference on 1 February 2020. It gave nomination to Kate\u0159ina Kone\u010dn\u00e1 and Vojt\u011bch Filip. On 7 February 2020 Filip stated that he is yet to decide if he runs for another term. MEP Kate\u0159ina Kone\u010dn\u00e1 confirmed her Candidacy on 2 March 2020. Election was postponed on 13 March 2020 due to 2020 coronavirus outbreak in the Czech Republic. New date was announced for 28 November 2020."}, {"text": "10 Candidates were running at the time while Zden\u011bk Ondr\u00e1\u010dek was reported to plan announcing his Candidacy in November 2020. KS\u010cM suffered heavy losses during 2020 Czech regional elections which led Filip to offer his resignation to the party committee. It will decided on 14 November 2020 if it accepts it. Despite this Filip didn't rule out his candidacy to the position of leader. Filip's reelection was deemed unlikely due to party's poor election results. There were 11 candidates applied to the election including Filip, Kone\u010dn\u00e1, Ondr\u00e1\u010dek or Aulick\u00e1 J\u00edrovcov\u00e1. Filip announced on 9 October 2020 that he won't be running for reelection. The party had to delay its congress on 6 November 2020 due to second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. As a result Filip led the party to 2021 Czech legislative election. It received only 3.6% of votes and lost all of its seats in the Chamber of Deputies. MEP Kate\u0159ina Kone\u010dn\u00e1 reconfirmed her candidacy following party's defeat. Election of the new leader was moved to 23 October 2021. Hana Aulick\u00e1 J\u00edrovcov\u00e1, Kate\u0159ina Kone\u010dn\u00e1, Josef Sk\u00e1la and Jan Z\u00e1marsk\u00fd were the only candidates who eventually decided to apply candidacy. Aulick\u00e1 J\u00edrovcov\u00e1 was endorsed by outgoing leader Filip. Voting. Voting"}, {"text": "was held on 23 October 2021. Kone\u010dn\u00e1 was elected in first round by large margin. She received 175 votes while her main opponent Sk\u00e1la received 75 votes, Aulick\u00e1 J\u00edrovcov\u00e1 received 63 votes and Z\u00e1marsk\u00fd 6."}, {"text": "Ulrich Wolfgang Kelber (born 29 March 1968) is a German former politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information since 7 January 2019. From 2000 to 2019, he was the member of the Bundestag for Bonn. Life. Ulrich Kelber was born in Bamberg and grew up in Bonn. From 1987 to 1993 he studied computer science and biology at the University of Bonn. He worked in IT until 2002. Political career. Career in local politics. Kelber became a member of the SPD in 1985 and was the local party chairman in Bonn from 2001 to 2008, and a member of the SPD executive board 2009 to 2011. Member of the German Parliament, 2000\u20132019. Kelber became a member of the Bundestag on 1 September 2000, replacing Rudolf Dre\u00dfler who left. He won re-election as directly elected member for the constituency of Bonn in each of the elections from 2002 to 2017. In parliament, Kelber was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety from 2000 until 2005, where he served as the SPD parliamentary group's rapporteur on the European Union Emission Trading"}, {"text": "Scheme (EU ETS). From 2005 until 2013, he served as the group's deputy chairman under the leadership of successive chairmen Peter Struck (2005-2009) and Frank-Walter Steinmeier (2009-2013). In this capacity, he coordinated the group's policy initiatives on the environment, energy, sustainability, agriculture and consumer protection. In the negotiations to form a \"Grand Coalition\" of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 elections, Kelber was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on the environment and agriculture, led by Katherina Reiche and Ute Vogt. In the coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, he subsequently served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection under the leadership of minister Heiko Maas from 2014 until 2018. In the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under Merkel's leadership following the 2017 federal elections, Kelber was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Thomas de Maizi\u00e8re, Stephan Mayer and Heiko Maas. Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, 2019\u2013present. Kelber was elected to become Federal Commissioner for Data Protection in 2018 and took up the office on 7 January 2019 after giving"}, {"text": "up his Bundestag seat."}, {"text": "Aladdin Schirmer (born 31 December 1992) is an American professional rugby union player. He played as a flanker or No.8 for the Seattle Seawolves and the Colorado Raptors in Major League Rugby (MLR). He also played for the USA Eagles internationally."}, {"text": "Nicole Melichar and Kv\u011bta Peschke were the defending champions, but Peschke chose not to participate. Nicole Melichar played alongside Xu Yifan, but they lost in the first round to Christina McHale and Yanina Wickmayer. Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara won the title, defeating Nao Hibino and Miyu Kato in the final, 6\u20133, 7\u20135. This was Shibahara's first WTA tour level doubles title."}, {"text": "Bochum-Riemke station () is a railway station in the municipality of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station has two side platforms, and is served by 80 Gl\u00fcckauf-Bahn regional trains per day (half of that on weekends). In addition, many freight trains run on the route, especially at night. It was originally named Bochum-Graetz, then Bochum-Nokia from 1993 to 2009."}, {"text": "Doug Fraser (born 8 May 1992) is a Canadian professional rugby union player who currently plays as a wing or centre for Old Glory DC in Major League Rugby (MLR). He also plays for Canada internationally. He previously played for Austin Elite during the 2019 MLR season."}, {"text": "GQL (Graph Query Language) is a standardized query language for property graphs first described in ISO/IEC 39075, released in April 2024 by ISO/IEC. History. The GQL project is the culmination of converging initiatives dating back to 2016, particularly a private proposal from Neo4j to other database vendors in July 2016, and a proposal from Oracle technical staff within the ISO/IEC JTC 1 standards process later that year. 2019 GQL project proposal. In September 2019 a proposal for a project to create a new standard graph query language (ISO/IEC 39075 Information Technology \u2014 Database Languages \u2014 GQL) was approved by a vote of national standards bodies which are members of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1(ISO/IEC JTC 1). JTC 1 is responsible for international Information Technology standards. GQL is intended to be a declarative database query language, like SQL. The 2019 GQL project proposal states: Official ISO standard. The GQL standard, ISO/IEC 39075:2024 Information technology \u2013 Database languages \u2013 GQL, was officially published by ISO on 12 April 2024. GQL project organisation. The GQL project is led by Stefan Plantikow (who was the first lead engineer of Neo4j's Cypher for Apache Spark project) and Stephen Cannan (Technical Corrigenda editor of SQL). They"}, {"text": "are also the editors of the initial early working drafts of the GQL specification. As originally motivated, the GQL project aims to complement the work of creating an implementable normative natural-language specification with supportive community efforts that enable contributions from those who are unable or uninterested in taking part in the formal process of defining a JTC 1 International Standard. In July 2019 the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC) agreed to become the umbrella organization for the efforts of community technical working groups. The Existing Languages and the Property Graph Schema working groups formed in late 2018 and early 2019 respectively. A working group to define formal denotational semantics for GQL was proposed at the third GQL Community Update in October 2019. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 WG3. Seven national standards bodies (those of the United States, China, Korea, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden) have nominated national subject-matter experts to work on the project, which is conducted by Working Group 3 (Database Languages) of ISO/IEC JTC 1's Subcommittee 32 (Data Management and Interchange), usually abbreviated as ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 WG3, or just WG3 for short. WG3 (and its direct predecessor committees within JTC 1) has been responsible"}, {"text": "for the SQL standard since 1987. ISO stages. ISO stages by date GQL property graph data model. GQL is a query language specifically for property graphs. A property graph closely resembles a conceptual data model, as expressed in an entity\u2013relationship model or in a UML class diagram (although it does not include n-ary relationships linking more than two entities). Entities are modelled as nodes, and relationships as edges, in a graph. Property graphs are \"multigraphs\": there can be many edges between the same pair of nodes. GQL graphs can be \"mixed\": they can contain directed edges, where one of the endpoint nodes of an edge is the tail (or source) and the other node is the head (or target or destination), but they can also contain undirected (bidirectional or reflexive) edges. Nodes and edges, collectively known as elements, have attributes. Those attributes may be data values, or labels (tags). Values of properties cannot be elements of graphs, nor can they be whole graphs: these restrictions intentionally force a clean separation between the topology of a graph, and the attributes carrying data values in the context of a graph topology. The property graph data model therefore deliberately prevents nesting of graphs,"}, {"text": "or treating nodes in one graph as edges in another. Each property graph may have a set of labels and a set of properties that are associated with the graph as a whole. Current graph database products and projects often support a limited version of the model described here. For example, Apache Tinkerpop forces each node and each edge to have a single label; Cypher allows nodes to have zero to many labels, but relationships only have a single label (called a reltype). Neo4j's database supports undocumented graph-wide properties, Tinkerpop has graph values which play the same role, and also supports \"metaproperties\" or properties on properties. Oracle's PGQL supports zero to many labels on nodes and on edges, whereas SQL/PGQ supports one to many labels for each kind of element. The NGSI-LD information model specified by ETSI is an attempt at formally specifying property graphs, with node and relationship (edge) types that may play the role of labels in previously mentioned models \"and\" support semantic referencing by inheriting classes defined in shared ontologies. The GQL project will define a standard data model, which is likely to be the superset of these variants, and at least the first version of GQL"}, {"text": "is likely to permit vendors to decide on the cardinalities of labels in each implementation, as does SQL/PGQ, and to choose whether to support undirected relationships. Additional aspects of the ERM or UML models (like generalization or subtyping, or entity or relationship cardinalities) may be captured by GQL schemas or types that describe possible instances of the general data model. Implementations. The first in-memory graph database that can interpret GQL is available. Aside from the implementation, one can also find a formalization and read the syntax of the specific subset of GQL. Extending existing graph query languages. The GQL project draws on multiple sources or inputs, notably existing industrial languages and a new section of the SQL standard. In preparatory discussions within WG3 surveys of the history and comparative content of some of these inputs were presented. GQL is a declarative language with its own distinct syntax, playing a similar role to SQL in the building of a database application. Other graph query languages have been defined which offer direct procedural features such as branching and looping (Apache Tinkerpop's Gremlin), and GSQL, making it possible to traverse a graph iteratively to perform a class of graph algorithms, but GQL will"}, {"text": "not directly incorporate such features. However, GQL is envisaged as a specific case of a more general class of graph languages, which share a graph type system and a calling interface for procedures that process graphs. SQL/PGQ Property Graph Query. Prior work by WG3 and SC32 mirror bodies, particularly in INCITS Data Management (formerly INCITS DM32), has helped to define a new planned Part 16 of the SQL Standard, which allows a read-only graph query to be called inside a SQL SELECT statement, matching a graph pattern using syntax which is very close to Cypher, PGQL and G-CORE, and returning a table of data values as the result. SQL/PGQ also contains DDL to allow SQL tables to be mapped to a graph view schema object with nodes and edges associated to sets of labels and set of data properties.<ref name=\"LDBC SQL/PGQ\"></ref> The GQL project coordinates closely with the SQL/PGQ \"project split\" of (extension to) ISO 9075 SQL, and the technical working groups in the U.S. (INCITS DM32) and at the international level (SC32/WG3) have several expert contributors who work on both projects. The GQL project proposal mandates close alignment of SQL/PGQ and GQL, indicating that GQL will in general be"}, {"text": "a superset of SQL/PGQ. More details about the pattern matching language can be found in the paper \"Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ\" Cypher. Cypher is a language originally designed by Andr\u00e9s Taylor and colleagues at Neo4j Inc., and first implemented by that company in 2011. Since 2015 it has been made available as an open source language description with grammar tooling, a JVM front-end that parses Cypher queries, and a Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) of over 2000 test scenarios, using Cucumber for implementation language portability. The TCK reflects the language description and an enhancement for temporal datatypes and functions documented in a Cypher Improvement Proposal. Cypher allows creation, reading, updating and deleting of graph elements, and is a language that can therefore be used for analytics engines and transactional databases. Querying with visual path patterns. Cypher uses compact fixed- and variable-length patterns which combine visual representations of node and relationship (edge) topologies, with label existence and property value predicates. (These patterns are usually referred to as \"ASCII art\" patterns, and arose originally as a way of commenting programs which used a lower-level graph API.) By matching such a pattern against graph data elements, a query can extract references"}, {"text": "to nodes, relationships and paths of interest. Those references are emitted as a \"binding table\" where column names are bound to a multiset of graph elements. The name of a column becomes the name of a \"binding variable\", whose value is a specific graph element reference for each row of the table. For example, a pattern will generate a two-column output table. The first column named will contain references to nodes with a label . The second column named will contain references to nodes with a label , denoting the city where the person lives. The binding variables and can then be dereferenced to obtain access to property values associated with the elements referred to by a variable. The example query might be terminated with a , resulting in a complete query like this: MATCH (p:Person)-[:LIVES_IN]->(c:City) RETURN p.first_name, p.last_name, c.name, c.state This would result in a final four-column table listing the names of the residents of the cities stored in the graph. Pattern-based queries are able to express joins, by combining multiple patterns which use the same binding variable to express a natural join using the clause: MATCH (p:Person)-[:LIVES_IN]->(c:City), (p:Person)-[:NATIONAL_OF]->(EUCountry) RETURN p.first_name, p.last_name, c.name, c.state This query would return the"}, {"text": "residential location only of EU nationals. An outer join can be expressed by : MATCH (p:Person)-[:LIVES_IN]->(c:City) OPTIONAL MATCH (p:Person)-[:NATIONAL_OF]->(ec:EUCountry) RETURN p.first_name, p.last_name, c.name, c.state, ec.name This query would return the city of residence of each person in the graph with residential information, and, if an EU national, which country they come from. Queries are therefore able to first project a sub-graph of the graph input into the query, and then extract the data values associated with that subgraph. Data values can also be processed by functions, including aggregation functions, leading to the projection of computed values which render the information held in the projected graph in various ways. Following the lead of G-CORE and Morpheus, GQL aims to project the sub-graphs defined by matching patterns (and graphs then computed over those sub-graphs) as new graphs to be returned by a query. Patterns of this kind have become pervasive in property graph query languages, and are the basis for the advanced pattern sub-language being defined in SQL/PGQ, which is likely to become a subset of the GQL language. Cypher also uses patterns for insertion and modification clauses ( and ), and proposals have been made in the GQL project for collecting"}, {"text": "node and edge patterns to describe graph types. Cypher 9 and Cypher 10. The current version of Cypher (including the temporal extension) is referred to as Cypher 9. Prior to the GQL project it was planned to create a new version, Cypher 10 [REF HEADING BELOW], that would incorporate features like schema and composable graph queries and views. The first designs for Cypher 10, including graph construction and projection, were implemented in the Cypher for Apache Spark project starting in 2016. PGQL. PGQL is a language designed and implemented by Oracle Inc., but made available as an open source specification, along with JVM parsing software. PGQL combines familiar SQL SELECT syntax including SQL expressions and result ordering and aggregation with a pattern matching language very similar to that of Cypher. It allows the specification of the graph to be queried, and includes a facility for macros to capture \"pattern views\", or named sub-patterns. It does not support insertion or updating operations, having been designed primarily for an analytics environment, such as Oracle's PGX product. PGQL has also been implemented in Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph, and in a research project, PGX.D/Async. G-CORE. G-CORE is a research language designed by"}, {"text": "a group of academic and industrial researchers and language designers which draws on features of Cypher, PGQL and SPARQL. The project was conducted under the auspices of the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC), starting with the formation of a Graph Query Language task force in late 2015, with the bulk of the work of paper writing occurring in 2017. G-CORE is a composable language which is closed over graphs: graph inputs are processed to create a graph output, using graph projections and graph set operations to construct the new graph. G-CORE queries are pure functions over graphs, having no side effects, which mean that the language does not define operations which mutate (update or delete) stored data. G-CORE introduces views (named queries). It also incorporates paths as elements in a graph (\"paths as first class citizens\"), which can be queried independently of projected paths (which are computed at query time over node and edge elements). G-CORE has been partially implemented in open-source research projects in the LDBC GitHub organization. GSQL. GSQL is a language designed for TigerGraph Inc.'s proprietary graph database. Since October 2018 TigerGraph language designers have been promoting and working on the GQL project. GSQL is a Turing-complete"}, {"text": "language that incorporates procedural flow control and iteration, and a facility for gathering and modifying computed values associated with a program execution for the whole graph or for elements of a graph called accumulators. These features are designed to enable iterative graph computations to be combined with data exploration and retrieval. GSQL graphs must be described by a schema of vertexes and edges, which constrains all insertions and updates. This schema therefore has the closed world property of an SQL schema, and this aspect of GSQL (also reflected in design proposals deriving from the Morpheus project) is proposed as an important optional feature of GSQL. Vertexes and edges are named schema objects which contain data but also define an imputed type, much as SQL tables are data containers, with an associated implicit row type. GSQL graphs are then composed from these vertex and edge sets, and multiple named graphs can include the same vertex or edge set. GSQL has developed new features since its release in September 2017, most notably introducing variable-length edge pattern matching using a syntax related to that seen in Cypher, PGQL and SQL/PGQ, but also close in style to the fixed-length patterns offered by Microsoft SQL/Server"}, {"text": "Graph GSQL also supports the concept of Multigraphs which allow subsets of a graph to have role-based access control. Multigraphs are important for enterprise-scale graphs that need fine-grain access control for different users. Morpheus: multiple graphs and composable graph queries in Apache Spark. The opencypher Morpheus project implements Cypher for Apache Spark users. Commencing in 2016, this project originally ran alongside three related efforts, in which Morpheus designers also took part: SQL/PGQ, G-CORE and design of Cypher extensions for querying and constructing multiple graphs. The Morpheus project acted as a testbed for extensions to Cypher (known as \"Cypher 10\") in the two areas of graph DDL and query language extensions. Graph DDL features include Graph query language extensions include These features have been proposed as inputs to the standardization of property graph query languages in the GQL project."}, {"text": "Graham Charles Savory (born 11 October 1960), is a male former athlete who competed for England. Biography. Savory was twice British discus throw champion after winning the 1986 UK Athletics Championships and 1989 UK Athletics Championships. He was also twice a silver medal winner at the AAA Championships. He represented England in the discus and shot put events, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. Four years later he represented England in the discus event, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand."}, {"text": "Margaret Elizabeth Jemima Davidson, known as Majel Davidson, (1885-1969) was a Scottish artist known for her painting and pottery work. Biography. Davidson was born at Cults in Aberdeen and attended Aberdeen High School before studying painting and pottery at Gray's School of Art from 1904 to 1907. A scholarship award allowed her to study in Paris throughout 1908 and 1909 with the artist Charles Gu\u00e9rin. and in Rome in 1910. Davidson exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1912. During World War One she served as a volunteer ambulance driver, earning the Military Medal for her work. In 1923 Davidson moved to Toronto and for a time was associated with the circle of artists known as the Group of Seven, which led to her paintings becoming increasing impressionist and bolder in their use of colour. When Davidson returned to Scotland she took a role with the International Council of Women and in her artistic career chose to concentrate on producing pottery and had a kiln built at the family home in Cults. Named \"Gushetneuk Pottery\", after the Doric dialect word for an odd corner of a field, several pieces are on display at the Aberdeen Art Gallery, including a fine art"}, {"text": "deco rosebowl. In the 1950s Davidson moved to the female community, known as the Powis Family, or The Powis House Ladies, at Powis House near Stirling and resumed painting. Davidson exhibited several times with the Aberdeen Artists Society and in 1989 the Portland Gallery held a joint show of her work alongside that of Alexander Graham Munro. In 2004, the Macrobert Art Centre held an exhibition of her work."}, {"text": "Jane Cannon Campbell (1 January 1743 - 1836) was an American Revolutionary War Patriot from Cherry Valley, New York. Biography. Campbell was born in County Antrim, Ireland. At the age of 10 she and her family left Ireland and settled in an area now part of the state of Delaware. The family farmed there for approximately 10 years before moving to an area near Cherry Valley, New York State. In 1767 she married Colonel Samuel Campbell. Campbell was captured by the combined forces of British Captain Walter Bulter and the Mohawk Chief Joseph Brand during the Cherry Valley Massacre of November 11, 1778. She was held captive with her father, Matthew Cannon and four children first in the Seneca nation capital Kanadaseago, followed by over a year at Fort Niagara before being sent to Montreal for a prisoner exchange."}, {"text": "Local elections were held in areas of South Korea occupied by North Korea during the Korean War from 25 July until 13 September 1950. Elections for county, township and village (neighborhood) people's committees were held in 103 counties, 1,186 townships and 13,654 villages or neighborhoods in the South Korean provinces of Hwanghae, Gyeonggi, Gangwon, North Chungcheong, South Chungcheong, North Jeolla, South Jeolla, North Gyeongsang and South Gyeongsang. The elections were announced through the Decree \"On Implementing the Election of People's Committees in Counties, Townships and Villages (Neighborhoods) in the Liberated Areas in the South (\ud574\ubc29\ub41c \ub0a8\ubc18\ubd80\uc9c0\uc5ed\uc5d0\uc11c \uad70, \uba74, \ub9ac[\ub3d9] \uc778\ubbfc\uc704\uc6d0\ud68c\uc120\uac70\ub97c \uc2e4\uc2dc\ud560\ub370 \ub300\ud558\uc5ec)\" issued by the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly on 14 July 1950. The same decree organized a Central Election Guidance Committee consisting of Kim Won-bong, Jang Sun-myong, Kim Ung-gi, Ri Jong-gap, Hyon Hun, Jong Chil-song, Nam Song-min and Pang Hak-se. In the elections, 3,878 county people's committee members, 22,314 township people's committee members and 77,716 village people's committee members were elected."}, {"text": "Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00edn y P\u00e9rez de Nanclares (Vitoria, 1965) is a Spanish jurist. Currently, he is a judge of the General Court of the European Union, one of the two constituent courts of the Luxembourg Court, as well as a professor of Public International Law and International Relations at the University of Salamanca. He is also an associate member of the Hispano-Luso-American Institute of International Law. From 2012 to 2018 he was head of the International Legal Office of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in charge of advising the General State Administration in all matters of international law. After briefly returning to teaching, he became director of the cabinet of the President of the Spanish Council of State, before his appointment for European judiciary. He was also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (2018-2019). Early life and education. In 1988 Mart\u00edn y P\u00e9rez de Nanclares graduated in Law from the University of Salamanca. He did postgraduate studies in German Constitutional Law at the University of Cologne (1989). He obtained the \"Zertifikat \u00fcber Europ\u00e4ische Studien\" (1990) and graduated from a Master in European Law (1991). In 1994 he obtained a PhD in Law from the University of Saarbr\u00fccken, in"}, {"text": "Germany. He also holds a Doctor of Law of the University of Salamanca. Career. In 2001, Mart\u00edn y P\u00e9rez de Nanclares became a full professor at the University of La Rioja, where he was a holder of the Chair of Public International Law and of the Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law, until 2009. In that institution, he also served as Vice-Rector for Research, from 1996 to 2000, and for International Relations, from 2004 to 2008. In 2009 he became a full professor at the University of Salamanca, where he was also Director of its European Documentation Centre. From 2012 to 2018, Mart\u00edn y P\u00e9rez de Nanclares was head of the International Legal Office of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a period of special activity in which this office developed a very active work in the elaboration of three laws that updated the Spanish legislation on international law: the Law on Foreign Service, the Law on Treaties and other International Agreements, and the Law on privileges and immunities of foreign States. During that period, he was also a member of the Spanish Delegation at several meetings of the European Union, Council of Europe, United Nations (6th Committee), States Parties"}, {"text": "Assembly of the International Criminal Court, etc. He also served as counsel advocate for Spain before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. In September 2019, Mart\u00edn y P\u00e9rez de Nanclares became one of the two Spanish judges of the General Court of the European Union. His current term will end on August 31, 2025. Mart\u00edn y P\u00e9rez de Nanclares is the author of several books on European issues and Community Law. He is also the author of more than 100 scientific publications and contributions to collective works, published in Spanish, English, French or German. In 2009, he was given an honorary doctorate from the National University of Piura, in Peru. In 2016, he was granted the 'Cruz de San Raimundo de Pe\u00f1afort'."}, {"text": "Amos Kipruto (born 16 September 1992) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. He won the bronze medal in the men's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. Kipruto took victory at the 2022 London Marathon. Career. In 2016, he won the Rome Marathon, and then the Seoul Marathon a year later. In 2018, Kipruto earned two medals at the World Marathon Majors, finishing third in Tokyo with a time of 2:06:33 and second in Berlin with 2:06:23. He claimed the bronze medal in the men's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar. Kipruto represented Kenya at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He came second at the postponed 2021 Tokyo Marathon in March 2022 in a personal best of 2:03:13, behind only Eliud Kipchoge, who ran 2:02:40. Kipruto secured the biggest win of his career up to that point by winning the 2022 London Marathon held in October with a time of 2:04:39. Achievements. International competitions. Source:"}, {"text": "The Wolfsn\u00e4chte Tour 2013 was a European concert tour by German power metal band Powerwolf. Supporting the release of their fifth studio album \"Preachers of the Night\", the tour ran from 26 September 2013 to 3 November 2013, taking place in France, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Belgium. Background. Powerwolf's fifth album \"Preachers of the Night\" was released on 19 July 2013. The tour dates were announced in April 2013. Majesty, Battle Beast, Ashes of Ares and Wisdom served a series of opening acts for Powerwolf during the tour. The tour was set to begin on 26 September 2013 at the Le Divan du Monde in Paris, France. It was set to end on 3 November 2013 at Baroeg in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Set list. This setlist is representative of the show on 29 October 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic, at the Retro Music Hall. It does not represent all dates throughout the tour."}, {"text": "Usolye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 51 as of 2010. Geography. Usolye is located on the Uvod River, 21 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Serebrovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Filyandino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 216 as of 2010. Geography. Filyandino is located 30 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Davydovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fomikha () is a rural locality (a selo) in Sergeikhinskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. Fomikha is located on the Nerl River, 27 km west of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zapolitsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kharlamovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 23 as of 2010. Geography. Kharlamovo is located on the Talsha River, 18 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasnoznamensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Khokhlovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2010. Geography. Khokhlovo is located 24 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bliznino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Second All-Union Congress of Soviets was held in Moscow from January 26 to February 2, 1924. On January 27 and 28, meetings were not held in connection with the funeral of Vladimir Lenin. 2124 delegates took part in the congress, 1540 of them with a decisive vote. Day order. Papers: Congress decisions. Documents accepted. The Second Congress formalized the basic legislation in which the Soviet Union was built upon when it approved the 1924 Constitution, the first of the Soviet Union."}, {"text": "Chistukha () is a rural locality (a selo) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2010. Geography. Chistukha is located 30 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Palashkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shukhurdino () is a rural locality (a village) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 42 as of 2010. Geography. Shukhurdino is located 12 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Abrosimovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shchekino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vakhromeyevskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 71 as of 2010. Geography. Shchekino is located on the Talsha River, 19 km north of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Imeni Maksima Gorkogo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Edemskoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Bryzgalovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 233 as of 2010. Geography. Edemskoye is located 5 km northeast of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Druzhba is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Cli\u00e9 PEG-TG50 is a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) which was manufactured by Sony, released in March 2003. Running the Palm operating system (version 5.0), the TG50 was notable as it featured a built-in backlit mini qwerty keyboard, in lieu of a dedicated handwriting recognition area as was the trend on most other PDAs. This handheld featured a 320x320 colour LCD, bluetooth, and additional multimedia features, including MP3 and ATRAC3 audio playback, a voice-recorder, and a slot for MemoryStick PRO memory cards. The TG50 was powered by a 200 MHz Intel XScale PXA250 processor, with 16MB of RAM, 11MB of which was available for user data storage. The TG50 also featured the \"Jog Dial\" scroll wheel on the side of the device, as was common on Sony Clie models, and came with a flip cover to protect the front face of the device when not in use. See also. Sony CLI\u00c9 TH Series - The successor to the TG series."}, {"text": "Yuratino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vtorovskoye Rural Settlement, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Yuratino is located 19 km southwest of Kameshkovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Andreytsevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Amanda Limgenco Tan, RGS (November 30, 1930 \u2013 October 6, 2003), commonly known as \"Mary Christine Tan\", was a Filipino missionary, nun, and activist, who was known to be one of the key figures who was against the human rights abuses during the Martial law era. She headed the Association of Major Religious Superiors of Women (AMRSP) from 1973 to 1976, a group of nuns who opposed the Martial Law dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, and helped Filipinos in poverty. She and eight other mins are known as the \"Bantayog sisters\" for resisting the regime of Ferdinand Marcos. Personal life. Mary Christine Tan was born as Amanda on November 30, 1930 to an upper-class Chinese Filipino family in Manila. Her parents were Bienvenido A. Tan, Sr., a judge of the RTC Manila Branch, and Salome Limgenco, a housewife. She is the fifth amongst her seven siblings, for whom they are: Consuelo, Bienvenido Jr. (who became a member of the Agrava Commission and later the Ambassador of the Philippines to Germany), Teresita, Caridad, Leticia, and Angeles. Tan spent her primary, secondary and tertiary education in St. Scholastica's College in Manila. She graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, before"}, {"text": "joining the Religious of the Good Shepherd (RGS), and was given the name by which she is most recognized today. She spent the first 16 years of her religious life in the convent. It was during this time where she became the first Filipino head of the RGS's Philippine Province due to her driven motivation in serving the order. Her niece Didith Rodrigo, in her interview with Tan and who wrote the book \"A Life With The Poor\", mentioned Tan saying that she does not feel any feelings other than joy whenever she helps people. As mentioned in her own words, she describes these years to be a bit placid: Despite her position in her congregation, she and other nuns lived in poverty as a way to take their vows seriously. Role in Martial Law. On the outset of Martial Law in the country.Tan became an outspoken political activist for the restoration of democratic rights. Tan and the rest of the AMSRP members asserted liberation and respect for human rights along with \"a weekly compilation of news suppressed by the martial law government\". She was one of the co-heads of the organization alongside priests Benigno Mayo and Lope Castillo. Her"}, {"text": "political views and statements were not approved by the Catholic Church. She was summoned to Rome to keep out of politics. and continued to fight for freedom. For 26 years she lived with other nuns in the Leveriza slum in Malate, Manila, where poverty, crime, and drugs were common. In an interview with the New York Times in 1981, she said at the outset of Martial Law, her house was raided and an arrest warrant issued for her, and that Filipino women have become more progressive over history in their views of life. In 1984, with five other RGS nuns, Tan founded the Alay Kapwa Christian Community to work with indigent communities in the provinces of Cavite, Quezon, and Cebu. After martial law and legacy. Following the aftermath of the People Power Revolution in 1986, Sister Christine was named a member of the Philippine Constitutional Commission of 1986 by President Corazon Aquino. The rationale behind her appointment was to continue her work in giving the poor a chance to participate in making the new Philippine Constitution. In the 1990s, she also became a famous critic of presidential administrations starting from Aquino up to Estrada. Another prominent event that put her"}, {"text": "into the spotlight was when she became a member of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office's Board of Directors in 1998. In her tenure, she raised awareness of the uneven allocation of the fund disbursements in the agency. Her name, along with 305 others, was immortalized in the Wall of Remembrance at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani. It was befitting for her to be part of the Wall because of her legacy in restoring Philippine democracy. Her RGS sisters attested that her work helped make the congregation well known in the pursuit of charity and religious service. President Aquino did mention that Tan was one of the few Filipinos who possessed values of integrity, patriotism, selflessness, and dedication. When Tan was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2000, her sickness didn't inhibit her from doing what she loved. In her own words, she said: Tan died on October 6, 2003 (although it was disputed to be October 7) at the age of 72. Her autobiography, which was centered on her story with the RGS congregation and the journey from Eastern Spirituality to Social Justice, was released to the public by her brother Bienvenido Jr. four days after she died."}, {"text": "Lukas Gabbichler (born 12 May 1998) is an Austrian footballer who plays for Floridsdorfer AC."}, {"text": "Akulovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Akulovo is located 15 km southeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Trokhino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Alenino () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 593 as of 2010. There are 39 streets. Geography. Alenino is located 21 km southwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Filippovskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Arefino () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Arefino is located on the Vakhchilka River, 8 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vlasyevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Anglican Church in Brazil () is an evangelical Anglican denomination in Brazil. It is not a member of the Anglican Communion, but is in full communion with other provinces of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans and the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches. History. The church had its origin in a 2005 split in which the Diocese of Recife, led by Robinson Cavalcanti, left the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil, because it had rejected the official Anglican stance on homosexuality, expressed at the Lambeth 1.10 Resolution in 1998. The Diocese of Recife organized in the Anglican Church-Diocese of Recife and became associated to the Global South, as an extraprovincial diocese, and the Global Anglican Future Conference. At the same time they started church planting outside their territory, aiming to start a new conservative Anglican province in Brazil. On 12 May 2018 the Anglican Church in Brazil was constituted as a province, with three dioceses, 54 communities, and Miguel Uch\u00f4a as the first Archbishop and Primate. It is not recognised as a member of the Anglican Communion, but has been described as the \"41st province in the Anglican Communion\" by the conservative grouping Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON). Archbishop"}, {"text": "Peter Jensen argues that the division was \"not over a matter of church politics or personal ambition\" but was \"a matter of the fundamentals of the faith, of what makes a true church, of the authority of God's word.\" Dioceses. The church is organized in three dioceses and a missionary region. Relations with other churches. The Anglican Church in Brazil has broken any ties with the liberal Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil. It is in full communion with all the Global South (Anglican) and the Global Anglican Future Conference provinces, including those who are not members of the Anglican Communion, such as the Anglican Church in North America. The province is also a member of the Rede Inspire (Inspire Net), an association of around 400 churches in Brazil. The Anglican Church in Brazil was represented at GAFCON III, held in Jerusalem, on 17\u201322 June 2018, by a 15-member delegation, including Primate Miguel Uch\u00f4a."}, {"text": "Afanasovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 368 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Afanasovo is located 21 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kudrino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Baburino () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 23 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Baburino is located 12 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yefremovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bardovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Bardovo is located 20 km north of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Slobodka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Barsovo () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Pershinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,030 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. On 22nd April 2025, the 51st Arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate located at Barsovo suffered an explosion followed by fires and 450 residents were evacuated from nearby towns. Geography. Barsovo is located 12 km south of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ileykino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Westminster House Club House is a historic settlement house clubhouse located in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, United States. It was built in 1909\u20131910, and is a two-story, L-shaped, red brick building with Craftsman style design elements. It features broad overhanging eaves with paired brackets and a raised basement. The building is the last of a complex of buildings operated by Westminster Presbyterian Church that housed social welfare activities that largely benefited the German immigrant community on Buffalo's East Side in the early 20th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018."}, {"text": "Patrick Oberm\u00fcller (born 17 February 1999) is an Austrian footballer who plays for Austrian Regionalliga club FC Hertha Wels. Club career. Oberm\u00fcller began his career at SC Klosterneuburg 1912. For the 2011/12 season he joined the academy of Rapid Wien. In November 2016 he made his debut for the reserve team of SK Rapid Wien in the Austrian Regionalliga when he was in the starting line-up against FCM Traiskirchen on matchday 14 of the 2016/17 season, but was sent off in the 72nd minute after receiving a second yellow card. In October 2017 he scored his first goal in the Regionalliga against FC Stadlau. In May 2019, Oberm\u00fcller made his debut for the Rapid's first team in the Austrian Football Bundesliga, when he started against SCR Altach on matchday 32 of the 2018/19 season - in the 69th minute, he was substituted for Mario Sonnleitner. For the 2019/20 season he was loaned out to TSV Hartberg. After playing only four games for the club, he was instead loaned out to the Austrian Football Second League club SV Ried in February 2020. By the end of the loan, he made eleven appearances for Ried in the 2nd division. He helped the"}, {"text": "team with promotion to the Bundesliga in that season. After the end of the loan, he returned to Rapid, where he was registered for the reserve team, which had been promoted to the 2nd division. International career. He has played for Austria at under-16, under-18, under-19 and under-20 levels."}, {"text": "Saredon is a civil parish in the district of South Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England. It contains seven listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to \"buildings of national importance and special interest\". The parish contains the villages of Great Saredon and Little Saredon, and the listed buildings consist of houses, farmhouses and farm buildings."}, {"text": "Vandenboschia is a fern genus in the family Hymenophyllaceae. The genus is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I) but not by some other sources. Taxonomy. The genus \"Vandenboschia\" was erected by Edwin Copeland in 1938. Its status, like other genera in the family Hymenophyllaceae, remains disputed. The Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I) accepts the genus, saying that there are about 15 species. , the \"Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World\" listed 25 species and one hybrid, whereas \"Plants of the World Online\" subsumed the genus into \"Trichomanes\". Phylogeny. Phylogeny by Fern Tree of Life. Other species:"}, {"text": "Belkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 91 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Belkovo is located 14 km north of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Klimovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Belkovo () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 61 as of 2010. Geography. The village is located 3 km north from Gorka, 14 km north from Kirzhach."}, {"text": "Beltsy () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Beltsy is located on the Vakhchilka River, 19 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zherdevo is the nearest rural locality. History. In the 19th - early 20th centuries, the village was part of the Zherdevsky volost of the Pokrovsky district ,"}, {"text": "Berezhki () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2010. There are 37 streets. Geography. Berezhki is located on the Sherna River, 16 km west of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sergiyevka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bukhlovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Bukhlovo is located 17 km southeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novosyolovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tom\u00e1\u0161 Ostr\u00e1k (born 5 February 2000) is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club St. Louis City SC. Club career. Ostr\u00e1k began his career at the Czech club MFK Fr\u00fddek-M\u00edstek. In 2016, he joined the youth academy of Bundesliga side 1. FC K\u00f6ln. In January 2019, he was given the opportunity to train with the club's first team squad by manager Markus Anfang. Ostr\u00e1k later spent two seasons on loan: during the 2019\u201320 season, he played for the Austrian club TSV Hartberg and, during the 2020\u20132021 season, for MFK Karvin\u00e1 in the Czech Republic. On 28 August 2021 Ostr\u00e1k made his debut appearance for K\u00f6ln in a 2\u20131 home win against VfL Bochum. He came on as a substitute and provided and assisted on a goal by Tim Lemperle. In February 2022, it was announced that Ostr\u00e1k would not renew his contract with K\u00f6ln and join the Major League Soccer club St. Louis City SC, who would begin play in 2023, joining the second team first in July 2022. International career. Ostr\u00e1k has represented the Czech Republic as a youth international. Starting in 2017, he has played for his country's under-17, under-19, and"}, {"text": "under-21 teams. Honors. St. Louis City SC"}, {"text": "Bynino () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Bynino is located on the Bolshaya Dubna River, 35 km south of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Golovino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vasilyovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 34 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Vasilyovo is located on the Sherna River, 15 km northwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Karpovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Harold David Saxon Jenkins, known as Sax, (15 April 1907 - 1989) was a Welsh landscape painter during the inter-war years. Most of his work is now believed to have been lost. Early life and family. Jenkins was born in Skewen, Swansea on 15 April 1907. At the time of the 1911 census he was living in the household of his grandmother in Swansea. He married and had five daughters and one son. Career. Jenkins joined Ely Mill as an office boy in 1921. His art career as an amateur was during the inter-war years when he produced landscapes and submitted to the Royal Academy of Arts. As far as is known, he ceased painting around the time of the outbreak of the World War II when he was a policeman and he did not resume painting. He rejoined Ely Mill in 1953 as an electrician. Death. Jenkins died in 1989."}, {"text": "Vlasyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Vlasyevo is located on the Vakhchilka River, 14 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Baburino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Golovino () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. There are 21 streets. Geography. Golovino is located 32 km southwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bynino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gorka () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,125 as of 2010. There are 20 streets. Geography. Gorka is located on the Sherna River, 15 km north of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Semyonovskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gribanovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pershinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 42 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Gribanovo is located 10 km west of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Khrapki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "A clapgate (also clapyates) is a kind of gate which opened onto a waste or common land which allowed the animals going onto the common to push it open but which automatically shut so that they could not get out. This feature has given its name to a number of locations in England."}, {"text": "\"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood\" is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Bona Film Group, Heyday Films, and Visiona Romantica and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is a co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom. It features a large ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, and Al Pacino. Set in 1969 Los Angeles, the film follows an actor and his stunt double, as they navigate the changing film industry, and features \"multiple storylines in a modern fairy tale tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age\". The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 26, 2019 and in the United Kingdom on August 14. It grossed $374 million worldwide, and received praise from critics for Tarantino's screenplay and direction, acting, cinematography, costume design, production values, and soundtrack. It was chosen by the National Board of Review, American Film Institute and \"Time\" magazine as one of the ten best films of the year. At the 77th Golden Globe"}, {"text": "Awards, it was nominated for five awards, winning three of them including one for Best Motion Picture \u2013 Musical or Comedy. It received ten nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor."}, {"text": "Dil-e-Gumshuda (, initially titled Margh-E-Ishq Se Pehle) is a 2019 Pakistani romantic television soap opera aired on Geo Entertainment. It is produced by Abdullah Kadwani and Asad Qureshi, under their production banner 7th Sky Entertainment. It has Hina Altaf and Agha Ali in lead roles with Amar Khan as an antagonist. The soap received high TRPs throughout its run. The performance of Khan as an antagonist received praise from critics. Synopsis. Dil-e-Gumshuda revolves around the themes of rivalry, revenge, and jealousy between two cousin sisters, Zara (Hina Altaf) and Alizay (Amar Khan). Zara hails from a middle class family and after the sad demise of her parents she is forced to move in with her uncle's family where she meets her cousin Alizay for the first time. Alizay is a self-centred and manipulative girl who cannot share her life with anyone, not even with her fiance Daniyal (Agha Ali). When Zara moves in, Alizay and her mother make it difficult for her to adjust as they humiliate and scold her for being an outsider. Both of them play multiple tricks to demean Zara in front of everyone and even steal the love of her life, Nadeem (Mirza Zain Baig). Zara"}, {"text": "is shattered when she finds out about Nadeem's change of mind and comes face-to-face with the harsh realities of life. Will Zara continue to suffer under the atrocities implicated by Alizay or will she take a stand for herself? Soundtrack. Dil-e-Gumshuda's original soundtrack is composed by Naveed Naushad and vocals are provided by Nabeel Shaukat and Beena Khan. The lyrics are penned down by Fatima Najeeb. International release. The show was dubbed in Arabic under the title \"\u0627\u0644\u062d\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0636\u0627\u0626\u0639\" and is available for streaming on Viu MENA. The show started airing in India from 6 June 2022, on Atrangii channel."}, {"text": "Dvorishchi () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 74 as of 2010. Geography. Dvorishchi is located on the Sherna River, 26 km southwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Filippovskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dubki () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 67 as of 2010. There are 20 streets. Geography. Dubki is located 14 km southwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shuvalovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dubrovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 25 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Dubrovka is located on the Sherna River, 13 km northwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vasilyovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yeltsy () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 589 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Yeltsy is located 10 km northwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Naumovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Protoxin-II, also known as ProTx-II, PT-II or \u03b2/\u03c9-TRTX-Tp2a, is a neurotoxin that inhibits certain voltage-gated calcium and voltage-gated sodium channels. This toxin is a 30-residue disulfide-rich peptide that has unusually high affinity and selectivity toward the human Nav1.7. channel. Sources. Protoxin-II is a neurotoxin that is derived from the venom of the Peruvian green velvet tarantula (\"Thrixopelma pruriens\"). Chemistry. ProTx-II is a 30-amino acid peptide with a molecular weight of 3826.65 Da. The structure of ProTx-II is amphipathic, with mostly hydrophobic residues on one face of the toxin. The toxin is formed by an inhibitor cystine knot (ICK) backbone region and a flexible C-terminal tail region. Target. ProTx-II inhibits several human sodium channel subtypes, ranging from Nav1.1 up to Nav1.8. However, this toxin is, at least, 100-fold more potent against Nav1.7 than other human Nav channel subtypes. At a concentration of 0.3 nM, this toxin blocks Nav1.7 by 50%. Besides sodium channels, ProTx-II also inhibits some subtypes of voltage-gated calcium channels, Cav1.2 and Cav3.2. From the fact that ProTx-II is able to inhibit several sodium and calcium channel subtypes, we can infer that the toxin-channel interaction surface is conserved between these channels. Mechanism of action. ProTx-II acts as an antagonist"}, {"text": "of Nav1.7 by binding to the voltage-sensor domain 2 (VSD-II) of the channel. The toxin inhibits the activation of Nav channels by binding to the linker in the L3-4 loop (between the S3 and S4 segments) above the central cavity of VSD-II, which is known as site 4. ProTx-II inhibits sodium currents by shifting the voltage-dependence of the channel activation to more positive potentials. The toxin uses a similar action mechanism on the Cav1.2 and Cav1.3 voltage-gated calcium channels: shifting the activation of these L-type and T-type calcium channels, respectively, to more positive voltages. ProTx-II also inhibits fast inactivation of the Nav channel by binding to VSD-IV in the resting configuration of the channel. The inhibition of activation and of inactivation appear to be independent processes. For instance, mutations in domain IV substantially affect the inhibition of inactivation without changing the inhibition of activation by ProTx-II. Likewise, mutations in domain II mostly affect the inhibition of activation. Therefore, it seems that ProTx-II is able to interact with two independent sites (DIV and DII) at the same time. Another factor that supports this theory is the estimated IC50. The IC50 for inhibition of activation is approximately 400-fold smaller than the one"}, {"text": "calculated for inhibition of inactivation, again suggesting that the inhibition of activation and the inhibition of inactivation are independent processes. Biological effects. ProTx-II provokes an analgesic effect on rats. The toxin acts on free nerve endings and primary sensory neurons after burn injury. ProTx-II produces an inhibitory effect on spinal nociceptive processing by inhibiting the Nav1.7 sodium channel."}, {"text": "Yefanovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 29 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Yefanovo is located on the Vakhchilka River, 5 km east of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kirzhach is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Buffalo Public School No. 57, also known as Broadway Village Elementary Community School, is a historic school building located in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood of Buffalo, Erie County, New York. It was built in 1914, and is a three-story, red brick building over a full basement with Classical Revival detailing. It is connected to a one-story auditorium building by a one-story hyphen. The building was originally constructed as an addition to the original 1897 Public School No. 57, which was demolished in 1960. The school has been redeveloped as a multi-use facility including apartments, offices, and a community center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018."}, {"text": "The Krupp night decoy site was a German decoy-site of the Krupp steelworks in Essen. It was designed to divert Allied night airstrikes in the bombing of Essen in World War II from the actual production site of the arms factory. Description. The decoy factory was from the real factory, situated on the Rottberg-Hills in Velbert. It occupied an area of 1.5 km (1 mile) \u00d7 2.5 km (1\u00bd miles). The dummy factory was supposed to mimic a poorly darkened and operating Krupp steel works as the Royal Air Force only flew at night. The decoy system consisted of a large number of very rudimentary dummy installations of industrial building and structures. Among them were shed roofs, a gasometer, chimneys, a railroad, and elaborate light arrays and fires, controlled from a nearby bunker. Efficiency. RAF Bomber Command did not correctly identify the decoy installation until 1943, by which time its bombers had dropped 64 percent of all high-explosive bombs and 75 percent of all incendiaries on the decoy rather than the real site. Today's condition. Today, only the control bunker of the decoy site is preserved. After systematic research and documentation by volunteers of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR) \u2013 Office"}, {"text": "for Archeological Monument Protection, it was listed as a historical monument in 2013. Museum development. The bunker is located on private property. Visits are offered on the European Heritage Days, historical walks or the Long Night of Museums. References. Sources"}, {"text": "Malaal e Yaar () is a Pakistani television serial produced by Momina Duraid under MD Productions. Based on the feudal system, it explores the ritual of early settled marriages. The main theme revolves around two persons from opposite backgrounds who hate each other, but eventually fall in love, bounded by a marriage only on paper. It stars Mirza Zain Baig, Azekah Daniel, Zainab Shabir, Hamza Firdous and Jahanzeb Gorchani in leading roles. It gained local and foreign viewership soon after its first episode went on air. Plot. The story concerns a family of wealthy feudals whose head and heir are orthodox and follow century-old feudal mechanisms. The serial starts with parallel scenes of the protagonists; Balaj and Hooriya. Hooriya is a headstrong young girl living in the metropolitan city of Karachi and pursuing a quality education. She likes wearing Western clothes and rides a bike and is always ready to do any sort of social work. Balaj on the other hand is a feudal boy of a nearby village, where his taya Malik Shahbaz is the head of the district. Balaj's parents died when he was an infant and was raised by his aunt Surraya, Malik Shahbaz's wife. Being under"}, {"text": "his taya's supervision, Balaj has apparently turned out to be cruel and ill-mannered. He even gave up his studies as education was not valuable for him being the future head of his tribe. Not known to both Balaj and Hooriya is that they have been engaged since childhood, as Hooriya is the daughter of Malik Shahbaz's younger step-brother Malik Wajahat. Wajahat fell in love with his college-mate Samreen and married her against the wishes of his family. His brother Malik Shahbaz has ever since blamed him for this act and does not give him the due recognition and respect which Wajahat deserves being part of the Malik family. In all matters of decision-making, Balaaj is above Wajahat. Succumbing to his family's pressure, Wajahat had got married for the second time to Saeeda, a girl chosen by his brothers, even when he was a father of two daughters with Samreen. It is told that Samreen had left the haveli of her in-laws when Malik Shahbaz got engaged her eldest daughter Hooriya to his nephew Balaaj when they were just five-year old kids. Not agreeing to this old tradition of early engagements and fearing that Balaj will be as orthodox as his"}, {"text": "uncle and her daughter will be just like other women of this family having no say and respect in their lives, Samreen left her husband and took her daughters to live a life of seclusion for their better future. Wajahat didn't bring them back for their own betterment but also was not strong enough to go against his brother's decisions. Unknown to his family, Wajahat secretly keeps vigilance of his wife and daughters and sends them financial assistance through his trusted slave Ghulam Din. Samreen has never told her daughters about Hooriya's engagement or about the whereabouts of their paternal family. Hooriya is in love with her childhood friend Danish who runs a mobile shop. But Danish's mother does not like Hooriya for her boldness and extroversion. Samreen is also not in favor of Danish as she believes that if his mother does not approve of Hooriya then their marriage will not be successful. One day, after Hooriya gives meal to an old street-seller, he is wounded by Balach's speeding vehicle, engaging him and Hooriya in a verbal brawl. Hooriya makes the wounded man to be put in Balach's car and taken to hospital. In hospital she makes Balach pay"}, {"text": "all expenses. Balach does this unwillingly and both him and Hooriya curse each other. Hence, from their very first meeting, Balach and Hooriya are at wits end. Surraya, called Bi Jaan wants her daughter Amber (Maryam Noor) to be married to Balach. Bi Jaan loves Balach as her own son and considers him the best match for her daughter. Amber, unlike Balach is continuing her studies and is in love with her class-fellow Faiq (Faraz Farouqi). But she is hesitant to tell about him to her family as Faiq is from middle-class and she knows that her father will never approve his proposal. Malik Shahbaz crowns Balach as the head of the panchayat (ignoring Wajahat) and also commits him to his daughter, thinking that Samreen and her daughters will never come back in their lives, so Balach and Hooriya's engagement doesn't exist anymore. Balach obediently agrees to this betrothment as his uncle's decision is the final order for him. Amber though very close to Balaaj as a cousin, is not happy about this engagement. She tells about Faiq to Bi Jaan, but as expected she rejects it knowing that Malik Shahbaz will never accept a son-in-law from a lesser background."}, {"text": "Seeing her husband's longing for his first wife and daughters, Saeeda one day visits Samreen. She asks her to return, to which Samreen refuses and asks her to leave. While leaving Saeeda meets Hooriya and her sister Minhal (Zainab Shabbir). She and Samreen lie to them that Saeeda is an old friend. Saeeda takes their picture for showing it to Wajahat and leaves. When she tells this to Wajahat, his reaction is not what she expects. He scolds her for interfering in his personal life and warns her not to go near his wife and daughters again. Saeeda once again realizes that only Samreen is Wajahat's love and she can never gain his trust. Balaaj and Hooriya meet for the second time, which is as unfavorable as their first one. Balaaj splashes water on nearby walking Hooriya and Minhal. Hooriya as usual loses her temper and starts cursing Balaaj recognizing him from their previous meeting. Balaaj retaliates but they both are stopped from manhandling by Amber and Minhal. Danish convinces his mother to ask Hooriya's hand in marriage and she does that reluctantly and they get engaged. Amber tells Faiq about her engagement and distances herself from him. Faiq is"}, {"text": "heart-broken to know that though he loves Amber but cannot get her due to their status difference. Faiq's mother is angry to know that Amber betrayed her son's loyalty by choosing her rich cousin over him. Danish and Faiq's mothers are relatives. They visit Samreen's place and on seeing Minhal, Faiq's mother immediately likes her for Faiq. They make Faiq and Minhal meet, and Faiq for overcoming Amber's loss, develops interest in Minhal. Amber on the other hand is still in two minds in marrying Balaj.She asks Balaj to convince her father for delaying their marriage for few months to which he agrees. Amber again approaches Faiq. They both decide to run away. But on the night when Amber is leaving haveli, she is caught by Bi Jaan. After her mother makes her understand the importance of her background and Balaj as her life partner, Amber decides to stay and accepts Balaj as her man. Faiq is waiting for her in his car but when she doesn't turn up, he is again heartbroken on her betrayal. Preparations start for Balaj and Amber's wedding. In city as well, there is a wedding which Hooriya's family is attending. During celebrations there is"}, {"text": "shooting in air and Samreen gets shot accidentally. Her condition is critical and the sisters don't have enough money for her surgery. Unwillingly, Hooriya calls Ghulam Din for help. On knowing about the accident, Wajahat arrives at the hospital and meets his daughters for the first time in years. Samreen is saved but she goes into comma. Wajahat decides to take his daughters to his haveli as he cannot leave them alone in the city. So, Hooriya and Minhal arrive at their paternal house on the eve of Balaj and Amber's mayun ceremony. Except for Saeeda no one is happy to see them. On seeing Saeeda, they recognize her and after inquiring from a servant they get to know that she is in fact their step-mother. This makes them angry and initially they misbehave in response to Saeeda's motherly affection, accusing her of stealing their father from them and making their parents separate (none of them know that their mother actually left their father to prevent Balaj and Hooriya's marriage). Amber sees Hooriya and Minhal and recognizes them. Balaj and Hooriya also encounter each other and are shocked to learn that they are indeed cousins. Balaj and Hooriya's further meetings"}, {"text": "are also bloody ones. Once she is dragged by him with her arm for strolling outside the haveli without a dupatta. The next time he doesn't allow her to have dinner before their taya has arrived at the table. Hooriya starts to hate this household within the first few days of her arrival, primarily because of Balaj's presence and secondly due to the rigid regulations maintained by her taya Malik Shahbaz. The main twist occurs in the story when Malik Shahbaz decides to marry Balaj to his childhood fianc\u00e9' Hooriya as she has now returned to her family. Being a staunch follower of his traditions, Malik Shahbaz doesn't even care about his daughter's happiness, who is about to become Balaj's bride, and gives his final decision to wed Balaj and Hooriya. Balaj on discovering that Hooriya is committed to him since childhood, also agrees to marry her, primarily because he considers Hooriya as his possession being his fianc\u00e9 and secondly because he wants to somehow bring her under his command as she has always been repulsive towards him. Wajahat as before submits to his brother's command and tells his daughters about Malik Shahbaz's decision. Both Hooriya and Minhal are shocked"}, {"text": "to learn about Hooriya and Balaj's engagement and more shocked to know that their taya has cancelled his own daughter's marriage. Obviously, Hooriya's response is negative. On the other hand, Amber is shattered about what her parents are doing to her. She retaliates to her mother that she agreed to leave the man she loved for Balaj and now how can they take Balaj from her. Bi Jaan is also helpless. Even Balaj cannot support Amber as he agreed to marry her only because of his taya's orders otherwise, he never had any feelings for her. Balaj admits to Amber that he hates Hooriya but is doing so only on his taya's orders and for fulfilling his family traditions. Amber is heartbroken. Hooriya and Minhal realize that Saeeda is not pretending to be good to them, in fact she does care for them. She even agrees to help Hooriya out of this turmoil. Saeeda makes a plan for the sisters to escape. As a ritual, Hooriya is taken to a shrine before wedding and from there, Saeeda makes them flee. Hooriya is in constant contact with Danish who is waiting for them in Karachi. As they escape from the shrine,"}, {"text": "Balaj and his men catch them in the bus they are travelling and forcefully take them to a hut and lock them. There Balaj beats Hooriya for cursing their taya and takes her mobile away as Danish is calling her, but during all this neither Balaj gets to know about Hooriya's engagement with Danish nor that it is Danish to whom Hooriya is in contact with. Finally, Hooriya agrees to marry Balaj as he points a gun at Minhal and their Nikah is officiated under force and threat. Thereon, another chapter starts in Balaj and Hooriya's life. Both are aggressive towards each other. Hooriya has vowed not to accept him as her husband and is rebellious at all fronts. Balaj on the other hand is squeezed between his anger towards Hooriya and his taya's set standards for treating a wife. He initially puts unwanted regulations on her and makes her realize that like every other wife in the haveli she is just equal to his shoes. Yet, Balaj maintains a distance from Hooriya, not allowing himself near her without her permission. Despite Balaj and Hooriya's soft and rough skirmishes, both become habitual of each other and Hooriya also takes her"}, {"text": "final exams while living in the haveli. Faiq and Minhal get engaged much to Amber's shock that the man she loved has returned to her life as her cousin's fianc\u00e9'. Faiq is still confused for his feelings for Amber but is determined to marry Minhal only. Samreen awakens from comma. Hooriya decides to take her to their house and not haveli and asks Wajahat not to tell her about Hooriya's marriage before she has fully recovered. Much to Balaj's disappointment, Hooriya goes to Karachi. During her absence, Balaj develops some feelings for her but is unable to accept them as he recalls his taya's words that a wife is no more than a subordinate. Samreen is worried about her daughters' marriages. She is keen upon marrying Hooriya and Danish at the earliest. This is not helping Hooriya who does not want to break the news of her marriage to her mother at the moment. But Danish's mother tells Samreen about Hooriya's marriage with Balaj. This makes Samreen collapse once again as her twenty-year old struggle went in vain. Wajahat then decides to take Samreen to the haveli as Minhal alone cannot look after her. Bi Jaan convinces Malik Shahbaz and"}, {"text": "he agrees too. At the haveli, Saeeda attends to Samreen and takes her responsibility. Hooriya tops in her examination. Minhal makes Balaj realize that he should also applaud her like everyone else. So, he brings flower bracelets for her and somehow tells her that he specially bought them for her. Hooriya likes this gesture of his. This is the first time she develops feelings for Balaj but doesn't realize it herself. There is a parallel story of Banu, a servant's daughter. She is in love with Waseem (Ghulam Din's son) but her father has fixed her marriage to an elderly man Qadeer. Qadeer is from a rival political party, therefore, keeping their interest safe Malik Shahbaz and Balaj agree to marry Banu to him. They lock Banu in a stable. When Hooriya learns about this, she first frees Banu from her imprisonment and then makes her escape with Waseem to Karachi with Danish's help. By doing this Hooriya feels at peace as she did what she could not do for herself when she was made to lose the man she loved. She also confesses this to Bi Jaan but Bi Jaan does not let Malik Shahbaz know about it. One"}, {"text": "day Balaj on taya's orders is going towards their rivals. Hooriya forbids him from taking a gun, once again bringing the subject of her forceful marriage to him under the influence of the same gun. When Balaj doesn't listen to her, Hooriya angrily leaves the room saying that she does not earn his respect as a wife as he brought her in his life forcibly. On hearing this Balaj drops the gun and leaves without it. When Hooriya sees it, she feels happy that Balaj for the first time listened to her and feels content about it. On his way, Balaj gets shot in the arm. Hooriya is worried about him being wounded like that. Balach angrily blames her for his condition as she delayed his departure and not let him take his gun. He refuses to take medicine from her, but Hooriya does not give up and Balaj finally surrenders to her privilege as his wife. All night long, Hooriya attends to an unconscious Balaj as a duty-full wife and tiredly falls asleep at his feet. When Balaj wakes up in the morning, he is surprised to find Hooriya near him with first aid. Later-on when Balaj asks her"}, {"text": "whether she is taking care of him because she has developed a soft corner for him, Hooriya refuses and says that she would have done the same for any other sick person and that she can never fall in love with him as she can never forget that he forced her to marry him, much to Balaj's disappointment. Hooriya then explores her feelings for Balaj. She is not able to accept the fact that she is drawing near to him and has started to care for him (as her forced Nikah is still fresh in her memory). She vows in her heart not to love him ever. Yet again, she is all the time worrying about him and attends to him as his wife. Bi Jaan wants to get Minhal married to Faiq at the earliest as Amber is giving her a tough time and she fears that she might ruin Minhal's engagement. Once their wedding date is fixed, Amber is more than outrageous. She has lost both her men to Hooriya and Minhal and plans to avenge them. In her first revengeful act, she tells her father that Hooriya made Banu escape. This makes Malik Shahbaz go mad and"}, {"text": "orders Hooriya to be locked up in the same place as Banu. Saeeda informs Balaj and he interferes. He confronts his taya saying that Hooriya is his wife and he cannot let anyone harm her like that as that will be against his manhood. Malik Shahbaz though shocked at this change in Balach, does not say anything more. Hooriya instantly accepts her hidden feelings for Balach, as it was the first time he made her know her importance in his life. She confesses to herself that she has fallen in love with him. Finally, she also admits to Balach that she loves him. Balach at first denies his feelings for her but eventually fails to resist further. Malik Shahbaz is now regretting his decision of marrying Balach to Hooriya as he sees that she has changed him. Amber takes advantage of this moment and makes her father realize that he is being punished for ruining his daughter's happiness. She further tells him that she likes Faiq and wants to marry him and asks her father to compensate her loss of Balach by marrying her with Faiq. A regretful Malik Shahbaz decides to fulfill his daughter's wish. He makes his men"}, {"text": "kidnap Faiq and asks him to marry Amber instead of Minhal. But on Faiq's refusal he makes a vicious plan. For winning the upcoming elections and for avenging Faiq for his refusal, Malik Shahbaz decides to get Faiq killed for putting the blame on his rival parties for gaining sympathy votes, as the entire village knows that Faiq is his future son-in-law. He discusses this with Balaj who discourages the idea, saying that Faiq is Minhal's fianc\u00e9' and an innocent man. On seeing Balaj's reluctance, Malik Shahbaz carries out his plan on his own and orders his men to kill Faiq, which Ghulam Din overhears. Thus, one day when Faiq is taking Samreen for her check-up, he is attacked by gunmen. In a struggle, the bullet hits Samreen and she dies. Balaj confronts his taya as he realizes that it was his doing. He tells him that from now on he will never participate in his wrongdoings. After Samreen's death, Bi Jaan and Saeeda decide not to delay Minhal's wedding. Malik Shahbaz cannot stop it as he knows that Balaj will interfere. But Amber is all keen to stop this marriage. During Danish's condolence call to Hooriya, she overhears her"}, {"text": "and by trick takes his phone number from her mobile. She realizes Danish to be Hooriya's former lover. She makes a plan to separate Faiq and Minhal. Amber calls Danish and convinces him to help her stop their marriage and in return, she will separate Balach and Hooriya so that Danish can have her back in his life. Danish who is still loyal to Hooriya and is not accepting any other woman in his life, agrees to do so. Amber takes Hooriya for shopping and leaves her alone for Danish to interact with her and takes a picture of them. Danish asks Hooriya whether she is happy in her married life, to which she replies in the affirmative and confesses that she loves Balach and drives him away. Danish then calls Balach telling him that his wife loves someone else and is still in contact with him and sends him their picture which Amber took. Balach gets suspicious. On Hooriya's questioning, he asks her whether she loved someone else. Hooriya in a shock doesn't answer at the moment but then tries to explain it to Balach. But he seems to have lost his trust in her and regrets falling in"}, {"text": "love with her. On Minhal's mayun, Malik Shahbaz decides not to have Faiq present in the ceremony. Faiq is not happy to know this. Amber and Danish have a plan for stopping the wedding. Once his mother leaves for the haveli, Danish tactfully makes Faiq to go and meet Minhal personally. Amber also convinces Minhal to let Faiq inside her room for a moment and no one shall know. Balach is still not talking to Hooriya. Minhal removes his misunderstanding by telling him that Danish was their neighbor since childhood and their mother formally fixed their engagement. She also tells him that now Hooriya only loves him and that he should never leave her or suspect her of not loving him. A relaxed Balach then reconciles with her. Faiq comes to meet Minhal but is caught in her room. Malik Shahbaz is outrageous at the indecency shown by him and as already does not want Minhal to marry Faiq, calls off their wedding. Amber and Danish are happy on their achievement and Amber thinks that she can get Faiq now. But due to Saeeda's insistence for her daughter's happiness, Malik Shahbaz softens and allows the marriage to proceed as planned,"}, {"text": "much to Amber's disappointment. After the wedding, Amber is leaving the haveli as she has lost everything. Bi Jaan tries to stop her but in the struggle she falls down the stairs when Amber pushes her. Bi Jaan dies and Amber loses her senses for causing her mother's death. On doctors' advice, she is admitted to a mental hospital. Danish now realizing his mistake for trying to ruin Hooriya and Minhal's lives, tells everything to Hooriya for relieving his guilt. Hooriya slashes out at him and warns him of ever coming near her again. Under the weight of his guilt, Danish commits suicide. One day Malik Shahbaz's men see Waseem working in Karachi and inform him. He immediately orders them to kill both Waseem and Banu for going against his orders. Days pass and Hooriya realizes Ghulam Din being absent from his duties. She visits him at his place and he tells her that his son and Banu have been killed on Malik Shahbaz's orders. Hooriya is shattered to know this but the worst comes further as Ghulam Din discloses to her that her taya was behind her mother's murder as well. Hooriya at once confronts her taya and tells"}, {"text": "him that she will put him behind bars. Hooriya calls Balach and tells him that she is about to do something terrible to which he gives the nod. Malik Shahbaz asks Balach to control his wife otherwise he will do it himself. Balach gets infuriated and declares war against his taya proclaiming that what he did was wrong and now whatever Hooriya will do, he will support her and between his taya and his wife, Balach will stand like a wall. Wajahat overhears all this and squares up his brother for killing his wife. Balach joins Hooriya at the police station, where Hooriya does a press briefing about Malik Shahbaz's wrongdoings and Balach and Ghulam Din get the FIR registered for the murders. Malik Shahbaz is finally arrested. In the last scene, it is shown that Balaj takes Hooriya's hand while going to the family gathering, signifying that she will always be beside him in all matters, breaking the year-old traditions of his family, where wives were treated disrespectfully. Hooriya shows her gratitude towards Saeeda for being a mother to her and Minhal and that now she will take on Bi Jaan's responsibilities. Balaj puts the tribal pagri on Wajahat's"}, {"text": "head saying that it belongs to him as he is the next heir and leader of the tribe after Malik Shahbaz and not Balaj. Reception. It received critical a claim for its subject of feudalism. The main feature of its large viewership was Malik Balaaj's character, performed by Mirza Zain Baig and the chemistry between Zain and Azekah Daniel as the lead romantic couple of the serial was praised. In a review by Javaria Farooqui published in the \"DAWN Images\", the reviewer critiqued the portrayal of the heroine being kidnapped by her paternal cousin and compelled to sign the marriage contract, only to later fall in love with the errant and wayward hero. The love-hate relation between the protagonists and their ultimate love story widely got TRP's from the viewers and achieved 7.2 TRPs at its highest followed by 6.9."}, {"text": "The 2020 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 26th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 75th FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the 20th series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company A new points system was introduced with overall positions deciding the number of championship points a rider scored from a Grand Prix (GP), and points scored in each individual heat used to determine a rider's progress in a GP. The series was dominated by Polish venues with six of the eight races held in Poland. Bartosz Zmarzlik was the defending champion, having won the 2019 Speedway Grand Prix series, and he successfully retained his title in 2020 by winning four of the eight rounds. Former three-time champion Tai Woffinden finished second after winning a run-off with Fredrik Lindgren. Maciej Janowski, Leon Madsen and Jason Doyle completed the top six, thus earning places in the 2021 series. Qualification. For the 2020 season there were 15 permanent riders, who were joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves. The top eight riders from the 2019 championship qualified automatically. These riders were joined by the three riders who qualified"}, {"text": "via the Grand Prix Challenge. The final four riders were nominated by series promoters, Benfield Sports International, following the completion of the 2019 season. Qualified riders. \u2022Michelsen was handed a spot after initial wildcard pick Greg Hancock announced his retirement from the sport and first reserve Martin Smolinski withdrew due to injury. Qualified substitutes. The following riders were nominated as substitutes: Calendar. The 2020 season originally consisted of 10 events, the same number as in 2019. The Slovenian round had been replaced by a new round in Russia. The British Grand Prix was originally scheduled to be held on 18 July, but was cancelled on 1 June. The first round in Warsaw was postponed to 28 August, the Czech Grand Prix was postponed to 19 September and the German Grand Prix was postponed to an unknown date, all due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The rounds in Hallstavik and M\u00e5lilla were cancelled on 18 June. On 29 July a final revised calendar was published by the organisers of the series, with a total of 8 rounds; 6 in Poland and 2 in the Czech Republic."}, {"text": "Shaadi Impossible ( Marriage Impossible) is a 2019 Pakistani romantic comedy television film aired on TVOne Pakistan on 5 June 2019. It stars Yumna Zaidi, Affan Waheed, Saman Ansari and Noman Masood in pivot roles. Plot. Raina's mother died when she was young and she is raised by her single father and paternal grand-mother. Raina refuses to marry after completing her studies, as a result of pressure from her family, she keeps some not so easy conditions for the marriage. The family arranged her appointment with Zaid, a well settled guy, whose mother is divorced. Whilst the families are happy with their relationship , Rania and Zaid decide to fake their relationship. After a series of consequences, it appears that marriage is fixed among their single parents Kabir and Mehar and not their kids."}, {"text": "Mere Mohsin is a 2019 Pakistani television series produced by Abdullah Kadwani and Asad Qureshi under 7th Sky Entertainment. It features Rabab Hashim and Syed Jibran in leads while Nazish Jahangir as antagonist."}, {"text": "Shobha Ram Kumawat (7 January 1914 \u2013 23 March 1984) was an Indian Independence activist and Politician from the Indian National Congress political party and was a Member of Parliament of the 1st Lok Sabha and 2nd Lok Sabha representing the Alwar Parliamentary Constituency in the Rajasthan state of India. Early life and education. Shobha Ram Kumawat was born to father Buddha Ram Kumawat and mother Jhuntha Devi Kumawat on 7 January 1914 in Kathumar of Alwar princely state in Rajputana Agency, British India. He got his education from Raj Rishi College of Alwar (Inter) and Sanatan Dharma College of Kanpur (BCom; MA in economics; LLB). Shobha Ram Kumawat was married on 12 December 1932 with Ram Pyari Kumawat, a resident of Vrindavan. He had five daughters: Susheela, Vimala (married to Bhagwatilal of Udaipur), Indira Kumawat (married to IPS Mahendra Kumawat), Chandrakanta (Married to Adv Yogendra Prasad of Sawai Madhopur District) and Dr Kamlesh Varma (married to Dr Ajay Varma). Shobha Ram Kumawat's brothers Chiranjilal Kumawat and Prabhudayal Kumawat were also freedom fighters and brothers Hukumchandra Kumawat and Hazarilal Kumawat were teachers and social workers. Shobha Ram Kumawat died of cardiac arrest (heart attack) on 23 March 1984 in Jaipur,"}, {"text": "Rajasthan state, India. Political career. Shobha Ram Kumawat was the first and only chief minister of the United States of Matsya, serving from its formation on 18 March 1948 until it was merged into the United State of Rajasthan on 15 May 1949. Following that he was the first Revenue Minister of the Rajasthan government from 1949 to 1950. In 1952 he was elected as a member of the 1st Lok Sabha for the Alwar Lok Sabha constituency. He was elected again in 1957 for the 2nd Lok Sabha but lost his chair in 1962 in the elections for the 3rd Lok Sabha. Following that he was member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly on the fourth (1967\u201372) and fifth (1972\u201377) assemblies. Shobha Ram Kumawat also served as the head of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee."}, {"text": "Off the Couch with Ethan is an Australian travel television program, produced and presented by student Ethan White. The program is aimed at teenagers and their families, and presents Australian landmarks, towns and points of interest. It airs on C31 Melbourne & Geelong and Channel 44 Adelaide. Episodes are directed at high-school-aged students and their families. History. White was born in Adelaide, South Australia and resides in the town of Gawler, 40 kilometres north of Adelaide. He has been interested in filmmaking since his childhood, and frequently camping his family at locations in South Australia, where he made family holiday videos. In November 2017, at the age of 15, White contacted Channel 44 Adelaide, a community television station that broadcasts to the Greater Adelaide region. He proposed an idea for a travel-themed television program that encourages young people to get outdoors with their families, and secured a program slot with the title \"Off the Couch with Ethan.\" In April 2018, filming for the first episode took place in the Southern Flinders Ranges in South Australia. The episode was broadcast on Saturday 23 June 2018 on Channel 44 Adelaide. New episodes of the program continue to be broadcast on Channel 44"}, {"text": "Adelaide, as well as C31 Melbourne & Geelong, which began broadcasting the program in early 2019. A second season of the program was announced in November 2021, and commenced broadcasting in August 2022. Awards. In January 2019, White was named a joint winner of the Town of Gawler Young Citizen of the Year for outstanding efforts and contribution to the community. In October 2019, White and \"Off the Couch with Ethan\" were nominated for five categories at the 2019 Antenna Awards: Best Outdoor or Recreational Program, Best Youth Program, Youth Personality of the Year, Personality of the Year and Program of the Year. White and the program were again nominated for four categories at the 2021 Antenna Awards, including Best Outdoor or Recreational Program, Best Youth Program, Best Youth Personality and Personality of the Year. In September 2021, \"Off the Couch with Ethan\" won the Antenna Award for Best Outdoor or Recreational Program. In January 2022, White was awarded the Town of Gawler Young Citizen of the Year for 2022, for his efforts in community contribution, including charity work, promotion of the community and assisting the youth of Gawler. In October 2023, Off the Couch with Ethan was nominated for"}, {"text": "three categories at the 2023 Antenna Awards."}, {"text": "Ronda Whyte (born 6 November 1990) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles. She represented Jamaica at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, competing in women's 400 metres hurdles. She has qualified to represent Jamaica at the 2020 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Buffalo Public School No. 44, also known as Lincoln School, is a historic school building located on the East Side of Buffalo, New York, United States, once the city's Polish-American enclave. The original section was built in 1907, and is a three-story, red brick, E-shaped building with Renaissance Revival detailing. Major additions were made to the original building in 1930 and 1975. Architectural details include Onondaga limestone trim and Ionic pilasters with red terra cotta bases and capitals. The building reflects the evolution of standardized urban public school designs in the early 20th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018."}, {"text": "Bjorn Kellerman (born 25 May 1990) is a Dutch former field hockey player who played as a forward. Club career. Kellerman started playing hockey at Zeewolde. He then played for Amersfoort and in 2009 he moved to SCHC. After three seasons with SCHC he made a transfer to Rotterdam. With Rotterdam he won their first national title in the 2012\u201313 season. In 2015, he moved to Kampong, where he won the Euro Hockey League in his first season. In January 2022, he announced he would leave Kampong after seven years at the end of the season. International career. Kellerman was a part of the Dutch squad which won the Indoor World Championship in 2015. He made his debut for the national team at the 2015 Hockey World League Final. He won the European title in 2017 and in June 2019, he was selected in the Netherlands squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship. They won the bronze medal by defeating Germany 4\u20130. In September 2021 he announced his retirement from the national team after he was dropped for the 2020 Summer Olympics squad in June."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 National Cricket League was the twenty-first edition of the National Cricket League (NCL), a first-class cricket competition that was held in Bangladesh. The tournament started on 10 October 2019, with eight teams placed into two tiers. The matches were used as the national team's preparation for their Test series against India in November 2019. Rajshahi Division were the defending champions. On 5 November 2019, Abdur Razzak took his 600th first-class wicket, becoming the first Bangladeshi bowler to reach the milestone. On 18 November 2019, Shahadat Hossain of Dhaka Division was withdrawn mid-way through the match with Khulna Division, after he physically assaulted teammate Arafat Sunny. Shahadat initially faced a ban from cricket of up to one year. However, he was given a five-year ban, with two years suspended for the incident. Khulna Division won the tournament, beating Dhaka Division by nine wickets in the final round of matches. It was their seventh win, a record for victories in the NCL. In Tier 2, Sylhet Division secured promotion to Tier 1, after beating Chittagong Division, also by the margin of nine wickets. Defending champions, Rajshahi Division, finished bottom of Tier 1 and were relegated to Tier 2. Fixtures. Tier"}, {"text": "1. Points table Tier 2. Points table"}, {"text": "Andrew Ivor Vince (born 1959), is a male former athlete who competed for Maldon, Essex England. Athletics career. Vince was a National champion after winning the 1982 UK Athletics Championships in the shot put. He represented England, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. Andy Vince. Head of People Systems and Insight at Barts Health NHS Trust \u00b7 Andy Vince. Regional Vice President Canada at SCA Tissue North America. SCA Tissue North AmericaWeston. Barrie, Ontario, Canada500+ connections."}, {"text": "W\u0142odzimierz Aleksander Marciniak (born 31 March 1954, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a) is a Polish university teacher, political scientist and historian of Russia, an ambassador to Russia (2016\u20132020). Life. Marciniak, in 1976, graduated from political science at the University of Warsaw. From 1977 to 1980 he was doing his doctoral studies. In 1989, he defended his thesis on Marxist social philosophy, supervised by Marek Siemek. In 2001, he gained post-doctoral degree (habilitation), presenting a book on dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 1980, he began his professional career as a scientist and university teacher at the Main School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (in 1991 renamed Warsaw School of Economics, SGH). Between 1992 and 1997 he was working as a counsellor at the Polish embassy in Moscow. In 1997, Marciniak returned to SGH, between 2001 and 2002 heading its Department of Political Studies. Since 2000, he has been working also for the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2002, he became head of the Comparative Postsoviet Research Unit. Between 2006 and 2008 he was a lecturer at the Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw. He has been a visiting professor of the Jesuit University of Philosophy"}, {"text": "and Education Ignatianum, Krak\u00f3w, and Wy\u017csza Szko\u0142a Biznesu \u2013 National-Louis University, Nowy S\u0105cz. Marciniak has been a member of the Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters, and the presidential National Development Council (since 2010). On 13 October 2016, he became Poland ambassador to Russia, presenting on 9 November 2016 his letter of credence. He ended his term on 31 July 2020. His brother, Piotr Marciniak, was a member of Parliament of Poland (1993\u20131997), ambassador to Moldova (2000\u20132005), as well as consul-general in Irkutsk (2008\u20132009) and Saint Petersburg (2011\u20132015)."}, {"text": "Jay Chaudhry (born August 26, 1958) is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of cloud security company Zscaler. Early life and education. Chaudhry was born in Panoh, a village in the Una district of Punjab (now Himachal Pradesh), India with a population of 800. The village did not have running water or electricity until he was a teenager. His parents, Bhagat and Surjeet Chaudhry, were small-scale farmers, and he was the youngest of three sons. In an interview, Jay recalled that he used to walk nearly 4 km every day to attend high school in Dhusara, the neighboring village and, because there was no electricity, he often studied outside under a tree. Following the completion of high school, he earned a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Indian Institute Of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. In 1980, at age 22, he moved to the United States to attend the University of Cincinnati. His first time on a plane was his flight to the U.S. to attend the University of Cincinnati, where he received master's degrees in industrial engineering, computer engineering, and marketing. He also completed the executive management program at Harvard Business School. Career. Chaudhry started out working"}, {"text": "in engineering, sales, marketing and management at IBM, Unisys, and NCR. He went on to become the founder of five security software startups. SecureIT (1996\u20131998). In 1996, he and his wife Jyoti founded Internet security service SecureIT, using their life savings to do so. After SecureIT was acquired by Verisign in 1998, Chaudhry moved to San Francisco to lead Verisign's security services division. He left Verisign in 1999. CipherTrust and CoreHarbor (2000\u20132006). In 2000, Chaudhry launched email security company CipherTrust. The idea for CipherTrust came from his work at SecureIT, where he became familiar with the types of security issues, vulnerabilities and attacks that were possible. The technology was built from scratch and was later acquired by Secure Computing Corporation in 2006 for $274 million. In 2000, Chaudhry also launched CoreHarbor, a managed e-commerce platform. It was later acquired by USi/AT&T. AirDefense (2002\u20132008). In 2002, Chaudhry launched wireless security company AirDefense, which operates as a provider of a wireless intrusion prevention system that monitors airwaves and traffic between laptops and WiFi access points. AirDefense was acquired by Motorola in 2008. Zscaler (2007\u2013present). Chaudhry founded Zscaler, a Zero Trust cloud security company, in 2007. His goal was to build the Salesforce"}, {"text": "of cloud security, inspired by Marc Benioff. Recognitions. Jay is the recipient of three awards by Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi: Alumnus of the Year (2015), Alumnus of the Century in Making (2019), the Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna Awards (2021\u201322), and the American India Foundation's Corporate Leadership Award (2022). In 2018, Jay was selected as a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award program in Northern California. Personal life. Chaudhry and his wife, Jyoti, have three children and live in Reno, Nevada, U.S. Chaudhry is a vegetarian. Jay loves to hike, white-water raft and go on \u201cbonding walks\u201d around his neighborhood with his family. Jay is a voracious reader and he particularly favors books on history, global politics and psychology. Philanthropy. Jay makes regular trips to Panoh, India, to help the community. In 2011, he arranged for a mobile medical lab to give older residents blood tests and other checkups. In 2022, Jay gifted $1 million to his alma mater, IIT-BHU, to fund the school's Entrepreneurship Center and its Software Innovation Center. That year, he also donated $3 million to the Bay Area Chapter of the American India Foundation (AIF), an organization committed to improving the lives"}, {"text": "of India's underprivileged, to support COVID relief efforts. In 2023, he donated $1 million to the Sankara Eye Foundation, an organization whose mission is to eradicate curable blindness in India."}, {"text": "Pedro Portocarrero y Guzm\u00e1n (1640\u20131708) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Patriarch of West Indies (1691\u20131708) and Titular Archbishop of \"Tyrus\" (1691\u20131708). Biography. Pedro Portocarrero y Guzm\u00e1n was born on February 27, 1640 in Montijo, Spain. On 27 Aug 1691, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Titular Archbishop of \"Tyrus\". On 4 Nov 1691, he was consecrated bishop by Luis Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez de Portocarrero-Bocanegra y Moscoso-Osorio, Archbishop of Toledo, with Fernando Guzm\u00e1n, Bishop of Segovia, and Luis de Lemos y Usategui, Bishop of Concepci\u00f3n, serving as co-consecrators. On 12 Nov 1691, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Patriarch of West Indies. He served as Patriarch of West Indies until his death in 1708. In 1706 he left Madrid to settle in Avignon where he died on January 21, 1708."}, {"text": "The members of the eighteenth National Assembly of South Korea were elected on 9 April 2008. The Assembly sat from 30 May 2008 until 29 May 2012."}, {"text": "Yefremovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 450 as of 2010. There are three streets. Geography. Yefremovo is located 10 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kiprevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zheldybino () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 125 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Zheldybino is located on the Vakhchilka River, 13 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Baburino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "F-14 Tomcat is a 2001 action video game released for the Game Boy Advance developed by Virtucraft and published by Majesco. It is an enhanced port of \"\" for the SNES. Two other games for the Game Boy Advance, \"Super Hornet F/A 18F\" and \"F24 Stealth Fighter\" were built on the same game engine. Reception. \"F-14 Tomcat\" received mixed reviews from critics. The game holds a 67% rating on Metacritic. IGN rated the game a 6 of 10, stating \"...what's here is cool, if a bit vanilla. Controls are tight, graphics are clean, the missions are challenging, and the link cable mode works like a champ. But this game is only good in single shots due to the fact that the missions don't offer any variety\". GameZone rated the game a 4.5 of 10 praising the sound and difficulty while criticizing the gameplay, graphics and multi-player."}, {"text": "Zheldybino () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 44 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Zheldybino is located 13 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Baburino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zherdevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Zherdevo is located 18 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zheldybino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zherdeyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 81 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Zherdeyevo is located 21 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nedyurevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zarechye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 292 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Zarechye is located on the left bank of the Sherna River, 39 km southwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ratkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zakharovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2010. Geography. Zakharovo is located on the Melyozha River, 24 km west from Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rozhkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Znamenskoye () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Znamenskoye is located 17 km southeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Levakhi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Essington is a civil parish in the district of South Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England. It contains four listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to \"buildings of national importance and special interest\". The parish includes the village of Essington and the surrounding area. There are no listed buildings in the village, all the listed buildings being farmhouses in the surrounding area."}, {"text": "Ivashevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Ivashevo is located 14 km north of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Savino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ignatovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Ignatovo is located 30 km east of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Fetinovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ileykino () is a rural locality (a village) in Pershinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 56 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Ileykino is located on the Kirzhach River, 11 km south of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dvorishchi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yuri Borisov may refer to:"}, {"text": "Ilyinskoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pershinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Ilyinskoye is located 21 km southeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nikiforovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fenne Lily (born 22 January 1997) is an English folk singer-songwriter. Her debut studio album, \"On Hold\", was released in 2018. Early life. Fenne Lily was born in Dorset, England. She has a brother, to whom her song \"Brother\" is dedicated. She attended Beaminster School until the age of 16 and began playing concerts in Bristol at around the age of 15. During her teens, Lily worked in a record shop in Bridport, Dorset. Career. 2016\u20132017. In 2016, Lily began to play at music festivals around the UK. At T in the Park Festival, she was asked to play a session on the \"BBC Music Introducing\" stage. That year, Fenne Lily also played at Larmer Tree Festival, Latitude Festival, Bluedot Festival, Farmfestival, Port Eliot Festival, Seven Layers, S\u0175n Festival and at High and Lonesome Festival. In 2017, Lily was awarded a Momentum grant by the Performing Rights Society. In late 2017, Lily supported Sivu, Siv Jakobsen and Paul Thomas Saunders on a UK tour. 2018: \"On Hold\". Her debut studio album, \"On Hold\", was self-released in early 2018. During this time, she also supported Dodie during her 2018 UK tour. In August 2018, Lily played on the Rising stage at"}, {"text": "the Green Man Festival in Wales. A support slot with Lucy Dacus followed in the autumn, and the pair later toured the US together. Lily was warmly received in the US. She returned to the UK in mid-2019. 2020\u2013present: \"Breach\" and \"Big Picture\". In 2020, Lily released \"Hypochondriac\", her first single on Dead Oceans, followed by her second single \"To Be a Woman Pt. 2\" which was released in April 2020. In June 2020, she released her lead single titled \"Alapathy\" from her upcoming studio album as well as a music video to go along with it and launched details for her studio album, \"Breach\". On August 26, 2020, Lily released the single \"Solipsism\" with an accompanying music video. On 18 September 2020, she released her second studio album, \"Breach\". In the fall of 2021, Lily embarked on a headline British tour. She was supported by fellow Bristolians Langkamer and by Northampton-based singer-songwriter Katie Malco. On 17 January 2023, she released the first single \"Lights Light Up\" from her forthcoming studio album \"Big Picture\" and announced European and US tour dates. \"Big Picture\" was released on 14 April 2023. Discography. Studio albums"}, {"text": "Ilkino () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 308 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Ilkino is located on the Kirzhach River, 9 km north of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lisitsyno is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Diamond Bus may refer to:"}, {"text": "Karpovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 25 as of 2010. Geography. Karpovo is located on the Sherna River, 16 km northwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vasilyovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Karpovshchina () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Karpovshchina is located 30 km south of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pesyane is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kashino () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 252 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Kashino is located 32 km south of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pesyane is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kiprevo () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 538 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Kiprevo is located 13 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yefremovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Klimkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Klimkovo is located on the Shorna River, 27 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Truskovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Campo de Rugby Valle de las Ca\u00f1as, known also as Valle de las Ca\u00f1as is a rugby stadium located in the town of Pozuelo de Alarc\u00f3n, Spain. It is a natural grass field opened in 2000 and holds about 500 people. The facilities are used by CRC Pozuelo plays for playing rugby in Divisi\u00f3n de Honor, as well by Ol\u00edmpico RC. The field was also the home stadium of Gatos de Madrid during the Liga Superib\u00e9rica first edition in 2009. The sports complex. Valle de las Ca\u00f1as, is a sports complex inaugurated in 2010 by the Pozuelo de Alarc\u00f3n city hall. Currently, the facilities are owned by the private capital company Grand Slam 5 S.L. of which the former tennis player Jos\u00e9 L\u00f3pez-Maeso is part. During its inaugural year, it hosted the sports trainings of Real Madrid Baloncesto. As of currently, the multi-purpose building is dedicated to offer sports services to the Community of Madrid. Location. Located in the II district of Pozuelo de Alarc\u00f3n, the Valle de las Ca\u00f1as sports complex is situated between the Europe's biggest multi-purpose facilities with more than 200.000 square meters of extension and 17.000 square meters dedicated to the main building, where the Fitness"}, {"text": "Sports Valle de las Ca\u00f1as sports pavilion."}, {"text": "Klimovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 68 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Klimovo is located on the Sherna River, 15 km north of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ryazanki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Korytovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 53 as of 2010. There are 22 streets. Geography. Korytovo is located 4 km east of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kirzhach is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Andrea Rabino (born 23 March 1978) is a former Italian sprinter who won two medals at International senior level a participate at two edition of the World Indoor Championships and two of the European Athletics Indoor Championships when he was finalist in Vienna 2002. Biography. He also won two national titles at senior level."}, {"text": "Adetola Abdullateef Adedimeji (born 1 February 1984) is a Nigerian actor and filmmaker. He gained popularity with his first major role in Yewande Adekoya's 2013 movie titled \"Kudi Klepto\" and has acted in over 100 Nigerian movies since he began acting 15 years ago. He is currently a brand ambassador for Airtel and Numatville Megacity. Early life. Lateef Adedimeji was born on 1 February 1984 in Isolo, Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria. He is a native of Abeokuta, Ogun State. Education. Lateef started his primary education at Ire Akari Primary School, Isolo, Lagos State, and went to Ilamoye Grammar School Okota Lagos for his secondary school education. He also attended a performance studio workshop at Onikan Lagos State where he had his performance training. His writing and acting skills were also developed in a Non-governmental organization (NGO) (Community Life Project). He graduated from Olabisi Onabanjo University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Mass Communication. Career. Lateef Adedimeji began his acting career in 2007, started his career with dancing, and was enrolled in a dancing school. He is an Actor and Screenwriter and has featured in various stage roles since when he was 15 but he started acting in 2007 when"}, {"text": "he joined Orisun TV. He started acting while in secondary school and he was picked by an NGO to serve as an informer and counselor during an HIV/AIDS campaign. His role was to educate the general public on sexual-related issues and human rights by creating video content in which he acted. Fans know him for playing the role of an emotional character who cries often. He has starred in several Nigerian films over the years alongside major names in the movie industry. In 2016, he won 2016 Best of Nollywood Awards for Best Actor in a Lead Role (Yoruba). In 2015, he was nominated for City People Entertainment Awards for the 2015 Most Promising Actor of the year. Lateef is widely confused to be related to popular Nigerian actor Odunlade Adekola due to their uncanny resemblance and sense of humor. He was equally opportune to work with UNICEF due to his writing prowess. He was awarded the face of Nollywood male during the ENigeria Newspaper Night of Honour on 30 October 2021. Personal life. On 18 December 2021, Adedimeji wedded his partner, who is also an actress, Oyebade Adebimpe in a colorful wedding."}, {"text": "Koshelevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Koshelevo is located 22 km southeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novosyolovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasilovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Krasilovo is located on the Sherna River, 12 km northwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yeltsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasny Gornyak () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Krasny Gornyak is located 16 km north of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gorka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasny Ogorok () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Krasny Ogorok is located 32 km southwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zemlyanki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasny Ugol () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Krasny Ugol is located 33 km southwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zemlyanki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Jagadhri is one of the 90 constituencies in the Haryana Legislative Assembly of Haryana, a northern state of India. Ateli is also part of Ambala Lok Sabha constituency. Jagadhri assembly constituency is considered as gurjar dominant. And the number of gurjar voters in this seat is around 60 thousand."}, {"text": "Krutets () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Krutets is located 28 km west of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ryazantsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kudrino () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Kudrino is located 24 km northeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Afanasovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kurbatovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Kurbatovo is located on the Sherna River, 17 km northwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Karpovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "This is a list of castles in Saudi Arabia."}, {"text": "Lisitsyno () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 29 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Lisitsyno is located on the Kirzhach River, 7 km north of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ilkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "This article is a list of notable people from Vlor\u00eb in southern Albania:"}, {"text": "Lisitsyno () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Lisitsyno is located 17 km southwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Melezhi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Marinkino () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Marinkino is located 21 km east of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ofushino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Melezha () is a rural locality (a village) in Filippovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 68 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Melezha is located on the Melyozha River, 27 km southwest of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chernovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Faridabad NIT Assembly constituency is one of the 90 constituencies in the Haryana Legislative Assembly of Haryana a north state of India. Faridabad NIT is also part of Faridabad Lok Sabha constituency. Satish Phagna is the current MLA from Faridabad NIT."}, {"text": "Mitino () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Mitino is located 21 km east of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Khalino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Myzzhelovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kiprevskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Myzzhelovo is located on the Sheredar River, 23 km southeast of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mitenino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Naumovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Gorkinskoye Rural Settlement, Kirzhachsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Naumovo is located on the Sherna River, 11 km west of Kirzhach (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yeltsy is the nearest rural locality."}]