[{"text": "Pierangelo Sequeri (born 26 December 1944) is an Italian theologian of the Catholic Church who has been dean of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences since August 2016. He is also a writer, and a composer who wrote hymns and other music. He held posts as professor of philosophy and theology at the Major Seminary in Milan, doctor and musicologist of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, and lecturer in the aesthetics of the sacred at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. He was professor of fundamental theology at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, later its dean. He has held several papal appointments. Biography. Pierangelo Sequeri was born on 26 December 1944 in Milan. His parents were both musicians. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Milan on 28 June 1968. He obtained a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1972. He was professor of philosophy and theology at the Major Seminary in Milan, doctor and musicologist of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, and lecturer in the aesthetics of the sacred at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. He became the professor of fundamental theology at the . In September 2012"}, {"text": "he became dean of the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy. He has also been a visiting professor at a number of universities. His writings include numerous books and articles, some academic and some more popular in style, on issues of institutional, philosophical and theological education as well as the relationship between cultural anthropology and religious experience. He has been a columnist for \"Avvenire\" and worked with \"L'Osservatore Romano\". On 25 July 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named him a member of the International Theological Commission. On 19 May 2011, Benedict consultor to the Pontifical Commission for the Promotion of the New Evangelization. On 22 September 2012, Pope Benedict named him a special auditor for the October 2012 Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization. For 2015 Synod on the Family Pope Francis named him a collaborator of the Synod's Special Secretary. From 2010 to 2014 he was a member of the International Commission of Inquiry on Medjugorje. On 17 August 2016, Pope Francis appointed him dean () of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences. Modifications Pope Francis made to the institute's mission in 2017 and the removal of some longtime faculty resulted in a public"}, {"text": "debate about the changes. Sequeri justified the changes as a continuous development of John Paul's mandate in response to societal developments. He said that the dispute represented \"moves in another battle\", that is, the discontent of some in the Church with Francis' approach I general, and were not really about the institute. He said the changes embodied \"the continuity of the magisterium\", an attempt to broaden the discussion from sexuality to affective relations more generally: \"sexuality also has a dramatic dimension. A dimension that cannot be reduced to sin alone, but which is also the effect of the contradictions of life, of errors, of pressures weighing on the family and disintegrating it... Today, the Christian conscience has become a little more responsible, fortunately. It is not enough to prohibit, it is about learning to govern your sexuality. This requires choices, morality, an ethic of sexuality that must be filled with positive content, not just limits and prohibitions.\" On 6 October 2018, Francis named him a consultor to the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life. Musical interests. Early in his career, while studying theology, he also obtained a music librarian's diploma in at the University of Urbino. Sequeri composed the"}, {"text": "\"Symbolum\", a series of songs on religious themes in a sentimental style. They are often performed during Mass in Italy. His classical compositions include the \"Quintetto per David\"; \"Bethania\", a sonata for violin and piano; and the \"Jubilee Mass\", for choir and orchestra, broadcast on World Vision on 3 December 2000. He collaborated with the musical group , an international all-women band associated with the Focolare Movement, on the album \"Il Mistero Pasquale\" that was released in 2011. He has also been director of the magazine \"L'ErbaMusica\", a quarterly devoted to special pedagogy and musical culture. In 1985 Sequeri developed a special music education program, called \"orchestral music therapy\", for children and young people with mental difficulties. The method consists of instrumental music practice and extends to inserting people into chamber or symphonic musical groups, which present public concerts using specially simplified scores. Writings. His published works include:"}, {"text": "The Signal du Petit Mont-Cenis (in Italian \"Punta Clairy\") is a 3,162 m high mountain of the Cottian Alps. Geography. The mountain is located in the French departement of Savoie (Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes), near the Italian border. It visually dominates the west side of the Mont Cenis lake and belongs to the main chain of the Alps, standing on the water divide between the watersheds of the Dora Riparia (Po Valley) and of the Arc (Rhone Valley). It lies between the pass of Mont Cenis and the Col du Petit Mont-Cenis (2,183 m). History. The mountain, although lying on the Alpine watershed between the Val di Susa and the Maurienne, is entirely in French territory following the boundary adjustments decided in the 1947 Treaty of Paris. The area was interested by the Vallo Alpino and ligne Maginot fortifications and then saw heavy fights during the II World War, facing in 1945 the \"chasseurs alpins\" (French Army) and German mountain troops. Access to the summit. The summit can be reached on foot starting from the refuge du Petit Mont Cenis with some scrambling, in about 3 hours' walk."}, {"text": "Lorraine Susan Gradwell MBE (24 July 1953 \u2013 3 September 2017) was a British disability rights campaigner and athlete, feminist writer and poet. Life and family. Gradwell was born Lorraine Susan Mahoney in a terraced street in Middlesbrough, the middle child with two brothers, Ian and Peter. Her mother, Inga (n\u00e9e Blythman), worked on a market stall. Her father, Tom, was a steelworker. She caught polio virus in the 1956 epidemic aged almost three and spent much of her early childhood in hospitals where she first used leg callipers, plus a little home education as an infant. As an adult she was a wheelchair user. From about 8 to 15 years of age she was living between hospitals and a 'special' boarding school. She gained her A levels at a local mainstream grammar school, and a degree in Fashion Design and Management taught as a sandwich course by Middlesbrough Art College and Hollins College in Manchester (later becoming part of Manchester Metropolitan University). She married Les Gradwell, with whom she settled in Manchester and had two children, John and Jenny. The marriage ended in 1983. She met Tony Baldwinson in 1985. They moved in together a year later and married"}, {"text": "in 2006. She was appointed MBE in 2008 for services to disabled people. She became semi-retired after a heart attack in 2012, and died from complications in 2017. Sport. In swimming, Gradwell represented England in the Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in New Zealand (1974) and gaining a gold medal in the Wheelchair Slalom track race; and in later life achieved an Open Water (at sea) scuba diving certificate while visiting Tenerife. Work. While being a single mother in the early 1980s she supplemented her income by hand-painting glazed designs on plain white plates and tea-sets for sale, which she fired in an electric kiln in her garage. Lorraine Gradwell was a founder of the disabled people's organisation (DPO), Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP) and in 1986 was employed as its first development worker, later becoming the head of staff, team leader. As an activist advisor Lorraine Gradwell helped to set up the Equalities Unit in Manchester City Council and she also worked with Greater Manchester Housing Disability Group and the academic June Maeltzer, to set up one of the early independent living schemes that used direct payments from a council's social services department in the 1970s and 1980s routed"}, {"text": "via the Irwell Valley housing association. Between 1992 and 1995, Lorraine Gradwell worked for Manchester City Council as the Organiser for the \"Healthy Manchester 2000\" project, later renamed \"Health For All\". Initially this was within the environmental health department, but later reorganised into the social services department. Between 1995 and 1997, her work for Manchester City Council changed, and she was asked to transform its employment services and she founded the Manchester-based disabled people's organisation Breakthrough UK Ltd, which supports disabled people to live and work independently. The formal launch event was 1 July 1998. As chief executive for almost 15 years, she led its growth to a \u00a31m-plus annual income and 40 staff, 70% of them disabled. She was a Disability Rights UK trustee and member of the co-production group at Coalition for Collaborative Care. She was a member of the Unison trade union, and served on the National Disabled Members self-organised group, speaking for it at the Unison national conference. Legacy. A celebration of Lorraine's life was held on 2 October 2017 at Gorton Monastery. A tribute to Lorraine Gradwell was published by the Disability News Service and she had an obituary published online and in print in"}, {"text": "\"The Guardian\". On 3 December 2017 at Liverpool Museum, Lorraine Gradwell was honoured alongside Bert Massie at a Disability History Month event, her campaign t-shirts on display. For International Women's Day, Lorraine Gradwell's daughter Jenny gave a speech from the event stage in Castlefield, Manchester at the end of the Walk for Women, 3 March 2018. On 7 September 2018, Lorraine Gradwell was commended onstage in a 'Roll of Honour' as a 'Great North Star' at an outdoor ceremony in Newcastle-Gateshead on the banks of the River Tyne marking the end of the Great Exhibition of the North festival."}, {"text": "Edwin Ekwevukugbe Etieyibo is a Nigerian-Canadian (Afro-Canadian) philosopher dedicated to advancing African philosophy. He is an advocate of the validity of ethnophilosophy. This view has been criticised by a number of scholars and philosophers who argue that traditional African philosophy and ethnophilosophy are not genuine philosophy. Etieyibo is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta. Early life and education. Etieyibo was born in Adeje, Delta State, Nigeria, to Samuel Etieyibo and Idolor Etieyibo. He attended Amuane Primary School (Amuane), Ethiope Primary School (Amukpe-Sapele), Okpe Grammar School (Amukpe-Sapele) and Okotie-Eboh Grammar School (Sapele). He studied in Nigeria, Canada and South Africa. He got admission to the University of Lagos, where he graduated in 1998 with a BA (first class honours) in philosophy (with minor in English and English Literature), an MA in 2001 (cum laude) in philosophy, and an MBA in 2015 (with a research focus on management, work ethics, and motivational theories). In 2009, Etieyibo received his PhD from the University of Alberta working on the dissertation entitled, David Gauthier\u2019s Moral Contractarianism and the Problem of"}, {"text": "Secession. His dissertation, under the supervision of Wesley Cooper, Adam Morton and externally examined by Jan Narveson, cuts across a number of disciplines including ethics, political philosophy, economics and decision theory and presents a critical examination of Gauthier\u2019s account of morality that links rationality with preferences explained by expected utility. In 2013, Etieyibo enrolled for an LLB degree at the University of South Africa and graduated in 2017, writing his portfolio/research essay on law, education and rights, with the title: \u201cSchool Governing Bodies, Education Departments, and the Constitutionally Guaranteed Access to Education in South Africa.\u201d Work and research. Etieyibo sees philosophy as liberatory both in form and content. He is among scholars and philosophers promulgating the notion of Africanising philosophy and the validation of ethnophilosophy. Ethnophilosophy has been criticized and defended by some scholars in various literature discourse and critiques. Some of the most forceful critiques of ethnophilosophy come from the prominent African philosopher, Paulin Hountondji. Etieyibo was a member of the African Philosophy Society\u2019s international steering committee for the third biennial African Philosophy World Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2019. In 2018, he presented one of the keynote addresses at the biennial conference of the International Social"}, {"text": "Ontology Society in Boston, Massachusetts. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Philosophy, the Secretary/Treasurer of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies and the Secretary of the African Philosophy Society \u2014 an organization for which he is a co-founder. He has been named the Association for Research on Civil Society in Africa (AROCSA) champion of the week. His interests include, social and political philosophy, applied ethics, social and global justice, philosophy for children, African philosophy, African socio-political economy, epistemology, Descartes, rights and disabilities. This has been the focus of his research works in impacting and contributions to Africanising philosophy and the philosophy curriculum in ways that respond to different traditions of philosophy, especially the African philosophical traditions (also referred to as African philosophy) consistent with the demands of intercultural philosophy. He is the co-author (with Odirin Omiegbe) of the monograph, Disabilities in Nigeria: Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation published by Hamilton Books in 2017. Etieyibo has written and co-authored several books as well as published in journal articles covering a number of diverse, interrelated areas such as: ethics, social and political philosophy, applied ethics, social and global justice, culture, rights and disabilities, social contract"}, {"text": "theories/and history of, African philosophy, African socio-political economy, epistemology, and Descartes."}, {"text": "Imran Ashraf (born 18 October 1980) is a cricketer who plays for the Qatar national cricket team. He was named in Qatar's squad for the 2017 ICC World Cricket League Division Five tournament in South Africa. He played in Qatar's opening fixture, against the Cayman Islands, on 3 September 2017. In October 2019, he was named in Qatar's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against Jersey. He made his T20I debut for Qatar, against Jersey, on 9 October 2019."}, {"text": "The East Park Towers are a historic apartment building at 5236-5252 S. Hyde Park Boulevard in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The building was constructed in 1922-23 during a period of residential growth in Hyde Park. While it had no guest rooms, the apartments offered similar amenities to an apartment hotel, such as housekeeping service. Apartment hotels were popular as part-time housing for wealthy workers, as they combined the amenities of in-home service with the affordability of apartments, and the East Park Towers were one of several such apartments built in Hyde Park at the time. Architect William P. Doerr designed the building in the Georgian Revival style; his design included terra cotta belt courses and quoins and Palladian windows on the first floor. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986."}, {"text": "The Sutherland State Aid Bridge is a historic bridge in Sutherland, Nebraska. It was built in 1914 by Lincoln Construction Co., with concrete spandrel arches. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 29, 1992."}, {"text": "Stacy's Pita Chips is an American brand of snack products based in Randolph, Massachusetts, specializing in various flavors of pita chips. Pita chips are slices of pita bread which are baked until crunchy. They are commonly eaten as a snack and come in a variety of flavors including Simply Naked (flavored only with sea salt), Cinnamon Sugar, and Garlic Parmesan among others. Stacy's also makes other crunchy snacks such as Pita Thins, Cheese Petites, and Bagel Chips. Stacy's Pita Chips was founded by Stacy Madison and her now ex-husband Mark Andrus in 1996, originally giving the pita chips away for free at their food cart to keep customers happy while waiting in line. In 2006, Stacy's Pita Chips reached in revenue and was sold to PepsiCo where it now operates under the Frito-Lay division. History. Stacy's D'Lites. In 1996, Stacy Madison and Mark Andrus began selling pita bread sandwiches out of their food cart, called Stacy's D'Lites, in Boston, Massachusetts. Due to the popularity of the sandwiches, Stacy and Mark would over-order pita bread from a local bakery. Rather than wasting the extra bread, they sliced the pita into chips, seasoned them with cinnamon sugar or Parmesan, and baked the"}, {"text": "bread until it became crunchy. The chips were distributed for free while customers waited for their sandwiches to be made. Stacy's Pita Chips. As the popularity of the pita chips grew, Stacy and Mark began selling the chips alongside their sandwiches. In the winter, the harsh weather made the food cart inoperable. Stacy and Mark decided to fully transition to selling pita chips, an operation they could continue year-round, and chose the name Stacy's Pita Chips because they believed a woman's name would appeal more to customers. Growth. From 1997 to 1999, Stacy and Mark gave out samples of their chips in local grocery stores. They purchased a custom conveyor belt oven in 1999 which allowed for explosive growth and wholesale purchases. The business reached $1 million in sales in 2001 and $65 million in sales in 2005. Acquisition. In 2005, Stacy and Mark were approached with multiple acquisition offers from large snack food companies in the United States. They agreed to a $243 million sale to PepsiCo and would operate under their Frito-Lay snack food division. Although Pepsi Co. was not the highest bidder for the business, Stacy and Mark believed Pepsi's operations and culture fit best with Stacy's"}, {"text": "Pita Chips. Complications. While scaling the business, Stacy and Mark married in 1997. Personal differences led to their divorce in 2001, however the divorce was amicable and Stacy and Mark agreed to split the business 50/50. In 2005, while Stacy and Mark were fielding offers for their business, the pita chip factory suffered a fire that affected 25% of the factory. A wall was built to separate the unaffected areas and the factory was able to maintain the majority of its operations. Within a few weeks, the factory was fully repaired and the deal with Pepsi was able to close. Products. Stacy's Pita Chips offers five product lines: Stacy's Pita Chips, Stacy's Pita Thins, Stacy's Cheese Petites, Stacy's Bagel Chips, and Stacy's Organic Pita Chips. Stacy's Pita Chips. Stacy's Pita Chips are the original product under the Stacy product line. They are made by slicing pita bread into small pieces and baking them until they become crunchy. As of 2019, flavors include: Simply Naked (sea salt), Parmesan Garlic & Herb, Cinnamon Sugar, Fire Roasted Jalape\u00f1o, Multigrain, Toasted Cheddar, and Garden Veggie Medley. As of 2020, the product has changed to facilitate mass manufacturing. The character, flavor, sizes, shapes and textures"}, {"text": "of the original Stacy\u2019s Pita Chips have been modified. Stacy's Pita Thins. Stacy's Pita Thins are thinner versions of the original chips and come in three flavors: Simply Naked, 5 Cheese, and Garlic & Herbs. Stacy's Bagel Chips. Stacy's Bagel Chips are made by slicing bagels into small, thin pieces and baking them until they become crunchy. Currently, there are three flavors of Stacy's Bagel Chips: Simply Naked, Everything, and Toasted Garlic. Stacy's Cheese Petites. Stacy's Cheese Petites are thin slices of cheese which are flavored and baked until crispy. Flavors include Romano With Garlic and Parmesan With Rosemary. Stacy's Organic Pita Chips. Stacy's Organic Pita Chips are Non-GMO Project Certified and are free of artificial colors, flavors, or MSG. They come in Simply Naked flavor and Rosemary Garlic flavor. Nutrition facts. Stacy's Pita Chips, Pita Thins, and Organic Pita Chips contain 190 calories per serving (about 10 chips), as well as 5 grams of fat, 9 grams of carbohydrates and 3 grams of protein. Stacy's Cheese Petites have 150 calories, 8 grams of fat, 11 grams of carbohydrates, and 6 grams of protein per serving. Stacy's Bagel Chips contain 130 calories, 4 grams of fat, 19 grams of carbohydrates,"}, {"text": "and 4 grams of protein per serving. Recalls. In February 2019, 228 bags of Stacy's Simply Naked Pita Chips were recalled after a manufacturing error resulted in the addition of an ingredient that caused allergic reactions to people with dairy-related allergies. Rise Project. Stacy's Rise Project helps women entrepreneurs find mentors, consultants, advising networks, and financial support. The project hope to empower women to start and grow their food-focused businesses and offers cash prizes to the project's finalists. As of 2019, Stacy's has committed over $300,000 to the project. About Stacy Madison. Stacy Madison grew up in Boston before moving to California to obtain a master's degree in Social Work. After spending some time in Washington D.C. working in underprivileged communities, she joined then boyfriend and future business partner Mark Andrus in moving to Hawaii. Stacy and Mark founded Stacy's Pita Chips in 1996 upon returning to Boston and married in 1997, but the couple divorced in 2001. Stacy started a family in 2003 after having twins. Around the time of the Frito-Lay acquisition of Stacy's Pita Chips, Stacy was diagnosed with breast cancer and an auto-immune disease. She has since recovered and went on to launch several other successful"}, {"text": "food ventures, including Stacy's Juice Bar and Be Bold bars. Stacy served on the board of Evolution Fresh prior to its acquisition by Starbucks while working at private equity firm Fireman Capital Partners. She still maintains her role as a consultant at Fireman Capital Partners as she continues to raise her family and grow her other ventures in Massachusetts."}, {"text": "Ahmad Shariatzadeh (; born 1 July 2002) is an Iranian footballer who plays as a winger for Iranian club Zob Ahan in the Persian Gulf Pro League. Club career. Sanat Naft. He made his debut for Sanat Naft Abadan in last fixtures of 2018\u201319 Iran Pro League against Saipa while he substituted in for Taleb Reykani."}, {"text": "Treasure Island is a 1995 British made-for-TV musical film written and directed by Ken Russell, based on the 1883 novel \"Treasure Island\" by Robert Louis Stevenson. It stars Russell's then-wife Hetty Baynes as a genderswapped Long John Silver. Production. Russell said he made the film \"to prove a point and enjoy myself at the same time. For it is my contention that most of the literary classics we see on television are generally too long, too slow, too samey, too costly and just too, too twee.\" Russell wanted to make a literary adaptation that was low budget and done with a small crew. He pitched the idea to Channel Four who were enthusiastic. Russell put forward 12 titles and they selected \"Treasure Island\" because it could be programmed as a Christmas movie. Russell adored the novel as a boy and made a film of it while young. He wrote \"My aim is to tell the story from Jim's point of view, which is where I begin to part company with the novel, which splits much of the narrative equally between Jim and Dr Livesey - a senior member of the expedition. To my way of thinking, this is one of"}, {"text": "the major flaws in the book and I feel I'm doing Robert Louis a favour in rectifying it.\" Russell made a number of other changes including casting Long John Silver as a woman and making Jim more of a \"scamp\"."}, {"text": "Parkia bicolor, the African locust-bean, is a species of flowering plant, a tree in the family Fabaceae. It is native to tropical West and Central Africa. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, swampland, woodland and savannah. Description. \"Parkia bicolor\" is a medium to large tree growing to a height of about with a trunk a metre or more in diameter with narrow, spreading buttresses. The crown is umbrella-shaped and has widely spreading branches. The young twigs are felted with short reddish-brown hairs. The leaves are alternate with ten to twenty-five pairs of pinnae, each composed of numerous pairs of small, narrow leaflets. The inflorescence is a pendulous, two-part head of small flowers, which is followed by long, dangling pods each containing up to twenty-five seeds. Distribution and habitat. \"Parkia bicolor\" is found in tropical western and central Africa, its range extending from Sierra Leone eastward to Yangambi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and southwards to Cabinda (Angola). It typically grows in rainforest and gallery forest, as well as woodland, swampy areas and savannah. When forest is being cleared, this species is often left as isolated trees because of its useful properties. Ecology. The flowers at the"}, {"text": "base of the flowerhead are sterile but produce plentiful nectar which attracts bats. The flowers are largely pollinated by the bats, but pottos and dormice have also been observed visiting them. Uses. The timber of \"Parkia bicolor\" is not highly esteemed but is used to make planks, and canoes and for light construction work, joinery and turnery. Additionally, it is used to make plywood and pulpwood. The flesh of the fruit can be eaten, and the seeds can be fermented to make a condiment. The bark, leaves and roots are all used in traditional medicine and the spreading crown makes this a useful shade tree. \"Parkia bicolor\" exudes a water-soluble, proteinaceous gum. After hydrolysis, this yields 74% galactose, 9% arabinose, 9.5% glucuronic acid and 7.5% 4-0-methylglucuronic acid. Status. This is a common tree with a wide range, and is present in several protected areas. When the forest is clear felled, this tree is often preserved because of its edible and medicinal purposes. It faces no particular threats and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed it as being of \"least concern\"."}, {"text": "Patrick Nisbet, Lord Eastbank (1565\u20131648) was a long-lived 17th century Scottish landowner, judge and Senator of the College of Justice. Life. He was the son of Henry Nisbet of Dean, Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1597, and his wife, Jonet Bannatyne. He was presumably therefore born in Dean House, just west of Edinburgh. He trained as a lawyer and practiced as an advocate in Edinburgh. In 1613 he purchased a tenement on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh from his half brother, James Nisbet, a burgess in the city. He owned at estate at Eastbank (location unknown) and also Dryden House near Pathhead in Midlothian. In November 1636 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice (Lord of Session) replacing Lord Newhall who had died. He was knighted in 1638 by the Marquis of Hamilton. He was forced to resign as a Senator (with three others) in 1641 for crimes libelled against them. He wrote a will in 1647 and is said to have died on 4 January 1648. There is no specific record of his burial place, but it is likely he is buried with his parents and grandparents in the crypt of St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh. It"}, {"text": "is noted that in 1669 a Patrick Nisbet of Dean purchased a baronetcy in Nova Scotia. His birthplace, Dean House, was demolished in 1842 to create Dean Cemetery. Family. He married Jean Arthur in June 1608. They had four children including John Nisbet, Lord Dirleton. His older brother William Nisbet of Dean was Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1616. His other brother was James Nisbet of Restalrig."}, {"text": "American actress and singer Lindsay Lohan has led a high-profile life since her youth as a child model and actress. Following commercial success and critical recognition, Lohan secured her status as a teen idol and received extensive media attention. Starting in 2007, Lohan's life became plagued by legal issues and battles with addiction which led to career setbacks and near bankruptcy. Her legal problems continued until 2015, the first time she had been probation-free in over eight years. Alongside her legal problems and addiction issues, including her multiple court-mandated rehabilitation stints, her turbulent family life and personal relationships have also been highly publicized and documented. Early life. Family and childhood. Lohan's father, Michael, served jail time in a stock fraud case when Lohan was four years old, and has been arrested almost a dozen times. Lohan spoke about her turbulent childhood in 2007, the same year her parents finalized their divorce: \"I feel like a second parent in the sense that I helped raise my family... I was put between my mother and father a lot.\" Despite the conflicts, Lohan spoke very fondly of her family. However, in 2007, 2008, and 2009 she admitted that she had cut off contact"}, {"text": "with her father, describing his behavior as unpredictable and hard to deal with. After a fight with her mother, Dina, in 2012, Lohan had called her father in a frantic episode, insisting that her mother was on cocaine like \"a crazy person\", according to her. Her father evidently recorded the call and released it to the tabloids. The tape subsequently went viral and gained mass media attention. While filming the 2013 film, \"The Canyons\", Lohan filmed a scene with co-star James Deen which depicted the actress being assaulted by Deen. It ended with Lohan sobbing on the ground. When later complimented on her acting in the scene she responded that, \"I've got a lot of experience with that from my dad\". By 2023, Lohan was on good terms with both of her parents as the family gathered in July, which reportedly marked the first time they were all together in at least seven years. Teenage years. Lohan said that her first problems arose when she moved to California by herself at 15. In her interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2013, Lohan spoke of her lack of financial guidance and how her early legal problems left her unfazed as she was"}, {"text": "so deep into her tendencies as an addict. In the same interview, Lohan admitted it took a period of time before she could admit to herself that she had a problem. Upon moving to Los Angeles, Lohan briefly lived with fellow Disney star Raven-Symon\u00e9, though Symon\u00e9 said Lohan had been at the apartment very little, claiming she had only been there three times. Following \"Mean Girls\", Lohan spent several years living out of hotels in Los Angeles, of which two years were spent at the Chateau Marmont. In late 2007, after settling down in a more permanent residence, she explained that she \"didn't want to be alone\" but that \"it wasn't a way of life ... not very consistent.\" She had a series of car accidents that were widely reported, in August 2004, October 2005 and November 2006, when she suffered minor injuries because a paparazzi who was following her for a photograph hit her car. During her time working in Los Angeles, Lohan had suffered from bulimia nervosa. Personal interests. Lohan has mentioned her interest in writing an autobiography several times, stating in 2018 that she planned to release one in the near-future. Lohan is fluent in French and"}, {"text": "able to understand Russian. She says she is studying Italian, Arabic, and Turkish. Religion. Lohan was raised Catholic. In April 2016, Lohan was studying Islam and considered converting. Lohan was spotted publicly with a headscarf and holding a Quran, resulting in media coverage questioning her faith, although Lohan's family has denied that she has changed religions. Following an incident in an airport in February 2017 when Lohan was asked to take off her headscarf while going through security, she publicly claimed to have been \"racially profiled\". Moreover, she wrote \"Salam Aleikum\", a religious salutation among Muslims, in her Instagram biography. In January 2019, Lohan said in an interview that she meditates three times a day. Residence. Lohan grew up on Long Island and moved to Los Angeles on her own at age 15. She briefly returned to New York in 2014 after checking out of rehab, and also lived in London between 2014 and 2016, after she signed on to do a stage play in the West End, \"Speed-the-Plow\", and to escape the intense public attention she had been receiving while in the United States. She mentioned at the time: \"I can go for a run here [London] on my"}, {"text": "own. \u2026 I do every morning, early, and I think how my friends in New York would still be up partying at that time. I needed to grow up, and London is a better place for me to do that than anywhere else\", then she added, \"I haven't heard myself mentioned on TV since I have been here. That has been really weird for me, and great\". Since 2016, she has resided in Dubai. Lohan explained her decision by saying: \"There's a certain calmness that I find there... There's no paparazzi, no cameras. That's a big deal for me.\" Social and political views. In October 2016 and January 2017, Lohan went to Turkey to visit the Syrian refugee camps, and to meet the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, and a Syrian refugee girl, Bana al-Abed. In October 2017, Lohan received scrutiny for defending Harvey Weinstein, with whom she worked on several films, on Instagram and saying that his wife Georgina Chapman should stay with him. Weinstein had been accused of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape. Lohan later clarified stating, \"I am saddened to hear about the allegations against my former colleague Harvey Weinstein. As someone who has lived their"}, {"text": "life in the public eye, I feel that allegations should always be made to the authorities and not played out in the media.\" In September 2018, Lohan garnered controversy and scrutiny after she livestreamed herself attempting to lead away a homeless woman's children on Instagram Live after they refused her help. In the video, she accuses the woman of child trafficking and dubs the family \"Syrian refugee[s]\" although no further clarification was provided on the incident. Political interests. During the 2008 US presidential campaign, Lohan offered her services to Barack Obama's Democratic election effort, but was declined. In a blog post, Lohan criticized the media and then Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for not focusing on policy, and denounced Palin's positions on homosexuality, birth control and abortion. Lohan had previously expressed an interest in going to Iraq, during the Iraq War in 2006, on a USO tour with Hillary Clinton. In the 2012 presidential election, Lohan supported Republican candidate Mitt Romney, something that prompted ABC News to call her a \"political turncoat\". Only weeks later, she tweeted words supportive of Obama. Following her criticism of several of the pressing matters involving Brexit, Lohan had gained support for her political"}, {"text": "views due to her unexpected attentiveness and passionate beliefs about the matter. Relationships. Lohan began dating actor Wilmer Valderrama in 2004. She also guest-starred in an episode of \"That '70s Show\", where Valderrama was a regular. After their break up, Lohan wrote her song, \"Over\", about the experience. She dated Hard Rock Cafe heir Harry Morton in 2006. Lohan then started a relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson in 2008. She co-hosted club events with Ronson and accompanied her when she was DJing. In April 2009, following her break up with Ronson, Lohan appeared in a dating video spoof on the comedy website Funny or Die. It was viewed 2.7 million times in the first week and received favorable comments from the media. In 2016, it was revealed Lohan was engaged to London-based Russian business heir Egor Tarabasov after they had started dating in the previous year. The engagement was called off shortly after they were photographed in a physical altercation on a beach in Mykonos, and a video surfaced of Lohan accusing him of abuse in their London apartment in July 2016. In 2021, Lohan announced her engagement to financier Bader Shammas after three years of dating, and they were"}, {"text": "wed in 2022. Bader Shammas is a Kuwaiti citizen and a member of the Shammas family, one of the twelve Kuwaiti Christian families. On July 2, 2022, a representative confirmed Lohan and Shammas were married after she called him her \"husband\" on her Instagram birthday post. In 2023 she gave birth to their son; Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry are his godparents. Friendships. Since the 2000s, Lohan has had a series of love-hate friendships with a few celebrities, dubbed by the media as her \"frenemies\". The most notable example being her relationship with socialite and reality television personality Paris Hilton. The duo dissed one another in the media but would eventually make amends until 2013, when Hilton's younger brother Barron accused Lohan of having club owner Ray LeMoine beat him up during the Art Basel festival in Miami, with Hilton quickly responding in his defense on social media. LeMoine would later clarify and state Lohan had been unconnected to the episode, and no charges were ever filed against him. Upon being asked about the incident on the 2014 docuseries \"Lindsay\", Lohan distanced herself from the situation saying she \"did not have any part in it.\" As of 2022, the two"}, {"text": "had reconciled and Hilton dismissed the feud as \"very immature\". Early in her teenage career, Lohan had a high-profile feud with fellow Disney star Hilary Duff, after both seemingly dated Aaron Carter around the same time. They were often brought up in each other's interviews, and Lohan parodied the feud while hosting a 2004 episode of \"Saturday Night Live\". By early 2007, the conflict was over as the two were hanging out together and Lohan supported Duff's album release. In 2013, her \" Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen\" co-star Megan Fox mentioned Lohan when she commented on Marilyn Monroe, saying: \"She [Monroe] wasn't powerful at the time. She was sort of like Lindsay. She was an actress who wasn't reliable, who almost wasn't insurable... She had all the potential in the world, and it was squandered\". Fox later explained her comments: \"I attempted to draw parallels between Lindsay and Marilyn in order to illustrate my point that while Marilyn may be an icon now, sadly she was not respected and taken seriously while she was still living\", then she added, \"I intended for this to be a factual comparison of two women with similar experiences in Hollywood. Unfortunately it"}, {"text": "turned into me offering up what is really much more of an uneducated opinion. It was most definitely not my intention to criticize or degrade Lindsay.\" Sexuality. Speaking about her sexual orientation, Lohan said that she was not a lesbian. When asked if she was bisexual in 2008, she responded \"Maybe. Yeah,\" adding, \"I don't want to classify myself.\" However, in a 2013 interview, she said, \"I know I'm straight. I have made out with girls before, and I had a relationship with a girl. But I think I needed to experience that and I think I was looking for something different.\" Substance abuse. By the age of 21, Lohan had become a prominent fixture of the Los Angeles late-night scene, where alcohol and other drugs were often present and on hand for her. By 2007, her lifestyle had \"caught up\" with her, she once noted, as she started to receive more attention for her late-night persona than for her film work, and faced the beginning of what would be a long series of run-ins with the law. She described herself as an \"addict\" in her 2014 interview with Oprah Winfrey, stating that alcohol was a gateway drug to other"}, {"text": "things for her. She also admitted to using cocaine \"10 to 15 times\", explaining that it \"allowed [her] to drink more\". Her January 2007 admittance into a rehab center marked the first of six court-ordered rehab stints in a span of six years; she had spent over 250 days in rehabilitation by 2014. In January 2007, Lohan admitted herself to the Wonderland Center rehabilitation facility for a 30-day stay. In May, she entered the Promises Treatment Center rehabilitation facility where she stayed for 45 days. In July, she entered the Cirque Lodge Treatment Center in Sundance, Utah for a third stint at rehabilitation in the year, staying for three months until her discharge in October. In August 2010, Lohan entered an inpatient rehabilitation facility, from where she was released after only 23 days, and in October, she entered the Betty Ford Center, a drug and alcohol treatment center, where she remained on court order for three months until early January 2011. Between May and July 2013, Lohan spent 90 days in rehabilitation at the Cliffside Malibu treatment facility. Legal issues. In May 2007, Lohan was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). In July, less"}, {"text": "than two weeks out of rehab, Lohan was arrested a second time on charges of possession of cocaine, driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license. In August, Lohan pleaded guilty to misdemeanor cocaine use and driving under the influence and was sentenced to an alcohol education program, community service, one day in jail, and was given three years probation. Lohan released a statement in which she said \"it is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.\" In November, Lohan served 84 minutes in jail. A sheriff spokesman cited overcrowding and the nonviolent nature of the crime as reasons for the reduced sentence. In October 2009, Lohan's DUI probation was extended by an additional year, following several instances in which she failed to attend the court-ordered substance abuse treatment classes. In May 2010, Lohan traveled to the Cannes Film Festival to promote the biographical drama \"Inferno\". She was set to star as the lead, adult-film performer Linda Lovelace, but was later replaced while in court-mandated rehab. Because she was in Cannes, Lohan missed a mandatory DUI progress hearing. A bench warrant was issued for her arrest which"}, {"text": "was rescinded after she posted bail. A judge determined that Lohan had violated the terms of her probation by missing several mandatory classes and meetings. She was sentenced to 90 days in jail, followed by 90 days of inpatient rehab treatment. However, Lohan served only 14 days of the jail sentence, due to overcrowding. Lohan later said that she had subconsciously wanted to go to jail amidst her struggles with addiction, in hopes of finding a place \"to just sit\" and \"be at peace\". In September 2010, Lohan's probation was revoked following a failed drug test. She spent part of the day in jail before being released on bail. In February 2011, Lohan was charged with the theft of a necklace reported stolen from a jewelry store the month before. She was sentenced to community service and 120 days in jail for misdemeanor theft and probation violation, to which she pleaded no contest. Due to jail overcrowding, Lohan served the sentence under house confinement, wearing a tracking ankle monitor for 35 days. In November, Lohan was found to have violated the terms of her probation by failing to perform the required community service. She was sentenced to additional community service"}, {"text": "and 30 days in jail, of which she served less than 5 hours due to overcrowding. On her way to the \"Liz & Dick\" set in June 2012, Lohan was in a car accident, where she sustained minor injuries and which caused a delay in production. In March 2013, Lohan pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of reckless driving and providing false information to a police officer that stemmed from the June 2012 car accident. She was sentenced to community service, psychotherapy and lockdown rehabilitation. Her probation was also extended until May 2015, when a judge ended it after she completed the community service. In March 2023, Lohan and other celebrities were charged by the SEC for violating investor-protection laws by promoting a cryptocurrency on social media without properly disclosing that they were compensated for doing so. A representative stated Lohan was unaware of disclosure obligations and agreed to pay a fine to resolve the matter. Bling Ring. In 2009, Lohan's home was burglarized by the Bling Ring, a group of fashion-motivated burglars whose ringleader considered Lohan to be their ultimate conquest. Video surveillance of the burglary recorded at Lohan's home played a large role in breaking the case. Even"}, {"text": "though by August 2009 Rachel Lee had moved into her father's place in Las Vegas, she felt compelled to return to California for yet another burglary, the target being Lohan, who was apparently Lee's \"ultimate fashion icon\" and \"biggest conquest\". On the 23rd, Lee, Nick Prugo, and Diana Tamayo allegedly stole around $130,000 worth of clothes and jewelry from Lohan's home in Hollywood Hills. According to Prugo, Tamayo and Lee were \"freaking out\" over Lohan's things. By that time, they were well-publicized criminals at large, and Prugo was especially worried about the burglary, knowing that if they were captured by surveillance cameras stealing from the star's home, the footage would be widely seen. Lohan was briefly incarcerated in a cell next to Alexis Neiers, a member of the Bling Ring. The case was covered in the 2013 biopic \"The Bling Ring\" by Sofia Coppola. Archive footage in the film featured Lohan during the trials. Lohan referenced the burglars in the pilot of her own series, \"Lindsay\" (2014)."}, {"text": "The J. M. Burk House is a historic house in Geneva, Nebraska. It was built in 1891 for J. M. Burk, a hardware store owner, and designed in Queen Anne style (one aspect of which being its irregular massing). In 1916, it was acquired by Walferd C. Peterson who lived here with his wife Rosalie and their nine children. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 23, 2001."}, {"text": "Son Chae-young (; born April 23, 1999), known mononymously as Chaeyoung, is a South Korean singer and rapper. She is a member of the girl group Twice, formed by JYP Entertainment. Life and career. Early life and pre-debut activities. Chaeyoung was born in Seoul, South Korea on April 23, 1999. She took interest in the performing arts from a young age and used to model for a children's magazine. Chaeyoung decided she wanted to become a singer before joining JYP Entertainment and took dance lessons for over one year. At age 13, she passed the auditions and ended up joining the company. As a trainee, she appeared in the music videos for Got7's \"Stop Stop It\" (2014) and Miss A's \"Only You\" (2015). 2015\u2013present: Sixteen, Twice and solo activities. Chaeyoung participated in the reality television competition \"Sixteen\" in 2015. Ranking sixth place out of the nine debut spots, she went on to join the newly formed girl group Twice as one of its rappers and singers. On October 20, 2015, Twice officially debuted with the release of their first extended play (EP) \"The Story Begins\". Chaeyoung became the first member of the group to receive writing credits when she wrote"}, {"text": "a rap verse for Twice's version of J. Y. Park's \"Precious Love\" as part of their 2016 EP \"Page Two.\" Since then, Chaeyoung has participated in writing lyrics for multiple songs by Twice. For the group's second Japanese studio album \"&Twice\", on the track \"How U Doin, Chaeyoung took part in composing for the first time, making her the first member to do so. She also designed the limited edition cover of \"Page Two\" and three different pairs of shoes. As a soloist, Chaeyoung released covers of \"Alone\" by Cheeze, \"Off My Face\" by Justin Bieber, and \"Weatherman\" by Eddie Benjamin as part of the Melody Project series. In 2022, she began learning to play the guitar in anticipation of a potential solo debut. She then performed an unreleased solo track titled \"My Guitar\" on Twice's Ready to Be World Tour. In October 2023, Chaeyoung collaborated with pop duo Coco & Clair Clair on a remix of their song \"Pop Star\". On June 10, 2025, JYP Entertainment announced that Chaeyoung was preparing for her solo debut. Endorsements. In September 2023, Chaeyoung was selected as a brand ambassador for Italian fashion house Etro in Japan. In November, she was chosen as"}, {"text": "the brand muse for Japanese cosmetics brand CipiCipi. Personal life. Chaeyoung attended Hanlim Multi Art School with fellow bandmate Tzuyu, graduating in 2019. In 2020, Chaeyoung's personal phone number was leaked on social media; JYP Entertainment released a statement about the incident, and she responded directly on Twice's Instagram page. On April 5, 2024, JYP Entertainment confirmed that Chaeyoung is in a relationship with rapper Zion.T. She is Catholic and her baptismal name is Catarina (or Katarina). T-shirt controversies. On March 18, 2023, Chaeyoung appeared wearing a shirt with imagery of QAnon, an American far-right conspiracy theory movement, during a promotion of \"Set Me Free\" on MBC's \"Show! Music Core\". The crop top showed a large Q in American-flag print with the words \"We Go All\" below it, a prominent slogan of the conspiracy theory group. Three days later, on March 21, the singer posted a picture on Instagram in which she was wearing a T-shirt with Nazi imagery. The T-shirt specifically featured an image of Sid Vicious, bassist of the Sex Pistols, wearing a tilted right-facing swastika identical to the one used by Nazi Germany. Chaeyoung subsequently removed the Instagram post and issued an apology. In the apology, she"}, {"text": "wrote, \"I didn't correctly recognise the meaning of the tilted swastika in the t-shirt I wore.\" Chaeyoung's label, JYP Entertainment, also issued an apology with regard to her Instagram post taking responsibility \"for not thoroughly reviewing it from the label side.\" The apologies by Chaeyoung and her label did not address the QAnon shirt. Discography. Songwriting credits. All song credits are adapted from the Korea Music Copyright Association's database unless stated otherwise."}, {"text": "Nancy Lynne Wayne (born 1960) is an American physiologist, academic administrator, and researcher. She is professor of physiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where she has been the principal investigator of a reproductive physiology lab, publishing research on the impact of environment signals and endocrine-disruptors on the reproductive system. She has also carried out notable work on sexism, professional development, and laboratory safety. Career. In 1992, Wayne joined the Department of Physiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She was principal investigator of a reproductive physiology laboratory and published over 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including investigations of the impact of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on embryonic development. Her research later shifted to the social sciences and gender issues, including an investigation of gender bias in leadership among medical students and the impact of gender, sports, and video gaming on driving skills of novice drivers. Wayne was appointed in 2010 as UCLA Associate Vice Chancellor for Research with a laboratory safety portfolio (2010-2019) in the aftermath of a fatal chemistry accident. She guided UCLA, the UC System, and university members of the Association for Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) to develop a greater culture of safety"}, {"text": "in its research and teaching laboratories. She was co-founder of the UC Center for Laboratory Safety, and served as its first Chair of the Advisory Board (2011-2019). The mission of the Center is to conduct and support research in laboratory safety and translate into best practices, communicate and engage with researchers and health & safety professionals on laboratory safety, and provide expert advice and consultation regarding laboratory safety. In 2015, Wayne founded Women Advancing Together, a professional development company, which has provided workshops and consultations to help women advance their careers at over two dozen universities, conferences, and healthcare organizations including Yale, Cornell, and the University of Michigan. In 2018, Wayne was awarded a one-year leadership fellowship from the American Council on Education (ACE), working at the University of Redlands under the mentorship of president Ralph Kuncl. In 2019, she continued her work at the University of Redlands with a one-year appointment as Deputy to the President for Strategic University Partnerships (2019-2020)."}, {"text": "Mabel Causarano (born 1943) is a Paraguayan architect, professor, and public official. She served as National Minister of Culture from 2013 to 2016. Career. Mabel Causarano earned a PhD in architecture and urban planning from the Sapienza University of Rome. After living in Rome for nine years, she moved to Milan for ten years, before returning to Paraguay in the late 1970s. She has been a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Universidad Cat\u00f3lica \"Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Asunci\u00f3n\" (UCA) since 1981. She is a member of the Paraguayan Academy of History and the Scientific Society of Paraguay, a corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia of Spain, and is on the Board of Historical Studies of La Recoleta of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the 1990s, she directed the REMA Corporation for Sustainable Development in Asunci\u00f3n. On 15 August 2013, Causarano was appointed National Minister of Culture by President Horacio Cartes. She was dismissed from office on 8 September 2016. The reason given was a lack of progress on civic improvement projects, though some media outlets speculated that political concerns or her move to finance the documentary \"Paraguay droga y banana\" had"}, {"text": "influenced the decision. Awards and recognitions. In November 2015, Causarano was named a Favored Daughter of the City of Asunci\u00f3n. In May 2016, she received a career recognition from the UCA. In August 2016, she was presented with the Raguzani nel Mondo award from the city of Ragusa, Italy."}, {"text": "Amirhossein Bagherpour (; born November 11, 1997) is an Iranian footballer who plays as a forward for Iranian club Naft Masjed Soleyman in the Persian Gulf Pro League."}, {"text": "Geraldo Rafael Perdomo (born October 22, 1999) is a Dominican professional baseball shortstop for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2021. He was named to his first MLB All-Star Game in 2023 and helped the Diamondbacks win their first National League pennant since 2001. Career. Perdomo signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks as an international free agent on July 2, 2016. He made his professional debut in 2017 with the Dominican Summer League Giants, batting .238 with one home run and 11 RBI over 63 games. In 2018, Perdomo played for the rookie-level Arizona League Diamondbacks, rookie-level Missoula Osprey, and Low-A Hillsboro Hops, slashing a combined .322/.438/.460 with four home runs, 24 RBI, and 24 stolen bases over 57 games. Perdomo started 2019 with the Single-A Kane County Cougars and was promoted to the High-A Visalia Rawhide during the season. Over 116 games between both clubs, Perdomo hit .275 with three home runs, 47 RBI, and 26 stolen bases. After the season, he played in the Arizona Fall League and was selected to play in the Falls Stars Game. Perdomo did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of"}, {"text": "the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. On November 20, 2020, the Diamondbacks added Perdomo to their 40-man roster in order to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. On April 3, 2021, Perdomo was promoted to the major leagues to fill in for the injured Nick Ahmed. He made his MLB debut that night, filling in for Josh Rojas at shortstop. In 11 games for Arizona during his rookie campaign, Perdomo went 8-for-31 (.258) with one RBI. On June 7, 2022, Perdomo hit his first career home run, a grand slam, against Jared Solomon of the Cincinnati Reds. In 2022, he tied (along with Tom\u00e1s Nido) for the major league lead in sacrifice hits with 12, and batted .195/.285/.262 with five home runs, 40 RBI, and nine stolen bases in 462 at-bats. Perdomo made 144 appearances for the Diamondbacks during the 2023 campaign, slashing .246/.353/.359 with career-highs in home runs (6), RBI (47), and stolen bases (16). On April 7, 2024, it was announced that Perdomo had suffered a torn meniscus in his knee that would require surgery to repair. He played in 98 total games for Arizona in 2024, batting .273/.344/.374 with three home runs, 37"}, {"text": "RBI, and nine stolen bases. On February 18, 2025, Perdomo agreed to a four-year, $45 million contract extension with the Diamondbacks."}, {"text": "The Watkins 23 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Johannes \"Jopie\" Helsen, modified by Watkins Yachts and first built in 1973. The Watkins 23 is an authorized development of the Helson 22, produced with permission of the designer. Production. The design was built by Watkins Yachts in the United States from 1973 to 1980, with 400 examples completed, but it is now out of production. Design. The Watkins 23 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a spooned raked stem, a near-vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed stub keel with a centerboard. It displaces and carries of ballast. The boat has a draft of with the centerboard extended and with it retracted, allowing ground transportation on a trailer. The boat is normally fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. The design has sleeping accommodation for five people, with a double \"V\"-berth in the bow cabin, a drop-down dinette table that forms a double berth in the main cabin and an aft quarter berth on the port side. The galley is located on the port side just aft of"}, {"text": "the bow cabin. The galley is equipped with a two-burner stove and a sink. The head is located in the bow cabin, under the \"V\"-berth on the starboard side. Cabin headroom is . The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 276 and a hull speed of . Base model, introduced in 1973. Improved model with a full fiberglass interior and headliner, introduced in 1977. Operational history. The boat is supported by an active class club, the \"Watkins Owners\". In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote of the 23XL model, \"best features: You get basic sailing transportation for very little money. Worst features: Construction is mediocre, with equipment such as a galvanized boat trailer winch (which can quickly rust in salt water) mounted in the cabin to hoist the centerboard.\" See also. Similar sailboats"}, {"text": "Crossroads of Passion (, ) is a 1948 French-Italian drama film directed by Ettore Giannini and Henri Calef and starring Viviane Romance, Cl\u00e9ment Duhour and Valentina Cortese. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini. Synopsis. Lisbon, the capital of Neutral Portugal, is a hotbed of spies. Mario, a cabaret singer working for the Allies is responsible for the death of an Italian agent. His widow Ir\u00e8ne heads to Portugal and in her desire for revenge she agrees to work for the Nazis."}, {"text": "The Lion's Mouth is a 2000 British film directed by Ken Russell. During production it was known as Leomania. Russell made it in his own house for his own money for a budget of 20,000 pounds. It launched Russell on a series of self financed \"underground\" films, a return to the sort of movies he made at the start of his career. During the making of the film Russell said \"I haven't enjoyed the experience of making a film since \"Amelia and the Angel\". Everything in between had its ups and downs, but somehow I think this is really me, this film... I'm totally responsible for it and I didn't want to do it any other way.\" Plot. The film was inspired by the Reverend Harold Davidson, the Rector of Stiffkey, a rector in the 1930s who helped prostitutes. Production. When no actor seemed suitable for the role of the vicar, Russell decided to change the film to be a \"Citizen Kane\" style investigation of a journalist into the history of the vicar."}, {"text": "Terry J. Albury is an American former FBI agent convicted of leaking documents to news site \"The Intercept\" detailing secret guidelines for the FBI\u2019s use of informants and the surveillance of journalists and religious and ethnic minority and immigrant communities. The documents formed the basis for a series of articles in \"The Intercept\" called \"The FBI's Secret Rules\". Early life and education. Albury was born and raised in Santa Rosa, California. he was the son of Ethiopian immigrants. At the age of 13, he was sent to attend Mountain Mission School in Grundy, Virginia. He later earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Berea College. Career. Albury was a 17-year veteran of the FBI. He stated that he was motivated to inform the public about the systematic racist and xenophobic practices he witnessed as the only black agent in the Minneapolis field office, and the son of an Ethiopian refugee as he was tasked with surveillance of Muslim and immigrant communities. After leaking documents to \"The Intercept\" which formed the basis for a series called \"The FBI's Secret Rules\", Albury was indicted under the Espionage Act of 1917. In 2018, he pled guilty and was sentenced to four"}, {"text": "years in prison. Albury's was the second leak case charged under the Espionage Act under President Donald Trump. Civil liberties and press freedom advocates spoke out against Albury's prosecution under the Espionage Act, and called for an end to its use against those who \"act in good faith to bring government misconduct to the attention of the public\". Albury was incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution, Englewood. After being released from prison in November 2020, he relocated to Berkeley, California."}, {"text": "The Rapides River () is a river in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Location. The Rapides River flows from north to south for , falling from an altitude of to sea level. The river mouth forms a small bay wide and long that opens into the Sept \u00celes Bay past P\u00e8re-Conan island. The mouth of the Rapides River is in the municipality of Sept-\u00celes in the Sept-Rivi\u00e8res Regional County Municipality. It enters Sept-\u00celes bay to the west of the community of Sept-\u00celes. The origin of the name is not known. It was made official on 5 December 1968. The Aylmer-Whittom Park at the mouth of the river, also known as Squirrel Park, is an area of natural mixed woodland, dominated by spruce and lichen. There are several trails through the park, and two observation towers to observe the bay and the birds that nest there. One tower has observation binoculars. There is a miniature village for children. Description. According to the \"Dictionnaire des rivi\u00e8res et lacs de la province de Qu\u00e9bec\" (1914), Basin. The Rapides River basin cover . It is elongated along a north\u2013south axis, long and wide. It lies"}, {"text": "between the basins of the Sainte-Marguerite River to the west and the Moisie River to the east. The basin is partly in the unorganized territory of Lac-Walker (80.7%) and partly in the municipality of Sept-\u00celes (19.3%). Part of the basin is in the Zec Matimek, which covers of the western side. Most of the watershed is on a high plateau with deep valleys in which steep slopes can rise for more than . The highest point is at an altitude of in the north of the watershed. The piedmont area between the coastal plan and the plateau is about wide. It contains rounded rocky hills up to high. The coastal plain in the south is less than wide, and is fairly flat, rising to about of elevation. The bedrock is mainly magmatic, deformed to some extent, including migmatite, anorthosite, gabbronorite and granodioritic or granitoid gneiss. On the plateau the bedrock is usually exposed, although in some areas there is undifferentiated glacial till no more than deep. Some of the valleys hold glaciofluvial sediments. In the piedmont and the coastal plain large amounts of silt and clay were deposited by the Goldthwait Sea after the glaciers retreated. As the land rebounded"}, {"text": "from the weight of the ice and the sea retreated, these fine sediments were covered by coarse sandy estuarine and deltaic sediments. Hydrology. The rivers and streams in the northern plateau follow angular courses dictated by fractures in the bedrock, which are fairly rectilinear and constrained by narrow valleys. Downstream the watercourses meander in the soft deposits of the piedmont and coastal plain. The main tributaries of the Rapides River are the Desmeules, Desch\u00eanes and Champion rivers, which drain the northeast, southeast and southwest parts of the watershed. The Bouleau waterfall on the Rapides River is above its confluence with the Desmeules River. There are three waterfalls in the lower section of the river between the outlet of Lake Rapides and the river mouth, the Outarde at , the Grosse Chute at and the Cran de Fer at from the mouth. The river basin includes several large and irregular-shaped lakes, Lake Grand Rapides at , Lake Rapides at , Lake Curot at , Lake Tortellier at and Lake Hingan at . Waterbodies cover 8.31% of the basin. Ombrotrophic peat bogs cover 0.95% of the area, mostly on the coastal plain with its flat relief and fine sediments. A gauging station"}, {"text": "from the Rapides River's mouth made continuous measurements from 1947 to 1983. It showed an annual average flow of , varying during the year from . Environment. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the river in sub-regions 6j-T and 6m-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain. The forest cover is dominated by black spruce (\"Picea mariana\"), balsam fir (\"Abies balsamea\") and to a lesser extent hardwoods such as paper birch (\"Betula papyrifera\"), trembling aspen (\"Populus tremuloides\") and balsam poplar (\"Populus balsamifera\"). The Rapides River is not recognized as a salmon river. Fish species are rainbow smelt (\"Osmerus mordax\"), American eel (\"Anguilla rostrata\"), brook trout (\"Salvelinus fontinalis\"), ninespine stickleback (\"Pungitius pungitius\") and lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis)."}, {"text": "Najma Hafeez is a British politician. She was the first Asian Muslim woman to be an elected Councillor on Birmingham City Council and stood for the role of Mayor of West Midlands in 2016. She was born in Pakistan, moving to the UK with her parents in the 1960s. Early life. Najma moved the UK in 1964 taking up residence in Birmingham. She took responsibility for her younger siblings due to the ill health of her mother, and she initially faced discrimination in her school life. However, she and her family made a positive effort to become part of their mainly white community, with her father being a strong labour supporter. Despite being married at the age of 18 she retained the ambition to achieve a higher education and her own career. Political life. After divorcing her first husband she gained a degree and joined the Labour party. Her first council seat in 1984 was to the represent the ward of Fox Hollies. In 2016, her bid to become Mayor of West Midlands was not successful, as she was not shortlisted in the final selection."}, {"text": "The Geneva United States Post Office is a historic building in Geneva, Nebraska. It was built in 1939\u20131940, and designed in the Georgian Revival style by architect Louis A. Simon. Inside, there is a mural by Edward Ch\u00e1vez, completed in 1941. The mural was cleaned and restored in 1981 and was then in excellent condition. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 as U.S. Post Office-Geneva."}, {"text": "Hiligaynon literature consists of both the oral and written works in Hiligaynon, the language of the Hiligaynon people in the Philippine regions of Western Visayas and Soccsksargen."}, {"text": "Mohammad Deris (; born 31 May 1995) is an Iranian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Foolad B in the League 2. Club career. Sanat Naft. He made his debut for Sanat Naft in last fixtures of 2017\u201318 Iran Pro League against Esteghlal Khuzestan."}, {"text": "Eileen Alma Richards (nee Whalley; April 13, 1923 \u2013 February 3, 2015) was a Canadian speed skater. During her career, Whalley earned provincial, national and North American championship titles. She was posthumously inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. Early life. Whalley was born on April 13, 1923, in Manitoba, Canada. She was born to parents Ellen Belle and Robert Whalley. Career. After seeing her older brother Evan compete in speed skating, Whalley started racing competitively in 1938. Her first win was during the Winnipeg city championship in the Grade 9 relay. She soon moved up to the intermediate division where she competed in the Minneapolis trials and the Silver-Skae inter-club meet. By 1942, Whalley was promoted to the senior level and she subsequently won the Winnipeg Club Championship and international senior Manitoba meet. Between 1943 and 1945, Whalley won the 10,000 Lakes international event in St. Paul, Minnesota, for three consecutive years. After her first win in 1943, she was presented with a gold locket by club president J. Nellson. Following her third consecutive win at the 10,000 Lakes international event, Whalley was a runner up for the Lou Marsh Trophy in 1946. While men were sent overseas during"}, {"text": "WW2, Whalley was co-champion in the Senior Ladies Manitoba Open competition which she won four times from 1943 until 1946. In 1944, after winning the Senior Lady aggregate cup, Manitoba Hotel cup, and Ten Thousand Lakes meet Whalley was presented with Outstanding Lady Skater Award by the Winnipeg Speed Skating Association. In 1945, Richards became the only Canadian to win the Detroit Times 25th Annual Gold Skates Derby and the Harry Carl Trophy. She also captured the Wyandotte Michigan Gold Cup Senior Women's Championship that same year. However, this fact was lost in history until 1989 as the Toronto Star had misprinted the first Canadian winner of the Gold Skates award in the annual Detroit Gold-Silver Derby. In 1989, the Star printed that Ozzie Martin was the first, instead of Whalley. When the reporter called the president of the Detroit Gold-Silver Derby, he claimed that \"no Canadian could have won the award before 1970 because the contest was closed to foreigners until then.\" However, upon checking older record, it was found that Whalley was the first Canadian to win the Gold Skates. After the war, Whalley competed in the 1946 North American championships where she earned the senior women's crown"}, {"text": "while also setting a new record for the 440-yard event by completing it in 43 seconds. She also beat the previous 800 record set by Gladys Robinson in 1923, with a time of 1.46 2/5. This would however come to be her last competitive event as in November 1947, she married Donald Gair. As a result, she missed a month with the Winnipeg Skating Club. Whalley eventually moved to Toronto with her husband, and retired from speed skating. However, after Whalley was widowed in 1962 by her husband Donald Gair, she became engaged to Kenneth Richards on September 11, 1963. In 2001, she joined her aunt Lillian Simpson and sister-in-law Joan Whalley in the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. In 2015, after her death, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame."}, {"text": "Craft beer tourism refers to tourism where the primary motivation of travel is to visit a brewery, beer festival, beer related activity or other event that allows attendees to experience all aspects of the craft beer-making, consuming and purchasing process. Travel and tourism constitute one of the largest industries in the world, with Americans spending a total of $1.1 trillion in domestic and international travel in 2018. The beer tourism industry has evolved from the larger culinary and beverage tourism category in which people began planning travels based around experiencing food and drink of different geographies. Informally, vacations centric to the theme of enjoying beer have been dubbed \"beercations\". History. The theory behind beer tourism is that people want to feel more connected to the beer that they are drinking. People have always been traveling to explore different cultures, geographies and even foods. Tourism within the beverage industry has long seen success with the development of enotourism\u2014tourism related to the wine consumption and making process. Regions such as Northern California, and Tuscany have seen a large influx of tourists whose sole purpose is to sample the regions' wine. Beer tourism has seen an increase in recent years due to the"}, {"text": "rising popularity of craft beer and increased prevalence of microbreweries. In a study done by Nielsen it is reported that the average American has visited 2.1 breweries in the last year while traveling. The cultural movement of neolocalism, a movement aimed at preserving the identity of a community and promoting aspects that make it culturally unique, is stimulating this surge in microbrewery success. People want to purchase and consume products that are tied to the geography in which they are located. A study investigating the factors of the craft beer success found that the factor that communities found most important in establishing brand loyalty was the connection that the brewery had to the local community. This brings an explanation to the names, logos and imagery that are tied to the local geography in so many brewing establishments. Culture. Craft beer, by definition, is brewed by small independent brewers. Small breweries often make beers that reflect the tastes of local beer drinkers, and sometimes contain local ingredients. For example, in the United States, West Coast-style India Pale Ale (IPA) can smell and taste different that East Coast IPA due to the different hops used and grown in each region. Vermont brewers"}, {"text": "created a \u201chazy\u201d version of Pale Ale and IPA using a particular type of yeast and brewing process. Other brewers across the globe may adopt these techniques or ingredients and put their own local twist on it. Microbreweries are said to be \"hyper-local\" in sourcing their ingredients from the local environment, giving their beer even more local character. For example, Colorado based, Crooked Stave Brewery uses locally sourced fruits such as peaches and apricots in all of their flavored beers; similarly, Yazoo Brewing in Nashville, Tennessee uses locally sourced honey as a sweetener in each of its flagship beers. Craft beer bars and breweries offer craft beer tourists the opportunity to mingle with locals, and experience different environments and cultures through a shared love of craft beer. Destinations. Many cities throughout the country have benefitted from the brewery tourism industry. The craft beer industry contributed $79 billion to the United States economy and was responsible for 559,545 jobs in 2018 alone. Some cities have emerged as popular beercation destinations for travelers. Denver, Colorado. Denver, Colorado is a city that has a long track record of success when it comes to brewing dating back to 1873 and the establishment of Coors"}, {"text": "Brewing Company. Denver is home to 72 breweries, and over 150 breweries when including its surrounding suburbs. This is the most of any metro area in America. Along with the sheer number of Breweries, Denver, also has long been a hub for beer making and tasting. Denver hosts America's largest beer festival, The Great American Beer Festival, which is held every year in Denver and is hosted by the Brewery Association of America which is headquartered in nearby Boulder, Colorado. The Great American Beer Fest was visited by over 90,000 people, 800 breweries were represented and over 4,000 different beers were showcased in 2019. Denver also offers a \"Buds and Brews\" beer and cannabis tour that allows tourists to explore both the flourishing cannabis and craft beer scene in Denver. Denver's RiNo District, River North, is a neighborhood in northern Denver, described as Denver's arts district, that is home to many different craft breweries over a small area. Popular stops on a Denver, Colorado brewery trip are Great Divide Brewing, River North Brewery and Wynkoop Brewing Company. Portland, Oregon. Portland, Oregon is a medium-sized west coast city that is home to over 70 breweries within its city limits. Portland's craft"}, {"text": "beer scene is considered by many to be the most impressive of any in America. With such an impressive craft beer and brewing scene the city of Portland, Oregon has been nicknamed \"Beervana\". Oregon has over 19 million visitors to the state who attributed a portion of their vacation to visiting a brewery, more than any other state in the United States. Oregon is also the second largest producer of Hops in the United States; 15% of the total U.S. Hop production. The Oregon brewing industry continues to support job growth in the state, employing roughly 31,000 Oregonians, and contributing $4.49 billion to the state's economy. The craft beer industry added around 1,340 jobs between 2014 and 2016, a growth of nearly 22 percent. Unique to Portland's beer scene is Zwickelmania which is a weekend long open house that allows tourists free access to all the sites in all of the breweries in the city. Portland even has a hotel specially designed for beer vacationers called the Kennedy School Hotel which has a brewery, built inside a former public school. Portland's inner-southeast district has emerged as a popular stop for beer drinkers. The neighborhood was once the industrial center of"}, {"text": "the city, but the industry has given way to a growing art scene, and abandoned factories and warehouses are being converted into restaurants and brewing operations. Frequented stops on a Portland, Oregon \"beercation\" are Cascade Barrelhouse, Level Brewing, and Ecliptic Brewery. Portland, Maine. Portland, Maine is a small city in northern New England. With a population of only 66,882 people, Portland has the most breweries per capita of any city in America at 25 breweries per 100,000 residents. This coastal city is best known for its seafood and great beaches, but it is also now recognized as the beer capital of New England. The New England Craft Beer Summit is hosted every year in Portland, Maine. The weekend is highlighted by educational workshops for Brewers looking to open a businesses as well as tastings and activities for visitors to come an explore beer from across New England. Portland remains a very small city in terms of area which means that beer travelers enjoy the luxury of ease of access being able to walk to a high number of breweries in a small radius. Portland's arts district located on the north-eastern edge of the city is clustered with outdoor theaters, coffee"}, {"text": "shops, and brewing operations including the famed Shipyard Brewing Company. Converted warehouses house different brewing operations, many of them even under the same roof. In 2017 alone 9 million tourists to the city of Portland, Maine visited a brewery, 1 in 5 tourists. Frequented stops on a Portland, Maine beercation include, Bissell Brothers Brewing Company, Allagash Brewing, and Novares Bier Cafe. San Francisco, California. San Francisco may be the birthplace of the craft beer movement since Fritz Maytag rescued the struggling Anchor Brewing Company in 1965. He refined the Anchor Steam Beer recipe in the early 70\u2019s and started brewing porter, barleywine and an annual Christmas ale. Today the San Francisco Brewer\u2019s Guild has more than 30 members representing craft breweries across the 46 square miles of the city. Some of the most iconic craft breweries in San Francisco include 21st Amendment Brewery in the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood near Oracle Park, Magnolia Brewing Company, Cellarmaker Brewing Company, and Anchor Brewing Company. Activities. Facility tours. Facility tours are interactive experiences in which visitors of a brewery are guided through the facilities of the brewery by either a tour guide or beer maker. Visitors are educated on the different processes"}, {"text": "in a brewery from canning and bottling to the fermentation process. Tour guides will often explain the history of the brewery highlighting certain aspects of the breweries founding, and the tours sometimes come with a complimentary tasting. Dog Fish Head's facility tour in Milton, Delaware costs $30 per tour and tour-goers are given complete access to the facility, and are gifted with a complimentary tasting and souvenir beer glass. City brewery tours. City beer tours differ city to city and tour company to tour company, but the general premise remains the same. Tour companies set up tours with local beer makers and breweries that allow for patrons of the tour to receive free samples and tastings at different breweries with the price of admission for the tour. Tours also usually offer transportation between locations, some provide transport via bus, others include organized biking or walking tours. Many tours may also be paired with food from a local restaurant. BeerQuest Beer Tours in downtown Portland, Oregon offers both a walking and biking tour, and even include seasonal holiday and haunted pub crawls as well. Tapped Enterprises in Long Island, New York offers a Bay Brews, and Fishing Cruise Tour, which includes"}, {"text": "stops at local breweries, finished off with an afternoon of Flounder fishing in Long Island Sound. Beer gardens. A beer garden is an outdoor area where beer and local food is served. The areas are typically surrounded by trees or green space giving them the \"garden\" portion of their name. Beer gardens are traditionally accompanied by live local music and seating is communal featuring long tables and benches to facilitate conversation. Rising Tide Brewing in Portland, Maine features a beer garden and during weekends in the summer they have live music, local food trucks and even local farm vendors. Beer gardens trace their roots back to Germany where early brewers were forced by law to brew their beer in summer months, and because of the heat they stored their beer underground in cellars to keep it cool, and because of this, drinking the beer on the premises where it was stored resulted in outdoor beer gardens. Future. Infrastructure to support growth. There are important political and economic infrastructure that has been in place that supports the growth of the beer and brewing industry. The craft brewing industry has benefitted from a recent break on excise tax levied on alcohol producers."}, {"text": "Microbreweries fall under the \"craft beverage\" distinction which gives beer producers the benefits of a lower tax on the beer produced to $16 per barrel on the first six million barrels brewed and lowered it to $3.50 per barrel for small brewers on the first 60,000 barrels produced domestically. In addition to the tax benefit, Microbreweries have also gained more power in state politics with the establishment of state brewing guilds and associations. These organizations serve as a unified voice for all breweries within a state. They operate to lobby for the protections necessary to fairly license, regulate, tax, distribute and enforce the legal sale of beer in a safe and beneficial way within their communities. Brewers Guilds also often host festivals, or city and state \"brewery weeks\" to bring attention to the local beer businesses. In 2018 it was reported that every state in the United States had some form of brewing guild, association or group that could represent the brewing community in state-wide matters. Ability to self-distribute is also an important factor in the continued growth of craft brewery success. In 36 out of 50 states craft breweries are able to distribute directly to consumers using their own"}, {"text": "distribution channels which allows for brewers to obtain higher gross margin and not have to rely on existing distribution channels. This also allows for tourists to come directly to a brewery and purchase beer to bring home with them instead of hoping that a local retailer carries the beer. There is significant push-back from local government in many states on this issue. Online applications and social media. The beer and brewing industry as with any other has developed a following online in the form of social media. Multiple websites and social media applications have established platforms that allow for the sharing, recommending and reviewing of local beers and breweries. Beeradvocate.com has emerged as \"the go to resource for beer\" and allows users to rank, share, and review beers of different beer makers across the world. Beeradvocate also has a ranking feature that compiles a list of reviews from all of its users to rank that the total cumulative score of beers by its users. Untappd is another beer sharing application that promotes the tourism of beer and breweries. Untappd is an app for iOS and Android devices that allows users to rate, review and comment on beers and breweries. The"}, {"text": "app allows users to tag certain friends and post pictures and \"check-in\" at local bars and breweries to let their friends know they are trying a new beer. Beer Tourism Index. In 2015 the popular travel and accommodation booking website, Travelocity.com, conducted a survey on to their users aimed at exploring the purpose for their users travel. When a substantial portion of the survey respondents indicated that visiting a brewery or sampling local beer was a reason for their travel, the website decided to established the first 'Beer Tourism Index' that is used to rank metro areas throughout the United States on how conducive the destination is to a good \"beercation\". The Index ranked cities based on four main criteria, the prevalence of breweries, availability of rideshare services, accessibility via air, and the average cost of lodging."}, {"text": "Dhrushant Soni (born 9 October 1995) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 9 October 2019, for Railways in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 10 January 2021, for Railways in the 2020\u201321 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy."}, {"text": "Edward Arcenio Chavez (1917\u20131995) was an American artist. His work straddled realism, expressionism, and abstraction; often incorporating both elements of modernism and his heritage as a New Mexican Hispanic and Native American artist. He was an artist with the Treasury Relief Art Project during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He also worked for the Section of Painting and Sculpture, painting a mural in the post office in Geneva, Nebraska, in 1941. His painting \"Colt\" can be found at the Museum of Modern Art. His work is also included in the collection at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. Biography. Chavez was born in Wagonmound, New Mexico. At the age of five he moved to Colorado with his parents and siblings. He began to pursue art after graduating high school, with encouragement from his art teacher. He worked as an apprentice to artist Frank Mechau while he attended the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, studying under Boardman Robinson and Peppino Mangravite. Later, Chavez would paint multiple murals for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as serve as a war artist and correspondent during World War II. He finally set up his studio in"}, {"text": "Woodstock, New York, an art colony, where he lived and produced art until his death. Career. Overview. Chavez worked with the Treasury Department\u2019s Section of the Fine Arts (SFA), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) during the Great Depression to create and assist with the creation of multiple post office murals in Texas, Nebraska, and Colorado. Funded by the Works Progress Administration\u2019s Fine Art Project, he created a mural for Denver\u2019s West High School, and he was commissioned by the Treasury Relief Art Project for a mural for the Center, Texas, post office, as well as a mural for the Glenwood Springs, Colorado, post office, which he and Jenne Magafan, a fellow art student and assistant to Mechau, collaborated to make. In 1942, Chavez won a \"Life\" magazine competition for his watercolor painting entitled \"Convoy Practice\", which he made while serving in World War II as an artist documenting the war. After the war, he married Jenne Magafan and they settled in Woodstock. Jenne and her twin sister, Ethel, also an artist, accompanied Chavez on a Fulbright scholarship trip to study in Italy. In Woodstock, he taught at multiple schools, including the Art Students"}, {"text": "League and Syracuse University School of Art, as well as co-founded the Woodstock School of Art in 1968. Painting Section. The Treasury Department\u2019s Section of the Fine Arts (referred to as just \u201cthe Section\u201d) commissioned paintings and sculptures for new buildings, mostly post offices and courthouses, during the time of the Great Depression. Commissions were given through anonymous competitions, open to artists nationwide, and designs were chosen based on artistic quality and merit. Every entry was judged by national and local committees of arts professionals. Once evaluated by the local jury, the chosen entries were sent to the Section, where they would be evaluated again by a top-level jury. If the Section was in agreement with the jury\u2019s selection, the winner was announced. Section murals were meant to remind Americans of the qualities of their communities and provide hope of a better and stable future. Chavez assisted Mechau with the making of several murals under the Section, along with the help of the Magafan twins, who he would often travel with and aid in the installation of their own murals. Although it was difficult for artists to cover the expense of travel and research for Section commissions, and they often"}, {"text": "paid less than they cost to complete, Chavez was able to relay his success in his commissions into a gallery career. Mural for Geneva, Nebraska. Chavez\u2019s 1941 mural for the Treasury Relief Art Project and the Works Progress Administration (WPA), in the post office in Geneva, Nebraska, is entitled \"Building a Sod House\". Chavez created two entry sketches for the Geneva mural. One sketch shows livestock feeding at a haystack, and the other depicts pioneers building a sod house. Director Edward Rowan instructed Chavez to proceed with the completion of the second sketch after making a slight revision to the spatial qualities of a figure on the left side of the composition. Mural for Center, Texas. Chavez\u2019s 1941 mural in the Center, Texas, post office is entitled \"Logging Scene\". He was directed by the Section to provide three submissions: a small-scale sketch done in pencil, a colored rendering of the sketch at the same scale, and a full-size black and white drawing of the finished work. He also had to provide a photograph of the completed painting. The painting depicts teamsters unloading logs from a wagon, suggesting the time frame was set in the past, as the pine lumber industry"}, {"text": "had moved on to use more modern trucks."}, {"text": "Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado (born 6 August 1998) is a Dominican-born Dutch cyclist, who currently competes in cyclo-cross for UCI Cyclo-cross Team , and in road cycling for UCI Women's Continental Team . In 2018, she won the gold medal in the Under-23 race at the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships in Rosmalen. She repeated this feat in 2019. On 1 February 2020 she became world champion in the elite category at the 2020 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in D\u00fcbendorf, Switzerland. Personal life. , Alvarado is in a relationship with fellow pro cyclist Roy Jans. 2nd National Under-23 Championships Qiansen Trophy 1st Fengtai 1st Yanqing 2nd UCI World Under-23 Championships Soudal Classics 3rd Hasselt 3rd Leuven Brico Cross 3rd Hulst 3rd Woerden 1st UEC European Under-23 Championships 1st National Under-23 Championships 1st Overall Under-23 UCI World Cup 1st Overall Under-23 Superprestige DVV Trophy 1st Brussels Superprestige 2nd Middelkerke 3rd Zonhoven 2nd Neerpelt 3rd UCI World Under-23 Championships Brico Cross 3rd Geraardsbergen 3rd Otegem 1st UCI World Championships 1st UEC European Under-23 Championships 1st National Championships 1st Overall DVV Trophy 1st Ronse 1st Loenhout 1st Baal 1st Brussels 1st Lille 2nd Kortrijk 1st Overall Superprestige 1st Gieten 1st Ruddervoorde 1st Middelkerke 2nd"}, {"text": "Zonhoven 2nd Diegem 3rd Gavere 2nd Overall UCI World Cup 1st Under-23 classification 1st Koksijde 2nd Namur 2nd Heusden-Zolder 2nd Nommay Ethias Cross 1st Meulebeke 1st Hulst 3rd Kruibeke Rectavit Series 1st Neerpelt 1st Gullegem 1st UEC European Championships 2nd Overall UCI World Cup 1st Overijse 2nd T\u00e1bor 3rd Dendermonde 3rd Hulst 2nd Overall Superprestige 1st Gieten 1st Ruddervoorde 2nd Niel 2nd Boom 2nd Heusden-Zolder 2nd Middelkerke 3rd Merksplas 3rd Gavere 3rd Overall X\u00b2O Badkamers Trophy 1st Herentals 1st Baal 1st Hamme 1st Lille 1st Brussels Ethias Cross 1st Leuven 2nd Beringen X\u00b2O Badkamers Trophy 2nd Kortrijk 2nd Baal 3rd Lille UCI World Cup 3rd Zonhoven 3rd National Championships 1st Overall Superprestige 1st Niel 1st Merksplas 1st Heusden-Zolder 1st Gullegem 1st Middelkerke 3rd Ruddervoorde 2nd UEC European Championships 2nd National Championships UCI World Cup 2nd Waterloo 2nd Val di Sole Exact Cross 2nd Sint-Niklaas 3rd Overall X\u00b2O Badkamers Trophy 2nd Kortrijk 2nd Lille 3rd Baal 3rd Hamme 1st Overall UCI World Cup 1st Dendermonde 1st Troyes 1st Namur 2nd Maasmechelen 2nd Dublin 2nd Val di Sole 3rd Waterloo 3rd Benidorm 4th Antwerpen 1st Overall Superprestige 1st Niel 1st Ruddervoorde 1st Merksplas 2nd Overijse 3rd Middelkerke 2nd UEC European Championships X\u00b2O"}, {"text": "Badkamers Trophy 3rd Koksijde 4th UCI World Championships UCI World Cup 1st Namur 1st Zonhoven 5th Antwerpen 5th Maasmechelen X\u00b2O Badkamers Trophy 1st Hamme 2nd Lokeren 3rd Herentals Exact Cross 1st Heerderstrand 2nd Beringen 1st Ardooie 2nd Overall Superprestige 1st Ruddervoorde 1st Niel 1st Merksplas 1st Mol 2nd Diegem 3rd Gullegem 2nd UEC European Championships 2nd National Championships 1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup 1st Nov\u00e9 M\u011bsto II 2nd Nov\u00e9 M\u011bsto I 3rd Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships"}, {"text": "Minneapolis station may refer to:"}, {"text": "There are various theoretical frameworks to mitigate climate change. Frameworks are significant in that they provide a lens through which an argument can be addressed, and can be used to understand the possible angles from which to approach solving climate change. Frameworks in political science are used to think about a topic from various angles in order to understand different perspectives of the topic; common ones in international political science include rationalist, culturalist, marxist, and liberal institutionalist. See international relations theory for more frameworks through which problems can be analyzed. History of approach to solving climate change. Historically climate change has been approached at a multinational level where a consensus decision is reached at the United Nations (UN), under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This represents the dominant approach historically of engaging as many international governments as possible in taking action in on a worldwide public issue. While there is a precedent that this model can work, as seen in the Montreal Protocol, there has been a shift away from this after it failed in the Kyoto Protocol and more recently is in jeopardy for the Paris Agreement. Free rider problem. Unanimous consensus decision making has"}, {"text": "presented problems where any small number of countries can block passage of a resolution on what all countries will do to address the issue. Because of this small number of countries that do not want a resolution to the problem, all other countries are faced with the choice to attempt to combat the collective problem unilaterally, or also defect and economically benefit from not allocating the necessary resources to change. This is essentially the free rider problem present in the tragedy of the commons, where the world's climate is a public, non-rival, non-excludable good. The free rider problem can be summarized as the issue of a party receiving benefits of a public good without contributing to the cost. This often results in the good being overused or damaged by parties who are unable to be excluded from the using the good, resulting in a suboptimal good for everyone. Montreal Protocol. Despite the issue of the free rider problem, there has been a precedent which suggests that action on climate change can be accomplished on the world scale, as this was seen with previous agreements such as the Montreal Protocol. This agreement effectively phased out various substances that were causing the"}, {"text": "depletion of the ozone layer (ODS), and addressed an international issue through a treaty with a multilateral fund, subsidization for technology transfer, and professional involvement of the scientific community. Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol was another international agreement that aimed to reduce emissions and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, focusing on what industrialized nations could do to limit this. Nations in the agreement were assigned maximum amounts of emissions, and if these were not met then there was a penalty of a lower limit. It was not successful in its initial goal of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, evidenced by the facts in the further rounds of countries pledging commitments, there were many significant defections, including Canada and the US, and countries not following through on pledges. This created a precedent where countries determined their own contributions and were able to withdraw from the agreement at any time, reintroducing the free-rider problem. The Doha Round extended the Kyoto Protocol to 2020 by reintroducing emissions targets, but was effectively replaced by the following Paris Agreement. Paris Agreement. More recently, the 2016 Paris Agreement has come out with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which are determined by countries and must be ambitious and progressive"}, {"text": "with every 5 years. Since the NDCs are determined by each individual country, there is a potential problem of countries not being stringent enough with themselves, misreporting, or simply not setting goals that will meet the under 2\u00b0C increase in temperature requirement set out by the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report that is deemed necessary to meet in order to mitigate detrimental effects on hundreds of millions of lives. History of climate change frameworks. As a result of the historical precedent that international consensus and decision making can be accomplished under the threat of a global environmental issue, with the depletion of the ozone layer, there has been a tendency towards a top-down, consensus-based approach to addressing climate change through the UNFCCC. This approach is the dominant one where all world governments are engaged, which makes sense as the entire population of the world is affected by this issue. The top-down approach is that of strong central oversight by a majority of world governments in determining how various approaches to climate change mitigation should be implemented. This approach has been the largest route to tackling the goal of solving climate change, however the world is not on"}, {"text": "track to reach the under 2\u00b0C warming in average temperature that would help hundreds of millions of people. Thus, the top-down framework of only utilizing the UNFCCC consensus approach has been proposed to be ineffective, with counter proposals of bottom up governance and decreasing the emphasis of the UNFCCC. There is a lack of consensus leading to various frameworks being proposed with varying levels of involvement of the UNFCCC and other intergovernmental actors, with proposed local-level approaches, emphasis on innovation and competition, enforcement mechanisms, and multilateral forums. Polycentric approach. The polycentric approach is a proposition to look at the relationships between cities, smaller and larger governments, and private actors when unconstrained by a mandated plan from the top (UNFCCC). The shared interests of furthering action on climate change leads to a form of competition between various actors, but also forces them to look to each other to find out what practices are most effective. This can be seen at city-wide levels on taxation, where one city starts a tax on an unsustainable good and others can observe the effects of the tax, and adopt the policy if it's found to be effective. This experimentation also results in trust building, as"}, {"text": "various private and governmental actors increasingly communicate with each other and rely on each other's successes. This approach favors individual, low-level actors working with each other to achieve a common goal, with some integration into higher levels of governance for support, but whose integration is unnecessary and perhaps unhelpful. The polycentric approach allows a significant space for nongovernmental organizations and nonprofits to participate in furthering the cause, which is different from the top-down approach of the UNFCCC. Bottom-up approach. The bottom-up approach also emphasizes smaller entities cooperating, but with integrated support from top-level governance like the UNFCCC. These levels of support can vary depending on the approach, but all tend to include at least some level of interaction with higher levels of governance, while emphasizing lower level actors taking more action. This approach accounts for climate clubs, which encourage global powers to take action on climate change, or pay a price for their inaction. This can include penalties such as the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, exclusion from various markets by world powers, and sanctions against the country that are economically detrimental enough that they are forced to take action on climate change. This tackles the free-rider problem which is present"}, {"text": "when working with any group with a public good. The lack of international cooperation is solved through forcing other government's hands while stressing a decentralized decision making process to increase cooperation. The approach of using climate clubs with penalty defaults and integrating actors below the UNFCCC, like the OECD and the G20, to accomplish this end is somewhat experimental governance, as it borders on infringing on sovereignty of other countries by strong-arming them,{{ and has not been tried before. Minilateralism. Minilateralism (groupings with select state membership) does falls only loosely into the category of the bottom-up framework as it is against integrating nongovernmental actors and governmental actors in approaching the problem.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}} Aside from this main difference, minilateralism encourages the smallest possible break from the current top-down UNFCCC-led approach where the UNFCCC is still employed but other intergovernmental bodies are also incorporated. Possible intergovernmental bodies to be utilized include the OECD, the G20, or other international leading bodies that could address the issue further. This encourages the UNFCCC to not completely stop working on addressing the issue from a top-down approach, but in the interim these other bodies are important in furthering the cause.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}} Multilateralism opens up"}, {"text": "the opportunity for international cooperation initiatives, where the UNFCCC could be supplemented by other multinational organizations that work towards climate change. This does not account for the free rider problem that the bottom-up approach with sanctions approach accounts for, and instead encourages those who are willing to make change do as much as possible. This then puts the burden on those who are willing to make change, and can create an example of what should be done, but offers no penalties for those who do not follow suit.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}"}, {"text": "Dariusz Gajewski (born 3 December 1964, Cz\u0119stochowa) is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He graduated from the National Film School in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a in 1993. He also studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w. His 2003 film \"Warszawa\" (\"Warsaw\") won the Golden Lions Award at the 28th Gdynia Film Festival. Between 2008\u20132016, he was the chairman of the Andrzej Munk Film Studio \"M\u0142odzi i Film\". Since 2016, he has served as deputy director of the Polish Filmmakers Association. In 2004, he married actress Agnieszka Grochowska."}, {"text": "Anna Rothery is a British politician who served as the Lord Mayor of Liverpool from September 2019 to May 2021. Early life. Rothery is a daughter of Bernadette and Hubert George Rothery. She was born and raised at Belvidere Road in the city of Liverpool in the 1950s. Anna's father died when she was a child and her mother had to take care of Anna and her three siblings. Rothery was educated at Granby Street Primary School, St Silas Junior School, and Paddington Comprehensive School. She studied sociology, psychology and law at University. She earned a master's degree in Business and Regeneration. Career. Since 2006, Rothery has represented the Princes Park ward in the Parliamentary constituency of Liverpool Riverside. From 2010 to 2013, she was the Chair of the Culture, Tourism and Sport select committee in Liverpool. Rothery became the first councillor of Liverpool to speak at the United Nations in Geneva on Religious, Linguistic and Cultural differences in 2012. She is the North West Ambassador for the British Institute for Human Rights, and is a member of various different groups, such as Merseyside Common Purpose and Operation Black Vote, a scheme which aims to get more Black, Asian and"}, {"text": "minority ethnic people into politics. She is the Programme Coordinator for Migrant Workers North West. Lord Mayor of Liverpool. In September 2019, Rothery became the first black Lord Mayor in the history of the city of Liverpool after her predecessor resigned. This is a civic role and is bestowed on the individual by the city\u2019s Mayor, rather than being an elected role. During her term as Lord Mayor, Anna fundraised for local charities, including Anthony Walker Foundation, LCR Pride Foundation and Merseyside Somali Association. Candidacy for Mayor of Liverpool. In 2021, she was shortlisted as one of three candidates to be the Labour Party's candidate for Mayor of Liverpool, alongside former deputy mayor Ann O'Byrne and acting mayor Wendy Simon, following the announcement by incumbent Joe Anderson that he would not run for re-election. On 14 February 2021, Rothery announced via Twitter that, if elected, she would campaign to scrap the mayoral model in Liverpool. O'Byrne and Simon also announced that they intended to campaign to scrap the mayoral model. On 17 February, Rothery, Simon and O'Byrne were told that they would be reinterviewed, sparking claims of a stitch-up by the Labour Party establishment. Six days later, all three were"}, {"text": "scrapped as candidates and told not to reapply. In a statement, Rothery said: \"I welcomed the deviation last week from the formal National Executive Committee process to include more scrutiny of candidates but not to remove transparency and accountability from the process. I hope party HQ sees the outrage its decision has caused across our city and the harm it is doing to our party's reputation and changes course. If the decision stands, then I will be left with no choice but to challenge it legally.\" On 6 March, Rothery announced that she was suing the Labour Party. The case was rejected and she was ordered to pay \u00a365,000 to cover Labour's legal costs. Rothery said she was disappointed with the outcome. Post Labour Party. On 23 November 2021 she announced her resignation from the Labour Party due to the national leadership \"failing in its duty to effectively oppose the government's attacks on our people\" and being \"more interested carrying out internal party vendettas than standing up for our people, our black community and our LGBTQIA community\". She indicated her intention to remain as an Independent member of Liverpool Council. From 2022 to 2023 Rothery was the registered leader of"}, {"text": "the political party \"Liverpool Community Independents\", standing down after being named in as one of the Liverpool City Council councillors found to have evaded their parking fines."}, {"text": "Arkaprabha Sinha (born 29 July 1998) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 9 October 2019, for Tripura in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 8 November 2019, for Tripura in the 2019\u201320 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 12 February 2020, for Tripura in the 2019\u201320 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "Sally Helgesen (born July 1, 1948) is an American author, speaker and leadership coach. Early life and education. Helgesen was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She attended Michigan State University, received her BA degree in English and Classics Hunter College (1973\u201375) and attended The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Career. In 1990, Helgesen published \"The Female Advantage: Women\u2019s Ways of Leadership\", the first book to focus on what women had to contribute as leaders rather than how they needed to change and adapt. The book became a best-seller and has remained continuously in print. In 1995, Helgesen published \"The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations\", which has been heralded as having introduced the language of inclusion into the work environment. The book was regarded as one of the best books on leadership by \"The Wall Street Journal\". In 2018, she published \"How Women Rise\" with co-author Marshall Goldsmith. The book explores 12 habits that get in the way of women's success and how to overcome them. It became an international best-seller. Helgesen regularly delivers keynotes, seminars and workshops for corporations, partnership firms and associations around the"}, {"text": "world. She has also consulted with the UN on building more inclusive country offices and been visiting scholar at a number of schools and universities, both in the US and abroad. Awards & Honors. She is a member of the New York and International Women\u2019s Forums, and the 100 Coaches Network. Personal life. Helgesen lives in Chatham, New York."}, {"text": "Ross City is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Texas, United States."}, {"text": "Sandra Sade-Moshonov () is an Israeli film, television and theater actress. Biography. Sandra Sade was born in Romania. Acting and film career. Sade performed for about 17 years at the Cameri Theater. She also played at the Beit Lessin Theater. In 1981, Sade participated in the educational television program, \"Homeland\". She also participated in the drama, \"Poker Face\", from the \"Homeland Lesson\" series, and had a guest role in the comedy series, \"Krovim Krovim\". Sade has appeared in several films. In 1988, she had a secondary role (Alice Alexandrovich) in Eli Cohen 's film based on a script by Gila Almagor, \"Aviya's Summer\". In 2001, she appeared in \"Six Million Shreds\"; in 2004, she starred in \"Arie\" by Roman Kachanov, as well as in \"The Secret of Chocolate\", alongside Hanan Goldblatt; and in 2006, she played Hannah alongside Yisrael Poliakov in Daniel Syrkin's film, \"Apparently\". In 2007, she appeared in the movie, \"\u05de\u05ea\u05d5\u05e7 \u05d5\u05de\u05e8\", in the role of a fortune teller. In 2010, she participated in the TV series, \"Arab Labor\", playing the role of Yocheved. Starting in 2011, she played Rivka (Ricky) Rosen in the comedy series, \"Savri Maranan\". In both series she embodied a stereotypical Polish mother. In"}, {"text": "2012, she guest-starred in the series, \"Rest\", and in 2014, she appeared in the series, \"Yellow Peppers\". From that year, she performed in the Cameri Theater in the play, \"The New Criminals\", by Edna Mazya. From 2016, she played (alternately with Hanna Laslow) the role of Bertha in \"Fleischer\", a play by Yigal Even Or in the stage theater. That year she translated the play, \"Shirley Valentine\", by Willie Russell for Theater Show. In 2017, she appeared in the film, \"The Cakemaker\". Also in 2017, she commenced a role as the older Naomi Shemer (alternately with Gila Almagor) in the musical, \"Biography of Naomi Shemer\". In 2019, she began acting in the musical, \"Givat Halfon Doesn't Answer\", at the Habima Theater. Beginning in August 2019, she played alongside Yona Elian in \"Things I Know\" at the Beit Lessin Theater in collaboration with Haifa Theatre. In 2021, she took part in the second season of the Israeli production of \"The Masked Singer\" with the stage name Strawberry, and was the fourth contestant eliminated. Personal life. Sade has been married since 1977 to actor Moni Moshonov, and is the mother of opera singer Alma Moshonov and actor and musician Michael Moshonov. She"}, {"text": "resides in Tel Aviv."}, {"text": "\u00c9amonn Burns (1963 \u2013 9 October 2019) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and manager. He played for Down Senior Championship club Bryansford and was a member of the Down senior football team for over a decade, during which time he usually lined out at midfield. Burns was also a teacher at Shimna Integrated College."}, {"text": "The emblem of the Chinese Communist Party is the hammer and sickle displayed in golden yellow or red. According to Article 53 of the constitution of the Chinese Communist Party, \"the Party emblem and flag are the symbol and sign of the Communist Party of China.\" History. At the beginning of its history, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) did not have a single official standard for the flag, but instead allowed individual party committees to copy the flag of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. On 28 April 1942, the Central Politburo decreed the establishment of a sole official flag. \"The flag of the Communist Party of China has the length-to-width proportion of 3:2 with a hammer and sickle in the upper-left corner, and with no five-pointed star. The Political Bureau authorizes the General Office to custom-make a number of standard flags and distribute them to all major organs\". According to an article published by Tsinghua University, at the 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party held in October 1987, a hammer and sickle with a new design was hung in the Great Hall of the People, where the congress was being held. The sickle's handle was changed"}, {"text": "from a square to a round shape, and the hammerhead was changed from being entirely square to notched, which resembled today's design. At the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 1992, the same, updated design was displayed, although some official materials, such as postage stamps, still featured the older design. On 21 September 1996, the CCP General Office issued \"Regulations on the Production and Use of the Communist Party of China Flag and Emblem\", which stated that the emblem and flag were the official symbols and signs of the party, and officially standardized the design of the hammer and sickle. Symbolism. According to the Chinese government, \"hammer and sickle together symbolise the working tools of workers and farmers. The emblem in general symbolizes that the Chinese Communist Party is the vanguard of the Chinese working class, and it represents the fundamental interests of the working class and the big majority of the Chinese people.\" Design. According to \"People's Daily\", \"The standard party flag is 120 centimeters (cm) in length and 80 cm in width. In the center of the upper-left corner (a quarter of the length and width to the border) is a yellow hammer-and-sickle 30 cm"}, {"text": "in diameter. The flag sleeve (pole hem) is in white and 6.5 cm in width. The dimension of the pole hem is not included in the measurement of the flag. In total, the flag has five dimensions, the sizes are \"no. 1: 288 cm in length and 192 cm in width; no. 2: 240 cm in length and 160 cm in width; no. 3: 192 cm in length and 128 cm in width; no. 4: 144 cm in length and 96 cm in width; no. 5: 96 cm in length and 64 cm in width.\""}, {"text": "Pride Live is a U.S. not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization elevating awareness and support for the LGBTQIA+ community via campaign development and social advocacy. Campaigns. Stonewall Day. Stonewall Day is a global campaign launched in 2018 to elevate awareness and support for the Stonewall riots legacy and the continuing fight for LGBTQ+ equality. The second annual Stonewall Day was held on June 28, 2019, the exact date of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Events featured a reception at the Stonewall Inn, a partnership with the New York Red Bulls and their Pride Night, and the Stonewall Day concert featuring performances by Alicia Keys and Alex Newell, and special appearances by Lady Gaga, Whoopi Goldberg, Donatella Versace, Josephine Skriver, Angelica Ross, Ryan Jamaal Swain, Geena Rocero, Blossom C. Brown, Chelsea Clinton, and Valerie Jarrett. Stonewall Ambassadors. The Stonewall Ambassadors are a collective of activists, influencers, business leaders, academics, and celebrities who joined together in support of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. REBEL 628. Launched in April 2019, REBEL628 is a multi-year initiative that will empower and advance the fight for LGBTQ+ equality, with a focus on engaging today's generations. Founding members include Amber Wittington, Adam Rippon, Blossom Brown, David"}, {"text": "Cooley, Elliot Carlyle, and Levi Foster."}, {"text": "Sialomorpha dominicana, also known as the mold pig, is a panarthropod genus of uncertain affinities discovered in 30-million year old Dominican amber by George Poinar at Oregon State University and Diane R. Nelson at East Tennessee University. It was placed in a new genus and family (Sialomorphidae) unto itself, and appears to represent a new phylum. \"S. dominicana\" shares some resemblance to tardigrades and mites. It is about 100 \u03bcm long and grew by molting its exoskeleton. It was probably an omnivore, feeding on minute invertebrates and fungi, including mold."}, {"text": "John E. McClurg is an American security and counterintelligence professional. He spent his early career with the US government, serving as both a supervisory special agent and branch chief for the FBI as well as a deputy branch chief for the CIA. In these roles, McClurg was involved in the capturing of both Kevin Poulsen and Harold James Nicholson. Following his public service, he has served as a vice-president and Chief Security Officer for Lucent, Honeywell, Dell, and currently BlackBerry|Cylance. Education. John McClurg received his JD from Brigham Young University and became licensed to practice law through the Utah Bar Association. At Brigham Young he also earned a BA, BSc, and MA in Organizational Behavior, and he later pursued doctoral studies in Hermeneutics at the UNC-Chapel Hill and UCLA. FBI and CIA career. McClurg began his career working in the intelligence community, working for the FBI, where he co-created what became the National Infrastructure Protection Center at the Department of Homeland Security. At the FBI McClurg was a supervisory special agent and served on one of the US's first Joint Terrorism Task Forces. One of his tasks while working as a special agent in Los Angeles was to bring down"}, {"text": "hacker Kevin Poulsen, also known as \"Dark Dante\". As a result of that effort McClurg developed techniques for combatting converged security risks that integrate both physical and cyber threats. This led to McClurg's development of the \"Converged Risk Assessment Model\" of cyber/physical security. McClurg was involved in the capture and prosecution of Poulsen, and was also responsible for efforts that resulted in the capture of CIA double agent Harold James Nicholson. He was also involved in real-world security operations against Mexican drug cartels and other organized criminals. McClurg also served as a cybersecurity branch chief who developed the cyber-counterintelligence program for the U.S. Department of Energy's newly founded Office of Counterintelligence. He was also a deputy branch chief for the CIA, helping to establish the CIA's Counter-espionage Group. In the mid-2000s, after entering the corporate world, McClurg co-chaired the Overseas Security Advisory Council of the U.S. State Department and was a member of the FBI's Domestic Security Alliance Council. Business career. McClurg served as the vice president for security at Lucent Technologies/Bell Laboratories in the mid-2000s. He later became the vice president and chief security officer of Global Security at Honeywell, where he developed strategic focus and tactical operations for"}, {"text": "cyber and physical security. He was also working on an early Advanced Persistent Threat program, before moving to Dell Inc in 2011, where he became the vice president and chief security officer of Dell's Global Security Organization. At Dell he developed what he called the Business Assurance Program, which was designed to determine the likelihood of a trusted insider employee or worker of acting against their interests\u2014such as engaging in spying. Writing. John McClurg has contributed to publications including \"Security Magazine\" and \"Information Week\". He has also served as a keynote speaker on security issues at industry conferences. Recognition. In 2008 McClurg was named a Compass Award winner for leadership in the security industry by \"Chief Security Officer Magazine\", and he has been named to the \"25 Most Influential in the Security Industry\" list for \"Security Magazine\". He was also twice decorated for his work with the FBI."}, {"text": "I'm Too Sensitive for This Shit is the fourth extended play by American pop singer Hayley Kiyoko. Originally set to be released October 11, 2019 and later December 12, 2019, it was eventually released January 14, 2020 via Empire Distribution and Atlantic Records. \"I'm Too Sensitive for This Shit\" came out single by single, being the EP's release date the same day as the last one was unveiled. It was preceded by the singles \"I Wish\", \"Demons\", \"L.O.V.E. Me\", \"Runaway\" and \"She\". Track listing. Notes"}, {"text": "Ptychidio macrops, the bigeye ratmouthed barbel, is a species of cyprinid of the genus \"Ptychidio\". It inhabits China, has a maximum length of and is considered harmless to humans."}, {"text": "Dogboys is a 1998 American-Canadian made-for-television action-thriller film directed by Ken Russell and starring Dean Cain, Tia Carrere and Bryan Brown. It was originally broadcast on Showtime on April 4, 1998. Plot. Julian is a convict assigned by the sadistic Captain Brown to be a \"dog boy\"\u2014a human guinea pig used to train attack dogs to hunt down potential escapees. Production. The film was shot in Toronto in May 1997. Russell said he was given orders to revisions by \"anonymous\" execs on the film. \"It was change this, alter that \u2013 no discussion, 'just do it.' There was no one to talk to... It paid the rent.\" Reception. The \"Los Angeles Times\" said \"Dialogue is deliriously silly, with the term \"dogboy\" used so frequently you'd think they're trying to make it a national catch-phrase.\""}, {"text": "Peter A. Juley (1862 - January 13, 1937) was a German-born American photographer. He emigrated to the United States at age 26 in 1888 and founded a studio in Cold Spring, New York in 1896. He worked for several publications, including \"Harper's Weekly\", and he photographed President Theodore Roosevelt. He also became the official photographer of the National Academy of Design and the New York Public Library. After his son Paul joined him in New York City in 1907, his firm changed its name to Peter A. Juley and Son, and it \"became the largest and most respected fine-art photography studio in New York.\""}, {"text": "Ptychobarbus conirostris, the Indus snowtrout, is a species of freshawater ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae, the family which includes the carps, barbs, minnows and related fishes. The Indus snowtrout is found in the Himalayas of Pakistan, India, southwestern China an, maybe, Afghanistan. It is found in fast running cold water mountain streams and rivers with stony beds, in areas where temperatures seldom rise above , even in summer."}, {"text": "Nurul Islam Shishu is a retired major general of Bangladesh Army, a veteran of the Bangladesh Liberation war, and former Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He served as the Minister of Agriculture under President Ziaur Rahman. He was considered to be President Ziaur Rahman's most trusted companion. Career. Shishu had joined the Pakistan Army and reached the rank of Major. He served in the Inter-Services Intelligence. He was sent to East Pakistan to gather information for the ISI; which he deliberately sabotaged by disclosing his affiliation with the intelligence agency. He joined the Mukti Bahini and fought in the Bangladesh Liberation war. After the Independence of Bangladesh, he served as the defence attach\u00e9 at the Bangladesh Embassy to Myanmar. In 1976, Shishu served as the Principal Staff Officer to the Chief Martial Law Administrator. Shishu had helped President Ziaur Rahman form Bangladesh Nationalist Party and oversaw of the recruitment of politicians in the party. He retired from Bangladesh Army, when he was 40, with the rank of Major General. Shishu served as the Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of President Ziaur Rahman. After the assassination of Ziaur Rahman, he served as the Secretary General of Bangladesh Nationalist Party while Khaleda"}, {"text": "Zia was the Chairperson of the Party. He was dismissed from the post of Minister by Hussain Mohammad Ershad. Shishu moved to Oklahoma, United States in 1991."}, {"text": "Songs for You is the fourth studio album by American singer Tinashe, released independently through her own label Tinashe Music Inc. on November 21, 2019. It is the first project since her departure from RCA Records in February 2019. The project features collaborations with Ms Banks, 6lack, and G-Eazy. The album has received positive reviews, with publications praising her creativity, production and songwriting, as well as for releasing music independently. Background. After Tinashe's previous album \"Joyride\" was released, she started recording her follow-up mixtape. The mixtape was based on Tinashe's alter-ego, Nashe. Both Tinashe and Hitmaka, an executive producer on the mixtape, promoted \"Nashe\" through snippets of songs from the track list. Further promotion continued with its singles, \"Like I Used To\" and \"Throw a Fit\", both of which used the mixtape's artwork. Promotion for \"Nashe\" was ceased for unknown reasons; however, speculation arose after Tinashe posted a screenshot on Instagram of a page error from RCA's website with a broken heart as the caption to the post. According to Hitmaka, the mixtape was shelved. The cancellation of \"Nashe\", described as a \"failed course-correction\" by \"Paper\", became a turning point in her decision to depart from RCA, among other reasons."}, {"text": "In February 2019, Tinashe's then-manager Mike Nazzaro announced her departure from RCA, citing: \"We initiated for her to be released. It was a positive split for her. It's giving her back creative control.\" After her departure, HotNewHipHop.com published an article reporting that she was in the midst of a bidding war with multiple major labels. Tinashe would eventually sign a management deal with Roc Nation on November 7, 2019. Her new team includes Roc Nation's artist management Simonne Solitro. \"Songs For You\" features three songs \u2014 \"Link Up\", \"Feelings\", and \"Cash Race\" \u2014 originally intended for Tinashe's 2018 summer project \"Nashe,\" produced by Hitmaka\".\" MadeinTYO was originally featured on the tracklist after it was teased throughout the listening parties, but the collaboration was scrapped after the producer gave the beat to another artist. Recording. The album was recorded in Tinashe's home studio in Los Angeles. She considered her home studio as the location for the album recording as \"[bringing] people into my experience, my world,\" and added, \"I think that already set the tone for [the album], like 'OK, this is gonna be really real. This is gonna be raw.' It was truly me and that was all I was"}, {"text": "bringing to the studio, my emotions.\" Release and promotion. On September 30, 2019, Tinashe announced the project along with a trailer on YouTube. Between October and November 2019, she held listening parties for her project in London, Los Angeles and New York, and stated during the parties that \"Songs for You\" is her most vulnerable project to date. In an interview with Hip Hop Mike, she stated her direction for the album as, \"a real experience that they could really sink their teeth into. There are a few moments that are in your feels. I had to really open myself up. It\u2019s the most vulnerable project I\u2019ve ever put out.\" The album was released on November 21, 2019 on a Thursday instead of the music industry's customary releases of Friday. Tinashe stated in an interview with \"Billboard\" that she wanted to emphasize her stance in the music industry as \"not part of the system\". The album topped the iTunes Albums chart on the night of its release; the album reached the number 1 spot in multiple countries including the US, making her the first independent artist to do so since Frank Ocean's 2016 album \"Blonde\" topped the chart. Singles and"}, {"text": "music videos. The first single, \"Die a Little Bit\" (featuring Ms Banks), was released as the lead single from \"Songs for You\" on October 24, 2019, with an accompanying music video directed by C Prinz. The second single, \"Touch & Go\" featuring 6lack, was released on November 7, 2019. The music video for \"So Much Better\" (featuring G-Eazy), which was directed by Mynxii White, premiered on November 21, 2019. The music video for \"Stormy Weather\", premiered on December 27, 2019. \"Save Room for Us\" was made the third and final single on February 14, 2020 with the release of an accompanying video, and an additional remix by Makj himself. An acoustic video for album track, \"Remember When\", was released on April 21, 2020. From June 26, 2020 to July 10, 2020, a remix of a song from the album would be released each Friday. \"Hopscotch\" with American R&B duo THEY., \"Die a Little Bit\" featuring Ms Banks, with producer Zhu and \"Touch & Go\" featuring 6lack, with producer TARRO were released respectively a week apart from each other. All remixes came with their own accompanied short visual. Tour. In February 2020, Tinashe announced her \"Tour for You\" in support of"}, {"text": "the album. Within one week, half of the dates were sold out. Additional tour dates were added in the United States in late February. The Phoenix venue was moved from the Crescent Ballroom to The Van Buren due to high demand. On April 1, 2020, Tinashe announced the postponement of the tour, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Critical reception. \"Songs for You\" received positive reviews from music critics. \"Stereogum\"s Chris DeVille regarded the album as sonically \"[feeling] like freedom. Liberated from label meddling, she has assembled a fine reminder of what made her so likeable in the first place,\" and compares the overall sound for the album as \"the vibe is that of an extremely talented R&B artist getting back to cooking after a deep, cleansing exhale.\" Madeline Roth from MTV describes \"Songs for You\" as \"Tinashe taking full creative control over her work; something she was finally able to do [...] The result, it seems, is music that comes straight from the soul.\" \"Nylon\"s Allison Stubblebine said that \"Tinashe is the R&B superstar we've been looking for, and now that her first-ever independent album \"Songs for You\" has dropped, it's time to throw it on repeat and give her"}, {"text": "the praise she deserves. There's not a single bad song on the record: Concluding at 51 minutes, the 15-track release showcases everything Tinashe does best.\""}, {"text": "The Alexandria School of Medicine is one of the oldest empirical educational institutions in the history of medicine initiated during the Hellenistic period in the city of Alexandria (311 BC). At one historical juncture, in Egypt, they united all the different medical doctrines that originated in the East and in Alexandria (increasingly resembling a cosmopolitan city), and merged into one universal \"critical mass of knowledge\" the Alexandrian empirical school. As the Alexandria School grows more developed Medical Schools in Knossos and in Knidos over time lost their meaning and significance. History. The Greek city of Alexandria, at the mouth of the Nile, was planned and founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, and concentrated in it cultural streams from various places: the mysticism of the East and Greek rationalism, in a rich library, with about 700,000 written rolls (the treasure trove of all human knowledge to date; the richest in the world). Thus, with its schools, Alexandria was a kind of university where the most prominent writers, physicians, scientists, and philosophers of the historical period gathered and worked. The ancient Greeks appreciated Egypt and saw in it a mysterious land, fertile with hidden wisdom. At one point, they united"}, {"text": "all the different medical doctrines originating in the East and in Alexandria (which increasingly resembled a cosmopolitan city) in Egypt, and merged it into one universal critical mass of knowledge. In Alexandria, special importance was given to the study of medicine. The medical works of Hippocrates and Aristotle were studied and the first \"Hippocratic Corpus\" was collected. Anatomy and methodical study of human corpses are introduced for the first time. Development of anatomy and physiology. As the medical science of ancient Greece plunged into political decadence and setbacks - scientific work was renewed in this area, especially in the field of anatomy: numerous sections on corpses and even vivisection on death row inmates were done. From such work the first meaningful written texts about human anatomy were written, as these were the first instances of human dissection in Greek medical practice. Prior to this period, human dissection was taboo. Anatomists and doctors of the Alexandria School were Herophilos and Erasistratus. Herophilos. Although Herophilos () is considered to be the founder of true anatomy, it is also a versatile advocate for the use of medicines. He studied all the organs in the body anatomically, and considered the brain a nerve center"}, {"text": "and soul-carrier. Herophilos was not only an anatomist but also one of the physicians of that school. He also describes numerous brain structures, which he calls the brain sheaths, choroid plexus and four brain chambers. Erasistratus. Erasistratus (304-250 BC), a Greek physician who grew up in Antioch, was an anatomist of that time, who described the numerous anatomical structures of the human body. He was a young contemporary of Herophilos and, with him, the principal representative of the Alexandrian Medical School. He systematically dissected the corpses, the death row convicts, and probably the bodies of living animals, and thus scientifically advanced the anatomy. He described the heart and its valves, blood vessels and nerves, the brain and its chambers and eddies, brain nerve outputs, lymphatic vessels in the mesentery and liver. However, Erasistratus's greatest merits are in the field of Physiology. He was the first to correctly describe the physiological functions of ventricular heart valves. Under the influence of the Democritus of atomistics and the peripatetic school, he sought to interpret all life phenomena in a strictly mechanical manner. In his view, three organ systems pass through and are connected by the whole organism: arteries, veins and nerves; the first"}, {"text": "water pneuma, the second blood, and the third the nerve fluid. The melting of the pneuma down it was reduced to the mechanical work of the heart. He also tried to explain to the mechanical principles breathing and digestion. The former realized the difference between motor and sensory nerves, and he \"threw out\" Hippocrates learning, and advocated the use of weak drugs. Erasistratus rejected the humoral and pathology of the \"four juices\", starting from the view that the diseases were the result of accumulation of blood (plethora) or its deficiency in some part of the body, which resulted in humoral dyscrasia. According to him, the plethora is a vein full of blood, which flows into the arteries and mechanically expels the pneuma there. As most of the diseases, Erasistratus considered to be due to over-nutrition, he suggested that not much release be used against the plethora blood as a post. Development of surgery and pharmacology. The Alexandria School leads to the development of surgery and pharmacology. Medicines are prepared there, but at the same time poisons are investigated and antidotes are prepared. Establishing an empirical school. The flourishing of anatomy in the Alexandrian school led to scientific results that were"}, {"text": "not always in line with the dogmatic school hypotheses. In response to sterile dogmatism, it originated in the 3 BC in Alexandria the so-called. an empirical school that abandoned assumptions, philosophy and theory, adhering only to experience (empirics) as the only means of acquiring new, positive knowledge. Glaucko Tarencio. An empiricist school is being developed in Alexandria in parallel. Although the empiricist mode of learning will only gain significance in 17th century when physicians are increasingly seeking success in their work, rather than theoretical knowledge, we find the traces of this teaching in the works of the doctors of the Alexandria School. Its chief representative was the physician Glaucko Tarencio (1 BC), who could be said to have been the forerunner of evidence-based medicine. For him, only results were the reliable basis; acquired through personal experience, or the experience of other physicians, or similar analogy when he did not have prior data to compare from his or her own or others' experience. Of the other greats of this school, one should also mention Oribasius a (6th century), who wrote collected works on medicine in 70 books and Paul of Aegina (7th century, the most prominent representative of the Byzantine. Disadvantages"}, {"text": "of the empirical school. The empirical school had its downsides. The abandonment of the theory caused a decline in the scientific level of medicine, which increasingly began to focus solely on practical problems. The link between physiology and pathology disappeared, and in the end, only the external signs of the disease, the symptoms, were important to the physician at that time. Alexandrian Medical School Principal of Medical Astrology. The beginnings of Medical astrology are found in the works of physicians and philosophers from the Greco-Alexandrian period. Philosophers, but above all physicians at the Alexandria Medical School, resorted to astrology and valued it as a skill that significantly helps man. With all the differences between astrology and medicine, which are actually skills - \" artes \" (and medicine is actually until the 19th century, although such determination is still heated today), there are significant connections. Both disciplines are based on observation and experience and involve both theoretical and practical aspects. If we take into account the fact that astrology is first and foremost a branch of divination, then it is clear that at least one part of medicine, i.e. prognostics, can be related to astrology. However, if we look back at"}, {"text": "the history of medicine and start from Greek medicine, we will see that according to many sources, astrology throughout the history of medicine is already a significant part of it Hippocrates (which respected many astrological rules). The role of astrology in medicine is indicated by a large group of texts in the so-called. popular Hermeticism, a scripture attributed to the legendary Egyptians Neheps and Petoziris and Hermes Trismegistos (who was considered the patron saint of astrology and alchemy), dated as early as 3 BC, in which the connection between astrology and medicine was discovered. In their works they are mainly texts that study the field of botany, mineralogy, but also medicine and medical astrology. In these, certain medicinal plants and minerals, as well as parts of the human body, are associated with zodiac signs, with planets and their positions, etc. In all these astrological-alchemical-magical tracts, the basic assumption is the thesis about the interconnectedness of all parts of the cosmos, the thesis about the operation of the laws of sympathy and antipathy. Astrology plays an important role in medicine, not only in predicting the course of the disease, but also in their treatment. The connection between astrology and medicine is"}, {"text": "also emphasized in the works of Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century), especially in those in which astrology, such as the \"Quadripartitum and Centiloquium\", were works widely used by physicians, which also existed under the name \" K\u03b1\u03c1\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2 \", and which were attributed to and reproduced throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (later, however, this attribution proved to be incorrect)."}, {"text": "Karoline von Woltmann, \"n\u00e9e\" Stosch (6 March 1782 \u2013 18 November 1847 in Berlin) was a German author who also wrote under the pseudonym Luise Berg. She was regarded by her contemporaries as \"the German Genlis\". Biography. Born in Berlin, Karoline was the eldest daughter of physician and Prussian secret advisor Karl Wilhelm Stosch and of Auguste Stosch, \"n\u00e9e\" H\u00f6nig. She developed an interest in literature at an early age. At the age of 17, she married poet and war advisor Karl M\u00fcchler. They separated in 1804, but in the same year Karoline met the author , whom she married on 25th October 1805. Around 1804, she wrote her first novel, \"Euphrosyne\", which was later reworked with Karl Ludwig von Woltmann and published under the title \"Heloise\". Then she wrote a few works and worked with her husband. In 1813 they moved to Prague, where Karoline translated several works of Maria Edgeworth. After Karl Ludwig von Woltmann stopped writing because of a right-arm paralysis, his wife edited his works. He died in 1817. In the same year, Karoline von Woltmann wrote a supplement to Karl Ludwig's autobiography and started publishing his \"S\u00e4mmtlichen Werke\" in 14 volumes until 1827. In 1824,"}, {"text": "she became an editor of the Prague-based periodical \"Der Kranz\", where her works were also published. Two years later she went back to Germany and lived in Berlin, where she died in 1847. She travelled to Italy and Switzerland in 1832 and 1833."}, {"text": "Miss World USA 1974 was the 13th edition of the Miss World USA pageant and it was held in Binghamton, New York and was won by Terry Ann Browning of Florida. She was crowned by outgoing titleholder, Lexie H. Brockway of Washington. Browning went on to represent the United States at the Miss World 1974 Pageant in London later that year. She finished as 4th Runner-Up at Miss World. Delegates. The Miss World USA 1974 delegates were: Crossovers. Contestants who competed in other beauty pageants:"}, {"text": "This is a list of awards and nominations received by MNEK. Awards and nominations. ! scope=\"col\" | Award ! scope=\"col\" | Year ! scope=\"col\" | Recipient(s) and nominee(s) ! scope=\"col\" | Category ! scope=\"col\" | Result ! scope=\"col\" class=\"unsortable\"| ! scope=\"row\" rowspan=\"2\"| APRA Music Awards of 2022 ! scope=\"row\" rowspan=\"4\"| ASCAP London Awards ! scope=\"row\"| ASCAP Pop Music Awards ! scope=\"row\"| ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards ! scope=\"row\"| Attitude Awards ! scope=\"row\"| BET Awards ! scope=\"row\"| BBC Sound of... !scope=\"row\"|Brit Awards !scope=\"row\"|British LGBT Awards !scope=\"row\" rowspan=2|Electronic Music Awards ! scope=\"row\"| Grammy Awards ! scope=\"row\"|Hungarian Music Awards !scope=\"row\" rowspan=2|Ivor Novello Awards ! scope=\"row\"| Latin American Music Awards ! scope=\"row\"| MOBO Awards ! scope=\"row\"|Queerty Awards ! scope=\"row\"| Radio Disney Music Awards ! scope=\"row\"| Scandipop Awards ! scope=\"row\"| Teen Choice Awards ! scope=\"row\"|UK Music Video Awards"}, {"text": "The Mediterranean Athletics U23 Indoor Championships is a biennial indoor track and field competition open to athletes aged under 23 from Mediterranean nations. Organised by the Mediterranean Athletics Union, it was first held in 2019."}, {"text": "Ptychobarbus dipogon is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae, the family which includes the carps, barbs, minnows and related fishes. This fish is found in the middle and upper Yarlung Zangbo, i.e. the upper Brahmaputra River drainage in Tibet. This is a benthopelagic fish found in the deeper parts of tributaries and meanders."}, {"text": "New Hope River is a fifth-order tributary to the Haw River in Chatham County, North Carolina. This river is now entirely flooded as part of B. Everett Jordan Lake. All of the tributaries to the river are present as arms of the lake. New Hope River contributes 21.8% of the total water discharge for the Haw River. Variant names. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as: Course. New Hope River is formed at the confluence of New Hope Creek and Morgan Creek in the northern part of B. Everett Jordan Lake. When it was a river it flowed south-southwest to the Haw River. Watershed. New Hope River drains of area, receives about 47.2 in/year of precipitation, and has a topographic wetness index of 451.04 and is about 49% forested."}, {"text": "Nana Akua Addo is a German-born Ghanaian model, actress, and film producer. She was the second runner-up in Miss Malaika 2003 and the winner of Miss Ghana-Germany in 2005. She has received awards, including the Glitz Style Awards and City People Entertainment Awards. Education. As of 2017, she was studying acting at the New York Film Academy in the United States. Career. Addo has starred in films including \"Destiny's Child\", \"Blood\", \"Wanna Be\", \"Rain\", \"Speechless\", \"Never Again and Tears\". She also produced two films, \"Wannabe\" and \"Nukuli (The Masked).\" Awards. Some of the awards she has received include: Personal life. She is a mother of two children."}, {"text": "The Depths () is a 2019 Canadian short drama film, written and directed by Ariane Louis-Seize. The film stars Genevi\u00e8ve Boivin-Roussy as Justine, a young woman grieving her mother's recent death at the mother's lakefront cabin, who decides to go diving in the lake after finding a scuba suit among her mother's possessions. The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the Cin\u00e9fest Sudbury International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film."}, {"text": "The Chad\u2013Libya border is 1,050 km (652 mi) in length and runs from the tripoint with Niger in the west, to the tripoint with Sudan in the east. Description. The border consists of two straight line segments. The first is a continuation of the Libya\u2013Niger border; this section continues from the tripoint in a straight line for about 113 km (70 mi) up to the Tropic of Cancer. The border then turns to the southeast, running for 942 km (586 mi) to the tripoint with Sudan. The border lies wholly within the Sahara Desert, cutting through parts of the Tibesti Mountains in the far west. The remote Bikku Bitti mountain is located very close to the border on the Libyan side. History. The Ottoman Empire had ruled the coastal areas of what is today Libya since the 16th century, organised into the Vilayet of Tripolitania, with an ill-defined border in the south. The modern border with what is now Chad first emerged during the Scramble for Africa, a period of intense competition among European powers in the later 19th century for territory and influence in Africa. The process culminated in the Berlin Conference of 1884, in which the European nations"}, {"text": "concerned agreed upon their respective territorial claims and the rules of engagements. As a result of this, France gained control of the upper valley of the Niger River (roughly equivalent to the areas of modern Mali and Niger), and also the lands explored by Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza for France in Central Africa (roughly equivalent to modern Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville). From these bases the French explored further into the interior, eventually linking the two areas following expeditions in April 1900 which met at Kouss\u00e9ri in the far north of modern Cameroon. These newly conquered regions were initially ruled as military territories, with the two areas later organised into the federal colonies of French West Africa (\"Afrique occidentale fran\u00e7aise\", abbreviated AOF) and French Equatorial Africa (\"Afrique \u00e9quatoriale fran\u00e7aise\", AEF). British-French Agreement of 1899. Britain and France had agreed between them on 21 March 1899 that east of the Niger River, French influence would extend no further north than that of a diagonal line running from the intersection of the Tropic of Cancer and the 16th meridian east to the 24th meridian east, thus creating the long line section of the modern Chad\u2013Libya border. The Ottomans protested this treaty and began moving"}, {"text": "troops into the southern regions of the Vilayet of Tripolitania. Italy meanwhile sought to emulate the colonial expansion of the other European powers, and they indicated their recognition of the above line to France on 1 November 1902. In September 1911 Italy invaded the Tripolitania, and the Treaty of Ouchy was signed the following year by which the Ottomans formally ceded sovereignty of the area over to Italy. The Italians organised the newly conquered regions into the colonies of Italian Cyrenaica and Italian Tripolitania and gradually began pushing further south. In 1934 they united the two territories into Italian Libya. Meanwhile, Britain and France had settled the border between AEF and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (modern Sudan) in 1923\u201324, thus creating the modern Chad-Sudan border. In 1934 Britain and Italy confirmed the border between Italian Libya and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, by which Britain ceded the Sarra Triangle to Italy, extending Libyan territory to the southwest and thereby creating the modern Libya-Sudan border and much of the modern Chad\u2013Libya border. Aouzou Strip. On 18 March 1931 France transferred the Tibesti Mountains from Niger (AOF) to Chad (AEF), thus completing what is now the Chad\u2013Libya border. On 7 January 1935 France and Italy signed a"}, {"text": "treaty which shifted the boundary southwards; the area between the two boundaries became known as the Aouzou Strip, however this agreement was never formally ratified by both parties. During the North African Campaign of the Second World War Italy was defeated and its African colonies were occupied by the Allied powers, with Libya split into British and French zones of occupation. Libya was later granted full independence on 2 December 1951. A Franco-Libyan treaty was signed on 1 August 1955 which recognised the existing boundary and confirmed French ownership of the Aouzou Strip. Chad later gained independence from France on 11 August 1960 and the border became an international frontier between two independent states. Libyan Border. In 1969 Muammar Gaddafi seized power in Libya and reignited the Libyan claim to the Aouzou Strip, bolstered by the possibility that the area could be rich in uranium. Gaddafi also began interfering in Chadian affairs, actively supporting FROLINAT anti-government forces in the first Chadian Civil War and moving troops into northern Chad. As relations between the two states deteriorated, various secret discussions were held; Gaddafi claimed that as part of these Chadian President Fran\u00e7ois Tombalbaye had ceded the Strip to Libya in 1972,"}, {"text": "however the claimed cession was disputed and the precise details remain unclear. In 1975 Chadian President Goukouni Oueddei publicly denounced Libya's presence in the Strip. There followed the Chadian-Libyan conflict, which lasted until 1987, whereupon the two countries agreed to resolved the border dispute peacefully. In 1990 the Aouzou case was referred to the International Court of Justice, which ruled in 1994 that the Strip belonged to Chad. Since then the situation on this remote border quietened considerably. However, in recent years the border has been the focus of renewed attention due to the ongoing instability in Libya since the overthrow of Gaddafi in 2011, the rise in the numbers of refugees and migrants crossing the Sahara, and also the discovery of gold in north-west Chad in the late 2000s-early 2010s which prompted an uncontrolled gold rush. In March 2019 Chadian President Idriss D\u00e9by announced that the border would close, citing the crossing of the frontier by Libyan-based anti-government rebel groups into Chadian territory (most notably the Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic; French: \"Conseil de commandement militaire pour le salut de la R\u00e9publique\", abbreviated CCMSR) and the continuing instability caused by the civil war in Libya."}, {"text": "As part of Operation Barkhane France has provided assistance to the Chadian Army with guarding the border, including launching air strikes against anti-government rebels."}, {"text": "The flag of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is the war flag of the People's Liberation Army; the layout of the flag has a golden star at the top left corner and two Chinese characters \" to the right of the star, placed on a red field. The characters \" (literally \"eight one\") are a reference to the events of August 1, 1927 (8th month, 1st day, also known as 8\u67081\u65e5); when the PLA was created by the Chinese Communist Party at the start of their rebellion in Nanchang against the Nationalist government. History. Based on a decree issued from Mao Zedong, the main flag of the PLA was created on 15 June 1949. Design. The flag has a ratio of 5 by 4, which has a white sleeve measuring of the flag's length. For ceremonies, a PLA flag with golden fringe is placed on a pole with gold and red spiral stripes and topped with a golden finial and red tassel. Each branch of the PLA, the Ground Forces, Navy, Air Force, Rocket Force, also have their own individual flags. In a 1992 order, the flags of the three branches were defined: the top of the flags is the"}, {"text": "same as the PLA flag; the bottom are occupied by the colors of the branches. The flag of the Ground Forces has a forest green bar at the bottom, the naval ensign has stripes of blue and white at the bottom, the Air Force uses a sky blue bar at the bottom, the Rocket Force uses a yellow bar at the bottom. The forest green represents the earth, the blue and white stripes represent the seas, the sky blue represents the air, the yellow represents the flare of missile launching. On 10 January 2018, the People's Armed Police received a new flag following the design of the branch flags with three olive stripes at the bottom. The three olive stripes represents the People's Armed Police responsible for the three main tasks and force composition of maintaining national political security and social stability, maritime rights protection and law enforcement, and defense operations."}, {"text": "Kimberly Guadalupe Loaiza Martinez (born 12 December 1997) is a Mexican singer and YouTuber. She began her YouTube career in 2016, and in 2020 was the seventh most-followed user on TikTok. Career. Kimberly Loaiza created her Twitter account when she was fourteen years old. Five years later, in 2016, she started vlogging on YouTube with her first video on November 15, 2016. Loaiza traveled to Colombia for rhinoplasty surgery. Loaiza initially made makeup videos, hair tutorials, and trivia for girls; however, over the years her content changed to make more vlogs, challenges and tags with her friends. In 2019, Loaiza began a career in music and released her first single, Enamorarme; later, other singles included \"More, Tequila and shot, Turn off the light, Our Agreement, Don't be jealous\", among others, but people don't consider her a singer because she is not 100% focused on music. In 2020, Loaiza launched a clothing line, opened her own telephone company, broke the record of the most subscribers on YouTube for Spanish-speakers, and collaborated with other social media personalities such as James Charles. In 2021, Loaiza partner, Juan de Dios Pantoja, appeared in a leaked video where he allegedly had sex with another woman."}, {"text": "The scandal worsened when fellow Mexican YouTuber Lizbeth Rodr\u00edguez alleged that she had the necessary evidence to expose Juan de Dios Pantoja infidelity with Kevin Achutegui, a friend of Loaiza who is also known for being the personal photographer of both YouTubers. After several videos defending himself, de Dios Pantoja apologized to Loaiza, who forgave him and they continued their relationship. In mid-2021, the \"MTV MIAW 2021\" awards were held. Loaiza was nominated for Icon MIAW, Creator of the Year, Couple on Fire (for her relationship with Juan de Dios Pantoja called \"Jukilop\") and Fandom of the Year. Personal life. Loaiza has been in a relationship with Juan de Dios Pantoja since 2012. After six years of dating, they announced the arrival of their first child. In 2020, Loaiza revealed that she had married Juan de Dios Pantoja, also mentioning that they were expecting their second child. Soon afterwards, their second child was born."}, {"text": "Selected correspondence of Stanis\u0142aw Lem has been published in several books."}, {"text": "\"LaLaLa\" is an afro house song by South African DJ Black Coffee and American singer Usher. It is the first collaboration between the two. In 2018, they appeared together for the first time at the Global Citizen Festival. Black Coffee had briefly published segments of the song in December 2018 on his Instagram page. Commercial performance. The song was released on September 10, 2019, and peaked at number one on the South Africa Airplay Charts \"Radio Monitor\" chart. It is Usher's first number one in South Africa."}, {"text": "The Theatre Royal in Montr\u00e9al in Canada, also known as the Molson Theatre was the first public theatre in Canada. It was inaugurated in 1825, was given a new building in 1851, and closed in 1930. History. The Theatre Royal played in important role in the history of the Theatre of Canada. Theatre, which had been banned in Canada during the French period, begun to flourish as amateur theatre after Canada became British, and the first professional theatre companies started to tour the country, starting with the Allen's Company of Comedians in 1785. However, there was no public theatre play house until the foundation of the Theatre Royal in Montr\u00e9al, as the Haymarket Theatre, Quebec (1790-1840) was used only by private amateur theatre societies. The Theatre Royal in Montr\u00e9al was founded by the merchant John Molson. It was consequently also referred to as the Molson Theatre. The theatre had room for 1000 spectators and was financed with a cost of $30,000. The original idea was to make it a permanent theatre with a permanent staff, and it was inaugurated with a staff of 50 people. It was an English-language theatre, and staged plays by Shakespeare and English authors of the"}, {"text": "Restoration period. The initiative attracted attention, and the first public theatre in Quebec, the Theatre Royal, Quebec, was founded later that same year. The Theatre Royal was not economically sustainable and the management had to give up the goal to make it a permanent theatre the following year. However, it became the main local for the travelling theatre companies who visited Canada more and more frequently in the 19th century. Concerts, circus performance and other public entertainments was also staged there. The original building was torn down in 1844\u201345, and the theatre was given a new building in 1851. After then-manager of the Theatre Royal, John Buckland, died in November 1872, he was succeeded by his wife, Kate Horn as manager. She served in the position until 1880."}, {"text": "Sour Diesel II is the fourth studio album by underground rapper and former Army of the Pharaohs member Doap Nixon.The album was released on July 23, 2019. Background. On February 24, 2014, it was announced that Doap Nixon was working on his fourth studio album, titled \"Sour Diesel 2\", a sequel to his debut album \"Sour Diesel\". It was confirmed he was working on a single called \"Prison Rap\" which was said to be featuring Sean Price. The album was released on June 20, 2019, after being in production for four years. It featured vocals from Army of the Pharaoh members Vinnie Paz, Lawrence Arnell, Reef the Lost Cauze, and Planetary, as well as vocals from Sean Price and Good Money. He released the music video for the third single of the album, \"Philly Streets\" in August 10, 2019. Although the album was originally supposed to feature King Magnetic, his verses were removed from the album at the request of Vinnie Paz. Controversy. On February 13, 2020, Doap Nixon and King Magnetic both released diss tracks to Vinnie Paz. Within their tracks, they both announced their departure from the supergroup. The issues between the pair and AOTP supposedly started in"}, {"text": "2009 with trivial matters, which was squashed in 2016. Magnetic found Paz after at a show in Albuquerque and agreed to stop the differences they had. With Nixon's release of Sour Diesel II, Paz threatened to remove his lyrics and track contributions unless Doap removed King Magnetic's verses from the album and as a result released the diss track \"Be Quiet\", which was recorded years earlier. Subsequently, Nixon released the diss track \"Leg Shot\"."}, {"text": "Allen's Company of Comedians was a British-Canadian theatre company, active from 1785 until 1790. They played an important pioneer role in the history of the Theatre of Canada as the first professional theatre company to perform in Canada. The Company was founded by the British actor Edward Allen. Previously active at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh and within the American Company in Philadelphia, he left the United states to settle in Montreal, Lower Canada in 1778, where theatre had been banned during the French period: when Canada became British in 1763, a great interest in theatre resulted in a florourishing amateur theatre, but there was no professional theatre. After the American Revolutionary War, Allen returned to Philadelphia in 1785 and recruited actors to form his own theatre company, with whom he returned to Canada. They became pioneers as the first professional theatre company to perform in Canada. They were followed by Joseph Quesnel's French language Les Jeunes Messieurs Canadiens (1789). As there was no theatre playhouse in Montr\u00e9al, the Allen's Company performed in a temporary locality in the assembly room of Simon Levy. Their first performance was on 16 March 1786 with a performance of \"She Stoops to Conquer\". It was"}, {"text": "a small company, and consisted of Edward Allen and his wife, John Bentley and his spouse, William Moore and his spouse Agnes McKay, Simon Clarke and the children of the actors, notably Andrew Allen, \u00c9tienne (Stephen) Bellair and Guillaume (William) Moreau-Mechtler. They performed plays by Shakespeare and Moli\u00e8re as well as opera. Bellair also managed a dance school, Moreau-Mechtler a music school and Bentley a drama school. The company also toured to Quebec. They were active at least until 1790, and possibly longer."}, {"text": "Rectoris longibarbus is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae, the family which includes the carps, barbs. minnows and related fishes. This species is known only from its type locality, a temporary spring emerging from a karst formation which dries up outside of the rainy season in Jingxi County, Guangxi. \"Rectoris posehensis\", \"Paranemachilus jinxiensis\", \"Prolixicheilus longisulcus\" and \"Cophecheilus bamen\" were also found in the spring. The area around the spring has been subjected to earthquakes and has been heavily mined, surveys conducted for this species at its type locality have not found any more. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has classified it as Critically Endangered."}, {"text": "Martha Mabel Jansen, DMS (\"n\u00e9e\" Pellissier; 1 November 1889 \u2014 8 January 1979) was a South African educator, writer, journalist, cultural leader, politician and pioneer in the promotion of Afrikaans, as well as the spouse of the penultimate Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, E.G. Jansen. She was a founding member of the \"Saamwerkersunie\" (Cooperative Union), the \"Voortrekkers\" (an Afrikaans pioneer organisation), the \"Vroue-Nasionale Party\" (Women's national party) in Natal, the \"Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge\" (FAK) (Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Organisations), and the first woman member of the \"Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns\" (South African Academy of Science and Arts). She was the author of numerous dramas and novels, as well as the first Afrikaans grammar guide. She was involved in the founding of \"Voortrekkerpers\" (Pioneer publishers) and \"Die Transvaler\" (The Transvaler newspaper), a leading figure in the education and upliftment of impoverished Afrikaans railway workers, and an avid supporter of the preservation of cultural-historical monuments. Background. Jansen was the youngest of six children, a daughter of Samuel Henri Pellissier (1850 - 1921) and a granddaughter of Rev. Jean Pellissier, a French missionary who arrived in South Africa in 1831 and took over the London Missionary Society's mission"}, {"text": "station at Bethulie in the southern Free State on behalf of the French Missionary Society after Rev. Clark abandoned the work in July 1833 as hopeless. Her mother, Josephine Elise Johanna Roux (1857 - 1907), was a daughter of Rev. Piet Roux (1825 - 1913), the first pastor and founder of the Dutch Reformed community of Smithfield. Jansen was educated in Bethulie and later Riversdale, Western Cape. She matriculated at Girls' School in Paarl and was placed first in the senior certificate examination in South Africa. She completed a MA in Greek and Latin at the Huguenot College in Wellington, Western Cape in 1909. The accepted work for an educated women at that time was botany or teaching, so after a year as a teacher she was appointed a lecturer at the Training College in Pietermaritzburg. Teacher. Jansen not only advocated for the Afrikaans language, but also for Afrikaans education and welfare in that she started the first on-site further education of Afrikaans railway workers in Natal. From 1924 the poor whites in the Witwatersrand area were sent to Natal to work on the railways so as to alleviate some of the social pressures in the Witwatersrand area. Jansen arranged"}, {"text": "for them to be housed in the hall of the Dutch Reformed church in Pietermaritzburg and she established one of the first railway hostels for the displaced workers, later named after her. Over the period 1924 to 1936, Jansen and a group of six teachers taught lessons to the railway workers while on the trains and arranged for a welfare worker, Henning Klopper, to visit them. Author. Jansen's first published work was the historical melodrama \"Afrikanerharte\", written in 1914 but only published in 1918. The work was not well received by either G. Dekker in his \"Afrikaanse literatuurgeskiedenis\" (1935) or F.E.J Malherbe in his \"Aspekte van Afrikaanse Literatuur\" (1940). Dekker commented, \"That our playwrights would make an eager use of historical material was to be expected, especially when we consider that the play was a beloved propaganda tool in the language struggle. These historical dramas have also become part of the national awareness and played a role that should not be underestimated, even though the pure dramatic value of these works is generally low.\" Malherbe compared her works to J.F.E. Celliers' \"Liefde en Plig\" (Love and Duty) (1909) and \"Heldinne van die Oorlog\" (Heroines of the War) (1924); and C.J."}, {"text": "Langenhoven's \"Die Hoop van Suid-Afrika\" (The Hope of South Africa) (1913) and \"Die Vrou van Suid-Afrika\" (The South African Woman) and commented, \"With the advent of the Afrikaans movement, dramas, especially those with motifs from the patriarchal history, are avidly produced. They have little literary value and are mostly propaganda; but much beloved, they have helped to raise and strengthen the consciousness of the people of the nation.\" In 1919, Jansen's collection of stories \"Die veldblommetjie\" (The field flower) was published followed by similar collections \"Sommerso\" (Just so), and \"Erfenis\" (Heritage) in 1940. Under the pseudonym \"Marta\", Jansen published a children's play \"Die onnut\" (The useless) in 1923 and a recipe book \"Vrugte-heerlikheid: meer as duisend maniere om Suid-Afrikaanse vrugte voor te berei\" (Fruit glory: more than a thousand ways to prepare South African fruit) in 1942. \"Afrikanerharte\" and \"Die veldblommetjie\" are of historical value but she was not recognised for her contributions to literature, but rather due to her actions in politics and Afrikaans-cultural life. Journalist. From its first edition in Bloemfontein in 1919, the \"Landbouweekblad\" (Farmer's Weekly) had a women's section managed by Jansen. It was published as a separate leaflet first known as \"Housewife\" and later as"}, {"text": "\"The House Page\" She dealt with anything the farmer's wife might be doing around the house: cooking, crafts, sewing, other household affairs and flower gardening. She had a section that responded to letters from readers and later wrote about Afrikaans language under the pseudonym \"Marta\". Politician. Jansen was politically active before voting rights were granted to white women in South Africa in 1930 and had been appointed provincial chairman of the National Women's Party, which she founded in 1923. In 1933 she was elected deputy leader of the National Party in Natal and served on the Federal Council. After a large part of the National Party merged with the South African Party in 1934, she assisted J.G. Strijdom and C.J.H. de Wet in the reconstruction of the National Party in the Transvaal. The process had started at the Transvaal congress of the National Party on 9 August 1934 in Pretoria. At this meeting J.G. Strijdom voted against the merger while J. B. M. Hertzog voted in favour of it and the overwhelming majority of the delegates (281, including Jansen's husband) agreed with him while a minority (38, composed mostly of women including Jansen) were opposed to it. This small group"}, {"text": "left the meeting and set up their own meeting at the Polleys Hotel on Pretorius Street. They decided to keep the original party name (although they were referred to as the Purified National Party and from 1939 as the Reunited National Party) and decided to establish their own party newspaper, \"Die Vaderland\" (The Fatherland). Jansen's husband resigned from the United Party in 1939, and rejoined the National Party. Jansen only stood once as a candidate for the \"Volksraad\" (literally People's Council, the Parliament of South Africa) in 1938, but lost to Abraham de Kock. Cultural work. Saamwerkersunie. Jansen did groundbreaking work in Natal from 1917 to 1929. She advocated for the introduction of Afrikaans language exams which led to the \"Taalbond\" (language board) exams from 1920. The \"Saamwerkersunie\" was established in 1917 to unite the various unions and encourage the use of Afrikaans language in examinations in the Natal province. The Afrikaans language exams created an urgent need for an Afrikaans grammar guide, which Jansen created in collaboration with C.M. Booysen in 1917. The work was not universally well received even within the Afrikaans community. However, in July 1959 the \"Saamwerkersunie\" presented Jansen with a gold medal as a recognition"}, {"text": "of her \"great cultural work\". Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. In 1920, Jansen became the first female member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, and in 1969, they gave her an honorary lifelong membership. Voortrekker movement. Jansen was closely involved in the founding of the Voortrekker movement on 30 September 1931 in the old town hall in Bloemfontein. Present at the meeting were several prominent members of the Afrikaans community including prime minister JBM Hertzog, N.J van Der Merwe (leader of the National Party in Natal), S.H. Pellissier (Jansen's cousin and leader of the \"Volkspelebeweging\" (People's games movement)), C.F. Visser (who established the precursors to the Voortrekkers) and Rachel Steyn (widow of president M.T. Steyn). Jansen was elected provincial leader of Natal and later was appointed deputy leader, a position that had to be held by a woman. At the meeting, the first group of recruits to the Voortrekkers were recognised. Amongst them was the daughter of C.F. Visser, Marie Visser, who was presented with a Voortrekker flag that had been made by Jansen. Jansen also served on the Voortrekker Monument Committee, of which her husband was the chair, and participated in the cornerstone laying on 16"}, {"text": "December 1938 and the inauguration on 16 December 1949. Other. Jansen served on the management of the Kruger Committee, the Union Flag Committee and the Archives Committee and was also a member of the Enforcement Association. With the establishment of the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Societies (FAK) in 1929, she became the first female member of the executive committee and retained this distinction for decades. She served as a member until 1935, and on 11 July 1974, the FAK awarded her the Public Service Honorary Award. Both E.G. Jansen and Mabel Jansen were involved in the preservation of historic sites within Pietermartizburg, such as the Voortrekker Church of the Vow, and the erection of monuments, such as that in honour of Piet Retief, Gerrit Maritz and Piet Uys that had been funded by donations from the public and unveiled by Jansen on 6 April 1962. Selected works. Jansen published both fiction and non-fiction works including the first book on Afrikaans grammar: Voortrekkerpers published her work recounting the pledge made by the pioneers before the Battle of Blood River, as recounted by Sarel Cilliers: Jansen published an historical, melodramatic play entitled \"Afrikaner-harte\" in 1918. It had six editions and was translated"}, {"text": "into English. It is amongst her most widely held work: Personal life. Jansen was secretary of the Christian Women's Association of Natal, a Sunday School teacher and a church organist. In 1912 she married Advocate E.G. Jansen, who had started practicing as a lawyer in Pietermaritzburg in 1906. Her husband had already played a leading role in the promotion of Afrikaans language and culture in the predominantly English-speaking Natal. He was prominent in the cultural-historical life of this province and served on the board of the \"Debats- en Letterkundige Vereniging\" (Pietermaritzburg Debate and Literary Society), which he founded in 1908, and also of the Voortrekker Museum Committee. Jansen was involved in a car accident in the 1930s from which she never fully recovered, although it had no effect on her mentally. E.G. Jansen died in 1959, and from that point on Mabel Jansen lived alone in her home in Irene with her dog, Referendum. The Jansens only had one child, Erns Louis Jansen, who became a Transvaal judge and later appellate judge and died in Pretoria on 23 May 2011. One of his three daughters, Mabel Jansen, SC, followed in her grandfather and father's legal footsteps and chaired the Pretoria"}, {"text": "Bar Council from 2003 to 2004. The other two daughters are Erna Heyns and Christine Loubser. At the time of his death, there were seven grandchildren. On her 86th birthday celebration in 1975, the prime minister, John Vorster, paid tribute to her and in 1976 she was honoured by State President N.J. Diederichs with the Decoration for Meritorious Services. Jansen's epitaph in the cemetery in Centurion, Gauteng reads, in Afrikaans:\"Gelowend in God het sy haar volk met eer gedien.\" (in English: \"Believing in God, she served her people with honour.\") She remained steadfastly true to her principles throughout her life, to the extent that when her husband followed JBM Hertzog from the National Party to the United Party in 1933, she remained a Nationalist and helped build the party up after the merger. On the eve of World War II, E.G. Jansen returned to the party his wife had been faithful to all the time."}, {"text": "Abbie Sweetwine (28 May 1921 \u2013 7 May 2009) was an American nurse remembered for her work during the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash. In a headline at the time, the \"Daily Mirror\" described her as \"The Angel of Platform 6\". Early life and education. Abbie L. Sweetwine was born and raised in Cocoa, Florida. She had two sisters, Willie Ruth Austell and Dorothy H Sweetwine, the latter of whom became a local newspaper editor. She graduated in nursing from Brewster Hospital, the first Black hospital in Jacksonville, in 1942 and received her R.N. a few months later. Career. She began her service life in the army. By July 1946, she had served in Provident Hospital at Fort Lauderdale, at the Whitaker Memorial Hospital in Newport News, Virginia, and with the U.S. Migratory set-up at Belle Glade, Florida and in North Charleston, South Carolina. Sweetwine is best known for her involvement with the Harrow & Wealdstone rail crash. During the morning rush hour on October 8, 1952, a three-train collision at Harrow & Wealdstone station near London, England, resulted in hundreds of casualties. Members of the 494th Medical Group of the United States Air Force were on board one of"}, {"text": "the trains, and called their new hospital station in South Ruislip. The Air Force Hospital sent out an emergency response team, all trained in battlefield medicine, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Weideman of the USAF which included seven doctors and one nurse, Sweetwine. 2nd Lt. Nurse Sweetwine and her colleagues established a triage station on the side platforms of Harrow & Wealdstone station. Along with the doctors who had responded to the emergency call, she started to sort and treat the wounded before they were taken to hospital. To those who were lightly wounded or in emotional shock, Nurse Sweetwine handed out cigarettes and tea. To casualties she provided blood plasma and morphine. Using her own lipstick, Sweetwine marked the people who had been treated with an 'X' and those treated with morphine an 'M'. She relayed this information to the ambulance crews, who informed the hospitals about the status of each patient. Sweetwine's efforts ensured that patients did not receive an overdose of morphine. The \"Daily Mirror\" dubbed Sweetwine \"the Angel of Platform Six\". In January 1953, she was invited to a celebratory luncheon of the Royal Variety Charity at the Savoy Hotel. They presented her with a cigarette case"}, {"text": "with her name engraved upon it. The work of Sweetwine and the USAF team is credited with inspiring the development of the use of paramedics in Britain. By the time of her retirement in 1969, she was a major in the United States Air Force. She returned to live in Cocoa, Florida and then moved to Rockledge where she lived with her sisters for over thirty years. She died at the age of 87 and was laid to rest at the Arlington National Cemetery."}, {"text": "Mizan is a \"tabia\" or municipality in the Tanqua Millash district of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. This \"tabia\" includes the rock church of Debre Sema'it, as well as Arefa, reputedly birthplace of the Queen of Sheba. The \"tabia\" centre is in Kerene village. Until 2020, Mizan belonged to the Dogu'a Tembien district. Geography. The \"tabia\" occupies the Tsilare ridge, that overlooks the wide Tekezze lowlands. On the horizon, across Tekezze River, the Simien Mountains can be seen. The highest area is the plateau in Kerene at 2590 m a.s.l. and the lowest place is the foot of the escarpment at Debre Semay'it (1725 m a.s.l.). Geology. From the higher to the lower locations, the following geological formations are present: Geomorphology and soils. The main geomorphic units, with corresponding soil types are: Climate. The rainfall pattern shows a very high seasonality with 70 to 80% of the annual rain falling in July and August. The mean temperature in Kerene is 17.8 \u00b0C, oscillating between an average daily minimum of 9.9 \u00b0C and a maximum of 25.3 \u00b0C. The contrasts between day and night air temperatures are much larger than seasonal contrasts. Springs. As there are no permanent rivers, springs are"}, {"text": "of the utmost importance for the local people. The main springs in the \"tabia\" are: Reservoirs. In this area with rains that last only for a couple of months per year, reservoirs of different sizes allow harvesting run-off from the rainy season for further use in the dry season. There are both traditional surface water harvesting ponds, particularly in places without permanent springs, called \"rahaya\" and more recently constructed \"Horoyo\". These are household ponds the construction of which has been promoted by development campaigns. Settlements. The \"tabia\" centre of Kerene has 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 other main populated places are: Agriculture and livelihood. The population lives essentially from crop farming, supplemented with off-season work in nearby towns. The plateau is dominated by farmlands on Vertisols which are clearly demarcated and are cropped every year. Hence the agricultural system is a permanent upland farming system. The farmers have adapted their cropping systems to the spatio-temporal variability in rainfall. History and culture. History. The history of the \"tabia\" is strongly connected with the history of Tembien. Religion and churches. Most inhabitants"}, {"text": "are Orthodox Christians. The following churches are located in the \"tabia\": Legends and myths. Arefa, at the western side of the tabia and end of the Tsilere ridge, is reputedly the birthplace of the Queen of Sheba. The inhabitants have many legends about her, that all play in and around the rugged mountains of Dog'ua Tembien (Arefa, Megesta, Gelebeda). \"Inda Siwa\", the local beer houses. In the main villages, there are traditional beer houses (\"Inda Siwa\"), often in unique settings, where people socialise. Well known in the \"tabia\" are Roads and communication. The main road from Mekelle via Hagere Selam to Abiy Addi runs through the eastern part of the \"tabia\". There are regular bus services to these towns. Furthermore, a rural access road links Kerene to the main asphalt road. 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 Yeresere school. Tourism. Its mountainous nature and proximity to Mekelle makes the \"tabia\" fit for tourism. Trekking routes. Trekking routes have been established in this \"tabia\". The tracks are not marked on the"}, {"text": "ground but can be followed using downloaded GPX files. Both treks involve a vertical interval of more than one kilometer and require good physical conditions. Accommodation and facilities. Though facilities are basic, the inhabitants are hospitable."}, {"text": "Mary Kate Ryan (31 October 1878 \u2013 18 July 1934) was an Irish academic and the first woman lecturer in University College Dublin's French Department as well as being a political activist who was involved in Ireland's Easter Rising, War of Independence, and Civil War. Early life and education. Mary Kate Ryan was born on 31 October 1878, in the townland of Tomcoole, near Taghmon, County Wexford. Her parents were John Ryan, who was a farmer, and his wife Elizabeth Sutton. There were twelve children and Ryan was the second oldest. Ryan was often called 'Kit', or 'C\u00e1it' by those who knew her well. Her eldest sibling was Joanna who went to join the Loreto nuns and was known as Mother Stanislaus. She was known for ensuring girls were given the opportunity to attend university and had a place to live. Ryan was a supporter, with her family, of both the Gaelic League and Sinn F\u00e9in. One of Ryan's brothers, Fr Martin Ryan, was exposed to the ideas while studying in Maynooth and brought them home. A close friend was Se\u00e1n T. O'Kelly who was another influence on her nationalism. Ryan got her primary education locally and attended the Loreto"}, {"text": "Abbey in Gorey, County Wexford, before going to Dublin to study in the Loreto College, St Stephen's Green. Ryan joined the Loreto Hall Literary and Debating Society and was a prominent member there. She got her degree in modern languages from the Royal University of Ireland in 1902. Ryan then continued her studies in Girton College, Cambridge where she qualified as a teacher. After completing her education Ryan taught languages in a number of schools in Great Britain. These included High School at St Andrews, Scotland, at a school in Bedford, and in a school in London. While in London, Ryan was an acquaintance of Thomas Kettle. She returned to Ireland in 1909. Ryan became a lecturer in languages at University College Dublin. Activism. While living in Dublin and working in UCD, Ryan's house became a centre for nationalists and Irish cultural supporters. She was an active member during the Easter Rising in Dublin, serving in the General Post Office during the week, and was jailed in Mountjoy Prison before being released on health grounds. UCD indicated they were concerned that she was using her lectures and time as a lecturer on campus to spread her beliefs among the students."}, {"text": "Ryan married Se\u00e1n T. O'Kelly on 1 April 1918 in Rathmines. She began working for D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann during the War of Independence. She worked as a translator and interpreter for her husband on his diplomatic trip to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. She travelled to Germany in 1921. Ryan was in Germany when the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed. The Ryan family did not agree with each other on the treaty and Mary Kate Ryan was strongly against it. She fell out with her sister Min Ryan as her husband, Richard Mulcahy, was part of the Pro-Treaty government. Later life. After the Irish Civil War ended, Ryan was vice-president of the UCD Republican Club. Despite the earlier concerns of the administration Ryan had continued to work for the university. In fact, in addition to her other activities, from 1913 to 1918, Ryan had been acting Professor of her department after the death of a Professor Cadic. In the 1930s, she developed rheumatic heart disease. She retired from work and began using a wheelchair in 1934. Ryan looked for treatments for her illness and travelled to Bad Nauheim, Germany. She was there with her husband and some friends when she died on"}, {"text": "18 July 1934. In 1936, Se\u00e1n O'Kelly married his late wife's younger sister, Phyllis Ryan, after gaining a papal dispensation to do so."}, {"text": "Catherine Tolson (21 August 1890 \u2013 3 March 1924) was an English nurse and suffragette from Ilkley in West Yorkshire active in the Women's Social and Political Union. She was arrested and imprisoned in 1909 and 1911 when she went on hunger strike and was force-fed for which she received a Hunger Strike Medal from the WSPU. This was sold at auction in 2004. Activism. Catherine \"Kitty\" Tolson was born in Ilkley in West Yorkshire in 1890, the daughter of Charles Guthrie Tolson (1858\u20131929), a merchant, and Anna \"n\u00e9e\" Dymond (1863\u20131937). Her older sister Helen Tolson and their mother Mrs Anna Tolson were all suffragettes. After joining the Women's Social and Political Union she became a militant campaigner for women's suffrage. In September 1909 she and her older sister Helen Tolson were amongst the suffragettes arrested for breaking glass at White City in Manchester, who all accepted imprisonment in Strangeways Prison rather than pay fines. Two days later they were released from Strangeways after going on hunger strike for which she received a Hunger Strike Medal from the WSPU. In October 1909 she was again arrested in Manchester and sent to Strangeways. The circumstances of her release on that occasion"}, {"text": "caused Keir Hardie to ask a question about her in the House of Commons in November 1909. He asked: \"... under what circumstances Catherine Tolson and two other women suffrage prisoners were turned out from Strangeways Prison about 10 o'clock last Friday evening and driven in a cab to the offices of the Women's Social and Political Union in Oxford-road, and left there on the street, the offices being closed; whether one of the women fainted twice before finding accommodation for the night; whether Miss Tolson did not reach home till 3.30 in the morning, having had to walk from Altrincham to Hale through the fog; whether Miss Tolson's father had arranged with the Governor of the prison that he would meet his daughter and the other two ladies at 8.15 on Saturday morning, the day on which their sentences expired, and had given an undertaking that there would be no demonstration; and for what reason and by \"whose instructions was this arrangement departed from?\" In response, Herbert Gladstone, then Secretary of State for the Home Department answered that: \"The Governor, acting on the discretion which had been given to him, decided to discharge these prisoners on Friday night. He"}, {"text": "arranged the time so as to allow Miss Tolson to catch a train for her home at 10.50; offered to send an officer home to Rochdale with another of the prisoners, while the third was to go to a friend in Manchester for the night. The three prisoners, however, being free to do as they liked on discharge, 'elected to go together in a cab to the offices of the Women's Political and Social Union, and left the prison singing and shouting. It appears that, finding the offices of the union closed, they drove to a friend's house; that Miss Tolson was pressed by one of her friends to remain with her for the night, but that she insisted on going home in a taxicab, and on the driver losing his way in a fog, she walked the last part. It is true that the Governor had arranged with her father to release her at 8.15 a.m. on Saturday, but the father had first voluntarily promised in a letter, which I have seen, to keep this information to himself, in order that there might be no demonstration. The Governor found, in the course of Friday, that information of the hour"}, {"text": "of release had been communicated to the Women's Social and Political Union; and, to avoid any demonstration, decided to release the prisoners on Friday.\" Not satisfied with this answer, Keir Hardie stated that Oxford Road, where the women had been released, was one of the lowest streets in Manchester and that Mr Tolson had made no such arrangement with the prison's Governor. Gladstone refused to be drawn any further on the matter. In April 1911 Catherine, her sister Helen with their mother Mrs Anna Tolson together with their sister-in-law Mrs M F E Tolson, \"all suffragettes who have served time in English jails for the cause\" arrived on a sight-seeing visit to New York via the West Indies. Mrs Tolson stated \"it was purely a holiday and they would not take part in any suffragette work there\". After the force-feeding of Mary Leigh in 1909 the 19 year-old Tolson joined Emily Davison, the 55 year-old music teacher Helen Liddle and Hannah Shepperd, a mill-worker from Rochdale in a protest against Sir Walter Runciman at Radcliffe near Manchester. As women were banned from the meeting the four protestors held their own meeting on the back of a lorry from which they"}, {"text": "had to be rescued by the police when a gang of youths tried to push the lorry down a hill. The women proceeded to cause damage by throwing notes attached to stones through the windows of Radcliffe Liberal Club and the local post office. At their subsequent trial Tolson, Liddle and Shepperd were sentenced to a month in prison with hard labour while Davison, because of her previous convictions, received two months with hard labour. The four women immediately commenced a hunger strike and were force-fed during their sentence. Davison barricaded the door of her cell with two beds and mattresses and was blasted with a firehose for 15 minutes through her cell window. In 1919 Tolson's father's cousin Legh Tolson gave Ravensknowle Hall to Huddersfield Corporation to use as a museum in memory of her second cousins, brothers 2nd Lieutenant Robert Huntriss Tolson, killed on 1 July 1916 at the Battle of the Somme, and 2nd Lieutenant James Martin Tolson who died in the closing stages of World War I on 2 October 1918. Tolson Museum was formally opened on 27 May 1922. Catherine Tolson died of tuberculosis aged 34. She never married. In 1909 Tolson was given a"}, {"text": "Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' by the WSPU which was sold at auction in 2004."}, {"text": "Melissa Leilani Larson is an American writer and playwright based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mormon literature critic Michael Austin described her as \"one of the true rising stars of Mormon literature.\" Producer Jeremy Long described her as the \"best playwright in Utah.\" Her plays commonly feature women in leading roles, and some center around the faith of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Early life and education. Larson is from Hau\u02bbula, Hawaii. Her mother is Filipina and her father is of English and Swedish ancestry. She's one of two children, with one younger sister. Her family moved to Utah when she was twelve years old. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Brigham Young University (BYU) and an MFA from The Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa. She names Helen Edmundson, Sarah Ruhl, Richard Greenberg, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Lillian Hellman, and Oscar Wilde as some of her favorite playwrights. Larson has contributed to LDS Church History's \"\". Plays. \"Martyrs' Crossing\", originally titled \"Angels Unaware\", shows St. Catherine and St. Margaret influencing Joan of Arc through her resistance and martyrdom and was first produced in 2006 at BYU. Genelle Pugmire at \"Deseret"}, {"text": "News\" named it as the best production of the year. Fellow Utah playwright Mahonri Stewart wrote that while Larson beautifully emphasized the humanity of Catholic saints, the chorus of historians was \"redundant.\" He found the comparisons of Joan of Arc to Joseph Smith distracting. Larson won the 2009 AML award for drama for \"Little Happy Secrets\", a play about a faithful young LDS woman who develops romantic feelings for her female roommate. In the award, AML called the play \"a celebration of heartbreak.\" In his blog, Brigham Young University English professor Gideon Burton described the play as \"[making] the problem of same-sex attraction [...] normal, that is, as credible.\" Larson's 2010 play \"A Flickering\" features a filmmaker and actress who are friends, and was set in the early 1900s during the silent film era. Critic Katie Roundy found the live piano music and title cards occasionally distracted from the main action, but that the play left her \"wanting more.\" \"A Flickering\" was a Trustus Playwrights Festival finalist. After a stage adaptation of \"Persuasion\", BYU commissioned Larson's stage adaptation of \"Pride and Prejudice\". It won the 2014 AML award for drama, with the award text referring to the adaptation as \"one"}, {"text": "of the most entertaining works by a Mormon playwright to date.\" \"Salt Lake City Weekly\" gave \"Pride and Prejudice\" a \"Best Modern Jane\" headline, stating that Larson's adaptation felt \"fresh without resorting to gimmickry.\" At the Utah Theater Bloggers Association, the play was spotlighted in a 2014 roundup under \"Excellent New Plays.\" Barta Heiner directed both plays. Larson co-wrote a musical adaptation of \"Silas Marner\" called \"The Weaver of Raveloe\" in 2013, and the play was produced in 2014. She is part of the lab for playwrights at Plan-B Theatre, which she joined around 2013. \"Pilot Program\" was her first play shown there. \"Pilot Program\" centers around an imagined future where a faithful LDS couple is asked to practice polygamy. At \"The Utah Review\", reviewer Les Roka described it as \"a compelling tableau of social messages and contemplation of religious identity that resonates with the depth of exploration suggested in the works of Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg and Gerhart Hauptmann.\" The play won AML's 2015 award for drama. Larson's 2016 play \"The Edible Complex\" was written for elementary school students and has actors taking on the roles of Larson's favorite foods. The play addresses eating disorders. \"Sweetheart Come\" was a"}, {"text": "2016 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist. The University of Utah's \"Daily Utah Chronicle\" critic Palak Jayswal wrote that the play \"encourages empathy while breaking the stigma about isolation and unhappiness.\" In \"City Weekly\", Scott Renshaw called the play \"a character study of mental illness,\" praising the play's unique set design, which used paper to outline and subvert the confines of the stage. Writing for \"The Utah Review\", Les Roka described Larson's script as \"a fascinating, cogent interpretation of Emma Hauck\u2019s story.\" Larson adapted Rabindranath Tagore's \"The Post Office\" for a theater collaboration between the Granite School District, Plan-B Theatre, Gandhi Alliance for Peace, and the United Nations Association of Utah. She adapted the play for modern audiences and made the original twelve-man cast more gender-diverse; in Larson's adaptation, the three main characters are female or non-binary and other characters are adaptable to any gender. The production's director sought specifically to involve refugee students. Roka wrote that Larson's script \"flows with elegant, accessible symbolism.\" Films. Freetown. Larson collaborated with Garrett Batty on the script for \"Freetown\" (2015), a movie about six Liberian LDS missionaries fleeing the country in the First Liberian Civil War. \"Freetown\" won the 2016 Utah Film Award for"}, {"text": "Best Feature Film and the 2015 Ghana Movie Award for Best Screenplay. Jane and Emma. The film \"Jane and Emma\" (2018) focuses on the friendship between Jane Elizabeth Manning James and Emma Smith, examining racial issues in the early LDS church. It appeared on a list of films that fulfilled ReFrame's criteria for gender-balanced and racially diverse films. Sales from the film's opening night were matched by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' foundation and the Bonneville Charitable Foundation and given as a donation to the NAACP Salt Lake Branch. Larson studied the journals of both women while writing the script, and stated that the film is \"not about preaching to people. It's about these two women and their relationship.\" Mariah Proctor at \"Meridian\" magazine wrote that the film \"issues an invitation to a conversation\" about the two women and their relationship to each other and the LDS Church. Fellow Plan-B playwright Eric Samuelsen reviewed the film in \"BYU Studies\", writing that Larson's script \"honors the history in which the story is rooted while fictionalizing when needed.\" Camlyn Giddins also reviewed the film in the same publication, noting that while the climax seems forced, the film encourages introspection."}, {"text": "\"Jane and Emma\" won the Feature Film award at the LDS Film Festival, as well as the Audience Award in the same category. The film was also a finalist in the 2018 Narrative Film category at the Association for Mormon Letters. Other awards. \"Martyrs' Crossing\" was an IRAM Best New Play. \"Standing Still Standing\" won a Mayhew award. \"Lady in Waiting\" was the winner of the Lewis National Playwriting Contest for Women. Larson won the 2003 AML award for drama for \"Wake Me When It's Over\". Larson received the Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters in 2019. The award citation stated that Larson \"offers herself as a witness to both the pain and faith of her fellow Saints when their obedience to God pushes them up against the limits of their endurance.\" Publications. Her plays \"Little Happy Secrets\" and \"Pilot Program\" were published together in a book called \"Third Wheel\" in 2017 by BCC Press. \"Little Happy Secrets\" has been adapted into audio format."}, {"text": "Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let It Go is the third wide-release album from American rock band I the Mighty, released on October 20, 2017 through Equal Vision Records. Background. The band announced the album on 29 August 2017, with a release date of 20 October 2017. Along with this announcement the band released the video for the lead single 'Silver Tongues' featuring Tilian Pearson of Dance Gavin Dance. Personnel. Credits from AllMusic."}, {"text": "Legislative elections were held in French Polynesia on 3 November 1957 for the Territorial Assembly. The result was a victory for the ruling Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People (RDPT) led by Pouvanaa a Oopa, which won 17 of the 30 seats. Aftermath. Following the elections, Jean-Baptiste C\u00e9ran-J\u00e9rusal\u00e9my was elected President of the Assembly on 10 December. A new government was formed later in the month, including Walter Grand who had lost heavily in the Windward Islands constituency running on the France Tahiti list. However, following protests about an income tax law, the government was sacked by Governor Camille Victor Bailly in April 1958. Bailly subsequently appointed a new government led by Alfred Poroi. Following the death of Tautu Oopa in 1961, his wife C\u00e9line won a by-election on 8 October 1961, becoming the first woman to sit in the Assembly."}, {"text": "La Belle \u00c9poque is a 2019 French romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Nicolas Bedos. The film stars Daniel Auteuil as Victor, a man in his 60s whose long marriage to Marianne (Fanny Ardant) is on the rocks. When Victor meets Antoine (Guillaume Canet), the owner of a company which allows people to perform a version of \"time travel\" by visiting a stage where the company acts out a staged historical reenactment, he takes the opportunity to revisit the moment when he first met Marianne, in hopes of rekindling his love for her. The film premiered out of competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Plot. A former draftsman, Victor is now disillusioned. His marriage to Marianne is floundering and he is uninterested and overwhelmed by this overly technological modern world. To cheer him up, his son Maxime pays him for an evening organized by his friend Antoine's company Les Voyageurs du temps. This company offers its customers the opportunity to relive the era of their choice, by mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction. Some wealthy clients choose to spend an evening with William Faulkner, Adolf Hitler or with 17th century aristocrats. At first reluctant, Victor accepts after Marianne"}, {"text": "throws him out. He opts to dive back into the most significant week of his life, the one where he met his great love, on May 16, 1974, in the La Belle \u00c9poque caf\u00e9 in Lyon. In this \"staging\", Marianne is played by Margot, an actress who lives a complicated and tumultuous relationship with Antoine. The latter, a former screenwriter, is very picky and does not support any approximation on the part of his collaborators. Gradually, Victor will lend himself to the game, until he loses himself in these \u201creconstituted\u201d memories. Reception. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of based on reviews from critics, with an average rating of . On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 75 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating \"generally favourable reviews\". Peter Debruge of \"Variety\" wrote: \"Where so many high-concept romantic comedies squander their one big idea, 'La Belle \u00c9poque' leverages its own to remind us how and why we fall in love in the first place...\" and Debruge praises the writing, saying it has \"a script that's as ambitiously imagined as a Charlie Kaufman movie.\" Todd McCarthy of \"The Hollywood Reporter\" gave the film a"}, {"text": "positive review calling it a \"witty, sexy and original romantic comedy that touches many points of satisfaction.\""}, {"text": "Joseph F. Gargan Jr. (February 16, 1930 \u2013 December 12, 2017), was an American lawyer and a nephew of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was one of only two men, along with Paul Markham, in whom Ted Kennedy chose to confide immediately after the Chappaquiddick automobile accident which killed Mary Jo Kopechne. Orphaned at the age of sixteen, Gargan spent two consecutive summers with the Kennedys, and, being closer in age to Ted than the other Kennedy brothers were, developed a close relationship with his cousin Ted. Gargan was the campaign chairman for Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. Gargan fell out of favor with the Kennedy family in 1988, with the publication of journalist Leo Damore's book, \"Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up\", because Gargan revealed in interviews with Damore details not released in public testimony, such as how Ted Kennedy contemplated covering up his role in the incident by claiming Kopechne was driving his car. Early life. Gargan's father, Joseph Gargan Sr., was an amateur boxer, a University of Notre Dame football player and graduate, and a decorated World War I US Marine officer, who married Mary Agnes Fitzgerald, daughter of John F. Fitzgerald and sister of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy."}, {"text": "The Gargans had three children: Joseph Jr., Mary Jo, and Ann. Mary Agnes died on September 17, 1936. The children became orphaned when Joseph Sr. died in 1946.. Gargan grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. Relationship with Ted Kennedy. In the summer of 1940, when Gargan was 10 years old and Ted Kennedy was 8, Joe visited the Kennedy home at Hyannis Port. The Kennedys looked to Gargan to take Teddy under his wing as a peer big brother and keep him out of trouble, something his older brothers could not do because of their greater age difference. Education. Despite lies spread by the Kennedys that Joseph Kennedy financed his orphan nephew's education, the estate of Gargan's father financed his secondary education at Georgetown Preparatory School, 1942\u20131948. For college, Gargan chose to attend Notre Dame as his father did, rather than Harvard as Joseph Kennedy and all of his sons did. Gargan said in 1983 that he considered Harvard \"a crap school. In those days, you were kind of a fairy if you went to Harvard.\" Notre Dame provided a Catholic parochial education; he received his undergraduate degree in 1952, and graduated from Notre Dame Law School in 1955. Career. Gargan"}, {"text": "participated in Jack Kennedy's successful 1952 Senate campaign and 1960 presidential campaign, as well as Ted's 1962 and 1964 senate campaigns. At Ted's request, Gargan became chairman of the Robert F. Kennedy 1968 presidential campaign. As such, he was responsible for getting three disparate, mutually distrustful groups to work together: Robert's own staffers, and the veterans of Jack's 1960 presidential campaign and Ted's 1962 and 1964 Senate campaigns. Chappaquiddick. According to Ted Kennedy's account of events, sometime before or after midnight July 18\u201319, 1969, Kennedy accidentally drove his Oldsmobile into a tidal pond on Chappaquiddick Island, with Mary Jo Kopechne trapped inside the car. He walked just over a mile back to the cottage where a party he hosted was occurring, and summoned Gargan and Paul Markham to drive him back to the site, where Gargan dived into the pond in a futile attempt to find Kopechne. After recovering, Gargan vehemently insisted that Kennedy report the accident to the police immediately. Markham seconded this opinion, but Kennedy argued against it, and according to Gargan, said he could plausibly deny knowledge of the accident if they agreed that he had gotten out of the Oldsmobile beforehand and Kopechne was the one"}, {"text": "who drove it off the bridge. Gargan said this lie was not safe, as neighbors could have seen their car at the bridge, and he would have no part of it. Finally, Kennedy said \"All right, all right, I'll take care of it. \"You\" take care of the girls.\" He told Gargan and Markham to go back to the cottage and tell the other partygoers that Kopechne went back to Edgartown, but to say nothing about the accident. Gargan understood this at the time to mean that Kennedy would go to the police station and report the accident; however, he came to understand later that Kennedy thought it meant that Gargan and Markham would go along with his cover-up lie. According to Gargan, Kennedy then abruptly cut off the discussion by jumping into the channel and swimming the 500 feet to the Edgartown shore. Kennedy in fact did not report the accident until about 9:50a.m. that morning, after the Oldsmobile and Kopechne's body had been discovered. Later, Kennedy used Gargan's and Markham's status as lawyers to falsely assert attorney-client privilege, preventing them from saying anything about the conversation on the island. Gargan was disappointed in his misjudgement of Kennedy's character,"}, {"text": "when he believed he would do the right thing. Personal life. He married Betty Hurstel, an Indiana native who worked at Notre Dame. Gargan was portrayed by Ed Helms in the 2017 film \"Chappaquiddick\". In 2020, his son, Joseph E. Gargan, pleaded guilty \"to embezzling nearly $8 million that was intended to settle claims by children who alleged they were victims of medical malpractice\"."}, {"text": "Omar Fuad oglu Buludov (; born 15 December 1998) is an Azerbaijani footballer who plays as a defender for Araz-Nax\u00e7\u0131van and the Azerbaijan national team. Career. Buludov represented Azerbaijan internationally with the under-19 team in 2016 and under-21 team in 2018. He made his international debut for the senior Azerbaijan team on 9 October 2019 in a friendly match against Bahrain, which finished as a 3\u20132 away win."}, {"text": "Halprin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Lower Yukon School District is a school district headquartered in Mountain Village, Alaska, serving the Kusilvak Census Area. As of the 2017-18 school year, it has 1,998 students across 10 schools. 91% are American Indian or Alaska Native and 5% are multiracial. Schools. The district operates only K-12 schools due to the small and isolated nature of the villages within the district. Each village has one school. High school students have the option of applying out-of-district to the state's public boarding schools, Nenana Student Living Center and Mt. Edgecumbe High School. High school juniors and seniors may apply to spend nine-week sessions at Kusilvak Career Academy, a residential program that allows students to take career and technical education classes in Anchorage. Former schools. Pitkas Point School served eight students in pre-K through eighth grade and shut down after that 2011-12 school year. Students from Pitkas Point are now zoned for Saint Mary's City Schools."}, {"text": "Pieter Eden Veldsman (born 11 March 1952) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. In 1969 and during his final year at school, Veldsman was selected to represent the Western Province schools team at the annual Craven Week tournament that was held in Pietermaritzburg. During the early seventies Veldsman played for the Western Province under\u201320 side and he made his senior provincial debut for Western Province in 1976. Veldsman made his test match debut, which was also his only test for the Springboks, on 27 August 1977 against the World XV team at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. Along with Veldsman, there were seven other debutants in the 1977 test match, of whom five also played in only one test match for the Springboks."}, {"text": "Betty Julia Sullivan (31 May 1902 \u2014 25 December 1999) was an American biochemist between the 1920s and 1940s at Russell Miller Milling Company. In 1947, Sullivan began her executive career as research director and vice-president for Russell Miller until the company became part of Peavey Company in 1958. After the merger, Sullivan remained in her executive roles before leaving in 1967 to co-start an agribusiness consulting company. While working at Experience Inc., Sullivan became director of the company in 1975 and retired in 1992. During her career, Sullivan was the first woman to receive the Osbourne Medal from the American Association of Cereal Chemists, in 1948. In 1954, Sullivan was awarded the Garvan\u2013Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society. Early life and education. On May 31, 1902, Sullivan was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sullivan attended the University of Minnesota for her Bachelor of Science in 1922. She is of Irish ancestry. In the mid-1920s, Sullivan left the United States and completed a master's degree at the University of Paris in 1925. The following year, she conducted research at the Pasteur Institute in 1926. In 1935, Sullivan returned to the University of Minnesota for a Doctor of Philosophy in biochemistry"}, {"text": "and a minor degree in organic chemistry. Sullivan wrote her Bachelor of Science thesis on the chemical reactions in pinene and her PhD thesis about the lipids found in wheat. Career. In 1922, Sullivan started her chemistry career as a lab assistant for the Russell Miller Milling Company in 1922. While at Russell Miller, Sullivan was promoted to head chemist in 1927 and research director in 1947. While researching the food chemistry of wheat and flour, Sullivan simultaneously held the position of vice-president. After Russell Miller became a part of Peavey Company in 1958, Sullivan continued her research and executive positions with Peavey while worked in food processing to create new products. When Sullivan left Peavey in 1967, she co-created an agribusiness consulting company called Experience Inc. During her time with Experience Inc. Sullivan held various positions including president in 1969 and director in 1975 before her 1992 retirement. Awards and honors. In 1948, Sullivan became the first woman to be awarded the Osbourne Medal by the American Association of Cereal Chemists. Sullivan was also awarded the Garvan\u2013Olin Medal in 1954 by the American Chemical Society. Death. On 25 December 1999, Sullivan died in Bloomington, Minnesota."}, {"text": "Addie Elizabeth Davis (29 June 1917 \u2013 3 December 2005) was an American Southern Baptist religious leader. In 1964, she became the first woman to be ordained as a Southern Baptist pastor. Early life and education. Davis was born to a Baptist family in Covington, Virginia on 29 June 1917. In 1942, Davis graduated from Meredith College with a major in psychology and a minor in speech. She became an education director at First Baptist Church in Elkin, North Carolina and later dean of women at Alderson-Broaddus College. Davis's early career was interrupted in 1944, when her father's death forced her to return to Covington and help her mother with the family furniture store. While in Covington, she briefly served as the interim pastor of Lone Star Baptist Church. Ordination and career. In 1960, Davis began attending the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. While in Seminary, Davis attended Watts Street Baptist Church, which, along with its pastor Warren Carr, was known at the time for social progressivism and participation in the civil rights movement. For a History of Christianity course, Davis wrote a paper on the issue of women's ordination. Davis graduated in May 1963 along"}, {"text": "with six other women. In 1963, Davis was granted a license to preach by the Watts Street church. On 9 August 1964, Davis was formally ordained at Watts Street Baptist Church after being rejected by several other churches, becoming the first woman to be ordained as a Southern Baptist pastor. Following the ordination, Davis and the Watts Street church were subject to some criticism. Nevertheless, her ordination was, in practice, \"entirely unnoticed\" within the Southern Baptist Convention as a whole. Following her ordination, Davis was rejected by Southern Baptist churches as a pastor. She instead became pastor for a series of American Baptist churches. In June 1972, Davis became a pastor at Second Baptist Church in East Providence, Rhode Island. She later became president of the East Providence Clergy Association. Relation to the feminist movement. Davis's pastorship occurred during the second wave of the feminist movement. Although Davis did not make prominent statements about feminism, she did have Christian feminist literature in her possession."}, {"text": "Lent is a 2019 fantasy novel by Jo Walton, about Girolamo Savonarola. It was first published by Tor Books, and was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Synopsis. In Renaissance Florence, Girolamo Savonarola is a Dominican friar with the gift of prophecy and the ability to see and banish demons. After Lorenzo di Medici dies in 1492, Girolamo gradually becomes more and more involved in politics, eventually culminating in his execution in 1498, and subsequent damnation to Hell. He then finds himself in 1492 Florence again, and begins trying to change history. Reception. In \"the Los Angeles Times\", Cory Doctorow called it a \"beautifully rendered retelling\" of Savonarola's life, commending the \"ringing verisimilitude of well-researched, real historical personages\" who appeared in the novel, and noting that Walton portrays the basic concept of repeating historical events with \"a new, rich ambiguity\". At \"National Public Radio\", Amal el-Mohtar praised Walton's application of \"mythographical playfulness\" to Christian theology, her presentation of Savonarola as \"a man wrestling with pride and its just causes\", her depiction of Florence as a setting, and the book's overall narrative structure, but ultimately faulted the ending as \"rushed\" and \"impatient\". In \"Locus\", conversely, Gary K. Wolfe found the ending"}, {"text": "to \"ingeniously satisf(y) both the terms of its 15th-century Florentine worldview and the SF-like machinery that makes it work.\" James Nicoll noted that the first half of the book can be considered \"fairly straightforward historical fantasy: Italian history as it is known, but seasoned with demons and miracles\", and lauded Walton's prose as \"good to superlative\". \"The Globe and Mail\" proposed that it may bring Walton to the attention of \"an even wider readership, crossing, as it does, the proverbial Arno into literary fiction territory.\" The \"Winnipeg Free Press\" described it as \"slow-moving but ultimately interesting\", and \u2013 albeit \"unique and thoughtful\" \u2013 \"(n)ot as revolutionary as Walton's other works.\" \"Lent\" was nominated for the 2020 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature."}, {"text": "Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You is a 2019 Canadian science fiction thriller short film directed by Brandon Cronenberg. The film stars Deragh Campbell as Emily, an institutionalized woman who is describing her dreams to psychiatrist Dr. Fino (Neil Bennett). The film premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and had its North American premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. In December 2019, the film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films."}, {"text": "The South Pacific Athletics Championships were an international athletics competition between island nations of the South Pacific Ocean. The championships was contested on three occasions: it was first held in 1976, had its second edition in 1978, then its final edition in 1984. Ten nations won medals at the competition during its lifetime. The competition emerged as a single-sport championship following in the footsteps of the region's multi-sport event established in 1963: the South Pacific Games. The athletics competition declined with the emergence of the South Pacific Mini Games in 1981, which was a smaller-scale event with athletics as its core sport. Events. The competition programme featured a total of 38 individual championship athletics events, 22 for men and 16 for women. For each of the sexes, there were six track running events, two obstacle events, three jumps, two throws, and one combined track and field event. The women's programme featured fewer events than the men's: women did not compete in distance events longer than 3000 m, and only men contested the steeplechase, pole vault, triple jump, and hammer throw. Men and women had a pentathlon in the first two editions, with this being replaced by a men's octathlon and"}, {"text": "women's heptathlon at the final edition. A women's 400 m hurdles was contested once only in 1984, as this event gained international acceptance during this period."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Mudgee on 6 March 1883 because of the resignation of Adolphus Taylor after a heated argument with the member for Upper Hunter John McElhone in which McElhone challenged Taylor to resign and both would contest Taylor's seat. Results. <includeonly> Adolphus Taylor resigned after a challenge by John McElhone.</includeonly> Aftermath. McElhone was re-elected at the by-election for Upper Hunter which was conducted on the same day, with the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate reporting that McElhone had been nominated without his authority."}, {"text": "Alim Yusufovich Baisultanov (; 15 May 1919 \u2013 28 September 1943) was a Balkar flying ace in the Soviet Air Forces and Hero of the Soviet Union. Less than a year after he was killed in action, his entire family was deported to Central Asia because of their Balkar ethnicity. Early life. Baisultanov was born on 15 May 1919 to a large Balkar peasant family in Yanikoy village. After completing pedagogical school in 1937 and training at an aeroclub, he entered the Navy, graduating from the Yeisk Naval Aviation School in 1939 before seeing combat for the first time in the Winter War. World War II. During the early phase of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Baisultanov was deployed as part of the 13th Fighter Aviation Regiment, in which he fought in the battles for Tallinn, Hanko, and defended the Road of Life. Before the end of June 1941 he gained his first aerial victory \u2013 the shared kill of a Fokker D.XXI. His first solo victory took place over Tallinn nearly two months later when he took out a Ju 88. He racked up two more solo kills and one shared kill by mid September 1941, after"}, {"text": "which he went several months without any aerial victories; then in March and April 1942 he began to rapidly increase his tally, though most of his claims involved shared kills. Nevertheless, he became an ace on 4 April 1942 after shooting down a Ju 87 dive bomber \u2013 his fifth solo kill. In June 1942 he was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union for having flown 277 sorties, gaining 5 solo and 13 shared shootdowns. The title was awarded on 23 October 1942. However, his tally remained at that number since he was sent for squadron commander training in summer 1943. By the time he returned to his regiment it had been honored with the guards designation and renamed as the 4th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment. Shortly after the unit received the new La-5, he was shot down over the Gulf of Finland while on a mission escorting a group of attack aircraft to Seskar Island. Not long after his death, his family was deported to the Osh oblast in Central Asia because of their Balkar ethnicity. His parents and two of his brothers soon perished in the harsh conditions of exile soon after the deportation."}, {"text": "Semenza is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Henry Kyle (Keenan) Frese (born October 27, 1988) is a former employee at the Defense Intelligence Agency, between February 2018 and October 2019, during which time he was assigned to a \"Sensitive Compartment Information Facility\" in Virginia. Federal investigation. Arrest. On October 9, 2019, Frese was arrested and charged with two violations of the Espionage Act under 18 USC 793(d) by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia for willful transmission of National Defense Information. He held \"Top Secret\" (TS) clearance. He was arrested at work at the Defense Intelligence Agency in Reston, Virginia, on October 9, 2019. The Justice Department alleged that Frese disclosed the top secret information to newspaper reporters, one of which Justice alleged was a reporter with whom Frese may have been involved in a \"romantic relationship,\" and whom the government referred to as \"Journalist 1;\" Erik Wemple of \"The Washington Post\" identified the journalist as Amanda Macias, as did \"The Wall Street Journal\", which also identified a second involved journalist as Courtney Kube, a senior reporter for NBC. Frese and Macias had shared a home. Guilty plea. On February 20, 2020, Frese pleaded guilty to the willful transmission of Top Secret national defense"}, {"text": "information. \"The Washington Post\", \"News\" of Australia, and \"The Spectator\" all compared Frese's case to that of Senate Intelligence Committee staffer James Wolfe, who allegedly passed on secrets to Ali Watkins during a romantic relationship. Sentencing. On June 18, 2020, Frese was sentenced to 30 months in prison for \"leaking information to two journalists, including one he was dating\"; prosecutors had asked for nine years, but his defense argued, among others, that his girlfriend, \u201ca reporter whose 'career was stalling',\u201d had pressured and influenced him at a susceptible time. While he at first rebuffed her cajoling, his \u201cjudgment was clouded by 'a misguided effort to salvage a relationship that was not worth saving'.\u201d Frese was released from prison on October 14, 2022. Personal life. Frese had Canadian citizenship, which he gave up to work in U.S. intelligence. He is a graduate of Queen's University at Kingston."}, {"text": "George William Blunt (11 Mar 1802 \u2013 19 Apr 1878) was a pioneer publisher of nautical charts and books for the company E & G. W. Blunt. He was Secretary of the Board of Pilot Commissioners for New York Harbor from 1845 to 1877. For over 40 years he served as first assistant in the United States Coast Survey and made surveys of New York Harbor and the Bahama banks. He was instrumental in gaining reforms in the United States Lighthouse Service. His firm published many editions of Bowditch's \"Navigator\" and Blunt's \"American Coast Pilot\". Personal life. He was born on March 14, 1802, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the son of the author Edmund March Blunt. He married Martha Garsett on December 22, 1821. They had two daughters. Nautical publisher. He and his brother, Edmund Blunt (1799-1866), went into business with their father, Edmund March Blunt, at \"E & G. W. Blunt Publishing\", a well known publishing house of marine works. He authored many books and charts. He wrote the \"Memoir of the dangers and ice in the North Atlantic Ocean\" (1845), \"The Way to Avoid the Centre of Our Violent Gales\" (1868), and \"Pilot Laws, Harbor and Quarantine Regulations of"}, {"text": "New York\" (1869). Blunt's books were provided to the United States Hydrographic Office. The firm closed in 1872 and sold the chart copyrights and plates to the Coast Survey and U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office. Board of Pilot Commissioners. In 1845, Blunt was appointed to the Board of Pilot Commissioners and became Secretary of the Board. He helped to organized the pilot service for the New York Harbor. He was re-elected by the Chamber of Commerce to the New York Board of Pilot Commissioners from 1868 to 1870. A pilots' license was issued by the Board of Pilot Commissioners. By 1873, Blunt was President of the Board of Pilot Commissioners. Today the board is called the Board of Commissioners of Pilots of the State of New York. The pilot boat No. 11, George W. Blunt (1856) and its replacement in 1861 was named after him. The pilot boat \"Moses H. Grinnell\" was owned by George W. Blunt. It was built in 1850 and designed by George Steers. On September 25, 1845, Blunt signed a letter to the editor of the \"Washington Union,\" to insert a message in the paper, which said he was the true and only owner of the \"Nettle,\""}, {"text": "of New York, built in 1884 at Boston, Massachusetts. Per enrollment at the port of Boston and on July 19, 1844, he became the owner of the \"Nettle,\" and that James Calahan was the master or commander. Nautical School for the harbor of New York. In May 1869, Blunt became a trustee of the Nautical School for the harbor of New York. Its purpose was to educate boys in seamanship and navigation. He was elected again in 1871 and in 1874. Ellwood Walter was also a trustee during this time and shared the same interest in seamanship and navigation. Death. He died on April 19, 1878, in Manhattan, New York, New York, and was buried at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York."}, {"text": "Ab\u016b 'Abd All\u0101h Mu\u1e25ammad ibn 'Imr\u0101n ibn M\u016bs\u0101 ibn Sa'\u012bd ibn 'Abd All\u0101h al-Marzub\u0101n\u012b al-Khur\u0101s\u0101n\u012b () (c. 909 \u2013 10 November 994), was a prolific author of adab, akhbar (news), history and \u1e25ad\u012bth (traditions). He lived all his life in his native city, Baghdad, although his family came originally from Khur\u0101s\u0101n. Life. Al-Marzub\u0101n\u012b came from a wealthy Arab family connected to the royal court of the Abb\u0101sid caliph. Ibn al-Jaw\u0101l\u012bq\u012b in his \"Kit\u0101b al-Mu'arrab\", explains that al-Marzub\u0101n\u012b inherited a Persian epithet \"Marzban\", which means 'Guardian of the frontier'. The Buyid amir \u2018A\u1e0d\u016bd al-Dawla was known to visit his residence on the east bank of the Tigris, where he would also entertain members of a literary circle dedicated to the conservation and transmission of Arabic philological literature. Fellow authors in his circle were Ab\u016b Ya'q\u016bb al-Naj\u012bram\u012b (d.1031), Ab\u016b Sa'\u012bd al-S\u012br\u0101f\u012b (d. 979) and Ab\u016b Bakr Mu\u1e25ammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik al-T\u0101r\u012bkh\u012b. He edited the first d\u012bw\u0101n (collected poems) by the Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I (r. 661\u2013680), which he produced in a small volume of about three kurr\u0101sa, \u2013 ca., 60 ff. Al-Marzub\u0101n\u012b's principal authorities. Ab\u016b Bakr al-Khw\u0101rizm\u012b led the funeral service. He was buried in his house on Shari Amr al-R\u016bm\u012b (Amr"}, {"text": "the Greek Street), on the eastern quarter of Baghd\u0101d. Legacy. He was the last of the authorities of literary and oral tradition Is\u1e25\u0101q al-Nad\u012bm met. He was cited by the Mu'tazilite theologian Ab\u016b 'Abd All\u0101h al-\u1e62aymar\u012b (d. 927/8), Ab\u016b al-Q\u0101sim al-Tan\u016bkhi (940 \u2013 994), Ab\u016b Mu\u1e25ammad al-Jauhari, et al. Some sectarian-based criticismattributed to al-Marzub\u0101n\u012b's religious leanings and \"madhhab\", despite his publication of \u1e24anaf\u012b, Sh\u012b'i and Mu'tazila \"riw\u0101ya\" and \"akhbar\" (biographies).seems to have led to the relative neglect of his writings by Sunni scholars in later centuries. Works. Among his books were: Books about the \"Saw\u0101d\". Is\u1e25\u0101q al-Nad\u012bm records that 20,000 ff from sources written in al-Marzub\u0101n\u012b's handwriting had survived to his day."}, {"text": "The 1883 Upper Hunter colonial by-election was held on 6 March 1883 for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Upper Hunter because of the resignation of John McElhone after a heated argument with the member for Mudgee Adolphus Taylor in which McElhone challenged Taylor to resign and both would contest Taylor's seat. The Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate reported that despite McElhone saying he would not stand for Upper Hunter, he had been nominated without his authority. Results. <includeonly>John McElhone resigned to challenge Adolphus Taylor for his seat of Mudgee. McElhone</includeonly> was defeated at the by-election for Mudgee which was conducted on the same day."}, {"text": "Joshua Joseph Pynadath (born February 20, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Dutch club Dordrecht. Club career. Ajax. Pynadath, who was born to an Indian father and European American mother, started playing soccer at Red Star Soccer Academy in his youth. In 2013, he made headlines when Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid showed interest in signing him into their youth systems. Pynadath ended up signing with Real Madrid, becoming the first American\u2014and the first player of Indian descent\u2014ever to join the club's youth program. In 2015, Pynadath moved to the Netherlands and joined the Ajax youth system. On September 16, 2019, he made his professional debut when he came on as a substitute for Jong Ajax in an Eerste Divisie match against Jong PSV. On April 9, 2020, it was announced that Pynadath had decided to leave the Ajax Youth Academy at the age of 18, seeking to play in a higher competition. It was later reported that Pynadath was trialing with Chelsea. AZ. On June 30, 2022, Pynadath signed a two-year contract at AZ Alkmaar, joining its second team. He made his Eerste Divisie debut for Jong AZ on August 16,"}, {"text": "2022, in a 2\u20130 victory against NAC Breda. Dordrecht. On July 8, 2024, Pynadath joined Dordrecht on a two-year deal, with an option for third year. International career. Pynadath has been capped by the United States at the U15, U17, and U18 levels. Personal life. Pynadath is of Indian Malayali origin."}, {"text": "State Route 246 (SR 246) is a north\u2013south state highway in Middle Tennessee. It connects the cities of Columbia with Franklin via the community of Burwood. SR 246 serves as an alternate route to U.S. Route 31 (US 31) to the east. Route description. SR 246 begins as Carters Creek Pike in Maury County at the northern edge of Columbia at an intersection with US 31 (SR 6). It winds its northwest through industrial areas before leaving Columbia and continuing north through farmland. The highway then has a concurrency with SR 247 shortly before crossing into Williamson County. SR 246 turns northeast and passes through the community of Burwood, where it has an interchange with Interstate 840 (I-840; Exit 23), before passing through hilly and rural areas. It then enters Franklin, where it passes through neighborhoods, as Main Street, for several miles before entering downtown and making an abrupt right turn onto 7th Avenue before coming to an end at an intersection with US 31 (SR 6/Columbia Avenue). The entire route of SR 246 is a two-lane highway."}, {"text": "John Lissauer is an American composer, producer, and performer. At the age of 19, he arranged the first recordings of Al Jarreau. Lissauer went on to produce and arrange a pair of Leonard Cohen albums, including the song \"Hallelujah\" which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2019. He has been a composer or music producer for record albums, films, and radio and TV commercials. Lissauer received a Clio \"Campaign of the Decade\" award for his work for Polaroid. Early life and education. Lissauer was raised in Hauppauge, New York. From age 11 until he graduated from Yale College, Lissauer studied with Joseph Allard at the Juilliard School. Lissauer attended Yale University and graduated with honors in music. Career. Lissauer plays piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone. He began arranging music for Al Jarreau while still at Yale. He taught at Yale for a year, and then became a session piano player. As a composer and music producer, he has worked with Al Jarreau, Bette Midler, Whitney Houston, and Luther Vandross. In Canada to produce a record for Lewis Furey, Lissauer was approached by Cohen at a Furey concert. The two met again several weeks later in"}, {"text": "New York to produce the \"New Skin for the Old Ceremony\" album. John Miller, who played bass on the album, described Lissauer's approach to music as \"very particular, European, simple but complex, highly imaginative\". \"New Skin for the Old Ceremony\" would make the Top Thirty in the United Kingdom. After the album was completed, Cohen appointed Lissauer as the musical director for his next two tours; Lissauer played piano, organ, saxophone, and percussion on the tours. In 1983, Lissauer again worked with Cohen to produce the album \"Various Positions\", including the arrangement of \"Hallelujah\", which would go on to become one of the most recorded songs of its time. Disappointed when Columbia Records decided against a U.S. release of the album, Lissauer decided to focus his efforts on composing for films and TV. Although he had given up record producing, in 2006 Lissauer arranged several songs on \"Blue Alert\" by Anjani as a favor for Cohen. In 2022, Lissauer appeared in the documentary \"Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song\", and composed the score. Personal life. Lissauer was married to Erin Dickins, with whom he restored an overgrown 35-acre property an hour north of New York City that had been"}, {"text": "owned previously by composer Frederick Loewe. In 1984, he married Lilian, with whom he had one son."}, {"text": "John Rodgers (11 July 1914 \u2013 7 March 2004) was an American geologist who was Silliman Professor of Geology at Yale University. Biography. He was born in Albany, New York to Henry and Louise (Allen) Rodgers and was educated at Albany Academy. He then studied at Cornell University, where he was awarded a B.A. in 1936 and an M.S. in geology in 1937. He gained a post-graduate Ph.D. at Yale University in 1944. In the latter year, during the Second World War, he joined the Military Geology Branch of the United States Geological Survey and was delegated to map beachheads from Kamchatka in Siberia down to China and Japan. In 1946 he accepted a post in the Department of Geology at Yale, becoming in 1962 the Benjamin Silliman Professor, a position he was to hold for the rest of his career. At Yale he began to research the geology of Connecticut, producing a full geological map of the state in 1985. In 1948 he was appointed an assistant editor of the \"American Journal of Science\", becoming its editor from 1954 to 1995. In 1970 he served as president of the Geological Society of America. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in"}, {"text": "1973\u201374. In his private life he was a proficient pianist and linguist. He died in 2004 at his home in Hamden, Connecticut and is buried at Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven in a plot reserved for people who have donated their bodies to science."}, {"text": "Eleesa Dadiani (born 25 July 1988) is a London-based cryptocurrency broker, digital entrepreneur, fine art gallery owner and media commentator. Her art gallery, Dadiani Fine Art, was the first art gallery in the world to sell art exclusively in cryptocurrency. Biography. Dadiani is of mixed heritage, born in Tbilisi, Georgia of Georgian, Russian and Mountain Jewish descent. Dadiani herself is Christian Orthodox. Through her paternal grandmother, she is a descendant of the House of Dadiani. Dadiani Fine Art. In 2014 Dadiani founded Dadiani Fine Art, in London's Mayfair district to promote her father's art collection, but, due to EU sanctions, was unable to ship the works from Russia to the UK. She therefore started putting on her own exhibitions and describes herself as an art dealer \"almost by accident\". In January 2018 Dadiani Fine Art exhibited British artists Paul Wager, Michael Sandle and David Mach with pieces available for sale exclusively in cryptocurrency. Dadiani Fine Art thereby became the first art gallery in UK to sell pieces of art in cryptocurrency and the first gallery in the world to sell art exclusively in cryptocurrency. Artists to have been exhibited at Dadiani Fine Art include Nicholas Roerich, Ivan Aivazovsky, William S."}, {"text": "Burroughs, Natalia Goncharova, Cecil Beaton, Norman Toynton and Keith Milow, Philipp Humm. Dadiani Syndicate. In 2017 Dadiani founded Dadiani Syndicate, the UK's first brokerage to offer high value assets, including fine art, sports cars and properties, for purchase via cryptocurrency. In late 2017, they facilitated the sale of four F1 cars, valued at \u00a34m, in Litecoin to an anonymous Chinese purchaser. In 2018 Dadiani auctioned a 49% share of Andy Warhol's \"14 small electric chairs\" (1980) in cryptocurrency., the first time that a blue-chip piece of art had been publicly sold in cryptocurrency. The 49% share had been tokenised and sold via the blockchain, enabling investors to buy a fraction of the piece. Media profile. Dadiani is a regular contributor to City AM. In 2018, Dadiani was featured on a BBC Panorama episode about the rise of cryptocurrency. Later that year The Spectator magazine listed Dadiani as one of their \"queens of cryptocurrency; she has subsequently been dubbed by various media outlets as the \"Queen of Crypto\"."}, {"text": "The Vancouver Women\u2019s Caucus is Canadian feminist organization active from 1968 to 1971. The group founded an abortion awareness campaign which included the Abortion Caravan. The group was also responsible for shutting down Parliament for the first time in Canadian history. Other initiatives include advocacy for working women and hosting a peace conference with Indo-Chinese women. The group was initially founded in 1968 by students from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. History. The Vancouver Women's Caucus (VWC) began in the summer of 1968 as an all female student club called the \"Feminist Action League\". Shortly after, the group was renamed the \"Vancouver Women's Caucus\". They originally were interested in providing services for women on campus. One of their first projects was to provide women with information on birth control and abortions. Although the campus' Health Services made available a \"Birth Control Handbook\" made by students at McGill University, the VWC also published a small advertisement in the school newspaper, \"The Peak,\" which offered the group's own information on birth control and abortions\".\" The advertisement prompted many phone calls, some even as far away as Saskatchewan; this helped lead the members of the VWC to think larger than just"}, {"text": "issues on their university campus. In 1969, the group moved their headquarters from the university campus to downtown Vancouver. This allowed the group to accommodate a wider demographic of members. From there the group started its own newspaper titled \"The Pedestal,\" which was a collective that focused on a variety of women's issues. The VWC was involved in many projects and conferences, many of which still involved Simon Fraser University. Most notably the group was involved in organizing the Abortion Caravan, which was a cross country protest opposing the 1969 amendments to the Criminal Code. Values and Key Issues. The VWC was largely influenced by the New Left political movement and was interested in a variety of social issues. The group is closely tied to the politics of the Women's Liberation Movement and in Vancouver at the time that was also tied to having socialist ideologies. In a program written by the group in 1969, they listed areas in which they believed contributed to women's oppression. These areas included jobs, right to equal education and right to choose amongst others. Abortion and Reproductive Rights. The group was very active around these issues. At SFU, they had their Abortion Counseling and"}, {"text": "Referral Service, in which they helped young women on campus who had found themselves with unwanted pregnancies, as well as gave, out information addressing birth control. They also helped organize the Abortion Caravan, which was a part of their Abortion Campaign. Those who did not go with the caravan stayed in Vancouver where they gave updates to the press about the protest and kept local interest high. Education. Within the caucus there was an Education Action Committee. This committee focused on bringing awareness to the inequalities women faced not only while they were attending school, but also as they tried to pursue careers in education. They helped create a panel for a conference at the University of British Columbia focused on organizing teachers. Government surveillance. In recent years, researchers uncovered the extent to which the group was placed under surveillance by the Canadian government. Despite the surveillance, police were still unprepared for the Abortion Caravan protest when it reached Ottawa. This allowed the protesters the chance to disrupt proceedings in the House of Commons, ultimately shutting down Parliament. Membership. Members of the group, specifically in the beginning, consisted of mostly of white, Canadian women who had already or were pursuing"}, {"text": "post-secondary education. Most of the members did not have children, although there were a handful that did. A complete list of members has yet to surface, therefore the list below is incomplete."}, {"text": "Cailey Presley Fleming (born March 28, 2007) is an American actress. She gained prominence for her portrayal of Judith Grimes on the AMC horror-drama television series \"The Walking Dead\" (2018\u20132022), as young Rey in Star Wars, and as the main character, Bea, starring in the feature film \"IF\" (2024) by John Krasinski. Early life and career. Cailey Presley Fleming was born on March 28, 2007, in Picayune, Mississippi. Her parents are Mathew and Misty Fleming, and she also has a brother named Chandler. At age eight, she began acting professionally, first gaining attention in \",\" portraying a young Rey, this role gained significant attention due to the film's global success. In 2018, Fleming joined to the cast of AMC in \"The Walking Dead\" during season nine as Judith Grimes, and became a series regular beginning with season ten. She briefly appeared in \"Loki\" episode four as Young Sylvie. In January 2022, Cailey Fleming was cast as Bea in the comedy \"IF\", directed by John Krasinski."}, {"text": "Bartosz Jan Cichocki (born 12 August 1976, Warsaw) is a Polish political scientist and historian, between 2019 and 2023 serving as an ambassador to Ukraine. Life. Cichocki graduated from history at the University of Warsaw. He worked for the KARTA Center, Centre for Eastern Studies as an analyst on Russian regional policy, Polish Institute of International Affairs as a coordination of Russia-Eurasia programme, National Security Bureau as a specialist on Russian foreign and security policies, and head of international relations unit. Between 2015 and 2016 he was at the Polish embassy in Moscow. In 2017, he was an advisor to the head of the Foreign Intelligence Agency. On 25 May 2017, Cichocki joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, becoming Undersecretary of State for security, Eastern and European policy. Since 1 February 2018 the prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki made him Head of the Polish Group for Legal and Historical Dialogue with Israel. On 8 March 2019, he was nominated Polish ambassador to Ukraine, 8 days later presenting his letter of credence to the President Petro Poroshenko. In February 2022, he was the only EU ambassador who did not leave Kyiv during the siege. He ended his term on 31 October 2023."}, {"text": "5'-deoxyadenosine deaminase (also known as \"DadD\") is an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of 5\u2032-deoxyadenosine to 5\u2032-deoxyinosine. To a lesser extent, the enzyme also catalyzes the deamination of 5\u2032-methylthioadenosine, \"S\"-adenosylhomocysteine, and adenosine. The molecular mass of the DadD enzyme is approximately 230 kDa. DadD maintains 90% of its enzymatic activity after being heated at 60 degrees Celsius for ten minutes. The preferred pH for 5'deoxyadenosine deaminase is 9.0, with the enzyme denaturing at a pH of 11. The DadD enzyme has a preferred substrate of 5'deoxyadenosine, though it will also react with 5\u2032-methylthioadenosine, \"S\"-adenosylhomocysteine, and adenosine at lower efficiencies. Enzyme identification. The EC number of 5'-deoxyadenosine deaminase is EC:3.5.4.41. The Enzyme Commission Number is a system of classifying enzymes based on the reactions that the enzyme catalyzes. Due to EC number not being attached to specific enzymes, but rather the enzyme catalyzed reaction, a single EC number could describe a variety of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction. The UniProt id number for 5'-deoxyadenosine deaminase is Q58936. This number is specific to the enzyme itself, not just the reaction it catalyzes. Reaction pathway. 5'-deoxyadenosine deaminase catalyses the salvage pathway of 5'-deoxyadenosine to 5'-deoxyinosine following the reaction pathway of <chem>C10H13N5O3 +"}, {"text": "H+ + H2O <=\u00bb C10H12N4O4 + NH4+</chem>. In this reaction 5'-deoxyadenosine is converted to 5'-deoxyinosine with ammonia as a byproduct. Structure. The enzyme has many active sites, with some of them specifically being metal binding sites that interact with zinc. The metal binding sites are located at positions 55, 57, 203, and 292. Additional binding sites include positions 84, 176, 206, and 292. The solved crystal structure of 5'-deoxyadenosine deaminase can be found in the SMR database here. Variation across species. The DadD enzyme is unique in that it has only been discovered in a single organism; a thermophilic methanogenic archaean named Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. In methanogens such as Methanocaldococcus jannaschii, the typical metabolism pathway of salvaging radical SAM reaction products cannot be used, due to a lack of the enzyme MTA/SAH nucleosidase (EC 3.2.2.9). Salvaging radical SAM reaction products is important for methanogens. Without a salvage pathway, 5'-deoxyadenosine would build up, and inhibit the processes of biotin synthase (BioB) and lipoyl synthase (LipA). The DadD enzyme offers a mechanism for methanogens to salvage these SAM reaction products without the use of MTA/SAH nucleosidase."}, {"text": "is a Japanese athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. She twice represented her country at the World Championships, first at the 2009 edition in Berlin and then over a decade later at the 2019 edition in Doha. Her personal best in the event is 12.86 seconds (+0.7 m/s) set in Osaka in 2023. This is the current national record. She retired in 2013 because of injuries. After marriage and childbirth, she decided to return to sport in 2017, first giving rugby a try and a year later coming back to athletics. International competitions. 1Representing Asia-Pacific"}, {"text": "Rediet Abebe (Amharic: \u1228\u12f5\u12a4\u1275 \u12a0\u1260\u1260; born 1991) is an Ethiopian computer scientist working in algorithms and artificial intelligence. She is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Abebe's research develops mathematical and computational frameworks for examining questions related to inequality and distributive justice. She co-founded the multi-institutional interdisciplinary research initiatives Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) and Black in AI. Early life and education. Abebe was born in 1991 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and grew up in the same city. She was educated in the Ethiopian National Curriculum at Nazareth School before winning a competitive merit-based scholarship to attend the International Community School of Addis Ababa for high school. Abebe attended Harvard University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and later a Master of Science degree in applied mathematics. As an undergraduate, she co-authored research papers in mathematics, physics, and public health. While at Harvard, Abebe contributed to \"The Harvard Crimson\" as a staff writer, where she focused on the Cambridge public school system (2009-2011). After college, she attended the University of Cambridge as the Governor William Shirley Scholar"}, {"text": "at Pembroke College. She completed Part III of the Mathematics Tripos and earned a Master of Advanced Studies in pure mathematics under the supervision of Imre Leader. Abebe completed her doctoral degree in computer science at Cornell University, where she was advised by Jon Kleinberg. Her dissertation made notable contributions across multiple fields in computer science, receiving the 2020 ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award and an honorable mention for the ACM SIGecom Dissertation Award. She is the first Black woman to complete a Ph.D. in computer science in the university's history. Research and career. Abebe's research develops techniques in AI and algorithms, with a focus on inequality and distributive justice. Her work includes algorithmic frameworks for examining issues in underserved populations. Abebe's interest in merging inequality studies and computer science stemmed both from her educational background in Ethiopia as well as her study of the Cambridge public schools through attendance of school board meetings. Through these experiences she emphasizes the potential social harms of inequitable algorithmic design in her work. Throughout 2019 Abebe served on the National Institutes of Health Working Group on AI along AI experts including Kate Crawford, Dina Katabi, Daphne Koller, and Eric Lander. The working group was"}, {"text": "tasked with developing a comprehensive report and recommendations, which were unanimously approved by the advisory committee to the director and NIH General Director Francis Collins. In 2019, Abebe was inducted into the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is the second Junior Fellow with a CS Ph.D., the first female computer scientist, and the first Black computer scientist in the Society's history. Abebe joined the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor, focused in the research areas of artificial intelligence; information, data, network, and communication sciences; and theory. She is the first Black female professor in the history of the department and the second in the history of the college of engineering. Abebe is a member of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR); the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS); the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society - The Banatao Institute (CITRIS); and the Center for the Theoretical Foundations of Learning, Inference, Information, Intelligence, Mathematics, and Microeconomics at Berkeley (CLIMB). Abebe also leads the Berkeley Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization research group (BEAAMO). Mechanism Design for Social Good. Abebe co-founded Mechanism Design for"}, {"text": "Social Good (MD4SG), a multi-disciplinary research collective that uses algorithms and mechanism design to tackle inequality, with Kira Goldner in 2016, alongside a multi-institutional reading group of 12 members. Abebe has since been co-organizing the initiative with Irene Lo and Ana-Andrea Stoica. MD4SG hosts an annual workshop series highlighting work and connecting the community of researchers committed to using algorithms to improve societal welfare. In 2021, she co-launched the ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO) and served as an inaugural Program Co-Chair. Abebe was honored as a pioneer in the 2019 MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 in part for her work co-founding MD4SG. Her dissertation received the 2020 ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award and an honorable mention for the ACM SIGecom Dissertation Award for offering foundations of this emerging research area. Black in AI. Abebe co-founded \"Black in AI\", a network of 1,500 researchers working on AI, with Timnit Gebru, in 2016. The organization arranges annual workshops at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and offers networking and collaborative opportunities. Through Black in AI, Abebe has spearheaded the Academic Program, for which she was honored in the 2019 Bloomberg 50 list as"}, {"text": "a one to watch."}, {"text": "Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. ___, 139 S. Ct. 738 (2019), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the presumption of prejudice for Sixth Amendment purposes applies regardless of whether a defendant has waived the right to appeal. Background. In 2015, petitioner Gilberto Garza, Jr. signed two plea agreements which required him to waive his right to appeal. After sentencing, Garza informed his trial counsel of his wish to appeal. Due to the appeal waivers signed by Garza, counsel declined to file a notice of appeal. After the time period to file an appeal lapsed, Garza filed a petition for state post-conviction relief on the basis of ineffective assistance of counsel. The trial court denied relief and the Idaho Court of Appeals affirmed. The Idaho Supreme Court affirmed, concluding that the presumption of prejudice as recognized in \"Roe v. Flores-Ortega\" does not apply when the defendant has agreed to waive the right to appeal. Opinion. Amir Ali presented oral argument for Garza before the Supreme Court, with Ken Jorgensen and Alon Kedem representing the State of Idaho and United States, respectively. The Court announced its judgment in favor of the petitioner on February 27, 2019,"}, {"text": "with the court reversing and remanding by a vote of 6\u20133. Opinion of the Court. The majority opinion, written by Sotomayor and joined by Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan, and Kavanaugh, held that Garza's trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance. In \"Strickland v. Washington\", the Supreme Court held that a defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel must prove counsel's representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness and such deficiency was prejudicial to the defense. Dissent. Justice Thomas, joined by Gorsuch and joined in part by Alito, filed a dissenting opinion which held that the defense acted reasonably by refusing to file an appeal. The dissent argued that the majority's opinion creates a \"defendant-always-wins\" rule that has no basis in previous case law or the Sixth Amendment. Part III of Thomas' dissent, joined by Gorsuch but not Alito, suggests the landmark \"Gideon v. Wainwright\" (1963, guaranteeing poor defendants a right to a lawyer in state criminal cases) was wrongly decided and should be overruled."}, {"text": "Harry McCue (born 8 July 1957) is an Irish former association football player who alternately played as a defender and a midfielder. In a playing career spanning over 30 years, McCue represented Home Farm, Shamrock Rovers, Athlone Town A.F.C., Drogheda United and Dundalk in the League of Ireland. He also enjoyed spells in the United States, Northern Ireland, and Australia. Aa a player, he was a three-time winner of the League of Ireland. Early career. McCue was raised on the Fruit Markets district of North Dublin where he began playing football with local team St Michans. San Diego Sockers. During the summer of 1983, McCue was part of the roster of the North American Soccer League (NASL) team San Diego Sockers, wearing the number 6 and 19 shirts. The \"Sockers\" would finish last in the Western Division. Glentoran and Drogheda. After his summer stint with the \"Sockers\", McCue joined Northern Irish League side Glentoran in Belfast. With \"the Glens\" he was a runner-up in the 1983-84 league season but won the Ulster Cup that same year. He lined out twice for Glentoran in the 1984-85 UEFA Cup, starting in both games as they drew 1\u20131 and then lost 2\u20130 away"}, {"text": "to Belgian giants Standard Li\u00e8ge. Prior to the first-leg, McCue had been blessed by the Reverend Ian Paisley. Honours. Athlone Town Dundalk Glentoran Drogheda United (as manager)"}, {"text": "Karl Friedrich M\u00fcchler (2 September 1763 in Stargard in Pommern \u2013 12 January 1857 in Berlin) was a German writer. Biography. Karl Friedrich M\u00fcchler was the son of educator and publicist . He studied law in Berlin and started a career in the Prussian justice system in 1785. In 1794 he was appointed as a war advisor. After Prussia's defeat against Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte's forces in 1806, M\u00fcchler dedicated himself to writing. A convinced Prussian patriot, he wrote educative lyrical poetry and prose. He joined a Masonic Lodge in Berlin. In 1814, M\u00fcchler became the marshal of the general government of Dresden. In the same year, he edited the periodical \"Das erwachte Europa\". He wrote anecdotes, posies, and other educative comical content addressed to youth and women. From 1799 to 1804, he was the husband of author Karoline von Woltmann, \"n\u00e9e\" Stosch. Karl Friedrich M\u00fcchler died in 1857 aged 93. He was buried at the Luisenstadt Cemetery in Berlin. His grave has not been preserved. A private school in Dortmund was named after him (the \"Karl-M\u00fcchler-Schule\")."}, {"text": "George L. Siscoe (June13, 1937April9, 2022) was an American physicist and professor emeritus of space physics at Boston University. He made major contributions to the understanding of the Earth's magnetosphere and the heliosphere, particularly in helping to establishing the field of space weather and the term \"heliophysics\" - a term which is now standard use. Early life and education. Siscoe was born in Lansing, Michigan, in 1937 and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), receiving his bachelor's degree in 1960 and his doctorate in 1964, both in physics. Research career. Siscoe published over 300 peer-reviewed articles (as of 10 October 2019) across a range of topics within space physics. His early career was as a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, becoming an assistant professor of physics at MIT in 1966 before moving to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a tenured professor. While at UCLA, he was chair of the Department of Atmospheric Science from 1983 to 1988 and again from 1991 to 1993. In 1993, he made his final move to Boston University as a research professor. Alongside academic papers, Siscoe co-edited a monograph on space weather and several textbooks on heliophysics."}, {"text": "He was a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), where the fellowship program recognizes AGU members who have made exceptional contributions to Earth and space science through a breakthrough, discovery, or innovation in their field. In his retirement he owned and ran the Old Professor's Bookshop in Belfast, Maine."}, {"text": "Dmitry Illarionovich Pertsev (Russian: \u0414\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0439 \u0418\u043b\u043b\u0430\u0440\u0438\u043e\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041f\u0435\u0440\u0446\u0435\u0432) was a Soviet military officer, conductor, and composer. He served as director of music for the Military Band Service of the Leningrad Military District from 1965 to 1977. Early life and career. Between 1934 and 1937 he studied at the Kiev Conservatory. Upon graduation, he immediately transferred to the Military Faculty of the Moscow Conservatory in the conducting class of S. A. Chernetsky and M. M. Bagrinovsky, where he would graduate in 1941. Over the 24-year period that followed, he served in various military Band positions throughout the country, having served as the director for the Moscow and Volga Military Districts, the Central Group of Forces and a teacher at a Rostov school of military musicians in the mid 50s. In 1964, he was awarded the title of Honoured Artist of the RSFSR. A year later, he became the director of music of the Military Band Service of the Leningrad Military District and the artistic director of the Headquarters Band of the LenVo. During his time as director, he presided over the massed bands during the last International Workers' Day military parade in the city in 1968 and was featured in a documentary"}, {"text": "that sane year on Soviet military music. He retired in 1977 from this post and became a teacher a year later at the Leningrad Institute of Culture (now the Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts), which he would stay at until his death in 1996. Compositions. In order by year: Many of his military marches (particularly \"Slow March\" and \"Phalanx March\") are common pieces that are used by the used by the bands of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of Russia as well as the band services of countries in the former Soviet Union (such as Belarus, Armenia, the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia and until 2014, Ukraine) for grand military parades or as a general purpose marching song."}, {"text": "Juan Carlos Colombo (born 7 November 1950 in San Juan, Argentina) is an Argentine\u2013Mexican actor. He has resided in Mexico since 1975, where he studied acting and met his wife, actress Patricia Egu\u00eda. Colombo is the father of the Argentine-Mexican actor and musician Felipe Colombo. In 2017, he received the \"Virginia F\u00e1bregas\" medal from the National Association of Actors for his 25-year artistic career in Mexico. Colombo is mostly known for his roles in television, particularly in Televisa's telenovelas, among which are: \"Teresa\" (2010), \"Cachito de cielo\" (2012), and \"Yo no creo en los hombres\" (2014)."}, {"text": "Siamraptor is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurian dinosaur, containing the single species \"S. suwati\", known from the Khok Kruat Formation of Thailand. It is possibly the first definitive named carcharodontosaurian species known from Southeast Asia. Discovery. Between 2007 and 2009, the Japan-Thailand Dinosaur Project carried out excavations at the village of Saphan Hin, subdistrict Suranaree, Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima District, in Nakhon Ratchasima Province. The finds included bones from a theropod new to science. In 2019, the type species \"Siamraptor suwati\" was named and described by Duangsuda Chokchaloemwon, Soki Hattori, Elena Cuesta, Pratueng Jintasakul, Masateru Shibata and Yoichi Azuma. The generic name is derived from \"Siam\", the former name of Thailand, and the Latin word \"raptor\" (\"robber\"). The specific name honours Suwat Liptapanlop, who supported the Northeastern Research Institute of Petrified Wood and Mineral Resources. The holotype, NRRU-F01020008, was found in a layer of the Khok Kruat Formation dating from the Aptian. It consists of a rear right lower jaw including the surangular, prearticular and articular. Further material referred to \"S. suwati\" includes the isolated remains of at least three individuals, mostly consisting of skull and lower jaw fragments as well as a manual ungual, a series of three cervical vertebrae,"}, {"text": "two partial ischia, a caudal vertebra, two dorsal vertebral centra and a neural spine, a partial tibia and a left pedal phalanx. Description. The describing authors indicated some distinguishing traits. These are autapomorphies, unique derived characters, relative to the Allosauroidea. The jugal bone has a lower edge that is straight instead of convex or undulating while the front branch is high, even under the eye socket. The surangular bone has a deep oval excavation to the rear of its bone shelf and four rear surangular foramina, while other theropods possess at most two. A long narrow groove runs along the suture between the surangular and the prearticular bone. The notch in the suture between the articular and prearticular is pierced by a foramen. The front neck vertebrae possess an additional pneumatic foramen excavating the parapophysis, the lower rib contact. The neck vertebrae and rear back vertebrae have paired small foramina in the base of the neural spine. Classification. \"Siamraptor\" has generally been recovered as a member of Carcharodontosauria. In his 2024 review of theropod relationships, Cau recovered it as a tetanuran outside of the Orionides, as a close relative of \"Siamotyrannus\". Later the same year, the describers of \"Alpkarakush\" recovered"}, {"text": "\"Siamraptor\" as a carcharodontosaurian once again. In the description of the carcharodontosaurid \"Tameryraptor\" by Kellermann, Cuesta & Rauhut (2025), \"Siamoraptor\" was recovered in analyses as the sister taxa to the European carcharodontosaur \"Concavenator\", both plotting either within Metriacanthosauridae or as early diverging carcharodontosaurians. The results of the phylogeny are presented below."}, {"text": "Sara Kaisa Lappalainen (n\u00e9e \"Kuivisto\", born 17 August 1991) is a Finnish middle-distance runner. Kuivisto represented Finland at the 2019 World Championships in the 800 m and 1500 m without advancing from the first round in either. She represented Finland at the 2020 Olympic Games in the 800 m and the 1500 m setting national records in both running a 1:59.41 in semi-finals of the 800 m and a 4:02.35 in the semi-finals of the 1500 m."}, {"text": "Giorgio Vallortigara is an Italian neuroscientist. Biography. In 1983 he graduated in experimental psychology from the University of Padua, where he also obtained his research doctorate in 1990. In 1991 he moved to the University of Sussex, with a post-doctoral scholarship. found cerebral lateralization in lower vertebrates, such as fish and amphibians. Many of his articles have been published in Nature, Science, Current Biology, PNAS. He was scientific director of the Interdepartmental Center for Mind and Brain (CIMEC) in Trento, until the first half of 2015. In 2013 he was awarded the Ferrari Soave Award with the following citation: \"The main scientific interests of Prof. Giorgio Vallortigara concern the analysis of spatial cognition in birds and the mechanisms underlying their geometric representation. He is particularly interested in the numerical cognition and the biological predisposition to the recognition of animated agents in various animal models. In these fields he has made original and innovative contributions of great international relevance.\" In 2016 he received the award for ethology Prix Geoffroy Saint Hilaire of the French Society for the Study of Animal Behavior and an honorary degree from the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. Selected publications. Journal articles. Messina, A., Potrich, D., Schiona,"}, {"text": "I., Sovrano, V.A., Fraser, S.E., Brennan, C.H., Vallortigara, G. (2021). Neurons in the dorso-central division of zebrafish pallium respond to change in visual numerosity. Cerebral Cortex, bhab218, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab218 Lorenzi, E., Perrino, M., Vallortigara, G. (2021). Numerosities and other magnitudes in the brains: A comparative view. Frontiers in Psychology - Cognition, 12:641994. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641994 Vallortigara, G. (2021). The rose and the fly. A conjecture on the origin of consciousness. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 564: 170-174. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.11.005. Bortot, M., Stancher, G., Vallortigara, G. (2020). Transfer from number to size reveals abstract coding of magnitude in honeybees. iScience, 23: 101122 https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.isci.2020.101122 Vallortigara, G., Rogers, L.J. (2020). A function for the bicameral mind. Cortex, 124: 274-285. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.11.018 Hebert, M., Versace, E., Vallortigara, G. (2019). Inexperienced preys know when to flee or to freeze in front of a threat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,116: 22918-22920. Vallortigara, G. (2019). Q & A Giorgio Vallortigara. Current Biology, R606-R608, July 8 2019. Buiatti, M., Di Giorgio, E., Piazza, M., Polloni, C., Menna, G., Taddei, F., Baldo, E., Vallortigara, G. (2019). A cortical route for face-like pattern processing in human newborns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 116: 4625-4630. Schnell,"}, {"text": "A.K., Bellanger, C., Vallortigara, G., Jozet-Alves, C. (2018). Visual asymmetries in cuttlefish during brightness matching for camouflage. Current Biology, 28: 925-926. Versace, E., Martinho-Truswel, A., Kacelnik, A., Vallortigara, G. (2018). Priors in animal and artificial intelligence: Where does learning begin? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22: 963-965. Vallortigara, G. (2018). Comparative cognition of number and space: The case of geometry and of the mental number line. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0615. Rosa-Salva, O., Hernik, M., Broseghini, A., Vallortigara, G. (2018). Visually-na\u00efve chicks prefer agents that move as if constrained by a bilateral body-plan. Cognition, 173: 106-114. Rugani, R., Vallortigara, G., Priftis, K., Regolin, L. (2015). Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans\u2019 mental number line. Science, 347: 534-536. Fontanari, L., Gonzalez, M., Vallortigara, G., Girotto, V. (2014). Probabilistic cognition in two Maya indigenous groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 111: 17075-17080."}, {"text": "The 24th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 2002 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 2001. \"Freddy Got Fingered\" received the most nominations with seven. All nominees and winners, with respective percentages of votes for each category, are listed below. Dishonourable mentions are also featured for Worst Picture (61 total). Films with multiple wins and nominations. The following films received multiple nominations: The following films received multiple wins:"}, {"text": "Eleonora Vandi (born 15 March 1996) is an Italian middle-distance runner competing primarily in the 800 metres. Eleonora is the older sister of the sprinter Elisabetta Vandi. Biography. She represented her country at the 2019 World Championships without advancing from the first round. Both her parents were athletes, father Luca a middle-distance runner, mother Valeria Fontan a sprinter."}, {"text": "Fausett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "James Blaine Yule (February 21, 1884 \u2013 June 4, 1957) was an American forestry engineer, who pioneered aerial photography and photogrammetry for the purpose of forest management and controlling wildfires. Yule spent the majority of his 36-year career in the United States Forest Service in Region One, headquartered in Missoula, Montana. His contributions revolutionized forest service knowledge and capabilities during the early years of the United States Forest Service's existence. Biography. He was born on February 21, 1884, near Great Falls, Montana. Yule enrolled at the University of Montana in Missoula, where he studied engineering, although work on the family ranch inhibited the completion of his degree. As a student his interest and cartographic skill was already apparent, as evinced by his creation of a hand-drawn campus map for an engineering course, dated February 1, 1906. Yule began working for the United States Forest Service in 1911 as a forest ranger in the Lewis and Clark National Forest. In 1917, Yule was transferred to the Forest Service's division of engineering, where he was promoted to chief of maps and surveys, a position he held for thirty years until his retirement in 1947. With the U.S. entry into World War I"}, {"text": "shortly after his promotion, Yule was given a special assignment with the forest products laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, focusing on aircraft production research. This research, along with his map-making skills, and experience in the Forest Service could have been what spurred Yule to imagine a pairing of aircraft and photography for the purposes of forest management. Similarly, during World War II, Yule, by that point recognized as an authority on aerial photography, was tasked with using aerial photography to map the California coastline. Shortly after, however, Yule was reassigned to the emergency rubber project in Salinas, California. Japanese blockades effectively led to a U.S. shortage on rubber, which had been imported from Asia. Therefore, Yule's new task was to locate suitable planting grounds and process American-made rubber from guayule. Sometime in the early-1920s, Yule met Margaret Sullivan, whom he married in Snohomish, Washington, on November 20, 1924. They had two daughters together: Valerie and Jamie. Professional career. As the chief of maps and surveys, Yule married his skill and knowledge of map-making with his World War I experiences in aircraft research by the mid-1920s. He pioneered the development of aerial photography and photogrammetry, on which he was regarded as a"}, {"text": "\"national authority,\" thereby revolutionizing forest mapping tools used for forest management and wildfire suppression. Aerial photography was faster than traditional ground surveying, and it also produced maps that were more accurate, provided more topographic details of terrain, and at significantly lower costs than traditional ground surveys. One newspaper article, in 1938, explained the advantages of aerial photography: \"Two hundred square miles can be mapped by a plane in a day, and a mapping crew of 10 to 12 men would do well to map 300 square miles in an entire season.\" The benefits of aerial photography were not confined to forestry use. Aerial photography, Yule argued, benefited non-forestry related endeavors as well, such as road building, dam constructing, topographic map-making, and the erection of power lines; any large-scale project that covered a large area would benefit from using aerial photography to map the terrain. Yule retired on September 1, 1947, after 36 years of service with the Forest Service, 30 of which he spent as chief of maps and surveys in the engineering division of Forest Service Region One. James Yule died June 4, 1957, in Missoula, Montana, at the age of 73."}, {"text": "Netley Creek Provincial Park is a Manitoba provincial park on the west shore of the Red River north of Selkirk, Manitoba at the mouth of Netley Creek. It provides visitors with access to these waterways and adjacent Netley-Libau Marsh. The area was declared a provincial park in 1974. It is in size. The park is in the Gimli ecodistrict of the Interlake Plain ecoregion part of the Boreal Plains ecozone. The Red River is prone to flooding in the spring. The increasing severity of the impact of high water on the park infrastructure and neighbouring cottage leases resulted in a policy to allow much of the park to return to natural vegetation."}, {"text": "XHPNAS-FM is a radio station on 94.1 FM serving Navolato and Culiac\u00e1n, Sinaloa. The station is owned by Luz Network and is known as Stereo Uno. History. XHPNAS-FM was one of two stations won by Luz Network, along with El Fuerte's XHPFRT-FM, in the IFT-4 radio station auction of 2017. It came to air in September 2019, carrying the same Stereo Uno brand and format heard on the company's flagship XHMSL-FM in Los Mochis. It is the first Luz Network station in central Sinaloa."}, {"text": "I'm Addicted may refer to:"}, {"text": "Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 906, is a keyboard piece, likely unfinished, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime during his tenure in Leipzig (1723\u20131750). The work survives in two autograph scores, one with the fantasia alone, and the other, believed to have been penned around 1738 in which the fugue is incomplete. The piece is notable for being one of Bach's latest compositions in the prelude and fugue format, and for being a showcase of Bach trying his hand at the emerging galant and empfindsam styles of music that his sons were known to compose. History. Based on the watermarks of the paper on which the oldest extant autograph of the Fantasia was written, its likely date of origin is around 1728\u20131730. The handwriting is neat, almost without corrections. Based on similar research, the date of the second extant autograph (including the Fugue) is around 1738. The handwriting of this manuscript is a fair copy and nearly without corrections, until, from the 25th bar of the Fugue, it becomes more sketchy. According to Hans-Joachim Schulze, the origin of this manuscript may be connected to Bach's 1738 extended visit to Dresden. Movements. Fantasia. The Fantasia is cast in a"}, {"text": "three-part sonata form, and is characterized by hand-crossing figures and running triplets. Like the BWV 542 and 903 Fantasias, this movement is a highly chromatic affair. Fugue. The fugue is unfinished, abruptly stopping 47-measures into the movement. Because the work exists in a fair-copy autograph, it is possible that Bach had completed the work in an earlier draft. Like the preceding movement, the fugue is highly chromatic, and contains hand-crossing figures, the most of any Bach fugue. Reception. In 1802 Johann Nikolaus Forkel described two keyboard fantasies by Bach in . He sees the first of these, the one known as \"chromatic\" (BWV 903), as \"unique and unequalled\", and the second, the one in C minor (BWV 906), as a work of different character, \"rather the Allegro of a Sonata\". Unaware of the composition's second autograph, which was only discovered in Dresden in 1876, he thinks that the Fugue is unconnected to the Fantasia and that the end of the Fugue is likely by another composer. According to Charles Sanford Terry \"... the Fugue cannot be called unfinished.\" Ferruccio Busoni used the fantasia and his own completion of the fugue in his Fantasia, Adagio e Fuga, BV B 37."}, {"text": "Kurt Rackow (20 August 1893 \u2013 6 October 1923) was a German military officer and \"Pour le M\u00e9rite\" recipient who served in the Imperial German Army, Freikorps, and Reichswehr during World War I and the German Revolution of 1918\u201319. Rackow's most famous action was leading the capture of Fort Vaux during the Battle of Verdun. Early life and career. Born on 20 August 1893, Rackow was introduced into the Cadet Corps at an early point of his life. He joined the Imperial German Army's 158th Paderborn Infantry Regiment as \"Fahnenjunker\" (officer cadet) in 1912. By the time World War I broke out in 1914, he had risen to second lieutenant. Rackow took part in the initial German invasion of Belgium and France. He served with distinction as adjutant, fighting at Charleroi, St. Quentin, and taking part in the First Battle of the Marne, First Battle of the Aisne, and the First Battle of Artois. In September 1915, he was appointed commander of the 158th Paderborn Infantry Regiment's 3rd company. With this unit, he participated in the Second Battle of Champagne during which he was wounded twice. In the first case, he was hit by shrapnel in his right foot, but"}, {"text": "fought on, only to be heavily wounded north of Le Mesnil three days later. He was hospitalized, and returned to the 3rd company in February 1916. Battle of Verdun. At this point, the 158th Paderborn Infantry Regiment was part of the German force that attempted to capture Verdun. Leading the regiment's 1st company, Rackow was ordered to assault the heavily fortified French-held Fort Vaux on 2 June 1916. Rackow personally led the attack, but he and his men were subjected to \"murderous shelling\" as well as heavy machine gun fire. In order to facilitate a breakthrough, Rackow ordered German pioneers with specifically modified flamethrowers to attack the defenders at the fort's northwestern double gallery at about 5 a.m. The flamethrowers proved ineffective against the fortifications and caused few casualties, but still surprised the French. The machine guns were thus silenced, allowing Rackow and about thirty men to slip across the moat. They were the first Germans to reach Fort Vaux's superstructure. Regardless, the French quickly resumed their machine gun fire, trapping Rackow and his comrades next to the fort from about 5 a.m. Rackow and his isolated group shouted for support, but their comrades did not hear them. Even though"}, {"text": "they were located just away, the \"terrible din\" of the constant artillery bombardment drowned out their voices. The French continued to target Rackow's party, but they managed to hold out. In the afternoon, German pioneers of the Reserve Pioneer Battalion No. 20 led by Lieutenant Ruberg finally located a weak point in the fortification and detonated several demolition charges, forcing the French defenders to retreat. This allowed further German forces to cross the moat, reinforcing Rackow's group. At this point, the Germans held the fort's exterior defenses as well as the superstructure. As the highest-ranking officer present, Rackow assumed command of the further assault. He ordered Lieutenant Ruberg to open the way into the fort's depths by destroying a steel door at the northeastern corridor. Although Ruberg accomplished the task, he was wounded by the explosion of his charges and the French used the ensuing hesitation among the Germans to blockade the corridor. As result, the situation at Fort Vaux had become a stalemate. The French were cut off from support, but the Germans could not advance any further. Rackow and his men were thus forced to stay on the fort's roof, besieging the French below. Already decimated by the"}, {"text": "initial assault on the fortifications, Rackow's force suffered further losses as French artillery targeted their position. The Germans had to withdraw from the roof on the night of 3 June. The Imperial German Army continued to attack on the following days, but they were unable to dislodge the French. Fort Vaux's garrison was eventually forced to surrender on 7 June after having exhausted their water supplies. The Germans lost 2,742 soldiers killed in action during the battle for the fort, while the French suffered about 100 fatal casualties. For his role in the capture of Fort Vaux, Rackow was promoted to Oberleutnant (senior lieutenant) and awarded the \"Pour le M\u00e9rite\", Germany's highest order of merit, by Crown Prince Wilhelm at Stenay on 7 June 1916. He was one of Germany's youngest knights of the \"Pour le M\u00e9rite\", along with Oswald Boelcke and . On the occasion of Rackow's bestowal, the three posed with the Crown Prince for a \"famous\" photo. He continued to serve with the 158th Paderborn Infantry Regiment for the rest of the war. German Revolution and later life. In the course of the German Revolution of 1918\u201319, Rackow joined Freikorps Gabcke in late May 1919. The paramilitary"}, {"text": "group was supposed to keep order in D\u00fcsseldorf, and Rackow led one of its sub-units until August 1919. He then joined the Reichswehr, Germany's new military, and led the 54th Infantry Regiment's 9th company until early June 1920. He retired from the military in late June 1920, married, and acquired a manor, namely \"Rittergut Gro\u00df Moltzow\" at Kreife. He died on 6 October 1923 in an accident."}, {"text": "The Avondale Historic District in Alexander City, Alabama, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The district includes a textile mill building, formerly the Avondale Mills, which closed in 2006 and is now known as Parkdale Mills. It includes a total of 428 contributing buildings and a contributing site, as well as 79 non-contributing buildings or structures, in an area roughly between Rose Ave. and Scott St., Hillabee St. and 7th St. in Alexander City. It includes two sections that were developed at the same time: the Avondale Mill Village which was built and operated by the Avondale Mill Company, and the adjacent Oak Lawn neighborhood, whose residents also worked for the mill. The mill village includes a textile mile, workers' houses, a superintendent's house, and two churches. The Oak Lawn neighborhood includes a row of commercial block buildings on 8th Avenue, a store on 6th Avenue, four brick or brick veneer commercial buildings on Hillabee St., a warehouse, two more churches, and many residences (mostly one-story wood houses, but some duplexes and one triplex). The two areas are divided by Central of Georgia railroad tracks. Residences in the district include"}, {"text": "many Craftsman style bungalows, some Tudor Revival architecture, and other styles, as well as vernacular buildings."}, {"text": "Hilgartner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "An Ch\u00e2u may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Luqmaan Prince Patel (born 3 January 1993), better known as Prince Patel, is a British professional boxer who was the International Boxing Organization (IBO) bantamweight champion from December 2023 to April 2024. He has also held multiple regional championships, including the vacant Commonwealth super-flyweight title since March 2021 and the African super-flyweight title in 2019. Patel is the first boxer of Indian descent to have won a Commonwealth, WBA, and IBF title. Prince Patel is the first and only boxer of Indian descent to have won a World Championship Boxing title. Early life. Prince Patel grew up in West London and attended Isleworth and Syon School. He joins multiple-time Olympic champion Mo Farah, Chelsea FC and England International footballer Reece James and England International cricketer Owais Shah as notable former students who have achieved sporting success. Amateur career. Prince Patel started his boxing journey at the age of 11 years, by competing as an amateur in the UK, where he achieved a record of 36 \u2013 17. During this time he represented a number of amateur boxing clubs across London such as: Northolt ABC, Dale Youth, Earlsfield ABC, and Repton ABC. He had his first amateur bout at the age"}, {"text": "of 12. By the end of his amateur career, Patel had successfully won four national titles and two British titles. He also reached two national ABA finals. Professional career. Patel became a licensed professional boxer in 2015, where he signed his first professional contract with Goodwin Promotions. Patel made his professional boxing debut on 14 March 2015 at York Hall, which resulted in a knockout victory within 90 seconds. Shortly after this win, he left Goodwin Promotions by mutual consent and signed with Queensberry Promotions, and had a management deal with Hall of Fame promoter Frank Warren. After having a few professional boxing matches under this new promotion and management, Patel left due to a lack of fights and activity, where he had only one fight under the Queensberry Promotions banner in an eighteen-month period. Instead of seeking out a new promotor or manager, Patel proceeded to box independently and internationally. In 2019, the Universal Boxing Organization (UBO) awarded Patel the \"Knockout of the Year 2019\" title. In Nov 2024, Ghanaian boxer and former Manny Pacquiao opponent, Joshua Clottey called Prince Patel out, stating that he's \"not retired\" and that he wants to \"fight him\" if \"he's ready to challenge\"."}, {"text": "In 2024, the Universal Boxing Organization (UBO) awarded Patel the \"New Champion of the Year 2024\" title."}, {"text": "This Is Football is a 1999 association football video game developed by Team Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The first instalment of the \"This Is Football\" series, it was only released in Europe. The game carries a licence from FIFPro allowing the inclusion of 30,000 real-life players and features English-language commentary from Clive Tyldesley. Gameplay. The player takes control of a football coach for a team of either the English Football League, or the French football team. The player then takes control of the entire football team, kicking the ball between the players in attempt to score points by kicking the ball into the goal. The player can complete this task by using the game\u2019s system of interceptions and kickings. The game plays like a game of football. Development. The game was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe subsidiary studio Team Soho. Motion capture was carried out at the facilities of Aston Villa FC using an Oxford Metrics 370E system. Commentary comes from ITV's Clive Tyldesley. Reception. Steve Owen gave a mixed review of the game for Official UK PlayStation Magazine, criticising the control system and some of the AI behaviour while praising the overall"}, {"text": "presentation of the game and the quality of the animation, awarding it a score of 7 out of 10 but noting \"with FIFA and ISS Pro on offer, TIF only scrapes into third place\"."}, {"text": "Brookshier is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "White House Farm (broadcast in some countries under the titles White House Farm Murders and The Murders at White House Farm) is a British television crime drama based on the real-life events that took place in August 1985. The series was produced by New Pictures for ITV and distributed worldwide by All3Media. It was broadcast by ITV on 8 January 2020. Premise. The series is based on true events from 6 August 1985. Five members of the Bamber-Caffell family are shot to death at White House Farm, Essex. The police, led by detectives DCI Taff Jones (Stephen Graham) and DS Stan Jones (Mark Addy), are called in to investigate. When questioning the Bambers' son, Jeremy Bamber, he claims that his sister, Sheila, who was suffering from schizophrenia, went \"berserk\", got hold of a silenced rifle and killed their parents and Sheila's six-year old twin sons. As the murder case unravels, a devastating truth comes to light. Production and release. The series was first reported on in August 2018, when filming had begun. Stephen Graham, Freddie Fox, Cressida Bonas and Alexa Davies were announced as the main cast. Further details of the show were revealed by ITV in October 2019, and"}, {"text": "a release was scheduled for early 2020. The trailer was released in December 2019, and the series began airing on ITV on 8 January 2020. It was released on DVD in February 2020. International release. International distribution of the series was handled by All3Media. In November 2019, HBO Max closed a deal to air the series on their service in the United States; it was released in September 2020 under the title \"The Murders at White House Farm\". The series was also aired in the Netherlands in June 2020 by the Dutch broadcaster KRO-NCRV, adding the word \"Murders\" to the series' title. Filming locations. The real-life murders took place in the village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy. No scenes in \"White House Farm\" were filmed there; instead, the producers chose other locations to replicate the area. The scenes of Jeremy Bamber's trial were filmed in the same courthouse that the real-life trial took place in, Chelmsford Crown Court. Reception. On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, \"White House Farm\" holds an approval rating of 82%, based on 17 reviews. On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of"}, {"text": "58 based on 4 reviews, indicating a \"mixed or average\" response. Stephen Graham's portrayal of Welsh detective \"Taff\" Jones drew some criticism, with a number of pundits, including Carolyn Hitt of WalesOnline, stating that his Welsh accent was inauthentic. Some online commentators described the accent as the \"worst screen accent since Dick Van Dyke\". Podcast. On 18 September 2020 an official companion podcast produced by iHeartRadio was announced via a trailer published across all podcasting platforms, with the first episode premiering on 24 September 2020 alongside the release of the series on HBO Max. Hosted by producer Lauren Bright Pacheco, the podcast features conversations with the creators of the series, experts on the case, and family members of the deceased to \"provide context to what\u2019s happening on screen as well as extended audio clips to further immerse the listener in the world of the show.\""}, {"text": "The 1920\u201321 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team represented St. Francis College during the 1920\u201321 NCAA men's basketball season. The team was coached by Brother Philip. The team was not part of a conference and played as a major independent. The 1920\u201321 team finished with a .823 record at 14\u20133. This was Brother Philip's last year as the head coach of St. Francis College. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=\"background:#0038A8; border: 2px solid #CE1126;color:#FFFFFF;\"| Regular Season"}, {"text": "Christian Klingberg (16 December 1765 \u2013 9 February 1821) was a Danish Supreme Court attorney and chief legal officer of the Danish Asiatic Company. Early life and education. Klingberg was born on 16 December 1765 in Copenhagen, the son of lottery inspector-general Jacob Klingberg (1719\u201382) and Karen Lund (1733\u20131806). He graduated from Frederiksborg Latin School in 1783 and passed his legal exams (cand.jur.) at the University of Copenhagen in 1787. Career. He was a lawyer at the Hof- og Stadsret from 1791 and became a Supreme Court Attorney in 1792. This was within Denmark\u2013Norway. He was in addition chief legal officer of the Danish Asia Company 1812\u201319 and briefly served as director of the Bank of Denmark in 1818. In 1813, he was designated as Supreme Court justice but never used this appointment. Klingberg was recognized as one of the leading lawyers of his time and acted as defense attorney in a number of high-profile cases, for instance for Conrad Malte-Brun. Personal life. Klingberg married Lovise Elisabeth Klingberg (20 February 1772 \u2013 13 February 1855), a daughter of Lauritz Klongberg (1728\u201395) and Catharina Elisabeth Schumacher (1745\u201392), on 28 May 1796 in the Holmen Church. Klingberg died on 9 February 1821"}, {"text": "in Copenhagen and is buried at Vals\u00f8lille Cemetery."}, {"text": "Joshua Pim (1748\u20131822) was a Dublin merchant active in the cotton trade in Dublin in the late 18th and early 19th century, who made significant input into setting up the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. Biography. Joshua Pim was born in 1748, the son of John (Joshua) Pim (1718\u20141797). Joshua and Joseph and traded as \"Joshua and Joseph Pim of Usher's Island\" which was subsequently taken over by George. Their address, 15 Usher's Island opposite James Joyce Bridge featured in \"The Dead\". In 1783, Joshua Pim in conjunction with John Patrick drafted the theoretical basis for the Dublin Chamber of Commerce which carried on the work of the former Committee of Merchants. Joshua Pim acted both as treasurer and information officer. Joshua did not marry, and his death in 1822 was preceded by his brother and partner Joseph in 1806. His amassed fortune and business interests passed to his nephew George Pim. Family. John Pim. John (Joshua) Pim (1718\u20141797) was the father of Joshua and who started up the business. Sarah Grubb. Sarah Grubb was the eldest child of John Pim and a sister to Joshua. Following her husband's death in 1784 after only six years of marriage she ran the"}, {"text": "Mills at Clonmel with some assistance from Joshua. Joseph Pim. Joseph Pim was a brother of Joshua and their business was typically styled as \"Joshua and Joseph Pim of Usher's Island\" Richard Pim. Richard was a brother of Joshua and is described as a merchant and storekeeper. He became involved in a brewing business at City Quay around 1800. Richard Pim's business ventures ran into difficulties and various partnerships with branches of the Pim family and other Quaker families. Richard Pim eventually became bankrupt and fell into being disowned by the Quakers; the brewery eventually becoming controlled by James Pim and then his son Henry Pim (father and brother of James Pim junior), before eventually merging into Jameson). George Pim. Joshua Pim was not married and left his considerable estate and business interests to his nephew George Pim."}, {"text": "Loch Freuchie, also known as Fraoch, the heatherly loch, is a large freshwater loch on a north-west to south-east orientation, within Glen Quaich in Perth and Kinross. The loch is located west of Amulree and southeast of Kenmore. History. Robert Burns passed beside the loch during his tour of the Highlands in the summer of 1787. Geography. Loch Freuchie is a loch in a pastoral setting surrounded by green fields and patches of woodlands. The loch contains the remains of a crannog that is located on the southwest shore of the loch. The remains are exposed to a height of and measures around on an east to west bearing by . The island has been planted with conifers. To the south-west of the loch at a distance of 2.5 miles is the mountain of Beinn na Gainimh at . Almost exactly in the opposite direction at the same distance to the north-west is the mountain of Meall Dearg at . River Quaich, sometimes known as River Freuchie to anglers flows into the loch and out before becoming River Braan that flow into the Tay. On the eastern shoreline is the remain of a township. Loch Freuchie is a trout-fishing loch."}, {"text": "The 2020 Guangzhou Charge season was the second season of Guangzhou Charge's existence in the Overwatch League. The Charge planned to hold a league-high five homestands in the 2020 season; the firth three homestands were to be held at be held at the Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center, with the final two at Tianhe Gymnasium. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all homestand events were cancelled. Preceding offseason. Roster changes. The Charge enter the new season with three free agents, six players which they have the option to retain for another year, and two players under contract. The OWL's deadline to exercise a team option is November 11, after which any players not retained will become a free agent. Free agency officially began on October 7. On November 11, the Charge announced the departure of several players. The team did not re-sign free agents Choi \"HOTBA\" Hong-jun, Joona \"fragi\" Laine, and Kim \"Bischu\" Hyung-seok. Additionally, they released Lizhen \"OnlyWish\" Chen, and Lee \"Rise\" Won-jae retired from professional \"Overwatch\". The Charge's first acquisitions of the season were announced on November 14 with the signings of former Philadelphia Fusion support Alberto \"neptuNo\" Gonz\u00e1lez and off-tank Nam \"Cr0ng\" Ki-cheol, along with the"}, {"text": "promotion of Qi \"Wya\" Haomiao from their academy team T1w.GZA. Organizational changes. On October 30, the Charge announced that they had parted ways with assistant coach Rohit \"Curryshot\" Nathani. Homestand events. In August 2019, the Charge announced that they would hold a league-high five homestand events; the events would take place at Tianhe Gymnasium and the Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Charge decided to relocate their team to South Korea with no specific return time. Additionally, the league cancelled all February and March matches planned in China, which cancelled the Charge's first three homestands; all were to at the Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center from February 22 to 23, March 14 to 15, and March 21 to 22. The Overwatch League announced that the cancelled homestand events in China would be rescheduled for Weeks 5 through 7 in a studio in Seoul, South Korea; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, these matches were cancelled as well."}, {"text": "Toi music (\u0422\u043e\u0439) is a genre of popular folk music originated from Central Asia. This genre of music is popular in countries like Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Etymology. The meanings of \"toi\" or \"t\u043e\u0439\" in several Turkic languages are either \"celebration\", \"gathering\", or \"wedding\". This is because toi music usually played at social gatherings, where toi musicians usually invited to perform in it."}, {"text": "Taras Bulba, the Cossack () is a 1962 Italian historical adventure film directed by Ferdinando Baldi and starring Vladimir Medar, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Poron and Fosco Giachetti. It received an American release in 1970 under the title The Tartars. Based on the 1835 novel of the same title by Nikolay Gogol, it was made the same year as a much larger budget version \"Taras Bulba\"."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 High Point Panthers men's basketball team represented High Point University in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Panthers, led by second-year head coach Tubby Smith, played their home games at the Millis Athletic Convocation Center in High Point, North Carolina, as members of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 9\u201323, 6\u201312 in Big South play, to finish in a tie for tenth place. They lost in the first round of the Big South tournament to USC Upstate. Previous season. The Panthers finished the 2018\u201319 season 16\u201315 overall, 9\u20137 in Big South play, to finish in a tie for fifth place. In the Big South tournament, they were defeated by Gardner\u2013Webb in the quarterfinals. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=| Exhibition !colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Big South Conference regular season !colspan=12 style=| Big South tournament Source:"}, {"text": "Naa Oopiri () is a 2005 Telugu language film directed by Kanmani and starring Vadde Naveen, Sangeetha, and Anjana in the lead roles. This film marks the Telugu debut of Anjana, Kanmani, Deepak Dev (in his only Telugu album to date), and Suresh Urs. Production. The muhurat for the film took place in 2004 at Annapoorna Studios. The film is directed by Kanmani, who has worked as an assistant director for Tamil films for 12 years, notably for \"Gemini\". Kanmani originally wanted to make the film in Tamil. The cinematographer, Krishna, previously worked as an assistant to Santosh Sivan. Soundtrack. The music was composed by Deepak Dev and lyrics were written by Bhuvana Chandra, Suddala Ashok Teja & Sriharsha. Reception. The film received mixed to positive reviews upon release. \"Full Hyderabad\" gave the film 6 out of 10 stars stating \"Naveen deserves kudos for his brave effort to crawl back into mainstream cinema, but he simply isn't up to this one\". \"Indiaglitz\" stated that \"Naa Oopiri, by a long stretch, is the best film that Vadde Naveen has acted so far. The story and its treatment is indeed refreshing\". \"Idlebrain.com\" praised the first half of the film as well as"}, {"text": "Naveen's performance stating that \"This is the most challenging character for Naveen in his entire career\". Awards. Nandi Awards"}, {"text": "The Islamic Republic of Iran has, since its early years and the Iran hostage crisis, engaged in repeated dubious detention of foreign or dual nationals. This occurred for extended period, with long documented history of using the detained party as a bargaining chip in diplomatic negotiations. The list below of current and former detainees in Iran excludes people abducted in other countries and brought into the country. Hostage diplomacy. Since the Iran hostage crisis, the Islamic Republic of Iran has engaged in a pattern of detaining foreign nationals for extended periods. According to the Center for Human Rights in Iran, the Iranian government has used imprisoned dual and foreign-only nationals \"as bargaining chips in its dealings with other nations.\" Iran's repeated dubious detention of dual citizen and thereafter bargaining behavior have lead observers to qualify the practice as a case of hostage diplomacy, with a long documented history. According to French ex-hostage Louis Arnaud, who spent two years in Iranian custody, those detained are usually kept in solitary confinement. In an interview, he said that \"Everything is done so that you are deprived of your humanity\". Detainees. Dual nationals of Iran and another country are particularly vulnerable to arbitrary detention"}, {"text": "because the international Master Nationality Rule provides that \"a State may not afford diplomatic protection to one of its nationals against a state whose nationality such person also possesses\". According to Human Rights Watch, \"Iranian authorities have violated detainees' due process rights and carried out a pattern of politically motivated arrests.\" In November 2017, Reuters reported that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had arrested \"at least 30 dual nationals during the past two years, mostly on spying charges.\" Reactions. In September 2019, on the sidelines of the Seventy-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly, families of dual and foreign nationals imprisoned in Iran as well former dual and foreign nationals imprisoned in Iran launched the \"Alliance of Families Against State Hostage Taking.\" In January 2023, France called for the release of seven nationals, who were held in Iran. One of the detainees, Fariba Adelkhak was arrested in June 2019, along with her colleague Roland Marchal. While Marchal was released in 2020, but Fraiban Adelkhak remained in prison amid mounting political tensions in Iran. Azerbaijani citizens. Azerbaijan-Iran relations"}, {"text": "Th\u1edbi Lai may refer to several places in Vietnam:"}, {"text": "The Surface Neo is an unreleased dual-touchscreen 2-in-1 PC that was unveiled by Microsoft on October 2, 2019. Slated to be part of the Microsoft Surface family of devices, the Surface Neo was designed to be used in various \"postures\" for different use cases and multitasking scenarios involving its screens, and feature Windows 10X\u2014a variant of Windows 10 designed exclusively for dual-screen devices. However, as of April 2025, over five years after the Surface Neo was announced, it is still unreleased, likely rendering it vaporware. The Surface Neo was expected to be launched in late-2020, alongside a range of other Windows 10X devices from third-party manufacturers. In May 2020, Microsoft postponed the release of Windows 10X-based dual-screen devices in favor of launching it with single-screen devices instead. This did not come to fruition, and Microsoft eventually cancelled Windows 10X outright in May 2021, with aspects of 10X repurposed for the mainstream Windows 11. Its sister device, the Android-based Surface Duo, was released in September 2020. Background. Microsoft had first envisioned a dual-touchscreen device with its Courier concept, while rumors surfaced in 2017 of a similar project codenamed \"Andromeda\"\u2014a foldable device which would use electronic paper displays. During a Surface hardware"}, {"text": "event on October 2, 2019, Microsoft unveiled a pair of dual-touchscreen devices\u2014the Android-based Surface Duo smartphone, and the Surface Neo. Codenamed \"Santorini\", head of Windows Client Experiences Joe Belfiore explained that \"we saw an opportunity both at Microsoft and with our partners to fill in some of the gaps in [laptop and tablet] experiences and offer something new\". Microsoft unveiled an accompanying operating system known as Windows 10X, and stated that the OS, as well as dual-screen devices from Microsoft and other OEM partners, would be released in late-2020. Specifications. Hardware. Microsoft did not provide any specific information on the specifications of the Surface Neo, except that all Windows 10X devices launching in 2020 would use Intel \"Lakefield\" processors. Prototypes of the Neo reportedly used an Intel Core i5-L16G7 processor with 8 GB of RAM, and had dual 9-inch 1440p displays. Software. The Surface Neo was planned to run Windows 10X, an edition of Windows 10 designed exclusively for dual-touchscreen and folding devices. It featured noticeable changes to the Windows user interface, including a centered taskbar, and an updated Start menu using a grid of pinned applications (as opposed to Windows 10's existing \"live tiles\"). It also contained architectural differences,"}, {"text": "including having Win32 software running within a sandbox environment for security reasons, and to control power consumption (with apps automatically paused after a period of inactivity). The OS was designed to respond to various \"postures\", such as spanning an application across both screens like a book, using separate applications on the two screens, standing up with a wireless external keyboard (\"portable all-in-one\"), or like a laptop\u2014with the lower screen dedicated to a virtual keyboard or partially covered by a physical keyboard accessory. In both cases, the portion of the lower screen not used by the keyboard would contain the \"Wonder Bar\" (comparable to the \"touch bar\" of MacBook Pro laptops of the era), which could be used for functions such as an emoji picker, note taking, or video. It could also be used like a laptop touchpad. Vice President of Experiences and Devices Joe Belfiore stated that Windows 10X was \"evolving the core of Windows 10\", and that Microsoft was \"working to take the best of the applications that people need and use most \u2014 things like Mail, Calendar, and PowerPoint \u2014 and bring them over to dual screens in a way that creates flexible and rich experiences that are"}, {"text": "unique to this OS and devices\". Aborted release. In May 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft changed its plans for Windows 10X; chief product officer for Microsoft Windows and Office Panos Panay announced that Microsoft and its partners planned to launch Windows 10X with only single-screen devices, stating that \"we need to focus on meeting customers where they are now\", and would \"continue to look for the right moment, in conjunction with our OEM partners, to bring dual-screen devices to market\". However, this did not occur, and Windows 10X was ultimately cancelled the following year. Aspects of the OS were eventually incorporated into Windows 11. Microsoft released the Surface Neo's Android counterpart, the Surface Duo, in September 2020, but the Neo was quietly shelved, with no confirmation from Microsoft beyond the postponement of dual-screen devices and the cancellation of its planned operating system. Reports from testers indicated that the Neo felt cramped to use in a laptop posture due to its 9-inch displays, and that the prototype models were prone to overheating. In a 2022 interview, Microsoft chief product officer Panos Panay stated of devices such as the Surface Neo that \"Whether it\u2019s two screens or a foldable, I do"}, {"text": "think these are realities to the future of products being made, no doubt. Or a rollable for that matter, a rollable screen. It\u2019s maybe not something I\u2019ve decided on, but for sure how do we serve the form factor that\u2019s going to adapt to the person I think is the way to think about it.\""}, {"text": "Sir P\u00e9pin de Wierre{{efn|Also P\u00e9pin de Biere, or Were, Wiere and Werie).}} (died 1350), Lord of Maison-Ponthieu, was a French nobleman. Biography. Wierre joined with other French nobles in an attempt in 1349 to recapture Calais by bribing Amerigo of Pavia, an Italian officer of the city garrison, to open a gate for them.{{sfn|Harari|2007|p=117}} Having entered the gatehouse, the drawbridge was suddenly raised, a portcullis fell in front of the French and sixty English men-at-arms surrounded them. Amerigo had betrayed the French to King Edward III of England.{{sfn|Sumption|2011|p=107}} The ensuing battle outside the gates of Calais, resulted in the deaths of Wierre and many of the French and a number were also captured, including the French commander Geoffrey de Charny."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Mudgee on 6 January 1879 because of the resignation of Sir John Robertson who was then appointed to the Legislative Council, to facilitate the coalition of his supporters and those of Sir Henry Parkes to form an effective government. Results. <includeonly> Sir John Robertson resigned to be appointed to the Legislative Council.</includeonly> Aftermath. In March 1879 the Committee of Elections and Qualifications overturned the election of Richard Rouse and declared that David Buchanan was elected as the member for Mudgee."}, {"text": "Keratam () is a 2011 Indian Telugu-language coming-of-age drama film directed by Gautham Patnaik and produced by S. V. Babu. The film was simultaneously made in Tamil as Yuvan by director R. N. Saran. The film stars Siddharth Rajkumar, Aishwarya Devan and Rakul Preet Singh in the lead roles. A remake of the Kannada film \"Josh\" (2009), the films featured music composed by Joshua Sridhar and were released in August 2011. The bilingual version had Aishwarya Devan and Rakul Preet Singh making her Telugu and Tamil language debuts respectively. Plot. Siddhartha \"Siddhu\" / Bala is the son of an honest government employee, who has seven friends and lives a happy life. Siddhu / Bala and his friends complete their HSE and join the college. As they grew up, Siddhu develops feelings towards Geetha / Meena. Siddhu / Bala clashes with a senior student called \"Robo\" due to Robo teasing and harassing Geetha / Meena. During a fight with Robo, Geetha / Meena and Siddhu / Bala's parents learn about their feelings. The friends warn Siddhu / Bala to forget his love and concentrate on career, but Siddhu / Bala ignores it. They desert him and Geetha / Meena also listens"}, {"text": "to her parents and decides to concentrate on studies and becomes a doctor. At this juncture, Siddhu's father retires and agrees to shed the money as bribe to get a government job to Siddhu / Bala. However, Siddhu / Bala fails to turn up to the interview and loses the job. Siddhu / Bala harshly behaves with his father, which leads Siddu / Bala to be thrown out of the house. Siddhu / Bala falls in love with Sangeetha / Meera and proposes to her, but Sangeetha / Meera rejects him, and Siddhu / Bala realizes his mistake for abandoning his career as his love is infatuation. Siddhu / Bala learns that his friends have become best achievers and are invited to their college function. Siddhu / Bala arrives at the stage and tells the speech about not to become like him and also promises his parents that he will take care of them. The friends reconcile with Siddhu / Bala and encourage him to achieve something in life. Production. A remake of the Kannada film \"Josh\" (2009), the bilingual Telugu and Tamil project was launched by Kannada producer S. V. Babu. It marked the acting debut of Siddharth Rajkumar,"}, {"text": "a nephew of actor Krishnam Raju and a cousin of Prabhas. The film also marked the debut of actresses Rakul Preet Singh and Aishwarya Devan in the Tamil and Telugu film industries, and it became the first project the actresses had signed in either language. According to Siddharth Rajkumar, a Malayalam version was also planned. The Telugu version of the film was directed by Gautham Patnaik, the brother of renowned music composer R. P. Patnaik. The director of the original Kannada film, Shivamani, was approached to make the Tamil version but his refusal meant that newcomer R. N. Saran worked on the project. Both versions of the film had been shot in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Goa. A song for both versions of the film (titled \"Nidure Chedire\" in Telugu and \"Kan Paartha Neram\" in Tamil) was shot in a secluded area of Goa, where the team of \"Ek Duuje Ke Liye\" (1981) had earlier shot. Production for the film was completed by June 2011. Soundtrack. Songs composed by Joshua Sridhar. The song \"Thanthane Thananthane\" from the original was reused as \"Nee Navvula\" / \"Kan Paartha Neram\". Lyrics by Viveka and Kabilan. Reception. Regarding the Telugu version, a reviewer from"}, {"text": "\"The Hindu\" noting that \"The film has been handled well but is very formulaic.\" Regarding the Tamil version, a critic from \"Dinamalar\" praised the film's intent while calling the film's comedy scenes a minus point."}, {"text": "Wim van Krimpen (born in Groningen on 2 March 1941) is a Dutch art historian, art dealer and gallery owner of Galerie Wim van Krimpen, and art gallery director. He was director at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in The Hague. Biography. Youth and early career. Van Krimpen was the son of a Christian minister. After the war the family moved to Rotterdam, where he grew up. After studying law for a few years, in 1964 Van Krimpen became of director of the Binnenhuis Ahoy fair in Rotterdam. In 1967 as director at the Rotterdam Ahoy Van Krimpen managed his first more prominent event, the Hippy Happy Beurs for teens and twens. Not only did he manage to bring Jimi Hendrix on stage in Rotterdam. There where performances of the Bee Gees, The Kinks, Keith West, Soft Machine and Pink Floyd as well. In 1978 he started his first own gallery under the name \"Article\". On a trip to the States he learned, that everybody out there had started under their own name, so he changed it into the Galerie Wim van Krimpen. Later career. The galerie van Krimpen lasted two"}, {"text": "years in Amsterdam, and moved to Rotterdam in 1979. In 1988 he was appointed interim-directeur of the Kunsthal at that time yet to be built. Two year after its opening in 1992 he became its director until 1998. In 1998 he moved to the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden and in 2000 he was back in The Hague, where he served as director of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag until 2009. In 2011 he was awarded the Benno Premsela Prize for his stimulating role in the field of visual arts, design or architecture."}, {"text": "Williams' Book Store was a historic book shop founded in 1909 in San Pedro, California. It was open for 104 years before folding due to the competition of the online book market. Background. Williams' was founded by Edward Thorpe \"E.T.\" Williams, an immigrant from Wales who had previously owned a book store in Wales and, subsequently, London. When Williams died in 1940, his eldest daughter, Ethel Williams-Smith, took over the business. She sold the business forty years later to long-time employee Anne Gusha and her son, Jerry; Gusha had first set foot in the store at age 8, in the 1930s, and later became an employee, working part-time initially while in college. Patrons included Charles Bukowski \u2014 a regular, according to Gusha \u2014 and actor Charles Laughton. 100th anniversary celebration. The store celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009 with the appearance of various authors including Ray Bradbury, Angi Ma Wong, and Lisa See."}, {"text": "The 2020 Ulster Senior Football Championship is the 132nd installment of the annual Ulster Senior Football Championship organised by Ulster GAA. It is one of the four provincial competitions of the 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. The winners receive the Anglo-Celt Cup. The draw for the championship was made on 9 October 2019. The BBC showed six televised games live. The Athletic Grounds in Armagh hosted the final, as the fixture was behind closed doors. Donegal were the two-time defending champions, but were beaten by Cavan in a repeat of the previous year's final. Teams. The Ulster championship is contested by the nine county teams in the province of Ulster."}, {"text": "The Naobaogou Formation is a geological formation in the Daqing Mountains of China. It is likely of Lopingian (Late Permian) age. It consists of three rhythms of sediment, labeled members I-III primarily of purple siltstone, but each with a thick basal conglomerate bed. It is notable for its fossil content, producing one of the most diverse Late Permian vertebrate faunas outside Russia and South Africa."}, {"text": "Liisa Pulk (born 12 June 1985) is an Estonian stage, television, voice, and film actress whose career began in 2010. Early life and education. Liisa Pulk was born in P\u00e4rnu, where she attended primary and secondary schools. She is a 2004 graduate of the P\u00e4rnu S\u00fctevaka Humanitarian Gymnasium private school. Afterwards, she enrolled at the University of Tartu, studying semiotics and cultural studies, until 2006, when she enrolled in the Performing Arts Department of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn to study acting under actor and instructor Hendrik Toompere Jr. Among her graduating classmates were Mikk J\u00fcrjens, Liis Haab, Lauri Kaldoja, Sandra \u00dcksk\u00fcla-Uusberg, Marta Laan, Kristjan \u00dcksk\u00fcla, Roland Laos, and Hendrik Toompere Jr. Jr. Career. Stage. In 2010, Shortly after graduating from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Pulk began an engagement at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu which lasted until she chose to depart and become a freelance actress in 2013. Among her more memorable roles at the Vanemuine were as Zara in Sofi Oksanen's \"Purge\" (2010), Liesl in Richard Rodgers' \"The Sound of Music\" (2010), Nurse Gunn, Waitress, and Reidun Nordsletten in Ingvar Ambj\u00f8rnsen's \"Elling\" tetralogy (2011), Juta Laurits in Eduard Vilde's \"The Elusive"}, {"text": "Miracle\" (2011), Virginie in Yves Jamiaque's \"Monsieur Amilcar\" (2011), and Nancy Rimmington in Ray Cooney's \"Chase Me, Comrade!\" (2013). Since her departure from the Vanemuine, Pulk has performed at theatres throughout Estonia, including the Theatre NO99, the Von Krahl Theatre, the VAT Teater, the MT\u00dc R.A.A.A.M., and the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn, the Ugala theatre in Viljandi, and the Tartu New Theatre in Tartu. Notable roles have been in productions of works by such varied authors and playwrights as Nikolai Evreinov, Moli\u00e8re, Henrik Ibsen, Tim Firth, Harper Lee, Mati Unt, Mikhail Bulgakov, William Shakespeare, Andrus Kivir\u00e4hk, Tom Stoppard, and August Kitzberg. Television. Liisa Pulk made her television debut as an actress in a 2009 episode of the Kanal 2 drama series \"Saladused\". She has since appeared in roles in a number of Estonian television series, including several roles in the long-running TV3 comedy-crime series \"K\u00e4ttemaksukontor\" between 2010 and 2016. In 2012, she appeared on the Kanal 2 horror-mystery series \"S\u00fcvahavva\". Other roles have included small roles or guest appearances in the Kanal 2 comedy series \"Takso\" in 2015, the Eesti Televisioon (ETV) drama series \"Mustad lesed\" in 2015, and the Kanal 2 crime series \"Viimane v\u00f5mm\", also in 2015."}, {"text": "Pulk is perhaps possibly best known to television viewers for her role as Pille Kadak, a central character in the ETV comedy series \"ENSV\", which reflects on the lives of a number of individuals in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic during the 1980s. Pulk's role as Pille Kadak began during the series' first broadcast in 2010 and she remained with the series until it ended in 2019. Film. Pulk's first substantial film role was that of a teacher in the 2018 period drama \"Seltsimees laps\", directed by Moonika Siimets. This was followed the same year by a small role as a doctor in the Maria Advju\u0161ko-directed mystery-drama \"Tuliliilia\", starring Ingrid Isotamm and Johann Urb. In 2019, she had a starring role as \u00d5ie opposite actor Henrik Kalmet in the Rain Rannu-directed comedy \"\u00dckssarvik\" about a young couple who create a startup company in their garage. In 2024, she appeared as Maili in the Rasmus Merivoo comedy film \"Tulnukas 2 ehk Valdise tagasitulek 17 osas\", a feature-length sequel to the popular 2006 comedy short film \"Tulnukas ehk Valdise p\u00e4\u00e4semine 11 osas\". Voice. Since 2010, Pulk has also worked extensively as a voice actress in both Estonian and foreign animated films and"}, {"text": "videos. She has provided the Estonian language dubbing for the character of Astrid Hofferson in the 2010 American animated action fantasy film \"How to Train Your Dragon\" and the two subsequent sequels, \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" in 2014, and \"\" in 2019. Other roles in foreign animated films that have been voiced by Pulk include: Personal life. Liisa Pulk is in a long-term relationship with entrepreneur Erki Kukk. On 23 June 2019 Pulk gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Mona. The family reside in Tallinn."}, {"text": "The Mayfair Apartments are a historic apartment hotel at 1650\u20131666 E. 56th Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Built in 1926, the building was part of a wave of residential department in Hyde Park, and it was one of several apartment hotels constructed there in the late 1910s and 1920s. Apartment hotels were popular among wealthy workers looking for part-time city housing, as they combined the amenities and prestige of a hotel with the price and location of apartments. The architecture firm Lowenberg & Lowenberg designed the building in the Georgian Revival style. The building's first three stories are clad with limestone and decorated with flat Corinthian columns and balustrades on the second-story windows. The remainder of the building is brick and includes a dentillated cornice at its roof and a second cornice above its eleventh story. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986."}, {"text": "Yongbin Ruan (; born 14 February 1963) is a Chinese mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and symplectic geometry with applications to string theory. Ruan studied from 1978 at Sichuan University with \"Benke\" Certificate of graduation followed by a master's degree in 1985. In 1985/86 he was a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. In 1991 he received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley with thesis \"Gauge theory and its applications to Riemannian Geometry\" under the supervision of Robion Kirby (and Tomasz Mrowka). As a postdoctoral researcher he was at Michigan State University. In 1993 he became an assistant professor at the University of Utah. At the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison he became in 1995 an associate professor and in 1999 a full professor. Since 2006 he is a professor at the University of Michigan. He has been a visiting professor at the ETH Zurich, in Hong Kong, and at MIT. He was in 1993 and again in 2004 at the Institut des hautes \u00e9tudes scientifiques, in 1993 at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, in 1994 at Cambridge's Isaac Newton Institute, and in 1994 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. In 1998 he was an Invited"}, {"text": "Speaker with talk \"Quantum Cohomology and its Applications\" at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. From 1995 to 1997 he was a Sloan Research Fellow. He became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the class of 2015."}, {"text": "Brott is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Bone Song is a 2007 novel by British author John Meaney. It was the first novel in the \"Tristopolis\" series, followed by \"Dark Blood\" (2008), \"Tristopolis Requiem\" (2018), \"Tristopolis Howling\" (2020), \"Tristopolis Revenge\" (2021), and a short story collection \"Two for Tristopolis\" (2019). Plot summary. The novel is set in Tristopolis, a fantastic city where humans live side by side with zombies, wraiths, mages, witches, talking gargoyles and other mystical creatures. Death is a prominent theme in the culture of Tristopolis, with the characters using the names of Thanatos and Hades in place of \"God\", and the bones of the dead serve as the city's primary energy source. The story revolves around the police detective Donal Riordan who is assigned to protect the opera diva Maria daLivnova against the Black Circle, a group of assassins who target gifted artists with the intent of trafficking their bones. After Riordan fails his mission, he realizes that he was set up as a pawn by his higher-ups, and is recruited into a task force which investigates the Black Circle and their connection to the higher ranks of the Tristopolis society. At the same time, Donal falls in love with his new superior, the"}, {"text": "beautiful zombie woman Laura Steele, and they begin a passionate romantic relationship. Reception. A number of reviews praised the inventiveness of the novel's setting, with \"Fantasy Book Critic\" comparing it to Tim Burton's \"Corpse Bride\", Edgar Allan Poe, and J. K. Rowling's \"Harry Potter\", and \"SFFWorld\" drawing parallels with the movies \"Se7en\" and \"Dark City\". A review by \"Strange Horizons\" compared \"Bone Song\" to Laurell K. Hamilton's \"\" series and noted that in both works, prejudice against undead creatures (vampires in \"Anita Blake\" and zombies in \"Bone Song\") serves as a metaphor for real-life racism. \"SF Site\" gave the book a generally unfavorable review, but complimented the \"interesting character\" of the female lead Laura Steele."}, {"text": "Vladimir Medar (1923\u20131978) was a Croatian film and television actor. He played the title role in the 1962 Italian adventure film \"Taras Bulba, the Cossack\"."}, {"text": "Trung H\u00f2a may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "The 1878 CCNY Lavender football team represented the City College of New York during the 1878 college football season."}, {"text": "An Ph\u00fa may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Long \u0110i\u1ec1n may refer to several places in Vietnam:"}, {"text": "Catherine Barclay and Martina M\u00fcller were the defending champions but M\u00fcller did not enter this year, as she competed at the qualifying rounds of the Wimbledon Championships during the same week. Barclay teamed up with Nannie de Villiers and lost in the first round to tournament runners-up Nadia Petrova and Mary Pierce. Elena Dementieva and Lina Krasnoroutskaya won the title by defeating Nadia Petrova and Mary Pierce 2\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final."}, {"text": "Hagibis is a Filipino comic book character. Hagibis may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Ultimate Bill Evans is a compilation album by jazz musician, Bill Evans. All selections for this album were hand-picked by Herbie Hancock. The AllMusic review states that the \"Ultimate Bill Evans\" is a more than worthwhile introduction to Evans' mid-'60s work.\" Track listing. All track information and credits were taken from the CD liner notes."}, {"text": "Quang Phong is a rural commune of Na R\u00ec District, B\u1eafc K\u1ea1n Province in Northeast Vietnam."}, {"text": "Ch\u00e2u H\u01b0ng may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Th\u1ea1nh Ph\u00fa may refer to several places in Vietnam, including"}, {"text": "\"Easy\" is a song by American singer and songwriter Camila Cabello from her second studio album \"Romance\" (2019). It was released by Epic Records and Syco on October 11, 2019, as the fourth single from the album. Cabello co-wrote the song with Justin Tranter and its producers John Hill, Louis Bell, Frank Dukes, Carter Lang, and Westen Weiss. \"Easy\" debuted in the top 100 of several countries, including Australia, Canada, the UK, Slovakia, and Ireland. Although it did not enter the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100, it debuted at number ten on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. Background and composition. Cabello announced the song's release on October 9, 2019, via her social media. \"Easy\" was written by Cabello, Justin Tranter, John Hill, Adam Feeney, Louis Bell, Carter Lang and Westen Weiss. It runs for three minutes and sixteen seconds. Hugh McIntyre of \"Forbes\" characterized \"Easy\" as a pop song. Throughout the track, Cabello can be heard addressing her many insecurities and things that she does not like about herself, such as overthinking to the point where things are ruined, her \"crooked teeth\" and the stretch marks on her thighs. The track is about how her partner helped her love herself"}, {"text": "and finding true love for the first time. Live performances. Cabello performed the song live for the first time on \"Saturday Night Live\" on October 12, 2019. She also performed the song with other singles from the album at Apple Music's \"New Music Daily Presents\" event for select fans in November 2019. On the 8th of December, Cabello performed the song on \"Michael McIntyre's Big Show\". Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Romance\". Publishing Recording Personnel"}, {"text": "The Joseph William Parker Farm, in Sevier County, Utah, near Joseph, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The listing includes seven contributing buildings on . The property includes the original one-room log cabin residence of the farm built in 1892\u201393; it has been moved a short distance from its original location. It was built of cut cottonwood logs, and now rests on a cement block foundation. Its main house, built of igooloo, is Late Victorian in style and was built by contractor Archibald G. Young. Young may possibly have designed the house or its design may have been taken from a pattern book."}, {"text": "The 1880 CCNY Lavender football team represented the City College of New York during the 1880 college football season."}, {"text": "The following is a list of all the Fremantle Football Club life members, this includes players, coaches and administration. Each individual inducted has served the Fremantle Football Club for a long duration of time. With people inducted each year, players need to reach 150 senior AFL games to be eligible for the Life Member induction."}, {"text": "Windsor Downs Nature Reserve is a protected area established in 1990 by the Government of New South Wales. The nature reserve, which occupies an area of , between Windsor Downs and Bligh Park, was established on land formerly owned by the Riverstone Meatworks for the grazing of cattle. It is one of the last remains of the Cumberland Plain Woodland, an endangered ecological community exclusive to what is now the western suburbs of Sydney. The nature reserve contains a wide range of flora including a number of Eucalypts as well as the threatened \"Persoonia nutans\" and \"Dillwynia tenuifolia\" as well as hosting a range of native fauna, including endangered species such as the Regent Honeyeater. History and Prior Land Use. Windsor Downs Nature Reserve is situated on the land of the Darug tribe. There are known to be aboriginal campsites in the reserve and a number of stone tools have been found. The land was occupied by the Riverstone Meatworks for over 100 years, during which time it was cleared and used for grazing cattle. Many of the structures from this period, including the old water tower and concrete water troughs are still standing to this day. In the late"}, {"text": "1980s, shortly before their closure, the Meatworks sold the land to New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife, who opened the reserve as a state park in 1990 The nature reserve was affected by a major fire on 10 September 2013. An investigation found that the fire was caused by a power line being blown down by strong winds. Flora. The reserve's flora is largely determined by its varying soil types. Open forest environment dominated by Iron-barks such as Eucalyptus fibrosa and \"Eucalyptus sideroxylon\" occur on the clay-based soils, while sandier soils host woodlands of \"Eucalyptus sclerophylla\". Meanwhile, sub-mature \"Hakeas\" grow on former grazing land in the reserve. Additionally, the reserve is home to a number of rare and threatened flora including \"Dillwynia tenuifolia\", \"Pultenaea parviflora\", \"Persoonia nutans\" and \"Grevillea juniperina\". Fauna. Mammals. The nature reserve hosts a healthy population of the Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus Giganteus) as well as being home to Swamp wallabies, Sugar gliders, Common brushtail possums and Common ringtail possums. Birds. The nature reserve is reported to contain at least 68 bird species including Yellow-tailed black cockatoos, Sulphur-crested cockatoos and Laughing kookaburras. Notably, the endangered Regent honeyeater is known to reside in the reserve as well"}, {"text": "as possibly one of the few populations of Red-capped robins left in Sydney. Reptiles. The nature reserve is home to a number of reptiles including Goannas, Eastern brown snakes, Red-bellied black snakes and Blue-tongued lizards."}, {"text": "Edward Robinson de Barros Cavalcanti (Recife, 21 June 1944 \u2013 Olinda, 26 February 2012) was a Brazilian Anglican bishop. He was the conservative bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Recife, in the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil. He led his diocese to a schism because of the pro-homosexuality policies of the province, who were against the official stance of the Anglican Communion, in 2005. He was expelled the same year and renamed his departing diocese as Anglican Church \u2013 Diocese of Recife, who became associated with the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America and the Global Anglican Future Conference, and would lead the way to the creation of the Anglican Church in Brazil. Biography. He was born in Recife, but his family moved to Uni\u00e3o dos Palamares, in Alagoas, when he was three years old. He was raised in the Roman Catholic faith of his mother, while his father was a kardecist. He did his secondary school studies at this city, moving in 1960 to the Evangelical College XV November, of the Presbyterian faith, in Garanhuns. He returned to Recife to study at the Jesuit N\u00f3brega College, the following year. He finished his degree in 1962. He studied"}, {"text": "Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Pernambuco, from 1963 to 1966, and also English Language at the Brazil-US Cultural Society. From 1963 to 1967, simultaneously, he also studied Law at the Federal University of Pernambuco. At the same time, he also participated at the students political life. He did an internship at the Social Sciences Department of the University of California, in Los Angeles. He started his work as a lawyer, and at the same time, as a professor in several religious owned institutions, like the Presbyterian Agnes Erskine College. He taught political science in five religious-owned establishments, the Faculty of Philosophy of Recife, the Presbyterian Seminary of the North, the Catholic University of Pernambuco, the Federal University of Pernambuco and the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco. He took a master's degree in political science at the C\u00e2ndido Mendes University, in 1974\u201375, where he defended the thesis \"Alagoas \u2013 a Guarda Nacional e as Origens do Coronelismo\". He was a professor in several universities in Brazil for 35 years. Religious career. In 1962, he left Catholicism and Kardecist Spiritism. On October 31, 1963 (Reformation Day), he was confirmed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil (IELB). He was an"}, {"text": "evangelist and a candidate to the ordained Lutheran Ministry. After years of study and rapprochement, he joined the then Episcopal Church of Brazil (IEB), in a ceremony held at the Holy Trinity Cathedral at the hands of the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Recife, Edmund Knox Sherrill, on June 21, 1976. He later would be ordained deacon and priest, working in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, and in the Good Samaritan, Emanuel and Redemption parishes (always unpaid). He joined the International Gideons and the Rotary Club along with missionary Pedro Higino Marques da Silva. In 1997 he was elected and consecrated Bishop of the Diocese of Recife, attending the Lambeth Conference of 1998, actively participating in the network of Anglican conservatives regarding the Holy Scriptures, the Creeds and the Historical Ethics of the Church. As a diocesan bishop, he ordained dozens of deacons and elders. In the seven years until 2005, communities were opened, social projects were created, archives, secretariats and commissions, and the Canons were reformulated, vocations stimulated, the Permanent Diaconate and the Local Ministry were created, as well as the institution of Lay Ministers and Evangelists. At IEAB he was president of the National Board of Theological Education-JUNET."}, {"text": "On 25 January 2005, Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti, then bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Recife, opposing the predominance of the liberal wing in the church, promoted a schism. Cavalcanti's decision came in opposition to the IEAB's acceptance of non-chaste homosexuality. He unilaterally declared the suspension of the diocese of Recife with the Province of Brazil, proclaiming it as an \"autonomous diocese of the Anglican Communion\". Although a rare and extreme act, he was expelled from the IEAB on 10 June 2005, by decision of the Superior Ecclesiastical Court. Expelled from the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil, Robinson Cavalcanti created the Diocese of Recife, which tried to join the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America. Subsequently, for reasons of judicial order and institutional name, the Diocese of Recife was renamed Anglican Church-Diocese of Recife, and became linked to the GAFCON, which reunites the majority of Anglicans in the world. Death. After years of life devoted to the Church, Archbishop Robinson Cavalcanti and his wife, Miriam Nunes Machado Cotias Cavalcanti, where both murdered in Olinda on February 26, 2012, being stabbed to death by their adoptive son, Eduardo Cavalcanti. The murderer lived in the state of Florida, and returned to"}, {"text": "Brazil days earlier because of the threat of deportation. Reports point out that Eduardo was taken to the United States at the age of 16 to live with his aunt, due to the relationship problems found in his family life (such as rebellion and violent moments), but was never abandoned by his parents. He left a daughter, Carla Alessandra de Medeiros Cavalcanti, the result of a relationship he had out of wedlock with one of his masters students from the UFRPE Political Science course before being ordained a minister. Legacy. He published several books on religious matters. Some of the Cavalcanti's works include:"}, {"text": "Hakizimana Muhadjiri (born 13 August 1994) also known as \"HD\" is a Rwandan professional footballer who plays for the Rwandan national team. Career. Club. On 26 June 2022, Hakizimana joined Saudi Arabian club Al-Kholood. International. He debuted internationally on 3 November 2016 for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification and scored his first goal against Ghana in a 1-1 draw. At the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification, he scored two goals in each leg in two consecutive victories against Seychelles. \"Scores and results list Rwanda's goal tally first.\""}, {"text": "The Dempster-Sloan House is a historic two-story house in Geneva, Nebraska. It was built with red bricks in 1887 by John A. Dempster and designed in the Italianate architectural style. Dempster had served the Union Army in Illinois during the American Civil War of 1861\u20131865 before becoming a settler in Nebraska. From 1887 to 1891, Dempster served as a Republican member of the Nebraska House of Representatives. His sister lived at the George W. Smith House. From 1898 to 1946, the house belonged to Charles Henry Sloan, who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919, and from 1929 to 1931. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 15, 2005."}, {"text": "Rob Niter (born 1982) is an American actor and professional bodybuilder. Background. Niter serves as a chief master sergeant in the United States Air Force. He has received recognition in several military sources as a fitness trainer; and for winning bodybuilding and fitness championships. In 2013, he performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on man for 25 minutes and brought him back to life. Niter told Houston Chronicle, \u201cSure it\u2019s nice to be recognized, but it\u2019s not about an award or a medal. The feeling of knowing that you saved someone\u2019s life is truly an amazing feeling. Knowing that our actions that day prevented someone from dying and gave them another chance.\u201d He was later honored as a hero of Houston by then, mayor Annise Parker. Career. Niter's notable acting role was in David Gordon Green's, Halloween thriller. He is expected to cast as a sheriff in the movie alongside actress and author, Jamie Lee Curtis. According to The Post & Courier, Niter expressed his excitement about the film. \"I can't wait to meet Jamie Lee Curtis. It's exciting to be around all this talent,\" said Niter. According to Generation Iron and Muscle Insider news, Niter is expected to co-produce and make a"}, {"text": "cameo appearance in the film, Chase."}, {"text": "Amelia and the Angel is a 1958 British short film directed by Ken Russell. It was his second completed film after \"Peep Show\". The movie was seen by Huw Wheldon and led to his offering Russell a full-time job. Plot. A schoolgirl, Amelia, attempts to find an angel costume in time to appear in her school play. Production. Russell was then a photographer who wanted to get into the film industry and thought of the idea. He says he was influenced by \"La Belle et Bete\" and \"The Red Balloon\". Quadros was the daughter of an Uruguayan diplomat and was recommended to Russell by a friend. Russell's wife Shirley did the costumes. Filming took two weeks and was financed by Russell himself \u2013 the budget was \"peanuts... about 100 pounds\" he said. Russell said Quadros \"was delightful, no trouble at all \u2013 as long as I gave her scary whirlwind rides in an old, broken-down Morris 8 I had she was as good as gold. I remember she fell over on the steps of the Albert Memorial at one point and broke her hand, the poor devil. In most of the film, she has her right hand turned away from"}, {"text": "the camera.\" Reception. The film screened in cinemas in 1958 for the Experimental Film Committee. Russell showed the film to Huw Wheldon at the BBC and led to Wheldon offering Russell a job on \"Monitor\". The director later said \"A lot of people who were trying to get work on Monitor at the time made films about things like the barrow-boys of Elephant and Castle. Mine was such a change from anything like that and Huw was impressed by it because it was so unusual; he wasn't expecting a film of that sort of quality.\"\" The film has remained popular over the years. \"It's just a nice story, that's all,\" said Russell."}, {"text": "The 2019 Breeders' Cup World Championships was the 36th edition of the premier event of the North American thoroughbred horse racing year. The 14 races, all but one of which were Grade I, took place on November 1 and 2 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. The races were telecast by NBCSN on Friday and early Saturday, and by NBC later on Saturday. The Breeders' Cup is generally regarded as the end of the North American racing season, although a few Grade I events take place in later November and December. The event typically determines champions in many of the Eclipse Award divisions. Qualifying. A maximum of 14 horses (12 in the Turf Sprint and Juvenile Turf Sprint) are allowed to start in each race. Horses can automatically qualify by winning one of the designated races in the Breeders' Cup Challenge series, which provide \"Win and You're In\" berths in a specified division of the Breeders' Cup. Other pre-entries are ranked by a points system and the judgement of a panel of experts. On October 21, pre-entries to the event were submitted for 188 horses, including 47 from overseas. During this stage, the connections of the horses indicated their"}, {"text": "intention to enter a specific race, and could also list a possible alternate. After assessing the potential competition, the connections made their final decision and paid the necessary entry fees on October 28. At that time, the field for each race was set, barring injury or other unforeseen circumstances. Fifty of the pre-entries qualified automatically via the Breeders' Cup Challenge series. These included the two leading candidates for the Classic, McKinzie (Whitney Handicap) and Code of Honor (Jockey Club Gold Cup). Other highly ranked qualifiers included Bricks and Mortar (Arlington Million) in the Breeders' Cup Turf and Midnight Bisou (Ogden Phipps, Personal Ensign Stakes) in the Distaff, both undefeated in 2019 and considered leading candidates for Horse of the Year. Event preparation. On August 17, 2018, the Breeders' Cup organization announced that Santa Anita Park would host the event for a record tenth time. The track committed to over $5 million in improvements, including new suites on the upper level of the grandstand. The selection became controversial however when 30 horses died during Santa Anita's 2018-9 winter-spring meeting, raising concerns over the safety of the equine athletes. The management of Santa Anita undertook several changes, including extensive testing of the"}, {"text": "track surface and changes regarding pre-race medication. \"It's been an area of concern,\" said Chad Brown, Eclipse Award-winning trainer. \"But ultimately I didn't avoid running any horses in the Breeders' Cup due to this issue. I did have some questions from clients, but I feel confident Santa Anita management will make the track safe, and I agree with all the safeguards their management has put in.\" Out-of-competition testing for the event was also extensive, including the use of hair samples for the first time. Extensive wildfires in California, including the Getty Fire in western Los Angeles, did not affect the Breeders' Cup as they were all downwind from the facility. Results. Santa Anita took several actions to increase the safety of horses and jockeys, such as closing the downhill turf course after several horses had been injured while crossing over the main track. This meant that the turf sprint races were run at 5 furlongs instead of the normal furlongs. They also increased the number of veterinarians in attendance, which resulted in several scratches before racing began. Despite the precautions, Mongolian Groom was seriously injured during the running of the Classic and had to be euthanized. Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr."}, {"text": "won the Shoemaker Award as the leading jockey during the event. He rode four winners, including Bricks and Mortar in the $4 million Turf and Vino Rosso in the $6 million Classic. Trainer Chad Brown was the leading trainer of the event with three winners: Bricks and Mortar in the Turf, Uni in the Mile and Structor in the Juvenile Turf. This gave Brown 15 lifetime wins at the Breeders' Cup, tying him for second with Bob Baffert. D. Wayne Lukas has the all-time lead with 20 wins. Friday, November 1. The on-track attendance was 41,243, down slightly from the Friday attendance in 2018 at Churchill Downs. However, all-source wagering was up 5.4%, to a record of $56,517,228. For the second year in a row, all five Breeders' Cup races on \"Future Stars Friday\" were for two-year-olds. The day featured several upsets, most notably that of Storm the Court in the Juvenile at odds of 45-1. The favorite, Dennis' Moment, stumbled at the start and was never a factor, ultimately finishing last. Storm the Court took the early lead and turned back a late challenge from Anneau d'Or, another longshot. The only favorite to win was Four Wheel Drive in"}, {"text": "the Juvenile Turf Sprint. Four Wheel Drive is from the first crop of horses sired by Grand Slam winner American Pharoah. An asterisk after the odds means the horse was the betting favorite. Source: Equibase Charts Saturday, November 2. Saturday attendance was 67,811. Betting handle for the 14 Breeders' Cup races on Friday and Saturday was a record $154 million, up 12% from 2018. Only two favorites won on the Saturday card, Covfefe in the Filly and Mare Sprint and Bricks and Mortar in the Turf. Both horses are expected to win their respective divisions at the Eclipse Awards, and Bricks and Mortar is the leading candidate for horse of the year. Mitole, second choice in the Sprint, won that race and is expected to win the champion sprinter title. Despite being upset in the Distaff, Midnight Bisou will likely be named the Champion Older Female Horse. The female turf division is likely a tossup between Uni, who won the Mile, and Sistercharlie, who finished third in the Filly and Mare Turf. The three-year-old divisions are still undecided as none of the leading colts and fillies won. Iridessa was the only European-trained horse to win at the event. Her trainer"}, {"text": "Joseph O'Brien became the youngest trainer, at age 26, to ever win a Breeders' Cup race. The son of Aidan O'Brien also became just the second person to have Breeders' Cup wins as both a jockey and trainer: Freddy Head being the other. Source: Equibase Charts"}, {"text": "Tyler Davis Barnhardt (born January 13, 1993) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Matthew Roe in the American period drama television series \"Underground\" and Charlie St. George in the American teen drama streaming television series \"13 Reasons Why\". Barnhardt had a supporting role in the 2022 American comedy film \"Senior Year\". Early life and education. Barnhardt was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and was raised in Matthews, a suburb of Charlotte. He graduated from David W. Butler High School in 2011. Barnhardt earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in theater from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's School of Music, Theatre and Dance in 2015. Career. In 2016 Barnhardt appeared on an episode of \"\". In 2017 Barnhardt was cast as Matthew Roe in the second season of the television series \"Underground\" and had a small role on the show \"Scorpion\". In 2019 he was cast as Charlie St. George on the American streaming television series \"13 Reasons Why\", making his debut in the third season. Later in 2019 he was cast as a main character in the television drama series \"Tales from the Loop\". In November 2019 Barnhardt was featured on the"}, {"text": "cover of \"Visual Tales\" magazine. Personal life. Barnhardt married Adriana Schaps on June 17, 2023, at the Siempre in Draper, Utah. The ceremony, officiated by Adam Rippon, was attended by one hundred and thirty guests including Timothy Granaderos, Ross Butler, and Ella Balinska."}, {"text": "The 1881 CCNY Lavender football team represented the City College of New York during the 1881 college football season."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Presbyterian Blue Hose men's basketball team represented Presbyterian College in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Blue Hose, led by first-year head coach Quinton Ferrell, played their home games at the Templeton Physical Education Center in Clinton, South Carolina, as members of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 10\u201322, 7\u201311 in Big South play to finish in a three-way tie for seventh place. They lost in the first round of the Big South tournament to Charleston Southern. Previous season. The Blue Hose finished the 2018\u201319 season 20\u201316 overall, 9\u20137 in Big South play to finish in a tie for fifth place. In the Big South tournament, they defeated UNC Asheville in the first round, before falling to Radford in the quarterfinals. The Blue Hose received an invitation to the CIT, where they beat Seattle in the first round, Robert Morris in the second round, before falling to Marshall in the quarterfinals. On March 28, 2019, it was announced that former head coach Dustin Kerns was named the new head coach at Appalachian State. On April 11, 2019, former assistant coach at College of Charleston and Presbyterian alum Quinton Ferrell was announced as Kerns'"}, {"text": "replacement. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=| Exhibition !colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Big South Conference regular season !colspan=12 style=| Big South tournament Source"}, {"text": "Robots: Music from the Original Motion Picture is the soundtrack of the 2005 feature film \"Robots\". The soundtrack was issued in March 2005 by Virgin Records and Fox Music. The album also reached No. 13 on the Billboard Soundtracks chart. The soundtrack contains music that were from scenes from the movie. The Japanese dub uses \"Mawaru Sora\" written by Hitomi Yaida for its ending theme. The theme song for most European and Australian releases is \"From Zero to Hero\" by Sarah Connor. The British release of the film uses \"See Me\" by Melanie Blatt. The Latin American dub uses \"Un H\u00e9roe Real\" by Aleks Syntek. Critical reception. Heather Phares of AllMusic noted that the soundtrack \"does create a feel-good, party-time mood\"."}, {"text": "The Auditorium in Geneva, Nebraska is a historic two-story building holding a auditorium. It was built with red bricks in 1915 as a city hall and auditorium. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988."}, {"text": "The Estrela report (officially Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights\u2014A7-0306/2013) was a non-binding resolution on women's health and reproductive rights in the European Union advanced by the Portuguese MEP Edite Estrela of the Socialist Party in 2013. It was narrowly defeated in a vote in the European Parliament on 10 December 2013. A counter-resolution proposed by conservative and Eurosceptic MEPs was passed asserting that such issues should be dealt with on the national level. Background. European Union law forbids the Parliament from regulating reproductive and women's issues. In 2002, a similar resolution had been approved by the plenum. At the time the report was proposed, Ireland, Malta, and Poland were the only European Union countries with severe restrictions on abortion, allowing it only in cases of risk to a woman's life or not at all. Contents. The report, which contained almost ninety recommendations, called on member states to provide age-appropriate comprehensive sex education, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases and access to safe contraception and abortion (emphasising that abortion should not be used as a form of family planning). The report decried the harmful effects of teenage pregnancy and gender-based violence and stated that women's rights were equal to"}, {"text": "other human rights. Progress. The report was drafted by Portuguese MEP Edite Estrela of the Socialist Party, who stated that the purpose of the resolution was to underline that people ought to be able to make \"their own informed and responsible choices on their sexual and reproductive life\". In September 2013, it was approved by the European Parliament Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality by a large margin. The resolution was then voted on by the main European Parliament, which sent it back to the committee. Few changes were made and the committee approved it again, leading to a second vote in the main chamber on 10 December. Supporters expected the vote to be routine because they believed the report was similar to previous resolutions. A number of social conservative and anti-abortion lobby groups, many of them newly formed, were vocal in their opposition to the report, including CitizenGo. Estrela received about 80,000 emails opposed to the report, in a campaign described as \"astroturf\" by the . The floor debate was described as \"acrimonious\"; a failed resolution of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group would have recommended providing information about \"natural family planning\", \"post-abortion trauma\" and encouraging young"}, {"text": "people to form relationships with the opposite sex. MEPs did not vote on the Estrela report but instead narrowly passed a resolution declaring that women's rights were a matter for the member states not the European Union by 334 to 327 votes, with 35 abstentions. After the announcement of the results, MEPs from right-wing parliamentary groups were heard jeering and catcalling. According to the European Women's Lobby, a few votes were incorrectly tallied and in fact an equal number of MEPs voted for and against the counter-resolution. Nevertheless, the counter-resolution stood. Following the rejection of the report, Austrian MEP Hannes Swoboda, then president of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, criticized the \"misleading and demagogical campaign\" in opposition. Estrela said that the European Parliament had been more progressive in 2002."}, {"text": "Mindbender is a 1994 biographical film directed by Ken Russell, about Uri Geller. Production. Geller later said \"Ken Russell's version was great but very exaggerated.\""}, {"text": "Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve-des-Ardents (), known as Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve-la-Petite in the Middle Ages, was a church located at present-day Parvis Notre-Dame \u2013 Place Jean-Paul-II in the \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 in Paris, France. It is dedicated to Saint Genevieve, the miracles imputed to whom included \"the cessation of a horrible plague, called the \"mal ardent\", which desolated Paris in the reign of Louis le Gros\". History. A Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve chapel, under the authority of the abbey of the same name, was attested in the 9th century. It was mentioned as a proper parish from 1128, which makes it the oldest attested parish of La Cit\u00e9 quarter. The church was re-built in the 15th, in part thanks to the donations of bookseller Nicolas Flamel. Flamel was represented in a niche next to the portal. Theologian and casuist became the vicar of the church in 1666. The Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve and Saint-Christophe parishes, both situated at present-day Parvis Notre-Dame \u2013 Place Jean-Paul-II, were suppressed in 1747 and merged with the parish of Sainte-Madeleine. The church of Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve-des-Ardents was destroyed in January 1747 to enable the extension works of the H\u00f4pital des Enfants-Trouv\u00e9s. The walls of the church were excavated when the archaeological crypt was built. Now, the outline of"}, {"text": "the former building is shown by a lighter tiling on Parvis Notre-Dame."}, {"text": "Anthony David Barnosky is an ecologist, geologist and biologist (paleoecology). He was Professor at the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley until his retirement. His research is concerned with the relationship between climate change and mass extinctions. Life. Barnosky graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in geology from Colorado College. This was followed by a master's degree (1980) and a Ph.D. (1983) in Earth Sciences at the University of Washington. He is married to Elizabeth A. Hadly, who works in the same field. Work. His work on tipping elements in the Earth System has led Barnosky to work for clearer efforts in climate policy to make possible the two-degree target for increase in average temperature rise. Barnosky stresses that climate change is a major cause of displacement and the cause of the current mass extinction. A key concern is the concept of \"tipping point\"Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to another when they are forced across critical thresholds. Here we review evidence that the global ecosystem as a whole can react in the same way and is approaching a planetary-scale critical transition as a result of human influence. The plausibility of"}, {"text": "a planetary-scale 'tipping point' highlights the need to improve biological forecasting by detecting early warning signs of critical transitions on global as well as local scales, and by detecting feedbacks that promote such transitions. It is also necessary to address root causes of how humans are forcing biological changes."}, {"text": "Uncover is a Canadian investigative journalism podcast, launched in 2018 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Each season is hosted by a different journalist, and delves into Canadian and international crime stories. The second season, \"Bomb on Board\", won the RTNDA Canada award for Best Original / Enterprise Journalism in 2019. In August 2019, the CBC announced that the third season, \"The Village\", was in development as the basis for a documentary television series. As with other CBC podcasts, episodes of the series have aired terrestrially on CBC Radio One as substitute programming in the summer season and on public holidays."}, {"text": "The 2020 Inter Miami CF season was the first season in the history of Inter Miami CF and the 17th season of first-division club soccer in South Florida. It was the first time since 2001 that a South Florida club competed in the first-division. In addition to playing in Major League Soccer, the club was scheduled to participate in the U.S. Open Cup but the competition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Management. !colspan=\"2\" style=\"background:#F7B5CD; color:#000000; text-align:left\" |Ownership !colspan=\"2\" style=\"background:#F7B5CD; color:#000000; text-align:left\" |Front office !colspan=\"2\" style=\"background:#F7B5CD; color:#000000; text-align:left\" |Coaching staff Overall statistics. Top scorers. As of 9 September 2020."}, {"text": "Idalia Zagroba (born 1967) is a Polish printmaker. Zagroba graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, in 1995. An untitled woodcut of 1995 is owned by the National Gallery of Art."}, {"text": "Himalayan Herders is a 1997 documentary film directed by John Melville Bishop and Naomi Bishop that focuses on what life is like in the Nepal village, Melamchi. Synopsis. The film focuses on the daily life of the villagers; how life has changed over the years; spiritual and cultural traditions; as well as its economy. The film follows a non-linear structure, talks about one tradition or event in the village and then changes to a new one when finished without overarching story. Utilizing narration by Naomi Bishop she explains many aspects of live in the village. The film also includes interviews from many of the village residents helping the viewer get a better perspective on the Nepal village. The film opens up with two men setting up a long white flag that goes down the flag pole. They set up the flag on the edge of a cliff that overlooks a valley and the houses in the distance. It is Tibetan New Year. A few more men then enter the scene. They start a small fire in a bowel, they then ring a bell, sing a song, and throw flour into the air to bless the flag. The village is located"}, {"text": "in the Himalayan Mountains at an altitude of 8,500 feet; the villagers raise an animal that thrives at this altitude. The animal they raise is the zomo, it is a hybrid between a yak and a cow, a zomo can produce more milk than either species. Cast. Narrated by Naomi Bishop. Production. Naomi Bishop wrote an article about the village of Melamchi, focusing particularly on their farming of zomo in 1989; it was published Human Ecology 17th volume. In the article she talks about topics that are not covered in the film, and goes into more details with topics discussed in the film. One of the topics that is discussed in the article and not included in the film is that the fields that zomo herders live in are away from the village in huts called Goths. The majority of the film was shot between the years 1986\u20131989; the rest of the film was shot between the years 1971\u20131972 and in 1993. Reception. The film was reviewed in American Anthropologist in 1998 by James Fisher. He said the film \"Sometimes... raise more questions than they answer.\" Despite this criticism, James said that it accurately tells the story of the people"}, {"text": "of this village and is one of the best ethnographic films about Nepal."}, {"text": "British Tunisians are citizens or residents of the United Kingdom that are of Tunisian ancestry. British-Tunisians may also include children born in the United Kingdom to a British (or of any other origin) parent and a Tunisian parent. Demographics. The 2011 UK Census recorded 5,715 Tunisian-born residents in England, 117 in Wales, 267 in Scotland, and 49 in Northern Ireland."}, {"text": "Lindsay Sears (born January 1, 1981) is a Canadian professional rodeo cowgirl who specializes in barrel racing. She is a two-time Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) barrel racing world champion. In December 2008 and 2011, she won the championship at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Life. Sears was born on January 1, 1981, in High River, Alberta, Canada. She competed in the usual Canadian sports growing up, such as figure skating and swimming. Additional sports included volleyball, basketball, and rodeo. Sears started her career in National Little Britches Rodeo Association. She graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in Agricultural Applied Economics. She resides in Nanton, Alberta. When she is not competing in professional rodeo, she assists her family in running their cattle business. She also spends time at her second home in Ropesville, Texas, United States. Career. Sears joined the WPRA in 2000. She won the barrel racing world championship at the NFR in 2008 and 2011. She was the first Canadian to win a barrel racing world championship. She also won the NFR Average title in 2011. She has qualified for the NFR seven times, from 2006-2012. She has won championships at major"}, {"text": "rodeos like Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, RodeoHouston in Houston, Texas, and the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta. As of 2017, her total career earnings are $1,558,667. Her horse Sugar Moon Express, nicknamed \"Martha\", won the 2008 AQHA/WPRA Barrel Horse of the Year Award. She came in third place in 2009. In 2017, Martha was 17 years old. Martha is a sorrel mare by Dr. Nick Bar and out of Babys Blue Jeans. She also has another horse whose name is Ima Guy of Honor, nicknamed Moe, who was 14 years old in 2017. He is a bay gelding out of Frenchmans Guy and by Dontunderestimateher. Sears bought Martha from trainer Dena Kirkpatrick. The mare had just completed her futurity year. Sears was prepared to season her throughout 2006. However, unknown to Sears, Martha already had her green light on go, as a \"green\". Martha was 6 years old, while Sears was 25 years old at the time. Martha took her to the NFR that year, but an injury took the horse out before the actual event. When Martha was 100 percent again, she took Sears to the NFR in 2008 and win 5 of 10 rounds and more"}, {"text": "money in one event, $119,225, than any other competitor."}, {"text": "Carex careyana, commonly known as Carey's sedge, is a species of sedge found in the eastern United States and Ontario, Canada. It is named in honour of John Carey. Its natural habitat is nutrient-rich moist forests, often on rocky calcareous slopes, and around outcrops such as caves or sinkholes. It is a conservative species, only being found in intact natural communities. It can be distinguished from other \"Carex\" in section Careyanae by its combination of purple leaf bases, broad basal leaves, long leaf-like bracts on the culm, and relatively large perigynia. It produces flowers and fruits in spring."}, {"text": "The Mystery of Dr Martinu is a 1992 British film directed by Ken Russell about Bohuslav Martinu. The film marked Russell's return to the BBC after 22 years. The \"Times\" said \"half\" the film \"was vintage Ken Russell: goonish, garish and blatant, yet invigorating by the sheer zest of the film-making\" but felt \"having opened in scintillating style, Russell then tacked on a plodding, protracted postscript.\""}, {"text": "Kostino () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Kostino is located on the Vanchuga River, 6 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Stepachevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kostrovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Kostrovo is located 16 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mitkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Koshcheyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2010. Geography. Koshcheyevo is located 22 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chernigovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasnaya Gorka () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 20 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Krasnaya Gorka is located on the Reka Soyma River, 12 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Soyma is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasny Bogatyr () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Andreyevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 966 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Krasny Bogatyr is located 28 km southwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolotsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "DYVL (819 AM) Aksyon Radyo is a radio station owned and operated by MBC Media Group. Its studio, offices and transmitter are located along PNP Rd. cor. Maharlika Highway, Brgy. Campetic, Palo, Leyte. History. DYVL was established in October 17, 1957 as a regional version of DZRH. In 1972, the station was one of the casualties of Martial Law, but went back on air after a year as Sunshine City a localized version of DWIZ. In 1978, DYVL transferred its frequency from 800 kHz to 819 kHz per GE75. In 1991, Sunshine City became Radyo Balita. In 1998, it was among the stations relaunched under MBC's regional Aksyon Radyo network. In 2013, the station went off the air after its offices and transmitter in Brgy PHHC. Seaside, Tacloban were destroyed by Typhoon Yolanda, killing two of its reporters. In early 2014, it moved to its present home in Palo, Leyte, where it went back on the air."}, {"text": "Ludmila Jandov\u00e1 (3 August 1938 \u2013 20 October 2008) was a Czech painter and printmaker. Born in Os\u00edk, Jandov\u00e1 studied first in \u017delezn\u00fd Brod at the glassmaking school before traveling to Prague for further study. There, she entered the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague in 1966, studied under Vladimir Silovsky and , and graduated in 1969. During her career, she produced graphic art of various types, as well as illustrations, drawings, paintings, and pastels; at times she also worked in collage and other disciplines. Her work often depicted Christian subjects. She died after a long illness. Three prints by Jandov\u00e1 are owned by the National Gallery of Art."}, {"text": "Kudryavtsevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Kudryavtsevo is located 17 km southwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Klavdino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lavrovo () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 702 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Lavrovo is located 5 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Spas-Beseda is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ladoga () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Ladoga is located 5 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lavrovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Likino () is a rural locality (a selo) in Andreyevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 724 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Likino is located 15 km east of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tyurmerovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Your Honour, I Object! is a 1987 British documentary about the legal dispute between Ken Russell and Bob Guccione over an aborted attempt to film \"Moll Flanders\". Russell wanted to make a version of Flanders with an unknown, Janice Flanders, in the lead. The film was to be financed by Bob Guccione. Russell wrote a script but Guccione rewrote it and Russell pulled out of the project. Guccione sued Russell for a million dollars, and the director hired lawyer Richard Golub to defend him in exchange for Russell directing a video clip starring Golub. Russell won and kept his fee of $125,000. The incident was turned into a documentary."}, {"text": "Lisavino () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Lisavino is located 28 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Razlukino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Microcracks in rock, also known as microfractures and cracks, are spaces in rock with the longest length of 1000 \u03bcm and the other two dimensions of 10 \u03bcm. In general, the ratio of width to length of microcracks is between 10\u22123 to 10\u22125. Due to the scale, microcracks are observed using microscope to obtain their basic characteristics. Microcrack formation provides insights into the strength and deformation behavior of rocks. Experimental and numerical results both play an important role in studying microcracks, especially their kinematics and dynamics. Microcracks in rock have been studied to understand geologic problems such as the early stage of earthquakes and fault formation. In engineering, microcracks in rock have been linked to underground engineering problems, such as deep geological repository. Types. In general, microcracks in rock can be subdivided into four groups: Characteristics. The characteristics of microcracks are orientation, length, width, aspect ratio, number, and density. These characteristics have been tried to be explained by mathematical functions. For example, distribution of microcrack lengths away from the fault has been described by lognormal or exponential distributions. Orientation. The orientations of microcracks are random in unstressed rock. Once a rock has been stressed, the microcracks will have a trend"}, {"text": "of orientations more or less parallel to the maximum applied stress or the fault strike. For example, the average orientation of microcracks of stressed Westerly granite is 30\u00b0 to the fault strike. Length, width, and aspect ratio. In a thin section, the observed length and width may not necessarily be the true length and width of a microcrack in three dimensions. The aspect ratio is the ratio of width to length. It is generally10\u22123 to 10\u22125. The crack length increases with increasing maximum applied stress, resulting in a decrease in the aspect ratio. Number and density. Density of microcracks can be either the number of microcracks per unit area or per grain or the microcrack length per unit area. Densities of microcracks near a fault are dramatically high, but they decrease rapidly within a few mineral grains away from a fault. Formation mechanism. Microcracks in rock can be induced by the applied stress or temperature. Mechanically induced. A microcrack is formed when the stresses exceed the local strength of grains. The strength of materials is the ability to resist an applied load so that failure will not occur. The intrinsic properties of rock such as mineralogical heterogeneity give diverse types"}, {"text": "of mechanically induced microcracking. The following mechanisms have strong correlations to the locations that allow stress concentration in grain-scale. Thermally induced. Thermally induced microcracking refers to microcrack formation due to thermal effects. Heating or cooling can cause thermal expansion or contraction between grains, respectively. Minerals with different thermo-elastic properties have different reactions to cooling or heating, resulting in microcrack formation. Also, thermal gradients at internal boundaries of grains may also allow stress concentration, thus forming microcracks. Evolution. The evolution of microcracks has been studied through experiment. When force is applied to a rock sample, microcracks initially form randomly in space. They then become more and more localized and intense with continuous loading. This phenomenon is called the crack localization. A theory of failure helps to explain the evolution of microcracks with increased loading: After failure, the overall microcrack density increases near the fault and decreases rapidly away from the fault. In addition, the density of transgranular cracks increases near the fault, whereas the density of grain boundary cracks is lower. Connecting locally dense crack regions, crack arrays, and grain boundary eventually forms a macrocrack. Before forming a fault, there is a fracture process zone (FPZ). It is a region of"}, {"text": "microcracks near the tip of a rock failure. It is associated with the crack localization and related to energy dissipation. The size of a fracture process zone is related to the specimen size. The larger the specimen size, the large the size of the fracture process zone. This relationship no longer exists when the specimen size is larger than a certain size. The heterogeneity of rock makes the microcracking behavior much more complicated than other simple materials. Factors controlling microcracking behavior still have been identified and studied: Recovery. In addition to microcracks formation, microcracks in rock can be recovered either by microcrack closure or microcrack healing. Microcrack recovery will directly cause a decrease in permeability of rock. Microcrack closure. It can be either caused by increase in the applied stress or decrease in the effective stress. For example, microcracks perpendicular to the maximum stress direction will close. However, in nature, parts of a microcrack can be in different directions. For this reason, it will result in incomplete closure that some parts of the microcrack are closed while some parts are still open. Microcrack healing. It is driven by transportation of chemical fluid in microcracks. For example, healing of microcracks in"}, {"text": "quartz is activated by temperature. Healing in quartz becomes fast when the temperature is above 400 \u00b0C. The rate of healing also depends on the crack sizes. The smaller the cracks, the faster the healing. Influence. Microcracks affect the properties of rock including stiffness, strength, elastic modulus, permeability, fracture toughness, and elastic wave velocity. Methodology to study microcracks. Studies of microcracks are focused on their distributions of the characteristics and microcracking behavior. Many experiments to study microcracks in rock have been conducted in the past decades, whereas numerical study also has been widely used to study microcracks in recent years because of the technology development. These studies have been used to compare with natural conditions. Experimental study. Experimental study is to analyze the rock specimens that have been subjected to applied stress in laboratory. There are two popular methods to study microcracks. Observation of thin section using microscope is to obtain the distributions of microcrack lengths, widths and aspect ratios, numbers and densities, as well as orientations. Another method is using acoustic emission to detect and monitor microcrack growth. Experimental results can help scientists develop numerical models, such as simulation of fracture pattern growth. Many experiments on rock fracture mechanism"}, {"text": "have been done in laboratory, but these experiments may have different requirement of specimen configuration and loading scheme. They are the two important factors controlling microcracking behavior such as microcrack development. Specimen configuration. Specimen configuration refers to the dimensions of a specimen and its man-made crack. Rock samples are usually obtained from rock cores. Therefore, cylinder shape, chevron-bend shape, and semi-circular-bend shape (SCB) are the common specimen shapes used in experimental study. For example, a semi-circular bend specimen has a man-made crack, called a notch. It is used to control the morphology of rock fracture. Two notch types can be induced: a straight-through notch or a chevron notch. A straight-through notch semi-circular-bend (SNCCB) specimen has a flat-ended notch, whereas a chevron notch semi-circular-bend (CNSCB) specimen has a V-shaped opening to the air. Loading scheme. In fracture mechanics, there are three types of loading modes to make a crack able to propagate. They are mode I (opening), mode II (in-plane shear), and mode III (out-plane shear). These loading modes can be achieved by the designed loading scheme. Mode I fractures are the most common microcracks in rock in natural. Acoustic emission. An acoustic emission (AE) is a high-frequency elastic wave. It"}, {"text": "is generated from microcrack formations, and is correlated to rapid microcrack growth. Acoustic emission sensors are attached to the surface of the specimen. They collect the signals generated during microcrack formation. The data can be used to describe the microcrack behavior. Noted that one detected acoustic emission event is not necessary to be one microcrack formation. The types of data collected from acoustic emission sensors are: These two types of data imply the following information: Numerical study. Numerical study is used to help understanding the complicated rock mechanics problems. Four types of models using in modelling microcracks in rock are particle-based models, block-based models, grain-based models, and node-based models. Since grain-based models can consider all types of microcrack, they are good at understanding microcracking behavior. Geological implication. Experimental study of microcracks provides insights into faulting and microcracks formation in nature. Microcracks studies with CL and fluid-inclusion studies are able to reconstruct the growth of fractures from microcracks. Population of microcracks is useful to distinguish whether the detachment is due to landslide or tectonic in origin. The fracture process zone (FPZ) can be used to understand the permeability of fault zones which controls fluid flow. Therefore, microcracks can be useful for"}, {"text": "assessing the stress history or fluid movement history of rock. Acoustic emission from microcrack growth may help to understand earthquakes. Implications of underground engineering problems. Microcracks can affect the thermal and transport properties of rock. Studies of microcracks in rock provide an important insights into underground engineering problems as follows: Deep geological repository. A deep geological repository is an underground repository for radioactive waste disposal, such as nuclear fuel. It is at depth of hundred metres in a stable rock mass. Deep geological repositories are all over the world, such as the United States (WIPP) and Finland (Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant). Geothermal reservoir. A geothermal reservoir is one of the three components of a geothermal system that acts an energy source. It is a porous and permeable rock mass so that convection of trapped hot water and steam and recharge of heat supply can occur. The ideal geothermal reservoir is a highly permeable, fractured rock matrix. Hydrocarbon reservoir. A hydrocarbon reservoir is an underground reservoir that keeps hydrocarbons trapped inside. Reservoir rocks have high porosity and permeability while the surrounding rocks that act as barriers have low permeability. Therefore, hydrocarbons that exist as liquid and/or gas can only stay in"}, {"text": "the reservoir rocks. Underground storage of CO2. Underground storage of CO2 is a solution to remove CO2 in the atmosphere. It is composed of porous rocks surrounded by nonporous rocks so that it can trap the CO2 for a long time. A depleted oil and gas reservoir that is out of energy source is one of the examples used for underground storage."}, {"text": "Saint-Josse () was a church in Paris, France. Location. The church was located in the corner of and . History. The houses between , and , affiliated with the Saint-Laurent parish, were isolated from Saint-Laurent's church by the wall of Philip II Augustus built around 1200. Thus, an additional church was built in 1235. It was made a full parish by the Bishop of Paris Renaud de Corbeil in 1260. Around 1300, the estimated parish population was 1,020 inhabitants in 30 houses aligned on two streets. The Church of Saint Josse, used by the gardeners' fellowship, was re-built in 1679. It was closed in 1791, sold and demolished in 1792. The small building was shown on the 1737 Turgot map of Paris."}, {"text": "Lobanovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 27 as of 2010. Geography. Lobanovo is located 11 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ovtsyno is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lukinskogo doma invalidov () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 111 as of 2010. Geography. Lukinskogo doma invalidov is located 28 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Komary is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lukinskoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Lukinskoye is located 27 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Komary is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lunkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Lunkovo is located 21 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Brykino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lukhtonovo () is a rural locality (a village) in the Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 171 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Lukhtonovo is located on the Sudogda River, 11 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bykovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The following is a discography of production by hip-hop record producer Flying Lotus."}, {"text": "Malakhovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Malakhovo is located 46 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnyaya Zaninka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Miss Asia Pacific International 2005, formerly titled Miss Asia Pacific Quest in 2003, the 36th Miss Asia Pacific International pageant, was held on 9 April 2005 at Guangzhou, China where 51 candidates competed for the title. Tatyana Nikita of Russia crowned her successor Leonora Jim\u00e9nez of Costa Rica at the end of the contest. Not long after winning the crown, Jim\u00e9nez was resigned in order to compete at another rival pageant which is Miss World. The first runner-up Yevgeniya Lapova of Russia replaced her as the winner. The runners-up moved up one position which then makes Jedah Hernandez of the Philippines became third runner-up."}, {"text": "Malaya Kozlovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2010. Geography. Malaya Kozlovka is located 11 km east of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kolesnya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Maryukhino () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Maryukhino is located on the Pol River, 34 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rogovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Maslovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. Geography. Maslovo is located on the Sudogda River, 24 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Isakovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "M\u00e1rio Ant\u00f4nio da Silva (born 17 October 1966) is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Bishop of Roraima since June 2016. He was previously auxiliary bishop of Manaus for six years. M\u00e1rio Ant\u00f4nio da Silva was born in Itarar\u00e9, State of S\u00e3o Paulo, on 17 October 1966. He studied philosophy and theology at the Divine Mestre Diocesan Seminary in Jacarezinho from 1985 to 1991. He then earned a licentiate in moral theology at the Alphonsian Academy in Rome (1996-1998). On 21 December 1991 he was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Jacarezinho, where he worked as Spiritual Director (1992-1993) and then Rector of the Minor Seminary Nossa Senhora da Assun\u00e7\u00e3o (1994-1996); Coordinator of Vocation Ministry (1993-1996); Professor of Moral Theology and Spiritual Director of the Divine Major Seminary Mestre; Parochial Vicar; Pastor and Chancellor. On 9 June 2010, Pope Benedict XVI named him auxiliary bishop of Manaus. He received his episcopal consecration on 20 August from Mauro Aparecido dos Santos, Archbishop of Cascavel. On 22 June 2016, Pope Francis named him Bishop of Roraima. He is vice president of the Episcopal Conference of Brazil. He was a participant in the Synod of Bishops for"}, {"text": "the Pan-Amazon region in 2019. He was one of four Synod prelates elected on 7 October to the thirteen-person committee to prepare the Synod's concluding document."}, {"text": "Children: 1 (Sultan Isabor) Hauwa Saidu Mohammed (born 26 October 1993) known as Jaruma is a Nigerian self-proclaimed sex therapist, entrepreneur and founder of Jaaruma Empire Limited. Early life and education. Jaruma is from Billiri local government area of Gombe State. She attended New Capital Nursery and Primary School in Asokoro, Abuja and Nigerian Turkish International College, Abuja. In 2004, she was admitted into Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria but left before the end of her program to study International Relations and Human Therapy in Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey. Enterprise background. From 2010 to 2016, Jaruma ventured into several businesses from selling pots hair, dresses, to real estate. She started a YouTube channel in 2016 to promote the therapeutic benefits of Azanza Garckeana also known as Snot Apple, Mutohwe, African chewing gum, gorontula, tula kola nut or morojwa. The channel's increasing audience formed the market for her product line when they were released in 2017. She is rumoured to be the owner of popular Instagram blog, instablog9ja. Advocacy. Jaruma advocates for women's early test for vaginal infection and cervical cancer. Coming from Northern Nigeria where discussing sex is seen as a taboo, she tries to change the perception people have about"}, {"text": "women from the North and how they see themselves sexually. Personal life. She was married to Ross Isabor (2018-2021). In 2022, Ross Isabor posted on his Instagram page that he has divorced Jaruma a long time ago and warned her to desist from using his name to sell fake products."}, {"text": "The Poinsettia Apartments (also spelled the Poinsetta Apartments) are an apartment hotel at 5528 S. Hyde Park Boulevard in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1929, the building was the last of several apartment hotels built in Hyde Park during a period of residential development in the late 1910s and 1920s. Apartment hotels were popular among wealthier workers in the city at the time, as they combined the amenities and prestige of hotels with the affordability of apartments. The Poinsettia Apartments were both the smallest of the Hyde Park apartment hotels and the only building designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Its design features pilasters spanning the height of the building, terra cotta ornamentation, and decorative window surrounds on the first two floors. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1986."}, {"text": "Milena \u0160olt\u00e9szov\u00e1 (born 28 November 1939) is a Czech printmaker. A native of Prague, \u0160olt\u00e9szov\u00e1 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in that city under , , and from 1961 until 1967. Later she took a course in art restoration as well. She joined the artists' organization Hollar in 1991. She has been active as an illustrator as well as printmaker, and favors mainly gravure techniques such as etching, aquatint, and drypoint. A print by \u0160olt\u00e9szov\u00e1 from 1990, \"Dve lahve/Two Bottles\" in drypoint and aquatint in blue and black on wove paper, is owned by the National Gallery of Art."}, {"text": "Medvedtsevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Medvedtsevo is located on the Poboyka River, 14 km southwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Volnaya Artemovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mitino () is a rural locality (a village) in Moshokskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. Geography. Mitino is located 55 km east of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Radilovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mitroshino () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Geography. Mitroshino is located 28 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Inyutino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mitkino () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Mitkino is located on the Soyma River, 16 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kostrovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mikhalevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. It is located 2 km north from Golovino, 30 km west from Sudogda."}, {"text": "Mikhalevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 20 as of 2010. Geography. It is located on the Sudogda River, north from Lavrovo, north from Sudogda."}, {"text": "Michurino () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. Michurino is located 27 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kiselnitsa is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mordasovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Geography. Mordasovo is located on the Vysokusha River, 21 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Alexandrovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Brig. Gen. Nyo Twan Awng (; also spelled Nyo Tun Aung, born Zaw Myo Thet on 4 March 1981) is the deputy leader of the United League of Arakan and the Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Arakha Army. Biography. Nyo Twan Awng was born Zaw Myo Thet on 4 March 1981 in Kyaukpyu, Rakhine State, Myanmar. He attended and studied Medical Science M.B.,B.S course in University of Medicine 2, Yangon from 1999 to 2008. In 2009, the Arakan Army was founded and Nyo became one of its first members, attending the group's first training session. In 2009, during his House Surgeon Internship Training in Thingangyun Sanpya General Hospital, Yangon, he was under surveillance by \u1005\u1021\u1016 Sa Ah Pha (Special Intelligent Police Force) of Myanmar Police Force because of his underground UG activities in political movements. So, He tried to escape from Special Police Force's detaining and later reached to Northern Myanmar KIA Kachin Independent Army controlled Region where he cofounded Arakan Army together with Major General Twan Mrat Naing. He characterised his group's January 4 independence day attack on four police stations as a defensive action in response to a build-up of Tatmadaw forces in northern Rakhine State. He also pointed"}, {"text": "to the Tatmadaw's announcement on December 21, 2018, that it was suspending operations in five regional commands in northern Myanmar until April 30 as further evidence of an imminent campaign. However, the Tatmadaw extended to two and half months until the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and other Northern Alliance groups launched coordinated attacked on the Defence Services Technological Academy in Pyin Oo Lwin on August 15, which promoted the Tatmadaw retaliate. In June 2018, Nyo attended the second Panglong Conference in Naypyidaw, meeting with government officials to discuss the peace process for the decade-long conflict in the country."}, {"text": "Thinking is the first studio album by South Korean rapper and producer Zico. This is the first work from Zico released by his own agency, KOZ Entertainment, and distributed by Kakao M. \"Thinking\" is made up of 2 EPs, which were released separately to digital music and streaming platforms. The first EP, \"Thinking Part.1\", was released on September 30, 2019, and the second EP, \"Thinking Part.2\", was released on November 8, 2019. The physical version of the album, with the combined EPs, was released on November 8, 2019. His first full-length album in eight years, Zico, in an interview said he poured his true emotions into this album. He said, \"I guess I\u2019ve been mistreating myself. In the course of feeding 'Zico,' I found out that human 'Woo Ji-ho' [Zico's real name] was worn out, unaware of how to live, how to feel when left alone. I wanted to talk about those feelings in my new album. I always knew that I was struggling from my two distinct identities, but tried to ignore it and brush it off since I didn\u2019t want to accept it. I didn\u2019t want to ruin my character as 'Zico'. So I kept upping the tension,"}, {"text": "sometimes exaggerating my punky, wild image. I guess it was my way of confirming my self-esteem. But the gap grew wider and my emotions piled up to the point where I couldn\u2019t breathe. So I decided to be honest to myself, show my vulnerability for the first time in my career.\" He added, \u201cSome of the emotions were frankly some things that I didn't want to face. As 'Zico', there's the bright and energetic side. But as a human being, you have some sides to yourself that you don\u2019t want to show. This is about that.\u201d \"Thinking Part.1\" is about \"laying out the different emotions and thoughts people commonly have in their everyday lives\", while \"Thinking Part.2\" is more about the \"detailed and intricate feelings or reactions that I have of those moments\". \"Thinking\" peaked third on the Gaon Music Chart."}, {"text": "Joel Haikali is a Namibian director, film producer and writer. He released his first feature film \"My Father's Son\" in 2011, and has produced several short films, including \"Differences\" (2008), \"African Cowboy\" (2011) and \"Try\" (2012). The aforementioned short films were screened at the Alliance Fran\u00e7aise in Swakopmund. Haikali previously chaired the Namibia Film Commission. Career. Joe Haikali is a Namibian filmmaker and has a production company called Joe Vision Production. In 2007, he attended the Pan-African Film Festival in order to make connections and network on behalf of himself and other Namibian filmmakers. His first feature film, \"My Father's Son\", was released in 2011. Its narrative features dialogue in Oshiwambo, Afrikaans and English. The film's cast includes Panduleni Hailundu, Patrick Hainghono and Senga Brockerhoff. AfricAvenir and Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre (FNCC) teamed up to screen \"My Father's Son\" in September 2015, at the latter's venue in Windhoek. In an article published by \"Variety\", Haikali spoke at the Berlinale Africa Hub in February 2018 and expressed interest in developing the Namibian industry through collaborative means with foreign counterparts. The Namibia Film Commission, an organization he previously resided over, approved the South Africa-Namibia-Germany co-production title \"The Girl from Wereldend\". His latest works"}, {"text": "include the feature film \"PEPE\", which won the Silver Bear award at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Radford Highlanders men's basketball team represented Radford University in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Highlanders, led by ninth-year head coach Mike Jones, played their home games at the Dedmon Center in Radford, Virginia, as members of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 21\u201311, 15\u20133 in Big South play to win a share of the regular season championship. They defeated Charleston Southern in quarterfinals of the Big South tournament before losing in the semifinals to Hampton. As a regular season conference champion, and No. 1 seed in their conference tournament, who failed to win their conference tournament, they received an automatic bid to the NIT. However, the NIT, and all other postseason tournaments, were cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous season. The Highlanders finished the 2018\u201319 season 22\u201311 overall, 12\u20134 in Big South play to finish as regular season co-champions, alongside Campbell. In the Big South tournament, they defeated Presbyterian in the quarterfinals, Charleston Southern in the semifinals, before falling to Gardner\u2013Webb in the championship game. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=| Exhibition !colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Big South Conference regular season !colspan=12 style=| Big South tournament Source"}, {"text": "Anne Louise Stevens (born 1948) is an American mechanical and materials engineer. She is currently a non-executive director at Anglo American plc. She was the CEO of GKN Aerospace until it was acquired by Melrose plc in a hostile takeover in 2018. Previously, Stevens was chairman of the Board of Directors, President and chief executive officer of Carpenter Technology Corporation and vice president of North America Vehicle Operations for Ford Motor Company. Early life and education. Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1948. In high school, she disguised herself in order to enrol in the male-only mechanics pit crew at a race track. After graduation, Stevens enrolled in nursing but dropped out and took a job at Bell Telephone where she met her future husband. Stevens and her husband enrolled at Drexel University and she graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical and materials engineering. Career. After earning her degrees, Stevens worked at the Exxon Chemical Company for ten years in multiple engineering and manufacturing positions. She then joined the Ford Motor Company in 1990 as a marketing specialist. Stevens was promoted at various times during her tenure at Ford. In 1992, she was named manager of a Quality"}, {"text": "Services Department and by 2001, was named vice president of North America Vehicle Operations. In 2000, Stevens was the recipient of the Shingo Leadership Award and was later appointed to the Shingo Prize Board of Governors. In 2003, Stevens received the Eli Whitney Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and was promoted to group vice president of Canada, Mexico, and South America branches of the Ford Motor Company. The next year, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and honoured by the Automotive Hall of Fame. In 2005, she became the first woman executive vice president in the history of the Ford Motor Company. However, this title was short-lived as she resigned in September 2006 alongside Dave Szczupak. The next month, Stevens was appointed chairman, President and chief executive officer of Carpenter Technology, succeeding Robert J. Torcolini. Upon her promotion, Stevens became the company's first female CEO. In 2007, Stevens donated $1 million to Drexel University to start the Anne L. Stevens Scholarship Program for Young Women. In 2008, Stevens was honoured with the Best 50 Women in Business Award. She was also elected to serve on the Albright College Board of Trustees on a three-year term."}, {"text": "She stayed in her role as CEO until 2009, when she resigned and Carpenter Technology split her roles into separate positions. As a result of the resignation and split, Stevens received a cash payment of $1.76 million. Moving on from Carpenter, Stevens focused on her non-executive director position at Lockheed Martin until she stepped down at the end of 2017 to become chief executive officer of GKN Aerospace."}, {"text": "Sir Arthur Hugh McShine (11 May 190610 July 1983) was the Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago from 1969 until 1970. He was earlier the acting Chief Judge of Trinidad and Tobago in 1961 till Trinidad and Tobago became independent in 1962. He was born on 11May 1906, the son Arthur Hutton McShine, Trinidad and Tobago's first qualified ophthalmologist. He died on 10July 1983, aged ."}, {"text": "Ray Vasquez (12 February 1924 \u2013 25 January 2019), also known as Ray Victor, was an American singer, musician, trombonist and actor, and a significant influence on the Latin jazz scene from 1940 through 2019. Early life. Ray Moreno Vasquez was born in Los Angeles on February 12, 1924, to immigrant parents from Mexico. He was raised primarily by his father, Domingo Vasquez Sr., a Huasteco from San Luis Potos\u00ed. Growing up poor during the Great Depression era of the 1930s in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Vasquez attended Jordan High School. He was an academic major and music minor, a member of the track and basketball teams, and a featured soloist (as a tenor) in the a cappella choir. He also played trombone and sang in the high school jazz orchestra. A high school voice teacher spotted his potential and recommended he transfer to Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles because it was more prestigious and had a better jazz orchestra. Vasquez studied trombone with the renowned Dr. Hiner (first cornetist with John Philip Sousa) in Highland Park. World War II. Vasquez was drafted into the military after graduating high school. He was sent to the Boeing"}, {"text": "School of Avionics and was a member of the Army Air Corps. Vasquez received four medals while in service and achieved the rank of sergeant. He was honorably discharged in 1946. A brick in his name was entered in the Memorial Wall at the General Patton Memorial Museum in Chiriaco Summit, California. Education. Vasquez attended the Pasadena Playhouse theater on the G.I. Bill. The three-year accredited college offered classes in acting, voice and speech. He studied Shakespeare, theater technique, production, radio, television, dance, makeup and costuming. He graduated with a Theater Arts degree in 1952. Music career. Ray Vasquez played trombone and sang with many local jazz bands in Los Angeles but soon broke away as a solo artist and began recording and touring. He recorded with Chico Sesma, Eddie Cano and on \"The Voodoo Suite\" with Perez Prado. Vasquez recorded his own album, \"Ray Vasquez: In the Still of The Night\" on Tropicana Records with music director George Hernandez and produced by Oliver Berliner. The thirty-five-piece band behind him included musicians such as Paul Lopez and Anthony Ortega. Ray was asked by numerous band leaders such as Chico Sesma, Eddie Cano, Perez Prado, Louis Prima, John T Williams, to"}, {"text": "be the vocalist on single releases recorded on Gold Star Records, Bean Monde, Accent Records (US), and RCA Records labels. His role in the development of the Latin music scene in Los Angeles is cited in the books \"Mexican American Mojo\" by Anthony Macias and \"Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles\" by Steven Joseph Loza. His album and other recordings have been entered in the Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings at the University of California Los Angeles\u2019 Chicano Studies Research Center. Vasquez was a member of the musicians Union for over 30 years. Las Vegas. During the early 1960s, Vasquez hit the Las Vegas circuit and was met with success and opportunity. He sang at the Stardust Resort and Casino, the Dunes (Sky Room), The Sands, the Aladdin Hotel and Casino (Big Room), the Flamingo (Lounge), the Tropicana (Lounge), Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe South Shore Room, where he worked for four years 1960-1964 without ever auditioning after being discovered at the Silver Slipper by Bill Harrah\u2019s wife Scherry Harrah. He shared the bill with artists including Sammy Davis Jr., Harry Belafonte, Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Liberace, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Prima, Dorthy Louden, Kay"}, {"text": "Starr, Jimmy Durante, George Burns, George Gobel, Danny Kaye, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Mitzi Gaynor, Sophie Tucker, Eleanor Powell, Danny Thomas, Myron Cohen, Dianah Shore, Rosemary Clooney, Patti Page, Polly Bergan, Donald O'Conner, Juliet Prowse, The Mills Brothers, Billy Eckstine, George Tapps, Harold Minsky, George Marrow, Bill Cosby, Nat King Cole, The Kingston Trio, Dorothy Dorben, Don Arden and Billy Daniels. Ray Vasquez also had years of work at Harrah's Lounge and the big room at Harvey's Resort Lounge in Lake Tahoe. He met his future wife Renee (Renee Victor) in Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas when she was the \"front girl\" with Perez Prado's orchestra. International success. His career took off internationally in the late 1960s. Vasquez and his wife traveled to Paris to rehearse \"Lido de Paris\" and went on to perform in countries including Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Venezuela, Cuba, the Philippines, Jamaica and Australia. Vasquez and his wife worked for four years in Australia. Taped in Perth, their television series on the Nine network \"The Ray and Renee Show\" created an American sensation in Australia. TV and film. Upon his return to the United States in the 1970s, Vasquez continued his acting career. He worked in television,"}, {"text": "radio and film; and co-hosted the KTLA talk show \"Pacesetters\". Vasquez was an active member of Screen Actors Guild for over 30 years. Retirement years. In his retirement, Vasquez continued to emcee and sing in ballrooms and country clubs. He continued acting, booking commercials and print work into his senior years, and received residual payments from his acting career until his death. Death. Vasquez sang with a piano accompanist until he was 94. In 2018, he suffered a heart attack. After one month in rehabilitation, he retired. Ten months later, his health declined rapidly. He died at home on January 25, 2019, with his daughters and family surrounding him, two weeks shy of his 95th birthday."}, {"text": "Sam T. Selby was an American football and basketball coach. Early life. Selby attended Middletown High School, where he played football under Elmo Lingrell. He then attended and graduated from Ohio State University. He played guard for the Buckeyes football team under both coach John Wilce and coach Sam Willaman. He lettered in the 1928, 1929, and 1930 seasons. In the 1929 game against arch-rival Michigan, he recovered a critical fumble that helped the Buckeyes to a 7\u20130 victory. During the 1930 season, Selby blocked a punt that resulted in safety preventing a shut out by Northwestern University. At the end of his final season of football, Selby was recognized for his gridiron career in several ways. He was named 3rd team All-America by the Central Press Association. He was also honored by being selected play in the 1930 East-West Shrine Bowl All-Star game in San Francisco. Coaching career. After college, he was the head football coach for one season at Port Clinton High School, followed by seven seasons at Wyoming High School. In 1939, Selby accepted a position at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, where he served as head coach and director of athletics. He served as the head"}, {"text": "football coach from 1939 to 1941. Coach Selby took over an Otterbein team that had only won one game the season before. After a winless season in his first year and a 3\u20135 season his second, his team was able to finish the 1941 season with a winning record. He also served as Otterbein's head men's basketball coach from 1939 to 1942. In 1942 he was granted a leave of absence from Otterbein to enter the US Navy, where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He was first stationed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, where he served as a physical training officer with the Atlantic Fleet Air Force. Eventually, he moved on to Naval Air Station in Glenview, Illinois, where Welfare and Recreation Officer. After being discharged from the Navy, he officially resigned as director of athletics at Otterbein to accept a job as an assistant football coach at the Ohio State University. He served as an assistant coach for the Buckeyes from 1945 to 1948. In the first two years, he served as assistant line coach and the next two years as the freshman coach. Later life. After resigning from coaching, Selby remained in the Columbus, Ohio area"}, {"text": "and take a position with Equitable Life Insurance."}, {"text": "This article contains lists of goalkeepers for the United States men's national water polo team at the Summer Olympics, and is part of the United States men's Olympic water polo team statistics series. The lists are updated as of March 30, 2020. By tournament. The following table is pre-sorted by edition of the Olympics (in ascending order), number of matches played (in descending order), Cap number or name of the goalkeeper (in ascending order), respectively. Appearances. The following table is pre-sorted by number of Olympic appearances (in descending order), date of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), date of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), name of the goalkeeper (in ascending order), respectively. Ten American goalkeepers have each made at least two Olympic appearances. Craig Wilson is the first starting goalkeeper for the United States men's national team to have competed in three Olympic Games (1984\u20131992). He is the only starting goalkeeper to have won two Olympic medals (1984 , 1988 ). Historical progression \u2013 appearances of goalkeepers. The following table shows the historical progression of appearances of goalkeepers at the Olympic Games. Match played. Goalkeepers with at least one match played at the Olympics. The following table"}, {"text": "is pre-sorted by number of total matches played (in descending order), edition of the Olympics (in ascending order), name of the goalkeeper (in ascending order), respectively. Craig Wilson is the American goalkeeper with the most matches played at the Olympic Games. Historical progression \u2013 total matches played by goalkeepers. The following table shows the historical progression of the record of total matches played by goalkeepers at the Olympic Games. Goalkeepers with at least one match played in an Olympic tournament. The following table is pre-sorted by number of matches played (in descending order), edition of the Olympics (in ascending order), Cap number or name of the goalkeeper (in ascending order), respectively. Shots saved and efficiency. The following table is pre-sorted by edition of the Olympics (in ascending order), Cap number or name of the goalkeeper (in ascending order), respectively."}, {"text": "The twelfth series of the Australian cooking game show \"MasterChef Australia\", also known as MasterChef: Back to Win and MasterChef Australia: Back to Win, premiered on 13 April 2020 on Network 10. It is the first series to feature series four winner Andy Allen, Melissa Leong and Jock Zonfrillo serving as judges, after the departure of Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston in the previous season. This series involves former high-achieving contestants from the past eleven series of \"MasterChef Australia\", returning for another chance at the title of 'MasterChef' and a prize of A$250,000. Applications for contestants for the twelfth series of \"MasterChef Australia\" opened in May 2019. However, plans were changed when contestants from previous seasons were brought onboard instead of new contestants. The competition was won by Emelia Jackson in the grand finale against Laura Sharrad, broadcast on 20 July 2020. Changes. Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston departed the show in 2019 and were replaced with new judges Andy Allen, Melissa Leong and Jock Zonfrillo. In this series, the typical \"MasterChef\" weekly format was slightly changed from prior series. Mondays now feature a \"Team Challenge\" with the losing team facing Tuesday's \"Pressure Test\" elimination. Wednesdays"}, {"text": "feature a \"Mystery Box\" with the best cooks competing in the \"Immunity Challenge\" on Thursday, in which one contestant will be granted immunity from the upcoming elimination. All the other contestants then head into the \"All-In Elimination Challenge\" on Sunday. In addition, only one Immunity Pin was up for grabs this season; it was awarded to Dani Venn in the first episode of the series. A new format schedule was debuted on 14 June, with the show beginning to air only three nights a week. Mondays featured the \"Mystery Box\", Tuesdays featured the \"Immunity Challenge\", and Sundays featured the \"All-In Elimination Challenge\". Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, production of the show continued while following government regulations. This includes the observance of social distancing, having individual plates for each judge during tasting, and the use of gloves when handling ingredients. In addition, the number of crew on set has been reduced by half, and outside challenges and guests have been dialled back. The new measures debuted on 25 May 2020. Unlike previous seasons, there was no mid-way \"second chance\" return challenge for eliminated contestants; all eliminated contestants had no chance to return to the season. Contestants. The 24 returning contestants were announced"}, {"text": "on 19 February 2020. Other past contestants such as Derek Lau, Sarah Todd, and Alvin Quah were later confirmed to have been invited to compete in the series, but refused for various reasons. In March 2020, Ben Ungermann suddenly left the series after being arrested in a matter unrelated to the show. His departure was announced on 17 May 2020. Most charges were dropped when Ungermann pleaded guilty to a single count of common law assault, avoiding a criminal conviction. Notes Future Appearances Allegations of favouritism from viewers. Despite the largely positive overall reception, the series has been met with some skepticism from viewers, mostly through social media, concerning the judges' apparent favouritism towards certain contestants. The most prominent instance of this has centered around contestant Laura Sharrad, who worked in judge Jock Zonfrillo's restaurant for two years following her Series 6 appearance, thus sparking concerns that Zonfrillo may therefore be biased towards her. Other criticism has focused largely on Laura's supposed tendency to cook pasta dishes repeatedly, despite the fact that less than half her dishes could be classified as such. The judges' decision to award Weekly Immunity to Laura, rather than Poh, in Episode 50, was met with"}, {"text": "backlash from viewers, who felt that Poh's effort was evidently superior. Laura spoke out about her controversy, citing the numerous non-pasta dishes she has cooked on the show and claiming that having to cook for her former employer has made the competition harder, rather than easier, for her. Emelia Jackson called the online hate \"narrow-minded\". Other accusations have attacked the judges' apparent reluctance to eliminate contestants Poh Ling Yeow and Reynold Poernomo, both of whom are considered fan favourites, and, therefore, beneficial to the show's viewership. Notably, contestant Tessa Boersma\u2019s elimination stirred controversy and prompted allegations of bias towards Reynold. On the other hand, fans of Reynold called the finale \"rigged\" because Reynold was not in it. \u2013 Highest rating during the series \u2013 Lowest rating during the series"}, {"text": "The 2020 Hangzhou Spark season was the second season of Hangzhou Spark's existence in the Overwatch League and their second season under head coach Lee \"Mask\" Mu-ho. The Spark planned on hosting two homestand events in the 2020 season, taking place at the Hangzhou Grand Theatre and Wuzhen Grand Theatre; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all homestand events were cancelled by the league. Preceding offseason. Organizational changes. In late October, the Spark announced that they had parted ways with assistant coach Han \"Sup7eme\" Seung-jun. The team signed former Florida Mayhem assistant coach Jung \"yeah\" Young-su as an assistant coach in mid-November. Roster changes. The Spark enter the new season with no free agents, four players which they have the option to retain for another year, and eight players under contract. The OWL's deadline to exercise a team option was November 11, after which any players not retained became a free agent. Free agency officially began on October 7. The Spark's first departure of the offseason was on November 11, when the team released flex support An \"Revenge\" Hyeong-Geun. On November 23, it was announced that tank player Jeong \"NoSmite\" Da-Un had signed to the Paris Eternal. The Spark promoted"}, {"text": "support players Liu \"M1ka\" Jiming and Tong \"Coldest\" Xiaodong from their academy team Bilibili Gaming on January 14. Homestand events. In August 2019, the Spark announced that they would hold two homestand events, with the first at the Hangzhou Theatre from February 29 to March 1, 2020, and the second at the Wuzhen Grand Theatre from June 21 to 22, 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league cancelled all February and March matches planned in China, which cancelled the Spark's first homestand at the Hangzhou Theatre. The Overwatch League announced that the cancelled homestand events in China would be rescheduled for Weeks 5 through 7 in a studio in Seoul, South Korea; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, these matches were cancelled as well. Roster. Transactions. Transactions of/for players on the roster during the 2020 regular season:"}, {"text": "J. C. Chestine \"Rooster\" Coffee (April 22, 1915 \u2013 September 14, 2000) was an American football coach and player. He served as the head football coach at Maryland State College (now known as the University of Maryland Eastern Shore) from 1946 to 1947. He led the 1947 Maryland State Raiders football team to a perfect 8\u20130 record. He played college football at Indiana University, earning All-Big Nine honors as a guard in 1943."}, {"text": "A statue of Thomas Cass by Richard E. Brooks, called Colonel Thomas Cass, is installed in Boston's Public Garden, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Description and history. After a previous statue at the same site was found to be ugly, Brooks was commissioned to design a statue of Cass by the Boston Arts Commission in 1897. The bronze sculpture was cast in 1899 and unveiled on September 22 of the same year. It replaced a previous granite memorial of Cass. The statue earned Brooks a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. The statue depicts Cass in a Civil War uniform with his arms folded across his chest. It measures approximately 8 ft. x 2 ft. 4 in. x 2 ft. 4 in., and rests on a granite base measuring approximately 6 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 8 in. x 3 ft. 8 in. The granite came from Red Beach, Maine. The artwork was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1993. The monument has been recognized as an historic feature of the Public Garden, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, by the National Park Service. In 2009,"}, {"text": "Peters F. Stevens of the \"Boston Irish Reporter\" wrote: A statue of Colonel Cass was erected in the Boston Public Garden, but surviving veterans of his regiment railed that the memorial was both stiff and a poor likeness of the fallen hero. The Society of the Ninth Regiment raised funds to tear down the statue and commissioned noted sculptor Richard E. Brooks to craft a bronze statue of Cass. On September 22, 1899, the striking bronze, which captured the visage and commanding presence of Colonel Thomas Cass and garnered high praise and a prestigious award for Brooks, was unveiled. It stands there today, testimony to a hero \u2013 a Boston Irish and American hero."}, {"text": "The 2019 Northern European Gymnastics Championships was an artistic gymnastics competition held in K\u00f3pavogur, Iceland. The event was held between 21 and 22 September."}, {"text": "Eddie Yue Wai-man (; born 21 September 1964) is the 3rd and current Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, having held the position since 1 October 2019. Education. Yue received a bachelor's degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a law degree and a master's degree from the University of London, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Controversies. In September 2022, Yue said that when inviting executives to Hong Kong for the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit in November 2022, \"Nobody asked about quarantine restrictions [then], or any arrangements needed to come to Hong Kong.\" In contrast, earlier reports said that executives told the Hong Kong government they would be reluctant to travel if hotel quarantine was required, or if any other restrictions remained in place. Yue said that their attendance to the Summit was a vote of confidence for the city. On 27 October 2022, Yue said that he hoped the public would understand letting the guests to the Summit be exempt from normal COVID-19 restrictions, where other arrivals to Hong Kong cannot eat at restaurants in the first 3 days after landing in the city. Despite the COVID-19 exemptions for the guests, Yue said"}, {"text": "\"Hong Kong is back.\""}, {"text": "The men's 4x4 beach volleyball tournament at the 2019 World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar, the inaugural edition of the ANOC World Beach Games, will take place over five days from 12\u201316 October. Held in tandem with the women's tournament, the two events comprise the 4x4 beach volleyball competition at this year's Games. Organised by the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), national associations of FIVB (4x4 beach volleyball's governing body) from a territory with a National Olympic Committee (NOC) were invited to enter one team from which 8 teams. The tournament is a multi-stage competition, consisting of a round-robin group stage and followed by a single elimination knockout round, starting with the semi-finals and ending with the gold medal match. Competition schedule. The tournament will begin on 12 October, after the opening ceremony, and end on the final day of the Games, 16 October. Matches deciding medal winners will take place exclusively on 16 October. Qualified teams. Each National Olympic Committee might enter up to one men's and one women's team in the 4x4 beach volleyball tournaments. The qualification processes for the men's and women's events were similar. The host country was guaranteed an entry in each event. The"}, {"text": "five spots were awarded to the best FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings for each continental federation. 2 more spots were awarded to invitation (wild card) process. Venues. The matches will be held on the Katara Beach. The number of arenas that will be used is yet to be revealed. Squads. Each team may enter a squad consisting of up to 6 players. A total of up to 48 athletes are expected to compete. Pools composition. Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings as of 30 June 2019. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as heads of pool A regardless of the World Ranking."}, {"text": "Elk Mountain is a mountain summit located in the Olympic Mountains, in Clallam County of Washington state. It is set within Olympic National Park and is situated at the eastern end of Hurricane Ridge. The nearest higher peak is McCartney Peak, to the south-southwest. Precipitation runoff from the south slope of the mountain drains into tributaries of the Dungeness River, whereas the north slope is drained by tributaries of Morse Creek which thence empties into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Climate. Set in the north-central portion of the Olympic Mountains, Elk Mountain is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America. Weather fronts originating in the Pacific Ocean travel northeast toward the Olympic Mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snow. As a result, the Olympics experience high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall. Because of maritime influence, snow tends to be wet and heavy, resulting in high avalanche danger. During winter months weather is usually cloudy, but due to high pressure systems over the Pacific Ocean that intensify during summer months,"}, {"text": "there is often little or no cloud cover during the summer. Geology. The Olympic Mountains are composed of obducted clastic wedge material and oceanic crust, primarily Eocene sandstone, turbidite, and basaltic oceanic crust. The mountains were sculpted during the Pleistocene era by erosion and glaciers advancing and retreating multiple times. Etymology. Olympic National Park is home to the largest unmanaged herd of Roosevelt elk in the Pacific Northwest. Named after President Theodore Roosevelt, they are North America's largest variety of elk. It is ironic that none are now found in the area of Elk Mountain. As for the mountain's name origin: According to a 1984 field guide:"}, {"text": "Arthur W. Briggs (July 6, 1884 \u2013 December 20, 1949) was an American football, basketball, baseball and track and field coach. He served as the head football (1912\u20131917, 1919\u20131933), men's basketball (1913\u20131918, 1919\u20131923), baseball (1914\u20131917), and track coach at Missouri State University (then known as Southwest Missouri State College) in Springfield, Missouri. Briggs played college football at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts"}, {"text": "The East China University of Technology (ECUT; ) is a public university located in Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. It is China's first university for nuclear industry, affiliated with the Jiangxi Provincial Government, and co-sponsored by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense(SASTIND), the Ministry of Natural Resources, and the China National Nuclear Corporation(CNNC). ECUT is the pilot university of the Outstanding Engineer Education and Training Programme of the Ministry of Education, the Plan 111 of the Ministry of Education, the Basic Capacity Building Project of Colleges and Universities in the Central and Western regions to support universities, and the New Engineering research and practise projects to be selected in colleges and universities. The university anniversary of East China University of Technology is October 16th, the date when China's first atomic bomb was successfully detonated. History. ECUT, originally established in 1956 in Shanxi Province. It started as Taigu Geological School. It belonged to State Second Mechanic Industry, a state defence institution. It was jointly built by the People's Government of Jiangxi Province, the State Administration of National Defence Science, Technology and Industry, the Ministry of Natural Resources, and the China Nuclear Industry Corporation. In 1958, ECUT moved to"}, {"text": "Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province due to the abundant uranium deposits, and later to Nanchang. Presently, ECUT is jointly run by the Jiangxi Government and China Atomic Energy Association (CAEA), the Ministry of Natural Resource (MNR), China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). Curriculum. From its inception, ECUT has focused on the fields of nuclear science and geoscience and expanded to engineering, science, language, economy, and arts. ECUT offers one doctoral programme, 71 master programmes, and 68 bachelor programmes. Most of these disciplines are connected to the traditional fields at ECUT, forming more than 20 schools and research centres. Since its establishment, ECUT has focused its education and research in the field of Nuclear Science and Geology Science, with the relevant disciplines, developed gradually. Based on the featured disciplines ECUT has developed into the fields of Geological Tourism, Geological Economy, Geological Chemistry, and Geological Environment etc. So far, ECUT has extended its education and research to engineering, science, language, management, economy and arts, among which 1 doctoral programme, 71 master programmes and 72 bachelor programmes, forming more than 20 schools and research centres. Students and staff. ECUT has a team of 2,800 teachers as its full-time staff, including 123 professors. Around 23,000 students study"}, {"text": "on the campuses. ECUT enrols international students, including doctoral programmes, master programmes, and bachelor programmes. Research environment. ECUT has more than ten national and provincial laboratories: the State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Resources and the Environment, the National Defence Key Discipline Laboratory of Radioactive Geology and Exploration Technology, the Science Ministry's International Cooperation Base of Earth Environment, the Education Ministry's Engineering Research Centre for Nuclear Technology, the Reference Laboratory of IAEA and the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centre for Radioactive Geology. In addition, two training centres, the Uranium Geology and Isotope Hydrology Advanced Training Centre of IAEA, and the Overseas Uranium Resources Exploration are present. Campus. ECUT has two campuses, located in Nanchang and Fuzhou. The main campus is situated in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province. The other campus, approximately 80 km southeast of Nanchang, is in Fuzhou. The two campuses occupy an area of 1400 km2."}, {"text": "Oscar Smith (1885\u20131956) was an American actor who worked in Hollywood at Paramount Pictures from the 1920s through the 1940s. Like most black actors of his time, his appearances onscreen were often uncredited. He was known for his short stature, his youthful appearance (he was nicknamed \"The Cute Kid\"), and his stutter. Biography. Oscar was born in Topeka, Kansas, to Scott Smith and Sarah Jones. He was hired on at Paramount around 1919 as the valet and shoe-shiner of Wallace Reid; the pair met when Oscar was shining shoes in a Los Angeles barber shop. Oscar and his wife, Nora, lived with the Reids for a time while working for the couple. When Reid died, in his will, he stipulated that Oscar be given a shoe shine stand at Paramount for the rest of Oscar's life. Oscar's shoeshine stand was located right inside the studio gates on Bronson Avenue, and it became known as a spot where one could hear major Hollywood gossip; this position led to numerous small on-screen roles in Paramount films. (His cousin was left in charge of the stand when Oscar would go to work on set.) In 1928, on the merit of his performance in"}, {"text": "\"The Canary Murder Case\", he signed a long-term contract as an actor, a first for a black performer at Paramount. Oscar also kept busy working as an agent for aspiring black actors. He also had a membership in the Make-Up Artists Guild; he is noted as having worked on the makeup of black actors on the set of 1943's \"Happy Go Lucky\"."}, {"text": "H\u00e9ctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, O.F.M. (born 5 July 1948) is a Peruvian prelate of the Catholic Church who was the Archbishop of Trujillo from 1999 to 2025. He has been a bishop since 1988 and currently heads the Latin American Bishops Council (CELAM). Biography. H\u00e9ctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte was born in Chota on 5 July 1948. He took his vows as a Franciscan on 29 June 1974 and on 7 December 1991 he was ordained a priest of that order. On 20 June 1988, Pope John Paul II named him auxiliary bishop of Lima. He received his episcopal consecration on 7 August from Cardinal Juan Land\u00e1zuri Ricketts, Archbishop of Lima. On 6 February 1996, Pope John Paul named him head of the Military Ordinariate of Peru where he took office on 7 March 1998. On 29 July 1999 he was named Archbishop of Trujillo. Pope John Paul named him a member of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America on 5 July 2004. He was president of the Peruvian Bishops Conference from 2009 to 2012, and he began another term in that in 2018. He was elected to a four-year term as president of the Latin American Bishops Council (CELAM) in"}, {"text": "May 2019. He was a participant in the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region in 2019. He was one of four Synod prelates elected on 7 October to the thirteen-person committee to prepare the Synod's concluding document. Cabrejas submitted his resignation as archbishop to Pope Francis in 2023 as he reached the mandatory retirement age of 75. He also stepped down from the Peruvian Episcopal Conference in January 2025. On 11 February 2025, his resignation was accepted by the Vatican amid criticism over his failure to stop abuses by the Catholic organization Sodalitium Christianae Vitae when he was president of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference."}, {"text": "The Bull-of-the-Woods Logging Scow is a small paddle steamer wrecked in Burntside Lake in Morse Township, Minnesota, United States. It was built no earlier than 1893 for one of the lumber companies operating in the area. It is a small, flat-bottomed vessel outfitted with a steam donkey modified to power the vessel as well as a winch. There were at least a few of these vessels in operation in northeastern Minnesota in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, where they were locally known as \"alligators\" or \"gators\". With the steam-powered winch and shallow paddle wheels, they could tow timber rafts, hoist logs, navigate shallow waters, and even pull themselves across dry land. This vessel may have remained in service as late as 1926, when the last lumber company ceased operations on Burntside Lake. It is the only known surviving example of its type. The wreck site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 for its significance in the themes of architecture, historical archaeology, industry, and maritime history. It was nominated as the only known example of a distinctive and little-documented vessel type, important for transportation for the region's lumber companies. It was also noted as"}, {"text": "a symbol of the increasing mechanization of the industry and a potential site for archaeological research into its design and construction."}, {"text": "Henry O. \"Molly\" Crawford (April 28, 1901 \u2013 August 2, 1967) was an American football and track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at Sam Houston State University from 1936 to 1937. He also served as the school's track coach beginning in 1929."}, {"text": "Sir Baldwin II, Count of Gu\u00eenes (died 2 January 1205), was a French nobleman. Biography. In 1191, Baldwin II was required to pay homage to the King of France after the ceding of his territory by the Count of Flanders. He also held lands in England. During a dispute with Renaud I, Count of Dammartin, he was captured whilst fighting. While Baldwin was released a little later, he died of the effects of his captivity. Marriage and issue. Baldwin married Christine d'Ardres, daughter of Arnould IV de Marcq, vicomte d'Ardres and Adeline d'Ardres, they are known to have had the following issue. Baldwin also is known to have had the following illegitimate children: It is recorded that twenty three illegitimate children attended his funeral."}, {"text": "Esti Almo Wexler or Esti Almo () is an Ethiopian-Israeli film director, writer, and cinematographer. Along with her husband Elad, she is the founder of Abayenesh Productions. Her works strive to tell the stories and hardships of Israeli-Ethiopian Jews. Early life and education. Almo Wexler emigrated to Israel at the age of four, joining her family members who had emigrated there in prior years. In high school, she studied art and design, and often participated in extra-curricular theater activities after school. After completing her mandatory two-year military service, she studied cinema and storytelling at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design where she got her undergraduate degree and graduated with a masters from Tel Aviv University but could not secure employment and ultimately moved back to her parents house, where she eventually took up film-making and writing about her community's issues. Films. In high school she produced an animated short called \"Written in the Sand\". Almo Wexler's first professional work was a short film titled \"Summer of 89\" released in 2013. Her first full-length film was titled \"Lady Titi Singing Blues\" or sometimes just \"Lady Titi\" a comedy-drama about the length an Ethiopian-Israeli individual goes to find employment. Although a comedy,"}, {"text": "it deals with serious issues affecting the Ethiopian-Israeli community, including poverty, underemployment, and institutional racism. Almo Wexler also directed a documentary titled \"Looking for Tena\", about a family's efforts to find a relative in Sudan who had converted to Islam and given up their Jewish culture. The documentary dealt with double rejection of the family, both from Israeli society but also from the Ethiopian Jewish community. Personal life. She is married to Elad Wexler, whom she met when the two studied at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. They are also business partners, and have their own film company they co-own named Abayenesh Productions. Esti and Elad have two children."}, {"text": "The suffix -tania or -etania (English demonym \"-tanian\", \"-tanians\") denotes a territory or region in the Iberian Peninsula. Its historical origin is in the pre-Roman Iberia. Its etymological origin is discussed by linguists. Spanish Jesuit philologist Herv\u00e1s y Panduro proposed their link to the Celtic languages, in which the root \"*tan\" or \"*ta\u00edn\" means department or region. \"In Irish, \"tan\" (genitive, \"tain\") expresses the idea of \"country\", \"territory\".\" Other philologists such as Pablo Pedro Astarloa suggest a combination of the Basque abundance suffix (as in Arteta, Lusarreta, Olleta) with the Latin root \"*nia\" used in place names (such as Romania, Hispania, Italia). The form of demonym used by some epigraphs in the Iberian language found in coins is -\"ken\" or -\"sken\", as in Ikalesken, which is unrelated to the Latin-Hispanic -\"tanus\". This suggests that -tania may be a denomination of Roman origin. According to the historian and archaeologist Manuel G\u00f3mez-Moreno, the Latin suffix -\"tani\" corresponds to the Iberian -\"scen\", For example, the Ausetanians (\"Ausetani\") who called themselves \"Ausesken\". The Romans also applied this suffix to other peoples of the western Mediterranean (Sardinia and Sicily), and to a lesser extent to those of the Italian Peninsula, where however the suffix -\"ates\""}, {"text": "prevails. Before Roman contact with the Iberian peoples, there were already Greek colonies in Iberia. The ancient Greeks used the older suffix -\u03b7\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 (-\"etes\"), -\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 or -\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 (-\"etai\"), which would be replaced by -\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9 or -\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9 (-\"etani\"), according to researcher Ulrich Schmoll (1953). Another theory, partially developed by the Aragonese jurist Joaqu\u00edn Costa, relates that suffix to the Berber \"*ait\", which means both \"son of\" and \"the tribe\", or with \"*at\", meaning \"people.\" This theory that supports that \"aide\" (\"aita\") is a relative in Basque."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 UNC Asheville Bulldogs men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Asheville in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by second-year head coach Mike Morrell, played their home games at Kimmel Arena in Asheville, North Carolina, as members of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 15\u201316, 8\u201310 in Big South play to finish in a tie for fifth place. They defeated Campbell in the first round of the Big South tournament before losing in the quarterfinals to Gardner\u2013Webb. Previous season. The Bulldogs finished the 2018\u201319 season 4\u201327 overall, 2\u201314 in Big South play to finish in tenth place. In the Big South tournament, they were defeated by Presbyterian in the first round. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=| Exhibition !colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Big South Conference regular season !colspan=12 style=| Big South tournament Source"}, {"text": "Hopper Academy is a former school for African Americans in Sanford, Florida. It closed in the early 1960s, was used by the school district, and was then abandoned and fell into disrepair. It has been restored and is now a community center. It is on the Florida Black Heritage Trail and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The two-story wooden schoolhouse was built in 1906. William C. McLester was the school's first principal. Joseph N. Crooms also served as one of its principals. Following the completion of Crooms Academy in 1926, Hopper was converted to an elementary and middle school, housing kindergarten through eighth grade. It closed in the 1960s and fell into disrepair. The building is being restored for use as a community center. It is part of the Florida Black History Heritage Trail. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. It is located in the Georgetown section of Sanford."}, {"text": "The 2020 Houston Outlaws season is the third season of the Houston Outlaws's existence in the Overwatch League (OWL). The Outlaws planned to host two homestand weekends at the Revention Music Center in Houston's downtown Theater District. While their first homestand took place, all other homestand matches were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Outlaws failed to make it past the quarterfinals in each of the three midseason tournaments of the season. Houston ended the season with a 6\u201315 record and were eliminated from postseason contention on September 3 after a 1\u20133 to the Boston Uprising in the North America play-ins tournament. Preceding offseason. Sale of the franchise. On June 12, 2019, Immortals Gaming Club (IGC), the parent company of Immortals and the Los Angeles Valiant, acquired Infinite Esports, the parent company of Houston Outlaws and OpTic Gaming, marking the first major sale of any Overwatch League franchise. By OWL rules, one company may not own more than one OWL franchise; while Riot Games and Activision Blizzard approved the sale, IGC operated Valiant and Outlaws as entirely separate entities, with oversight by OWL representatives, until they sold the Outlaws. On November 14, 2019, Beasley Broadcast Group announced the acquisition"}, {"text": "of the Houston Outlaws from Immortals Gaming Club. The purchase marked the company's third esports venture. Organizational changes. In September 2019, the Outlaws released both head coach Kim \"TaiRong\" Tae-yeong and assistant coach Kim \"Hyunwoo\" Hyun-woo \u2013 both who had been in their positions since the team's inception in 2017 \u2013 after Houston's disappointing 2019 campaign. The following month, Houston signed Harsha Bandi, the former assistant coach of the Vancouver Titans and former analyst of the San Francisco Shock. Following, the team signed former Montreal Rebellion coach Chris \"Dream\" Myrick to their coaching staff. Roster changes. The Outlaws enter the new season with three free agents, one player which they have the option to retain for another year, and six players under contract. The OWL's deadline to exercise a team option is November 11, after which any players not retained will become a free agent. Free agency officially began on October 7. Acquisitions. The first signing for the 2020 season was on October 18, when the Outlaws signed DPS Jo\u00e3o Pedro \"Hydration\" Goes Telles, who had most recently played for the Los Angeles Gladiators. Three days later, the team acquired DPS Jeffrey \"blas\u00e9\" Tsang from the Boston Uprising. The following"}, {"text": "month, Houston picked up former Vancouver Titans flex support player Jung-geun \"Rapel\" Kim and former New York Excelsior flex tank Kim \"MekO\" Tae-hong. The team added former Seoul Dynasty support player Lee \"Jecse\" Seong-soo on January 2. Departures. On October 17, the Outlaws announced that they would not re-sign free agent DPS Jung \"Arhan\" Won-hyeop, who had been with the team since its inception in 2017. The following month, on November 9, the team announced that they would also not re-sign main support Chris \"Bani\" Bennell. On December 7, flex DPS Jake \"Jake\" Lyon announced that was retiring from professional \"Overwatch\" competition. A month later, on January 14, off-tank player Matt \"Coolmatt\" Iorio retired as a player and moved to an organizational role with the Outlaws. Roster. Transactions. Transactions of/for players on the roster during the 2020 regular season:"}, {"text": "Mister Yellowman is the debut studio album by the Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay Yellowman. In October 1982 it was released as \"Mister Yellowman\" in the United Kingdom by Greensleeves Records and as \"Duppy or Gunman\" in Jamaica by Jah Guidance / VP Records, also in 1982. Critical reception. A 1982 review in \"Billboard\" states \"Yellowman strips reggae down to the minimum here. The vocals are rapped almost as much as sung, whilst the instrumentation is down to almost the rhythm track. This bare bones approach works a lot better than one would think, primarily because Yellowman, who is getting better known all the time, has the presence and innate sense of rhythm and song to make it work.\" Jo-Ann Greene in AllMusic wrote \"Mister Yellowman was the DJ's first album with Lawes, and remains one of his best. Backed by the seminal Roots Radics and Earl \"Chinna\" Smith's Hi Times band, the deep roots that both created were further finessed by Lawes into a simmering stew of dancehall-inflected rhythms shot through with dub. Yellowman spoke directly to the lives of regular Jamaicans while effortlessly riding the rootsy rhythms. Today overshadowed by many of his contemporaries, Mister sets the record"}, {"text": "straight; a masterly DJ set that just can't be beat.\" Harry Hawks, from ReggaeCollector.com, wrote: \"In 1982, at the height of his fame, he released more albums than Bob Marley had put out in his entire career and his plethora of albums, seven and twelve inch singles can prove very confusing to a newcomer to Yellowman's oeuvre. His most accomplished and consistent studio work was with Henry 'Junjo' Lawes and their 1982 album 'Mister Yellowman', released on Greensleeves in London, began to establish his reputation beyond the confines of Jamaica's dance halls.\" Pat Gilbert and the \"Mojo\" staff listed the album at number 45 of MOJO's 50 greatest reggae albums. They wrote: \"Sometimes ridiculous, often very rude but always mesmerising dancehall classic from albino JA star.\" Bud Kliment and Amy Wachtel in Trouser Press state that \"Mister Yellowman, the album that helped launch his international fame, remains among his best. Nearly every cut is strong, including \"Mister Chin,\" \"Two to Six Supermix\" and the \"My Fair Lady\"-inspired \"Yellowman Getting Married\" (in the morning). While they often come close, none of his other records equal this consistency and easy versatility.\" Pitchfork included the album as No. 170 in their 200 best"}, {"text": "albums of the 1980s, commenting that the album \"illustrates his seismic impact\". \"Vibe\" stated the album was \"an entrancing and not all together lascivious collection that sways just as often as it shimmies.\" Track listing. Duppy or Gunman. In the album \"Duppy or Gunman\" the song \"Yellowman Getting Married\" features an extra verse before the end. In the album \"Mister Yellowman\" this verse was edited out."}, {"text": "Ma Dehan () was a Hui Chinese revolutionary. Born in Xiaopiyuan in Xi'an, he was active as a revolutionary in his hometown. He is known for meeting Chinese premier Zhou Enlai and assisting the Chinese Red Army's West Route Army. Early life. Ma Dehan's was born to a Hui family originating in Jiangning, Jiangsu. Born on January 27, 1868, in Xiaopiyuan, Xi'an. His father, Ma Yukun, was the personal doctor of Lai Wenguang, a military leader of the Taiping Rebellion, who moved to Shaanxi to treat civilians instead. Due to his family's lack of wealth, Ma Dehan could not afford to go to school, and was educated by his father, who taught him about values like kindness and bravery. In 1894, Ma went to Chengdu, where he enrolled in the Sichuan Army Officer School and an art school. In 1906, he joined the Gelaohui and Tongmenghui, contributing to \"Destroy the Imperial Order, Create New Harmony\" revolutionary activities. He joined the Sichuan New Army as an officer. As a low-ranking officer, he was a part of the Railway Protection Movement. He was captured in mid-1911 by the Governor-General of Sichuan, Zhao Erfeng, along with other leading revolutionaries. Republican Era. After the"}, {"text": "Xinhai Revolution, Ma Dehan was responsible for military affairs in Sichuan and Gansu. As a Hui himself, Ma was dedicated to the ideals of equality between the Five Races. He was invited into the Provincial government of Gansu under Dujun (Military Governor) Ma Liang'an. As a teacher and someone deeply invested into educating Hui children, Ma started his own Islamic school. Starting from 1916, he worked for the Regional Defence Commander of Gansu and Ningxia, Ma Lin, as a training officer for his Ninghai troops. He also served as a tutor and art teacher for Ma Lin's wife and son, Su Buqing and Ma Buqing. Through this, he became close with Ma Fuxiang, Ma Anliang, and Ma Xiwu. According to Ma: In 1928, Ma Dehan headed home to Xi'an to tend for his old and sick mother. He noticed the many problems the city was facing. According to records throughout the entire province, 2 million were starving, 2 million were displaced, and 8 million were barely able to survive. In 1930, along with other prominent Hui figures such as Ma Ruisheng and Bai Chuzhen, Ma organized the Shaanxi Hui Disaster Relief Organization, accruing funds to assist local Hui people. Rescuing"}, {"text": "the West Route Army. After the Mukden Incident in 1931, Ma Dehan and the Shaanxi Hui Disaster Relief Organization declared that they would put another focus on resisting the Japanese. After the Xi'an Incident in 1936, Ma Dehan, with Ma Zhao and other figures joined the Shaanxi Hui Anti-Japanese Association, and started participating in Anti-Japanese activities with members of the Ma family warlords. In December 1936, the Chinese Red Army's West Route Army, with a force of 25,000 reduced to 6,000, ended up in Xi'an, with many of their soldiers captured by the local Kuomintang forces (including those of Ma Buqing, Ma Dehan's student). In January 1937, in order to assist the Western Route Army, Zhou Enlai visited Xi'an, where he became friends with Ma Dehan and requested through him to speak to Ma Buqing. Zhou Enlai gave gifts to Ma Buqing using parts of a package of 1,000 Silver Yuans he received and told Ma Dehan that once he returned from Liangzhou (today Wuwei), he could go to Haizang Temple outside the North Gate to speak with a member of the Communist Party, where he could trade information with the local Communists. Ma then went to Liangzhou to meet"}, {"text": "with Ma Buqing to discuss starting a new art and calligraphy exhibition there. Due to their close teacher-student relationship, Ma Buqing was hospitable and arranged for Ma Dehan to stay in the South Hall of the Communications Office. Ma Dehan, bringing Zhou Enlai's gift, informed Ma Buqing about the plan to peacefully resolve the Xi'an Incident and asked him to help the Communists in creating a United Front against the Japanese. Upon hearing his, Ma Buqing suspected Ma Dehan on being a Communist. However, the two Hui politicians accompanying Ma Dehan helped explain their situation and further, and Ma Buqing eventually agreed to release his West Route Army prisoners. Ma Buqing wrote two letters, one (carried by Ma Dehan) ordering the mayor to mobilize his garrison brigades, and one sent to Qinghai to assist in the rescue of West Route Army prisoners. In April 1937, while Kuomintang chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Government Ma Lin returned from his Hajj, he passed through Xi'an on his way to Xining. Upon hearing this, Zhou Enlai requested to meet with him. Due to the unsafe nature of official facilities, Ma Dehan invited Ma Lin to his house for a banquet, ordering a feast"}, {"text": "from the Hui restaurant Tianxilou to be sent to House No. 49 in West Yangshi. Ma Lin, accompanied by the Secretary-General of the Kuomintang Qinghai Provincial Government, Tan Kemin, arrived at the banquet, where they were introduced by Ma Dehan to Zhou Enlai. Ma Lin was initially shocked, but shook hands with Zhou and exclaimed: During the meeting, Ma Lin expressed his support for the Communist Party's idea of a United Front, and promised that he would return the imprisoned soldiers of the West Route Army. Later, Ma Dehan received news from fellow revolutionary Wu Hongbin that he had met with Ma Bufang with information about the captured West Route Army soldiers, which Ma Dehan relayed to the office of the Eighth Route Army in Xi'an. Because of Ma Dehan's efforts, 4,000 captured soldiers of the West Route Army were released by the Ma family. In the summer of 1938, Zhou Enlai thanked Ma Dehan, giving him a German-made hearing aid to help his hearing impairment, something he used until his death. Mao Zedong also told Zhou Enlai to give Ma Bufang a quilt and a coat made in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region as appreciation for his efforts. Second Sino-Japanese"}, {"text": "War. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ma Dehan kept in touch with the Chinese Communist Party, going to the Eighth Route Army base in Xi'an on a monthly basis to discuss recent events. He circulated Communist newspapers around the Hui community, brought from Yan'an by the Eighth Route Army. According to the Xi'an Eighth Route Army office, by the first half of 1938, Ma sent six Hui youths to Yan'an to study. Ma recommended his sons Ma Wei, Ma Yi, and Ma Can to the Communist Party. Zhou Enlai then recommended Ma Yi to Guo Moruo, who arranged for him to do Anti-Japanese propaganda work for the National Government. When the front-lines reached Hankou, Zhou Enlai requested for Ma Yi to go home to Xi'an, and for him and Ma Dehan to stay there. Post-War Activities. In May 1949, when the Communists took Xi'an, Ma Dehan welcomed the Communists. On May 20, he instructed the local Hui people to have their water ready-boiled to welcome the Red Army while waving a small flag. Ma spoke at the victory conference after Xi'an was taken, stating that he supported the Red Army's initiative \"to enter the northwest, liberate the northwest, and realize"}, {"text": "the motherland's reunification at an early date.\" In June 1949, Hu Zongnan, commander of the Nationalist forces trying to retake the city, helped circulate rumors of a potential Communist genocide of the Hui people, and called for the Hui to \"Work in collusion\" and \"Cooperate with the National Army\". In order to counteract this, Ma Dehan and Ma Pingyu held talks in the mosque to promote Communist ideals about religion. The two also helped the Northwest Military and Political Committee in organizing a meeting for all races in Xi'an. They wrote a document about Muslim soldiers and officers, which was published in Masses' Daily (predecessor of Shaanxi Daily), which also published one of Ma Dehan's speeches, advocating for the CCP, titled \"Ma Dehan, on Behalf of the Hui people, Hopes for the Quick Establishment of a Democratic Coalition\". After the People's Republic of China was founded, Ma Dehan served as a representative of the People's Congress of Shaanxi Province and Xi'an, a member of the CCP, the Deputy Director of the Ethnic Affairs Commission of Shaanxi Province and Xi'an, and a member of the Shaanxi Provincial and Xi'an Municipal governments. Zhou Enlai repeatedly introduced members of the Shaanxi Provincial Government"}, {"text": "to Ma Dehan, and enjoyed talking about his achievements, using him as a role model. In May 1955, while on his way back from the Bandung Conference, Zhou Enlai visited Xi'an and met with Ma, where he introduced Ma to Shaanxi governor Zhao Shoushan, clasping Ma's hand and saying \"From now, if there's anything you want to say, say it to Zhao Shoushan, he'll take care of it.\" In 1958, Ma Dehan fell ill, dying on May 20. The State Ethnic Affairs Commission announced it to the public, and Shaanxi Daily published an obituary later in the day. More than 3,000 people attended his funeral."}, {"text": "\"Lie Again\" is a song by American singer-songwriter Giveon. It was released through Epic Records on April 29, 2022, and serves as the second single for his debut studio album \"Give or Take\". The song was written and produced by Giveon and Don Mills. Giveon announced the song on April 19, 2022, exactly ten days before its release. Background. \"Lie Again\" comes after Giveon's ex-girlfriend, fellow American singer Justine Skye, announced and released her single, \"What a Lie\", which seemingly takes shots at Giveon for reportedly texting other women. On \"What a Lie\", Skye sings: \"User, what a user / A blessing, learning lessons / I see then for entertaining leeches / My poison was your peaches\". In the music video, she takes a bite of a peach and spits it out on the last line, which is a likely reference to Justin Bieber's 2021 number-one single, \"Peaches\", in which Giveon was featured alongside Daniel Caesar on. Skye described the song as a \"weak ass song\", while replying to a fan's tweet. About the song, Giveon said: \"'Lie Again' is a story about the internal war with oneself, battling the acceptance of the ugly-truth, and the refusal to embrace the"}, {"text": "ghosts of your lover's past. Detailing the complexities of overlooking red flags to remain blissfully ignorant in the name of love\". Composition and lyrics. \"Lie Again\" sees Giveon in denial, in which he cannot accept that a relationship is failed. However, he asks his lover to hide the truth as it would hurt and he would not want to deal with heartbreak. He uses his baritone voice, singing: \"So lie, lie again / No one has had you like I did / I don't need the truth, baby\". Music video. The official music video for \"Lie Again\", directed by Adrian Martinez, premiered alongside the song on April 29, 2022. Giveon walks down the streets of downtown Los Angeles, California, as he sees a couple kissing on the street. At the end of the video, an unreleased song is previewed."}, {"text": "The Norwegian Journal of Entomology is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering entomology, and arthropodology more in general, with an emphasis on Norway. It was established in 1920 as the Norsk Entomologisk Tidsskrift, obtaining its current title in 1974. From 1979 to 1998 it was published under the name Fauna Norvegica Serie B. The journal is published by the Norwegian Entomological Society and the editor-in-chief is \u00d8ivind Gammelmo. History. The first issue of the journal appeared in 1921 under the name \"Norsk Entomologisk Tidsskrift\". The first issue bore the year 1920 as the year of publication, but it was not printed until May 1921. From 1921 to 1975, 21 volumes of the journal were published; some volumes were released over several years, whereas others came out at shorter intervals. In 1975 the journal's name was changed to \"Norwegian Journal of Entomology\" in order to attract a broader international readership. The journal was published with one volume per year and consisted of two issues. Eventually there was difficulty financing the journal. The Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities (NAVF) withdrew its support for the journal in 1979. An application for support for a new combined national zoology journal was"}, {"text": "sent to the NAVF. The new journal was a collaboration between the Norwegian Zoological Society and the Norwegian Ornithological Society. The first issue appeared in 1979 and the name of the journal was \"Fauna Norvegica Serie B\" (\"Series B\" was for arthropods, \"Series A\" was for zoology, and \"Series C\" was for ornithology). In 1993, the NAVF withdrew its support for the journal, but the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) took over responsibility. However, for financial reasons, NINA also terminated the agreement in 1998, and the journal's further existence was jeopardized. The journal was able to continue publication in 1999, now under the aegis of the Norwegian Entomological Society, thanks to support from the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment. The journal's name was changed once more, back to its previously English name, \"Norwegian Journal of Entomology\". Abstracting and indexing. The journal is abstracted and indexed in:"}, {"text": "Azimo B.V. was an online remittance service headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It also had offices in Krak\u00f3w, Poland. Azimo offered money transfers to 190 receiving countries in over 80 different currencies. The company had half a million customers connected to its platform and offered more than 270,000 cash pick-up locations globally. As of October 2019, sending countries were limited to Europe. In March 2022, Azimo was acquired by the New York\u2013based payroll and payments solutions provider, PAPAYA Global, incorporating its licensed payment services to support global transactions. History. Azimo was founded in October 2012 in London, United Kingdom, and initially operated as a direct-to-consumer money transfer service, allowing customers to send money across borders. In 2012 and 2015, Azimo raised significant funding, including $31 million in Series A and B funding from investors including Frog Capital, Greycroft, MCI.TechVentures, e.ventures, and Quona Capital. In 2016, an updated version of its app was launched with features including in-app chat and biometric security. As of early 2016, Azimo had raised $31 million in Series A and B funding from investors including Frog Capital, Greycroft, MCI.TechVentures, e.ventures and Quona Capital. In May 2016, Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten invested in Azimo to accelerate the company's"}, {"text": "expansion into Asia. In 2020, Azimo moved to the Netherlands as a result of Brexit, while its development office was in Krak\u00f3w, Poland. Acquisition and current operations. In March 2022, Azimo was acquired by PAPAYA Global, a global workforce management platform. The acquisition marked a shift in Azimo's business model, from a direct-to-consumer money transfer service to the licensed payments arm of Papaya Global. In August 2022, the company discontinued its consumer money transfer services. Operations. Azimo offered money transfers to 190 receiving countries in over 80 different currencies. The company had half a million customers connected to its platform and offers more than 270,000 cash pick-up locations globally. In 2016, an updated version of its app was launched with features including in-app chat and biometric security. As of October 2019, sending countries were limited to Europe that are primarily in the EU. The list of sending countries was: As part of Papaya Global, Azimo now provides the regulatory and technical infrastructure for workforce-related payments. The company holds licenses in five top-tier jurisdictions, including the UK and European Economic Area (EEA), enabling Papaya Global to offer compliant payment services across multiple territories. Following the acquisition of Azimo, Papaya Global integrated"}, {"text": "Azimo's payment infrastructure and licenses to create a comprehensive global workforce payments solution. This integration enabled Papaya Global to become a payment solution specifically designed for workforce-related payments including net salaries, contractor payments, local tax authorities, vendors, etc."}, {"text": "Kjerulf Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. The Kjerulf Fjord is part of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord system. Administratively it lies in the area of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History. There are Inuit ruins at a place named Paradisdal. Excavations were conducted by James Wordie at the time of the 1929 Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland. There are also scattered remains of the now extinct East Greenland reindeer in the form of antlers and bones. The fjord was first mapped by Julius Payer during the 1869\u20131870 Second German North Polar Expedition led by Carl Koldewey (1837\u20131908). It was named after Norwegian geologist Theodor Kjerulf (1825\u201388), founder of the Geological Survey of Norway in 1858. There were errors in Payer's map, which were later corrected by Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (1850\u20131921). Josef Hammar was the first to reach the head of the fjord by canoe in 1899. Louise Boyd noted the large amount of massive stranded icebergs in the fjord during an exploration in 1931. Geography. This fjord is the innermost tributary of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord. Its mouth opens to the north on the southern shore of the main fjord, only about east of"}, {"text": "the terminus of the Nordenski\u00f6ld Glacier \"(Akuliarutsip Sermerssua)\" at its head. The fjord runs in a roughly north/south direction for over . The fjord separates Goodenoughland in the west from Suess Land in the east. Kjerulf Fjord is about wide in the mouth area, narrowing to an average of less than in the inner reaches. Ridderborgen (Knight Mountain), a high peak topped by a rock pinnacle resembling a ruined castle, rises on the west side of the mouth area of the fjord. The landscape of the inner fjord, with grass-covered slopes and valleys, such as Paradisdal, is more gentle than the shoreline of inner Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord with its forbidding dark cliffs. Kjerulf Fjord has been described as an \"iceberg graveyard\", for many glaciers originating in the Isfjord to the north, end up stranded here driven by the wind and currents. The head is located in the isthmus area of Suess Land, only about north of the head of Dickson Fjord. There are mudflats at the head and a few minor glaciers such as the Passage Glacier flow into the fjord and the Hisinger Glacier flows to the south and SW of the mudflats."}, {"text": "Henrietta Wood (c. 1819 \u2013 1912) was an American woman held as a slave who won the largest verdict ever awarded for slavery reparations in the United States. Born as a slave in Kentucky, but freed as an adult, Wood was later kidnapped and sold back into slavery. After the American Civil War, Wood successfully sued her kidnapper and won financial damages. Biography. Wood was born into slavery with the Tousey family on a farm in northern Kentucky sometime between 1818 and 1820. Moses Tousey died in 1834, and Wood was sold to Louisville merchant Henry Forsyth for $700, (~$ in ) for whom she did housework. She was sold again to another Louisville merchant, William Cirode, who was a French immigrant. Cirode took her to New Orleans. After Cirode returned to France in 1844, his wife, Jane Cirode, brought Wood to Cincinnati in Ohio, a free state. Jane Cirode registered Wood as free in 1848. In the following years a free woman, Wood was a domestic worker in the Cincinnati area. In 1853, William Cirode's daughter and son-in-law, Josephine and Robert White, wanted to profit by recapturing Wood. They hired Zebulon Ward, a deputy sheriff in Covington, Kentucky, to"}, {"text": "kidnap Wood and sell her. Ward conspired with Wood's employer to bring Wood to the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, where they captured her. She was then held in a slave pen in Lexington, Kentucky for a year. Under the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Wood was not entitled to a trial or to testify on her own behalf. However, a sympathetic innkeeper whom Wood had encountered in Kentucky filed a lawsuit on her behalf. The lawsuit took two years, but was unsuccessful because it was not possible to produce papers in Kentucky proving that Wood was free; they had been burned in a courthouse fire in Cincinnati in 1849. With the lawsuit over, Wood was taken in 1855 to Natchez, Mississippi, where she was sold to Gerard Brandon, the son of the former Mississippi governor of the same name. Wood worked in cruel conditions in the cotton fields and in the home on Brandon's plantations, and gave birth to her son, Arthur. At the end of the Civil War, when the Union Army arrived to liberate slaves in the area, Brandon marched his slaves to Texas to escape. Wood remained enslaved to him until 1869,"}, {"text": "when she was finally freed by signing an employment contract with the Brandon family. She soon returned to the Cincinnati area with her son. Reparations trial. In 1870, Wood began the litigation process to sue Zebulon Ward in federal court in Cincinnati. The trial, \"Wood v. Ward\", took place in 1878, presided over by Judge Philip Swing. Wood and her lawyer, Harvey Myers, asked for $20,000 in restitution, and the jury awarded her $2,500, which she received in 1879. The amount is equal to $65,000 in 2019 dollars, and remains the largest award ever given for slavery reparations. Her case was championed by Lafcadio Hearn of \"The Cincinnati Commercial\". Later life and legacy. Following the trial, Wood moved to Chicago to be with her son, Arthur H. Simms. She used the restitution to help pay for him to attend Union College of Law, now Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Arthur had a long career as a lawyer in Chicago during the first half of the 20th century. Wood's successful trial did not begin a trend of similar reparations cases, and though it received national press coverage at the time, was largely forgotten in the following years. In 2019, W."}, {"text": "Caleb McDaniel, a professor of history at Rice University, used court records and archives to research and publish a book about Wood's life called \"Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution\". The book was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for history."}, {"text": "John B. Kupfer (March 10, 1833 \u2013 September 9, 1897) was an American politician and businessman from Kenosha, Wisconsin who served as Mayor of Kenosha. Business career. John Kupfer came from the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1859, Kupfer established a bakery that would become the Kupfer Cracker Company. He is noted as the inventor of the Kenosha Cracker. Political career. As mayor, John oversaw the construction of Kenosha\u2019s sewer system, grading of streets, and organizing of a formal police force. He also oversaw the construction of Kenosha's high school and fire house. In addition to serving as mayor, Kufper served a five-year term as county supervisor of Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Politically, he was a Democrat. Personal life. John Kupfer's son, William Kupfer, married Philomena Pirsch, sister of fire apparatus inventor Peter Pirsch. He died on September 8, 1897."}, {"text": "The 2018 SMU Mustangs women's soccer team represented Southern Methodist University during the 2018 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. The regular season began on August 16 and concluded on October 26. It was the program's 25th season fielding a women's varsity soccer team, and their 6th season in the AAC. The 2018 season was Chris Petrucelli's seventh year as head coach for the program. Schedule. !colspan=6 style=\"| Non-conference regular season !colspan=6 style=\"| American Athletic Conference regular season !colspan=6 style=\"\"| American Athletic Conference Tournament"}, {"text": "The 2020 London Spitfire season was the third season of the London Spitfire's existence in the Overwatch League. The Spitfire planned to host two homestand events in the 2020 season; the first was to be held at The SSE Arena Wembley, while the second was to be at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. However, all homestand events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Preceding offseason. Organizational changes. In early October 2019, the Spitfire parted ways with coach Kim \"Jfeel\" Jeong-min, who had been with the team since London's inception. London found their new head coach within the organization, promoting assistant coach Hong \"Agape\" Cheol-yong to the position. Additionally, the team signed former New York Excelsior head coach Ty \"Pavane\" Hyun-sang, former Florida Mayhem assistant coach Kim \"SNT\" Sung-hoon, and former O2 Blast assistant coach Lim \"Twinkl\" Young-bin all as assistant coaches. The changes reunited Agape, Pavane, and SNT, as Apage and Pavane previously coached LuxuryWatch Blue and LuxuryWatch Red together, while SNT played with LuxuryWatch Red at the same time. Roster changes. The Spitfire enter the new season with three free agents, one players which they have the option to retain for another year, and five players under"}, {"text": "contract. The OWL's deadline to exercise a team option is 11 November, after which any players not retained will become a free agent. Free agency officially began on 7 October. Acquisitions. The Spitfire's first acquisitions of the offseason were announced on 30 October, when the team traded tank Kim \"Fury\" Jun-ho to the Philadelphia Fusion in exchange for Fusion University players tank Shin \"BERNAR\" Se-won and support Kim \"Fuze\" Tae-hoon. London announced eight players on their roster on 23 November. The five new players announced were support players Lee \"Highly\" Sung-hyeok and Lim \"SanGuiNar\" Kyu-min, DPS players Lee \"Schwi\" Dong-Jae and Lim \"Glister\" Gil-seong, as well as tank player Choi \"JMAC\" Dae Han. Of the players, only Highly has ever previously played for an OWL team, while the remaining had only experience in Overwatch Contenders. The following month, on 27 December, London announced four more players to round out their 12-man roster in damage players Jung \"Although\" Hyun-wook and Park \"Babel\" Sang-jun and support players Kim \"Jihun\" Ji-hun and Cho \"Clestyn\" Gun-hee. Departures. The Spitfire elected not to re-sign all three of their free agents, DPS Kim \"Birdring\" Ji-hyeok, support Kim \"NUS\" Jong-seok, and alternate DPS Lee \"Guard\" Hee-dong, heading"}, {"text": "into the 2020 season. On 22 October, the Spitfire agreed to transfer tank Hong \"Gesture\" Jae-hee and DPS Park \"Profit\" Joon-yeong to the Seoul Dynasty. The team released Choi \"Bdosin\" Seung-tae and Song \"Quatermain\" Ji-hoon in mid-November. With the release of Bdosin, no players from the Spitfire's 2018 Grand Finals roster remained with the team."}, {"text": "Cuddeback is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "RC & The Gritz is an American soul, R&B, and hip-hop ensemble from Dallas, Texas. They were established in 2004 and are led by RC Williams, who performs on keyboards and provides vocals. They often perform back up for Erykah Badu. History. Since the early 2000s, Williams has been serving as music director, producer, and keyboardist for Badu. In 2005, Williams and members of the Gritz band began hosting a weekly open-mic at the now-defunct Prophet Bar in Dallas' Deep Ellum area. RC & The Gritz self-released its debut album, \"Pay Your Tab,\" in 2013. This included the single \"That Kinda Girl,\" which featured Snoop Dogg and Raheem DeVaughn. The band worked with artists such as Sarah Jaffe, Bernard Wright, Shaun Martin, and Shelley Carrol on their follow up album and first release under the Ropeadope label, \"The Feel\" in 2016. Members. RC & The Gritz has eight primary members and 11 rotating members."}, {"text": "Katja Keul (n\u00e9e Fehsenfeld, born 30 November 1969) is a German lawyer and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2025, representing the Nienburg II \u2013 Schaumburg district. In addition to her work in parliament, she has been Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 8 December 2021. Education and early career. The daughter of a development aid worker, Keul was born in Berlin. She attended schools in Mostaganem, H\u00f6xter, Geneva, Jacksonville, Florida, and Nienburg/Weser. From 1989 to 1994 she studied law at the University of Heidelberg and has been working as a lawyer since 1997. Political career. Keul has been a member of the Green Party since 2006. Keul first became a member of the German Bundestag in the 2013 elections, representing the Nienburg II \u2013 Schaumburg constituency. In parliament, she served on the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Defense from 2013 until 2021. During that time, she served as her parliamentary group's spokesperson on legal affairs. From 2014 until 2017, she was also part of the parliament's Council of Elders, which \u2013 among other duties \u2013"}, {"text": "determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation. Following the 2017 elections, she joined the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. In addition to her committee assignments, Keul was a member of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group. She was also a member of the German delegations to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe from 2014 and to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly from 2019. On 7 June 2011, Keul was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by President Barack Obama in honor of Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House. In 2019, Keul co-founded a cross-party support group for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, Keul was part of her party's delegation in the working group on children, youth and families, co-chaired by Serpil Midyatli, Katrin G\u00f6ring-Eckardt and Stephan Thomae. In October 2024, Keul announced that she would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end"}, {"text": "of the parliamentary term. Political positions. In 2014, Keul \u2013 alongside fellow Green Party parliamentarians Claudia Roth and Hans-Christian Str\u00f6bele \u2013 lodged a complaint before the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, arguing that it was unconstitutional for the government to keep the Bundestag in the dark about planned arms deals because it prevented the parliament from fulfilling its role of keeping the government in check. The court ruled that while the government did not have to disclose information about planned defense exports, it did have an obligation to provide the Bundestag with details, on request, once specific arms deals had been approved. In 2016, Keul and Volker Beck submitted a compensatory draft law to all parliamentary groups in the German Parliament, urging them to remove Paragraph 175 in the penal code, which criminalized homosexual acts."}, {"text": "The Hanksville Meetinghouse-School, at 18 South Center Street in Hanksville, Utah, was built starting around 1911 and completing around 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Built to serve as a Latter-day Saint church building and school, it replaced a c.1888 log church and a c.1890 log school. It was built by Frank J. Weber, who operated a hotel and livery stable business. It is a vernacular one-story stone building with a gable roof, built upon a stone foundation. Its exterior walls are random ashlar, made of local sandstone. Two exterior chimneys were added later, perhaps in the 1950s. It also served as a civic center/town hall, as well as the only school in Hanksville for a while. A new stone school was built next door in 1920, and the meetinghouse continued to serve as a church until a chapel was built elsewhere in the town in 1967. It is one of only 20 \"first period\" Mormon meetinghouses surviving, and one of only three of those that had multiple functions/purposes and have not been greatly altered since."}, {"text": "Scaevola gaudichaudii, the ridgetop naupaka, is a yellow-flowered shrub in the family Goodeniaceae endemic to Hawaii. Like other \"Scaevola\" called mountain or ridgetop naupaka, this species is commonly called naupaka kuahiwi in Hawaiian. It was first described by William J. Hooker and George Arnott Walker-Arnott in 1832 in the \"Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage...\" and was given the specific epithet, \"gaudichaudii\", to honour Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupr\u00e9. Description. It grows to a height of , spreading to a diameter of and has a life span of about five years. \"Scaevola gaudichaudii\" likes full sun and harsh, dry, and windy locations. The plant is well known for producing very distinct half-flowers. It flowers year round with weakly fragrant blossoms that vary in colour from dark yellow, brownish-yellow to pinkish. The drupes are small and purple, and the seeds are about 5.6 mm in length. The leaves are from to long and are slightly toothed. Distribution and habitat. \"Scaevola gaudichaudii\" is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and can be found on Kaua\u02bbi, O\u02bbahu, Moloka\u02bbi, Lana\u02bbi, Maui, and Hawai\u02bbi Island. It flourishes in dry to mesic forests, which sets it apart from other mountain naupaka that tend to inhabit damper areas at higher altitudes. Human"}, {"text": "use. Flowers of \"Scaevola gaudichaudii\" are somewhat fragrant and incorporated into lei. The fruits produced by the plant were used by early Hawaiians to make a purplish black dye. This purple dye was used in the making of kapa. Cultural significance. \"Scaevola gaudichaudii\", and the handful of other ridgetop or mountain naupaka, are included in Hawaiian mo\u02bbolelo. The plants\u02bbs story has many variations, but the main points entail a young man and woman falling in love only to become separated. The flowers are representations of the lovers, with the joining of the two halves from seaside naupaka and mountaintop naupaka being representative of their reunion. Conservation status. In regards to its endangerment, \"Scaevola gaudichaudii\" is currently ranked as imperiled or under G2 status by NatureServe. The plant is known for being resistant to pests, but can be easily overwhelmed by ant infestations, which attract scale bugs, aphids, and other insects that suck away at its nutrients."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 USC Upstate Spartans men's basketball team represented the University of South Carolina Upstate in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Spartans, led by second-year head coach Dave Dickerson, played their home games at the G. B. Hodge Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina as members of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 13\u201320, 7\u201311 in Big South play, to finish in a three-way tie for seventh place. They defeated High Point in the first round of the Big South tournament before losing the quarterfinals to Winthrop. Previous season. The Spartans finished the 2018\u201319 season 6\u201326 overall, 1\u201315 in Big South play, to finish in eleventh place. In the Big South tournament, they were defeated by Charleston Southern in the first round. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Big South Conference regular season !colspan=12 style=| Big South tournament Source:"}, {"text": "\u0110\u1ed3ng L\u1ea1c may refer to several commune-level subdivisions in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Monticello Canyon, originally known in Spanish as the Ca\u00f1ada Alamosa (Glen of the Cottonwoods), is a valley or glen drained by Alamosa Creek in Sierra County and Socorro County, New Mexico. Its mouth is at an elevation of , in Sierra County. Its head is at at an elevation of in the San Mateo Mountains, within the Cibola National Forest, in Socorro County. Monticello Canyon is a valley divided into three distinct parts. One is the upper ca\u00f1ada (valley or glen) that lies between the San Mateo Mountains on the north and east (where it has its head), and the Black Range to the west and the Sierra Cuchillo on the southwest. The second lower valley is one the original Spanish settlers named, Ca\u00f1ada Alamosa. It ran from the widened mouth of the canyon southeasterly to the Rio Grande. The two valleys are separated by a narrower canyon, with a gap and box canyon called the Monticello Box at its head at . That canyon cuts down through and divides the San Mateo Mountains to the northeast from the Sierra Cuchillo on the southwest. The canyon opens up and fields appear just below where the Ca\u00f1ada Viviancito enters Alamosa Creek."}, {"text": "The Monticello community ditch originates just above this location and runs down through Monticello."}, {"text": "Shayne Stead is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Penrith Panthers. Stead, a local junior, played first-grade for Penrith in the 1989 NSWRL season. On his first-grade debut against Manly at Brookvale, he scored a try and kicked five goals for Penrith, as a replacement fullback for the injured Neil Baker. In 1991, he joined South Sydney, but didn't make it into their first-grade side."}, {"text": "Ahmed Froko, professionally known as Nxwrth (pronounced North), is a Ghanaian record producer, musician, and DJ. He gained recognition as a member of the trap music collective \"La Meme Gang.\" Nxwrth's music blends elements of hip-hop, trap, and afro-pop, drawing inspiration from artists such as Travis Scott, Wongadurl, and Mike Dean. Early life and career. Nxwrth is a Ghanaian record producer, musician and DJ who hails from Wa in the Upper West Region of Ghana. Nxwrth was born in Cape Coast and grew up in Accra, where he began honing his production skills at a young age. He developed a unique style that skillfully combined bass, drum machines, and synths, resulting in a fusion of genres that define his sound. He first gained attention by participating in a beat battle organized by Accra Dot Alt Radio, where he emerged as the winner. This marked the beginning of his journey in the music industry. Nxwrth's significant contributions to the Ghanaian music scene include producing tracks for the \"La Meme Gang,\" which garnered them nominations at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. His production work extended to projects like Joey B's \"Darryl\" EP and Kwesi Arthur's \"Pray For Me\" single in 2019. In"}, {"text": "recognition of Nxwrth's influence on the Ghanaian music landscape, he was featured in a Boiler Room documentary on YouTube. The documentary highlighted his role, along with other members of the collective, in expressing Ghanaian culture through their music."}, {"text": "Pokala Vamsi Nagendra Madhav is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Andhra Pradesh.He is the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Andhra Pradesh. Madhav has been elected in Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council election in 2017 from Graduates constituency as candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party. A cost accountant by profession, Madhav has long-standing ties to the Sangh Parivar, having been active in the ABVP and BJYM from an early age. He is well known for his strong association with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He has played an active role in the party's growth at the grassroots. His father, P V Chalapati Rao, was the first BJP state president of undivided Andhra Pradesh and a founding member of the party in the state."}, {"text": "Ng\u1ecdc S\u01a1n may refer to several commune-level subdivisions in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Lucas Sirkar, SDB (24 September 1936 \u2013 18 April 2021) was an Indian Roman Catholic archbishop, He served as the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta. He was succeeded by Thomas D'Souza, the current serving Archbishop of Calcutta. He was ordained as a priest on 20 April 1968 and was a member of the religious institute, the Salesians of Don Bosco. On 22 June 1984 he was appointed and on 22 September 1984 was consecrated as a Diocesan Bishop of Krishnagar. On 14 April 2000, he was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Calcutta. After the retirement of Henry Sebastian D'Souza, he succeeded him on 2 April 2002 as Archbishop of Calcutta. On 23 February 2012, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation request made by Lucas Sirkar citing advanced age. Sirkar died on 18 April 2021."}, {"text": "Ca\u00f1ada Alamosa may mean: A valley: A town:"}, {"text": "Vampire Doll may refer to:"}, {"text": "DYBR (711 AM) was a radio station owned and operated by the Philippine Collective Media Corporation. It was formerly known as Apple Radio from April 25, 2011 to November 8, 2013, when its transmitter was destroyed by Typhoon Yolanda. Prior to PCMC's ownership, the frequency was formerly owned by Benjamin Romuladez from 1965 to 1972 when martial law commenced and then the Radio Mindanao Network from 1989 to 2002."}, {"text": "Henry James Hunt (born 7 January 1997) is an Australian cricketer, currently playing for South Australia as an opening batter. Early life. Hunt grew up living on a farm near a small town between Grenfell and Cowra in New South Wales. His father, James Hunt, had played for the Canberra Raiders, a rugby league team, and built a cricket net in the backyard of their family home. He has two younger sisters, Anna and Clare, who is a member of the national soccer team. Cricket career. Hunt played grade cricket for Queanbeyan District and was first selected to play for the ACT/NSW Country Comets in the 2014\u201315 season of the Futures League. Hunt played for Australia under-19s in 2015\u201316, and he was named in Australia's squad that was scheduled to play in the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, but withdrew from the tournament due to security concerns. In the 2018\u201319 season Hunt scored 208 in a Futures League match against Queensland Under-23s, followed by another four half-centuries during the season. He was the tournament's leading run-scorer with 737 runs at an average of 46.06. During the 2018\u201319 season, Hunt also played for Eastern Suburbs in Sydney Grade Cricket, and he"}, {"text": "equalled Johan Botha's record for the fastest Twenty20 century in the competition, scoring 104 runs off of 45 deliveries against UNSW. On the back of his performances in the 2018\u201319 season, Hunt earned a rookie contract with South Australia for the 2019\u201320 season. He made his first-class debut on 10 October 2019, against Victoria in the 2019\u201320 Sheffield Shield season. In his first innings he scored his maiden half-century, finishing with a total of 75 runs. On 11 November 2019, in a Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania, Hunt scored his maiden century in first-class cricket in just his fourth first-class match. He scored 132 and had a 293-run partnership with Jake Weatherald, breaking a 52-year-old record for the highest opening partnership for South Australia in first-class cricket. In Hunt's innings he hit 17 boundaries, including a six. Hunt followed up his century with another half-century in the second innings. He made his List A debut on 28 November 2021, for South Australia in the 2021\u201322 Marsh One-Day Cup. On 25 February 2022, Hunt was named as captain of South Australia for the remainder of the 2021\u201322 Sheffield Shield season in the absence of Travis Head and Alex Carey. He made"}, {"text": "his Twenty20 debut on 2 January 2022, for the Adelaide Strikers in the 2021-22 Big Bash. On 9 October 2022, Hunt secured a draw against Victoria by facing 326 balls for 97 runs and batting out the final day. Hunt stood down from the captaincy prior to the end of the 2022\u201323 Sheffield Shield season to focus solely on batting. In February 2024, Hunt was ruled out of the remainder of the 2023-24 summer following a fielding incident during a Marsh One Day Cup match against Victoria. Hunt was part of the South Australian squad that won the 2024-25 One-Day Cup, however did not play in the final."}, {"text": "Amisk Lake 184 is an Indian reserve of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan."}, {"text": "The Dhansa Bus Stand metro station is a part of the Grey Line of the Delhi Metro. The station was opened on 18 September 2021. Facilities. The station is the first in the Delhi Metro system to have an underground car park. It is connected with an existing bus station."}, {"text": "Amiskosakahikan 210 is an Indian reserve of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is 11 kilometres southwest of Creighton."}, {"text": "Asimakaniseekan Askiy 102A is an Indian reserve of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. An urban reserve, it is located in the city of Saskatoon."}, {"text": "Asimakaniseekan Askiy 102B is an Indian reserve of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. An urban reserve, it is located in the city of Saskatoon."}, {"text": "Brett Docherty (born 4 March 1968) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Western Suburbs Magpies, Illawarra Steelers and Eastern Suburbs. Born in the New South Wales town of Hay, Docherty played three first-grade seasons at Western Suburbs, as a fullback and occasional goalkicker. In 1992 he joined Illawarra and had his biggest impact at the club before the season started, helping the Steelers to the Challenge Cup title. Playing as a winger, he scored the winning try in Illawarra's semi-final win over Cronulla, then kicked both of his side's penalties when they defeated the Brisbane Broncos 4-2 in the final. He kept his spot on the wing when the NSWRL season began, before later returning to fullback, in what would be his only season at Illawarra. Docherty made a single first-grade appearance for Eastern Suburbs in 1993, before being signed by the Western Reds the following season as the Perth-based club looked to build its list for entry into the league in 1995."}, {"text": "Mostishchi () is a rural locality (a village) in Andreyevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Mostishchi is located 28 km southeast of Sudogda, the administrative center of the district, by road. Novaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Moshok () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Moshokskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,133 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Moshok is located 33 km southeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kolchevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Muromtsevo () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3,019 as of 2010. There are 27 streets. Geography. Muromtsevo is located 5 km southeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gorki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Philadelphia grant describes of land along the south shore of the Northumberland Strait between Tatamagouche and Pictou, Nova Scotia. Following expulsion of the Acadians, the British government distributed Acadian land to various landlords under the condition those landlords oversee repopulation of those lands with colonists loyal to King George III of the United Kingdom. Grant conditions. In October 1765, the Philadelphia grant was awarded to a group of businessmen from Philadelphia: John Bayard, George Bryan, Edmund Crawley, Robert Harris, Thomas Harris, Andrew Hodge, James Lyon, David Rhea, John Rhea, Jonathan Bayard Smith, Richard Stockton, William Symonds, Isaac Wykoff, and John Wykoff. The Philadelphia Company formed by these businessmen agreed to pay a quit-rent of one farthing per acre for half of the grant by 1770 and for the remainder of the grant by 1775. The Philadelphia Company was also obligated to populate the grant with at least one-thousand Protestant settlers by 1775. History. Land west of the Philadelphia grant was granted to Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres and land east of the Philadelphia grant to Alexander McNutt. McNutt's grant included most of the land adjacent to Pictou Harbour and DesBarres' grant included all of Tatamagouche Bay. The Philadelphia grant extended"}, {"text": "inland as far as Stewiacke, but was comparatively unappealing because there were no similar harbors along its shoreline in the era when ships were the primary means of communication and commerce with the outside world. The Philadelphia Company sent the brig \"Hope\" with six families from Maryland to settle near Pictou Harbour, and some of DesBarres' disenchanted tenants moved onto the western Philadelphia grant near River John; but most of the Philadelphia grant remained the forested realm of the Mi'kmaq through the 18th century. The grant conditions were never fulfilled, and the Philadelphia grant was escheated."}, {"text": "Myzino () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 29 as of 2010. Geography. Myzino is located 15 km northeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dorofeyevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nagornoye () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Nagornoye is located on the Sineborka River, 26 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Smykovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Natalyinka () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2010. Geography. Natalyinka is located 19 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Aksenovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nevryuyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. Geography. Nevryuyevo is located 45 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhnyaya Zaninka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nepeytsino () is a rural locality (a village) in Andreyevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2010. Geography. Nepeytsino is located 30 km northeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolshaya Kozlovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nizhnyaya Zaninka () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2010. Geography. Nizhnyaya Zaninka is located 44 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vaneyevka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nikitino () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2010. Geography. Nikitino is located 33 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Alferovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Andreyevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 249 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Novaya is located 25 km southeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mostishchi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pachandi railway station is a railway station in Ahmadpur\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated at Pachandi of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. Ahmedpur\u2013Katwa narrow-gauge railway line connecting Ahmedpur and Katwa was established on 29 September 1917 by McLeod's Light Railways. Indian Railways had taken over the operation of this narrow-gauge railway from McLeod and Company in 1966. After closing this track in 2013 the railway section was converted into broad gauge in 1917. The conversion work started in 2013 and was completed in early 2017. The track including Pachandi railway station was reopened for the public on 24 May 2018. Trains. There are six daily-running local trains. These are-"}, {"text": "The Atim K\u00e2-mihkosit Reserve ( \"atim k\u00e2-mihkosit\", literal meaning \"Horse that is red\") is an Indian reserve of the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. An urban reserve, it is located in the city of Regina, where it encompasses the First Nations University of Canada."}, {"text": "Novo-Petrovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 208 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Novo-Petrovo is located 23 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Stanki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novoye Polkhovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 62 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Novoye Polkhovo is located on the Yada River, 6 km northeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zagorye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novokarpovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Novokarpovka is located 45 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sokolovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Joan Miller (September 30, 1936 \u2013 March 23, 2014) was an American dancer, choreographer, and educator. She was the artistic director of The Joan Miller Chamber Arts/Dance Players, a mixed-media dance company that used satire to make social commentary and provoke social change, from 1970 to 2007. Miller was also the founder and director of the dance program at Lehman College from 1970 to 2000. Early life. Joan Miller was born Joan Ann Bernadette Theresa Floissac on September 30, 1936, in Harlem, New York City, to Beryl and Hubert Floissac. Joan's mother, Beryl, was of Jamaican heritage while her father, Hubert, claimed ancestry from St. Lucia. She began dancing in a Girl Scout troop on 135th Street. After high school, Miller's parents encouraged her to pursue a stable occupation as an educator. She graduated from Brooklyn College in 1958 with an undergraduate degree in physical education. She received a master's degree in dance education from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1960, directly followed by attending the Juilliard School on a John Hay Whitney fellowship. Career. In 1960s, at Juilliard, she began dancing with Ruth Currier's company. As a result, Miller danced as a guest artist with the companies of Jos\u00e9"}, {"text": "Lim\u00f3n and Anna Sokolow and as a member of the Lincoln Center American Dance Theatre Company. During the summers, she had begun to study with modern dance choreographers Doris Humphrey and Jos\u00e9 Lim\u00f3n at Connecticut College, and with Louis Horst in New York. In 1964, Joan began to dance with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company. From 1965 to 1968, Miller danced with James Waring, Remy Charlip, Yvonne Rainer and Rudy Perez, artists who were associated with the Judson Dance Theater and avant-garde dance communities. Miller was one of the first choreographers to combine explicit references to race, gender, and social conflict with postmodern aesthetics derived from the Judson Church scene. In 1969 she began to develop \"Robot Game\", a critique of assimilation to normative modes of behavior. \"Robot Game\" was originally performed by Milton Bowser (later known as Abdel R. Salaam), founder and artistic director of Forces of Nature Dance Theatre, Chuck Davis (who founded his own company in 1968, and the African American Dance Ensemble in 1984), William R. Munroe, and Wanda Ward. After a one-year appointment at Smith College, in 1963, she was hired to teach modern and folk dance at Hunter College's branch campus in the Bronx,"}, {"text": "which became Lehman College in 1968. In 1970, Miller became the director of Lehman's dance program, implementing a B.A. and B.F.A. at the first CUNY school to have a dance program. She would direct Lehman's dance program for the next thirty years. That same year, she founded her company, The Joan Miller Chamber Arts/Dance Players, and premiered her signature solo, \"Pass Fe White\", which she had been working on since 1968. Joan curated professional artists from across New York City to teach in the dance department at Lehman, including Chuck Davis, Yon Martin, Miguel Godreau, Nadine Revine, Louis Falco, Juan Antonio, Rudy Perez, Nancy Topf, and John Parks. Among the choreographers Miller brought in to set work on the Lehman students were Eleo Pomare, Rael Lamb, Alvin Ailey (who choreographed his signature piece \"Revelations\" there), and later, Abdel Salaam. In June 1975, the Joan Miller Chamber Arts/Dance Players performed in a week-long residency at the Ted Shawn Theatre at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. By that time, the company had performed at the Delacorte Theatre, Japan House, the theatre at Riverside Church, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, New York University, Barnard College and the Hunter College Playhouse, in addition to"}, {"text": "regular engagements at Lehman College. William Moore (1933\u20131992), African American dance critic, dancer, researcher, and founder of \"Dance Herald\" magazine, managed the company at some point, as he did the company of Eleo Pomare. In 2005, the company hosted its 35th anniversary concert at the Citigroup Theater. It hosted its final concert in 2007 at the John Jay College theater. Recognition. Miller won several awards and citations, including the Thelma Hill Dance Award, Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company Award, the Living Legend Award, and a proclamation from the office of former mayor of New York, David Dinkins. Death. Miller died on March 23, 2014, at the age of 77. Press. \"Miller's \"Pass Fe White\" looks better every time I see it. The first section is especially fine. Not only does Miller whip through the dancing with a ferocious drive and focus but the choreography itself is taut and has no wasted places. Part of the reason for the strength is that while the taped voice reads a poem about \"passing,\" the dancer in white racing outfit and goggles steams along her own track. She doesn't attempt to illustrate the poem, and as a result she illumines it.\" \"[Miller] uses all"}, {"text": "those elements and the theme is the inequities and oppressions of our society. Milton Bowser's solo is full of dissipating energy: tours, jet\u00e9s, runs, a snatch of social dancing as the tape announces: 'I am the modern black businessman.' Bowser performs for us and looks frequently to see if we (the society?) approve. Eventually he collapses, exhausted. The tape: 'I am the black businessman, digging his grave.'\" Quotes. \"If I was part of the mainstream Black Aesthetic, I would have had more gigs, I would have been on more programs when they wanted collaborations and they wanted a series of Black choreographers. I wasn't asked because I didn't do the slave ship dance and I didn't do the\u2014whatever our \u2013we have our pool of subjects that we address. But I addressed none of them in a way that you knew this was a slave ship and we were all rowing.\""}, {"text": "The Z50 is an upper entry-level APS-C mirrorless camera (1.5x APS crop) announced by Nikon on October 10, 2019. It is Nikon's first Z-mount crop sensor camera body. With its introduction, Nikon also announced two crop-sensor Z-mount lenses, the Nikkor Z DX 16-50 mm VR and the Nikkor Z DX 50-250 mm VR. It is the third Z-mount camera body after the Nikon Z7 and Nikon Z6. The camera yields a 20-megapixel still image and 4K video (up to 30 fps and 30 minutes time limit per clip), however it does not have In-Body Image Stabilisation (IBIS) nor does it include built-in sensor cleaning. It is the only Nikon Z camera body that does not have USB-C charging."}, {"text": "Nicholas James Budgeon (born 28 December 1987) is a former field hockey player from Australia, who plays as a defender. Personal life. Nicholas Budgeon was born and raised in Launceston, Tasmania. He plays as a defender, and also specialises in drag flicking. Career. Australian Hockey League. At domestic level, Nicholas Budgeon has represented both his home state Tasmania, and Western Australia in the Australian Hockey League. From 2011 to 2013, Budgeon was a member of the Tassie Tigers. In 2016, he transitioned to the WA Thundersticks. Kookaburras. Nicholas Budgeon made his senior international debut for the Kookaburras in 2013 at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. Following his debut, Budgeon continued to represent Australia until 2015, most notably winning a bronze medal at the 2014 Champions Trophy."}, {"text": "World Tour Soccer 2, known as World Tour Soccer 06 in North America, is a 2006 sports video game developed by London Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable. Reception. \"World Tour Soccer 2\" received \"mixed or average\" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic."}, {"text": "This Is Football 2 is a 2000 association football video game developed by Team Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It was only released only in Europe. Clive Tyldesley was replaced as the English-language commentator by his fellow ITV colleague, Peter Drury. It is the successor to This is Football. Gameplay. The player takes control of a football coach, who controls a football team. The game plays as technological variation of the sport, similar to a FIFA game. Reception. Absolute PlayStation gave the game 87% and said: \"Compared to last years [sic] title This Is Football 2 is a much improved game.\""}, {"text": "Taereung International Skating Rink is a speed skating oval in South Korea, used for training and competitions, operated by the Korean Olympic Committee. It is one of only two indoor long-track (400m) skating facilities in the country, and the most actively used, with Gangneung Oval completed in 2017 for the 2018 Winter Olympics but planned for conversion to a multi-sports and convention center. It is also one of the remaining active training grounds of the Korea National Training Center in Gongneung-dong, Nowon-gu in northeast Seoul; most other teams, including the short track and ice hockey teams, have moved to Jincheon National Training Center The facility offers instructional courses in speed skating and figure skating, along with open skate hours for the general public"}, {"text": "Keith Yeung Kah-hung () is a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong, and was previously the 5th Director of Public Prosecutions of Hong Kong. Legal career. Keith Yeung - D\u01b0\u01a1ng Gia-h\u00f9ng received an LLB in 1986 and a PCLL in 1987 from the University of Hong Kong. Yeung was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1987 and was a barrister in private practice between 1988 and 2013. He was a member of Plowman Chambers. He took silk in 2009. On 1 August 2013, Yeung was appointed as the Director of Public Prosecutions of Hong Kong. He was the first ethnic Chinese to take up this post. Judicial career. Yeung sat as a Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong for periods in 2013, 2018 and 2019. On 29 July 2019, Yeung was appointed a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong. Yeung was the Returning Officer for the 2022 Hong Kong Chief Executive election."}, {"text": "This Is Football Management is a 2010 sports video game developed by Sports Director and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable. It was released as a PlayStation mini. Reception. The PSP version received 5 out of 10 from \"PlayStation Official Magazine \u2013 UK\"."}, {"text": "\"Mala Santa\" is a song recorded by American singer Becky G. Written by Gomez, Luian Malav\u00e9 Nieves, Edgar Semper, Xavier Semper, Kedin Maisonet and Pablo C. Fuentes, it was released by Kemosabe Records, RCA Records and Sony Music Latin on October 11, 2019, as the fifth and final single from Gomez's debut studio album of the same name. Music video. Due to the LP being a visual album, the song does not have an official video despite being the fifth single. Instead, it was released under the title \"MALA SANTA (\u00c1lbum Visual)\". The clip sees Gomez wearing two different body suits, one in white and the other in black, with a blue lighting background for the former and a red one for the latter. She performs the same choreography in one cut on both; these scenes are spliced in between each other.\"\" Live performance. Gomez performed the song live for the first time at the Latin American Music Awards of 2019 in a medley with her hit songs \"Sin Pijama\" and \"Mayores\". She performed the medley again with a different arrangement at the LOS40 Music Awards 2019 about three weeks later."}, {"text": "Tristan Connelly (born December 12, 1985) is a Canadian mixed martial arts fighter who formerly competed in the featherweight division of the UFC and had previously won the Cage Sports Lightweight Championship, Unified MMA Lightweight Championship, as well as the Rise FC Lightweight Championship. Background. Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Connelly began competing in mixed martial arts in 2010. He holds a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Adam Ryan. Connelly runs a gym, called Pinnacle Combat Academy, in suburban Richmond. Connelly spent much of his childhood skateboarding and playing hockey, which he credits with preparing him to take hard hits. After taking a BJJ class, Connelly fell in love with the sport and the wider world of mixed martial arts. Mixed martial arts career. Early career. Connelly competed in smaller promotions, earning himself a record of 13\u20136. During that span, he managed to capture lightweight championships in three different promotions: Rise FC, CageSport, Unified MMA. Ultimate Fighting Championship. Replacing Sergey Khandozhko on 5 days notice, Connelly made his promotional debut on September 14, 2019, against Michel Pereira at UFC Fight Night 158. At the weigh-ins, Pereira missed weight by a pound and forfeited 20 percent of his"}, {"text": "purse to Connelly. Despite a flashy start from Pereira he quickly gassed allowing Connelly to dominate the remainder of the fight and winning via unanimous decision. The bout was awarded a \"Fight of the Night\" bonus, but due to Pereira's weight miss, his bonus was forfeited to Connelly. Connelly was scheduled to make his sophomore appearance in the organization against Alex da Silva Coelho on April 11, 2020, at . However, the event was initially rescheduled and eventually cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the bout was scrapped. Connelly spent the next year on the sidelines recovering from a disc injury in his neck that he acquired in a car crash in 2019 before his UFC debut. In his sophomore appearance in the UFC, Connelly faced Pat Sabatini at UFC 261 on April 24, 2021. He lost the fight via unanimous decision after being knocked down early in the fight. Connelly was then scheduled to face Makwan Amirkhani on October 30, 2021 at UFC 267. However, Connelly withdrew in early September due to a neck injury and was replaced by Lerone Murphy. Connelly faced Darren Elkins on April 30, 2022 at . He lost the bout via unanimous decision."}, {"text": "On June 9, 2022 it was announced that Connelly was released from the UFC. Post UFC. Connelly faced Xavier Nash on October 12, 2022 at BFL 74. He lost the bout via unanimous decision."}, {"text": "The Office of the Mayor of Lafayette, known historically as Vermilionville, was established by an amendment passed on March 9, 1869, which replaced the \"regular preliminaries of laying out\" enacted by the Legislature upon the incorporation of Vermilionville on March 11, 1836. This amended city charter remained in place until 1914, when the citizens of Lafayette voted in favor of discarding the mayor-council government to be replaced by a city commission, the first of three members, the Commissioner of Public Safety, would serve as an \"ex-officio\" mayor."}, {"text": "\"You're Too Precious\" is a song by English electronic music producer and singer-songwriter James Blake released on 24 April 2020 by Polydor Records. It was written and produced by Blake alongside frequent collaborator Dominic Maker of English electronic music duo Mount Kimbie. \"You're Too Precious\" has been described as a pop song built around a piano melody and \"subdued beats,\" and features heavy use of vocal manipulation. Lyrically, it is about how \"after a certain amount of time, somebody becomes too precious to lose, and now you want to protect them in any way you can,\" referring to his girlfriend Jameela Jamil. The song has been met with acclaim, with critics describing it as \"beautiful\" and praising its structure. It was accompanied with a music video directed by animator Orfeo. Background and recording. James Blake first teased \"You're Too Precious\" in October 2019 at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, disclosing that he was \"really excited about\" sharing it, but was unsure as to when it would be released. In an Instagram Live video on 20 April 2020, he revealed that the track originated from an idea that frequent collaborator Dominic Maker of English electronic music duo Mount Kimbie had"}, {"text": "sent him cut from a piano and vocal recording that Blake had made. He added that he wrote the song spontaneously in his home studio after he suddenly woke up at 4 a.m., before immediately going back to sleep. The song was finally released on four days later via Polydor Records, with Blake saying that he \"thought it might be a nice accompaniment to a lockdown dinner.\" Composition and lyrics. \"You're Too Precious\" was written and produced by Blake alongside Maker. Discussing the track in October 2019, Blake revealed that it was about \"wanting to take a little bit of someone\u2019s load and just loving that person,\" and told Apple Music that it reflected how \"after a certain amount of time, somebody becomes too precious to lose, and now you want to protect them in any way you can,\" referring to his girlfriend Jameela Jamil. Carlos Hawthorn of \"Resident Advisor\" noted how the track continues in the same romantic vein of Blake's previous album \"Assume Form\" (2019), writing that \"the mood is sweet and loved-up.\" \"MTV\"s Trey Alston wrote that the song's lyrics show how Blake \"he can't help but adore everything about\" his partner and \"frantically explaining what he"}, {"text": "would do for them.\" Musically, \"You're Too Precious\" is a pop song built around a \"lilting piano melody and subdued beats\" mixed with \"electronic hullabaloos,\" \"hardened bass\" and \"what sounds like castanets,\" prompting Wren Graves of \"Consequence of Sound\" to call it a \"study in contrasts.\" The track heavily features vocal manipulation; Blake \"twists and contorts his voice like an instrument\" creating \"high-pitched flutters forming a glitchy melody\" which contrast with his \"half-whispered vocal purrs.\" \"BrooklynVegan\"s Andrew Sacher noted that the track initially recalls the \"atmospheric, experimental side\" of Blake's earlier work before building to \"the more pop-oriented direction he tends to go in lately,\" while Josiah Hughes of \"Exclaim!\" claimed that \"the song is either understated or packed with subtle layers depending on how closely you decide to listen.\" Critical reception. \"You're Too Precious\" was met with critical acclaim, with critics describing it as \"beautiful\" and commending its structure. Carlos Hawthorn of \"Resident Advisor\" described it as \"a beautiful song, busy yet cohesive, every piece with its place and purpose,\" comparing it favourably to Blake's 2018 single \"If the Car Beside You Moves Ahead\". Similarly, \"DIY\" wrote that it was \"a pulsating and delicate love song\" and a \"an"}, {"text": "absolutely gorgeous new\u2019un to soundtrack your weekend in style,\" while Frankie Dunn placed it on \"i-D\"s list of the best music that came out that week, calling it \"very beautiful.\" \"Consequence of Sound\" writer Wren Graves praised the use of sonic contrast in the production \"like all the best of Blake,\" and Matt Melis of the same site listed it as one of the best songs released that week. Josiah Hughes of \"Exclaim!\" considered the song \"another fascinating production from Blake,\" while Robin Murray of \"Clash\" dubbed it a \"purring, romantic hymn\" and commended it as a \"neat forward step\" from his previous album. Writing for \"Dancing Astronaut\", Chris Stack claimed that it \"carries a haunting harmonic element for a perfect chiller or relaxation piece.\" Music video. A music video for \"You're Too Precious\" premiered on YouTube on the song's release date, and was directed by Orfeo, who Blake described as an \"unbelievable animator.\" Chris Stack of \"Dancing Astronaut\" considered that it \"encapsulates the tender allure to the soft tonal sounds.\""}, {"text": "The Internet Game Database (IGDB) is an online database about video games launched in 2014. It was acquired by Twitch, a subsidiary of Amazon, in 2019. Overview. The IGDB lists details about video games and their companies, crew and cast. Similar to Amazon's Internet Movie Database, IGDB's content is user focused, letting registered users rate, list and review games. Users can also edit and create pages, which are published after being validated by IGDB's employees. History. IGDB was founded by Christian Frithiof after he first got the idea in 2010 and was able to gather a team. A beta version containing around 200 games was launched in 2014. In August 2015, IGDB introduced a developer API free for non-commercial and commercial usage. In 2016, IGDB secured their first investment which allowed its employees to work full time and relocate to Gothenburg, Sweden. As of 2020 IGDB has their own office, with a branch in USA and 11 employees working remote from various countries. On September 17, 2019, IGDB was acquired by Twitch, a livestreaming video platform owned by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon. Twitch use IGDB's database to feed its search and discovery functions. As of March 2023, IGDB"}, {"text": "has 99,000 members and encompasses 428,000 games (of which 196,500 are DLCs and re-releases), 44,300 companies and 217,000 people as well as over 1.1 million reviews, screenshots and videos."}, {"text": "Invertebrate iridescent virus 31 (IIV-31, \"Iridovirus armadillidium1\") , also called isopod iridovirus, is a species of invertebrate iridescent virus in the genus \"Iridovirus\". Oniscidea (commonly known by a variety of names including \"woodlouse\", \"pillbug\", \"slater\", \"roly-poly\", \"potato bug\", et al.) serve as hosts. Infection is associated with decreased responsiveness in the host, increased mortality and the emergence of an iridescent blue or bluish-purple colour due to the reflection of light off a paracrystalline arrangement of virions within the tissues. Taxonomy. In earlier centuries, blue individuals of otherwise drab oniscidean species had been discovered. They were sometimes interpreted to be new subspecies and were described as such: \"Ligidium hypnorum coeruleum\" and \"L. hypnorum amethystinum\" (in reference to cerulean and amethyst, respectively). In 1980, the first research was published showing that the phenomenon of blue oniscideans is in fact a disease caused by an iridovirus. The aforementioned 'subspecies' have since been reinterpreted, not as distinct taxonomic entities, but as historical findings of individuals infected with this isopod iridovirus. In 2014, the 220-kilobase genome sequence of this virus was published. Then in 2018 (as part of the 2018b taxonomy release), it was formally accepted as a species by the International Committee on Taxonomy"}, {"text": "of Viruses, named Invertebrate iridescent virus 31 and placed in the genus \"Iridovirus\" alongside the mosquito-hosted species Invertebrate iridescent virus 6. Host range. IIV-31 infects members of the suborder Oniscidea. In particular, it has been reported in the scientific literature from the following families and species: Geographic range. This virus has a wide geographic distribution. In particular, it has been reported in the scientific literature from: Tentative fossil. An oniscidean fossilised in Early Cretaceous Burmese amber was found that features iridescent blue patches. George Poinar Jr., an entomologist and palaeontologist studying this fossil, tentatively suggested that the colouration may represent an ancient case of IIV-31."}, {"text": "Philippa Beams is a New Zealand former professional squash player who was also a former national champion and world doubles champion in the women's category. She represented New Zealand national women's squash team in several international competitions including the British Open Squash Championships, World Open Squash Championships and in World Team Squash Championships in a career spanning from 1992 to 1998. She achieved her highest career PSA ranking of 14 in January 1998 as a part of the 1998 PSA World Tour. Career. She joined the Professional Squash Association in 1992 and competed at the PSA World Tour until 1998. She made her debut with New Zealand team at the 1990 Women's World Open Squash Championship and since then she became a prominent member of the national side. Beams also took part in World Open Squash Championships in 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and in 1998. She won the women's singles titles at the 1993 and 1994 National Championships beating fellow counterpart and former world number one player Leilani Joyce in both occasions. She also became the number one ranked player in national level after her victories. She was also part of the memorable and historic moment where New Zealand"}, {"text": "stunned England by 2\u20131 in the semi-finals of the 1992 Women's World Team Squash Championships. However New Zealand lost to rivals Australia in the finals. Beams won the inaugural edition of the World Squash Doubles Championships in the women's doubles category along with Leilani Rorani in 1997. She also represented New Zealand at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, her maiden and only appearance at the Commonwealth Games. She retired from the sport in 1998."}, {"text": "Judith S. Liebman (July 2, 1936 \u2013 July 8, 2023) was an American operations researcher, civil engineer, and mechanical engineer. She was a professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign and the only female president of the Operations Research Society of America (now INFORMS). Education and career. Liebman was interested in science as a child, and was inspired by a biography of Marie Curie. She earned a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Colorado in 1958. She then worked as an engineer and programmer at Convair Astronautics, General Electric, and the chemistry department of Cornell University, where her husband was pursuing a degree in environmental engineering. At Cornell, she began taking courses in operations research, and when her husband moved to Johns Hopkins University as a new faculty member, she moved with him and began graduate study there. She completed a Ph.D. in operations research at Johns Hopkins in 1971. She stayed at Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor of public health administration, and operations research, but in 1972 she moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign with a major appointment in the Department of Civil Engineering and a minor appointment in Mechanical and Industrial"}, {"text": "Engineering. Because both Liebman and her husband were joining the University of Illinois faculty at the same time and in the same department, her appointment required special approval from the president of the university to override the rules then in place against hiring the wife of a male faculty member. At the time, there was only one other female faculty member in the College of Engineering at Illinois (in the Department of Physics), so she became the first female engineering faculty member. In 1978, when her husband became Head of Civil Engineering, she shifted her appointment entirely to the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. She became a full professor in 1984. She served as Vice-Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1987 to 1992. Liebman and her husband both retired in 1996, although they continued part-time teaching for several years. Service. Liebman served as President of her professional society, the Operations Research Society of America, in 1987. She was the first woman president of the society, before it merged with The Institute of Management Sciences to form the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 1995."}, {"text": "Death. Liebman died on July 8, 2023, at the age of 86."}, {"text": "Velma Owusu-Bempah (born Velma Crossland; January 13, 1981) is a milliner, accessories designer and fashion instructor from Ghana. She is the Creative director of her self-named fashion brand, Velma's Millinery and Accessories, and the principal of Velma's Millinery Academy. Early life and education. Owusu-Bempah is the daughter of Ghanaian archeologist and academician Leonard Brighton Crossland and his wife Mrs. Sarah Crossland. Velma started her formative years in Accra with her grandmother, parents and other siblings including her younger sister, fashion designer, Ophelia Crossland. She attended the St Mary's Senior High School in Korle Gonno, Ghana, and later enrolled into the University of Ghana Business School to study marketing. After completing her University education, Owusu-Bempah joined her mother, a Ghanaian fabric merchant and industrialist in her business. She was later advised by her mother to pursue her passion in millinery and accessories. Owusu-Bempah was admitted to the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Designs, an affiliation of London College of Fashion, where she studied Millinery, Bag designing and Communication. Career. In 2005, Owusu-Bempah established her eponymous brand as a hats and accessories designer which has seen her making pieces for notable personalities in Ghana and beyond. Ghana's First Lady, Rebecca"}, {"text": "Akufo-Addo, Senator Florence Ita Giwa, Second Lady of Ghana, Samira Bawumia, Nicole Ari Parker, Anita Erskine, Sandra Ankobiah, Juliet Ibrahim, Shirley Frimpong- Manso, Joselyn Dumas, Kofi Okyere Darko, mother of Beyonce, Tina Knowles Lawson, and many others are considered part of her high-profile clientele. Her designs were showcased at the London Great Hat Exhibition in 2018. She also collaborated with her sister Ophelia Crossland at the Swarovski Expose in Dubai by making a matching ensemble for the outfit. Her brand has also collaborated with several other designers and brands including Christie Brown, Tiffany Amber, Nineteen 57 By KOD, Gilbert Asante and Abrantie the Gentleman. During the visit of Charles, Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall to Ghana, Owusu-Bempah was made the official accessory designer for the fashion show and banquet held in their honor. In 2018, she launched her fashion academy, Velma's Millinery Academy to train young and upcoming milliners in Ghana. Owusu-Bempah was among the creatives who collaborated on the \"Remember Me\" project by Ghanaian photographer, Francis Kokoroko, Rania Odaymat, and The Fair Justice Initiative. The project highlighted twelve Ghanaian women who have been sentenced to life in prison at the Nsawam Prisons. Her headpieces were used"}, {"text": "as part of props that were used to replace the prison outfits. Their portraits were exhibited at the \"Make Be\" exhibition at La Maison in October 2018 with a coffee book published to help create funds for inmates. She is currently a tutor at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison where she offers courses in hat-making for prison inmates as part of the Fair Justice Millinery Initiative. She mentions Rachel Trevor Morgan as a milliner that inspires her greatly. Awards and Recognitions. Accessories designer of the Year, Glitz Style Awards 2018 Ghana's Most Outstanding Woman 2019 (GOWA) Notable Mentions. Velma was featured on Vogue Italia along with sister, Ophelia Crossland and Nigerian designer, Torlowei for training young girls popularly known as Kayayei in fashion."}, {"text": "Sierra Cuchillo (knife mountains) or Cuchillo Negro Mountains is a range of mountains, primarily in Sierra County and some in southern Socorro County, New Mexico. They were named for the knife-like shape of some of the peaks in the range, or for Cuchillo Negro an Apache leader in the region in the mid 19th century."}, {"text": "Nirol railway station is a railway station in Ahmadpur\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated at Nirol, Beninagar of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. Ahmedpur\u2013Katwa narrow-gauge railway line connecting Ahmedpur and Katwa was established on 29 September 1917 by McLeod's Light Railways. Indian Railways had taken over the operation of this narrow-gauge railway from McLeod and Company in 1966. After closing this track in 2013 the railway section was converted into broad gauge in 1917. The conversion work started in 2013 and was completed in early 2017. The track including Nirol railway station was reopened for the public on 24 May 2018."}, {"text": "The members of the fourteenth National Assembly of South Korea were elected on 24 March 1992. The Assembly sat from 30 May 1992 until 29 May 1996."}, {"text": "Johann Peter Langer, after 1808, von Langer (baptized 1 July 1756, Kalkum \u2013 6 August 1824, Munich) was a German painter, engraver and wallpaper designer. Biography. His father, Anton Langer (1721\u20131788), was the gardener for the Hatzfeld family at their estate surrounding . He began his studies in 1775, under Lambert Krahe at the Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf, where he won second prize at the Academy exhibition of 1776 and first prize, which came with a scholarship, in 1778. In 1781, he married Maria Josepha Kleyen (1760\u20131843), daughter of the engraver Johann Joseph Kleyen, and they had three sons. She created etchings under the name \"Josephine Langen\" and one of their sons, , also became a well-known painter. He was named a professor at the academy in 1784. Five years later, after a lengthy study trip in Holland, he became its director. In 1794, when the War of the First Coalition brought a halt to activities at the academy, he and his family moved to Duisburg, where he and the entrepreneur, Johann B\u00f6ninger (1756\u20131810), created the \"Mechanographische Institut\"; producing flower- and figure-patterned wallpaper. Their product was displayed at fairs throughout Germany, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was said to be one of"}, {"text": "their regular customers. In 1801, after the Treaty of Lun\u00e9ville redrew France's borders, B\u00f6ninger moved the factory to Paris to avoid the new import taxes. Langer returned to D\u00fcsseldorf, where he helped resurrect the academy and once more took up his position as director, with special attention to the art gallery. In 1806, when the gallery was moved to Munich, he followed it there and became the first director of the new Academy of Fine Arts. In 1808, he was elevated to the nobility. He retained his position as director until his death in 1824 and was succeeded by Peter von Cornelius His paintings were mostly religious in nature. Many of his sketches and drawings are preserved at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich."}, {"text": "Huili Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Xishan Park, Jiashi Subdistrict, Haining, Zhejiang, China. History. The temple traces its origins to the former Zhiyuan Temple (), founded by an official Zhang Yanguang () between 373 and 375, during the Eastern Jin dynasty (317\u2013420), and would later become Huili Temple in 1009, in the Song dynasty (960\u20131279). Architecture. The Mahavira Hall was rebuilt in 1922. It is five rooms wide with double-eave gable and hip roofs. The temple has two Buddhist stone pillars, which were built in 874, in the Tang dynasty (618\u2013907). In May 2013, they were added to the seventh batch of \"List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Zhejiang\" by the State Council of China. They have an octagonal shape and are roughly high. The base are shaped as sumeru pedestals and are decorated with relief carvings of the Buddha, lotus petals, and other designs. The bodies are carved with Buddhist sutra \"U\u1e63\u1e47\u012b\u1e63a Vijaya Dh\u0101ra\u1e47\u012b S\u016btra\"."}, {"text": "Nadir Abdurrahmanov (; 5 December 1925 \u2013 26 July 2008) was a painter, Honored Art Worker and People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR. Biography. Abdurrahmanov was born on December 5, 1925, in Lachin. He studied at a Painting School named after Azim Azimzade in 1941-1944. Later he studied at Leningrad Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in 1947-1953. However, the artist received his first higher education in the field of medicine, not art. In 1944-1947 he studied at Azerbaijan State Medical Institute. Abdurrahmanov painted large-format subject-themed paintings at an early stage of his work as \"The View of Baku\" (1954), \"Industrial Landscape\" (1954), \"In the Highlands\" (1957). A deliberate search for an individual artistic vision, original visual means, synthesized subsequently into an original, deeply emotional style, led Nadir Abdurrahmanov to create such works as \u201cThe Arrest of 26 Baku Commissars\u201d, \u201cLenin's Word\u201d (1953), \u201cMournful News\u201d (1958), \u201cIndustrial Landscape\u201d (1954), \u201cIn the Highlands\u201d (1957), \u201cMorning in the Mountains\u201d (1957), \u201cFresh Number of \"Kirpi\"\u201d (1958). Abdurrahmanov also went on creative trips to France, Italy, Norway, Bulgaria, North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries. \"New Korea\" (1959), \"Burgas Port\" (1961), \"Mountains. Yugoslavia\" (1964), \"Venice. Bridge\" (1966), \"Bergen. Norway\""}, {"text": "(1966), \"Baghdad\" (1972), \"Street in Mosul\" (1972), \"Afghanistan\" (1971), \"Afghans\" (1972) and other paintings were demonstrated in various exhibitions. His personal exhibitions were held in also Moscow (1960, 1976), Korea (1958) and Iraq (1978). A large role in the artist\u2019s work was played by a trip to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1958. In the landscapes, portraits, sketches and drawings, the unique originality of the \u201ccountry of morning freshness\u201d, the beauty of its nature, the life of ordinary people of Korea, engaged in creative work for of the new society, were embodied. At the personal exhibitions \u201cIn Korea\u201d, organized in Baku and Moscow, the best paintings and sketches from this series were shown. In such works as \u201cFishermen\u201d, \u201cMorning on the bridge\u201d, \u201cOn the crossing\u201d, \u201cNew Korea\u201d, \u201cIn the agricultural cartel\u201d, \u201cIn Keson\u201d, \u201cEast Sea\u201d, the artist achieved a broad artistic generalization. In the early 60s. the artist made a trip to Lankaran and began work on the painting \u201cPlanting Rice\u201d. At the same time, the painter turned to the topic of labor. The search for the courageously harsh, monumental language in painting was reflected in such canvases as \u201cConstructions of the seven-year plan\u201d and \u201cBuilders of Ali-Bayramli"}, {"text": "State District Power Station\u201d and others. Among the famous works of Abdurrahmanov painted in different years - \u201cTwilight in the Mountains\u201d, \"Chaltikbejaranlar\"(1960), \u201cFavorite Patterns\u201d(1967), \u201cSpring in the Mountains\u201d(1970), \u201cWorld of Firuza\u201d, \u201cTalysh Girl\u201d(1970), \u201cPeople of our Mountains\u201d, \u201cTalysh\u201d(1967). A poetic perception of life is also characteristic of many of the painter's landscapes, which are dedicated to the mountainous regions of his native land: Lerik, Lachin, Shusha such are \u201cVillage in the Mountains\u201d, \u201cLachin\u201d, \u201cLerik. Spring\u201d(1964), \u201cLake in the Mountains\u201d, \u201cOn Lake Gara Gol\u201d, \u201cMinkend\u201d, \u201cShusha\u201d, etc. The paintings and drawings of the Iraq-Afghanistan series were created by Abdurrahmanov recently on the impressions of a trip to these friendly countries and have become a new page in the creative biography of the Azerbaijani artist. One of the best paintings in this series is the \"Twilight\" painting. The deep emotional and aesthetic expressiveness of the painting is due to the rhythmic construction of space. The harmony of lines and colours with particular poetry is expressed in such works as \u201cOrange Grove\u201d, \u201cMosul\u201d, \u201cStreet in Baghdad\u201d, \u201cSunny Day\u201d, \u201cGirl with Donkeys\u201d, \u201cGhazni\u201d, \u201cStreet in Kabul\u201d, \u201cStudents from Kabul\u201d,\u201c Afghans\u201d,\u201c Seller of pottery\u201d, \u201cPortrait of the Artist Farad\u201d, etc. Each of these works reveals"}, {"text": "a new facet of the artist\u2019s pictorial talent. Since 1960, for 10 years, Abdurrahmanov headed the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan, in the same years he was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Republic from the Lachin region. In 1960, the artist was awarded the title of Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR and in 1964, he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR. Nadir Abdurrahmanov, the head of the department of painting at Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts (1983), professor at Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts (1984), was awarded the State Prize of Azerbaijan in 1985 for a series of works dedicated to the people of Karabakh. July 26, 2008, Abdurrahmanov died in the 83rd year of his life. The 90th Anniversary Exhibition was held in Baku in 2015."}, {"text": "Monticello Box or Monticello Box Canyon is a narrow canyon, a gap and a box canyon in the middle of the wider valley or glen of Monticello Canyon. The two wider valleys are separated by a narrower canyon, with a gap and box canyon called the Monticello Box at its head."}, {"text": "Soyeb Sopariya (born 10 September 1994) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 10 October 2019, for Baroda in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 9 December 2019, for Baroda in the 2019\u201320 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "Komarpur railway station is an Indian Railways station on the Ahmadpur\u2013Katwa line in the Howrah railway division of the Eastern Railway zone. It is situated at Komarpur of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. Ahmedpur\u2013Katwa narrow-gauge railway line connecting Ahmedpur and Katwa was established on 29 September 1917 by McLeod's Light Railways. Indian Railways had taken over the operation of this narrow-gauge railway from McLeod and Company in 1966. After closing this track in 2013 the railway section was converted into broad gauge in 1917. The conversion work started in 2013 and was completed in early 2017. The track including Komarpur railway station was reopened for the public on 24 May 2018."}, {"text": "The Sainthia State General Hospital is the main hospital in Sainthia city. It is a 100 bedded government funded hospital. This State General Hospital serves the entire Sainthia city but not only the Santhia city area, people from Kundola, Kotasur, Mayureswar and Labhpur are also dependent on this hospital. History. According to the Health Department and local sources, the hospital was started as a dispensary with the help of well-educated local people in the year 1919. The dispensary was promoted to the Block Primary Health Center in the year 1985. In 2001, the Block Primary Health Center was promoted to a 60 bedded RH or \"Rural Hospital\". The SGH or \"State General Hospital\" status is received in 2019."}, {"text": "David Tua vs Shane Cameron, billed as Fight of the Century was a boxing match between David Tua and Shane Cameron. This is considered the biggest boxing event in New Zealand history with a million dollar purse. It took place on 3 October 2009 at Mystery Creek Events Centre in Hamilton, New Zealand. Tua won the fight by knockout 20 seconds into the second round. The event was promoted by David Higgins and John McRae of Duco Events. History. Background. In 2008, Shane Cameron called out David Tua to fight in a boxing bout. In November 2008, Duco Events made an offer towards the two boxers to make the fight happen, however, Shane Cameron's team were unhappy with the date and money that was offered. In December 2008, Tua signed the contract for the fight to happen, however, Cameron had not signed as of yet. But it was confirmed that both boxers were guaranteed $500,000. In January 2009, David Higgins announced that the fight will happen in June 2009. In February 2009, It was announced that the fight would take place at Waikato Stadium, in Hamilton, New Zealand. In March 2009, Shane Cameron had a warm up fight against American"}, {"text": "Robert Davis. Unfortunately, during his fight with Davis, Cameron injured his hand. Due to the severity of the injury, Cameron required to have surgery on the hand, subsequently postponing the event. In April 2009, it was announced that the fight was postponed until October, with the venue changed to Mystery Creek Events Centre. A few day before the event, David Tua's home-country of Samoa was hit by an earthquake and tsunami. Tua's aunt died in the disaster. Fight details. David Tua vs Shane Cameron was held at Mystery Creek Events Centre in Hamilton, New Zealand. Tickets went on sale with prices going between $69 and $399 per person. It was also announced in May 2009 that the fight will be broadcast live on Sky TV PPV. It was confirmed that 7500 tickets were sold (750 corporate tables of 10 people), and 88,000 Pay Per Views buys for the event. The PPV buys were considered a world record on a per-capita country basis. The announcer of the night was Daniel Hennessey, who made his boxing announcing debut. New Zealand Born Philippines resident Bruce McTavish served as the referee, with American Robert Byrd, Thailand's Pinit Prayadsab and Australian Brad Vocale as the"}, {"text": "ringside judges. New Zealander Pat Leonard served as the supervisor and representative for the WBO. Weigh-in. The weigh-in was held on 2 October 2009, at Sky City in Hamilton. David Tua weighed in at 107.8 kg, losing 26 kg for the fight. Cameron weighed in at 103.5 kg. Aftermath. Tua won the bout by knockout in the second round. After the fight, Tua received a ranking of fourth in the WBO, and fifteenth in the IBF. Tua was in a broadcasting fight contract exclusively with Maori TV, which meant he could not fight overseas. Tua went on to fight Friday Ahunanya in March 2010, winning by unanimous decision. Cameron went on to fight John Hopoate in March 2010, winning by disqualification. David Tua retired in November 2013, and Shane Cameron retired in November 2014. Tua and Cameron are now long-time friends."}, {"text": "Mellgren is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Shashi Shekhar (born 15 January 1990) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 10 October 2019, for Bihar in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 11 November 2019, for Bihar in the 2019\u201320 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 17 December 2019, for Bihar in the 2019\u201320 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "Santha Moorthy (born 10 September 1979) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 10 October 2019, for Puducherry in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 18 November 2019, for Puducherry in the 2019\u201320 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 12 February 2020, for Puducherry in the 2019\u201320 Ranji Trophy. In the match, he took a five-wicket haul, and at the age of 40 years and 155 days, became the oldest bowler to take five wickets on debut. The previous record was set 125 years earlier, when Fred Wright took five wickets for Leicestershire against Derbyshire in the 1895 County Championship in England, when Wright was 40 years and 49 days old on debut."}, {"text": "The crenulate skink, Hokitika skink, or cobble skink (\"Oligosoma robinsoni\") is a species of skink found in New Zealand."}, {"text": "Sa'ar is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Sa'ar may refer to:"}, {"text": "Francis D. \"Frank\" Galey is the former Provost of Utah State University. A notable scholar and author in the veterinary sciences, he has written or edited over 17 books. Previously the Dean of The University of Wyoming College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and has previously been employed at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. It was announced he would retire effective July 1, 2022. He will be replaced by current VP of Statewide Campuses, Larry Smith. Personal life. Galey is married to Donna Brown and the couple has four adult children."}, {"text": "Gaurav Puri (born 28 July 1991) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 10 October 2019, for Chandigarh in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 8 November 2019, for Chandigarh in the 2019\u201320 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 17 February 2022, for Chandigarh in the 2021\u201322 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "Barkwell Bay 192I is an Indian reserve of the English River First Nation in Saskatchewan at the northern end of Cree Lake."}, {"text": "Macalester College is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota, US. Macalester may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Hannington Bugingo (born 12 May 1981) is a Ugandan comedian, actor, film producer, and advertising strategist. He is the managing director of Fun Factory Uganda and also the founding president of The Uganda Comedians Association (TUCA). He is known for his role as Sam in \"Mizigo Express\" and also portrays various characters in Fun Factory's \"Comedicine\". Early life and education. Hannington Bugingo was born 12 May 1981 at Mengo Hospital in Kampala, Uganda to Charles Bafakuleka Mwebaze, a reverend, and Ruth Nakate, a businesswoman. The last-born in a family of five, Bugingo attended Namalemba Mixed Day and Boarding School, Busembatya, Iganga, then St. Leo's College, Kyegobe, Fort Portal for his O-levels, and later went to Lubiri Secondary School for his A-levels. Afterward, he joined Makerere University, where he pursued and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Drama Career. Early work. Towards his second year of university, Bugingo went to Mbale to do his practical exams. \"We were performing a play titled \"The Bear\" and I was the lead actor. The audience applauded me quite a lot. They were impressed with my acting so I convinced myself that I could act.\" It was after the play that his then-lecturer, Philip Luswata,"}, {"text": "approached him and suggested the idea of forming a theatre group. When they went back to Kampala, Bugingo, together with Phillip Luswata, Kwezi Kaganda, Farouq Twesigye, Frobisha Lwanga, Faith Kimuli, and Julius Lugaya met and formed Theatre Factory. The group's first performance was in mid-September 2003 in front of only fifteen people, comprising the owner and staff members of his workplace. Initially, they were paid with a meal of plain chips only because the owner said he had invested in that project and didn't have money to pay them. 2006\u20132009. In 2006, Bugingo acted as the Minister of Health's bodyguard in \"The Last King of Scotland\" , starring Forest Whitaker and Kerry Washington. In the same year, he acted as Ragos in a short film called \"Roho\" alongside Lupita Nyong'o. In 2008, Bugingo acted in \"\" as Kaggwa beside Juliana Kanyomozi. Together with Henry H Ssali, he also co-directed the movie. While still with Theatre Factory, he joined Scanad Uganda Limited, an advertising agency, in 2008. He worked there until 2011, when Metropolitan Republic headhunted him as a copy writer. It was during this time that Bugingo won a bronze medal with Metropolitan Republic at the Loerie Awards for the"}, {"text": "MTN SIM card registration campaign. 2010\u20132019. In January 2010, Bugingo, together with thirteen other members, after a disagreement with the administration of Theatre Factory, broke away and formed a new group called Fun Factory Uganda. He became its general manager. In 2013, Bugingo quit his job as a creative strategist at Metropolitan Republic to concentrate on Fun Factory Uganda and the advertising agency that he and his friends had opened, called KIB Marketing and Advertising Agency. In 2015, he produced the film \"Situka\". \"The project, meant to encourage youths to 'stand up' (Situka) for their rights, think of the future...is a story that covers the entire country, Africa, and the globe\". In January 2019, the government of Uganda proposed a bill suggesting every artist should be registered under the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. According to the bill, every artist would have to obtain authorization from the ministry before shooting a video. Bugingo had this to say about it: \"We are not trying to fight the government; neither are we saying that all points highlighted in the bill are wrong. But as artistes, we were not represented well. Our biggest problems are not performing for more than two"}, {"text": "hours or drugs, but copyright. The government will definitely earn much if they pass this bill, but what is in it for us artistes?\" In February 2019, The Uganda Comedians Association (TUCA) was formed and Bugingo was elected as the founding president, while promising to wipe out vulgarity from the comedy industry. As TUCA head, he wrote to president Yoweri Museveni to push for enforcement of copyright law to protect the works of Ugandan artists. 2020\u2013present. In 2020, Bugingo raised money to launch the career of up-and-coming artist Razor Blade Lutabalala. Bugingo was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the Uganda National Cultural Centre in April 2024. Political involvement. Bugingo has been actively involved in political storytelling and activism through film and media. In 2015, he produced \"Situka\", a politically charged film starring Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine) that promotes youth empowerment and civic responsibility. He also produced \"Da Ghetto President\", a reality TV show on Bukedde TV that provided insight into Bobi Wine's personal and political life. In May 2025, it was reported that Bugingo faced increased surveillance and threats due to his association with Bobi Wine. Authorities were allegedly monitoring communications of individuals connected to"}, {"text": "the entertainer and politician over the past decade. Bugingo's outspoken social media posts, critical of the government, have drawn accusations of producing content intended to tarnish the government's image. Personal life. Bugingo, or \"Bujju\", as he is commonly known in the comedy industry, married Esther Mirembe Bugingo on 18 September 2009. His wife works with the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. In March 2019, Bugingo was inducted into the Rotary Club of Kampala Munyonyo."}, {"text": "Raiffeisenlandesbank Ober\u00f6sterreich AG (, RLB O\u00d6) is a credit institution and grouping of cooperative banks founded in the 1900s and headquartered in Linz, Austria. It is the central institution of the Raiffeisen Banking Group in Upper Austria and the largest of Austria's eight provincial central banks. RLB O\u00d6 has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank. Structure. Raiffeisenlandesbank Ober\u00f6sterreich AG is owned by the Upper Austrian Raiffeisen banks. These banks are organized as cooperatives and are owned by people in the region, known as co-owners. In addition to serving individual customers, Raiffeisenlandesbank Ober\u00f6sterreich also assists in both private and corporate banking. History. The bank was founded in the 20th century as an office for equalization payments and monetary equalization. The bank moved into the \"S\u00fcdbahnhofmarkt\" location under the name \"Raiffeisen Zentralkasse\". In the following years \"Raiffeisen Zentralkasse's\" field of activity and locations were expanded. In 1988, the bank's name changed from \"Raiffeisen Zentralkasse Ober\u00f6sterreich\" to \"Raiffeisenlandesbank Ober\u00f6sterreich\". A year later, a ground-breaking ceremony took place for the extension to Linz's \"S\u00fcdbahnhof\" railway station, which was completed in"}, {"text": "1990. In the same year, a representative office was opened in Budweis. In 1991, the opening of a bank in the German city of Passau laid the foundation for successful business development in Bavaria, Germany. Raiffeisenlandesbank Ober\u00f6sterreich now has eight branches in Bavaria and Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg: Augsburg, Passau, Nuremberg, Munich, Regensburg, W\u00fcrzburg, Ulm and Heilbronn. Its developmental achievements in Germany have been honored several times with the \"Bank of the Year\" award in the \"Gro\u00dfer Preis des Mittelstandes\" competition. Raiffeisenbank A.S., in which Raiffeisenlandesbank Ober\u00f6sterreich has a stake, was founded in the Czech Republic in 1993. Another division was established in 1995 with the founding of \"Privat Bank AG\", which offers customers sophisticated private banking and many special services. \"Kepler Fonds KAG\" was founded in 1998. Raiffeisenlandesbank Ober\u00f6sterreich was transformed into a public limited company in 2004. From 1985 to 2012, Ludwig Scharinger was CEO and chairman of the managing board of Raiffeisenlandesbank Ober\u00f6sterreich. Heinrich Schaller succeeded him in this function on March 31, 2012."}, {"text": "Sotra Sportsklubb is a Norwegian sports club from Sotra, Hordaland. Founded as \"Idrettslaget \u00d8ygard\" on 7 June 1945, the club's current activities consist of athletics, basketball, boxing, football, handball and gymnastics. History. IL \u00d8ygard. Idrettslaget \u00d8ygard was founded 7 June 1945 in Fjell municipality at Sotra. 13 June 2007, IL \u00d8ygard met Brann in the second round of the 2007 Norwegian Cup. Brann won the game with the score 5\u20130. In 2009, IL \u00d8ygard merged with \"Foldnes IL\" and \"Brattholmen IL\" to become Sotra SK. Before the merger, IL \u00d8ygard's men's football team played in 3. divisjon (fourth tier), and played their home games at Straume Idrettspark. Their home kits were all-blue and their away kits were all-white. Football. The men's football team currently plays in 2. divisjon, the third tier of the Norwegian football league system. They promoted from 3. divisjon in the 2018 season. In 2019, Sotra SK's senior football team were offered to join a merger with fellow \u00d8ygarden and Sotra clubs Nordre Fjell, Sund SK, Skogsv\u00e5g IL, Telav\u00e5g IL, Skjergard IL and Nest-Sotra to become a part of the new club \u00d8ygarden FK from 2020, but rejected because they wanted to continue on their own. Recent"}, {"text": "seasons. Source: Handball. As of the 2019\u201320 season, the men's handball team plays in the third tier, and the women's team plays in the fifth tier."}, {"text": "William Perry Pendley is an American attorney, conservative activist, political commentator, and government official who served as the acting director of the Bureau of Land Management from 2019 to 2021. Pendley was appointed by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt as a Deputy Director of the Bureau of Land Management in July 2019. He was elevated to acting director less than a month afterward. Pendley was one of a number of high-ranking acting officials carrying out official duties in the Trump administration who was never confirmed by the Senate. No BLM director was ever confirmed by the Senate during Trump's presidency. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris ruled on September 25, 2020, that Pendley had served unlawfully for 424 days and blocked him from continuing, although Pendley refused to acknowledge the ruling; still, Pendley moved to another role that was not the directorship. Early life and education. Pendley is a native of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Pendley received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in economics and political science from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Wyoming College of Law. He was a captain in the United States Marine Corps. Career. During the Reagan"}, {"text": "administration, Pendley was a deputy interior secretary for energy and minerals under James G. Watt. Pendley was reassigned in 1984 when a federal commission faulted him, along with other high-ranking officials, in the underpricing of coal-mining leases in the Powder River Basin, the largest such federal sale in history. Prior to joining the Department of the Interior, Pendley worked as a Legislative Assistant to former Wyoming Senator Clifford Hansen, and as Minority Counsel to the United States House Committee on Mines and Mining of the United States House Committee on Insular Affairs. Pendley is formerly a longtime president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative Colorado-based group that advocates for selling off federal land in the West. He has written several books opposing government regulation of Western lands. Pendley has sued against the Endangered Species Act of 1973, has called the science of climate change \"junk science\", and has written that climate change believers are \"kooks\". He falsely claimed in 1992 that there was no credible evidence of a hole in the ozone layer. In a July 2017 speech to conservative activists, he joked about the killing of endangered species. Pendley has also made controversial public comments on some"}, {"text": "issues unrelated to conservation. In a 2007 fundraising letter, he wrote that illegal immigration was spreading like \"a cancer\". In 2017, he wrote that the Black Lives Matter movement was based on a \"terrible lie\" because Michael Brown had not said \"Hands up, don't shoot\" before he was killed by a police officer. Trump administration. Pendley was appointed to deputy director and then acting director of the Bureau of Land Management in 2019. His role as acting director of BLM was controversial, given that Pendley had previously advocated for selling off federal lands. He said he would not pursue mass land sales that he had previously campaigned for, because \"the president has made it very clear that we do not believe in the wholesale transfer of federal lands\". He released a list of nearly five dozen former clients, including oil, mining and agriculture interests, that he would recuse himself from decisions on for a year or two. Opponents of Pendley's appointment included the Sierra Club; the Wilderness Society; Backcountry Hunters & Anglers; the CEO of the Patagonia clothing company; Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility; Sen. Martin Heinrich, Democrat of New Mexico; and Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. His"}, {"text": "supporters included Sen. Steve Daines, Republican of Montana. In the Trump administration, Pendley oversaw the relocation of Bureau of Land Management jobs out of Washington, D.C., to Western states. Pendley said that he would prefer to relocate personally to Grand Junction, Colorado, but his own job was one of 61 identified as needing to be kept in Washington. Congress rejected funding for the relocations, and Rep. Ra\u00fal Grijalva of Arizona, the Democratic chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, said that Congress would investigate whether the plan was appropriate. In December 2019, Pendley wrote that nearly two-thirds of the 153 employees told to move out of Washington had agreed to relocate. U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt officially established the bureau's headquarters as Grand Junction on August 11, 2020. As of January 2021, 328 positions had been relocated; of them, 41 employees moved to Grand Junction, and 287 employees left the bureau instead of moving. Pendley said the biggest threat to U.S. public lands is wild horses and burros \"causing havoc\". On December 30, 2019, 91 groups with connections to public lands sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Bernhardt demanding that Pendley resign or be removed from"}, {"text": "office for alleged conflict of interest. The Interior Department called the groups who signed the letter \"environmental extremists.\" The day afterward, Bernhardt acted to extend Pendley's tenure through April 2020. Bernhardt repeatedly issued orders extending Pendley's tenure in an acting capacity, bypassing a Senate confirmation process. In May 2020, two activist groups, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Western Watersheds Project, sued over Bernhardt's ongoing appointments of Pendley to run the BLM and David Vela to lead the National Park Service. In June 2020, an unwritten order by Bernhardt extended Pendley's acting appointment indefinitely. On June 26, 2020, Trump said he planned to nominate Pendley for confirmation by the Senate, a move that CNN said might give Pendley firmer legal footing to continue on an interim basis. On August 15, 2020, administration officials said the nomination would be withdrawn. Pendley continued leading BLM. On September 8, 2020, the nomination was formally withdrawn. Pendley was ordered to leave his position by U.S. District Judge Brian Morris on September 25, 2020, after Governor Steve Bullock of Montana sued in federal court. The Interior Department said it would appeal the ruling, and Pendley refused to resign, suggesting that Judge Morris's ruling had"}, {"text": "\"No impact, no impact whatsoever.\" Pendley said in an October 2020 press conference that he couldn't be ousted because he was never officially named acting director, and that he acted instead as deputy director for policy and programs. Project 2025 participation. Pendley was the author of Chapter 16, Department of the Interior, of \"Mandate for Leadership\" (2025), the policy planning document of the conservative Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 \"Presidential Transition Project\" for a possible second Trump administration. Personal life. Pendley and his wife live in Evergreen, Colorado, and he also rents an apartment in Washington, D.C."}, {"text": "The Cairns Marlins are an Australian basketball team based in Cairns, Queensland. The Marlins compete in the men's NBL1 North and play their home games at Early Settler Stadium. The team is affiliated with Cairns Basketball Inc. (CBI), the major administrative basketball organisation in the region. CBI's women's team is the Cairns Dolphins. Team history. Entry into the QBL. After operating a successful basketball program in Cairns, Queensland, Cairns Basketball joined the Queensland State Basketball League in its second season in 1987. They fielded two teams, the Cairns Marlins in the men's competition and the Cairns Dolphins in the women's competition. Expansion to the NBL. Between 1993 and 1998 the Marlins won four championships, prompting calls for Cairns to join the Australian National Basketball League. The Cairns Taipans joined the NBL for the 1999\u20132000 season, with Marlin's head coach Rod Popp coaching the team. Since the Taipans' entry into the NBL the two teams have remained very close, often sharing development and training players over the NBL off-season and the QBL season. Championship dynasty. The Marlins are the most successful team in the QBL, holding nine championships since the team joined the league. They also make regular appearances in the"}, {"text": "playoffs, making 19 appearances over 26 seasons since 1993. Transfer to NBL1. After a successful first season in 2019, in 2020 the NBL1 expanded into Queensland and replaced the QBL. After this change, the Marlins transferred to the NBL1 North."}, {"text": "Kocho (Ge'ez: \u1246\u132e, \u1e33\u014d\u010d\u0323\u014d) is a bread-like fermented food made from chopped and grated ensete pulp. The pseudo-stem of the ensete plant contains a pith that is collected, pulped, and mixed with yeast before being fermented for three months to two years. It is used as a staple in Ethiopian cuisine in place of or alongside injera. In 1975 more than one-sixth of Ethiopians depended completely or partially on kocho for a substantial part of their food. It is eaten with foods such as kitfo, gomen (cooked greens), and ayibe (cheese). The stem is pounded to extract the pulp, which is then fermented for several weeks before being cooked. Kocho is often served with stews and is a staple food in some parts of Ethiopia. It has a sour taste and a dense, dough-like texture. It is made from the scraped leaf sheath fibre and pulverised corm of the enset plant. Kocho can be stored underground from three months to twelve months, making it a ready source of nutrition during periods of food scarcity. Kocho is typically used as a utensil to scoop up other foods. References. 5. ^ https://rippleeffect.org/blog/ethiopian-enset-feast 6. ^ https://ethiopianfood.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/catching-up-with-qocho/"}, {"text": "Aburidashi is a ninja technique of sending secret messages using a form of invisible ink. The technique uses ink made of juice extracted from soaked and crushed soybeans. The message becomes visible to the recipient by heating the paper."}, {"text": "McAlister is an Irish and Scottish surname. It is derived from the Gaelic \"Mac Alasdair\", meaning \"son of \"Alasdair\"\". The personal name Alasdair is a Gaelic form of \"Alexander\"."}, {"text": "JackBoys is a debut collaborative compilation album by American record label Cactus Jack Records, known as hip-hop group JackBoys, and its founder, American rapper Travis Scott. It was released through Cactus Jack Records in collaboration with Epic Records on December 27, 2019. The project features performances from Cactus Jack label members Scott, Sheck Wes, Don Toliver, and Chase B. Guest appearances include Rosal\u00eda, Lil Baby, Quavo, Offset, Young Thug, and Pop Smoke. JackBoys is a hip hop collective consisting of rappers signed to Travis Scott\u2019s Cactus Jack imprint, including Scott himself, Sheck Wes, Don Toliver, SoFaygo, and DJ Chase B, while Luxury Tax 50 joined the Cactus Jack Records in 2019, and Wallie the Sensei joined the Cactus Jack Records in 2025 until its release on second collaborative album, \"JackBoys 2\". Upon release, \u2018\u2018JackBoys\u2019\u2019 debuted at number one on the US \u2019\u2018Billboard\u2019\u2019 200 chart dated January 11, 2020, becoming the first number-one album of the 2020s. It was Scott\u2019s third album to debut atop the chart, following \u2018\u2019Astroworld\u2019\u2019 (2018). Background and release. In March 2017, Scott announced he would be launching his own imprint, under the name of Cactus Jack Records. During an interview, Scott said, \"I'm not doing it"}, {"text": "to have financial control over my music. I want first and foremost to help other artists, launch new names, to provide opportunities. I want to do for them what happened to me, but better.\" In September 2017, fellow American rapper Smokepurpp signed to the label, but he left sometime later in 2019. In February 2018, the label signed Sheck Wes in a joint deal with Interscope Records and GOOD Music. In August, Don Toliver was signed to the label. After the release of Scott's third studio album, \"Astroworld\" (2018), artists Wes and Toliver began to rise to popularity after they appeared on the album. Wes's June 2017 single, \"Mo Bamba\", went viral in 2018 and Toliver's May 2019 single, \"No Idea\", went viral on the app TikTok in the same year. Wes and Toliver both helped Scott on \"Astroworld\", with Wes being featured alongside fellow American rapper Juice Wrld on \"No Bystanders\" and Toliver being featured on \"Can't Say\". On November 29, 2019, Scott released JackBoys merchandise on his website, including a digital album preorder for $10. On December 24, Scott revealed on Twitter that the album would be released within the week. On December 26, a day before the"}, {"text": "album was released, the cover art and release date were revealed and the song titles were leaked on Shazam. Singles. The lead single of the album, \"Had Enough\", performed by American rapper and singer Don Toliver that features American rappers Quavo and Offset from the hip hop trio Migos, was released along with the album on December 27, 2019. The remix of Scott's 2019 single, \"Highest in the Room\", features Spanish singer Rosal\u00eda and American rapper Lil Baby was sent to Italian contemporary hit radio as the second single on January 7, 2020. The third and final single, \"Out West\", performed by JackBoys and Scott that features American rapper Young Thug, was sent to rhythmic contemporary radio on February 18, 2020. Commercial performance. \"JackBoys\" debuted at number one on the US \"Billboard\" 200 with 154,000 album-equivalent units, of which 79,000 were pure album sales. In its second week, the album dropped to number four on the chart, earning 47,000 album-equivalent units. In its third week, the album dropped to number seven on the chart, earning 38,000 more units that week. All the songs on the album debuted on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 with the exception of the titular track. Track"}, {"text": "listing. Notes Sample credits"}, {"text": "Bayaan ( ) is an alternative rock band from Lahore, Pakistan. They won the Pepsi Battle of the Bands Season 3 in 2018. Appeared in Nescafe Basement, the band had performed throughout Pakistan before appearing in Pepsi Battle of the Bands. The 5-member band consists of Asfar Hussain (vocalist), Haider Abbas (bassist), Shahrukh Aslam (guitarist), Muqeet Shahzad (guitarist), and Mansoor Lashari (drummer). The band members Shahzad and Abbas knew each other for more than a decade and played together in the school band. They moved to the underground music circuit and met Mansoor Lashari. In between, Lashari and Abbas became a part of Nescafe Basement where they performed with Hussain and Aslam. Thus, Bayaan came into existence. Bayaan is managed by their bassist, Haider Abbas. Nescafe Basement. Bayaan started its musical journey through a popular music show in Pakistan, Nescafe Basement. With Nescafe Basement, Bayaan released a few singles in Pakistan. Post Nescafe Basement, they came together to produce their own music. Pepsi Battle of the Bands. Following the appearance in Nescafe Basement, Bayaan came to Pepsi Battle of the Bands Season 3 and become the winners with Xarb being the runners up. Their album and music videos will be"}, {"text": "released soon as a part of the contract they won with the title. Bayaan returned to season 4 to perform with Season 2 winners Kashmir. Lollywood. Bayaan's song \"Nahi Milta\" was featured in \"Yalghaar\". Debut Music Album 'Suno'. Bayaan has announced the release of their debut album \u2018Suno\u2019 on the 2nd of Feb at the illustrious Lahore Music Meet festival. The album comprises 9 songs.Through this album they pay homage to the band's collective inspirations and influences while staying distinctly Bayaan. The album has been released and distributed by rearts. The music video for the song Bekhabar was released earlier but later the song was made a part of the album. Coke Studio Season 14. The lead vocalist for Bayaan, Asfar Hussain featured in Coke Studio (Pakistani season 14) with Arooj Aftab for a song \"Mehram\", written and composed by him."}, {"text": "Kanji or Ambila is a rice water based dish traditionally prepared in Indian states like Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Depending on how it is prepared, it is eaten with soup or curry. It is one of the Chappan Bhog (56 food items also known as Mahaprasad) offered to the Hindu god Jagannath of Puri as part of the last meal of the day (known as \"Badaw Singhara Bhogaw\"). During the Odia festival of \"Kanji Anla Osha\", kanji is offered to the Hindu goddess Sathi. Variations. There are many varieties of kanji prepared in various parts of Kerala. Dawhi (curd) kanji. There are mostly two variations of dawhi kanji. In one, boiled rice is used as the base and in the other gram flour (\"Besan\") or rice flour is used. Pariba (vegetable) kanji. Raw cut vegetables are boiled in a \"Karahi\" (Malayalam: \u0d24\u0d3f\u0d33\u0d2a\u0d4d\u0d2a\u0d3f\u0d15\u0d4d\u0d15\u0d41\u0d15 Indian wok) and curd and gram flour or rice flour are added to the boiling vegetables. Torani (water of cooked rice or Pakhala) kanji. The main ingredient involved in making this dish are \"torani\" (Malayalam: \u0d24\u0d4b\u0d30\u0d3e\u0d23\u0d3f) also known as \"peja torani\" (Odia: \u0b2a\u0b47\u0b1c \u0b24\u0b4b\u0b30\u0b3e\u0b23\u0b3f) which is the rice water extracted after boiling rice, left for"}, {"text": "few days to ferment until it develops sour flavors. Optionally a piece of Ambula (Odia: \u0b06\u0b2e\u0b4d\u0b2c\u0b42\u0b32) can be added to it. Once it starts to give off a sour aroma, it is cooked with vegetables to make Torani kanji. During \"Kanji Anla Osha\" which falls in the month of October or November, Torani Kanji is offered to the Hindu goddess Shathi (Malayalam: \u0d36\u0d24\u0d3f) along with dried fish and \"anla\", radish curry, \"poi\" and other puja items. Farmers also offer kanji to their farmland in the hope of a good harvest. Sh\u0101g / Patra (greens) kanji. When torani kanji is prepared by adding any greens known as shag (\u0d37\u0d3e\u0d17\u0d4d) in Malayalam, it's called \"sh\u0101g\" or \"patra\" kanji. Usually any of the locally available greens such as drumstick leaves (Malayalam:\u0d38\u0d1c\u0d4d\u0d28 \u0d37\u0d3e\u0d17\u0d4d) or shallot leaves (Odia: \u0d2e\u0d48\u0d28 \"gandhan\u0101\") or purple amaranthus (Odia: \u0d15\u0d4b\u0d38\u0d32 \"koshala\") or \"gorkura\" (Malayalam: \u0d17\u0d4b\u0d7c\u0d15\u0d41\u0d30) also known as \"khtaa palanga\" (Odia: \u0d05\u0d1a\u0d4d\u0d1a\u0d3e\u0d31\u0d3f\u0d1f\u0d4d\u0d1f \u0d1a\u0d40\u0d30). While the above variations are commonly prepared across Malayalam, there are also many regional variations like prawn (malayalam: \u0b1a\u0b3f\u0b19\u0b4d\u0b17\u0b41\u0b21\u0b3f \"chingudi\") kanji, crab (Odia: \u0b15\u0b19\u0b4d\u0b15\u0b21\u0b3e \"kankad\u0101\") \"kanji,\" dry fish (Malayalam:\u0d15\u0d1e\u0d4d\u0d1e\u0d3f\"shukhu\u0101\" and \"khad\u0101\" (Malayalam: \u0b16\u0b21\u0b3e) \"kanji.\""}, {"text": "The Darnley Lime Works Tramway and Mineral Railway consisted of a narrow gauge field railway and probably a standard gauge works railway at today's Dams to Darnley Country Park in East Renfrewshire, 9.7 km southwest of Glasgow. They were successively operated at least from 1898 to 1959. History. First mines. Mining was conducted in the Darnley area since 1610, as evidenced by a lease agreement between Sir John Maxwell, John Hall and George Stephenson, which is archived together with the Pollock Estate Papers. In it, Stevenson acquired the rights to mine limestone at Over Darnley. As early as 1615 coal was mined, as evidenced by a contract between Robert Milne and Sir John Maxwell in April 1615. Old maps show how extensive mining was in different places in the area. A map drawn by John Ainslie from 1800 shows limestone quarries close to Darnley Mill east of Brock Burn and two above Upper Darnley. Tramway. The second edition of the Ordnance Survey map (1896\u20131899) shows the quarry picked up by Ainslie on the site of today's interchange No. 3 of the M77 motorway, from which the Tramway ran to the limestone kilns of Darnley Lime Works east of Brock Burn,"}, {"text": "located just south of today's \"World Buffet\" restaurant at the junction of Corselet Road and Nitshill Road. Mineral Railway. The Mineral Railway was probably a standard gauge works railway. It was already marked on Ainslie's map and led from the lime works south to the quarries south of today's Southpark Village. Another quarry was west of the spot where Aurs Burn merges into Brock Burn. The 1914\u20131915 map shows a significant increase in mining and quarry activities within the area. West of the Brock Burn, several field railways can be seen that run from the Waulkmill Mine at Waulkmill Glen to the cement works north of North Brae Farm. The quarries south of Southpark Village are now referred to as the Darnley Fireclay Mine and the lime works are now called Darnley Lime and Fireclay Works. Fire clay. The fire clay laid in up to two meters thick seams under the limestone and were mined at different times, especially around 1900. Big ovens were used to make bricks, pipes and sanitary ware. The Tramway seems to have been taken out of service, because the quarry, which it once served, is recorded on the map as an old quarry. In the"}, {"text": "late 1930s, the Darnley Fireclay mine was referred to as Upper Darnley Quarry and the lime cabins in Darnley as Arden Lime Works. Limestone. While part of the limestone was used as fertilizer lime for agricultural improvement in the eighteenth century, the Darnley lime was mainly used for the production of bricks for the construction of residential buildings, for example on the Williamwood Estate. Other, later applications included road construction and its sealing properties were recognized and used more frequently. The lime was transported all over the country and became one of the most commonly used building materials in Britain, which appeared in British Standards until the 1950s. Landfill and park. Mining was practiced in this area until the late 1950s or early 1960s. Then the old quarries were used as landfills. The biggest landfill site lies to the east and west of Corselet Road. It extends beyond the landscaped park towards the B & Q hardware store. The areas where the land was refilled appear coarse and hilly, with rugged, mossy vegetation. In some areas, there have been obvious subsidence and there are deposits from the ground, including bricks, metal and rubble. Elsewhere, the landfill is adjacent to unsettled,"}, {"text": "higher-quality land. The edges, where the land has not been landscaped, are still visible in the Dams to Darnley Country Park."}, {"text": "The sixth and last election to South Glamorgan County Council was held in May 1993. It was preceded by the 1989 election. Following local government re-organization the authority was abolished in 1996 and its powers transferred to two unitary authorities, Cardiff Council and the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council. Elections for the two shadow authorities were held in 1995. Boundary changes. There were no boundary changes at this election. Candidates. Conservative and Labour candidates contested all seats. Most seats were also contested by the Liberal Democrats. There were a smaller number of Plaid Cymru and Green Party candidates and a few Independents. Outcome. Since the previous election two SDP councilors joined Labour. Labour retained control with a small number of seats changing hands. This table summarises the result of the elections in all wards. 62 councillors were elected. Ward Results. Cornerswell. Labour had won the seat four years previously but lost it to the Conservatives at a subsequent by-election. Llanedeyrn. Vita Jones was elected as an SDP candidate in 1987 but subsequently rejoined the Labour Party. Pantllacca. Labour had won the seat from the Liberal Democrats in a by-election Radyr with St Fagans. Marion Drake, elected as an SDP candidate"}, {"text": "in 1987, subsequently joined Labour. Waterloo. KEY o"}, {"text": "Khlong Tamru (, ) is a \"tambon\" (subdistrict) of Mueang Chon Buri District, in Chon Buri Province, Thailand. In 2018 it had a total population of 8,050 people. Administration. Central administration. The \"tambon\" is subdivided into 6 administrative villages (\"muban\"). Local administration. The area of the subdistrict is shared by 2 local governments."}, {"text": "This is the order of battle for the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria, codenamed \"Operation Peace Spring\" by Turkey. The pro-Turkish forces, including the Syrian National Army, are opposed by the armed forces of the NES, including the Syrian Democratic Forces. SDF and allied forces. Note: The pro-Syrian government National Defence Forces have an active branch in al-Hasakah Governorate, but have refused to fight alongside the SDF against Turkish-led forces. This is motivated by animosity of local NDF troops toward the SDF, as well as internal leadership disputes that have paralyzed al-Hasakah's NDF. In addition, the General Intelligence Branch 330 is known to be active in northern Syria. Allied armed groups:"}, {"text": "CE-123, or as the active enantiomer (\"S\")-CE-123, is an analog of modafinil, the most researched of a series of structurally related heterocyclic derivatives. In animal studies, CE-123 was found to improve performance on tests of learning and memory in a manner consistent with a nootropic effect profile. (\"S\")-CE-123 has pro-motivational effects in animals, reverses tetrabenazine-induced motivational deficits, and could be useful in the treatment of motivational disorders in humans."}, {"text": "Philip Michael To (; born 20 December 1990) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a defender."}, {"text": "Mrs. Elsie Addo Awadzi is a Ghanaian international economic and financial lawyer who has worked professionally in various capacities in Ghana and internationally. She was appointed by Ghana's President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, as the 2nd deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana in February 2018. She is the second female to hold that position. She was elected as Chairperson of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion's Gender Inclusive Finance Committee in 2020. Education. Elsie Addo graduated from the University of Ghana Business School and University of Ghana Faculty of Law with degrees in L.L.B (1993) and an M.B.A. in Finance (2000). She then furthered her education at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she acquired a master of law degree in international business and economic law (2012). She later proceeded to the Ghana School of Law and obtained her post-graduate Qualifying Certificate to practice Law in 1995. Career. Elsie Addo worked as a commissioner of Ghana's Securities and Exchange Commission for six years and then as a Senior Counsel of the IMF's Legal Department (Financial and Fiscal Law Unit), where she advised on financial sector reforms in the context of the IMF's surveillance, lending and technical assistance activities. She"}, {"text": "had over 25 years of experience working in various capacities in Ghana, Japan, South Africa, and the United Kingdom when she was the second female to be 2nd Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana. She was appointed in February 2018 by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ghana. She is currently the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, becoming the second woman to occupy the position after 29 years when the first woman Vice-Governor, Nana Oye Mansa Yeboaa was appointed. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's appointment was made after thorough consultations with the Council of State. She replaced Dr. Johnson Asiama who resigned from the position in January 2018. Prior to her appointment, there were multiple sources tipping Mrs. Josephine Anan-Ankomah, then Managing Director of Ecobank Gambia and now, Managing Director of Ecobank Kenya and Group Executive for the CESA region as a possible replacement for Dr. Johnson Asiama when he resigned. In February 2022, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo re-appointed Elsie Addo for another 4-year term. Elsie Addo has oversight of the Bank of Ghana\u2019s regulation and supervision of banks and other financial institutions, the macro-prudential function, and other key operational"}, {"text": "functions. In March 2022, she gave a speech at the UNCDF International Women's Day. In April 2022, she also gave a speech at the Ghana Employers' Association's first annual leadership conference. Banking Sector Clean-up. Elsie Addo came onto the scene in February 2018 after the Central Bank of Ghana initiated measures in 2017 to clean up the banking sector. This led to the closure of two banks and the resolution of several other banks. She has reiterated that the Bank of Ghana does not collapse banks but its owner does and its responsibility is to license and supervise financial institutions and when they fail, take them out in a manner that does not affect the system. The second deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana has indicated that the banking sector remains robust, solvent and liquid after the clean-up exercise and recapitalization of banks. In the midst of declining inflation, she has appealed to banks especially Commercial Banks to cut down on lending rates to reflect inflation rate. According to the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, the banking sector clean-up exercise saved over 3,500 jobs. Awards. In 2020, she was awarded at the 5th Ghana Women of"}, {"text": "Excellence Awards because of her contribution to Ghana's economic development which was part of the 2020 International Women's Day celebrations. Mrs. Elsie was also awarded the Glitz Africa Corporate Personality of the Year Award at the 2020 edition of the Ghana Women Honours event. At that event, she was honored for her sterling contribution towards shaping the economic management in Ghana, especially in the area of financial Regulations and Public Financial Management. Works. She is the author of the following works: Hobbies. Elsie Addo enjoys spending time with her family and her friends. She also likes reading and listening to music."}, {"text": "Bartolom\u00e9 Guti\u00e9rrez Rodr\u00edguez (1580 Mexico City-1632 Nagasaki, Japan) was an Augustinian friar who was beatified in 1867. Life. He was born in Mexico City, the son of Alfonso Guti\u00e9rrez and his wife Ana Rodr\u00edguez. He joined the Order of St Augustine in 1596 at the age of sixteen. He was ordained a priest and sent to Puebla, but wished to become a missionary. His colleagues teased him because of his corpulence, but he was undeterred. In 1605 he left from Acapulco for Manila, where he became master of novices. He left for Japan in 1612, where he served as prior to the Augustinians of Osaka. Two years later, he and other missionaries, were expelled from the country. He returned to Japan with Peter Zuniga and resumed his ministry while avoiding the priest hunters for twelve years. He was arrested in 1629 and imprisoned in Omura. Bartholomew Gutierrez is mentioned as one of 205 martyrs of Japan. He was scalded in boiling water then burnt alive in Nagasaki."}, {"text": "Begum Masroor Jahan (8 July 1938 \u2013 22 September 2019) was an Indian novelist and short-story writer in the Urdu language. For her contributions to literature, she was awarded the Uttar Pradesh Urdu Akademi Awards in 2010 and 2015, and the \"Hindustan Times\" Women's Award in 2017. Life. Masroor Jahan (n\u00e9e Khayal) was born in Lucknow to a literary household. Her grandfather, Mehdi Hasan Nasiri Lakhnavi, was a poet and translator, and her father, Hussein Khayal Lakhnavi, was a poet and educator. She was unable to complete her formal education. When sixteen years old, she was given in marriage to Syed Murtaza Ali Khan. Jahan suffered several losses, including two brothers, and a son predeceased her. She died of a brain stroke in Lucknow on 22 September 2019. Career. In 1960, Masroor Khayal published her first short story, \"Who Was She?\" in \"Qaumi Aavaaz\", an Urdu journal based in Lucknow. Her first novel, \"Decision\" was published in 1962 in Pakistan. She had been using various noms-de-plume, including Masroor Khayal, but thereafter adopted Masroor Jahan. Jahan's stories appeared in several journals, including \"Hareem\" and \"Beesveen Saddi\" (\"Twentieth Century\"). Her novels formed the majority of her work, though critics have suggested that"}, {"text": "her finest creativity was in short stories. Several of her contemporaries in Urdu literature, including Ismat Chughtai and Qurratulain Hyder, were active in the Progressive Writers' Movement. While she wrote social critiques, she did not join any literary trend. The book that established her reputation was \"Taabaan\" (\"Sparkling\"), published in 1970. Her subsequent works became bestsellers, including \"Jab Gily Mit Gaey\" (\"No more complaints\") and \"Kahan Ho Tum\" (\"Where are you?\", 2012). Jahan's works criss-crossed layers of society, from the working class to the aristocratic. Whether addressing the suppression of women under the pretext of family honour in the light of the decline of the aristocracy, or their agency in relationships, she was an acute observer of the foibles of human nature. While her cohort weighed against the perfidy of the nawabs, in several stories she presented them in a more humane light. Her short story \"Kunji\", for instance, was a sympathetic portrayal of a homosexual attraction by a nobleman for a dancer. For progressives such as Chughtai, homosexuality was a refuge for the heroes, but in Jahan's work, social mores appear to transcend human desires. Indeed, Jahan was cautious in her portrayal of sexual and psychological problems, resisting the"}, {"text": "urge to pummel society. Ismat Chughtai appreciatively wrote of her works but criticised her female characters for not being stronger; Jahan took this advice to heart and made her subsequent characters bolder. Jahan wrote in a sensitive fashion about the connections between her characters, but in her stories addressing the wreckage of families following the Partition of India, she was able to portray the devastation and the meaninglessness of relationships. In her later stories, she was lauded for the nuanced depiction of empathy. In \"Lutera\", a thug kidnaps a married woman; realising she's pregnant, he lets her go. Her husband, though, remains uncaring of her medical condition. Her collection \"Tere Mere Dukh\" (\"Your Sorrows and Mine\") was well-received for the \"flowering of her art in perceiving man's common heritage of pain.\" Her novel \"Nai Basti\" (\"New Colony\", 1982) was thematically quite different from the others. She had written romances but in this exemplar of social realism, she addressed the issues facing the urban poor living in illegal settlements. Jahan wrote sixty five novels and five hundred short stories. Her writings have been translated into several languages, including Kashmiri, Malayalam, English and Punjabi."}, {"text": "Galerie Wim van Krimpen, also Galerie Van Krimpen is a Dutch former art gallery in Amsterdam and Rotterdam by Wim van Krimpen. History. Amsterdam from 1978 to 1991. Wim van Krimpen had started his career as fair director at the Rotterdam Ahoy in 1964, where he initiated a series of fairs in the fields of design, music and other entertainment. In his first year he initiated the interior fair \"Binnenhuis\", which became an annual event for decades. The KunstRAI in Amsterdam initiated by him in 1984 was another of his success stories. In 1978 Van Krimpen started his first own gallery in Amsterdam, initially under the name \"Article\". After a trip to the States he renamed it the \"Van Krimpen gallery\". From the start Van Krimpen represented a series of artists, such as Gunther Forg, Isa Genzken and Gunter Tuzina. In the last group exhibition of the gallery in 1991, they were also presented beside works of Paul Beckman, Rob Birza, Kees Smits, Elly Strik, and Ben Zegers. Afterwards the location in Amsterdam was taken over by Dick Dankers and Cok de Rooy, who opened design gallery The Frozen Fountain in 1992. Rotterdam at Westersingel 83, 1991 to 1994. In"}, {"text": "1991 the gallery moved to Rotterdam to a location at the Westersingel 83 at the corner of the Museum park, in those days still the beginning of the Marthenesserlaan. It was next to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and formerly held the Galerie Fenna de Vries. The new gallery out there was started in cooperation with the gallery Art & Project, who had also moved there from Amsterdam. The two galleries shared the ground floor of the townhouse, Van Krimpen occupied the first floor, and Art & Project the floor under the roof. During the opening exhibition the first exhibited large paintings by G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg and the second edited photographs by Ger van Elk. With the opening of the gallery in 1991 both art dealers praised the Rotterdam art climate because of the presence of existing galleries, such as Gallery Snoei, Gallery Rotta and Gallery RAM, and the art center Witte de With and the initiative for a new Nederlands Architectuurinstituut [NAI]. With the recession three years later the situation had completely turned around. When Wim van Krimpen became a full-time director at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam in 1994, the gallery at the Westersingel was dissolved. At the same location the"}, {"text": "Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam started the exhibition space Villa Alckmaer, Rotterdam, which later moved down the street and became TENT Rotterdam. The location became part of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Rotterdam at Nieuwe Binnenweg, 2010. Wim van Krimpen made a further career as museum director in Leeuwarden and in The Hague. In 2010 the Wim van Krimpen galerie re-opened in Rotterdam at the Oude Binnenweg. The opening exhibition showed the work of contemporary art photographers, such as Ine Lamers and Paul Kooiker. Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, 2012-2016. First new location of the gallery in Amsterdam was at the Hazenstraat 20. Later it moved back to the Prinsengracht."}, {"text": "Bupyeong High School (BHS, ) is a public secondary school (grades 10-12 high school) for boys in South Korea, which is located in Bupyeong-dong, Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, South Korea. The BHS was opened on March 6, 1972. The School Mascot is a \u201cGreen Lion\u201d. Established in 1971 to educate selected boys from Gyeonggi Province including Incheon, the BHS later became one of the public schools for boys in Incheon was granted Directly Governed City status in 1981(Incheon was officially separated from Gyeonggi Province) is now home to a diverse student body from all backgrounds in Incheon. Among Bupyeong High School students, almost 80% enroll in a four-year college. The BHS was designated as charter public high school in 2024. Curriculum. Bupyeong High School offers Music, Fine Arts, Literature, General Science, General Math, Precalculus, Korean Language, Korean History, World History, Ethics, Home Economics, World Languages including English and Japanese, Classical Chinese (Hanmun), and a variety of Electives to students. Upperclassmen are allowed to take Advanced English Language, Calculus, Physics, Chemistry and Biology as early as their 11th grade year. Among BHS students, almost 80% enroll in a four-year college. Cultural festival: Budeokje. The BHS has Bugeokje() is the cultural festival held in"}, {"text": "November or December annually. Most students have been took part in chorus, dance, play, photography, sports, science experiments, and among other club programs show off their talents in the festival. Also, some clubs like chorus or K-pop dance from neighboring girl's high schools used to take part in the festival. Athletics. The BHS is famous for its excellent sports teams, especially football club and ssireum club. In 2018, the Bupyeong High School Football Club (BHSFC) became the champion of the National High School Football League sponsored by the president of the Republic of Korea. It was the 6th champion title. In 2019, the Bupyeong High School Ssireum Club (BHSSC) became the high school champion team of the Haksan National Ssireum League."}, {"text": "Gulf Conformity mark, also known as G-mark is a certification mark used to indicate products that conform to all technical regulations of the Gulf Cooperation Council. It means that the G-marked products meet all requirements of the corresponding technical regulations and have passed all conformity assessment procedures. The mark was introduced in 2009."}, {"text": "Etola is a Finnish family company. Typical field of activity includes hydraulics, vulcanized rubber, plastic, tape and building materials. The company's revenue was \u20ac390 million euros as of 2018. Etola yhti\u00f6t is organized as a group of companies. History. The company was established by Johan August Ethol\u00e9n in the early 1930s."}, {"text": "Cornelius de Vos or de Vois or Devosse (fl. 1565-1585), was a Dutch or Flemish mine entrepreneur and mineral prospector working in England and Scotland. He was said to have been a \"picture-maker\" or portrait artist. De Vos is known for gold mining in Scotland and founding saltworks at Newhaven near Edinburgh. Career. In 1558 Cornelius de Vos was in London, and married Helen, the widow of a butcher, Nicholas Howe, and John Gylmyne. He was recorded as a member of the French church in Farringdon in 1568. De Vos was granted rights to mine and make copperas and alum in England on the Isle of Wight and in Devon by letters patent in 1564, and pursued mining concessions in Ireland. According to his rival for Irish mining rights, William Humfrey, Cornelius de Vos obtained patents for mine drainage methods previously granted to Burchard Kranich. He worked for James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy at Canford Cliffs in Dorset, with little success. Searching for Scottish gold. Cornelius de Vos was a shareholder in the English Company of Mines Royal. He went prospecting for gold in Crawford Muir in Scotland in 1566. There was already competition, Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord"}, {"text": "Darnley had granted a concession to three Edinburgh burgesses, James Carmichael the warden of the mint, Master James Lyndsay, and Andrew Stevenson, while the mint-master John Acheson and John Aslowan were already working in Wanlockhead and Glengonnar. In October 1566 Cornelius de Vos arrived in Keswick in Cumbria with an English and a Scottish partner (whose names are unknown). He brought a sample of sand in a napkin from the Scottish gold fields, found by a woman worker washing for gold, a \"mayde of Scotlande\". The German miners at Keswick tested the sample and told him the sand was rich in gold. The supervisor at Keswick, Thomas Thurland, noted this as suspicious activity, possibly against his or Company interests, and reported it to William Cecil. Thurland also wrote to Queen Elizabeth in alarmist terms about \"secret practices with merchant strangers and by some foreign princes to have of the Scottish queen (Mary, Queen of Scots) the mines in Crawford Moor nigh adjoining to your majesty's west borders\", mines he hoped to work himself. Thurland was in a partnership with a German miner, Daniel Houghstetter or Hechstetter, between 1565 and 1577, with 24 investors. The Company of Mines Royal tried to"}, {"text": "get an interest in Scottish gold mining and panning from Mary, Queen of Scots. Meanwhile, Cornelius de Vos and his business partners, two London merchants Anthony Hickman and John Achillay, gained a permit to work salt at Newhaven from Mary and the Earl of Bothwell shortly after their marriage in May 1567. These salt works were revived by Eustachius Roche in 1592. De Vos was awarded a traditional 19 year \"tack\" of the gold mines by Regent Moray in 1568. Cornelius appeared before the Privy Council of Scotland on 4 March 1568 to register his exclusive contract to work all the gold and silver mines in Scotland. He was obliged to start work before June 1569. If any lead, tin, or copper was found he was to extract it and pay the profits to the Scottish crown. For every hundred ounces of native gold or silver he was to pay eight ounces to the treasury, and four ounces for any metal that needed to be refined. He set up his own joint-stock company to recover the gold. Cornelius however still lacked knowledge of chemistry and mineralogy and, as reported by George Nedham, again had to send one of his workers,"}, {"text": "a Dutch miner called Rennius, to Daniel Hechstetter at Keswick to assay samples of sand. Digging at Crawford Moor continued, but Regent Morton was unhappy with the contract. In June 1574 Morton went to Crawford Moor in person to see the workings and set miners to work. Cornelius de Vos approached the English ambassador Henry Killigrew in August 1574 with a message for William Cecil about the mines, presumably seeking investment and sponsorship. On 7 February 1575 Morton lent \u00a3500 to Cornelius de Vos and his three German or \"Almain\" partners, Abraham Peterson, Johnne Kelliner, and Helias Clutene. In June 1575 Morton wrote to James MacGill of Nether Rankeillour, who was now Lord Clerk Register, who had witnessed the 1568 contract. He described the terms of his contract as \"captious and doubtful in many points and nothing to the king's profit\". Soon after, the mining concession was granted to one of de Vos' partners Abraham Peterson in February 1576. In 1580, although he had lost his political power, Morton received gold which was coined to the value of \u00a3678, possibly connected with mining. The goldmining concession was given to Thomas Foulis in 1594. In London his relationship with Margriete van"}, {"text": "der Eertbrugghe came into scrutiny by the Dutch Church in October 1570. In 1573 he is known to have written letters to the Mayor of London, Lionel Duckett, and others via his cousin Arnold. As he is linked with the painter Arnold van Bronckorst in Stephen Atkinson's story, it has been suggested that this Arnold was the same person. A \"Cornelis Clewtinge de Vos\" , Dutchman, was buried at St Nicholas Acons in London on 11 December 1586, who was perhaps this mining entrepreneur. The name \"Clewtinge\" seems to be the surname of Helias Clutene, the partner of Cornelius in 1575. Mine entrepreneurs in Scotland of the next generation included George Douglas of Parkhead, George Bowes, and Bevis Bulmer. Stephen Atkinson's account of Cornelius de Vos in Scotland. In 1619 an English gold prospector Stephen Atkinson wrote a kind of historical prospectus for gold mining in Scotland. This includes the story of \"Master Cornelius\" or \"Cornelius Devosse\". Atkinson described Cornelius Devosse as \"a most cunning picture maker, and excellent in art for the trial of mineral and mineral stones\", although the archival record of his activity shows that he lacked lapidary or chemical knowledge and no other source mentions him"}, {"text": "as portrait painter. According to Atkinson, the painter Nicholas Hilliard invested in the Scottish gold mine with another painter Arnold Bronckhorst. The historian Elizabeth Goldring dates Hilliard's involvement to the years 1573 or 1574. Atkinson's narrative seems in part based on hearsay but he describes using a \"book of record\" of Cornelius de Vos' mining operation at Crawford Moor and a record of the works of George Bowes. This seems to have been an account of wages. Atkinson says that he himself had worked with Daniel Hechstetter, the miner who Cornelius de Vos had consulted at Keswick. He wrote that Nicholas Hilliard, then still alive, would confirm that he also lost money in the venture. Atkinson states that Cornelius de Vos went into Scotland with a recommendation from Elizabeth I of England, was given permission to prospect and found rich ore, which describes the events of October 1566. He gives the names of four partners in the enterprise; the Earl of Morton, \"Robert Bellenden (Secretary of Scotland)\" perhaps intending John Bellenden (Lord Justice Clerk), Abraham Peterson a Dutch man residing in Edinburgh, and James Reid an Edinburgh burgess. Cornelius de Vos and his partners raised capital and he was given"}, {"text": "a commission by Regent Moray, (in March 1568). Atkinson says that Cornelius had 120 men at work and employed men and women, \"lads and lasses, idle men and women\", who had been begging before. Most of the gold was bought by the Scottish mint for coins. The mines were apparently worked by sub-contractors. Atkinson mentions a Scottish workman John Gibson of Crawford town who worked at \"Glengaber Water\" (Glengonnar), who he claims to have met, and another Dutch miner, Abraham Grey, who he found in the records. Grey, known as \"Grey Beard\", worked at Wanlockhead, (and sometimes said to be the same person as Abraham Peterson). Regent Morton had a basin made of Wanlockhead gold and presented it to the king of France, apparently to advertise Scotland's mineral wealth. Atkinson takes up the subject of Cornelius de Vos again, as a story from the reign of Elizabeth, \"some forty years past\", after describing his own recent personal involvement with Scottish gold, Hilderston silver, and John Murray of the Bedchamber. In this version, a young Cornelius persuaded his friend the painter Nicholas Hilliard to join his Scottish goldmining venture. Hilliard sent his associate, Arnold Bronckhorst, a painter and mineralogist, into Scotland."}, {"text": "Hilliard's efforts and influence secured a patent for Cornelius de Vos, (perhaps meaning a letter of recommendation from Elizabeth to Morton). Atkinson then describes Cornelius de Vos exporting gold ore for assay. Arnold Bronckhorst was intended to be the agent for selling the gold to Scottish mint in Edinburgh but failed to secure a contract. He was, however, appointed to be the royal portrait painter. Bronckhorst was officially appointed as royal painter in Scotland in 1581, a few years after the goldmining events Atkinson described. However, portraits made during the years of Morton's regency have been attributed to him. Several of the individuals named by Atkinson appear in the record. Abraham Peterson, the partner and successor of Cornelius de Vos, was a Dutch or Flemish metal worker or artist, as well as a mining entrepreneur, who worked in the Scottish mint and designed coins for Regent Morton, including placks and bawbees in April 1576. James Reid, who Atkinson identified as a partner of Cornelius de Vos, stood security with James Skathowie of the Canongate for the \u00a3500 loan from Regent Morton in 1575. Cornelius never repaid this loan, and after Morton was executed in 1581, Reid and Skathowie's heirs were"}, {"text": "liable to repay the money to the Earl of Lennox."}, {"text": "Kjerulf (Kj\u00e6rulf, Kj\u00e6rulff, Kierulff, Kierulf, Ki\u00e6rulff, Ki\u00e6rulf, K\u00e6rulf or Kjaerulf) is a Danish surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "is a Japanese late night variety show starring Japanese idol group Hiragana Keyakizaka46. It was hosted by the comedy duo Audrey and aired every Monday at 1:05 AM JST on TV Tokyo. After the group was rebranded to Hinatazaka46, the show was succeeded by \"Hinatazaka de Aimash\u014d\". History. As a subgroup of Keyakizaka46, Hiragana Keyakizaka46 members initially appeared on \"Keyakitte, Kakenai?\" with the main group members. In March 2018, a new show for the subgroup was announced. After episode 5, a song performance was included at the end of the show. The last episode aired on April 1, 2019, as Hiragana Keyakizaka46 changed their name to Hinatazaka46. The show was succeeded by \"Hinatazaka de Aimash\u014d\", which is identical except for the name. In March 2021, the first set of \"Hiragana Oshi\" DVD and Blu-ray was released, consisting of five editions. Instead of including episodes in chronological order, each edition was named after a first generation Hinatazaka46 member and included episodes which featured notable scenes, including deleted scenes, of that member; the same member would also lead the discussion segment in each edition. The second set of five editions, named after second generation Hinatazaka46 members and Hinano Kamimura (the only third"}, {"text": "generation member who appeared in the show), was released in January 2022. Production. The Hiragana Keyakizaka46 management intended to create a program with the same atmosphere as \"Nogizakatte, Doko?\" (predecessor to \"Nogizaka K\u014djich\u016b\") for the group, and producer Makoto Nagao, who has also been the producer of Nogizaka46 and Keyakizaka46's variety shows, aimed for the shows to become a \"catalog\" for the group and lead to various outside jobs. The reason for using Audrey as MC was to create a similar relationship between the hosts and the members as in \"Nogizaka K\u014djich\u016b\" and \"Keyakitte, Kakenai?\", so that it would look good if a joint special episode was to be produced. They also had the reputation of not being good at working with young girls, partly because they had attended a boys' school during their youth, which was thought to be able to form an interesting dynamic, and many staff members had wanted to work with them. Despite their busy schedules, they agreed almost immediately. The production staff appreciated that many of the members were \"cheerful and positive\", and wrote detailed answers in the production questionnaires and asked questions after the recording. In the early days of the show, the Audrey"}, {"text": "duo did come across as being shy around a large group of girls, but Wakabayashi managed to bring out the members' individual characteristics and the \"groove\" of the show steadily grew. Nagao noted that Audrey and the production staff were comparable to boys' school students, while the Hiragana Keyakizaka46 members were like neighboring girls' school students who would organize joint events with them, creating a relationship that worked well. Director Katsutoshi Shirano commented that after the two-part episode titled \"Let's Get Closer to Audrey!\", the members and Audrey actually became closer and the members became easier to work with. Reception. Pop culture writer Hiko noted that the production staff's love for Audrey was \"extraordinary\", and that \"Hiragana Oshi\" could be seen as a \"redo\" of Audrey's youth at a boys' school. He agreed that the members' excitement and \"overflowing girls' school spirit\" successfully created an atmosphere of \"encounter between an all-boys school and an all-girls school\", which became the core of \"Hiragana Oshi\". Hiko particularly noted episode 43, in which Audrey introduced the sh\u014dnen manga \"Kinnikuman\" to the members, as the \"pinnacle of boys' school enthusiasm\". It was mentioned on Twitter by Takashi Shimada, one of the two \"Kinnikuman\" authors"}, {"text": "who share the pen name Yudetamago, and was featured on the \"obi\" for the 66th volume of the manga released on March 7, 2019. Konoka Matsuda, who was selected as the episode's MVP, was interviewed in the May 20, 2019 issue of \"Weekly Playboy\" as \"an idol who knows too much about \"Kinnikuman\"\". \"Real Sound\" commented that Hiragana Keyakizaka46's variety skills \"blossomed\" in the show and that the group's encounter with the Audrey duo was, in member Shiho Kat\u014d's words, \"the work of fate\"."}, {"text": "Les Chemins de la philosophie (the ways of philosophy) (previously entitled Les Nouveaux Chemins de la connaissance (The new ways of knowledge) until 2017) is a French philosophy radio program broadcast daily on France Culture and presented by Ad\u00e8le Van Reeth. In 2017, the show is the most downloaded podcast of the radio station. History. The program, first called \"Les chemins de la connaissance\", then renamed \"Les Nouveaux Chemins de la connaissance\", was hosted by Rapha\u00ebl Enthoven from 2007 to 2011. Van Reeth, collaborator and columnist on the show, succeeded him. At the beginning of 2017, she renamed the program \"Les Chemins de la philosophie\", fully assuming the philosophical character of the program. It was the most downloaded show on France Culture (two million downloads per month, on average, in 2017.) According to van Reeth, the success of the program is due to its transversal approach and the abandonment of the teaching tone, often criticized against France Culture, without giving in to a certain intellectual slackness: \"Pedagogy implies setting a threshold of requirement while trying to say things that seem complicated clearly,\" she reports to the newspaper \"Lib\u00e9ration\"."}, {"text": "Sakibul Gani (born 2 September 1999) is an Indian cricketer. In February 2022, he became the first cricketer to score a triple century on debut in a first-class match. He made his List A debut on 7 October 2019, for Bihar in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 11 January 2021, for Bihar in the 2020\u201321 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 17 February 2022, for Bihar in the 2021\u201322 Ranji Trophy. He went on to score 341 runs, becoming the first player to score a triple century on their first-class debut. Gani scored 98 and 101 not out in his next two innings, giving him the highest aggregate in a batter's first three innings in first-class cricket with 540 runs."}, {"text": "Shivam Kumar (born 7 August 2000) is an Indian cricketer. He is a Right hand Batsman and legbreak Googly bowler. He made his List A debut on 7 October 2019, for Bihar in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 8 November 2019, for Bihar in the 2019\u201320 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 9 December 2019, for Bihar in the 2019\u201320 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "The Riverbank Publications is a series of pamphlets written by the people who worked for millionaire George Fabyan in the multi-discipline research facility he built in the early 20th century near Chicago. They were published by Fabyan, often without author credit. The publications on cryptanalysis, mostly written by William Friedman, with contributions from Elizebeth Smith Friedman and others, are considered seminal in the field. In particular, Publication 22 introduced the Index of Coincidence, a powerful statistical tool for cryptanalysis. List of publications on cryptography. The Riverbank Publications dealt with many subjects investigated at the laboratories. The ones dealing with cryptography began with number 15, and consists of: Except as noted, the above publications were written by William F. Friedman and were published by George Fabyan's Riverbank Laboratories in Geneva, Illinois."}, {"text": "SIAC Construction Ltd v The County Council of the County of Mayo [2002] IESC 39, [2002] 3 IR 148 was a case in which the Supreme Court of Ireland ruled that, in exercising its margin of discretion in the area of public procurement, a tender awarding authority is required to respect the general principles of equality, transparency and objectivity. Background. On the 1992 Mayo County Council advertised an open procedure for a public work contract. In advertisement Council noted that they not going to make a decisions based on \"lowest price only\" the preference will be based on \"most economically advantageous\" tender. SIAC Construction tender for the provision of a new sewerage system for town of Ballinrobe. SIAC made the lowest tender. Mayo County Council employed a consulting engineer, who reported that Pat Mulcair might prove \"at the end of the day to be the lowest. SIAC Construction took Mayo County Council to the High Court of judicial review stating that Council acted in breach of awarding the contract, to other party, in respect of public requirements. On 11 October 1993, SIAC made an application to the High Court concerning of a decision made be the Mayo County Council not"}, {"text": "to award a construction contract. Judge Laffoy on 17 June 1997 decided that SIAC is not entitled to any reliefs. At that point SIAC made an application to the Supreme Court. Subsequently, a reference was submitted to the European Court of Justice on 18 October 2001 to clarify the \"Article 29 of Council Directive 71/305/EEC of 26 July 1971.\" High Court decision. SIAC claimed that Mayo County Council were in breach of the \"European Communities Directive 71/305/EEC\" (as now consolidated in Directive 93/37/EEC) and/or the European Communities (Award of Public Works Contracts) Regulations, 1992 (S.I. No. 36 of 1992). On 17 June 1997 High Court decide that SIAC is not entitled to any reliefs. Mayo County Council is not liable in damages to the SIAC Construction Ltd for breach of the \"1971 Council Directive and 1992 Regulations\". Court of Justice of the European Union. The Court of Justice of the European Union received a question concerning the interpretation of \"Article 29 of Council Directive 71/305/EEC of 26 July 1971\" in relation to the procedures for the award of public works contracts between SIAC Construction Ltd and the County Council of Mayo. The Court of Justice of the European Communities gave"}, {"text": "its judgment on 18 October 2001, where it was explained that \"Article 29 of Council Directive 71/305/EEC of 26 July 1971\" could be interpreted for the benefit of County Council Mayo as to whether the criteria on the award was clearly stated in the contract notice and decision made on professional opinion based on objective factors. The European Court concluded that such an interpretation is a matter for the national court. Holding of the Supreme Court. SIAC was seeking to rely on the judgment of the European Court to pursue issues which were not dealt in the appeal of the High Court. County Council advertised tender \"most economically advantageous\" and not to be made on the basis of \"lowest price only.\" SIAC submitted lowest price, therefore the consulting engineer employed by County Council reported that Pat Mulcair might prove \"at the end of the day to be the lowest.\" SIAC claimed that the engineer did not acted objectively and his estimates were wrong. The Supreme Court ruled that County Council acted within the margin of discretion by choosing right tender. The engineer approached calculations correctly. The Supreme Court rejected the appeal and affirm the order of the High Court."}, {"text": "Jan Frederik (\"Frits\") Staal (Amsterdam, 28 February 1879 \u2013 Amsterdam, 8 April 1940), was a Dutch architect, and a major figure in the development of modern architecture in the Netherlands in the first half of the twentieth century. He was the father of the architects Arthur and Georges Staal and the linguist and South Asia scholar Jan Frederik Staal (also nicknamed \"Frits\"). Career. Jan Frederik Staal was born into a family of builders in Amsterdam. His father was a partner in the contracting firm Staal and Haalmeyer, in whose office J.F. Staal began working around the turn of the century. It was there in 1902 that he met Alexander Jacobus Kropholler, with whom he formed a partnership in 1903. Initially, the designs of the partners were constructed by his father's firm. One of the first of these were the offices of the life insurance company De Utrecht, located on the Damrak in central Amsterdam, which are still used by the company and constitute a striking example of Dutch Nieuwe Kunst (Art Nouveau) architecture in the city. At the same time, they completed another branch office for the company in Leeuwarden. Staal and Kropholler dissolved their partnership in 1910, after which"}, {"text": "time Staal began to move closer to the design currents of the Amsterdam School, which would coalesce in the Netherlands while the country remained neutral during World War I. His first realizations in this vein were the villa in the Park Meerwijk in Bergen (1917\u201318); the central flower markets in Aalsmeer; a 12-story \"skyscraper\" in Amsterdam; the Dutch pavilion at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris (the 1925 exposition which later gave us the name \"Art Deco\"); the new headquarters of the newspaper \"De Telegraaf\" on the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam (with G.J. Langhout); the Koopmansbeurs in Rotterdam; and various homes in the Amsterdam Rivierenbuurt (River District). In 1920 he also entered the competition for an opera house on the Museumplein in Amsterdam, which he won, but his plan of the opera house was never built. Later he would reuse the motifs from this project on the Aalsmeer flower market and the \"Telegraaf\" building. Towards the end of his career Staal eventually evolved into a disciple of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity, or the International Style), a development that can be seen in his housing blocks constructed in the Apollolaan, Beethovenstraat, Corellistraat and Bachstraat"}, {"text": "sections of Amsterdam. His buildings on the Apollolaan/Beethovenstraat are particularly characteristic of his turn towards the New Objectivity with their large, tight bay windows, as are the single-family houses he designed on the even-numbered side of the Corellistraat. They contrast markedly with the earlier residential structures he built on the JM Coenenstraat. Staal became an important figure in the history of Dutch modern architecture. For a number of years he served as a board member of the Dutch professional society of architects \"Architecture et Amicitia\", which from 1914 onwards held its meetings in a bank building on the Herengracht in Amsterdam that Staal had designed. From 1920 to 1930 he also served on the editorial staff of the Dutch design magazine Wendingen. His career flourished as a result of these contacts, including the major figures in the Amsterdam School, such as Hendrik T. Wijdeveld, Michel de Klerk, and Piet Kramer. The first monograph on Staal, \"Jan Frederik Staal (1879\u20131940) \u2013 The Will of the Building and the Will of the Time\", appeared in 2015, authored by Hans Willem Bakx and published by the Bonas Foundation. Politics and personal life. Staal was a lifelong socialist, and even joined the Communist Party"}, {"text": "in the Netherlands. From 1936 until his death he was married to the architect and designer Margaret Staal-Kropholler (1891\u20131966), with whom he had a relationship for much longer and who was initially his assistant. She was the sister of Staal's former partner Alexander Kropholler. They are buried in the New Eastern Cemetery in Amsterdam. Staal had five children, four of whom from relationships he had before he married his wife. His son Arthur Staal (1907\u20131993) was also an architect and in 1966 designed the Overhoeks Tower in Amsterdam-Noord. His son Georges Staal was also an architect and a third son Fred Staal, died in the Dutch East Indies. A fourth son was the linguist Frits Staal (1930\u20132012), who, however, had a different mother than Arthur, Georges and Fred. Margareth, or Maggie Venekamp-Staal, was his youngest child, from his marriage to Margaret."}, {"text": "Knox and Downs was a store in located at 44 Reid St on the corner of Myers St in Wilcannia, New South Wales in far western New South Wales. In 2002, the heritage listed building was extensively damaged by fire. In 2016 it was announced that the building would be repurposed as a cultural centre. 3.5 million had been committed by the New South Wales government to construct the Baaka Cultural Centre, which will be a home to the largest collection of Barkindji history, art and cultural pieces found in Australia. Engineers assessed the remains of the building in 2016 and found that most of the external walls, including the verandah, of the existing building could be restored. It was an important hardware store that serviced the port of Wilcannia during the late 1800s and early 1900s. It was built in 1899 of local sandstone, as are many historic buildings found in Wilcannia."}, {"text": "KFUM Arena is a football stadium located at Ekeberg in Oslo, Norway, and is the home of Norwegian Eliteserien club KFUM Oslo. The stadium is under reconstruction to temporarily get a capacity of 3,300 seats. KFUM is a translation of the English language YMCA. Facilities. The arena is owned by KFUM-Kameratene Oslo. It was opened on 19 November 2007. The construction costs were estimated to around NOK 10 million. The pitch itself is 64 x 105 meters and has artificial turf, under-soil heating and an automatic watering system. The stadium is located next to a sports hall; KFUM-hallen. In the aftermath of KFUM's promotion to the second tier in 2015, the artificial turf was changed and the stands were upgraded. There are plans of major upgrades of the existing facilities. The project has been named \"KFUM Familiearena\" and will increase the seated capacity to 2,400. The arena will also include a swimming-pool, fitness-center, a kindergarten, indoor football arena for kids, a cafe, offices and meeting areas. Before their inaugural season in Eliteserien, KFUM temporarily increased the capacity to 3,300. Attendances. The attendance record is as of today at 2236 from the quarter-finals in the Norwegian championship in 2019 against Odds"}, {"text": "ballklubb, a match KFUM lost 2\u20135. The previous record was 1866 spectators when KFUM met V\u00e5lerenga in the third round of the Norwegian Cup in 2016. V\u00e5lerenga won the game 2\u20130. Average attendances. This shows the average attendance on KFUM Oslo's home games in one of the two top tiers since 2016, their first season at the second tier since the opening of KFUM Arena."}, {"text": "Fatemeh Khishvand (, known by her Instagram username of Sahar Tabar, Persian: ; born 16 June 2001), is an Iranian influencer who is known for her use of cosmetic surgery in images of herself posted to Instagram. It was rumored that she had altered her face through as many as fifty plastic surgeries. Tabar was interviewed on Iranian national television in October 2019 after she was arrested on charges including blasphemy and illegally obtaining money. It was reported that Tabar was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in December 2020. A few days after the publication of the news of her 10-year prison sentence, she announced to reporters about her release. Tabar said: \"The judge has agreed to convert the arrest order into a bail order, and I have been released from prison after posting the bail.\" Tabar also told reporters that she was acquitted of two charges and that she had filed an appeal and was waiting for the final verdict. Images. Tabar's images on Instagram gathered over 486,000 followers. The images featured distorted facial features that included exaggerated lips and a pointy, turned-up nose. In a 2017 interview with Sputnik News, Tabar explained the images were created primarily using"}, {"text": "makeup and Photoshop. At that time, the cosmetic procedures she underwent were limited to rhinoplasty, liposuction, and injectable fillers in her lips. Some of the photos and videos shared online appear to have been heavily edited to resemble Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, but Tabar denied this intention. Arrest. On 5 October 2019, Tabar was arrested in Tehran on charges of \"blasphemy, instigating violence, illegally acquiring property, violating the national dress code and encouraging young people to commit corruption\" according to the Tasnim news agency, which also stated that the arrest was a response to complaints from the public. Her Instagram account was deleted at the time of her arrest. Three days later, three more female Instagram influencers were arrested in Iran: Sahra Afsharian, Sara Shariatmadari and Niloufar Moti'ei. Iranian television. On the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Channel 3 (IRIB TV3), it was reported that Tabar faced a prison sentence of between three months and two years on charges of \"obtaining money through illegitimate means, and publishing inappropriate and vulgar photographs\". Tabar was introduced as a \"zombie\" for a pre-trial interview broadcast on 22 October 2019 by IRIB TV2. Although her face was blurred in the broadcast, Tabar stated that"}, {"text": "she did not look like her Instagram images because they were heavily Photoshopped in an attempt to look like the titular character in \"Corpse Bride\". She told the interviewer that her childhood dream was to become famous, and she had persisted with building her Instagram fame despite the objections of her mother. Tabar admitted that she had not completed high school, and the broadcast claimed that her efforts to gain online fame had prevented her from advancing to higher education. The IRIB TV2 interview mitigated the charges against Tabar by presenting her as a person with a psychological disorder, who had believed her posts were acceptable because of the encouragement she received from her many Instagram followers. Nonetheless, Tabar later received a ten-year prison sentence."}, {"text": "This is a list of the deputy speakers of the House of Representatives of Indonesia. At the start of each five-year period, multiple deputies are elected from the members of the house. The current leadership of the body has four deputy speakers."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 season is Sepahan's 66th season in existence, and their 39th consecutive season in the top flight of Iran football. It is also the club's 19th consecutive season in the Persian Gulf Pro League. The club will compete in the Persian Gulf Pro League, Hazfi Cup, and AFC Champions League. \"As it stands on 8 October 2019\""}, {"text": "Alamzeb, Alamzaib, or Alam Zeb may refer to:"}, {"text": "Bundewallah is a locality in the City of Shoalhaven in New South Wales, Australia. It lies to the north of the Kangaroo Valley Road to the northwest of Berry. At the , it had a population of 48."}, {"text": "Turquoise Line or Blue Green Line may refer to:"}, {"text": "Philippe Naillet (born 14 August 1960 in Saint-Denis, Reunion) is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party and a municipal councillor of Saint-Denis, he was the substitute for Ericka Bareigts, the successful candidate for R\u00e9union's 1st constituency in the 2012 election. He replaced Bareigts when she was appointed Minister of Overseas France in 2016 and served as deputy until the 2017 election. Early life and career. Naillet studied at the University of Reunion. He was then a Life Insurance Inspector for AG2R La Mondiale. Political positions. In 2023, Naillet publicly endorsed the re-election of the Socialist Party's chairman Olivier Faure."}, {"text": "Claude Jaupart (born 22 May 1953) is a French geophysicist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences (since December 2008). Biography. Professor of geophysics at the University of Paris-Diderot, and a researcher in physical volcanology, he is one of the world's leading specialists in natural hazards of geological origin. He was appointed a member of the Institute, French Academy of Sciences, Section of Universe Sciences. By a presidential decree of 12 January 2011, he succeeded Vincent Courtillot as head of the Institute of Earth Physics in Paris. Claude Jaupart's work focuses on the thermal structure of continents, the characteristics of the internal movements of our planet responsible for continental drift and the modalities of volcanic eruptions. Scientific work. Six main themes.. (1) Measurements of surface heat flux, calculation of the Earth's heat balance and its secular cooling rate. (2) Structure and thermal evolution of the crust and continental roots. Determination of the heat flux at the base of a continental root. Causes of the distribution in time and space of granitic massifs in a province. Mechanisms for stabilizing the continental crust. Consequences of the unstable nature of continental roots. (3) Convection in the Earth's mantle. How the movements"}, {"text": "and distribution of temperatures within the Earth are affected by the large variations in viscosity that prevail there and by the presence of continents. (4) Ascension of magmas and placement of magmatic reservoirs in the continental crust: at what depth and how magmatic reservoirs are formed, role played by the construction of a volcanic building on the surface. (5) Crystallization and differentiation of magmas: convective exchanges between the layers where crystallization occurs and the interior of a reservoir, competition between sedimentation/flotation of crystals and movements of the carrier magma. (6) Physics of volcanic eruptions: importance of gas leaks through the walls of a conduit, importance of coupling between flow at the surface and in an eruptive conduit, effects of compressibility on lava flows, effects of fragmentation and fragment size distribution (pumice and ash) on the behaviour of eruptive plumes in the atmosphere."}, {"text": "Bernardus Stefanus Henricus (Ben) Zegers (Utrecht, 3 March 1962) is a Dutch visual artist, active as a sculptor and installation artist, and teacher and coordinator at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Zegers came into prominence with sculptures, that balances between sculpture and functional design. His early work was told to \"alienate household items, especially mattresses, but also chairs and tables, and places them in the useless and meaningful sculptural context.\" Biography. Education and early career. Zegers was born and raised in Utrecht, and from 1980 to 1986 studied art at the St. Joost Academy of Art and Design in Den Bosch. He then continued his studies for two years at the Ateliers '63 in Haarlem from 1986 to 1988. In 1988 Zegers settled as a visual artist in Rotterdam, where he has lived and worked ever since. In that year the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Zegers and five other young artists Giny Vos, Nicolaas de Haan, Agnes Roelofse, Hans van Bentem, and Trudi van den Berg were granted an assignment to get their professional practice started. In 1988 he had his first solo exhibition in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem. In 1989 he was one of the 25 Dutch contemporary artists at the"}, {"text": "Edinburgh Festival. His work was engaged that year into the city collection of Rotterdam at Museum Boymans Van Beuningen together with the work of other young artist, that had settled in Rotterdam; Geert van de Camp, Allard Budding, and Lidwien van de Ven. In 1990 he participated in group exhibitions at Galerie Van Krimpen and Galerie Fons Welters in Amsterdam and at Museum Boymans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, where he regularly returned. He was awarded the Charlotte K\u00f6hler Prize in 1994. Later career. In 1991 Zeger was selected with Ab van Hanegem, Aernout Mik, Kaap, and Lidwien van de Ven for the \"S\u00e3o Paulo Art Biennial,\" Eventually the Dutch contribution was redrawn, and ended up at an art fair in Los Angeles. In the new millennium Zegers also started as sculpture teacher and coordinator at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. The works of Zegers are among others in the city collection of the Museum Boymans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, and in public spaces in Rotterdam, Oostzaan, and Dokkum. In 1990 Zegers was granted an encouragement award by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, and in 1993 he received a Charlotte K\u00f6hler Price."}, {"text": "The 2020 elections for the Pennsylvania State Senate were held on November 3, 2020, with 25 of 50 districts being contested. Primary elections were held on June 2, 2020. The term of office for those elected in 2020 began when the Senate convened in January 2021. Pennsylvania State Senators are elected for four-year terms, with half of the seats up for election every two years. The election coincided with the 2020 United States presidential election, United States House of Representatives elections, and the entirety of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Republicans had controlled the chamber since the 1994 election ( years). Special election. 48th senatorial district. A special election for the 48th senatorial district was held on January 14 following Republican State Senator Mike Folmer's resignation after being arrested for possession of child pornography. Democrats selected Lebanon Valley College associate professor Michael Schroeder as their nominee, while Republicans nominated Lebanon County District Attorney Dave Arnold. Close races. Six district races had winning margins of less than 15%:"}, {"text": "Kathanam () is a 2019 Indian Telugu-language action thriller film directed by Rajesh Nadendla while screenplay was penned by Rajendra Bharadwaj. The film stars Anasuya Bharadwaj, Vennela Kishore and Srinivas Avasarala in the lead roles. The film is produced under the production banner Gayathri Films. Music for the film was composed by Roshan Salur, and the cinematography was handled by Sathish Muthyala. The film was released on 9 August 2019 and opened to negative reviews from critics. Plot. Anu, an aspiring film director, is given the opportunity to improvise a script for a film. As she is writing the script, the characters in it die in real life. Anu approaches ACP Randhir to prevent further deaths. Marketing. The first look poster of the film was unveiled in October 2018 by the lead actress. The official trailer of the film was released on 3 August 2019."}, {"text": "The 2013\u201314 KBL season was the 18th season of the Korean Basketball League (KBL), the highest level of basketball in South Korea. Ulsan Hyundai Mobis Phoebus retained their title, their fifth overall."}, {"text": "Berezna (; ) is a rural settlement in Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Berezna settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The territory of the Berezna is located within the Dnieper Lowland, belong to the Dnieper basin. Population: History. Until 18 July 2020, Berezna belonged to Mena Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernihiv Oblast to five. The area of Mena Raion was split between Chernihiv and Koriukivka Raions, with Berezna being transferred to Chernihiv Raion. Until 26 January 2024, Berezna was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Berezna became a rural settlement. Geography. The Berezna is located in the east of Chernihiv raion, 35 km from Chernihiv. The territory of the Berezna is located within the Dnieper Lowland, belong to the Dnieper basin. Berezna is located on the banks of the Krasilovka River, a right tributary of the Desna. The relief of the surface of the district is a lowland, slightly undulating plain, sometimes dissected by river valleys. The climate of Berezna is moderately"}, {"text": "continental, with warm summers and relatively mild winters. The average temperature in January is about -7\u00b0C, and in July - +19\u00b0C. The average annual precipitation ranges from 550 to 660 mm, with the highest precipitation in the summer period. The most common are sod-podzolic and gray forest soils. The Berezna is located in the natural zone of mixed forests, in Polissya. The main species in the forests are pine, oak, alder, ash, birch. Minerals \u2013 loam, peat, sand, brown coal. Economy. Transportation. Berezna is on Highway H27, connecting Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi. A road branches off north to Snovsk with further access to Koriukivka and Horodnia. The closest railway station is located in the city of Chernihiv."}, {"text": "Ovsyanikovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 34 as of 2010."}, {"text": "Ovsyannikovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 104 as of 2010. Today, its population is 103. Geography. It is located 3 km east from Golovino, 27 km west from Sudogda."}, {"text": "Morlet is a commune in the Sa\u00f4ne-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in France Morlet may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Ovtsyno () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 109 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Ovtsyno is located on the Soyma River, 15 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Khokhlachi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ozyablitsy () is a rural locality (a village) in Moshokskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2010. Geography. Ozyablitsy is located 40 km southeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Posyolok imeni Vorovskogo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "This is a list of the secretaries-general of the Indonesian House of Representatives. The secretariat is intended to \"support the smooth implementation of the powers and duties of the House.\""}, {"text": "Pavlovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Pavlovskaya is located 32 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Proskurinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Panfilovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2010. Geography. Panfilovo is located on the Vanchuga River, 26 km southwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Buchkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Patrikeyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Patrikeyevo is located 17 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kliny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Frank Philipp Schl\u00f6\u00dfmann (born 1963) is a German scenic designer focused on operas who has worked at major opera houses and festivals internationally. He staged Jan\u00e1\u010dek's \"Jen\u016ffa\" at the Metropolitan Opera, Wagner's \"Der Ring des Nibelungen\" at both the Bayreuth Festival and \"Der Ring in Minden\", and the world premiere of Heinz Holliger's \"Lunea\" at the Opernhaus Z\u00fcrich. Career. Born in Bad K\u00f6nig, Odenwald, Schl\u00f6\u00dfmann studied design of stage and costumes (\"B\u00fchnen- und Kost\u00fcmgestaltung\") at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 1985 to 1989. He has worked freelance since 1991, collaborating with directors such as , Harry Kupfer and Olivier Tambosi. In Germany, he worked for the Komische Oper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Cologne Opera, the Semperoper in Dresden and the Bavarian State Opera. In Europe, he staged for the Royal Opera House in London, in Dublin, in Amsterdam, Antwerp, in Strasbourg, Bologna and Catania, at La Fenice in Venice and the Liceu in Barcelona, in Oslo, Helsinki and Basel. In the Americas, he designed stages and costumes for the Houston Grand Opera and the Teatro Col\u00f3n in Buenos Aires, among others. He has also worked in Beijing, Tokyo, and for the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Schl\u00f6\u00dfmann designed stages for Puccini's \"Tosca\" at"}, {"text": "the English National Opera, \"Manon Lescaut\" at the Lyric Opera in Chicago and the San Francisco Opera, where he also created designs for Jan\u00e1\u010dek's \"The Makropulos Case\" and \"Jen\u016ffa\" and Verdi's \"Falstaff\", and Jan\u00e1\u010dek's \"Jen\u016ffa\" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and the Los Angeles Opera. Schl\u00f6\u00dfmann designed stages for festivals including the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and the Handel Festival Halle. He designed the set for Wagner's \"Der Ring des Nibelungen\" directed by Tankred Dorst at the Bayreuth Festival, presented from 2006 to 2010. He also designed the set for Katharina Wagner's 2015 production of \"Tristan und Isolde\" there. At the Bregenz Festival of 2016, Schl\u00f6\u00dfmann directed a revival of Franco Faccio's opera \"Amleto\" from 1865, which had been forgotten for 140 years. He staged Donizetti's \"L'elisir d'amore\" at the Staatsoper Berlin and Verdi's \"La traviata\" for the Oper Leipzig, Staatstheater Saarbr\u00fccken, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. He created sets for Wagner's \"Der fliegende Holl\u00e4nder\" at the Volksoper in Vienna, and Puccini's \"Madama Butterfly\" at the Opernhaus Dortmund. Schl\u00f6\u00dfmann was the designer of stage and costumes for \"Der Ring in Minden\", presenting Wagner's \"Ring\" cycle staged by Gerd Heinz from 2015"}, {"text": "to 2019. He framed the stage there by a large ring illuminated in changing colours. For the world premiere of Heinz Holliger's opera \"Lunea\" at the Opernhaus Z\u00fcrich on 18 February 2018, scenes after Lenau, he designed the stage for the production staged by with Christian Gerhaher in the title role and the composer conducting."}, {"text": "Penki () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. Geography. Penki is located on the Soyma River, 9 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Soyma is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pierre Pinson (born 28 March 1980) is a French applied mathematician known for his work on forecasting, optimisation and management science for energy systems, e.g., including probabilistic forecasting, participation of renewable energy generation in electricity markets, market-based coordination of energy systems, peer-to-peer energy markets, as well as data markets. He is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark and has been Editor-in-Chief of the \"International Journal of Forecasting\" from 2019 onwards. Pierre Pinson grew up near Poitiers, France and moved to Toulouse at the age of 17. He studied applied mathematics at the Institut National des Sciences Appliqu\u00e9es, graduating with an MSc in applied mathematics in 2002. He then moved to Sophia Antipolis, France to complete a PhD with the Ecole des Mines de Paris in 2006, with a doctoral dissertation, \"Pinson P. Estimation of the uncertainty in wind power forecasting\" (Doctoral dissertation, \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Mines de Paris). That year, he moved to Denmark to start with the Technical University of Denmark. After a period with the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences, he was a professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering between 2013 and 2020. Since 2021, is a Professor of Operations Research with"}, {"text": "the Department of Technology, Management and Economics at the same university. Previously, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford Mathematical Institute and the University of Washington, a scientist at the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, UK), a visiting professor at Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure (Rennes, France), as well as a Simons Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge, UK)."}, {"text": "Peredel () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 32 as of 2010. Geography. Peredel is located 11 km southeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Peredel (settlement) is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Hassan Mohammed Osama Al-Tombakti (; born 9 February 1999) is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for the Saudi Arabia national team and for Saudi Pro League side Al Hilal. Club career. Al-Tombakti is an academy graduate of Al-Shabab and signed his first professional contract with the club on 31 May 2018. He renewed his contract on 5 February 2019, signing a one-year contract extension. He made his debut for the first team in the King Cup match against Al-Sahel on 2 January 2019. On 31 August 2019, Al-Tombakti was loaned out to fellow Pro League side Al-Wehda. He made his debut for Al-Wehda on 27 September 2019 in the league match against Al-Fateh. He made eight appearances for Al-Wehda before returning to Al-Shabab following the conclusion of the season. On 4 January 2023, Al-Tombakti renewed his contract with Al-Shabab until the end of the 2026\u201327 season. On 21 August 2023, Al-Tombakti joined rivals Al-Hilal for a reported fee of SAR46 million, becoming the most expensive Saudi player in history. International career. Al-Tombakti was first called up to Saudi Arabia national football team in 2019 for the game against Singapore in the 2022 FIFA World Cup"}, {"text": "qualification \u2013 AFC second round, but did not play. He made his debut for the Green Falcons against Paraguay on 19 November in a friendly. Throughout the qualification, Al-Tombakti didn't play a major role as Saudi Arabia qualified with an impressive result. Despite lack of time playing for the senior side in the qualifiers, his strong performance for the U-23 team as Saudi Arabia won the 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup allowed him to be included in the final tournament. He gave a great impression in the first game against Argentina as he played a small but instrumental role in helping Saudi Arabia to stun Argentina with a historic 2\u20131 win. However, Al-Tombakti would go on to become the reason for Saudi Arabia's eventual group stage exit, as his foul on Henry Mart\u00edn in the match against Mexico was utilised by Luis Ch\u00e1vez, who scored a thunderous free kick as Saudi Arabia crumbled to Mexico by the same scoreline and finished in the bottom place. \"Scores and results list Saudi Arabia goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Al-Tombakti goal\" Honours. Al-Hilal Saudi Arabia U20 Saudi Arabia U23"}, {"text": "Guy Loel (Hebrew: \u05d2\u05d9\u05d0 \u05dc\u05d5\u05d0\u05dc; born December 4, 1971) is an Israeli actor. Biography. Guy Loel was born and raised in Ramat Gan. Already at Ohel Shem High School, he participated in a play \"\u05de\u05ea\u05e0\u05e2\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd\" directed by David Steinberg. In the IDF he first served in the Artillery Corps and two years later moved to the IDF Theater. In 1993\u20131996 he studied acting at Beit Zvi. Participated in Plays on Habima Theatre: \"The Mandrake\", \"Catch 22\", \"The Boys Next Door\", \"Improvisation Games\", and \"Stage Stories\". Beit Lessin Theater: \"News Flash\", \"Scapino\" and \"Weekly Weekend with Tom\". Cameri Theater: \" Caviar and Lentils\". Beersheba Theater : \" Play It Sam\". At the same time, he took part in plays at the Library Theater: \"Our Boys\" and \"A Hatful of Rain\". Participate in plays for children and youth \"\u05dc\u05de\u05e9\u05dc \u05e9\u05d5\u05e2\u05dc\", \"Mr. Zuta and the Apple Tree,\" \"Election Jungle,\" \"Danger,\" and \"Tommy's Journey.\" In 1999, he first starred in Alon Zingman 's film Herzl's Toothache, which won the Volgin Award. In 2000, he played in the drama \"The Other Woman \" alongside Gila Almagor, Yona Elian, Avital Abergil and more. In 2002, he was cast for the lead role in the movie \"Wisdom"}, {"text": "of the Pretzel\", in 2006 he participated in the films \"Out of Sight\", \"Good under Good\", \"As if nothing happened\" and in the short film \"Strangers\". On television, Loel participated in the Telenovela \"Telenovela Ba'am\", in which he portrayed the self-made television channel director Benny Kaiserman, the \"Ha-Alufa\" in which he portrayed Kaiserman's brother, sports broadcaster Bear Kaiser, who lost his sanity, Presenter the \"Sex Survey\" The big \"on YTV channel in 2005. In 2007, Telenovella participated in\" Dolls \", in which he played the character of Moish, a fashion event producer who is Homosexuality in the closet. In 2008 he played in\" \u05d7\u05e9\u05d5\u05e4\u05d9\u05dd\", where he played news presenter Eitan Arazi. Participate in the three seasons in the TV series \"\u05d4\u05de\u05d5\u05d1\u05d9\u05dc\u05d9\u05dd\" in Logi channel, and the series \"Ha-Ex Ha-Mitologi\", and \"Esrim plus\u201d in Educational Television. In 2009 off the game show based on the competition between celebrities \"God willing\", and began to play the role of Kozo Avital television series \"Polishuk\". In 2010 he played in the sitcom \"Kan Garim Bekef\" together with Nati Kluger Daniel Moreshset, Maayan Aloni and Tony Berman in Channel 10. In 2011 started guide with Israel Aharoni the cooking show \"Israeli cooks.\" Loel has also"}, {"text": "participated in several advertising campaigns, including the National Israel Anti-Drug Authority, Hamashbir Lazarchan and \u05d4\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9\u05e7\u05e1 \u05d7\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4 \u05dc\u05d1\u05d9\u05d8\u05d5\u05d7. In 2012, he played a guest role in the \"Summer Days\" series and in the \"Greenhouse\" series in the role of Rosen's rebel Prime Minister in 2014, played by Ben Zeidman, a married couple with two children, in the \"Amamiyot\" series. In August, the series \" Good Cop \" came up, playing the role of Jacob \"Rabbi\" Policeman and Commander of Denny, played by Yuval Samo. In 2015 Loel played in the series \"\u05ea\u05de\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d1\u05dc\u05e9\u05d9\u05ea \u05d5\u05e7\u05e4\u05d8\u05df \u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05e9\u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05d9\", and in the series \"Kings\", where a permanent man who betrays his wife plays. Also playing in the \"Elisha\" series, which airs on the children's channel, in the role of the entitled \"Great\" lawyer who wants to prevent Elisha (Yuval Samo) from finishing sixth grade and to inherit it. In 2018 Loel participated in several episodes of \"Gav Ha'Uma.\" In the same year, he participated in the \"\u05d8\u05e8\u05e0\u05d9\u05e0\u05d2\" situation comedy in the character's name, and also participated in the \"\u05d1\u05d9\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u05d1\u05d9\u05dd\" series that year in the name of Yair. In 2019 Loel participated in several episodes in the \"Kfula\" series as a cop. That year,"}, {"text": "he played in the third season of \"The Good Cop\" series and released the movie \"Finita La Commedia\" with his participation. Ahead of the 22nd Knesset legislative election, he participated in the campaign \"\u05d4\u05de\u05e8\u05db\u05d6 \u05d4\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d4\u05e2\u05e6\u05de\u05ea \u05d4\u05d0\u05d6\u05e8\u05d7\" that called on politicians to present bright positions to the public. Loel was celebrity branding of \"Phoenix\" insurance."}, {"text": "Jacqueline I Am Coming is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Banty Dubey and produced by Manjesh Giri under the banner MD Production. The film stars Raghubir Yadav, Diiva Dhanoya, Shakti Kumar, and Kiran Patil. The film premiered at the 2019 Rajasthan International Film Festival and was released on 18 October 2019."}, {"text": "Peredel () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 153 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Peredel is located 13 km southeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Peredel (village) is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Warsaw Ghetto Hunger Study was a study taken up by Jewish doctors imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. The Nazis, intent on starving the ghetto within months, allowed no more than a daily intake of 180 calories per prisonerless than 10% of the recommended energy intake for a healthy human being while withholding vaccines and medicine that would be necessary to prevent the spread of disease in the dense ghetto. This resulted in a thriving black market which supplied about 80% of the ghetto's food, and a network of 250 soup kitchens operated by the Joint, which at one time had served as many as 100,000 meals per day. In February 1942 a group of Jewish doctors headed by Israel Milejkowski decided to use the famine, which was out of their control, to study the physiological and psychological effects of hunger. Using smuggled supplies, they commenced on a deep study of the various aspects of hunger: metabolic, cardiovascular, ophthalmological and even immune system changes, to name a few. Despite the lack of resources, the risk of execution (Jews being prohibited by the Nazis from scientific work) and their own poor physical conditions, the 28 doctors managed to keep"}, {"text": "a strict study protocol including isolation, glycemic load testing, and even pathology. The study had ended in August 1942 with the \"Grossaktion Warsaw\". The study manuscript was smuggled out of the ghetto and kept by the Polish doctor . Immediately after the end of the war it was published in Polish and French (1946), and then in English in 1979 by Myron Winick of Columbia University. According to Winick:"}, {"text": "Pigasovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. As of 2023, the population was 17. Geography. Pigasovo is located 28 km southwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road and Avdotyino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Joshua William Pollard (born 20 October 1988) is a field hockey player from Australia. Career. Club. In the Hockey Victoria competition, before his move to Perth to join the Hockey Australia High Performance Program, Pollard played club hockey for Greensborough Hockey Club in Melbourne. Domestic leagues. Australian Hockey League. Throughout his Australian Hockey League (AHL) career, Pollard represented his home state, Victoria. He made his debut for the VIC Vikings in 2006, playing every year until the tournament folded in 2018. In his 13-season career for the Vikings, Pollard won two titles, in 2016 and 2017. Hockey One. In 2019, Pollard was named in the HC Melbourne team to participate in the inaugural tournament of Hockey Australia's new domestic national league, Hockey One. National teams. Under\u201321. Joshua Pollard made his debut for the 'Burras' in 2007 during a five match test series against the Malaysian U\u201321 team in Queensland. Following this, he also represented the side at an eight nations tournament in Malaysia. In 2008, Pollard represented the side at the Junior Oceania Cup, where they won a gold medal and qualified to the Junior World Cup. At the 2009 Junior World Cup in Malaysia and Singapore, Pollard was a"}, {"text": "member of the team that won a bronze medal. Kookaburras. Following a standout performance at the 2016 AHL, Pollard made his debut for the Kookaburras at the 2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy. In 2017, Pollard was named the national squad for the first time prior to the International Hockey Open in Darwin. Pollard has not represented Australia since the 2017 International Festival of Hockey in Melbourne."}, {"text": "Pogrebishchi () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 46 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Pogrebishchi is located 35 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vyatkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fernando Casanova - born Fernando Guti\u00e9rrez L\u00f3pez; (24 November 1925 \u2013 16 November 2012) was a Mexican actor who began his career during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, and in the 1960s reached the height of his success, becoming one of the most popular actors at the time. Life and career. Casanova was born Fernando Guti\u00e9rrez L\u00f3pez on 24 November 1925, though some sources state 1922. As a teenager, he aspired to be a bullfighter, eventually leaving his studies to follow said occupation. He had the opportunity to debut in the Toreo de la Condesa in Mexico City, where he was gored on his right leg. Afterwards, Casanova would return to the bullring, but a few years afterwards, he decided to leave the profession. Casanova made his film debut in \"The Private Life of Mark Antony and Cleopatra\" (1947), and began appearing in secondary roles. In one of the films he appeared in, \"Si Adelita se fuera con otro\", Jorge Negrete, the star of the film, demanded to director Chano Urueta to not have scenes at Casanova's side, due to Casanova being taller than him. He also participated \"School for Tramps\" (1955), by Rogelio A. Gonz\u00e1lez, alongside Miroslava and"}, {"text": "Pedro Infante. According to an anecdote, when Infante died and Casanova attended his funeral, a producer approached Casanova and told him \"You should have died instead!\". Casanova sought to enter the Guinness World Records for being the actor with the most starring roles. Personal life and death. In 2010, at the age of 85, he married his partner of several years, Mar\u00eda Gunariz, although he already had other previous marriages. Casanova died in Mexico City on 16 November 2012 due to pulmonary complications caused by prostate cancer. He was survived at the time of his death by his wife Mar\u00eda and their children Fernando, Adriana and Ligia."}, {"text": "Poddol () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Geography. Poddol is located 17 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mikhalevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yvette Adounvo Atekpe is a Ghanaian business executive in the telecommunications and information technology sector. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dynamic Data Solutions Ltd (dds55), a Ghanaian ICT company that provides connectivity and enterprise solutions. She has over two decades of experience in the industry. Education. Atekpe had her secondary school education at the Holy Child School. She then continued at the University of Ghana where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology. She holds an MBA in marketing, a CBA from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, and a PGD in Marketing of Services from the Maastricht School of Management in The Netherlands. Career. Atekpe began her career in the ICT sector with Celltel Telecommunications and later held roles at Africa Online and Accelon. Accelon was later acquired by Dimension Data and rebranded as Internet Solutions Ghana. She served as the Managing Director of Internet Solutions Ghana and Dimension Data Ghana for over a decade before leading its transformation into Dynamic Data Solutions Ltd (dds55) through a management buyout. Under her leadership, the company has continued to operate in Ghana\u2019s ICT space, offering enterprise connectivity, cybersecurity, and cloud services. Advocacy and Mentorship."}, {"text": "Atekpe has participated in initiatives aimed at increasing the representation of women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. She has collaborated with the Ministry of Communications and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to support digital literacy and ICT mentorship programmes. Awards and achievements. She has received several awards, including:"}, {"text": "Polushkino () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Polushkino is located 27 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ogorelkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Popelyonki () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Popelyonki is located on the Sudogda River, 14 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road."}, {"text": "Far Meadow is a locality in the City of Shoalhaven in New South Wales, Australia. It lies to the south of Coolangatta Road to the southeast of Berry. At the , it had a population of 209. Far Meadow had a public school from June 1897 to December 1970."}, {"text": "Andrew Joseph Muir (born 17 October 1958) is a Scottish chess International Master (IM) (1990), Scottish Chess Championship winner (2007), Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner (1998), International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (GMC, 1995). Biography. Andrew Muir started seriously playing chess while studying at the University of Glasgow (1975\u20131979). He won the British Student Chess Championships in 1976 and was the best in Scottish Student Chess Championships in next year. Andrew Muir also won the International Chess Tournament \"Scottish Open\" in 1977, and in 1979 in Manchester won the International Chess Tournament \"Manchester Open\". He was winner of the Glasgow Open International Chess Tournaments \"Glasgow Open\" (1982, 1984, 1991, 1995, 2008). In 2007, Andrew Muir became the winner of the Scottish Chess Championship. In 1990, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title. Andrew Muir played for Scotland in the Chess Olympiads: Andrew Muir played for Scotland in the European Team Chess Championships: Andrew Muir played for Scotland in the World Student Team Chess Championship: Andrew Muir played for Scotland in the World Youth U26 Team Chess Championships: Andrew Muir played for Scotland in the Clare Benedict Cup: Andrew Muir active participated in correspondence chess tournaments between 1982 and 1995."}, {"text": "In 1995, he was awarded the International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (GMC) title. In recent years, Andrew Muir has devoted much of his time to his actuary work and less frequently participates in chess tournaments."}, {"text": "Joe Rice (born March 6, 1996) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Colorado Springs Switchbacks in the USL Championship. Career. Rice played college soccer at Virginia Commonwealth University between 2014 and 2018, where he spent a year redshirted and only made six appearances for the Rams. While at college, Rice appeared in the National Premier Soccer League with Chesterfield United and Virginia Beach City, as well as with USL PDL side Lionsbridge FC. On March 20, 2019, Rice signed a professional contract with USL League One side Richmond Kickers. On March 3, 2020, Rice joined New England Revolution II ahead of the 2020 season. Rice was not announced as a returning player for the club's 2022 season where they'd be competing in the newly formed MLS Next Pro. On February 11, 2022, it was announced Rice has joined USL Championship side Loudoun United. On September 9, 2022, Rice joined Detroit City on a loan for the remainder of the 2022 season. Rice signed with Hartford Athletic on January 24, 2023. Rice moved again, joining USL Championship side Colorado Springs Switchbacks ahead of their 2024 season."}, {"text": "Death and Taxes is a simulation video game by Leene K\u00fcnnap, an Estonian indie game developer, and published through their company, Placeholder Gameworks, on February 20, 2020. The game has the player take the role of a Grim Reaper, who must bureaucratically decide the fates of humans, specifically whether they will live or die. The game shares its ideology with the death-positive movement. On March 18, 2020, Placeholder Gameworks uploaded the game code under the MIT License on GitHub. Gameplay. The gameplay of \"Death and Taxes\" focuses on the work life of a Grim Reaper on an office job. The main objective of the player is to make difficult decisions to determine who could be saved from death and who is destined for certain doom, while keeping the game's fictional world in balance. Each human the player decides the fate of is given a short description about who they are; based on this, certain people living or dying can affect the world in various ways; the outcome of the game depends on the player's decisions. The player is given instructions on how they are supposed to make these decisions by their overseer, Fate, but the player may choose to ignore"}, {"text": "these instructions. Players can also customize their workspace and appearance with the money they earn. The game attempts to help people relate more easily to themes of death, to see them in a new perspective and to offer the player a chance for self-reflection. Reception. Critical reception. \"Death and Taxes\" was met with positive reception. Alice Bell of \"Rock Paper Shotgun\" called it \"very funny\" and praised the \"really fun story running through [it].\" Courtney Ehrenhofler of \"TechRaptor\" reviewed it as \"a short, fun game with plenty of replay value.\" Many positive comparisons were drawn between the game and Lucas Pope's \"Papers, Please\", which served as an inspiration for \"Death and Taxes\". Awards. \"Death and Taxes\" won the third place at the 2018 Game Camps Kotka competition."}, {"text": "Zach Perez (born November 27, 1996) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for FC Motown. Raised in Edison, New Jersey, Perez attended Edison High School before transferring to Rutgers Preparatory School. Career. Perez played college soccer at William Paterson University between 2015 and 2018, making 79 appearances, scoring 3 goals and tallying 6 assists. Following college, Perez played with National Premier Soccer League side FC Motown during their 2019 season. On September 5, 2019, Perez signed a professional contract with USL League One side Richmond Kickers. Since leaving Richmond at the end of the 2019 season, Perez has been a stalwart for FC Motown. He helped lead the club to the 2022 NPSL Championship, and a second appearance in the final in 2024."}, {"text": "The Green Man & Black's Head Royal Hotel (sometimes simply the Green Man) is a public house and hotel on St John Street (the A515) in the town centre of Ashbourne, Derbyshire. The premises is known for its Grade II* listed entrance sign and its association with Royal Shrovetide Football. History. There has been a pub in this location since the 1750s. James Boswell wrote that he stopped there to eat in 1777 (terming it \"a very good inn\" and its proprietress \"a mighty civil gentlewoman\") and Princess Victoria visited in the 1830s. The pub closed in 2012 following a period of decline. The owner worked with local architects, conservation group Brownhill Hayward Brown, Derbyshire County Council and Historic England to produce a suitable refurbishment plan that would be a sustainable business model while still preserving the building's historic character. It reopened to customers in 2018. It has since been praised for helping to revitalise the town's economy. Architecture. The sign over the road adjacent to the pub was constructed in 1825 when the Green Man and Blackmoor Inn were joined together. There are two pictures on either side of the sign depicting a man dressed in green tweeds and"}, {"text": "wearing a green hat. On one side, the man is carrying a gun; on the other he is shooting wildfowl. The sign was Grade II listed in 1951, and updated to Grade II* in 1974. The gallows-type sign is mentioned in the Guinness World Records as being the longest inn sign in the world. It was damaged by a lorry strike in 2006, but subsequently repaired. The sign features an effigy of a black man's head. In June 2020, during the George Floyd protests in the United Kingdom, a 28,000-signature petition called for it to be taken down, describing it at \"disgusting racist imagery\". Derbyshire Dales District Council said it would remove the head as soon as possible, but locals removed it the same day, saying they had done so to protect it from vandalism, adding it would be restored with \"a lick of black paint\" and reinstalled at a later date. The Council, however, decided against replacing the controversial head, and its future currently remains undecided. Sport. The Green Man is well known locally for being a focal point of the annual Royal Shrovetide Football match. A roll of honour, listing throwers and scorers since the late 19th century,"}, {"text": "is displayed inside the hotel. The pub sign has also been used as the finishing line for a soap box race in the town. References. Citations Sources"}, {"text": "The 2012\u201313 KBL season was the 18th season of the Korean Basketball League (KBL), the highest level of basketball in South Korea. Ulsan Hyundai Mobis Phoebus won the title for the fourth time."}, {"text": "Posyolok imeni Vorovskogo () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Moshokskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2,048 as of 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. The settlement is located 45 km southeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yazvitsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Giuseppe du Toit (born 29 July 1995) is a Canadian rugby union player who generally plays as a centre for the Toronto Arrows in Major League Rugby (MLR). He also represents Canada internationally. On 27 September 2019, he was included in the Canadian squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup as an injury replacement to Nick Blevins and also marked his first World Cup appearance. Career. He made his international debut for Canada against Chile on 11 February 2017. He received his maiden World Cup call for the 2019 World Cup while he was pursuing his studies at the University of Victoria and made his debut World Cup match appearance against South Africa on 5 October 2019."}, {"text": "Marie Louise Asseu (November 21, 1966 \u2013 December 7, 2016) was an Ivorian actress, director and film producer, better known by her nickname Malou. In addition, she was also the founder of the Limale Festival of Cote d' Ivore. Asseu also released various albums. Career. Asseu participated in several television shows in the Ivory Coast, including the RTI channel's \"Mon Experience\" (\"My Experience\"). In 2012, she made her debut as a director with \"Les infideles\". She also appeared in: Patrick Achi rumor and attempt on Asseu's life. During 2011, Asseu barely escaped an attempt on her life by a crowd of young people. According to a newspaper, a rumor suggested that she was having an affair with Patrick Achi, the local politician; this rumor led to a mob that was armed with clubs and other weapons to try to get to her with the apparent intention of lynching her. she was, however, promptly rescued by a gentleman. Assou suffered psychological trauma from this event thereafter until her death. Death. Asseu suffered poor health during the last few years of her life. Several days before she died, she suffered what was described by doctors as a \"mild stroke\" and had to"}, {"text": "be hospitalized. Doctors kept a deep secrecy about her condition despite the public's interest to find about it and several media attempts to obtain information relating to it. Released from the hospital a few days later and believed to be in recovery, she suffered a second stroke on November 17, 2016, which this time proved fatal, dying of it on December 7."}, {"text": "Odion Aikhoje (born 1971) is a Nigerian chess International Master (IM), Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner (1998). Biography. In 1997, Odion Aikhoje made his debut in the Nigerian Chess Team at the African Team Chess Championship. In 1998, in Tanta he ranked 2nd in the African Chess Zonal Tournament. Odion Aikhoje played for Nigeria in the Chess Olympiads: Odion Aikhoje played for Nigeria in the African Games: Odion Aikhoje has never received his 1998 Chess Olympiad gold medal, the first Nigerian chess player's medal at this level, due to various bureaucratic complications. Ten years later, at the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden, he was awarded a special prize in honor of the gold medal he once won."}, {"text": "Posyolok Lnozavoda () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 34 as of 2010. Geography. It is located 3 km east from Golovino, 25 km west from Sudogda."}, {"text": "Prokunino () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. Geography. It is located 4 km north-west from Golovino, 3 km east from Sudogda."}, {"text": "Prokunino () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 24 as of 2010. Geography. It is located on the Poboyka River, 15 km south from Sudogda."}, {"text": "Proskurinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Geography. Proskurinskaya is located 36 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pavlovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Raguzino () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2010. Geography. Raguzino is located on the Voyninga River, 5 km southwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Afonino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Radilovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Moshokskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. Geography. Radilovo is located 54 km east of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mitino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Razlukino () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2010. Geography. Razlukino is located 26 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lnozavoda is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rayki () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2010. Geography. Rayki is located on the Sudogda River, 8 km south of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Berezhki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rogovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. Rogovo is located on the Pol River, 33 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Golovino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rychkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. Rychkovo is located 31 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Alferovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The chemical compound 3-methyluridine, also called N3-methyluridine, is a pyrimidine nucleoside (abbreviated m3U). In living organisms it is present as RNA modification which has been detected in 23S rRNA of archaea, 16S and 23S rRNA of eubacteria, and 18S, 25S, and 28S of eukaryotic ribosomal RNAs."}, {"text": "Sinitsyno () is a rural locality (a village) in Moshokskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2010. Geography. Sinitsyno is located 49 km east of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vezhki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Slashchyovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2010. Geography. Slashchyovo is located on the Sudogda River, 15 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mikhalevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Mudgee on 5 October 1876 because of the death of Stephen Goold. Results. <includeonly> Stephen Goold died.</includeonly>"}, {"text": "Time Stood Still may refer to:"}, {"text": "Smykovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 38 as of 2010. Geography. Smykovo is located 23 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Michurino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Soyma () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 391 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Soyma is located on the Soyma River, 10 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Penki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kad\u0131n (English title: \"Woman\") is a Turkish drama television series based on the 2013 Japanese drama \"\", starring \u00d6zge \u00d6zpirin\u00e7ci, Caner Cindoruk and Bennu Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131mlar. It premiered on Fox on October 24, 2017. The series ended on February 4, 2020, after 81 episodes and three seasons. Plot. This series follows the life of Bahar, a young widow of two children, Nisan and Doruk. Her husband, Sarp, tragically lost his life due to a ferry accident a few years prior. Bahar is forced to move to an impoverished neighborhood due to financial struggles and meets Arif and Ceyda. Arif is the son of Yusuf, the owner of Bahar's apartment building. Ceyda, while initially hostile towards Bahar, later befriends her. Bahar's estranged mother, Hatice comes back into her life after 20 years. While Bahar wishes to rekindle her relationship with her mother, her jealous half-sister \u015eirin prevents her mother and her from bonding. In order to protect \u015eirin's mental well-being, Hatice turns her back on Bahar once more. Bahar is secretly supported by her stepfather, Enver, and her best friend, Yeliz. Bahar's health deteriorates over time and she soon finds out that she has aplastic anemia and needs a bone marrow transplant"}, {"text": "to save her life. She attempts to hide her condition due to her financial and social problems, but everyone soon discovers her illness. To Bahar's dismay, her half-sister \u015eirin's bone marrow is the only compatible donor, however, Sirin refuses to cooperate. Meanwhile, Sarp is shown to be alive, having adopted a new life under the name Alp Karahan; he is married to P\u0131r\u0131l, a wealthy socialite, and has twin children. He is misled by P\u0131r\u0131l's father, Suat, into believing that Bahar and their children died 4 years ago, a deception that was made up by \u015eirin. Suat, believing \u015eirin, creates fake graves to further enforce the lie. Soon, Sarp encounters \u015eirin and it is revealed that \u015eirin has created a very intricate web of lies because she is obsessed with Sarp, and was the cause of Sarp's ferry accident by falsely accusing him of sexual harassment. Suat kidnaps \u015eirin to prevent Sarp from learning that Bahar is alive. Bahar's condition worsens and she is hospitalized. Arif, having developed feelings for Bahar, proposes to her. However, Sarp finds Enver and learns that Bahar and his kids are actually alive and living in dire conditions. At the hospital, he reunites with Nisan"}, {"text": "and Doruk. He locates \u015eirin and begs her return and go through with the transplant. Bahar recovers and reunites with Sarp. However, Bahar rejects him after learning of his new life with P\u0131r\u0131l. Meanwhile, Nezir, whose son was accidentally killed by Sarp, concocts a plan to kidnap Bahar to lure Sarp out and murder him. However, Sarp escapes with Bahar and the children, and are able to avoid Nezir's henchmen; Bahar is forced to hide in P\u0131r\u0131l's home with her kids. Yeliz is shot to death by Nezir's henchmen, and Bahar breaks down after learning of Yeliz's death. Sarp reveals to Bahar the truth of the ferry accident, and how \u015eirin and Suat deception regarding her death led to him moving on with P\u0131r\u0131l. Bahar, Hatice, Sarp and Arif meet with a tragic car accident, and Hatice dies. \u0218irin secretly closes the flow rate of the IV line connected to a sleeping Sarp and kills him. \u015eirin falsely blames Arif for their deaths. Shocked, Bahar completes the last rites of Sarp and Hatice while Arif is arrested. Three months later, Bahar is living peacefully with her children, Arif is released from jail, and Enver and \u015eirin move into Sarp's abandoned"}, {"text": "apartment. \u015eirin brainwashes Nisan and Doruk into believing that Arif intentionally killed Sarp and Hatice, but in vain. Meanwhile, \u015eirin gets a job at a caf\u00e9 belonging to Emre, who is Ceyda's childhood friend and the secret father of Arda (Ceyda's autistic son). It is revealed that Arda is not Ceyda and Emre's biological son. They meet their son, Satilmi\u0219, but Ceyda refuses to accept him. Satilmi\u0219 secretly earns money to keep Arda with them. Finding out this, Ceyda breaks down and accepts him. Ceyda becomes the caretaker of paraplegic Raif, son of the famous writer Fazilet. Fazilet is fascinated by Bahar life story and decides to writes a book dedicated to her life, naming the book Kad\u0131n (Woman). Soon, Arif discovers that Sarp was killed by \u0218irin after hearing her confession. \u0218irin is arrested by the police, who admit her to a mental hospital. Meanwhile, Arif and Bahar's relationship strengthens as Raif and Ceyda simultaneously fall in love. Bahar-Arif and Ceyda-Raif get married in a shared ceremony. At the conference of introducing the author of the book Kad\u0131n (Woman), Bahar shares how she managed to survive while facing so much hardship. \u0218irin reads Bahar's book and initially rejects what"}, {"text": "she did to Bahar, but breaks down because of the situation she is in. Finally, Bahar and her kids get praised by the world."}, {"text": "Sokolovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 25 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Sokolovo is located on the Ushcherka River, 27 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Stanki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sorokino () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Sorokino is located 8 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kostino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Spas-Beseda () is a rural locality (a selo) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Spas-Beseda is located 7 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lavrovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Spas-Kupalishche () is a rural locality (a selo) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 34 as of 2010. Geography. Spas-Kupalishche is located on the right bank of the Klyazma River, 31 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Danilovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "A dive briefing or pre-dive briefing is a meeting of the diving team or dive group before the dive to allow the instructor, supervisor, dive leader or dive boat skipper to inform the attendees of the dive plan, contingency plans and emergency plans for the dive. The amount of detail presented should be appropriate to the dive, but there are several topics which are considered standard components of a dive briefing. The topics may vary depending on context. On some occasions an expert or specialist may present part of the dive briefing, particularly aspects relating to specialised tasks, or vessel safety and procedures, but the overall responsibility is with the person responsible for the safety of the group for that dive. Purpose. Each member of the dive team needs to understand the objectives of the dive, and their and the other members of the dive team's roles in the dive. The dive briefing allows exchange of this information. A competent professional diver already knows how to dive and carry out the routine and standard emergency diving procedures for the equipment and conditions in which they been trained. The divers may not be familiar with the dive site environmental details or"}, {"text": "the dive boat in use, or specific details of the objective of the dive, and the specific contingency and emergency response plans for the dive, so the briefing is an opportunity to inform them of relevant information they may not already know which might affect their safety and successful completion of the objectives of the dive. The briefing usually ends by soliciting questions to ensure understanding of task and assignments, and clarification of any uncertainty. Recreational divers may not be familiar with each other, or with local procedural details, such as the method of keeping track of who is in the water or back on the boat, buddy separation procedures, conditions for terminating the dive, recall signals, where to sit, water entry and exit procedures specific to the boat or site, how to stow their gear, and where the on-board safety equipment is kept, so this information forms part of the briefing, along with a description of the dive site, known local hazards, local rules and regulations, environmental concerns and the planned route if the dive is to be guided. In some cases allocation of buddy pairs is included in the briefing. Audience. The dive briefing targets all personnel involved"}, {"text": "with the safety of the dive and particularly the divers. Topics. As a general rule the topics of a dive briefing are those things the team members need to know to carry out the planned dive safely and effectively, at the specific site, using the equipment provided, in the conditions as they appear to be on the day of the dive. It is not a necessary part of a dive briefing to inform the team of things that they are expected to know already as competent and qualified divers. A dive briefing for a training dive may include more skill, background and review information, but the briefing should be restricted to information that is likely to be necessary or useful on that specific dive. Additional information can be counterproductive if it distracts attention from the core material, or reduces the likelihood of the important information being remembered and used correctly during the diving operation. Scientific diving example: Standard topics: Other topics that may be relevant in some cases: The PADI checklist for dive briefings for recreational diving lists 10 points: Some of these cover things every trained diver should know, but experience has shown that entry level divers who only"}, {"text": "dive a few times a year tend to lose their knowledge and skills due to lack of practice, and need to be reminded. Legal status. A dive briefing may be required in terms of statutory law, regulation, code of practice or organisational operations manual, for diving where there is a duty of care to employees or customers, or it may be merely recommended. In jurisdictions where recreational diving is unregulated, private recreational divers are generally not required to conduct or attend a briefing when they are diving solo or in independent buddy pairs and taking responsibility for their own safety and dive planning. Clubs will often provide a briefing for groups on club outings by an experienced diver who knows the area relatively well."}, {"text": "Stanki () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Stanki is located 25 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sokolovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Starikovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Starikovo is located 34 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kamenets is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Staroye Kubayevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Andreyevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Staroye Kubayevo is located 28 km southeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Staroye Polkhovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 86 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Staroye Polkhovo is located 4 km northeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novoye Polkhovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Staroye Chubarovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Staroye Chubarovo is located on the Yada River, 9 km east of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zagorye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Styopanovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 108 as of 2010. Geography. Styopanovo is located 9 km southeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gorki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Stepachyovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Stepachyovo is located on the Vanchuga River, 6 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kostino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sukhovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2010. Geography. Sukhovka is located northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Koshchukhino is the nearest rural locality. History. According to the scribe books of the Vladimir district of 1637\u20131647, the village of Sukhovka was recorded for M.E. Khonenev. In the census books of 1678 there were three peasant and four yards with a population of 29 males. Between the 19th and early 20th centuries, the village was part of the Danilovskaya volost of the Sudogodsky Uyezd, and since 1926 part of the Sudogodskaya volost of the Vladimirsky Uyezd. In 1859, there were 24 households in the village, in 1905 there were 67 households, and in 1926 there were 89 households. Since 1929, the village has been the center of the Sukhovsky village council of the Sudogodsky District, since 1940 part of the Torzhkovsky selsovet council, since 1954 part of the Chamerevsky selsovet, and since 2005 part of the Lavrovsky rural settlement."}, {"text": "Telesnikovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Geography. Telesnikovo is located 28 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tsvetkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Timeryovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. Geography. Timeryovo is located 15 km north-west from Lavrovo, 21 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Natalyinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tikhonovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Tikhonovo is located 10 km south-east from Golovino, 21 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Spirino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Back Forest is a locality in the City of Shoalhaven in New South Wales, Australia. It lies to the north of the Shoalhaven River and to the east of Broughton Creek. It is northeast of Nowra. At the , it had a population of 84."}, {"text": "Tolstovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2010. Geography. Tolstovo is located 3 km south-west from Golovino, 36 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rogovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Torzhkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Geography. Torzhkovo is located on the Voyninga River, 18 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sukhovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Jnandas Kandra railway station is a railway station in Ahmadpur\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated at Kandra of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. Ahmedpur\u2013Katwa narrow-gauge railway line connecting Ahmedpur and Katwa was established on 29 September 1917 by McLeod's Light Railways. Indian Railways had taken over the operation of this narrow-gauge railway from McLeod and Company in 1966. After closing this track in 2013 the railway section was converted into broad gauge in 1917. The conversion work started in 2013 and was completed in early 2017. The track including Jnandas Kandra railway station was reopened for the public on 24 May 2018. Trains. There are six daily-running local trains. These are-"}, {"text": "Travinino () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 58 as of 2010. Geography. Travinino is located on the Yastreb River, 12 km south of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dvorishnevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Trofimovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2010. Geography. Trofimovka is located on the Klyazma River, 31 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kiselnitsa is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Christiane Lutz (born 1980 in Mainz) is a German opera director. Biography. Lutz lives in Vienna, where she began studying theatre studies, art history, musicology und business administration, and then continued to study stage direction at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She gathered her first experiences in stage directing with Peter Konwitschny and Achim Freyer. Christiane Lutz was employed as an opera director at the Theater L\u00fcbeck and after that at the Opernhaus Graz, where she directed \"Alcina\" by Georg Friedrich H\u00e4ndel amongst other pieces. From 2009 to 2011, Lutz was assistant director to Michael Sturminger on the international tour of \"The Infernal Comedy \u2013 Confessions of a Serial Killer\" and \"The Giacomo Variations\" starring John Malkovich in the title role. She started working closely with opera director Claus Guth in 2011. From 2012 to 2014 Christiane Lutz coordinated the children's opera tent of the Wiener Staatsoper, where she directed the premiere of the piece \"Das St\u00e4dtchen Drumherum\", written by the Austrian composer Elisabeth Naske. Her current productions include \"Reigen\" at the Op\u00e9ra National de Paris, \"Wozzeck\" at the Staatstheater Cottbus, \"La traviata\" at the Operklosterneuburg and \"Manon\" at the Salzburger Landestheater. Lutz is married to the"}, {"text": "tenor Jonas Kaufmann. They have one child together. Awards and stipends. Lutz received scholarships from the Bayreuther Festspiele and the Salzburger Festspiele. She was a finalist at the Ring award in 2014."}, {"text": "Trukhachyovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2010. Geography. Trukhachyovo is located on the Sudogda River, 20 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Isakovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Turovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Turovo is located 11 km south-east from Golovino, 25 km southwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Burlygino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ulybyshevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 92 as of 2010. Geography. Ulybyshevo is located 46 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gridino is the nearest rural locality. Battle of Ulybyshevo. In March 1942, Soviet intelligence reports indicated that Soviet divisions under Maj. Gen. Andrei Sokolov were fortifying positions around Ulybyshevo. Anticipating a significant engagement, Gen. Wilhelm von R\u00fcbel of the German 9th Army planned a surprise offensive to break the Soviet line. With mounting pressure on their supply chains, the Soviet High Command ordered Sokolov\u2019s forces to hold Ulybyshevo at all costs. Sokolov deployed his divisions into defensive positions, preparing for a potential multi-pronged assault. Reconnaissance suggested German armored columns were mobilizing from Gorky, forcing Soviet forces to reposition southward in response to the possible flanking maneuver. Gen. von R\u00fcbel organized the assault into three main columns, with the 16th Panzer Division leading a frontal attack while the 23rd Infantry Division approached from the east. This strategy aimed to encircle Soviet forces quickly, cutting off their retreat toward the Moscow region. The battle commenced in the early hours of April 15, with"}, {"text": "German artillery bombarding Soviet fortifications. The 16th Panzer Division spearheaded the assault, advancing through fields and into the southern approaches of Ulybyshevo. Heavy fighting ensued as Soviet anti-tank units resisted the German armor, leading to significant casualties on both sides. The German advance initially gained ground, penetrating the outer defenses of Ulybyshevo. However, Soviet reserves counterattacked, temporarily stalling the assault and inflicting heavy losses on German infantry. Street-to-street combat erupted as Soviet forces held their positions amidst relentless artillery fire. By dawn, the German 23rd Infantry Division had encircled Ulybyshevo from the east, isolating Soviet units from their supply lines. German forces pressed forward into the city\u2019s industrial zone, where Soviet troops fortified factories and warehouses. A breakout attempt by Sokolov\u2019s forces was repelled, resulting in heavy Soviet casualties. After intense close-quarters combat, German forces seized control of Ulybyshevo\u2019s key sectors, effectively encircling the remaining Soviet units. With limited reinforcements and dwindling ammunition, Maj. Gen. Sokolov ordered a retreat under the cover of night, but over half of his force remained encircled and ultimately surrendered. Aftermath. The Battle of Ulybyshevo ended in a tactical German victory, as Axis forces gained control of the town and disrupted Soviet supply lines. However,"}, {"text": "the high casualties and destruction of infrastructure slowed their momentum, and the Red Army\u2019s resistance made it difficult for the Axis to push further without regrouping."}, {"text": "Charles Lum Drake (July 13, 1924 \u2013 July 8, 1997) was an American geologist who was Professor of Geology at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Biography. He was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, the son of Ervin Thayer Drake and his wife Elizabeth Lum. He graduated from Chatham High School in 1941. Drake enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II and served in the South Pacific. At the end of the war he enrolled at Princeton University and in 1948 was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. After a few years in the U.S. Navy making gravity measurements in submarines he joined the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, where he was awarded a Ph.D in geophysics in 1958. He remained at Lamont-Doherty as a member of the faculty until 1969, when he moved to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, remaining there until his retirement in 1992. He was chair of the department in 1978\u201379 and associate dean of the science faculty from 1979 to 1985. He was a leading expert on the geology of continental margins which he studied by geophysical techniques and the results of ocean drilling programs. He pioneered the use of seismic reflection"}, {"text": "study of the ocean sediments and with Jack Nafe established a relationship between the density of the deposits and the speed at which seismic waves traveled through them known as the Nafe-Drake curve. He particularly studied the Red Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, contributing to the development of the Continental Drift theory. With his Dartmouth colleague Charles B. Officer, Drake fueled a long-running debate when he suggested that the dinosaurs were killed off by volcanic eruptions rather than by a meteorite. He was very active in public committee work. From 1990 to 1992 he served as a member of President George H.W.Bush's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. He sat on numerous committees of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation. Private life. He married Martha Ann Churchill in 1950 and had four daughters Mary Aiken Drake, Caroline Elizabeth Drake, Sara Ruth Drake, Susannah Churchill Drake. He died in 1997 and is buried in Union Village Vermont."}, {"text": "Ushakovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Muromtsevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. Geography. Ushakovo is located 7 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Stepachevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fryazino () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 29 as of 2010. Geography. Fryazino is located 48 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Korostelevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Khokhlachi () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 42 as of 2010. Geography. Khokhlachi is located on the Soyma River, 13 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ovtsyno is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gustaf Adolf och Ebba Brahe is a 1788 Swedish-language opera by Abb\u00e9 Georg Joseph Vogler. to a libretto by Johan Henric Kellgren."}, {"text": "Tsvetkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Tsvetkovo is located 28 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Telesnikovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chamerevo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Lavrovskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 572 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Chamerevo is located on the right bank of the Voyninga River, 15 km north of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Slashchyovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gul Bukhari is a British-Pakistani journalist and columnist. She has been residing in UK since December 2018. In June 2018, she was abducted for few hours by unknown personnel from Lahore's cantonment area, which has heavy army presence and security checks controlled by the military. A colleague of her alleged that uniformed men were present at her abduction. Early life and education. Bukhari was born to a military family in 1966. Her father, Major General Rehmat Ali Shah Bukhari, was a Pakistan Army general and was decorated in 1971 for Battle of Bahawalnagar. Bukhari is a graduate of Kinnaird College for Women and Lahore University of Management Sciences."}, {"text": "Cherepovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Cherepovo is located 38 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Prokunino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Cherepukhino () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Cherepukhino is located 29 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ogorelkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nenmara 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 Alathur Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election, the current MLA is K. Babu of CPI(M). Local self-governed segments. Nenmara Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments: Members of Legislative Assembly. The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Nenmara 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. 2016. There were 1,90,765 registered voters in Nenmara Constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election. 2011. There were 1,72,069 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election."}, {"text": "Kurmodanga railway station is a halt railway station in Ahmadpur\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated at Futishanko, Kurmodanga of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. Ahmedpur\u2013Katwa narrow-gauge railway line connecting Ahmedpur and Katwa was established on 29 September 1917 by McLeod's Light Railways. Indian Railways had taken over the operation of this narrow-gauge railway from McLeod and Company in 1966. After closing this track in 2013 the railway section was converted into broad gauge in 1917. The conversion work started in 2013 and was completed in early 2017. The track including Kurmadanga railway station was reopened for the public on 24 May 2018."}, {"text": "Acacia curranii, also known as curly-bark wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus \"Acacia\" and the subgenus \"Juliflorae\" that is native to north eastern Australia. It is listed as vulnerable under the \"Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\". Description. The shrub typically grows to a maximum height of around and has multiple stems. It has grey to maroon coloured minni ritchi style bark. The sub-glabrous or silky haired branchlets are angular towards the apices and a maroon-grey colour with young shoots that have fine yellow hairs close to the stem. Like most species of \"Acacia\" it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The erect, thick, evergreen phyllodes have a linear shape with a length of and a width of with longitudinal striations and around 25 closely parallel veins. It blooms between August and September producing golden flowers. The obloid flower-spikes are around in length packed with golden coloured flowers. After flowering firmly chartaceous seed pods form that are flat and have a linear shape with reasonably straight sides but slightly constricted between seeds. The pods are in length and wide and have loosely matted hairs. The dark brown seeds inside are arranged longitudinallyand have a narrow oblong-elliptic shape"}, {"text": "with a length of approximately and a depressed grey-brown areole. Distribution. It has a disjunct distribution and is endemic to parts of south eastern Queensland in the Darling Downs are around Gurulmundi growing in poorly drained sandy soils overlying sandstone in the north and also is found on the western plains of New South Wales where it is found on igneous hill growing in skeletal soils. In New South Wales it is found around Lake Cargelligo and the Gunderbooka Range. The three areas it is found in are separated by several hundred kilometres. Within these areas there are approximately twenty populations of the species found in around from ten broad localities continuing a total of fewer than 5,000 individual plants."}, {"text": "\u0130rfan \u015eahinba\u015f (November 23, 1912, \u0130stanbul \u2013 April 2, 1990, Ankara), was a Turkish academician, translator, athlete and a prominent figure in Turkey's intellectual life during the early Republican period. He taught English literature at Ankara University for over 44 years. A generation of Turkish ministers, ambassadors, governors, teachers and professors were his students. Biography. \u0130rfan \u015eahinba\u015f graduated from the French Lyc\u00e9e Saint-Joseph in Istanbul, later to be sent to Cambridge University by Atat\u00fcrk to study English literature (1934\u20131937). At Fitzwilliam House, he was invited to join the athletics team. Earning his full blue, he dominated the shot put competitions of his day, winning for a record four times. During the games at White City in 1937, he caused a sensation when he broke the British and Turkish national and British University shot putting records. His university record remained unbroken for over 20 years. On his return home, he joined the Faculty of Letters at the Ankara University, being appointed a professor in 1950. Between 1952 and 1953, he did research into American literature and drama at Harvard and Pennsylvania University, establishing an American literature sub-division on his return to Ankara University. In 1958, he founded the first institute of"}, {"text": "theater studies in Turkey, making theater studies a distinct science. He vice-chaired this institution with Prof. Dr. Bedrettin Tuncel becoming the department chair. He later chaired the play-selecting committee of the Turkish State Theater. To honor his efforts, a theater in Ankara, the \u0130rfan \u015eahinba\u015f Workshop Stage is named after him. \u0130rfan \u015eahinba\u015f was a pioneer of British-Turkish relations. He founded the Turco-British Association, serving as its chairman for 25 years. For his services to Anglo-Turkish relations, he was appointed an honorary OBE. He also served as a member and chairman of the Fulbright Commission for Turkey for over 32 years. He sat on the council of the International Theatre Institute and represented Turkey at UNESCO. Due to his background and success in athletics, he served as the head of the Turkish Athletics Federation between 1942 and 1946. \u015eahinba\u015f's translations into Turkish includes the works of Shakespeare, Sean O'Casey, Marlowe, Seift and J. B. Priestley. He retired from Ankara University in 1983. He died on April 3, 1990, in Ankara."}, {"text": "The Abkhaz State Archive (; ) is the main archive of Abkhazia, a disputed territory in the South Caucasus and breakaway republic of Georgia. It is located in Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia. History. The precursor of the Abkhaz State Archive was established in March 1929, when the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia adopted a resolution about the \"Organization of archival Affairs\". In October 1992, during the War in Abkhazia, fire destroyed the archive building; on both sides of the conflict many believe that the archive was burned down intentionally by the Georgian forces. About 95% of the archived documents was destroyed. On the Georgian side, many people refute the idea that the archive was deliberately burned down. The same day as the Abkhaz State Archive burned down, the Abkhazian Scientific-Research Institute of Language, Literature and History (ABNII, founded in 1922 as the Abkhazian Scientific Society, \u0410\u0431\u0445\u0430\u0437\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0435 \u043d\u0430\u0443\u0447\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e, \u0410\u0431\u041d\u041e/ABNO) burned down, too. In the course of the Geneva International Discussions, the Georgian central government provided the de facto authorities of Abkhazia with important archival documents in 2015. Additionally, one year later a meeting of the"}, {"text": "head of the Abkhaz State Archive with the director of the National Archives of Georgia was planned. 2019/2020 material has been preserved with the help of Czech historians from the Czech National Archives."}, {"text": "Leung Sing Yiu (; born 15 November 1995) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a left back."}, {"text": "Green Dolphin Street is a novel by Elizabeth Goudge, first published by Hodder & Stoughton under the title Green Dolphin Country in 1944. The novel was adapted to a 1947 film. The novel won a $125,000 prize offered by Louis B. Mayer for a novel suitable for filming. Plot summary. In the 19th century in the Channel Islands, the sisters Marianne and Marguerite fall in love with the same man, William Ozanne. He emigrates to New Zealand, and writes home asking the one he loves to join him and become his wife, but by a slip of the pen he names the wrong sister. When Marianne arrives instead of his beloved Marguerite, he accepts the inevitable and strives to make their marriage a success. After many years, William and Marianne return to the Channel Islands."}, {"text": "Christina Sappey is an American politician serving as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 158th district. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Political career. Sappey worked as an aide to several Pennsylvania state legislators and served as the chief of staff to Carolyn Comitta and Barbara McIlvane Smith. Sappey currently sits on the Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Local Government, Secretary; Tourism & Economic & Recreational Development, Secretary; Subcommittee on Arts and Entertainment, and Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness committees. Pennsylvania House of Representatives. 2018 election. Sappey announced her candidacy for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives's 158th district in February 2018 and defeated Chris Nelms in the Democratic primary. Sappey won the general election, unseating one-term incumbent Eric Roe, garnering 15,301 votes to Roe's 13,607. 2020 election. On November 15, 2019, Roe announced he would seek a re-match against Sappey to regain his former seat. Both Roe and Sappey were unopposed in their respective primaries. Sappey defeated Roe by a margin of 485 votes."}, {"text": "Shipilovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Golovinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 43 as of 2010. Geography. Shipilovo is located on the Kamenka River, 14 km west of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Druzhnoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shustovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Moshokskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 84 as of 2010. Geography. Shustovo is located on the Kostyanka River, 41 km southeast of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gonobilovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yazykovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Andreyevskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 48 as of 2010. Geography. Yazykovo is located 28 km east of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolotsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tajpur Union () is a Union Parishad under Osmani Nagar Upazila of Sylhet District in the division of Sylhet, Bangladesh. It has an area of 12 square kilometres and a population of 58,679. History. Tajpur was previously part of historic Gauharpur in Aurangapur Pargana. In the mid-14th century, following the Conquest of Gour in 1303, disciples of Shah Jalal such as Shah Tajuddin settled and propagated Islam in Tajpur, whom it is named after today. In 1987, the union's first ever high school, Muhammad Nur Miah Girls' High School, was opened allowing girls to study at a further level. Thirteen years later, its second high school, KMGD, was opened. Tajpur Union was first a part of Balaganj Upazila. Osmani Nagar thana was established on 23 March 2001, with Tajpur joining it. It became a part of Osmani Nagar Upazila on 2 June 2014. On 5 January 2019, the union attracted media attention after the Khashi Kapon Knight Riders (Kashikapon) defeated the Sylhet Sixers (a Bangladesh Premier League team) in the finals of a cricket tournament. Geography. Tajpur Union is located at the northern part of Osmani Nagar Upazila. It shares borders with the Goalabazar and Umarpur Unions and Bishwanath Upazila"}, {"text": "in the west, Osmanpur and Dayamir Unions in the east, Dayamir and Bishwanath in the north, and Goalabazar and Boaljur Union (Balaganj Upazila) in the south. It has an area of 12 square kilometres. Demography. Tajpur has a population of 58,679. Administration. Tajpur constitutes the no. 6 union council of Osmani Nagar Upazila. It contains 52 villages, categorised into 9 wards, and 20 mouzas. Economy and tourism. Tajpur has a significant number of British and American immigrants contributing to its economy. It has four haat bazaars and they are Tajpur Bazar, Kashikapon Bazar, Mangalchandi Bazar and Rakhalganj Bazar. It has two post offices (Tajpur and Brahmanshashan). The mazars of the Bibi (Kashipara), Sher Khan (Qodomtola, Chanpur), Syed Khidr (Bharera), Dengai Shah (Shonarpara, Ravidas), Insaan Shah (Lamapara), Walfat Shah (Aminpur), Shah Qutbuddin (Mollahpara), Shah Madar (Laalkoilash) and Bowali Shah (Doshhaal) are popular tourist sites. The Qadipur Dighirpar (Large pond) is a hundred-year old ditch with a peaceful environment located next to a park, mosque and Islamic library. Education. The Union has a literacy rate of 48.69%. It has 17 primary schools and some include: Kashikapon, Ailakandi, Qadipur, Nagerkona, Doshhaal and Silmanpur. It has one college and forty maktabs. There are ten"}, {"text": "madrasas and amongst these are Alhaj Mina Begum Dakhil Madrasa, Ashraful Uloom Qadipur, Boraya-Qazirgaon Usmaniya Women's Title Madrasa and Tahfizul Quran Kashikapon-Suratpur Madrasa. Language and culture. The native population converse in their native Sylheti dialect but can also converse in Standard Bengali. Languages such as Arabic and English are also taught in schools. The Union contains 40 mosques."}, {"text": "Yakushevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vyatkinskoye Rural Settlement, Sudogodsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Yakushevo is located 47 km northwest of Sudogda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Konyushino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "\"Strawberry Shortcake\" is an American children's direct-to-video animated series produced by DIC Entertainment Corporation and American Greetings based on the franchise of the same name that debuted in March 2003. The series consists of 45 episodes, plus one short and one film. Part of the series was broadcast on television including by CBS, HBO, and HBO Family, and in broadcast syndication. The entire cast is totally replaced with younger and lesser known voice actors compared to the 1980s \"Strawberry Shortcake\" animated specials. Following the series' reboot in 2009, the 2003 series was succeeded by \"Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures\" in 2010. Series overview. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Episodes. Season 1 (2003). All the episodes in this season are single 45-minute episodes. When the episodes are broadcast on television, they are either edited to 22 minutes or are presented as a two-parter. The intro sequence uses clips from \"Meet Strawberry Shortcake\", as well as the \"Knock Knock, Who's There\" music video. Season 2 (2004\u201305). Beginning with this season, two episodes are featured in a \"compilation\" format, in which Strawberry recounts the featured adventures using her \"remembering book\". Most TV airings, however, separate the segments as single 22-minute length episodes. Anna Jordan replaces Sarah Koslosky"}, {"text": "as Custard the Cat's voice, while James Street replaces Daniel Canfield as Huckleberry Pie's voice. The intro was also changed, which includes clips from \"Best Pets Yet\" and \"Growing Better All the Time\". Season 3 (2006\u201307). For the third season, the show transitions off to the \"A World of Friends\" format that the new toyline from Playmates Toys features. Another new intro sequence is made, featuring clips from \"World of Friends\". Season 4 (2008\u201312). The fourth season gives out a change to the artwork style. The aging of the characters was changed to give the impression that the characters had become teenagers (or for Apple Dumplin', a child). The aging of the characters was further backed by the fact that Strawberry Shortcake was seen applying for a job and later driving a car in \"Big Country Fun\" and \"Berry Big Journeys\". Honey Pie and the other fillies were relegated to the role of background characters, with the character of Honey Pie Pony not having spoken since \"Let's Dance\". She was implied to have moved to Ice Cream Island permanently in the book \"The Friendship Trip\", which featured the Year 4 characters, logically explaining why she appeared less in the series"}, {"text": "for the season. During this season, many of the separate 22-minute segments have aired earlier internationally than in the United States. The series was exclusively released direct-to-video in the country. The intro sequence is changed yet again, this time featuring especially-made footage. Specials. Promotional video (2004). A 5-minute promotional video titled \"Growing Better All the Time\" was released as a bonus feature with Sterling Entertainment's \"Care Bears: Daydreams\" DVD in February 2004. It appears to be produced sometime between Seasons 1-2, as the song from the promo appears on the first CD, Strawberry Jams, while scenes from the promo were used in the opening credits of the second series of the show."}, {"text": "Alferikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Seletskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Alferikha is located 15 km northeast of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pogost-Bykovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Babarino () is a rural locality (a village) in Seletskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Babarino is located on the left bank of the Nerl River, 16 km southeast of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pereborovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Blood Command is a Norwegian punk rock band from Bergen. The band was formed in 2008 by Yngve Andersen, Silje Tombre and Sigurd Haakaas. The current lineup consists of Andersen, Haakaas, Benjamin Berge, Snorre Kilv\u00e6r, and Nikki Brumen. The band has been praised for their high-energy live shows and their fresh, vibrant take on rock music, with their albums earning rave reviews from \"Kerrang!\", \"Metal Hammer\", and others. As of 2023, Blood Command has released five studio albums and four EPs. Biography. Formation, \"Ghostlocks\" and \"Funeral Beach\": 2008\u20132013. Blood Command was founded in Bergen in 2008 by guitarist Yngve Andersen, vocalist Silje Tombre and drummer Sigurd Haakaas. The band first released two EPs in 2009, before their debut album \"Ghostlocks\" was released in 2010. The album was nominated for the Norwegian Grammy award Spellemannprisen in 2011. Following the album's release, Blood Command supported the Canadian hardcore band Comeback Kid on their European tour in 2011. In 2012, bassist Simon Oliver \u00d8kland joined the band for their second full-length titled \"Funeral Beach\". The album received positive reviews both domestically and internationally from magazines such as \"Kerrang!\" and \"Metal Hammer\". The band toured extensively in following the release of \"Funeral Beach\" and"}, {"text": "supporting acts for Protest the Hero, Gallows, and Biffy Clyro. Line-up changes, \"Cult Drugs\" and \"Return of the Arsonist\": 2014\u20132019. In November 2014, founding member and vocalist Tombre departed Blood Command and was subsequently replaced by Karina Ljone. The band's third album, and first with new vocalist Ljone, was released in 2017. \"Cult Drugs\" was met with positive reviews from critics, with high ratings from \"Kerrang\", \"Metal Hammer\" and \"Ox Magazine\". The band toured extensively in support of the album, while bassist \u00d8kland would leave the band in 2019. Blood Command followed up \"Cult Drugs\" that same year with a seven-track EP titled \"Return of the Arsonist\". The release received positive reviews from magazines such as \"Kerrang\" and \"Distorted Sound\". Songwriter Andersen noted that the title track is a sequel to their 2011 track \"Summon The Arsonist\" off the \"Hand Us the Alpha Male!\" EP: \"A gift from us to our most loyal fans who have been with us since the beginning.\" New vocalist, \"Praise Armageddonism\" and \"World Domination\": 2020\u2013present. Blood Command joined fellow Norwegian band Kvelertak on tour in early 2020, which came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the lockdown in Norway, the band announced"}, {"text": "in April that current vocalist Ljone would be leaving due to pregnancy. In June 2021, ex-Pagan vocalist Nikki Brumen was announced as the new vocalist of the band. Alongside the announcement, the band released a new single titled \"A Villain's Monologue\", while a second single, \"The End is Her\", followed up a few months later. Both singles were accompanied by music videos that notably featured separate filming locations as Brumen was still located in Melbourne, Australia. The band's fourth album \"Praise Armageddonism\" was released in July 2022, with \"Kerrang\" calling it a creative rebirth for the band. After signing with Arising Empire, Blood Command's fifth album, \"World Domination\", was released in September 2023. Musical style. Musically, the band has referenced artists like Refused and Boney M. as their main inspirations when writing, alongside other acts like the Clash with founding member Yngve adding: \"We're making a sonic revolution you can dance to!\". Yngve has further stated the band is: \"a blissful mix of R&B, punk and a little disco, (...) And two percent metal.\" Lyrically the band has found inspiration from rave culture, cults such as Heaven's Gate, and the increasing political manipulation taking place in both Europe and the"}, {"text": "US. Band members. Current members Former members Former live members Awards and nominations. Spellemann Awards"}, {"text": "John James Matlock III (October 19, 1944 \u2014 January 13, 2012) was an American football center who played for the New York Jets, Cincinnati Bengals, Atlanta Falcons, and Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He also played for Birmingham Vulcans of the World Football League (WFL). He played college football at University of Miami."}, {"text": "Unyime Josiah Idem () (born 14 January 1975) is a Nigerian businessman, politician, philanthropist and honourable member representing Oruk Anam/Ukanafun federal constituency in the House of Representatives. First elected to the House in the 9th Assembly, he currently serves as Chairman House Committee on Public Procurement in the 10th Assembly. As of September 2024, Idem has sponsored 22 establishment and amendment bills and 28 motions of \"urgent national importance\". He is the founder of Idems Ultimate Limited- a telecommunications service provider, and Stanford Microfinance Bank Limited with stakes in several other companies in agricultural sector, real estate, construction with over five hundred employees. Early life and education. Unyime Josiah Idem was born in Usung Atiat in Ukanafun Local Government in Akwa Ibom State. He had his primary education at QIC Group School lkot Akpa ldem, Ukanafun before proceeding to Western Annang Secondary Commercial School \u2013 Wasco, Ikot Akpa Nkuk finishing with Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE. An alumnus of University of Uyo, he holds a bachelor's degree in business management and a master's degree in business administration. He presently awaits a PhD in Leadership, Monarch Business School, Monarch University, Switzerland. Idem holds several professional certificates in telecommunication and management including"}, {"text": "Telecoms Customer Service Training, Accra, Ghana; Resource Management Course, Johannesburg, South Africa; Telecoms Customer Service Training, New Delhi, India; Marketing Management Course, Beijing, China; Executive Management Course, Westminster, London; Financial Management Course, Boroughs, London; Public Administration Course, New York, USA; Financial Management and Strategic Management Course, Lagos Business School, Nigeria; Marketing Management Course, New York, USA; and World Telecoms Conference, Abuja, Nigeria. Idem is a fellow of several professional bodies including Chartered Institute of Management and Public Diplomacy of Nigeria, Chartered Institute of Leadership and Chartered Institute of Economists of Nigeria. Political career. Idem's political career started in the year 2000 when he was first elected Peoples\u2019 Democratic Party, PDP official in his ward 8 as assistant secretary. In the same year, he was appointed Special Adviser Projects to Ukanafun local council chairman. In 2011, he was appointed into Godswill/Nsima Ekere governorship campaign organisation on the platform of PDP. At the expiration of the tenure of Governor Godswill Akpabio and his deputy Nsima Ekere in 2015, Emmanuel Udom emerged the candidate of the PDP for the 2015 governorship election in Akwa Ibom state, thus forming Udom/Moses Divine Mandate Campaign Organisation. Idem was a member of the campaign organisation. He was"}, {"text": "a delegate to PDP primaries in 2015. Election to the House of Representatives. Following his business success in telecommunication, finance and agriculture and his growing popularity and influence, the constituents of Oruk Anam/Ukanafun federal constituency urged him to run for the seat in the House of Representatives. In 2018, he contested for the PDP ticket in the primary election of the party beating three other candidates to emerge PDP flag bearer. In the 23 February 2019 general election he defeated his main challenger Rt. Hon. Emmanuel Ukoette of the All Progressives Congress, APC an incumbent who was running for a return ticket to the green chamber for a third term. Emmanuel Ukoette challenged the election of Idem at the national assembly election petition tribunal alleging wide range of electoral irregularities including over voting. The tribunal dismissed the petition for lack of credible evidence and affirmed the election of Idem. In May 2022, Idem was nominated for second term as PDP candidate for Ukanafun/Oruk Anam Federal Constituency race. Bills and motions. In July 2019, Idem at a plenary sitting of the House of Representatives moved a motion calling for the rehabilitation of the 72-year-old Nigeria Institute for Palm Oil Research- NIFOR,"}, {"text": "Oruk Anam sub-station, Akwa Ibom state. He told the house that the research institute had been neglected for decades and the staff there were on monthly salary of 4,000 naira (US$11). His motion argued that rehabilitation of NIFOR would guarantee food security, create jobs, generate foreign exchange and raw materials for Nigeria. NIFOR was one of the institutes where Malaysian researchers collected palm seedling for the development of their country's palm oil. The house consequently approved rehabilitation of the institute. Constituency project. In his years in business, Idem was known for human capital development. During his election campaign he promised his constituents that if elected he would focus his constituency project on developing the young people in various skills that would help them set up businesses or find jobs. In August 2019, Idem launched his first constituency project to train about five thousand youths in various skills of their choices. The skill acquisition program would help the youths to be economically independent, take them off the street, reduces youth restiveness and restore social order in Oruk Anam/Ukanafun federal constituency. In 2021 during his first term in office Idem empowered about 7,000 constituents with monetary grants and equipment including cars, motor"}, {"text": "cycles, sewing machines to existing and new small-scale businesses."}, {"text": "Satoshi Mori may refer to:"}, {"text": "Kjerulf Glacier () is a glacier in Jan Mayen. It begins at the Hakluyttoppen slope, in the outer crater edge of the Beerenberg. The Kjerulf Glacier and both its neighbors, the Weyprecht Glacier in the west and the Svend-Foyn Glacier in the east, are the most active glaciers in the island. The glacier was named after Norwegian geologist Theodor Kjerulf (1825\u201388), founder of the Geological Survey of Norway, during the Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878 led by Henrik Mohn."}, {"text": "Daskalgram railway station is a railway station in the Ahmadpur\u2013Katwa line under the Howrah railway division of the Eastern Railway zone. It is situated in Daskalgram, Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. The Ahmedpur\u2013Katwa narrow-gauge railway line connecting Ahmedpur and Katwa was established on 29 September 1917 by McLeod's Light Railways. Indian Railways took over the operation of this narrow-gauge railway from McLeod and Company in 1966. After closing the line in 2013, the railway section was converted into broad gauge. The conversion work started in 2013 and was completed in early 2017. The track, including Daskalgram railway station, was reopened to the public on 24 May 2018."}, {"text": "Bolong is a locality in the City of Shoalhaven in New South Wales, Australia. It lies to the north of the Shoalhaven River and to the west of Broughton Creek. It is northeast of Nowra. At the , it had a population of 104. Bolong had a public school from November 1861 to December 1963, although it was called Boolong Public School until around 1900."}, {"text": "\"Fuego\" (English: \"Fire\") is a song recorded by French DJ and record producer DJ Snake, Jamaican dancehall musician Sean Paul, and Brazilian singer Anitta featuring Puerto Rican record producer Tainy, from DJ Snake's second studio album \"Carte Blanche\", which was released on 26 July 2019. It was simultaneously released as a single. Background. Anitta took the song to Rock in Rio, a festival that took place from 27 September to 6 October 2019 in Rio de Janeiro, creating a high expectation for the new track, and by unveiling it to the public. She later said about the song : \"This song is important to me for a number of reasons. Firstly, DJ Snake is considered one of the greatest DJs of the moment. [...] He is extremely giant, has several hits that the whole Brazil dances, sings, memes, viralizes. [...] And because I have Sean Paul, Sean Paul, he was part of my life story, I grew up listening to Sean Paul.\" Critical reception. Katie Stone from \"EDM.com\" called the song a \"reggaeton smash\" endowed with \"sultry vocals and an infectious production\", and noted that it's \"the type of single that will get the dance floors bumping and grinding\". In"}, {"text": "the same way, \"DJ Mag France, Switzerland & Belgium\" described \"Fuego\" as \"a new hit crossover that moves away from EDM to better embrace reggaeton and dancehall sounds\". Writing for \"Idolator\", Mike Nied compared the release to DJ Snake's 2018 song \"Taki Taki\". Music video. First, a lyric video of the track was made. It consists of a colourful lyrical animation video featuring dancers, it was posted on 31 July 2019 through DJ Snake YouTube channel. In her Instagram, Anitta released a short of a choreography and included the name of the DJ, in addition to a countdown, in order to raise hints for an upcoming music video. He posted a teaser on 9 October via his social media, and launched a premiere for the video, which was scheduled for the following day. It was released on 10 October, through his YouTube channel. Shot in Los Angeles, USA, in August 2019, and directed by award-winning Colin Tilley, who worked for Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Justin Timberlake, it takes place in a mysterious world, reminiscent of an old circus, \"full of maze of mirrors, fire tunnels and threatening forests\". In turn, DJ Snake, Sean Paul and Anitta each write"}, {"text": "their own mini-narrative. DJ Snake is dancing around a dark area where he hangs near to a wolf and intermittently changes his jacket, while Sean Paul sings from inside a tunnel of fire. Anitta appears with several neat models, wiggling and stepping alongside dancers in a water mirror. According to Katie Stone from \"EDM.com\", the video is \"set to be as spicy and sexy as the song it accompanies\". Katie Bain from \"Billboard\" noted that \"the lighting makes everyone look sexy\". Then, she wrote that the clip has a \"slick, shiny effect\" which raise the temperature. Commercial performance. Before having a clip, the song has been streamed over 14 million times on Spotify and the lyric video had over 4 millions of views. The song also entered position 40 in the US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart during the week of 10 August, before it even had a clip. The music video, released on 10 October 2019, was also viewed nearly 300,000 times in just over an hour, and 500,000 times in less than two hours after it went online. Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from Tidal."}, {"text": "Donald George Broadley (1932\u20132016) was an African herpetologist. He described as new to science 115 species and subspecies, and 8 genera and subgenera of reptiles. He was one of the founders of the Herpetological Association of Africa (initially the Herpetological Association of Rhodesia). He earned his doctorate at the University of Natal in 1966. His widow, , is also a herpetologist. Legacy. Broadley is commemorated in the scientific names of eight species of reptiles: \"Afroedura broadleyi\", \"Atheris broadleyi\", \"Elapsoidea broadleyi\", \"Lygodactylus broadleyi\", \"Pelusios broadleyi\", \"Platysaurus broadleyi\", \"Scolecoseps broadleyi\", and \"Tricheilostoma broadleyi\"."}, {"text": "The Mombello Psychiatric Hospital, also known as the Giuseppe Antonini of Limbiate Psychiatric Hospital, was the largest asylum in Italy, covering with multiple buildings located as to form a small village. It is located in the Italian commune of Limbiate, in the administrative district of Monza and Brianza, Lombard Province. Officially inaugurated in 1878, it was the last psychiatric hospital to be closed after the approval of the Legge Basaglia in 1978. History. The beginnings. In 1865, after the Italian unification, several factors created the need for additional regional hospital capacity. Cholera was widespread, and existing psychiatric hospitals, such as Senavra (a caring institution located in Milan), were overcrowded. Enhancements in modern psychiatry and the development of society after the unification process contributed to the creation of the building. In 1797, Villa Pusterla-Crivelli, nearly seventy years before becoming the venue of the hospital, hosted the Bonapartes. In August 1865, approximately 60 patients were moved from Senavra to Villa Pusterla in Mombello, which had been chosen to be the location of the new hospital. In October 1867, the Mombello Psychiatric Hospital's total patients amount was 300: 150 women and 150 men, separated by gender. Cesare Castiglioni, the expert and director of"}, {"text": "Senavra, with Andrea Verga and Serafino Biffi from the \"Psychiatric School of Milan\", planned Mombello as an agricultural institution for peaceful patients and people who didn't need any special care. Following the decision of the province of Milan to convert Mombello into a provincial asylum, development and enlargement works were completed between 1873 and 1878 (the official opening year). Consequently, thousands of people were admitted. The building facility was shaped like a \u201cvillage\u201d: it housed patients, scientific laboratories, medical libraries, and areas dedicated to patients, like sewing rooms, craft shops, and gardens. Comparable to every other Italian psychiatric hospital, patients were split into groups according to their behavior, not on their diagnostic category. One of these groups, the \"Agitated ones\", were kept in isolation, while the rest of them, the majority, were employed in Occupational therapy activities, the scientific name for working therapy. At the end of the 19th century, after the designation of Edoardo Gonzales as the new director, theatrical performances and dances were introduced to highlight the significance of \"moral education\" in mental hospital care. Some journalists who were invited to these events wrote about them later in the local papers. In the early 20th century, Gonzales, who"}, {"text": "stayed in the position of director for eleven years, built an aqueduct that provided water to the asylum as well as to the town of Limbiate. In addition to this, he came up with the so-called \"children's department\", in which a school was equipped with furniture coming from Montessori, who was a children psychiatrist in the asylum. In the 1920s, Giuseppe Corberi was entrusted with the \"children's department\". His daughter, Elisa, who was hardly in her twenties, worked there as a volunteer teacher. The aim of the Psychiatric Hospital was to create a free psychologic-social and cultural environment. The \"activities\" organized inside the hospital covered different fields of methods, such as artistic, habitational, and recreational. These projects created a deeper connection between the patients and the nature. In 1908 four \u201copen pavilions\u201d were set up without boundary walls; each one was able to host 100 places for sleeping in the neighboring Mombello pinewood, which was already owned by the administrator. During The World War I. During World War I, Mombello's director was Giuseppe Antonini. At this time, two pavilions were equipped as military hospitals with care, research, and observation of troops from the front impacted by conflict-related psychological traumas. The"}, {"text": "\u201cVeneto Pavillion\u201d was built to host 250 war refugees. These independently detached buildings had sleeping accommodations for 200 patients in the army's care. In their first year of activity, 635 soldiers were admitted, and 517 of them were released. On average, 150 in-patients were housed at a time in the asylum, and they were treated through different psychotherapeutic methods, such as clinotherapy (rest therapy), freedom (no forced restraint, such as the use of a Straitjacket), and a dietary \u201creforming\u201d regime (this method increased the patient's weight by an average of 10\u201315 kg). Like the majority of in-patients, soldiers were forced to work, including building a street to connect the control pavilion (south-east) to the \u201cpinewood pavilions\u201d. Soldiers were not the only patients during World War I. After the Battle of Caporetto, the Military Healthiness Department ordered the emptying of all the psychiatric hospitals in Venice. The Mombello hospital hosted these displaced patients and other refugees. This function was repeated during World War II and after the Polesine floods of 1951. In addition to increasing the number of hospital patients, several of the soldiers, doctors, nurses, and employees who were in-patients, then moved to the front. The psychiatrist Gaetano Perusini (famous"}, {"text": "for cooperating with Alois Alzheimer to observe and describe \"Alzheimer's disease\"), had been a doctor at Mombello before his death in the combat in December 1915, in San Floriano. There was an extraordinary journalistic research in this period: the historian, dialect poet, and painter Antonio Curti, who was friends with Tranquillo Cremona and with Giuseppe Antonini, visited Mombello on the eve of Italy's entrance to the war to see what internees thought about the conflict. On 5, May 1915, the Milanese newspaper, La Perseveranza, published the internees' answers, and later, as a separate flyer. During World War I, overcrowding became a problem as the number of inmates exceeded 3000. It was decided to open a few branches in Busto Arsizio, like the Villa Litta Modignani (1919), later in Contegno (1928) and in Parabiago with the \"Leonardo Bianchi\" women's section (1935). From The 1920s Until Its Closure. Within the scientific cabinets, the most significant ones were the Pathological Anatomy and Biological Laboratories that together formed the Andrea Verga Institute, the Experimental Psychology Laboratory which was directed by Giuseppe Corberi and the Neurobiological Research Institute in Affori which was directed by Ugo Cerletti, who later discovered the electroshock. Mombello and the young"}, {"text": "Milanese Institute reached an agreement in 1931 for creating a university department in the asylum (which operated until 1943). The goal was to give the Clinic for Nervous and Mental Diseases (whose director was Carlo Besta) patients to study on. In the school section in Mombello, forty places were available for patients: 20 for men and 20 for women. In this department, many notorious doctors worked, such as Arrigo Frigerio, Davide Alessi, Rinaldo Grisoni and Silvio Brambilla. Following the World War II, Mombello's fall begun, when the Province of Milan decided to benefit the new department in Affori, which in 1945 was named after Paolo Pini, a psychiatrist who died in the same year. With more than 3000 in-patients, Mombello has been one of the largest and most important psychiatric hospitals in Italy. It was visited from the second half of the 19th century by psychiatrists from all over the world: Germany, Romania, Spain, and Egypt. Different painters were welcomed in the Mombello hospital. One of those was Gino Sandri, who drew many paintings inside the asylum. Because many patients were artists, the journalist Antonio Curti renamed the department \u201cThe Brera of Mombello\u201d. The hospital was officially closed in 1978,"}, {"text": "as a consequence of Law 180, also known as Legge Basaglia. This law also closed all the other psychiatric hospitals in Italy. It subsequently took a further 20 years to discharge every long-term patients and permanently vacate the structure. During the following years of the closing of the hospital, the government tried to preserve the building from an architectural point of view, to commemorate the hospital, the staff and the important role it had in the past. Gazzetta del Manicomio della Provincia di Milano Mombello. The journal was created in 1880 and was published until 1905 every two months and was shipped free to all the communes of the Province of Milan. For private people, it was possible to subscribe to the journal and receive it at their home address. The newspaper highlighted the movement of admitted people inside the asylum during the period of a year: from January to December, there were registered the incoming, the outcoming and the deaths of the patients. In 1887 the Gazzetta reported on Mombello's presence at the International Exhibition of Equipment (for grinding, baking, and other associated industries) which was held in Milan in that year. The hospital's attendance at the event underlined"}, {"text": "and emphasized the connection between psychiatry and hygiene, along with psychiatrists' engagement with the education of the population about socially important health issues, such as Pellagra. In the hygiene room at the Exposition, several pictures drawn by a patient of the hospital regarding the different phases of the skin disease pellagrous Erythema, were shown. About 400 free copies of the book Dialoghi written by the writers Edoardo Gonzales and Giovanni Battista Verga (Andrea's nephew) were given to visitors, in order to promote new ways of preventing the Pellagra disease. Gonzales also presented a packed bread with wheat and potato flour. The \"Gazzetta\" was also used to report the internal situation, mental issues and deaths that occurred over a specific time, other than general problems faced by the doctors, the directors, and the psychiatrists of the hospital itself. Structure. The structure is located in the complex of Villa Pusterla-Crivelli, the eighteenth-century villa built in 1754 by the architect Francesco Croce, who adopted a Medieval architectural style. The hospital, after the expansion in 1878, had different divisions for the patients and a library for doctors and patients which also had cultivable gardens and tailors. The asylum was built according to the ideas"}, {"text": "of Philippe Pinel and his son Scipion Plein in which he supposed that psychiatric hospitals should be located in small villages in order to achieve better results with the patients. In 1864, the Hospital was surrounded by a wall 3 meters high on all its perimeters of 1997 meters. The complex included also a garden, dedicated to the agricultural activities of the patients. Because of the overcrowding, the hospital was modified again in 1890, with the addition of two more floors to the two existing towers that conferred to the building the semblance of a real castle; some years later a new lighting system was created and installed. In 1911, professor Giuseppe Antonini became the director of the hospital and with him 3 new pavilions, the current Rossi, Ronzoni and Forlanini departments, were added. At the beginning of its establishment, the project of the Mombello Psychiatric Hospital did not include the construction of a church and was kept the already existing one. In 1935, the \"S. Ambrogio Church\" was built in First Romanesque style, to create a larger church that could meet the growing population's needs. Antonini was also involved in the restructuring of all the departments, as well as"}, {"text": "the restrooms and other essential changes, and he developed the so-called \u201cpsychiatric dispensation\u201d, that were structures that helped to accelerate the discharge of the patients in order to avoid overcrowding. The director that followed, Dr. Luigi Lugiato, concluded the works started by Antonini. A new set of buildings were then created: they included craftwork laboratories and facilities like bars and restaurants that opened the communication between the \u201chospital world\u201d and the \u201coutside world\u201d. Treatments. The patients were divided by behavior and attitude in four different groups: \"The Quiet Ones\", \"The Agitated Ones\", \"The Filthy Ones\" and \"The Workers\". The patients of the second category were kept in isolation, while the other patients were usually used in alleged \"therapeutic\" work. Many relevant doctors worked in the facility, such as Ugo Cerletti, the inventor of the electroconvulsive therapy and director of the neurobiological laboratory department of the hospital in 1922, and Gaetano Perusini, colleague and pupil of the eminent psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer who worked as an assistant for two years in the hospital before participating to the World War I. Within the walls of the Hospital, there were also administrative issues in particular if the patients had aggressive, unpredictable and violent behavior."}, {"text": "Few years later, music, exercise and art, in particular the figurative decoration of some areas of the hospital, started to be used in order to calm and cure the patients. Controversies. Regarding the treatments used at the Mombello Psychiatric Hospital, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights investigated the asylum in 1979, because of suspicious therapies. Chemical residuals, that helped to preserve the actual structure of the tissues, were found in twelve bodies, 50 brains, limbs and heads recovered in the hospital. Most of the treatments used had been declared against the rights of the citizens. In the 21st century. The hospital was dissolved in two decades, between 1978 and 1999, due to a large number of patients. In the present, the facility is part of the Comune di Limbiate and the original property belongs to three different owners: Provincia di Monza e Brianza, the ASL of Monza e Brianza and the \"G. Salvini\" Hospital in Garbagnate. The first ones started separated initiatives of a re-functionalization process. The area belonging to the \"G. Salvini\" Hospital, 192.470 square meters, characterized by 22 buildings, is in a serious state of disrepair. In 2018 a project of restructuring the hospital was proposed by the"}, {"text": "students of the Polytechnic University of Milan. The aim of the project was the re-appropriation of the abandoned architectural heritage, using an innovative design, in order to make the structure valuable in terms of Historical and Social aspects. This included creating a museum in the \"Gonzales\" area of the asylum. The Mombello Psychiatric Hospital is now an abandoned building, characterized by a deep devaluation of its most recognizable rooms. The ruins, nature and the numerous artworks made by anonymous street artists influenced the general idea that people used to have about the hospital. Only a few buildings had been saved by deterioration: Villa Crivelli, which became the new location for the agricultural institute Luigi Castiglioni, as well as other buildings that host the commercial institute for business experts and the Corberi structure, a halfway house for people with severe mental illnesses. In 2017, with the aim of celebrating heritage, the Comune of Limbiate was able to save three buildings to create a training school for nurses and doctors, a new senior center and an area for clubs and associations. In 2014, Nicola Vicini, a photographer, wrote about the hospital, Recent Studies. In the early 1900s, Giuseppe Paravicini did an autopsy"}, {"text": "on the bodies of the patients of the hospital to study their conditions \"post mortem\". In more recent times, forensic scientists undertook toxicological analysis of these bodies that were made using head hairs. It was discovered that there was a high concentration of \"cocaine\", used for medical purposes at the time. \"Nicotine\" and \"caffeine\" were also found."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 season is Fortitudo Bologna's 88th in existence (6th after the re-foundation) and the new club's 1st season in the Lega Basket Serie A after the promotion in the top flight of Italian basketball. Overview. The promotion of Fortitudo Bologna to the highest Italian Competition is an important return as Fortitudo Bologna has been one of the most important teams in the Italian Basketball history. After the demotion to the Legadue and immediately to the Serie A dilettanti in 2009, the team saw the bankruptcy in 2012. In 2013 the, Bologna, was re-established under the name of Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna 103 and slowly moved its way up to the today's Serie A after 10 years. The promotion was achieved by winning the 2018\u201319 Serie A2 Basket. The 2019-20 season was hit by the coronavirus pandemic that compelled the federation to suspend and later cancel the competition without assigning the title of winner to anyone. Fortitudo Bologna ended the championship in 8th position. Kit. Sponsor: Pompea Players. <section begin=roster/><section begin=roster/>The team composition is the same as the last game played on February 9 before the interruption of the championship due to the coronavirus pandemic. Kassius Robertson was released before the"}, {"text": "official interruption of the season due to an injury procured during the FIBA AmeriCup qualification window with the Canadian national team. Jerome Dyson was hired from Virtus Roma to replace Kassius Robertson, but he never played any games. Current roster. <section end=roster/> Depth chart. <section begin=depthchart/> <section end=depthchart/> Competitions. Italian Cup. Bologna qualified to the 2020 Italian Basketball Cup having ended the first half of the season in 6th place. They lost the semifinal against New Basket Brindisi."}, {"text": "Labpur railway station is an important railway station in Ahmadpur\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside State Highway 6 at Labhpur of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal..The railway station is the gateway to the Fullara Maa Shaktipeeth Temple, one of the 51 shakti peethas in India. It also connects to Tarashankar's homeland and the Hansuli Bank area. History. Ahmedpur\u2013Katwa narrow-gauge railway line connecting Ahmedpur and Katwa was established on 29 September 1917 by McLeod's Light Railways. Indian Railways had taken over the operation of this narrow-gauge railway from McLeod and Company in 1966. After closing this track in 2013 the railway section was converted into broad gauge in 1917. The conversion work started in 2013 and was completed in early 2017. The track including Labpur railway station was reopened for the public on 24 May 2018. Broad Gauge Trains. This route is served by six broad-gauge local trains that run daily : Tourism. The Fullara Maa Shaktipeeth Temple is located 1.5 km from Labpur Railway Station. According to mythology, when Mahadeva danced around with Sati's dead body cutting it to pieces, the lip fell at Fullara. There is a"}, {"text": "big pond beside the temple. According to hearsay, Hanuman collected 108 blue lotuses from the pond when Sri Ramachandra required them for the worship of goddess Durga. It is considered to be one of the fifty-one shakti peethas in India. A 10-day fair is organized near Fullara temple during Magha Purnima. Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, the Bengali writer, was born at Labhpur on 23 July 1898. He passed matriculation from Labhpur in 1916. Many of his novels and stories carry vivid descriptions of the area. He wrote 65 novels, 53-story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies, 2 travel stories and composed several songs. He was awarded Rabindra Puraskar, Sahitya Akademi Award, Jnanpith Award, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.He was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 and posthumously nominated in 1972. In the novel Hansulibanker Upkatha, he describes the Hansulibank countryside as a somewhat rugged terrain.This Hansuli Bank is a popular tourist spot located 3.5 km from Labpur Railway Station."}, {"text": "The 2020 UCI World Tour was a series of races that was scheduled to include thirty-six road cycling events throughout the 2020 cycling season. However, some of races were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tour started with the opening stage of the Tour Down Under on 21 January, and concluded with the final stage of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a on 8 November. Events. The 2020 calendar was initially announced in June 2019. In October 2019, the calendar was officially presented by the UCI. There were two races fewer in the original schedule than in the 2019 UCI World Tour: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic that commenced in the spring, numerous races were postponed, including all three Grand Tours and four of the five annual 'monuments'. As a result, race organisers requested new date allocations with the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) for many of these events. On 5 May 2020, a revised calendar was announced by the UCI, with 25 races to be held between 1 August and 8 November; several races are scheduled to overlap, including the Giro d'Italia, the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and Paris\u2013Roubaix. Of the 25, Eschborn\u2013Frankfurt and the EuroEyes Cyclassics had dates still to be"}, {"text": "confirmed at the time of the calendar's publication. Further amendments were made to the calendar in June, with two more races being cancelled, several others moving dates and the EuroEyes Cyclassics was scheduled for October. Cancelled events. A total of fifteen events were not able to be rescheduled, or were definitively cancelled during the 2020 season. The centennial Volta a Catalunya (23\u201329 March), the Tour of the Basque Country (6\u201311 April), the Tour de Romandie (28 April to 3 May), the Tour de Suisse (7\u201314 June), and the Cl\u00e1sica de San Sebasti\u00e1n (25 July) were all cancelled prior to any updated calendars being released by the UCI. Following the May calendar update, the E3 BinckBank Classic (27 March), and the RideLondon\u2013Surrey Classic (16 August) were both cancelled; in the June calendar update, Eschborn\u2013Frankfurt (initially scheduled for 1 May), and Dwars door Vlaanderen (having been rescheduled for 14 October) were also cancelled. In July, the EuroEyes Cyclassics (initially scheduled for 16 August, and then rescheduled to 3 October), and the two Canadian races in Qu\u00e9bec City and Montr\u00e9al (scheduled for 11 and 13 September) were cancelled. Following the recommencement of racing on 1 August, the season-ending Tour of Guangxi (initially scheduled"}, {"text": "for 15\u201320 October, and then rescheduled to 5\u201310 November) was cancelled on 10 August. On 30 September, the day after Dutch stages were removed from the BinckBank Tour, the Amstel Gold Race (initially scheduled for 19 April, and then rescheduled to 10 October), was cancelled following a surge of cases attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. On 9 October, Paris\u2013Roubaix (initially scheduled for 12 April, and then rescheduled to 25 October) was cancelled after a rise in cases attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic in France. Teams. The nineteen WorldTeams were automatically invited to compete in events, with Total Direct \u00c9nergie (the best performing UCI ProTeam in 2019) also automatically invited to all events. Other teams were invited by the organisers of each race."}, {"text": "The Army Goodwill Schools is a system of schools in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in India, which is run by Indian Army. There are 45 schools established by the Indian Army, as a part of goodwill initiative in Jammu and Kashmir. Currently, the Northern Command of the Indian Army is running 45 Army Goodwill Schools in Jammu and Kashmir, providing education to nearly 15,000 students. Army Goodwill Schools play an important role in providing quality education to the population affected by terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. History. Army Goodwill Schools were started with four primary schools in 1998. Currently, the Indian Army runs 45 Army Goodwill Schools. It is run by the 25 Division of the Indian Army. The Schools recorded 100% pass result in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 10 exams in the year 2019. Army Goodwill Schools in North Kashmir. Army Goodwill School, Krusan. Army Goodwill School Krusan established in 2006 as a goodwill gesture under Operation Sadhbhavana, The School runs classes from Nursery to Class 10th, and the current Principal is Mr Masroor Ahmad Dar. One of the school's recent accomplishments is that a serving teacher, Ms Mehpara Habib, secured the first position"}, {"text": "in the National Anthem singing competition and received an appreciation certificate from the Hon'ble Lt Governor of the Union Territory, Sh. Manoj Sinha in 2022. The school's focus on quality education, all-round development, and fostering overall growth in its wards, combined with its well-equipped infrastructure. Army Goodwill School, Budkot. Army Goodwill School Budkot was established in April 2004 as a goodwill gesture under Operation Sadhbhavana at Kachhiwar (near Handwara). The aim of the school is to provide quality Primary and Secondary education to the youth in the area. The school currently runs classes from Nursery to Class 10th and has 439 students. The school is affiliated to the Jammu & Kashmir Board of Secondary Education (JKBOSE) with its syllabus structured around NCERT books. The school has a well-developed infrastructure including a science laboratory and a multi-purpose auditorium. Besides quality education, the school focusses on imparting a sense of social responsibility amongst the students. The Army Goodwill School, Budkot aims to be the first plastic-free school in North Kashmir by 2023. Army Goodwill School, Mazbug (Sopore). Army Goodwill School Mazbug was established on 1st April 2004 as a goodwill gesture under Operation Sadhbhavana at Mazbug (Sopore). The school was established as"}, {"text": "a 'model learning centre' and serve as a benchmark for all existing government and private schools in Sopore. The school currently runs classes from Nursery to Class 10th and has 444 students. The school is affiliated to the Jammu & Kashmir Board of Secondary Education (JKBOSE) with its syllabus structured around NCERT books. The school has well-developed infrastructure including a science laboratory and a multi-purpose auditorium. Besides quality education, the school focusses on sports and social responsibilities. The Army Goodwill School, Mazbug also aims to be a plastic-free school by 2023. Army Goodwill School, Chandigam. Hamid Chara Army Goodwill School in Chandigam, Lolab established in the year 2000 under Operation Sadhbhavana, the school has been imparting education from Nursery to Class XII and is affiliated to the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of Education. The School has well-structured syllabus, state-of-the-art infrastructure, and modern teaching methods make it one of the most popular and highly subscribed schools in the valley. AGS has been a successful effort in contributing towards enhancing the literacy rate of the Lolab valley. The school's focus on the overall development of children's personalities, exposure to national culture and traditions, and academic. Army Goodwill School, Hajin. Army Goodwill"}, {"text": "School at Hajin was Established on 24 Aug 2005. It was planned and constructed under 'Operation Sadhbhavana' of the Army. Today the school has grown to a middle school till class X . It follows the State Board of Secondary Education (BOSE) with its syllabus structured on NCERT books, which provides a comprehensive yet simple mode of learning to students. The school attempts to develop the overall personality of a student through interactive learning programme. Army Goodwill School, Bandipora. Army Goodwill School, Bandipora was established at Kharpora in 2004 under Operation Sadhbhavana. The school shifted to its present location at Aitmul in the yr 2014 and has been functioning from there ever since. By 2015, the school had expanded till class X with more than 400 students and was recognised by Jammu and Kashmir State Education Board. It provides an opportunity to the children of Bandipora to reach their full potential and realise their dreams in the field of not only quality education but also on other fields like sports, arts, NCC, Scouts, public speaking etc. Army Goodwill School, Aragam. Army Goodwill School, Aragam was established on 01 Apr 2005 under Operation Sadbhavana. It is jointly developed by Army and"}, {"text": "Aragam Panchayat. The school follows the curriculum of the State Board of Secondary Education (BOSE) with its syllabus structured on NCERT books, which provides a comprehensive yet simple mode of learning to students. The school is being run up to VIII standard. The school has strength of 187 students drawn from Bandipora Tehsil. The school promotes the concept of \"Learn with Fun\" with modern training aids and attempts to develop the overall personality of students. Students who receive education in AGS Aragam belong to various social groups. It also facilitates the students in various co-curricular activities. Other details. A Goodwill School was renamed as 'Shaheed Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani, Ashok Chakra, Sena Medal, Army Goodwill School' after Nazir Ahmad Wani in June 2019. In May 2019, Hizbul Mujahideen, a militant organisation threatens Kashmiri parents to not send children to Army Goodwill Schools."}, {"text": "Eugongylinae is a subfamily of skinks within the family Scincidae. The genera in this subfamily were previously found to belong the \"Eugongylus\" group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. Genera. The subfamily Eugongylinae contains 469 species in 51 genera."}, {"text": "Lahad Datu is a federal constituency in Tawau Division (Kunak District and Lahad Datu District) and Sandakan Division (Kinabatangan District), Sabah, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 2019 was renamed from Silam as honor of people and fighter who defend a land during standoff. The federal constituency was created in the 2019 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. Demographics. https://ge15.orientaldaily.com.my/seats/sabah/p History. Polling districts. According to the gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Lahad Datu constituency has a total of 31 polling districts."}, {"text": "Stigmastane or 24\"R\"-ethylcholestane is a tetracyclic triterpene, along with cholestane and ergostane, this sterane is used as a biomarker for early eukaryotes."}, {"text": "Egerniinae is the subfamily of social skinks within the family Scincidae. The genera in this subfamily were previously found to belong the \"Egernia\" group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. Genera. The subfamily Egerniinae contains 63 species in 8 genera."}, {"text": "Thoriq Munir Alkatiri (born 19 November 1988) is an Indonesian professional football referee. He has been a full international for FIFA since 2014. Career. Thoriq has refereed in the Indonesia Super League (now Liga 1) since 2013, being promoted to the FIFA international referee list in 2014. He officiated numerous matches in the AFC Champions League and the AFC Cup, as a fourth official. In April 2019, he officiated his first 2019 AFC Cup match, the group stage tie between Al-Qadsia and Malkiya. He was appointed to referee three matches at 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa, the group stage clashes between Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, Tahiti and New Caledonia, and bronze medal match between Papua New Guinea and Fiji which Fiji won after penalties."}, {"text": "Key White (born June 8, 2001) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for North Carolina Tar Heels. Career. Youth. White playing with Richmond United from 2015, before signing for USL League One side Richmond Kickers on July 12, 2019, on an academy contract to preserve his college eligibility. College. White began playing college soccer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019."}, {"text": "Prof. Barbara Ann Wilson OBE (born 1941) is the founder of the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Ely, Cambridgeshire. She was appointed an OBE for her work in brain injury rehabilitation over 40 years for \"medical rehabilitation\". She was a clinical psychologist, and is now (2019) retired. She was shortlisted for a Lifetime Achievement Award in the NHS70 Parliamentary Awards in 2018 for her dedication to brain injury rehabilitation. Career. Wilson spent her early career working with children with developmental delay, and brain injury, which influenced her career direction. She says:She had a brain rehabilitation centre named after her in 2007. A centre in Quito Ecuador was named the \"Centro de Rehabilitacion Neurologico Integral: Dra Barbara Wilson\" and it was opened in honour of her work. Life. Barbara A. Wilson qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1977. She worked at the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre in Oxford, then at Charing Cross Hospital and the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. She established the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Ely in 1996. She is the founder and editor of the journal \"Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.\" Wilson is a Fellow of"}, {"text": "the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences and the British Psychological Society (BPS) and past president of the British Neuropsychological Society and the International Neuropsychological Society. The BPS Barbara Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest UK professional award for clinical neuropsychologists, is named after her. Wilson was appointed an OBE in the New Year's Honours List in 1998 for services to medical rehabilitation. She ran the London marathon, in 2008, in close to six hours and ran for a charity fund. Publications. Wilson has written and edited several books, chapters and papers including: Awards. Wilson has published more than 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 26 books, as well as eight neuropsychological tests. Her awards include:"}, {"text": "Samuel Moore (born March 16, 2001) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for North Carolina Tar Heels. Career. Youth. Moore playing with Richmond United from 2014, before signing for USL League One side Richmond Kickers on March 20, 2019, on an academy contract to preserve his college eligibility. College. Moore began playing college soccer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019."}, {"text": "The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) is a tribunal which was formed by the Central Government of India under Section 410 of the Companies Act, 2013. The NCLAT was formed as a body with an appellate jurisdiction at the same time when NCLT was established as a major reform as per powers granted to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs in India. The tribunal is responsible for hearing appeals from the orders of National Company Law Tribunal(s) (NCLT), starting on 1 June 2016. The tribunal also hears appeals from orders issued by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India under Section 202 and Section 211 of IBC. It also hears appeals from any direction issued, decision made, or order passed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA). On 8 November 2021, Justice Ashok Bhushan has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Appellate Tribunal. History and objective. National Company Law Appellate Tribunal was formed on 1 June 2016 under The Companies Act 2013. The tribunal was formed as appellate authority to the aggrieved persons against the orders of National Company Law Tribunal which were passed under Section 61 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy"}, {"text": "Code, 2016. The decisions of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal are appealable in the Supreme Court of India. National Company Law Appellate Tribunal has principle bench in Delhi and other one in Chennai. Structure of NCLAT. The NCLAT includes a Chairperson, 3 judicial members, and 2 technical members. It consists of a total of not more than eleven members. Ashok Bhushan, retired judge of Supreme Court is the current chairman of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal. Qualifications for Judicial member at National Company Law Appellate Tribunal: Qualifications for Technical member at National Company Law Appellate Tribunal: List of Present Members. Following is the list of Hon'ble Chairperson and Sitting Members Powers and functions. Following are the powers and functions of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal. (1) Orders issued by [Competition Commission of India]. (2) Orders issued by [Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India]. (3) Orders issued by [National Financial Reporting Auhtority]."}, {"text": "The One Nation Conservatives is a UK parliamentary caucus of Conservative Party Members of Parliament who identify as one-nation conservatives. History. In March 2019, the caucus was formed by a group of between 40 and 50 Conservative MPs. Nicky Morgan and Amber Rudd were announced as co-chairs of the caucus, and Damian Green and Nicholas Soames as board members. The One Nation group was reportedly set up in order to unite MPs around a candidate in the upcoming leadership election who would oppose withdrawing from the European Union without a deal. On 4 June 2019, the caucus hosted the first leadership election hustings, held across two nights. Both events featured 4 different candidates; the first was chaired by Katy Balls (deputy political editor of \"The Spectator\") and the second by Matt Forde. Following Boris Johnson's election as party leader and appointment as Prime Minister, both co-chairs were given positions in his government. Morgan became the new Culture Secretary and Rudd carried on in her role as Work and Pensions Secretary. As a result, they both resigned the chairmanship and were succeeded by Damian Green. On 3 September 2019, 21 Conservative MPs had the party whip withdrawn after voting in support"}, {"text": "of an emergency motion to enable the passage of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019, also known as the \"Benn Act\". The One Nation caucus released a statement soon after, demanding that the whip be restored. In October, a delegation of caucus members met the Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 10 Downing Street to discuss the party's position on a no-deal Brexit at the next general election. Following the meeting, Green announced that Johnson had 'looked him in the eye' and assured them that the next Conservative manifesto would not include a no-deal pledge. It was reported that a number of Cabinet ministers and backbench MPs would be willing to resign in the event that such a manifesto commitment were made. Since 2023, the group's size and influence has been in decline. Declaration of Values. In May 2019, the caucus published a \"Declaration of Values\", covering a range of domestic, economic and foreign policy issues. Membership. It was estimated that the caucus consisted of approximately 110 Conservative MPs in February 2020. Although a full list has not been made public, individual MPs have been identified by the press. They include:"}, {"text": "Heinz Peter Dembowski (1 April 1928, Berlin \u2013 28 January 1971, T\u00fcbingen) was a German mathematician, specializing in combinatorics. He is known for the and for Dembowski-Ostrom polynomials. Education and career. Dembowski studied from 1948 to 1953 at Goethe University Frankfurt. He then spent three years in the USA first at Brown University and then at the University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign. At Illinois he met Reinhold Baer, with whom he returned to Frankfurt in 1956 and received in 1957 his doctorate with thesis \"Verallgemeinerungen von Transitivit\u00e4tsklassen endlicher projektiver Ebenen\" (Generalizations of Transitive Classes of Finite Projective Planes). In 1964 Dembowski was habilitated in Frankfurt. He was a visiting professor in 1962/3 at Queen Mary College in London, in 1965/66 at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison, and in 1966/67 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was in the spring of 1965 a visiting professor at the University of Rome. In 1969 he was appointed to a professorial chair at the University of T\u00fcbingen, where he remained until his death in 1971. The primary focus of Dembowski's research was finite geometries and their interrelations with group theory, about which he wrote an authoritative textbook. He proved the theorem, famous in"}, {"text": "finite geometry, that every inversive plane of even order \"n\" is isomorphic to the system of points and plane sections of an ovoid in a three-dimensional projective space over GF(\"n\"). In 1962 he was an approved speaker (but not an invited speaker) with half-hour talk \"Partial planes with parallelism\" at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm. His doctoral students include William Kantor."}, {"text": "The popular American video sharing platform YouTube has become widely used in educational settings. History. YouTube was founded as a video sharing platform in 2005 and is now the most visited website in the US as of 2019. Almost immediately after the site's launch, educational institutions, such as MIT OpenCourseWare and TED, were using it for the distribution of their content. Soon after, many independent creators began to experiment with science learning. Some of the most popular early educators are listed below: Khan Academy. Khan Academy creates tutorials in almost all areas of science and mathematics, as well as providing official SAT preparation. The YouTube channel was founded in 2006 by Sal Khan who at the time was working as a financial analyst. The videos he created reached unprecedented levels of popularity, with hundreds of millions of views in the first few years of operation. This lead Khan to start the Khan Academy Non-profit Organization in 2008 and quit his job to focus on education in 2009. To date, Khan Academy has produced over 20,000 videos with over 1.7 billion views on YouTube. Smarter Every Day. Destin Sandlin, the creator of the YouTube channel \"Smarter Every Day\", has been posting"}, {"text": "educational videos on the site since 2007. Each episode of the series poses a specific question or topic. Over the course of about a half an hour, Destin meets with experts and experiments with different concepts in order to gain an in depth understanding of the topic, and presents it to the YouTube audience. Destin's videos covers everything from in depth rocket science to understanding the way our brain works by training to use a \"backwards bike\". Vsauce. Vsauce began in the mind of Michael Stevens in 2010, with the name itself coming from a random name generator. The channel originally focused on shows such as DONG (Do Online Now Guys) which showcased cool and interesting websites. However, the main videos on the Vsauce channel that gained a massive amount of attention came with the educational videos. In these short videos, Michael takes a simple question and uses math, physics, and even psychology to deconstruct the question and pose an interesting conclusion to the topic through the lens of analytic thinking. Today, Vsauce is now one of the most popular educational channels on the platform, and has led to the creation of other channels such as Vsauce 2 and 3,"}, {"text": "hosted by Kevin Lieber and Jake Roper respectively. Michael also co-hosted a live show called Brain Candy Live! with Mythbusters' former host Adam Savage which toured across the United States in 2017. YouTube EDU. YouTube created YouTube EDU in 2009 as a repository for its educational content. As of 2015, over 700,000 videos were part of YouTube EDU. Content within YouTube EDU is produced by PBS, Khan Academy, Steve Spangler Science, \"Numberphile\", and TED, among others. Medical education. YouTube videos have been used to teach medical content. In an anatomy course incorporating YouTube, 98% of students watched the assigned videos and 92% stated that they were helpful in teaching anatomical concepts. A 2013 study focused on clinical skills education from YouTube found that the 100 most accessible videos across a variety of topics (venipuncture, wound care, pain assessment, CPR, and others) were generally unsatisfactory. The value of YouTube in relation to dentistry and dental education has also been evaluated. Dentistry videos specifically categorized as \"education\" were rated as having a much higher value to dentistry students compared to videos in the more broad \"all\" category. Most of the videos marked as \"education\" were viewed as remarkably high quality by dental"}, {"text": "experts."}, {"text": "Nelson Jair Cardona Ram\u00edrez (born 18 January 1969) is a Colombian prelate of the Catholic Church who was the Bishop of San Jos\u00e9 del Guaviare from 2016 to 2024, since December 4, 2024, he has been the Bishop of the Diocese of Pereira Biography. Nelson Jair Cardona Ram\u00edrez was born in Norcasia on 18 January 1969. He studied at the Major Seminary in Manizales; he earned a licenciate in spiritual theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and a doctorate in theology from the Theological Pastoral Institute for Latin America (ITEPAL). He was ordained a priest of the Diocese of La Dorada-Guaduas on 12 December 1992. His assignments have included service as Diocesan Delegate for Youth Ministry, Diocesan Delegate for Vocation Ministry, parish priest of San Antonio de Padua in La Paz, Professor and Formator of the Diocesan Major Seminary Christ Buen Pastor, priest at the Cathedral, Parish Administrator of Sant\u00edsima Trinidad parish in Puerto Salgar, parish priest of San Antonio de Padua parish in Manzanares. Beguin 2005 he was Diocesan Delegate for ordained ministers. Since 2010 he has been taught at the Theological Pastoral Institute for Latin America (ITEPAL), serving as parish priest of Sant\u00edsima Trinidad parish in Puerto Salgar"}, {"text": "since 2015. On 7 May 2016, Pope Francis named him Bishop of San Jos\u00e9 del Guaviare. He received his episcopal consecration from Oscar An\u00edbal Salazar G\u00f3mez, Bishop of La Dorada-Guaduas, on 18 June and was installed on 9 July. He was a participant in the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region in 2019. He was one of four Synod prelates elected on 7 October to the thirteen-person committee to prepare the Synod's concluding document."}, {"text": "Muzamiru Kibeedi Mutangula, also Muzamiru Mutangula Kibeedi, is a Ugandan lawyer and judge, who, on 4 October 2019, was nominated to sit on the Uganda Court of Appeal. Background and education. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Makerere University, Uganda's largest and oldest public university, with a Bachelor of Laws. He also holds a Diploma in Legal Practice by the Law Development Centre in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. Career. Prior to his ascension to the bench, Kibeedi was in private legal practice for over 26 years, dating back to 1993. His practice has included Constitutional Rights Enforcement Litigation, Property Development and Taxation Planning, Civil Corporate Defence and Civil Defence of High Net-Worth Individuals."}, {"text": "Gabronite or Gabbronite is a former name for a mineral found in Norway, no longer widely used. It describes a form of scapolite or nepheline. Current views. Mindat.org defines the term \"Gabbronite\" as: Old discredited name, has been referred to as both Scapolite and Nepheline. [Clark, 1993, 249 - \"Hey's Mineral Index - 3rd Edition\"] Wiktionary defines \"Gabbronite\" as \"A compact variety of scapolite, resembling gabbro.\" The term is sometimes used in modern geological descriptions. Thus a description of the Matamec Ecological Reserve in Quebec, Canada says, \"Elsewhere, igneous rock is composed of anorthosite, gabronite and granite.\" A web search is likely to show a polished mostly-black stone used in jewelry. Descriptions. William Phillips (1773\u20131828) lists the mineral under SILEX, and describes it as follows: According to Parker Cleaveland (1780\u20131858) the mineral is probably a variety of Fettstein. Cleaveland defines it as follows: \"Webster's 1828 English Dictionary\" gives: GA'BRONITE, n. A mineral, supposed to be a variety of fettstein. It occurs in masses, whose structure is more or less foliated, or sometimes compact. Its colors are gray, bluish or greenish gray, and sometimes red. Armand Dufr\u00e9noy (1792\u20131857) describes the mineral as: Gabronite. \u2013 This mineral, found only in Arendal in"}, {"text": "Norway, is found in an amorphous mass, with a compact or hard lamellar texture... The \u00c9cole des Mines possesses a sample in which I have been able to recognize not only that the angles are straight, but that there is a diagonal cleavage at an angle of about 135\u00b0; from which it follows that the prism is square, as in wern\u00e9rite [common scapolite]: the shine of gabronite is fat and oily. Its color is dirty gray, greenish gray; it barely scratches glass: its specific gravity is 2.74. The composition of gabronite, which I will give in a few lines, departs from that of wern\u00e9rite by the great quantity of soda it contains. This circumstance induced M. Beudant to associate it with nepheline; but the six-sided prism form of this latter species is opposed to this association."}, {"text": "Villa Toeplitz is a historic villa located in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. Construction was complete by 1901 and subsequently named after the banker J\u00f3sef Leopold Toeplitz (in Italian, Giuseppe Toeplitz), who bought the villa in 1914. It previously belonged to the Hannesens, a German family that used it as a country holiday house. Villa Toeplitz is considered one of the ten most beautiful parks in Italy thanks to its carefully designed gardens, scenic fountains and water features. The villa also houses the headquarters of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Insubria, as well as the Ethno-Archeological Museum Castiglioni. History. Villa Toeplitz was built on a hill in the Varese district of \"Sant'Ambrogio Olona\", in the centre of a complex of orchards and farm buildings. It is one of 120 villas in a municipality that has 73% of the landscape protected. The villa was created as a country residence for the German Frey family. The Varese engineer Alfredo Speroni renovated the dwelling, having designed the original nucleus of the house, which was then handed over to the Hannesen family. In 1914 the founder of Banca Commerciale Italiana, Giuseppe Toeplitz, bought the building and it subsequently became known as Villa"}, {"text": "Toeplitz. Giuseppe Toeplitz commissioned the Varese engineer Speroni to completely transform the residence. Due to World War I, the building was eventually re-opened in 1918. Speroni and the Roman architect Armando Brasini modified the existing building and made significant developments to the surrounding park, which was expanded to 8 hectares. Villa Toeplitz's park includes the main villa, the residential villa (d\u00e9pendance) and the porter's lodge. The park was divided into several components: the orchard; a lawn area; access roads to the Villa; patches of shrubs and groups of trees; a \"wood\" of conifers and exotic plants; a lookout and chapel on the upper part of the property; a hornbeam rock; areas for bowls, tennis courts and croquet games; a flower garden; a swimming pool (today a pond); and, a wood-aged chestnut. The original orchard disappeared following the expansion of Sant'Ambrogio's cemetery, where the remains of the Toeplitz spouses are buried. There were also greenhouses (now abandoned) and some small stables. In 2010, due to the demolition of old cattle sheds and a no longer functioning water derivation room, an area was renovated for public access. Internal renovations included an attic above the first floor, a small balcony with arches and"}, {"text": "pilasters carved on the east side and a tower with a metal dome where an astronomical mirror was installed, under the direction of Professor Bianchi, director of the Brera Astronomical Observatory. Toeplitz projected a full hydraulic engineering project to channel the water of the nearby Monte Martica river into the gardens' attractions. These water features included a monumental stairway and porphyry waterfalls, mosaic, fountains and grey Carrara marble. They were modified by Toeplitz with the planting of cypress hedges and coniferous tree patches. Today the original water features no longer function. The main building was completed towards the end of the 1920s and the villa became a place of cultural and artistic meetings organized by the Polish dancer and actress Edvige Mrozowska, Giuseppe Toeplitz's second wife, who was passionate about music, art and astronomy. Edvige Toeplitz created and promoted the park's layout and symmetry, influenced by her personal journeys and the places she had visited. During a trip to Kashmir, Mrs. Edvige was inspired by the gardens of the Mongol Emperor Babur, (known as \"the father of gardens\"), and incorporated the style used by the Mughal empire, following the canons of Islamic architecture. This included the presence of ponds, fountains"}, {"text": "and canals at the edges of the walkways. Edvige Toeplitz's interests in botanical collecting and astronomy also influenced the origin and history of the park, specifically her importation of exotic plants and the construction of a small Observatory. When Giuseppe Toeplitz died in 1938, the villa and the park were inherited by his wife and his son Ludovico who, after the end of the Second World War, ceded them to the Mocchetti brothers from Legnano. In 1972 the property was acquired by the Municipality of Varese, which decided to open the park to the public. The Villa currently houses one of the decentralized offices of the University of Insubria. Villa Toeplitz was used as a filming location for the 1968 film \"Una jena in cassaforte\" (\"A Hyena in a Safe\") by director Cesari Canevari. The cast included Dmitri Nabokov, Maria Luisa Greisberger, Ben Salvador, Alex Morrison, Karina Kar, Cristina Gaioni and Otto Tinard. Villa. The location of the villa provides extensive views of the \"Valceresio\", the Olona Valley, the Mendrisiotto and part of the Comasco. The building has an eclectic architectural style, created by a mix of construction materials and approaches. These include the Lombard style of reusing existing materials,"}, {"text": "the 19th-century traditions of the architect Camillo Boito, and the use of Renaissance models that recall classical and mannerist art. Brick masonry is embedded in terracotta, and ashlar used on the ground floor. The grey stone that adorns the lower part of the building was obtained from the limestone quarries above nearby Barasso. Embellishments commissioned by Toeplitz. The villa was substantially restructured by J\u00f3sef Leopold Toeplitz in the years immediately after the First World War when he bought the existing building from the German industrialist Eugene Hannesen. The works, inspired by his second wife, continued until 1926, under the guidance of the prominent Roman architect Armando Brasini, known for his eclectic and visionary style. Once the renovation work was completed, the building became Toeplitz's favourite residence, and also a meeting place where famous names from the \"Italian\" and international economic, industrial and artistic scene stayed. Call to Palladium. The upper floor is characterized by a loggia to give light to the panoramic room with arches closed by windows interrupted by a niche. A large panoramic terrace is located on the west side of the villa. It is furnished with two large flowerbeds under which there is an exedra fountain with"}, {"text": "a semi-dome cap decorated with rays to simulate a shell. On the lower side of this facade of the building, there are thermal windows that recall those used by Andrea Palladio in Villa Foscari, called the \"Malcontenta\". Other peculiar characteristics of the manor house are the use of the serliana and, above the windows, lunettes and gables, generally painted or decorated. The covers of the loggia above the main entrance and that of the tower are wooden coffered ceilings. Other interesting elements of the Italian floral or Art Nouveau style are, for example, the wrought iron with their decorations and the dormer windows on the upper floor that go over the cornice of the building interrupting the eaves. Internal decor. The interiors of the villa are characterized by marble staircases, parquet floors in the rooms, ceramic in the service rooms, painted wooden doors and decorated coffered ceilings. The reception room on the ground floor is uninterrupted and is still furnished as it was in the days of the Toeplitz family, with inlaid chessboard tables, a bar corner in solid wood and antique armchairs. Dome and observatory. In the project for the extension of the building immediately after the purchase by"}, {"text": "Toeplitz, an important step in the work of the architect Brasini was the design and planning of a tower crowned by an arched loggia, four on each side. The arches support the roof structure with an openable metal dome used as a scientific observatory. The mirror was made with the collaboration and supervision of Professor Emilio Bianchi, director of the Brera Astronomical Observatory and creator of the Planetarium of Milan. During the \"Second World War\", the presence of the high tower led the Germans to suspect that it was used for secret communications by Mrs. Toeplitz. Edvige Mrozowska had to defend herself from the suspicion of being a spy in the service of the allies. At the end of the \"Second World War\", the villa was sold by Mrs Toeplitz and her son to a private company, the \"Colchide Prima\", belonging to the Mocchetti brothers of Legnano. In 1972 the complex became the property of the \"Municipality\", which used it for many years as a school. From guest house to the Ethno-Archeological Museum Castiglioni. Along the road that leads to the manor house, there is the building that Toeplitz designed to accommodate prominent figures that the banker welcomed in Varese."}, {"text": "These included the Duke of Abruzzi, the writer Matilde Serao, the Agnelli, the Pirelli and, probably, Gabriele D'Annunzio. The building, externally, utilizes the characteristic materials of Lombard architecture and consists of a brick facade in the lower part and plaster in the upper half. The decorations in coloured bands, mainly in blue and gold, stand out in the upper part, under the roof, typical of early 20th-century architecture. Today it hosts the Castiglioni Museum, housing an ethnoarchaeological collection of thousands of finds, donated by the brothers Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni to the \"Municipality of Varese\". In sixty years of research in the archaeological, anthropological and ethnological fields throughout the African continent, the two brothers collected and catalogued artefacts of the material and religious life of various ethnic groups, and made precise photo-cinematographic documentation. The archaeological section on the ground floor houses Egyptian and prehistoric finds. These include the graffiti casts of \"Bergiug\" and exhibits on where and how gold was mined at the time of the Egyptian pharaohs. It also tells the stories of the discovery of Berenice Pancrisia, (the \"all gold city\" mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his \"Naturalis Historia\"), the origin of the silica glass, (the mysterious"}, {"text": "\"glass of the stars\", already known at the time of Tutankhamon), and the origin of the emeralds used since the time of Cleopatra. The upstairs ethnographic section describes traditional populations from savannah and desert environments. These include exhibits of the typical elaborate hairstyles of the Nile Camiti, shepherds of the African savannah (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) and other objects of their material culture. A multimedia room reveals an original Tuareg people, telling the story of the customs and traditions of the \"blue men\". It is unique for the quality and variety of its exhibits. Gardens. Villa Toeplitz's Gardens consist of \"8 hectares\". They are connected by a \"complex\" pathways running through a connected system of exotic plans, fountains and buildings. The Park was designed in 1927 by the Parisian studio L. Collin - A. Adam & C. Two different gardening styles compose the main Villa Toeplitz's Gardens: a \"specifically formal\" Giardino all'italiana, characterized by low boxwood bushes and cypress trees; and an English landscape garden, with beech trees, oaks and cedar trees. A part of the park is currently occupied by a large chestnut wood, penetrated by tracks leading to a \"deep nature contacting experience\". The park also contains a series"}, {"text": "of fountains, waterfalls and symmetrical topiary architectures, that characterize the early origins of the garden. A natural pathway runs through a chestnut wood in the northern part of the gardens immediately behind the villa, from the southern entrance of the gardens to the northern one. It is composed of \"sinuous and romantic\" alleys that are interrupted by small hills and \"elegant\" iron gazebos. At the end of the promenade, a children's playground and a bocce field has been installed by the Administration of the \"City of Varese\". On 21 December 1972, the Toeplitz Gardens, as well as the Villa, were acquired by the administration of the \"City of Varese\". Styles. The structure of the Gardens defines a division between two specific gardening styles: an \"intricate\" and \"elegant\" structure that characterize a typical \"Giardino all'Italiana\" contrasting with a more natural environment composing a more moderate English Garden. The southern part of the garden, all'Italiana, hosts \"refined\" constructions, both vegetal and non, made by gardening architects coming from the whole province. The boxwood tree was used to create topiary bushes and balloons, along with the ivy trees, while cypress trees were used to create two imponent castles. Elaeagnus bushes form an intricate"}, {"text": "system of mazes. Deeper in the gardens, right below the belvedere, several fountains take place. Within these architectural elements, water games and water shows used to take place in the Gardens' fountains. Due to the dryness of the source that used to aliment the fountains, the water games are no longer performed. The high number of fountains, waterfalls, topiaries and \"little canals inspired by the Kashmir Gardens oriental tradition\" present in the Garden, they identify it as \"eclectic\". A Chestnut wood is located in the north-east part of the Gardens, just behind the villa. It was planted when the \"Toepliz family\" moved to the Villa and its heavy growth is due to the favourable climate of the Varese province, where the chestnut is one of the most widespread plants. The Chestnut wood is part of a wide economic circle in the Varese zone, the so-called \"Chestnut Economy\". Chestnut trees are an important resource since they are raw materials for different fields of the economy of the province. \" \" Chestnut wood is used to make furniture, barrels, roof beams, posts fencing or stakes, as firewood and in the production of charcoal \" \" and like so to aliment the local"}, {"text": "economy. The chestnut wood of Villa Toeplitz has also the function of \"beekeeping\": because \"bees are very attracted by male chestnut flowers and the subsequent honey production is large\". The chestnut wood, along with a series of artificial lakes and wide alleys, composes the second part of the garden, the English landscape garden. Fountains, nymphaeum and chapel. The monumental fountain of the Villa is divided into three levels. The whole structure of the fountain is located on the side of a small hill. It is considered one of the most relevant elements of the gardens. The lowest level is located at the centre of the main boulevard that goes from the entrance to the actual Villa. On its left side, there is an extended field in an elliptical form that is the base of a complex and elaborated path walk. The middle level is divided into other three parts accurate and symmetric, delimitated by hedges of shrubs and a complex mesh of canals, tanks and water games. On the third level there are several fountains and terraces that lead to a \"nymphaeum\", below the belvedere, decorated with granite columns and internal tanks in majolica. The levels of the fountain are"}, {"text": "connected by a water chain from the 15th century, composed by tanks in pink porphyry. On the top of the hill, behind the belvedere, the Toeplitz family built a chapel. The project was entrusted to the architect Goraska, that came appositely from \"Poland\". The interiors of the chapel are decorated by frescos that were painted by \"Jan Henryk Rosen di Leopoli\", who also did the one in the cemetery in \"St. Ambrogio\". Panoramic bridge, orchard and cemetery. A panoramic bridge, provided with two arches and a decorative oculus, runs along the old Toeplitz's property through \"via dei Mulini Grassi\". Giuseppe Toeplitz asked for permission to build it with the aim to facilitate the connection between the Gardens, that he bought years later to build the orchard and the other side of the street. The company that had the task to build the bridge, requested to have with a height of at least 5 metres, is named Zanzi. The construction was concluded in 1924. In the \"orchard\" there were mainly cultivated apple, pear and peach trees with the espalier technique that helps the tree to have a flat structure. Both Giuseppe Toeplitz and Edvige Mrozowska had a strong passion for floriculture"}, {"text": "and fruit farming, but in particular the woman, that used to ask suggestions to expert agronomists, and that was always flanked by the Tuscan gardener Quinto Brilli. The particular technique used in the cultivation of apples and pears made it possible for Edvige to take part in several competitions, often winning and gaining different honours. On each fruit and vegetable's peel, she used to put a monogram of a letter \"(T)\" to sign her creations. Giuseppe Toeplitz, according to all the workers' memories, was really dedicated to the care of the plants in the greenhouse. Every night, he used to check his plants, even if it was late. The two spouses are both resting in peace in \"St.Ambrogio cemetery\" in one chapel with the woman's parents. The disposition of the headstones respects the \"Slavic tradition\" and is really simple and minimal, while the outside reflects the union of several styles. The couple has been really relevant for the history and development of the city of \"Varese\", even though there are not really considered or remembered in the present society, probably for the lack of heirs and so the lack of care for their chapel. Bird snare and tower. Villa Toeplitz's"}, {"text": "Gardens host a series of bird snares that were once dedicated to bird hunting, an activity that was long practised by \"Mr Toeplitz\". The bird snare is the first element of the hunting set and, in the case of Villa Toeplitz, it is located by the main body of the Villa. The first bird snares were made in the 14th century by some friars and then they started to be used in Lombardy and other regions in the north of Italy. It is made by two parts: the first component is a building made mainly by stones that, like the one in Toeplitz's Gardens, is the tower, a building developed on three levels, all with different functions. The lowest one was made for meetings, the middle one was where the birds that were used to beckon other birds rested and the top part was used by the hunters to look for birds. The second component is an arboreal structure positioned in a circle called colonnade with a big red oak at the centre. Flora and fauna. Flora. The current botanical collections of Villa Toeplitz reflect the historic influence and international travels of Edvige Toeplitz during the garden's original creation. These"}, {"text": "include: Fauna. The \"Chestnut Forest\" is home to a wide variety of wildlife: notably insects, amphibians, and small mammals, some of which are relatively rare. These species can all live virtually undisturbed since the forest is rarely visited by humans. In recent years, the populations of toads and frogs in the forest have grown, partly as a result of conservation efforts. Since the middle of April 2019, over 300,000 tadpoles and larvae have been moved from an area affected by restoration work in the park and they have been rehoused in a safer location in the central pool in front of the Villa. This work was carried out in collaboration with the \"Municipality of Varese\" and it made it possible to identify the presence of several common toads (\"Bufo bufo\"), in particular 25 females and 29 males, about thirty salamanders, some Lataste frogs (\"Rana latastei\") and green frogs (\"Pelophylax esculentus\") at the adult stage. These amphibians will populate the park's wooded areas, enriching their biodiversity and relevance. Public appreciation of these delicate amphibians is growing, particularly during this metamorphosis phase their life cycle. On 22 June 2019, for example, the LIPU, Legambiente, Gev, and Royal Rangers associations organised a meeting"}, {"text": "concerning the importance of preserving amphibians, in particular emphasising why they should not be disturbed or captured and showing the relevance of the park's biodiversity conservation project. Books. Publications about Villa Toeplitz: Similar historic villas. Villa Toeplitz is one of many historic villas in Varese; some others are:"}, {"text": "Mabuyinae is a subfamily of lizards, commonly known as skinks, within the family Scincidae. The genera in this subfamily were previously found to belong the \"Mabuya\" group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. They have a pantropical distribution, being found throughout the tropics of Asia, Africa, and the Americas (but excluding most of Australasia aside from \"Eutropis multifasciata\", found in New Guinea). Although originating in and having most species in the Old World, they managed to colonize the Americas in the Miocene; the common ancestor of the American genera is thought to have rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America about 18 million years ago, with the skinks diversifying across the Americas and evolving into many new genera. Six genera (\"Alinea, Capitellum\", \"Copeoglossum\", \"Mabuya\", \"Marisora\", \"Spondylurus\") are found in the Caribbean (with \"Alinea\", \"Capitellum\", \"Mabuya\", and \"Spondylurus\" being exclusively Caribbean genera, while \"Marisora\" and \"Copeoglossum\" have both mainland American and insular Caribbean species), and are thought to each represent independent dispersals from the American mainland within the past 10 million years. Two of these, \"Alinea\" and \"Capitellum\", are feared to be extinct as none of their species have been seen in the past few decades; in addition, numerous other"}, {"text": "Caribbean species in the genera \"Mabuya\", \"Spondylurus\", and \"Copeoglossum\" are feared to have gone extinct. Most of these extinctions are due to the small Indian mongoose (\"Urva auropunctata\"), which was introduced to the islands in the 19th century. Genera. The subfamily Mabuyinae contains 25 genera."}, {"text": "Philip Andrew Luty (19 October 1964 \u2013 8 April 2011) was an English activist opposing gun control, who was notable for the production of homemade firearms and manuals providing instruction at the same time. He was charged with illegal arms construction in the late 1990s and sentenced to four years in prison, with other investigations ongoing at the time of his death. Weapons based on Luty's designs have been used or found in numerous recorded incidents of criminal or terrorist activity, including criminal groups in Australia, Brazil, Romania, Sweden, Ecuador, the United Kingdom, with terrorist organizations in Indonesia, Myanmar and in the 2019 Halle synagogue shooting, an antisemitic terror incident in Germany. Life. Philip Andrew Luty was born in Leeds on October 19, 1964. He grew up on a farm in West Yorkshire, England. Luty campaigned for the free possession of firearms and published instructions on self-built fully automatic weapons that can be produced by simple metalworking. Luty understood his work as a protest against the British government's strict gun control policies, which he described as fascist. He was charged with illegal arms construction in the late 1990s and sentenced to four years in prison in 1998. He was at"}, {"text": "first designated as Category B, which was a low security risk. While imprisoned, he had been transferred to the maximum security Category D on the basis he was a locksmith. Luty protested this reassignment on the basis that this classification had prevented him from furloughs when his mother died of cancer in 1999 and he was disallowed to attend her funeral, as well as nothing in his background check showed any employment in locksmithing. In 2009, another charge was made after an armed anti-terrorist unit searched Luty's home in May 2009. Luty was subsequently tried for violating the Terrorism Act 2000. In particular, he was accused of \"creating records that could be of use to a person who wants to commit or prepare a terrorist attack\". He also possessed a \"collection of pipes which could be screwed together to produce an item from which a bulleted cartridge could be discharged.\" He had also been the prime suspect in a campaign of harassment against a local charity and property developer in Cookridge from 2006 to 2009. He was arrested for criminal damage incidents but was released due to a lack of evidence. Death. On 8 April 2011, Luty died after a"}, {"text": "prolonged battle with cancer. The ongoing criminal case was ended because of his death. Firearms design. Luty designed several firearms, including four sub-machine gun designs. Of these, one particular design, outlined in his book \"Expedient Homemade Firearms\", is the best known. This design makes extensive use of easily procured materials such as folded sheet metal, bar stock, washers, and hex screws. It is a simple blowback-operated sub-machine gun and entirely made from craft-produced components, including the magazine and pistol grip. The major drawback of such designs is the lack of rifling in the barrel, which results in poor accuracy and limited range. Two copies of the original 'Luty SMG 9mm Parabellum' are part of the collection of the British National Firearms Centre (NFC) and are exhibited in Leeds at the Royal Armouries Museum. Usage of Luty-type guns. Luty submachine guns have been documented in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Indonesia, Romania, Sweden, Ecuador, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In October 2019, a German neo-Nazi killed two people in an antisemitic terror attack outside a synagogue in the German city of Halle. The attacker live-streamed his actions online, during which he used a 3D-printed gun based on Philip Luty's designs which"}, {"text": "repeatedly malfunctioned."}, {"text": "Janet Richard (born 3 July 1998) is a Maltese athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She did not advance to compete in the semi-finals."}, {"text": "Florence Riddick Boys ( Florence Alice Riddick; December 3, 1873 \u2013 May 10, 1963) was an American writer, clubwoman, suffragist, and state probation officer in Indiana. Early life. Florence Alice Riddick was born in 1873 in Litchfield, Minnesota, the daughter of Isaac Hancock Riddick and Alice Esther (Wood) Riddick. Her mother died just seven days after her birth on December 10, 1873 at the age of 25; her father, a Methodist minister, remarried in 1876. Her brother Carl W. Riddick served one term in the United States Senate, representing Montana, and his son was politician and aviator Merrill K. Riddick. In 1896 Florence Riddick graduated from her parents' alma mater, Albion College in Michigan, where she was editor of the school newspaper and \"class poetess\". Career. Journalism. After marriage, she moved to Plymouth, Indiana, where she lived for the rest of her life. There, she wrote a column for the \"woman's page\" of the \"Plymouth Pilot\" and the \"Daily Republican\", newspapers her husband published. She wrote poetry, advice, recipes, and essays for the papers. Her women's page was syndicated for use in other newspapers in 1920. Her features appeared in more than fifty papers by 1924, and at its peak"}, {"text": "in 140 newspapers, including one in New Zealand, before she retired the feature in 1942. She attended meetings of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association with her husband. Suffrage and politics. Boys was county chair of the Woman's Franchise League in Plymouth. After the suffrage campaign was won, she became the first Woman's Publicity Director for the Republican National Committee. She wrote for the \"National Republican\", a weekly national newspaper produced by the party. \"If ever, in wistful mood, I sighed for a medium of expression, my wildest dreams have come true,\" she wrote of her work as a political press agent, in 1922; \"one visualizes the great body of women voters keen to equip themselves in their new field of activity.\" She was described as \"one of the real national authorities of women in politics\" when she addressed the Inland Daily Press Association in Chicago in 1923. She was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924, and an alternate delegate in 1932. She wrote \"Why Watson?\" (1925), a book about politician James Eli Watson. Boys was Indiana's State Probation Officer from 1926 to at least 1931, leading work on juvenile delinquency in the state, lecturing, and editing the"}, {"text": "\"Indiana Probation News\" publication. In the 1930s she chaired the Corrections and Public Welfare departments of the Indiana Federation of Clubs. Personal life. She married lawyer and newspaper publisher Samuel Evan Boys in 1898. They had five children together, born between 1899 and 1914. She died in 1963, aged 89, in Plymouth, Indiana. Her papers are in the Indiana State Library."}, {"text": "Anjali Devi (born 15 September 1998) is an Indian athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She did not advance to compete in the semi-finals."}, {"text": "The Plymouth & Brockton Bus Company (formerly known as Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Company), commonly referred to as Plymouth & Brockton or simply P&B, is a private regional bus transportation company operating in Eastern Massachusetts. It operates two routes between Cape Cod and Boston. History. The P&B was established in 1888 as a trolley company in Plymouth and Kingston, Massachusetts. At its height, trolleys operated as far as Pembroke and Sagamore Beach. The company operated trolleys up until 1928, when they switched to solely operating buses in and around the South Shore. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the company suspended all service from March 24, 2020, until May 14, 2021. The company received a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan. Operations. P&B operates two routes: Hyannis\u2013Boston and Woods Hole\u2013Boston. Most trips on both routes serve both South Station Bus Terminal and Logan International Airport. Not all trips serve all stops on a given route."}, {"text": "Serrabrancaite is a mineral with the chemical formula MnPO4\u2022H2O and which is named for the locality where it was found, the Alto Serra Branca Pegmatite. The Alto Serra Branca mine has been in operation since the 1940s. It is located in Paraiba, Brazil near a village named Pedra Lavrada. Tantalite is the main mineral mined here. Specimens of serrabrancaite are kept in the Mineralogical Collections of both the Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany and the Martin-Luther Universit\u00e4t Halle, Institut f\u00fcr Geologische Wissenschaften. Occurrence. The Alto Serra Branca Mine occurs where a granitic pegmatite intruded upon a biotite schist. There are many minerals found within this pegmatite. The main constituents are quartz, muscovite, microcline, and albite and amblygonite are common in smaller quantities. The minerals apatite, beryl, uraninite, and elbaite along with the tantalite group and other secondary uranium minerals are found throughout the mine. Near the center of the open portion of the mine, there are growths of two phosphates: triphylite and triplite. Serrabrancaite and other minerals (purpurite, rockbridgeite, tavorite, barbosalite, hureaulite, eosphorite, and phosphosiderite) occur as alteration products of these two phosphates. Serrabrancaite is altered triplite that is closely associated with vernadite. There were also associations with carlhintzeite, colquiriite, pachnolite, ralstonite,"}, {"text": "and fluellite. Physical and optical properties. Serrabrancaite has monoclinic crystals that range in size up to 0.3 mm. The dark brown to dark greenish-black crystals have an adamantine luster. It will streak olive green, and, on the mohs hardness scale, is a 3.5. In thin fragments, they appear translucent. It is a brittle mineral that has uneven fracture, and it does not demonstrate cleavage. Using the float-sink method with sodiumpolytungstate, it was found to have a density of 3.17(1) g/cm3. The calculated value, 3.16 g/cm3, is very similar to the value found using the float-sink method. Using wavelengths of 589 nm and immersion liquids, the refractive indices were measured at \u0251= 1.75(1) \u03b2= 1.79(1) and \u0264< 1.79; however, \u0264 could not be measured with great accuracy. Its pleochroism ranges from dark brown to olive greenish-brown. Mineral chemistry and thermal analysis. In order to analyze the chemical composition of serrabrancaite, both energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and wavelength-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (WDS) were used. The EDS results showed only manganese (Mn), phosphate (P), and oxygen (O). A few crystals displayed trace quantities of iron (Fe). For the WDS analysis, a crystal free of Fe was chosen. A CAMECA SX 100 run at a"}, {"text": "voltage of 15 kV using a beam current at 10 nA collected the data. Rhodonite was used as the standard for Mn while apatite was the standard used for P. The WDS test was run at four locations on the crystal. After using the PAP corrections determined by Pouchou and Pichoir in 1988 to reduce the data, it was determined that the weight percent of serrabrancaite is roughly 46.85 percent Mn2O3, 42.72 percent P2O5, and 9.80 percent H2O. These results account for 99.37 percent of the total composition of the tested crystal. A weight loss of 14.6 percent was observed after running a thermal analysis of serrebancaite at 520 \u00b0C along with a color change from its original dark greenish-brown to a light yellowish-white. The product of the thermal analysis according to X-ray diffraction (XRD) results is Mn2P2O7. The chemical equation for this reaction is 2 MnPO4\u00b7H2O \u2192 Mn2P2O7 + 2 H2O + 1/2O2. The empirical formula determined through microprobe and thermal analysis is Mn0.98P1.00O3.98\u00b70.90 H2O, which is very close to the ideal composition of MnPO4\u00b7H2O. Crystal structure. A synthetic material was used as the standard for the X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. The synthetic standard had a unit cell with"}, {"text": "a= 6.912(1) \u00c5; b= 7.470(1) \u00c5; and c= 7.357 \u00c5;, \u03b2= 112.29(3)\u00b0, and Z= 4. The standard is in the space group C2/c. The XRD analysis was run with a Siemens D5000 diffractometer using CuK\u0251 radiation and a secondary monochromator to collect the data. The data from the analysis showed that serrabrancaite has unit cell dimensions of a= 6.914(2) \u00c5; b= 7.468(2) \u00c5; and c= 7.364(2) \u00c5;, \u03b2= 112.29\u00b0, and V= 351.8(1) \u00c53. This puts serrabrancaite in the monoclinic crystal system and the point group C2/c after a structural analysis. Serrabrancaite's structure is built of chains of (MnO6)-octahedra that share their corners and run in the [101] direction. These chains are then held together by (PO4)-tetrahedra. Relation to other minerals. Serrabrancaite does not have an isostructural relationship to any natural phosphate, arsenate, or vanadate minerals. The diffraction pattern of serrabrancaite does appear to be similar to those of synthetic MnPO4\u2022H2O, synthetic MnAsO4\u00b7H2O, and the minerals in the kieserite group (Mg, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn)SO4\u00b7H2O. Origin. The Alto Serra Branca mine is characterized by two phosphates (triphylite and triplite) and their secondary minerals. Triphylite and is secondaries are iron-rich and manganese-poor, while triplite and its secondaries are manganese-rich and iron-poor."}, {"text": "Since Serrabrancaite is an alteration of triplite, it is very low in iron. The common associate of serrabrancaite, vernadite, is also very low in iron when found in this pegmatite."}, {"text": "Yevgeny Viktorovich Bushmin (; 4 October 1958 \u2013 6 October 2019) was a Russian politician. He served as a Deputy of the 1st State Duma and Deputy Finance Minister, and was the member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly as the representative of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. At the time of his death he was the incumbent member of the Federation Council for Rostov Oblast, and the council's Deputy Chairman. Born in 1958 in Gorky Oblast, Bushmin graduated from university with a speciality in economics, and went on to work on practical economic problems, later running his own company and serving as a director of another. He entered politics in 1993 with his election to the 1st State Duma, and served as part of a number of political groupings. He also sat as a member of the Duma's Committee on Budget, Taxes, Banks and Finance. In the late 1990s and early 2000s he served as First Deputy Head of the State Taxes Service, and as Deputy Finance Minister. In 2001 he was appointed to the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly. In 2003 he became vice-speaker and Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council. Bushmin died after a long illness"}, {"text": "in 2019, having served as Deputy Chairman until his death. Tributes and condolences were offered by many of his political contemporaries. He had received a number of awards over his period of service, and was particularly proud of his Medal \"For the Return of Crimea\". Early life and career. Bushmin was born on 4 October 1958 in the village of Lopatino, Sergachsky District, then part of Gorky Oblast in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union. He studied as an engineer-economist at Lobachevsky State University of Gorky, graduating in 1980. He held a PhD in Economics, and his early work, since 1989, involved dealing with the practical issues of market relations. In 1990 Bushmin founded a company specializing in solving automation problems in medical care, and from 1990 to 1993 was the director of Kontur, a research and production company based in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1993 he was elected to the 1st State Duma, representing his home town constituency of Sergach, N122. From 1993 until 1995, he was deputy chairman of the deputy grouping \"Liberal Democratic Union 12 December\", before joining the deputy grouping \"Stability\" on 14 March 1995. While sitting in the Duma he served"}, {"text": "as a member of its Committee on Budget, Taxes, Banks and Finance. Politics and economics. From 1996 to 1998 Bushmin was First Deputy Head of the State Taxes Service, and from 1998 until 2001 he was Deputy Finance Minister. On 20 November 2001 he was appointed to represent Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly. He continued as a representative in the Countil for the rest of his life, changing to represent Rostov Oblast on 21 September 2005. He served for a time as the chairman of the council's committee on the Budget and Financial Markets. Bushmin became vice-speaker and Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council in 2013, replacing Svetlana Orlova in this post. In 2014 Bushmin was one of the individuals placed under sanctions by the United States over the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Bushmin had been a key legislator in a March 2014 vote that granted the Russian president powers to occupy Crimea. Bushmin, who later described himself as an admirer of the United States, expressed his disappointment at the decision to sanction him. During his later career he was also co-chair of the Supervisory Board of the journal \"Parlamentskaya Gazeta\"."}, {"text": "Awards. Bushmin had received several awards over his career. In 2005 he was awarded the Medal of the Order \"For Merit to the Fatherland\" Second Class. On 21 August 2018 he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky \"for merit in strengthening Russian statehood, the development of parliamentarism and many years of conscientious work\". He had also been awarded the Second Class on 24 July 2017. He received the Order of Honour on 19 October 2013. He had also received the Medal \"For the Return of Crimea\", which he later recalled was one of the awards that he was most proud of, particularly as he cited it as a reason for his inclusion in US sanctions. Death. Bushmin died on 6 October, two days after his 61st birthday, after a long illness. Vladimir Dzhabarov, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council's Committee on International Affairs, paid tribute to Bushmin, calling him a \"remarkable man, and a patriot of Russia\". State Duma deputy stated that he was a \"professional, decent and responsive person\". , speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Rostov Oblast, recorded that Bushmin was \"a remarkable man, comrade, friend for the region, he did a lot\". Vasily Golubev, governor"}, {"text": "of Rostov Oblast, sent a telegram of condolence to Bushmin's friends and relatives. The Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin stated that Bushmin \"made a great contribution to the development of Russian parliamentarism. As State Duma deputy, deputy finance minister, and member of the Federation Council he devoted a quarter of a century to legislative work\". After a memorial ceremony at the Central Clinical Hospital on 8 October, Bushmin was buried at Moscow's Troyekurovskoye Cemetery later that day. A minute's silence in memory of Bushmin was observed in the Federation Council on 9 October."}, {"text": "Gabriella O'Grady (born 18 February 1997) is an Australian athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She did not advance to compete in the semi-finals."}, {"text": "Pawe\u0142 Lisiecki (born 15 August 1978) is a Polish politician, member of the Sejm and member of the Law and Justice political party. He represents the Warsaw I constituency. From 2002 to 2014 he was a councilman of Praga P\u00f3\u0142noc, and from 2014 to 2016 mayor of the district. In 2015 he was elected to the Sejm, reelected in 2019."}, {"text": "Hellen Syombua (born 8 August 1997) is a Kenyan athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She did not advance to compete in the semi-finals. In June 2021, she qualified to represent Kenya at the 2020 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Jamie Dever (born 30 January 1993) is an Irish professional rugby union player who plays as a prop. Currently unattached he most recently played for London Irish in the Premiership Rugby. Dever made his debut for London Irish on 30 October 2021. Dever previously played prop for Old Glory DC and the Houston Sabercats in Major League Rugby. He also played for Connacht in the Pro14 competition and the Cambridge in the semi-professional National League 1 in England."}, {"text": "Kenza Sosse (born 10 November 1999) is a Qatari athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She did not advance to compete in the semi-finals."}, {"text": "Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life is a book by Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb about evolutionary biology. First published by the MIT Press imprint Bradford Books in 2005, the book challenges the gene-centric view of evolution for what the authors consider its excessive focus on the role of DNA sequences in evolution and biological inheritance. The book's title refers to the argument made by the authors that evolution by natural selection, rather than only acting on DNA sequence variation, acts on four different systems or \"dimensions\": genetic, epigenetic, behavioral, and symbolic. It includes cartoon illustrations by Anna Zeligowski, an artist and physician. Reviews. Steven Rose reviewed \"Evolution in Four Dimensions\" favorably for \"the Guardian\", describing it as \"a lucid book that restores subtlety to evolutionary theory\". Andrew Lloyd of St. Vincent's University Hospital reviewed the book favorably as well, describing it as \"engagingly well-written\" and praising the cartoon illustrations. Stuart Newman also reviewed \"Evolution\" favorably, calling it \"gracefully written, in a tone that is unusually relaxed and confident given the complexity and broad range of its subject matter and the iconoclastic ideas of the authors.\" Michael Benton praised it"}, {"text": "as \"one of the best written [books] that I have read in years: clear, succinct, thoroughly signposted, and with ample summaries and reviews of difficult areas.\" In a more mixed review of the 2017 revised edition, Russell Bonduriansky of the University of New South Wales argued, \"Jablonka and Lamb do not quite pull off the Herculean feat of clarifying how all of these dimensions and processes [referring to the \"four dimensions\"] fit together into a coherent picture of evolution. Yet, this book certainly succeeds in a more modest but still important objective\u2014to compel readers to ponder new evidence and question long-held assumptions.\" Similarly, Aaron D. Blackwell argued that Jablonka and Lamb propose a new theory of evolution based on the four dimensions they describe, but fail to detail what exactly such a theory would look like. Blackwell acknowledges, however, that \"it is hard to fault them for this one\" because \"[o]ur understandings of epigenetics and cultural inheritance are still limited\"."}, {"text": "Bagrinovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Novoalexandrovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 24 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Bagrinovo is located 42 km southwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zagorye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Barskoye-Gorodishche () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pavlovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 252 as of 2010. There are six streets. Geography. Barskoye-Gorodishche is located on the right bank of the Nerl River, 11 km southeast of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yakimanskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mahespur railway station was a railway station in Ahmadpur\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It was situated at Mahespur of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. With the conversion of the Ahmadpur\u2013Katwa line to broad gauge this station was abandoned. History. Ahmedpur\u2013Katwa narrow-gauge railway line connecting Ahmedpur and Katwa was established on 29 September 1917 by McLeod's Light Railways. Indian Railways had taken over the operation of this narrow-gauge railway from McLeod and Company in 1966. After closing this track in 2013 the railway section was converted into broad gauge in 1917. The conversion work started in 2013 and was completed in early 2017. The track including Mahespur railway station was reopened for the public on 24 May 2018."}, {"text": "Baskaki () is a rural locality (a selo) in Bogolyubovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2010. There are 15 streets. Geography. Baskaki is located 46 km southeast of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ramenye is the nearest rural locality."}]