[{"text": "The Last Letter from Your Lover is a 2021 British romantic drama film directed by Augustine Frizzell and written by Nick Payne and Esta Spalding, based on Jojo Moyes' 2011 novel of the same name. It stars Felicity Jones, Callum Turner, Joe Alwyn, Nabhaan Rizwan and Shailene Woodley. Set in two distinct time periods the novel follows two women, 1960s housewife Jennifer Stirling and modern-day journalist Ellie Haworth and how both of them become intrigued by a letter they accidentally discover. \"The Last Letter from Your Lover\" was released on Netflix in select territories on 23 July 2021, and in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2021, by StudioCanal. Plot. In the mid-1960s, wealthy socialite Jennifer Stirling suffers from memory loss after a car crash. Unable to remember much of her life before or connect with her husband Laurence, Jennifer is intrigued by a letter she finds to \"J\" from \"Boot\". She decides to try and remember what happened to her by following clues from it. In modern day London, Ellie Haworth, who recently broke up with her long-time boyfriend, is writing an article about the recently deceased editor of her paper. Getting past the formal archivist Rory to access"}, {"text": "the editor's archive, she finds a misfiled love letter, to someone identified as \"J\", from \"Boot\". Moved by the passionate feelings between the mysterious couple, Ellie becomes determined to learn their identities and how their love story unfolded. In the past, a pre-crash Jennifer and her husband Laurence travel to the French Riviera to vacation. Foreign correspondent Anthony O'Hare arrives to interview Laurence about his business success. At the party, Laurence is condescending to both Jennifer and Anthony. Afterwards, a drunk Anthony complains about the awful company to a fellow guest and is overheard by Jennifer. Anthony returns the next morning with a written apology, which Jennifer forces him to read aloud. He invites the Stirlings out for lunch the next day, but Laurence is called away on a sudden business trip, leaving the two to spend the summer together until his return. They begin writing letters to each other, under the pennames \"J\" and \"Boot\" (or \"B\"). Neither act on their growing electricity, until Jennifer impulsively tries to kiss him. When he pulls away, she flees. Some days later, Anthony sends her a letter, proposing to meet at Postman's Park in London. They start a whirlwind affair, spending moments"}, {"text": "together when Jennifer can safely be with Anthony. Finally, he proposes she run off with him to NYC. She is hesitant to leave, fearing of becoming an outcast by her family and friends. After Anthony writes, saying he will be waiting for her at the train station on the night of his departure, Jennifer rushes off to meet him. Just before she can arrive, she gets into a car crash, with a blow to her head causing partial amnesia. Anthony leaves for NYC, believing that Jennifer has rejected him. Six months after the car crash, Laurence hides the last letter Jennifer received from Anthony, hoping she does not remember the affair. Jennifer feels lost as she struggles to recover her memories. She begins finding several of the love letters from \"Boot\" hidden in her house, leading her to discover a postal box in her name that Laurence had closed. Jennifer confronts him, who claims Anthony had died in the crash. Four years later, Jennifer bumps into Anthony, restoring her memories of their time together. He once again begs her to run away with him, but she refuses due to her two-year-old daughter. Enraged at Laurence for his lies, Jennifer asserts"}, {"text": "that she will stay with him only for their daughter, but vows to leave if he mistreats her. In turn, Laurence threatens to ruin Jennifer's reputation and gain sole custody of their daughter, as she would only be seen as an adulteress by the courts. This prompts Jennifer to escape with their daughter to go with Anthony. Discovering he has checked out of his hotel, she hurries to his workplace, but is informed by the editor that Anthony has already left. Forced to return to Laurence, Jennifer gives the bundle of love letters to the editor to be sent to Anthony if they hear from him. In the present day, Ellie and Rory grow closer as they uncover more of the love letters. After spending the night with Rory, Ellie distances herself from him. She learns that Jennifer and Anthony are both alive and speaks to each of them. After hearing their regrets and pain over their lost romance, Ellie decides to enter into a relationship with Rory, choosing to give romance another try and not live with regrets. Ellie convinces Anthony to write Jennifer one last letter, in which he asks her to meet him once again at Postman's"}, {"text": "Park. Ellie and Rory watch from a distance as the two lovers reunite. Production. In August 2019 it was announced that Augustine Frizzell would direct the film. It was announced that filming was set to begin on 14 October 2019 in Mallorca, and that Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley would star and serve as executive producers. Production moved to the United Kingdom and wrapped after 45 days on 15 December 2019. Release. In October 2019, Netflix acquired the distribution rights to the film for the U.S. and certain other international territories. It was released on Netflix in select territories on 23 July 2021. It was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 6 August 2021. Reception. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 55% based on 71 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The website's consensus reads: \" The Last Letter from Your Lover benefits from solid performances and a striking visual style, although its double dose of melodrama may prove too much for some viewers.\" On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100 based on 19 critic reviews, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\"."}, {"text": "Carley Thomas (born 26 December 2000) is an Australian athlete. She placed 37th in the women's 800 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. Thomas earned silver medals at 4x400m (3:31.36) and 800m (2:01.13) at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Finland. Thomas won the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games gold medals in the 800-meters and the mixed 4x400m where they set Oceana area age group record. NCAA. On February 3, 2023 at Boston University Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invitational, the Washington Huskies set college record in Distance medley relay DMR in 10:46.62. Thomas earned NCAA Division I All-American honors 7-times and won 2022 800m title at the Pac-12 Conference championships in Eugene, Oregon."}, {"text": "Bereznitsy () is a rural locality (a village) in Seletskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Bereznitsy is located 8 km east of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lyakovitsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Adama Delphine Fawundu (born 1971) Adama Delphine Fawundu is an artist born in Brooklyn, NY the ancestral space of the Lenni-Lanape. She is a descendant of the Mende, Krim, Bamileke, and Bubi peoples. Her multi-sensory artistic language centers around themes of indigenization and ancestral memory. Fawundu co-published the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora with photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn. \u2013 MFON is a book featuring the diverse works of women and non-binary photographers of African descent. Her works have been presented in numerous exhibitions worldwide. She is a Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University. Biography. Adama Delphine Fawundu was born in Brooklyn, NY, US, in a family with an Equatorial Guinean Bubi mother and Sierra Leonean Krim father. She was the first child in the family born in the United States. She grew up in Prospect Park, New York and lived in Flatbush, New York during her career. Fawundu graduated from the Stony Brook University with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies/Mass Communications, African American Studies. During her study she contributed to the bi-weekly student newspaper \"Blackworld\". Later she studied at New York University, where received a Master of Arts in Media Ecology. She"}, {"text": "completed her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2018. Fawundu is married to Howard Buford and has three sons with him: Amal Buford, Che Ali Buford (alumna of the New York Philharmonic, composer) and Ras Kofi Buford. Work. Fawundu started her artistic path as a photographer, working in this field since 1993. As her work developed, the range of media she worked in expanded until it embraced new artistic techniques \u2013 printmaking, video, sound and assemblage. Fawundu incorporates elements of biography and geography, philosophy and mythology, as well as individual and collective experience, to reflect on different social issues, mostly concentrating on the history and reality of the African Diaspora. A significant part of Fawundu's early career is her hip hop photography work. She started out working with The Source, Vibe and Beat Down Magazines, work that extended into a 10-year journey documenting hip-hop culture and urban music of the African Continent. In 1995, on assignment for Beat Down magazine, Fawundu photographed Prodigy and Havoc of Mobb Deep for their second album The Infamous. Beginning in 2008, Fawundu documented hip hop, Afro-pop, and urban youth culture in Accra (Ghana), Bamako (Mali), Dakar (Senegal), Addis Abbaba (Ethiopia), Johannesburg (South"}, {"text": "Africa), Nairobi (Kenya), Freetown (Sierra Leone), and Lagos (Nigeria). In 2015, Fawundu participated in the LagosPhoto Festival with the project \"Deconstructing She,\" using herself as the subject to address stereotypes and prejudice over remnants of slavery. In 2016\u201317, along with eight other artists, Fawundu presented her work as part of the exhibition \"Black Magic: AfroPasts/AfroFutures.\" Her installation \"In the Face of History\" is a wall of documents showing the oppression of various social groups, among them women and African Americans. The installation was also shown as a part of the exhibition \"In Plain Sight/Site\" in 2019, and was highly acclaimed by many reviewers. In 2017, along with Laylah Amatullah Barrayan, she independently published a book and a journal titled \"MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora,\" representing works of over a hundred female photographers of African descent from all over the world. It was named in honor of the late photographer Mmekutmfon \"Mfon\" Essien. The critically acclaimed book resulted in Fawundu going on a book tour which included events at the Tate Modern, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, International Center of Photography, Harvard University and other institutions. In 2019 the co-authors were invited to a talk at a"}, {"text": "photographic festival in Los Angeles, Photoville, organized by the nonprofit organization United Photo Industries. The book can be found in many libraries around the world, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Columbia University, the New York Public Library and Harvard University. In 2019, Fawundu presented her show \"The sacred star of Isis and other stories\". She used mixed media photographic works to explore the relationship between traditional Mende beliefs from Sierra Leone and modern world values. The work was exhibited at two locations nationwide \u2013 at the African American Museum in Philadelphia and Crush Curatorial gallery in Chelsea, New York City. It is currently to be seen at the Museum of African Diaspora. Fawundu's latest solo exhibit \u2013 \"No Wahala, It's All Good: A Spiritual Cypher within the Hip-Hop Diaspora\" \u2013 combines her early hip hop works with recent documentation of hip hop and urban music on the African continent, representing the cultural connection between Africa and its diaspora. Fawundu's photography and art works are exhibited in numerous private and public collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Brooklyn Historical Society, New York; Corridor Gallery, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; David C. Driskell Center"}, {"text": "at the University of Maryland; the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil; the Norton Museum of Art in Villa La Pietra, Italy; the Brighton Photo Biennial, United Kingdom, and others. Awards and recognition. Adama Delphine Fawundu has received numerous awards, including: She was also on the list of the following rankings:"}, {"text": "Ellie Pashley (born 10 December 1988) is an Australian athlete. She competed in the women's 10,000 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. In June 2021, Pashley was selected as part of the Australian marathon team for the Tokyo Olympics. She came twenty-third in the event. Her time of 2:33.39 was just over 6 minutes more than the eventual winner, Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya. Early years. Even when very young, Pashley knew she would be an athlete. For her first 15 years, she was quite casual about it, but when she got into her twenties she took up athletics more seriously. Pashley rose into the Australian top-8 all-time in the 10,000 m, half marathon, and marathon events. In primary school, as the races got longer, Pashley performed better, but it wasn't until high school that she did more with cross country and Little Athletics. Achievements. In 2015 Pashley prepared for a marathon under the coaching of Julian Spence. She was running per week. In 2016, at the age of 27, she ran 2:46 in her first marathon in Melbourne. A year later Pashley ran the Berlin Marathon clocking 2:35.55. In March 2018, she represented Australia at the World Half"}, {"text": "Marathon Championships and was placed 24th with a personal best of 71:43. In September of the same year, she ran a marathon at 2:31.52. Pashley then came third at Zatopek with a personal best of 32:17.81. (Zatopek is named after the Czech distance running great Emil Zatopek and was first held in 1961. It is one of the most prestigious track races on Australian soil). In 2019, she ran a 2:26.21 marathon in Nagoya, making her eighth Australia all-time and therefore qualifying for the Olympics. In May 2019 she ran 31:43.51 for the 10000 m securing a 2019 World Championships qualifier. At the world championships in Doha in October, she was placed 13th \u2013 the second-highest ever by an Australian. Her time of 31:18.89 moved her to number four in Australian history."}, {"text": "Nichola or Nicolle (fl. 1560\u20131570) was a fool or jester to Mary, Queen of Scots. Jester of Mary. Nichola was a French \"fool\" or servant entertainer of Mary, Queen of Scots. She seems to have arrived in Scotland with Mary in 1561. After Mary's abdication she remained at the Scottish court of Mary's half-brother Regent Moray. She was also known as \"La Jardini\u00e8re\", the gardener or flower-vase. One of her keepers or governors was a French courtier called Jacqueline Cristoflat. The household rolls suggest that \"Christofflette\" was previously the attendant serving the maids of honour, the \"femme de chambre des filles\". Other fools at court included Conny, Jane Colquhoun, Janet Musche, Foysir (a man), George Stevin, and James Geddie. Nothing is known of Nichola's court role or her performances, except the costumes that were given to her, recorded in the accounts of the royal wardrobe. The historian John Guy imagines that the queen \"loved to banter\" with Nichola \"to indulge her wicked sense of humour.\" A costume for a fool was delivered to \"Johnne Dusow, Frenchman\", the fool's keeper in November 1561, consisting of 10 ells of grey cloth dressed with an ell of green. Another costume provided for one"}, {"text": "of the fools in February 1563 consisted of 8.75 ells of green \"kendely\" cloth, 60 ells of red and yellow passments (or Passementerie) made of worsted wool, and an ell of linen. The red and yellow may have referenced the Stewart heraldry. A blue velvet bonnet was made for her in December 1563. As three large blue velvet Swiss bonnets were made at the same time for court masque costume, it seems likely that Nichola performed in the masque. In February 1564 the queen's tailor Jehan de Conpiegne made her a gown from yellow and violet \"treilly\" fabric, with passments. In March 1567 she was given 30 shillings worth of linen for shirts and other items. In October 1565, Nichola had a new bed hung with green plaiding. Mary gave her one of her old white gowns. In 1564, she was given a blue velvet bonnet, linen, and Jacqueline was given canvas to make her six smocks or chemises and coifs. Servais de Cond\u00e9 recorded that one of Mary's bedsheets was cut up to make handkerchiefs for her. \"Nicola the fuille\" was given 30 ells of linen for \"sarks\", shirts, and other uses in March 1567. After Mary was imprisoned"}, {"text": "at Lochleven Castle and forced to abdicate, some of her servants either joined the household of her half-brother or received maintenance from him. In January 1568, Regent Moray gave her forty shillings and in February gave her and her keeper \u00a320 and 18 shillings. In May 1569, he gave Nichola twenty shillings and black cloth for a gown. In December 1569, he paid for a costume for Nichola, including a grey gown with white, red, and yellow fabric, and grey hose. At the same time, he paid \u00a367 Scots for Nichola's and her keepers' expenses from February 1567 to 26 December 1569. Moray also bought clothes for Nageir, Mary's African servant, who was known as a \"Moor\" or \"Moir\" and possibly attended her horse with her lackeys. Nageir may have been the \"Moor\" mentioned in the expenses of the funeral of Regent Moray, who was bought clothes when he left Scotland for France in April 1570. Nichola was given two gowns with hoods in February 1570. In August 1570, Regent Lennox gave Nichola \u00a315 to travel to France. Identity. There are records of a fool called \"La Jardini\u00e8re\" and the \"fool of flowers\" serving Catherine de' Medici in France from"}, {"text": "1556 who was perhaps the same woman. Her keeper in July 1560 was Charlotte Mariel or Marielle. She was bought double-soled slippers and a gown with a tail of white miniver fur. An earlier note of payments to women in the household of Mary's mother Mary of Guise, dating from the years before she assumed the Regency of Scotland in 1554, includes money paid to a \"Jardinnier\" to go to France. In Scotland, linen was given to the governess of the fool known as \"la Jardiniere\" to make three \"\"paires de callesons\" and some \"mouchoirs\"\" in October 1561. These are thought to be kerchiefs and stockings or linen drawers for Nichola. It has been suggested there were two French court entertainers both known as \"La Jardini\u00e8re\", and that \"Jardini\u00e8re\" was a surname shared by Nichola and another fool, Catherine. Other servants called Nichola and Nicholas. A number of servants in the royal household were called Nicola or Nicolas, possibly causing confusion. One of Mary's ladies in waiting was Nichola(s) Wardlaw, a daughter of Henry Wardlaw of Torrie, Nicola Carbonier was a male tapestry worker, Nicholas Guillebault was the upholsterer or \"menusier\", Nicholas Villais was a lackey, Nicholas Dawalyeir was lackey"}, {"text": "to the French maidens, and Nicholace de Cois was a male servant in the pantry. A cook Nicolas (Boindreid), and a male royal servant \"Nycola\" are mentioned in the minutes of the Canongate Kirk Session, and Captain Belloc of the royal archers baptised his child as Nycola in the chapel of Holyroodhouse. Fiction. The details of Nichola's life have suggested the theme of a novel for young adults, \"Queen's Own Fool: A Novel of Mary Queen of Scots\" (Penguin, 2000), by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris. Context. Other fools in the record of the Scottish court include Robesoun, who worked for Regent Arran from 1546. From around 1600, Anne of Denmark was entertained by Tom Durie."}, {"text": "Lupe del Castillo was a Mexican actress who appeared during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in supporting roles, usually as a maid or an elderly woman. Her films include \"Peach Blossom\" (1945), \"Rosenda\" (1948), and \"Comisario en turno\" (1949)."}, {"text": "is a Japanese athlete. She competed in the women's 10,000 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships."}, {"text": "John Crosley (1762\u20131817) was an English astronomer and mathematician who was an assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, a computer of the \"Nautical Almanac\", an observer on maritime voyages of scientific exploration and a member and president of the Spitalfields Mathematical Society. Life. John Crosley was born in Yorkshire, but little is known of his life before his employment as an assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich to the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne. He was the Observatory's assistant in 1789\u20131792 and again in 1798. He was an observer appointed by the Board of Longitude between 1793 and 1798 to George Vancouver's expedition to the north-west coast of America, replacing William Gooch, who was murdered in Hawaii. During this voyage his ship, , was wrecked on a reef near Okinawa, and he returned to England on another sloop. His salary was \u00a3400 per annum, but he spent some years seeking compensation from the Board of Longitude for the loss of his books and instruments, ultimately receiving another \u00a3400 reward. As a Board-appointed observer he was required to use and care for the instruments with which he was issued. These included three timekeepers made by Thomas Earnshaw and one by John Arnold."}, {"text": "He recorded all his observations and the problems encountered, including giving an account of the ship's wreck. Crosley returned to the Royal Observatory for a few months in the summer of 1798. He was later appointed as observer to Matthew Flinders's circumnavigation of Australia (1801\u20131803), although ill health forced him to return in 1802, having only got as far as the Cape of Good Hope. On this voyage he made observations of position, particularly longitude, using both the astronomical lunar-distance method and timekeepers. As well as acting as assistant to the Astronomer Royal at Greenwich, Nevil Maskelyne, Crosley was appointed by him as a computer of the \"Nautical Almanac\", an important source of income from 1799 and for the rest of his life. He was a member of the Spitalfields Mathematical Society for 31 years and became its president from about 1800 until his death in 1817. He was recorded on a Society membership list as living at 54 North Street, City Road and, in a subsequent entry, as at 84 Leonard Street. An engraving of him that was included in a 1813 Mathematical Society Scrapbook records that he was then \"13 Years President of the Mathematical Society\"."}, {"text": "Durras North is a locality in the City of Shoalhaven in New South Wales, Australia. It lies between the Princes Highway and the Tasman Sea. It is 26 km northeast of Batemans Bay. At the , it had a population of 27."}, {"text": "Dieter W\u00fcest is a Swiss curler. At the international level, he is a . At the national level, he is a Swiss men's (1993) and mixed (2002) champion curler."}, {"text": "Sphenomorphinae is a large subfamily of skinks, lizards within the family Scincidae. The genera in this subfamily were previously found to belong to the \"Sphenomorphus\" group in the large subfamily Lygosominae. Genera. The subfamily Sphenomorphinae contains 591 species in 41 genera."}, {"text": "Elizabeth Cascio is an applied economist and currently a professor of economics who holds the DeWalt H. 1921 and Marie H. Ankeny Professorship in Economic Policy at Dartmouth College. Her research interests are in labor economics and public economics, and focus on the economic impact of policies affecting education in the United States. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research associate at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and Co-editor of the \"Journal of Human Resources.\" Education. Elizabeth Cascio earned a BA in Economics from Franklin & Marshall College in 1997, and her PhD in 2003 from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a professor at the University of California at Davis from 2003 through 2006, when she joined the Dartmouth College faculty. Research. Elizabeth U. Cascio is an economist who specializes in the historical analysis around social policies and education for children in the 20th century. Her research includes the socioeconomic ramifications of the civil rights movement in the 1970s, the inflow of immigrants into public schools in the 1970s, the impact of tchanging investments in education for young children in the 20th century, and the fracking boom in"}, {"text": "the 21st century. Her overall research focus is how policies benefit or harm the educational school system in the United States by analyzing them through a historical perspective. Her paper comparing targeted with universal preschool programs was named one of the most important economics studies in 2017. She has argued for replacing existing federal child care tax policies with a single refundable federal child care tax credit that is more generous to lower-income families and families with younger children. She has also proposed investments in childcare quality-rating systems and expansion of universal preschool for 4-year-olds. Publications (2005-2015). Schooling and the AFQT (2005). One of the earliest papers written by Elizabeth is a paper that explores the correlation between education and AFQT tests. The AFQT stands for the Armed Forces Qualification Test and it serves as a test to determine the placement of soldiers into specific categories during the first world war. In her paper, Elizabeth U. Cascio along with economist Ethan G. Lewis use the AFQT as a measure by gathering statistics from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to determine the idea of nurture in schools. This paper tests the development of youth based on the scores they"}, {"text": "get on the AFQT to determine whether education has a direct correlation to different factors. Highlighted in this paper is the difference between the scores of people of colour or minorities and the majority culture. The paper attempts to identify if there are underlying connections between AFQT scores versus the type of education that minorities are receiving and the way they are being nurtured by society's standards. The findings of the paper indicates the number of years in school plays an important part in keeping races from varying differently as children age. The paper concludes by saying that through the results of the AFQT and research they believe that continued schooling supports better marks and earlier childhood education. Public Preschool and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools (2006). In this paper written about the subsidization of kindergartens for public schools in American during the beginning to mid 1960s, Elizabeth U.Cascio talks about the benefits that this initiative had on at-risk populations, for example 5-year-old children with single-parents as well as the effect it had on maternal labor supply. The findings of the study indicate that single-mothers who had children who are aged 5-years-old"}, {"text": "responded strongly to this initiative and that instead of focusing on universal programs that benefit the general population, we should be focusing on state specific programs. The argument is that if we move towards universal programs it would take away from the neediest group of people. Do Investments in Universal Early Education Pay Off? Long-term Effects of Introducing Kindergartens into Public Schools (2009). In a paper written by Elizabeth U.Cascio she touches upon the topic of kindergartens in the 1960s and 70s long-term investments on public universal education. Much like in her earlier work, \"Public Preschool and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools (2006)\", Elizabeth talks about state funding of public schools and education for five-year-old children. Her findings in this paper suggest the lower dropout rates for the rate of white children but no detection of benefit for universal programs. The findings in her paper suggests that in the long-run there are no higher quality alternatives for people of different races and backgrounds, so there should be investments in other areas of education and perhaps towards specialization. This research was covered in The New York Times. Education and the age profile of"}, {"text": "literacy into adulthood (2008). In this study written by Elizabeth U. Cascio under the National Bureau of Economic Research, she talks about literacy gains and how it is strongly correlated with higher education. Elizabeth Cascio compares the rates of which people go to higher education such as post-secondary school and beyond to determine how it is correlated to literacy gains from secondary-education. In this study, Elizabeth Cascio determines through various cases to determine whether a correlation exists between the strength of post-secondary education and literacy rates among adults. For example, referenced to in the article is the United States and the strong literacy rates between the teens and twenties that helped propelled them to catch up with other high-income earning countries. Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children's BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous (2011). In this paper Elizabeth U.Cascio along with economists Patricia M. Anderson, Krisitn F. Butcher, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach research the relationship between Body Mass Index and education. The paper was written in response to the claims that children gain weight while they are in school due to unhealthy snacks and school lunches. The economists run a regression-discontinuity analysis to compare the"}, {"text": "weights of children who have spent different number of years in school to determine whether this is the case. The paper suggests that children do not gain more weight as they transition from elementary to secondary because there are certain policies and standards about food that are implemented in schools. The paper also considers that there are unobservable factors that attribute to weight and health that are otherwise unobservable within schools as well. The paper mentions genetics and the nurturing of children being a factor to weight gain and education. The paper finally concludes with the statement that there is not necessarily anything that would cause a child to gain weight during school periods. It is a situational scenario where certain schools lack in the provision of the proper food items they need to serve. The economists claim there needed to be more of a standardized policy to help ensure children are being fed nutritional food. The Impacts of Expanding Access to High-Quality Preschool Education (2013). In collaboration with economist Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Elizabeth U.Cascio writes a paper under the National Bureau of Economics about the \u201cPre-school for all\u201d initiative which would thereby increase the number of 4 year olds"}, {"text": "attending more pre-school. The increase of quality and participation in public pre-school was analyzed in the article and determined very different results based on the income status of families across the various social classes. It is beneficial for children who come from lower income earning families as the research shows that they have sustained better math skills, engaged in more physical activities, and spent more time with their families. On the contrary, the effect for higher income earning households have less of an impact. Families from better economic backgrounds typically switch from private schools to public schools, which does not necessarily benefit the child. In addition, the economists believe that the amount of money saved from this transition would go back into the child's existing funds which would save money for lower earning households, but not for high earning ones. This research was covered in The Economist. Who Needs a Fracking Education? The Educational Response to Low-Skill Biased Technological Change (2015). The article \u201cWho Needs a Fracking Education? The Educational Response to Low-Skill Biased Technological Change\u201d written by Elizabeth U. Cascio and Ayushi Narayan talks about the technological breakthrough of fracking. Fracking is a technique used by many in the"}, {"text": "oil industry. The process requires you to insert a large tube into the ground and shoot out a lot of pressure using a specific type of liquid. This brings the oil and other valuable items onto surface level. It is because of this breakthrough that there was more demand during the years of 2011-2015 for low uneducated skill workers in the oil industry. The economists imply that the education market is elastic as there was a severe drop-out rate of 1% in education during the years of 2011\u20132015. The article then continues to list the possible pros such as immediate gratification due to salary in a thriving industry, but also says that the benefits of an education in the long-run as people with education is often overlooked. The paper concludes by saying that overall the response to technological change is merely situational in most cases and are sometimes localized based on geographical location. This research was covered by Business Insider."}, {"text": "Vasuki Koushik (born 19 September 1992) is an Indian cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Karnataka in the 2018\u201319 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 24 February 2019. He made his List A debut on 8 October 2019, for Karnataka in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. Before his profession cricket debut, he was a mechanical engineer who once worked for Amazon, Koushik grew up playing cricket on the grounds of Bangalore. Until the age of 17, he was an offspinner but bowled medium pace in tennis-ball matches. He made his first-class debut on 9 December 2019, for Karnataka in the 2019\u201320 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "Stanislava \u0160kvarkov\u00e1 (born 20 April 1996) is a Slovak athlete. She competed in the women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships."}, {"text": "Fittrat is an Indian romantic drama web series produced by Ekta Kapoor for ALTBalaji. It stars Krystle D'Souza, Aditya Seal and Anushka Ranjan. It started streaming simultaneously on ALT Balaji and ZEE5 on 18 October 2019. Tarini Bisht is a gold-digger and isn't ashamed of it! She grew up wanting to live the luxe life and own everything that shines. She moves from Dehradun to Delhi, hunting for a \u2018honey with money\u2019 with her rich BFF, Amy. But fate is funny... Amy's fianc\u00e9e Veer Shergill gets obsessed with Tarini, and he decides to win her by hook or by crook. When Amy demands proof of love and friendship, all the blame falls upon Tarini. Hearts & relationships are broken, and drama ensues when she tries to reveal Veer's true intentions. Will Tarini succeed in protecting the friendship that's priceless? Or will Veer be the end of it? Join Tarini's journey as she realises the real value of the gold that lies within and rises to be her own hero. A second season of the show has been reported also with a third season. Plot. Season 1. Tarini Bisht grew up with only one goal in life, to become rich by"}, {"text": "marrying a rich man. After completing a degree in journalism, she goes to meet her childhood friend Amy who is the daughter of a land Lord to be able to meet rich heirs to marry. She mistakes Amy's fianc\u00e9 to be her brother Bunty and he becomes obsessed with her. When she rejects his approaches, he creates a rift between her and Amy by making Amy believe that she is after him. Tarini goes back to her dad's house but refusing to accept defeat, she goes back to expose Amy's dad, Veer and Veer's dad of their illegal land deals by joining an upcoming rival media house and is supported by Bunty. However, they buy the media house as well. Veer eventually falls in love with Tarini but she continues to refuse him but gives in at last. She sees the picture of her mother drawn by her father (shown in the beginning as bought by a rich lady and then found dumped at an art gallery by Tarini when she goes to collect evidence against Veer) in his house and gets to know that he bought it for his love for her. Veer decides not to marry Amy and"}, {"text": "runs away from his wedding to Tarini's house. When Amy's dad finds out about this he sends the police to arrest him for the illegal deals they made. Tarini tells him she never loved him but wanted revenge from him by ruining him but he tells her that she didn't ruin him but he ruined himself for her. She goes back to her dad's home where Amy comes to meet her and when asked by Amy if she ever loved Veer, she says that she loved only Amy who accepted her for who she was and was always a good friend to her. Sometime later Tarini is shown to have become a famous journalist and has become rich from the gold within her. Soundtrack. The soundtrack is composed by Sandmann while the lyrics are written by Akshay Shinde. Promotion. The official trailer of the web series was launched by ALTBalaji on 9 October 2019."}, {"text": "Fanny Quenot (born 2 October 1990) is a French athlete. She competed in the women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships."}, {"text": "Eni Gas & Power France (formerly Altergaz) is the first French natural gas company. It is based in Paris and was founded by Taoufik Tahar, Robert Delbos and Jean-Paul George in 2003. In 2012, Eni, the Italian Oil & Gas multinational acquired the company. History. Altergaz was initially founded in 2003 by Taoufik Tahar and two former senior executive of French energy sectors: Robert Delbos and Jean-Paul George. Taoufik Tahar was the founder and CEO of Easyloan first credit broker in France. Robert Delbos was Chief of Treasury and CFO of EDF-GDF (today EDF and Engie) and then Chairman-CEO of Petrofigaz (today Solfea bank). Jean-Paul George was the former number 2 of GDF (today Engie) as sales manager in the 90s and the founder-CEO of Cofathec group (today Engie Cofely). In 2004, the investor Georges Cohen, founder of Transiciel company joined Altergaz as business angel and became associate. In 2005, Altergaz was listed on Bourse de Paris stock exchange. In 2012, the turnover of Altergaz was around \u20ac1,6 billion. Partnership with Eni. From 2007, Altergaz created a strong industrial and financial partnership with the Italian oil and gas multinational Eni. From 2010, Eni is the first shareholder of Altergaz with"}, {"text": "more than 63% of the capital and in 2011 Eni got around 98% of shares. Altergaz became Eni Gas & Power France. The October 1st 2012, Eni acquired Altergaz in full and was renamed Eni Gas & Power France."}, {"text": "Jessica Moreira (born 16 November 2001) is a Brazilian athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships."}, {"text": "Sara Klein (born 19 May 1994) is an Australian athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships."}, {"text": "Seymour Berkson (January 30, 1905 \u2013 January 5, 1959) was an American publisher. Biography. Berkson was born to a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, the son of immigrants who fled persecution in Russia. His father worked as a tailor. Berkson graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in political science. He started his career as reporter for the \"Chicago Herald-Examiner\" and worked his way through the ranks eventually becoming general manager of the \"International News Service\" where he worked at their news bureaus in Rome and Paris. He returned to the United States and accepted a position as the publisher for the \"New York Journal-American\" in New York City. Berkson served as chairman of the newspaper committee for Brotherhood Week, the national observance sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Personal life. Berkson married twice; he had a daughter, Barbara Berkson Coady (d. 1996), with his first wife, journalist Jane Eads (1901\u20131992), whom he met at the \"Chicago Herald-Examiner\". In 1936, he married fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert (1903\u20132003); they had one son, poet Bill Berkson (1939\u20132016). He died on January 5, 1959, in New York City."}, {"text": "\"Jojo Rabbit\" is a 2019 satirical drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, who adapted the screenplay from Christine Leunens's 2008 book \"Caging Skies\". It stars Roman Griffin Davis as Johannes \"Jojo\" Betzler, a ten-year-old Hitler Youth member who finds out that his mother, Rosie (Scarlett Johansson), is hiding a Jewish girl, Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie), in their attic. He then begins to question his beliefs while dealing with the intervention of his imaginary friend, a buffoonish version of Adolf Hitler (Waititi). The film also features Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, and Alfie Allen. \"Jojo Rabbit\" premiered at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2019, where it won the People's Choice Award. The film was released theatrically by Fox Searchlight Pictures in the United States on October 18, opening in five theatres before expanding over the following weeks. It was released in New Zealand on October 24 and in most other territories in January and February 2020. Produced on a budget of $14 million, the film grossed $90.3 million worldwide during its original theatrical run, with a 2023 re-release in New Zealand bringing its total gross up to $93.6 million. The film received mixed reviews from"}, {"text": "critics. Some lauded the satire and humor, with praise also directed towards the writing and acting. Others criticised how the film handled the sensitivities of the subject matter, taking aim at the comedy, inconsistent tone, and lack of historical accuracy. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 58 out of 100 from 57 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". \"Jojo Rabbit\" garnered awards and nominations in various categories, with particular recognition for the screenplay, acting, and production elements. At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film received six nominations, including Best Picture. Waititi won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making him the first person of indigenous descent to do so. He also won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards, where the film was nominated in six categories. \"Jojo Rabbit\" earned a further seven nominations at the 25th Critics' Choice Awards, where debutant Roman Griffin Davis won Best Young Performer. The film also received two nominations at the 77th Golden Globe Awards and won Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 63rd Annual"}, {"text": "Grammy Awards. Both the American Film Institute and the National Board of Review named \"Jojo Rabbit\" one of the Top Ten Films of 2019."}, {"text": "\"Marriage Story\" is a 2019 American comedy-drama film written, directed and produced by Noah Baumbach. The film stars Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Azhy Robertson, Julie Hagerty, Merritt Wever, and Wallace Shawn and follows a married couple going through a coast-to-coast divorce. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2019, and began a limited theatrical release on November 6, 2019, followed by digital streaming on December 6. \"Marriage Story\" received critical acclaim, particularly for Baumbach's screenplay and direction, as well as its acting (particularly that of Johansson, Driver, and Dern), and musical score. It was chosen by the American Film Institute and the National Board of Review as one of the ten best films of the year. At the 77th Golden Globe Awards, the film received a leading six nominations, including Best Motion Picture \u2013 Drama, winning for Best Supporting Actress \u2013 Motion Picture. The film received eight nominations at the 25th Critics' Choice Awards, and three nominations at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards for the performances of Driver, Johansson, and Dern."}, {"text": "Shashank Attarde (born 4 November 1991) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 8 October 2019, for Mumbai in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 9 December 2019, for Mumbai in the 2019\u201320 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "The pre-Cabraline history of Brazil is the stage in Brazil's history before the arrival of Portuguese navigator Pedro \u00c1lvares Cabral in 1500, at a time when the region that is now Brazilian territory was inhabited by thousands of indigenous peoples. Traditional prehistory is generally divided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods. However, in Brazil, some authors prefer to work with the geological epochs of the current Quaternary period: Pleistocene and Holocene. In this sense, the most accepted periodization is divided into: Pleistocene (hunters and gatherers at least 12,000 years ago) and Holocene, the latter being subdivided into Early Archaic (between 12,000 and 9,000 years ago), Middle Archaic (between 9,000 and 4,500 years ago) and Recent Archaic (from 4,000 years ago until the arrival of the Europeans). It is believed that the first peoples began to inhabit the region where Brazil is now located 60,000 years ago. The expression \"prehistory of Brazil\" is also used to refer to this period, but the term has been criticized since the concept of prehistory is questioned by some scholars as being a Eurocentric worldview, in which people without writing would be people without history. In the context of Brazilian history, this nomenclature would"}, {"text": "not accept that the indigenous people had their own history. For this reason, some prefer to call this period pre-Cabraline. Study methodology. The study of Brazilian history before 1500 is mostly done through archaeology, since the peoples who occupied the territory are not known to have writing systems. Linguistic, ethnological, and historical studies have aided archaeological research as much as possible. However, few authors have attempted to reconstruct this history in a panoramic way (and attempts by archaeologists to establish an overview of pre-Cabraline history have not proved satisfactory). A further aggravating factor is that much remains to be done at various levels of research - language records and comparisons, analysis of excavated materials, the relationship between antiquity sites and others from the colonial period. The first scholar to inquire into Brazil's past was Danish naturalist Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801-1880). Lund lived much of his life in Brazil, and was responsible for studying several reminiscences of ancient plants in the caves of the Lagoa Santa region (Minas Gerais), where he settled between 1834 and 1880. In his researches, he found human bones mixed in with these prehistoric remains, one of the first findings that contradicted Creationism. He was the first"}, {"text": "to defend the antiquity of American Man based on archaeological finds, but he failed to convince the scientific community of his time. Midden. Middens, shell mounds, and other debris accumulated by human action were archeological remains responsible for stirring scientific debate in the 19th century. Ladislau Netto, director of the National Museum of Brazil - which together with the Ipiranga Museum, represented the official interest in the archeological-historical facts in the country - sent the first scientific expeditions to these regions. After years of research, these missions claimed that \"shell mounds\" would have anthropogenic formation, i.e. human origin. Hermann Von Ihering, however, the director of the Ipiranga Museum, first opposed this view, stating that the shell remains would have been formed by natural, intertropical phenomena. Between 1880 and 1900, the first excavations in the Amazon took place. Extensive discoveries of Marajoara ceramics were made in this period, and were analyzed in 1882 by Egyptologist Paul l'Epine, who believed he identified Egyptian and Asian spellings on the indigenous ceramics. \u00c9mil Goeldi also conducted important research in Brazil's northern region at that time. The Austrian J. A. Padberg-Drenkpohl, hired after World War I by the National Museum, was another important figure in"}, {"text": "the history of Brazilian archaeology, who excavated at Lagoa Santa between 1926 and 1929. His goal was to find traces that would prove Lund's classic findings. Drenpohl, however, was not successful in his enterprise, and he went on to criticize the defenders of the antiquity of humans from Lagoa Santa. In 1934, shortly after Drenkpohl's last expedition, Angione Costa published the first manual of Brazilian archaeology. After 1950, official archaeology diminished, while the number of amateurs who began to carry out research in the country increased. One of these was Guilherme Tiburtius, a German immigrant in Curitiba, who conducted one of the most important searches for Indian antiquities in Brazil, collecting artifacts for his collection (received by Joinville's Sambaqui Museum). He studied the coast of Santa Catarina and the plateau of Paran\u00e1 and was assisted in his research by the Federal University of Paran\u00e1. Harold V. Walter, the English Consul in Belo Horizonte, was responsible for research in the state of Minas Gerais, in the region of Lagoa Santa. Although he used a methodology that is not accepted nowadays, he contributed to the collection of information about the Pleistocene era. Even at this time, substantial efforts were made to preserve"}, {"text": "Brazil's historical heritage. Thanks to the efforts of several intellectuals, the Prehistory Institute of USP (currently integrated into MAE) was created, while a few years later (1961), new legislation on heritage was enacted. Accompanying this advance in the question of preservation of Brazilian memory, excavations were carried out at the mouth of the Amazon river by Clifford Evans and Betty J. Meggers between 1949 and 1950, discovering important ceramic artifacts, and in S\u00e3o Paulo and Paran\u00e1 between 1954 and 1956 by Joseph Emperaire and Annette Laming - where the first Carbon-14 datings were made. The recent history of archaeology in Brazil includes the creation of PRONAPA (National Project for Archaeological Research) with the assistance of IPHAN, which aims to conduct searches to provide a more complete picture of the Brazilian historical-cultural past. Meanwhile, institutions such as the National Museum, the Ipiranga Museum, and the Prehistory Institute conducted isolated research, and the \u00c9mil Goeldi Museum launched a project called PRONAPABA (National Project of Archaeological Research in the Amazon Basin). Several studies have been conducted since then on middens, Brazilian rock painting, and lithic industry. In 1980, the first Brazilian Archaeological Society was created. Archaeology is now taught in Brazil, although in"}, {"text": "a limited way. Pleistocene (60,000 - 12,000 BP). Territorial occupation. The occupation of American territory is a topic that has generated substantial controversy, especially as many archaeologists are still reluctant to accept that humans could have arrived in the Americas by other routes than the Bering land bridge. However, discoveries made in Brazilian archaeological sites have called into question the validity of this theory. In Piau\u00ed, for example, a fossil of the roundworm \"Ancylostoma duodenale\" was found with a date of 7,750 BP. According to some archaeologists, this Old World species could not have survived the Beringian crossing, because it would have died from the cold. Thus, they believe that the existence of the fossil indicates the migration of people from warm regions of the globe. Finds in Minas Gerais and Bahia have been dated between 25,000 and 12,000 BP At the Alice Boer archaeological site in S\u00e3o Paulo, pieces dating back to 14,200 BP have been found. In S\u00e3o Raimundo Nonato, in Piau\u00ed, archaeologists advocate an age of 50,000 years for a shelter occupied by prehistoric man. Also at this same site, archaeologists were able to find human artifacts dating back to more than 48,000 BP The discoveries in"}, {"text": "Brazil led to polemics about the traditional view of the occupation of the Americas and archeologists started to defend other theories about the great migrations, among them, that humans arrived in the Americas between 150,000 and 100,000 years ago, arriving by Malay-Polynesian (from Southeast Asia) or Australian (from the South Pacific) currents, while other authors still think of a migration current originating in Africa. The similarities between the material traces found in the Americas and those found in Oceania contribute to these theories. It can be generally admitted that Brazil was occupied 60,000 years ago, as far as Piau\u00ed is concerned. Migratory currents would have reached Minas Gerais 30,000 years ago and Rio Grande do Sul 15,000 years ago. Luzia Woman. Luzia is the name of the oldest human fossil found in the Americas. Charcoal near the fossilized remains was dated to about 11,000 years before present. Found by French archaeologist Annette Laming-Emperaire in the 1970s at the archaeological site of Lapa Vermelha, in the municipality of Lagoa Santa (Minas Gerais), the fossil of this prehistoric woman contributes to reigniting an old debate about the origins of humans in the Americas. According to paleoanthropologist Walter Neves, responsible for naming the"}, {"text": "fossil, the morphology of Luzia's skull would bring her closer to the current aborigins of Australia and natives of Africa. Neves ventured the hypothesis that the occupation of the Americas was older than previously imagined, although not going back very far in time (about 14,000 years before the present), and that it was carried out by peoples from distinct regions, such as Oceania and Africa. This thesis was not well received by some scientists. According to National Geographic, besides races not being a scientific way to classify human beings, the differentiations between human groups only emerged after 9.5 thousand years. The people of Luzia. Studies conducted in the region inhabited by Luzia and other Paleo-Indians show that they were unaware of pottery and that their lithic industry was relatively simple. Recent research, however, claims that these humans were sedentary. Findings such as numerous burials and the use of raw materials existing only at this site have reinforced these ideas. An analysis of cavities in the teeth of these Americans shows that they, although having no agriculture, drew heavily on plant resources. Holocene in Brazil (12,000 - 4,000 BP). Archaeologists call a \"phase\" a cultural complex where the elements are closely"}, {"text": "associated. By \"tradition\" archaeologists mean the standard practices and techniques of the ancients for making, for example, lithic industry and cave paintings. A subtradition is a split within the tradition, usually because there has been a differentiation of the original pattern into two or more new patterns. At the end of the Pleistocene period, the temperature varied widely in phases of glacier expansion and contraction. It is believed that temperatures were cooler in the Pleistocene than in the Holocene when they experienced a considerable increase. At the beginning of the Middle Archaic period, the sea level was 10 meters lower than it is today. Many regions of the country, such as Piau\u00ed, for example, were much wetter than they are today. Northeast and Center-South Brazil. The Brazilian Paleolithic age is usually situated between 12,000 and 4\u20132,000 years before the present when the agricultural practice emerged and spread in the region. Before that time, humans lived by hunting, fishing, and gathering, a fact proven by archeological findings and representations in pre-Cabraline paintings. At this time, archaeologists found different types of lithic industries in several regions of Brazil. In the northeast, several archeological sites indicate the development of chipped stone, containing slugs"}, {"text": "(a slug-shaped lithic artifact used to scrape wooden supports), splinters, awls, and stoves for roasting meat. Rock art was carried out at these early sites. In the northeast region, the techniques for working with lithic material became increasingly diversified and complex over time. The number of stoves, for example, increased as dating approached the year 8,000 before the present. Campfires were also found. The cave paintings of this region have been instigating experts. In the Baix\u00e3o da Perna 1 cave, for example, (in the archeological area of S\u00e3o Raimundo Nonato) cave paintings dating back 10,500 years have been found. At the site of the Boqueir\u00e3o da Pedra Furada, numerous cave paintings in red pigment were found. The authors identify the painting tradition of this area as the \"northeast tradition\". Besides the northeast tradition, subtraditions such as V\u00e1rzea Grande (southeast of Piau\u00ed) and Serid\u00f3 (Rio Grande do Norte) have been identified. The most abundant figures represent human beings, plants and animals, but purely abstract graphisms are also found. Some cave walls depict hunting scenes and ritual celebrations. According to some archaeologists, the themes of violence in ancient rock art would be linked to the technical development achieved in subsequent years, responsible"}, {"text": "for promoting more efficient hunting strategies. The northeastern tradition concluded about 5,000 years ago. In the central and northeastern region, an important cultural tradition has been identified by scholars: The \"Itaparica tradition\" (Goi\u00e1s, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, Piau\u00ed). This tradition developed lithic tools like slugs, awls, and knives, but few projectile points. The people of these regions changed their way of life about 6,500 years ago when they began to eat mollusks and fruits. In the center of the country, a tradition of rock paintings called \"Planalto\" developed. The oldest dates in the South are attributed to the \"Ibicu\u00ed tradition\" (between 13,000 and 8,500 years old), composed of simple artifacts found in the Uruguay Basin. The Uruguay phase, which succeeds the first chronologically, dates from 11,555 to 8,640 BP and is composed of scrapers, bifacial blades, and projectile points. In Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, artifacts (knives, scrapers, arrowheads) from 8,500 to 6,500 years ago have been located, established as the \"Vinitu tradition\". The more recent \"Humait\u00e1 tradition\" (between 6,500 and 2,000 years ago) extends from S\u00e3o Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul. People of this tradition produced scrapers, awls, and even zooliths (stone statues in the shape of"}, {"text": "animals). Another tradition identified in the south was called \"Umbu\"; this one would have been responsible for making stoves and projectile points. The main archaeological sites on the coast are the middens. Usually, skeletons of ancient Americans, lithic pieces, food remains, are found near them. A large part of the Brazilian middens are covered by the sea, due to the climatic changes that occurred during the late Pleistocene and Holocene. They exist almost everywhere along the Brazilian coast. At the time of their discovery, in the 19th century, they were compared to similar structures in Scandinavia. Middens are associated with the \"Itaipu tradition\". The people who inhabited the coast are usually defined as semi-nomadic fishermen. Recent Archaic from the south to the northeast regions (4,000 BP to 1,500 A.D.). The appearance of cultivated plants in Minas Gerais dates back 4,000 years. In S\u00e3o Raimundo Nonato, agriculture has likely been practiced since at least 2,090 years ago. Although Amazonian pottery is older than agriculture, the same phenomenon does not occur in the rest of the country, where the oldest pottery dates back 3,000 years (also in the area of S\u00e3o Raimundo Nonato). Brazilian archeologists consider that the appearance of pottery in"}, {"text": "these regions is linked to sedentarism and agriculture since pottery is difficult to transport and usually had the function of storing food. The \"Taquara-Itar\u00e9 tradition\" is probably the most studied pottery tradition in the country. Pre-Ceramic period (Amazon) (12,000 - 3,000 BP). The oldest records of inhabitants in the Amazon region are dated as early as 12,500 B.C. Likely, the territory had already been colonized earlier, but only further research in the Amazon will be able to confirm this hypothesis. Archeologists identified the development of stone chipping techniques, starting with percussion flaking and moving on to pressure flaking. The changes in flaking techniques are associated with different types of hunting, one targeting large animals and the other small animals. Nothing, however, is certain about the hunting style of the ancient Amazonian peoples. Scholars believe that these peoples fed on mollusks (an observation based on the discovery of sites such as midden), small animals, and fruits. Middens remain the main archaeological sites of this period in the Amazon. Amazon agriculture. New research in Rond\u00f4nia attributes greater antiquity to the practice of agriculture in the Amazon. According to archeologist Eduardo Bespalez, Amazonian agriculture can reach 8,000 years, a date close to the"}, {"text": "first records of agriculture in the world. Furthermore, the Garbin archeological site reinforces the thesis that pottery was not, in its origins, associated with agriculture. Brazilian archaeologists have found only lithic industry associated with \"terra preta\" (the main indication of the practice of agriculture in the region). The new findings may shed light on the mysteries surrounding everything from the significance of complex societies in the Amazon to the origins of the Amazon rainforest, possibly anthropogenic. According to archaeologist Marcos Pereira Magalh\u00e3es, \"The Amazonian Neotropical Culture is the result of a long-term regional historical event, derived from the Tropical Culture developed by hunter-gatherer societies socially, culturally, and economically integrated with the resources of the Neotropical rainforest, with which they interacted objectively and subjectively.\" Early ceramic period (3,000 - 1,000 B.C.). During this time, the Amazonian peoples adopted a lifestyle similar to the lifestyle adopted by many tribes in the territory today. Thus, the indigenous people would have lived in a state of relative settlement, performing horticulture. These groups developed the first elaborate pottery in the Americas, with geometric and zoomorphic themes, and paintings in white and red paint. The vessels took on oval and circular shapes. The best-known groups of"}, {"text": "ceramic styles are called \"Hachurado-Zonado\" and \"Sald\u00f3ide Barranc\u00f3ide\". The latter is related to red and white incisions and paintings, while the former is to the preference for ornate decoration. \"Sald\u00f3ide Barranc\u00f3ide\" ceramics, found in the lower and middle Orinoco, were likely created between 2,800 and 800 B.C.. The \"Hachurado-Zonado\" styles of Tutoshcainyo and Ananatuba date from around 2,000-800 B.C. and 1,500-500 B.C. respectively. Many scholars have admitted that this pottery was influenced by Andean cultural complexes, although it is now accepted that Amazonian indigenous people developed this elaborate pottery in the lower region themselves, and probably influenced the Andes at a later date. The \"Sald\u00f3ide Barranc\u00f3ide\" style is also believed to have been created in the lower Orinoco. In addition to horticulture, these societies practiced hunting and fishing. Shellfish consumption was reduced, and these peoples began to settle in the floodplains and riverbanks. Coarse pottery bowls have been identified in these territories, so that some archaeologists hypothesize the presence of cassava. Sites of these cultural complexes have been found in the Ucaiali basin, on Maraj\u00f3 Island, in the Orinoco and in the Amazon. Amazonian complex \"cacicados\" (1,000 B.C. - 1,000 A.D.). The demographic increase of Amazonian populations in late Prehistoric"}, {"text": "times, combined with other factors, gave rise to major transformations among the indigenous societies of the Amazon. According to archaeologists, the societies inhabiting regions of the Amazon basin began to organize themselves in increasingly elaborate ways between 1,000 B.C. and 1,000 A.D. Archaeologists define these societies as \"complex \"cacicados\".\" These societies became increasingly hierarchical containing nobles, \"commoners\" and captive servants, with a centralized leadership in the figure of the \"cacique\", and adopted bellicose and expansionist attitudes. The chieftain, besides dominating large territories, continuously organized his warriors to conquer new territories. The pottery of these societies was highly elaborate, demonstrating mastery of complex production techniques. There were elaborate funerary urns (associated with the cult of the dead chiefs) and trade. Archaeological evidence points to an urban-scale population density in these civilizations. It is believed that monoculture was practiced, in addition to intensive hunting and fishing, intensive root production, and food storage. According to researcher Anna Roosevelt, \"The development of intensive agriculture in prehistoric times seems to have been correlated to the rapid expansion of the populations of complex societies. Suggestively, the displacements and depopulation of the historical period caused these economies to return to patterns of less intensive root cultivation and"}, {"text": "animal capture (...).\"Chronicles from the early colonial period are employed today in the reconstruction of ancient Brazilian civilizations. Many foreign chroniclers have described indigenous elements from the period of the complex \"cacicados\". The dissolution of these social organizations is usually related to the conquest, which affected their demographic structure. The ceramics produced by these civilizations are classified into two main groups: the \"Horizonte Policr\u00f4mico\" and the \"Horizonte Inciso Ponteado\". Among the archaeological sites that presented vestiges grouped under the \"Horizonte Policr\u00f4mico\" are: The Marajoara (mouth of the Amazon) and the Guarita (Middle Amazon), among others located outside the Brazilian Amazon. Archaeological sites associated with the \"Horizonte Inciso Ponteado\" include Santar\u00e9m (Lower Amazon) and Itacoatiara (Middle Amazon). The first Horizon (\"Horizonte\") is characterized by white, black, and red paintings, geometric themes, and incisions. The second horizon is characterized by deep incisions and the dotting technique. It is believed that the \"Horizonte Inciso Ponteado\" was associated with the ancestors of the Cariban-speaking peoples, while the \"Horizonte Policr\u00f4mico\" would have been produced by the ancestors of the Tupi-speaking peoples. The large Amazonian sites of the complex \"cacicado\" epoch were probably specialized regions for burial, worship, work, and warfare. The late prehistoric occupation of"}, {"text": "the territory was sedentary. The entry of maize and other seeds into the region, as well as their popularization among Americans, dates back to the first millennium before Christ. Kuhikugu (400 - 1,500 A.D.). One of the Amazonian civilizations known to have developed large cities and towns during the pre-Cabraline period was Kuhikugu. The archaeological site, discovered by archaeologist Michael Heckenberger, is located within the Xingu National Park (Upper Xingu region) and proved to have been a large urban complex that may have housed up to 50,000 inhabitants. Probably built by the ancestors of the current Kuikuro people, the site houses complex constructions such as roads, fortifications, and trenches for protection. As the discovery is recent, studies on the ways of life of these populations are still needed, although scholars believe that these people cultivated cassava. The disappearance of this civilization, as well as other great Amazonian civilizations, is related to the entrance of European diseases into the continent, responsible for decimating the local populations at around 1,500 of the present era. The natural characteristics of the Amazon Rainforest (dense forest, etc.) would explain why the ancient Europeans did not make acquaintance with this Brazilian civilization. Mount of Teso dos"}, {"text": "Bichos (400 BC - 1,300 A.D.). Teso dos Bichos or Tesos Marajoaras, located on Maraj\u00f3 Island, is the site where one of the most elaborate civilizations of the pre-Cabraline Amazon were born, occupying 2.5 hectares. One of the distinguished features of the complex societies of Maraj\u00f3 Island is the \"tesos\", large artificial embankments built to place dwellings, probably to avoid flooding. Marajoara \"tesos\" are considered monumental structures and, for this reason, are essential for the interpretation of the Marajoara past. Anthropogenic hill formation. It was estimated that the civilization responsible for the work would have a population of 500,000 people. The inhabitants of this civilization would belong to a society of Tuxaua, lords of the mouth of the Amazon River. There would be a division of labor between men and women, a diet rich in protein (animal and vegetable), and fermented beverages (such as \"alu\u00e1\"). Formation by fluvial sedimentation of the hill. In October 2009, a group of geologists claimed that the \"tesos\" could be essentially natural structures, by processes similar to fluvial mound formation elsewhere, with evidence of human activity only in more superficial layers. Because they required significantly less human activity for their formation, complex societies would not"}, {"text": "have been necessary for the monumental accumulation of labor. This hypothesis partially invalidates interpretations about the existence of complex societies in the Amazon. Archaeologists responsible for the excavation and anthropogenic hypothesis have questioned the team's methodology, pointing to sample sizes and evidence in the study that could be interpreted as signifying human structures. Main archeological sites. Alice Boer. The Alice Boer site is located in Ipe\u00fana, a municipality near Rio Claro, in S\u00e3o Paulo. It was excavated by archaeologist Maria Beltr\u00e3o at the service of the National Museum from 1964 onwards. The first Brazilians in the region were ancient and produced artifacts such as projectile points, scrapers, and slugs. A charcoal sample from this site provided a date of 14,200 years. Abismo da Ponta de Flecha. The Ponta de Flecha site was excavated between 1981 and 1982 by C. Barreto and E. Robrahn. The findings from the site - among them arrowheads and bones - date back to both the Pleistocene and Holocene times. The animal bones found were marked by human lithic instruments. Pedra Pintada. Anna Roosevelt (great-granddaughter of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt), a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, coordinated in 1996 a team that researched"}, {"text": "the Pedra Pintada Cave in Monte Alegre, Par\u00e1, on the left bank of the Amazon River, a few kilometers from what is now Santar\u00e9m. The prehistoric inhabitants of that region supported themselves with a stable economy and produced culture and technologies. The Paleoindians lived in comfortable and protected caves, had a healthier diet, and produced pottery, cave paintings, and arrowheads. They were hunters of small animals and gatherers of fruit. At the height of their civilization, they might have reached as many as 300,000 individuals. Spearheads and pottery shards dating back 10,000 to 6,000 years were found there. The results concluded that the Paleoindians (the first inhabitants of the Americas) lived in the Amazon region from 11,200 to 10,000 years ago. This serves as evidence that human occupation in the continent took place more than 20,000 years ago. Still, Roosevelt's findings have not yet fully refuted the hypothesis of the arrival of the first inhabitants of the Americas through the Bering Strait. The migratory movement would have occurred in successive waves. The Amazonian populations, whose signs she found in the Pedra Pintada cave, probably migrated south without having had contact with American mammoth hunters. Pedra Furada. The archaeological site of"}, {"text": "Pedra Furada, located in S\u00e3o Raimundo Nonato, in the Serra da Capivara National Park, Piau\u00ed, was discovered in the 1960s. It has been studied since the 1970s by Ni\u00e8de Guidon, a French-Brazilian archaeologist. The findings (chipped stones and traces of bonfires) date back approximately 11,000 years. According to the team, it is not unlikely that the discoveries could be up to 48,000 years old. Guidon's thesis goes much further - about 100,000 years - and assumes that humans did not arrive in America from Asia by land (via the Bering Strait as is believed until today), but by sea, using boats. However, the findings of S\u00e3o Raimundo Nonato remain controversial and do not yet fully refute the Clovis Theory. The site also houses the Museum of the American Man. Illuminated explanatory panels tell the story of the presence of humans in the Americas with drawings, maps, and texts. The space also holds clay funerary urns and replicas of two human skeletons found in caves in the region. One of them, a 30-year-old Indian woman, was found practically complete and dates back to 9,700 years ago. Drawings were found as well in the Toca do Boqueir\u00e3o, also in Pedra Furada, which"}, {"text": "likely represent a scene of an attack by the felines that once inhabited the continent. The conceptions of the current Indians living in the northeast region of the country, like the Kiriri, although much modified, may still be a useful element to decipher such representations with a conjectural strategy. The drawings are described by the Kiriri, in general, as huge men, ferocious and implacable, with rude features and wide-open eyes, truly frightening. According to anthropologist Nascimento, who studied in his Master's thesis for the Federal University of Bahia the rituals and ethnic identification of the northeastern Indians based on the conceptions of a remnant group - the Kiriri of Mirandela (Bahia) in 1994. Lagoa Santa. In Brazil, besides the remains from Piau\u00ed, there is also an ancient set found in the region of Lagoa Santa (Minas Gerais), possibly the representatives of the country's ancient linguistic group Macro J\u00ea, whose closest descendants today would be the Kiriri and Botocudo Indians. In 1974, at Lapa Vermelha IV, during the excavation of Annette Laming-Emperaire's team, a human skeleton dated 11,500 years BP, the oldest in the Americas, was discovered, later nicknamed Luzia. She cast doubt on the Clovis Theory since she is a"}, {"text": "woman with characteristics very distinct from today's indigenous people (who are closer to the epigenetic Mongoloid group). Luzia was investigated by bioanthropologists and archaeologists Walter Alves Neves, Andr\u00e9 Prous, Joseph F. Powell, Erik G. Ozolins, and Max Blum. Recent pre-Cabraline period. While most research on earlier Brazil has mainly analyzed the material remains left by these peoples, recent pre-Cabraline Brazil is usually studied through the native languages. The study of native languages allows us to understand many aspects of these cultures, as well as their historical affiliations and migrations. When European chroniclers described the ancient Brazilian peoples, they mostly used linguistic names and, thanks to the missionary work of some Jesuits, today we know the ancient Brazilian languages (which gave rise to modern indigenous languages). When Europeans came to occupy the eastern coast of South America, they encountered ethnic groups linked to four main language groups: The Arawak, the Tupi-Guaran\u00ed, the J\u00ea, and the Kalinago. Tupi. One of the most relevant linguistic groups in Brazil, and one which likely spread in a large scale over Brazilian territory before 1500, is the Tupi group. The main language family within this larger group is the Tupi-Guaran\u00ed. These peoples may have first inhabited"}, {"text": "the headwaters of the Madeira, Tapaj\u00f3s and Xingu rivers. The Tupi-Guaran\u00ed expansion happened between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, shortly after this group differentiated from others in the region between the Xingu and Madeira rivers, forming new language subgroups, such as the Cocama, Om\u00e1gua, Guaiaqui, and Xirin\u00f3. The Cocama and Om\u00e1gua peoples headed to the Amazon River, while the Guaiaqui went to Paraguay and the Xirin\u00f3 to Bolivia. The Tapirap\u00e9 and Teneteara moved toward the northeast. The Pauserna, Cajabi, and Kamayur\u00e1 peoples moved to the extreme southern region of Brazil. The Wayampi-speaking peoples reached as far as the Guianas region. The last phase of dispersion of the Tupi-Guaran\u00ed peoples occurred around the year 1,000. The speakers of languages associated with the Tupi-Guaran\u00ed family were already settled in southern Brazil (Guaran\u00ed, for example), in the Amazon basin, and also on the coast of Brazil (Potiguara, Tupinamb\u00e1, Tupiniquin). Thanks to an extensive network of waterways, the peoples of this linguistic group were able to spread out and at the same time maintain contact with each other. Many archaeological artifacts from the ceramic period are affiliated with these ancient peoples of the Tupi-Guaran\u00ed linguistic matrix. The archaeological sites associated with these peoples were"}, {"text": "extensive villages, usually located on plateau or terrace regions. In these archaeological sites, averaging between 10,000 and 2,000 square meters in width, ancient pottery was abundant. The chronology of the history of the Tupi-Guaran\u00ed peoples is based on archeological theories, glottochronology, and the dating of ceramics identified. As demonstrated by the history of the Tupi-Guaran\u00ed from their languages, the expansion movement occurred between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago from the Amazon region; most of the archeological artifacts of these peoples are dated between the years 500 and the year 1,500. The time of the expansion to the coast is verified by the highest concentration of artifacts in this region between the 11th and 13th centuries. Macro-J\u00ea. The Macro-J\u00ea expansion began 3,000 years ago in the Midwest Region of Brazil. The J\u00ea group itself possibly originated in the headwaters regions of the S\u00e3o Francisco and Araguaia rivers. A large part of the J\u00ea speaking peoples moved away from the Kaingang and Xokleng to the south of the Central Brazilian region. Some groups must have separated from the latter and moved into the Amazon region at least a thousand years ago. The J\u00ea peoples preferred to settle in plateau regions (such as"}, {"text": "the original Brazilian Plateau region), evidenced by study of their languages among the languages of the Macro-J\u00ea trunk, which are Kayapo, Xerente, Timbira, among others. 16th-century Brazil. On the eve of the arrival of Europeans in America in 1500, it is estimated that the current territory of Brazil (the eastern coast of South America) was inhabited by two million indigenous people, from north to south. According to Lu\u00eds da C\u00e2mara Cascudo, the Tupi were the first \"indigenous grouping that had contact with the colonizer.\" The names of some of the main groups that inhabited Brazil on the eve of the European arrival are (among them some of non-Tupi origin): The Potiguara, Trememb\u00e9, Tabajara, Caet\u00e9, Tupiniquim, the Tupinamb\u00e1, Aimor\u00e9, Goitac\u00e1, Tamoio, Carij\u00f3 and Temimin\u00f3. The Potiguara inhabited the region between the Acara\u00fa and Para\u00edba rivers and controlled the river navigation. During the conquest, they were allied with the French, and some accounts speak of marriages between Potiguara and French, involving anti-Portuguese war agreements. The Tabajara inhabited the southern bank of the Para\u00edba River, in what is now the coastal region of Pernambuco. They were important allies of the Portuguese during the conquest. The Caet\u00e9s inhabited the region of Pernambuco from Olinda,"}, {"text": "\"the Marim of the Caet\u00e9s\", to where the state of Alagoas is today, dismembered from Pernambuco. The Trememb\u00e9 inhabited the western bank of the Acara\u00fa river. The Tamoio inhabited the Guanabara Bay; their leaders were also allied with the French in the fight against the Portuguese. The Carij\u00f3s inhabited the southern coast of the country. The Tupiniquim inhabited the present-day region of the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, and the Tupinamb\u00e1 the southeast region of Brazil. The current knowledge of ancient Tupi is mainly based on the language of the Tupinamb\u00e1. The Tupi peoples lived in villages of 600 to 700 inhabitants. Some villages were fortified because of inter-tribal wars. No authority appeared with absolute or considerably strong power over the other members of the society, although there were \"hierarchies\" according to gender, warrior merit and shamanic powers. \"Paj\u00e9s\" (\"payes\" in ancient Tupi, intermediaries between the religious world and the world of men) and \"caciques\" (\"morubixaba\" in ancient Tupi for \"warrior chiefs\") generally occupied the role of tribal authorities. There was belief in good and bad spirits (Tup\u00e3, Anhang, among others), who influenced events in the cosmos. Each man carried a \"maraca\", in which they believed a spirit protector of each"}, {"text": "individual dwelled. It is believed that only the sons of the most important men of the tribe were buried in the funerary urns. The religious events had a wide scope, and brought together different ethnic groups. The ancient Indians were responsible for numerous artistic manifestations, such as pottery pieces, dances, songs/poetry and, the one that impressed Westerners the most, the sophisticated and rich featherwork. Tupi literature appears with the arrival of European writing, when missionaries started writing in Tupi to convert the natives, and chronicles transcribed indigenous songs. Other indigenous groups. Other groups, with debated theories on their origins and their languages that have inhabited Brazil since pre-Cabraline times are: Pre-Cabraline Brazil in Europe. On the European side, the discovery of Brazil was preceded by several treaties between Portugal and Spain, establishing limits and dividing the world already discovered from the world yet to be discovered. Of these agreements signed at a distance from the assigned land, the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) is the most important, for defining the portions of the globe that would belong to Portugal during the period in which Brazil was a Portuguese colony. Its clauses established that the lands east of an imaginary median that"}, {"text": "would pass 370 maritime leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands would belong to the kingdom of Portugal, while the lands to the west would be owned by the kings of Castile (now Spain). In the current Brazilian territory, the line crossed from north to south, from the current city of Bel\u00e9m to Laguna."}, {"text": "AAindex is a database of amino acid indices, amino acid mutation matrices, and pair-wise contact potentials. The data represent various physicochemical and biochemical properties of amino acids and pairs of amino acids."}, {"text": "Malhmoodite is a phosphate mineral first discovered at a mine called Union Carbide in Wilson Springs, Arkansas, United States. This mine is 10 km west of Magnet Cove, an alkaline igneous complex, and Union Carbide is in a contact region of alkalic igneous rocks and surrounding sedimentary rocks. The mineral has been approved by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, IMA, to be named for the late Bertha K. Malhmood, the Administrative Assistant of the Branch of Analytical Laboratories, U.S. Geological Survey. Occurrence. Malhmoodite occurs perched on kolbeckite plates and seems to be the last deposited in the cavities it occurs. The mineral is very rare, with the only common place to find it in Wilson Springs. However, a few other specimens have been found in Belgium and England. Physical properties. Malhmoodite is a creamy-white mineral with a silky luster. It exhibits a 3 on the Mohs hardness scale. The spherules of Malhmoodite are made up of thin, flat, radiating, optically homogeneous crystals and seem to form in a parallel extinction and positive elongation. The cores of the spherules appear to be loose material, making up about one-third to one-half of the radius of the spherule. However, the"}, {"text": "core seems to show higher amounts of Si than the rest of the spherule by using X-ray spectra. The fibers of the mineral are soft and the density could not be directly measured. It was instead calculated using the unit-cell content of four formula units and determined to be 2.877 g/cm3. In the crystal structure work of Malhmoodite, it was found that there was a common [Zr(PO4)2]2- layer. It is considered a pseudohexagonal with orthorhombic dimensions. Optical properties. Malhmoodite is biaxial negative. The refractive indices are: \u03b1 = 1.640, \u03b2 = 1.652, and \u03b3 = 1.652 (Na). Dispersion is relatively weak. Chemical properties. Malhmoodite was examined using energy-dispersive X-ray spectra from a scanning electron microscope to show that the mineral contained major amounts of Zr and P, a moderate amount of Fe, but also some minute amounts of Ca, Si, and Ti. However, because of malhmoodite's small size and rarity, it could not be determined chemically by macroscopic tools. X-ray powder data brought the most information about the formulation and then was combined with the elemental information from the scanning electron microscope. The mineral has been attempted to be synthesized in a lab multiple times, but there has been no"}, {"text": "success. The average composition from the examined malhmoodite grains are listed in the table below. It was collected from 25 analyses. The H2O was by difference and likely reduced by the vacuum when examining the samples. The numbers in the parentheses after the weight percent is the standard deviation. X-ray crystallography. A single bundle of fibers was examined with a Gandolfi camera with CrK\u03b1 radiation to detect reflections. Malhmoodite is in the monoclinic crystal system. The result was recorded as d = 1.52 \u00c5. When compared with everything in the known database, there was no match. However, there was a resemblance to a number of other compounds with the type of formula of MZr(PO4)\u20224H2O where M was equal to Mn, Ni, Co, Cu, and Zn. However, in that grouping before examining Malhmoodite, there was never Fe in the M spot."}, {"text": "DB v The Minister for Health [2003 3 IR 12], is an Irish Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court highlighted that the literal approach (wording is interpreted using the \"natural\" and \"ordinary\" meaning of language) should always be used first when it comes to interpreting statutes. The Court also highlighted in this case that the only time the purposive approach (where intention of the lawmakers takes priority) should be used is if the literal approach leads to ambiguity or lack of clarity. Background. Facts of the case. The claimants case fell to be adjudicated by the statutory Tribunal which was created by the Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal Act 1997. This Act was enacted to deal with the deficiencies of a previous non-statutory scheme. Both schemes were set up in order to compensate those who had contracted Hepatitis C through the use of certain blood products. The original non-statutory scheme did not contain provision for appeal or allow for aggravated damages and therefore any claim pending was to be heard by the newly formed statutory Tribunal created by the 1997 Act in accordance with its provisions. An award was made in favour of the DB (the respondent in the"}, {"text": "appeal) on 4 November 1997, which he accepted on 24 November 1997. Section 5(9)(a) 1997 Act provides that \"where the Tribunal makes an award to a claimant, the claimant shall have a period of one month ... from the date of receiving notice of the making of the award during which the claimant may decide in writing either to accept or reject the award or to appeal the award.\" Section 5(15) provided that a claimant could appeal \"any decision\" made by the Tribunal to the High Court. However, by accepting the award, the claimant waived any rights he might have had arising out of his claim. On 22 April 1999, DB appealed against his award. In response, the Minister for Health made a preliminary application arguing two points. Firstly, the High Court would have no jurisdiction to hear the case as the claimant had accepted his award in writing and secondly, even where High Court jurisdiction could be established, the appeal had been brought outside of the one month time limit within Section 5(9)(a) 1997 Act. History in lower courts. O'Neill J of the High Court held that the provisions contained within Section 5(9) 1997 Act regarding acceptance of an"}, {"text": "award did not exclude bringing an appeal to the High Court. In addition, it was held that although the time limit of one month had expired, the High Court could use its discretion under Order 122(7) of the Rules of the Superior Courts to extend such limit at it saw fit. O'Neill J also held in his judgement that the Tribunal did not have \"locus standi\" to appear before the court. Both the Tribunal and the Minister for Health appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court identified conditions under which appeals could be made to it in relation to section 5(9) of the 1997 act:(i) Is a claimant appealing the award by the Tribunal \"barred from doing so after the time in section 5(9)(a) of the Act of 1997 has passed?\" (ii) If not, \"is a claimant who has accepted an award of the Tribunal barred from also appealing the award?\" (iii) \"Does the Tribunal have a \"locus standi\" to appear in an application to the High Court or on an appeal?\" Holding of the Supreme Court. Denham J., McGuinness J. and Geoghegan J. provided written judgments. Murray J. and Hardiman J. concurred. The first question. The court provided"}, {"text": "that the core of the case was to construe the words of section 5(9)(a) 1997 Act and thus apply it to the construction of the respondent's claim. It also provided that the case turned on the interpretation of this section. The court noted that \"[s]tatutes should be construed according to the intention expressed in the legislation. The words used in the statute best declare the intent of the Act. Where the language of the statute is clear we must give effect to it, applying the basic meaning of the words.\" Denham J went on to provide that the words in Section 5(9)(a) are \"plain, they are precise and unambiguous\". Owing to this, the judge provided that they should be given their natural and ordinary meaning in order to declare the best intention of the legislature. Therefore, a literal approach should be taken and thus the section should be considered word by word as it applied to the claimant. After such analysis the court concluded that the answer to the first question should be in the affirmative - the claimant was barred from appealing after the expiration of the time limit contained within the section. The \"plain language of the statute\""}, {"text": "made the intentions of the Oireachtas clear. The second question. Using the literal approach, the answer to the second question was also in the affirmative. Denham J provided that there are three choices outlined in the provision: accept, reject or appeal. These choices have to be made within the time frame contained within the provision. A claimant who has accepted an award of the Tribunal is, therefore, barred from appealing the award. Therefore the claimant is barred from appealing the award as set out within the provisions of section 5(9)(a). The third question. In coming to a conclusion regarding the third question of \"locus standi\" Denham J referenced Order 105(A), r 3(4) of the Rules of the Superior Courts which requires that the Tribunal be served with a copy of the appeal. The judge was satisfied that the service of the appeal \"served to make the Tribunal a party\". In this case the Tribunal was served with the pleadings. Therefore, the Tribunal had \"locus standi\". In addition, the court highlighted the independent nature of Tribunals as distinct from the Minister. To ensure that its procedure was \"correctly applied and implemented\", the Tribunal should be heard within the appeal process. Therefore,"}, {"text": "the court answered all three questions in the affirmative and allowed the appeal. External links. \"DB v The Minister for Health\""}, {"text": "Vayu Haralu (born 26 June 1979) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 8 October 2019, for Nagaland in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy."}, {"text": "In American television in 2021, notable events include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes. Television shows. Shows returning in 2021. The following shows returned with new episodes after being canceled or having ended their run previously: Entering syndication in 2021. A list of programs (current or canceled) that have accumulated enough episodes (between 65 and 100) or seasons (three or more) to be eligible for off-network syndication and/or basic cable runs. \"This section outlines affiliation changes involving English and Spanish networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, The CW, Univision, etc.), and format conversions involving independent stations. Digital subchannels are mentioned if the prior or new affiliation involves a major English and Spanish broadcast network or a locally programmed independent entertainment format.\""}, {"text": "Blue Byrd is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd. He is joined by his brother, Joe Byrd, on bass and Wayne Phillips on drums for this recording. Critical reception. Scott Yanow of AllMusic writes that \"This delightful LP is one of Charlie Byrd's finest albums for Concord.\" An article about jazz guitar from \"All About Jazz\" remarks, \"A great Charlie Byrd album is Blue Byrd (Concord Jazz, 1978).\" Production. All track information and credits were taken from the CD liner notes."}, {"text": "This article traces the history of cuisine of Korea. Three Kingdoms period (1st century B.C.\u20137th century A.D.). The three major kingdoms, including Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, further diversified Korean food by spreading new ingredients and recipes to each other through intercultural exchanges. Because each kingdom had its own geographical location, each kingdom had its own crops to grow and eat. However, they were able to share crops with one another thanks to their trade network. Goryeo (918\u20131392). It was during the Goryeo Dynasty that the concept of Korean barbecue grilling meat at the table emerged. Bulgogi was also popular during this period. Joseon (1392\u20131897). During the Joseon Dynasty, Confucianism had a strong influence in all aspects of life, and food was no exception. Confucian culture still influences Korean cuisine today. The court food of the Joseon Dynasty was prepared by selected chefs with local specialties and fresh seasonal foods from all over the country. Court food has been handed down not only as a record of court feasts, but also as an oral tradition of court chefs and royal descendants from generation to generation. Records on court food in the Joseon Dynasty can be found in the \"Wonhaeng Eulmyo Jeongri"}, {"text": "Uigwe\" written in 1795. Meals were typically held five times a day in the royal family. Porridge made with rice in the early morning, a royal breakfast around 10 a.m., a light meal in the afternoon, a royal dinner around 5 p.m., and a light meal at night were served. The royal table, called surasang, was served with several dishes, including rice and soup, as well as stews, hot pots, kimchi, and soy sauce."}, {"text": "August R\u00e4tzer or Raetzer (1845\u20131907) was a Swiss entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was a Parson in Solothurn. He wrote R\u00e4tzer, 1890 Lepidopterologische Nachlese \"Mitt. Schweiz. ent. Ges.\" 8 : 220\u2013229 in which he first described \"Erebia christi\"."}, {"text": "Sergio Alfredo Gualberti Calandrina (born 8 November 1945) is an Italian-born prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, since 2013. He has worked in Bolivia since 1979. Biography. Sergio Alfredo Gualberti Calandrina was born in Clusone, Province of Bergamo, on 8 November 1945. He entered the Diocesan Seminary of Bergamo in 1956 and was ordained a priest on 26 June 1971. From 1971 to 1979 he served as chaplain to Italian migrants in Neuch\u00e2tel, Switzerland. He began his work in Bolivia in November 1979 as vicar and then parish priest of \"El Salvador\" parish in La Paz from 1981 to 1987. In 1985 he was appointed Councilor of the National Lay Council. In 1987 he became National Councilor of the Basic Ecclesial Communities while working as well at the \"Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de Copacabana\" parish in La Paz. In April 1990, the Bolivian Episcopal Conference (BEC) appointed him Secretary for Pastoral Care. On 16 March 1996, he was elected Deputy General Secretary of the BEC. He was President of the Commission of Missions of the BEC and then first Councilor of its Evangelization Division. On 6 May 1999, Pope Benedict XVI"}, {"text": "named him Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. He received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval on 22 July. Pope Benedict named him Archbishop Coadjutor on 28 September 2011 and he succeeded as Archbishop when Pope Benedict accepted Sandoval's resignation on 25 May 2013. 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": "Gopalpurgram railway station is a railway station in Ahmadpur\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated at Shekhampur, Gopalpurgram, Labhpur of Birbhum 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 Gopalpurgram railway station was reopened for the public on 24 May 2018."}, {"text": "Daniel C. Oakes High School is a public school located in Castle Rock, Colorado. The school is a part of Douglas County School District RE-1. It has 161 students and has courses from grades 9\u201312. The school was founded in the year 1986. Brain Singleton is the principal of the school."}, {"text": "The Professional Women's Hockey Players Association (PWHPA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for the promotion of professional women's ice hockey. It was founded in May 2019 following the dissolution of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. PWHPA members expressed dissatisfaction with the operations of the existing professional National Women's Hockey League (renamed the Premier Hockey Federation in 2021) and vowed to boycott existing women's leagues and to work towards the establishment of a unified, financially sustainable professional league. From 2019 to 2023, the PWHPA organized a series of exhibition seasons, known as the Dream Gap tours, to generate support towards its goal. After partnering with Mark Walter and Billie Jean King in 2022, the PWHPA organized a formal players union in 2023 and negotiated a collective bargaining agreement. Mark Walter Group and BJK Enterprises then purchased the Premier Hockey Federation and wound down its operations before announcing the launch of the new Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). The PWHL began play in 2024 with six teams in Canada and the United States, marking a major victory for the PWHPA. History. Establishment. Beginning in the late 1990s, several high-level amateur and semi-professional women's ice hockey leagues appeared in Canada and"}, {"text": "the United States. The National Women's Hockey League was founded in 1999, mainly comprising teams in Eastern Canada in Ontario and Quebec, before folding in 2007. A western counterpart, the Western Women's Hockey League (WWHL) launched in 2004 and lasted until 2011. The Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) was founded to replace the NWHL in 2007, and it strove to become a professional league while placing a greater emphasis on player involvement. However, the league could typically pay only for travel, ice time, uniforms, and some equipment, and did not pay players a salary. From 2011 to 2015, the CWHL was the only organized top-level women's hockey league in North America. In 2015, a second National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) was launched in the United States, and was the first women's hockey league to pay its players. In 2017, the CWHL followed suit and began paying its players a stipend. Following the 2018\u201319 season, the CWHL abruptly ceased operations, citing the fragmentation of corporate sponsors between the CWHL and NWHL, a lack of viewership, and reduced revenue from a partnership in China as eroding the league's financial stability. This left the NWHL\u2014which had earlier in 2019 approached the CWHL to"}, {"text": "propose a merger\u2014as the only top-level option for women's players. On May 2, 2019, over 200 players from both the CWHL and NWHL released a joint statement, underlined by the hashtag #ForTheGame, announcing their intent to boycott any North American professional league for the 2019\u201320 season, citing their dissatisfaction in the operations of both leagues in that neither provided health insurance or a livable salary. They stated their intent to work towards the establishment of a unified, financially sustainable professional league. On May 20, the players formed a non-profit called the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association (PWHPA) to advance their mission. Initially, PWHPA members hoped that the boycott would last for only one year. Boycott and Dream Gap tour. Relations with the NWHL/PHF. The NWHL responded to the boycott announcement by stating that they were pursuing increased sponsorships with a view to increasing player salaries\u2014which had reportedly decreased to as low as $2,000 in some cases\u2014and an offer to give players a 50 percent split of revenue on league sponsorship and media deals. However, with a large number of North American players boycotting the NWHL, more than half of the signed players on opening rosters for the 2019\u201320 NWHL season"}, {"text": "were new to the league. Over the next four years, the relationship between the PWHPA and the NWHL was strained. While a significant number of players defected from the NWHL in 2019 to help form the PWHPA, dozens would return to the league in the following years, citing improving conditions\u2014the league markedly increased its salary cap after 2019\u2014and a desire to play in a league. Notably, in 2023 Noora R\u00e4ty resigned from the PWHPA board to sign a six-figure contract with the Metropolitan Riveters of the then-rebranded Premier Hockey Federation (PHF). However, the PWHPA consistently criticized the PHF and its business model, and rejected overtures to merge. PWHPA players raised concerns over a perceived lack of professionalism and sub-standard conditions within the NWHL. American Olympian Hilary Knight stated that the NWHL was \"a glorified beer league\" offering the \"illusion of professionalism\", while retired Canadian legend Hayley Wickenheiser called it a \"so-called pro league\". PWHPA players stated that they disagreed with the NWHL's approach to growing women's hockey, calling for a less incremental approach. NWHL founder and commissioner Dani Rylan was sometimes cited as a point of contention; Rylan ultimately resigned in 2020. Another significant issue was the role of the"}, {"text": "National Hockey League (NHL). While the PWHPA hoped to receive support from the NHL in establishing a new professional league, a number of NHL teams had previously established ties with PHF teams, and the NHL stated that it would not put its support fully behind one effort or the other, encouraging the sides to merge. PWHPA partnerships. After its formation, the PWHPA focused its efforts on courting corporate and media sponsorships, while also managing to form a number of partnerships directly with NHL teams. The PWHPA launched a \"Dream Gap\" tour, meant to highlight the disparity in support between men's and women's hockey and to increase support for the latter. As the PWHPA boycott stretched beyond a single season, the Dream Gap tour became an annual \"season\" of exhibition tournaments. The final Dream Gap season saw four teams competing for the Secret Cup, with Team Harvey's prevailing over Team Scotiabank in the final. The PWHPA formed an early advisory partnership with American tennis legend Billie Jean King, an early advocate for women's equality in sports and the founder of the Women's Tennis Association. In December 2019, the PWHPA partnered with the ECHL and chose four members to participate in the"}, {"text": "2020 ECHL All-Star Game, with Dani Cameranesi, Kali Flanagan, Gigi Marvin, and Annie Pankowski each assigned to one of the four teams. The 2020 NHL All-Star Game also expanded its inclusion of female skaters from previous seasons to a full three-on-three exhibition game between teams composed of American and Canadian women's players. Eighteen of the 20 players were active PWHPA members and the event was supported by the PWHPA, but it was not directly in partnership with the association. In March 2020, the PWHPA partnered with the Arizona Coyotes for their sixth Dream Gap tour stop in Tempe, Arizona. The New York Rangers became the first NHL team to host a PWHPA game on February 28, 2021, at Madison Square Garden. The PWHPA announced it would also be partnering with the Toronto Maple Leafs with the team hosting a game and providing marketing assistance and sponsorship consultation services. In 2022, the PWHPA entered a formal partnership with Mark Walter, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Billie Jean King with the intent to launch their new professional league. Launch of the PWHL. In February 2023, the PWHPA organized a formal labour union\u2014the Professional Women's Hockey League Players Association (PWHLPA)\u2014to negotiate"}, {"text": "a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for the new league. The eight-year agreement was finalized in June and ratified by July 3, making it effective from August 1, 2023, to July 31, 2031. The CBA establishes an average salary target of $55,000 for teams in the new league, with each team required to sign at least six players to a minimum salary of $80,000 and no more than nine players to a league minimum $35,000, with the minimum and average salaries slated to increase 3% per year of the agreement. The agreement, which included health and other employment benefits, marked a major victory for the PWHPA. On August 29, 2023, the union hired Brian Burke to serve as its executive director. Its executive committee comprises Brianne Jenner, Sarah Nurse, Hilary Knight, Liz Knox, and Kendall Coyne Schofield. During the ratification vote for the new CBA, it was announced on June 30, 2023, that Mark Walter Group and BJK Enterprises had purchased the PHF, opening the way for the establishment of a new, unified league. The PHF was ultimately wound down and in late August, the partners announced the foundation of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL), with the intent of beginning"}, {"text": "play in January 2024. Six teams\u2014three each based in Canada and the United States\u2014were established, a PWHL draft was held in September 2023, and training and evaluation camps were held in November and December. League play began on January 1, 2024. Leadership. Ballard Spahr, LLP provided pro bono support to help create the PWHPA. Nine players made up the founding board: Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson, Alyssa Gagliardi, Brianne Jenner, Hilary Knight, Liz Knox, Noora R\u00e4ty, Kimberly Sass, Kendall Coyne-Schofield, and Shannon Szabados. On September 2, 2020, Knox resigned from the board to allow Sarah Nurse, one of only a few black players in the PWHPA, to take her place. Former CWHL interim commissioner Jayna Hefford was hired as the PWHPA operations consultant in August 2019. In May 2023, R\u00e4ty resigned from the board to sign a PHF contract. By then, the PWHPA board had eight members, seven of whom were founders: Lamoureux-Davidson, Gagliardi, Jenner, Knight, Knox, Nurse, Sass, and Coyne-Schofield. Support from the NHL was credited with helping to expedite the launch of the PWHL. PWHPA seasons. As the PWHPA worked towards its goal of establishing a new professional league, it organized Dream Gap tour \"seasons\" featuring exhibition matches between select PWHPA"}, {"text": "players competing for sponsorship and prize money. Seasons also frequently featured exhibition matches between PWHPA members and other teams, including games against NHL alumni. In 2019, the PWHPA set up regional training hubs in Montreal, Mississauga, Markham, Calgary, Boston, Buffalo, Minnesota, and the Northeast United States, where players could practice multiple times a week. The PWHPA's first season, which lasted from September 2019 to March 2020, comprised a tour of showcase exhibition games; at each tour stop, teams were formed and named after team captains\u2014e.g. the first showcase in Toronto featured teams captained by Rebecca Johnston, Brianne Jenner, Liz Knox, and Marie-Philip Poulin. The season was meant to include a stop in Japan with PWHPA players facing the Japanese national team; however, the tour was cancelled due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. Subsequent seasons featured more stable rosters based out of five training hubs and on teams named after sponsors. The second season was buoyed by a $1 million sponsorship agreement with Secret. It was played in regional hubs due to the ongoing pandemic, with three Canadian-based teams playing games in Calgary and two American-based teams making stops in three US cities. The third season occurred at the same"}, {"text": "time as national team players were centralized ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, meaning that many of the top PWHPA players were not available on tour; however, a team of PHWPA all-stars played a series of games against national teams, including Team Canada, Team USA, and Team Japan. The PWHPA also hosted a post-Olympics \"Rivalry Rematch\" between the Canadian and American teams in Pittsburgh. For what proved to be the final season, four teams competed and for the first time accumulated points throughout the season in a bid for the championship, the Secret Cup. Teams were no longer based in regional hubs, with rosters constructed based on a new player-ranking system."}, {"text": "The following is a list of reactions to the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria. Reactions in Turkey. A day prior to the operation, all Turkish opposition parties except the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) voted to extend the military's mandate on Syria. Opposition party leaders Meral Ak\u015fener (Good Party), Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu (Republican People's Party), and Temel Karamollao\u011flu (Felicity Party), as well as the junior government partner, Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bah\u00e7eli, expressed their support for the military operation. Ak\u015fener, K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, and Bah\u00e7eli were directly informed of the operation by Turkish President Recep Erdo\u011fan immediately after its launch. On 14 October, Turkish Minister of National Defence Hulusi Akar visited the opposition parties and informed them about the ongoing operation. After the start of the operation, the opposition CHP began to criticize its implementation. A CHP spokesman lambasted Erdogan for \"driving [Turkey] to the Middle East swamp\" while CHP leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu criticized the government for uniting the world against it with an \"adventurous foreign policy.\" Meanwhile, on 15 October Good Party leader Meral Ak\u015fener urged the government to make peace with Syria through dialogue with Bashar al-Assad. The HDP condemned the operation from the start, calling it an \"extremely dangerous"}, {"text": "and wrong step\" and stating that \"Turkey is being dragged into a dangerous and deep trap\". Erdo\u011fan rejected international criticism and said referring to the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: \"Let me start with Saudi Arabia. Look in the mirror first. ... Did tens of thousands of people not die in Yemen?\" He also called Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi a \"democracy killer\" after the Egyptian Foreign Ministry called the offensive an \"invasion.\" International reactions. Financial markets. The Turkish lira weakened to 5.88 against dollar on 10 October as investors fretted about negative international reaction to the offensive. Turkey's BIST100 Index was down 0.64% On 14 October, BIST100 Index was down by 5 percent. Although on 15 October, Turkish lira raised against dollar and BIST100 gained 1.71% after Trump administration announced sanctions on Turkey. Analysts describe the sanctions as \"relatively light\" and \"window dressing\". The Turkish lira firmed to 5.75 against the dollar on 18 October after the ceasefire deal with the US where as BIST100 Index was up 3.82%. On the other hand, Brent crude was up 22 cents at $58.44 a barrel, and U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $52.59, down 4 cents."}, {"text": "Kosnarite is an alkali zirconium phosphate mineral (KZr2(PO4)3) named after an expert of pegmatites Richard A. Kosnar. Kosnarite contains potassium, oxygen, phosphorus, and zirconium with sodium, rubidium, hafnium, manganese and fluorine (Na, Rb, Hf, Mn, and F) being common impurities found in kosnarite. It was discovered in nature for the first time in 1991 by Vandall T. King. Samples that were found in granitic pegmatites from the Mount Mica Quarry, Paris, Oxford County, Maine, US were sent to Eugene E. Foord for study. This became the first recorded case of naturally occurring kosnarite. Occurrence. The first naturally occurring kosnarite was discovered in northern Maine in the United States. Another deposit was later found in Black Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. Both of these deposits were found in zoned granitic pegmatites associated with several minerals such as quartz, lepidolite, and beryl. Another deposit was found in Wycheproof, Northern Victoria, Australia, and this sample of kosnarite was also found in granitic pegmatite. Pegmatite is the term for a form of igneous rock with relatively large interlocking crystals, and there are three popular theories on how pegmatites named metamorphic, magmatic, and metasomatic. The pegmatites that the kosnarite are found in are believed to be"}, {"text": "formed by a mixture of magmatic and metamorphic as the kosnarite forms in the later stages of paragenesis by the alterations of hydrothermal fluids. Analysis. Due to the rarity of kosnarite, forms of analysis that involve the powdering of the sample such as X-ray diffraction (XRD) can not be used, so other methods have to be used. To find the data that would have been provided by the XRD, a Gandolfi camera with an 114.6mm diameter was used to find the d-spacing and intensity. Kosnarite's density was found using the sink-float method while using an acetone mixture and methylene iodide. In order to find the chemical composition of kosnarite without damaging any sample, an ARL-SEMQ electron microprobe using an Opus microprobe automation system was used. To help find the chemical composition, CITZAF correction procedures were added to the study. Additionally, emission spectrographic analysis was completed by using a Jarrel-Ash 3.2-m spectrograph using a laser energy source. Properties. The results of the testing found that kosnarite had large amounts of zirconium, phosphorus, and potassium. In the samples, there were also traces of calcium, zinc, and manganese, but these elements make up less than one percent, so they were classified as impurities."}, {"text": "Physically, kosnarite from the pegmatites found in Maine occurred as rhombohedral crystals with a hexagonal unit cell and were pseudocubic with a maximum size of around 0.9 mm. This is important as zirconium is in the form of a six coordinated octahedron and potassium is structured in a shape called a trigonal antiprism that is also six coordinated. Kosnarite's structure was then determined by using [100] Patterson projection, and interatomic vector projection was also used to help determine the crystal structure. Special positions in the mineral were then found for potassium, zirconium, and phosphate while the two oxygen atoms had general positions. Multiple refinement cycles using a unit weighing system, and least-squares refinements were used to minimize the deviation of the shifting of the atoms. Later tests showed that zirconium polyhedra groups were joined by groups of phosphate these are both connected to each other by oxygen atoms. However, the oxygens are always bridges between the zirconium and phosphate and one oxygen is never shared between two the same groups and half of the oxygens are also shared with K groups. The pattern of two zirconium polyhedron, one potassium polyhedron, two zirconium polyhedron, and the oxygen and phosphate groups filling"}, {"text": "in the gaps creates kosnarite's unique crystal structure. Depending on the impurities present in the sample, the color of kosnarite can range from pale blue to blue-green depending on the amount of iron, manganese, or other impurities, and kosnarite can sometimes appear to be nearly colorless. Other physical properties of kosnarite include its vitreous lust, non-fluorescence, a hardness of 4.5 on the mohs scale of mineral hardness, conchoidal fracturing, and perfect cleavage in the {102} direction. Structurally, kosnarite is part of the hexagonal crystal family meaning that the crystals have three or six-fold symmetry and has a space group of \"R\"c. The unit cell of kosnarite was calculated to be a = 8.687 \u00c5, c = 23.877 \u00c5; V = 1,560.45 \u00c53, and no twinning growth has been observed. It was discovered that kosnarite is uniaxial (+) with its axes being Nw = 1.656(2), Nc = 1.682(2), and being nonpleochronic. Due to the small number of available samples, some tests have not been carried out, such as infrared spectra. Related minerals. Kosnarite is part of the alkali zirconium phosphates in which there are only two other known members of this group: gainesite, and a Cs analogue of gainesite."}, {"text": "Alloriite is a silicate mineral that belongs to the cancrinite subgroup of the feldspathoid group. It is currently only found in Italy. It was discovered by and named for the Italian mineralogist Roberto Allori, an avid mineral collector who has also done research on piergorite and willhendersonite. The mineral appears as a crystal that is approximately 1.5 by 2 mm in length. The crystal grows as both tabular and prismatic crystals, and commonly occurs with sanidine, biotite, andradite, and apatite. It was approved of being a mineral in 2006 by the International Mineralogical Association. Afghanite is a cancrinite group mineral that is very similar to alloriite in both its chemical composition and its physical properties. Locations. Alloriite is a relatively rare mineral that only appears in Italy. Originally it was found in Mt. Cavalluccio, Italy. It was recorded with its volcanic ejecta, which is the result of an explosive volcanic eruption. It was found on the south eastern slope, in the northern part of the caldera, the result of a large volcanic explosion, which in turn created a crater. The original sample was found within a volcanic bomb that was roughly 4.5 cm in diameter, with the crystals forming within"}, {"text": "the linings of miarolitic cavities. Composition. Alloriite is mainly composed of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and aluminum oxide (Al2O3), its full chemical formula is Na5K1.5(Al6Si6O24)(SO4)(OH)0.5 * H2O. This means that alloriite needs to be formed with the addition of water, while still in a volcanic environment. This explains why this mineral is formed only within Mt. Cavalluccio, which is known to have explosive eruptions due to the water content within its magmatic composition. Alloriite's chemical composition was determined using an electron microprobe that measured the X-rays that were present in the sample after it was bombarded with an electron beam. Its water content was measured using the Penfield method, which only works on micro scaled samples. The carbon dioxide was determined using the contents on the ascarite sorbent, with selective sorption, held within a gaseous product. Then it was measured using the oxygen flux's glow to determine the composition. Structure. The mineral structure appears to be very similar to that of afghanite, except for the presence of strong H2O bonds. The two minerals contains the same tetrahedron structure, and alloriite appears to follow the typical ABABACAC sequencing layer chain that is found in cancrinite grouped minerals. The A is Na, the"}, {"text": "B is H2 O, where in afghanite its A is Ca and the B is Cl. Alloriite's crystal structure was found using a single crystal X-ray diffraction, which allowed mineralogists to classify it as a P31c for its point group, making it trigonal crystal structure. In relation to afghanite's and alloriite's physical properties, they both have a trigonal crystal structure, P31c space group, and then have very similar formulas. Physical and optical properties. Alloriite is a small crystalline mineral that has only grown up to 1.5 to 2 mm in length and has been related to explosive volcanic building. The mineral appears as a colorless mineral that, that is semi transparent. When tested it has a white streak and a virtuous luster. It also appears to be brittle, even with a hardness of 5 on the Mohs hardness scale. The mineral is optically positive and uniaxial, with a refractive index of \u03c9 = 1.497(2) and then \u03b5 = 1.499(2). Its X-ray powder pattern was discovered using an RKG-86 camera, and using molybdenum radiation, which led to \u03b1 = 12.940(2)\u00c5, c = 21.409(5)\u00c5, and V = 3104.5(20)\u00c53."}, {"text": "In the field of surface growth, there are growth processes that result in the surface of an object changing shape over time. As the object grows, its surface may change from flat to curved, or change curvature. Two points on the surface may also change in distance as a result of deformations of the object or accretion of new matter onto the object. The shape of the surface and its changes can be described in terms of non-Euclidean geometry and in particular, Riemannian geometry with a space- and time-dependent curvature. Examples of non-Euclidean surface growth are found in the mechanics of growing gravitational bodies, propagating fronts of phase transitions, epitaxial growth of nanostructures and additive 3D printing, growth of plants, and cell motility"}, {"text": "DEAH-box helicase 8, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DHX8 gene. This protein is member of the DEAH box polypeptide family. The main characteristic of this group is their conserved motif DEAH (Asp- Glu- Ala- His). A wide range of RNA helicases belongs to this family. Specifically, DHX8 acts as an ATP-dependent RNA helicase involved in splicing and the regulation of the releasing of spliced mRNAs from spliceosomes out of the nucleus. Published studies have shown the consequences of DHX8 mutations, some of them are critical for biological processes such as hematopoiesis and are related to some diseases. Structure. Protein DHX8 is part of a protein complex called spliceosome, which is in charge of pre-mRNA splicing. The spliceosome has eight major functional states, each with distinct composition and structure; five of the eight states have been structurally characterized. DHX8 have different domains: a S1 RNA binding domain (DEAD/DEAH box), an helicase conserved C-terminal domain, helicase associated domain (HA2), and an oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide-binding (OB)-fold, each joined by intrinsically disordered regions. There are some regions of the protein which are very important for its activity, like R620 and the hook-loop and hook-turn regions. Also, DHX8\u0394547 is the catalytically active"}, {"text": "core of the protein DHX8. It is made of two RecA domains and the C-terminal WH, ratchet-like and OB-fold domains and the N-terminal region. The total weight of the DHX8 structure is 156580.13 Da. Secondary structure: Function. DHX8 is localized in the cellular nucleus and stimulated upon RNA presence. This protein is a component of the spliceosome, so it takes part in pre-mRNA splicing. Splicing is the process of joining exons from primary transcripts of messenger RNA and the elimination of intron sequences, by means of a spliceosomal mechanism, so that the mRNA produced is the one without introns, consisting exclusively of the joined exons. Splicing finishes with the spliceosomal complex disassembly and the ATP-dependent liberation of the resulting mature RNAs to the outer of the nucleus. Spliceosome requires conformational changes to be able to catalyze splicing reactions and the later mature mRNA releasing to the outer of the nucleus. One of the ATP-dependent helicase needed for these conformational changes is DHX8. Furthermore, DHX8 plays a key role in the releasing, facilitating the nuclear export of spliced mRNA. Protein characterization has shown that DHX8 has a binding preference for adenine-rich RNA. This binding is followed by ATP hydrolysis and thus,"}, {"text": "ADP release. Mechanism. DHX8 has multiple molecular functions like ATP-binding by, selective and non-covalent interactions with the coenzyme and enzyme regulator adenosine 5\u2019 triphosphate. Also identical protein binding (creates a similar type of interactions as described above but with other proteins), RNA binding and RNA helicase activity, based on catalysis of the reaction that unwinds an RNA helix: ATP + H2O = ADP + phosphate Tissues distribution. DHX8 protein has its main focuses of expression in the brain, especially in the cerebellum where it can be found mostly in Purkinje cells. Other important are the prostate and the gallbladder, which are zones where the polypetide is found also highly expressed. DHX8 protein is not expressed in all tissues and organs significantly, some clear examples are the bone marrow or the soft tissue (Peripheral nerve), where we do not have enough quantity of the protein to be representative. Purification and cloning. Assays in enzymology for the biochemical characterization of proteins need high concentrations of the protein of interest and its protocols should be efficient, simple and cost-efficient to ensure a successful purification. One example of a purification approach for DHX8 is via a protein tag called GST-His grafted onto DHX8 protein"}, {"text": "is used. The N-terminal Glutathione Sepharose TAG (GST) and C-termianl His-tag, also known as GST-His is a 29 kDa tag which allows small-scale affinity purification for recombinant proteins. This method is based on two different tags flanking the two extremes of the protein. However, it might influence physiological properties of the protein and thus, empirical testing is required for each case. DHX8 constructs are generated by PCR cloning using restriction enzymes. To generate His6GST-DHX8\u039454 (hexahistidine-GST), the coding sequence for residues A548 to R1220 is inserted into a version of \"pFastBac\", a specific vector kit of Thermo Fisher Scientific, modified to encode an N-terminal His6GST-tag followed by an HRV 3C protease (recombinant restriction-grade protease) cleavage site. HRV 3C is a highly purified recombinant 6XHis-fusion protein, that recognizes the same cleavage site as the native enzyme. Both, vector and insert, are digested with NdeI and EcoRI restriction enzymes. To create full-length DHX8 (fl-DHX8-His6) and DHX8\u0394547-His6, PCR primers are designed, so that a His6-tag is fused to the C-terminus of DHX8. The resultant PCR amplicons encoding fl-DHX8 (M1 to R1220) or DHX8\u0394547 (A548 to R1220) are inserted into the \"pFBDM\" vector downstream of the polyhedrin promoter. Both, vector and insert, are digested with"}, {"text": "BamHI and NotI restriction enzymes."}, {"text": "Thousand Thoughts (or TT) are a British alternative rock band formed by Ethan Lewis in Enfield, North London. The group consists of lead vocalist Ethan Lewis, guitarist Tom Caine, guitarist William Fox and drummer Adam Field. They were originally known as . The band signed to Marshall Records in 2017 and parted ways with Marshall Records in 2021. Their debut EP was released on 29 March 2019. One of their guitarists, William Fox has his own Twitch Account under the name WillFox. He grew in popularity because of his 100% run of the song Through The Fire And Flames by Dragonforce at 165% speed and one of the guitarists for Dragonforce Herman Li reacted to the video and Praised William on his skills Musical style, influences and band status. Thousand Thoughts musical style has been described as alternative rock. Their music takes on elements of nu-metal, pop-punk and alt-rock, interwoven with themes of tragedy and loss. The band cite Linkin Park, Bring Me the Horizon, Avenged Sevenfold, Papa Roach and Beartooth as influences. On their debut EP, \"This One's For You\", is influenced by the honesty of \"Drown\" by Bring Me the Horizon. While \"Perspectives\" has inspiration from Avenged Sevenfold,"}, {"text": "Linkin Park and Bring Me the Horizon. \"Focus\" is inspired by the honest dept of 'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden and \"Ignite\" was inspired by the rhythmic flow of \"My Curse\" by Killswitch Engage. Discography. Their single \"This One's for You\" was released on 22 June 2018 and their next single, \"Perspectives\", was released on 9 November 2018. Both were included on their self-titled EP, \"Thousand Thoughts\", which released on 29 March 2019, also including the tracks \"Focus\" and \"Ignite\". Their single \"Saviour\" was released on 27 September 2019. Vocalist Ethan Smith explains this track as 'the voice of a broken generation,' and acts as a sequel to 'This One's For You.' Their single, \"Change\", was released on 25 October 2019, which featured Daigo Jax, a nu-metal/hip-hop rapper, which made his first ever studio appearance on the track. The band released their debut album titled \u201cBetter Than Never\u201d on 23 September 2022. 2 of the songs on the album (Circles and Undone) had music videos Tours. Ethan Lewis, Matt Morrell and Jack Botterill from Thousand Thoughts performed an acoustic set supporting Press to MECO on their London tour dates of their acoustic tour. Thousand Thoughts are supporting Inklings on a"}, {"text": "tour throughout the UK in 2019. Thousand Thoughts opened for Bad Wolves on 29 January 2020 at Academy Islington in London."}, {"text": "The multigenic complex formed by the human growth hormone (hGH) and the human placental lactogen (hPL) takes part in the process of maternal and fetal metabolism regulation and the following growth and development of the fetus. Evolution. It is thought that from a gene duplication of an ancestral predecessor of the hGH, hPL was created. This procedure is related with the high homological similarity (approximately 95% similarity in mRNA's coding regions) between these two genes creating the hGH-hPL multigene family. Even though the genes have lots of similarities in their structures, they are expressed in different tissues. Later mutations in both genes sequence of nucleotides explain these differences among the GH group and the PL. Structure and location. The hGH-hPL multigene family is located in the 17th chromosome, concretely between the q22 and q24 regions occupying an approximately 50.000 pairs of nitrogen bases area. It is formed by 5 genes: two hGH and three hPL with a similarity between 91% and 95%: The similarity of this five genes is shown in their function, as it has been exposed previously, but also in their structure. Each of them is formed by 5 exons and 4 introns. Their length is also very"}, {"text": "similar. Moreover, the three hPL genes, which are all found in the placenta, contain an enhancer sequence (DNA sequence that increases the transcription levels in gene family). Regarding the intergenic space, this has a length between 6000 and 13000 pb (1pb, picobarn = 10\u221236 cm2). This space is filled with a serie of intergenic sequences repeated along the complex. The function of this sequences hasn't been clearly defined yet. Function. It has been demonstrated that hGH-hPL multigene interacts with different hormones during pregnancy and produces different proteic products which are secreted in the maternal and fetal circulations. This interaction starts in the 6th week of pregnancy and it has an important influence on the fetus growth. In the pregnant woman it increases its insulin-like growth factor (IGF) sintesys which regulates the fetus metabolism, stimulating the production of glucose and amino acids. Proteic products. Every gene in this multigene family produces a specific proteic product which has a great importance in the regulation of pregnancy, concretely in the correct embryo growth. In the hGH-hPL complex, formed by 5 genes, there's only one gene which is not expressed in the placenta: the hGH-N gene, expressed in the hypophysis. This gene produces an"}, {"text": "isoform of 22 kilodaltons and another one of 20 kilodaltons. Both of them end up in the bloodstream with the other hormones coming from the pituitary gland. The rest of the genes produce a set of peptides found in the placenta. On the one hand, the hGH-V gene produces two isoforms in different proportions: one of 22 kDa and the other one of 26 kDa. On the other hand, the hPL-3 and hPL-4 genes interact together secreting chorionic somatomammotropin, also called placental lactogen. The proportion of each gene in this interaction depends on every individual and is different for every pregnancy, going from a 1:1 to a 1:6 proportion of hPL-3 and hPL-4. Finally, the hPL-1 pseudogene doesn't have a proteic product. Firstly, it was thought that this gene was inactive and wasn't transcribed. However, some posterior studies showed a small presence of the hPL-1 gene in the placenta. The absence of a proteic product produced by this gene hasn't been explained yet though. Absence of the multigenic complex. In pregnancies with complete lack of HPL and hGH-V in the placenta, the embryo suffers from a retarded growth; however, this is the only trascendental consequence and the embryo results on"}, {"text": "a healthy normal baby. The analysis in this cases show that HPL, hPL-4, hPL-3 and hGH-V genes were eliminated while hPL-1 remained intact."}, {"text": "The Green Man is a Grade II listed public house at 57 Berwick Street, in London's Soho. History. There has been a pub at this location since 1738. It was Grade II listed in 1978. Architecture. The current premises dates from the early 19th century. The building is constructed from yellow stock brick over three storeys, with a slate roof. A front on the ground floor with granite flanking pilasters was added in the early 20th century. Each of the floors have widely spaces windows with flat gauged arches. The sign outside the pub depicts a caricature of Hercules with a green club, decorated with leaves. References. Citations Sources"}, {"text": "A tirling pin or risp and ring (chiefly Scottish) is an archaic device that was used to announce a visitor's presence at a door, in lieu of a door-knocker. It consisted of a ring and a serrated rod, along which the ring could be rattled. A visitor using such a device was said to be \"tirling the pin\". This sense was referred to by R.O. Heslop in his \"Northumberland Words\" (1894): \"Doors were formerly provided with a long, notched, iron handle on which a loose iron ring was hung. Instead of rousing the house with a knock, the caller tirled the ring up and down the notches of the \u2018tirling pin\u2019, or handle\". Earlier uses of \"tirling (at) the pin\" may have been slightly different, however. As the Oxford English Dictionary observes, the 'pin' of a door was the latch or handle to be turned or lifted to gain entrance, whereas a fixed serrated bar was known as a 'risp'. Thus, \"to tirl at the pin\" was to make a noise by moving the latch up and down rapidly. The OED speculates that the 'risp and ring' was a later device that erroneously became associated with the older action of"}, {"text": "\u2018tirling at the pin\u2019. \"Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable\" (1898) is consistent with this, noting that \"the pin is the door-latch, and before a visitor entered a room it was, in Scotland, thought good manners to fumble at the latch to give notice of your intention to enter\". References in poetry. Lewis Carroll's poem \"The Lang Coortin\" published in \"Phantasmagoria and Other Poems\" (1869) has a comic reference: The act of \"tirling at the window\" appears in the first verse of the original Scottish version of Wee Willie Winkie (1841)."}, {"text": "Brigid Globensky is the Senior Director of Education and Programs at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the largest art museum in Wisconsin. She previously acted as the Director of Education and Community Programs at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She is a museum educator. Education. Globensky attended Trinity College between 1973 - 1977 and received her B.A. in History and a focus in Art History. In 1993, she subsequently earned a MS.Ed. in Museum Education at Bank Street College of Education. In 1999, she graduated with a PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park after defending her dissertation on the expression and reassertion of Lumbee cultural identity through mass-produced interior decorations. Further, she holds a certificate in Photography from the Maryland Institute, College of Art since 1989. Career. After eight years of working as a community house organizer, Globensky began her museum education career at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1987 as Coordinator of Gallery Interpretation, training and supervising the volunteer docent corps. After two years, she became the assistant director of Education and Community at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She oversaw the volunteer unit as well as the institution's summer internship program. Following a"}, {"text": "promotion in 1996, she acted as the Director of Education and Community. In 2001, Globensky joined the Milwaukee Art Museum where she is Senior Director of Education and Programs and manages the educational programs for various audiences and educators, including docents and volunteers. Further, her position supports the planning of exhibitions and curating the education gallery. She oversees the Kohl's Art Generation Program Grant and organized several exhibitions such as \"Animation: Art Goes to the Movies.\" During her tenure, she was named Museum Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association."}, {"text": "Chowhatta railway station is a railway station in Ahmadpur\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated at Chowhatta of Birbhum 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 Chowhatta railway station was reopened for the public on 24 May 2018."}, {"text": "Carcinocythemia, also known as carcinoma cell leukemia, is a condition in which cells from malignant tumours of non-hematopoietic origin are visible on the peripheral blood smear. It is an extremely rare condition, with 33 cases identified in the literature from 1960 to 2018. Carcinocythemia typically occurs secondary to infiltration of the bone marrow by metastatic cancer and carries a very poor prognosis. Presentation. Carcinocythemia occurs most commonly in breast cancer, followed by small cell lung cancer, and usually appears late in the course of the disease. Thrombosis and disseminated intravascular coagulation are frequently reported in association with carcinocythemia. The prognosis is poor: a review of 26 patients found that 85% died within 6 months of the diagnosis, with an average time of 6.1 weeks between diagnosis and death. The amount of tumour cells on the blood smear can range from 1 to 80 percent of the total white blood cell count, with lower percentages being more common. Carcinocythemia is distinct from the presence of circulating tumour cells (CTCs), as CTCs usually occur in such low quantities that they cannot be seen on blood smear examination, requiring special techniques for detection. Mechanism. The mechanism of carcinocythemia is poorly understood. Some patients"}, {"text": "with carcinocythemia show evidence of impaired spleen function, and it has been suggested that dysfunction of the reticuloendothelial system, preventing phagocytosis of malignant cells, could contribute to the presence of tumour cells in the blood. Diagnosis. Carcinocythemia can be detected on a routine blood smear examination or manual differential. If the number of suspicious cells is low, a smear can be prepared from the buffy coat of the blood sample to concentrate the cells. Tumour cells in peripheral blood may look similar to circulating blasts or lymphoma cells. Features that aid in distinguishing tumour cells from other cells include their very large size, mature nuclear chromatin pattern, vacuolated cytoplasm, and their tendency to appear in clumps or clusters, although some of these characteristics are shared by megakaryoblasts and monoblasts. Tumour cells are often found at the edge of the blood smear due to their large size, so this area should be examined thoroughly if carcinocythemia is suspected. Cytochemical staining and immunohistochemistry techniques can help determine the lineage of the cells. When immunophenotyped by flow cytometry, the cells are generally CD45 negative and may express CD56, a profile that is non-specific but unusual for hematologic malignancies. In some cases, flow cytometry"}, {"text": "and FISH results may be misleading, as circulating tumour cells can exhibit cell markers and chromosomal abnormalities associated with hematologic diseases. Bone marrow examination is indicated in carcinocythemia to better characterize the tumour cells. Differential diagnosis. Carcinocythemia must be distinguished from the following conditions: History. The presence of tumour cells in the peripheral blood of a cancer patient was first described in an 1869 case report in the \"Medical Journal of Australia\". The term \"carcinocythemia\" was first used in 1976 by Robert Carey. In 1984, a review of 10 cases was published, noting the condition's poor prognosis. Other animals. As of 2018, there were two documented cases of carcinocythemia in dogs and one case in a cat."}, {"text": "Giovanni Battista Finetti (; 15 January 1940 \u2013 2 March 1983) was an Italian politician. Life and career. Born in Bagno di Gavorrano in 1940, he attended the technical institute in Livorno for three years before leaving his studies in 1956 to join the Italian Communist Party at the age of sixteen. Following a political training course in Rome organized by the party, he became secretary of the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI) in Bagno di Gavorrano and, in 1959, was appointed provincial secretary. In 1965, he registered as a freelance journalist with the Italian Press Association and worked as a correspondent for \"L'Unit\u00e0\". After serving as head of propaganda and press for the party in Grosseto, he was appointed secretary of Grosseto's municipal committee in 1967. Between 1965 and 1970, he also served as a municipal councilor in Gavorrano. Following the 1970 local elections, on 20 July, Finetti was elected mayor of Grosseto, succeeding Renato Pollini. He was re-elected for two additional terms in 1975 and 1980. He resigned on 15 February 1982, and Flavio Tattarini succeeded him as head of the municipal administration. Finetti was involved in a car accident in Istia d'Ombrone on 23 January 1983 and"}, {"text": "died on 2 March of the same year. In Grosseto, a street was named after him in 2012, and the municipal swimming pool was dedicated to him in 2015. His death has been often considered \"suspicious\" by the conspiracy theories about the so-called \"Ustica affair\"."}, {"text": "Beardy's 97 and Okemasis 96 is an Indian reserve of the Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is 58 kilometres southwest of Prince Albert. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 1323 living in 301 of its 311 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 52 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "Louisiana's 22nd State Senate district is one of 39 districts in the Louisiana State Senate. It has been represented by Republican Blake Miguez since 2024. Geography. District 22 covers parts of Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, and St. Martin Parishes to the east of the city of Lafayette, including some or all of New Iberia, St. Martinville, Breaux Bridge, Port Barre, and Broussard. The district overlaps with Louisiana's 3rd and 5th congressional districts, and with 38th, 46th, 48th, 49th, and 96th districts of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Recent election results. Louisiana uses a jungle primary system. If no candidate receives 50% in the first round of voting, when all candidates appear on the same ballot regardless of party, the top-two finishers advance to a runoff election."}, {"text": "Murtazali Gadjiev () is a Russian-Dagestani archaeologist and scholar. He is the head of the archaeology department of Dagestan Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Science. Gadjiev is specialised in the history of Derbent (Darband), Sasanian-era Persian presence in Caucasus and Culture of Caucasian Albania. Life and work. Born in 1956 in Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan and graduated from Daghestan State University (Makhachkala) and Institute of Archaeology, RAS, in Moscow. He has been a professor of 'Field Archaeology' at the Daghestan University in Makhachkala for around 10 years. Murtazali Gadjjiev is a member of the Editorial board of the \"Journal of Caucasian Archeology\", Tbilisi, and Deputy-Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of The International Conference on the North Caucasus Archaeology \"Krupnovskie chteniya\"."}, {"text": "Igor Fruman (born 1966) is a Soviet-born American businessman. He is an associate of Rudy Giuliani who, along with Lev Parnas, aided in a search in Ukraine for detrimental information on U.S. President Donald Trump's political opponents. This included looking for evidence for a narrative to counter Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation and information on former Vice President Joe Biden. He pleaded guilty to an unrelated campaign finance law violation in September 2021 and was sentenced to a one-year prison term in January 2022. Career. Fruman was born in Kalinkavichy, Gomel Region, Belarus, and immigrated to the U.S., later working in Ukraine for a time. He lived in the Detroit metropolitan area before moving to South Florida. He has owned an import/export business in Ukraine as well as a beach bar named Mafia Rave in Odesa, Ukraine. Fruman attended the state funeral in December 2018 of former U.S. president George H. W. Bush, apparently as a guest of Rudy Giuliani. Fruman's marriage to Yelyzaveta Naumova ended in divorce. Fruman partnered with Lev Parnas in an energy related venture. In addition to working on joint business and political efforts, Parnas and Fruman have been involved in Jewish charities and causes in"}, {"text": "the U.S., Ukraine and Israel. Fruman and Parnas are on the board of a Ukrainian-Jewish charity, \"Friends of Anatevka\", founded by Ukrainian rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, to provide a refuge for Jews affected by the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Parnas and Fruman visited Israel in the summer of 2018 as a part of a delegation, led by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and joined by Anthony Scaramucci, of \"right-wing Jewish and evangelical supporters of Trump.\" While there, the group met with various leaders and personalities including the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman, Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair Netanyahu, as well as billionaire Simon Falic, one of Netanyahu's most generous donors. Huckabee joined the two once again in March 2019 when they were awarded with the \"Chovevei Zion\" (Lovers of Zion) awards at a gala for the National Council of Young Israel, an event focused on supporting President Trump and Israeli West Bank settlements. Rudy Giuliani and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy were in attendance as well. While in Israel, Parnas and Fruman also met with oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi, a wealthy Ukrainian under investigation by the Department of Justice for money laundering. Trump\u2013Ukraine scandal. In 2018, Parnas and Fruman"}, {"text": "hired Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, to serve as a consultant as the two, according to Giulani, were \"ramping up\" a security business with the felicitous name \"Fraud Guarantee\". (Parnas had chosen the name \"Fraud Guarantee\" in 2013 to clean up his Google search results after accusations of fraud in previous ventures.) Florida authorities had apparently dissolved Fraud Guarantee in September 2014 for failing to file an annual report, which would have limited the company to activities related to closing itself down. The Republican donor, Trump supporter and Long Island attorney Charles Gucciardo paid Giuliani on behalf of Fraud Guarantee in two $250,000 payments, in September and October 2018. Late in 2018, Giuliani sent them to Ukraine to search for damaging information on Trump's U.S. political rivals. According to \"The New York Times\", \"Their mission was to find people and information that could be used to undermine the Special Counsel's investigation, and also to damage former Vice President Joseph R. Biden.\" Both were also at the center of the pro-Trump forces' push to remove Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, because her loyalty to President Trump was deemed deficient as Trump pursued his agenda there. It is also alleged"}, {"text": "that the two pressed for support for allegations that former Ukrainian officials schemed to manipulate the 2016 election to support Hillary Clinton, by revealing adverse information about Paul Manafort, chairman of Trump's campaign, which became a central element in Mueller's special counsel investigation. Also, over the course of a year beginning in 2018, the two men introduced Giuliani to Ukrainians who were amenable to promoting \"a largely unsubstantiated narrative about the Bidens.\" These included Yuriy Lutsenko, a former Prosecutor General of Ukraine, who was critical to Giuliani's efforts to produce damaging information. Viktor Shokin, also a former Prosecutor General of Ukraine, was part of this group. Parnas and Robert F. Hyde reportedly exchanged messages indicating that then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was under surveillance and that they were working to have her removed. The New York field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), along with SDNY prosecutors, are conducting a criminal investigation of Giuliani's relationship with Parnas and Fruman. Giuliani is under investigation for potentially violating lobbying laws. Parnas was initially being legally represented by John M. Dowd, who was Trump's personal attorney in the Mueller investigation in 2017\u201318, until he fired him and hired Joseph A. Bondy. Dowd initially"}, {"text": "represented Fruman as well. Arrest. Fruman and Lev Parnas were arrested on the evening of October 9, 2019, at Dulles International Airport, and charged with planning to direct funds from a foreign government \"to U.S. politicians while trying to influence U.S.-Ukraine relations\". They had one-way tickets to Frankfurt, Germany, and were reported to be going to Vienna, Austria. The reason for their arrest was described as a \"complex web of financial and political interactions linking diplomacy to alleged violations of campaign finance law.\" The head of the New York's FBI office described the investigation as \"about corrupt behavior, deliberate lawbreaking\". Fruman and Parnas pled not guilty to these charges and to additional charges filed in September 2020. Fruman did, however, plead guilty on September 10, 2021, to soliciting a contribution from a foreign national. He did not make an agreement to cooperate with the government. He was sentenced to one year in prison in January 2022. The 2019 charges also connected Parnas and Fruman to the campaign to oust the United States ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, from her post and have her recalled. This occurred over many months. In 2018, the operation included Parnas and Fruman donating funds and"}, {"text": "pledging further additional moneys to an unnamed Congressman, who was recruited for the \"campaign to oust her.\" Some of the funds violated campaign limits. The funds were funneled through a shell company, Global Energy Producers. Parnas and Fruman were also charged with unlawful campaign contributions. Based on campaign finance filings, former congressional Representative Pete Sessions (R-Texas) has been identified as the unnamed Congressman. In 2018, as the Chairman of the House Rules Committee, Sessions wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying that Yovanovitch should be fired for privately expressing \"disdain\" for the Trump administration."}, {"text": "Prensa Libre was a newspaper published by Sergio Carb\u00f3 in Havana, Cuba, from 1941 to 1960. \"Prensa Libre\", a daily publication in Havana, was the largest daily newspaper in Cuba. The newspaper was occupied and confiscated on May 16, 1960, by the Cuban government. Co-editors Ulises Carb\u00f3 and Humberto Medrano, as well as Sergio Carb\u00f3, went into exile after the \"Prensa Libre\" was seized. Other publications. When \"Prensa Libre\" wrote critically about the suppression of \"Diario de la Marina\" and the imminent loss of freedom of the press in Cuba, it too was seized by the government. Revolutionary mobs, incited by the frenzy of the moment, calling for execution of all the editors who opposed Castro and his Revolution. One by one, Cuban newspapers ceased publication. Only government-controlled publications, like \"Revoluci\u00f3n\", \"El Mundo\", \"Bohemia\", and the communist \"Hoy\" were allowed to publish but even they were eventually phased out. After the firm establishment of the regime and the supremacy of the Communist Party, only \"Granma\" the official organ of the Cuban Communist Party, was allowed to exist."}, {"text": "Arisierpeton is an extinct genus of synapsids from the Early Permian Garber Formation (Sumner Group) of Richards Spur, Oklahoma. It contains a single species, Arisierpeton simplex. Etymology. The generic name honours Mr. Giuseppe Alberto Arisi, who found the material. The specific epithet refers to the relatively simpler morphology of the marginal dentition than in other Permian caseids. Description. The holotype, GAA 00225-1, is a nearly complete right premaxilla. Several other specimens have been referred including: GAA 00242, a right premaxilla; GAA 00239, a right premaxillary fragment; GAA 00207, a left maxillary fragment; GAA 00225-2, a right maxillary fragment; GAA 00240, a left maxillary fragment with two teeth and fragments of two other teeth; GAA 00246-1, a partial left dentary with eight teeth; GAA 00246-2, a partial right dentary with 12 teeth or parts of teeth and GAA 00244, a series of three dorsal vertebrae. Skull. Premaxilla. The premaxilla show some similarities with \"Oromycter\", another species of caseid from Richards Spur, including the presence of a massive, thick dorsal or nasal process, a small vomerine or palatal process, broad central portion, and a wide maxillary process with a large dorsally located sutural surface for the anterior process of the maxilla. The"}, {"text": "premaxilla also bears an anteriorly tilted dorsal or nasal process which is a key characteristic of Caseidae. There is also a foramen that opens dorsally at the base of the dorsal process which is substantially larger in \"Oromycter\". An autapomorphy of \"Arisierpeton\" is the presence of four premaxillary teeth all of the same size unlike most other caseasaurs, which have three or two premaxillary teeth, often with the first tooth being the largest tooth in the marginal dentition. Maxillae. The maxillary dorsal process may have been slenderly built, and is similar in some respects to the observed anatomy in \"Oromycter\". A modest anterodorsal process of the maxilla, is present at the level of the internal narial border of the bone medially. The dorsal terminus is broken in the more complete maxillary fragment, making it difficult to determine its original height. In contrast to \"Oromycter\", the preserved base of the narial border of the dorsal process is wide and rounded, suggesting that an anterior maxillary shelf may have been present on the complete maxilla, the shape of the maxilla in this region also suggests that there may have been one. The morphology of the maxilla represents a more derived condition than"}, {"text": "that seen in \"Oromycter\", where the anterior edge of the dorsal process is a sharp ridge, and the distinctive anterolateral narial shelf is restricted to the lacrimal bone. On the anterior lateral surface of the maxilla a single large anteriorly oriented foramen is present in \"Arisierpeton\", instead of a series of relatively large labial foramina situated along the external surface of the bone. External surface sculpturing is also more modest than in \"Oromycter\" and is restricted to faint grooves associated with small foramina on the surface of the bone. Dentary. Assignment of two dentaries to a caseid is based on the shape of the symphyseal area. As in other caseids, the dorsal edge of the dentary bone curves ventrally near the symphysis, and forms an acute angle with the ventral edge of the bone. This results in a substantially more slender dentary bone near the symphysis than in the rest of the bone. As in other caseids, this is related to the presence of a well-developed anterior process of the splenial bone, one that contributes to a large portion of the symphysis medially. Although the dentary bones assigned are nearly complete anteriorly, their morphology cannot confirm the entire depth or"}, {"text": "height of the lower jaw at the symphysis. This is because the dentary contributes only to the dorsal half of the symphysis in caseids, and the splenial most likely contributed to the symphysis, as it formed the lower part of the symphyseal region of the mandible. The assignment of these dentaries to \"Arisierpeton\" is based mainly on dental features, and to some extent on the labial surface characteristics of the bone. The teeth of these dentaries are identical to those found on the maxillae. In addition, the surface characteristics of the labial side of the dentaries are similar to those of the maxillae, showing little sculpturing, and occasional small foramina. A well-developed, anteriorly extending Meckelian canal is formed by the dentary bone, below which it would be attached to the splenial by sutures. Dentition. Most of the premaxillary teeth on all the known specimens are damaged near their tips but show clear evidence of tapering crownward. However, all of the preserved teeth also show that they are somewhat spatulate towards the tip of the crown and are unlikely to have had a pointed apex. Most maxillary teeth are damaged in some way. Unfortunately, the preserved maxillary tooth rows are too"}, {"text": "short to determine if heterodonty was present. All the teeth show the typical caseid morphology of having lingually curved crowns, with little or no recurvature. An un-erupted tooth is preserved in the partially resorbed tooth in GAA 00240. As is typical of teeth in their early stages of development, prior to implantation, only the enamel cap is preserved, a simple conical structure. Although difficult to discern, a small secondary cusp is present along the posterior edge of the cap. The tooth immediately anterior to this un-erupted tooth has a similar superficial morphology as those on the premaxilla, with vertical fluting lingually on the enamel surface. Unfortunately, most of the teeth have lost their crown tips, making it difficult to determine if they were also tricuspid. However, the arrangement of the fluting suggests that there also was a central cone in these teeth and possibly two accessory cusps, or at least incipient accessory cusps. The anterior teeth of the dentary lean forward, as in all caseids. The intact teeth in GAA 00246-2 are smaller than the teeth anterior and posterior to them, and they carry the same kind of vertical fluting lingually as seen in the upper teeth. The apex of"}, {"text": "each tooth carries anterior and posterior carinae, with a slight hint of an accessory cusp associated with the fanning of the anterior fluting from the central cone of tooth. There is no evidence of a posterior cusp where the fluting extends to the posterior carina. These teeth also appear to have a slightly posteriorly tilted central cone, but in typical caseid fashion there is clear evidence of a pronounced lingual tilt to the crown. As far as can be determined, all of the dentary teeth conform to this pattern, although one tooth at tooth position 8 in GAA 00246-1, although slightly damaged at the tip, does appear to have both anterior and posterior cusps. In all cases the teeth are more slender than in the dentaries of \"Oromycter\" and have more modest lingual shoulders at the base of the crown. Overall, it appears that the dentition in \"Arisierpeton\" shows some modifications in tooth shape and crown outline from the primitive amniote condition seen in the basal caseid \"Eocasea\" and in eothyridid caseasaurians. The teeth show little or no recurvature, but instead have some medial or lingual curvature apically. The crowns, when preserved, show some fluting and occasional carinae, which are"}, {"text": "sometimes sufficiently well developed for the formation of a tricuspid terminus, somewhat reminiscent of the condition seen in \"Cotylorhynchus\". However, the kind of bulging of the lingual side of the tooth below the crown seen in \"Cotylorhynchus\", and geologically younger caseids is only modestly developed in \"Arisierpeton\". Vertebrae. The string of three posterior dorsal vertebrae GAA 00244, were found in the same pocket as the dentigerous elements, but their association with the holotype and other referred specimens is tentative. The vertebrae have the typical cylindrical, spool-shaped centra, with shallow lateral excavations, but the most striking feature of the centra is the presence of flat ventral surfaces between the rounded anterior and posterior articular surface. The centra are solidly fused to the neural arches, which carry well-developed, massive, transverse processes, short zygapophyseal surfaces, and slender, presumably anteroposteriorly short, simple neural spines. The transverse processes are short and stout, and were not fused to the ribs. The size of the transverse processes indicate that these are most likely posterior dorsal vertebrae. A pair of small excavations are present dorsally on the neural arch, between and slightly posterior to the prezygapophyses. There is no evidence of ventral excavation of the centra for intercentra,"}, {"text": "a common feature of caseid posterior dorsal vertebrae. Thus, the morphology of the centra and neural arches are entirely in agreement with known caseid morphology. They can be assigned with confidence to a small caseid. However, their assignment to \"Arisierpeton\" is tentative and based on co-occurrence and size, and there are no recognizable diagnostic features on the centra below the family level."}, {"text": "The ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 27 (EC 3.4.19.12), also known as deubiquitinating enzyme 27, ubiquitin thioesterase 27 and USP27X, is a deubiquitinating enzyme which is mainly characterized for cleaving ubiquitin (Ub) from proteins and other molecules. Ubiquitin binds to proteins so as to regulate the degradation of them via the proteasome and lysosome among many other functions. USP27X is encoded by the ubiquitin specific peptidase 27 X-linked gene, found in chromosome X in region Xp11.23. It is mainly found in the cytosol and nucleus of cells, as well as the nucleoplasm and in vesicles. It is an intracellular protein found in many human tissues with low blood cell specificity. DUBs belong to the superfamily of proteases enzymes. Proteases can be classified into five different classes depending on the mechanism of catalysis: aspartic, metallo, serine, threonine and cystein proteases. Cysteine proteases comprise ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolases (UCHs), Machada Josepchin domain proteases (MJDs), ovarian tumour proteases (OTU) and ubiquitin-specific proteases (USPs). USP27X is included in the ubiquitin-specific proteases enzymes. Protein structure. Deubiquitinating enzymes contain a conserved catalytic domain surrounded by other subdomains, some of which are known to contribute to target recognition, protein-protein interactions and location domains. Specifically, USP domains are characterized for having"}, {"text": "interspersed points with insertions in the catalytic domain. This insertions have the capacity of folding into independent domains that can be involved in the regulation of the enzyme's activity. All USP domains, including USP27X, can be divided into six conserved boxes that are mapped onto the USP domain core structure. These structures have been identified through multiple sequence alignment of the USP catalytic cores. Box 1 is known to contain the catalytic cysteine (Cys) residue, box 5 contains the catalytic histidine (His) residue, box 6 contains the catalytic asparagine (Asn)/ aspartate (Asp) residue. Box 3 and box 4 can vary its content although in most human USP enzyme domains each contain a conserved Cys-X-X-Cys motif, which is commonly associated with a zinc-binding site. USP27X has a length of 438 aminoacids. The residues that play a critical role in the active site can be found in position 87, in which resides the nucleophilic residue, and position 380 in which the proton acceptor is located. The number of aminoacids in USPs catalytic domain can vary from 295 and 850 residues. This variations suggest that either different subclasses of USP domains exist (variations of a catalyc fold) or that insertions are incorporated into"}, {"text": "a similar catalytic fold. Function. As previously said USP27X belongs to deubiquitinase family, thus its main function is catalyzing the removal of ubiquitin from substrates (cleaving the bond between the last aminoacid of ubiquitin, glycine 76, and a lysine residue on the substrate), the reversal process of ubiquitination, regulating the fate of ubiquitin-conjugated proteins. Based on its conserved catalytic domains and its mechanism of catalysis, deubiquitinating enzymes are classified in the group of cysteine proteases. These enzymes use catalytic triads (groups of three aminoacids) to catalyze the hydrolysis of the amine bonds between the ubiquitin and the substrate. USP27X's catalytic triad is constituted by a cysteine, a histidine, and a third residue, which tends to be an asparagine. The ubiquitin is linked to the polypeptide molecule by an isopeptide bond between the carboxyl group (COO\u2212) of ubiquitin's last glycine and the epsilon-amino group (\u03b5-NH3+) of the substrate's lysine. The Asp functions to polarize and orient the imidazolium ring of the His, while the His gains a proton desprotonating the thiol group of the adjacent Cys. This Cys attacks on the isopeptide carbonyl carbon, breaking carbon's double bond with oxygen and converting it into a simple bond. At the same time,"}, {"text": "the His gives its proton to the lysine epsilon-amino group, forming a bond between them. The isopeptide bond is broken and the carbonyl group (double bond) remade\".\" The result of the reaction is the release of the target protein from histidine and the formation of a covalent intermediate with the Ub moiety since the bond between the thiol group from the cysteine and the carbon is broken and a new radical binds to the carboxyl group. Finally, a reaction of this intermediate with a water molecule results in the release of the free enzyme and Ub molecule. The Ub-proteasome system is the fundamental regulatory mechanism of protein stability, quality, and abundance, so USP27X plays a key role in a great number of processes regulated by this system, such as Snail 1 stabilization in pancreatic and breast cancer, resistance to chemotherapeutic agents on cancerous cells, e. g., Cisplatin, and it also intervenes on the regulation of Bim in melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer cells. Clinical relevance. USP27X deubiquitinating action has been discovered to regulate the presence of multiple proteins related to various human cancers, as well as affecting cancerous cells' resistance to chemotherapeutic agents. Regulation of Snail1 in pancreatic and"}, {"text": "breast cancer. Cancerous cells gain the ability to migrate towards other parts of the body and to invade other tissues through what is called epithelial-mesenchymal transition. This process consists of a series of biochemical changes that transform an epithelial polarized cancerous cell into a cell with a mesenchymal phenotype. This new phenotype gives the cell an increased ability to migrate and invade other tissues, while it also decreases apoptotic activity. Therefore, EMT allows the cancerous cell to abandon the epithelial layer in which it originated, and migrate to other tissues. This is how metastasis in epithelial cancer begins. EMT is controlled by various mesenchymal markers, amongst them Snail1, a protein also necessary in the activation of cancer associated fibroblasts (CAF). In a normal epithelial cell, Snail1 is continuously degraded by proteasomes, due to its previous ubiquitination. However, in cancer cells and CAFs, Snail1 degradation is prevented. One of the mechanisms that cancerous cells use to do so is USP27X. This protein deubiquitinates Snail1, meaning it cannot be degraded, therefore causing it to stabilize and to activate EMT, allowing metastasis. In cancerous cells, USP27X is regulated by TGF\u03b2, and, summarizing, it causes the stabilization of Snail1 and other mesenchymal markers, leading"}, {"text": "to EMT. Although USP27X is not the only deubiquitinase that affects Snail1, it is one of the most effective and it has been proved to directly increase Snail1 presence by preventing its degradation. USP27X mechanism was observed in breast and pancreatic cancers, therefore opening a new door for treatments. Inhibition of USP27X would cause Snail1 to be ubiquitinated and then degraded, and therefore it would impair EMT. Influence on cancerous cells' resistance to chemotherapeutic agents. Snail1 has also been shown to increase the resistance of cancerous cells to certain chemotherapeutic agents, such as Cisplatin. When treated with Cisplatin, the amount of Snail1 increased, and this made the cells more resistant. However, when cisplatin was used in USP27X KO cells (cells without USP27X presence), Snail1 wasn't upregulated. This suggests that, after treatment with Cisplatin, Snail1 requires USP27X in order to increase its presence and make cells resistant. Therefore, inhibition of USP27X would impair Snail1 stabilization, leading to an increase in cancerous cells\u2019 sensitivity to Cisplatin. Regulation of Bim in melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer cells. Bim is one of the proteins that induces apoptosis, and its depletion has been observed in multiple human tumours, meaning that cancer cells have mechanisms"}, {"text": "to avoid Bim expression or to degrade it, therefore annulling its apoptotic effects. In some cancers, Bim is downregulated thanks to ERK-signaling. Phosphorylation and ubiquitination of Bim dependent on ERK caused Bim to be degraded in proteasomes. However, presence of USP27X reduced ERK deubiquitination of BIM, causing Bim to stabilize and therefore increasing its apoptotic effects. This process has been proved in melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer (nsclc) cells. Accordingly, we can conclude that USP27X can act as a tumour suppressor by inhibiting ERK-signalling, causing the deubiquitination and consequent stabilization of Bim, allowing it to induce apoptosis in cancer cells that use ERK-signalling. X-linked cognitive disorder. A relationship has been established between X-linked intellectual disability and certain mutations in the USP27X gene; specifically, an error in the reading of this gene causes a premature stop codon in the protein USP27X. Not much is known about the function of the USP27X protein yet, but its gene was found in mouse serotonin neurons, and that might mean that it is important for the serotonergetic function. USP27X interacts with USP22 which interacts with the KIF7 gene, which signals pathways involved in early development, cell growth and cell specialisation. Besides, other proteins from"}, {"text": "the same peptidase C19 family such as the USP9X have been linked to several neurologic disorders."}, {"text": "Mountala Zoubairou Garba Daniel (born 20 October 1986) is a Cameroonian former footballer who plays as a centre-back. Club career. Zoubairou was born in Cameroon. PSIS Semarang. In 2006, Zoubairou joined PSIS Semarang, when he joined PSIS Semarang in the 2006 season. At that time, PSIS Semarang was brought to the Final before finally losing 1\u20130 by Persik Kediri at Manahan Stadium through Cristian Gonz\u00e1les's goal in 107 minutes of extra time. His duet with Maman Abdurrahman and Fofee Kamara at that time made the PSIS Semarang defense impenetrable. He is also familiar with supporters of PSIS Semarang, they call he with the nickname \"Lek Slamet\". In the 2007 season, he recorded 32 caps and received three yellow cards for PSIS Semarang in the 2007\u201308 season. But in the 2010\u201311 season, he canceled the PSIS Semarang because of administrative reasons, so the Semarang PSIS terminated his contract. TIRA-Persikabo. In 2019, Zoubairou signed with TIRA-Persikabo for the 2019 Liga 1. He made his league debut in a 1\u20131 draw against Persib Bandung on 18 June 2019 as a substitute for Khurshed Beknazarov in the 71st minute at the Si Jalak Harupat Stadium, Soreang. Zoubairou made 14 league appearances and without scoring"}, {"text": "a goal for TIRA-Persikabo. Persebaya Surabaya. He was signed for Persebaya Surabaya to play in Liga 1 in the 2020 season. This season was suspended on 27 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season was abandoned and was declared void on 20 January 2021. Perak FC. In 2021, Zoubairou signed a contract with Malaysia Super League club Perak. He made his league debut on 24 July 2021, in a 5\u20130 away loss against Terengganu as substitute. Zoubairou made 1 league appearance and without scoring a goal for Perak. Personal life. Born and raised in Cameroon, he acquired Indonesian citizenship in 2019. Honours. Persebaya Surabaya"}, {"text": "Thanisandra railway station (station code: THSA) is a railway station in Bangalore, India, which used to serve Thanisandra locality. Only two passenger services can halt here."}, {"text": "Mohamed Badr Hassan (; born 25 November 1989) is an Egyptian-born footballer who plays as a midfielder for Manchester 62 and the Gibraltar national team. Career. Badr Hassan made his international debut for Gibraltar on 10 October 2019 in a friendly match against Kosovo, which finished as a 0\u20131 away loss. On 20 August 2021, Badr Hassan joined Mons Calpe on loan for the first half of the 2021\u201322 season. Personal life. Badr Hassan was born in the Cairo district of Maadi. He became a British Overseas Territories citizen in late 2019, after 5 years living in Gibraltar and playing for Lynx."}, {"text": "Roaring Fork Creek is a creek in Wyoming in the United States. The creek is long and flows through the Wind River Range. The creek feeds several lakes and reservoirs and is a source of water for Lander, Wyoming. Course. The creek's headwaters are at Leg Lake in the Wind River Range near Roaring Fork Mountain. The creek flows easterly and eventually empties into Roaring Fork Lake. The creek then continues for a short time until it reaches Worthen Meadows Reservoir. It then flows east until its end at the Middle Fork Popo Agie River."}, {"text": "The Rose Building was a historic commercial building in Fairbanks, Alaska. It was located on the west side of Illinois Street (prior to its 1990s realignment), north of the offices of the \"Fairbanks Daily News-Miner\", and was a three-story log structure, capped by a steeply pitched gable roof. It is believed to have been built about 1912 in the mining community of Chena, and was moved to Fairbanks in 1925. It was named for Louis Rose, who purchased the building in 1938. It was, at the time of its demolition, the oldest commercial log building in the city, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It was demolished in 1998 as part of the Illinois Street roadworks."}, {"text": "The 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Kitakyushu, Japan from October 18\u201324, 2021. The competition took place at the Kitakyushu City General Gymnasium. It was the third time that Japan hosted the event, following the 1995 and 2011 editions. The competition was originally scheduled to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, before the Danish Gymnastics Federation withdrew from hosting in July 2020. In November 2020, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Gymnastique announced Kitakyushu as the replacement host city for the same dates. Although the World Championships are traditionally not held in Olympic years, the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics caused the 2021 event to fall during the same year. The last time the Olympics and the World Championships were held in the same year was in 1996. Men's results. Individual all-around. China's Zhang Boheng narrowly defeated reigning Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto of Japan by 0.017 points to take the title. Both won their first individual World medals. Ukrainian gymnast Illia Kovtun rounded out the podium in bronze. Both Zhang and Hashimoto later withdrew from the first day of event finals. Floor. Nicola Bartolini of Italy won the country's first-ever gold medal on floor, as well as its first World"}, {"text": "title since Juri Chechi's 1997 win on rings. Silver medalist Kazuki Minami of Japan and bronze medalist Emil Soravuo of Finland also won their first individual World medals. Defending champion Carlos Yulo of the Philippines had a costly out-of-bounds deduction and finished fifth. Pommel horse. Stephen Nedoroscik won the United States' first title on pommel horse and the country's first men's title in any event since Danell Leyva won parallel bars in 2011. China's Weng Hao and Kazuma Kaya of Japan tied for the silver medal. Rings. Top qualifier Lan Xingyu of China won his first individual World title after previously earning gold as an alternate for the Chinese team in 2018. Marco Lodadio of Italy was called up from first reserve and earned a second consecutive silver on the event, his third World medal overall. Lodadio's teammate Salvatore Maresca and Grigorii Klimentev of RGF tied for the bronze medal, the first individual World medal for both. Women's results. Individual all-around. Angelina Melnikova (RGF) became the first non-American to win a World or Olympic all-around title since her Russian teammate Aliya Mustafina did so at the 2010 World Championships. Americans Leanne Wong and Kayla DiCello won the silver and bronze"}, {"text": "medals, respectively, the first individual World medal for both. Vault. Reigning Olympic champion Rebeca Andrade of Brazil won the title for her first individual World medal. Silver medalist Asia D'Amato is the first Italian female artistic gymnast to ever qualify for a World vault final. Angelina Melnikova (RGF)'s bronze was her second individual medal at the World Championships following the all-around title. Uneven bars. Wei Xiaoyuan won the title for her first individual World medal and China's first medal on the event since winning four titles in a row from 2013 to 2017 (tie in 2015). Top qualifier Rebeca Andrade of Brazil earned the silver for her second individual medal of the day. Wei's teammate Luo Rui finished in bronze after losing a tiebreaker to Andrade. Qualification. Men's results. Subdivision 6 of the men's qualification was delayed 90 minutes while the equipment was disinfected after a Colombian gymnast, later revealed to be Jossimar Calvo, in the previous subdivision tested positive for COVID-19. Calvo subsequently withdrew from the all-around final."}, {"text": "\"Juicio Final\" (1998) (Spanish for \"Final Judgement\" 1998) was a professional wrestling supercard show, scripted and produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), which took place on December 18, 1998, in Arena M\u00e9xico, Mexico City, Mexico. The show served as the year-end finale for CMLL before Arena M\u00e9xico, CMLL's main venue, closed down for the winter for renovations and to host \" Circo Atayde \". The shows replaced the regular \"Super Viernes\" (\"Super Friday\") shows held by CMLL since the mid-1930s. The main event of the show was the finals of a three week long tournament for the vacant CMLL World Trios Championship. In the end the team of Black Warrior, Blue Panther and Dr. Wagner Jr. defeated \"Los Guapos\" (Bestia Salvaje), Scorpio Jr. and Zumbido to win the championship. The show featured five additional matches. Production. Background. For decades Arena M\u00e9xico, the main venue of the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), would close down in early December and remain closed into either January or February to allow for renovations as well as letting \"Circo Atayde\" occupy the space over the holidays. As a result CMLL usually held a \"end of the year\" supercard"}, {"text": "show on the first or second Friday of December in lieu of their normal \"Super Viernes\" show. 1955 was the first year where CMLL used the name \"El Juicio Final\" (\"The Final Judgement\") for their year-end supershow. Until 2000 the \"Jucio Final\" name was always used for the year end show, but since 2000 has at times been used for shows outside of December. It is no longer an annually recurring show, but instead held intermittently sometimes several years apart and not always in the same month of the year either. All \"Juicio Final\" shows have been held in Arena M\u00e9xico in Mexico City, Mexico which is CMLL's main venue, its \"home\". Storylines. The 1998 \"Juicio Final\" show featured five professional wrestling matches scripted by CMLL with some wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. The wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as \"rudos\" in Mexico, those that play the part of the \"bad guys\") or faces (\"t\u00e9cnicos\" in Mexico, the \"good guy\" characters) as they perform. In October 1998, Mr. Niebla suffered an injury, which forced CMLL to vacate the CMLL World Trios Championship as it was not clear when Mr. Niebla would be able to wrestle again. They held a"}, {"text": "three-show, eight-team tournament from December 4 to December 12, 1998. Former champions Atlantis and Lizmark teamed up with Emilio Charles Jr. for the tournament, while Mr. Niebla actually returned to action in time to be in the tournament as well, teaming up with Rayo de Jalisco Jr. and Shocker. In the finals the trio of Dr. Wagner Jr., Blue Panther and Black Warrior defeated \"Los Guapos\" (Scorpio Jr., Bestia Salvaje and Zumbido) to lay claim to the championship."}, {"text": "The Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party () was a senior leadership position of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to assist in the daily work of the Central Committee. The secretary-general was established at the beginning of the founding of the CCP. However, due to the loss of information during the Long March and the Chinese Civil War, the records of the early secretaries-general were incomplete. Deng Xiaoping, the second-generation leader of China, served three times in the early years as the secretary-general of the Central Committee. The position of the secretary-general was renamed as general secretary from 1956 to 1966 and from 1980 to 1982. At that time, the leader of the Communist Party was Chairman of the Central Committee. The general secretary assisted the party chairman and vice chairmen in handling works of the Secretariat. Deng Xiaoping and Hu Yaobang successively served as the secretary-general and general secretary during the period of Chairman Mao Zedong and Chairman Hua Guofeng respectively."}, {"text": "The Dominique River () is a river in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Location. The Dominique river runs from north to south for with a vertical drop of . It has one important tributary, the Foins River (Hay River), which drains the southeast of the basin. The mouth of the river is in the municipality of Port-Cartier in the Sept-Rivi\u00e8res Regional County Municipality. At its mouth in the city of Port-Cartier the river converges with an arm of the Aux Rochers River in the Rivi\u00e8re-aux-Rochers Park. A trail in the park leads to the Rivi\u00e8re Dominique waterfall. The origin of the name, which was made official on 5 December 1968, is not known. Basin. The Dominique River basin is oriented from north to south, about long and no more than wide. It covers . It lies between the basins of the Aux Rochers River to the west and the Sainte-Marguerite River to the east. The river basin is in the Sept-Rivi\u00e8res Regional County Municipality, divided between the unorganized territory of Lac-Walker (65.8%) and the town of Port-Cartier (34.2%). Part of the river basin is in the Port-Cartier\u2013Sept-\u00celes Wildlife Reserve (R\u00e9serve faunique"}, {"text": "Port-Cartier\u2013Sept-\u00celes). Part is in the proposed Lake Pasteur Biodiversity Reserve. Terrain. The northern part of the Dominique River basin is on a deeply dissected rocky plateau in which slopes can rise by . The highest point is in the north of the basin. The piedmont region extends for between the plateau and the coastal plain. It is formed of rounded rocky hills up to high. The coastal plain is a strip of fairly flat land about wide that gradually slopes down to sea level from in the north. The bedrock is dominated by magmatic rocks, deformed to some extent, of migmatite, granitoid rocks and granitic gneiss. The plateau and piedmont area include vast areas where the bedrock is exposed. In other places there is glacial till of up to in depth, and in the main valleys there are large glaciofluvial sediments. In the coastal plain the Goldthwait Sea deposited large amounts of clay and silt sediment as it followed the retreat of the glaciers after the last ice age. As the land rebounded from the weight of the ice, the sea retreated and the marine sediments were covered by coarser sandy estuarine and deltaic sediments. Hydrology. Waterbodies cover 5.72% of"}, {"text": "the Dominique River basin. The main lakes are Lake Morin at and Little Lake Anguille at . Ombrotrophic peatlands cover 6.15% of the basin, mostly on the coastal plain where the flat relief and fine sediments retain the water. The rivers and streams follow angular courses dictated by fractures in the hard bedrock. Upstream the rivers follow rather rectilinear courses through narrow valleys, but downstream they meander slightly through the loose deposits of the coastal plain. The annual average flow at the Dominique River mouth is estimated at , varying during the year from . Environment. The Pentec\u00f4te weather station, to the southwest of the river mouth, records an average annual temperature of and annual average rainfall of . A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the upper and central Dominique River in sub-regions 6j-T and 6m-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain, and the lower part in sub-region 5g-T of the eastern fir/white birch subdomain.. On the coastal plain the forest cover is dominated by stands of balsam fir (\"Abies balsamea\"), white spruce (\"Picea glauca\") and paper birch (\"Betula papyrifera\"), with lesser numbers of jack pine (\"Pinus banksiana\"), larch and trembling aspen (\"Populus tremuloides\"). Further inland in the"}, {"text": "spruce-moss region the forest cover is dominated by black spruce (\"Picea mariana\"), with balsam fir and, to a lesser extent, hardwoods such as paper birch, trembling aspen and balsam poplar (\"Populus balsamifera\"). Fish species are American eel (\"Anguilla rostrata\") and brook trout (\"Salvelinus fontinalis\"). There are rainbow smelt (\"Osmerus mordax\") at the mouth of the river. The Dominique River is not recognized as an Atlantic salmon river. Conservation. The watershed is almost entirely contained in the Port-Cartier\u2013Sept-\u00celes Wildlife Reserve. This reserve, with a total area of , covers of the Dominique River basin, or about 87.5%. The proposed Lake Pasteur Biodiversity Reserve extends into the west of the watershed. It is a protected area under IUCN category III, established in 2003. The proposed reserve covers a total area of of which are in the Dominique watershed, covering 18.0% of its area including Lake Morin and Little Lake Anguille. On the Gulf of St. Lawrence the river basin adjoins the Port-Cartier West Waterfowl Concentration Area (IUCN category VI)."}, {"text": "The Tboli sunbird (Aethopyga tibolii) is a species of bird in the sunbird family Nectariniidae. It is endemic to the Philippines found only in the mountains of south Mindanao. Its natural habitat is tropical moist montane forest starting from 800 meters above sea level. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Apo sunbird. Taxonomy. The Tboli sunbird was formally described in 1997 by Robert Kennedy and collaborators based on a specimen collected in mossy forest at an elevation of , near Mount Busa in the south of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. They considered it to be a subspecies of the Apo sunbird and coined the trinomial name \"Aethopyga boltoni tibolii\" where the epithet \"tiboli\" is named after the Tboli people who inhabit southern Mindanao. The Tboli sunbird is now treated as a separate species based on the differences in plumage and vocalizations as well as the divergence of the mitochondrial DNA. Description. Ebird describes it as a \"A small, localized bird of montane forest in southern Mindanao. Has a long, curved bill, a gray head, yellow underparts and rump, an olive back and wings, and a white-tipped tail. Male has a narrow pale yellow"}, {"text": "throat stripe from the bill to the chest bordered with dark gray, a greenish-blue tail, and an orange patch in front of the shoulder. Female has a pale gray throat and a faintly streaked chest. Similar to Gray-hooded Sunbird, but Tboli has a yellow rather than white belly. Voice similar to Apo Sunbird\u2019s, including a rapid pulsing series of \u201cchip!\u201d notes and a high-pitched upslurred \u201cchuuuuuit!\u201d\u201d Ecology and behavior. This species is presumed to feed primarily on nectar but will also supplement its diet with insects especially when it is nesting. This species is found singly, in pairs and forms mixed species flocks with other forest birds. Not much information about this species' ecology has been published aside the paper released when it was described as a subspecies in 1997. The Apo sunbird is better studied and it is highly likely to have the same breeding habits. Apo sunbirds have been recorded breeding in January to July. Its nest was described as built of moss, spider eggs and insect cases. Habitat and conservation status. The Apo sunbird is a bird local to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It can be found in mountainous areas in the southern parts"}, {"text": "of the island on Mount Matutum and Mount Busa in the provinces of South Cotabato and Sarangani Its natural habitat is in montane rainforest above 800 meters above sea leve which is significantly lower than the \"boltoni\" and \"malindangensis\" Apo sunbirds which are found above 1,500 meters above sea level. The Tboli sunbird has not yet been recognized as its own species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The Apo sunbird is listed as least concern but was formerly near threatened. Despite its limited range, it is said to be locally common. As it occurs in rugged and inaccessible mountains, this has allowed a large portion of its habitat to remain intact. However, there it is still affected by habitat loss through deforestation, mining, land conversion and slash-and-burn - just not to the same extent as lowland forest. It is found in the protected areas of Lake Holon and Mount Matutum but actual protection from deforestation is still lax."}, {"text": "The 1995 Harlow District Council election took place on 4 May 1995 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council, which it had held continuously since the council's creation in 1973. Election result. All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1991 election."}, {"text": "Blue Collar Boys may refer to:"}, {"text": "\"Does to Me\" is a song recorded by American country music singers Luke Combs and Eric Church. Co-written by Combs along with Ray Fulcher and Tyler Reeve, it is the third single from Combs's 2019 album \"What You See Is What You Get\". History. \"Rolling Stone Country\" writer Joseph Hudak described the song as featuring \"Opening with some clean slide guitar, the mid-tempo ballad calls to mind Bruce Springsteen's wall-of-sound style and progression, with Combs proclaiming his own blue-collar bona fides in the lyrics.\" Billy Dukes of Taste of Country wrote that \"While not his tightest lyric, this song...hits the heart as quick as any of his previous seven No. 1 hits...Most satisfying might be the Gary Morse steel guitar that saturates the mix.\" Combs wrote the song with Ray Fulcher and Tyler Reeve, and chose to include Church as a duet partner because he thought it fit Church's artistic style along with his own. Music video. The music video was directed by Jon Small/Trey Fanjoy and premiered on CMT, GAC and Vevo in April 2020. Commercial performance. \"Does to Me\" has sold 22,000 copies in the United States as of March 2020."}, {"text": "The orgasm gap or pleasure gap is the disparity in sexual satisfaction\u2014specifically the unequal frequency in achieving orgasm during sexual encounters\u2014between heterosexual men and women. Across every demographic that has been studied, women report the lowest frequency of reaching orgasm during sexual encounters with men. Researchers believe that multiple causes contribute to the orgasm gap. Orgasm gap researcher Laurie Mintz argues that the primary reason for this form of gender inequality is due to \"our cultural ignorance of the clitoris\" and that it is commonplace to \"mislabel women's genitals by the one part (the vagina) that gives men, but not women, reliable orgasms.\" History of research. The 1953 Kinsey Report, titled \"Sexual Behavior in the Human Female\", made several observations including 'differences in frequencies of orgasm' between unmarried American females (200 orgasms on average before marriage, with 36% having never had an orgasm before marriage; 10% of all women in the study said they had never orgasmed at any period in their lives) and males (1500 orgasms on average before marriage; all males in the study reported having had an orgasm before marrying). By 1990, authors were referring to Kinsey et al.'s observed gender disparity in sexual experiences as the"}, {"text": "\"orgasm gap\", citing the premarital orgasm rates per gender as an example. Meanwhile, Masters & Johnson (1966) suggested that lesbian women had more orgasms than heterosexual women. A 1994 study by Laumann et al. of sexual practices in the United States found that 75% of men and 29% of women always had orgasms with their spouse, while 40% of men and 80% of women thought their spouse always orgasmed during sex. These rates were different in non-marital straight relationships (cohabitational, long-term and short-term heterosexual relationships), with rates increasing to 81% for men and 43% for women orgasming during sex with their short-term partners, and 69% for men and 83% for women thinking their short-term partners always orgasmed. U.S. feminist writers Marcelle Karp and Debbie Stoller (1999) loosely referred to the 75/29 statistic as evidence that the orgasm gap existed, and to argue that more efforts were needed to sexually emancipate women, because 'there are a whole lot of women who most certainly \"aren't\" having fun yet'. Studies indicate an oversimplification in the understanding of the orgasm gap in past research. Firstly, focusing on the orgasm quantity neglects further relevant dimensions of the phenomenon such as orgasm duration and quality. Secondly,"}, {"text": "the cornerstone of the gap itself, the so far applied binary gender differentiation pattern, is outdated as is known. Contributing factors. Sexual behaviour and reaching orgasm. Data of sexual behaviour research indicates very few women (less than 30%) reach orgasm during mixed-sex sexual activity, whereas men (over 90%) usually do. During partnered sexual encounters, rates of orgasm for men do not vary depending on one's sexual orientation; though, lesbians or women who have sex with women report significantly higher rates of orgasm (up to 83%) than those who have sex with men. This variance among women is influenced by the prioritization of clitoral stimulation during women-only sexual encounters. It has been determined that for women, clitoral stimulation is the most reliable method of reaching orgasm, with nearly all women requiring some form of clitoral stimulation in order to achieve orgasm. Conversely, PIV (penis-in-vagina) intercourse does not reliably result in orgasm for women. Studies have found that women report pretending (\"faking\") to orgasm during PIV intercourse more than during any other sexual practice. Feminist researchers credit the \"phallocentricity\" of mixed-sex partnering as being a main contributor to the orgasm gap; multiple studies of sexual behaviour and attitudes have concluded that mixed-sex"}, {"text": "partners prioritize PIV penetration and men's satisfaction. In turn, this contributes to the faking orgasm behaviour being more prevalent in women than in men: as there appears to be 'a sexual script in which women should orgasm before men, and men are responsible for women's orgasms', a woman may feel pressured to fake an orgasm before her male partner orgasms in order to please her male partner and avoid hurting his feelings. Studies of heterosexual college hook-up culture found \"both men and women reported that men are typically not concerned with women's pleasure in hookups, but both reported that men are very attentive to women's pleasure in relationships\". Results show that women were less likely to reach orgasm during casual sex rather than relationship sex; this difference was attributed to an overall increased presence of focused clitoral stimulation and men's willingness to perform cunnilingus during relationship sex. However, one study found that cunnilingus was not significantly more likely to occur in relationships than in hookups. Research has also found that gender differences in sexual entitlement might be a factor. A 2021 study found that people generally believed men were more entitled to an orgasm than women during a hook-up. Scientific"}, {"text": "sexism. In a 2006 study, the philosopher of science Elisabeth Lloyd reviewed the most prominent studies of female sexuality and argues that the female orgasm has been impacted by the questionable scientific integrity of each of these studies as they are consistently predicated on androcentric assumptions about the female body. Feminist scholar Angela Towne (2019) posits that the \"historically androcentric focus on the vaginal canal as the main female sex organ, has helped create a gender-based orgasm gap during partnered sex\". Scholars have highlighted that within dictionaries, anatomy texts, sex education texts, and gynaecology texts, the vagina is most often cited as being the primary female erogenous zone, whereas the clitoris has been omitted or only briefly described. In a 2005 meta-analysis of anatomy literature intended for medical professionals, O'Connell et al. determined that \"the typical anatomical textbook description lacks detail, describes male anatomy fully and only gives the differences between male and female anatomy rather than a full description of female anatomy\". O'Connell et al. remark that \"the anatomy of the clitoris has not been stable with time, as would be expected. To a major extent its study has been dominated by social factors. The clitoris is a structure"}, {"text": "about which few diagrams and minimal description are provided\u2026 Specific study of anatomical textbooks across the 20th century revealed that details from genital diagrams presented early in the century were subsequently omitted from later texts. These examples, particularly with the backdrop of the clitoris being discovered and rediscovered, indicate that the evolution of female anatomy across the 20th century occurred as a result of active deletion rather than simple omission in the interests of brevity\". Gabriele Falloppio described the clitoris in 1561, highlighting the fact that \"modern anatomists have entirely neglected it\", yet his findings were consistently dismissed by his colleagues; Andreas Vesalius stated it was a \"new and useless part\" that had no function in \"healthy women\". Later anatomists, including Regnier de Graaf in the 17th century, also provided a full description of the clitoris, though their work was also either ignored or suppressed. Not until 1998 was mainstream science willing to acknowledge the importance of the clitoris due to O'Connell et al.'s breakthrough work revealing the true extent of the clitoris' size and complexity through MRI technology. Socialization. Assertiveness and communication. In general, women have been associated with having a decreased degree of sexual assertiveness in comparison to"}, {"text": "men and this is often found to be at the detriment of women's own sexual satisfaction. It has been proposed that for women, masturbation is an effective means to discover one's own preferences in order to be able to communicate the same to sexual partners. Communication in which one is able to articulate their sexual needs or interests, along with having a partner receptive to the same, are both instrumental aspects of satisfying sexual relationships. There is a tendency for open sexual communication to be low or lacking between couples who experience difficulty with reaching orgasm. Women who have difficulty reaching orgasm, report that they may hide this from their partner by incorrectly communicating their sexual satisfaction, and that this is most commonly completed through the performance of a fake orgasm. Furthermore, it has been noted that \"women view their own orgasm as important for their partners (i.e., to communicate their enjoyment of a sexual experience) more so than for their own pleasure\" and that the existing pressure to produce an orgasm for male partners during sexual activity is a barrier for them to actually orgasm. Sex education. The aspect of pleasure is generally overlooked within sex education that is"}, {"text": "presented to youth; instead, the vast majority of content is primarily concerned with reproductive health, centering on preventative measures for unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Physiological processes of pleasure (such as arousal, orgasm, or ejaculation) are typically only referenced in a reproductive context, rather than for the sole purpose of pleasure; the main reason being for this is that these components of pleasure are deemed necessary of male bodies in order to conceive. Alternatively, areas of the body conducive to female pleasure- the clitoris, perineal or urethral sponges- are not linked to conception and therefore have been largely disregarded from sex education curricula and instead, only female internal organs are taught in the classroom setting. Scholars claim that \"the lack of a cohesive understanding of pleasure makes pursuing implementation of pleasure overwhelming and inaccessible for educators and may account for why academic research on pleasure has failed to make its way into the practical world of sex education classrooms\". Sexual self-exploration is also a commonly unaddressed topic within the classroom setting, yet \"past research indicates that including masturbation in sexuality education can improve attitudes toward masturbation and debunk myths or false beliefs\". One study of university students' sexual knowledge"}, {"text": "found that more than 60% of students held the false belief that the clitoris is located within the vaginal canal. Media and pornography. Heterosexual activity depicted in mainstream media and pornography is predominantly centred on male pleasure and often includes sexual myths which may influence the construction of one's understanding of what constitutes normal/typical sexual behaviour. The female orgasm as portrayed by media and pornography regularly promotes a false image in which women orgasm from penetration alone. Researchers conclude that this idea may contribute to unrealistic expectations for what methods of sexual activity are necessary for women to orgasm in real life encounters. People tend to turn to pornography as a useful tool for masturbation and to search the topics about which they fantasize for themselves. These scenarios can perpetuate sexual curiosity and may turn pleasureful acts into motivation, possibly turning into addiction. Porn can also be directly linked to emotional suppression and reduce one's ability to orgasm with a partner because it causes a disconnect between partners goals for their sex, connection, and ability to arouse each other without online stimulation. The desire for female porn viewers to see what they want to see, including the female performers on"}, {"text": "screen having real orgasms instead of fake ones, was one of the main factors leading to the rise of feminist pornography in the 1980s and 1990s in North America and Europe. According to feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino (2013), 'in feminist porn, female desire, pleasure, and orgasm are prioritized and celebrated. When the sex on screen represents the experience of the performers (no one is \"faking\" anything), and that experience is set up to be positive and supportive, sex is presented as joyful, fun, safe, mutual, and satisfying.' Solutions. There is an increasing body of research and technology innovations seeking out to diminish the heterosexual orgasm gap. One study in 2021 aimed to create terminology around clitoral stimulation techniques already used by women in order to give sexual partners better awareness and vocabulary with which to communicate during intercourse. The study, which was funded by the intimate health company behind sex education website OMGYes which works with sex researchers and was published in \"PLOS ONE\", used data from over 3,000 women in the US to learn what discoveries they had made to make sex more pleasurable. Interviews were then analysed and the names of the four most mentioned techniques were coined:"}, {"text": "angling, rocking, shallowing and pairing. Angling, which involves the rotating or raising of the pelvis during penetration for adjustment was used by 87.5% of women. Around 76% used rocking, where the base of a penis or sex toy rubs against the clitoris consistently throughout penetration as opposed to thrusting in and out. Shallowing was used by 84% of women, where penetrative touch is experienced with tools, fingers, penises or lips just inside the entrance of the vagina and 69.7% used pairing, where a woman or her partner reaches down to stimulate the clitoris while penetration is occurring at the same time. Dr. Devon Hensel, one of the study's co-authors, told the BBC that \u201csex research as a field has been around for well over 100 years and it was really incomprehensible to us as researchers that there were not names for these things. And when something is unnamed, it almost becomes unspeakable.\""}, {"text": "\"Better Together\" is a song by American country music singer Luke Combs. It is the fifth single from his 2020 album \"What You See Is What You Get\". Combs wrote the song with Dan Isbell and Randy Montana. Content and history. Lyrically, the song features Combs \"comparing himself and his lover to other necessary couplings.\" Billy Dukes of Taste of Country said of the song that \"chose country touchstones that speak to who he is and \u2014 more importantly \u2014 who his fans are.\" Combs performed the song on October 15, 2020 on the telecast of the \"Billboard\" Music Awards. During the performance, he appeared in a suit and without his trademark baseball cap, and was accompanied solely by a piano player."}, {"text": "Keep Going is a 2018 film by Joachim Lafosse. It may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Uropachys is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, endemic to Kauai of the Hawaiian Islands. It is part of the \"Eurynogaster\" complex of genera. Species. Included species: Species moved to \"Eurynogaster\":"}, {"text": "Shipton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The North Carolina General Assembly of 1782 was the state legislature that first convened in Hillsborough, North Carolina, on April 15, 1782, and concluded on May 18, 1782. Members of the North Carolina Senate and the North Carolina House of Commons were elected by eligible North Carolina voters. The General Assembly elected Alexander Martin of Guilford County as Governor on April 26, 1782. James Glasgow was Secretary of State. James Iredell was Attorney General. There was no Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina until 1868. Councilors of State. The General Assembly elected the following Councilors of State on May 3, 1782: Members. There was one Senator and two members of the House of Commons for each of the 50 counties. In addition, each of the six districts had one representative each. The House of Commons leadership and staff included: Thomas Benbury, Speaker; John Hunt, Clerk; and Lovett Burgess Assistant Clerk. Legislation. This General Assembly met during the midst of the American Revolution. Many of the session laws that they passed dealt with the war. Other laws dealt with taxes, setting up judiciaries, chartering towns, and regulating rivers and forests."}, {"text": "Georgina is a steam locomotive built by North Bay Railway Engineering Services in 2016 for the North Bay Railway in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. She was the first steam locomotive to run on the line. Construction. \"Georgina\" is based on the W. G. Bagnall's gauge Sipat class and is built to the gauge of the North Bay Railway. The original Sipat locomotive was built for the Sipat Water Works in India. The North Bay Railway Engineering Services built \"Georgina\" over three years, starting in 2013. She was their first complete steam locomotive. North Bay Railway. \"Georgina\" was named in a ceremony by BBC newsreader Harry Gration in March 2016. Her first passenger service was on 23 March 2016. In September 2021, the North Bay Railway was purchased by new owners who decided to put \"Georgina\" up for sale. The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust. In December 2021, \"Georgina\" was sold to The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust operating at the Midland Railway Centre."}, {"text": "Moores Creek is a long 1st order tributary to Reedy Fork in Guilford County, North Carolina. Course. Moores Creek rises in a pond about 1 mile north of Piedmont-Triad International Airport in Guilford County on the divide between Moores Creek and Brush Creek. Moores Creek then flows northeast to meet the Haw River about 1.5 miles south of Summerfield, North Carolina. Watershed. Moores Creek drains of area, receives about 44.9 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 396.37 and is about 47% forested."}, {"text": "Bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) is a language model introduced in October 2018 by researchers at Google. It learns to represent text as a sequence of vectors using self-supervised learning. It uses the encoder-only transformer architecture. BERT dramatically improved the state-of-the-art for large language models. , BERT is a ubiquitous baseline in natural language processing (NLP) experiments. BERT is trained by masked token prediction and next sentence prediction. As a result of this training process, BERT learns contextual, latent representations of tokens in their context, similar to ELMo and GPT-2. It found applications for many natural language processing tasks, such as coreference resolution and polysemy resolution. It is an evolutionary step over ELMo, and spawned the study of \"BERTology\", which attempts to interpret what is learned by BERT. BERT was originally implemented in the English language at two model sizes, BERTBASE (110 million parameters) and BERTLARGE (340 million parameters). Both were trained on the Toronto BookCorpus (800M words) and English Wikipedia (2,500M words). The weights were released on GitHub. On March 11, 2020, 24 smaller models were released, the smallest being BERTTINY with just 4 million parameters. Architecture. BERT is an \"encoder-only\" transformer architecture. At a high level, BERT"}, {"text": "consists of 4 modules: The task head is necessary for pre-training, but it is often unnecessary for so-called \"downstream tasks,\" such as question answering or sentiment classification. Instead, one removes the task head and replaces it with a newly initialized module suited for the task, and finetune the new module. The latent vector representation of the model is directly fed into this new module, allowing for sample-efficient transfer learning. Embedding. This section describes the embedding used by BERTBASE. The other one, BERTLARGE, is similar, just larger. The tokenizer of BERT is WordPiece, which is a sub-word strategy like byte-pair encoding. Its vocabulary size is 30,000, and any token not appearing in its vocabulary is replaced by codice_1 (\"unknown\"). The first layer is the embedding layer, which contains three components: token type embeddings, position embeddings, and segment type embeddings. The three embedding vectors are added together representing the initial token representation as a function of these three pieces of information. After embedding, the vector representation is normalized using a LayerNorm operation, outputting a 768-dimensional vector for each input token. After this, the representation vectors are passed forward through 12 Transformer encoder blocks, and are decoded back to 30,000-dimensional vocabulary space using"}, {"text": "a basic affine transformation layer. Architectural family. The encoder stack of BERT has 2 free parameters: formula_1, the number of layers, and formula_2, the hidden size. There are always formula_3 self-attention heads, and the feed-forward/filter size is always formula_4. By varying these two numbers, one obtains an entire family of BERT models. For BERT The notation for encoder stack is written as L/H. For example, BERTBASE is written as 12L/768H, BERTLARGE as 24L/1024H, and BERTTINY as 2L/128H. Training. Pre-training. BERT was pre-trained simultaneously on two tasks. Masked language modeling. In masked language modeling, 15% of tokens would be randomly selected for masked-prediction task, and the training objective was to predict the masked token given its context. In more detail, the selected token is The reason not all selected tokens are masked is to avoid the dataset shift problem. The dataset shift problem arises when the distribution of inputs seen during training differs significantly from the distribution encountered during inference. A trained BERT model might be applied to word representation (like Word2Vec), where it would be run over sentences not containing any codice_3 tokens. It is later found that more diverse training objectives are generally better. As an illustrative example, consider"}, {"text": "the sentence \"my dog is cute\". It would first be divided into tokens like \"my1 dog2 is3 cute4\". Then a random token in the sentence would be picked. Let it be the 4th one \"cute4\". Next, there would be three possibilities: After processing the input text, the model's 4th output vector is passed to its decoder layer, which outputs a probability distribution over its 30,000-dimensional vocabulary space. Next sentence prediction. Given two spans of text, the model predicts if these two spans appeared sequentially in the training corpus, outputting either codice_7 or codice_8. Specifically, the training algorithm would sometimes sample two spans from a single continuous span in the training corpus, but other times, sample two spans from two discontinuous spans in the training corpus. The first span starts with a special token codice_9 (for \"classify\"). The two spans are separated by a special token codice_2 (for \"separate\"). After processing the two spans, the 1-st output vector (the vector coding for codice_9) is passed to a separate neural network for the binary classification into codice_7 and codice_8. Fine-tuning. BERT is meant as a general pretrained model for various applications in natural language processing. That is, after pre-training, BERT can be"}, {"text": "fine-tuned with fewer resources on smaller datasets to optimize its performance on specific tasks such as natural language inference and text classification, and sequence-to-sequence-based language generation tasks such as question answering and conversational response generation. The original BERT paper published results demonstrating that a small amount of finetuning (for BERTLARGE, 1 hour on 1 Cloud TPU) allowed it to achieved state-of-the-art performance on a number of natural language understanding tasks: In the original paper, all parameters of BERT are finetuned, and recommended that, for downstream applications that are text classifications, the output token at the codice_9 input token is fed into a linear-softmax layer to produce the label outputs. The original code base defined the final linear layer as a \"pooler layer\", in analogy with global pooling in computer vision, even though it simply discards all output tokens except the one corresponding to codice_9 . Cost. BERT was trained on the BookCorpus (800M words) and a filtered version of English Wikipedia (2,500M words) without lists, tables, and headers. Training BERTBASE on 4 cloud TPU (16 TPU chips total) took 4 days, at an estimated cost of 500 USD. Training BERTLARGE on 16 cloud TPU (64 TPU chips total) took 4"}, {"text": "days. Interpretation. Language models like ELMo, GPT-2, and BERT, spawned the study of \"BERTology\", which attempts to interpret what is learned by these models. Their performance on these natural language understanding tasks are not yet well understood. Several research publications in 2018 and 2019 focused on investigating the relationship behind BERT's output as a result of carefully chosen input sequences, analysis of internal vector representations through probing classifiers, and the relationships represented by attention weights. The high performance of the BERT model could also be attributed to the fact that it is bidirectionally trained. This means that BERT, based on the Transformer model architecture, applies its self-attention mechanism to learn information from a text from the left and right side during training, and consequently gains a deep understanding of the context. For example, the word \"fine\" can have two different meanings depending on the context (I feel fine today, She has fine blond hair). BERT considers the words surrounding the target word \"fine\" from the left and right side. However it comes at a cost: due to encoder-only architecture lacking a decoder, BERT can't be prompted and can't generate text, while bidirectional models in general do not work effectively without"}, {"text": "the right side, thus being difficult to prompt. As an illustrative example, if one wishes to use BERT to continue a sentence fragment \"Today, I went to\", then naively one would mask out all the tokens as \"Today, I went to codice_3 codice_3 codice_3 ... codice_3 .\" where the number of codice_3 is the length of the sentence one wishes to extend to. However, this constitutes a dataset shift, as during training, BERT has never seen sentences with that many tokens masked out. Consequently, its performance degrades. More sophisticated techniques allow text generation, but at a high computational cost. History. BERT was originally published by Google researchers Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, and Kristina Toutanova. The design has its origins from pre-training contextual representations, including semi-supervised sequence learning, generative pre-training, ELMo, and ULMFit. Unlike previous models, BERT is a deeply bidirectional, unsupervised language representation, pre-trained using only a plain text corpus. Context-free models such as word2vec or GloVe generate a single word embedding representation for each word in the vocabulary, whereas BERT takes into account the context for each occurrence of a given word. For instance, whereas the vector for \"running\" will have the same word2vec vector representation for"}, {"text": "both of its occurrences in the sentences \"He is running a company\" and \"He is running a marathon\", BERT will provide a contextualized embedding that will be different according to the sentence. On October 25, 2019, Google announced that they had started applying BERT models for English language search queries within the US. On December 9, 2019, it was reported that BERT had been adopted by Google Search for over 70 languages. In October 2020, almost every single English-based query was processed by a BERT model. Variants. The BERT models were influential and inspired many variants. RoBERTa (2019) was an engineering improvement. It preserves BERT's architecture (slightly larger, at 355M parameters), but improves its training, changing key hyperparameters, removing the \"next-sentence prediction\" task, and using much larger mini-batch sizes. XLM-RoBERTa (2019) was a multilingual RoBERTa model. It was one of the first works on multilingual language modeling at scale. DistilBERT (2019) distills BERTBASE to a model with just 60% of its parameters (66M), while preserving 95% of its benchmark scores. Similarly, TinyBERT (2019) is a distilled model with just 28% of its parameters. ALBERT (2019) used shared-parameter across layers, and experimented with independently varying the hidden size and the word-embedding"}, {"text": "layer's output size as two hyperparameters. They also replaced the \"next sentence prediction\" task with the \"sentence-order prediction\" (SOP) task, where the model must distinguish the correct order of two consecutive text segments from their reversed order. ELECTRA (2020) applied the idea of generative adversarial networks to the MLM task. Instead of masking out tokens, a small language model generates random plausible substitutions, and a larger network identify these replaced tokens. The small model aims to fool the large model. DeBERTa (2020) is a significant architectural variant, with \"disentangled attention\". Its key idea is to treat the positional and token encodings separately throughout the attention mechanism. Instead of combining the positional encoding (formula_5) and token encoding (formula_6) into a single input vector (formula_7), DeBERTa keeps them separate as a tuple: (formula_8). Then, at each self-attention layer, DeBERTa computes three distinct attention matrices, rather than the single attention matrix used in BERT: The three attention matrices are added together element-wise, then passed through a softmax layer and multiplied by a projection matrix. Absolute position encoding is included in the final self-attention layer as additional input."}, {"text": "Bhaag Khesari Bhaag () is a 2019 Indian Bhojpuri language sports drama film directed by Premanshu Singh and produced by Umashankar Prasad with co-produced by Ayush Raj Gupta under banner of \"J P Stars Pictures\". Its star Khesari Lal Yadav and Smriti Sinha in lead roles. While Ayaz Khan, Amit Shukla, Sanjay Verma, Amit Choudhary, Satya Prakash, Pritam Kumar, Rahul Sahu and others in supporting roles. The story was written by Manoj Kushwaha. Production. The film is directed by Premanshu Singh and produced by Umashankar Prasad with co-produced by Ayush Raj Gupta and written by Manoj K Kushwaha. The cinematography has been done by Sarfaraj Rashid Khan while choreography is by Rikki Gupta and Ram Devan. Jitendra Singh (Jeetu) is the editor. Dress designing by Bhojpuri's famous dio Kavita-Sunita. Release. The film was theatrically released on 1 November 2019 on occasion of Chhath Pooja across all theatres of Bihar and Jharkhand. Music. Music of \"Bhag Khesari Bhag\" is composed by Om Jha with lyrics penned by Pyare Lal Yadav, Azad Singh, Shyam Dehati, Prakash Barood, Yadav Raj and Pawan Pandey. It is produced under the \"Enter10 Music Bhojpuri\" Music compony. His song \"Biscuit Dubake\" released on 27 October 2019, was"}, {"text": "crossed over 20 million views on YouTube."}, {"text": "Austin Sopp (born August 26, 1994), better known by the ring name Austin Gunn, is an American professional wrestler and reality television personality, signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Ring of Honor (ROH) where he is in a tag team with his brother Colten as The Gunns, and is a member of the Bang Bang Gang stable. Gunn is a former one-time AEW World Tag Team Champion and a one-time AEW World Trios Champions and ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions (collectively held as the Unified World Trios Championship). Sopp is a second-generation professional wrestler, as he is the son of professional wrestler Monty Sopp, better known as Billy Gunn. Early life and education. Sopp was born on August 26, 1994, in Orlando, Florida. He is a son of professional wrestler Billy Gunn and Tina Tinnell Sopp and the brother of professional wrestler Colten Gunn. Sopp was nominated Computer Science King in 2010 at Lake Brantley High School. Sopp attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, from 2013 to 2017. He was a member of the lacrosse team and graduated with a degree in elementary education. Professional wrestling career. Ring of Honor (2019). In June 2019, Gunn confirmed that"}, {"text": "he had signed a contract with Ring of Honor (ROH). He made his ROH debut on August 26, 2019, in a dark match as part of the ROH Top Prospect Tournament, defeating Brian Johnson in the quarterfinals and Dante Caballero in the semifinals. On September 28, 2019, Gunn was defeated by Dak Draper in the finals of the Top Prospect Tournament. All Elite Wrestling / Return to ROH (2020\u2013present). On January 9, 2020, it was announced that Gunn had officially signed with All Elite Wrestling. On January 14, Gunn made his AEW debut in a tag team match on \"AEW Dark\" teaming with his father Billy Gunn as The Gunn Club defeating the team of Peter Avalon and Shawn Spears. Gunn suffered a torn PCL injury during the match. On November 4, 2020, Gunn (who had previously been involved with his father in tag team matches on \"Dark\") officially made his debut on \"AEW Dynamite\", teaming with his father and Cody Rhodes to defeat Dark Order members 10, John Silver and Colt Cabana. On the November 17, 2020 episode of \"Dark\", Austin's brother Colten, now wrestling as a fellow Gunn Club member, would team with Austin and their father in"}, {"text": "a match which saw the Gunn Club defeat BSHP King, Joey O\u2019Riley and Sean Maluta by pinfall in a six-man tag team match. The three man Gunn Club would then defeat Cezar Bononi, KTB, and Seth Gargis in another six man tag team match on the November 24, 2020 episode of \"Dark\". On the December 8, 2020 episode of \"Dark\" The three man Gunn Club-which entered the ring on a golf cart with the words \"Taz Taxi\" on the side, defeated Shawn Dean, Sean Maluta & RYZIN. On February 9, 2022 (during a match that aired two days later on \"AEW Rampage\"), Austin and Colten Gunn wrestled for the AEW Tag Championship, losing to reigning champions Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus). On the April 15, 2022 episode of \"AEW Rampage\", the Gunn Club lost a six-man tag team match to Blackpool Combat Club. Somewhat outside of AEW, in November 2021 Ring of Honor wrestler Danhausen began a Twitter feud with the Gunn Club, referring to Colten and Austin as \"Ass Boys\", in reference to Billy Gunn's infamous \"Mr. Ass\" gimmick in the Attitude Era. While Billy Gunn himself initially had no comment, the rest of Gunn Club despised the"}, {"text": "nickname after fans began chanting \"Ass Boys\" during their matches. Billy Gunn finally commented when he surprised his sons by wearing an \"Ass Boys\" shirt, encouraging them to \"embrace the assness\" and even started teasing mooning the crowd again. In May 2022, the Gunn Club formed an alliance with the Acclaimed which lasted until July 2022 when the Gunn Club turned on the Acclaimed; on the August 3, 2022 episode of \"Dynamite\", the Acclaimed defeated the Gunn Club in a dumpster match. On the August 17, 2022 episode of \"Dynamite\", Colten and Austin turned on their father, aligning themselves with Stokely Hathaway. In September 2022, the Gunns formed a new stable, \"the Firm\", with Hathaway, MJF, Ethan Page, Lee Moriarty, and W. Morrissey. The following month, the Firm attacked MJF after he fired Hathaway. On the February 8, 2023 episode of \"Dynamite\", the Gunns defeated the Acclaimed to win their first AEW World Tag Team Championship. At Revolution in March 2023, the Gunns successfully defended their titles in a four way match against the Acclaimed, Danhausen and Orange Cassidy, and Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett. On the April 5, 2023 episode of Dynamite, the Gunns lost the AEW World Tag"}, {"text": "Team Championship to FTR in a title versus career match. This would effectively disband The Firm, with the Gunns allying with Jay White and Juice Robinson of Bullet Club Gold. On January 17, 2024, The Gunns and White defeated Mogul Embassy (Brian Cage, Kaun and Toa Liona) for the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship. On the January 20 episode of \"Collision\", The Gunns, White, The Acclaimed, and Billy Gunn joined forces to form a stable known as the Bang Bang Scissor Gang, reuniting Austin and Colten with their father Billy. On March 13 at Big Business, Bullet Club Gold turned on The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn, disbanding the Bang Bang Scissor Gang. On April 5 at Supercard of Honor, Austin returned to ROH, teaming with Colten and White to retain their ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championships against Monstersauce (Lance Archer and Alex Zayne) and Minoru Suzuki. At Dynasty: Zero Hour on April 21, 2024, Bullet Club Gold defeated The Acclaimed for the AEW World Trios Championship in a winner takes all championship unification match to unify the titles as the Unified World Trios Championship. During this time, Bullet Club Gold would be renamed to the Bang Bang Gang."}, {"text": "On the June 5 \"Rampage\" tapings, a returning Robinson wrestled his first match since his return, teaming with The Gunns to win a trios match. After the match, White announced that he was giving Robinson a share of the Unified Trios Championship held by White and the Gunns, thus invoking the Freebird Rule. However, on the July 13 episode of \"Collision\", interim AEW Executive Vice President Christopher Daniels overruled Bang Bang Gang's attempt to invoke the Freebird Rule and stripped them of the Unified World Trios Championship. On the following week, The Gunns and Robinson failed to win the vacant AEW World Trios Championship, which was won by The Patriarchy (Christian Cage, Killswitch and Nick Wayne) after interference from Mother Wayne. On the February 5, 2025 episode of \"Dynamite\", The Gunns returned after a brief hiatus and challenged The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin) to a match for the AEW World Tag Championships, which they accepted. On the February 12 episode of \"Dynamite\", The Gunns were defeated by The Hurt Syndicate. Other media. On December 6, 2021, it was announced that Gunn would appear on the E! reality television series \"Relatively Famous: Ranch Rules\", which aired in early"}, {"text": "2022."}, {"text": "Tonoyan () \u2013 also transliterated as Tonojan or Tonoian \u2013 is an Armenian surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The Other Lamb is a 2019 horror film directed by Ma\u0142gorzata Szumowska and written by C.S. McMullen. It stars Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman and Denise Gough. Plot summary. Selah is a teenage girl who is living in a remote forest compound belonging to a polygamist cult. The cult's messianic leader, the Shepherd, is the only male in the group. The women are divided into two groups: the younger Sisters, who dress in shades of blue, and the older Wives, who dress in reddish tones. The group raises sheep for food and sacrificial rituals. As she matures, Selah has become more of a focus of the Shepherd's attention, and she appears drawn to him. She frequently wonders about her mother, who died giving birth to her. After fighting with one of the Sisters, Selah is ordered to deliver leftovers to a small, dark hut, where menstruating females are sent because they are considered \"unclean\". Here she encounters Wife Sarah, who was banished to the hut for unspecified reasons. Sarah, whose chest is covered with scars, warns Selah of the Shepherd's violent tendencies. One night, Selah overhears a police officer telling the Shepherd that the group must leave. The Shepherd announces that"}, {"text": "he will be leading the women on a journey to a new home. During the walk, the Wives discover that Selah is menstruating, and she is forced to the back of the group with banished Wife, Sarah. Selah befriends Sarah, who explains that she and Selah's mom were the Shepherd's first two wives. Sarah tells Selah that her mother did not die in childbirth, but instead contracted an infection a few days afterward and died of sepsis because the Shepherd would not take her to the hospital. Sarah admits that she has no faith in the Shepherd, but stays because she has no place else to go. During the arduous journey, Selah begins to doubt his judgement. When she sees a car driving on a road, she has a fantasy of herself inside it, dressed as a normal teenager. During the strenuous hike one of the pregnant Wives goes into labor, and she dies in childbirth. The Shepherd plucks the dead Wife's grieving young child off of the unlit funeral pyre, and throws her to the ground. After the funeral, Sarah tells Selah that she is leaving with the baby, who the Shepherd had wanted to abandon in the wilderness"}, {"text": "because the baby was \"born wrong\". Sarah reveals that the Shepherd wanted to abandon the healthy baby because \"there can only be one ram in a flock\". Meanwhile, the Shepherd beats one of the Sisters, Tamar, for refusing to lead the group after announcing that she spotted a potentially promising location ahead, further eroding Selah's trust. The group arrives at a forested valley with a large lake, which the Shepherd declares will be their new Eden. The Sisters\u2019 faith has been shaken by the journey, but the Shepherd rebaptizes the older Sisters. Selah has visions of him attempting to drown her. Around the campfire the Wives decline dinner, stating they are fasting for their ritual the next day. That night, he calls Selah to his tent and rapes her. She fantasizes about the Sisters killing the Shepherd. The next morning, the Sisters awake to find the Wives missing. They go to the lake to find the Shepherd kneeling near the Wives' robes. He tells them that the Wives have ascended into a new life and the Sisters must replace them. Selah confronts him, telling him, \"You are not our shepherd!\" He smacks her and she hits him back. Some time"}, {"text": "later, police officers discover the bodies of the Wives washed up on the shore of the lake. They also discover the Shepherd's dead body suspended between two trees, a pair of ram's horns placed on his head like a faun. The Sisters, led by Selah, congregate at the waterfall near their original compound. Production. In February 2019, it was announced Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman and Denise Gough had joined the cast of the film, with Ma\u0142gorzata Szumowska directing from a screenplay by C.S. McMullen. Principal photography began that same month in County Wicklow, Ireland. Release. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2019. Shortly after, IFC Midnight and Mubi acquired US and UK distribution rights to the film, respectively. It was released in the United States on 3 April 2020 and was released in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2020. Reception. Box office. \"The Other Lamb\" grossed a total of $7,385 worldwide ($6,024 in the United States, and $1,361 internationally). Critical reception. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of based on reviews from critics, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads \"Smartly directed by"}, {"text": "Malgorzata Szumowska, \"The Other Lamb\" uses a young woman's coming-of-age story to explore the powerful hold cults can have on their followers.\" On Metacritic it has a weighted average score of 64 out of 100, based on reviews from 18 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\"."}, {"text": "The 1996 Harlow District Council election took place on 2 May 1996 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council, which it had held continuously since the council's creation in 1973. Election result. All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1992 election."}, {"text": "Robert M. (Bob) Shireman is an American higher education policy expert and nonprofit leader currently working as the director of higher education excellence at The Century Foundation. Shireman served as the first deputy undersecretary of education in the Obama Administration in 2009\u201310. He had previously worked in the U.S. Senate (working on the 1992 rewrite of the Higher Education Act), the Clinton Administration, and at nonprofit organizations, including one he founded, The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS). Education. Shireman earned his B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), a masters in public administration from the University of San Francisco, and a masters in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Early career. After college, Shireman opened a lobbying office in Sacramento for the California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG), a Ralph Nader-inspired organization in which he had been active as a student at UC Berkeley. Among the issues Shireman pursued was the problem of toxic chemicals in art supplies. At the age of 23, he and a colleague were successful in enacting reforms where other more seasoned advocates had failed, an effort \"Art News\" called \u201ca classic case in political action, timing,"}, {"text": "effective lobbying and organization.\u201d After CALPIRG, Shireman started working with Consumers Union to address the problem of monied interests in California politics. In September 1986, he and other reformers charged the banking lobby with attempting to bribe state legislators with campaign contributions delivered just as interstate banking legislation was being considered. Shireman became involved in a campaign to enact an initiative to limit campaign contributions and spending on the June 1988 ballot. Dueling successful initiatives led to a complicated result. Clinton administration. While serving as an education advisor to U.S. Senator Paul Simon, Shireman played a significant role in the development and implementation of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign promise to \u201cscrap\u201d the student loan program and replace it with a national service trust fund that would allow all students to borrow money for college and then repay it either as a small percentage of income over time or through two years of public service. Shireman's role is detailed in a 1996 book, \"The Bill,\" by then-journalist Steven Waldman. Shireman joined the Clinton Administration at the end of the first term and took on the role of shepherding a 1996 campaign promise to create a tax credit for college tuition. In"}, {"text": "his two years at the White House he also had the lead role in the administration's America Reads Initiative and in the creation of the pre-college preparation program, GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs). Shireman had a small role in the media response to emerging Monica Lewinsky revelations. In January 1998, with reporters hungry for new information about the scandal, White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry sought to demonstrate that the administration was working on real policy issues. As described in the Washington Post: \u201cOne day, knowing full well the networks couldn't care less, he brought out Robert Shireman, senior policy adviser at the National Economic Council, to talk about school construction bonds.\u201d TICAS and the Obama administration. While at the Department of Education in 2009\u201310, Shireman put into effect much of the agenda he had developed previously at TICAS, a nonprofit he had founded. TICAS had recommended simplifying the FAFSA (the application process for federal aid) by employing skip logic and allowing applicants to upload their income information from the IRS. As deputy undersecretary Shireman led the successful implementation of that plan. When President Obama took office in 2009, a liquidity crisis had prevented access"}, {"text": "to bank-based guaranteed student loans. To preserve access and reduce taxpayer costs, the administration, with Shireman in a lead role, proposed shifting to a 100 percent direct loan system. Originally proposed by Congressman George Miller as the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, the direct loan plan ultimately was attached to the Affordable Care Act, along with a provision Obama proposed to make the income-based repayment (IBR) option more generous to borrowers. IBR was modeled on a TICAS proposal adopted by Congress in 2007. Shireman is sometimes described as the \u201carchitect\u201d of the Obama administration's consumer protection regulations, including clarifying the Higher Education Act's gainful employment provision that determines for-profit college access to federal funding. While Shireman did play a major role in launching that effort, all of the regulations were adopted by the Department of Education months or years after his return home to California in the summer of 2010. Other government roles. In May 2020, Shireman was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to serve as one of the state's representatives to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. In October, 2020, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed him to a term on the National Advisory Committee on Institutional"}, {"text": "Quality and Integrity. From 2004 to 2009 Shireman served as a congressional appointee to the federal Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. Lawsuits and investigations. GOP Million Dollar Medicare Challenge. In 1995, the newly elected Republican congress proposed a budget that would slow the growth of spending in the Medicare program. President Clinton accused the GOP of sacrificing the health of seniors to fund tax cuts for the rich. Stung by the claim that congress was proposing \u201ccuts\u201d to Medicare, the Republican National Committee placed full-page advertisements in national newspapers featuring party chair Haley Barbour holding a giant million-dollar check. The ad said: \"Heard the one about Republicans cutting' Medicare? The fact is Republicans are increasing Medicare spending by more than half. I'm Haley Barbour, and I'm so sure of that fact I'm willing to give you this check for a million dollars if you can prove me wrong.\" Shireman mailed an entry to the contest, arguing that by using the transitive form of the verb \u201cincrease\u201d the RNC was asserting causation. Since Medicare spending under the GOP plan would be lower than without it, the RNC's claim was false, asserted Shireman. When the RNC failed to award the prize,"}, {"text": "Shireman's attorney David Halperin filed a breach of contract case in Washington, DC. The lawsuit survived a motion to dismiss, making a jury trial likely. The RNC subsequently sued all 80 people who had entered the contest, moving the case to federal court in Jackson, Mississippi. Halperin moved that the court transfer the case to federal court in Washington, D.C., and the court granted that motion. Shireman and the RNC ultimately settled, while 20 other people stayed in the suit for years. Short seller allegation. After Wall Street short-seller Steve Eisman testified about for-profit colleges in 2010, the industry started attempting to link critics to Eisman, claiming the Department of Education's gainful employment regulatory efforts may have been tainted. Anonymous letters alleged \"stock price manipulation by Shireman and Eisman.\" An investigation was conducted by the department's Inspector General at the request of two Republican senators. It found \"no improper disclosure of sensitive information by Department officials in their communications with outside parties. It found that one official may have communicated with a former employer in violation of an ethics pledge, a matter that was referred for further investigation. Opponents of for-profit colleges alleged that some groups that were raising the"}, {"text": "short-seller allegations were being paid to do so by the industry. One liberal group was later found to have been taking money from a for-profit college owner's foundation. California community college governance. In 2012, California Competes, a panel of civic leaders staffed by Shireman and chaired by then-Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, issued a report calling for changes to California\u2019s higher education system. One recommendation sought to reverse California Community College regulations the group said undermined campus leadership and led to costly stalemates. Under Shireman's leadership the group filed a lawsuit asking a judge to throw out the rules as inconsistent with the law enacted by the legislature. The suit was not successful. Call for retraction. In 2021, Bob Shireman publicly called for a retraction of a 2013 Wall Street Journal article that he says damaged his public reputation by reporting unsubstantiated allegations of insider trading. Shireman added that enemies continue to use the WSJ article to tarnish his efforts. According to National Public Radio's David Folkenflick, \"There's no evidence \u2014 none \u2014 to support any of those claims, despite two federal investigations.\" The Wall Street Journal, however, has refused to make the retraction or offer an apology."}, {"text": "The sixth season of \"Fear the Walking Dead\", an American horror-drama television series on AMC, premiered on October 11, 2020, and concluded on June 13, 2021, consisting of sixteen episodes. The series is a companion series to \"The Walking Dead\", which is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The executive producers are Kirkman, David Alpert, Greg Nicotero, Gale Anne Hurd, Scott M. Gimple, Andrew Chambliss, and Ian B. Goldberg, with Chambliss and Goldberg as showrunners for the third consecutive season. The season follows Morgan Jones (Lennie James) who has been left for dead by Virginia (Colby Minifie), while the remaining members of Morgan's group have been separated by Virginia and her Pioneers and are dispersed across her various settlements. The season also features multiple time jumps. Cast. The sixth season featured sixteen actors receiving main cast billing status, with eleven returning from the fifth season, while five new cast members are introduced. Christine Evangelista (who was a recurring cast member in \"The Walking Dead\"), moved to the main cast after her departure from \"The Walking Dead\". Mo Collins and Colby Hollman were promoted from recurring status and Zoe"}, {"text": "Colletti and Keith Carradine were added to the main cast. Episodes. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Production. On July 19, 2019, AMC renewed the series for a sixth season. Casting. In December 2019, it was announced that Zoe Colletti would join the main cast for the sixth season as Dakota, and that Mo Collins and Colby Hollman were promoted to series regulars after having recurring roles since the fourth and fifth seasons, respectively. In January 2020, it was confirmed that Christine Evangelista would reprise her role as Sherry, who last appeared in the seventh season of \"The Walking Dead\"; she is the third character to crossover from the parent series to \"Fear the Walking Dead\". Filming and writing. Production began in November 2019 in Texas. In March 2020, production for the sixth season was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the shutdown, the series had almost completed production on the first half of the season and showrunner Andrew Chambliss confirmed that every script for the sixth season was completed. Production was reported to have restarted in late August 2020 and was completed in March 2021. Showrunner Ian Goldberg stated that the sixth season would take on an \"anthology format\", where episodes"}, {"text": "will focus on individual or pairs of characters, similar to previous episodes like season 4's \"Laura\". Goldberg also described it as \"a darker season\". Cast member Lennie James made his directorial debut this season, and was mentored by fellow cast member Colman Domingo who had previously directed episodes for the series; Domingo also directed his third episode of the series in this season. Reception. Critical response. The sixth season received generally positive reviews, in contrast to generally mixed-to-negative reviews for the previous two seasons. On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has a rating of 89% based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 7.30/10. After a mixed-to-negative reception to the fourth and fifth seasons, the series received a renewed positive critical reception during its sixth season, but also received some mixed reviews as the season progressed. Early episodes of the sixth season were praised; Dalton Ross of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote that the series \"is having its best season ever\" and was positive about the series' take on different genres, writing \"The end result is a bolder, more badass collection of stories that manages to feel narratively cohesive while, at the same time, visually and tonally independent.\" Paul Tassi of \"Forbes\""}, {"text": "was positive towards the season and also noted the positive reactions from fans as well. Emily Hannemann of \"TV Insider\" also noted the series' improvement over previous seasons and praised the character development, plot and dialogue. Erik Kain of \"Forbes\" at first gave the sixth season positive reviews, but shifted to very negative, stating \"the story manages to be so godawful episode after episode.\""}, {"text": "Senator Boggs may refer to:"}, {"text": "\"Please Don't Go\" is a song by New Zealand band Six60, released as the second single from their third album \"Six60\" in October 2019, on the same day as their song \"Raining\". Background and composition. The song is a mixed genre song, incorporating elements of rock, alternative, pop, and funk, that incorporates falsetto. The band were inspired to create a song that expressed who they were, while incorporated all aspects of their musical sound in a single track. Release and promotion. The song was released as a single on 11 October 2019, coinciding with the release of \"Raining\" and the announcement that Six60 had been signed by United States label Epic Records. The song's music video was shot in Tokyo when the band visited the country for a showcase in October, which was released on 16 November. Critical reception. The song was nominated for the Aotearoa Music Award for Single of the Year at the 2020 Aotearoa Music Awards, losing to \"Supalonely\" by Benee. Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from Tidal."}, {"text": "Evelyn Riggs Dewey (1889\u20131965) was an American education reformer and social activist and author of several books on education. Prior to her education work, she was involved in the Women's Trade Union League, particularly concerning the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909. She was the daughter of the philosopher, psychologist, and education reformer John Dewey and the educator Alice Chipman Dewey. Life and work. Dewey was born in 1889, the second of six children born to the educationalists John Dewey and Alice Chipman Dewey. In 1909, she was studying at Barnard College, New York City, during the time she was involved in the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) and supported the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909. Evelyn traveled in Europe with her parents, visiting Montessori schools, and in the winter of 1914, she and her parents met Maria Montessori, to whom they were introduced by Evelyn's college roommate, the Montessori teacher Margaret Naumburg. While satisfied by what they saw at the schools, neither Evelyn nor her mother seemed impressed by Montessori herself. It was following this visit, and the visit of her father and adopted brother, Sabino, to the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education, that Evelyn and John"}, {"text": "Dewey decided on a survey of experimental schools in the US, such as those run by William Wirt in Gary, Indiana. This was published in 1915 as \"Schools of To-morrow\", one of the key texts of educational reform. Evelyn was probably responsible for the descriptive chapters in \"Schools of To-morrow\", in which the phrase 'learning by doing' is first used to describe the educational approach taken in some of the schools that the Deweys admired. Around the time of the publication of \"Schools of To-Morrow\" Evelyn Dewey started working administering IQ tests at the Public Education Association of the City of New York (PEA) Psychological Survey, where she was one of several supporters of the WTUL who worked under Lucy Sprague Mitchell. In 1916, Sprague Mitchell, Caroline Pratt and Harriet Merrill Johnson founded the Bureau of Educational Experiments (BEE), of which Evelyn Dewey was one of 12 charter members. At the BEE, Dewey ran experiments renovating rural schools and running school farms, which she reported in her 1920 book \"New Schools for Old\". Dewey left the BEE in 1919, and worked on editing her parents' \"Letters from China and Japan\". She was married in 1932 to Granville Smith Jr., and"}, {"text": "continued to speak and write on education in the 1920s and 30s under her maiden name. She died in 1965."}, {"text": "\"Raining\", also known by the title \"It's Been Raining\", is a song by New Zealand band Six60, released as the third single from their third album \"Six60\" in October 2019, on the same day as their song \"Please Don't Go\". Background and composition. Six60 wrote the song in Los Angeles in collaboration with Nico & Vinz, due to their shared love of reggae. The song has a minimal production, incorporating vocal harmonies with a reggae sound and a gospel choir. The band members felt vulnerable releasing the song, as the band had been attempting to distance themselves from reggae and dub-inspired music for their most recent albums. Lyrically, \"Raining\" expresses the feeling of falling in love. Release and promotion. The song was released as a single on 11 October 2019, coinciding with the release of \"Please Don't Go\" and the announcement that Six60 had been signed by United States label Epic Records. Later that month, the band collaborated with All Black Sevu Reece to perform a live version of the song for a promotional video for the All Blacks, during the 2019 Rugby World Cup held in Japan. In 2021, the band Coterie performed a cover of the song, which"}, {"text": "led to Six60 reaching out to them to collaborate. Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from Tidal."}, {"text": "Joseph Townsend (born 27 March 1988) is a British paratriathlete who competes in the PTWC classification. Townsend has won European and world medals as well as becoming Commonwealth Champion in 2018. He represented Great Britain at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, where he finished sixth. Townsend has won the GBR Paratriathlon National Championships for four consecutive years- 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. He lost both legs whilst serving in Afghanistan, after stepping on an IED in 2008. Joe Townsend is based in Eastbourne, England, where he was born. Personal life. Townsend was born and brought up in Eastbourne, England and attended Ratton School. He has a wife and child. Townsend is a UK Sport Lottery Funded paratriathlete and was based at the Loughborough Triathlon Performance Centre before he moved back to his hometown of Eastbourne after the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio. Military service. Townsend served in the 40 Commando whilst in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan during Operation Herrick VII. On 8 February 2008, he stepped on a Taliban improvised explosive device in a field in the Upper Gereshk Valley whilst leading his patrol (from Delta Company) back to FOB Gibraltar. The base, built in 2007, was nicknamed 'the"}, {"text": "mouth of hell' by Taliban fighters and Townsend was one of 14 to be seriously injured there. He was then taken to Camp Bastion (where he underwent 14 hours of live-saving surgery), before being flown to the Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham, where, what remained of his right leg was treated and left leg was amputated as it could not be saved. Townsend spent a total of five and half months including 6 weeks in intensive care at the hospital. Rehabilitation. In July 2008, Townsend left the hospital to go to the Headley Court a Defense Medical Rehabilitation Centre in Surrey. He spent a total of 3 years at the centre, learning how to use his new prosthetic legs, whilst also undertaking further surgery at the hospital, receiving over 50 operations to date. At the rehabilitation centre, he was encouraged to compete in the Ironman Triathlon - 2.4 miles of swimming, 112 miles of cycling and 26 miles of running. The triathlon had never been completed by a disabled athlete at the time. Noel Edmonds. In February 2009 Noel Edmonds, on his Sky One show Noel's HQ, intervened on a planning permission denial by Wealden District Council for a specially"}, {"text": "adapted bungalow for his needs. This led to the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling on the council to reconsider their decision. The planning permission was given in March 2009 as a result. Sporting career. Having taken up paratriathlon in 2011 as part of his rehabilitation, Townsend went on to complete the Ironman UK triathlon in Bolton in July 2011 and then in 2012, he competed at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii, where he finished second in the disability category. Townsend's first taste of international triathlon came in 2012 at the Eilat ETU Triathlon European Championships where he won a bronze medal. In 2013, he competed at his first GBR Paratriathlon National Championships, finishing 2nd. He also won a bronze medal at the 2013 Alanya ETU Triathlon European Championships. Townsend competed in the Invictus Games in 2014 and took home four gold medals from the 100m, 200m, 400m and 1500m disciplines on the athletics track. He also took part in the cycling and power lifting events. The 2014 season also saw him win a silver medal at the Yokohama ITU World Paratriathlon Event and three bronze medals at the Kitzb\u00fchel ETU Triathlon European Championships, GBR Paratriathlon National Championships"}, {"text": "and the Madrid ITU World Paratriathlon Event. Townsend achieved further triathlon success in 2015 winning two silver medals at the GBR Paratriathlon National Championships and the Besan\u00e7on ITU World Paratriathlon Event and a bronze medal at the Iseo - Franciacorta ITU World Paratriathlon Event. He made his Paralympic debut in triathlon at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, finishing sixth in the men's PT1 event. The 2016 season saw Townsend win a gold medal at the GBR Paratriathlon National Championships a silver medal at the Penrith ITU World Paratriathlon Event and two bronze medals at the Lisbon ETU Triathlon European Championships and Besan\u00e7on ITU World Paratriathlon Event. He won his first global medal with a bronze at the ITU World Championships in Rotterdam in 2017 along with another gold medal at the GBR Paratriathlon National Championships and silver medal at the Edmonton ITU World Paratriathlon Series. Townsend represented Team England at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, winning a gold medal in paratriathlon at its first time featuring in the Games. His success continued into the 2018 triathlon season as he made the podium in all of six of the competitions he entered that year winning gold at"}, {"text": "the GBR Paratriathlon National Championships and Eton Dorney ITU Paratriathlon World Cup, silver at the Tartu ETU Triathlon European Championships and bronze at the Yokohama ITU World Paratriathlon Series, Iseo - Franciacorta ITU World Paratriathlon Series and ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Gold Coast. Townsend was able to deliver several top five finishes in 2019 including victory in the PTWC Men's races at the GBR Paratriathlon National Championships and the Tokyo ITU Paratriathlon World Cup. Paratriathlon Competitions. The following list of results. Unless indicated otherwise, the competitions are paratriathlons."}, {"text": "Cerro Pelado may refer to: Places Other uses"}, {"text": "Gasmata Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Gloucester Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Kandrian Coastal Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Kandrian Inland Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Kove/Kaliai Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. The An\u00eam language, a language isolate, is spoken in the LLG."}, {"text": "Bali/Witu Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. The Bali and Vitu languages are spoken in the LLG."}, {"text": "Bialla Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. The Lower dialect of the Ata language is spoken in the LLG."}, {"text": "The Benthozoa or Myriazoa are a proposed basal animal clade consisting of the Porifera and ParaHoxozoa as a sister group of Ctenophora. An alternative phylogeny is given by the Porifera-sister hypothesis in which Porifera are the first diverging animal group."}, {"text": "Hoskins Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Mosa Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Talasea Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Gerardo Joseph Colacicco (born September 19, 1955) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of New York since 2019. He serves as the episcopal vicar for the northern counties of the archdiocese. Biography. Early life. Geraldo Colacicco was born on September 19, 1955, in Poughkeepsie, New York, the eldest of four children of Angelo and Irma Colacicco. Angelo Colacicco worked for the US Postal Service, then became a custodian at St. Mary's Parish in Poughkeepsie. During high school and college, Geraldo Colacicco worked at the St. Mary's rectory. He later identified Reverend Matthew J. Cox from St. Mary's and Reverend Joseph Maria Pernicone from Our Lady of Mount Carmel's Parish in Poughkeepsie as influences on him. Colacicco graduated in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts in history from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, with minors in philosophy and Russian studies. He then entered Saint Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, New York. During his studies at Saint Joseph's, Colacicco served as a transitional deacon at Sacred Heart Parish in Newburgh, New York. Priesthood. On November 6, 1982, Colacicco was ordained to the priesthood at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan for the Archdiocese of"}, {"text": "New York by Cardinal Terence Cooke. The archdiocese assigned Colacicco as parochial vicar at the following New York parishes: In 1989, Cardinal John O'Connor appointed Colacicco as his priest-secretary. Colacicco then traveled to Rome to study at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, where he received a Licentiate of Canon Law in 1992. After returning to New York, the archdiocese placed Colacicco as a judge on the metropolitan tribunal. He was also named as director of pastoral formation at Saint Joseph's Seminary. Colacicco left his diocesan positions to become pastor of Sacred Heart in 1996. He remained at Sacred Heart for 16 years. The Vatican elevated Colacicco to the rank of prelate of honor of his holiness in 1999. In 2002, he was transferred to the pastorate of St. Columba's Parish in Hopewell Junction. Colacicco also returned to the metropolitan tribunal for another term in 2007. Colacicco left St. Columba in 2014 to become administrator of St. Joseph Parish in Millbrook, New York, which became St. Joseph-Immaculate Conception Parish the next year. Auxiliary Bishop of New York. Pope Francis appointed Colacicco as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of New York on October 10, 2019. On December 10, 2019,"}, {"text": "Colacicco was consecrated as a bishop by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, with Archbishop Henry J. Mansell and Auxiliary Bishop Gerald Walsh acting as co-consecrators. As auxiliary bishop, Colacicco is the episcopal vicar for the northern counties of the archdiocese which include Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Ulster, and Sullivan counties. In April 2020, as part of the Good Friday liturgy at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Colacicco gave a meditation on the seven last words said to have been spoken by Jesus from the cross. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the service was live-streamed. His reflections were subsequently published in \"Beneath the Cross\". Colacicco is a member of the Knights of Columbus and is an associate chaplain for the New York State Council of the Knights."}, {"text": "Martine Dessureault (born 2 March 1974) is a Canadian former swimmer who represented Canada at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Career. Dessureault was born in Montreal, Quebec. She was trained by \u00c9ric Kramer. At the 1996 Summer Olympic Games Dessureault finished 26th out of 55 swimmers in the women's 50 metre freestyle with a time of 26.44 seconds."}, {"text": "\"Ritmo\" (also known as \"Ritmo (\"Bad Boys for Life\")\") is a song by American group Black Eyed Peas and Colombian singer J Balvin, released by Epic Records on October 11, 2019, as the first single from the soundtrack of the 2020 film \"Bad Boys for Life\". It is also included on the group's eighth studio album \"Translation\". Background and composition. The song features a prominent, slowed down sample of the 1993 song \"The Rhythm of the Night\" by the Italian group Corona (the song is performed by Italian singer Jenny B, the ghost-voice involved in the project). Jennifer Lopez was originally intended to appear on the remix version, but Jaden Smith, whose father starred in the third film, appeared on the remix instead which was released on the film's soundtrack. Live performance. The song was performed live at the closing ceremony of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines. Critical reception. \"Billboard\"'s writer Jessica Roiz compared \"Ritmo\" to \"The Rhythm of the Night\", writing that the first one \"fuses Hip-Hop, EDM, and reggaeton, has Spanish and English verses without interrupting the original chorus from \"The Rhythm of the Night\"\". In a less enthusiastic review, Gary Suarez of \"Rolling Stone\""}, {"text": "wrote that \"the overextended J Balvin atop a convenient confluence of virally primed factors\" which \"proved irresistible to radio programmers and streaming playlisters\", but he defined the use of Corona's semple a \"plunder\". Music video. The official video of the song, directed by Colin Tilley, was released on YouTube on October 11, 2019, on the official YouTube's Black Eyed Peas channel. Commercial performance. The song debuted at number 100 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and peaked at number 26, staying on the chart for 27 weeks. It became the Black Eyed Peas' 17th Hot 100 entry and their first since \"Don't Stop the Party\" peaked at number 86 in 2011, as well as their first top 40 entry since \"Just Can't Get Enough\" peaked at number 3 in 2011. On \"Billboard\"s Mainstream Top 40 chart, the song peaked at number 8. The song spent 24 weeks at number one on the Hot Latin Songs chart. Easter Eggs. The first line of the song's rap, \"No son ni Reebok ni son Nike\" (translates to \"They are neither Reebok or Nike\"), references a viral clip in which a Dominican radio caller requests Corona's \"The Rhythm of the Night\" by asking the"}, {"text": "host to play the song that goes \"esos son Reebok o son Nike\" (translates to \"are those Reebok or Nike\"). The moment went viral after the host impressively retrieved the requested song based on that clue alone."}, {"text": "HKmap.live is a web mapping service which crowdsources and tracks the location of protesters and police in Hong Kong. The service was launched during the 2019\u20132020 Hong Kong protests and gathers reports on police patrols and tear gas deployments via Telegram. The service is available for smartphone users in an Android version via the Google Play Store and in a World Wide Web version, while the iOS smartphone version was removed by Apple. Development and operation. The service was launched in August 2019 by LIHKG member 5YH; according to the developer, the website had more than ten thousand unique visitors on the first day. It gathers reports from instant messaging service Telegram on police patrols and tear gas deployments. The service allows users to track police activity on Hong Kong streets, providing ongoing information on police movements via messages and GPS locations. This allows citizens to move away from areas where police action may take place, and notify others of actions that may be taken in different places. The service is available in an Android version via the Google Play Store and in a web version, while the iOS version was removed by Apple. iOS app. Initial rejection and approval."}, {"text": "The iOS version of HKmap.live was initially submitted to Apple Inc. on 21 September 2019 and was rejected from its App Store five days later on an issue regarding payment options. The app's developer fixed the issue and re-submitted the application, though Apple again rejected the app on 2 October. According to the company, the rejection was because it \"facilitates, enables, or encourages an activity that is not legal\" and that it \"allowed users to evade law enforcement\". In response, the developer said that they believed the rejection was caused by a bureaucratic error rather than censorship, stating that the app was built to \"show events happening\" in Hong Kong and that they \"do not encourage illegal activity\". They also argued that the rejection was unfair because other apps such as Waze help drivers avoid traffic cameras and police, adding that Apple was assuming that HKmap.live users would break the law. Apple reversed its decision on 4 October and the app was made available on the App Store a day later. Removal. In an editorial published on 8 October, the \"People's Daily\", the official mouthpiece of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, argued that Apple endorsed and protected"}, {"text": "\"rioters\" in the 2019\u20132020 Hong Kong protests by listing the app on its App Store. The article, which did not specifically name the app, suggested that Apple approving of the app after initial rejection made it an accomplice () for the protesters, allowing \"Hong Kong rioters to openly commit crime while openly escaping arrests\". The article also criticised Apple for listing the protest anthem \"Glory to Hong Kong\", frequently sung in the protests, on its Hong Kong music store, though it did not directly name the song. Verna Yu of \"The Guardian\" described this condemnation as an attempt by China to force foreign companies to conform to its views, comparing it to a recent incident where state broadcaster China Central Television and Chinese companies cancelled collaboration with the National Basketball Association after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted in support of the Hong Kong protests. Apple removed the app the next day. In its statement, Apple said that the app violated their guidelines and local laws, stating that it \"has been used to target and ambush police\" and \"threaten public safety\" according to information provided by the (CSTCB), part of the Hong Kong Police Force. Jack Nicas of \"The"}, {"text": "New York Times\" noted that like other companies, Apple had to balance between maintaining access to the Chinese market with the \"negative public image of capitulating\" to its government, though argued that Apple had more at stake in China than other multinational companies with most of its product assembly in China and its reliance on the Chinese market. The developer criticised Apple's decision on Thursday, saying on Twitter that it does not \"solicit, promote, or encourage criminal activity.\" It also argued that there was no evidence to support the CSTCB's claim that the app has been used to target or ambush police, or that it threatened public safety. Users who had already downloaded the app can still use it after it was removed. Before it was removed, the iOS app was the most downloaded app under the Travel category in Apple's Hong Kong App Store. Responses. In an internal email written to all Apple employees, CEO Tim Cook defended the company's decision to remove the app, saying that it was \"being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property where no police are present.\" However, Cook's claims have been disputed by international observers in"}, {"text": "Hong Kong, who stated that individual violations as described do not match up with what the service displays. Charles Mok, a Professional Commons member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, said in a letter to Cook that he was \"deeply disappointed\" by Apple's decision to remove the app, stating that the service helps Hong Kong residents avoid areas where pedestrians may be subjected to police brutality and excessive force by the police during crowd dispersal operations. Maciej Ceg\u0142owski, a software developer and activist who was in Hong Kong during the protests, said that the claim that the app violated the law was similarly unsupported, saying that neither Cook nor Apple pointed out which law the app violated. Ceg\u0142owski also thought that double standards were in play, comparing the app to Waze, which similarly allows tracking of law enforcement but is still available on the iOS platform. When asked about Apple removing the app specifically, Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reiterated the Chinese government's stance, describing the protests as \"extreme, violent acts, challenging Hong Kong's rule of law and order, threatening the safety of Hong Kong's people\" that should be opposed. In an 18 October"}, {"text": "letter addressed to Tim Cook, US Senators Ron Wyden, Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mike Gallagher and Tom Malinowski expressed \"strong concern\" over Apple's decision to remove the app. The letter stated that such examples cause \"concern about whether Apple and other large US corporate entities will bow to growing Chinese demands rather than lose access to a billion Chinese consumers.\" The letter was seen as a rare example of bipartisanship in the US Congress, because Cruz and Ocasio-Cortez, two signatories to the letter, are typically seen as being on opposite sides of the American political spectrum."}, {"text": "Beauval Forks 192O is an Indian reserve of the English River First Nation in Saskatchewan."}, {"text": "Central Gazelle Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Inland Baining Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) located in the Baining Mountains of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Lassul Baining Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Livuan/Reimber Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Vunadidir/Toma Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Bitapaka Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Duke of York Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) that comprises the Duke of York Islands in East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Kokopo/Vunamami Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Raluana Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Central/Inland Pomio Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "East Pomio Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. The Sulka language is spoken in the LLG, including in the village of Guma."}, {"text": "Melkoi Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "The Chichinautzin Biological Corridor is a protected natural area in central Mexico. It is located south of Mexico City in the Sierra de Ajusco-Chichinauhtzin, an east\u2013west chain of volcanic mountains which are part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Geography. The Chichinautzin Biological Corridor covers an area of 319.05 km2 in the northern portion of Morelos state, on the border with the State of Mexico. The corridor consists of two separate parts, which lie east and west of El Tepozteco National Park. The western portion contains the volcanoes Cerro Chichinautzin () and Cuatzin (). It is bounded on the west by Lagunas de Zempoala National Park and Zempoala\u2013La Bufa Otom\u00ed-Mexica Ecological Park, on the north by San Miguel Topilejo Ecological Reserve, on the east by El Tepozeco National Park. The city of Cuernavaca lies to the south. The eastern portion is bounded on the west by El Tepozeco National Park and on the northwest by Milpa Alta Protected Area. Flora and fauna. Pine-oak forests are the main plant community in the corridor, with species of pine, oak, and oyamel (fir) as the predominant trees. The Chichinautzin Biological Corridor is a protected natural area with a remarkable diversity of habitats and species"}, {"text": "due to its geographic and climatic conditions. There are 785 species of plants, 315 species of fungi (more than 80 edible), 10 species of amphibians, 43 species of reptiles, 1,348 species of insects and spiders, 237 of birds (36 exclusive to this region), and 5 species of fish in the corridor. It is home to several limited-range species endemic to the mountains of Central Mexico, including the volcano rabbit (\"Romerolagus diazi\"), Mexican volcano mouse (\"Neotomodon alstoni\"), cross-banded mountain rattlesnake (\"Crotalus transversus\"), and mountain stream salamander (\"Ambystoma altamirani\"). Conservation. The Chichinautzin Biological Corridor was designated in 1988 to create a continuous protected area that connects Lagunas de Zempoala National Park with El Tepozteco National Park. The total area protected by the biological corridor and the two national parks is 660.92 km2."}, {"text": "Sinivit Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "West Pomio/Mamusi Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. The Upper dialect of the Ata language is spoken in the LLG."}, {"text": "Balanataman Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Kombiu Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Watom Island Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "An Affair to Die For is a 2019 English-language Spanish-Italian thriller film directed by V\u00edctor Garcia starring Claire Forlani, Jake Abel, and Titus Welliver. It was released on February 1, 2019. Plot. Holly, a successful professor, travels to Aspen for a rendezvous with her 27-year-old former student and current lover Everett Alan. She puts on the blindfold left for her and chains herself to the headboard of the bed using the handcuffs left for her. She is unaware that the man who next enters the room is her policeman husband Russell Pierpoint, who has sex with her. She enjoys the sex until it becomes too rough but he ignores her pleas to stop and continues, leaving her crying afterwards. In the next room Russell tells Everett, who is bound and gagged, that he is holding Everett's wife Lydia and daughter Jessica hostage, then leaves after instructing Everett to lie to Holly and say that he was the one who just had sex with her. Everett unlocks the handcuffs and Holly berates him for his behavior while she dresses to leave, but Russell calls Everett and instructs him not to let Holly leave. Russell then calls Holly, telling her that Everett"}, {"text": "is a dangerous man responsible for the disappearance of multiple women and pleading with her to escape somehow. Over the course of the day the two are manipulated by phone to pit them against each other for revenge. Holly slips Dave the bellboy a note that she is in trouble but Russell finds it and sends back Lydia's severed ring finger to Everett as punishment. Russell advises Everett to use pills he has left in the room to drug Holly, but Holly also uses her own supply of pills to drug Everett. Everett whispers to Holly that her husband Russell is holding his wife and daughter hostage and set up the entire encounter, then both fall unconscious from the drugs. Holly wakes to find herself handcuffed to a railing in the room and accuses Everett of being a serial killer, warning him that Russell will bring the police force to stop him. Everett finds Russell beaten and bound to a wheelchair in the bedroom. Everett releases Holly and they watch Russell die from an injection of an unknown drug. A person with a disguised voice calls them and gives the ultimatum that only one of the two lovers is permitted"}, {"text": "to check out of the hotel to return to family life. Holly stabs and kills Everett, then receives a call instructing her to microwave the phone to destroy it. She is invited to come to 513 to learn the whole story, but when she arrives she finds a surveillance system monitoring her and Everett's hotel room as well and discovers Everett's wife Lydia bound and blindfolded in the bathtub with her ring finger missing. Holly unties her and checks the contents of a memory card hidden away by Everett before his death, revealing that Lydia was involved in the plot. Lydia enters and confesses that she killed Everett's other two lovers, then grabs the memory card, breaks it, and flushes it down the toilet. Holly smashes a glass vase over Lydia's head, killing her as two security guards force their way into the room and demand that she surrender. Production. The film was shot in Sofia, Bulgaria. The interiors of the hotel were shot in Nu Boyana Film Studios, 84 Kumata Str., Kinocentar, Sofia, Bulgaria. Release. The film was given a limited theatrical release and a VOD release in the United States on February 1, 2019. Reception. In a negative"}, {"text": "review of the film for \"The Hollywood Reporter\", reviewer Frank Scheck wrote, \"Don't even bother trying to keep up with the convoluted plot machinations of Victor Garcia's thriller about adultery gone wrong.\" He concludes that the film is \"B-movie mediocrity\" and \"not even worth stopping for.\" Reviewer Roger Moore of the film review website \"Movie Nation\" gave the film 1.5 out of 4 stars, writing that \"the dialogue lacks punch and ultimately concluding that \"this 'Affair,' as it stands, is nothing to die for, or even catch a cold over. The execution here, bland direction (a veteran of 'The Mirror 2' behind the camera), colorless dialogue and performances pitched as almost mild-mannered (save for Welliver) earn this one a bored shrug.\""}, {"text": "Fireraisers Forever! is the eighth studio album by British Indie pop band Comet Gain. It was released on 11 October 2019 under Tapete Records. The first single from the album, \"Mid 8Ts\" was released on 29 August 2019. Critical reception. \"Fireraisers Forever!\" was met with universal acclaim reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 85, based on 4 reviews."}, {"text": "Esther Helton-Haynes (born November 6, 1961) is an American politician and a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, representing District 30 since November 6, 2018. Helton-Haynes represents District 30 In Tennessee which includes; East Ridge, East Brainerd, Apison, and Collegedale. In 2023, Helton-Haynes supported a resolution to expel three Democratic lawmakers from the legislature for violating decorum rules. The expulsion was widely characterized as unprecedented. Background. Helton-Haynes was born in East Ridge, Tennessee in 1961. Helton-Haynes had a medical background prior to politics, serving as a nurse for 35 years. Education. Helton-Haynes attended and received her degree from Chattanooga State Community College for Practical Nursing in 1981. 2018 Election. The following are the results for the 2018 District 30 Election. Current Legislative Committees. Helton-Haynes currently serves as the Vice-chair for the Health Committee and is a member of the Facilities, Li-censure, and Regulation Subcommittee, Property and Planning Subcommittee, and the Local Committee. Current Caucus/Non-Legislative Committees. Helton-Haynes is a current member of the Tennessee House of Representatives Health and Local Committees. Civic Memberships. Member of Elks Lodge 91 East Brainerd Religion. Helton-Haynes is a Baptist who is active in worship at Grace Works Church."}, {"text": "\"Lose Control\" is a song by Italian production trio Meduza, British singer Becky Hill and production trio Goodboys, released as a single by Virgin Records on 11 October 2019. It reached number 11 on the UK Singles Chart. As of November 2023, the song has amassed more than 870 million streams on Spotify. The song also appears in Meduza's recent released album \"MEDUZA\". Background. \"Lose Control\" was largely written and produced in the winter of 2018 originally with vocals by Josh Grimmett from Goodboys and Conor Blake, a co-writer of the song. At the start of 2019, Becky Hill wrote and recorded her vocals for the verses and pre-chorus, which was finished in one day. Meduza described it as a \"radio friendly\" track. Composition. The second single by Italian production trio Meduza is a deep house track influenced by dance-pop. It is written in C Minor and has a chord progression Cm \u2014 Fm \u2014 A\u266d. Music video. The music video was filmed in and around the abandoned residential development of Burj Al Babas, near the town of Mudurnu, Turkey."}, {"text": "Edmund James Whalen (born July 6, 1958) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York since 2019. Biography. Early life. Edmund Whalen was born July 6, 1958, in Staten Island, New York. He attended Blessed Sacrament Church and School and Monsignor Farrell High School, both in Staten Island. He later entered the Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in Queens, New York. Whalen traveled to Rome to further his studies, receiving a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1984. He was ordained as a transitional deacon at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on April 14, 1983. Whalen then spent time serving at a mission in the Diocese of Kakamega in Kenya. Priesthood. On June 23, 1984, Whalen was ordained to the priesthood at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan by Cardinal John O'Connor for the Archdiocese of New York. After his ordination, the archdiocese briefly assigned him as parochial vicar for Resurrection Parish in Rye, New York. He then returned to Rome to finish a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from the Alphonsian Academy at the Pontifical Lateran University. After coming back to"}, {"text": "New York in 1985, Whalen was assigned again at Resurrection Parish. In 1987, he was also named as a teacher at Monsignor Farrell High School. O\u2019Connor appointed Whalen as his priest-secretary in 1990. He entered the doctoral program at the Alphonsian Academy, receiving a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree in 1995. After returning to New York, Whalen started teaching moral theology at St. Joseph\u2019s Seminary in Yonkers, New York. He was named vice rector of St. Joseph's in 1997. In 1998, he left St. Joseph's to become rector at the St. John Neumann Seminary Residence in the Bronx. In 2001, the archdiocese named Whalen as pastor at St. Benedict Parish in the Bronx, serving there for the next six years. In 2010, Whalen was named principal of Monsignor Farrell. Auxiliary Bishop of New York. Pope Francis appointed Whalen as an auxiliary bishop of New York on October 10, 2019. He was consecrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral by Cardinal Timothy Dolan on December 10, 2019, with Archbishop Henry J. Mansell and Bishop Gerald Thomas Walsh serving as co-consecrators."}, {"text": "Ranu Maria Mondal is an Indian playback singer. She is best known for singing \"Teri Meri Kahani\" with Himesh Reshammiya. The song was used in the Hindi musical film \"Happy Hardy and Heer\" (2020). Controversy. In November 2019, Mondal was seen behaving rudely with a fan who wanted to take a selfie with her. In a viral video, a woman is seen very interested to take a selfie during an event. But Mondal arrogantly taps the woman\u2019s shoulder in return asking her \"Kya Hai Yeh?\" (What's This?)."}, {"text": "Big Island Lake Cree Territory is an Indian reserve of the Big Island Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is 39 kilometres east of Cold Lake, Alberta. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 808 living in 132 of its 165 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 37 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "Spooky Empire is an American multigenre convention focused primarily on horror and science fiction, held bi-annually in Florida. The convention, which is billed as \"the dark side of Comic-Con\", features vendors, a film and tattoo festival, music, and celebrity guests. History. Co-founded by Peter Mongelli and Blaine Kimball, Spooky Empire has been held in Florida since 2003. It is held twice a year, in the spring and in the autumn. The first event took place at a Holiday Inn in Broward County, Florida. The convention was held in Orlando, Florida from 2006 to 2019, before moving to Tampa, Florida for its autumn 2019 event due to a lack of sufficient available venue space in Orlando. Celebrity guests at Spooky Empire have included Gillian Anderson, Fairuza Balk, Bruce Campbell, Neve Campbell, Alice Cooper, David Duchovny, Gunnar Hansen, Kane Hodder, Christopher Lloyd, Malcolm McDowell, Bill Moseley, Cassandra Peterson, Sam Raimi, Burt Reynolds, Christina Ricci, George A. Romero, Felissa Rose, Lewis Teague, Henry Thomas, Danny Trejo, Dee Wallace, and Carl Weathers."}, {"text": "Teys is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Abigail Cowen (born March 18, 1998) is an American actress and model. She is known for playing Dorcas in \"Chilling Adventures of Sabrina\" and Bloom in Netflix's live-action adaptation of \"Winx Club\" titled \"\". Early life. Born in Gainesville, Florida, Cowen was home-schooled in the eighth grade after her red hair and freckles made her the subject of intense bullying. She studied public relations at the University of Florida, then moved with her family to Los Angeles, California in 2016 to further pursue an acting career. Career. Cowen started off her acting career at the age of 17, by playing Brooklyn in Fox's \"Red Band Society\". In 2017, she played Vicki Charmichael in the second season of Netflix's \"Stranger Things\". From 2017 to 2018, she played Mia Tanner in CBS's \"Wisdom of the Crowd\". In 2018, she portrayed Eliza Hunter in Freeform's \"The Fosters\", followed by Ricochet in YouTube's \"The Power Couple\". In 2020, she made her film debut as Adrienne with \"I Still Believe\". From 2018 to 2020, Cowen portrayed Dorcas in Netflix's series \"Chilling Adventures of Sabrina\". In 2021, she started playing Bloom, in Netflix's live-action adaptation of \"Winx Club\" titled \"\". She described Bloom as a stubborn,"}, {"text": "determined introvert, who discovers she has fire powers and is sent to the \"Otherworld\" to master them. In 2021, Cowen starred as Fiona in \"Witch Hunt\". On being asked whether the lessons she learnt on \"Chilling Adventures of Sabrina\" came in handy, she said \u201cI feel like this film is so different. Yes, it is witchcraft, but they're very different characters. But just the magical element, I guess using my imagination in certain scenarios, you could say I was kind of used to. But it definitely was a completely different character, completely different type of project to tackle for me, which is fun and it was a challenge.\u201d Next, she starred as Angel in \"Redeeming Love\". In 2025, it was announced she would play the role of Delilah in \"Every Year After\"."}, {"text": "Bettertonite is a mineral of the arsenate category, named after John Betterton. He is a museum geologist and mineralogist at Haslemere Educational Museum in Surrey, England. Bettertonite is a white arsenate mineral with a formula of [Al6(AsO4)3(OH)9(H2O)5]\u30fb11H2O. Bettertonite is in the monoclinic system and has a heteropolyhedral layered structure type. It is a natural forming polyoxometalate. Bettertonite forms in clusters of radiating rectangular laths. Laths are thin and usually < 20 \u03bcm laterally. Laths are flat on {010}. Bettertonite is similar to penberthycroftyite and it transforms into penberthycroftyite at low temperatures (67\u201397 \u00b0C). Physical Properties. Bettertonite is a white and translucent mineral. It has a vitreous and silky to pearly luster. It has a calculated density of 2.02 g/cm3. Bettertonite has perfect cleavage on {010}. Bettertonite\u2019s hardness and fracture were not observed. Bettertonite is nonpleochroic and biaxially positive with \u03b1 = 1.511 (1), \u03b2 = 1.517 (1), \u03b3 = 1.523 (1). Occurrence. Bettertonite was discovered in St. Hilary, Cornwall, UK, at the Penberthy Croft Mine. The Penberthy Croft Mine is known for the rare secondary CuPbFe arsenates that have been found there. Bettertonite most likely formed as a product of leaching and the replacement of Al to Fe in pharmacosiderite."}, {"text": "Bettertonite infills isolated cavities in quartz veins and is associated with arsenopyrite, chamosite, liskeardite, pharmacoalumite, and pharmacosiderite. Structure, WDS data, and XRD data. Bettertonite forms in undulating layers that are parallel to (010). These undulating layers are made up of hexagonal rings of AlO6 octahedra. The rings are connected by AsO4 tetrahedra. The undulating stacking creates water-filled channels along [100]. Wavelength-Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (WDS) and Powder X-ray Diffraction (XRD) were used on Bettertonite to understand its chemical composition. WDS analyses, which included an average of 4 electron probes, yielded the following results when H2O was calculated on structural grounds and the analyses was normalized to 100%: Al2O3 = 29.5, Fe2O3 = 2.0, As2O5 = 30.1, SO3 = 1.8, Cl = 0.5, H2O = 36.2. XRD results can be found in a table located below. The empirical formula (based on 9 metal atoms) is Al5.86Fe0.26(AsO4)2.65(SO4)0.23(OH)9.82Cl0.13(H2O)15.5."}, {"text": "The Greene Man is a public house in London's Euston Road. It was formerly known as the Green Man (and Porters Bar) and before that, the Farthing Pie House or Pye House as mutton pies could be bought there for a farthing. When it was established in the 18th century, the area was rural and so the surroundings were farm fields and pleasure gardens. The place was then frequented by notable artists and writers including William Blake and Richard Wilson. Farthing Pie House. There has been a tavern in this location for centuries. It was founded in 1708 as the Farthing Pie House or Pye House. This was a common name for a place where a mutton pie could be bought for a farthing. It was mentioned by Henry Carey in his prelude to his popular song, \"Sally in our Alley\", which was written around 1716. Carey explained the song's inspiration \u2013 a shoemaker's apprentice taking his sweetheart on a tour of London's sights which finished with \"proceeding to the Farthing Pye-house, he gave her a Collation of Buns, Cheesecakes, Gammon of Bacon, Stuff\u2019d-beef, and Bottled-ale;\" Defoe's 1722 novel \"Colonel Jack\" also alludes to the tavern, when young Jack crosses"}, {"text": "London into a large field named after it. The most famous landlord in this period was Mr Price, who was known for his skill in making music by beating a salt-box with a rolling pin, accompanying musicians such as Carl Friedrich Abel, who played the violoncello. The tavern appears on Rocque's map of 1746 on the corner of the Green Lane with the East-West track which was later to become the New Road. The place then had a walled garden. Bilson's Farm is shown on the other side of the junction \u2013 a farm of 133 acres which later became part of Regent's Park. There are no other buildings nearby as the area was not yet developed, the surroundings were still open fields, ponds and tracks. The area was described in the recollections of John Thomas Smith: Green Man. The radical MP John Wilkes campaigned there for election to the Middlesex constituency as the suffrage was limited to wealthy freeholders who could be found there. At the end of the 18th century, it was frequented by William Blake as a young man. In 1809, it was renamed the Green Man. The Welsh painter Richard Wilson played skittles there. The pub"}, {"text": "is now owned by Greene King who changed the spelling of the sign to match their name, when they took over the Spirit Pub Company in 2015 and retired the Taylor Walker brewery brand. In 2019, the cheapest pie on the menu is Woodland Mushroom & Ale which costs \u00a310.99. As there were 960 farthings in a pound sterling, the nominal price of a pie has risen by a factor of over 10,000."}, {"text": "Big River 118 is an Indian reserve of the Big River First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is 98 kilometres northwest of Prince Albert. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 1553 living in 366 of its 407 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 46 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "During World War I, the Kingdom of Romania was a source of various types of military equipment. Either directly, or indirectly through Romanian-born people designing military equipment abroad. Munitions and related equipment. Between 1914 and 1916, 59 Romanian factories along with numerous private contractors produced a total of 400,000 artillery rounds and 45 million small-arms cartridges. Added to these completed projectiles there were cartridge components (70 million bullets and 110 million primers) and artillery shell components (250,000 fuzes). Three Romanian factories produced 1.5 tons of explosives daily, and grenades were also manufactured. Daily production of ammunition amounted to one cartridge for every rifle and two shells for every gun. When it joined the Great War in August 1916, Romania had a total of 600,000 shells. The Romanian Army had enough ammunition for its rifles to last five months, but the country needed 500,000 shells per month to avoid being overwhelmed. From France, 400,000 more shells were awaiting delivery. The entire Romanian production of artillery rounds amounted to 400,000. At the beginning of the war, the Romanian factories in Bucharest were producing small quantities of ammunition, mostly for training purposes. Made of cast iron, these old models had low striking power."}, {"text": "After the start of the war, following the huge amount of ammunition usage observed on the Western Front, production was focused on and quick-fire shells, but production remained limited and shells remained of poor quality. Such was the quality of Romanian-manufactured shells that during the Battle of Nagyszeben (Sibiu) \u2013 a Romanian defeat \u2013 percussion fuzes exploded inside gun barrels, killing and wounding gunners, or would not explode on the target. Artillery elements. As elsewhere, in order to create new artillery units, the Romanians resorted to disarming their fortifications, a decision prompted in part by the quick German destruction of Belgian forts in 1914. By August 1916, part of the 1,400 guns and howitzers from the Romanian forts ( to ) had been mounted on Romanian-produced carriages and assigned to field service. Some were converted to anti-aircraft guns. For instance, the Romanian officer \u0218tefan Burileanu invented an effective anti-aircraft system for the Hotchkiss rapid-fire gun. Up until Romania's entry into the war, the focus was on light and medium guns. Between 1914 and 1916, 332 gun carriages were produced for guns up to 75 mm. During the same time period, 1,500 caissons were also produced. After Romania entered the war,"}, {"text": "however, the heavy pieces were also turned into field guns. The 150 mm Krupp M1891/16 L/25 is one example. According to one photography dated October 1916, at least five such guns were converted for field use. Seven new heavy artillery regiments were formed. By 1918, the heaviest Romanian fortress guns had been converted for field use, as exemplified by the Ia\u0219i (Krupp) Model 1888/1918 210 mm howitzer. The Ghenea gun sight. The first artillery panoramic field lenses, later adopted by all the armies of the world, were invented by the Romanian General Toma Ghenea. Ghenea patented his \"sighting attachment for ordnance\" on 13 December 1902. Beginning with 1902, the panoramic sight began to gain ground very rapidly. But by 1907, Ghenea's was still \"one of the most perfect yet devised\". It had compensating gear for drift-caused lateral deviations and level of wheels. Ghenea's gun sight enabled sighting adjustments to be made rapidly, even for extreme alterations. The vertical angle which the sight made with the axis of the gun could be read on a quadrant scale. The Ghenea sight was peculiar because the pedestal itself was mounted on a transverse horizontal pivot to which the drum on which the elevation"}, {"text": "was set was attached. The pedestal itself was always perpendicular with the line of sight. The longitudinal level was just over the eyepiece of the panorama sight. In the Romanian Army, Ghenea's sight was fitted to the 75 mm Krupp L/30 field gun, being used for both direct and indirect laying. The Ghenea sight allowed the gun layer to adjust the range during the return of the piece in battery, by lightly turning the elevation screw which was just in front of him, without having to take his eye off the level. The bubble of the level was brought to its central position as soon as the forward movement of the gun was finished. With an ordinary sight, changing the range elevation while the gun was in motion was impossible. Vehicle assembly. Between 1907 and 1908, Romania assembled and launched four river monitors at the Gala\u021bi shipyard. The monitors were built in sections by STT in Austria-Hungary, then transported to Gala\u021bi and assembled there. The four vessels were named \"Ion C. Br\u0103tianu\", \"Lasc\u0103r Catargiu\", \"Mihail Kog\u0103lniceanu\" and \"Alexandru Lahovary\". Each vessel displaced 680 tons, had a top speed of 13 knots and a crew of 110. Armament consisted of three"}, {"text": "120 mm (4.7 inches) L/35 naval guns, two 120 mm (4.7 inches) L/10 naval howitzers, four 47 mm guns and two 6.5 mm machine-guns. Armor thickness amounted to 75 mm (almost 3 inches) on the sides, deck and turrets and 50 mm (almost two inches) on the conning tower. All but \"Alexandru Lahovary\" were launched in 1907, the latter being launched in 1908. The first monitor to be launched at Gala\u021bi was \"Lasc\u0103r Catargiu\". The four monitors first saw action during the Battle of Turtucaia. On 2 September 1916, after the German formation known as \"Abteilung Kaufmann\" penetrated into the western edge of the defences of Turtucaia, the artillery fire of the Romanian monitors brought the Germans to a halt. The \"Abteilung\" attempted again on the following day, 3 September. It divided into three columns and attempted to seize high ground which dominated the Romanian defences. All three columns were brought to a halt by defensive fire, however, and then forced to withdraw, leaving behind around 300 dead and wounded. The third and final attack of \"Abteilung Kaufmann\", on 4 September, was successful, the valuable high ground being captured. Subsequently, the monitors proceeded to evacuate Turtucaia. \"Alexandru Lahovary\" evacuated General"}, {"text": "Teodorescu and his staff, while the other three monitors - organised as the 2nd Monitor Division - safely evacuated the 9th Romanian Infantry Division. During the following year, the monitors joined the army artillery in holding the line against the Germans in Moldavia throughout the summer and autumn of 1917. In early 1918, the monitors were primarily engaged in sweeping mines from channels, rivers and ports. During the Balkan Wars of 1912\u20131913, Romania was the only country in the region to have developed its own aircraft. Bulgaria, Serbia and even the Ottoman Empire lacked native aircraft at the time, but Romania had two machines designed by Aurel Vlaicu \u2013 A Vlaicu I and A Vlaicu II \u2013 in service with its army. Vlaicu's design had a chain-driven propeller at either end of the wing, the rudder at the front of the aircraft, a triangular tail and a 50 hp Gnome et Rh\u00f4ne engine. At an Austro-Hungarian aircraft contest in the summer of 1912, Vlaicu's \"strange-looking monoplane\", a \"refreshing oddity\", took the first prizes for landing in the smallest circle and for accurate \"bomb dropping\". Vlaicu's aircraft was nicknamed \"La Folle Mouche\" (\"The Crazy Fly\"). Although the model was subsequently purchased"}, {"text": "by the Romanian Army, Vlaicu was killed in a crash during September 1913, which also destroyed his second aircraft. Before Romania's entry into World War I, a Romanian factory started manufacturing Farman aircraft under licence. Six Farmans were ordered and served in the Romanian Air Corps. On the eve of its entry into the war in 1916, the Romanian Air Corps had 24 aircraft and another 20 from the flight schools. During the war, a number of 242-292 aircraft and 545 engines were assembled at RGA. During late 1917, limited assembly of Nieuport 17 fighters also took place at the Romanian port town of Sulina. The aircraft assembled there arrived in crates at Chilia. On 7 October, two assembled fighters were already in service at Sulina, and by the end of the year, four more operational and two non-operational aircraft were added. It is not known for certain if the Sulina air unit was involved in any combat. Armored car production. WW1. In 1915, an armored car was designed at the CFR workshops in Bucharest. It used the chassis of a truck that was being repaired at the workshops. The armored car could mount a single machine gun in a"}, {"text": "fixed turret. The car was assigned to the armored car section of the Automobile Traction Regiment, then transferred to the Assault Tank Battalion (\"Batalionul Carelor de Asalt\") in 1919. During the war, when the workshops were located at Ia\u0219i, another armored car was built. This armored car was larger and it was equipped with a machine gun, as well as with a \"Burileanu\" anti-aircraft gun. Automobil blindat M1919. During the Hungarian-Romanian War of 1919, the Romanian Army used an armored car of native design and construction. The car used the chassis of a commercial truck, possibly from one of the Renault trucks received in 1916. Presumably, the design and construction of this machine took place at the end of 1918 and were finished in 1919. There is no description of its construction. Presumably, a wooden (or steel) frame was installed on a 4x2 truck chassis, on which sheets of steel armor were attached with rivets and bolts. The thickness of the armor could have been from 6 to 8 mm. A hexagonal turret in which a machine gun could be mounted was installed on the roof of the hull. It is known for sure that this armored car participated in"}, {"text": "the entry of the Romanian troops into Budapest in August 1919. Foreign-produced military equipment of Romanian design. Henri Coand\u0103. The Romanian-born inventor Henri Coand\u0103 designed several models of aircraft for the British Bristol Aeroplane Company. In January 1912, he was formally appointed Bristol's leading technician. His first design was the Bristol-Coand\u0103 monoplane. This aircraft was tested for the first time at Larkhill in March 1912. It was manufactured in both tandem and two-seater modes. Powered by an 80 hp Gnome et Rh\u00f4ne engine, the aircraft had a four-wheeled undercarriage and incorporated wing-warping for lateral control. This Romanian design gained Bristol the third prize during a flying competition. Italy ordered up to 14, while Romania itself ordered 10. In October 1914, Coand\u0103 left Bristol and returned to Romania. Despite a subsequent ban on monoplanes, Coand\u0103's design was still much talked about, being rated as one of the leading machines of the day. Still, it was the influence of Coand\u0103's father - General Constantin Coand\u0103 - that was decisive in the adoption of the model by Romania. The Bristol T.B.8 biplane was developed from the Coand\u0103 monoplane. A total of 53 were produced, including conversions from Coand\u0103 monoplanes. Coand\u0103 invented a new"}, {"text": "bomb-dropping device for these biplanes, containing twelve bombs which could be released by a hand lever in the observer's seat. The Coand\u0103 biplanes, made using the same fuselage as the Coand\u0103 monoplanes, were much better than the latter, but still had a glaring flaw: they were tail-heavy. Coand\u0103 obstinately refused to address this issue, being adamant that his calculations were correct. The planes were, in fact, \"a bit tail heavy\". The \"Bristol-Coand\u0103 Bomb Rack One\", as it was called, was put to use solely on the Bristol-Coand\u0103 T.B.8 biplane. Throughout the summer of 1913, the structurally suspect Coand\u0103 monoplane was modified and converted to this tractor-biplane configuration, known thereafter as T.B.8. The design proved moderately successful, a manufacturing licence for it being subsequently acquired by the French firm Br\u00e9guet. The T.B.8 was used as a bomber only once, on 25 November 1914, when one made a bombing attack on German artillery batteries at Middelkerke, Belgium. Romania itself acquired 7 Bristol-Coand\u0103 monoplanes and 10 Bristol-Coand\u0103 T.B.8 biplanes. Given that, on the eve of its entry into the war in 1916, the Romanian Air Force had 44 aircraft, this means that a significant part of Romania's air power was Romanian-designed: the 17"}, {"text": "aforementioned Coand\u0103 aircraft plus the remaining airplanes designed and built by Aurel Vlaicu. George Constantinescu. The Romanian engineer George Constantinescu, working with Vickers in the United Kingdom during the war, invented what would become the main synchronizing device for the Royal Air Force. Constantinescu's men constructed the synchronizing gear within 9 days. It was such a simple but so completely effective device, that hundreds of thousands were made with no modifications needed. Although initially designed to fire only one machine gun, the Constantinescu gear was soon adapted to operate two, mounted parallel to each other. The Romanian design made the Vickers machine gun a superb aircraft weapon, given that it was a reliable synchronizing gear. A brilliant achievement of the Romanian engineer. The Constantinescu gear began being used starting with early 1917, when production aircraft started being delivered armed with a forward-firing Vickers gun synchronized with the Constantinescu gear. Among the aircraft fitted with the Constantinescu synchronized forward-firing equipment was the Sopwith Pup. In August 1917, American representatives sent to Europe by the War Department acquired two Vickers aircraft machine guns equipped with the Constantinescu synchronizing gears."}, {"text": "Big River 118A is an Indian reserve of the Big River First Nation in Saskatchewan."}, {"text": "Atolls Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Kunua Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Mieczys\u0142aw Bro\u0144ski (also known as Warszawski-Bro\u0144ski or Bro\u0144ski-Warszawski, and M. J. Braun; ; \"Mechislav Genrikhovich Bronsky\"; 1882 \u2013 1 September 1938) was a Russian-Polish communist, Soviet diplomat, economist and academic, and a victim of the Great Purge. Early career. The Bronski family were industrialists, who owned a cotton factory in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. After leaving school in 1900, he emigrated to Munich to study at the Technical University of Munich, and later at the Munich University, and joined the Polish Progressive movement. In 1902, he joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), led by Rosa Luxemburg and Leo Jogiches. On the outbreak of the 1905 revolution, in February, he moved to Warsaw, to work first as a propagandist for the SDPKiL, then as a member of the Warsaw city party committee. In 1906, he edited the party newspaper \"Czerwony Sztandar\" (\"Red Flag\"). He was arrested in Lublin in autumn 1906, and held in prison until the end of 1907. After his release, he emigrated to Switzerland, and joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. When the SDKPiL split in 1911, he joined the 'rozlamovist' faction, led by Jacob Hanecki and Karl Radek. Bolshevik career. Bronski was a"}, {"text": "founder of the Zimmerwald anti-war movement, and a Polish delegate to the second Zimmerwald conference in Kienthal in April 1916. By then, he had become part of the Zimmerwald left, and an ally of the Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin. By 1916, they were near neighbours in Zurich: it was Bronski who brought Lenin news in 1917 that the February Revolution had broken out in Russia. In June 1917, he reached Petrograd, where he joined the Bolsheviks, worked in the party's Agitprop department, and edited the Polish-language newspaper \"Trybuna\". After the Bolshevik Revolution, in November 1917, he worked for the state bank, and April supervised the first conference for prisoners of war (such as Bela Kun and Josip Broz Tito) who had converted to Bolshevism. From March 1918 until November 1918 he was the acting People's Commissar of Trade and Industry and until spring 1919, he was Deputy People's Commissar for Trade and Industry. In 1919, he was sent to Germany as an agent of Comintern, and addressed the founding congress the Young Communist International in a beer hall in Berlin in November 1919, and took part in a secret communist conference in Frankfurt and was a member of the Western"}, {"text": "Europe Secretariat. However he was very critical of Paul Levi's leadership of the Communist Party of Germany during the Kapp Putsch and was then recalled to Moscow. In 1920\u201324, he was the Soviet envoy in Austria, but was in Germany during the attempted revolution known as the March Action, but left soon afterwards. In 1924, he returned to Russia and held a senior post in the People's Commissariat for Finance. In 1927\u201337, he was Professor of Political Economy at Moscow University. From 1928 he was a full member of the Communist Academy and was also a senior researcher at the Institute of Economy at the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Arrest and death. Bronski was arrested on September 9, 1937, and accused of being part of a terrorist plot, during a mass round-up of Polish nationals living in the Soviet Union. The former French communist, Boris Souvarine, thought it inevitable that he would be a victim of the purges because \"a man like Bronski \u2013 cultured, polite, irreproachable \u2013 could not help but attract the murderous animadversion of the Despot.\" He was shot and buried at Kommunarka, near Moscow, on 1 September 1938. He was formally rehabilitated on"}, {"text": "July 21, 1956. Family. Bronski had a daughter, (1911\u20131972), from his first marriage. Brought up in Switzerland and Germany, she joined her father in the Soviet Union in 1931. She was arrested in 1938 and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag, in Kolyma. She was released in 1946, moved to Germany in 1952, and became known as a writer. In Vienna, in 1920, he married , a German communist and the mother of Wolfgang Leonhard, later renowned as a historian and critic of communism. She was arrested in 1936, and survived twelve years in the Gulag, in Vorkuta. With the help of her son, she was released in 1948, moving to East Berlin. A few month later, in the spring of 1949, mother and son decided to leave Stalinist East Germany for good, relocating to West Germany. Upon arrival, the U.S. Army's Counter Intelligence Corps interned her, but refusing to work as a spy, she was released in 1950. Susanne Leonhard died in Stuttgart in 1984."}, {"text": "Nissan Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. The LLG administers Green Islands, including Nissan Island."}, {"text": "Arawa Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Birch Portage 184A is an Indian reserve of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about 30 miles northwest of Flin Flon."}, {"text": "Bana Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Buin Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Siwai Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. The Siwai language is spoken in the LLG."}, {"text": "Torokina Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Wakunai Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Bittern Lake 218 is an Indian reserve of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band in Saskatchewan. It is 8 kilometres east of Prince Albert National Park."}, {"text": "Budd's Point 20D is an Indian reserve of the Cumberland House Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is 85 kilometres south of Flin Flon."}, {"text": "Joseph Easton Taylor-Farrell is a Montserratian politician who served as the premier of Montserrat between 2019 and 2024. Before entering politics, he was a businessman. He once served as the leader of the opposition of the island's Legislative Assembly from 2017 to November 2019. He was the leader of the Movement for Change and Prosperity political party between 2019 and 2024, having succeeded the island's former premier Reuben Meade. Previously, Farrell served as the island's Minister of Agriculture, Lands, Housing and the Environment."}, {"text": "Buffalo River Dene Nation 193 is an Indian reserve of the Buffalo River Dene Nation in Saskatchewan. It is 84 kilometres northwest of \u00cele-\u00e0-la-Crosse. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 783 living in 233 of its 260 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 54 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "Cable Bay 192M is an Indian reserve of the English River First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is on the south-west corner of Cree Lake adjacent to Cree Lake 192G Indian reserve."}, {"text": "Long H\u01b0ng is a ward () of T\u00e2n Ch\u00e2u town in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Long Ch\u00e2u is a ward () of T\u00e2n Ch\u00e2u town in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Cable Bay 192N is an Indian reserve of the English River First Nation in Saskatchewan."}, {"text": "Long Th\u1ea1nh is a ward () of T\u00e2n Ch\u00e2u town in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Ch\u00e2u Phong is a rural commune (\"x\u00e3\") of T\u00e2n Ch\u00e2u town in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Long An is a rural commune (\"x\u00e3\") of T\u00e2n Ch\u00e2u town in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Ph\u00fa L\u1ed9c is a rural commune (\"x\u00e3\") of T\u00e2n Ch\u00e2u town in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "The Mar\u00edas is an American indie pop band from Los Angeles. They are known for performing songs in both English and Spanish in addition to infusing their music with elements including jazz percussion, guitar riffs, and horn solos. Their core lineup consists of lead vocalist Mar\u00eda Zardoya and drummer/producer Josh Conway, guitarist Jesse Perlman, and keyboardist Edward James. The band has released two EPs and two studio albums, including \"Submarine\" (2024). History. The band is named after its lead singer Mar\u00eda Zardoya, who was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Atlanta. She and her partner Josh Conway, the drummer met at a show at the Kibitz Room, a bar and music venue inside Canter's Deli in Los Angeles. She was performing on the bill and he was managing the sound, something he had never done before. They began writing almost immediately after meeting, and then began dating. Soon they recruited close friends to join as band members: Edward James on keyboards, and guitarist Jesse Perlman. They were offered an opportunity to create songs for television, which helped them understand the visual and sonic feel they wanted. When the plans did not materialize, they made an EP, entitled \"Superclean"}, {"text": "Vol. I\". from the recordings. \"Vol. I\" was released in 2017 and its counterpart \"Vol. II\" came out in 2018. In 2018, they collaborated with Triathalon on the song \"Drip\", released as a single. In 2020\u20132021, the Mar\u00edas signed to Atlantic Records. In September 2021, their single \"Hush\" topped the \"Billboard\" Adult Alternative Airplay chart, becoming their first chart-topping single. In 2022, the band went on tour in promotion of \"Cinema\" and opened for Halsey on her Love and Power Tour. In 2022, they collaborated with Bad Bunny on the song \"Otro Atardecer\" from his album \"Un Verano Sin Ti\". In 2023, they collaborated with Cuco on the song \"Si Me Voy\", which was released as a single, and also with Tainy and Young Miko on the song \"Ma\u00f1ana\" from Tainy's album \"Data\". Later in 2023, they collaborated with Eyedress on the songs \"Separate Ways\" and \"A Room Up in the Sky\". In February 2024, the Mar\u00edas released a trailer for their second album \"Submarine\". In March 2024, they released their first single from the album called \"Run Your Mouth\", as well as announcing that \"Submarine\" would release on May 31, 2024. In April 2024, they released the second single"}, {"text": "from \"Submarine\", \"Lejos de Ti\" and later unveiling their tracklist for \"Submarine\". On May 3, 2024, they released two singles simultaneously: \"No One Noticed\" and \"If Only\". On April 4, 2025, they released the non-album single \"Back to Me\". Influences. Zardoya said that her influences include Selena, the late Tejano singer amongst Norah Jones, Sade, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Carla Morrison, Julieta Venegas, Erykah Badu, and filmmaker Pedro Almod\u00f3var. Conway is influenced by Tame Impala, Radiohead, D'Angelo, and the Strokes. Zardoya said that although Conway was not familiar with Latin American culture, the band was nevertheless open to experimenting with new styles eventually leading to releasing several Spanish-language tracks in their albums."}, {"text": "T\u00e2n An is a rural commune (\"x\u00e3\") of T\u00e2n Ch\u00e2u town in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Ca\u00f1ada Viviancito, is a tributary arroyo of Alamosa Creek, and a side ca\u00f1ada in Monticello Canyon, in Sierra County, New Mexico. Its mouth is at its confluence with the creek at an elevation of within Monticello Canyon. The source of the arroyo is at an elevation of , while the head of the ca\u00f1ada is at an elevation of at ."}, {"text": "T\u00e2n Th\u1ea1nh is a rural commune (\"x\u00e3\") of T\u00e2n Ch\u00e2u town in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh H\u00f2a is a rural commune (\"x\u00e3\") of T\u00e2n Ch\u00e2u town in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "La Plonge 192 is an Indian reserve of the English River First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about south of \u00cele-\u00e0-la-Crosse. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 148 living in 46 of its 51 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 59 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "L\u00ea Ch\u00e1nh is a rural commune (\"x\u00e3\") of T\u00e2n Ch\u00e2u town in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Jens Piesbergen (born 16 October 1964) is a Swiss curler and curling coach. He is a ."}, {"text": "Mar\u00eda Cristina Trigo Via\u00f1a (1935 \u2013 30 December 2014) was a Bolivian writer and human rights activist. She was married to the politician Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, who was assassinated in 1980. Early life. Mar\u00eda Cristina Trigo was born in La Paz in 1935. She began her education in 1941, completing her baccalaureate in her hometown in 1952. In 1954, at age 19, Mar\u00eda Cristina married Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, who years later would become one of Bolivia's most prominent political personalities. She gave birth to their daughter Mar\u00eda Soledad in Santiago in 1957, and to their son Pablo Rodrigo in Salta in 1959. Activism and writing. On 17 July 1980, Trigo's husband Marcelo, then a deputy in the Bolivian National Congress, was detained, tortured, killed, and disappeared by the government of General Luis Garc\u00eda Meza and his minister of the interior, Luis Arce G\u00f3mez. Six years later, on 7 April 1986, during the fourth government of President V\u00edctor Paz Estenssoro, a trial of responsibilities was opened against Garc\u00eda Meza and his closest collaborators during the period of military dictatorship in Bolivia. Trigo filed suit and was admitted as a civil party to the proceedings. The final verdict was rendered"}, {"text": "on 21 April 1993, during the government of Jaime Paz Zamora, with Garc\u00eda Meza being sentenced to 30 years in prison without the right to pardon. Arce G\u00f3mez was also sentenced to 30 years, to five years, and Armando Reyes Villa (father of politician Manfred Reyes Villa) to two years. At the time of the decision, Garc\u00eda Meza was a fugitive from justice. In March 1994, Garc\u00eda Meza was arrested in S\u00e3o Paulo by the federal police of Brazil. His extradition to Bolivia would last an entire year. In March 1995, he was flown to El Alto to begin serving his 30-year sentence in the maximum security prison at Chonchocoro. He died in a military hospital in April 2018. In a posthumous letter, he denied responsibility for Marcelo Quiroga's death, and blamed many of his regime's crimes on Arce G\u00f3mez. In 2006, Trigo released a novel entitled \"Las Muertes de Gabriel\" (), which continued a narrative her husband had begun in his poems. In 2010, during the second government of President Evo Morales, Trigo filed a lawsuit before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) against the Bolivian government due to its lack of willingness to find her husband's remains."}, {"text": "Years later, Trigo also opposed the enactment of an anti-corruption law bearing her husband's name. Death. Mar\u00eda Cristina Trigo died in La Paz on 30 December 2014 at age 79. Marcelo Quiroga's remains were never recovered."}, {"text": "George Gordon First Nation 86 is an uninhabited Indian reserve of the George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan."}, {"text": "The 2020 Los Angeles Gladiators season was the third season of Los Angeles Gladiators's existence in the Overwatch League and their third season under head coach David \"dpei\" Pei. The Gladiators planned to host two homestand weekends in the 2020 season, but all homestand matches were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gladiators finished the season with 11 wins and 10 losses to claim the sixth seed in the North America region. On September 4, Los Angeles advanced to the season playoffs after 3\u20132 win over the Toronto Defiant in the North American Play-in tournament. In the first round of the North American playoffs, the Gladiators were swept by the Philadelphia Fusion, sending them to the lower bracket. They lost to the Florida Mayhem in the first round of the lower bracket, which eliminated them from the playoffs. Preceding offseason. Organizational changes. In September 2019, both head coach David \"dpei\" Pei and assistant coach Seetoh \"JohnGalt\" Jian Qing announced that their contracts lapsed with the Gladiators and were seeking other opportunities. The following month, JohnGalt signed with the Washington Justice's as their new head coach, while Pei signed a new contract with the Gladiators as their head coach and"}, {"text": "general manager. The team signed former Guangzhou Charge assistant coach Rohit \"Curryshot\" Nathani to their coaching staff in late October. Roster changes. The Gladiators enter the new season with three free agents, six players which they have the option to retain for another year, and no 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 Gladiators' first offseason pick-up was off-tank Indy \"SPACE\" Halpern, who they acquired from the Los Angeles Valiant on October 23. In early November, former London Spitfire DPS Kim \"birdring\" Ji-Hyeok signed with the team. Later that month, the team signed DPS Chris \"MirroR\" Trinh from Boston Uprising's academy team Uprising Academy and added former Mayhem Academy support player Nolan \"Paintbrush\" Edwards. After the Gladiators traded off-tank Aaron \"Bischu\" Kim to the Guangzhou Charge in the middle of the 2019 season, Bischu re-signed to the Gladiators from free agency on November 15. A month later, on December 5, Los Angeles signed former Paris Eternal main tank Roni \"LhCloudy\" Tiihonen. The team announced their final signing of the offseason on December 12,"}, {"text": "with the addition of DPS Jason \"Jaru\" White from Team Envy. Departures. On October 18, the Gladiators agreed to transfer main tank Gye \"rOar\" Chang-hoon to the Washington Justice, pending approval from the league. DPS Jo\u00e3o Pedro \"Hydration\" Goes Telles, who had been with the team since its inception in 2017, was the first of the Gladiators' free agents to leave the team, signing with the Houston Outlaws on October 18. Following him was DPS Lane \"Surefour\" Roberts, as he signed with the Toronto Defiant the following month. On November 25, off-tank free agent Kang \"Void\" Jun-woo signed with the Shanghai Dragons. It was confirmed on December 5, after the disbandment of their academy team Gladiators Legion, that two-way tank player Lee \"Panker\" Byung-ho's option was not picked up for the 2020 season. Player trades. The Gladiators' first player-for-player trade of the offseason took place on October 29, when they traded flex DPS Jang \"Decay\" Gui-un to the Dallas Fuel in exchange for main tank Son \"OGE\" Min-seok. Roster. Transactions. Transactions of/for players on the roster during the 2020 regular season:"}, {"text": "The following is the list of squads that took place in the men's field hockey tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Group A. Argentina. The following players represented Argentina: Coach: Mario Ranalli Australia. The following players represented Australia: Coach: Mervyn Adams Canada. The following players represented Canada: Coach: Errol Hartley India. The following players represented India: Coach: Gurbaksh Singh Malaysia. The following players represented Malaysia: Coach: Mohamed Sidek Othman Encik Netherlands. The following players represented the Netherlands: Coach: Wim van Heunen Group B. Belgium. The following players represented Belgium: Coach: Ernst Willig New Zealand. The following players represented New Zealand: Coach: Ross Gillespie Pakistan. The following players represented Pakistan: Coach: Saeed Anwar Spain. The following players represented Spain: Coach: Horst Wein West Germany. The following players represented West Germany: Coach: Klaus Kleiter"}, {"text": "Ch\u00e2u Ph\u00fa A is a ward () of Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Ch\u00e2u Ph\u00fa B is a ward () of Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Phil Kingston (born 1936) is a climate activist and protester with the climate groups Christian Climate Action and Extinction Rebellion. Biography. Prior to getting involved in activism, Kingston was a lecturer at Bristol University. Activism. In November 2018, Kingston was arrested after he obstructed traffic by blocking the road outside the Houses of Parliament. It was reported that when police moved him out of the way of traffic, he repeatedly attempted to lie back in the road. In April 2019, he was arrested again for his part in a protest that disrupted the Docklands Light Railway when he and other activists climbed on the roof of a train while another protester glued themselves to one of the doors. He was granted bail on the conditions that he would respect a curfew and not travel to London. During Extinction Rebellion's October Rebellion in 2019, Kingston was arrested several times after he graffitied and sprayed fake blood on the Treasury building, blocked access to London City Airport, and glued his hand to a DLR train at Shadwell station. He later said he regretted gluing himself to the train because he became aware of the impact it was having on commuters and because"}, {"text": "he \"want[s] to target the corporations and government departments\". In December 2021, Kingston was acquitted for gluing himself to the train in April 2019, alongside the five other protesters involved. His trial for gluing himself to the train in October 2019, along with the two other protesters who climbed on top of one of the carriages, began at Inner London Crown Court in January 2022. All three denied one charge of obstructing an engine or carriage on the railway, and were subsequently unanimously acquitted. Personal life. Kingston has four grandchildren. He is a Christian."}, {"text": "The Sounding Sky Reserve is an Indian reserve of the One Arrow First Nation in Saskatchewan. An urban reserve, it is in the city of Saskatoon."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh M\u1ef9 is a ward () of Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh Ngu\u01a1n (some documents are misspelled as \"V\u0129nh Ng\u01b0\u01a1n\") is a ward () of Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Tinputz Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. The Tinputz language is spoken in the LLG."}, {"text": "Selau/Suir Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Kistapin\u00e2nihk 231 is an Indian reserve of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is in the city of Prince Albert."}, {"text": "N\u00fai Sam is a ward () of Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Elak Dase 192A is an Indian reserve of the English River First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is 27 miles southeast of Pine River."}, {"text": "Knee Lake 192B is an Indian reserve of the English River First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is 17 miles south-east of Pine River, on the Churchill River and the north shore of Knee Lake."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh Ch\u00e2u is a rural commune (\"x\u00e3\") of Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh T\u1ebf is a rural commune (\"x\u00e3\") of Ch\u00e2u \u0110\u1ed1c city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "St. Fort railway station served the civil parish of Forgan, Fife, Scotland from 1878 to 1965 on the Tay Bridge Line and Newburgh and North Fife Railway. History. The station opened on 1 June 1878 by the North British Railway. To the west was the goods yard and to the east was the signal box. This was replaced in 1909 by the north junction box. The station closed on 6 September 1965. References."}, {"text": "Shesheep 74A is an Indian reserve of the Zagime Anishinabek in Saskatchewan. It is on the left bank of the Qu'Appelle River, at the west end of Crooked Lake. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 111 living in 56 of its 179 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 81 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "Star Blanket 83 is an Indian reserve of the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north-east of Fort Qu'Appelle. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 175 living in 48 of its 59 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 50 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "The 2009 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from December 4-7, 2008 at the Two Harbors Curling Club in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Husband and wife Brady Clark and Cristin Clark won the tournament, earning the right to represent the United States at the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Teams. Sixteen teams competed in the championship. Round robin. Standings. The 16 teams were split into two pools; each pool played a round robin and at the end the top two teams advanced to the playoffs. The standings at the end of the round robin phase were: Game results. Game scores from the round robin phase: Playoffs. The playoffs consisted of a simple 4-team, 2-round bracket. Semifinals. \"Sunday, December 7, 9:00am CT\" Final. \"Sunday, December 7, 12:00pm CT\""}, {"text": "Star Blanket 83C is an Indian reserve of the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north-east of Lipton. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 1 of its 1 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "\u0110a Ph\u01b0\u1edbc may refer to several rural communes in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "The Upper Bedoulian Formation is a geological formation in the Murcia Region, Spain whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous (late Barremian to early Aptian stage). The marls were deposited in an open marine environment. The lower unit ( thick) is marly with iron concretions and septaria. The formation was deposited in the Pre-Betic Basin in southeastern Spain. During deposition, Iberia was an island, separated by seas from North Africa and France. The Upper Bedoulian Formation has provided very few fossils; the ammonite \"Dufrenoyia dufrenoyi\" and the coral \"Montlivaltia multiformis\"."}, {"text": "Manzoor-ul Hassan (born 15 January 1952) is a Pakistani field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics at Montreal, Canada and was part of the team that won the bronze medal. After his retirement, he also worked as a coach for the Pakistani hockey team."}, {"text": "This is an incomplete list of Bien de Inter\u00e9s Cultural landmarks in the Province of Ourense, Spain."}, {"text": "Eric Staves (born November 30, 1990) is an American actor. He is best known for his character on the film \"Goat\" where played the character Ben Baity. Personal life. Staves was born November 30, 1990, in Liberty, Missouri. He graduated from Liberty High School, where he was a three-year letterman for the football team, He was also on the forensics and debate team where he was a Missouri state champion. In 2008, Staves earned the coveted Eagle Scout award from the Boy Scouts of America."}, {"text": "Wonder of the Seas is a cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International. She was completed in 2022 in the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire France, the fifth in Royal Caribbean's of cruise ships. At , she was the largest cruise ship by gross tonnage, until she was surpassed in 2024 by the , , also owned by Royal Caribbean International. Description and design. \"Wonder of the Seas\" measures in length and has a gross tonnage of 236,857 across 18 decks. This ship accommodates 5,734 passengers at double occupancy or up to a maximum of 6,988 passengers, as well as a 2,300 crew. There are 16 decks for guest use, 20 restaurants, four pools and 2,867 cabins. Facilities include a children's water park, a children's playground, a full-size basketball court, an ice-skating rink, a surf simulator, a zip line that is 10 decks high, a 1,400-seat theater, an outdoor aquatic theater with high platforms, and two rock-climbing walls. As with all \"Oasis\"-class ships, one of the special features on board is the Central Park, with more than 10,000 plants and flowers. \"Wonder of the Seas\" is powered by six marine-diesel sets: two 16-cylinder W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 16V46D common rail engines and"}, {"text": "four 12-cylinder W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 12V46D engines. For propulsion, \"Wonder of the Seas\" uses three 20,000 kilowatt azipod main engines, which are electric thrusters. These engines are mounted under the stern of the ship and they each drive 20 foot wide rotatable propellers. In addition to the three electric thrusters, there are four bow thrusters used for docking, each with 5,500 kilowatts of power or 7,380 horsepower. Construction and career. On 25 May 2016, the Royal Caribbean Group signed a memorandum of understanding with STX France (now Chantiers de l'Atlantique) for a fifth \"Oasis\"-class ship for delivery in the spring of 2021. and two more ships of the . The first steel for the new ship was cut at the Saint-Nazaire shipyard in April 2019, and the vessel's keel was laid on 9 May 2019. Construction cost \u00a31 billion. In August 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Royal Caribbean announced that delivery of the ship would be delayed until 2022. In April 2021, Royal Caribbean opened bookings aboard \"Wonder of the Seas\" for an inaugural 2022 season sailing in Asia from ports in Shanghai and Hong Kong. However, in September of that year, Royal Caribbean announced that the ship would"}, {"text": "instead debut at Port Everglades, sailing Caribbean cruises, before moving to the Mediterranean in the summer, sailing out of Barcelona and Rome. In November 2021, the ship's livery was modified to resemble that of \"Odyssey of the Seas\", with her name moved rearward and repainted in larger print. The following month, Royal Caribbean announced that the ship would homeport at Port Canaveral, Florida starting in November 2022. On 29 October 2021, Royal Caribbean accepted the ship for \"technical delivery\", and the following week she sailed under her own power from Saint-Nazaire to a \"Chantier Naval de Marseille\" drydock in Marseille-Fos Port for finishing work. On 27 January 2022, the ship was handed over to Royal Caribbean. \"Wonder of the Seas\" commenced her maiden voyage on 4 March 2022 out of Port Everglades, Florida. On 9 December 2022, she was christened by Marie McCrea, the ship's godmother, who bestowed her blessing amongst the vessel. Since her maiden voyage in 2022, \"Wonder of the Seas\" has been commanded by masters Rob Hempstead and Trym Selvag."}, {"text": "Robert Peter \"Rob\" Toft (born 23 November 1949) is a Dutch field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Miss World USA 1973 was the 12th edition of the Miss World USA pageant. It was held in Binghamton, New York and was won by Marjorie Wallace of Indiana. She was crowned by outgoing titleholder, Lynda Jean C\u00f3rdoba Carter of Arizona. Wallace went on to represent the United States at the Miss World 1973 Pageant in London later that year, where she ended up winning Miss World. Due to protocol, the 1st runner-up, Lexie Brockway, replaced Wallace as Miss World USA after Wallace won Miss World 1973. Results. Placements. \u221e Wallace won Miss World 1973. Due to protocol, Wallace resigns her title as Miss World USA 1973. 1st runner-up, Lexie Brockway, replaces her as Miss World USA. Delegates. The Miss World USA 1973 delegates were: Crossovers. Contestants who competed in other beauty pageants:"}, {"text": "David Chalmers, Lord Ormond (c. 1530 \u2013 1592) was a 16th-century Scottish landowner, historian, judge, and Senator of the College of Justice. His name also appears as David Chambre and David Chambers and is title occasionally appears as Lord Ormand. He was a major figure in Edinburgh law and politics. His most notable contribution in history is as one of those accused of the murder of Lord Darnley and one of the persons organising the escape of Mary Queen of Scots from Lochleven Castle. Born pre-Reformation, he appears to have retained strong Catholic allegiance through turbulent times. Life. He was born in Ross-shire around 1530 the son of Andrew Chalmers, descended from the Chalmers of Strichen. He studied divinity at Aberdeen University then studied both Canon Law and Civil Law in France and Italy. The latter study was at the University of Bologna under Marianus Sozenus in 1556. He returned to Ross-shire around 1557 and was successively parson of Suddie, Provost of Crichton, and Chancellor of the Diocese of Ross. In these roles (from around 1560) he resided at Ormond Castle on Ormond Hill. The castle (now gone) would have formed a distinctive profile as seen from the coastal village"}, {"text": "of Avoch which also fell under his control. Given the position of the castle and village it is likely that all travel to Edinburgh etc. was undertaken by ship. In January 1565 he replaced Henry Sinclair, Bishop of Ross as a Senator of the College of Justice, adopting the title Lord Ormond. In December 1566 Mary Queen of Scots granted him lands at Castleton in recognition of his services to Scotland both within the country and on the continent. He appears to have been a friend and confidant of the Queen. In February 1567 he was named in a placard nailed to Edinburgh Tolbooth next to St Giles Cathedral as one of the conspirators in the murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley and his valet, William Taylor. As Chalmers house adjoined Kirk o'Field, the site of the murder, it is likely that at the very least he was a witness to the event. The placard also accused the Earl of Bothwell, James Balfour of Flisk (near Cupar), and \"black\" John Spens, Lord Condie. In May 1568 he was involved in helping Mary Queen of Scots escape from Lochleven Castle and fought for her at the Battle of Langside, alongside numerous"}, {"text": "Scottish noblemen. For these actions the Scottish parliament exiled him, and he was forced to leave Scotland for several years. In exile from the summer of 1568 he first lived and associated with the court of Philip II in Spain then in France in the court of Charles IX. Ormond Castle and his adjacent estates at Suddie and Avoch were sold to Andrew Munro of Milntown late in 1568. Chalmers received a pension from Mary's French council and also worked for Francis Walsingham. In May 1584 the Scottish parliament lifted his ban and allowed his return to Scotland after almost 16 years absence. In 1586 he was restored to the bench and permitted to resume his role as a judge. He died in Edinburgh in November 1592. There is no clear record of his exact burial place but he appears to be buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. Family. Not known."}, {"text": "Geert van Eijk (born 8 October 1948) is a Dutch field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Hendrik Johannes Bekker (born 12 September 1952 in Nuwerus, Western Cape, South Africa is a former South African rugby union player. Early life and career. Bekker was born in the small town of Nuwerus in the North-western region of the Western Cape, but spent most of his school years in Goodwood, Cape Town where he attended JG Meiring High School and represented the school's first team for three years. In 1970 he was selected to represent the Western Province schools team at the annual Craven Week tournament held in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Playing career. Provincial career. After school, Bekker enrolled at Paarl Teachers Training College and made his provincial debut for Boland on 24 May 1973 against a touring London Counties team. In 1974 Bekker moved to Stellenbosch University to further his studies and joined the university's rugby club, Maties. He made his debut for Western Province on 10 August 1974 against Transvaal and scored his first try for Western Province. Two years later, in 1977 Bekker received his call up for military service and he had to join the Defence Force in Bloemfontein. During his time in Bloemfontein he played 27 matches for the Free State. Bekker"}, {"text": "returned to Stellenbosch in 1979 and again joined the Maties. He also returned to the Western Province team and represented the province until his retirement from playing at the end of 1985. During the 1980s Bekker was part of the Western Province team that won the Currie Cup in 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985. At the time of his retirement, Bekker scored 44 tries for Western Province, which was the Western Province try scoring record. International career. Bekker made his test debut for the Springboks during the 1981 tour of New Zealand in the first test on 15 August 1981 at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, New Zealand. He was not selected for the second test but returned to the side for the third test match against New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland. Bekker played a further 8 matches on tour for the Springboks, scoring three tries. Accolades. Bekker was named the SA Rugby Player of the Year for 1983. The other nominees for the award in 1983 were Divan Serfontein, Carel du Plessis, Liaan Kirkham and Ray Mordt. Coaching. On 1 October 1985, Bekker was appointed assistant\u2013organiser for coaching at the South African Rugby Board. From 1986 to 1989 he acted"}, {"text": "as forward\u2013coach for Western Province and in 1990 he replaced Dawie Snyman as head coach of Western Province. Personal. Bekker is the father of Andries Bekker, a former Western Province, Stormers and Springbok Rugby player. Andries is currently playing for Kobelco Steelers in the Japanese Top League."}, {"text": "Howard Bishop Lewis (8 November 1887 \u2013 7 March 1954) was a chemistry professor and past president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (AMBSB). Lewis was born on a farm near Southington, Connecticut. After earning a B.A. in 1908 from Yale University, he taught at Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia and the Centenary Collegiate Institute in Hackettstown, New Jersey. He returned to Yale in 1910 and finished his Ph.D. in 1913. Another source says he entered the graduate program at George Washington University. From there, he became an instructor in physiological chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania medical school. In 1915, he accepted a position at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. In 1922, he accepted the position of head of the Department of Physiological Chemistry at the University of Michigan where, in 1947, he was appointed the John Jacob Abel University Professorship in Biological Chemistry. He was also director of the university's College of Pharmacy from 1933 to 1947. His doctoral students include Stanley Cohen. Lewis was elected in 1918 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1949 a member of the National Academy of Sciences."}, {"text": "Wouter Kan (born 7 August 1950) is a Dutch former field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Chester Griswold (January 14, 1781 \u2013 September 7, 1860) was a New York Assemblyman from Nassau, New York, and a member of the political Griswold Family. Biography. Griswold was born in Bolton, Connecticut, to Simeon Griswold and Ann Hutchinson. Chester was elected to the New York State Legislature in 1823, 1831, and 1835. He was a long-time Postmaster of Nassau. Chester's son, John Augustus Griswold, served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 15th district."}, {"text": "Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi (born February 9, 1984) is an American professional rodeo cowgirl who specializes in barrel racing. She is a three-time Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) world champion barrel racer. In 2007, 2009, and 2023, she won the championship at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Life. Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi was born Brittany Pozzi on February 9, 1984, in Victoria, Texas. She learned barrel racing from her father. She moved to Lampasas, Texas, in April 2019. She attended Texas A&M University (College Station). She was previously married to tie-down roper Doug Pharr. She is currently married to team roper Garrett Tonozzi. They have one daughter. Career. Tonozzi joined the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) in 2003. That same year, she was the WPRA Barrel Racing Rookie of the Year. She won the WPRA barrel racing world championship at the NFR in 2007, 2009, and 2023. She won the NFR Average title twice in 2006 and 2007. She has qualified for the NFR 15 times; in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2023. She also qualified for the National Circuit Finals Rodeo twice in 2012 and 2013. Tonozzi's"}, {"text": "earnings in 2019 were $105,503. She came in 5th in the world standings. Her career earnings to date as of 2019 were $2,321,480. CNBC recognized Tonozzi as one of their \"Blue Collar Millionaires\", for her hard work in breeding and training horses as well as barrel racing. 2019 highlights. Tonozzi won the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show and Rodeo in Mercedes, Texas. She won the Evergreen Rodeo in Colorado. She was the co-winner of the Elizabeth Stampede in Colorado. She won the Kit Carson County Pro Rodeo in Burlington, Colorado. She won the Canby Rodeo in Oregon. She qualified for the NFR. 2020 highlights. On Friday, February 7, Tonozzi won her fourth title at the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo in San Angelo, Texas. She ran a time of 13.93 in the finals, and it was the fastest time of the rodeo. She won $3,270 for the finals along with her $6,622 for winning the average with three runs for a total time of 44.15. At the finals at the end of February, Tonozzi won the title at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas. Tonozzi also finished second at these rodeos: Yuma Fair &"}, {"text": "Rodeo in Colorado, Oakley Independence Day Rodeo in Utah, Coleman PRCA Rodeo in Texas, and West Texas Fair & Rodeo in Abilene, Texas. Horses. She has a horse with the registered name KissKiss BangBang, nicknamed \"Mona\", who is a 11-year-old mare as of 2021. Mona is by Dash Ta Fame out of CD Nick Bar. She has another horse with the registered name Babe on the Chase, nicknamed \"Birdie\", who is a 10-year-old mare as of 2021. Birdie is by Chasin Firewater and out of Streakin Six Babe. She has another horse registered name Ima Famous Babe, nicknamed \"Katniss\", who is an 8-year-old mare as of 2021. Katniss is by Dash Ta Fame and out of Streakin Six Babe. Ima Famous Babe won the 2019 Scoti Flit Bar Award. She has another horse registered named Steele Magnolias, nicknamed \"Steeley\", who is by Magnolia Bar out of Kings Frosted Lady. Her horse registered name Sixth Vision, nicknamed \"Stitch\", won the AQHA/WPRA Barrel Racing Horse of the Year Award in 2007, and came in second in 2006. Her horse registered name Yeah Hes Firen, nicknamed \"Duke\", tied for the award in 2011 and won it in 2012."}, {"text": "The Alabama Community College System (ACCS) is the system of public community colleges in the U.S. state of Alabama. It consists of 24 community and technical colleges in the state which offer 2-to-4-year transfer, dual enrollment, technical training, adult education, and community education. The Alabama Community College System was founded 1963 when the public two-year colleges in Alabama were linked into a single system governed by the State Board of Education. The system was separated from the State Board of Education and put under control of the Department of Postsecondary Education in 1982."}, {"text": "Klaus Ludwiczak (born 21 October 1951) is a German field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Peter Caninenberg (born 28 September 1956) is a German field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Hans Montag (born 21 January 1952) is a German field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Meistrich is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Baining may refer to:"}, {"text": "Ralf Lauruschkat (born 27 January 1950) is a German former field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Diana Lachatanere is an American archivist. She retired from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library in 2013, where she held the position of assistant director for Collections and Services from 1995 to 2013, and Curator of the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division from 1988 to 2013. She was also the Manager of the Scholars-in-Residence Program, 1990\u20132013. Education. Lachatanere graduated from the City College of New York in 1969 and received her MLS from the University of California, Berkeley, where she also received the Edith M. Coulter Scholarship. Career. Lachatanere began her career in archives and libraries in 1976 with the California Historical Society in San Francisco. Starting as a processor, she became the Assistant Manuscripts Librarian in 1978 while also earning her MLS degree. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In 1980, she started at the Schomburg as the Assistant Archivist in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, and became Curator of that Division in 1988. Lachatanere worked at Schomburg in various roles, including assistant director of Collections and Services and Manager of the Scholars-in-Residence Program. While managing collections at the Schomburg, she assisted in the planning of Center-wide"}, {"text": "exhibitions and co-authored/ supervised National Endowment for the Humanities funded processing grants. She has served as a consultant on many different archival programs including the Center for Black Music Research; Institute for the Study of History, Life and Culture of Black People at Jackson State University; Jazz Heritage Project at Medgar Evers College; and the Cuban Archives Project of the Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University. Involvement with SAA. Lachatanere's first Society of American Archivists meeting was in 1978 when the meeting was held in Nashville, TN. Ann Allen Shockley, the librarian and archivist at Fisk University, had served on the Program committee and shepherded several sessions which included African American panelists. During the conference she invited \"all of us, all of the young, people of color to her house for dinner ... She made it very clear that this was the first time the Society had had this number of black people there.\" However, it wasn't until 1981 that a roundtable was created specifically for minorities in archival work. The idea came out of the session \"Minorities and the Profession: An Agenda for Action,\" (1981) chaired by Harold Pinkett, where Lachatanere was a panelist. After the session, archivists including"}, {"text": "Archie Motley, Thomas Battle, John Fleckner and Danny Williams, began to talk about next steps, including the drafting of a resolution to be presented to the SAA Business meeting. Members approved the resolution and the Task Force on Minorities was created. Thomas Battle was appointed as the chairman, with Diana Lachatanere invited as the SAA representative for the Joint Committee on Minority Recruitment. In 1984, she was elected to the Nominations Committee and was appointed to the Membership Committee. Among the issues that the Task Force recommended was the creation of a membership committee. Lachatanere stated in the same interview, \"the reason why we were pushing a membership committee is because then, out of the membership committee you could put together a recruitment program that could in fact target, we would target everybody, but we could specifically target black folks...\" In 1987 the task force ended with the recommendation that a minorities' roundtable be formed. Council approved the motion and the Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable was established later that year, with Diana Lachatanere and Carol Rudisell serving as the initial coordinators for the roundtable. Diana served as co-editor and prepared the first two newsletters for the roundtable and"}, {"text": "helped to set an agenda for the group. The roundtable held its first meeting in September 1987 at the annual SAA conference in New York City. This meeting brought a structure for the roundtable that continues today, including the process of electing two co-chairs, with one being elected every year. With SAA, Lachatanere has served a number of roles on committees and taskforces, including: Within the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Lachatanere has also filled many roles:"}, {"text": "Ibne Fazal Shayekhuzzaman is a retired major general of the Bangladesh Army and a former E-in-C, Engineer-in-Chief of Bangladesh Army. and former Commandant of the Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC). Career. Shayekhuzzaman was commissioned in the 16th long course of the Bangladesh Military Academy in 1987. He graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and majored in civil engineering. He worked as an instructor in the School of Infantry and Tactics. He served in the first Gulf war as part of the Bangladesh detachment in the United States led coalition. He was the rescue co-ordinator following the collapse of Rana Plaza. Shayekhuzzaman served as General Officer Commanding of an infantry division. He also served as the Colonel Staff of the 9th infantry division. He headed the Foreign Affairs and Protocol department of the Armed Forces Division. He was the founding director of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre. On 17 February 2019, he was appointed the Engineer-in-Chief of Bangladesh Army. He served as the E in C for three years until 17 February 2022. After that, he was posted as the Commandant of Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC), where he is currently serving. He was a"}, {"text": "trustee of the Bangladesh Army International University of Science and Technology. He was also the chairman of Proyash Central Board of Directors. Personal life. Shayekhuzzaman is married to Tanjina Sattar and father of a daughter and a son."}, {"text": "We Serve is a British short film about the lives of officers in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Designed as a recruitment and training film, it was directed by Carol Reed, produced by Sydney Box, and was made by Box's company Verity Films. The involvement of Reed as director enabled Box to secure the services of several leading British actresses for the film, all agreeing to be paid the small sum of \u00a35 per day. The film also featured the then Director of the ATS, Jean Knox. The 30-minute film was commissioned shortly after the British government changed the nature of the ATS from being a voluntary body to becoming a professional service with full military status in April 1941. It was concurrent with a wider recruitment drive to expand the size of the ATS. In its efforts to attract recruits, the film emphasised that femininity could be retained in wartime."}, {"text": "Maue is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Esmaeil Haj Rahimipour is an Iranian former footballer who played as a midfielder for Persepolis and the Iran national football team. Effectiveness in Derby. In the Tehran derby on 7 September 1973 between Persepolis and Taj (now known as Esteghlal), Haj Rahimipour was influential on 5 goals. The match finished 6\u20130 in favor of Persepolis."}, {"text": "Kamnara railway station is a railway station in Bardhaman\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside Bardhaman\u2013Katwa Road at Kamnara of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. On 1 December 1915, McLeod's Light Railways (MLR) set up narrow-gauge lines in the Burdwan-Katwa Railway route. This railway section was handed over to the Eastern Railway in 1966. In 2010 the work started for conversion of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge. Bardhaman to Balogna railway station was reopened in 2014 and Balgona to Katwa section was completed on 12 January 2018 for the public."}, {"text": "(born 1947 in Tokyo, Japan) is a classical cellist. Biography. Hirofumi Kanno was born in Tokyo in 1947, began lessons with Hideo Saito (musician) at the age of seven and continued with him at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. On his graduation in 1970, he went to study with Pierre Fournier in Switzerland and, two years later, with Janos Starker at Indiana University. In 1975 Kanno became Starker's assistant. During this time Kanno continued to follow his solo career and in 1974 was awarded third prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition."}, {"text": "[Wiley] Roy (\"Roy\" or \"W.R.\") Mason (November 9, 1878 - December 25, 1967) was a bishop of The Episcopal Church, known for his ministry among isolated mountain communities and serving in the Diocese of Virginia as suffragan from 1942 to 1951. Early life and education. Mason was born on November 9, 1878, in King George, Virginia, the son of Julian J. Mason and Elizabeth Freeland. He studied at the College of William & Mary from where he graduated in 1904. He then began theological studies in Alexandria, Virginia, graduating from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1907. Ordained ministry. Mason was ordained deacon in 1907 and priest on May 24, 1908, by Bishop Robert Atkinson Gibson, the latter in the VTS's Immanuel Chapel. His first position was at Mission Home in Greene County, which permitted Rev. George Mayo to establish the Blue Ridge Industrial School, a boarding school to provide higher education to children and adults in the Blue Ridge Mountains after Rev. Frederick Neve established churches and 13 day schools in isolated communities by 1909. Mason continued in that position for about a decade, including after Neve's missions formally became the Archdeaconry of Blue Ridge. After 1911 Mason began campaigning"}, {"text": "to limit moonshine stills in those rural areas because of their detrimental effect on mountain families. He achieved some success by 1914 in Greene and nearby Albemarle Counties, by switching tactics after surviving assassination attempts (which he attributed to God's grace) and opening a vinegar factory which paid farmers the same price for apples as did still owners. In addition to illiteracy hurting isolated mountain families, the American chestnut blight was devastating trees which had one provided important income for locals, as well as timber for homes and forage for their hogs. In 1918 Rev. Mason accepted a position as rector of Christ Church in Charlottesville, Virginia, while also continuing to serve mountain missions in surrounding Albemarle and other counties. In 1926 Mason became Associate Archdeacon of the Blue Ridge (the presumed heir-apparent to the active but 70-year-old Neve). In 1928, funding permitted them to develop an additional building at Mission Home, a preventorium to nurse mountain children back to health (particularly from tuberculosis, a dreaded disease in the community). By 1930, Virginia and federal officials were planning to construct Skyline Drive and Shenandoah National Park, which would bisect the missions (and take over those at Simmons' Gap and Upper"}, {"text": "Pocosin), as well as cause hardship for over 600 displaced mountain people, despite promises for relocation and some compensation. By 1936, all the mission schools except for the Blue Ridge Industrial School were closed (although many were now operated by the surrounding counties), but the promised new houses for 50 families went unfulfilled. Nonetheless the educational effort succeeded, as E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Crompton Shenandoah moved into Waynesboro, and other textile and manufacturing plants moved into the Piedmont region. Now-literate mountain people could compete for those jobs in addition to the still-developing tourist industry. Bishop. Mason was elected Suffragan Bishop of Virginia in May 1942, during the 147th diocesan council meeting which took place between the 26 and 28 of May. After now 88year old Archdeacon for Life Neve spoke in Mason's favor, the other eight candidates withdrew their names from consideration on the 5th lay ballot. Bishop Mason was consecrated on September 22, 1942, by Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, Bishop Frederick D. Goodwin and others, in Christ Church, Charlottesville, Virginia. He retained the post till his retirement in 1951, however, he remained Assistant Bishop of Virginia till his death. The mountain missions were reorganized in 1952"}, {"text": "and placed under the administration of Rev. Albert N. Jones. Death and legacy. Mason died after a prolonged illness on Christmas Day, 1967."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh H\u1eadu may refer to several communes in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Brent C. Harris is an American attorney who worked on the National Commission on the BP \"Deepwater Horizon\" Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, and later served as Director of Global Affairs for Facebook, where he was instrumental in developing Facebook's Oversight Board. Early life, education, and career. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, Harris received a B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University in 2004, after which he worked for the Hewlett Foundation for two years. He received a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2009, where he was editor of Stanford Law Review. While at Stanford, he performed pro bono legal work to assist with the establishment of \"the first farmers market in East Palo Alto\", which had previously lacked options for residents to buy fresh produce. In 2011, Harris was one of four staff counsels to the National Commission on the BP \"Deepwater Horizon\" Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. After his work with the commission was done, Harris served as a consultant for nonprofit organizations, and became known as \"an expert in international regulation\". Director of Global Affairs at Facebook. Between late 2017 and early 2018, Facebook hired Harris to become the company's Director of Global Affairs. \"Wired\" noted that \"[s]ince"}, {"text": "[Harris] had worked on adjudicating the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he was well-placed to deal with the gushers of offensive content on Facebook's platform\". In March 2018, shortly after Harris had joined the company, the harvesting of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica was reported, and Harris began focusing on the establishment of Facebook's Oversight Board. In its early stages, it was described as follows: One observer of the process noted that Harris led the drafting of the charter and bylaws, which initially \"included a lot of dry, careful legal language\". Harris engaged in various activities in support of the establishment of the Oversight Board, including writing articles, and headlining the public consultation on the initiative in cities around the world, including in his hometown of Norman. Following the initiation of operations of the body, Harris disputed characterizations of the Oversight Board as a means for Facebook to \"duck responsibility for its toughest decisions\". Harris was also noted as having said that Facebook \"will implement the board's decisions 'unless they violate the law'\". In an interview with CNN Business, Harris indicated that the company had left the timetable for handling of election-related cases with the Board, stating,"}, {"text": "\"[w]e don't, from the Facebook side, want to add undue pressure to them\", and that it was \"really a question for them as to when are they ready\"."}, {"text": "Ph\u00fa H\u1eefu may refer to the following places in Vietnam:"}, {"text": "Siev or SIEV may refer to:"}, {"text": "Ph\u00fa H\u1ed9i may refer to several places in Vietnam:"}, {"text": "Nh\u01a1n H\u1ed9i may refer to the following places in Vietnam:"}, {"text": "V\u0129nh Tr\u01b0\u1eddng may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Hans-Peter Luzius (19 February 1912 \u2013 after 1964) was a German actuarial mathematician and economist. Luzius was most notable for his work during World War II on researching a method to cryptanalyse the M-209 mechanical cipher machine that led to the first recovery of key based on a crib, while he was conscripted to the Inspectorate 7/VI, the signals intelligence agency of the Wehrmacht, while based at Matth\u00e4ikirchplatz in Berlin, close to Bendlerblock. Life. Luzius was born in Berlin, the son of the merchant Jakob Peter Luzius. He graduated from high school on 12 March 1930 and began studying at the Humboldt University of Berlin in the summer semester of 1930, supplemented by a semester (summer semester 1931) at the University of G\u00f6ttingen. He travelled to the United Kingdom in 1933 and the United States shortly thereafter. There he worked for some time as an actuary at the Alliance Insurance Company and perfected his knowledge of the English language. He was later described as having a 'near perfect English with a strong American accent'. Career. In April 1936, Luzius graduated as a teacher in mathematics, physics and chemistry. In 1938 he received his doctorate at the Humboldt University of Berlin"}, {"text": "with a doctoral thesis titled, \"Method for the approximate calculation of the risk reserve fund in life insurance using moments\", (German:Methode zur n\u00e4herungsweisen Berechnung des Risikoreservefonds in der Lebensversicherung unter Benutzung der Momente). His doctoral supervisor was Paul Riebesell (1883-1950). In 1941 he was called up for military service and transferred almost immediately to the In 7/VI at the Oberkommando des Heeres. From 3 February 1941, he worked in Unit 7 that was responsible for \"Security of own procedures\" first under Carl Boehm and after his departure, from April 1941 under his previous deputy, the mathematician Hans Pietsch. After the German declaration of war on the United States on 11 December 1941, an American desk was established at OKH/In 7, to which Luzius was transferred. One of his first successes as a cryptanalyst was the solution of the American strip cipher, which cryptographically corresponded to the cipher cylinder M-94, but instead of the discs simple stripes which could be exchanged more easily. There were procedures using 25 and with 30 strips. In 1943, together with his colleagues Rudolf Kochend\u00f6rffer, Willi Rinow and Friedrich Steinberg, he succeeded in breaking into the M-209, rotor cipher machine originally developed by the Swedish cryptographer"}, {"text": "Boris Hagelin, that was widely used by the US military during World War II. The Wehrmacht called it the \"AM-1\" for \"American machine No. 1\". In October 1944, towards the end of the war, the intelligence unit of the German army was restructured and merged. This is how the service of the General der Nachrichtenaufkl\u00e4rung (GdNA) was born. Immediately before the end of the war, large parts of the OKH turned south with the aim of reaching Bad Reichenhall. Luzius, on the other hand, headed north, finally reaching Flensburg, where he lived after the war. After the war was involved in the German Actuarial Society and published several papers during the period between 1956 and 1964."}, {"text": "Jannuzzi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Juan Colomer (born 3 July 1952) is a Spanish field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Ab\u016b al-Q\u0101sim, Abd All\u0101h ibn Mu\u1e25ammad ibn 'Abd All\u0101h al-'Az\u012bz al-Baghaw\u012b (829CE - 929CE) (kunya: Ibn Bint Mun\u012b') was a jurist in Baghdad. Al-Marzub\u0101n\u012b was his pupil. Works. Among his books were:"}, {"text": "B\u00ecnh Ph\u00fa may refer to several rural communes in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 \u0110\u1ee9c may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 Ph\u00fa may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Francisco Codina (born 7 August 1949) is a Spanish field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The South American University Athletics Championships was an international athletics competition for student athletes from South American countries. It was staged on one occasion in May 2005 at the Estadio Modelo Alberto Spencer Herrera in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Four nations competed: Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. A total of 42 athletics events were contested, 22 by men and 20 by women. Women did not compete in the pole vault, 3000 metres steeplechase or half marathon, while the men did not compete in a combined track and field event. The host nation topped the medal table, winning 22 events and a total of 55 medals. Peru were runners-up with eleven gold medals, while Chile and Colombia finished with six and three gold medals, respectively. Ecuador's Lucy Jaramillo was the most successful athlete of the competition, winning the women's 400 metres, 800 metres and 400 metres hurdles titles. Her compatriots Silvia Paredes (5000 metres, 10,000 metres) and Luis Mor\u00e1n (100 metres, 200 metres) won double gold. Peru's Roxana Mendoza claimed the short sprint double on the women's side. Colombia's Kelly L\u00f3pez won a medal in all of the women's sprint events, bar the 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay (in which Colombia did not"}, {"text": "compete)."}, {"text": "B\u00ecnh Th\u1ee7y is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Ph\u00fa District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "The 2019 season of the Shpageeza Cricket League was the sixth edition of the Shpageeza, a professional Twenty20 cricket (T20) league established by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) in 2013, and the second edition to have official T20 status. The tournament featured the six regional teams that played in the previous season. The event took place between 9 and 18 October 2019, with the Alokozay Kabul International Cricket Ground hosting all the matches. The number of overseas players participating was significantly reduced from the previous edition, with the subsequent launch of the Afghanistan Premier League making that the main franchise Twenty20 league run by the ACB. Mis Ainak Knights won the tournament, after they beat Band-e-Amir Dragons by four wickets in the final. Noor Ali Zadran (Mis Ainak Knights) was the leading run-scorer in the tournament with 354, and Nijat Masood (Band-e-Amir Dragons) took the most wickets with 11."}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 B\u00ecnh is a ward () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 Long is a ward () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Eginton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 Xuy\u00ean is a ward () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Fluck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Antoniozzi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "B\u00ecnh Kh\u00e1nh is a ward () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Mujibur Rahman () is a former Bangladeshi military officer who was the longest serving director general of the Special Security Force. Prior to his dismissal on 11 September 2024, he served as general officer commanding of Army Training and Doctrine Command. Before that, he was Quartermaster general at Army Headquarters. He came to the limelight in 2016, as the Operational Commander who carried out Operation Thunderbolt during the Holey Artisan Attack. He is also the recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award 2023. Early life. Mujibur Rahman was born on 16 June 1968 in Narsingdi District. His father, AKM Bazlur Rahman was a valiant freedom fighter, devoted language movement activist, close companion of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and recipient of Independence Award. Career. Mujibur Rahman was commissioned in the 18th long course of the Bangladesh Military Academy in the Infantry corps on 24 June 1988. He graduated from the Defence Services Command and Staff College and The Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, Tamil Nadu, India. He graduated from the National University, Bangladesh. He completed his master's degree in Defence and Strategic Studies from the University of Madras in India besides he completed Mid Carrier Course in Pakistan. He Completed his NDC"}, {"text": "course from National Defence College, India. He taught at the School of Infantry and Tactics. He took the role as instructor of weapon and tactical wing. He served as chief instructor of tactical wing in School of Infantry and Tactics and Directing Staff in prestigious Defence Services Command and Staff College, Mirpur. United Nations peacekeeping mission. Mujibur Rahman has served under the blue helmet as contingent member in United Nations Mission in Somalia and Congo. Mujibur Rahman served as the General Staff Officer of Military Intelligence Directorate and Directorate General of Forces Intelligence.He served as the Additional Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh. He was the Additional Director General of Operations of the Rapid Action Battalion. As Head of Operations, he led a team of 150 RAB officers, receiving air support from a helicopter, in an offensive against an Sundarban criminal gang, resulting in 5 dead. He served as the Commander, 46th Independent Infantry Brigade. As Operational Commander of 1st Para-Commando Battalion as Brig Gen, Rahman led Operation Thunderbolt during the Holey Artisan attack. Holey Artisan attack. The rescue operation was ordered by the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and was named Operation Thunderbolt. The operation was led by 1st"}, {"text": "Para-Commando Battalion under the leadership of Operational Commander Brig Gen Mujibur Rahman. Nearly 12 hours after the attack, the operation was declared over by Mujibur Rahman. The operation ended with rescue of 13 hostages and 5 terrorists were killed while the 6th one was captured alive. Promotion and conclusion of security force career. On 31 July 2018, he was promoted to Major General. He took over the command of SSF on 6 August 2018. Since then he resides at the Ganabhaban along with the Prime Minister and has been accompanying her on her events and foreign visits. He was sacked after the fall of the Awami League government the resignation of Sheikh Hasina. Personal life. He is married to Mrs Tasrin Mujib. The couple has two sons and one daughter. Controversy. Forced disappearance. Lt Gen Md Mujibur Rahman has been a controversial figure since the fall of dictator Sheikh Hasina. According to reports by Sky News, Bangladesh's military intelligence established more than 800 torture camps known as Ayana Ghar when Mujibur Rahman was the director of Bangladesh's military intelligence, the DGFI. General Mujibur Rahman was involved in the disappearances and torture of thousands of civilians in Ayana Ghar. Corruption. The"}, {"text": "Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) uncovered a significant amount of undeclared wealth in the names of Mujibur and his wife Tasrin Mujib, including a 4,050 sq ft flat in Mirpur, 10 plots across Dhaka (Mirpur, Cantonment, Khilkhet, and Purbachal), another flat in Cantonment, a house in Purbachal, and land with a tin-shed house in Savar. Investigators also found 15 bank accounts linked to large transactions allegedly involving bribes and illegal income gained through abuse of power during Mujibur's government service. The ACC has petitioned the court to seize the couple's properties and freeze their bank accounts. Tasrin alone reportedly owns seven plots in Baunia mouza, including a seven-katha plot valued at over Tk 9.82 million, and a flat in Joar Sahara, while Mujibur holds multiple plots and flats in his name, including a seven-katha plot in Khilkhet and a Tk 18 million flat in Mirpur. According to the anti-corruption commission, Mujibur siphoned more than $2 million to New York City to purchase two luxury apartments."}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 Ph\u01b0\u1edbc is a ward () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "\u0110\u00f4ng Xuy\u00ean is a ward () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Cantarutti is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The West African Cross Country Championships was an international cross country running competition between West African nations. It was staged on one occasion in 1996 in Bamako, Mali. It featured a men's race and a women's race, both of which had individual and team components. Souley Oumarou of Niger won the men's race in a time of 31:41 minutes, helping his national team to the men's title with six points. In the women's race, Ama Am\u00e9ho of Togo took the individual gold medal with a run of 19:45 minutes, while the women's team title was won by Burkina Faso on ten points."}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 Qu\u00fd is a ward () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Paulius \u017dalys (born 24 September 1995) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for Kharkivski Sokoly of the Ukrainian Basketball Superleague. Professional career. Professional career started in \u017dalgiris Kaunas. In September 2019, \u017dalys signed with Kharkivski Sokoly of the Ukrainian Basketball Superleague. In January 2020, \u017dalys signed with Avis Utilitas Rapla of the Latvian\u2013Estonian Basketball League."}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 Th\u1ea1nh is a ward () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 Th\u1edbi is a ward () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "The Omaha Airport Authority is the organization charged with management of Omaha Eppley Airfield and Millard Airport in Omaha, Nebraska. It is overseen by a five-person Board of Directors, members of which are appointed by the Mayor of Omaha. Airport Police. The airport authority has its own police department. The department is independent from, but co-jurisdictional with the Omaha Police Department. As of October 2020, the Chief is Tim Conahan."}, {"text": "B\u00ecnh \u0110\u1ee9c is a ward () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 H\u00f2a is a ward () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 Kh\u00e1nh is a rural commune () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 H\u00f2a H\u01b0ng is a rural commune () of Long Xuy\u00ean city in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Ongala Podanum Sir () is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language comedy horror film directed by R. L. Ravi and Sreejith Vijayan. It stars Jithan Ramesh in the lead role alongside five debutant actresses. Featuring music composed by Rejimon, the film began production in mid-2018 was released on 13 September 2019. Production. The adult comedy film began production in late 2018, and was completed by January 2019. Directors Ravi and Sreejith opted to name the film after a popular dialogue by Nayanthara's character in \"Naanum Rowdy Dhaan\" (2015). The makers cast five new actresses in the film alongside Jithan Ramesh, who was making a comeback after a brief sabbatical. Soundtrack. The film's soundtrack was composed by Reji Mon and Lyrics penned by Murugan Manthiram. Release. The film had a low profile opening across Tamil Nadu on 13 September 2019. In its review, \"The Indian Express\" gave a negative impression and wrote the film was \"a god-awful vulgarfest\"."}, {"text": "Belarus and the International Monetary Fund cover the relations between the country of Belarus and the International Monetary Fund. The Republic of Belarus became a member of the International Monetary Fund on July 10, 1992, and has since taken out a significant amount of loans to stabilize its economy, manage the balance of payments and deal with hyperinflation. Belarus IMF quota is 681.5 millions of special drawing rights (SDR), 0.14% of IMF total. They have 8,280 number of votes, which independently gives them a .16% voting share. , Pavel Kallaur held the board of Governor seat. When it comes to voting power Belarus is grouped in the constituency system consisting of Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and Turkey- together they have 162,344 total votes with 3.23% percent of fund total. , Raci Kaya was the Board of Governor for the constituency system. Belarus' economic history. Formally known as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic under the Soviet Union, on July 27, 1990, Belarus demanded its sovereignty. The country officially become the independent Republic of Belarus on August 25, 1991. In 1994 Belarus elected their first president, Alexander Lukashenko. USA and the European Union, deem Belarus the last dictatorship"}, {"text": "in Europe. After World War II, the Byelorussian economy was in tatters, and most of the industry and many production plants were transferred to Russia. The Soviet Union made Russia's economy priority before rebuilding Belarus. Under the leadership of Lukashenko, the economy of Belarus had problems with balance of payments and foreign exchange reserves. In 1998 Belarus entered a crisis, with the ruble value halved and food rationing imposed by the government. Belarus went to its neighbor Russia to seek financial help. Belarus and Russia signed an accord in hopes of merging the Russian and Belarusian currencies and tax systems, which was not officially put into effect. As of 2019, Belarus had 10.4 million people and a gross domestic product of US$80 billion. Their exports and imports were imbalanced, imports being at US$33 billion and exports are at US$28.5 billion. Their most lucrative export is refined petroleum, which represents 19% of their total exports and crude petroleum being their highest import \u2013 mainly from Russia. International Monetary Fund programs and loans. On July 28, 1993, under the Systematic Transformation Facility, 70.1 million SDR's were approved for Belarus in order to help with inflation and the overall quality of life for"}, {"text": "the people of Belarus. Although Belarus has slowly acquired economic reform and has shown to be resistant, their Parliament approved a comprehensive reform program in October 1994. To support the government's 1995 economic reform program, the IMF approved a second drawing under the Systematic Transformation Facility for again, 70.1 million SDR's (US$103 million). On September 12, 1995, the IMF approved a stand-by agreement credit of 196 million SDRs (US$293 million). The stand-by agreement was aimed to improve price stability, balance of payments, market economy, private ownership of land, and ultimately remove any barriers against privatization in the business sector. It would help promote foreign investment and lower the inflation problem. However, only the first $70 million of these funds were disbursed. In March 1996, the IMF cited the poor state of market reforms as the reason for withholding the loan. This decision came just one week after Russia and Belarus announced their intention to form an economic union. In 2005 Belarus paid off its loans, and the institution reported Belarus having a growing economy and inflation fell. After the 2008 financial crisis, Belarus was severely hit regarding trading, level of reserves, and balance of payments. On January 12, 2009, the"}, {"text": "IMF approved a US$2.46 billion stand-by agreement loan, which was 418.8% of the Belarus quota. US$787.9 million was first available and the rest was to be paid in quarterly reviews to ensure Belarus was meeting their conditions. On June 29, 2009, the IMF completed their first review of the stand-by agreement and approved a US$679.2 million disbursement after concluding that Belarus was following the agreements. The IMF also approved a loan increase to US$3.52 billion. In 2011 Belarus was hit with a severe crisis, and the government cut the ruble value against the US dollar by 36% and increased its interest rates and froze prices on certain staple foods. Belarus initially went to Russia for a loan, which Russia wasn't able to provide. Then, they went to the IMF requesting a US$3 billion loan. Lukashenko has publicly spoke out about the IMF imposing political conditions requested in exchange for the loans, such as releasing an activist from jail. The IMF denied this claim insisting they were only able to impose economic reforms, not political. Ultimately, Belarus ended up receiving a US$3 billion loan from the Eurasian Economic Community Anti Crisis Fund. Statistics. As of 2025, Belarus has engaged with the"}, {"text": "IMF on two occasions. Initially, in the 1990s, Belarus borrowed approximately $300 million, which was fully repaid by 2005. Following the 2008 crisis, the country again drew on IMF funds, with more than $3 billion credit, a sum that was repaid by 2015."}, {"text": "Scaevola gaudichaudiana, the mountain naupaka, is a perennial shrub in the family Goodeniaceae. The plant is endemic to Hawaii. It was first described by Adelbert von Chamisso in 1832 in the journal \"Linnaea\" and was given the specific epithet, \"gaudichaudiana\", to honour Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupr\u00e9. Description. \"Scaevola gaudichaudiana\" flowers all year round and its flowers are fragrant, white, and tubular. Flowering is followed by small purple fruits. The margins of the leaves are toothed. It grows in wet forest and open areas from about altitudes of to over ."}, {"text": "Cayetana is a Spanish feminine given name. It may refer to:"}, {"text": "Tangerine is a 2018 debut novel by Christine Mangan published by Ecco Press. Plot. Two former college roommates, Alice and Lucy, are reunited in Tangier in 1956 where Alice lives with her husband, John. Lucy, still dangerously obsessed with Alice, arrives in Tangier unannounced, eager to pick up where their relationship ended, badly. Critical reception. \"The New Yorker\" wrote \"'Tangerine' is over the top, but it is also endearing and even impressive in the force of its determination to conjure a life more exciting than most lives are.\" \"The New York Times\" said \"At times, 'Tangerine' reads as if it were reverse-engineered from a scholarly paper about suspense fiction. Happily, you can write a satisfying, juicy thriller this way, if not a blazingly original one.\""}, {"text": "This is an incomplete list of Bien de Inter\u00e9s Cultural landmarks in the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. List. The list is according to:"}, {"text": "The Ministry of Transport and Logistic Services (), formerly the Ministry of Transport (MoT; ) is a government ministry in Saudi Arabia responsible for all aspects of transport, including roads, railways, and ports. Established in 1953, the current minister is Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser, who was appointed on 23 October 2019. History. In 1953 the ministry was established under the name of the Ministry of Transportation with a task regards supervising the transport aspects. In 1975 the tasks associated with the ministry were extended to including planning, designing, constructing, and maintaining the roads and the bridges. In 2003 the name of the ministry was amended to the Ministry of Transport."}, {"text": "Birgit Vennesland (17 November 1913 \u2014 15 October 2001) was a Norwegian-American biochemist. Vennesland spent the majority of her career as an academic for the University of Chicago from 1941 to 1968. While at Chicago, she compared the enzymes that animals use during metabolism to the enzymes used by plants in photosynthesis. After leaving Chicago for Germany, Vennesland was the director of the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology from 1968 to 1970. She later was the director of an eponymous research facility by the Max Planck Society from 1970 until her retirement in 1981. During her career, Vennesland received the Stephen Hales Prize from the American Society of Plant Biologists in 1950 and the Garvan-Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society in 1964. Early life and education. On November 17, 1913, Vennesland was born in Kristiansand, Norway to Sigrid Kristine, a teacher, and Gunnuf Olaf, a timber merchant. For her first years, Vennesland grew up with her mother and twin sister in Norway, while her father immigrated to the United States. At the age of four, Vennesland and her family moved to the United States to live with her father in Chicago, Illinois. Vennesland received her undergraduate education at"}, {"text": "the University of Chicago on a scholarship. She graduated from Chicago with a Bachelor of Science in 1934 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1938, specializing in biochemistry. Career. While in college, Vennesland started her career with the University of Illinois Medical School as a research technician. After receiving her degrees, Vennesland worked at the University of Chicago for a year as a biochemist assistant before leaving for Harvard Medical School in 1939. Vennesland had planned to go to France for her career after she became a International Federation of University Women fellow. Due to World War II, Vennesland instead went to Harvard. Working as a research fellow at Harvard, Vennesland was part of a team that studied how carbon is transformed from carbon dioxide to glycogen. Vennesland returned to Chicago in 1941 and held multiple academic positions until 1968, ranging from instructor to professor. Throughout this time period, Vennesland researched the enzymes animals use during metabolism and compared them to the enzymes plants use during photosynthesis. In 1953, Vennesland was a co-author of a publication about dehydrogenase called \"The Enzymatic Transfer of Hydrogen\". She was also a co-author of a 1962 publication about the Hill reaction and carbon dioxide."}, {"text": "During her tenure at Chicago, Vennesland also worked for the Office of Scientific Research and Development, United States Public Health Service and National Science Foundation. Upon ending her career with Chicago, Vennesland emigrated to Germany to become the director for the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology in 1968. There, Vennesland researched the effects of nitrate on chlorophyll. Vennesland continued working with the Max Planck Society as the director of the Vennesland Research Institute from 1970 to 1981. After her retirement in 1981, Vennesland became an adjunct professor for the University of Hawaii in 1987, teaching biophysics and biochemistry. Awards and honors. In 1950, Vennesland was the recipient of the Stephen Hales Prize from the American Society of Plant Biologists for her work in plant biochemistry. Years later, she received the Garvan-Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society in 1964. Death. On 15 October 2001, Vennesland died in Kaneohe, Hawaii."}, {"text": "Ormiston Castle is a ruined 16th-century tower house, about east of Dalkeith, East Lothian, Scotland, and north of Ormiston Mains. It was formerly known as the \"House of Ormiston\" and is known alternatively as Old Ormiston. There was also a tower house called Ormiston near Innerleithen, and one called Ormiston Tower near Kelso, both in Scottish Borders. History. The Lindsays first owned the property. The Cockburns acquired the property in the 14th century. The English occupied the castle in 1547 as John Cockburn of Ormiston had sided with them in the Rough Wooing. In revenge James Hamilton, Duke of Ch\u00e2tellerault, the regent brought cannon and retook the castle in February 1548 and burnt it. John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun purchased the property in 1748. George Wishart, the Protestant martyr was taken from the castle by the Earl of Bothwell to St Andrews, where Cardinal Beaton had him executed. Alexander Crichton of Brunstane evaded Bothwell's men, running in the night through Ormiston wood and on to Tantallon Castle. Structure. The castle was built on a high ridge, with the river valley on one side and possibly ditches on the other three sides. There was an L-plan keep, to which a"}, {"text": "16th-century lean-to was added, enclosed by a barmkin wall with a gatehouse, which probably faced east."}, {"text": "A demerit is a point given to a student as a penalty for bad behavior. Under this once common practice, a student is given a number of merits during the beginning of the school term and a certain number of merits are deducted for every infraction committed. Schools use the demerit record within a point-based system to punish misbehavior. After a certain number of demerits are accumulated, the student is given detention, loss of privileges (e.g., being denied field trips and participation in school events), or some other punishment based on the seriousness and frequency of the infraction. One criticism of demerit systems is that they create bookkeeping problems and can result in students receiving severe punishments for minor infractions. Another criticism is that older adolescents learn how to manipulate a demerit system. There are also critics who cite that demerits wear parents down with constant parental meetings and leave students behind due to missed instructional time as a consequence of punishments such as detention and suspension."}, {"text": "The Audubon Place Historic District, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It includes all 37 homes on Audubon Place, a curved cul-de-sac street entered off University Blvd. in Tuscaloosa, as well as five properties going further down University Blvd. Specifically it includes numbers 1515 to 1707 on the odd-numbered side of University Blvd., and numbers 8 to 37 on Audubon Place. Just 32 of the buildings are deemed contributing, however. The entrance to the cul-de-sac is marked by \"two massive concrete aggregate piers\" and the street gradually climbs upward from there. The street forks, with the right fork going to a circular end, and the left exiting out onto a one-way street. The neighborhood was designed by landscape architect Samuel Parsons Jr. (1844-1923). It was a development by developer Mims P. Jemison (c.1860-c.1915), \"a prominent Tuscaloosa businessman who envisioned the subdivision as a haven for young middle class families, many of whom later achieved higher economic, professional and social status.\" The street was lined with oak trees planted by Mary Torrey Jemison."}, {"text": "The 1972 Newport County Borough Council election was held on Thursday 4 May 1972 to elect councillors to the Newport County Borough Council in Newport, Monmouthshire. It took place on the same day as other district and county borough council elections in England and Wales. These were the final elections to the county borough council, which would be replaced on 1 April 1974. The previous all-council election took place in May 1971. The 1972 election saw the Labour Party make major gains. Background. Newport County Borough was created in 1891 and abolished for 22 years from 1974, following local government reorganisation enacted by the Local Government Act 1972. Each of the county borough's electoral divisions was represented by three councillors, who stood down in turn for re-election, hence would each sit for a three year term. The council also consisted of 13 aldermen, who were elected by the councillors. Overview of the result. At this election Labour won nine of the 14 available seats from the Conservative Party and won a further seat held by a Ratepayer councillor. They increased their majority on the Council to 26. The composition of the Council following the election was 39 Labour members, 12"}, {"text": "Conservatives and one Ratepayer. Ward results. Contests for one of the seats took place in 12 wards, though in Allt-yr-yn two seats were contested."}, {"text": "Lin Xue (), also known by her courtesy name Lin Tiansu (), was a Chinese poet, painter, and calligrapher during the Ming dynasty, noted for her landscape paintings. Lin lived by the West Lake in Hangzhou, where she worked as a courtesan until her marriage into a respectable family. Lin drew the attention of leading poets and painters of the time, including Li Liufang and Dong Qichang. She painted in the latter's Southern School style, and is described as having a fluid hand with a feminine sensibility. Her landscape album of 1621 contained copies of earlier masterworks, which were deemed exquisite by critics due to how closely they resembled the originals."}, {"text": "Yarn is a music group that formed in Brooklyn, New York in 2006, now based in North Carolina. The group is led by songwriter Blake Christiana on vocals and guitar, a rotating group of electric guitarists including Matteo Joseph Recchio, Joel Timmons, and others, Rick Bugel on bass, and Robert Bonhomme on drums. Almost every live date includes some surprise guests or featured soloists. By playing up to 170 dates a year, they have earned a reputation as a hard-working live act. \"They have landed on the Grammy ballot 4 times, garnered nods from the Americana Music Association, placed top five on both Radio and Records and the AMA album charts, garnered airplay on Sirius FM, iTunes, Pandora, CNN, and CMT, and also accorded the \u201cDownload of the Day\u201d from Rolling Stone. Their latest project \"Lucky 13\" involves releasing new singles, with \"A\" and \"B\" side, on the 13th of each month, charging $5 for an entire year's worth of music. They have recorded 11 albums, in addition to a couple of releases under Christiana\u2019s name."}, {"text": "Safia Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Afore Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. The Namiae language and Barai language, both Koiarian languages, are spoken in the LLG."}, {"text": "Popendetta Rural LLG (Popondetta Rural LLG) is a local-level government (LLG) of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Higaturu Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Kira Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. The Tauade language is spoken in the LLG."}, {"text": "Kokoda Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Tamata Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Rigo Central Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Central Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Rigo Coastal Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Central Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Thomas Close (12 February 1796 \u2013 25 January 1881) was an English antiquarian and archaeologist. Biography. Thomas Close was born in Manchester on 12 February 1796 to John Close, a merchant of the city, and his wife, Mary. Close was a keen antiquarian and archeologist, engaging mostly in heraldic and genealogical research. Close created several illuminated pedigrees of royal and noble families, including some elaborate ones of the Tattershall and Wake families. He authored a work on the Saxon religious foundation, St Mary's Church, Nottingham, entitled \"St. Mary's Church, Nottingham: Its Probable Architect and Benefactors: With Remarks on the Heraldic Window Described by Thoroton\" (Nottingham, 1866). Close penned an unpublished work on Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon's \"History of the Rebellion\", which is now held at the National Art Library, in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Close was the member of several societies and organisations. On 10 May 1855, he was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1836, he was one of the founders and original members of the Reform Club - a London-based, Whig gentleman's club - and was the Grand Master of the Masonic province of Nottingham. Close was also a chevalier of the"}, {"text": "honorary Belgian Order of Leopold, and a member of several other foreign orders. Close was vice-president of his local Nottingham British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1866. Close's wife died on 22 January 1881, and, three days later, on 25 January, Close died at his home in St James's Street, Nottingham. Close left less than \u00a360,000 in his will."}, {"text": "Rigo Inland Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Central Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Amazon Bay Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Central Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Cloudy Bay Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Central Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Woitape Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Central Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "En Kaadhali Scene Podura () is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed by Ram Sevaa. It stars Mahesh and Shalu Chourasiya alongside an ensemble cast. Featuring music composed by Amresh Ganesh, the film began production in mid-2018 was released on 13 September 2019. Production. The film featuring Mahesh and debutant Shalu Chourasiya was shot in early 2018, with director Ram Sevaa making his second film after the unreleased \"Tea Kadai Bench\". The director based the story of the film on a real life incident that he had witnessed in the 1990s, and completed the shoot of the film within 23 days. The film's music is composed by Amresh Ganesh, and prior to release, Mahesh highlighted it as a major selling point of the film. Soundtrack. The film's soundtrack was composed by Amresh Ganesh. Release. In its review, \"The Indian Express\" gave a negative impression and wrote the film was \"a mess of a movie that does not know what it wants to be\". \"Maalaimalar\" praised the music while criticizing the cinematography."}, {"text": "Hiri Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Central Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Koiari Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Central Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Mekeo Kuni Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Central Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Mario Alberto Barcia (born 5 November 1989) is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for National Premier Leagues Victoria club South Melbourne FC as a midfielder. Career. On 25 January 2019, Barcia signed for Liga 1 club Semen Padang. On 21 June 2019, Barcia made his professional debut as a substitute in a 2\u20131 loss against Badak Lampung. On 10 October 2019, Barcia returned to Team Wellington. In 2021, Barcia signed to plays for National Premier Leagues Victoria club Avondale FC."}, {"text": "Epinotia abbreviana is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Europe and was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794. Description. The wingspan is 13-15 mm.The palpi are whitish, grey towards the tips . The forewings vary from white to ochreous, sometimes with dark fuscous strigulae. The costa has dark fuscous and pale or white strigulae. The edge of the basal patch is angulated in the middle. The central fascia is dilated dorsally, and there is an irregular spot before the termen in middle. This is usually more or less ochreous and much striated or suffused with dark fuscous, in ochreous specimens it is sometimes obsolete . The apical area is ochreous. The margins of the ocellus and sometimes two streaks from the costa are posteriorly leaden-metallic. The hindwings are grey. The larva is pale greenish or yellowish, more brownish above ; head and plate of 2 black : Life cycle. The moth can be found in June and July flying at dusk and night. During the day it can be found on the trunks or foliage of elm (\"Ulmus\" species). It occasionally comes to light. Larvae. Larvae can be found from April to June, with"}, {"text": "early instars initially feeding within a developing bud, perforating the leaf. As the bud opens, the leaf expands to show the distinctive feeding pattern. Later they feed in a spinning on another leaf. Field maple (\"Acer campestre\") is also eaten and larvae have been found on greater stitchwort (\"Stellaria holostea\"), which indicates it will eat herbaceous plants if dislodged from its normal feeding place on elm. Pupa. The pale yellowish-brown pupa are spun in a silken cocoon, on the ground amongst leaf litter. Distribution. This moth is found all over Europe from Ireland to Russia."}, {"text": "The Peterson\u2013Burr House is a historic two-story house in Salina, Utah. It was built in 1900 by P. J. Peterson, an immigrant from Denmark who became a furniture and hardware store owner in Salina, and served as the mayor and as a member of the Utah State Legislature. The house was designed in the Queen Anne architectural style. It belonged to Gilbert M. Burr, a car dealer and Mormon bishop, from 1919 to 1982, and it was remodelled as a bed and breakfast in 1983. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 18, 1994."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Kategoria Superiore Femra was the 11th season of women's professional football, organized by the Albanian Football Federation. The competition was suspended from March 12 until June 6, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Albania."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey team represented Boston College in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season. The team was coached by Jerry York, '67, his twenty-sixth season behind the bench at Boston College. The Eagles played their home games at Kelley Rink on the campus of Boston College, competing in Hockey East. The Eagles competed in just one mid-season tournament during the 2019\u201320 season, forgoing the traditional holiday break tournament. The Eagles played in the 68th Annual Beanpot Tournament at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on February 3 and 10. Boston College faced Boston University in the opening round, where they officially tied 4\u20134 per NCAA rules, but the Terriers advanced to the championship game by scoring in the second overtime. The Eagles faced the Harvard Crimson in the consolation game, securing third place with a 7\u20132 victory. They failed to secure a Beanpot title for the fourth consecutive season, while Northeastern won their third consecutive title. The Eagles finished the season 24\u20138\u20132, and 17\u20136\u20131 in conference play, to secure 1st place in Hockey East and the regular season title. The Hockey East tournament as well as the NCAA Tournament were unfortunately cancelled"}, {"text": "due to the COVID-19 pandemic, before any games were played. Therefore, no postseason result occurred for the Eagles. Previous season recap. The Eagles entered the 2019\u201320 season following a 2018\u201319 effort falling well short of expectation. While they did advance to the Hockey East tournament championship game, they ultimately fell to the Northeastern Huskies and failed to secure a bid to the NCAA Tournament for a third straight season. Their regular season record was abysmal by recent standards, going only 14\u201322\u20133 and 10\u201311\u20133 in conference play, finishing seventh in the conference; their lowest result since 2008\u201309. Additionally, they failed to secure any mid-season tournament title, their only tournament result being their second place Beanpot finish. Departures. Nine Eagles departed from the program from the 2018\u201319 roster: Graduation: Signed Professionally: Not Retained: Recruiting. Boston College added eight freshmen for the 2019\u201320 season: three forwards, three defensemen, and two goalies. 2019\u20132020 roster. 2019\u201320 Eagles. As of March 3, 2020. Schedule. Regular season. !colspan=12 ! style=\"; | Exhibition !colspan=12 ! style=\"; | Regular Season !colspan=12 style=\"| Hockey East Tournament (Cancelled) !colspan=12 style=\"| NCAA Tournament (Cancelled) \u2020 In the opening round of the 2020 Beanpot tournament, Boston University and Boston College officially tied -"}, {"text": "per NCAA rules - after playing a scoreless 5-minute overtime. The game continued for placement purposes, where the Terriers advanced to the title game by scoring in the second overtime period. Both the Hockey East and NCAA Tournaments were cancelled as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, before any games were played. Boston College was scheduled to host Providence in the Quarterfinals of the Hockey East Tournament and was qualified to make the NCAA tournament. Awards and honors. Tim Taylor Award Mike Richter Award USCHO Awards College Hockey News Awards Hockey East Awards Hockey East All-Stars National Player of the Month National Rookie of the Month Hockey East Player of the Month Hockey East Goaltender of the Month Hockey East Rookie of the Month Hockey East Player of the Week Hockey East Defensive Player of the Week Hockey East Rookie of the Week"}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 An may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Tufi Rural LLG (formerly Cape Nelson Rural LLG) is a local-level government (LLG) of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. The Onjob language is spoken in two villages within the LLG."}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 Hi\u1ec7p may refer to several rural communes in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Yasomati (died 604 or 605 or 606 CE) was an ancient Indian queen as the chief wife of King Prabhakaravardhana of Thanesar. Name. Yasomati is also known as Yasovati, and as Yasomati Devi (\"devi\" meaning 'goddess'). Since the \"s\" in the common English spelling of her name is pronounced \"sh\" (as in \"fish\"), her name is also spelled Yashomati. Biography. According to a theory, Yasomati was a daughter of King Yashodharman of Malwa and a sister of King Shiladitya of Malwa. Yasomati married Prabhakaravardhana (member of the Pushyabhuti dynasty), and she had three children with him: Yasomati burnt herself to death. This is sometimes considered \"sati\", although \"sati\" is a term usually used for the \"widows\" who died by self-immolation, whilst Yasomati killed herself before her husband\u02bbs death. Poet B\u0101\u1e47abha\u1e6d\u1e6da mentioned in \"Harshacharita\" that Yasomati distributed her jewellery to the other members of the royal court shortly before she killed herself. Bhandi, a nephew of Yasomati, was a companion of Harsha."}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 An is a rural commune () of Ch\u1ee3 M\u1edbi District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Graduate Hotels is a collection of hotels located in college towns, primarily in the United States, launched in 2014 by Nashville-based real estate company AJ Capital Partners and now part of Hilton Worldwide. There are currently 33 operating hotels in the United States and two in England. History. Graduate Hotels was founded in 2014 by Nashville-based real estate investor Ben Weprin and his firm, AJ Capital Partners. The company launched the Graduate Hotels brand by acquiring and remodeling hotels in university-anchored towns across the country. The first hotel opened in Athens, Georgia in 2014, centered around the University of Georgia. Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. agreed to buy Graduate Hotels in March 2024. AJ Capital Partners will retain real estate ownership of the existing Graduate properties under new long-term Hilton franchise agreements."}, {"text": "Abdallah Mohamad Fadel Aich (, ; born 5 October 1995) is a Lebanese footballer who plays as a left-back for club Bourj. Club career. Aich started his career at Mawadda Tripoli, before moving to Nejmeh's youth team. He made his Lebanese Premier League debut on 6 May 2013, in a 2\u20131 loss against Safa. In 2015, Aich moved to Eintracht Nordhorn in Germany, playing 25 games and scoring four. He then returned to Nejmeh in 2016, before being loaned out to Egtmaaey for one year the same year. Upon returning from loan, Aich was sold Tripoli in 2017. Having made 33 appearances in two seasons, he returned to Nejmeh in 2019. In July 2022, Aich joined cross-city rivals Ansar on a free transfer. International career. Aich was called up by Lebanon U20 for the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie. He made his senior debut for Lebanon on 10 October 2019, playing the full 90 minutes in a 2\u20131 home win against Turkmenistan in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Honours. Nejmeh Ansar"}, {"text": "Helen\u00f3w Park in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland is a park located between P\u00f3\u0142nocna, \u0179r\u00f3d\u0142owa and Smugowa streets and covers an area of 12 hectare. Of all park trees, five are natural monuments: two pedunculate oaks with a circumference of 320 and 340 cm, common beech with a circumference of 245 cm, red oak with a circumference of 350 cm and ash tree with a circumference of 385 cm. The park is entered in the Registry of Objects of Cultural Heritage. History. In 1867, a brewery founded on the \u0141\u00f3dka River by Karol Anstadt started operations. Next to the brewery buildings, a house inhabited by the Anstadt family and a house for workers was built. Over time, the family began to buy areas around the brewery, including grounds in the \u0141\u00f3dka valley. Within 20 years of the brewery's establishment, the factory grounds increased five times. The three brothers Ludwik, Zenon and Fryderyk, who after the death of their father - Karol Anstadt in 1874 took over the management of the company, decided to establish a park. Later Karol Anstadt junior joined the originators. In 1881, they obtained permission from the authorities to build a park, which was named after Helenow (Helena n\u00e9e Nestler)"}, {"text": "and Zenon (Helena n\u00e9 Lemm\u00f3w). Work began on a 12-hectare site, the \u0141\u00f3dka riverbed was adjusted and two ponds were built on the river. The park was developed by the Berlin gardening company L. Sp\u00e4th, like a few other \u0141\u00f3d\u017a parks (\u0179r\u00f3dliska II, Julianowski). The swampy area quickly changed into an impressive, lavish garden. Among the attractions there were ponds with a marina for boats, fountains and a stone cascade on the embankment, rose avenues, wildlife park (arranged in March 1890, where one could see a couple of bears, a trained chimpanzee, deer, fallow deer, roe deer, wild boars and hares), a volcanic lava cave, terraces, rich flowerbeds, concert bowl, cycling track, tennis courts and a sports field. An alley lined with pears led from the entrance to the park, later turned into red oaks and maples. The entrance to the fenced park was (up to this day) from Polnocna street. Gradual fall (1914\u20131989). The time of Helen\u00f3w Park glory did not last long. The first crisis came with the outbreak of World War I, when the park was largely devastated. Although in the interwar period, attempts were made to restore its splendor (Helen\u00f3w's attractions were still available for a"}, {"text": "fee), it never succeeded. The cycling track ended several times (in 1929, 1937, 1947\u201349 and 1961) in the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a stages of the Tour de Pologne. After World War II, after one year of use by the army, the park became the property of the city. Then it was given the name 19 January Park, commemorating the date of the entry of the Red Army into Lodz and the end of German occupation of the city. The park was cleaned, open to all residents of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, the eastern part was handed over to the sports club. The zoo, concert shell, marina and fence were demolished, which changed its function - it became a link between P\u00f3\u0142nocna and Sporna street. The greenery has also been largely depleted. Initially, various types of events, concerts and games were organized in the park, but with time such activities were abandoned. On 8 May 1949 the finish line of the 7th stage of the 2nd Peace Race was placed on the park pitch. Modernization. For many years, the park (and especially the ponds) was neglected, it was only in the 1990s that comprehensive modernization was carried out: ponds and alleys were restored, a large playground was"}, {"text": "built and the main avenues were illuminated. The entrance gate along with a fragment of the fence was restored, and in the place of the ruined fountain with the figure of a girl sitting surrounded by four swans rising to flight, a flower bed was created. On 27 May 1994 the City Council in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a restored the original name of Helenowski Park. In 2000, a small area was attached to the park from Smugowa street. It has sport functions: A playground, tennis tables and chess tables were created there. On 10 November 2003, on the southern edge of the park, next to the intersection of Polnocna and Sterlinga streets, a monument to the Glory of the Soldiers of the \"\u0141\u00f3d\u017a Army\" was unveiled."}, {"text": "The Sevier Ward Church is a historic church in Sevier, Utah. It was built in 1930 by John Marius Johnson, an immigrant from Denmark who became a \"well-known stonemason\" in Utah, on land that belonged to J.C. Baierline, and deeded to Mormon Bishop Levie in 1933. In 1973, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sold the building to Martha Carlsruh, who remodelled it as an antique store. The building was vacant by 1980. Its architecture was described as having \"rather eclectic design\", \"suggestive of a New England meetinghouse because of the temple-like central mass fronted by an extending, gabled pavilion. This pavilion has Greek returns and is pierced with a fanlight at the top, a diamond shaped window and round arched doorway which also has a fanlight. On the north elevation are five round arched windows and on the south are three round arched windows and an extending pavilion similar to the east pavilion.\" It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 24, 1980."}, {"text": "Long H\u00f2a may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Ph\u00fa An may refer to several rural communes in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Ph\u00fa B\u00ecnh may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Evaline Hilda Burkitt (19 July 1876 \u2013 7 March 1955) was a British suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). A militant activist for women's rights, she went on hunger strike in prison and was the first suffragette to be forcibly-fed. Between 1909 and 1914 she was force-fed 292 times and was the last woman to be so treated in Holloway Prison. She was a recipient of the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal. Life and Activism. Evaline Hilda Burkitt was born in Wolverhampton in 1876, the fifth of nine children born to Laura \"n\u00e9e\" Clews (1843\u20131909) and Reuben Lancelot Burkitt (1847\u20131928). The children were well educated, including the girls. Burkitt was interested in reading, needlework and gardening. She lived with her wealthy grandparents Clarissa and Charles Burkitt until she was 25 years old, and then rejoined her family, who had moved to Birmingham. She moved in with her elder sister Christobel, her husband Frederick, and their baby, Kathleen. Hilda Burkitt began work as a secretary living in Sparkbrook in Birmingham and joined the Women's Social and Political Union in 1907 after hearing Nell Kenney and later Emmeline Pankhurst speak. When the Birmingham branch of the WSPU opened"}, {"text": "in 1908 Burkitt took charge of the publicity campaign in the Midlands. During her militant period she often used the surname \"Byron\". Another sister, Ida Lillian Burkitt (1872\u20131962) was an actress, photographer and suffragette, who under her stage name of \"Ida Cunard\" received a six-week sentence in Holloway Prison for being one of six women who attempted to enter the House of Commons in 1908. Lillian and Christobel were among 50 women arrested on 11 February 1908, following the \"Women's Parliament\". Burkitt was arrested four times in 1909, the last occasion being in September when she threw a stone at the window of the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith's train as it pulled out of Birmingham New Street Station after he visited Birmingham to attend an all-male budget meeting at Bingley Hall. Despite a heavy police presence suffragettes had managed to climb onto a nearby roof from where they hurled slates down at him. During court appearances, Burkitt emphasised the political motivation for her actions. On arriving in the prison van at Winson Green Prison to begin their sentences Burkitt, Mabel Capper, Mary Leigh, Charlotte Marsh, Laura Ainsworth, Ellen Barnwell, Leslie Hall and Patricia Woodlock were \"singing, shewing defiance, threatened"}, {"text": "to assault prison authorities, and said they would not go in cells or undress until they were placed in the First Division\". All immediately went on hunger strike and were forcibly fed, with Burkitt being the first; she would endure this for a total of 292 times between 1909 and 1914. During her time in prison she spoke out against what she described as inhumane treatment. On her release from Winson Green prison on 18 October 1909 she shouted a defiant \"Votes for Women' to a small crowd including reporters. At a reception on 5th November, Burkitt was presented with the WSPU Hunger Strike Medal, \"for Valour\". In 1912 she was sentenced to four months imprisonment for window-smashing but was released on medical grounds after going on hunger strike. She was arrested in Leeds in November 1913 charged with Clara Giveen attempting to burn down the grandstand at Leeds Football Ground; she again went on hunger strike and was released from prison in December 1913. Burkitt also organised the Stoke-on-Trent WSPU branch for a few months that year. Arson in Suffolk. Following her release from Leeds Prison under the Cat and Mouse Act Burkitt managed to evade recapture until in"}, {"text": "1914 she and fellow-suffragette Florence Tunks burnt down two wheat stacks at Bucklesham Farm valued at \u00a3340, the Pavilion at the Britannia Pier in Great Yarmouth and the Bath Hotel in Felixstowe, causing \u00a336,000 of damage to the latter. There were no occupants in either the Pavilion or the hotel. The two women refused to answer questions in Court and sat on a table chatting throughout the proceedings with their backs to the magistrates. Force-feeding. On 29 May 1914 Burkitt was sentenced to two years imprisonment in HM Prison Ipswich. She suggested that the judge should put on the black cap and sentence her to death. In prison, she went on hunger strike and thirst strike and was force-fed for the entirety of her remand period before being moved to Holloway Prison. A suffragette released from Holloway at the end of July 1914 stated that Burkitt was being force-fed up to four times a day. She \"suffers agonies with her nerves ... She is sick after every feeding ... Her throat is in a terrible condition.\" Although in good health in prison Burkitt regularly complained of chest pains at night which the prison authorities said were due to indigestion. At"}, {"text": "the same time her weight loss was recorded which had dropped to 98 lbs by mid-July 1914 - \"16 lbs below average weight for her height\". It was often recorded that Burkitt was \"hysterical\" during force-feeding. On 7 August 1914 Burkitt petitioned the Home Office for release, writing: \"I\u2019ve been in prison since April 28th and have been forcibly fed during the whole time, 292 times so far.\" Burkitt pleaded \"reply to my Petition at once, as if I should die through my fasting, my death will lie at your door.\"and was \"ready to lay down my life, to bring about the Freedom of my Sex\". She was released from prison on 1 September 1914 after having given a guarantee that she would not again partake of militant activities. She was the last suffragette to be force-fed in Holloway Prison. Later years. In 1916 she married Leonard Mitchener (1889-1960). The marriage was later dissolved. In 1939 she was living in St Albans as a \"Confectioner and Cake Maker\". Her family described her as a gentle quiet person, only angry when not permitted a mortgage without a male guarantor. In her later years she lived with her sister Ida Lillian Burkitt"}, {"text": "at 48 South Road in Morecambe. Evaline Hilda Mitchener died on 7 March 1955 in Blackburn Royal Infirmary in Lancashire. Legacy. In 2014 The Felixstowe Society unveiled a plaque commemorating the burning down of the Bath Hotel in Felixstowe by Burkitt and Florence Tunks in 1914. The plaque commemorates the centenary of the burning down of the hotel and is on what remains of the building, at the site of the former Bartlet Hospital. From November to December 2018 an art installation of a portrait of Burkitt was placed in Birmingham New Street Station where she had thrown a stone at Asquith's train in 1909. Named \"The Face of Suffrage\" the artwork was a floor-based 200 metre-square photo mosaic. The artwork was based on a photograph taken by Burkitt's older sister Ida Lillian Burkitt who was a suffragette as well as being an actress, photographer and nurse. Made from 3,724 photographs of women from the West Midlands from the 1900s in addition to pictures of modern women, the artwork was created by artist Helen Marshall of \"The People's Picture\" to celebrate the centenary of women getting the vote."}, {"text": "Ph\u00fa Long may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Ph\u00fa Th\u1ecd is a rural commune () of Ph\u00fa T\u00e2n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Ph\u00fa Xu\u00e2n is a rural commune () of Ph\u00fa T\u00e2n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Memsor Kamarake is an American celebrity wardrobe stylist best known for his work with talk show host Wendy Williams as part of her \"Glam Squad\" alongside makeup artist Merrell Hollis and wig stylist Dominic Santiago. He previously collaborated with Williams's former wig stylists Antwon Jackson and Robyn Michele. He worked as an assistant for \"Vibe\" magazine at the inception of his career and has styled Beyonc\u00e9, Barack Obama, Megan Thee Stallion, and singer Ciara. He went on to serve as fashion director at \"Vibe\" for five years. Early life and career. Kamarake was born in Harlem, New York to immigrant parents from Sierra Leone, West Africa. His father was a diplomat, working in New York, (\"The Wayne Holtz Podcast\", 16:32) and his mother was a seamstress. (\"The Wayne Holtz Podcast\", 17:56) Kamarake went to college for computer engineering but decided to follow his passion of fashion, derived from his mother's creativity in her job. (\"The Wayne Holtz Podcast\", 17:49) His first job was at GAP, starting out in sales and moving into window dressing (\"The Wayne Holtz Podcast\", 18:20), where he got \"one brain wave one day,\" the realization that if he could dress mannequins for window displays, he could"}, {"text": "\"dress a human being.\" (\"The Wayne Holtz Podcast\", 18:43). Spending his formative years in London, he became an avid follower of the work of Emil Wilbekin, a \"Vibe\" magazine editor, which cultivated his interest in fashion and print editorial arts. As Kamarake was read \"Vibe\" \"religiously\" and was \"obsessed with it,\" he noticed Emil's byline was market editor, guiding him in the direction that perhaps he would like to be a market editor as well. (\"The Wayne Holtz Podcast\", 18:51, 19:56) Kamarake then worked at a Ralph Lauren store which gave him firsthand experience with apparel, and he parlayed the experience into a move back across the Atlantic to New York. By chance encounter, Kamarake met Wilbekin, who not too long after became his boss when Kamarake obtained a position as an assistant at \"Vibe\", where Wilbekin was editor-in-chief. Kamarake ultimately worked his way from assistant to market editor, a capacity in which he was working by 2002. He then worked up to occupying the position of fashion director, a capacity in which he worked from 2005-2009. During this period, in June 2007, Kamarake styled Beyonc\u00e9 for Vibe's \"Beyonc\u00e9 Strips Down\". He also styled the Dap-Kings, Chanel Iman, Eve, Mark"}, {"text": "Pitts, and Tanisha Scott and fashion-directed shoots featuring Chris Brown and others. In Sept. 2007, Kamarake styled then-senator Barack Obama, for \"Vibe\"'s cover. He then graduated to consulting fashion director, a position he held throughout 2012. He eventually became a freelancer, in which circumstance he came to work for Wendy Williams in 2012 after her third television season, having met Williams through her stylist, Merrell Hollis. (\"The Wayne Holtz Podcast\", 27:13) Kamarake is frequently featured on Williams's \"After Show\", runs her Instagram take-overs, and has appeared on her Facebook Live Q&A sessions. As of Season 11 of the \"Wendy Williams Show\", Kamarake ceased to serve on Williams's staff. In April 2020, he styled Megan Thee Stallion for the cover of \"Marie Claire\". Other ventures. In 2007, Kamarake was a panelist alongside Jay Alexander, Selita Ebanks, and others at the Breaking Into Fashion Forum in New York City. In 2008, Kamarake partook in Salute to Black Men in Fashion at New York Fashion Week. In 2014, Kamarake worked as a style editor with designer LaQuan Smith. In 2019, Kamarake worked as a stylist for the NYC Pride Guide: WorldPride Edition under the direction of Gregory Wein. In 2019, Kamarake worked in"}, {"text": "the role of fashion editor, styling Regina King for the cover of \"Marie Claire\". Personal life. Kamarake is gay and partakes in philanthropy surrounding LGBT causes."}, {"text": "C\u00f4 T\u00f4 may refer to several places in Vietnam:"}, {"text": "Li Yin (; C. 1610 \u2013 1685), also known by her courtesy name Jinsheng (\u4eca\u751f) and her art names Shi'an (\u662f\u5eb5) and Haichang N\u00fcshi (\u6d77\u660c\u5973\u53f2) or Kanshan Yishi (\u9f9b\u5c71\u9038\u53f2), was a Chinese calligrapher, courtesan, painter, and poet during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. She was noted for her illustration of flowers and birds. Her artwork was highly sought after during her lifetime, resulting in fakes being produced by more than forty imitators. Early life. Li Yin was born in Kuaiji (Shaoxing), Zhejiang, during the late Ming dynasty. Various sources give her year of birth as 1610, 1611, or 1616. Her family background is not known, but according to the biography by Huang Zongxi, her parents made her study poetry and painting from an early age. Their financial circumstances were poor enough that she was said to have stored up liver mosses as paper and persimmon sticks to write with. Later, she became a Geji performer to make extra money, with Huang Zongxi comparing Li to her more famous contemporaries Wang Wei and Liu Rushi. She studied painting under an otherwise unknown master named Ye Danian (\u8449\u5927\u5e74), who helped develop her style in the manner of Chen Chun and"}, {"text": "Xu Wei, two renowned painters of the previous century. Marriage with Ge Zhengqi. By the time she was in her teens, Li's talent in both art and poetry was already recognized. At 17, the scholar-official and artist Ge Zhengqi, moved by a poem of Li's, married her as a concubine. They had a close relationship and spent much time together painting and composing calligraphy. During the reign of the Chongzhen Emperor, Ge served as an official in the imperial court in Beijing, where he and Li lived for more than ten years. He travelled extensively for official business, with Li accompanying him to numerous places along the Yellow River and the Yangtze in their 15 years of marriage. She often composed poems about what she saw in her travels. Near the end of Chongzhen's reign, Ming China became increasingly unstable, leading Ge and Li to leave Beijing for Nanjing, the country's southern capital, in 1643. Upon reaching Suzhou in Anhui Province, they were attacked by members of a military rebellion. Li, wounded in the chaos, stayed to search for her husband instead of fleeing the danger, abandoning all her belongings except her poems. Ge was greatly moved by her loyalty"}, {"text": "and bravery, and his disciple, Lu Chuan, later wrote prefaces to Li's poetry collections, in which he praised her as a loyal \"minister\" to Ge and compares her to the ancient beauty Xi Shi. Later life. After the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644, the Manchu Qing dynasty took control of Beijing, and set about conquering the rest of China. In 1645, Nanjing fell, with Ge committing suicide rather than submitting. For the next 40 years, Li Yin lived alone and in poverty at the Laughing Bamboo Studio in Haichang, Ge's hometown in the suburb of Haining. In honor of Ge, she called herself \"Weiwang Yin\" (\u672a\u4ea1\u4eba), or The Widow. Li found it hard to make ends meet, earning money through spinning and weaving, as well as painting professionally. Despite this, she still maintained her ambitions and interests, often sitting alone under a lonely lamp and reciting poems, which, due to the changes in her life, had a more profound and melancholy style than he earlier work. The renowned scholar Huang Zongxi wrote her biography. On her 70th birthday, Li composed a poem expressing her mixed feelings on not having children: Works. Li Yin wrote 260 long and short"}, {"text": "poems, as well as the collections \"Zhuxiaoxuan Yincao\" (\u7af9\u7b11\u8f69\u541f\u8349) and \"Xu Zhuxiaoxuan Yincao\" (\u7eed\u7af9\u7b11\u8f69\u541f\u8349). Li Yin often compared herself to fellow poets Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Qingzhao of the Song Dynasty. Li Yin was chiefly noted for her paintings of flowers and birds, typically in ink monochrome with fluid brushstrokes. Her reputation was such that her paintings were considered an essential souvenir from Haichang, and it is estimated there were over forty imitators in the area producing fakes for gullible tourists. She painted with a flowing ink style reminiscent of the Ming dynasty painter Chen Chun (1483\u20131544), and was considered to be the finest female painter by critic Qin Zuyong. Many of her paintings are in the collection of the Palace Museum, including: Her other paintings include:"}, {"text": "V\u0129nh Ph\u01b0\u1edbc may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "L\u00ea Tr\u00ec is a rural commune () of Tri T\u00f4n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "The Inverness Lions are a Scottish basketball club, based in the city of Inverness, Scotland. Club. Inverness City B.C. was established as a youth focused club, with training and games for kids aged 6 to 18. In its short history the club has developed over 20 players who have gone on to represent Scotland and GB at age-grade international level. As the club grew, a senior team was added, providing a full pathway to progress through the Club. The Lions name was then adopted, and in 2015, the club became part of the Inverness Community Sport Hub. In 2019, the Lions' men's team entered the Scottish Men's National League for the first time. They are the first senior men's team from the Highlands to play at this level. Teams. For the 2019-20 season, the Lions will field the following teams: Senior Men - National League Division 2 Senior Men II - Highland League U18 Men - National League U18 Division 1 U18 Women - National League U18 Division 1 U16 Boys - National League U16 Division 1 U16 Girls - National League U16 Division 1 Home Venue. The Lions are based at various venues in the city, including Inverness Royal"}, {"text": "Academy Inverness Leisure and Millburn Academy."}, {"text": "T\u00e2n L\u1ee3i may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "This list of junior fellows at the Harvard Society of Fellows includes notable recipients of the fellowship who are Black. As of 2019, there had been fewer than 20 Black fellows out of over 700 total junior fellows since the Society's founding in 1933. The symbol * following a name indicates that that person is deceased."}, {"text": "Beaver Creek is a long 2nd order tributary to Reedy Fork, in Guilford County, North Carolina. Course. Beaver Creek rises in Forsyth County on the divide between Beaver Creek and East Belews Creek (Dan River). Beaver Creek then flows northeast into Guilford County to meet the Haw River about 3 miles east-southeast of Oak Ridge, North Carolina. Watershed. Beaver Creek drains of area, receives about 45.2 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 409.13 and is about 35% forested."}, {"text": "An N\u00f4ng is a rural commune () of T\u1ecbnh Bi\u00ean District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "A Season of Love Tour is a concert tour by actress and singer Idina Menzel in support of her second holiday album \"\". The tour is only performed in 3 cities on the East Coast of the United States. Background. On October 7, 2019, Menzel announced that she would perform a one night only concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall on December 11, 2019. The announcement came following the most prior announcement about her seventh studio album and second holiday album \"\". On October 9, 2019, Menzel announced two additional shows set for December 6, 2019 at Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, NJ and December 8, 2019, at the Grand Theatre at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, CT. Synopsis. Menzel performs a selection of holiday favorites from holiday album \"Christmas: A Season of Love\". In addition, Menzel performs selections from her breakout performances on Broadway in \"Wicked\" and \"Rent\" along with her Oscar-winning song \"Let It Go\" from Disney's \"Frozen\". Setlist. Encores"}, {"text": "An Ph\u00fa is a rural commune () of T\u1ecbnh Bi\u00ean District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Nh\u01a1n H\u01b0ng is a rural commune () of T\u1ecbnh Bi\u00ean District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "N\u00fai Voi is a rural commune () of T\u1ecbnh Bi\u00ean District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "T\u00e2n L\u1eadp is a rural commune () of T\u1ecbnh Bi\u00ean District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Prafulla Samantara (born 1952) is an Indian environmental activist from Odisha. Biography. Samantara has been a spokesperson for the Dangaria Kandha indigenous people, in their protest against plans for bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hill range. A 2013 Supreme Court ruling stopped the mining plans. Samantara was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2017."}, {"text": "Th\u1edbi S\u01a1n is a rural commune () of T\u1ecbnh Bi\u00ean District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "The Salina Municipal Building and Library is a historic building in Salina, Utah. The original city hall was built in 1887, and torn down to make way for this new building. Construction began in 1936, and it was completed in 1937. It was built under the Works Progress Administration program by M.W. Breinholt, who was a building contractor in nearby Richfield, Utah for six decades. The building was designed in the Prairie School and Art Deco architectural styles. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 9, 1986."}, {"text": "Chi L\u0103ng is a township () of T\u1ecbnh Bi\u00ean District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Nh\u00e0 B\u00e0ng is a township () of T\u1ecbnh Bi\u00ean Town in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Ph\u00fa H\u00f2a is a township () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "N\u00fai S\u1eadp is a township () and capital of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "James Clarke ( 27 May 1798 \u2013 23 September 1861) was an English antiquary, archaeologist, shopkeeper, and amateur poet. He published numerous minor articles on the antiquities of his home county, Suffolk, and a volume of doggerel verse. Biography. James Clarke was born to William Clarke and his wife, Mary Cook, in Bedingfield, Suffolk. He was baptised on 27 May 1798. His first occupation was as a grocer and draper in Suffolk, his shop established opposite the gates of Easton Park, the residence of the dukes of Hamilton, and near Wickham Market. On 12 April 1821, he married Jane Louisa Clamp, \"n\u00e9e\" Clonmel. Together, they had four children - three sons and a daughter - between 1826 and 1844. Clarke was a keen antiquary, particularly for those antiquities of his local area. In 1847, he became an associate of the British Archaeological Association (BAA), which, the BAA stated in their obituary of Clarke, \"proved a great source of improvement and enjoyment\" for him. Clarke made many communications to the association's journal, predominately concerning his own finds, which the BAA referred to as \"numerous, if [...] not of any great importance\". The BAA lists 29 communications between 1849 and 1861, among"}, {"text": "them are reports of: a 12/13th-century brass plate, coins from English kings ranging from Edward III to Elizabeth I (including Roman coins and those of Alexander III of Scotland), a Roman burial vault at Rosas Pit, various seals and rings, architectural remains, and - in his last communication - a denarius of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor. Clarke's closest partner in his antiquarian studies was Edward Dunthorne (1792\u20131853), a fellow grocer in nearby Dennington and antiquary. Clarke was also an amateur poet, publishing an antiquarian-inspired collection of 115 four-line stanzas, in his \"The Suffolk antiquary; containing a brief sketch of the sites of ancient castles, abbeys, priories \u2026 also notices of ancient coins and other antiquities found in the county \u2026 concluding with a petition for calling in all defaced coins, and other changes to quiet the public mind\" (1849). This collection of self-declared \"doggerel rhyme\" includes tangential fragments of antiquarian and topographical information on Suffolk, and tributes to fellow antiquaries of the county, including David Elisha Davy and W. S. Fitch. Clarke health \"had been failing for some time\", according to the BAA, before he died on 23 September 1862 at Easton, at the age of 63, having published"}, {"text": "his last communication to the BAA a year earlier. His wife survived him and he was buried at Church of All Saints, Easton, where his gravestone was engraved with a final stanza of his \"doggerel rhyme\". His will was probated at \u00a31500."}, {"text": "An Ch\u00e2u is a township () and capital of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Birmingham General Hospital was a World War II US Army Hospital in Van Nuys, California at the corner of Vanowen Street and Balboa Boulevard. The hospital was built in 1942 and 1943 to care for troops returning home from oversea service. The first patient checked-in on August 24, 1943. The hospital had 1,777 beds housed in single-story buildings over the 131-acre campus. Birmingham General Hospital. For a short time when it opened, Birmingham General Hospital was called Van Nuys General Hospital, but was renamed Birmingham General Hospital after Brigadier General Henry Patrick Birmingham (1854\u20131932), of the U.S. Army Medical Corps. The War Department approved the construction of the hospital on August 24, 1943. The land was farm land of the Encino Rancho and the Petit Ranch. The 80 single-story buildings were made of brick and some stucco. The hospital also had a chapel, rehabilitation pool, gymnasium, fire station, bomb shelter, kitchen, movie theater, racquetball/handball court, Pacific Electric street car station (possibly Van Nuys station) and a Prisoners of War (POW) wing. An Italian Service Unit with 40 Italian POWs from the North African campaign volunteered at the hospital. The Army hospital worked on general medicine of returning Veterans. There was"}, {"text": "special care for Vets with central nervous system syphilis, rheumatic fever, quadriplegic and paraplegic and shell shock. Due to the war efforts Penicillin was being mass-produced by 1944. The Hospital made use of this new wonder drug in helping Vets. The hospital was also one of the first to use an antibiotic ointment on patients. Maj. Joseph Weinberg used the new antibiotic ointment to help patients with infected compound fractures. The hospital also had a wing for women vets, women that served in WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), Women's Army Corps and Army nurses. For returning Vets, 800 beds were used for debarkation medical work. The first commander of the hospital was Col. Alvin C. Miller, from the US Army's Pearl Harbor Army hospital. Chief of the medical rehabilitation was Jack W. Gregory. Birmingham General Hospital also had a unit to modify cars for those that lost the use of their legs, to drive with hands only. Actress Susan Peters also received a modified Birmingham car after a hunting accident. After the war on 31 March 1946, the hospital was turned over to the Veterans Administration and renamed Birmingham Veterans Administration Hospital. The veterans' organization Paralyzed Veterans of"}, {"text": "America was started at this hospital. The VA Hospital closed in 1950, the Vets at Birmingham were moved to the Veterans Administration Long Beach Hospital. In 1952 the hospital was sold to the Los Angeles City Schools for $1.00. Los Angeles City School opened Birmingham High School - Birmingham Community Charter High School (BCCHS) on 1953, it served grades seven to 12. Mrs. Albert Zoraster, a member of the Havenhurst Elementary School P.T.A, was credited with having the vision of using the former hospital as a school. Congressman Joseph F. Holt helped make her vision a reality. The school's principal, Dr. John I. Abbott, quickly transformed the shuttered hospital grounds into a school facility. For example, the chapel was converted into a drama classroom. Some original VA buildings, along with the old pools, are still on the high school campus. The land also is used for the current Mulholland Junior High - William Mulholland Middle School. Part of the land was retained by the US Army and used for Cold War air defense missile battalion headquarters of the 551st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Missile Battalion, and later the 4th Battalion, 65th Artillery, up until November 1968. This headquarters facility was responsible for"}, {"text": "the management of Nike Missile Control Sites in the Los Angeles area which operated Nike Ajax missiles and Nike Hercules missiles. Ernest Bors. In 1945 the US Army opened the first Spinal Cord Injury Center at Birmingham General Army Hospital. The Center used the work of Doctor Ernest Bors (1900\u20131990), who was one of the foremost experts on neurourology in traumatic spinal cord injury. Bors had developed a holistic multidisciplinary approach for treating spinal cord injury which is still used in care centers. At Birmingham General Hospital, Bors treated up to 220 Vets. From around the world, other military doctors visited Birmingham General Hospital so as to learn about these new medical techniques. Hollywood. The hospital was located 13 miles north of Hollywood; as such, many Hollywood actors and actress came to visit the servicemen. Hollywood Radio personalities also visited the hospital. During late 1944, the Jack Benny Christmas program was broadcast from the hospital. Among these regular visitors were: Ronald Reagan, Anne Jeffreys, Basil Rathbone, Mary Pickford, Linda Darnell, Al Pearce, Charles Laughton, June Haver, Jimmy Stewart, Bagelman Sisters, Clarence Nash, The Charioteers and Bob Hope. The hospital was used for the 1950 Hollywood movie \"The Men\" which was"}, {"text": "Marlon Brando's first film; in it, he plays the part of an injured-in-combat World War II veteran. Brando lived as a wheelchair-user for several weeks among the patients in preparation for the role. Birmingham General Hospital was used along with its actual name in the 1950 movie \"Backfire\". The movie was inspired by the work carried out at Birmingham General Hospital's Spinal Cord Injury Center. The main actor plays an injured Vet who falls in love with a Birmingham General Hospital nurse. Desi Arnaz was stationed at Birmingham General Hospital during the war to entertain the troops there with the United Service Organizations (USO). Arnaz had a bad knee and so was transferred to the US Army Medical Corps. Arnaz also coordinated with the stars that visited the hospital. Arnaz was discharged on November 16, 1945. This Is Your Life. The TV show \"This Is Your Life\" came about as an idea for a radio show for a veteran at the hospital. The show was created by Ralph Edwards in 1948. The US Army asked Edwards to \"do something\" for paraplegic soldiers at the hospital. In \"This Is Your Life\" the host would surprise one person by bringing on guests"}, {"text": "from that person's life in front of an audience. The people from the person's life could be colleagues, friends, and family. A Vet down on his luck was picked as the first person on the show \"Truth or Consequences\". The show was a hit and \"This Is Your Life\" was started as its own show."}, {"text": "The Syme Medal is a research prize that is awarded annually by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in honour of James Syme (1799-1870) who was elected as its President in 1849. The medal is typically awarded for research undertaken as part of a doctoral thesis with particular consideration given to work that is likely to influence clinical practice."}, {"text": "Jessy Franco (born 7 December 1998) is a Gibraltarian sprinter. He represented his territory in the 400 metres at the 2019 World Championships in Doha without advancing from the first round but setting a new national record of 47.41. He has a Gibraltarian father and Faroese mother who met when competing at the 1989 Island Games in athletics and gymnastics respectively. Jessy himself later competed at two editions of the Games. His older brother Julian was also a sprinter. Personal bests. Outdoor Indoor"}, {"text": "Marcia Hampton Rioux (n\u00e9e Gautschi) (1947 \u2013 September 20, 2021) was a Canadian legal scholar. She was a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University. Early life and education. Marcia Rioux was born in Trail, British Columbia, Canada, in 1947. Career. Rioux began her academic career at the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1968 as a research assistant. As the first Director of Research for the National Advisory Council on the Status of Women, she focused her research on indigenous women. Before earning her PhD, Rioux worked as a Policy Analyst on the Law Reform Commission of Canada from 1977 until 1979. In 1978, Rioux and Joanna McFadyen published a report that promoted a revision in the Canadian Criminal Code regarding sexual assault victims. After earning her doctorate, Rioux worked as Director of the Roeher Institute in Downsview, Ontario, from 1987 until 2002. She was the Director of the York Institute of Health Research at York University from 2002 until 2014. Starting in 2002, she also chaired York's School of Health Policy and Management. In her role as director and chair, Rioux was invited to La Trobe University in 2008"}, {"text": "to work with law professor Lee Ann Basser on developing disability policy in Victoria, Australia. A few years later, Rioux, Basser, and Melinda Jones published \"Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and Disability Law\" through Brill Publishers. In February 2013, Rioux began an international research project to promote employment of people with disabilities in Bangladesh, India and Nepal. By April, York University awarded Rioux the 2013 President's Research Excellence Award. Later, in recognition of her academic achievements, York University appointed Rioux the title of Distinguished Research Professor. In 2014, Rioux was the recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Community Volunteer Award in recognition of her contributions to Ontario communities. Later that year, she was also named a Member of the Order of Canada for her research in the field of social justice. On February 3, 2015, Rioux was recognized by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations with the 2014 Status of Women Award of Distinction and the Lorimer Award. She also published a co-edited book titled \"Disability, Rights Monitoring, and Social Change: Building Power out of Evidence.\" The book, published through the Canadian Scholars\u2019 Press, attempted to address the issues facing United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,"}, {"text": "such as civil society monitoring. She died on September 20, 2021. Selected publications. The following is a selected list of publications:"}, {"text": "Gwen Lally (born Gwendolin Rosalie Lally Tollandal Speck, 1 March 1882 \u2013 14 April 1963) was an English pageant master, actor, theatre producer, playwright and lecturer. Lally regularly defied gender conventions and often chose to wear 'masculine' clothing that was typical of the era, such as trousers and a top hat. As the first woman pageant maker she produced many historical pageants for smaller towns and organisations as well as major city pageants which involved casts of thousands. Early life. Lally was born at 20 Perham Road, Fulham, London, to 'gentleman' Jocelyn Henry Speck and Rosalie Hughes Dalrymple. She was the eldest of three children. As a child she had a passion for Shakespeare and acting, and became an actress despite parental opposition. She grew up on the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border where her father, who had taken holy orders, was curate at Banbury (1887-1890) and vicar of Wroxton (1892-1907). There, she frequently contributed to church and village entertainments. In 1901, she performed as Olivia in \"Twelfth Night\" along with Frank Stevens (later pageant master Frank Lascelles) at a fete in Banbury in aid of Banbury National Schools. Career. In 1906, Lally began her career at His Majesty\u2019s Theatre, London, under the"}, {"text": "management of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. She also worked in touring theatre and music halls, and at the Old Vic. Lally only ever appeared on stage as a female once, in \"Dinner Together\" in 1914, and even then her character was a \u2018male impersonator'. She claimed \"the distinction of being the only actress who has never worn skirts on the stage\". However, in 1907 she appeared in the Oxford Historical Pageant in the role of Queen Eleanor. As a director and producer she worked at repertory theatres in Leeds, where she had her own repertory company at the Little Theatre, and Westcliff on Sea. She encouraged town and village drama movements, lecturing on drama and critiquing student productions at Village Drama Society schools. In 1926 she directed the Village Drama Society's summer school in Bath and in York in 1927. She was also an adjudicator at the Yorkshire Women's Institute Drama Competitions. In 1924 she produced a performance of Shakespeare's \"Henry VIII\" with an all woman cast of about 100 members of the Westerham, Brasted and Crookham Hill Women's Institutes in Kent. Lally wrote two plays, acting in both of them: \"Pierrot Philanders\" (1917) and \"The Great Moment\" (1918). Lally"}, {"text": "is best known as a pageant maker, and the first woman to succeed in this work. Other well known pageant masters were Louis N. Parker and Frank Lascelles. The pageant master was responsible for the production and coordination of casts of performers and musicians who were often volunteers. Lally produced many pageants including: Gwen Lally was known for \"her powerful personality and striking figure\". In her opinion, pageant making brought together people of all classes and types and promoted friendships between enemies. As a pioneer in the field of pageant making she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1954 New Year Honours. She died on 14 April 1963 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent."}, {"text": "RNF144A is an E3 ubiquitin ligase belonging to the RING-between RING (RBR) family of ubiquitin ligases, whose specific members have been shown to function as RING-HECT hybrid E3 ligases. RNF144A is most closely related to RNF144B at the protein level, and the two proteins together comprise a subdomain within the RBR family of proteins. The ubiquitin ligase activity of RNF144A catalyzes ubiquitin linkages at the K6-, K11- and K48- positions of ubiquitin in vitro, and is regulated by self-association through its transmembrane domain. The biological functions of RNF144A is/are relatively unknown beyond its intrinsic enzymatic activity. Somatic mutations of RNF144A have been catalogued in cancer genetic databases in several primary human tumors, including breast, stomach, lymphoma, glioblastoma, uterine and lung cancers. Other members of the RBR family have been associated with neurological and immunological diseases, most notably parkin, HOIL-1L and HOIP(RNF31). Current known substrates of RNF144A targeted for degradation are proteins involved in DNA repair, heatshock/chaperone function and signalling, consistent with the predominant association of this protein with cancer, and include (DNA-PKcs), PARP1, HSPA2, BMI1, and RAF1."}, {"text": "Edward Delafield Smith (May 8, 1826 \u2013 April 12, 1878) was an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York during the American Civil War. Career. At 33 years old, Smith was appointed federal attorney for New York City by Abraham Lincoln. His most famous case was in 1862, when he oversaw the prosecution of slave trader Nathaniel Gordon. Gordon, who was captured in 1860 under the previous administration of James Buchanan, had had the prosecution of his case delayed by then District Attorney James I. Roosevelt. When Smith assumed his post in April 1861, he found that Gordon had been in custody for some time in the relative comfort of the Eldridge Street jail, with no plans to bring a trial. As a result, Smith had Gordon moved to the Tombs. At the time, Smith was determined to help stop the slave trade and saw the case as an opportunity to set an example for all future slave traders. Smith pushed for a death sentence for Gordon and won. Gordon was sentenced to death, and executed in 1862. Later on, he also prosecuted John Andrews, leader of the New York City draft"}, {"text": "riots. A staunch unionist and Republican, Smith helped to found the Union League of New York and the Union Defense Committee. From 1871 to 1875, he served as Corporation Counsel for New York City. Personal life. Edward was a direct descendant of the early American colonist Daniel Smith of Watertown, Massachusetts. He was the second cousin of attorney James Smith Bush."}, {"text": "Brush Creek is a long 2nd order tributary to Reedy Fork in Guilford County, North Carolina. Course. Brush Creek rises on the Deep River divide about 0.5 miles northwest of Piedmont Triad International Airport in Guilford County, North Carolina. Brush Creek then flows northeast to meet Reedy Fork in Lake Brandt. Watershed. Brush Creek drains of area, receives about 44.8 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 419.83 and is about 26% forested."}, {"text": "The welcome parade (also known as health trail or corredor polon\u00eas) is a form of running the gauntlet used to torture new prisoners in some countries, including Poland in the twentieth century during the Polish People's Republic (communist period), Egypt and Belarus in the twenty-first century. Twentieth century. Poland. In Poland under the communist regime (1946\u20131989), the welcome parade torture was called the \"health trail\" () and was widely applied by police (Milicja Obywatelska), riot police (ZOMO) and internal security forces/political police (S\u0142u\u017cba Bezpiecze\u0144stwa), particularly against political protesters and anticommunist activists. Brazil. In Brazil, the welcome parade was called \"corredor polon\u00eas\" (\"Polish corridor\") in allusion to the Polish tradition. Twenty-first century. Egypt. During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, torture was common in Egyptian police stations, with 701 incidents of torture recorded by the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights between 1985 and 2011, among which 204 prisoners died from torture and mistreatment. Method. In the Egyptian variant, policemen form two rows. The new prisoner crawls on the ground or is made to walk bent over between the two rows of policemen. The policemen then kick, hit and insult the new prisoner walking between the two rows. After Egyptian blogger,"}, {"text": "software developer and political activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was arrested on 29 September 2019 during the 2019 Egyptian protests, he was blindfolded and had to undress down to his underwear for his welcome parade. He was beaten on his back and his neck, repeatedly kicked, threatened and verbally abused during the parade, which lasted 15 minutes. Abd El-Fattah's welcome parade took place in Tora Prison. Mohamed el-Baqer, Abd El-Fattah's lawyer and head of the Adalah Center for Rights and Freedoms (himself also arrested on 29 September 2019), was blindfolded for his welcome parade in Tora Prison, during which he was insulted by policemen. Role in Egyptian prisons. According to Abd El-Fattah, the welcome parade is used against prisoners classified with a low status, \"without protection.\" He reported an incident in which a prisoner of high social status was accidentally subjected to a welcome parade. The incident was followed by \"frantic action\" by senior officials, who apologised to the prisoner. Deaths. Abd El-Fattah reported a welcome parade used against an elderly man who died during the parade. According to him, there was no change in prison procedures following the death. Belarus. In Belarus, the welcome parade is widely used in prisons."}, {"text": "Footage of the parade that took place on 11 August 2020 during the 2020\u20132021 Belarusian protests in Okrestina prison in Minsk is available on YouTube."}, {"text": "is a fictional character from Nintendo's \"The Legend of Zelda\" series. She first appeared as one of the major characters in \",\" where she is the leader of the Gerudo and one of the four Champions who helped Princess Zelda and Link protect Hyrule from Calamity Ganon, losing her life in the process. She also appears in the hack-and-slash video game \"\" as a playable character. Within the game, Urbosa is the pilot of Divine Beast Vah Naboris, one of the four Divine Beasts that the Champions used to protect Hyrule from Calamity Ganon. Like the other Champions, Urbosa has a unique skill that is used in gameplay, which is the ability to control the power of lightning. She has been positively received by both fans and critics due to her heroic, wise, and charismatic character. She was identified as both a fan favorite and a standout character in the cast, with multiple critics expressing a desire to see her in more games, such as the \"Super Smash Bros.\" series and her own game. Concept and creation. Urbosa was created for '. She was designed to have a \"more feminine, motherly appearance\" than other Gerudos, and was also \"slightly less"}, {"text": "muscular\" than other Gerudos, \"possessing both the strength of a warrior and a mother\". Cinematic designer Naoki Mori designed a scene where Urbosa saves Princess Zelda from the Yiga and serves as her \"spiritual mother\", going on to describe her as kind, relaxed, and sassy. She was also written as wanting to take responsibility for Ganondorf's rise to power in ', which Mori did as part of expanding the \"expansive nature\" and \"rich history\" of the series. Lead NPC artist Hirohito Shinoda designed her outfit with the idea of \"a person an ordinary Gerudo would look up to\". Urbosa's name was the first to be finalized during the development of \"Breath of the Wild\". Urbosa is the Chief of the Gerudo and a fierce leader, as well as the pilot of the Divine Beast of lightning, Vah Naboris. She has the ability to control the power of lightning. Urbosa is related to Riju, the current Gerudo Chief and her direct descendant, who appears in \"Breath of the Wild\". Like the other Champions, Urbosa has a unique skill that the player uses during gameplay in \"Breath of the Wild\". As a member of the Gerudo race, Urbosa was designed with common"}, {"text": "traits of her people. She has dark skin, red hair, green eyes, and blue lips. She wears a multicolored golden breastplate with shoulder guards and a gold belt with a blue skirt, symbolizing that she is one of the Champions of Hyrule. She also wears green high-heels and several gold jewels. \"\" depicts Urbosa at a point in the storyline when she serves as Gerudo Chief before being named Gerudo Champion. She wears the Chief's crown, which is identical to the one Riju wears as Chief, and a black skirt with the Gerudo symbol on it. She keeps her signature weapon, the Scimitar of the Seven, and her Daybreaker shield holstered to the back of her body. Urbosa has been noted for her tall stature and muscular build, which are common traits of the Gerudo. In both \"Breath of the Wild\" and \"Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity,\" Urbosa is voiced in Japanese by Rei Shimoda and in English by Elizabeth Maxwell. Appearances. \"Breath of the Wild\". Urbosa appears in \"Breath of the Wild\" as one of four Champions, alongside Mipha, Revali, and Daruk, who are tasked with aiding Princess Zelda and Link in protecting Hyrule from Calamity Ganon. In the"}, {"text": "game's backstory, she commands Vah Naboris, one of the four Divine Beasts, but Calamity Ganon manages to take control of the Divine Beasts, resulting in her death and the death of the other Champions as Link is put in a 100-year slumber. After Link awakens, he can go to Vah Naboris to try to tame it, and there he meets the spirit of Urbosa, who helps guide him in the innards of the Divine Beast. Urbosa plays a major role in the backstory of \"Breath of the Wild\", which is revealed to the player through cutscenes and Urbosa's diary entries. Urbosa is shown to have had a special connection with Zelda's mother, the Queen of Hyrule; this friendship is reflected in the support that she offers to Zelda. Urbosa is shown to be a strong supporter of the relationship between Link and Zelda and plays an active role in bringing them closer together. Urbosa's supportive role continues after her death, as her spirit appears to encourage Link to destroy Calamity Ganon. \"Age of Calamity\". Urbosa appears in \"\" as a playable character. The game is a prequel set 100 years before \"Breath of the Wild\" in an alternate timeline created"}, {"text": "after Terrako, a small Guardian that Zelda built in her childhood, time travels into the past to prevent Hyrule's fate in the \"Breath of the Wild\" timeline. Urbosa arrives home to Gerudo Town just as Master Kohga, leader of the Yiga Clan, is about to strike down Zelda while disguised as Urbosa, only to be electrocuted. Urbosa, due to her close friendship with Zelda, agrees to pilot Vah Naboris against the Calamity. After Zelda and Link gather the other Champions, they travel to Korok Forest to recover the Master Sword. After recovering the Master Sword, Zelda voices her concern about Link changing after getting the sword, but Urbosa assures her that Link is still himself. Urbosa is then dubbed Gerudo Champion and returns to pilot Vah Naboris and battles both the Yiga and the Calamity. After Calamity Ganon awakens, Urbosa is cut off from the other Champions and Hyrule Castle when Ganon shuts down the Sheikah Towers' teleportation ability, and soon finds herself fighting a stronger Thunderblight Ganon sent to take over Vah Naboris. Before she can be killed by the Blight Ganon like in the original timeline, she is saved by Riju and Patricia, who were summoned from the"}, {"text": "future by Terrako to protect her, until Link arrives to help them destroy Thunderblight Ganon. Joined by the other Champions and their Divine Beasts after they are saved by the future Champions, they save the Hyrulean Army from Calamity Ganon, and then defend the Great Plateau. After Purah summons the Gerudo warrior women to bolster the Hyrulean Army with the Rito, Gorons, and Zoras, they reclaim Hyrule Castle from the Calamity, ultimately victorious. Other appearances. Urbosa appears in \"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate\" as a Spirit. For the release of \"\", Nintendo released an Amiibo of Urbosa. It was later reprinted for the launch of \"Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity\". Reception. Urbosa has received a generally positive reception, identified as both a fan favorite and a standout character in \"Breath of the Wild\". Holly Green of \"Paste Magazine\" and Rich Meister of \"Destructoid\" held her as one of their favorite characters of 2017. She has been regarded as one of the best characters in \"Breath of the Wild\" by multiple sources, including \"TheGamer\" and \"Game Informer\". \"Destructoid\" contributor Pixie the Fairy called her a recent favorite. Pixie was \"awed\" by her when they played \"Breath of the Wild\", citing how she"}, {"text": "is both \"heroic and fearsome\" and \"gentle, perceptive and wise\". Hussain Almahr of \"Vice\" called her \"amazing\" while feeling that Arabic themes in the Gerudo were not represented adequately in the game. Multiple critics expressed a desire to see her character included in other games. Urbosa has been a popular choice for \"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate\", either as a group with the other Champions or on her own. In her review of \"Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity\" for \"Kotaku\", Ash Parrish singled out the option to play as Urbosa to be the singular highlight of the game for her. \"TheGamer\" writer Cian Maher also enjoyed being able to play as Urbosa, adding that he wanted to see her get her own game. He discusses how much he enjoyed the Gerudo elements in the series, and regarded Urbosa as one of his favorite characters in \"The Legend of Zelda\" series. \"Game Informer\" writer Liana Ruppert felt favorably about Urbosa, expressing hope that Urbosa would appear more in the future."}, {"text": "Gerda Steyn (born 3 March 1990) is a South African marathon and ultramarathon athlete. She set the down-run record for the 90 km Comrades Marathon in 2023 with a mark of 5:44:54, becoming the fourth woman under 6 hours for that race. She also holds the record for the 56 km Two Oceans Marathon and has won that event 6 consecutive times, starting in 2018. On 11 April 2021, she became the SA marathon record holder with a time of 2:25:28 at the Xiamen Tuscany Camp Elite Marathon in Siena, Italy. She then broke her own record at the 2023 Valencia marathon, setting a time of 2:24:03. Early life. Her parents are Pieter and Trudie Steyn. Gerda grew up on a farm in the Bothaville area and completed her schooling in 2008 at the Bothaville High School. Afterwards, she qualified as a quantity surveyor from the University of the Free State. She has a sister and a brother. Career. In 2014 she went to work in Dubai and joined a running club, where she discovered her talent for running. After completing her first Comrades in 2015, she met 1991 winner Nick Bester who became her coach. Her first major career"}, {"text": "victory was in the 2018 Two Oceans Marathon, in a time of 3:39:32. She won the 2019 Comrades Marathon in a record time of 5 hours, 58 minutes, and 53 seconds, becoming the first woman to complete the uprun in under six hours. She also won the 2019 Two Oceans Marathon in a time of 3:31:28. She won it for the fifth time in a row in 2024 and broke her course record with a time of 3:26:54. She competed in the women's marathon at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Her best time for a standard marathon is the SA record of 2:25:28, achieved in 2021 at the 2021 IAAF Xiamen Tuscany Camp Elite Marathon in Siena, Italy, breaking the previous 25-year-old SA record by more than a minute. At the 2023 Valencia Marathon, Steyn finished in 11th running a time of 2:24:03 becoming the South African national record holder for the event."}, {"text": "The Croce al Tempio Lamentation is a 1436 or 1440 tempera-on-panel painting by Fra Angelico, now in the Museo nazionale di San Marco in Florence. It is named after its commissioner, the 'Compagnia di Santa Maria della Croce al Tempio'. History. Most art historians state the work was commissioned in April 1436 and completed that December, drawing on records stating that the artist was paid 18 lire and 8 soldi for the work. Others argue that the letters hidden on the edge of the Virgin Mary's cloak \u2013 MIIIXXXX (1440) \u2013 mean the work was left half-finished and was only completed after the artist returned from his 1439\u201340 staty in Cortona. The Compagnia's representative was Jacopo Benintendi, nephew of Villana de' Botti, a pious woman linked to the Dominican order, whose relics were linked to the Confraternity. According to her hagiography by Razzi entitled \"Santi e Beati dell'Ordine Domenicano\", she aspired to share Christ's sufferings and had frequent visions of him as her heavenly spouse. She and Saint Dominic appear in the work. The work was moved to the Compagnia's Chiesetta al Tempio, later demolished for the siege of Florence. There the Compagnia received prisoners on their way to the"}, {"text": "scaffold and then buried their bodies in the adjacent cemetery after execution. Several paintings were lost in the demolition, including one by Pisanello as well as external frescoes by Spinello Aretino. \"Lamentation\" was displayed on the high-altar behind the crucifix and was moved to the Galleria delle Belle Arti before the church's demolition, before later moving to its present home. Some of the figures are of lower quality and not in the master's hand, but the landscape on the left is securely attributed to him, with Jerusalem portrayed in the guise of Florence, including Lorenzo Ghiberti's Ark of San Zenobi. A large area at the base of the painting was lost beyond repair after damage in the 1966 flooding in Florence."}, {"text": "The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner is a 1990 film directed by Ken Russell. It is a biography of Anton Bruckner. The \"Guardian\" called it \"charming\"."}, {"text": "Sir Osmund Somers Cleverly (25 October 1891 \u2013 21 October 1966) was a British civil servant who, between 1935 and 1939, served as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. Early life. Osmund Cleverly was born in 1891 at London to artist, Charles Frederick Moore Cleverly and Mary Isabel Cleverly. His baptism is recorded as having taken place on 10 December 1891 in the parish of St. Mary the Virgin. For his schooling he was educated at Rugby School and Magdalen College, Oxford. Following the outbreak of the First World War he saw active service in India and Mesopotamia between 1914 and 1919. Career. War Office. After the war he entered the British Civil Service, where he worked at the War Office between 1919 and 1935. Principal Private Secretary. In 1935 he was appointed Private Secretary and then Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. In this capacity he served the British Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain between 1935 and 1939. Ministry of Supply. He served as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Supply in the early years of the Second World War between 1939 and 1941. Commissioner of Crown Lands. From 1941 to 1952 he was Commissioner"}, {"text": "of Crown Lands and was called out of retirement to fill the role between 1954 and 1955 after the Crichel Down Affair. Personal life. Cleverly married Priscilla Simpson, daughter of Prof. Frederick Moore Simpson , in 1920 with whom he had two sons and a daughter. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 1937 Coronation Honours, Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the King's Birthday Honours 1939, and Knighted in The King's Birthday Honours 1951. He died on 21 October 1966 with his funeral held at St. James's Church in Shere, Surrey. In fiction. Cleverly appears as Prime Minister Chamberlain's PPS throughout the 2017 novel Munich by Robert Harris. References."}, {"text": "Green Mountain is a mountain summit located in King County of Washington state. It's situated at the western edge of the Cascade Range on land managed by Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Green Mountain is more notable for its large, steep rise above local terrain than for its absolute elevation. Its nearest neighbor is Mount Teneriffe, to the southwest, and the nearest higher peak is Moolock Mountain, to the northeast. Precipitation runoff from Green Mountain drains into tributaries of the Snoqualmie River. Climate. Green Mountain is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America. Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel northeast toward the Cascade Mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks of the Cascade Range, causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the Cascades (Orographic lift). As a result, the west side of the Cascades experiences high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall. During winter months, weather is usually cloudy, but, due to high pressure systems over the Pacific Ocean that intensify during summer months, there is often little or no cloud cover during the summer. Because"}, {"text": "of maritime influence, snow tends to be wet and heavy, resulting in avalanche danger. Geology. The history of the formation of the Cascade Mountains dates back millions of years ago to the late Eocene Epoch. During the Pleistocene period dating back over two million years ago, glaciation advancing and retreating repeatedly scoured the landscape leaving deposits of rock debris. The last glacial retreat in the area began about 14,000 years ago and was north of the Canada\u2013US border by 10,000 years ago. The U-shaped cross section of the river valleys is a result of that recent glaciation. Uplift and faulting in combination with glaciation have been the dominant processes which have created the tall peaks and deep valleys of the Cascade Range."}, {"text": "HMD 105 (formerly Nokia 105 from 2013 to 2024) is the name of a series of different mobile phones manufactured or marketed by HMD Global (formerly Nokia and Microsoft Mobile). Models aside from the 4G versions communicate on second-generation cellular (2G) networks only, rather than later standards such as 4G, and will no longer work when 2G networks are phased out, as has been happening since 2016 in different regions. These include:"}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Winthrop Eagles men's basketball team represented Winthrop University in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Eagles, led by eighth-year head coach Pat Kelsey, played their home games at the Winthrop Coliseum in Rock Hill, South Carolina as members of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 24\u201310, 15\u20133 in Big South play to finish in a tie for the Big South regular season championship. They defeated USC Upstate, Gardner\u2013Webb and Hampton to be champions of the Big South tournament and earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. However, the NCAA Tournament was cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous season. The Eagles finished the 2018\u201319 season 18\u201312 overall, 10\u20136 in Big South play to finish in a tie for second place. In the Big South tournament, they were defeated by Charleston Southern in the quarterfinals. 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": "Pop Goes the Easel is a 1962 British documentary directed by Ken Russell commissioned by the BBC's \"Monitor\" arts' television series. It is a portrait of pop artists Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty and Peter Phillips in a style owing a little to their own. The documentary was preceded by an introduction from Huw Wheldon, who noted that pop culture was \"a world which you can dismiss if you feel so inclined as tawdry and second rate, but a world in which everyone to some degree lives whether they like it or not\"."}, {"text": "Persija Putri (English: \"Persija Women's\") is an Indonesian professional women's football club based in Jakarta. Founded in 2019, the club is affiliated with Persija Jakarta. It currently plays in the Liga 1 Putri, the top women's league in Indonesia. History. In July 2019, Persija Jakarta announced their commitment to take part in the inaugural season of Liga 1 Putri, a women's football competition in Indonesia and formed a women's football team."}, {"text": "Garage Classical is the first album by British disc jockey DJ Spoony with Katie Chatburn and the Ignition Orchestra, released on 18 October 2019, on the Since 93 label. The album contains orchestral covers of classic UK garage tracks and features appearances from Paloma Faith, Sugababes, Lily Allen, Emeli Sand\u00e9, Gabrielle, So Solid Crew and more. The album was preceded by the release of two promotional singles, \"Moving Too Fast\" featuring Paloma Faith and \"Sweet Like Chocolate\" featuring Lily Allen. \"Flowers\" featuring Sugababes was the only single to chart, reaching No. 22 in Scotland and No. 26 on the UK Dance Singles Chart. Background and promotion. On 28 August 2019, during an interview with Official Charts Company, the DJ announced the album and mentioned about the artists he was collaborating with: \"I know Sugababes' Mutya and Keisha personally because they are huge garage fans. They were always out in the garage clubs, but at the same time, they were huge pop stars and the biggest girl band in the country.\" The album was released on CD format on 18 October 2019, followed by a double LP on 6 December 2019. Live. A live show was performed on 24 October 2019"}, {"text": "at the Royal Albert Hall."}, {"text": "Intriga tras c\u00e1maras is an upcoming Venezuelan telenovela written by Carmelo Castro, from a screenplay by Henry Galu\u00e9. The series is produced by Quimera Producciones. The filming of the production began in January 2019, was mostly filmed in Caracas, Venezuela, and consists of 60 episodes of one hour. It stars Alexandra Braun, Adri\u00e1n Delgado, and Carlos Guillermo Haydon. On 4 May 2020, ABC.com confirmed that production of the telenovela temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela."}, {"text": "Fraser Park is Lower Hutt's largest recreational sportsground, at 27 hectares it is the biggest sporting ground in the lower North Island. It is home to the Ricoh Sports Centre, a multi-use venue, as well as sports like rugby, rugby league, football, touch football, cricket, kilikiti (Samoan cricket) and softball. History. Fraser Park Sportsville was launched in September 2009. The Fraser Park Sportsville founding clubs signed the Sportsville constitution in April 2010. The first stage of construction in 2015 saw three new softball diamonds, an artificial football turf and floodlights added to the park. Stage two saw the construction of the building to hold the clubs as well as six squash courts, indoor training facilities, eight changing rooms, a cafe and two bars. Ricoh were confirmed as name sponsor in May 2018 with Fraser Park Sportsville and the RICOH Sports Centre officially opened in March 2019 by Mayor Ray Wallace. Tenants. The original members of the Sportsville are Avalon Rugby, Hutt Valley Dodgers, Lower Hutt City Football, Naenae Hockey Club, Taita District Cricket and Hutt City Squash Club. They were later joined by the Hutt Valley Softball Association and Wellington Regional Hockey Stadium Trust."}, {"text": "The 2019 California power shutoffs, known as public safety power shutoff (PSPS) events, were massive unplanned precautionary power shutoffs that occurred in approximately 30 counties in Northern California and several areas in Southern California from October 9 to November 1, 2019, and on November 20, 2019, by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E). The power shutoffs were an attempt to prevent wildfires from being started by electrical equipment during strong and dry winds. The shutoffs initially affected around 800,000 customer accounts or about 2.5 million people, but expanded to cause over 3 million people to lose utility-provided electrical power by late October as more utility companies from around the state also did preemptive power shutoffs. The shutdowns have drawn widespread fierce backlash and criticism from residents as well as government officials as PG&E, SCE, SDG&E and the California Public Utilities Commission issued an apology. Many residents complained of either being misinformed or not informed when shutdowns would occur, while officials such as California governor Gavin Newsom blamed the shutdowns on PG&E's \"greed and mismanagement.\" Some people expressed their frustrations through vandalism and violence, including the egging of a PG&E"}, {"text": "office's front doors and someone shooting at a PG&E vehicle. For the state's largest utility, PG&E, to bury all of its distribution lines (relatively low voltage lines which bring power to homes, not the higher voltage transmission lines) would cost per customer. Background. The \"Public Safety Power Shutoff\" (PSPS) has been standard practice in California for many years, though in the past, the preemptive shutoffs occurred predominantly in rural areas. PG&E warned the state for months of its impending action, set to commence when the combination of high autumn winds and dry conditions made the fires more likely to happen. PG&E began its series of power blackouts in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday, October 9, at around 12 AM PDT in order to reduce the risks of devastating wildfires caused by PG&E's power lines or equipment, like the October 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp Fire, responsible for a combined total of 95 deaths. As California's population has continued to grow in suburban and exurban areas that were formerly wilderness, the risk and size of fires has escalated. More than a third of California's housing is now located in areas known as wildland\u2013urban interface. When wildfires"}, {"text": "happen upon these communities, they become more dangerous and leap from structure to structure in what is called \"fast-moving urban conflagrations\" that firefighters find difficult to stop. Legal setting. Besides safety, one of the reasons behind PG&E's (now moving into bankruptcy) imposition of the blackouts is a legal doctrine known as inverse condemnation, which makes California utilities responsible for wildfire destruction regardless of whether the utility acted negligently or not. California's interpretation of inverse condemnation is unique. The tenet is applied in other states, usually to government entities that damage private property when engaged in a public service. California's courts have ruled the principle can be applied to utilities. So, the utilities are held liable for damage, even if they comply with all of California's strict energy-related rules. This policy resulted in $30B of liability for PG&E from the 2017 & 2018 fires and drove it to bankruptcy proceedings. In July 2019, a new $21 billion wildfire trust fund was created to pay for damages from future wildfires, started with a 50-50 balance of utility and customer monies and also reduced the liability threshold for utilities to where customers must prove negligence before companies are held liable. Critics of inverse"}, {"text": "condemnation point out that it can lead to utility bankruptcies which can threaten the integrity of the California power grid as well as hurt financing the states' efforts for renewable energy and against climate change, one of the causes of the intensified fire threat. In addition to court cases in recent years and the evolution of case law which have made new standards of legal liability, the California State legislature and the Governor also enacted new statutory laws to modify the legal regime under which electrical utilities operate in California. Over 20 new wildfire-related laws were enacted in the 2019 legislative session, several of them affecting the electrical service providing utility companies. Undergrounding. The fire risk from the electricity supply is principally from the large amount of energy carried in above-ground power lines, which under fault conditions can become a factor in the ignition of wildfires. Public utilities in the state of California have a total of of high voltage transmission lines, and of distribution lines. Distribution lines bring electricity directly to homes; two thirds of them statewide are above ground. For transmission lines, the cost of constructing these underground is approximately per mile while for distribution lines, the construction"}, {"text": "cost of new underground lines is about per mile, compared to overhead lines at about $800,000 per mile. The state's largest utility, PG&E, has of distribution lines, of which are overhead. The cost to convert all of PG&E's overhead distribution lines to underground lines would be approximately , or roughly per PG&E customer. (This cost estimate is only for distribution lines, not the higher voltage transmission lines.) Impacts. A man dependent on an oxygen supply died 12 minutes after the outage started in his area on October 11. An investigation has been initiated. His family said he could not reach his battery-powered tank in time. Large numbers of other disabled people reported issues with poor communication by PG&E of when shutoffs would occur, and with the inability to power or charge electrical devices on which their wellbeing depended during shutoffs. Affected devices included ventilators, oxygen concentrators, nebulizers, dialysis machines, refrigerators for drugs such as insulin, and electrically powered beds, hoists and wheelchairs. PG&E had a list of over 30,000 customers registered on their Medical Baseline program as being vulnerable to shutoffs, but used it only as a contact list, leaving the affected disabled customers unsupported. Dependence on the Medical Baseline"}, {"text": "list meant PG&E inevitably missing many more disabled people not registered with the program. Others who were registered reported they were not contacted. PG&E also refused to give many local counties access to the Medical Baseline list, leaving them unable to check on vulnerable residents. Under backup power on October 11, 2019 [UTC], the Mission Operations Center (MOC) at the Space Sciences Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley oversaw the deployment of a satellite launched from Cape Canaveral. Paula Milano, who helps run the Laboratory, did not want to postpone the launch saying, \"If a scrub of the mission happens because of Berkeley, that's a huge black eye for us, and it's a huge public black eye for NASA.\" After notification on October 7, the lab began extensive preparation for the power outage. By late October, water had been restricted for some in areas which rely on pump stations. Sonoma\u2013Marin Area Rail Transit commuter rail services were cancelled on October 28 and 29 due to loss of power at crossings throughout the system. Partial service as far north as Downtown Santa Rosa was restored the following day. Potential fires averted. After the early October power shutoffs, the CEO of PG&E"}, {"text": "stated that they found more than 100 cases of \"wind-related damage\" to the 25,000 miles of power lines they had de-energized. He also stated \"More than half of PG&E's 70,000-square-mile service area in Northern and Central California is considered by state officials to be at high risk of wildfire. In 2012, that designation applied to just 15% of our service area.\" By the end of October, PG&E officials told a federal judge that the power shutoffs so far helped prevent up to 56 wildfires; 44 from contact with vegetation and 12 cases of wind-caused equipment damage. In March 2021, the CPUC presented the results of a risk analysis study conducted by Technosylva to estimate potential fire impacts that could have occurred had electric infrastructure remained energized during the Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) events managed by SDG&E, PG&E, and SCE in October 2019. The risk analysis study found the following: Later events. On October 18, 2019, PG&E announced that shutoffs could continue for 10 years before they can start to reduce significantly, which was met with scorn by many California officials. Since the 2019 shutoffs, PG&E has always been continuously trying to make improvements to its electrical utilities to minimize"}, {"text": "fire risk and reduce the number of shutoffs at the same time. However, on September 5, 2020, PG&E issued a PSPS Shutoff Watch for several regions in Northern California in anticipation of scorching temperatures and gusty winds at the end of the heat wave that could easily knock off power utilities. PG&E assured customers, though, that if shutoffs do happen, they will affect fewer customers and be shorter in duration than the 2019 shutoffs, i.e. they were aiming to restore power within 12 hours of shutting it off instead of several days."}, {"text": "The 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health was a historic first and resulted in landmark legislation. In his opening address on December 2, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon vowed \"to put an end to hunger in America\u2026for all time.\" The three-day gathering came at the end of a decade of social, cultural, and political change which had resulted in a sudden awareness of the widespread malnutrition and hunger afflicting many poor in the United States. Eight-hundred academics and scientists, business and civic leaders, activists, and politicians developed more than 1,800 recommendations, which were reviewed by the 2,700 conference attendees and delivered in a full report to the President on December 24, 1969. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamps), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), National School Lunch Program (NSLP), and the School Breakfast Program (SBP) are among the 1,400 nutrition and food assistance programs and recommendations implemented or improved as a result of the White House Conference. In May 2022, President Joe Biden announced a new White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health which was scheduled to convene on September 28, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Background. Hunger"}, {"text": "awareness: activists and politicians in the mid-1960s. A long period of prosperity due to post\u2013World War II economic expansion resulted in a large decrease in the number of people below the poverty line during the 1960s. Still, blacks and other minorities had a poverty rate three times that of whites, and poverty in the deep South, urban ghettos, and Indian Reservations was associated with starvation, hunger, and malnutrition. During this time of growing wealth in America, a number of events brought growing awareness of the extent of hunger and malnutrition. In 1967, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph S. Clark led a Senate subcommittee to Jackson, Mississippi to hold a hearing on poverty. Afterward, Marian Wright (now Marian Wright Edelman), a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, took the Senators on a tour across the Mississippi Delta, to show them the widespread poverty and hunger afflicting families and children living there. Kennedy was particularly shocked and affected and immediately began calling attention to the hunger issue. In 1967, the Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty formed a Citizens' Board of Inquiry into Hunger and Malnutrition in the United States, producing a report that found \"hunger and malnutrition affect millions of Americans"}, {"text": "and are increasing in severity every year,\" \"Federal programs to alleviate the problem have by and large failed,\" and \"the policies of the agricultural committees of Congress and the Department of Agriculture have discriminated against the needs of the poor and the hungry in the interests of the agricultural producers.\" The Board made recommendations including the declaration of a national emergency, particularly targeting 280 counties, migrant farm camps, and Indian reservations not yet served by food programs. Further, the Board advocated an overhaul of the food assistance distribution programs, including making food stamps free and nutritious school lunches available for all students and free for low-income students. With the national extent of hunger and malnutrition unknown, the first National Nutrition Survey was mandated in 1967. Preliminary survey results were released in January 1969, in time to inform the White House Conference. Hunger awareness: \u201cCBS Reports \u2014 Hunger in America\u201d. In May 1968, CBS televised the special \"CBS Reports: Hunger In America,\" which showed children and families living in dire poverty in Virginia, Texas, and Alabama, and on an Indian reservation in Arizona. The images of starving children in America, and interviews with doctors about the conditions they observed, received wide"}, {"text": "attention. Politics, policies, laws. The 1960s were a decade of tremendous cultural, social, and political upheaval. The civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, feminist, hippie, and other movements agitated for change and elicited, sometimes, a violent reaction. Cold War nuclear threats didn't deter the optimism, buoyed by a long stretch of global economic growth, that positive changes would come. President Lyndon B. Johnson initiated his Great Society, embracing a War on Poverty and many other legislative initiatives. Anti-hunger advocates like Robert Choate, Joseph Clark, and Robert F. Kennedy hoped Johnson would make more efforts to end hunger and malnutrition as part of the Great Society initiative, but Johnson was focused on the need to pay for the Vietnam War. Commodity Surplus, Assistance, and Food Stamps. Beginning in the 1930s, the government began buying agricultural surplus to support farmers. The Agricultural Act of 1949 allowed commodity surplus to be used for domestic food assistance, but the food aid was devoid of choice, variety, and needed nutrients. The Food Stamp Act of 1964 allowed consumers to pick a balanced basket of food. However, food stamps had to be purchased, and the neediest families did not have the money to buy them. Alternatively, counties could"}, {"text": "choose to continue to offer surplus commodity assistance, which was free and required less certification paperwork. Many Southern counties discouraged food assistance, using restrictions and offering the food stamps for sale instead of free commodity surplus. The Child Nutrition Act of 1966. The Child Nutrition Act of 1966, part of Johnson's Great Society, expanded and nutritionally enhanced the National School Lunch Program which had been enacted in 1946, added a School Breakfast Program 2-year pilot, and permanently authorized the Special Milk Program. Fights to reform and expand. Some Southern politicians did not acknowledge the extensive hunger and malnutrition in their state and sought to block improvements in food assistance during the Johnson presidency. Mississippi Congressman Jamie L. Whitten, chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, used the power of the purse strings to obstruct food assistance reform and emergency aid, including, even, for Mississippi. In contrast to Whitten, conservative Senator Ernest Fritz Hollings of South Carolina began to address hunger and poverty in his state, prompting other congressional leaders to do the same. At the opposite end of the political spectrum, in 1968 Senator George McGovern became the top congressional food and nutrition advocate after the assassination of presidential"}, {"text": "candidate, Robert F. Kennedy. 1969: Nixon, the Message to Congress, and announcement of the White House Conference. In a May 6, 1969, Message to Congress, President Richard Nixon described the need to: *Initially increase but then replace the commodity distribution program; *Increase food stamp benefits and decrease purchase requirements; *Mandate food assistance programs in the remaining 440 counties nationally which had so far declined it; *Eliminate county-to-county variations in eligibility requirements designed to reduce participation; *Pilot a food program, later known as WIC, to fight malnutrition in pregnant women and infants; *Expand the national nutrition survey; *Create the Food and Nutrition Service to administer food assistance and nutrition efforts; *Have the Office of Economic Opportunity redirect funds to the poorest areas to fight hunger and malnutrition and improve health. To support his initiative, on June 11, 1969, Nixon announced the appointment of Dr. Jean Mayer to organize the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health. Mayer skillfully planned the balance of political, scientific, business-orientation, and advocacy interests among the participants, negotiating with both the White House and the many who wanted to participate. The Conference. Mayer, designed, what was in effect, a hunger conference and a nutrition conference joined"}, {"text": "into one. The hunger arm. CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite paraphrased Nixon's opening remarks: \u201c\u2026the nation cannot live with its conscience if the problems are not solved.\u201d Nixon pledged to end hunger, feed every needy child at school, and raise food stamp spending from $350 million to $2.5 billion. However, many of the hundreds of hunger activists in attendance were not convinced of Nixon's commitment. The National Welfare Rights Organization, La Raza Latinos, the Black Caucus, and others had been strongly advocating a universal guaranteed income plan at the $5,500 level or more. This was far above the $1,600 cash and $720 in food assistance bundle that Nixon's advisor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, had been pushing in Congress. Anti-hunger attendees largely refrained from carrying out threats of disruptions to the conference, and a groundswell of moderate voices joined the hunger lobby in making demands for emergency food relief for the hungry and permanent income assistance for the poor. Even conservative corporate heads in attendance like Robert J. Stuart, Jr., the president of Quaker Oats, pressed Nixon to act immediately on hunger. The priority list of requests which Mayer sent to the President on the last day of the Conference were for"}, {"text": "Nixon to: The nutrition arm. Prior to the conference, the 26 panels prepared hundreds of nutrition-focused recommendations, concerning, for example: *Encouragement of breast-feeding; *Fortification or enrichment of foods like milk and grain products; *Universal fluoridation of water supplies; *National nutrition monitoring; *Food additive safety. Consumer advocates and industry heads debated issues including food labeling, use of health claims, and revisions to \"Generally Recognized As Safe\" (GRAS), a designation which protects a manufacturer from needing approval for a food additive from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA.) The latter debate became particularly controversial when an association representing the largest food companies was allowed to present a pre-packaged set of GRAS recommendations for panel approval. White house response. Responding to the pressure from the hunger activists, Nixon gave Mayer the go-ahead to announce three actions before the close of the conference: *Forcing of food stamp programs into 307 counties in the U.S. which still had no federal food assistance program; *Accelerated implementation of increased food stamp benefits; *Agreement to meet immediately with six conference leaders to discuss their request for a large-scale, emergency, hunger relief effort. 1,800 recommendations and more White House action. On December 24, 1969, Mayer presented Nixon with the"}, {"text": "completed Conference Report containing 1,800 recommendations. In return, Nixon announced expansion of food lunch programs to cover 6.6 million needy children, nearly double the number covered at that point. To accomplish this, private companies would be allowed to provide packaged lunches to schools without kitchen facilities. Nixon's total hunger efforts won praise from the biggest anti-hunger advocate in Congress, Senator George McGovern, who would soon run against Nixon in the 1972 presidential election. *The 1970s saw a sharp decrease in hunger and malnutrition due to food assistance, although the prevalence of hunger rose again with cuts to food programs in the early 1980s during President Ronald Reagan's Administration. *The improvement in food security of Americans was due largely to expansion, increases, and adjustments of the food stamp program. Nixon and Moynihan's $1,600 guaranteed income program had died in the Senate along with any hope of the conference's $5,500 proposal. *Meals on Wheels. *School lunches were expanded, although not as much as Nixon wanted. *WIC began as a pilot in 1972 and had quick success in healthier outcomes for women, infants, and children. *Better nutrition and food safety standards. *Reforms to food labeling in the early 1970s, such as the FDA's"}, {"text": "first nutrition information label in 1973. *According to Mayer, the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health permanently raised public awareness of nutrition. *Barriers to food stamp use remain for those in need. *Universal guaranteed income. *Nutrition education in public schools. *Movement of all food programs out of the USDA. *Food labeling, health claim, safety, and additive regulations remain in need of improvement. *Food Policy *Hunger in the United States *Announcement: \"Features a detailed list of the planned panels and chairs.\" * * \"This article previewed the Conference and was published in several other nutrition journals in Autumn, 1969.\""}, {"text": "Noureddine Hadid (; born 28 January 1993) is a Lebanese sprinter. He represented his country in the 200 metres at the 2019 World Championships in Doha without advancing from the first round, although his time in the first round set a new national record of 20.84. International competitions. 1Disqualified in the semifinals Personal bests. Outdoor Indoor"}, {"text": "S. Simon Wong is a professor in the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering. He is affiliated faculty in the Stanford Non-Volatile Memory Technology Research Initiative (NMTRI), System X Alliance, and Bio-X. Education. S. Simon Wong received two bachelor's degrees from the University of Minnesota: electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. He completed a M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Academic career and research. Wong joined the faculty of Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering in 1988. He studies the fabrication and design of high-performance integrated circuits. His work focuses on understanding and overcoming the limitations of circuit performance imposed by device, interconnect, and on-chip components."}, {"text": "Communism has been a part of French politics since the early 20th century at the latest. It has been described as \"an enduring presence on the French political scene\" for most of the 20th century. In 1920, the French Section of the Communist International was founded. This organization went on to become the French Communist Party (\"Parti communiste fran\u00e7ais\", \"PCF\"). Following World War II, the French Communist Party joined the government led by Charles de Gaulle before being dropped by the coalition. From November 1946 to 1956, the French Communist Party won more votes than any other party in the French national elections. After 1956, their share of the vote gradually declined. In addition to the French Communist Party, there are and have been other French communist political parties. History. Early modern period. During the early modern period in Europe, various groups supporting communist ideas appeared. In the 18th century, the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau in his hugely influential \"The Social Contract\" (1762) outlined the basis for a political order based on popular sovereignty rather than the rule of monarchs. His views proved influential during the French Revolution of 1789 in which various anti-monarchists, particularly the Jacobins, supported the"}, {"text": "idea of redistributing wealth equally among the people, including Jean-Paul Marat and Gracchus Babeuf. The latter was involved in the Conspiracy of the Equals of 1796 intending to establish a revolutionary regime based on communal ownership, egalitarianism and the redistribution of property. However, the plot was detected and he and several others involved were arrested and executed. Despite this setback, the example of the French Revolutionary regime and Babeuf's doomed insurrection was an inspiration for radical French thinkers such as Henri de Saint-Simon, Louis Blanc, Charles Fourier and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who declared that \"property is theft!\" 19th century. By the 1830s and 1840s, the egalitarian concepts of communism and the related ideas of socialism had become widely popular in French revolutionary circles thanks to the writings of social critics and philosophers such as Pierre Leroux and Th\u00e9odore D\u00e9zamy, whose critiques of bourgeoisie liberalism led to a widespread intellectual rejection of \"laissez-faire\" capitalism on both economic, philosophical and moral grounds. Importantly, Philippe Buonarroti, one of Babeuf's co-conspirators, survived the crackdown on the Conspiracy of the Equals and went on to write the influential book \"History of Babeuf's Conspiracy for Equality\" first published in 1828. Buonarroti's works and teachings went on to"}, {"text": "inspire early Babouvist communist groups such as the Christian communist League of the Just in 1836 led by Wilhelm Weitling which would later be merged with the Communist Correspondence Committee in Brussels. This merger of the two groups in 1847 formed the Communist League, headed by German socialist labour leader Karl Schapper, who then that same year tasked two founding members, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, to write a manifesto laying out the principles of the new political party. During the latter half of the 19th century, various left-wing organisations across Europe continued to campaign against the many autocratic right-wing regimes that were then in power. In France, socialists set up a government known as the Paris Commune after the fall of Napoleon III in 1871, but they were soon overthrown and many of their members executed by counter-revolutionaries. 20th century. In Europe, front organizations were especially influential in France which became the base for communist front organizer Willi M\u00fcnzenberg in 1933. During the Sino-Soviet split, the French Communist Party aligned with the Soviet perspective. By the middle of the 1960s, the French Communist Party lost members and sympathizers due to its ambivalent positions during the Algerian war and its"}, {"text": "perceived excessive focus on class and inadequate focus on imperialism and race. French Maoism developed after the Sino-Soviet split and particularly from 1966 to 1976. After May 68, the cultural influence of French Maoists increased. Maoists became the first group of French intellectuals to emphasize gay and lesbian rights in their publications and contributed to the nascent feminist movement in France. Eurocommunism. Eurocommunism, a revisionist trend in the 1970s and 1980s within various Western European communist parties, was especially prominent in France. They claimed to be developing a theory and practice of social transformation more relevant for Western Europe. During the Cold War, they sought to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union."}, {"text": "This is a list of the main \"tekkes\" in Albania. The tekkes belong to various Sufi orders, including the Bektashi and R\u00fcfai Orders. Tekkes. The Albanian Communist regime destroyed 530 tekkes, tombs and mausoleums."}, {"text": "is an afternoon drive-time show airing on KISW (99.9 FM Seattle). The comedy and hot talk program first aired in 2005, and was nationally syndicated from 2017 to 2020. The show's hosts are Miles Montgomery, Steve \"The Thrill\" Hill, and \"Thee\" Ted Smith, and is produced by Mike Hawk. History. \"The Mens Room\" radio show began in Baltimore when program director Bill Pasha assembled current hosts Miles Montgomery and Steve Hill for a talk-based radio program called \"Out To Lunch\", which ran from 2003 to 2005 on WXYV-FM with those hosts after Miles replaced Bill Rohland in October 2003. The show moved to Seattle in the spring of 2005, and first aired on 100.7 The Buzz. The show then moved to 99.9 KISW, and eventually grew into the highest-rated afternoon show in all of Seattle. The show was a nationally syndicated radio program produced by Westwood One from 2017 into June 2020, before being dropped from Westwood One. \"The Mens Room \"radio show is also distributed as four daily podcasts edited to remove local network advertisements and music. Segments. The show consists of several regular segments on either a daily or weekly basis. Question of the Day. Episodes often begin"}, {"text": "with Hill reading one or more news stories that prompt a \"question of the day,\" which serves as a prompt for listeners to call in with a personal story in response. The first two hours of the show typically consist of the hosts taking listener calls and often telling their own stories relative to the day's prompt. On Mondays listeners are asked \"random question\" questions based on several news articles Hill curates, and Thursdays have Big Dummy (see below). As of January 2025, Wednesdays were used for \"Would You Rather\" in which they ask listeners to choose between two bad things. Sit and Spin. On Tuesdays, \"The Daly Migs Show\" co-hosts Taryn Daly and Steve Migs bring in a list of 10 songs to play based on a topic either chosen by her/the show or pulled from an online article. Counting down from \"Ten number ten\" all the way to \"One number one\" This segment was formerly hosted by KISW personality \"Drunk In Charge\" Ryan Castle. Who Sucks Less? On Wednesday, Thrill presents the other show members with 3 news stories that contain people who are really bad people. It's up to them to decide which of the 3 people"}, {"text": "\"suck the least.\" The news stories are also abbreviated in a graphic posted to The Mens Room's social media pages for listeners to weigh in on. Big Dummy. The Mens Room's take on a game show, this Thursday segment replaces the Question of the Day segment. Listeners can call in to the show to participate in the trivia quiz show format, which differs from traditional game shows in that the hosts will continue to ask the contestant questions until they get one question right. Prior to being asked trivia questions, contestants are asked if they're on Team Sober or Team Not Sober to determine if they're currently intoxicated. They are also asked to answer The Mens Room Poll, whatever it may be that Thursday. The Mens Room Poll is also posted to the show's X (formerly Twitter) account for listeners to vote on. At the start of that day's show, Montgomery announces the results for the X version of the previous Mens Room Poll before introducing that day's poll. The Biggest Dummy is the contestant who took the most amount of questions to get one right. The Biggest Dummy is reset at the start of each calendar year. Miles Montgomery"}, {"text": "hosts a variation of Big Dummy called \"Dirty Big Dummy\" on the Thursday edition of the Appy Hour. Thrill, Mike Hawk, and Thee Ted Smith (and sometimes guests) compete against each other to answer 10 multiple choice questions about topics of a sexual nature and are asked to come up with the definition of an Urban Dictionary sexual term for the bonus question at the end. Profile This. A daily segment which invites listeners to call in and participate. The format of the segment sees Hill read a contestant chosen news story omitting one key detail, after which the contestant must choose among multiple options which detail \"makes the story, a story.\" This segment was inspired by an earlier iteration of the segment called \"Black, White, Mexi, or Jew,\" which similarly saw contestants guessing the race of the subject of a story based on the contextual clues presented in the story. Due to the perceived insensitive nature of the original game's name and content, the format was changed to focus less on race and more on other topics. As of December 2023, Thrill lists some of the following topics of news stories for the contestants to choose from: TV Time"}, {"text": "with Ted. A daily segment wherein Smith discusses recent and upcoming television programming of note. Is It Ted or Is It Late Night? Originating as a sub-segment of TV Time with Ted, this segment sees Smith reading jokes followed by the rest of the hosts guessing whether the jokes were created by Smith himself, or if they were pulled from an actual late night television host's show. Ted vs. The FCC. A Friday segment which consists of Smith, noted for his challenges with reading and pronunciation, attempting to read a listener-submitted tongue twister. These tongue twisters are written in such a way that the expected slip-up would result in Smith saying a word or words that are banned from radio airwaves, thus getting him in trouble with the FCC, the agency that oversees radio communication standards in the United States. Ted's Meat and Potatoes. During this Thursday segment, Smith, appearing as his alter ego \"Head Chef of the Mens Room\" Thee Ted Nougat, recites food facts, results of food-related surveys, or other food related topics, often themed to the time of year or nearby holidays. Sometimes Smith brings food from the segment's topic in to the studio for the others"}, {"text": "to try. If Smith is absent from the show on Thursday, \"Sous Chef\" Mike Hawk fills in for him. Shot of the Day. Segment where Thrill makes a toast to something from a recent news story, or a specific person or persons on a special occasion (such as toasting donors on a charity drive day or toasting listeners on a milestone episode or for attending a KISW event) Bad Choice Friday. On Friday, the show puts out a poll on the show's X (formerly Twitter) account asking listeners to pick between two songs that are normally not played on KISW. Which ever song wins, is played after the Shot of the Day replacing that day's Profile This segment. Other media. The Mens Room hosts have also created other media properties distributed as standalone podcasts or live streaming internet radio. The Mens Room Appy Hour. \"Appy Hour\" is daily twenty-minute show available only as a live stream via the Audacy app immediately following the conclusion of the daily Mens Room show on live terrestrial radio. The show is hosted by the same quartet as the regular daily show. Due to being streamed exclusively over the internet rather than terrestrial radio, the"}, {"text": "show is uncensored and features discussions of topics that would not normally be \"suitable for the airwaves.\" The Greatest Story Never Told. From October 2019 to July 2021, Montgomery and Hill distributed a weekly podcast through Audacy. This show allowed the hosts to dive more deeply into some of the greatest stories of their past, and would occasionally feature other personalities, such as Smith. The show is also produced by Mike Hawk. The show was discontinued after July 2021 when it was replaced by \"The Mens Room Appy Hour\". Thee Podcast. Since September 2013, Thee Ted Smith has hosted a weekly podcast also distributed through Audacy. The show has featured other hosts, often personal friends of Smith, and covers topics such as current goings-on in their respective lives, as well as events in the greater Seattle area where the hosts live. The MegaCast. A weekly podcast hosted by Smith and fellow KISW personality Steve Migs. Products and philanthropy. Mens Room Original is a beer brewed by Black Raven Brewing company of which a portion of profits are donated to the Pacific Northwest's Fisher House. Men's Room Sausage is produced by Uli's Sausage of Seattle, is made with Mens Room Original"}, {"text": "in the bright yellow can, and also contributes a portion of profits to the Fisher House. Black Raven has also added a 20th anniversary lager with the same arrangement of Fisher House donations. In addition, San Juan Salsa of Arlington, Washington also produces a salsa branded for the show based largely on roasted tomatoes and other vegetables; like the beers and the sausage above, proceeds are donated to the Fisher House."}, {"text": "The 2019 Wicklow Senior Football Championship was the 119th edition of the Wicklow GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Wicklow, Ireland. The tournament consisted of 12 teams with the winner going on to represent Wicklow in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship consisted of a group stage before progressing onto a knock-out stage. St Patrick's claimed their second consecutive title, defeating Arklow Geraldines Ballymoney in the final. Tinahely made the straight bounce back to the top flight after claiming the previous season's I.F.C. title. Hollywood were relegated to the I.F.C. for 2020 after a two year stay in the top-flight. Team changes. The following teams have changed division since the 2018 championship season. To S.F.C.. Promoted from 2018 I.F.C. From S.F.C.. Relegated to 2019 I.F.C. Group stage. There are two groups of six teams called Group A and B. The top finishers enter the semi-finals while the 2nd and 3rd placed teams in both groups enter a Quarter-Final. The bottom finishers of each group will qualify for the Relegation Final. Group A. Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4: Round 5: Group B. Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4:"}, {"text": "Round 5: Keating Trophy. The bottom two teams in each group enter the relegation process known as the Keating Trophy. 5th place from both groups play 6th place in the semi-finals. The winners proceed to the Keating Trophy final while the losers will face-off in the Relegation Final, with the ultimate loser being relegated to the I.F.C. for 2020. Semi-Finals: Final: Knock-Out Stages. Quarter-Finals: Semi-Finals:"}, {"text": "Gaudium parvifolium, commonly known as lemon-scented tea-tree, is a species of shrub that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has thin, rough bark, egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, white or pink flowers, and fruit with the remains of the sepals attached but that is shed when the seeds are mature. Description. \"Gaudium parvifolium\" is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has thin branches with thin, rough, sometimes flaky bark, the younger stems sometimes hairy. The leaves are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide tapering to a petiole about long. The flowers are white or pink, about in diameter and usually arranged singly on short side shoots. The flower buds have sometimes large, egg-shaped, reddish brown bracts and bracteoles at the base but that usually fall as the flower opens. The floral cup is hairy, long and the sepals triangular, long. The petals are about long and the stamens long. Flowering mainly occurs from September to November and the fruit is a capsule that has the remnants of the sepals attached but that falls off soon after the end of the flowering season. Taxonomy and naming. The type"}, {"text": "specimen of \"Leptospermum parvifolium\" was collected by Surgeon John White at Port Jackson in 1795. The plant first appeared in scientific literature in 1797, in the \"Transactions of the Linnean Society of London\" published by the eminent 18th century botanist James Edward Smith. In 2023, Peter Gordon Wilson transferred the species to the genus \"Gaudium\" as \"G. parvifolium\" in the journal \"Taxon\". The specific epithet (\"parvifolium\") is derived from Latin, meaning \u2018\u2019small leaves\u2019\u2019. Distribution and habitat. \"Gaudium parvifolium\" grows in dry sclerophyll forest on shallow soils, especially in sandy and rocky areas. It is widespread and common on the northern and central slopes and tablelands of New South Wales, and on the south coast as far south as Nowra. It has also been recorded in south-eastern Queensland."}, {"text": "Peter Andreas Grendelmeier (born 27 April 1967 in M\u00e4nnedorf, Switzerland) is a Swiss curler. He is a ."}, {"text": "The Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org) is an online database that documents locations of numerous historical markers and commemorative plaques in the United States as well as other countries. The database was launched in 2006 by computer programmer J. J. Prats. The HMdb was launched in 2006 with 179 markers that Prats had personally documented. By 2015 the site listed more than 74,000 markers. In addition to listing markers in the United States, the site also lists some markers from more than 40 other countries. By the start of 2018, the site documented more than 100,000 markers. By the start of 2025, more than 225,000 markers had been documented. The HMdb has been described as \"crowdsourced\", and according to the site's self-description, \"Anyone can add new markers to the database and update existing marker pages with new photographs, links, information and commentary.\" Dozens of Editors review entries from hundreds of Correspondents before they are accepted into the database. Artist Paul Druecke described the HMdb as \"a different sort of catalogue\", one that \"allows geeks like me to explore historical plaques throughout the United States.\" Druecke did a series of charcoal drawings depicting official state-sponsored plaques. In 2011, Silvio Lacetti argued that"}, {"text": "the HMdb \"offers a wonderful opportunity\" for history teachers to instill interest in students by being \"a Columbus leading his or her young crew on journeys of local historical discovery\", enabling them \"to search, discover and learn\" through historical markers. The HMdb displays historical event locations using Google Maps. The HMdb served as the basis for the database for the online augmented reality game Ingress, which was then later repurposed for Pok\u00e9mon Go."}, {"text": "Horsepen Creek is a long 3rd order tributary to Reedy Fork in Guilford County, North Carolina. History. The Battlefield of Guilford Courthouse was fought in part on the eastern edge of the Horsepen Creek watershed. Course. Horsepen Creek rises on the East Fork Deep River divide at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Guilford County, North Carolina. Horsepen Creek then flows northeast to meet Reedy Fork in Lake Brandt. Watershed. Horsepen Creek drains of area, receives about 45.0 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 444.82 and is about 18% forested."}, {"text": "Daniel Lawrence Dercher (born June 2, 1976) is a former American football offensive tackle who played for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at University of Kansas."}, {"text": "The Porta Aurelia-Sancti Petri was one of the gates of the Aurelian walls in Rome (Italy). It was originally called the Porta Cornelia. The Porta Cornelia was immediately west of the bridgehead of the Pons Aelius, the current Ponte Sant'Angelo. This is where the Via Cornelia began, from which the gate took its name. In the first centuries AD this was not an important road, but that changed with the rise of Christianity. Constantine the Great had Old St. Peter's Basilica built in the 4th century, over the Roman and Christian necropolis on Via Cornelia. Between 270 and 280 the great Aurelian Walls were built around Rome. The Vatican Hill was only sparsely populated and remained outside the wall. The Basilica and this northern entrance to Rome, however, had to be able to be defended, and between 401 and 403 the Emperor Honorius had the Mausoleum of Hadrian converted into the Castel Sant'Angelo. The Porta Cornelia was built into the defensive walls of the Castle and gave access to the Vatican from the city. The gate was demolished after the Middle Ages. It is no longer known what exactly it looked like. The gate was also known as Porta Aurelia"}, {"text": "Sancti-Petri because the important Via Aurelia could also be reached by this gate and Via Cornelia. However, there was already a Porta Aurelia on the Janiculum (today's Porta San Pancrazio} and the addition of \"Sancti Petri\" (\"at St. Peter's\") is therefore intended to distinguish between the two gates."}, {"text": "The A. N. Tanner House is a historic two-story house in Grouse Creek, Utah. It was built with red bricks in 1899 by Allen N. Tanner, a farmer who lived here with his wife, n\u00e9e Mary Emily Barlow, and their nine children; the Tanners were Mormons. The house was designed in the Georgian Revival architectural style. When Tanner died in 1935, and the house remained in his family in the 1980s. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 11, 1982."}, {"text": "Thorati is a 2019 Indian Tamil drama film directed by Marimuthu. It stars Shaman Mithru and Sathyakala in the lead roles, alongside a cast featuring predominantly newcomers. Featuring music composed by Ved Shankar, the film began production in mid-2018 was released on 2 August 2019. Production. Set in the 1980s, the film was shot across southern regions of Tamil Nadu such as Dindigul, Madurai, Pudukottai, Ramanathapuram and Sivagangai during early 2018. The director, P. Marimuthu, suggested that the story of the film was drawn from real life experiences in rural Tamil Nadu. The film's producer and lead actor, Shaman Mithru, stated that the film's making and characterisations were along the lines of those seen in \"Paruthiveeran\" (2007), \"Subramaniyapuram\" (2008) and \"Vaagai Sooda Vaa\" (2011). Actors were trained for six months, and a mock shoot was held for five days before production had started. Impressed by the film, producer C. V. Kumar initially agreed to distribute the film through his Thirukumaran Entertainment banner. He later pulled out of the commitment. The makers then screened the film at a few international film festivals, as the film experienced trouble in getting a theatrical release in Tamil Nadu. Soundtrack. The film's soundtrack was composed"}, {"text": "by Ved Shankar and Jithin K. Roshan. The lyrics were written by Snehan. Release. The film had a low profile opening across Tamil Nadu on 2 August 2019. In its review, \"The Times of India\" gave a positive impression and wrote the film \"starts off as a lackadaisical narration [but] moves steadily once the major plot unfolds\", adding that \"the cinematography, which captures the village in all its beauty and the effortless performance from the heroine and the trio are positives of the film.\". The News Minute labelled it as \"a simple romance drama engaging told\", while \"The New Indian Express\" wrote that it was a \"tightly-knit emotional tale of love and loss\". In contrast, \"The Hindu\" noted that it was \"an outdated independent film about an outdated subject, featuring outdated characters.\" Soon after the film's release, it garnered media attention as the lead actress Sathyakala was abducted by her father and stepmother against her will for acting in the film."}, {"text": "Baby thief is a Ghanaian movie that was acted in 1991 and was released in 1992. The movie features Emmanuel Yeboah Asomah and John Dumelo as a toddler known as saka who."}, {"text": "Channel U (later known as Channel AKA) was a British digital satellite TV music channel that focused on the British grime scene which ran from February 2003 to June 2018. Channel U was a significant outlet not only for established artists, but also for those who were just starting out, helping the breakthrough for acts such as Tinchy Stryder, Tinie Tempah, Dizzee Rascal, Chip, Wretch 32, Devlin, Giggs, Skepta and N-Dubz. Its material included \"crude productions shot with handheld digital video cameras,\" and helped new musicians attract attention and build a fan base. According to its website, \"the aim of the channel was to highlight to the public, the raw and unsigned talent we have in the UK, and give them a platform from which they could perform,\" and it has been successful in this mission, as suggested by the production and popularity of such compilation CDs as \"Channel U: The Album\". Many artists have expressed their loyalty to the channel in their lyrics; for example, in Lady Sovereign's \"9 to 5\", \"Channel who? Oh Channel U, the ones who made me huge, like Katie Price's boobs!\". Other artists to comment on Channel U include Kano, Ironik, Lethal Bizzle, Sway,"}, {"text": "Remi Nicole, Mr Wong, and Dizzee Rascal. Dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip criticised Channel U in their song \"Fixed\", as did Lowkey, who cited the absence of any innovation and the channel's lack of desire to take risks. Channel U commissioned the first 'grime comedy', an animated adult sitcom named \"The Booo Krooo\". The TV series ran for six episodes and focused on the misadventures of three young MCs trying to break into the music game, but often ending up worse off than when they started. \"The Booo Krooo\" was originally a cult classic to readers of \"RWD Magazine\" and got the attention of Channel U after being co-signed by Missy Elliott. The animation series was developed by Matt Mason and Alex Donne Johnson with illustrations by Julian Johnson, a.k.a. Art Jaz. In October 2005, the first annual Channel U Awards were held in London with live performances from its underground playlist. Before he joined MTV to host the British version of \"Pimp My Ride\", Tim Westwood had a show on Channel AKA. Following the Westwood show, the channel developed its programming by licensing a lifestyle TV series, \"The Ballers Show\", in 2006. The 30-minute show presented the lives"}, {"text": "of footballers off the pitch including the Premier League footballer Jermain Defoe. On 14 July 2016, the channel's co-founder, Darren Platt, died. In his obituary in \"The Guardian\", the newspaper stated that Channel U \"forged a place for a genre that began its life ignored by the mainstream.\" The parent company of Fizz TV and Channel U went into voluntary liquidation at the beginning of February 2009, before being purchased by Mushroom TV. When purchasing the two channels, Mushroom TV agreed that Channel U and Fizz TV should be rebranded. The two channels were rebranded as Channel AKA and Starz TV on 16 March 2009. On 22 June 2012, Mushroom TV entered liquidation. Ofcom's television broadcast licensing update for May 2012 indicated that Channel AKA was sold to All Around the World Productions, who at the time owned Clubland TV and Massive R&B (now Now 90s) and had also acquired Greatest Hits TV under UltimateHits Limited. On 29 November 2012, the channel launched on Freesat but was removed on 15 April 2013. The channel returned to Freesat on 1 October 2015 alongside its sister channels Chilled TV, Clubland TV and Now Music, before being removed again on 12 May 2017."}, {"text": "In 2018, Channel AKA ceased broadcasting and has since been remembered for introducing the music careers of artists such as Dizzee Rascal, Kano, Wiley and Lethal Bizzle. On 25 September 2020, it was confirmed that Channel U would be returning to TV on 13 November 2020 to promote the film \"Against All Odds\". Due to technical issues, the return was postponed to 20 November 2020, and it aired for six hours on Clubland TV."}, {"text": "Bradley Devin Katona (born December 12, 1991) is a Canadian mixed martial artist who competed in the Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is a former Brave CF Bantamweight Champion. He is also the only fighter to win \"The Ultimate Fighter\" twice, winning \"The Ultimate Fighter 27\" featherweight tournament and \"The Ultimate Fighter 31\" bantamweight tournament. Personal life and background. Katona was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He started training in karate at the age of five and earned his black belt at the age of 14. Katona graduated from Dakota Collegiate. He started Brazilian jiu-jitsu at Winnipeg Academy of Mixed Martial Arts. In 2011, Katona fought and won in the Canadian Golden Gloves championship and the Ringside World Championships in Kansas City, Missouri. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Manitoba. Mixed martial arts career. Early career. Katona began competing in mixed martial arts in 2010 earning an amateur record of 3\u20130. After turning professional, he competed in smaller promotions, earning himself an unbeaten record of 6\u20130. Katona earned a degree as a mechanical engineer before deciding to focus fully on his MMA career in 2016. In 2017, he moved to Dublin"}, {"text": "to train with Straight Blast Gym Ireland under coach John Kavanagh. \"The Ultimate Fighter: Undefeated\". In November 2017, it was announced that Katona would be a cast member on \"\" competing in the featherweight tournament. On the show, Katona first defeated Kyler Phillips via majority decision and in the semi-finals he defeated Bryce Mitchell via third round submission (rear-naked choke). Katona then went on to win the final against Jay Cucciniello via a unanimous decision at The Ultimate Fighter 27 Finale. In doing so he became the third Canadian in the show's history to win the tournament and is also the first Canadian to win the competition outside of the TUF: Nations tournament format. Ultimate Fighting Championship. Returning to bantamweight, Katona faced Matthew Lopez in a bout on December 8, 2018, at UFC 231. He won the fight by unanimous decision. Katona next faced Merab Dvalishvili on May 4, 2019, at UFC on ESPN+ 9 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Katona would lose the fight via unanimous decision. Katona faced Hunter Azure on September 14, 2019, at . Despite moments of success Katona would lose the fight via unanimous decision. Katona was released by the UFC on February 11, 2020. After"}, {"text": "going 2\u20132 in the promotion. Brave Combat Federation. In September 2020, it was reported that Katona signed with Elite MMA Championship (EMC) and he was scheduled to meet Stipe Br\u010di\u0107 on October 31, 2020, in the co-main event of EMC 6. However, the event was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Katona faced Borislav Nikoli\u0107 on April 1, 2021, at Brave CF 50. At weigh-ins, Katona came in 1.1 pounds (0.5 kg) over the bantamweight limit and was fined a percentage of his purse which went to his opponent. He won by guillotine in the third round. Katona faced Bair Shtepin on August 21, 2021, at Brave CF 53. He won the bout via unanimous decision. Katona defeated Hamza Kooheji on March 11, 2022, at Brave CF 57 for the vacant BRAVE CF Bantamweight Championship. The Ultimate Fighter 31. In March 2023, it was announced that Katona would make his second appearance on The Ultimate Fighter, fighting in the bantamweight division. He was selected as a part of Team Chandler. In the quarterfinal Katona faced Carlos Vera, and won the fight via unanimous decision. He switched to Team McGregor in the semi-finals. In the semi-final round, Katona faced former teammate"}, {"text": "Timur Valiev, and won the fight via split decision. Katona faced former teammate Cody Gibson in the tournament final on August 19, 2023, at UFC 292. He won the fight via unanimous decision to win the tournament and become the only TUF fighter to win twice. The bout also won the \"Fight of the Night\" award. Return to UFC. Katona faced Garrett Armfield on January 20, 2024, at UFC 297. He lost the bout by unanimous decision. Katona faced Jesse Butler on June 8, 2024 at UFC on ESPN 57. He won the fight by unanimous decision. Katona faced Jean Matsumoto on October 19, 2024 at UFC Fight Night 245. He lost the fight by unanimous decision. Katona faced Bekzat Almakhan on May 10, 2025 at UFC 315. He lost the fight by knockout in the first round. On June 17, 2025, it was reported that Katona was no longer on the UFC roster."}, {"text": "Olav Solgaard is a Professor in the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering. He was the Director of the Ginzton Lab from 2008 until 2014. Education. Olav Solgaard completed a B. S. Electrical Engineering, from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Norway in 1981. He completed degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1987 (MS) and 1992 (PhD). Prior to joining Stanford\u2019s Department of Electrical Engineering in 1999, Olav was a faculty member at the University of California, Davis. His work at UC Davis led to the invention of the multi-wavelength, fiber-optical switch. Research. Solgaard's research is in the areas of semiconductor fabrication techniques; specifically, microfabrication and integration of optical devices and systems. As of 2019, Olav Solgaard has been issued more than 70 patents."}, {"text": "AAA & Anor v Minister for Justice & Ors, [2017] IESC 80, was an Irish Supreme Court case which arose from the judgment delivered by Cooke J in the High Court on 17 May 2012, due to the fact that the applicant AAA and her children were deported to Nigeria in 2011. The court held that \"as a rule\" there is no right to an oral hearing in an application for leave to remain on humanitarian grounds and subsidiary protection where there has already been oral hearings in relation to an application for asylum. This decision clarified the grounds under which a claim for subsidiary protection could be heard. Background. In 2007, the applicants, a single-mother AAA, who was pregnant, came to The Republic of Ireland with her three infant children JAA, EAA and SAA for the purpose of applying for asylum. The first applicant claimed that she was living in an oil-rich area of Nigeria and that her family experienced difficulty in the area up to 10 March 2007. The story involved rape, the abduction of her husband, including her eldest son, beatings, threats as well as extortion inflicted on her family by some unknown men as a result"}, {"text": "of her family providing shelter to four unknown expatriates, who came from Europe and Canada to work in the oil industry in the area. She claimed that these violent circumstances led to the disappearance of her husband the father of her children, including her other child. The Refugee Applications Commissioner refused their allegations in August 2010 when they were seeking asylum as the story was discovered to be incredible when examined by the Refugee Applications Commissioner and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. She was then advised of her right to apply to the Minister for Justice and Equality in order for her and children to be considered for leave to remain in the State on humanitarian grounds and also under subsidiary protection. However, in June 2011 their applications were rejected by the Minister and this led to all the applicants being repatriated to Nigeria in December 2011. In May 2012, while still in Nigeria they applied to the High Court through their lawyer asking the court to allow them to commence judicial review proceedings. Cooke J granted them leave to apply for judicial review by declaring that the Minister's deportation order was invalid because he did not personally consider if the"}, {"text": "non-refoulement obligations of the State would be contravened by the deportation order made against the Applicants. The appeal was heard by a panel of three judges. The appeal at the Supreme Court was lodged in May 2012 against Cooke J's decision not to grant the applicants leave to judicial review on the broader grounds they applied for prior to establishing the Court of Appeal. In September 2013, the applicants applied for the judicial review and McDermott J turned down their applications. Holding of the Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court three judges delivered the judgement. In the judgment Charleton J stated that the present circumstances of the defendants were not known. Charleton J wrote the judgment of the Court, while both Dunne J and Hogan J agreed with the decision. Charleton J reviewed case law concerning the limitations of the remedial functions of judicial review, including the recent developments regarding the application in asylum cases. The Justice emphasized that since the case of \"Meadows v Minister for Justice,\" the courts had decided to apply a proportionality test in judicial review while assessing the reasonableness of the decision that was under challenge. Most importantly, \"where the impugned decision engaged fundamental rights.\""}, {"text": "Charleton J explained that any decision which affects the rights of the defendants should be proportionate to the objective the Minister for Justice wanted to achieve. While citing the analysis of Hogan J in \"NM v The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform\", particularly where the Court of Appeal decided that the judicial review, post-Meadows, was sufficiently flexible enough to provide a comprehensive review as mandated by \"Article 39 of the Asylum Procedures Directive (2005/85/EC\") Considering \"NM v The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform\" and \"ISOF v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform\", Charleton J was satisfied that judicial review was an effective remedy. Furthermore, the Justice stated that in the absence of any express provision as contained in the \"Procedures Directive (2005/85/EC)\" necessitating the Member States to offer a right of appeal different for judicial review, any other conclusion reached would appear at variance with the fundamental principle of the EU law concerning the national procedural autonomy. Concerning the right of the applicants to be heard, the Supreme Court resolved that in the case of \"MM v Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform\", the Court decided that for assessing the applications for refugee status"}, {"text": "as well as for subsidiary protection, applicants have the right to an interview concerning their applications, including the right to call as well as cross-examine witnesses during the interview. While affirming the decision of Cooke J of the High Court to refuse leave to appeal on the previously noted three grounds, Justice Charleton stressed that there had been careful examination of the case made by the applicants, and stated that the High Court had already made a decision that there was an effective remedy under Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The Supreme Court summarized its ruling as follows: \"1. Judicial review is an effective remedy providing a thorough review of the Minister's decision to refuse subsidiary protection (NM v The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Hogan J) 2. 'As a rule' there is no right to an oral hearing in an application for subsidiary protection where there has already been oral hearings in relation to an application for asylum (Case C-277/11, MM v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, 22 November 2012)\""}, {"text": "The Washakie LDS Ward Chapel is a historic one-story building in Washakie, Utah. It was built in 1939 for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and designed in the Colonial Revival style by architect Edward O. Anderson. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 3, 1998."}, {"text": "Yolanda Garc\u00eda (born 18 January 1971) is a Spanish taekwondo practitioner, born in Andorra. She won a silver medal in heavyweight at the 1995 World Taekwondo Championships, and a gold medal at the 1994 European Taekwondo Championships."}, {"text": "Audubon Place may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Knudson Brothers Building is a historic two-story commercial building in Brigham City, Utah. It was built in 1914 by Charles W. and Jonathan C. Knudson, and designed in the Chicago school style, with Neoclassical features. It is \"55.5 feet wide by 100 feet deep with a small frame addition on the rear.\" It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 16, 1992."}, {"text": "Long Branch is a long 2nd order tributary to Reedy Fork in Guilford County, North Carolina. Course. Long Branch rises on the Mears Fork divide at Hillsdale, North Carolina in Guilford County. Long Branch then flows southeast to meet Reedy Fork in Lake Townsend. Watershed. Long Branch drains of area, receives about 45.6 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 409.99 and is about 53% forested."}, {"text": "Mayuran is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Nandan Subbrayan. It stars Anjan Dev, Asmitha Dogra and Vela Ramamoorthy in the lead roles, alongside a cast featuring predominantly newcomers. The film's soundtrack was composed by Jerard Felix, and its score was composed by Jubin. The film began production in late 2018 and was released on 30 August 2019. Production. The film marked the directorial debut of Nandan Subbrayan, an erstwhile assistant of director Bala. He chose to make a film based on the theme of drug trafficking taking place in men\u2019s college hostels. The director revealed that he based parts of the story on his own experience of living in college dormitories. Rookie actor Anjan Dev was signed in the lead role, while Ashmitha, a graduate from National School of Drama who had acted in Bengali films, was selected to make her debut as the lead actress. Vela Ramamoorthy was signed to play a character with grey shades, while Balaji Radhakrishnan from theatre group Koothu-P-Pattarai and Sashi from Jharkhand were selected for other pivotal roles. The film\u2019s set in Chidambaram, and was shot in several locations, including Karaikal and Pondicherry. Soundtrack. The film's soundtrack was composed by Jerard"}, {"text": "Felix, while Jubin handled the background score. Release. The film had a low profile opening across Tamil Nadu on 30 August 2019. In its review, \"The Times of India\" noted \"\"Mayuran\" has good performances, but lacks an emotional connect and smart writing.\" A critic from Cinema Express wrote \"inconsistent writing, unnecessary songs, convenient plot points, and a hero you can't quite root for make \"Mayuran\" a dull affair\". Likewise, a reviewer from the \"Asian Age\" noted that \"the film has an intriguing plot, but the problem lies with the screenplay.\""}, {"text": "The Elberta Theatre is a historic two-story building in Brigham City, Utah. It was built with red bricks and stucco in 1917 by William R. Dredge and W.H. Shurtliffe, and it was designed in the Prairie School style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 17, 1991."}, {"text": "An H\u00f2a is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "B\u00ecnh H\u00f2a is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "B\u00ecnh Th\u1ea1nh is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "C\u1ea7n \u0110\u0103ng is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "H\u00f2a B\u00ecnh Th\u1ea1nh is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "T\u00e2n Ph\u00fa is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh An is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh B\u00ecnh is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh Hanh is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh L\u1ee3i is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh Nhu\u1eadn is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh Th\u00e0nh is a rural commune () of Ch\u00e2u Th\u00e0nh District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "The murder of Walter L\u00fcbcke occurred on 2 June 2019 in Wolfhagen-Istha, Germany, near the city of Kassel. Walter L\u00fcbcke, the head of the public administration of the Kassel region, was killed in front of his home by a shot to the head at close range. On 15 June 2019, right-wing extremist Stephan Ernst was arrested as the prime suspect. On 25 June 2019, he made a confession, which was recanted on 2 July 2019. Ernst was convicted of murder on 28 January 2021. L\u00fcbcke had spoken out for the admittance of refugees and had opposed agitation against them by the local offshoot of the far-right political movement Pegida at a public meeting in October 2015. He subsequently received numerous death threats for many years. L\u00fcbcke's murder and its background and consequences started a broad public debate in Germany, due to which right-wing terrorism, executed by Combat 18 and related fascist organizations and individuals, received more scrutiny. The debate concerns the German security authorities' knowledge of the suspects, the possible co-responsibility of the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) for the murder, the relationship of the major political party Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) with the AfD, increasingly"}, {"text": "frequent attacks on local politicians, and the lack of prosecution of hate crimes in social networking services and social media. Details. On 2 June 2019, L\u00fcbcke was found dead on the terrace of his residence in the village of , which is part of the town of Wolfhagen. He had been shot in the head at close range with an illegally owned Rossi .38 revolver. On 15 June 2019, 45-year-old suspect Stephan Ernst was arrested. Perpetrator. Ernst was born in 1973 in Wiesbaden and grew up in Holzhausen, a part of the town of Hohenstein (Untertaunus) since 1984. He is married and the father of two children and lived in the eastern part of Kassel. At the time of L\u00fcbcke's murder, Ernst was already known to have held extreme right-wing political views and to have had connections to the German branch of the neo-Nazi terrorist group Combat 18 (C18). He also had connections to the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) and the Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) parties. Ernst had been previously convicted for knife and bomb attacks against targets connected to ethnic minorities in Germany. After Ernst retracted his confession, he was formally charged with murder on 29"}, {"text": "April 2020 and went on trial for the crime in June, along with his alleged accomplice Markus H. Ernst was convicted on 28 January 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment. The court decreed a \"special gravity\" of guilt for Ernst, extending his parole ineligibility. As such, he will have to serve a minimum of 22 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole, rather than the 15-to-life sentence typically imposed for murder in German law. As German law allows up to 25 years as a minimum term, it was considered near the high end of gravity. Markus H. was acquitted of accessory to murder but convicted of illegal gun possession, for which he received an 18-month suspended sentence. Controversies. On 22 February 2025, at his final campaign event on the eve of Germany's federal elections, conservative leader Friedrich Merz criticized protesters against far right political party AfD and Merz's center-right CDU. The nationwide protests began following Merz's move in January 2025 to table a motion in parliament, calling for Germany to turn away significantly more migrants at its border. The motion had attained a majority due to the AfD voting alongside the CDU. In this campaign speech, Merz said, \"I"}, {"text": "ask all those who walk around out there, Antifa und \"Gegen Rechts\" [Against the Right]: Where were they, when Walter L\u00fcbcke was murdered in Kassel by a right-wing extremist?\" His statement drew criticism on social media, as Merz attempted to invisiblize a rally of up to 10,000 people, which had been held in Kassel right after the murder, to protest against right-wing extremism, hatred, and hate speech."}, {"text": "An B\u00ecnh is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Gordon Jacob is a 1959 British short film (17 minutes) about Gordon Jacob from Ken Russell for the \"Monitor\" television series. It was Russell's first biopic of a composer."}, {"text": "B\u00ecnh Th\u00e0nh is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "\u0110\u1ecbnh M\u1ef9 is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "\u0110\u1ecbnh Th\u00e0nh is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "M\u1ef9 Ph\u00fa \u0110\u00f4ng is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Ph\u00fa Thu\u1eadn is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Trewhella is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "T\u00e2y Ph\u00fa is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Bidou and the closely related Montevideo are dice games which are scored according to the combination of three rolled dice; each player rolls their set of three dice simultaneously, then checks their values while keeping them concealed from other player(s) beneath a cup. Each player then wagers into a common pot, based on their roll, before revealing the dice to the other player(s); players may bluff to hint or mislead others about the strength of their concealed roll, similar to the gameplay of poker. History. The origins of Bidou are unknown; in 1934, George Gaylord Simpson wrote it appears to have been invented in the early 20th century, bearing superficial resemblances to poker, but was unknown in the United States. Jack Botermans calls it a European game, while earlier sources from the mid-20th century trace it to the coastal cities of South America (Argentina, Peru, or Punta Arenas, Chile). In a biography of John F. Kennedy, Geoffrey Perret claims that JFK learned to play bidou in 1941 while sailing to Rio de Janeiro aboard the with mostly South American passengers. Gameplay. Equipment. Each player receives three dice and a throwing cup to roll and conceal the dice. Chips or other"}, {"text": "tokens are used for wagering; nine chips are required for the two player game, or six per player if more than two are playing. Objective. In the standard game, the losing player receives the pot, so the objective is to be the first player to lose all their chips. The game also can be played in the conventional manner, which is called \"Montevideo\". In this variation, the winning player receives the pot, and the objective is to amass as many chips as possible. Captain. Each player rolls to determine the \"captain\" of the round. The captain is required to make the first bet, or pass, if they have made fewer or an equal number of throws compared to their opponent(s). Either one or all three dice may be rolled. The captain is the player with the highest roll on a single die; when more than one die is rolled, the next-highest single die may be used to break ties; for example, 6-5-3 would beat 6-4-4. For subsequent rounds, the captain is generally the winner of the prior round, unless all players pass on betting, in which case the captain's role passes to the player on the left of the prior"}, {"text": "captain. Rolling. Once the captaincy has been established, each player throws their dice and conceals the roll beneath the cup. If the player is not satisfied with their roll, they may re-roll; however, players are limited to three rolls in total, including the initial roll. Once the player is satisfied, or they have reached the limit of three rolls, they announce the number of throws they have made. In one variation described by Botermans (2008), after the first round, a player may choose to keep the result from one or two of the rolled dice and re-roll the other(s) for their re-roll attempts. For example, if a player rolled a relatively low \"5\"-2-1, they could keep the 2 and 1 and re-roll just the \"5\" in an attempt to gain a higher-ranked combination of 2-1-\"1\", \"2\"-2-1, or \"4\"-2-1. Scoring. The highest-ranked throw is a pair of ones with a two (2-1-1), which is called \"bidou\" and gives the game its name. There are 22 special combinations in Bidou, including \"bidou\", a pair of 2 with 1 (2-2-1, called \"bid\u00e9\"), a geometrical sequence using a multiplier of \u00d7 from 4 (4-2-1), the six triple rolls (6-6-6, 5-5-5, etc.), remaining pairs of"}, {"text": "3 and 1 (3-3- and 1-1-), and consecutive sequential integers, also known as \"ladders\". There is one exception to the order: the triple-1 (1-1-1) beats \"bidou\" (2-1-1), but otherwise follows the listed order, being beaten by higher-ordered triples, bid\u00e9, and 4-2-1. The overall probability of rolling one of the 22 special combinations is or %. A simplified set of 12 special combinations can be used which omits the remaining pairs of 3 and 1 and the geometrical sequence. In addition, \"bid\u00e9\" (2-2-1) has been moved to follow the triples, and the sequential values have been re-ranked, so the high straight (4-5-6) outranks lower straights. For this simplified set, the overall probability of rolling one of the 12 special combinations is reduced to or %. Simpson (1934) describes a similar set of 12 special combinations, with the exception that bid\u00e9 (2-2-1) outranks all triples, second only to bidou (2-1-1). Betting. Two players. With two players, nine chips are shared between the players, placed in the center of the table. The player who has made the fewest number of rolls bets or passes first; if the players have made an equal number of rolls, the captain bets or passes first. If both"}, {"text": "players pass, the round is over. Otherwise, after an initial bet is made by sliding one chip out of the pile towards that player (Player A), the opponent (Player B) may drop out (decline to bet), call (by betting one chip), or raise (by betting two chips). If Player B has raised, Player A may similarly drop out, call, or raise. Once the other player's bet has been called, the round is over and both players reveal their dice to determine the winner. Otherwise, the round ends if one player drops out or folds. The potential outcomes are: If the game reaches a point where one player has eight chips (Player X), they are entitled to an \"open throw\". The other player (Player Y) rolls up to three times without concealing their dice. Then Player X may roll up to three times. If Player X is able to beat Player Y's roll, Player Y takes one chip from Player X and the game continues; otherwise, if Player Y beats Player X's roll, Player X takes the last chip and loses the game. Three or more players. Instead of a common pool of nine chips, each player is given six chips."}, {"text": "Similar to the two-player game, the player who made the fewest number of throws opens the betting; if two or more players have an equal number of throws, the player closest to the left of the captain opens the betting. Otherwise, the captain makes the first bet. The maximum bet is raised to three chips, and the maximum raise is two chips. For Montevideo, each player contributes a predetermined ante before any betting starts. The potential outcomes are similar to the two-player game: In the \"poor fish\" variation of the game, if all players pass, they expose their dice and the player with the highest combination takes one chip from each of their opponents as a penalty; Montevideo has a similar \"poor fish\" variation in which the player with the highest combination contributes an extra chip to the pot."}, {"text": "Tho\u1ea1i Giang is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh Ch\u00e1nh is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh Kh\u00e1nh is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh Ch\u00e1nh is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "The Knightsville School Foundation, in Knightsville, Utah near Eureka, Utah, is the ruin of a historic school built in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The foundation is about in plan. It was deemed significant as \"the only remnant of Knightsville, founded in 1896-1897, reportedly the only privately owned, saloon-free, prostitute-free mining town in the United States (because of its founder Jesse Knight, an ardent Mormon). The school was built in 1909, contracted by one Martin E. Andersen of Logan, Utah, and the foundation was made of gravel and rock from the Mayday Mine dump (on the hill west of the town).\""}, {"text": "V\u0129nh Tr\u1ea1ch is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u1ecdng \u0110\u00f4ng is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "V\u1ecdng Th\u00ea is a rural commune () of Tho\u1ea1i S\u01a1n District in An Giang Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "NAHF may refer to:"}, {"text": "Kutasi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Elmina is a 2010 Ghanaian film directed by Redeemer Mensah and was made in collaboration with Revele Films. Plot. The movie follows the people of Elmina, Ghana following the discovery of crude oil as they battle against corrupt multinational corporations. Awards. The film was nominated for an African Movie Academy Award in Nigeria in 2011, and voted number 35 on the Artinfo list of the 100 most iconic works of art from 2007\u20132012."}, {"text": "Grigory Motovilov (born February 7, 1998) is a Russian professional basketball player for BC Enisey of the VTB United League. He played for PBC Lokomotiv Kuban of the VTB United League and the EuroCup, as well as the Russian national basketball team Motovilov signed with BC Izhevsk of the Russian Basketball Super League 1 on December 17, 2021. National team career. Motovilov was a member of the Russian junior national teams. With Russia's junior national teams, he played at the 2013 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, the FIBA U18 European Championship, and the 2017 FIBA U20 European Championship where he averaged 18.4 points, 3 points and 2.8 rebounds. Motovilov is a member of the senior Russian national basketball team, with Russia's senior men team, he played at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup where he averaged 4.6 points, 1 rebounds and 1.2 assists."}, {"text": "Mohammad Hazzuwan bin Mohammad Halim (born 2 February 1994) is a Singaporean professional footballer who plays primarily as a winger for Singapore Premier League club Hougang United and the Singapore national team. He is known for his pace and dribbling abilities. Mainly a winger, he can also be deployed as striker or attacking-midfielder. Club career. Tanjong Pagar United. Hazzuwan signed for Tanjong Pagar United in 2012 for the 2012 S.League season. He stayed with the club until 2013 but made only 3 appearances for the club. Balestier Khalsa. He signed for Balestier Khalsa in 2014. He was awarded the \"Young Player award\" at the S-League's annual awards with tough competition from Home United's Irfan Fandi, the Young Lions' Singapore Hami Syahin and Albirex's Yasutaka Yanagi. Geylang International. On 12 November 2021, Hazzuwan signed for Singapore Premier League side Geylang International. He made 26 appearances and contributed to his tenure at Geylang International with 5 goals and 2 assists. Hougang United. On 23 January 2023, Hougang United announced their 5th signing, Hazzuwan, for the 2023 Singapore Premier League season. International career. Hazzuwan was first called up to the Singapore national team in 2019, for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against"}, {"text": "Yemen and Palestine on 5 September and 10 September, respectively. He made his debut against Jordan, replacing Yasir Hanapi in the 67th minute. Hazzuwan was also included in the 2022 VFF Tri-Nations Series tournament against Vietnam and India on 21 and 24 September. Career statistics. Club. . Caps and goals may not be correct. International statistics. International caps. As of match played 6 October 2019. Appearances and goals by national team and year"}, {"text": "AirHelp is an online service that allow airline passengers to seek compensation for flight cancellations, delays, or overbookings. The company's initial focus was Europe where it uses European Regulation No 261/2004 to seek to obtain compensation that a passenger is entitled to in the event of denied boarding, cancellation, or a long delay of flights. However, since 2020, AirHelp has broadened its service and also supports passengers with flights in the US, Canada, Brazil, Turkey and Asia. History. AirHelp was founded in January 2013 by Henrik Zillmer. In its first year, the company launched websites in eight countries and five languages. In March 2014, AirHelp graduated from Y Combinator\u2019s prestigious Winter Class startup accelerator program in Silicon Valley. Two months later, in May 2014, the company won the Spark Award for innovation at the inaugural Collision Conference in Las Vegas, distinguishing itself from over 500 other applicants. That same year, AirHelp was named Best Danish Startup of the Year by the Nordic Startup Awards. In October 2015, AirHelp released the first edition of the AirHelp Score, a ranking system evaluating the world\u2019s major airlines based on on-time performance, customer opinion, and compensation processing. In August 2016, AirHelp raised $12 million"}, {"text": "in Series A funding. The round included investment from Khosla Ventures and Evan Williams, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter. In January 2017, the company launched AirHelp+, a membership program that ensures eligible passengers receive 100% of their compensation. In March of the same year, AirHelp introduced Herman, the world\u2019s first AI-powered legal assistant, designed to streamline compensation claim processing at scale. In January 2018, AirHelp co-founded APRA (Association of Passenger Rights Advocates), an organization aimed at advancing passenger rights globally. Later that year, in November 2018, the company won the Launch People\u2019s Choice Award at the Phocuswright Conference. In July 2019, AirHelp expanded into Brazil, enabling it to assist passengers under the country's ANAC 400 regulation. In 2020, during the global COVID-19 pandemic and the near-total halt of air travel, AirHelp continued advocating for air passenger rights, particularly concerning cash refunds for canceled flights. In September 2020, the company began offering a Complete plan for AirHelp+ members, which included access to airport lounges in cases of flight delays. In March 2021, AirHelp secured a landmark victory at the European Court of Justice, affirming passengers\u2019 right to compensation for flight disruptions caused by airline staff strikes. In August 2021, the"}, {"text": "company expanded its customer support services to offer 24/7 live chat assistance. At the same year, AirHelp closed a $9 million round Series B-2 preferred stock. Main investments were made from NE II Feeder Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 en commandite sp\u00e9ciale, TempoCap, MyCo Aps, H14 S.p.A. and Nordic Eye. In May 2022, AirHelp published its first Air Passenger Rights Guide. In August 2022, the company launched AirPayout, its first insurance product, for select AirHelp+ members. In July 2023, AirHelp began assisting passengers under Turkey\u2019s SHY Passenger regulation. The following month, it introduced AirLuggage, a travel insurance product for lost or delayed baggage, available to selected AirHelp+ members. In November 2023, it partnered with One Tree Planted to plant one tree for every 100 disrupted flights. In 2023, AirHelp received the German Service Prize from DISQ (Deutsches Institut f\u00fcr Service-Qualit\u00e4t GmbH & Co. KG) and ntv Nachrichten. In April 2024, AirHelp introduced two new AirHelp+ membership tiers: Smart and Pro. In June 2024, the company began supporting passengers covered under Saudi Arabia\u2019s air passenger rights regulation. In 2024, AirHelp was recognized as one of the Most Loved Workplaces for Young Professionals by the Best Practice Institute, Inc. and Most Loved Workplace and received the"}, {"text": "Deutsche Kunden Award for outstanding price/performance from DtGV \u2013 Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Verbraucherstudien mbH. In March 2025, AirHelp secured a significant minority investment from Abry Partners. The following month, the company celebrated reaching over 10 million AirHelp+ customers. In May 2025, AirHelp released the AirHelp Flight & Claim Tracker, a mobile application designed to streamline compensation tracking for users. In 2025, AirHelp was certified as a Most Loved Workplace by the Best Practice Institute and named Best Flight Compensation Service Provider by the Spanish Business Awards. Services. Legislation. AirHelp utilises clauses of Regulation (EC) No. 261/2004 in Europe and other local air passenger rights regulations, such as UK261 in the United Kingdom, ANAC 400 in Brazil, air passenger protection regulations in Canada, Montreal Convention in the US, Turkey SHY Passenger, and Saudi Arabia PRPR, to help passengers obtain compensation. Initial assessment. The eligibility of individual travelers is first determined through the use of a web form or mobile app. The initial assessment, to check compensation, is free. If Airhelp determines that a person is entitled to compensation, the person can commission the company to pursue a claim in exchange for a fee, with a fee only being charged if the"}, {"text": "company is successful in obtaining compensation. Out-of-court settlement vs legal action. Where an airline refuses to settle the claim, AirHelp, together with its lawyers, can take legal action. On several occasions, these lawsuits have led the courts to clarify legal questions regarding passenger rights. AirHelp+ Membership. AirHelp+ is AirHelp\u2019s annual membership program that helps passengers when they face flight disruptions. Members pay no fees when AirHelp secures their compensation. They also get a range of additional benefits, such as 24/7 live chat support from experts, AirPayout insurance: an extra \u20ac100 paid within hours of your flight problem. AirLuggage insurance: \u20ac100 compensation for a lost or delayed bag. Technology. To substantiate claims against airlines, AirHelp compiles information from multiple databases to verify the circumstances relating to the flight disruption. This helps build a seamless customer journey and ensures that the company is at the top with an incredible success rate, winning air passenger claims. The company also uses AI to check passengers' eligibility against the reason given by an airline to reject a claim, often due to weather conditions. Airlines then have to offer proof that a flight was disrupted due to weather. AirHelp is an early adopter of advanced process"}, {"text": "automation and AI and reported to have four bots that assist with claims: \"Herman\", \"Lara\", \"AgA\", which reviews all initial claims, and \"Docky\", which automatically requests additional travel documentation from passengers. Global rankings of airlines. Each year since 2015, AirHelp has produced a global report of airport and airline rankings. The airports are ranked according to on-time performance (60%), service quality (20%) and food & shops (20%), while airlines are ranked to on-time performance, service quality and claim processing with each category weighted equally. AirHelp uses its own databases, commercial vendors, and passenger surveys to compile the data for their reports. AirHelp uses its own databases, commercial vendors, and passenger surveys to compile the data for their reports. Based on their AirHelp Score, Bloomberg News has reported on the best and worst airlines and airports in the world for the years 2024 and 2025. AirHelp rankings have also been used by several other media outlets, such as MSN, Yahoo Life and New York Post."}, {"text": "Johan Friederich Wewer (8 March 1699 \u2013 9 May 1759) was a Danish merchant and ship-owner. He was a co-founder of Fabritius & Wewer and was also active in the Danish West India Company, Danish Asia Company, Danish Africa Company and the Royal Greenland Trading Department. Early life and education. Wewer was born in Kleve. He was probably called to Copenhagen by Michael Fabritius with whom he founded Fabritius & Wewer in 1740. There was an attempt to set up a trade route to the Levant, but the company prospered from trade on the Danish colonies. Peter Fenger and Johann Ludvig Zinn both worked for the firm in the beginning of their careers. Wewer was also active in most of the chartered companies of his time. He served as one of the directors of the Danish West India Company from 1746 and was from 1752 also one of the directors of the Danish Asia Company. In 1754, he purchased the Danish West India Company's buildings and quay at Christianshavn. He was also involved in the Royal Greenland Trading Department and was in 1755 appointed as director of the Danish Africa Company. He was appointed as royal agent in 1743 and"}, {"text": "as in 1754. Other activities. Wewer was also appointed as and one of the directors of Opfostringshuset. He was also a member of the commission for the construction of Frederick's German Church in Chrisitianshavn. Personal life. Wewer's business partner, Michael Fabritius, died in 1746. Wewer married his widow, Anna Maria Fabritius n\u00e9e K\u00f6ster, on 19 January 1748. Wewer died on 9 May 1759 and was initially buried in the chapel of the Church of Golmen but was later moved to Frederick's German Church. His widow married major-general Jean Baptiste Descari\u00e9res de Longueville (1699\u20131766) in 1763."}, {"text": "Prymnesin-B1 is a chemical with the molecular formula . It is a member of the prymnesins, a class of ladder-frame polyether phycotoxins made by the alga \"Prymnesium parvum\". It is known to be toxic to fish. It is a so called \"B-type\" prymnesin, which differ in the number of backbone cycles when compared to A-type prymnesins like prymnesin-2. Structures. Prymnesins-B1 is formed of a large polyether polycyclic core with several conjugate double and triple bonds, chlorine and nitrogen heteroatoms and a single sugar moiety consisting of \u03b1--galactopyranose. Biosynthesis. The backbone of B-type prymnesins like prymnesin-B1 is reportedly made by giant polyketide synthase enzymes dubbed the \"PKZILLAs\"."}, {"text": "Interstate 880 may refer to:"}, {"text": "Ross Thomas McIntire (August 11, 1889 \u2013 December 8, 1959) was an American physician and United States Navy officer. An otolaryngologist, he was appointed physician to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first Physician to the President with a board-certified speciality. In 1938, he became the Surgeon General of the United States Navy, overseeing a major expansion of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery during World War II. Following his retirement from the Navy with the rank of vice admiral, he held many senior positions in medical institutions, including Chairman of the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped. Early life. Ross T. McIntire was born on August 11, 1889, in Salem, Oregon. He attended Willamette University College of Medicine in Oregon, and graduated in 1912. Naval career. In 1917, he was commissioned as an assistant surgeon in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy. He met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the time, and when Roosevelt became President of the United States, McIntire was appointed Physician to the President in 1932. As a board certified otolaryngologist, he became the first White House physician to have a specialty certification. McIntire remained"}, {"text": "in the Navy when he became Surgeon General of the Navy in 1938, being elevated to the rank of rear admiral. Holding office during World War II, he oversaw the expansion of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to a size larger than the size of the entire navy during peacetime. He also lobbied the President and Congress to establish the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1944, he was promoted to vice admiral. He retired from these two positions and the Navy in 1946. Later life. From 1947 to 1954, McIntire served as the first Chairman of the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped. He was also a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine, and the Health and Medical Committee of the National Research Council. He was the executive director of the International College of Surgeons, a member of the board of governors of the American College of Surgeons, and the director of the National Blood Bank Program of the American Red Cross. Near the end of his life, he was chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Census of the Handicapped. He was also a"}, {"text": "participant in the Marine Corps War Memorial Foundation. He died suddenly on December 8, 1959, in Chicago, Illinois. A Methodist funeral was held in the chapel at Fort Myer, and he was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery."}, {"text": "Miguel Angel Mart\u00ednez Irala (born 29 September 1998) is a Paraguay international footballer who plays for Cerro Porte\u00f1o, as a goalkeeper. Career. Mart\u00ednez made his debut and played only for General Diaz. International. Mart\u00ednez was called up to the Paraguay squad for the first time in October 2019."}, {"text": "Mustafa Kaplan (born 2 September 1967) is a Turkish football manager and former player. He is the manager of Ankarag\u00fcc\u00fc. Career. Kaplan had a middling career in Turkey, from 1990 to 1998. He then went into management as assistant manager at Ankarag\u00fcc\u00fc in 2003. In 2006, he was named the assistant manager at Gen\u00e7lerbirli\u011fi. After a couple more stints as assistant manager, he was named the first team manager of Ankarag\u00fcc\u00fc in 2012. He spent most of his career as manager between Ankarag\u00fcc\u00fc and Gen\u00e7lerbirli\u011fi, and Hacettepe. He most recently had a stints as manager at Gen\u00e7lerbirli\u011fi from 2020 to 31 January 2021."}, {"text": "Henry Newman Manney III (March 27, 1922 \u2013 March 15, 1988) was an American correspondent and journalist best known for his writings on automobiles, motorcycles, auto racing, and travel. Early years and education. Henry N. Manney III was born in Quantico, Virginia, on 27 March 1922. He was the son of Marine Colonel and Silver Star recipient Henry N. Manney Junior, and the grandson of US Navy Chief of the Bureau of Equipment, Rear-Admiral Henry N. Manney. Manney attended Duke University, where he majored in English. He joined the United States Army in 1943 as a private and was stationed at Truax Field in Wisconsin. He served for three years as a radar mechanic. When his military career ended Manney used his G.I. Bill education benefits to pay for ballet lessons. He met ballerina Margaret Anne Statz, daughter of Major League outfielder Arnold \"Jigger\" Statz, in a studio, and the two were part of a ballet company that toured briefly through the US and Central and South America. For a time Manney worked in sales at Jim Barlow's International Motors before the start of his writing career. Racing career, move to Europe. Through the early 1950s Manney was racing cars"}, {"text": "in the US, driving a Crosley Hotshot (eventually supercharged), a Siata 300 BC and a Deutsch Bonnet. He built a Crosley-based special called \"Georgette-the-Racer\", which he raced without much success and whose body was recycled into Chet Lancaster's Georgette. Later that same decade Manney relocated to Europe, where the highlight of his racing career was his appearance in the 1957 Mille Miglia in an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce. Writing career. Manney started writing about motor racing in the mid-1950s. Gus Vignolle was the editor of \"Motoracing\" magazine, and his secretary, Anne Evans, was an acquaintance of Manney's. Evans asked Manney to write an article for the magazine. Manney remarked, \"They were fool enough to print it, and since I found I could get into the races free, I have never looked back.\" That first column, titled \"How to Watch a Road Race\", appeared in the November 18\u201325, 1955 issue. Some of his early work appeared in \"Car and Driver\" magazine. After relocating to Europe, Manney began writing for British auto magazines, such as the UK-based magazine \"Small Car\", which became \"Car\" magazine in 1965. In 1961, Manney became the overseas correspondent for \"Road & Track\", with his first article for"}, {"text": "them appearing in the July 1961 issue. He did double duty for many of his stories, both writing the copy and shooting the accompanying photographs. Manney's coverage of European Formula 1 (F1) events is credited with raising the profile of F1 racing in the United States. His regular column at \"Road & Track\" was titled \"At Large\", wherein he reported on auto racing, auto shows, and the auto industry in general, and wrote pieces on travel and food, often ending with his signature valediction, \"Yr Faithfl Srvnt\". Manney is credited with creating a unique style of automotive writing, different than what had gone before. His reports are said to be so rich and vivid that the reader experiences the scene through his description. Among his most well-known works was a four-part series titled \"What To Do While Motoring In Europe\", and his account of a visit to a naturist enclave titled \"Incompleat Guide to the \u00cele du Levant\". Manney also wrote an analysis of Ford's failure at Le Mans in the style of \"Casey at the Bat\". In 1966 Manney returned to the US from Europe, and continued his association with \"Road & Track\". For the magazine's April issues he"}, {"text": "began to contribute a series of road tests of \"vehicles\" such as a roller-coaster car, a pogo stick, and a motorized skateboard, which review included a picture of Manney in a full suit of medieval armor. During this period he also wrote for \"Road & Track\" sister automotive magazine, \"Car Life\", and was editor-at-large for their motorcycling magazine \"Cycle World\", to which he contributed both articles and reviews. Personal life. Manney and Margaret Anne Statz were married on February 16, 1953. They went on to have three children: Henry Newman Manney IV, Patrick Gregory Jude, and Mary Cecilia Alexandra. Manney owned a varied assortment of cars that included makes such as Moretti, Lancia, and Mercedes-Benz. He also owned at least three Ferraris. In 1952 he purchased 1950 Ferrari 275S America Barchetta Touring, chassis 0032MT. In 1955, he bought 1950 Ferrari 166, chassis 0060 M. And in 1965, he acquired 1963 Ferrari GTO, chassis 5111GT. In a 1977 review, Manney recounted riding a Harley Davidson flathead as a young man. Among the other bikes he owned were a vintage Yamaha, a new Bultaco, and a BMW 750 Twin. His later motorcycle collection included a 1956 Manx Norton, a 1966 Matchless G85CS,"}, {"text": "a 1938 Velocette KSS, and a 1973 Triumph 500 ISDT. Apart from automobiles and motorcycles, Manney's interests included baseball, classical and dixieland music, opera, and ballet. Manney suffered a debilitating cerebral hemorrhage late in 1981. He died on March 15, 1988, one day before his father-in-law. A joint funeral for Manney and Statz was held on 18 March 1988 at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in Newport Beach, California. Awards. Manney received the International Motor Press Association's Ken W. Purdy award posthumously in 1989."}, {"text": "The Meggitt Vindicator II is a Canadian-built unmanned aerial vehicle \u2013 training target formerly used by the Canadian Forces and United States Navy. It was used to simulate various types of targets like missiles and aircraft, including helicopters. The vehicle was not powered, but was launched via pneumatic catapult."}, {"text": "Heritage Africa is Ghanaian movie which was produced and directed by Kwaw Ansah in 1989. Plot. A young man called Kwasi Atta Bosomefi who is a public servant during the colonial period rose up the ranks because of his relationship with the colonial masters. He also changed his name from Kwasi Atta Bosomefi to Quincy Arthur Bosomfield, abandoned his culture and heritage and adopted that of his colonial masters. Reception. The film was awarded the grand prize, the \u00c9talon de Yennenga, at the 1989 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPASCO), becoming the first film from an anglophone African country to win the award."}, {"text": "Jorge Emanuel Morel Barrios (born 22 January 1998) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a defender for Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n club Cerro Porte\u00f1o. On 10 October 2019 Morel made his debut for the Paraguay national team in a 1\u20130 loss against Slovakia. On making his debut, Morel said in an interview \u201cEvery achievement I get marks something in my life, but debuting in the senior team so far is the best. I am very happy to accomplish this at such a young age.\u201d"}, {"text": "Ursula Poznanski (born October 30, 1968) is an Austrian writer. She won the \"Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis\" (German Children's Literature Award), Jugendjury (Youth Jury) prize in 2011 for her thriller novel \"Erebos\", which has been translated into 22 languages. Life and work. Ursula Poznanski was born in Vienna and grew up in Perchtoldsdorf and, after completing high school, took courses in Japanese studies, journalism, law and theater studies at the University of Vienna, but did not complete a degree. In 1996, she began working as an editor in a medical publishing house. In 2000, after the birth of her son, she took part in a scriptwriting competition run by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation; her script for a romantic comedy did not win. In 2001, her first manuscript \"Buchstabendschungel\" was accepted by the Austrian publishing house Dachs and was published in 2003. In the following years she released more children's books and worked in parallel on her first young adult novel. However, she found when searching for a publisher that her book did not fit the market requirements. She instead wrote the manuscript for her first youth thriller \"Erebos\", which was published in 2010 by Loewe Verlag. She lives with her family in"}, {"text": "the south of Vienna. Works. Vanitas series (thriller) Youth thrillers Beatrice-Kaspary series (thrillers) Eleria trilogy (dystopian) Children's books Collaborations Contributions to:"}, {"text": "Bogolyubka () is a rural locality (a village) in Novoalexandrovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 98 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Bogolyubka is located on the Rpen River, 36 km south of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sushchevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bogoslovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Novoalexandrovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 367 as of 2010. There are 43 streets. Geography. Bogoslovo is located 39 km southwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zagorye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bolshoye Borisovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Seletskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 112 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Bolshoye Borisovo is located 23 km northeast of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Subbotino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Borisovskoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pavlovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 646 as of 2010. There are 23 streets. Geography. Borisovskoye is located on the Pokolyayka River, 19 km south of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Poretskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lai Uy\u00ean is a township and capital of B\u00e0u B\u00e0ng District, B\u00ecnh D\u01b0\u01a1ng Province."}, {"text": "Borodino () is a rural locality (a village) in Novoalexandrovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 24 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Borodino is located 44 km southwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zeleni is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Brodnitsy () is a rural locality (a village) in Pavlovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 108 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Brodnitsy is located 25 km south of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sadovy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Brutovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pavlovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 321 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Brutovo is located 31 km southwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ovchukhi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "This is a list of episodes from 2017 for the \"Stuff You Should Know\" podcast. 2017 season. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Vasilkovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pavlovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 24 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Vasilkovo is located on the right bank of the Nerl River, 26 km southeast of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vasilkovo-2 is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Velisovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Bogolyubovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 48 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Velisovo is located 51 km southeast of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chirikovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ves () is a rural locality (a selo) in Seletskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 612 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Ves is located on the Irmes River, 11 km northwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Romanovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Viltsovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Seletskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Viltsovo is located 24 km northeast of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kharitonovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vishenki () is a rural locality (a selo) in Seletskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Vishenki is located 13 km northwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kistysh is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vnukovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Novoalexandrovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Vnukovo is located 38 km southwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Malakhovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vorontsovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Novoalexandrovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Vorontsovo is located on the Kolochka River, 29 km southwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Goloventsino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Hotel Brigham is a historic three-story hotel building in Brigham City, Utah. It was built in 1914 by George Burnham for James Knudson, a Mormon businessman, and his wife Amelia. It was designed in the Chicago school style by architects Francis Charles Woods and Julius A. Smith, and expanded ten years later, in 1924. The Knudsons died in the early 1940s, and the hotel was acquired by the Hillam Abstracting and Insurance Agency in 1989. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 17, 1991."}, {"text": "The \"Leyenda de Plata\" (1999) was professional wrestling tournament produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLLl; Spanish \"World Wrestling Council\") that ran from November 26, 1999, over the course of two of CMLL's Friday night shows in Arena M\u00e9xico with the finals on December 2, 1999. The annual \"Leyenda de Plata\" tournament is held in honor of lucha libre legend El Santo and is one of CMLL's most important annual tournaments. The qualifying \"Cibernetico\" took place on November 26, 1999 and saw El Hijo del Santo outlast a field of 15 other wrestlers including Antifaz del Norte, Bestia Salvaje, BlacK warrior, Blue Panther, Emilio Charles Jr., El Felino, Fuerza Guerrera, Negro Casas, Ol\u00edmpico, Rey Bucanero, Sat\u00e1nico, Tarzan Boy, Tony Rivera, \u00daltimo Guerrero and Zumbido. El Hijo del Santo only eliminated one wrestler in the match, \u00daltimo Guerrero to qualify for the final. Like in 1998 the 1999 \"Leyenda de Plata\" cibernetico winner went straight to the final, a rematch from the 1998 tournament, only this time El Hijo del Santo defeated Scorpio Jr. to win the tournament named after his father. Production. Background. The \"Leyenda de Plata\" (Spanish for \"the Silver Legend\") is an annual"}, {"text": "lucha libre tournament scripted and promoted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The first \"Leyenda de Plata\" was held in 1998 and was in honor of El Santo, nicknamed \"Enm\u00e1scarado de Plata\" (the Silver mask) from which the tournament got its name. The trophy given to the winner is a plaque with a metal replica of the mask that El Santo wore in both wrestling and lucha films. The \"Leyenda de Plata\" was held annually until 2003, at which point El Santo's son, El Hijo del Santo left CMLL on bad terms. The tournament returned in 2004 and has been held on an almost annual basis since then. The original format of the tournament was the \"Torneo cibernetico\" elimination match to qualify for a semi-final. The winner of the semi-final would face the winner of the previous year's tournament in the final. Since 2005 CMLL has held two cibernetico matches and the winner of each then meet in the semi-final. In 2011, the tournament was modified to eliminate the final stage as the previous winner, M\u00edstico, did not work for CMLL at that point in time Storylines. The events featured a total of number"}, {"text": "of professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (referred to as \"rudos\" in Mexico, those that portray the \"bad guys\") or faces (\"t\u00e9cnicos\" in Mexico, the \"good guy\" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches."}, {"text": "The Order of Hamilton is the most prestigious municipal order awarded to residents of the city of Hamilton. Instituted in 2019, the order is administered by the incumbent mayor of Hamilton for \"significant volunteer achievements\" in service to the city or communities therein. History. The order was announced on April 10, 2019, by then-mayor Fred Eisenberger, and the first orders were awarded on January 5, 2020, at the Mayor's New Year's Levee. The city created the order as a way to award \"[t]he unsung heroes of our communities [who] are the endless volunteers\". Similar awards from other cities in Ontario include the Order of Vaughan, and the Order of Ottawa, and the Order of Montreal is awarded in the Province of Quebec. Recipients. Recipients are awarded the order annually at the Mayor's New Year's Levee. 2019 2020 2021 2022"}, {"text": "\"Papa's Goods\" is the thirteenth and final episode of the seventh season of \"Sons of Anarchy\". Written and directed by series creator Kurt Sutter, it first aired on December 9, 2014 in the United States on FX and served as the series finale. Plot. Jax is excommunicated from the M.C. by choice after killing Jury White and ties up loose ends by killing August Marks and Charles Barosky. Chibs then becomes President of SAMCRO and the club votes for Jax to meet \"Mr. Mayhem\" (execution), but allows him to leave by staging an escape. Jax leads law enforcement on a massive chase on his father\u2019s bike on the interstate. Closing his eyes with a smile, and bracing himself for death, Jax collides with a semi-truck head on, dying in exactly same way and place as his father did before him. Reception. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an 88% approval rating with an average rating of 8.90/10, based on 17 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: \"A long, winding, and turbulent journey, similar to \"Sons of Anarchy\" itself, 'Papa's Goods' is a fitting end to Sutter's uncompromising vision of Jax and the SAMCRO gang.\" In a review by Diana"}, {"text": "Steenbergen for IGN, the series finale received a 9.5|10 rating; stating \"Sons of Anarchy went out on a high note, managing to tie up the loose ends of the story in typically bloody fashion, while also delivering an emotionally charged goodbye to the characters. Jax attained a measure of redemption as he paid for his actions in a way that left his family \u2013 both his kids and the members of SAMCRO \u2013 with hope for a better life in the future. What more could you ask for?\" Dalton Ross of Entertainment Weekly said of the episode: \"The finale was a fitting and unpredictable final chapter to a season in which creator Kurt Sutter dared us to continue rooting for the main protagonist, even as that protagonist did terrible things.\" Christine Orlando of TV Fanatic said about the conclusion of the series: \"When I finally saw an episode, I wouldn't dare miss another. At times horrifying, often gut wrenching but always entertaining, Sons of Anarchy will be missed.\" Meanwhile Leigh Kolb of Vulture said; \"'Papa's Goods' -- at almost two hours -- is a powerful end to seven seasons of revenge, lust, mayhem, glimmers of humor, and, perhaps most important,"}, {"text": "humanity\"."}, {"text": "USS \"Harrisburg\" (LPD-30) will be the 14th \"San Antonio\"-class amphibious transport dock ship of the United States Navy. She will be the second ship in naval service named after the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. \"Harrisburg\" is being built at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by Ingalls Shipbuilding. The ship will be the first Flight II variant of the \"San Antonio\"-class."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Mudgee on 8 September 1873 because Joseph Innes was appointed to the Legislative Council. Results. <includeonly> Joseph Innes was appointed to the Legislative Council.</includeonly>"}, {"text": "Charles Grafton Bigelow (July 15, 1805 October 27, 1885) was a businessman who served a single one-year term as the fourth mayor of Houston, Texas, from January 6, 1840, to January 15, 1841, before serving as a colonel in the Mexican-American War. Bigelow Street in Houston's Near Northside neighborhood is named in his honor. Early life. Born on July 15, 1805, in Northborough, Massachusetts, Bigelow left his hometown at age 23 to found the Northwest Territory's first tannery in Detroit. On May 28, 1829, he married his first wife, Cynthia Greenwood Warren, in Northborough. They had two daughters, Sarah Warren and Agnes Louisa Bigelow, in 1831 and 1835 respectively. Career. After moving back to his home state in 1831, Bigelow conducted business in the towns of Grafton, Northbridge, Uxbridge, and Worcester before emigrating to the Republic of Texas. Bigelow had arrived in Texas by November 28, 1838, when he advertised 170 acres of land for sale in the Telegraph and Texas Register. Bigelow owned a farm equipment store and an ice house in Houston. On January 6, 1840, Bigelow defeated incumbent George W. Lively by one vote in Houston's mayoral election. During a term characterized by tension between Houston, Harris"}, {"text": "County, and rival settlements such as Harrisburg, Bigelow sought to improve relations by hosting visiting dignitaries such as James Pinckney Henderson.\" \" Before his term ended on January 15, 1841, Bigelow and Houston's aldermen faced many of the new city's challenges while taking measures to establish it as a leading city in, if no longer the capital of Texas. After Bigelow's authorization by the city council on February 17 to commission a seal for the young city, the Seal of Houston was drafted by Bigelow's friend and former mayor Francis W. Moore, Jr. It was formally received as the city's seal during the next meeting, on February 24. Accompanied by railroad officials and community leaders on July 25, 1840, Bigelow formally began construction of the short-lived Houston and Brazos Rail Road with a spade during a groundbreaking ceremony. Maddened by a $500 annual license issued to the county's brothels, Bigelow petitioned Harris County in a lawsuit by the city to end licensing, a revenue stream supplied disproportionately by Houstonians, in favor of a property tax. Despite a legally dubious case, Judge A.B. Shelby granted an injunction temporarily halting the collection of license taxes within Houston. Later years. After his term"}, {"text": "ended on January 15, 1841, Bigelow remained in the city as a businessman. In 1846, served as a colonel of a Texas Regiment of Rangers in the Mexican-American War, allegedly playing a significant role in the Battle of Palo Alto. In September 1849, his first wife died when the Brig Cuba was lost at sea in a gale while sailing from Galveston to New York. Saddened by her death, he returned to Massachusetts, where he married Harriet Caroline Taft on December 6, 1849. Unionist and abolitionist sentiments were factors leading Bigelow to remain in Massachusetts, where he would raise three children with his second wife, Charles, Harriet C. \"Hattie\", and Charles Sam Houston \"Texas Charley\" Bigelow. Death. Bigelow died at age 80 on October 27, 1885, in Grafton, Massachusetts. He is buried in Worcester, Massachusetts."}, {"text": "Psalm Adjeteyfio, also known as T.T. (1948 - 8 April 2022), was a Ghanaian actor who featured in movies and videos. Born in Ghana, then known as Gold Coast, he was best known for the lead character T.T in the Ghanaian TV series \"Taxi Driver\". Before he got into acting, he was a Ga language teacher at the PRESEC staff school. Death. Adjeteyfio died at the age of 74 after a heart attack on April 8, 2022."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh B\u00ecnh may refer to several commune-level subdivisions in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Douglas Elaine McDougald (born February 6, 1957) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the New England Patriots. He played college football at Virginia Tech."}, {"text": "The 2020 ARCA Menards Series season was the 68th season of the ARCA Menards Series. It began on February 8 with the Lucas Oil 200 at Daytona International Speedway and ended on October 16 with the Speediatrics 150 at Kansas Speedway. 2020 was the first season that the series was sanctioned by NASCAR. Bret Holmes won the drivers championship, his first ARCA title. When the season was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, drivers from all NASCAR series, including a few ARCA drivers, participated in the inaugural eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series during that time. Rule changes. ARCA adopted the current NASCAR points system after using the 1975-2010 NASCAR points system up until 2019. Additionally, steel-bodied cars were phased out entirely in favor of composite-bodied cars, which also saw the end of Dodge's presence in the series due to a lack of a composite body. Schedule. The complete schedule was released on October 10, 2019. That came after a soft reveal of some Sioux Chief Showdown tracks on October 2. The season was paused from March to June due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of races were cancelled, rescheduled, or shifted to other tracks as a result"}, {"text": "of the pandemic. Broadcasting. Fox and MAVTV continued to share broadcasting rights to the schedule, consistent with previous years. Results and standings. Drivers' championship. Note: The pole winner also receives 1 bonus point, similar to the previous ARCA points system used until 2019 and unlike NASCAR. () Bold \u2013 Pole position awarded by time. \"Italics\" \u2013 Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * \u2013 Most laps led."}, {"text": "Anne Frank School or Anne Frank Elementary School may refer to:"}, {"text": "H\u01b0ng Ph\u00fa may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll, known also as 11QpaleoLev, is an ancient text preserved in one of the Qumran group of caves, which provides a rare glimpse of the script used formerly by the Israelites in writing Torah scrolls during pre-exilic history. The fragmentary remains of the Torah scroll is written in the Paleo-Hebrew script and was found stashed away in cave no. 11 at Qumran, showing a portion of Leviticus. The scroll is thought to have been penned by the scribe between the late 2nd century to early 1st century , while others place its writing in the 1st century . The paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll, although many centuries more recent than the well-known earlier ancient paleo-Hebrew epigraphic materials, such as the Royal Steward inscription from Siloam, Jerusalem (8th century ), now in the Museum of the Ancient Orient, Istanbul, and the Phoenician inscription on the sarcophagus of King Eshmun-Azar at Sidon, dating to the fifth-fourth century , the Lachish ostraca (ca. 6th-century ), the Gezer calendar (ca. 950\u2013918 ), and the paleo-Hebrew sacerdotal blessing discovered in 1979 near the St Andrew's Church in Jerusalem, is of no less importance to palaeography\u2014even though the manuscript is fragmentary and only partially preserved on"}, {"text": "leather parchment. Today, the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll (11QpaleoLev) is housed at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), but is not on public display. Priority. For a period of time, Paleo-Leviticus\u2014inscribed sometime after 200 but before the end of the first century --was considered the oldest extant fragment of a Torah scroll. The dating of a Paleo-Exodus scroll (4Q22) placed it in date range of 125100 , but there is an even older manuscript containing parts of Exodus (near the end of the book) and a small portion of Leviticus (at the beginning of the book) that was copied in 250 (4Q17). 4Q17 is inscribed in the square alphabet adopted after the exile in Babylon\u2014nevertheless its early date of transcription advances the 4Q17 fragment as the oldest extant fragment of the Torah known to us if the contents of Hinnom Scrolls are excluded from consideration (they are not parts of a larger work, but represent short extracts etc.). The style of paleo-Hebrew script in the Qumran fragments indicates that these manuscripts date to some time after the revolution of the Macabbees and the introduction of a new coinage (following the ejection of the Ptolemaic Greek occupation forces) that was minted with legends"}, {"text": "that used the old, pre-exilic paleo-Hebrew or Phoenician style of writing. The dating of the scroll hinges on the way that the \"kaph\" letter is written\u2014more closely resembling \"kaphs\" in Hasmonean coinage then in the Lachish ostraca (a collection of letters from around the year 590 ) which are our next most recent and extant exempla of the paleo-Hebrew script. It has sometimes been presumed that, \"using the old script [on the coins] was a kind of nationalist affectation, to proclaim the ancestral, pre-Babylonian-exile, Israelite origins of the newly-independent Hasmonean state.\" Hasmonean coinage was introduced in 135 with the ascent of John Hyrcanus to leadership and it seems to have been maintained until the beginning of the Herodean dynasty. Whether or not an alphabetic primer predating the new Hasmonean coinage might have been shared in common between the paleo-Hebrew texts of the Qumran caves and the Hasmonean mints is not discussed in the scholarly monographs devoted to this subject. Thus, the literature leaves that question open. The Talmud states that Samaritans used this script, and other fragments of paleo-Hebrew fragments of the Torah tend to confirm that the version of the Torah being copied in paleo-Hebrew was a Samaritan variant\u2014at"}, {"text": "least a precursor to the Samaritan variant that became distinct at a later time. As such, it is possible that both the Hasmonean coinage and the Torah manuscripts may have been built up from a Samaritan style guide predating the coinage that comes into circulation under Hyrcanus but post-dating the Lachish ostraca. Discovery. The discovery of the first Dead Sea scrolls in 1947 brought in its wake a flurry of epigraphic discoveries in the Qumran region. The paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll was one of the last among them to be discovered. It was found in January 1956 by local Bedouins of the Ta'amireh clan, in what is now known as \"Qumran Cave 11\", about north of \"Khirbet Qumran\", where it had been stashed along with other manuscripts. The entrance to the cave had been sealed off by fallen debris and large boulders, while part of the cave's roof had also collapsed, keeping the cave inaccessible for many centuries. The cache of manuscripts found in cave no. 11 yielded, among other manuscripts, the Great Psalms Scroll (11QPs), the Temple Scroll (11QT; being the longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls), and the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll. The Leviticus Scroll was obtained by the Rockefeller"}, {"text": "Museum (formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum) in May 1956 where it was kept in the museum's scrollery, and there remained largely untouched for 12 years, until it could be examined by researchers. When the museum came under the administration of the Israeli government after the Six-Day War in 1967, the museum assigned the Leviticus Scroll to D.N. Freedman for study and publication, who published the first report on the manuscript in 1974. Today, the 11QpaleoLev is held by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The scroll was first photographed in 1956 by the Palestine Archaeological Museum (PAM), and again in 1970 under the auspices of the IAA, when infrared photographs were made of the manuscript. Between 1956 and 1970 the scroll had suffered, losing at several places tiny fragments from the edges. Thus, the 1956 photographs preserve a better stage of the scroll and show readings which were lost in 1970. One fragment belonging to the 11QpaleoLev but not with the IAA is \"Fragment L\" (formerly, 11Q1), purchased by Georges Roux of France from the antiquities dealer Khalil Eskander Shaheen (Kando) of Bethlehem in 1967, showing Leviticus 21:7\u201312 / 22:21\u201327. Similar paleo-Hebrew fragments exist for the Books of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers"}, {"text": "and Deuteronomy, discovered in Qumran Cave 4. Historical background. The paleo-Hebrew script used is similar to the script still preserved today by the Samaritans, in the Samaritan Pentateuch, which itself is thought to be a direct descendant of the paleo-Hebrew alphabet (known in other circles as the Phoenician alphabet). The Leviticus Scroll is of primary importance in helping secular and religious scholars better understand the textual development of the Hebrew Bible and can shed light on the Hebrew Pentateuch's \"Urtext\". Although secular linguistic experts agree that the Ashurit script (i.e., the modern square Jewish Hebrew alphabet) evolved from the earlier Paleo-Hebrew script via the Aramaic alphabet\u2014their secular consensus view is based on palaeographic evidentiary discoveries, the timelines and assigned eras of those discoveries, and the slowly evolving letter/character morphologies as they offshoot from earlier scripts\u2014the question remains undecided among Jewish religious sages as to whether or not the discovery of the 11QpaleoLev scroll has implications on what the original script of the first Torah was. Among some Jewish religious sages, the find of 11QpaleoLev would corroborate one rabbinic view that the Torah was originally written in the paleo-Hebrew script, which is one view found in Talmudic commentary. According to another"}, {"text": "rabbinic view in the 5th-century CE Babylonian Talmud, conversely, the find of 11QpaleoLev is inconsequential since they regard the Torah to have been given by Moses already in the \"Assyrian script\" (Ktav Ashuri, also known as \"Ashurit\"\u2014the current modern printed Hebrew script), but then later changed to the paleo-Hebrew script, and, once again, returned to the Ashurit script during the time of Ezra the Scribe in the 5th century . This latter view, however, is incongruous with secular linguistic findings. Nevertheless, the matter remains undecided and in dispute among Jewish religious sages, with some holding the opinion that the Torah was originally inscribed in the Old Hebrew (Paleo-Hebrew) script, while others that it was not. What is generally acknowledged by all Jewish religious sages is that Ezra the Scribe in the 5th century was the first to enact that the scroll of the Law be written in the square script (Ashurit)\u2014the modern Hebrew script, rather than in the Old Hebrew (Paleo-Hebrew) script used formerly, and permitted that the Book of Daniel be composed in the Aramaic language with Ashurit characters. The switch from the ancient paleo-Hebrew script to the Ashurit script (modern Hebrew script), which happened after Israel's return from"}, {"text": "the Babylonian exile, officially did away with the ancient characters, but preserved the language intact, as the paleo-Hebrew letters were replaced, letter by letter, with their exact Ashurit equivalent, and where the newer characters represented the same phonetic sounds used in the Old Hebrew script. Both old and new systems consisted of 22 corresponding characters with (at that time) the same Semitic sound values. The Hebrew sages of the 1st-century augmented the use of the modern Hebrew script over that of the former script, declaring that sanctity only applied to those texts transcribed in the Ashurit (modern Hebrew) script, effectively doing away with the Old Hebrew (paleo-Hebrew) writing system. Description. The paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll consists of fifteen fragments and one scroll of seven columns, measuring in length. The scroll is thought to have been originally part of a larger Torah scroll made-up of individual sheets of parchment that were sewn together. The surviving scroll, showing portions of the Book of Leviticus, shows only the bottom portion of two sheets of parchment (ca. one-fifth of its original height), now measuring in height. The two sheets of parchment are shown sewn together; one containing three columns, and the other four columns, for"}, {"text": "a total of seven extant columns. The paleo-Hebrew script is written upon horizontal ruled lines, indented in the parchment by a semi-sharp instrument, from which the scribe \"hangs\" his letters. The rule lines were made mechanically and have a distinctive lighter shade of brown, and are intersected with indented vertical lines at the ends of the margins. The parchment consists of light to dark brown, tanned leather, with the ancient Hebrew writing inscribed on the grain-side of the leather, being the side where the hair once grew, and which side is usually darker than the flesh side of the leather. The leather, upon examination, is thought to belong to a small domesticated animal; either a kid of the goats or young sheep. The pattern of the grain surface in the leather resembles that of a kid, rather than a sheep. The lettering of the scroll is written in lampblack ink. Individual words are divided by dots, just as in the paleo-Hebrew Siloam inscription. The top portion of the scroll is irregularly worn away, with no indication that it had been deliberately torn or cut. Letter and line calculations suggest that the scroll's height was roughly four times greater than the"}, {"text": "extant lower portion, based upon letter and scribal dot counts of columns four to six. The average number of letters per line is forty-seven. Columns 4 to 7 measure 14.9 cm. in width, except for the narrow, final column. Columns 2 and 3 measure 13.6 cm. and 12.0 cm., respectively. The scroll contains much of Leviticus chapters 22:21\u201327, 23:22\u201329, 24:9\u201314, 25:28\u201336, 26:17\u201326, and 27:11\u201319, with smaller fragments showing portions of chapters 4:24\u201326, 10:4\u20137, 11:27\u201332, 13:3\u20139, 14:16\u201321, 18:26\u201319:3, 20:1\u20136, \"et al.\" Based on a cursory review and comparison of extant texts, the 11QpaleoLev Leviticus Scroll is considered by many to be a primary textual witness of the Proto-Masoretic text. As was apparently common for the time, the scribe who copied the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus scroll has joined all words together, with only a dot separating word from word. Orthography. A comparative study made between the Masoretic text (henceforth MT) and the Leviticus Scroll shows a tradition of orthography which slightly differed from the MT with respect to plene and defective scripta, the Leviticus Scroll generally showing more full spellings than the MT. This makes sense, since the Masoretic scholars are the ones who created the vowel pointing system that was added to"}, {"text": "the consonantal text, whereas the fuller spellings were the only available aid to the reader for discerning the vowel sounds at the earlier period. According to the Talmud, at some time during the Second Temple period the Sages saw a need to bring conformity to the writing, and therefore began work on establishing an authoritative text, which eventually became known as the MT. The 11QpaleoLev scroll is unique in that where the MT requires reading \u05dc\u05d5 in Leviticus 25:30 as the \"\u1e33eri\" (\u05e7\u05e8\u05d9), although the text is written \u05dc\u05d0 as the actual \"ketiv\" (\u05db\u05ea\u05d9\u05d1) in the MT, the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll shows the original reading and is written plainly as \u05dc\u05d5, without the necessity of changing its reading. This suggests that the Masoretes who transmitted the readings for words had access to an early orthographic tradition. Another unique feature of the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll is that it shows an ancient scribal practice of aligning all words in the columns in a natural progressive order, without the necessity of stretching words as is typically practised by scribes in the Ashurit script (modern Hebrew script) to justify the end of the line at the left margin. To avoid a long word extending"}, {"text": "beyond the column, the scribe simply broke-off the word, writing one or several letters of that word at the end of one line, and the remaining letters of the same word at the beginning of the next line (e.g. the Tetragrammaton in Lev. 24:9, the word \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc in Lev. 24:10, the word \u05d0\u05dc in Lev. 24:11 - all in column no. 3; the word \u05d0\u05e8\u05e6\u05db\u05dd in Lev. 26:19 in column no. 5, \"et al.\") In column no. 4 of the 11QpaleoLev scroll (the second line from the bottom) it shows no section break for (), although in most MT readings the place is marked by a section break (\"Closed Section\"). This anomaly can be attributed to the fact that some of the \"Geonim\" were in dispute over whether or not the reading in Leviticus 25:35 was to be marked by a section break; some including there a section break and others omitting a section break, as disclosed by the medieval scribe Menahem Meiri in his \"Kiryat Sefer\". Partial translation of scroll. In the following nine lines, a translation of the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll is rendered as follows: \"Lev. 23:22-29\" (contained in the second column). Words written here in brackets are"}, {"text": "based on the scrolls reconstruction, as they are missing in the original manuscript. The arrangement of the lines does not necessarily follow the arrangements used by modern scribes when copying from their \"Tikkun Soferim\", a thing which does invalidate a Torah scroll. However, the use of section breaks follows closely the traditions bequeathed by the Masoretes, so that the \"Open section\" () in line no. 3 (Lev. 23:23) starts at the beginning of the margin, after the previous verse ended on the previous line, followed by a very long vacant space (\"vacat\") extending to the left margin, showing that it is an \"Open Section\", whereas line no. 6 (Lev. 23:26) is an anomaly of sorts, insofar that the MT makes it a \"Closed Section\" (), which should start in the middle of the column, with an intermediate space between it and the previous verse, but in the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll the section here starts at the beginning of the right margin, with the previous verse ending in the previous line and followed by a short vacant space extending to the left margin (which space is equivalent to that of about 14 letters). Likewise, in column no. three, the verse Lev."}, {"text": "24:10 is made a \"Closed Section\" in the MT, but in the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll the section break starts at the beginning of the right margin, preceded by a line where the previous verse ends close to the start of the line, and a solitary paleo-Hebrew letter \"waw\" is written in the middle of that long-extended space, a tradition which is no longer recognised today. In Leviticus 20:1\u20136 (\"Fragment J\"), the \"Open Section\" is preceded by a vacant space, in the middle of which the Hebrew character \"waw\" is written to also signify the first letter in the word \u05d5\u05d9\u05d3\u05d1\u05e8 in the new section. In these places and others, the solitary \"waw\" is characteristically used in open spaces between paragraphs when the new paragraph should have begun with that letter. The use of a solitary \"waw\" in the middle of the section break is consistent with the practice found in paleo-Hebrew biblical manuscripts discovered in Qumran cave no. 4, showing fragments from the Book of Exodus, tentatively dated 100\u201325 BCE. As was customary for ancient Torah scrolls, words were joined together without spacing, as is seen in the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus scroll. Some words are broken in two, between two consecutive"}, {"text": "lines. The original paleo-Hebrew Leviticus scroll contained approximately 45 lines. Paleo-Hebrew scroll vs. the parent text of the Septuagint. From this one surviving relic of Israel's distant past, it can be shown that the unknown vorlage, or parent text, used to produce the Greek Septuagint (LXX) was similar to the text of the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll in some places, such as in Lev. 26:24, where it adds the words \"be\u1e25amat \u1e33er\u012b\" = \"in rage of froward behaviour\" \u2013 the words \"in rage\" not appearing in the MT. In yet other places , the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll follows more closely the MT than does the Septuagint."}, {"text": "Morgade is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "H\u01b0ng Th\u00e0nh may refer to the following places in Vietnam:"}, {"text": "V\u0129nh H\u01b0ng may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:"}, {"text": "On August 28, 2014, United States President Barack Obama held a live press conference in which he discussed the prospect of escalating the U.S. military response to the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria. For the conference, he wore a tan suit, which at the time was unusual for Obama, as well as for many politicians of that period. It received considerable attention, with whether it was appropriate for the subject matter of terrorism being discussed in the media. The issue remained prominent for several days and was widely discussed, often humorously, on television talk shows. Background. On August 28, 2014, President Barack Obama held a press conference about the situation regarding ISIS in Syria, and how the U.S. military was planning to respond to it. At the conference, Obama said that the U.S. had yet to develop a plan regarding the removal of ISIS, and talked extensively about his concerns in the region. During the conference he wore a tan suit, which until that point was uncommon for Obama. The light-colored suit was seen by conservative commentator and Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs as \"shocking to a lot of people\". The controversy was seen in the context of the"}, {"text": "slow news season before the run-up to the 2014 election campaign. The suit received mixed reviews from a sartorial perspective. At the time, the unusual attention given to a male leader's fashion choices was contrasted with that of his 2008 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's \"regular experience\" as a woman in politics. Immediate response. U.S. representative Peter King, a member of the Republican Party, deemed the suit's color combined with the subject matter of terrorism to be \"unpresidential\". He went on: \"There's no way, I don't think, any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. I mean, you have the world watching\". Reporters and political commentators joked about the tan suit, making a play on words of Obama's \"Yes We Can\" and \"the audacity of hope\" phrases into \"yes we tan\" and \"the audacity of taupe.\" The latter phrase, a parody of Obama\u2019s book \"The Audacity of Hope\", was recycled from media coverage of a 2010 Oval Office redecoration by Michael S. Smith which featured a prominent taupe rug and furnishings in similar muted colors, playfully criticized by Arianna Huffington among others. Fashion journalist for the \"New York Times\" Vanessa Friedman noted that the choice of tan was a"}, {"text": "\"particularly odd choice\" when discussing \"wishy-washy military policy\" in Syria. The day after the press conference, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that Obama felt \"pretty good\" about his decision to wear the suit. Fashion designer Joseph Abboud, who had previously made suits for Obama, praised Obama for the decision, saying that \"You don't want to look the same every day of your life. It's boring as hell\". Multiple news outlets noted that other U.S. presidents had also worn tan suits, including Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Still others said that the tan suit commentary was overshadowing the greater implications of the conference, and of the U.S. strategy for combating ISIS. Legacy. The controversy has been cited as an example of outsized attention given to a relatively trivial detail, and as a symbol of the relatively unencumbered news cycle at the time. Obama has joked about the tan suit controversy on multiple occasions. During the presidency of Donald Trump, Obama\u2019s successor, the tan suit controversy was frequently referred to by Trump critics to draw a contrast between Obama and Trump. These critics contrasted the attention devoted to this trivial issue under the Obama administration with various examples of Trump's"}, {"text": "actions that broke more substantial political norms while generating less coverage, and argued that the episode illustrated how Obama's presidency was covered in comparison to Trump's. During the week of Obama's 60th birthday in August 2021, and near the seventh anniversary of Obama's tan suit incident, President Joe Biden wore a tan suit for a press conference, which was widely reported as a jab at the initial controversy. On September 7, 2022, at an event honoring Obama's official portraits unveiled at the White House, Obama joked about the tan suit incident. On August 19, 2024, the first day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Vice President and party nominee Kamala Harris made an appearance sporting a tan suit, which was also reported as a jab at the controversy. On August 28, 2024 (on the 10th anniversary of the incident), Obama tweeted a side by side picture reference of himself and Harris in tan suits tweeting \u201cHow it started. How it's going. Ten years later, and it's still a good look! #IWillVote.com\u201d."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh Th\u1ecbnh may refer to:"}, {"text": "Abdelaziz El Omari (; born April 8, 1968) is a Moroccan politician from Errachidia, Morocco. He served as the mayor of Casablanca, Morocco and the president of the Casablanca City Council. Early life and education. Abdelaziz El Omari was born on April 8, 1968, in Errachidia, Morocco. He is married with 4 children. Abdelaziz El Omari is a state-certified electronic engineer with a degree earned from the National Postal and Telecommunications Institute in 1994. From 1994 to 2002, he served as an engineer in the semi-public and private sectors. He soon resumed his studies and obtained a certificate in international trade from ISCAE in 2005, and a masters in international commerce from Lille University of Science and Technology in 2006. He finally completed his studies with training in law; he obtained a degree in public law in 2010, and a masters in local governance from the University of Hassan II in Mohammedia in 2014. Political career. Within the PJD. El Omari was the regional secretary of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) for the region of Grand Casablanca and president of the PJD contingent within the House of Representatives in the Moroccan Parliament. He was a member of the National"}, {"text": "Council and of the Secretary General of the PJD, and has been director general of the party since 2012. He has served for 3 terms as an elected PJD member from the district of Ain Sebaa. Minister in charge of relations with parliament and civil society. On May 20, 2015, King Muhammad VI appointed Abdelaziz El Omari Minister of Parliamentary Relations and Civil Society at the recommendation of the PJD head of government Abdelilah Benkirane. Mayor of Casablanca. In the local and regional elections of 2015, the PJD won an absolute majority in the region of Casablanca-Settat, winning 74 out of 147 seats. Abdelaziz El Omari succeeded Mohamed Sajid as the major of Casablanca in 2015. In September 2021 he was succeeded by Nabila Rmili, the first women as the mayor of Casablanca. Omari announced the \"WeCasablanca\" visual identity for Casablanca in 2016. Abdelaziz El Omari announced that the contract with M'dina Bus would not be renewed after 2019, as the transport company did not fulfill its responsibilities."}, {"text": "V\u0129nh L\u1ed9c A is a rural commune (\"x\u00e3\") of H\u1ed3ng D\u00e2n District in B\u1ea1c Li\u00eau Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Ninh Th\u1ea1nh L\u1ee3i A is a rural commune (\"x\u00e3\") of H\u1ed3ng D\u00e2n District in B\u1ea1c Li\u00eau Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Francisco Javier \u00c1lvarez Beret (born 2 July 1996), better known by the mononym Beret is a Spanish pop singer. He was born in Seville, and started early publishing homemade recordings on the internet. In 2018, he signed with the Warner Music Group. Gaining popularity in Spain, he made a leap also in Latin America, through a collaboration with the Colombian singer Sebasti\u00e1n Yatra in the single \"Vuelve\"."}, {"text": "The Shanlong Vegetable Park () is an agricultural land in Nangan Township, Lienchiang County, Taiwan. History. The park consists of several farmlands belong to several people. Due to the difficulty in making commercial development in the land due to many land ownership, the Lienchiang County Government decided to beautify the area and named it Shanlong Vegetables Park. Business. Produce from this land are sent to the nearby Shizi Market to be sold locally in the Matsu Islands."}, {"text": "Nachmanoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Clayton Davis Andrews (born January 4, 1997) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Tigres de Quintana Roo of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers and New York Yankees. Amateur career. Andrews attended Maria Carrillo High School in Santa Rosa, California, graduating in 2015. He attended Cabrillo College and the Los Angeles Dodgers selected him in the 40th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball (MLB) draft. He did not sign and attended California State University, Long Beach, where he played college baseball for the Long Beach State Dirtbags as a two-way player. Professional career. Milwaukee Brewers. The Milwaukee Brewers selected Andrews in the 17th round, with the 515th overall selection, of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft, and he signed. Andrews spent his first professional season with the rookie\u2013level Helena Brewers and Single\u2013A Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, recording a cumulative 6\u20131 record and 2.18 ERA across 19 contests. In 2019, Andrews played with the High\u2013A Carolina Mudcats and Double\u2013A Biloxi Shuckers, going 5\u20132 with 11 saves and a 3.19 ERA, and 77 strikeouts in 59 innings. After the season, he played in the Arizona Fall League. Andrews did not"}, {"text": "play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, Andrews spent the season with the Triple\u2013A Nashville Sounds. In seven games for Nashville, Andrews posted a 4.82 ERA with 11 strikeouts across innings pitched. In 2022, Andrews played in nine games split between Double\u2013A Biloxi and rookie\u2013level Arizona Complex League Brewers, struggling to a 7.84 ERA with 19 strikeouts across innings of work. Andrews began the 2023 season with the Triple\u2013A Nashville Sounds. In 25 appearances, he registered a 1.65 ERA with 41 strikeouts in innings pitched. On July 1, 2023, Andrews was selected to the 40-man roster and promoted to the major leagues for the first time. In four appearances for Milwaukee, he struggled to a 27.00 ERA with four strikeouts across innings of work. Andrews was designated for assignment by the Brewers on February 7, 2024. New York Yankees. On February 14, 2024, the Brewers traded Andrews to the New York Yankees in exchange for Joshua Quezada. He was optioned to the Triple\u2013A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders to begin the 2024 season. On April 8, Andrews was designated for assignment following the promotion of Josh Maciejewski. He"}, {"text": "cleared waivers and was sent outright to Triple\u2013A on April 13. On May 20, the Yankees selected Andrews' contract, adding him to their active roster. He made one appearance for the team, allowing one earned run in of an inning. On June 20, Andrews was designated for assignment by the Yankees. He again cleared waivers and was sent outright to Scranton on June 26. Andrews elected free agency the following day. San Francisco Giants. On July 8, 2024, Andrews signed a minor league contract with the San Francisco Giants. In two appearances for the rookie\u2013level Arizona Complex League Giants, he allowed five runs on four hits and two walks with two strikeouts over innings. Andrews was released by the Giants organization on August 1. Tigres de Quintana Roo. On March 11, 2025, Andrews signed with the Lake Country DockHounds of the American Association of Professional Baseball. Prior to the start of the season on April 13, Andrews signed with the Tigres de Quintana Roo of the Mexican League. International career. On October 10, 2019, he was selected for the United States national baseball team in the 2019 WBSC Premier 12."}, {"text": "Thorkel Amundason, also known as Thorkel F\u00f3stri (Thorkel the Fosterer), was an Orcadian man, foster father of Thorfinn the Mighty, and killer of Earl Einar Sigurdsson. Early life. Thorkel was born to one of the most rich and powerful men on Orkney, Amunde. Amunde was respected amongst many on the islands. Thorkel gained prominence by attempting to intervene with Earl Einar Sigurdsson on behalf of farmers, risking his life. He risked it again when he collected tribute from the Orcadians on behalf of Thorfinn Sigurdsson. Under Einar. One spring, Earl Einar proclaimed a levy for an expedition. Orcadian landowners, who were unhappy with this, asked Amunde to intercede with the Earl for him. Amunde replied, saying that the earl was stubborn and not one to be entreatied by others. The people then turned to Thorkel, who was at first reluctant. However, he agreed to do it, a decision criticized by Amunde for being too hasty. When the Earl held a Thing, Thorkel spoke to him, suggesting that he should lighten the levy because of the heavy burden it put on the landowners. The earl responded favorably to Thorkel's request, decreasing the number of ships required for the expedition from six"}, {"text": "to three. Thorkel was thanked, and the Earl set off on his expedition, coming back in Autumn. Next spring, he held another Thing and proclaimed the same levy, to which Thorkel made the same request to lighten the burden on the landowners. The Earl was enraged, closing the Thing. Amunde, hearing about the news, instructed Thorkel to leave the country. Thorkel went to Caithness, where he then worked for Earl Thorfinn, then a child. Under Thorfinn. Thorkel remained with Thorfinn, becoming his foster father and gaining the title of \"Thorkel Fostri\", Thorkel the Fosterer. When Thorfinn came of age, he asked Einar for a share in his earldom, which Einar declined. Einar and Thorfinn mobilized their armies and went to war. However, Brusi intervened, preventing a battle, and offered Thorfinn his part of the earldom, to which he agreed. Brusi agreed to share two-thirds of the earldom with Einar. After the agreement, Thorkel was regularly dispatched to Orkney to gather taxes. Einar was infuriated, as he blamed Thorkel for Thorfinn's uprising. Einar formulated a plan to assassinate Thorkel, which he learned of on one of his tithe-gathering trips to Orkney. Thorkel escaped back to Caithness. Thorfinn convinced Thorkel on his"}, {"text": "return to go to the court of King Olaf II of Norway instead of confronting Einar. Olaf liked Thorkel, and enjoyed conversing with him. He thought Thorkel was educated and good-natured. When he asked about the Earls, he discovered that Thorkel did not like Einar, but did like Thorfinn. Olaf sent an invitation to Thorfinn to come to Norway, but Thorfinn declined, instead assuring friendship. After spending a winter at the Norwegian court in 1020, Thorkel returned with Thorfinn to Orkney on a longship given to them by King Olaf. When Einar learned of Thorkel's return, he prepared an attack. Brusi once again intervened and resolved the situation peacefully. Einar promised to forget his enmity to Thorkel, and both men had to throw feasts for each other. Thorkel had his feast for Einar first in his hall at Deerness. On the day Einar was to leave, Thorkel sent men ahead of him to scout the road. They came back and reported that three ambushes awaited. Thorkel gathered his men and returned to the main hall, announcing that he was not ready. He went up to Einar, closed the door, and sat down beside him. Einar asked \"Are you ready?\" to"}, {"text": "which Thorkel replied \"I am ready.\" Thorkel struck Einar in the head and killed him. After Einar's death, Brusi became responsible for his lands. Thorfinn, who disagreed, set his sights on conquest. Brusi decided to ask for help from Norway. King Olaf made Brusi his steward. Thorfinn arrived in Norway to ask for assistance against Brusi, to which Olaf presented him with the same choice he presented Brusi - Hand over the earldom and declare himself \"the King's man\". Thorfinn refused, saying he owed allegiance to Scotland because of his family ties, but upon consultation with Thorkel, he accepted."}, {"text": "Alexander Carter (born September 6, 1963) is a former American football defensive end who played for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Tennessee State University."}, {"text": "No Tears For Ananse is a 1968 Ghanaian movie directed by Sam Aryeetey and written by Ato Kwamina Yanney. Plot. The folklore film describes how cunning Ananse tries to outwit his family because of the pressure of him providing for his family members every day. He pretended to be dead and he told his family to bury him in his farm. He then took to eating the food in the farm where he was buried. The family set a trap using a statue smeared with glue. When Ananse saw the statue he thought it was a living being so he started kicking and slapping it and he got stuck. The following morning he was caught by the family and villagers."}, {"text": "Ward 1 () is a ward of Gi\u00e1 Rai town in B\u1ea1c Li\u00eau Province, Vietnam. The ward is formerly Gi\u00e1 Rai township, the capital of former Gi\u00e1 Rai District."}, {"text": "Maureen Stapleton is an American politician from Michigan, and a former teacher. She is a Democratic former member of Michigan House of Representatives from District 4. Education. Stapleton earned a BS degree in Psychology from Howard University in Washington, D.C. Stapleton was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Career. Stapleton was a teacher with Detroit Public Schools. Stapleton was an Administrator for the City of Indianapolis' Compliance Division. In 2003, Stapleton started a consulting business. In the August 2006 primary election, Stapleton was seeking for a seat in the Michigan House of Representatives for District 4, but she was defeated by Coleman Young II. Stapleton lost by 928 votes. In 2010, Stapleton ran again the Michigan House for District 4. Stapleton defeated Mary Sheffield in the Democratic primary and defeated Lillian Smith and Danetta Simpson with 94.89% of the votes. In the August 2012 primary election, Stapleton was seeking a seat in the newly created District 6, however, she was defeated by Rashida Tlaib. Stapleton lost by 683 votes."}, {"text": "Goldrush is a song by Swiss electronic band Yello, released in 1986 from the album One Second. Track listing. 7\" single 12\" single"}, {"text": "The George Robert White Memorial, also known as The Spirit of Giving, is an outdoor memorial commemorating George Robert White by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon, installed in Boston's Public Garden, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The 1924 bronze sculpture depicts an allegorical winged female on a Rockport granite base, above an elliptical-shaped granite and pebble fountain. It was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1993. The fountain was disabled in the 1980s and remained so until 2016 when it was repaired and restored by the Friends of the Public Garden at a cost of $700,000."}, {"text": "Phong Th\u1ea1nh A is a rural commune () of Gi\u00e1 Rai town in B\u1ea1c Li\u00eau Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "T\u00e2n Th\u1ea1nh is a rural commune () of Gi\u00e1 Rai town in B\u1ea1c Li\u00eau Province, Vietnam."}, {"text": "Kim Eon Hee (, born 1953) is a South Korean poet. She is known as the \"Medusa of Korean poetry\" for her use of unconventional language, grotesque images, and destruction in various forms in order to continuously shock readers. Life. Kim Eon Hee was born in 1953 in Jinju, Gyeongsang Province. In her second year at Jinju Girls' Middle School, she won first place in her school's writing contest and received the guidance of Poet Kim Suk-kyu, becoming active in her school's literature club. Her high school homeroom teacher once told her that her personality was \"excessively honest\" and she herself has stated that she has a \"hatred towards excessive coyness.\" This personality is expressed through a straightforwardness and radicalness and also manifests itself in Kim Eon Hee's poetic world which seems at odds with/incongruous with the real world/reality/life. When her first poetry collection received negative reviews, her husband attempted to dissuade her from writing poetry and she reportedly gave him the cold shoulder and stopped talking to him for six months. She has expressed her belief that she believes all artistic mediums contain the identical essence and it is only their expressive form that differs. Apart from literature, she"}, {"text": "is well-versed in film and surrealist art. She enjoys the works of film director David Lynch and the painter Giorgio de Chirico. She also named her own work room \"\"mumuchong\" (\u7121\u7121\u585a) as an homage to the Korean abstract expression painter Wook-kyung Choi, who named their own atelier \"mumudang\"\" (\u7121\u7121\u5802). In 1989, she published the poem \"Goyohan nara\" (\uace0\uc694\ud55c \ub098\ub77c Tranquil Land) along with nine others and emerged within the literary world. Beginning with her first poetry collection, \"Teureongkeu\" (\ud2b8\ub801\ud06c Trunk), in 1995, she has shocked the literary world with her brutal and obscene images. Moreover, there was a controversy within feminist circles regarding the violence towards women's bodies portrayed in her 2000 poetry collection, \"Mallajugeun aengdunamu arae jamjaneun jeo yeoja\" (\ub9d0\ub77c\uc8fd\uc740 \uc575\ub450\ub098\ubb34 \uc544\ub798 \uc7a0\uc790\ub294 \uc800 \uc5ec\uc790 That Girl Sleeping Beneath the Withered Cherry Tree). With the publication of \"Tteutbakkui daedap\" (\ub73b\ubc16\uc758 \ub300\ub2f5 Unexpected Response) in 2005, she demonstrated a prominent change with her questioning of poetry in and of itself becoming more serious and a notable esotericism. In her 2011 collection, \"Yojeum uulhasimnikka?\" (\uc694\uc998 \uc6b0\uc6b8\ud558\uc2ed\ub2c8\uae4c? \"Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days?\"), she broke from conventional Korean publishing practices in which separately authored introductions and a commentary or interpretation is"}, {"text": "included within Korean poetry books. Instead, she chose to forego these two sections and included her own author's introduction and epilogue. This poetry collection was translated into English and published in 2019 in the United States. In 2016, she published her poetry collection \"Bogo sipeun oppa\" (\ubcf4\uace0 \uc2f6\uc740 \uc624\ube60 The Man I Miss). In 2004, she quit her teaching activities of nearly 30 years and decided to solely devote herself to her creative writing. She won the 2005 Gyeongnam Literary Award (), the 2013 Yi Sang Literary Award for Poetry, the 2014 Poetry and Thought Literary Award (), and the 2016 Tongyeong Cheongma Literary Award (). From 2016 to 2019, she served as the chairperson for the Council for the Enhancement of Equality in Literature () and has served as the chairperson of the Equality in Literary Institutions Steering Committee () since 2019. Writing. Her work has been subject to academic analysis. Unconventional language and images. The most notable characteristics of Kim Eon Hee's poetry are her brutal images of bodies, the use of explicit language and slang, and the use of a direct eroticism. Lines such as \"Escaping as I drag my entrails dribbling out of me,\" \"My flayed"}, {"text": "open belly,\" \"Your penis that skewers me from my mouth to my anus like a thread\" that portray figures such as prostitutes consistently appear in her poems from \"Teureongkeu\" (1995) to \"Bogo sipeun oppa\" (2016). Because of her use of unconventional language and bizarre poetic images, her poetry has been called \"unintelligible poetry,\" \"destructive poetry,\" and \"poetry of cruelty.\" Of course, Kim Eon Hee's poems are not intended as a kind of pornography or a sexual fantasy; rather, their goal is to portray the true nature of reality. Her characterizing tendency to abruptly and openly challenge the horrible truths of reality that people want to ostracize has earned her the nickname \"the Medusa of the Literary World.\" The shock, fear, and repulsion that her poetry's heartless language and images invoke ultimately disclose the falsity and hypocrisy of oppressive institutions and can thus be seen as an avant-gardist attempt. The breaking of taboos. Through the use of extreme images embodying an overwhelming sense of sacrilege and blasphemy, she evokes an unpleasant and nauseating sentiment. Through this \"uncomfortable\" poetry, she provides a stimulus for shattering the reader's basic frame of reference, expanding their spectrum of thought, and breaking a consciousness of lies."}, {"text": "Kim's second poetry collection, \"Mallajugeun aengdunamu arae jamjaneun jeo yeoja\", by candidly portraying a father's violence, demonstrates opposition and resistance to the established order that the father comes to represent. In particular, the poem \"Gajok geukjang\" (\uac00\uc871\uadf9\uc7a5 Family Theater) in the third chapter uses the repetition of an emasculated father, stepfather, incestual relations with the father, etc. to directly describe the reality of a patriarchal and androcentric order that seeks to oppress women. Her third poetry collection, \"Tteutbakkui daedap\", with its striking abstruseness, goes one step beyond resisting androcentrism and expands to include a repudiation of all established orders such as civilizations, institutions, and ideologies. The denial and destruction of taboos in Kim Eon Hee's poetry has been interpreted as simultaneously signifying an opposition to civilization as well as embodying the strength to destroy law and systems."}, {"text": "Abdul Iyodo (born 10 October 1979) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a striker. Career. Iyodo started his senior career with Kano Pillars. He first moved to Europe in 1996 joining French club FC Martigues. In 1999, he signed with German club SG Wattenscheid 09 where he scored 36 goals in three years and attracted offers from professional clubs in 2002. After a move to FC St. Pauli fell through, he joined Schalke 04's reserves. At Schalke he had disciplinary problems and made six appearances for the first team. After that, he played for German clubs Karlsruher SC, SG Wattenscheid 09, and SV Elversberg. In December 2008, Elversberg announced Iyodo was free to find a new club. After the 2008\u201309 season, he played for the club's reserve team. From 2010 he played for lower-league clubs CSV Bochum-Linden, Holzwickeder SC, SG Wattenscheid 09 II, SW Eppendorf, 1. SG Regental, and TSV Nittenau."}, {"text": "Catherine Alexander (married name Rowe; 8 December 1862 \u2013 17 March 1928) was a New Zealand botanist, and the first known woman to publish a paper in the Royal Society Te Ap\u0101rangi's Transactions in 1886. Early life and education. Alexander was born in Kaiapoi in December 1862, to George and Mary Ann Alexander, Hatch. George Alexander was a baker. She received her education at the day school belonging to St Luke's Church in Christchurch. She studied at Canterbury College from 1882, concentrating on English (taught by John MacMillan Brown) and botany (taught at that time by Frederick Wollaston Hutton). She received an Exhibition Scholarship towards her botany honours degree work. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in botany and second-class honors in English in 1885 and then worked at Christchurch Girls' High School as an assistant teacher until her marriage. Scientific work. Her paper on ngaio (a small New Zealand native tree), \"\"Observations on the Glands in the Leaf and Stem of\" Myoporum l\u00e6tum, \"Forster\"\" appeared in the Royal Society's \"Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute\". Three more papers, all by women -- Annette Wilson, Miss Morrison, and Katherine Browning -- followed in 1892."}, {"text": "By the time her paper was read before the Wellington Philosophical Society in 1886, Alexander was teaching at high school. Later life. In August 1886, Alexander married Thomas Rowe in Addington, Christchurch, a teacher. Francis Haslam, one of Alexander's professors at Canterbury College, witnessed the ceremony. They had four children and lost one son in WWI. Rowe was principal of Rangiora High School, and Alexander was assistant mistress, taking charge of the younger pupils, for a time. In 1893, Rowe was appointed as the first librarian in the Wellington City Library, but by 1904 the family had returned to Christchurch. Her husband died suddenly on 1 February 1928. Having never recovered from the shock of her husband's death, she died six weeks later on 17 March. They are both buried at Christchurch's Linwood Cemetery. Awards and honours. In 2017, Alexander was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Ap\u0101rangi's \"150 women in 150 words\", celebrating the contribution of women to knowledge in New Zealand."}, {"text": "Ester Dolores Erquiaga Misa Paredes Jimenez (April 14, 1916 \u2013 September 4, 1997) was a Filipina activist best known for her contributions to the resistance against the dictatorship of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos. Activism. Already a widow when Martial law was declared, Jimenez began providing aid to anti-dictatorship activists when her youngest child decided to drop out of college and join the underground movement against Marcos. She was known as neither ideologue nor political leader, but acting on her conscience, she decided to actively fight the dictatorship by joining other middle class professionals in the urban guerrilla group known as the Light-A-Fire Movement, along with her second husband Othoniel Jimenez. Jimenez, her husband, and other members of the group were caught by Marcos forces in December 1979, although she was released before the other members of the group, in 1981. A military court later sentenced the members of group, including her and her husband, in December 1984. However, the dictatorship never had an opportunity to carry the sentence out. In 1986 People Power Revolution deposed the Marcoses and forced them into exile, and the Supreme Court nullified the death sentences, ruling that a military court had no business imposing"}, {"text": "sanctions on civilians. Death. Ester Paredes Jimenez died at age 81 in 1997, after a prolonged illness. Trivia. She was the mother of Apo Hiking Society member Jim Paredes."}, {"text": "Pravin Rai Mahal is a palace in Madhya Pradesh built by prince (and later King) Indrajit Singh in 1618. It was built for his love interest, Pravin Rai, who was a beautiful poet and musician, also known as the \"Nightingale of Orchha\". It is a state protected monument. The other names of this palace are Anand Mandal Bagh and Rai Praveen Manika Bhavan. It is also known as 'Tope Khana' since later in time, it was used as a lookout post for Orchha Fort. Architecture. The palace has three stories. There is a central hall on the second floor with multiple paintings and depictions of various moods of Pravin Rai. There is also a garden attached to the palace which is divided into two parts. The palace has a large mansion, and alongside, it has small chambers with large windows. There is good lighting and circulation of air. The palace's semi-subterranean summer room has been measured cooling its air to more than 10 degrees below exterior temperatures, using passive cooling. Legend of Pravin Rai. Pravin Rai was a favourite courtesan of King Indrajit Singh of Orchha State. It is said that Emperor Akbar summoned Pravin Rai to his court after"}, {"text": "hearing about her beauty and poetry. Pravin Rai reached the court and said a couplet, \"\u201cVinit Rai Praveen ki, suniye sah sujan. Juthi patar bhakat hain, bari, bayas, swan\u201d\" It translated to - 'Oh you great and wise! Please hear the plea of Rai Praveen. Only someone from a low caste, barber or scavengers would eat from a plat that was partaken by someone else'. With this, she indicated that she was already in love with Indrajeet. Akbar was impressed from this and she was sent back to Indrajeet with respect. Rai Praveen is the central character in Sudheer Maurya's Hindi Novel Indrapriya."}, {"text": "\"Joanna\" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter JoJo, released on October 11, 2019 by Clover Music and Warner Bros. Records. The song marks her first original release since the creation of Clover Music and the singer signing to Warner Bros. Records. Background. Following the release of her third studio album \"Mad Love\", JoJo announced the creation of her record label imprint, Clover Music, in a joint deal with Interscope. It later moved to Warner Bros. Records. \"Joanna\" is the singer's first original release under the label. On December 21, 2018 JoJo's first two studio albums were re-released with re-recorded vocals and slightly reworked production in order to coincide with the singer's 28th birthday. The albums were re-recorded due to Blackground Records' removing of both of the records from all music platforms following the singer's disputes with the label. Work on the singer's fourth studio album began shortly after the re-releases. \"Joanna\" was announced the day prior to its release. Composition. \"Joanna\" was written by JoJo, Natalie Dunn, Rebekah Muhammad, and Jeff Gitelman, the latter of whom produced the track. Musically, \"Joanna\" has been described as a freestyle and R&B ballad with \"raw\" and \"stripped-down\" instrumentation led by a \"bluesy\""}, {"text": "guitar riff. The musical arrangement of the song was compared to the songs found on the singer's previous mixtapes. The lyrical content of \"Joanna\" centers around the comments of haters, music critics, and fans. Singing in the third person, singer mocks the opinions of others in the lyrics \"Where did your acting career go? / You were supposed to be somebody / You were supposed to make more money\". \"Joanna\" has also been interpreted as a response to cancel culture. Critical reception. Madeline Roth, writing for \"MTV\", called the single a \"clever, confident response to cancel culture\". Allison Stubblebine of \"Nylon\" wrote the song \"addresses all the negativity that has been thrown [JoJo's] way regarding her career\". Mike Wass, writing for \"Idolator\" referred to the song as a \"hard-hitting track\" and a \"tantalizing first glimpse of the 'When Love Hurts' hitmaker's new era\". Clare Palo of \"Vulture\" referred to the lyrics as \"so raw that it seemed almost necessary to start out with a brutally honest take for her never 'Too Little, Too Late' comeback\". Music video. A music video was released alongside the single. The video, directed by Se Oh, features hordes of fans rushing past the singer towards"}, {"text": "an unknown celebrity's car in front of a theater. The singer winks at the camera during the video's conclusion to indicate the release of new music. Personnel. Adapted from Tidal."}, {"text": "Fritz Hirsch (21 April 1871 \u2013 18 July 1938) was a German art historian, architect, and pioneer of state-sponsored historical preservation. Early life. Fritz Hirsh was born on 21 April 1871 in Konstanz, in the German Empire, to parents of Jewish descent. Education. Hirsch graduated from a Konstanz gymnasium in 1889 and then began studying art and architecture in Karlsruhe and Munich. Also in 1889, while in Karlsruhe, he joined the fraternity. From 1895, he worked as an apprentice architect at the inspection offices of the Konstanz and Heidelberg districts. He received his doctorate in 1897 while in Heidelberg with a thesis on the Baroque sculptor . In the same year, he took a teaching position at an architecture school in L\u00fcbeck. Career. In 1900, Hirsch became an assessor specializing in architecture for the government Heidelberg. Five years later, he was the district inspector for Bruchsal. From 1900 to 1909, he directed a restoration of Schloss Bruchsal and the nearby , a groundbreaking landmark in the field of historical preservation. In particular, Hirsch emphasized before anything else the value of accurate sources and documentation. Hirsch was dismissed from all his positions in 1933 by the anti-Semitic Law for the Restoration"}, {"text": "of the Professional Civil Service. Honors. Hirsch was named an honorary citizen of the city of Schwetzingen and an honorary senator at the University of Freiburg."}, {"text": "Awake is the fifth studio album (twenty-seventh album overall) by Australian worship group Hillsong Worship, released on 11 October 2019. It is the group's first studio album in 15 years, with the last being \"Faithful\" (2004). The album was preceded by the lead single \"King of Kings\", released on 12 July 2019. On 19 June 2020, \"Awake My Soul\" was released as the second single, which features Tasha Cobbs Leonard; it is the group's first collaboration since 2004. In 2020, \"Awake\" was awarded Worship Album of the Year at the 51st GMA Dove Awards. Background. The album was recorded over the course of six months at both a studio in Orange County, California and in Sydney, Australia. Worship leader and co-producer Brooke Ligertwood revealed that recording at the Orange County studio was interrupted by \"multiple mishaps with storms causing power outages and all kinds of crazy little discomforts\", going on to say that she was a \"touch traumatized\" from the experience. In an interview with The Christian Post, Ligertwood said the album's main theme is \"invitation into more revelation\". Critical reception. Herb Longs of \"The Christian Beat\" described the album as \"refreshing\", writing that it features \"expertly written lyrics with"}, {"text": "a variety of arrangements create massive anthems, personal prayers and everything in between\" and \"prominent musical and lyrical elements of renewal and revival\". Writing for \"Jesus Freak Hideout\", Josh Balogh stated that the album \"might just be the most complete Hillsong Worship album in years. It has a crisply produced, cohesive approach, and enough diversity of worship leader and tone to go along with praiseworthy lyrics and contemporary musicality.\" Balogh ultimately called it \"one of the best overall worship albums of the year\". In a review for CBN, Kimberly Carr wrote that the album \"leaves enough space throughout songs to inspire spontaneous worship\" for listeners and worship teams. In awarding the album the Worship Album of the Year, Kevin Davis of New Release Today, says that the album \"is loaded with stellar vocals, catchy melodies and solid lyrics reflecting unashamed faith in Jesus\" and \"is loaded with several stirring new worship songs that really set me in the proper mindset to praise God for loving me so much that He gave His life away for all that was lost.\""}, {"text": "Castellaneta is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The Matsu Distillery () is a distillery in Niujiao Village, Nangan Township, Lienchiang County, Taiwan. History. The distillery was originally established in 1956 as Zhongxing Distillery. In 1969, it was renamed to Matsu Distillery. In 1992, the distillery acquired Tunnel 88 from Chunghwa Telecom. Architecture. The distillery consists of the main distillery building and the Tunnel 88 for storage, which is located 150 meters away from the main distillery building. Exhibition. The distillery features an exhibition room which exhibits several different Kaoliang liquors from different period, discontinued medical liquors. It also features tools and production processes for the production of the liquors, as well as the selling for various liquors."}, {"text": "The 2019 Six Nations Cup (for sponsorship reasons) also known as 2019 M1 Nations Cup was the thirteenth edition of the Singaporean Nations Cup was held in OCBC Arena from 20\u201326 October 2019. The tournament featured six nations including hosts Singapore, defending champions Cook Islands along with Botswana, Ireland, Papua New Guinea and Namibia. The opening match between Singapore and Namibia ended on a thrilling draw at 54\u201354. Namibia defeated hosts Singapore in the final 49\u201342 to win their first M1 Nations Cup title."}, {"text": "William Houston Gwin, also credited as William Houston Guinn in some media, (October 30, 1876 \u2013 May 15, 1958) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Samford University (then known as Howard College) from 1902 to 1903. He was a collegiate football player at Auburn University and scored a touchdown against Alabama in the 1901 Iron Bowl."}, {"text": "The Creation of Patriarchy is a non-fiction book written by Gerda Lerner in 1986 as an explanation for the origins of misogyny in ancient Mesopotamia and the following Western societies. She traces the \"images, metaphors, [and] myths\" that lead to patriarchal concepts' existence in Western society (Lerner 10). She believes that the creation of patriarchy in the ancient Near East was a 2500-year period from nearly 3100 BC to 600 BC rather than a single event (Lerner 8). In the text, Lerner argues that women have historically played a large role in the systemic subjugation of women, whether for self-preservation, to receive the benefits of class and more modernly \"race\", or for other reasons. She claims that it is likely that women accepted sex-segregated tasks in their societies long before it led to sex-based oppression. Lerner also argues that the widespread existence of misogyny in societies is not due to biological or psychological differences between males and females, but rather that it has historical explanations. She states that since patriarchy \"has a beginning in history\", it \"can be ended by historical process\" (Lerner 6). Contents. The book contains eleven chapters, the majority named after a metaphor for gender (Lerner 10)."}, {"text": "Each chapter traces a different aspect of \"the development of the leading ideas, symbols, and metaphors by which patriarchal gender relations were incorporated into Western civilization (Lerner 10). Reception. The book has been read and taught for many gender and women's studies courses along with other fields. The arguments presented in this book have been called \"provocative\" and \"suggestive\" by anthropologist Deborah Gewertz. One reviewer described it as \"a fascinating and well-informed book\". A different critic, journalist Nancy Barnes, stated: \"The book is a tremendous achievement, which will serve us all in useful and provocative ways.\" Still another critic, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, critiqued the book as insufficient in explaining the development of Western patriarchy. Catharine R. Stimpson of Rutgers University described the book as having \"the boldness, authority, and richness of \"The Second Sex\".\" The book won the 1986 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association."}, {"text": "The Zambezian region is a large biogeographical region in Africa. The Zambezian region includes woodlands, savannas, grasslands, and thickets, extending from east to west in a broad belt across the continent. The Zambezian region lies south of the rainforests of the Guineo-Congolian region. The Zambezian region is bounded by deserts and xeric shrublands on the southwest, the Highveld grasslands of South Africa to the south, and the subtropical Maputaland forests on the southeast. Vegetation types. The dominant vegetation types in the Zambezian region include: Biodiversity. Botanist Frank White estimated that the region has 8,500 species of plants, of which 4,590, or 54%, are endemic. Trees from subfamily Detarioideae of the legume family (Fabaceae) are predominant in the region's woodland plant communities, including species of \"Brachystegia\", \"Julbernardia\", and \"Isoberlinia\" in miombo woodlands, \"Baikiaea\" in Baikiaea woodlands, and mopane (\"Colophospermum mopane\") in mopane woodlands. The region is a centre of diversity for tree species in the genera \"Brachystegia\" (21 species) and \"Monotes\" (11 species). The Zambezian Region is a centre of diversity for \"underground trees\" (geoxylic suffrutices) which grow most of their stems and branches underground. 86 of 98 African species of underground trees identified by Frank White are native to the"}, {"text": "Zambezian Region. Ecoregions. According to the World Wildlife Fund, the Zambezian region includes over a dozen ecoregions."}, {"text": "Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) is a missile propulsion system currently being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation of India. The project aims to develop critical technologies required in the propulsion systems of future Indian long range air-to-air missiles. Description. The Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) is a missile propulsion system that includes a thrust modulated ducted rocket with a reduced smoke nozzle-less missile booster. The thrust modulation in the system is achieved using a hot gas flow controller. The system utilises a solid fuelled air-breathing ramjet engine. It is an extremely long-range missile with a projected range of 350 km. As per International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), this kind of propulsion system drastically enhances the range with higher average speed. The missiles which use such system are also able to carry larger payload due to absence of an oxidiser. Unlike solid-propellant rocket, the Ramjet takes up oxygen from the atmosphere during flight. Officially, the technology is being developed to power future Indian air-to-air missiles. However, the technology can also be applied to surface-to-air missiles. In its current form, the SFDR-based missile must first be boosted into a high-altitude trajectory to simulate aircraft-launch conditions. Subsequently, the nozzle-less"}, {"text": "booster fires up and guides the missile through its desired trajectory. Development. The development of the SFDR started in 2013 and envisaged a five-year deadline to begin actual demonstrations. The missile is being developed primarily by the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) and Research Centre Imarat (RCI) in Hyderabad. High Energy Material Research Laboratory (HEMRL) developed the nozzle-less booster while the ramjet engine is being developed with Russian assistance. Ground-based testing of the missile started in 2017. As of 2023, the SFDR is among 55 high priority DRDO projects that have failed to meet project deadlines."}, {"text": "Elenor \"Sissy\" Thurman (March 29, 1934 \u2013 October 2, 1968), is a National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame 1975 inductee. She was also inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1978. Life. Elenor Sissy Thurman was born Eleanor Marie Regini in Galveston, Texas, on March 29, 1934. She was married to Doug Thurman until her death. She started riding horses at age five. She competed in her first barrel race at 11. Thurman was a rodeo queen at some nearby rodeo and stock shows. Prior to starting down the rodeo path, she was a tap dancer. She also taught tap dancing. Career. In her time, Thurman was one of the top-ranked and fastest barrel racers in the country. She set the fastest time at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) and held that record for a time. She held barrel racing clinics and held the position of barrel racing director in the Girl's Rodeo Association (the predecessor to the Women's Professional Rodeo Association). The GRA was founded in 1948. The foundation occurred one year after the first all-girls rodeo, which took place in Amarillo, Texas. She took advantage of her barrel racing experience while she was director"}, {"text": "to further develop opportunities for all who followed her footsteps. Thurman first competed in the time when barrel racing was a 1940s-era \"paid performance\" of \"ranch girls\" event. But as her career evolved, the sport developed into true competition that established itself as a real rodeo event. By 1968, Thurman was a nine-time qualifier of the NFR and was ranked second in the World Standings heading into that year's NFR. Death. In 1968, Thurman accepted a ride from another rodeo family, last name Lewis. Among them was Ann Lewis, the leading barrel racer in the GRA standings. They were headed Thurman's way from a performance in Little Rock, Arkansas, to rodeo slack in Waco, Texas. On October 2, at 1:15 a.m, the Lewis vehicle slammed into an overturned 18-wheeler. The wreck killed Thurman, Ann Lewis, Lewis' twin sister Jan, their mother Rose, and two barrel racing horses."}, {"text": "Diagnosis is an extended play (EP) by British rock band the Wildhearts. Recorded at Treehouse Studio in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, it was produced by Jim Pinder and released on 4 October 2019 by Graphite Records. The EP features five new recordings alongside title track \"Diagnosis\", which is taken from the band's ninth studio album \"Renaissance Men\", released earlier in 2019. \"Diagnosis\" reached number 25 on the UK Albums Chart and number 9 on the Scottish Albums Chart. Background. Following the release of their ninth studio album \"Renaissance Men\", the Wildhearts announced that they would be releasing the \"mini-album\" \"Diagnosis\", featuring the track of the same name alongside five new tracks. Physical editions of the album feature an inner sleeve comic strip illustrated by Hunt Emerson, with whom the band had worked on the artwork of their 1993 debut album \"Earth vs the Wildhearts\". The EP was promoted on the Renaissance Men Tour Part 2, beginning the day after its release. Recordings from this tour were featured on the 2020 live album \"30 Year Itch\". Reception. Commercial. \"Diagnosis\" registered at number 25 on the UK Albums Chart. It also reached number 2 on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart, number 4"}, {"text": "on the UK Independent Albums Chart, number 6 on the UK Vinyl Albums Chart, number 9 on the Scottish Albums, and number 11 on the UK Album Downloads Chart. Critical. Reviewing the EP for \"Classic Rock\" magazine, Essi Berelin described \"Diagnosis\" as \"a second wave of joyous noise\" following the release of \"Renaissance Men\" earlier in the year. Berelin noted that the five new tracks are \"almost all cut from the same sonic cloth as \"Renaissance Men\", though crushing closer \"LOCAC\" could easily be a lost effort from \"Endless, Nameless\"\". In the same publication's review of \"Renaissance Men\", Neil Jeffries selected \"Diagnosis\" as the best song on the album. Personnel. The Wildhearts Additional musicians Additional personnel"}, {"text": "Ninetta is a diminutive form of Antonietta and Antonetta in use in Italy. Notable people with this name include the following:"}, {"text": "A statue of Daniel Webster (sometimes called Daniel Webster) by Hiram Powers is installed outside the Massachusetts State House, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Description and history. Funded by the Webster Memorial Committee, the 1858 bronze sculpture rests on a granite base, and was installed in 1859. The memorial was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1994. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, police closed the gates to the State House lawn, cutting off public access to several of the statues, including Webster, Anne Hutchinson, John F. Kennedy, Henry Cabot Lodge and Horace Mann. These statues are still visible at a distance from the Beacon Street sidewalk, through a fence. Only the equestrian statue of Joseph Hooker and the statue of Mary Dyer remained open to close public inspection, as they are located in the pedestrian plaza of the building's main public entrance. \"I understand why the gates are shut, and I'm not going to question any security measures,\" said Susan Greendyke Lachevre, art collections manager for the Massachusetts Art Commission at the State House, in \"The Boston Globe\" in 2006. \"But the monuments were made for the public. It is a shame"}, {"text": "that the public can't get any closer to them.\" Public access to the Kennedy statue was restored in 2015, by allowing State House visitors, after clearing the security checkpoint, to exit the building at a nearby door staffed by security officers. This access is limited to weekdays during business hours in spring and summer. Visitors are still not allowed full access to the State House lawn and the other statues."}, {"text": "Barbara Walker Crossing is a footbridge carrying the Wildwood Trail across West Burnside Street to connect Portland, Oregon's Forest Park and Washington Park. Description. Barbara Walker Crossing is a steel footbridge connecting Forest Park and Washington Park, carrying the Wildwood Trail across West Burnside Street. The bridge was designed by Ed Carpenter and named for Barbara Walker, a parks advocate who died in 2014. It cost $4.05 million to construct, with 63 percent of the cost covered by private donations and the remaining $1.3 million from the city government's general fund. The bridge was designed to carry 50 tons, with a 74-ton maximum load. The bridge was built for the Portland Parks Foundation, before ownership was transferred to Portland Parks & Recreation. Joseph Gallivan of the \"Portland Tribune\" described the bridge as \"striking for its green spikes, which vaguely resemble ferns or evergreen needles.\" History. Various groups worked toward the goal of building a bridge, initially known as the Wildwood Trail bridge, across Burnside Street for approximately 30 years. Stakeholders sought to create \"a safe, continuous, delicate, iconic bridge that fits the site aesthetic, which could be constructed off-site, installed with minimal disruption, and prove cost-effective\". Carpenter worked with Portland's"}, {"text": "KPFF Consulting Engineers, who confirmed that a single piling was sufficient to support the bridge. R&H Construction was hired for installation, and the Portland Bureau of Transportation ensured that permit procedures were followed. Construction. The bridge was constructed at Supreme Steel in Portland's Parkrose neighborhood. It was separated into three pieces before being transported to the installation site over five days. The three pieces, south to north, weighed 10, 5.5, and 8 tons, respectively. The street was closed for two days during installation. One project manager for R&H Construction described the challenges of the bridge's installation: A tight worksite with heavy traffic that doesn't always obey the posted reduced speed limits around the construction site. Also, working with large bridge sections that are not only in a 'V' shape, but also on a 150-degree radius, requires extensive preplanning in order to erect each section safely. The bridge was installed in October 2019, and a grand opening ceremony was held on October 27. It is expected to be used by 80,000 people annually."}, {"text": "George N. Hembree (1893 \u2013 May 17, 1945) was an American football, basketball and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Eastern Kentucky University from 1920 to 1929 He also served as EKU's head men's basketball coach and baseball coach, in addition to being a faculty member. A major in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, Hembree died after being hit by a truck in May 1945."}, {"text": "Jaime Abdul Guti\u00e9rrez Avenda\u00f1o (5 April 1936 \u2013 9 August 2012) was a Salvadoran military officer, statesman, and engineer. He served as the chairman of the Revolutionary Government Junta (JRG) in 1980 and as the vice president of the JRG from 1980 to 1982. He also served as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of El Salvador (FAES) from 1980 to 1982. Guti\u00e9rrez enrolled in the Captain General Gerardo Barrios Military School in 1954 and became an officer in the Salvadoran Army three years later. He took part in the Football War against Honduras in July 1969. Guti\u00e9rrez was one of the leaders of the 1979 Salvadoran coup d'\u00e9tat which overthrew President General Carlos Humberto Romero and ended 48 years of military dictatorship in El Salvador. Guti\u00e9rrez became a member of the JRG which was established in the aftermath of the coup. He struggled for power and influence within the JRG with Colonel Adolfo Arnoldo Majano\u2014the JRG's chairman and commander-in-chief of the armed forces\u2014throughout 1979 and 1980. This power struggle ended with Guti\u00e9rrez succeeding Majano as chairman and commander-in-chief in May 1980 and Majano's ultimate removal from the JRG in December 1980. Guti\u00e9rrez was the only member of the JRG"}, {"text": "to serve throughout its entire existence from 1979 to 1982. His membership of the JRG spanned the early years of the Salvadoran Civil War. Early life. Jaime Abdul Guti\u00e9rrez Avenda\u00f1o was born in Sonsonate, El Salvador on 5 April 1936. His father worked for the Public Property Registry while his mother was a professor. Guti\u00e9rrez was orphaned at the age of 4, after which, he was raised by his grandparents. Military career. Guti\u00e9rrez enrolled at the Captain General Gerardo Barrios Military School in 1954; he graduated in 1957. After graduating, he entered the Salvadoran Army and was given the command of a section of the Fifth Infantry Regiment which was stationed in Santa Ana. In 1962, Guti\u00e9rrez enrolled at the of Mexico where he graduated in 1968 with a degree in industrial engineering. In July 1969, Guti\u00e9rrez returned to El Salvador and took part in Football War with neighboring Honduras. After the war, Guti\u00e9rrez continued his engineering studies in South Korea. He began working for the National Communications Administration (ANTEL) as its planning director in 1973. In 1974, Guti\u00e9rrez served as the director of the national telephone company. In 1978, Guti\u00e9rrez was appointed as an executive of the army's maintenance"}, {"text": "department and logistics center; six months later in 1979, he was appointed as its the commander of the maintenance department. Revolutionary Government of the Junta. 1979 coup d'\u00e9tat. Following the overthrow of Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in July 1979, some Salvadoran military officers feared that left-wing groups in El Salvador would seek to emulate the FSLN's success. Guti\u00e9rrez joined a junior officers' military clique known as the Military Youth (\"\") and plotted to overthrow Romero in order to prevent a leftist revolution. On 15 October 1979, the Military Youth staged a coup d'\u00e9tat against Romero's government, during which, Guti\u00e9rrez organized the capture of the San Carlos barracks in San Salvador, the country's capital city. The coup succeeded and Romero was forced to flee the country. The coup ended 48 years of military dictatorship in El Salvador. The military officers who organized the coup promised to prevent \"another Nicaragua\" and sought to fix the country's economic problems. They established the Revolutionary Government Junta (JRG) as a joint civilian-military government to rule El Salvador. The JRG consisted of three civilians\u2014Mario Antonio Andino, the vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of El"}, {"text": "Salvador, Rom\u00e1n Mayorga Quir\u00f3s, a member of the Central American University, and Guillermo Ungo, a democratic socialist politician\u2014and two military officers\u2014Guti\u00e9rrez and Colonel Adolfo Arnoldo Majano, the latter of whom served as the JRG's chairman. Power struggle within the JRG. Although both Guti\u00e9rrez and Majano both represented the military, they represented and were supported by different sectors within the military; Guti\u00e9rrez was supported by conservatives and the oligarchy while Majano was supported by moderates and reformists. Both men supported implementing social, economic, and land reforms in order to rally support from the country's peasants away from left-wing groups promising the same reforms. Despite this, Guti\u00e9rrez and defense minister Jos\u00e9 Guillermo Garc\u00eda sought to undermine Majano's influence in the JRG by denying his supporters important government positions and rank promotions; Guti\u00e9rrez and Garc\u00eda believed that Majano was giving too many concessions to leftists. On 2 May 1980, Majano unilaterally ordered the arrest of Major Roberto D'Aubuisson for attempting to stage a coup d'\u00e9tat against the JRG. Majano's arrest order caused controversy within the military. Many officers believed that Majano was causing internal division within the officer ranks for not consulting with other high ranking officers, especially Guti\u00e9rrez, prior to issuing the"}, {"text": "order. Majano's supporters argued that he outranked Guti\u00e9rrez, as Majano was a (\"the arms\") officer while Guti\u00e9rrez was a (\"the services\") officer. As such, Majano's supported argued that he did not have to consult Guti\u00e9rrez before issuing the arrest order as Majano outranked Guti\u00e9rrez. D'Aubuisson was eventually released without charge. On 12 May 1980, the country's military officers met in San Salvador in order to \"put an end to the duality in the leadership of the military institute command\" (\"\") between Guti\u00e9rrez and Majano. The final vote tallied 310 votes for Guti\u00e9rrez to 201 votes for Majano; Guti\u00e9rrez subsequently succeeded Majano as both chairman of the JRG and commander-in-chief of the armed forces and Majano's influence within the JRG was curbed. Majano was ultimately removed from the JRG on 13 December amidst allegations that he had joined the leftist rebels. After Majano was removed from the JRG, the junta reorganized itself. Jos\u00e9 Napole\u00f3n Duarte, a member of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), was appointed as the JRG's president while Guti\u00e9rrez was appointed as its vice president; Guti\u00e9rrez retained his position as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Guti\u00e9rrez was the only member of the JRG who would interact with the armed"}, {"text": "forces, however, he was not granted executive authority over the armed forces. Guti\u00e9rrez was unable to assign military officers to positions, instead, he had to cooperate with the ministry of defense. When Guti\u00e9rrez assumed the role of commander-in-chief of the armed forces, he held the rank of colonel but he was ineligible to be promoted to the rank of general due to him not meeting the service time requirement at the time. In November 1981, Duarte passed a law which changed the requirements for rank promotion within the armed forces. Guti\u00e9rrez was subsequently promoted to the rank of general on 31 December 1981 as a result of the law change. Civil war. Although the 1979 coup was organized in order to prevent a left-wing revolution in El Salvador, it led to the outbreak of the Salvadoran Civil War between the Salvadoran government and left-wing rebel groups. On 10 October 1980, five left-wing rebel groups formed the Farabundo Mart\u00ed National Liberation Front (FMLN), a guerrilla coalition unifying the country's left-wing groups against the JRG. In January 1981, the FMLN launched the final offensive of 1981, a military offensive against the JRG. Prior to the final offensive, several High Command General Staff"}, {"text": "members, including Guti\u00e9rrez, placed the military in a \"state of alert\" in anticipation of such a military offensive; a national curfew was implemented the day the offensive began. Although the final offensive ultimately ended in an FMLN failure, but it did establish the group as a competent guerrilla opposition to the JRG. On 15 October 1981, the second anniversary of the 1979 coup, the FMLN attacked and bombed the Bridge of Gold, one of only two bridges crossing the Lempa River. The Salvadoran government considered the Bridge of Gold to be the most important bridge in the country due to the amount of commercial traffic crossing over it every day. At a rally celebrating the coup's anniversary, Guti\u00e9rrez denounced the bombing as a \"criminal act [...] directed at the Salvadoran people\" and claimed that it was conducted by \"foreign saboteurs\". Despite his denouncement, Guti\u00e9rrez announced the end of the curfew implemented in January 1981 in order to influence the political climate prior to legislative elections scheduled to be held in March 1982. Transfer of power. In the 1982 legislative election, the PDC won a plurality of seats in the Legislative Assembly, but did not reach a majority. Instead, a right-wing"}, {"text": "coalition consisting of the National Conciliation Part (PCN), the party of the former military dictatorship since 1961, and Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), the party founded by D'Aubuisson in 1981, won a majority. ARENA and the PCN elected D'Aubuisson as the president of the Legislative Assembly. D'Aubuisson was also likely to be elected as president of El Salvador, but after lobbying from the United States due to D'Aubuisson's affiliation with far-right death squads, the Legislative Assembly elected independent candidate \u00c1lvaro Maga\u00f1a as the country's president. Maga\u00f1a assumed office as president of El Salvador on 2 May 1982 and the JRG was dissolved in a peaceful transfer of power when all its members, including Guti\u00e9rrez, resigned. Guti\u00e9rrez was the only person to serve as a member of the JRG throughout its entire existence. Retirement. Guti\u00e9rrez resigned as commander-in-chief of the army on 18 May 1982. He relinquished the position to Maga\u00f1a as El Salvador's constitution mandated that the country's president would also be the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Colonel Rafael Flores Lima, who announced Guti\u00e9rrez's resignation at a press conference, elaborated that it was \"not possible\" for both Maga\u00f1a and Guti\u00e9rrez to be commander-in-chief. Guti\u00e9rrez briefly remained on active duty after"}, {"text": "his resignation before withdrawing from active service entirely sometime before April 1984. He became the president of ANTEL and the chairman of the Executive Commission of the Hydroelectric Complex on the Lempa River (CEL) sometime before 1984. After the FMLN briefly captured and damaged the Cerr\u00f3n Grande Dam in June 1984, Guti\u00e9rrez estimated that repairs would take around one month and that the government would have to spend up to US$80,000 per day to make up for lost energy production. In November 1984, Guti\u00e9rrez told \"The New York Times\" that he believed that both the far-right and far-left in El Salvador both sought to overthrow the JRG to prevent reforms but for different reasons: the right wanted to stop the reforms all together while the left wanted to overthrow the reforms to implement socialism. Death. Guti\u00e9rrez died on 9 August 2012 at the age of 76 at his home in La Libertad. He died following a prolonged illness. He was buried the following day at the Montelena Funerary Complex in Antiguo Cuscatl\u00e1n. Legacy. Guti\u00e9rrez is a controversial figure in El Salvador. Some consider him to have been a dictator and conductor of state terror, while others consider him an honest"}, {"text": "military man who \"did not sit down at the negotiating table with criminals\" and provided stability to the country. His participation in the 1979 coup is also debated: one view is he helped end the bloody dictatorship of Romero, another accuses him of removing a regime that had ensured stability since 1962. In 1982, a senior United States diplomat described Guti\u00e9rrez as a \"true patriot\". While giving testimony in 2021 regarding the events of the 1981 El Mozote massacre, General Juan Rafael Bustillo\u2014the commander of the Salvadoran Air Force for most of the civil war\u2014stated that he did not believe that Guti\u00e9rrez had any role in the massacre's occurrence. Bustillo added that while Guti\u00e9rrez and the military's high command may have known about potential \"consequences\" (\"\") following military operations, they would have found out about atrocities through media coverage. The General and Engineer Jaime Abdul Guti\u00e9rrez National Institution located in Sonsonate is named after Guti\u00e9rrez. Published works. Guti\u00e9rrez authored one book, \"Witness and Actor\", which was posthumously published in 2013. The book, which was presented by members of Guti\u00e9rrez's family in August 2013, recounts his testimony about his tenure as a member of the JRG."}, {"text": "Wendell Davis (born October 24, 1975) is a former American football tight end and fullback. He played college football at Temple. Professionally, he played for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL) and Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League. After his playing career, Davis was an assistant coach for various college and NFL Europe teams for eight years. Early life and college career. Born in Escatawpa, Mississippi, Davis attended Moss Point High School in Moss Point, Mississippi. He began his college football career at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in 1994 and 1995, earning all-state honors both seasons. He transferred to Temple University and played for the Temple Owls in 1996 and 1997. With 11 starts, Davis had 19 receptions for 231 yards and two touchdowns for Temple. Professional football career. Following the 1998 NFL draft, Davis signed with the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent on April 20, 1998. In what would be his only season playing in the NFL, Davis played in 11 games with seven starts for the Chargers, making four receptions for 23 yards. Davis moved to fullback in 1999. The Chargers waived Davis on September 9, 1999, days before"}, {"text": "the regular season began, to free a roster spot for wide receiver Chris Penn. In the spring of 2000, Davis signed with the Rhein Fire of NFL Europe. However, due to turf toe, he did not play in any games and was released three games into the season. Davis later signed with the San Diego Chargers on May 9, 2000. The Chargers released Davis on August 26, 2000, prior to the regular season. On August 15, 2001, Davis signed again with the Chargers. He was released 12 days later. In 2002, Davis played in 11 games for the Edmonton Eskimos at fullback. He had nine receptions for 64 yards, 23 carries for 97 yards and two touchdowns, three kick returns for 32 yards, and six tackles. Coaching career. Davis began his coaching career as running backs coach at Christopher Newport, an NCAA Division III school, working in that position in 2004 and 2005. In the 2005 and 2006 seasons, Davis was also running backs coach for the Amsterdam Admirals of NFL Europe. In 2007, Davis was tight ends coach for the Cologne Centurions in what was NFL Europe's final year of operation. Returning to the college level, Davis was wide"}, {"text": "receivers coach at Gannon in 2008. He returned to Christopher Newport as running backs coach for the 2010 and 2011 seasons."}, {"text": "The Tulsa Club Building is an 11-story structure that stands on the northwest corner of Cincinnati Avenue and East Fifth Street, inside the Oil Capital Historic District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Designed by Bruce Goff and constructed in 1927 by the architectural firm Rush, Endacott and Rush, it was a joint venture of the Tulsa Club and the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce. After about 30 years, the Chamber of Commerce vacated its portion of the building, which the Tulsa Club took over. However, the domestic petroleum production industry began to shrink suddenly and sharply, cutting into the club's clientele and revenue. It vacated the entire building and went out of business in 1994. For nearly 20 years the building remained vacant, occupied mainly by squatters and vandals. Extensive damage was caused during this time. A few developers thought they could rehabilitate the structure, but found that it would cost more than they could afford. In 2014 the Ross Group, a company with experience and adequate financial backing from rehabilitating other historic structures, bought the derelict structure and began to turn it into a boutique hotel. The building reopened as the Tulsa Club Hotel in April 2019 as an affiliate"}, {"text": "of the Curio Collection by Hilton, a chain of boutique hotels. The cost of the renovation was reported to be $36 million. Building history. Initially, the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce owned 40 percent of the building and the club owned 60 percent. The Chamber of Commerce and other organizations used the lower five floors, while the Tulsa Club occupied the top six floors and a roof garden, which was the site of the inaugural meeting of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA), now the Barbershop Harmony Society, in April 1938. The club's portion included large and small dining rooms, a gymnasium, barber shop, and dorm-style rooms for overnight guests. The Grand Ballroom occupied the top floor and was named the Sky Terrace. The Chamber of Commerce sold its section of the building to the Tulsa Club in 1966, replacing it with a new building on Boston Avenue for itself. The club continued operating the building until 1994, when it abandoned the structure. By then, the oil business had changed dramatically, shifting its focus to domestic operations in Houston and international operations in New York City. There was a sequence of real"}, {"text": "estate promoters and developers who bought the structure and described lofty visions for its renewal. The first developer was C. J. Moroney, a California investor who bought the building in 1997. Moroney soon stopped paying taxes on the property. In 1998, after multiple fires and an invasion by squatters, Tulsa declared the building a public nuisance and began billing Moroney for a fine of $1,000 per day pending the building's being brought up to code. When the unpaid fines reached $230,000, the city began foreclosure on the building. During this period, the building survived three significant fires during a two-week period in April 2010, with another large blaze occurring that October. Vandals stripped out everything of value and covered most of the interior walls with graffiti. Many of the ceilings had significant water damage, caused either by rain blowing through broken windows or by fire fighting efforts. The city received no acceptable bids from prospective redevelopers, so it scheduled the dilapidated structure for auction at a sheriff's fire sale. In April 2013, local businessman Josh Barrett bought the almost-ruined property and announced his own restoration plan, describing a 98-room boutique hotel on floors 1 through 8, retail space and a"}, {"text": "restaurant on the ground floor, and a bar and restaurant on the 11th floor. Updated cost estimates for the repair and restoration work apparently were well above Barrett's capabilities, so in July 2014 Barrett put the building up for sale at a cost of $1.35 million. In 2015, a developer known as the Ross Group bought the structure and took charge of the restoration project, planning to repurpose the building into a boutique hotel. The \"Tulsa World\" reported that in 2015, the Ross Group had initially estimated that its own renovation project would cost $24 million. That year, Promise Hotels bought into the project as an equity partner with Ross. By 2018, the estimate had risen to $33 million, with a final cost of $36 million when renovations ended the following year. Building details. The building was originally constructed with a steel structure, which was then clad in Bedford limestone, laid in a vertical zigzag, Art Deco style. Steel casement windows that opened outward were aligned between pylons of stone to form a vertical stripe design extending the height of the building. The eleventh floor was set back from the main facade, creating a three-sided roof terrace called the \"Sky"}, {"text": "Terrace\". The entry doors faced Fifth Avenue, which slopes downward from Boston Avenue east to Cincinnati Avenue. One entrance was on the ground level, while another entrance, near the western end of the south wall, opened onto the second floor. The second-floor lobby had a combination concierge and reception desk, where visitors could check their coats and briefcases. Then there were three passenger elevators and one service elevator, with human operators. Other major changes to the building during the Tulsa Club's tenure include the installation of an elevator at its east end, the construction of a sky bridge across the alley to the Philtower Building on the west side, and a parking garage on the adjacent lot to the north, with its own entrance to the Tulsa Club. Project completion. When it opened formally on April 18, 2019, the 96-room Tulsa Club Hotel offered more than 7,000 square feet of meeting space, including a ninth-floor ballroom for up to 400 guests, a rooftop meeting space, and a fine dining restaurant, \"Le Caveau\", overlooking the Deco District. Pete Patel, the CEO and president of Promise Hotels, said the final cost of the project was $36 million. He was also quoted as"}, {"text": "saying that it was \"the most expensive hotel in Tulsa, if not in Oklahoma.\" Hilton added the Tulsa Club Hotel to its Curio Collection by Hilton brand. Other. The hotel was a member of the Historic Hotels of America but in 2022 is no longer listed."}, {"text": "Eleonora Patacchini is an economist specializing in applied economics and applied statistics who grew up in Italy with her mother who was also a professor. She is a professor and associate department chair at Cornell University in the Department of Economics. Her research focuses on the empirical analysis of behavioral models of strategic interactions for decision making. Patacchini is an associate editor at Journal of Urban Economics and Statistical Methods & Applications. She is a columnist at the \"VOX CEPR Policy Portal\" where research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists are published frequently. She is also a co-editor of \"E-journal Economics\" and associate editor of the \"Journal of Urban Economics\". Education. Patacchini studied at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in the field of sciences. She went on to pursue a Master of Science in economics at the University Pompeu Fabra in Spain, after which point she returned to Italy to complete her Ph.D. in statistics in 2003 at the Sapienza University of Rome. Patacchini then pursued her second Ph.D. in the field of economics at the University of Southampton. Selected journal publications. \"Mothers, Peers, and Gender-Role Identity\" in the"}, {"text": "Journal of the European Economic Association and \"Social Networks in Policy Making\" in the Annual Review of Economics. Patacchini's research primarily focuses on behavioral economics where an individual's behavior is influenced by the immediate social contacts or circle, particularly the role of women in economy. Her work also explores the labor market impacts through the dimensions within families and social circles such as friendships and other relationships. Her work has also focused on the cultural norms that shapes decision making in the context of women in the workforce and the role of social connections and/or relationships in legislatures, especially the US Congress and how it influences policy making. \"Self-control and peer groups: An empirical analysis\" in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Patacchini has conducted an empirical analysis with Marco Battaglini and Carlos D\u00edaz on self-control and peer groups, where they found evidence consistent with the two key predictions of this theory regarding the relationship between an agent's expected level of self-control and the size and composition of his or her social circles: (i) students embedded in social circles have more self-control than those who are alone and their self-control is increasing in the size of their social group;"}, {"text": "(ii) students\u2019 self-control is, however, a non-monotonic hump-shaped function of the average self-control of their friends. \"Treatment Effects With Heterogeneous Externalities\" in the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics In this article, Tiziano Arduini, Eleonora Patacchini and Edoardo Rainone propose a new method for estimating heterogeneous externalities in policy analysis when social interactions take the linear-in-means form. They establish that the parameters of interest can be identified and consistently estimated using specific functions of the share of the eligible population. Conditional cash transfers, or similar welfare programs, generate indirect effects on untreated subjects in the presence of social interactions. The analysis of heterogeneous indirect effects is complicated because of simultaneity issues arising from social interactions. Research interests. Patacchini has described her research interests as \"My strategy is to develop sound econometrics techniques, together with a theoretical model that can guide the interpretation of the results. My papers acquire different connotations according to the definition of space considered, i.e., according to the sources of interdependence between economic agents. In my research I use three main qualifications of the spatial dimension: (i) social networks; (ii) residential location; (iii) culture.\" Conferences and organizations. She is a program committee member at the European Economic"}, {"text": "Association (EEA) annual congress, European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, and Econometric Society European Meeting. She has also been on the panel for conferences of The Economics of Coordination and Communication: Theory and Empirics, Economics of Interactions and Culture, and International Trade and Finance. Affiliations. Research Affiliate at EIEF, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy Research Fellow at CEPR, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Public Policy programme Research Affiliates at CEPR, International Trade and Regional Economics programme Research Fellow at IZA, Institute for the Study of Labor Research Fellow at CeLEG, Center for Labor and Economic Growth, and at Luiss Lab of European Economics, L.U.I.S.S. Guido Carli University"}, {"text": "\"Lights Up\" is a song by English singer-songwriter Harry Styles from his second studio album \"Fine Line\" (2019). It was written by Styles alongside its producers Tyler Johnson and Kid Harpoon. Erskine Records and Columbia Records released the song for digital download and streaming on 11 October 2019 as the album's lead single. Musically, \"Lights Up\" is a pop and R&B song, featuring multilayered guitars, piano, programmed beats, and a gospel choir. Conceived by Styles after a period of self-reflection, the lyrics are about self-discovery and him embracing his own identity. Critics found Styles's musical direction refreshing and commented on the song's unconventional structure which is composed of several breakdown pre-choruses and post-choruses, and a single chorus. A few others criticised the song as forgettable. In the UK, the single reached number three on the UK Singles Chart and was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). It also peaked in the top 20 and received Platinum certifications in Australia, Canada, and the US. Vincent Haycock directed the song's music video, which features Styles dancing shirtless in a sweat-drenched crowd of people. Writing and production. Formerly a member of the boy band One Direction, Harry Styles emerged as a"}, {"text": "solo artist in 2017 with his self-titled debut studio album, which heavily incorporated a 1970s rock-influenced sound. During an interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music, Styles admitted that he was stressed while making his debut album. He said: \"When I listen to the first album now, I can hear all of the places where I feel like I was playing it safe, because I just didn't want to get it wrong\". He disliked feeling obligated to create a record to appease the listeners and decided to be \"more fun and adventurous\" with his next project. For his second album \"Fine Line\", released in 2019, Styles enlisted producers Tyler Johnson and Kid Harpoon, with whom he had worked on his debut album. A pop rock record encompassing power pop, folk rock, psychedelic pop, and funk influences, \"Fine Line\" turned out to be more experimental than his debut album, according to \"Vox\"s Alexa Lee. The song \"Lights Up\" has a more pop-like sound than the songs on \"Harry Styles\". While talking to \"Rolling Stone\" magazine, Styles said that \"Lights Up\" was created after \"a long period of self-reflection, self-acceptance\". It was conceived during songwriting sessions for the album in the first"}, {"text": "quarter of 2019. Styles wrote the song with Johnson and Harpoon, who is credited under his birth name Thomas Hull in the liner notes. Production was handled by all the songwriters except Styles. The recording took place in The Cave Studio in Nashville, EastWest Studios in Los Angeles, and Henson Recording in Hollywood. Johnson programmed the track and played drums, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, and keyboards; Harpoon also played electric guitar and provided additional production while Ivan Jackson played the horns. Johnson, Jeremy Hatcher, Nick Lobel, and Sammy Witte engineered the song with Matt Tuggle and Matt Wallick. Jon Castelli mixed it with help from Ingmar Carlson at The Gift Shop in Los Angeles. Randy Merrill mastered it at Sterling Sound Studios in Edgewater, New Jersey. Music and lyrics. \"Lights Up\" is a pop and R&B song, with a length of two minutes and 52 seconds. Critic Jon Caramanica of \"The New York Times\" characterised its sound as \"somewhere between '70s soft rock, lite disco and indie pop\". Along with these, \"NME\"s Hannah Mylrea noted soul influences in the song. The track incorporates multilayered guitars, piano, and programmed beats with a supple bassline. The refrain is accompanied by a gospel"}, {"text": "choir. \"The Independent\"s Roisin O'Connor said the track has \"California Dreamin' vibes and psychedelic grooves. \"Slate\" writer Chris Molanphy described the song as \"lightly strummed beach music with ethereal backing vocals\". \"Lights Up\" eschews traditional song structures and is composed of several breakdown pre-choruses and post-choruses, and a single chorus. The song opens with a 17-second instrumental introduction, which is followed by a beat at 00:19 and then the track's opening verse. A guitar-driven pitch drift takes place at 00:28, and is accompanied by Styles's tightly tuned vocals. His voice is distorted in the pre-chorus. The central chorus, which begins at 1:18, is uptempo and uses a repeating lead-vocal melody and lyric; it is led by a backing-vocal refrain that begins with \"Shine\". The track reaches a crescendo shortly before the outro. The song uses a layered vocal texture with a doubling of vocal lines at the upper and lower octaves. O'Connor described Styles's vocals as \"surprisingly airy\", which she said contrast with his \"sharper delivery\" in his earlier work. Critics from \"Billboard\", \"The Guardian\", MTV News, and \"The New York Times\" compared the song's musical style to that of the psychedelic music group Tame Impala, while those from \"NME\""}, {"text": "and \"Variety\" said that it sounded like the early works of the R&B-pop singer Justin Timberlake. The lyrics of \"Lights Up\" discuss self-discovery and self-acceptance. Some critics thought the song was a commentary on Styles's fame. In the song, Styles embraces his own identity, singing \"Lights up and they know who you are / Know who you are / Do you know who you are?\" The lyrics in the refrain have a personal revelation from him: \"Step into the light ... I'm not ever going back\". According to Laura Snapes of \"The Guardian\", he talks through a \"conflicted inner monologue\" and the lyrics find \"him and a former partner talking at cross-purposes around the void of a relationship\". \"Now\" writer Rea McNamara said that the song was \"an all-too-brief ode to self-love and letting go\", and in the words of \"Vulture\" critic Craig Jenkins, it is about \"piercing the darkness in our hearts with radiant light\". \"Tallahassee Democrat\"s Jia Alonso and \"The Washington Post\"s Anying Guo associated the song's lyrics to be vaguely about Styles's sexuality. Editorials reviews by \"Paper\" and \"Time\" noted a melancholic edge to the lyrics. Release and promotion. Prior to the release of \"Lights Up\", Styles"}, {"text": "launched a campaign on 10 October 2019, World Mental Health Day. Billboards bearing the Columbia Records logo and the caption \"Do You Know Who You Are?\", were erected in London and New York. The billboards also bore the acronym \"TPWK\" (Treat People with Kindness), a phrase that had earlier been used on the merchandise of . The caption was later revealed as the title of the song \"Treat People with Kindness\" from the album \"Fine Line\". A website titled with the same phrase was also set up; it offered compliments to users who entered their names into it. Styles announced the title of the single on his Instagram account with a photo of himself. Erskine Records and Columbia Records released \"Lights Up\" for digital download and streaming on 11 October 2019 in various countries as the lead single from his second album \"Fine Line\". The same day, the song was added to a BBC Radio 1 playlist, and contemporary hit radio stations in Australia and Italy. A limited-edition 7-inch single containing a new track called \"Do You Know Who You Are? (Locked Groove)\" on the B-side was issued worldwide in early 2020. On 16 November 2019, Styles delivered his first"}, {"text": "performance of \"Lights Up\" on \"Saturday Night Live\", along with \"Watermelon Sugar\". For the performance, he rendered \"Lights Up\" in a stripped-down, R&B style; he was accompanied by a trumpeter, backing vocalists, and a live band. Hilary Hughes of \"Billboard\" praised the performance, writing: \"With little more than the piano, an acoustic guitar, a trumpet and the intricate harmonies of his back-up singers, Styles belted every high note and danced to the beat of the song's bridge\". Styles performed the track again on \"Later... with Jools Holland\" on 21 November and at Capital FM's Jingle Bell Ball on 7 December. The song was included on the setlist of his one-night concert at the Forum in Los Angeles on 13 December to promote the release of \"Fine Line\". On 18 December, Styles performed the single on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge segment. On 29 February the following year, he sang it at the Music Hall of Williamsburg for Sirius XM and Pandora's secret session. Critical reception. Some critics commended Styles for experimenting with different styles. \"Time\" and \"Vulture\" named \"Lights Up\" as one of the best songs of its release week. Snapes praised the song's refreshing sound that distinguished Styles from"}, {"text": "his British male contemporaries and from the \"narcotised\" synth-pop-dominated sounds of that year, with \"Time\"s Raisa Bruner regarding it as an example of his versatility. Caramanica described \"Lights Up\" as a generous return to the pop that played to Styles's strengths. \"The Atlantic\"s Spencer Koornhaber said the track rendered the type of eerie yet simple listening territory that had seldom been explored since Donovan's \"Mellow Yellow\". O'Connor called it Styles's most self-confident song yet. To explain this viewpoint, she highlighted that Styles's identity often felt lost in the middle of musical tropes on his debut album. Contrastingly, O'Connor argued that \"Lights Up\" stood out on its own. Critics also commented on the song's unconventional structure and arrangement. According to \"Pitchfork\" writer Anna Gaca, the track was \"designed to wriggle through the strictures of pop songwriting\", and Chris DeVille from \"Stereogum\" claimed that it showed Styles's ability to \"toy around with accessible sounds without descending into the blas\u00e9\". The detailed arrangement of horns, congas, and choir on the song was noted approvingly by \"Clash\" editor Susan Hansen, who selected \"Lights Up\" as the best track on \"Fine Line\" and praised its \"subtle, but acute build up\". In a similar vein, Loiuse"}, {"text": "Bruton from \"The Irish Times\" complimented the song production-wise. \"Variety\"s Chris Willman picked it as one of the \"distinct modern outliers\" on the album, alongside \"Adore You\" and \"Watermelon Sugar\". Andrew Unterberger was more critical in his review for \"Billboard\" in which he singled out the song's direction as deceptive and wrote that the track \"never quite tells you where it's going and then leaves you off somewhere you don't even recognise\". Tim Sendra of AllMusic called the single \"inoffensive and sweet\", saying it was \"only saved from the skip button by the always impressive vocals\". \"Paste\" writer Ellen Johnson dismissed it as not \"necessarily anything special\". Commercial performance. \"Lights Up\" entered and peaked at number three on the 18 October 2019 issue of the UK Singles Chart, Styles's second top-10 entry on the chart after \"Sign of the Times\" (2017). In July 2021, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) certified the song Platinum for 600,000 track-equivalent units. The song reached number four on the Irish Singles Chart, becoming Styles's second Irish top-10 entry. In Australia, the song charted at number seven on the singles chart, and was certified 2\u00d7 Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for sales of"}, {"text": "140,000 equivalent units. The song peaked in the same position in New Zealand and received a double Platinum certification from Recorded Music NZ (RMNZ). In the United States, \"Lights Up\" debuted and peaked at number 17 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart dated 26 October 2019, accumulating 21.5 million streams and 20,000 download sales in its opening week. It was Styles's third Hot 100 chart appearance following \"Sweet Creature\". The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the song double Platinum for track-equivalent sales of two million units. In Canada, \"Lights Up\" peaked at number 14 on the Hot 100 and was certified Platinum by Music Canada. The song reached number three in Lithuania, number four in Greece and Latvia, number six in both Scotland and Slovakia, and number nine in Hungary. It peaked inside the top 20 at number 12 in Iceland, number 14 in Singapore, number 15 in Malaysia and Sweden, number 16 in Austria and Norway, number 20 in Finland; and peaked within the top 40 in Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Switzerland. In Brazil, the single was certified Diamond. Music video. Vincent Haycock directed the music video for \"Lights Up\", which was filmed in"}, {"text": "Cancun, Mexico in August 2019. It premiered on Styles's Vevo account on 11 October 2019, the same day as the song's release. The video shows Styles dancing shirtless at a bacchanal in a crowd of sweat-drenched people of all genders. The dancers drape themselves over him, \"gently jostling and caressing each other\" as he throws his head back in ecstasy. The video switches between scenes of Styles alone and with the dancers. Some scenes show him riding on the back of a motorcycle with outstretched arms, and standing alone in a house. Styles is also seen wading in the sea while bathed in red light and wearing a black, sequined blazer. Later in the video, he stares at his own reflection while being hung upside down. The video ends with an encounter between Styles and some police officers. The visual mostly takes place in darkness with occasional uses of neon red, pastel pink, and blue filters. The video suggests people \"having sex and feeling sad\", which is how Styles described the album to \"Rolling Stone\". Alonso noted swift transitions between every scene in the music video which has Styles as the central point of every location change. Georgia Slater of"}, {"text": "\"People\" said the visual portrays a more emotional side of Styles, with Dylan Kelly from \"V\" calling Styles's \"authentically carefree identity\" in the video \"a celebration of [his] personal journey of self-discovery\". \"W\"s Jocelyn Silver described the visual as \"a steamy, moody, Ryan McGinley-esque piece of work\". \"Rolling Stone\"'s Claire Shaffer placed the video on her list of the best music videos of 2019. Credits and personnel. Credits are adapted from the liner notes of \"Fine Line\"."}, {"text": "The Balaton cherry is a cultivar of sour cherry (\"Prunus cerasus\") native to Hungary, where it was originally named \u00dajfeh\u00e9rt\u00f3i F\u00fcrt\u00f6s. There are also some individual named high-performance clones that have been selected from this genetically more diverse variety, for example the \"Kindelbr\u00fcck\". Balaton was introduced to the United States in the 1980s and is now grown there commercially. Extremely high yields, suitability for mechanical harvesting and positive fruit characteristics make for a commercially interesting crop. The fruit is particularly suitable for the fresh market, but also for processing (which is much more common with sour cherries). Description. Fruits. The Balaton is a Morello-type sour cherry. The fruits ripen in the (seventh) eighth cherry week to a dark burgundy color throughout both the skin and flesh (in contrast to the better-known Montmorency cherry, which has light-colored flesh). They are is resistant to rain-cracking and ship well. With an average height of 16.58 mm, a width of 19.7 mm and a weight of 4.78 grams, they are comparatively small. The stalks, some of which bear tiny leaflets, are 43.26 \u00b1 2.87 mm long and detach from the fruit without injury. The ripe flesh is medium firm, very juicy and only separates"}, {"text": "moderately well from the pit. It has a good sweet-tart flavor with comparatively high sweetness and less acidity. Tree. The trees are very vigorous and develop broad, medium-dense crowns. Susceptibility to Prunus necrotic ringspot virus and Monilia tip drought is low. The glossy dark green foliage appears particularly healthy. Growing characteristics. The Balaton is considered robust and vigorous. It is more sensitive to winter injury than other sour cherry cultivars. It has also suffered from disappointing yield quantity in many years. There is a certain degree of self-fertility, but it appears that yields can be improved by supplementing Balaton trees with pollen from sweet cherry trees. Measured against the best morello selections, the Thuringian top selection of the Balaton (on good soils) can achieve similar yield performance, with better, albeit still insufficient monilia resistance for fungicide-free cultivation. History. The Balaton cultivar was first grown around the small village of \u00dajfeh\u00e9rt\u00f3 in eastern Hungary. The agricultural research institute of the Communist government of post-war Hungary implemented a rigorous selection process to determine the best sour cherry varieties for planting in the nation's collective farms. Samples were collected nationwide, and Balaton emerged as the winner. It was released commercially in Hungary in"}, {"text": "1970. Dr. Amy Iezzoni, a horticultural researcher and cherry breeder at Michigan State University, introduced the cultivar to the United States in 1984. It was released commercially in the United States in 1998. Her Hungarian counterparts wanted the cultivar's commercial name in America to reflect its Hungarian heritage; it was named after Lake Balaton because \"about the only thing an American can pronounce [on a map of Hungary] is Lake Balaton.\" Hungary receives a portion of the royalties charged on each Balaton cherry tree, some of which is shared with the cultivar's home village of \u00dajfeh\u00e9rt\u00f3."}, {"text": "Victor Louis Littig (December 7, 1873 \u2013 July 13, 1936) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of North Dakota in 1900. Littig played college football at the University of Iowa. He served as the first football coach at Davenport High School. In 1916, Littig coach the Davenport Athletic Club team to a 7\u20132\u20131 record despite enduring a player revolt."}, {"text": "Denali Borough School District is a school district headquartered in Healy, Alaska, serving the Denali Borough. As of the 2019\u201320 school year, it enrolls 1,000 students across four schools. Up until the Denali Borough was incorporated in 1990, the district was called the Upper Railbelt Regional Education Attendance Area and comprised the communities Anderson (village), Usibelli, Healy, Cantwell, McKinley Park, and Suntrana. Schools. The district operates three traditional K-12 schools, as well as Denali PEAK Correspondence, a homeschool program open to students from anywhere in the state."}, {"text": "Victoria sur le Parc is a mixed-use skyscraper under construction in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is named for its location just south of Victoria Square in the city's downtown core. When completed in 2023, Victoria sur le Parc became the tallest residential building in Montreal, and tied with the then completed 800 Saint-Jacques Street West as the third tallest building in Montreal. Location. Victoria sur le Parc is located at the corner of Boulevard Robert-Bourassa and Rue Saint-Jacques in the northwest corner of the Cit\u00e9 du Multim\u00e9dia neighbourhood of Montreal. The building is located within 300 metres of Victoria Square, Place Bonaventure, Gare Centrale, and the eastbound entrances to the underground portion of Autoroute 720. History. In January 2018, a 12,541 square metre (135,000 sq ft) site beside the Tour de la Bourse was purchased by real estate developer Broccolini for $100 million, a large portion of which was subsequently sold to National Bank for the development of their new headquarters. The site was formerly occupied by a few low-rise buildings and a parking lot. Construction of Victoria sur le Parc began on 30 April 2019 but was temporarily halted in March 2020 due to public health concerns brought on"}, {"text": "by the COVID-19 pandemic. Construction resumed on May 11 and the building is still expected to be completed by 2023. Design. Victoria sur le Parc will feature a glass-clad exterior and a prominent diamond-shaped roof that slopes down toward the St. Lawrence River, similar to the roof of the Crain Communications Building in Chicago. The building structure is composed of two distinct elements: a 9-storey podium featuring 30,658 square metres of mixed commercial and office space, and a 49-storey residential tower featuring 400 housing units of varying sizes."}, {"text": "Biscayarfonna (\"Biscay glacier\" in Nynorsk) is an ice cap in Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has an elevation of , and is located on the Haakon VII Land peninsula between Raudfjorden in the west and Breibogen bay in the east. This ice cap is named after Biscay in honour of the Basque whalers who hunted at Spitsbergen in the 17th and 18th centuries."}, {"text": "This glossary of agriculture is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in agriculture, its sub-disciplines, and related fields, including horticulture, animal husbandry, agribusiness, and agricultural policy. For other glossaries relevant to agricultural science, see Glossary of biology, Glossary of ecology, Glossary of environmental science, and Glossary of botanical terms."}, {"text": "Eolus Von Rettig (July 6, 1908 \u2013 April 29, 1983) was an American college football and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Texas College in Tyler, Texas from 1936 to 1941, Texas State University for Negroes\u2014now known as Texas Southern University\u2014in Houston from 1946 to 1948, and Wiley College in Marshall, Texas from 1949 to 1951. He later served as an assistant coach at Prairie View A&M University. Career. Rettig played football at Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio as a guard. He served as line coach at Texas College from 1934 to 1935 under Ace Mumford before succeeding Mumford as head football coach in 1936. Rettig also played football at Bishop College in Marshall, Texas in the late 1920s when Mumford was head coach there. Death. Rettig died on April 29, 1983, at St. Paul's Hospital in Dallas."}, {"text": "Gus Van Harten is a professor of Administrative Law at York University's Osgoode Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is co-editor of the journal \"Administrative Law \u2014 Cases and Materials\". He has particular focus on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Early years. Van Harten clerked in the Ontario Court of Appeal and later worked on the Walkerton Inquiry over the two years from 2000, and then the Arar Inquiry for two years from 2004. In academia. Van Harten was a faculty member in the Law Department of the London School of Economics, prior to his appointment at Osgoode Hall in 2008. Van Harten is a critic of the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement."}, {"text": "Bj\u00f8rlykkebreen (Bj\u00f8rlykke Glacier) is a glacier in Albert I Land, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is a tributary of Lilleh\u00f6\u00f6kbreen, and is debouching into the Lillieh\u00f6\u00f6kfjorden. The glacier is named after Norwegian geologist Knut Olai Bj\u00f8rlykke (1860 \u2013 1946) following a proposal in 1912 by Adolf Hoel who had traversed the glacier in 1909 together with Olaf Holtedahl."}, {"text": "Za (majuscule: \u0536; minuscule: \u0566; Armenian: \u0566\u0561) is the sixth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the voiced alveolar sibilant /z/ in both Eastern and Western varieties of Armenian. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of \u27e86\u27e9. Its shape in capital form is similar to the Arabic numeral 2 and two other Armenian letters, Dza \u27e8\u0541\u27e9 and Je \u27e8\u054b\u27e9. Its shape in lowercase form is also similar to the minuscule form of the Latin Q \u27e8q\u27e9, the minuscule form of the Cyrillic letter \u051a \u27e8\u051b\u27e9, and the minuscule form of another Armenian letter, Gim \u27e8\u0563\u27e9."}, {"text": "The 2020 Los Angeles Valiant season was the third season of Los Angeles Valiant's existence in the Overwatch League and their first full season under head coach Mike \"Packing10\" Szklanny. The Valiant planned host two homestand events in the 2020 season at The Novo, but all homestand matches were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On August 22, the Valiant clinched a spot in the season playoffs with a win over the Vancouver Titans. In the first round of the North America bracket, Los Angeles defeated the Florida Mayhem by a score of 3\u20132. The following day, the Valiant were swept by the Philadelphia Fusion in the second round of the upper bracket, sending them to the lower bracket. A 1\u20133 loss to the Washington Justice in the subsequent round eliminated the Valiant from the playoffs. Preceding offseason. Organizational changes. After releasing head coach Moon Byung-chul the previous season, assistant coach Mike \"Packing10\" Szklanny was named the team's interim head coach for the remainder of the season. Packing10 was officially named the team's full-time head coach in early September 2019. The following month, the Valiant added former Boston Uprising assistant coach Jordan \"Gunba\" Graham as an assistant coach. Gunba was"}, {"text": "an assistant coach for the Valiant in 2018. Roster changes. The Valiant enter the new season with no free agents, three players which they have the option to retain for another year, and five 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 Valiant's first acquisitions of the offseason were announced on October 31, with the signings of main tank Song \"Dreamer\" Sang-lok from the Sydney Drop Bears, flex DPS Damon \"Apply\" Conti, support Owen \"Slur\" Warner from Samsung Morning Stars, and support Mun \"Lastro\" Jung-won from Skyfoxes. On January 7, the Valiant revealed two more additions in main tank Rick \"GiG\" Salazar and support Park \"RaiN\" Jae-ho in a skit video for the team's new color scheme. A week later, on January 16, the team announced the signing of damage player Kai \"KSP\" Collins. Departures. The Valiant made their first offseason moves on October 23, releasing DPS Brady \"Agilities\" Girardi, trading off-tank Indy \"SPACE\" Halpern to the Los Angeles Gladiators, and trading flex support Park \"KariV\" Young-seo to the Toronto Defiant. In mid-November, Los"}, {"text": "Angeles announced that they had parted ways with main tank Russell \"FCTFCTN\" Campbell. On December 12, support player Scott \"Custa\" Kennedy announced that he was retiring from professional \"Overwatch\" play to join the Overwatch League as an analyst. Prior to the start of the season, Owen \"Slur\" Warner silently departed with the team after it was revealed that he had previously used a racial slur. He later changed his name to Provide to distance himself from his past."}, {"text": "Landon Fox is an American college football coach. He is the defensive coordinator and safeties coach for the Western Illinois University, positions he has held since 2025. He was the head football coach for Valparaiso University from 2019 to 2024. He also coached for Preble Shawnee High School, Lakeland, Dayton, Ball State, and Wayne State (MI). He played college football for Defiance. During Fox's 13 combined years at Dayton, he served as a graduate assistant, defensive backs coach, and finally as defensive coordinator from 2010 to 2018."}, {"text": "Simonie Michael (; first name also spelled Simonee, alternative surnames Michel or E7-551; March 2, 1933November 15, 2008) was a Canadian politician from the eastern Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) who was the first Inuk elected to a legislature in Canada. Before becoming involved in politics, Michael worked as a carpenter and business owner, and was one of very few translators between Inuktitut and English. He became a prominent member of the Inuit co-operative housing movement and a community activist in Iqaluit, and was appointed to a series of governing bodies, including the precursor to the Iqaluit City Council. After becoming the first elected Inuk member of the Northwest Territories Legislative Council, in 1966, Michael worked on infrastructural and public health initiatives. He is credited with bringing public attention to the dehumanizing effects of the disc number system that was used in place of surnames for Inuit, and with prompting the government to authorise Project Surname to replace the numbers with names. Early life. Michael was born between Kimmirut (then Lake Harbour) and Iqaluit (then Frobisher Bay), and was described as being from Apex, Iqaluit. His step-father, Tigullagaq, worked for the Hudson's Bay Company. While Michael was a child during World"}, {"text": "War II, the United States Army Air Force constructed several air bases around Iqaluit, and employed him in a series of jobs: as a dish washer, cook, stock boy, quartermaster, and later a heavy equipment operator. The military airfield construction would lead to the development of the city of Iqaluit, but it left Michael with several negative impressions. He would later say that the American military did not provide compensation for much of the labour that Inuit workers performed, including three months of work transporting wood. He also recalled that when Inuit residents were relocated to a nearby island to make space for the military construction projects, no means of transportation were given for them to travel between the island and the mainland. Despite the policy of racial separation enforced by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Iqaluit during the 1940s and into the 1950s, Michael was one of the residents who worked in various jobs for the American military, and he was able to learn English through that work. By the time he was 15 or 16 he had become noted for his skill as a translator. He has been described as the only Inuk in Iqaluit who could"}, {"text": "translate between Inuktitut and English in the mid-1950s, though some sources mention other translators around the same time. While working at the American military base, Michael became close friends with Joe Tikivik, who would later become his business partner. Over the following years employees of the Canadian government working in and near Iqaluit sought out Michael because of his knowledge of English, so he had numerous early interactions with the Canadian government. Around the time that Michael began working as a government interpreter he also got married. At the start of the marriage he and his wife lived with her mother and father. Employment and activism. Before his election to the Northwest Territories Legislative Council at the age of 33, Michael worked as a carpenter, and ran a taxi and bus service. Together with Abe Okpik and Joe Tikivik, Michael also founded Inuk Ltd., a cleaning and construction company that at one time had 50 employees. Michael was a prominent activist in Iqaluit. He founded a housing co-operative that built 15 new houses in Iqaluit, at a time when the co-operative housing movement was a major focus of Inuit activism and would quickly become the largest private sector employer of"}, {"text": "Indigenous people. In 1956, Michael and his wife became the first residents of Iqaluit to have an insulated house constructed. Michael was also a sculptor, producing several carvings of animals. Several of his sculptures have been sold at auction, and some of his sculptures have been housed in the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery. Before Michael's candidacy for territory-wide office, Ronald Duffy writes that he already \"had been named to just about every Iqaluit council and board in which Inuit [had] a voice\". This included the municipal council that preceded the Iqaluit City Council. Michael was also one of two Inuuk chosen in 1953 to attend the Coronation of Elizabeth II as representatives of Canada. Campaign and election. Michael was encouraged to run in the 1966 by-election to the Northwest Territories Legislative Council by Stu Hodgson, later the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories. The creation of several new districts, increasing the legislative body up to 13 members, had left three openings for one-year terms to the council without any incumbents. Michael contested the election in the Eastern Arctic district against two non-Inuit candidatesWelland Phipps (\"Weldy\"), the president of Atlas Aviation, and Gordon Rennie, Iqaluit mayor and manager of the Hudson's"}, {"text": "Bay Company storeand he was elected to the 5th Northwest Territories Legislative Council. Michael's election made him the first elected Inuk legislator in a Canadian province or territory, preceding Peter Ittinuar's election as the first Inuk member of the federal government. Some sources have identified Michael as the first elected Aboriginal Canadian, but others had been elected before, such as Frank Calder. Though Michael was Canada's first elected Inuk legislator, he was its second Inuk legislator overall, since Abe Okpik had been appointed to the Northwest Territories Legislative Council in 1965. Legislative career. First speech. Michael's inaugural speech to the Legislative Assembly lasted 90 minutes and was given in Inuktitut. In this inaugural speech, he argued that discriminatory practices remained common in the Northwest Territories, despite the council having passed legislation outlawing discrimination. As an example he mentioned the Arctic Circle Club lounge, in which Inuit were not permitted to drink. The lounge ended that policy shortly after Michael's speech. However, in response to Michael speaking in Inuktitut, the legislature adopted a rule that all subsequent comments to the assembly would have to be in English. Project Surname. The issue that Michael is most closely identified with is the first"}, {"text": "legislative action on the question of Inuit disc numbers. In the 1940s, the Government of Canada had decided that it was unable to track Inuit using their traditional names, and it assigned numbers to each individual Inuk using a type of dog tag system. Michael spoke out against this system in the Legislative Assembly, explaining that his mail was sent to Simonie E7-551 rather than Simonie Michael, and protesting to the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories that his mail should be sent to his full name. Although this issue had been raised previously by Abe Okpik in the Legislative Assembly and was becoming increasingly salient, Michael is widely credited with attracting the attention of the press and prompting the government to pass a motion authorizing Project Surname, in which Okpik spent the years between 1968 and 1971 travelling throughout the Northwest Territories and recording each Inuk's preferred surname to replace their disc numbers. Michael's speech about the disc number system to the territorial council has been identified as the trigger that led to the system's end. Health and infrastructure. Michael was involved in several motions pertaining to infrastructure and health in the legislature. In response to a rise in alcoholism,"}, {"text": "he prompted a referendum that restricted the availability of liquor in Iqaluit in the late 1960s. He pushed for the creation of infrastructure that would make health care more available in Iqaluit, since the prevailing practice was to take those in need of major medical care away from Iqaluit to medical centres elsewhere, which caused sick people to undergo travel and to remain separate from their family and community during their treatment. Housing. Michael made housing a major legislative focus. In 1969, he was involved in legislation to improve living conditions at Clyde River. The town there was home to 210 people, but was built on top of a layer of muskeg that covered permafrost, which made building a major challenge and water drainage a perennial concern. There was poor health care availability, and an overcrowded school that housed 88 students, more than it had the resources to accommodate. Michael was active in legislative discussions on how to address these challenges through a large-scale building program. Michael also toured the Belcher Islands in 1969 with Stu Hodgson. Finding the housing situation there to be one of the worst in the Northwest Territories, he wrote to the federal government and advocated"}, {"text": "for 20 new permanent houses to be built there. These efforts, and those of the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, prompted the federal government to study the situation and ultimately provide materials for emergency housing. Subsequent life and legacy. After serving for four years in the legislature, Michael was succeeded by Bryan Pearson as the representative for the Eastern Arctic district in 1970. After leaving government, several of Michael's small sculptures of animals were sold at auction, and he gave some interviews about his life. He died in Iqaluit on November 15, 2008, at the age of 75. Michael was elected only sixteen years after Inuit gained the right to vote in 1950, and only six years after the franchise was truly expanded in 1960 by making ballot boxes widely available in Inuit communities. This expansion of voting rights remained controversial; for example, in 1962, then-Senator Thomas Crerar called it an \"error\" and advocated revoking the right for Inuit in the eastern Arctic to vote. The year 1967, when Michael began to serve in the legislative council of the Northwest Territories, was also the first that the council met permanently in the north; previously it had moved around the territories,"}, {"text": "often meeting in Ottawa and governing the Northwest Territories remotely from there. Given this context, Eva Aariak, the Premier of Nunavut, described Michael's election as \"an important step forward in the evolution of our territory and its democratic institutions.\" Similarly, the academics Peter Kulchyski and Frank James Tester identify Michael as an important member of a \"unique\" generation of Inuit leaders \"who seized their time to forge a new politics in the arctic\", and whose leadership \"deserves special recognition\". As the first elected Inuk in a Canadian legislature, Michael described his role as \"telling white people about the Eskimo\". Michael was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002. Two roads were named after him in Apex: Simonie Michael Crescent, and Simonie Michael Lane. In 2020, a boat that was owned by Michael was at Apex beach, and there were proposals to preserve it."}, {"text": "\"How It's Done\" is a song by American rapper Kash Doll, German singer Kim Petras, Finnish singer Alma and British rapper Stefflon Don. It was released on October 11, 2019, by Republic Records, as the second single from the to the film \"Charlie's Angels\", based on the television series of the same name created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. Background. American singer Ariana Grande revealed the tracklist of the then-upcoming \"\" on her Twitter. \"How It's Done\" was made available for purchase upon pre-order. Petras said that she was thankful to be included on the soundtrack. Critical reception. Shaad D'Souza of \"The Fader\" described the song as \"an upbeat, vintage-sounding R&B track\" and pointed out that it \"showcases a new style for all four artists\". Mike Nied at \"Idolator\" thought the track was \"a predictably catchy anthem\". MTV News described the song as \"party-starting posse cut\". Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from Tidal:"}, {"text": "David Ellis Brownlow, Baron Brownlow of Shurlock Row, DL (born 16 September 1963) is a British entrepreneur, Conservative Party donor, philanthropist and life peer. He sits as a member of the House of Lords and served as Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party from July 2017 until July 2020. He is the founder of The David Brownlow Charitable Foundation and a trustee of the Royal Albert Hall Trust. He was appointed Deputy to the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire in January 2018. Early life. Born in Liverpool, Brownlow graduated in economics from Newcastle Polytechnic, and spent two years as a policeman with Thames Valley Police based in Slough. Business career. Brownlow co-founded the recruitment firm Huntswood in 1996 and in 2013 co-founded a private equity firm, Havisham, through which over \u00a320 million has been invested. Havisham is one of the biggest investors in Cefinn, a fashion label founded by Samantha Cameron, the wife of David Cameron. Brownlow was described as Cameron\u2019s \"white knight\" rescuer as Cefinn was losing more than \u00a3500,000 a year when Brownlow took a 10% stake in 2018. The Prince's Foundation. Brownlow was a trustee of The Prince's Foundation between 2013 and 2018, serving for a period as Chairman."}, {"text": "Between 2012 and 2017, Havisham Properties, owned by Brownlow, purchased 11 properties for \u00a31.7 million on the Knockroon development, a site originally acquired as a piece of farmland by Prince Charles when he bought nearby Dumfries House, and intended to become an eco-village. Dumfries House Trust also awarded Brownlow's company a \u00a31.2 million construction contract. In July 2022, a spokesman for the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator said \"we can confirm that the work of Havisham Group and property transactions relating to the Knockroon development in Ayrshire forms part of our overall investigation, work on which is ongoing.\" Brownlow was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2018 Birthday Honours. The Prince's Foundation said \"Lord Brownlow was appointed CVO in recognition of his role of chair of The Prince's Foundation for Building Community.\" Politics. He was nominated for a life peerage in Theresa May's resignation honours and was created Baron Brownlow of Shurlock Row, of Shurlock Row in the Royal County of Berkshire, on 9 October 2019 and introduced to The House on 15 October 2019. In figures released by the Electoral Commission, it was shown that he was one of the Conservative Party's biggest"}, {"text": "donors, giving the party almost \u00a33 million (\u00a3714,690 in 2017 alone). Brownlow\u2019s company Huntswood Associates Ltd paid a total of \u00a3112,549 to the supplier responsible for the refurbishment of the flat above 11 Downing Street, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his wife, Carrie, and their children live. Johnson has since repaid more than \u00a3110,000 of these costs. By the end of December 2021, sources with knowledge of the matter indicated to the press that the prime minister is expected to be cleared of breaking the ministerial code with regard to the \u00a358,000 of flat improvement expenses which remained under scrutiny."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Mudgee on 2 January 1872 because of the resignation of Henry Stephen. Results. <includeonly> Henry Stephen resigned.</includeonly>"}, {"text": "Dos Monos is a Japanese experimental hip hop group based in Tokyo, Japan. The group consists of Zo Zhit, Taitan, and NGS, also referred to as Botsu. All three members provide vocals while Zo and Botsu produce and sample as well. The group released their debut album \"Dos City\" on March 20, 2019, under the independent record label Deathbomb Arc. Dos Monos has gained more attention from both within and outside of their homeland of Japan. In charge of Truck Maker and MC. 1993 Born August 24. He is a Dos Monos track maker based on his vast knowledge of music, film and philosophy. He started playing electric guitar when he was in junior high school, started with old rock, and preferred jazz rock, like Miles Davis. He became familiar with progressive rock and avant-garde free jazz in high school and liked Frank Zappa . He continued to write songs by himself using Ableton Live as the people around him left the band, preparing for college entrance exams. While majoring in film at university and aiming to become a film director, he listens to hip-hop such as Madlib and J Dilla and enjoys beatmaking. A hardcore reader, he likes to"}, {"text": "read philosophical books, thought books, and criticisms in addition to novels. In that regard, \"they have clearly inspired those who provide pop culture for at least the 20th century, ... they're the source of ideas, and they're literacy to avoid boring things. And in that sense, I think they are also necessary for artists. \". addition to his activities at Dos Monos, he also produces, provides music, and collaborates with other artists. In charge of MC. Born October 12, 1993. He is familiar with theater and was an actor himself in college. And he especially like the playwright Matsuo Suzuki . Besides working as Dos Monos, he also works as copywriter / planner under his real name. His past projects include Kendrick Lamar planning a \"black-painted advertisement\" promotion in Japan . From May 1, 2020, the Spotify program \"KiKi Kaikai MeiKai Encyclopedia\" was distributed with Mono no aware Shukei Tamaki. He loves curry (especially South Indian one) and he is the personality of Spotify's \"TOKIO CURRY CLUB\". MC \u30fb DJ In charge. He prefers \"universal but a little crazy\" jazz artists like Albert Ayler and Thelonious Monk. He was in charge of drums in the band he belonged to when"}, {"text": "he was in middle school and high school. He covered punk rock such as Ging Nang BOYZ. From 2015 to 2016, he studied abroad at University of California, Los Angeles in the U.S. because of his interest in jazz musician Sun Ra. He learns Afrofuturism. In the field, loving Hi-Hi-Whoopee, he interacted with James Mathew and deepened his insight into the lo-fi beats scene. He used to call himself NGS because he had a habit of being late and often had terrible bed hair(called NEGUSE in Japanese). But MARIA in SIMI LAB call him \"Sleeping Poops(called NEGUSO in Japanese)\" by mistake, therefore he named himself BOTSU(means \"cancelled\") after that. He also collaborates with other artists a lot. History. The members attended same junior and senior high school in Tokyo. Each of them formed a band, Zo Zhit was a guitarist , TaiTan and Botsu were drummers . 2015, Zo Zhit formed Dos Monos with TaiTan and Botsu to make a song that used beats he had been making as a hobby. At the time, the three had experience in bands such as rock and punk, but no rap, and TaiTan had never even heard of hip-hop. Dos Monos means \"two"}, {"text": "monkeys\" in Spanish. Proposed by Botsu, who was interested in Spanish culture, the other two also liked the sound and adopted it. After that, Zo Zhit added the meaning of \"monkey 2.0 (evolved monkey)\". Although they were temporarily suspended due to Botsu's study abroad, they succeeded in their first overseas concert at Henz Club in Seoul in 2017. After that, they won the audition project \"We Won!? Summer Sonic !?\" and defeat other 3600 participants, and appeared in rock festival Summer Sonic. In 2018, they signed with the American label Deathbomb Arc and performed at the French music festival \"La Magnifique Society\" and the Shanghai music festival \"SH \u25b3 MP\". Released the 1st album \"Dos City\" which will be the album in 2019. Also, it was talked about that they are the first in the world to remix \"bmbmbm\" by British rock band black midi. 2020 In March, the first tour in US including appearances at music festival SXSW was scheduled, but it was canceled due to the corona epidemic. In May 2020, they released the official collaboration song \"Civil Rap Song ft. Audrey Tang who is Taiwan's IT minister, which attracted a great deal of attention as an unusual"}, {"text": "collaboration between hip-hop and the politician. In July, an outdoor advertisement was posted in Shibuya, Tokyo, which greatly projected the sound source production screen of Ableton Live. Other musicians are planning to freely create the unreleased song \"The Rite of Spring Monkey\" with this screen as the only hint. This announced the release of the new album \"Dos Siki\". In September 2021, they released a new album \"Larderello\" in the video work \"Cover\uff08\u84cb\uff09\" that was aired on TV Tokyo at early dawn. The content of the work was that the image of zapping the surveillance cameras in the town in real time, and it gradually projected another world spreading underground. This video work attracted attention as a complex mockumentary which connected to blogs, videos, report material-like documents, etc. posted on the net."}, {"text": "The Osmyn and Emily Deuel House, at 271 South 200 East in Centerville, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is a two-story stone house built around 1878, with a one-and-a-half-story rear addition around 1900. It faces west, and has a north-facing porch. It was probably built by local masons Charles Duncan and his sons. It was built for Osmyn Merritt Deuel and his fourth wife Emily Hannah Bowers."}, {"text": "In March 2020, Go First operated to a network of 39 destinations \u2013 29 domestic and 10 international to Thailand (Bangkok and Phuket), Muscat, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Kuwait City, Singapore, Colombo and Mal\u00e9. As of now, Go First operates international flights from Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Kannur and Kolkata. The airline has a total of 325 daily flights and more than 2200 weekly flights. The airline maintains bases at Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Kannur and Mumbai airports. The airline commenced its first international operations on 11 October 2018 from Delhi to Phuket, then from Mumbai to Phuket on 12 October, from Mumbai and Delhi to Mal\u00e9 on 14 and 17 October respectively. As of 3 May 2023 (last day of trading), Go First had served a total of 37 destinations including 27 domestic and 10 international destinations with more than 325 flights daily."}, {"text": "Marlis Erica Schweitzer (born 1975) is a Canadian theatre and performance historian. She is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at York University. Personal life. Schweitzer and her husband Dan have two children together. Career. After earning her PhD, Schweitzer accepted the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. The following year, Schweitzer was the recipient of the 2007 Richard Plant Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) for her article \"\"Stepping on Stiletto: Kaleidoscope, CAPP, and Controversy.\" In 2009, Schweitzer published \"When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture\" which was named Outstanding Academic Title by . The book, published through the University of Pennsylvania Press, examined consumer capitalism and the theater, department store, and fashion industries. The book would also go on to be a Freedley Award Finalist in 2010. During the following academic term, 2009\u201310, Schweitzer accepted a John W. Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress. This was followed by a short-term fellowship with the Folger Shakespeare Library. From 2013 until 2016, Schweitzer was a general editor for \"Theatre Research in Canada.\" She left the journal in 2016 to accept a role"}, {"text": "as President of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. From 2016 until 2018, Schweitzer served as president of the CATR. In her role as president, Schweitzer co-edited \"Performance Studies in Canada\" in 2017 with Laura Levin which was published through the McGill\u2013Queen's University Press. This book would earn her the 2018 Patrick O'Neill Award from CATR. She also published \"Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance\"\" through Palgrave Macmillan. In her last year as president, she received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant to fund a two-day event supporting Playing with History: A Performance-Based Historiography Symposium. She also launched her own podcast called Scene Change. In 2019, Schweitzer was elected a Member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. She also sat on the Cambridge University Press Prize committee board and was appointed editor of \"Theatre Survey,\" a theatre historical journal. , Schweitzer is Chair of the Department of Theatre at York University. Selected publications. The following is a list of selected publications:"}, {"text": "The Harris-Tingey House, at 269 E. Center St. in Centerville, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Its original portion, built around 1869, is a one-story Classical stone house with gable end brick chimneys, with a hall-parlor plan. It was probably built by carpenter John J. Harris, perhaps with stonemason Charles Duncan. A brick addition to the rear was added around 1890."}, {"text": "\"Not\" is a song by American indie rock band Big Thief, released as the first single from their fourth studio album \"Two Hands\". It was released on August 13, 2019, by 4AD as a digital single alongside the album's announcement. The song was nominated for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. Background. Big Thief debuted the song during a concert at Point \u00c9ph\u00e9m\u00e8re in Paris, France on March 28, 2018. Getting the recording of the song exactly right was important to the band, and they later re-recorded it at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California. Composition. Written by Adrianne Lenker, the song's lyrics uses negation to describe something, with Lenker repeating the use of \"not\" or \"nor\" at the beginning of each line. Bob Boilen of NPR described the song's subject as \"the inability to describe what that something is, only to be able to explain what it is not.\" The second half of the song is instrumental and features a guitar solo played by Lenker. Performances. \"Not\" was performed live by Big Thief on \"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\" on October 10, 2019. Claire Shaffer of \"Rolling Stone\" described the"}, {"text": "performance as a \"hard-rock spin\" on the song with \"distorted\" guitars and \"manic\" drums, comparing Adrianne Lenker's \"wailing\" vocals to that of emo music. Ben Kaye of \"Consequence of Sound\" called it \"an impassioned performance that demonstrated why they're one of the most engaging groups to emerge from the folk scene in some time.\" The band performed \"Not\" as well as \"Two Hands\" and \"Forgotten Eyes\" on \"CBS This Morning\" on October 26, 2019, as part of the program's \"Saturday Sessions\" segment. Critical reception. The song was praised by \"Pitchfork\", who named it Best New Track upon release and called it \"a towering statement from a group constantly leapfrogging over themselves.\" BBC Music compared Lenker's guitar solo to that of \"Neil Young at his peak.\" The song was also cited as one of Barack Obama's favorite songs of 2019 in a Spotify playlist compiled by Obama at the end of the year. Accolades. \"Not\" was nominated for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. Year-end lists. \"Not\" appeared in several publications' year-end lists. NPR Music named it the best song of 2019 with Bob Boilen writing, \"No song in 2019 felt more searing, more"}, {"text": "perfect, than 'Not'\". Cover versions. In November 2019, \"Not\" was covered by Matt Berninger, vocalist and frontman of The National, during a solo live performance at the sixth annual Dream Serenade benefit concert in Toronto. In April 2020, a cover was released by former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer under the pseudonym of Pluralone. On September 4, 2020, Hamilton Leithauser released the live album \"Live! at Caf\u00e9 Carlyle\", collecting 10 recordings made during his residency at the New York City Caf\u00e9 Carlyle. It includes a cover of \"Not\". Personnel. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Two Hands\"."}, {"text": "Kshetia railway station is a railway station in Bardhaman\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside Bardhaman\u2013Katwa Road at Tentral, Khetia of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. On 1 December 1915, McLeod's Light Railways (MLR) set up narrow-gauge lines in the Burdwan-Katwa Railway route. This railway section was handed over to the Eastern Railway in 1966. In 2010 the work started for conversion of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge. Bardhaman to Balogna railway station was reopened in 2014 and Balgona to Katwa section was completed on 12 January 2018 for the public."}, {"text": "James Brown (born 8 October 1964) is a former Northern Irish paralympic-cyclist, who competed for Great Britain, Ireland, and Northern Ireland. He is visually impaired and participated in five Paralympic Games in various sports. Brown earned two gold medals at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in athletics and a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the men's road time trial with sighted pilot Damien Shaw. Paralympic career. Brown is visually impaired from birth and began cycling at the age of five and running at the age of 13 while attending the Royal National College for the Blind. Following instruction in skiing, he joined the British Paralympic Team for the 1982 Disabled Alpine World Championships. He later worked at the Royal National College for the Blind as a volunteer guide runner, including at the World Youth Games for the Disabled. At the 1984 Summer Paralympics in New York City, Brown won two gold medals in athletics for Great Britain in the 800-metre and 1500-metre. He later participated in several other editions of the Summer and Winter Paralympics in other events, including cross-country skiing and the biathlon. Brown planned to enter the 2008 Paralympic Games as a cyclist, but missed the"}, {"text": "games because of an injury. The following year, he joined the Irish team and began his partnership with sighted pilot Damien Shaw in 2011. At the 2012 Paralympic Games, Brown and Shaw won a bronze medal in the men's road time trial B. The pair had also finished fourth in the men's individual pursuit B and ninth in the men's 1 km time trial B. He later represented Northern Ireland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, partnering with Dave Readle in the men's tandem sprint B and men's tandem time trial B, finishing fifth in both events. Brown was banned from competition from 2016 to 2018 by Sport Ireland and Cycling Ireland for violating anti-doping rules, to which he admitted. Personal life. Brown retired from sport in 2015 and joined Mobiloo, a social enterprise that aims to provide portable toilets that are accessible for the disabled. He has since participated in several Extinction Rebellion protests and has been arrested several times for non-violent civil disobedience; he has cited his daughter for inspiring his climate change activism. On 10 October 2019, he climbed on the fuselage of a British Airways plane at London City Airport as part of Extinction Rebellion's takeover of"}, {"text": "the airport. At a subsequent court hearing, he denied the charge of causing a public nuisance and was granted conditional bail by a district judge that barred him from being within of an airport. On 28 July 2021, following a trial at Southwark Crown Court, Brown was convicted of causing a public nuisance. Presiding judge Gregory Perrins set a sentencing hearing for 17 September. On 24 September 2021, he was given a prison term of one year. In February 2022, Brown was found guilty of aggravated trespass after he climbed on top of a High Speed 2 drilling rig in February 2020."}, {"text": "The Fairphone 3 and 3+ are touchscreen-based smartphones made by Fairphone. The phone has a modular, repairable design and is \"constructed out of responsibly-sourced, conflict-free, and recycled materials where possible\". It went on sale on 3 September 2019. It comes with Android 9 \"Pie\" installed. The phone has a FullHD+ screen (2160 \u00d7 1080 pixels) with Gorilla Glass, 12 MP rear camera, 3,000 mAh battery, 64 GB storage with microSD, Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 processor, 4 GB RAM, 8 MP front camera (16 MP on Fairphone 3+), NFC and dual SIM. At launch the Fairphone 3 retailed at \u00a3408. The Fairphone 3+, launched in August 2020, has upgraded front and rear cameras and speaker modules. The camera modules are compatible with the FP3. However, the improved audio primarily comes from the new core module in the FP3+ and is not upgradable as this is IMEI related. The Fairphone 3+ shipped with Android 10 and an increase in the amount of recycled plastic it contains, now 40%. Ethical manufacturing and sustainable materials. Fairphone 3 \"has been manufactured in a factory that pays the local living wage\". \"The tin and tungsten used in its construction is conflict free, the gold is Fairtrade, and"}, {"text": "the copper and plastics are recycled.\" Modular design. The phone's modular design is constructed out of seven modules, making it easier to repair than most smartphones. The rear of the phone can be removed without using tools. Having removed the rear, the battery can be lifted out and replaced. Using a regular Phillips #00 screwdriver, the display is easily removed, and the modules are held in using only press fit sockets. The motherboard, containing the system on a chip, RAM and storage, can also be easily removed. Still, the motherboard's individual components can not be easily replaced. Reception. Sophie Charara, writing in \"Wired\", said that the phone's technical specification is \"almost identical to the Moto G7, our current recommendation for the best budget phone.\" She considered it \"important\" that \"the premium for choosing an ethical phone had dropped to below \u00a3200\" \"for the first time\". iFixit gave it a 10 out of 10 repairability score; 10 is easiest to repair. Fairphone 3+. The Fairphone 3+ was launched in August 2020. It has upgraded front and rear cameras, improved audio, an increase in the amount of recycled plastic it contains (40% rather than 9%) and Android 10. The rear camera has"}, {"text": "a larger sensor, intelligent scene detection, and a higher dynamic range. The front camera has a bigger sensor and a higher dynamic range. The new cameras and speaker are alternatively available as modules that can be swapped in the original Fairphone 3. The audio improvements cannot be achieved purely by a speaker module upgrade. The speaker module is only for the rear/side speaker, and output is only improved if the new core module for the FP3+ is used."}, {"text": "Fritz Roeber (15 October 1851, Elberfeld \u2013 15 May 1924, D\u00fcsseldorf) was a German illustrator, lithographer and history painter, associated with the D\u00fcsseldorfer Malerschule. As Director of the Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf, he carried out some significant organizational changes. Biography. His father was the writer Friedrich Roeber, who also served as the Procurator for Elberfeld. After completing his primary education, he studied painting at a private school operated by Eduard Bendemann. His studies were interrupted by service in the Franco-Prussian War then, in the mid-1870s, he presented some large lithographs on Biblical themes. He accepted a major commission from Rhine Province to design figurative jewelry for a gold trophy, to be presented to Prince (later Kaiser) Wilhelm on the occasion of his wedding. Later, he became a co-founder of the \"Central-Gewerbe-Vereins\" (Central Trade Association) and helped to develop the local arts and crafts industry. From 1893, he was an instructor at the Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf. During the early part of the 20th century, he was involved in organizing several large, international exhibitions and a memorial plaque in his honor was placed at the . From 1908 to 1924, he served as Director of the Kunstakademie. His tastes and approach to governing were considered"}, {"text": "to be rather conservative for the time. Despite this, he was constantly making additions to the curriculum; including workshops for church art and stained glass. In 1919, following a partial merger with the Kunstgewerbeschule (Arts and Crafts School), he hired seven instructors to teach the new subjects that would be added: the painter , sculptor Hubert Netzer, graphic artist Ernst Aufseeser and three architects; Wilhelm Kreis, Emil Fahrenkamp (the Kunstgewerbeschule's former director) and . He also oversaw the construction of new studio buildings for the Kunstakademie, along the Rhine, designed to be an \"art city on the English model\". These were demolished in 1937 to make room for the Reichsausstellung Schaffendes Volk (now the ). A street that runs alongside the Kunstakademie has been named after him. His older brother, , was also an instructor there."}, {"text": "Shahadat Chowdhury (28 July 1943 \u2013 29 November 2005) was a Bangladeshi journalist and editor of several news magazines. He served as the editor of \"Weekly Bichitra\" from 1972 until its publication was ceased in 1997. He then served as the editor of Shaptahik 2000 and Anandadhara. In 1993, he was awarded the Ekushey Padak, the state's second highest civilian honor, for his outstanding contribution to journalism. Early life. Chowdhury was one of the 12 children of Abdul Haq Chowdhury, a district judge, and Jahanara Chowdhury. Chowdhury completed his matriculation from Dhaka Graduate High School and bachelor's in painting from the Institute of Fine Arts. Career. Chowdhury was the editor of \"Kachi-Kanchar Asar\", the children page of The Daily Ittefaq in 1961. He was the travelogue writer of \"Kachi Kanchar Mela\", a children's cultural organisation in the then East Pakistan. Chowdhury joined as the founding editor of the journal of Media World group Shaptahik 2000. Chowdhury took part in Sector 2 and was a member of Crack Platoon of the 1971 liberation war. He built up a guerilla force and initiated adventurous actions in Dhaka. He assisted two daunting daughters of Poet Sufia Kamal crossing the border to India. During"}, {"text": "the war, he began his career in journalism by editing \"Lorai\" which published the news of Mukti Bahini. He was also one of the architects of Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee. After the independence of Bangladesh, he joined the \"Weekly Bichitra\" in 1972 as an assistant editor and went on to become the editor of the magazine until 1997. In 1998, he joined as the editor of Shaptahik 2000 and fortnightly Anandadhara. Chowdhury organized the first beauty pageant television program in Bangladesh in 1998. The program was titled \"Ananda Bichitra Photo Shundori\". Actress Sadika Parvin Popy was the winner in that year. Personal life and death. In 1977, one of the eyes of the first ever posthumous eye-donor of Bangladesh, ARM Inamul Haq, was transplanted to Chowdhury. Chowdhury died on 28 November 2005. He was buried in state honour in Mirpur Martyred Intellectual Graveyard in Dhaka. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak posthumously in 2006."}, {"text": "The Mount Gambier Football Club was an Australian rules football club established in the city of Mount Gambier, South Australia on the 31 August 1876. The club dissolved around 1897. Rules. The following is an extract from the announcement from Mount Gambier's 'Boarder Watch' newspaper:"}, {"text": "A sub-national transport body (STBs) is a type of ad hoc statutory transport governance organisation in the United Kingdom. They are intended to provide strategic transport governance at a much larger scale than existing local transport authorities, by grouping councils together. In 2016 the Local Transport Act 2008 was amended by the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 to allow the creation of sub-national transport bodies. The first such body created was Transport for the North. Typically a sub-national transport body exists in a shadow form before being put on a statutory footing by secondary legislation. Sub-national transport bodies produce transport strategies for their areas. Current sub-national transport bodies are: Additionally there have been proposals for sub-national transport bodies covering West Anglia and the South West."}, {"text": "Maresch is a German-language surname, a Germanized version of Czech surname Mare\u0161. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Baranagar is a city in West Bengal, India, formerly called \"Barahanagore\". Baranagar may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Marguerre is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Masakata (written: , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:"}, {"text": "Voskresenskaya Slobodka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pavlovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 23 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Voskresenskaya Slobodka is located on the right bank of the Nerl River, 32 km southeast of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mordysh is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vypovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pavlovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 67 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Vypovo is located 18 km southwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tereneyevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Scaevola macrophylla, commonly known as large-flowered scaevola, is an erect herb (woody at base) growing to 0.4 m high, with blue flowers, in the family Goodeniaceae, native to Western Australia. The species was first formally described in 1854 by Willem Hendrik de Vriese and in 1868 George Bentham in the fourth volume of \"Flora Australiensis\" assigned it to the genus, \"Scaevola\". It occurs in the Cape Riche area in south-western Western Australia. The species is described as \"extremely rare\", being documented on only four occasions, a discovery after a controlled burn in 2021 was its first record since 1990. It has been declared to be a threatened species, and critically endangered under the EPBC Act."}, {"text": "Vyselki () is a rural locality (a village) in Bogolyubovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 26 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Vyselki is located 45 km southeast of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dorzhevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vysheslavskoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Seletskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Vysheslavskoye is located 16 km southwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Semyonovskoye-Sovetskoye is the nearest rural locality. History. There is an Eastern Orthodox church in the locality dating back to 1911. In 1994, a fire caused minor damages to the building."}, {"text": "Masanaga (written: , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:"}, {"text": "Gavrilovskoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Seletskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 980 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Gavrilovskoye is located 14 km southwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Semyonovskoye-Sovetskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ismat Raza Shahjahan (Pashto/Urdu: \u0639\u0635\u0645\u062a \u0631\u0636\u0627 \u0634\u0627\u06c1 \u062c\u06c1\u0627\u0646; b. May 6, 1963) is a socialist-feminist political leader from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. She is the president of Women Democratic Front (WDF), the deputy general-secretary of the Awami Workers Party (AWP), and a leading member of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). She ran for the National Assembly seat NA-54 (Islamabad-III) in the 2018 Pakistani general election. Early life and education. Shahjahan belongs to Takht-e-Nasrati in Karak District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. She did her Bachelor of Arts in law and political science from Jinnah College for Women, University of Peshawar, and also studied public administration at the University of Peshawar. She studied development studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) in The Hague, Netherlands. She has worked as an international finance specialist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Islamabad. Shahjahan's son, Sparlay Rawail, is a lead guitarist in Khumariyaan, a Pashto music band. Political beginnings. Shahjahan was born into a progressive family that had supported the Pashtun leader, Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Bacha Khan), in his nonviolent Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against the British Raj. Shahjahan gained political consciousness since very early in her life. She"}, {"text": "started revolutionary politics as a university student leader in 1983, during the era of Zia-ul-Haq\u2019s martial law, when there was ban on student unions. In 1986, she joined the left-wing Democratic Students Federation (DSF), and then the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP). She worked actively with the Muttahida Labour Federation (MLF). During her time with the CPP, she also established the provincial front of the Democratic Women's Association (DeWA) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then known as the North-West Frontier Province). Ideology. Shahjahan\u2019s entire life revolved around progressive political struggle. She has remained part of democratic movements against anti-state oppression, dictatorships and anti-war campaigns. Shahjahan is described as a socialist, feminist and anti-imperialist. Through her political ideologies and organizations, AWP and WDF, she aims to provide aid to the ignored societies of Pakistan by unifying their struggles. This includes the struggles of women, students, workers, peasants, and ethnic and religious minorities. Throughout her political struggle, she remained on frontlines of the feminist struggle and class struggle. Political career. Awami Workers Party. Shajahan played an important role in merger of three smaller leftist outfits (Labour Party, the Awami Party and the Workers Party) to form a progressive force Awami Workers Party in November,"}, {"text": "2012 as a platform to rebuild the political Left. She is now the deputy general secretary of the party and aims to promote progressive politics in Pakistan. In 2014, as a feminist from the left wing politics, she, along with other party workers, drafted a document about guiding principles of the party\u2019s position on issues central to the liberation of women. In the document, elimination of all economic, social and administrative structures was demanded, that lead to gender-based exploitation. It asked 33 percent representation of women in all units of the party. General elections 2018. Shajahan contested for the 2018 Pakistani general election on National assembly seat NA-54 in federal capital Islamabad. Her electoral campaign included the vision to ensure katchi abadis (informal settlements) get official land titles and to get water for Islamabad. Awami Workers Party is working since a long time on the issue. The party wants to legislate to provide them protection. She said, \"Our support base is largely in the katchi abadis. Their women go to the rich houses to work as domestic help. Their children, especially girls, care for the children of the rich. I want these women to be recognised under the purview of"}, {"text": "the labour law. Their girls suffer a lot of sexual abuse at these big houses and it goes unreported.\u201d Women Democratic Front. Shahjahan is involved in building a socialist feminist movement, from the platform of the Women Democratic Front. She is serving as president of WDF which was founded after \u2018Aurat Azadi March (2018)\u2019, being celebrated on International Women's Day, 2018 when a large number of working women, political workers, students and intellectuals gathered to inaugurate this organization. During the Aurat Azadi March 2018, in Islamabad which was held from press club to Nazimud Din Road, Shahjahan as president WDF said that the Constitution calls for gender equality but the laws and policies of our country are based on discrimination, gender inequality and violence. Aurat Azadi March. Shahjahan's feminist organization WDF along with Awami Workers Party (AWP), Women Action Forum, Women\u2019s Collective and Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement, Jammu and Kashmir Nationalist Students Front and other organizations also organized Aurat Azadi March, 2019 on International Women's Day, 2019. Shahjahan also took part in organizing Aurat Azadi March 2020 in Islamabad despite facing threats from the right wing parties. For Aurat Azadi March 2020, Shahjahan wrote the anthem song \u201cHum Inquilab Hain\u201d (We are"}, {"text": "Revolution). Shajahan got hit with a brick during Aurat Azadi March 2020 Islamabad by the religious extremists. She along with other organizers of the march called press conference after the march and demanded from government to take action against those who attacked on march. Pashtun Tahafuz Movement. The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) emerged at the start of 2018 with marches demanding the end of extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances committed by security forces against Pashtuns living in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northern Balochistan along the border with Afghanistan. In May 2018, Shahjahan was nominated as a representative of the PTM's reconciliatory jirga for negotiations with the state institutions. On 18 January 2019, a video surfaced in which a 13-year-old boy, Hayat Khan from Khaisor, North Waziristan, said Pakistani security forces had arrested his father and brother, and that his family had been facing harassment due to frequent visits by two security personnel to his home when he was the only male among the females present at home. On 27 January, Shahjahan visited Khaisor along with five other female PTM activists, Gulalai Ismail, Bushra Gohar, Jamila Gilani, Sanna Ejaz and Nargis Afsheen Khattak, to express solidarity with Hayat's mother and to also"}, {"text": "interview the local women about other incidents of sexual harassment. Shahjahan said, \"[dozens of] women came out of their homes when we visited them, pleaded and cried, and asked us to help them bring their missing sons back. We cried with them.\" Gulalai Ismail said that due to the bombing of their homes by the armed forces, \"the mental health of women from the tribal areas has deteriorated so much that they cannot endure another day of war.\u201d Detentions. On 21 April 2018, a night before the PTM public gathering in Lahore, the police arrested Shahjahan along with several other leading activists, including AWP president Fanoos Gujjar and PTM leader Ali Wazir. As a result of protests in various parts of the country and a social media campaign for them, they were released within hours. The arrests were criticized by the public and notable politicians, including Maryam Nawaz, Pervaiz Rashid, and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. On 28 January 2020, Shahjahan and 28 other protesters, including PTM leader Mohsin Dawar and Ammar Rashid, were arrested by the police outside the National Press Club in Islamabad, where they had gathered to stage a protest against the arrest of PTM chairman Manzoor Pashteen, who"}, {"text": "had been arrested in Peshawar a day earlier on allegations of sedition. Shahjahan and Mohsin Dawar were released on 29 January but Ammar Rashid and 22 others were sent to jail on sedition charges. The protesters appealed to the Islamabad High Court where they were granted bail by chief justice Athar Minallah on 3 February. Minallah summoned the Islamabad City Magistrate and asked an explanation for first placing sedition charges on peaceful protesters and later turning them into terrorism charges in the first information report. The charges were dropped against all 23 of them on 17 February. Manzoor Pashteen was also released from jail on 25 February. Magazines. She remained a publisher of the well-known progressive revolutionary Pashto journal \"Leekwal\" in 1992. In 2018, she launched her own feminist-socialist magazine named \"Nariwad\", from the platform of WDF, that highlights the importance of rights of women facing oppression and injustice. Citations/Sources. This article was created during \u2018WikiGap\u2019 event, in Islamabad, Pakistan on 11 and 12 October 2019. The event was organized by the Swedish Embassy, Pakistan."}, {"text": "Glebovskoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Seletskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 142 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Glebovskoye is located on the Kamenka River, 5 km east of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Suzdal is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gnezdilovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Seletskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, in European Russia. The population was 31 as of 2010. Geography. Gnezdilovo is located 11 km southwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chernizh is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Goloventsino () is a rural locality (a selo) in Novoalexandrovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Goloventsino is located 6 km southwest of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Suzdal is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Goritsy () is a rural locality (a selo) in Novoalexandrovskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Goritsy is located 44 km south of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zeleni is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Grigorevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Seletskoye Rural Settlement, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Grigorevo is located on the Tumka River, 18 km west of Suzdal (the district's administrative centre) by road. Konstantinovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Patricia Obo-Nai is a Ghanaian engineer, the first Ghanaian to become Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Ghana. Her appointment on 19 February 2019 took effect on 1 April 2019. She is a member of the Ghana Institution of Engineers, (GHIE) and Vodafone's executive committee. In May 2021, she was named among the top 50 Most Influential Female Leaders in Africa within the corporate and business sphere by Leading Ladies Africa. Education. Patricia Obo-Nai attended Bishop Bowers School for her basic education. For her O-Levels and A-Levels, she attended St Roses Senior High (Akwatia) and the Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School respectively. She continued at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where she obtained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. She holds an Executive MBA and Executive Education degree from the University of Ghana and Kellogg School of Management in USA respectively. She also acquired an Executive Education degree from INSEAD in France. Career. Patricia Obo-Nai has worked in information technology and telecommunications since 1997. Before her appointment at Vodafone, she worked with Millicom Ghana Limited, operators of Tigo for 14 years. In 2011, she moved on to join Vodafone as a Chief Technology Officer and a member of"}, {"text": "the Executive Committee. She was later promoted as the Director of Fixed Business and Customer Operations before she was appointed as CEO in 2019. She has served on a number of boards which includes the following: an advisory council member of the West African STEM Hub, advisory member of the Global Young Academy, Board member of the KNUST Foundation, a member of the Ghana Institute of Engineers and the Executive Women Network. Awards and honours. For her work she has received the following awards: Personal life. Patricia is married with three (3) children."}, {"text": "Iman Hasan Mohammed Al-Rufaye (, born 16 February 1982), also known as Eman Hassane Al-Rufei, is an Iraqi chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM). She is a Women's Chess Olympiads individual gold (1998) and silver (2000, 2006) medals winner. Biography. Since the late 1990s, Al-Rufaye has been one of the leading Iraqi chess players. She received the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title in 1999 and the Woman International Master (WIM) title in 2001. In 2012, she won the Iraqi Women's Chess Championship with a hundred percent score - 9 out of 9 possible. In 2014, Al-Rufaye won 3rd place in Arab League Women's Chess Championship. In 2016, she ranked 28th in Asian Women's Chess Championship. Al-Rufaye played for Iraq in the Women's Chess Olympiads: She also played for Iraq in the Pan Arab Games:"}, {"text": "The Loir is a river in France. Loir may also refer to:"}, {"text": "The billiards world rankings are the official system of ranking English billiards players to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments. The rankings are maintained by the sport's governing body, World Billiards, a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. A player's ranking is based on their performances in designated ranking tournaments. The ranking list rolls on at the end of each season, with every player's points being halved at the season switchover. A season begins on 1 July, and ends on 30 June of the following year. As of 2012, the distinction between professional and amateur players was removed. Both male and female players are included on the list. Gilchrist and Hall were joint 3rd ranked."}, {"text": "Chamardighi railway station is a railway station in Bardhaman\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside Bardhaman\u2013Katwa Road at Mahachanda, Chamardighi of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. On 1 December 1915, McLeod's Light Railways set up narrow-gauge lines in the Burdwan-Katwa Railway route. This railway section was handed to the Eastern Railway in 1966. In 2010 the work started for conversion of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge. Bardhaman to Balogna railway station was reopened in 2014 and Balgona to Katwa section was completed on 12 January 2018 for the public."}, {"text": "Kurt Keutzer (born November 9, 1955) is an American computer scientist. Early life and education. Kurt Keutzer grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Maharishi University of Management (formerly Mararishi International University) in 1978, and a PhD in computer science from Indiana University Bloomington in 1984. Career. Keutzer joined Bell Labs in 1984, where he worked on logic synthesis. In 1991, he joined the electronic design automation company Synopsys, where he was promoted to chief technology officer. He subsequently joined the University of California, Berkeley as a professor in 1998. His research at Berkeley has focused on the intersection of high performance computing and machine learning. Working with a number of graduate students at Berkeley, Keutzer developed FireCaffe, which scaled the training of deep neural networks to over 100 GPUs. Later, with LARS and LAMB optimizers, they scaled it to over 1000 servers. Keutzer and his students also developed deep neural networks such as SqueezeNet, SqueezeDet, and SqueezeSeg, which can run efficiently on mobile devices. Keutzer co-founded DeepScale with his PhD student Forrest Iandola in 2015, and Keutzer served as the company's chief strategy officer. The firm was focused on developing deep neural networks"}, {"text": "for advanced driver assistance systems in passenger cars. On October 1, 2019, electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, Inc. purchased DeepScale to augment and accelerate its self-driving vehicle work. Honors and awards. Keutzer was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1996. Recipient of DAC Most Influential Paper (MIP) award (24th DAC, 1987) for his \"Dagon: technology binding and local optimization by DAG matching\u201d publication."}, {"text": "Banchharamer Bagaan is a 1980 Bengali drama film directed by Tapan Sinha. It stars Manoj Mitra and is adapted from his celebrated stage play \"Shajano Bagaan\". The film was critically acclaimed and is regarded as a classic to this day. Plot. The film revolves around the struggles of lonely aged persons. An elderly man becomes a one-man army against the corrupt society. There is an old peasant's garden, which the zamindar desperately want to occupy. Despite the continuous machinations and traps put forward by the zamindar, the aged, frail peasant Bancharam, in some way or the other, continues to live in his garden, and manages to maintain it as well."}, {"text": "Meher Kabir (5 June 1919 \u2013 13 October 2018) was a Bangladeshi academic and litterateur. She was awarded Begum Rokeya Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in 2010. Education and career. Kabir completed her matriculation in 1936. She then studied in Bethune College for intermediate exam, Scottish Churches College for the bachelor's degree and University College of Science and Technology for her master's. She was a PhD student under the supervision of Prafulla Chandra Ray. In 1949, Kabir started her teaching career in chemistry at Comilla Victoria College. She served as a provost of Rokeya Hall of the University of Dhaka from 1963 to 1965. Kabir served as the general secretary of Bangladesh Council for Child Welfare. Personal life. Meher was married to National Professor Kabir Chowdhury since 1945."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Mudgee on 19 December 1859 because of the resignation of Lyttleton Bayley. Bayley had been appointed to the Legislative Council in January 1859, shortly after arriving in the colony and the following month was appointed Attorney General in the Cowper Government. The government fell in October 1859 and Bayley resigned from parliament the following month. Results. <includeonly> Lyttleton Bayley resigned.</includeonly>"}, {"text": "Hein Mulders (born 9 October 1962 in Bussum) is a Dutch cultural manager and intendant of the Saalbau Essen since the beginning of the 2013/14 season. Life. Mulders studied art history in Paris, archaeology, Italian and musicology as well as art history in Amsterdam. He began his professional career for five years as orchestra manager of the Dutch National Youth Orchestra in Amsterdam and then spent eleven years as casting director of the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp. He then became artistic director of De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam. Since the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Mulders has been in charge of the Aalto-Theater as the successor to Stefan Soltesz and the Philharmonie in Essen. He appointed the Czech Tom\u00e1\u0161 Netopil as general music director."}, {"text": "\"Kinfolks\" is a song recorded by American country music singer Sam Hunt, released as a single on October 11, 2019. It is the third single from Hunt's second studio album \"Southside\". It is Hunt's ninth single release, and he co-wrote it with Zach Crowell, Jerry Flowers, and Josh Osborne. It debuted at number 64 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and ultimately peaked at number 34. Critical reception. The track was described by Sterling Whitaker of \"Taste of Country\" as a \"traditional-themed love song about wanting a lover to meet the family and see the places and faces most important to you\" as well as a \"progressive musical track features the kind of spoken-work, not-quite-rapping verses Hunt is best known for\". Writing for \"Rolling Stone\", Jon Freeman described the song as featuring \"acoustic guitar arpeggios that lead into big, bright choruses of banjo, vocal snippets, and wah-wah guitar\", also calling it \"not too far afield from the all-embracing sound that made his debut \"Montevallo\" such a compelling listen\". Commercial performance. \"Kinfolks\" debuted at number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Country Airplay chart based on three and a half day of availability after its release to radio, which equals the debut of"}, {"text": "his previous single, \"Downtown's Dead\". It was the second best-selling country song the following week, with 13,000 copies sold, in addition to the 2,000 copies sold when it was released for sale late the previous week. It reached No. 1 on \"Billboard\"s Country Airplay on chart dated February 29, 2020. It is also the first country song to top the Country Airplay chart on Leap Day since Garth Brooks' \"What She's Doing Now\" stayed for the third week in 1992, as well as Hunt's first number one since \"Body Like a Back Road\" in 2017. It has sold 72,000 copies in the United States as of March 2020."}, {"text": "XHPEEN-FM is a noncommercial radio station on 102.3 FM in Sabinas, Coahuila. It is known as Espacio 102.3 and carries a cultural format. History. On June 10, 2013, Fundaci\u00f3n de la Radio Cultural, A.C., applied for a new permit FM station at Sabinas. The application along with two others by FRC for new social stations in Coahuila was approved by the Federal Telecommunications Institute on November 28, 2018. XHPEEN-FM was the first of the four new Espacio stations to begin broadcasting, doing so on October 8, 2019."}, {"text": "Karjana railway station is a railway station in Bardhaman\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside Bardhaman\u2013Katwa Road at Karjana of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. On 1 December 1915, McLeod's Light Railways (MLR) set up narrow-gauge lines in the Burdwan-Katwa Railway route. This railway section was handed over to the Eastern Railway in 1966. In 2010 the work started for conversion of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge. Bardhaman to Balogna railway station was reopened in 2014 and Balgona to Katwa section was completed on 12 January 2018 for the public."}, {"text": "Nongshaba is a lion god in Sanamahism and Meitei mythology. He is also regarded as a king of the gods. He is credited with producing light in the primordial universe and is regarded as the maker of the sun. He is worshipped by the people of both the Ningthouja clans as well as the Moirang clans. Nongshaba was worshipped by the people of Moirang clan as a lineage deity and regarded as the father of the god Thangching. He is the greatest of the but he made his only son Thangching the chief deity of Moirang. History. The cult of Nongshaba was brought from Moirang by Mungyaang Ngairaangba and Yumnaam Tonba, who presented the deity to King Khagemba () (r. 1597-1652 AD). The position Nongshaba's cult was buoyed by his recognition as an \"Umang Lai\" and installation as King of the gods, and the construction of a five storied-temple in his honour. Other Umang Lais became lesser deities. During the King's reign, a Meitei family, the \"Leithangbam\", was given responsibility for the cult of Nongshaba. The \"Phura\", a group of priestessess dedicated to Nongshaba was also established. During the reign of King Paikhomba () (r. 1666\u20131697 CE), there was a"}, {"text": "spiritual and symbolical marriage ceremony of princess Yaosombi () and Nongshaba, with the offering of an elephant to the deity. From the time of Khagemba until the accession of King Charairongba in 1687, the cult of Nongshaba was more popular than that of Lainingthou Sanamahi. The cult of Nongshaba did not survive for long. During the early 18th century, Hindu priests from Sylhet arrived in Kangleipak to spread Gaudiya Vaishnavism. They were led by Shantidas Adhikari and his associate Gopal Das, who succeeded in converting King Pamheiba (r. 1709\u20131754 CE) from Sanamahism to Vaishnavism in 1710. Pamheimba changed his name to Gharib Nawaz and made Hinduism the official religion of Manipur. In 1723, Gharib Nawaz had most of the shrines of Umang Lai destroyed, and Hindu Brahmins took over their temples. On 17 October 1732, he ordered the destruction of the temples. Mythology. In Meitei mythology, Kangla Sha is a divine representation of Nongshaba. According to the \"Nongshaba Laihui\", Nongshaba is the second son of the Universal Lord, and is also known as Tholbu Chinglen Nongdai Ningthou. According to the text, Nongshaba is neither assigned much duty did he take a big role in the creation of the universe. Unlike"}, {"text": "his younger brother Pakhangba, Nongshaba did not stand in the way of his elder brother Lainingthou Sanamahi. Unlike his younger brother Pakhangba, Nongshaba does not have any human descendants, and unlike his elder brother Lainingthou Sanamahi, he does not have any manifestation in human form.'. The \"Nongshaba Laihui\" further describes Nongshaba as: The same text describes all the Umang Lai deities, including Sanamahi, as the attendants of Nongshaba. The second stanza of the Meitei poem \"Anoirol\", sung in the Lai Haraoba, mentions many sky deities including Nongshaba, the god of the sky of Moirang. Worship. Devotees worship Nonghsaba by offering white clothes, fruits, flowers, and fish, preferably \"sareng\". In early times, Nongshaba was venerated, along with Pakhangba, in the Naoshumshang, the shrine of ancestral figures. Worshippers prayed to Nongshaba prayed for the longevity of the Meitei kings. The Phura is a class of priestesses who manage the cult of Nongshaba. Representations in Meitei dress. The \"ningkham samjin\" costume worn by dancers represents Nongshaba. The samjin is an elaborate, tall, pointed headdress decorated with needlework with tassels and the ningkham is a triangular wrapper with an appliqu\u00e9d border worn around the waist. The shape of the samjin is said represent Nongshaba's"}, {"text": "horned head, and his ears are represented by fan like frills on each side. The ningkham represents the tail of Nongshaba. Nongshaba's patterend body is represented by the wearing of the khamen chatpa loincloth and his beard by a long strip of a decorative fabric hanging loosely on the chest. In Bangladesh. Meitei kings constructed many temples dedicated to Meitei deities in Bangladesh, among which a shrine dedicated to Nongshaba was a notable one. In the Manipuri Rajbari in Lama Bazar of Bangladesh, there is a temple of Nongshaba, alongside temples of Pakhangba and Goddess Yumjao Leima. The Temple's facade faces south, and its ground plan is square, covering an area of 10m2. Namesakes. On the 15th of December 2015 in Imphal, a fortnightly magazine named \"Nongsaba\" was launched under the motto \"Journalism for change\". The publication focuses on the socio-political, economy, education, unemployment, art and culture, science, sports, beauty, health, entertainment, etc."}, {"text": "Katherine Jenny Thompson is a statistician in the United States Census Bureau, where she is Methodology Director of Complex Survey Methods and Analysis Group in the Economic Statistical Methods Division. In this role, part of her responsibility is helping find methods for determining and modeling economic data where it may not have been provided by businesses completing the census. Her method for assessing this \"nonresponse\" data was published in \"The Annals of Applied Statistics\". More recently, she has been exploring hot deck imputation as a method for predicting the missing data. Thompson began her undergraduate studies as an English major, but switched to mathematics after finding her courses in that subject more interesting. She joined the Census Bureau directly from college, and later earned a graduate degree in applied statistics through part-time study. Thompson has been a frequent lecturer and organizer of special sessions at the Joint Statistics Meetings, one of the largest meetings of statisticians in the world. Thompson was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2017. During 2020, she served as President of the American Statistical Association's Section on Government Statistics. She is editor for the scholarly journal Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology"}, {"text": "(JSSAM)."}, {"text": "XHPSEN-FM is a radio station on 96.9 FM in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. It is owned by Radi\u00f3polis and carries its Los 40 pop format. History. XHPSEN was awarded in the IFT-4 radio auction of 2017. Televisa Radio paid 32 million pesos. It came to air in October 2019, the name of Los 40 who had been on XHAT-FM 101.1 until 2017 when Audiorama decided to break all stations alliances with Televisa."}, {"text": "The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA, Polish: Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej) is a governmental agency in Poland established to carry out tasks related to the academic mobility between Poland and other countries. Since November 2018 the agency is part of Academic Cooperation Association. It primarily provides grants to individuals and organizations rather than through its own staff. History. NAWA was founded partially out of concerns about brain drain from Poland. The legislation to create NAWA was prepared by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. NAWA was created by an legislation from 7 July 2017 and began operating on 1 October 2017. Changes to the authorizing legislation were made in 2018 and 2019. Gra\u017cyna \u017bebrowska, a physicist, was appointed director of NAWA on May 8, 2020. On October 1, 2024, Prime Minister Donald Tusk appointed Dr. Wojciech Karczewski as the director of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange Activities. NAWA improves Polish education by facilitating the integration of Polish universities with academics worldwide by arranging conferences, facilitating cooperation on international research projects, and assisting foreign students. NAWA provides scholarships to people of Polish ancestry to study in Poland. NAWA funds research performed by Polish Universities in partnership"}, {"text": "with foreign collaborators. NAWA encourages Polish scientists living abroad to return to the country. NAWA supports foreign scientists to do post-doctoral work in Poland. Alternately, NAWA provides funding for Polish scientists to do internships abroad. NAWA funds student support services for foreign students in Poland. NAWA provides both Polish and foreign students, researchers and higher education institutions with scholarships and grants in four different fields, with the main focus on mobility: Additionally, the agency disseminates information about the Polish system of tertiary education and science. NAWA also serves to improve the international public relations of Poland. Promotional campaigns. NAWA runs two campaigns promoting Poland abroad at the moment. The Ready, Study, Go! Poland (RSGP) campaign is aiming at delivering the information about Poland as a prospective study and research destination to all candidates in the world. Research in Poland campaign promotes Poland as a perfect destination for researchers and university graduates willing to start or continue their research career abroad. Structure. NAWA is overseen by the Minister of Science and Higher Education. The director is appointed by the Prime Minister. NAWA's Council is an advisory body which makes proposals for the organization's direction and development."}, {"text": "Karjanagram railway station is a railway station in Bardhaman\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside Bardhaman\u2013Katwa Road at Karjana of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. On 1 December 1915, McLeod's Light Railways (MLR) set up narrow-gauge lines in the Burdwan-Katwa Railway route. This railway section was handed over to the Eastern Railway in 1966. In 2010 the work started for conversion of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge. Bardhaman to Balogna railway station was reopened in 2014 and Balgona to Katwa section was completed on 12 January 2018 for the public."}, {"text": "Amarun railway station is a railway station in Bardhaman\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside Bardhaman\u2013Katwa Road at Arra, Eora Chak, Amarun of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. On 1 December 1915, McLeod's Light Railways (MLR) set up narrow-gauge lines in the Burdwan-Katwa Railway route. This railway section was handed over to the Eastern Railway in 1966. In 2010 the work started for conversion of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge. Bardhaman to Balogna railway station was reopened in 2014 and Balgona to Katwa section was completed on 12 January 2018 for the public."}, {"text": "The 2019 Fuzhou China Open was a badminton tournament which took place at Haixia Olympics Sports Center in Fuzhou, Fujian, China, from 5 to 10 November 2019 and had a total prize of $700,000. Tournament. The 2019 Fuzhou China Open was the twenty-third tournament of the 2019 BWF World Tour and also part of the Fuzhou China Open championships, which has been held since 2005. This tournament was organized by Chinese Badminton Association and sanctioned by the BWF. Venue. This international tournament was held at Haixia Olympic Sports Center in Fuzhou, Fujian, China. Point distribution. Below is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 750 event. Prize money. The total prize money for this tournament was US$700,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations."}, {"text": "Saimone Vuatalevu is a veteran Fijian musician who has had a career in music lasting more than 45 years. He also known for the popular Fijian hit, \"Tucake Mai\". Background. 1960s to 1980s. His career started in 1968 when he was aged 21, winning his first local talent quest. He also fronted a bad called the Quin Tikis in the late 1960s. In 1986, he found success with the hit \"Tucake Mai\" which would go on to become a classic. He was popular during the 1980s and as cassettes were the recorded medium back then, Vuatalevu along with Sakiusa Bulicokocoko and Laisa Vulakoro may have been helped along by the good fidelity of Fijian cassettes. 1990s to 2000s. By 1998, he had won his fifth Vacalutu-i-Voce Award. In April, 2016, two of his compositions were nominated in the FPRA Music awards. They were \"Mere Khuda Meri Dohai Sun\" in the Best Hindi Song category and \"Noqu Kalou Au Tagi vei Kemuni\" in the Best Gospel Song category. In 2014, his album \"Na Loloma Uasivi\", a 10-track compilation of some of his more memorable work was released. In July, 2019, his song \"Tucake Mai\" was danced to by around 60 year"}, {"text": "7 and 8 students who also paid tribute to Fiji by singing the national anthem at the Pacific Games opening ceremony. As of 2019, he is the chairman for The Fiji Performing Rights Association."}, {"text": "XHOCU-FM is an indigenous radio station on 97.3 FM in Ocumicho, a town in the municipality of Charapan, Michoac\u00e1n, Mexico. The station is authorized to serve the primary localities of Ocumicho, Cocucho, San Jos\u00e9 de Garc\u00eda Ru\u00edz Cort\u00ednez, Patamban, La Cantera, Aranza, Teng\u00fcecho, Sirio, San Isidro, Uringuitiro, and Santa Rosa. The station is directly owned by the Pur\u00e9pecha indigenous community of Ocumicho. History. Radio Uekakua's history predates by years its legalization. The station had first applied for a permit in 2002 and in 2009 had still yet to receive a reply; the station was raided and forced off the air for lacking a permit in 2009; the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation claimed it had \"lost\" the application. The Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law of 2014 created new indigenous and community station classes. The indigenous community at Ocumicho filed for a station once more on August 14, 2015, and the Federal Telecommunications Institute approved the concession award on January 25, 2017. In comparison with its 5-watt output as a pirate, XHOCU-FM is authorized for 391 watts, covering almost 42,000 people."}, {"text": "Noman Chowdhury (born 15 August 2001) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 10 October 2019, for Chittagong Division in the 2019\u201320 National Cricket League. In February 2021, he was selected in the Bangladesh Emerging squad for their home series against the Ireland Wolves. He made his Twenty20 debut on 7 June 2021, for Khelaghar Samaj Kallyan Samity in the 2021 Dhaka Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket League."}, {"text": "Bhatar railway station is a railway station in Bardhaman\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside Bardhaman\u2013Katwa Road at Palar, Bhatar of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. On 1 December 1915, McLeod's Light Railways (MLR) set up narrow-gauge lines in the Burdwan-Katwa Railway route. This railway section was handed over to the Eastern Railway in 1966. In 2010 the work started for conversion of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge. Bardhaman to Balogna railway station was reopened in 2014 and Balgona to Katwa section was completed on 12 January 2018 for the public."}, {"text": "Mehrab Hossain (born 12 April 1991) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He made his List A debut on 12 November 2014, for Kalabagan Cricket Academy in the 2014\u201315 Dhaka Premier Division. He made his Twenty20 debut on 7 June 2021, for Partex Sporting Club in the 2021 Dhaka Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket League."}, {"text": "A bouncing ball is a spherical object subject to physical forces, an idealized version of which is sometimes used in introductory physics education. Bouncing ball may also refer to:"}, {"text": "The drug policy of Romania changed significantly in 2014 when penalties for a range of drug related offences were reduced. Drug use was not decriminalized but it became possible to avoid a jail sentence. A person convicted of possession for personal use may avoid a jail term by agreeing to an \"integrated assistance programme\". The penalties for some supply offences were also reduced in 2014. Details. Since 2014, penalties for drug law offences in Romania have been linked to the type of drug, with higher penalties being imposed for offences related to drugs considered. The legislation also distinguishes between users and addicts, according to diagnosis. Changes to the Penal Code in 2014 reduced some penalty ranges for supply offences. Drug consumption is not allowed nor any punishment is specified. In the case of possession for personal use, the court can impose a fine or a prison sentence of 3 months to 2 years, or 6 months to 3 years, depending on the type of drug. A drug user who is convicted of any of these offences can avoid punishment by agreeing to attend an integrated assistance programme; the consent of the drug user is a prerequisite for inclusion in the"}, {"text": "programme. This is clearly defined in the . All actions related to the production and sale of drugs are punishable by 2 to 7 years' imprisonment, or 5 to 12 years' imprisonment, depending on the type of drug. Similarly, the import or export of drugs is punishable by 3 to 10, or 7 to 15 years' imprisonment."}, {"text": "Ayesha Haroon (1977\u20132013) was a Pakistani journalist and writer. She worked as the editor of several major news publications in Pakistan during her career. Early life. Haroon received her education from the Kinnaird College For Women. Career. Haroon started her career with \"The Frontier Post\" as a writer in 1990 while she was still a student. After her graduation, she worked for \"The Frontier Post\" regularly as their magazine editor. Haroon later joined \"The Nation\" as an editor and reporter. In 2007, she joined as the editor for the Lahore edition of \"The News International\". Haroon also helped launch Waqt News TV channel and she worked as its news director. Personal life. She was married to Dr. Faisal Bari, economist and professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Death. She was diagnosed with cancer aged 42. She received initial treatment at Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital. Later, her family shifted her to the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She lost her battle to cancer and died on February 3, 2013, in New York. Haroon was laid to rest in Lahore. Arif Nizami, former editor of \"The Nation\", stated that Haroon was very helpful to her juniors and co-workers. \u201cShe"}, {"text": "was a brave person and a sincere friend,\u201d he said. Huma Ali, a senior journalist and a former president of the Lahore Press Club, said that \"she would never refuse anyone seeking her help or guidance in professional matters.\u201d Investigative reporter Umar Cheema said Haroon was a great journalist and charismatic editor who mentored a generation of young journalists. Awards and accolades. The President of Pakistan posthumously awarded Haroon the Pride of Performance on 23 March 2015."}, {"text": "Giuseppe Bigazzi (Terranuova Bracciolini, 20 January 1933 \u2013 Arezzo, 7 October 2019) was an Italian executive, journalist, television presenter and writer. He was a television presenter for the RAI show \"La prova del cuoco\". In February 2010, on a television cooking show, the Italian food writer Beppe Bigazzi mentioned that during the famine in World War II cat stew was a \"succulent\" and well-known dish in his home area of Valdarno, Tuscany. Later he claimed he had been joking, but added that cats used to be eaten in the area during famine periods, historically. He was widely criticised in the media for his comments and ultimately dropped from the television network. Biography. Graduated in 1959 from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Florence with 110/110 cum laude and publication. Served in the military from 1960 to 1961 as an officer in the Italian Air Force at Perdasdefogu. From 1961 to 1966 he worked at the Bank of Italy. He approached the world of journalism and publishing as early as 1961 when he was editor of the monthly magazine directed by Giulio Pastore, Il Nuovo Osservatore, and in 1963 he was vice-president of Idoc, a cultural association on"}, {"text": "the great monotheistic religions, with which he would edit a series of book and magazine series published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. In 1966 he edited, with Renzo De Felice, I Lavoratori dello Stato, a critical edition of Giulio Pastore's collection of writings and speeches. In 1968, he was appointed deputy secretary general of the Committee of Ministers for the Mezzogiorno as well as a member of various interministerial committees for economic planning until 1970. In 1970 he was hired at ENI where he worked until 1993, when he retired, and during these years also became ENI's director of foreign relations (1970-1973), general manager and later CEO of Lanerossi (1973-1978), and president of various companies such as GEPI, Maserati, Innocenti, and Tirsotex. From 1984 to 1990 he was CEO of Agip and from 1990 to 1993 chairman of AGIP Coal and president of 53 AGIP companies. He participated in the last four editions of the Mille Miglia, the 1954 Carrera Panamericana and three editions of the Targa Florio. He began to dedicate himself to his passion for gastronomy by editing, from 1997 to 1999, the Luoghi di Delizia column in the newspaper Il Tempo; also in 1997 he published La Natura"}, {"text": "come Chef, which won the \u201cVerdicchio d'oro\u201d award. On television he edited from 1995 to 2000 the column \u201cLa borsa della spesa\u201d within the program Unomattina on Rai 1, and since 2000 he has been co-host of La prova del cuoco together with Antonella Clerici, also on the same channel. Later, he moved to Sky channel Alice, where he was co-host of the program Bischeri e bischerate. Since September 2013, he has made a permanent return to the cast of La Prova del cuoco. He died in Rome at the age of 86 on October 7, 2019 from cancer."}, {"text": "Peter Ronald Horne is a New Zealand Paralympian who competed in lawn bowls. At the 1988 Summer Paralympics, he won a gold medal in the Singles LB3, and a bronze medal in the Pairs LB2. He also competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. In the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours, Horne was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to bowls and Paralympic sport."}, {"text": "Balgona railway station is a railway station in Bardhaman\u2013Katwa line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated at Nityanandapur, Balgona of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. On 1 December 1915, McLeod's Light Railways set up narrow-gauge lines in the Burdwan-Katwa Railway route. This railway section was handed over to the Eastern Railway in 1966. In 2010 the work started for conversion of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge. Bardhaman to Balogna railway station was reopened in 2014 and Balgona to Katwa section was completed on 12 January 2018 for the public."}, {"text": "Hooghly Branch Government School (or Hooghly Branch (Govt) School), established in 1834, is one of the oldest schools in West Bengal. It is located in Chawk Bazar, Hooghly, within the area of Hooghly-Chinsurah Municipality. The school is administered by the state government of West Bengal and admits only males. The School has two sessions, morning and day session. Students are taught from class 1 to class 12. The school's primary medium of instruction is Bengali and English is second language. However, on the higher secondary section, people are allowed to choose the medium of instruction as English."}, {"text": "Hayatullah is an Afghan cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 20 February 2019, for Kunduz Province in the 2018\u201319 Mirwais Nika Provincial 3-Day. He scored a century and was named the player of the match. He made his Twenty20 debut on 7 October 2019, for Band-e-Amir Dragons in the 2019 Shpageeza Cricket League."}, {"text": "Filippo Luigi Penati (30 December 1952 \u2013 9 October 2019) was an Italian politician. Born in Monza, He was mayor of Sesto San Giovanni between 1994 and 2001, and president of the Province of Milan between 2004 and 2009. He died in Sesto San Giovanni, aged 66."}, {"text": "SFDR may refer to:"}]