[{"text": "Krutoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Slashchyovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 47 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Krutoy is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Khopyor River, 32 km west of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Slashchevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kuznechinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Popovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 38 as of 2010. Geography. Kuznechinsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Yedovlya River, 53 km northwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Filin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gangsters Incorporated, also known as \"Bad Fellaz\" is a 2015 American action comedy film directed and written by William Lee. It stars Mel Novak and Joe Estevez. Plot. Vinny Vincenzo (William Lee), an extremely intelligent, ruthless and tough gangster who joins the mob and works and fights his way up the ranks to be bestowed the title of the first African-American Don. His Daily Struggles to maintain his power while fighting off FBI official Stick (Mel Novak) are chronicled."}, {"text": "Kuchurovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kumylzhenskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 87 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Kuchurovsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Stary Khopyor River, 21 km northwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasnoarmeysky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lisinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sulyayevskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2010. Geography. Lisinsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River, 23 km north of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tyurinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lyubishensky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Belogorskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 136 as of 2010. Geography. Lyubishensky is located on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 56 km west of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Belogorsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Louis Magrath King (1886\u20131949), born at Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China. King was appointed as a British Consul at Dartsedo (Kangding, Sichuan, China) in 1913, which was then a trading town on the border between the Chinese Empire and Tibet. King was the son of Paul Henry King, a Commissioner in the Chinese Customs Service, and writer Margaret Williamson King (known to her family as Veronica King), and the grandson of Scottish missionary Alexander Williamson. King's sister, Carol Mary Langton King was a racing car driver. King was married to Rinchen Lhamo, author of \"We Tibetans\" (London: Seeley, Service, 1926). Lhamo came from a respected family in Kham, East Tibet. The couple probably met sometime around 1919-1922, and were officially married in 1923. Theirs is often described as \"probably the first Tibetan-British marriage\". They settled in England in 1925 and had four children together, including Irene Louise Yudre King (1921-1946), Paul Henry Tindal King (1923-2016), and Martha Lilian Rolfe, nee King (1924-2003), and Alec King. After Rinchen\u2019s death in 1929, Louis went on to marry an English woman named Margaret (nee Moulton), and they had several children together, including Martyn King, who later became a striker for Colchester football team. King was"}, {"text": "the author of various books, articles and reviews about China and Tibet. King also gave a collection of Tibetan religious objects and \"thangka\" paintings to the British Museum, circa 1918-1919, while serving as a Captain with the Chinese Labour Corps during World War 1."}, {"text": "Lyalinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sulyayevskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Lyalinsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River, 13 km north of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kraptsovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mitkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Bukanovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 20 as of 2010. Geography. Mitkin is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the Rastverdyayevka River, 48 km southwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Andreyanovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Greenhill Lower railway station served the village of Greenhill, Falkirk, Scotland from 1848 to 1966 on the Scottish Central Railway. History. The station opened on 1 March 1848 by the Caledonian Railway. A third platform was added when the Bonnybridge Branch opened. The platform opened on the north side, making the former northern platform an island platform. It was also known as Greenhill Junction in some Caledonian timetables. The station closed on 18 April 1966."}, {"text": "Latif Abubakar is a Ghanaian playwright and the chief executive director of Globe Production. He founded the organization the Globe Production in 2009 and has worked with notable actors including Ekow Smith-Asante, Adjetey Anang, Clemento Suarez, Ofori Bismarck, Pearl Darkey, Paul Quarcoo and Alexandra Bailey. Career. He was the first playwright in Ghana to live stream his play \"Thank God For Idiots\" virtually on YouTube amid band on public gathering during the COVID-19 period. Awards. Abubakar won the Tourism and Culture awards for his creative works in arts, culture and entertainment through his plays at the Ghana Tourism Authority."}, {"text": "R\u00f3bert Ruck (born 10 December 1977) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster (GM) (2000), Hungarian Chess Championship winner (2002), Chess Olympiad team silver medal winner (2002), World Team Chess Championship individual bronze medal winner (2001). Biography. R\u00f3bert Ruck has repeatedly represented Hungary at the European Youth Chess Championship and World Youth Chess Championships in various age groups. R\u00f3bert Ruck achieved his best result in 1992, in Rimavsk\u00e1 Sobota, when he shared 2nd - 3rd place in European Youth Chess Championship in U16 age group, and in 1994, in Szeged when he shared 2nd - 3rd place in European Youth Chess Championship in U18 age group, and in 1994, in Chania when he shared 2nd - 4th place in World Youth Chess Championship in U18 age group. In 2002, R\u00f3bert Ruck won the Hungarian Chess Championship but a year later he won a silver medal in this tournament. R\u00f3bert Ruck is winner of many international chess tournaments, including Zagreb (1997), Budapest (2000), Keszeg (2000), Kladovo (2001), Lippstadt (2003). R\u00f3bert Ruck played for Hungary in the Chess Olympiads: R\u00f3bert Ruck played for Hungary in the World Team Chess Championship: R\u00f3bert Ruck played for Hungary in the European Team Chess Championships: In 1994, he"}, {"text": "was awarded the FIDE International Master title, and in 2000 the FIDE Grandmaster title."}, {"text": "This article lists some of the events from 1951 related to the Netherlands."}, {"text": "Nikitinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kumylzhenskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 399 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Nikitinsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Sukhodol River, 21 km northeast of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zhukovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Oblivsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kumylzhenskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 293 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Oblivsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 4 km north of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kumylzhenskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Olkhovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Popovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 171 as of 2010. Geography. Olkhovsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Yedovlya River, 55 km northwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Popov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ostroukhov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Slashchyovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 346 as of 2010. There are 15 streets. Geography. Ostroukhov is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Khopyor River, 28 km southwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Devkin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Podkovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Slashchyovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 74 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Podkovsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 41 km west of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Filin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pokruchinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) Sulyayevskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 429 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Pokruchinsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Khopyor River, 36 km northwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sidorovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Popov () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Popovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 662 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Popov is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Yedovlya River, 54 km northwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Olkhovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Potapovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kumylzhenskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 144 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Potapovsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Sukhodol River, 15 km northeast of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sigayevsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Ottmar Hitzfeld Arena is a sports stadium in the village Gspon in Canton Valais, Switzerland. It is the highest stadium in Europe at 2,012 m (6,600 ft) above sea level. It is the home of amateur football club FC Gspon and is named after football manager Ottmar Hitzfeld. Location. The stadium is located in the hamlet Gspon, which is 800 meters above the Staldenried municipality in Canton Valais. Gspon has only five inhabitants, but Staldenried has more than 500. Gspon has no cars nor traffic, and was chosen as the site location because lower lands are used for agriculture. The stadium is known for being the highest football pitch in Europe, 2012 meters above sea level. Design. Football was initially played here on gravel, and later there was a surface of wood chips and sand. The pitch has a safety net on three sides to prevent footballs being kicked into the valley, although it is claimed that a thousand footballs have been lost. Up to two-hundred spectators attend the home games and there is no entrance fee. The pitch is smaller than the average football pitch and only eight instead of eleven players take part in the game which"}, {"text": "has no offside rule. In 2009 a field of artificial turf was paid for by the former football trainer of the Swiss National Team Ottmar Hitzfeld, hence its name. The teams and spectators travel to the matches by cable car. The original cable car from Staldenried held twelve people. In 2019, a new cable car with cabins that held 25 passengers was installed. Because of the elevated altitude the air is thinner and some think that gives the home team an advantage. The pitch, which is as large as the available flat surface permits, is smaller than traditional pitches. In winter, the pitch is covered by snow and part of a ski piste. History. The FC Gspon was established in 1974. Until 1986 the football club was active in the amateur football in Valais. In 1984, with the support of FC Gspon, the Mountain Village championship was established in Switzerland. According to the club legend, the pitch's location close to a cliff made it lose around a thousand footballs. Timo Konietzka, who scored the first goal of the German Association Football in 1963, had some sympathy and he supplied more footballs in 1990. The stadium was the host of the"}, {"text": "European Football Championship of Mountain Villages, first held in 2008 which was organized in collaboration with the European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland. The Championship in Gspon was won by Spain who beat Sweden in the final. Switzerland was third after defeating France. Since 2008 FC Gspon has a men's and a women's team who play on the arena. Reception. \"Reader's Digest\" put Hitzfeld Stadium at number one on their list of weirdest stadiums, while Bleacher Report put the stadium on their list of 20 sports stadiums with the most beautiful views."}, {"text": "Pustovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Slashchyovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Pustovsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Khopyor River, 36 km southwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ostroukhov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rodionovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kumylzhenskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 235 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Rodionovsky is located between Lyalinsky and Chunosovsky, on the bank of the Kumylga River, 10 km north of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lyalinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Samoylovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kumylzhenskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Samoylovsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Peskovatka River, 15 km west of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Siskovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sarychevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kumylzhenskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 127 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Sarychevsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Stary Khopyor River, 25 km northwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kuchurovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sedov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krasnyanskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 155 as of 2010. Geography. Sedov is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the right bank of the Medveditsa River, 53 km south of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasnyansky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sigayevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kumylzhenskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2010. Geography. Sigayevsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Sukhodol River, 12 km northeast of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kumylzhenskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Siskovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kumylzhenskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 47 as of 2010. Geography. Siskovsky is located on the left bank of the Khopyor River, 17 km west of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Samoylovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Skurishenskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) in Glazunovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 799 as of 2010. There are 17 streets. Geography. Skurishenskaya is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the right bank of the Medveditsa River, 33 km southeast of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Blizhny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Cycloartane is a triterpene, also known as 4,4,14-trimethyl-9,19-cyclo-5alpha,9beta-cholestane. Its derivative cycloartenol is the starting point for the synthesis of almost all plant steroids."}, {"text": "Slashchyovskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Slashchyovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,288 as of 2010. There are 43 streets. Geography. Slashchyovskaya is located on the right bank of the Khopyor River, 31 km southwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shakin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Count Bobby, The Terror of The Wild West (German: Graf Bobby, der Schrecken des wilden Westens) is a 1966 Austrian musical comedy film directed by Paul Martin and starring Peter Alexander, Olga Schoberov\u00e1 and Gunther Philipp. It was the last in a trilogy of films featuring the character Count Bobby. It drew some inspiration from the ongoing series of Karl May film adaptations set in the Wild West. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz J\u00fcptner-Jonstorff. It was shot at studios in Belgrade, and on location around Yugoslavia which stood in for the American west as it frequently did in German films of the decade. Synopsis. An impoverished Viennese aristocrat inherits an estate in Arizona and travels out hoping that it is a lucrative gold mine."}, {"text": "Sulyayevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Sulyayevskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 682 as of 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. Sulyayevsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River, 25 km north of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tyurinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tochilkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krasnyanskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 148 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Tochilkin is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 44 km southeast of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chiganaki 2-ye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tyurinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sulyayevskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 127 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Tyurinsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River, 23 km north of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sulyayevsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fedoseyevskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) in Popovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 48 as of 2010. Geography. Fedoseyevskaya is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Khopyor River, 56 km northwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Filyaty is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Filin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Popovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 419 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Filin is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 47 km northwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Podkovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ailsa Jean Mainman is a British archaeologist and pottery specialist. Career. Mainman completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield and is now a research associate at the University of York. She is a former assistant director of York Archaeological Trust. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 12 January 1989. Personal life. In 1991 Mainman married fellow archaeologist Richard Hall (1949\u20132011). In 2014 Mainman fulfilled her late husband's \"last wish\" by helping to publish the final volume in a progressive series of publications about York Archaeological Trust's excavations of Jorvik."}, {"text": "Filyaty () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Popovskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Filyaty is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Khopyor River, 59 km northwest of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Fedoseyevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Roberto Balzani (born 21 August 1961 in Forl\u00ec) is an Italian historian, professor and politician. He is professor of contemporary history at the University of Bologna. His works mainly focus on the Italian \"Risorgimento\" and history of Italy in the 19th century. Balzani is a member of the Democratic Party and served as Mayor of Forl\u00ec from June 2009 to May 2014."}, {"text": "Chiganaki 1-ye () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krasnyanskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 138 as of 2010. Geography. Chiganaki 1-ye is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 38 km southeast of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chiginaki 2-ye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Apostolic Nunciature to Gabon is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Gabon. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador."}, {"text": "Chiganaki 2-ye () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krasnyanskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 298 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Chiganaki 2-ye is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 41 km southeast of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kozlov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chunosovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kumylzhenskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 in 2010. There are three streets. Geography. Chunosovsky is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River, 9 km north of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Golovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shakin () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Shakinskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 635 as of 2010. There are 15 streets. Geography. Shakin is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Rastverdyayevka River, 36 km west of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Slashchevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yarskoy 1-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sulyayevskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 472 as of 2010. There are 20 streets. Geography. Yarskoy 1-y is located in forest steppe, on Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the bank of the Kumylga River, 18 km north of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nikitinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yarskoy 2-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krasnyanskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2010. Geography. Yarskoy 2-y is located between Don and Medveditsa Rivers, 62 km south of Kumylzhenskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Buyerak-Popovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Franco Tentorio (born 5 January 1945 in Bergamo) is an Italian politician. He served as Mayor of Bergamo from June 2009 to June 2014."}, {"text": "Robert de Houdetot was a French admiral and nobleman. Biography. He was seneschal of the Agenais and master-bowman in 1345 and laid siege to Casseneuil during 1345. While undertaking a siege of the ch\u00e2teau at Bajamont in 1346 he was taken prisoner. Robert was known as the grand master of the king's crossbows in 1352."}, {"text": "Leo is a 2012 Kenyan movie directed by Jinna Mutune. Synopsis. A young Masai boy is eager to become a super hero despite the challenges he faces in life."}, {"text": "Food vs. feed is a competition for resources between growing crops for human consumption and growing crops for animal feed. Competing resources includes: land, water sources, fertilizers, labor, and finances Part of the competition is the division of land. In many countries, livestock graze on land that is typically unsuitable for crops grown for human consumption or food crops. There is three times as much agricultural land as arable land. The Food and Agriculture Organization utilizes the term \"food vs. feed\" in the livestock industry to compare crop inputs vs. protein outputs. For example, crops for people to eat require less land and other resources than crops for animals to eat so people can eat them. Global Impacts. Global Greenhouse Gas Emission and Trade. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, global emissions from agriculture are outputting an estimate of 5.4 billion tons of greenhouse gases. Since the 1960s, international trade in feed and animal products has increased tenfold, driven by the growing global demand for meat and dairy products, fueled by population growth and the increasing popularity of animal-based protein diets. This trend has intensified the need to allocate more land exclusively for feed production. Additionally, the demand for"}, {"text": "crops intended for human consumption has risen due to population growth. Global trade in vegetables has surged 7.5 times since the 1960s.Beside the trade of crops, feeds, and animal products; the transportation of resources involved for the crop cultivation also contributes the emission of CO2. Transport of resources such as crop seeds, processed feed, fertilizers, pesticide, and other resources involved in the farming operations. Circular Agriculture. Circular agriculture is defined as a sustainable farming system that promotes waste cycling and resource preservation. Farms that exclusively produce food crops or exclusively produce feed generates excess waste that contributes to environmental pollution In a circular agriculture system, wasted food (no longer edible by humans) can be provided to livestock, which in turn feed humans. Not only can the food waste be redirected as feed, it can be composted into fertilizers to enrich the soil. Food waste utilized as feed causes a reduction in GHG emissions as the process decreases waste disposal process and excessive feed production. The waste not only accumulates from rotten, unharvested, and expired crops, but remnants from the harvest such as stems, stalks, and other unconsumed parts of the crops. Resources for cultivating the crop such as manure, plant-based"}, {"text": "materials, and other biodegradable items will contribute to the landfill. All of which will contribute to the emission of methane, a GHG. Farm waste in landfills without oxygen would produce methane (CH4), a GHG that traps more heat than carbon dioxide(CO2). According to the MIT Climate Portal, methane captures 120 the amount of heat that carbon dioxide does in a given moment. Beside anaerobic composition of farm waste in landfills, methane is also produce from enteric fermentation and manure management. China and Beiqiu Farm. China alone produces 708 millions tons placing the country first in agriculture emission with a 13.5 percent share of global contribution. As a separate measurement, livestock emission produces 150 millions tons. Due to high demand of both crops and livestock, farms in the country has adopted more circular agriculture practices to prioritize meeting the demands. Practices such as having on site processing facilities that turns farm waste into both feed and fertilizer. Beiqiu farm located in Dezhou City in the Shandong Province of China utilizes a circular agricultural system where it prioritizes both food crops and feed crops for farm's livestock. Beiqiu farm produces wheat and corn for both food production and livestock feed. Crops that"}, {"text": "the farm cannot be sold are repurposed as feed, and a portion of the harvest is allocated from sales to ensure there is sufficient feed for the livestock. Livestock manure and crop byproducts are repurposed as organic fertilizers through Beiqiu's on-site processing facility, ensuring that no waste is sent to landfills. This process lowers the farm's costs while also reducing excess greenhouse gas emissions produced on the farm. Feeding livestock with onsite crops reduces emission through eliminating the need to transport off-farm sources of feed."}, {"text": "Boneshaker is the fifth studio album by Australian hard rock band Airbourne. It was released on 25 October 2019 via Spinefarm and was produced by American record producer, songwriter and music executive Dave Cobb. It is the first and only Airbourne album to feature Matt \"Harri\" Harrison on rhythm guitar, taking the place of the band's rhythm guitarist and longtime original member David Roads, who left in 2017."}, {"text": "Bakhtiyarovka () is a rural locality (selo) and the administrative center of Bakhtiyarovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 822 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Bakhtiyarovka is located on the left bank of the Akhtuba River, 8 km northwest of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Leninsk is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Sweet Life of Count Bobby (German: Das s\u00fcsse Leben des Grafen Bobby) is a 1962 Austrian musical comedy film directed by G\u00e9za von Cziffra and starring Peter Alexander, Ingeborg Sch\u00f6ner and Gunther Philipp. It was the second in a trilogy of films featuring Alexander in the character of Count Bobby, following \"The Adventures of Count Bobby\" (1961). It was followed by \"Count Bobby, The Terror of The Wild West\" in 1966. It was partly shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz J\u00fcptner-Jonstorff. Plot. Count Bobby and his friend are running a struggling detective agency. They get a break when they investigate a gang of smugglers using a nightclub as a front. In order to infiltrate the organisation, Bobby is required to go undercover dressed as a woman."}, {"text": "Bulgakov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Pokrovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 28 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Bulgakov is located on Caspian Depression, on the left bank of the Volga River, 21 km northeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kovylny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vosmoye Marta () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Zaplavnenskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 257 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Vosmoye Marta is located on the left bank of the Akhtuba River, 24 km northwest of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zaplavnoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Glukhoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Karshevitskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2010. Geography. Glukhoy is located on the left bank of the Volga River, 38 km southeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Karshevitoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gornaya Polyana () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Pokrovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 80 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. The village is located on Caspian Depression, 71 km from Volgograd, 29 km from Leninsk, 8.3 km from Pokrovka."}, {"text": "Dolgy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Pokrovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 24 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. The village is located on Caspian Depression, on the left bank of the Kalinov, 76 km from Volgograd, 27 km from Leninsk, 16 km from Pokrovka."}, {"text": "Zaplavnoye () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Zaplavnenskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 3,734 as of 2010. There are 66 streets. Geography. Zaplavnoye is located on the left bank of the Akhtuba River, 21 km west of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vosmoye Marta is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "CBL Munchee Bangladesh is a flagship biscuit brand of Ceylon Biscuits Limited (CBL) in Bangladesh. CBL, the mother company with 50 years of experience and is present in 64 countries, entered Bangladesh in 2014 by setting up a factory in Sreepur Upazila, Gazipur, from Dhaka as the first Sri Lankan owned confectionery manufacturing plant in Bangladesh, and the first Sri Lankan owned confectionery manufacturing plant overseas. The plant was set up as it was cheaper to manufacture in Bangladesh than exporting large volumes there due to high duties on confectionery imports. With the plant CBL planned to export Munchee to Nepal and Bhutan, and eventually to Europe and Persian Gulf countries from the Bangladesh plant as Bangladesh had significant concessions on its exports. CBL Munchee started marketing in Bangladesh in 2015. By 2019, Munchee was available in 55 countries. CBL has an agreement with Concord Entertainment Co. Ltd to showcase Munchee at Fantasy Kingdom. Awards. On the Mothers Day of 2017, Munchee and \"The Daily Star\" organised social media initiative \"Mayer Daka Naam\" (lit. the name my mother calls me by) to post that name on Facebook, a campaign that was awarded Best Digital Advertising Campaign and Best in Social"}, {"text": "Media Engagement awards at South Asian Digital Media Awards 2017 jointly presented by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and Google. Bangladeshi major social media influencers like Ayman Sadiq, Solaiman Shukhon, Zara Mahbub, and Arif R Hossain were among those who posted their names of affection on Facebook on that Mother's Day. AsiaOne magazine and United Research Services declared Munchee as the Fastest Growing Brand in Bangladesh in 2018. Variants. Munchee has multiple variants."}, {"text": "Zarya () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Stepnovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 142 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. The village is located on Caspian Depression, 87 km from Volgograd, 30 km from Leninsk, 15 km from Stepnoy."}, {"text": "Kevin Nunis (18 September 1959 \u2013 28 June 2025) was a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He died on 28 June 2025, at the age of 65."}, {"text": "Ahmed Fadzil (born 6 June 1959) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Foo Keat Seong (born 22 May 1958) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Sukhvinderjeet Singh Kulwant (born 29 October 1960) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Di Asa is a reality show that is telecast on Atinka TV. The reality show engage plus sized woman who are market women from the sixteen regions of Ghana to compete together by showing their dancing skills and the winners would be rewarded at the end of the show or program."}, {"text": "Sarjit Singh Kundan Singh (born 24 November 1962) is a Malaysian field hockey coach and former player. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics. He is currently the head coach of the Malaysia national field hockey team."}, {"text": "Stephen Van Huizen (born 1 September 1958) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He is the son of Lawrence Van Huizen and the nephew of Peter van Huizen, both too known for their role in Malaysian field hockey."}, {"text": "Jagjit Singh Chet (born 26 April 1961) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Soon Mustafa bin Karim (born 22 May 1963) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Tam Chiew Seng (born 22 January 1956) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Shurentheran Murugesan (born 30 March 1956) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Colin Santa Maria (born 23 February 1959) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Sergei Stepanovich Starchenko (\u0421\u0435\u0440\u0433\u0435\u0439 \u0421\u0442\u0435\u043f\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u0421\u0442\u0430\u0440\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e) is a mathematical logician who was born and grew up in the Soviet Union and now works in the USA. Starchenko graduated from the Novosibirsk State University in 1983 with M.S. and then in 1987 received his Ph.D. (Russian Candidate degree) there. His doctoral dissertation \"Number of models of Horn theories\" was written under the supervision of Evgenii Andreevich Palyutin. Starchenko was an assistant professor of mathematics at Vanderbilt University and is now a full professor at the University of Notre Dame. 2013 he received the Karp Prize with Ya\u2019acov Peterzil for collaborative work with two other mathematicians. With Peterzil he applied the theory of o-minimal structures to problems in algebra and real and complex analysis. In 2010 Starchenko was, along with Peterzil, Invited Speaker with the talk \"Tame complex analysis and o-minimality\" at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad. Starchenko became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the class of 2017."}, {"text": "Scientists at the University of Connecticut together with principals at the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) have identified numerous plant species that pose a threat to habitats, human health and economy. The list below is a partial inventory of non-native species that are considered to be an existing threat or potential threat."}, {"text": "Arun Karthick (Tamil: \u0b85\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba3\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bcd; born 1992) is an Indian film director. His directorial debut \"Sivapuranam\" (2016) a Tamil language Film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Karthick's second feature film \"Nasir\" (2020) received the Hubert Bals Fund enabling it to become a coproduction with the Netherlands. \"Nasir\" premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020, was an entry for the Tiger Competition and won the NETPAC Award for the best Asian feature film. The film's North American premiere will be at the New Directors/ New Films festival organized by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Centre."}, {"text": "Arctic Film Festival is an annual film festival held in September in the Norwegian archipelago, Svalbard's town, Longyearbyen. The festival is organized by HF Productions, and is a United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals' (SDGs) initiative. It is the northernmost film festival in the world. The festival. Arctic Film Festival was first started in September 2019 and is held annually at the only screening venue in Longyearbyen, Kulturhuset. The event takes filmmakers on environmental excursions in the Arctic region and programs roundtable discussions moderated by HF Head of Production Benn Wiebe. It is organized by Copenhagen-based production company HF Productions and received financial support under the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) platform. Arctic Film Festival awards winners. 2019. The following are the winners of the 2019 Arctic Film Festival are:"}, {"text": "Cassie Kinoshi is a British composer, saxophonist and bandleader who leads the group SEED Ensemble, who were nominated for a Mercury Prize award in 2019. Biography. Kinoshi grew up in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, and attended Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (Composition) as well as Tomorrow's Warriors. Cassie attended St. George's School, Harpenden for sixth form where she completed her A level in music. Kinoshi formed SEED Ensemble in 2016 as a way of celebrating Britain's diversity, and the group has been praised for its conscious look at British society and culture. SEED Ensemble combine jazz with West African and Caribbean music, and Kinoshi told Vinyl Factory: \"It's important to me that I shine a light on political subject matter which is often disregarded by the masses and highlight what it means to exist as a young Black British citizen today.\" Kinoshi was also a member of the Afrobeat group Kokoroko, and the seven-piece (inactive since 2020) jazz group N\u00e9rija. Her six-piece Brown Penny played at SXSW in Austin, Texas, in early 2022 and was due to take part in the EFG London Jazz Festival in November 2022. She left Kokoroko in 2022 to focus on her"}, {"text": "work with SEED Ensemble. In 2019, SEED Ensemble were nominated for a Mercury Prize award for their album \"Driftglass\". Kinoshi told DIY that she \"screamed really high pitch and ran around in circles\" when she heard about the nomination. The album received an 85% jump in sales as a result of the nomination. Kinoshi is also a composer who writes for theatre, including the National Theatre (\"Top Girls\"), the Old Vic Theatre and the London Symphony Orchestra."}, {"text": "The Hanau sect is a pseudo-religious group led by Sylvia Dorn in Hanau, Hesse, Germany. Sylvia Dorn and her husband Walter Dorn, a priest, created the cult group in the 1980s. The group has around 15 members, dominantly led by Sylvia Dorn. She claims to get messages directly from God (as a medium), which must be executed by the members. The creation of the group dates back at the early 1980s, when three pastors of the United Methodist Church were excluded from their denomination because they resorted to the method of dream interpretation. One of them was Walter Dorn, a second is still active in the sect today. Walter Dorn established a television and media production company called Aeon-Verlag. The company is presumably considered as a \"work of God\". At some point it should serve to spread the message of Sylvia D. and of God, called, the \"old one\". The employees are part of the group. The city of Hanau canceled all cooperation with the company until the trial has ended. In September 2017 Sylvia Dorn was impeached for killing Jan H., the four-year-old son of a cult member at 17 August 1988. Joint investigation carried out by the Frankfurter"}, {"text": "Rundschau and the Hessenschau had led to the reopening of the case in 2015. Dorn packed Jan in a big bag and didn't react to his screams and panic reactions. D. called the young boy a \"pig\" and a \"reincarnation of Hitler\". She was convicted of murder and sentenced to life-long imprisonment in September 2020. Publications. Sylvia Dorn, Walter Dorn: \"Halt fest, da\u00df Gott mit Allem und Jedem zu tun hat.\" 1982"}, {"text": "Jason Marquis Rydell Moore Jr. (born June 23, 1995) is an American professional football wide receiver. He played college football at Findlay. Early life. Moore was born and grew up in Oberlin, Ohio and attended Oberlin High School. Moore was named the Patriot Athletic Conference (PAC) Defensive Back of the Year as a senior. Moore was also an All-PAC selection in basketball and played in the Ohio North-South All-Star Game during his senior year. College career. Moore was a member of the Findlay Oilers football team for six seasons, redshirting his true freshman season and then using a medical redshirt the next year after breaking his leg shortly before the beginning of the season. As a sophomore, Moore set a school record with 1,115 receiving yards on 71 receptions with 15 touchdowns and was named first-team All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). He was named first-team All-Great Midwest Athletic Conference after catching 65 passes for 980 yards and 14 touchdowns in his junior season. Moore missed most of his senior year due to a suspension, playing only four games with 30 receptions for 495 yards and three touchdowns. His finished his collegiate career with 204 receptions for 3,217 yards and"}, {"text": "39 touchdowns in 37 games played. Professional career. Los Angeles Chargers. Moore signed with the Los Angeles Chargers as an undrafted free agent on April 27, 2019. Moore was waived at the end of training camp, but re-signed to the team's practice squad the following day on September 1, 2019. The Chargers promoted Moore to the active roster on October 12, 2019, and he made his NFL debut the following day against the Pittsburgh Steelers, catching two passes for 43 yards. Moore was waived by the Chargers on October 24, 2020, and re-signed to the practice squad four days later. He was elevated to the active roster on October 31 for the team's week 8 game against the Denver Broncos, and reverted to the practice squad after the game. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Chargers on January 5, 2021. On August 31, 2021, Moore was waived by the Chargers and re-signed to the practice squad the next day. He was elevated to the main roster for their week 16 game against the Houston Texans after receivers Mike Williams, Jalen Guyton and Andre Roberts were all placed on the COVID-19 reserve list. He signed a reserve/future contract with the"}, {"text": "Chargers on January 11, 2022. On August 30, 2022, Moore was waived by the Chargers and signed to the practice squad the next day. He was promoted to the active roster on September 28. He was waived on December 17 and re-signed to the practice squad. Detroit Lions. On August 18, 2023, Moore signed with the Detroit Lions. On August 27, 2023, Moore was released."}, {"text": "The 2020 Men's European Water Polo Championship was the 34th edition of the major European water polo tournament for national teams. It was held at the Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary, from 14 to 26 January 2020. Hungary claimed their 13th title by defeating Spain in the final. Host. LEN announced the choice of Budapest as host for the competition on 9 July 2016. All the matches were played at the Danube Arena. Qualification. Sixteen teams were allowed to the tournament. The qualification was as follows: Format. The sixteen teams were split in four groups with four teams each. The first classified team of each group directly qualified for the quarterfinals, the second and third teams played each other in cross group format to qualify for the quarterfinals. Draw. The draw of the preliminary round's pools was held in Budapest on 22 October 2019. The teams were divided into four groups of four teams each; according to LEN rules the first batch for the draw was composed by the best four teams of the previous edition, the second batch by the teams ranked from fifth to eighth in 2018, while the third and fourth batch were composed respectively by the"}, {"text": "teams ranked first and second in the four qualification groups.<ref name=\"draw/pots\"></ref> The draw resulted in the following groups: Preliminary round. \"All times are local (UTC+1).\" Statistics and awards. Awards. The awards were announced on 26 January 2020."}, {"text": "Ken Barrett (born April 27, 1963) is an American field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Giorgi Kacheishvili (; born 10 February 1977) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster (GM) (1997), two-times Georgian Chess Championship winner (1997, 2006), European Team Chess Championship team and individual medalist (1997, 2003). Biography. Giorgi Kacheishvili has repeatedly represented Georgia at the European Youth Chess Championship and World Youth Chess Championships in various age groups. Giorgi Kacheishvili achieved his best result in 1994, in Szeged when he won bronze medal in European Youth Chess Championship in U18 age group. In 1997, Giorgi Kacheishvili won the Georgian Chess Championship but in 2006 he repeated this success. In 2000, he won silver medal in Georgian Chess Championship. In 2004, in Tripoli he participated in FIDE World Chess Championship and lose to Vasilios Kotronias in the first round. Giorgi Kacheishvili is winner of many international chess tournaments, including Stockerau (1993), Wiesbaden (1996), New York City (1998, 2008), Trignac (2001), Senden (2001), Philadelphia (2006 (World Open chess tournament), 2009), Istanbul (2006), Berkeley (2008), Las Vegas (2008), St. Louis (2011). Giorgi Kacheishvili played for Georgia in the Chess Olympiads: Giorgi Kacheishvili played for Georgia in the European Team Chess Championships: Giorgi Kacheishvili played for Georgia in the World Youth U26 Team Chess Championship: In 1994, he awarded"}, {"text": "the FIDE International Master (IM) title, and in 1997 he achieved the Grandmaster (GM) title."}, {"text": "Mohammed Adel Barakat (born March 3, 1967) is an American field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Los Angeles-born Palestinian Olympic runner Hanna Barakat is Jennifer Stoller's and his daughter. Hanna Barakat's brother Adam has played American football for Bucknell University."}, {"text": "Rogers Bernard Alexander (born August 11, 1964) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Jets and New England Patriots. He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions. He was selected by the Jets in the fourth round of the 1986 NFL draft."}, {"text": "Michael Scott Whittington (born August 9, 1958) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish."}, {"text": "Rawle Cox (born September 5, 1960) is an American field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Trevor Fernandes (born November 21, 1949) is a field hockey player who competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Born in Zanzibar, he represented India and United States internationally. Fernandes played football for the Zanzibar First Division club Kikwajuni SC."}, {"text": "Robert Gregg (born June 9, 1954) is an American field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "V-Republic was a 26-episode television series from Ghana which ran from 2014 to 2015. \"V-Republic\" started in October 2014 as a web series, director Shirley Frimpong-Manso turned to video-on-demand in search of an audience which crossed national borders in Africa. The series ran until 2015. It starred Nikki Samonas, Joselyn Dumas, Christabel Ekeh and Jasmine Baroudi. At the 2015 Golden Movie Awards, the performance of Samonas and Baroudi won them nominations for best TV series actress, while Senanu Gbedawo and James Gardner were nominated for best TV series actor. Samonas and Baroudi were again nominated at the 2016 Golden Movie Awards. Synopsis. The series followed the lives of four professional women from Accra."}, {"text": "Michael Kraus (born January 24, 1958) is an American field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "William John Reid (born May 2, 1952) is an American former professional football player who was a center for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Stanford University."}, {"text": "David McMichael (born April 22, 1961) is an American field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Robert Stiles (born September 12, 1959) is an American field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The Belles Amours River (, ) is a salmon river in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Location. The mouth of the river is in the municipality of Bonne-Esp\u00e9rance in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality. The Belles Amours harbor is an inlet that stretches inland for more than , and has provided a sheltered anchorage for fishermen since the 16th century. Name. The harbor was called \"Beaulsanim\" by the Basque captain Martin de Hoyar\u00e7abal in his \"Voyages Avantureux\" (1579). Some authors think this comes from the Basque word \"balza\", meaning coast or place with several coasts. Others think it comes from the French word \"balsamine\" (balsam), a plant, or which several varieties grow wild in the region. Several early charts show variants of this word: Balsamon (1674), Balsanim (1689) and Balsamon (1694). The cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin wrote \"Belsamont or Belles Amours\" on his maps of 1744 and 1755. The form \"Belles Amours\" prevailed from this date. Basin. The river basin covers . It lies between the basins of the Saint-Paul River to the west and the Brador River to the east. It is partly in the unorganized territory of Petit-M\u00e9catina and partly"}, {"text": "in the municipalities of Blanc-Sablon and Bonne-Esp\u00e9rance. The Brador Hills, so named by Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield on his 1843 map, stretch from east to west for about between Belles Amours River and the Newfoundland border. The highest point is . The river basin include part of the proposed Basses Collines du Lac Guernes\u00e9 Biodiversity Reserve. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the river in sub-regions 6o-T, 6n-T and 6m-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain. The river is recognized as an Atlantic salmon river. In 2013\u20132017 an average of 11 salmon were reported caught each year in the river."}, {"text": "Andrew Stone (born November 23, 1960) is an American field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Career. He graduated from Harvard College."}, {"text": "Galets roul\u00e9s are components of the terrain, or terroir, and a distinguishing feature of many of the vineyards in the C\u00f4tes du Rh\u00f4ne AOC and more specifically Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape AOC and other top wine-producing areas in the regions such as Gigondas AOC and Vacqueyras AOC. They are often larger, rounded stones that have been smoothed by both glacial and fluvial actions over time and deposited in the region by the Rh\u00f4ne. Galets roul\u00e9s (means rolled pebbles) are predominantly quartzite and are thought to be integral to the growth of vines and more importantly, the ripening of the fruit by absorbing the heat from the daytime sunshine and then releasing that heat slowly overnight due to their natural capacity for heat retention and transmission. This is well suited to the Grenache variety that is widely grown and is the base of much of the red wines produced in the region. Galets roul\u00e9s also serve to protect the vine and minimize soil erosion during the periods of strong winds that are known in the area as mistral."}, {"text": "Francis D. Case (born August 14, 1958) is an American former professional football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Kansas City Chiefs. He played college football at Penn State University."}, {"text": "The 2020 Men's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers are a series of tournaments aimed to establish the participants of the 2020 Men's European Water Polo Championship. The matches were played from 11 to 13 October 2019. Pools composition. The draw of the pools was held on 8 June 2019. The city selected as host were Tbilisi (Georgia), Nov\u00e1ky (Slovakia), Valletta (Malta) and Utrecht (Netherlands). The best two teams of each group qualified for the European Championship main round. Qualified teams. Teams already qualified through the 2018 European Championship:"}, {"text": "This article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup in Japan. The following is the Argentine roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Head coach: Marcelo M\u00e9ndez The following is the Australian roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Head coach: Mark Lebedew The following is the Brazilian roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Head coach: Renan Dal Zotto The following is the Canadian roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Head coach: Daniel Lewis The following is the Egyptian roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Head Coach: Gido Vermeulen The following is the Iranian roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Head coach: Igor Kolakovi\u0107 The following is the Italian roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Head coach: Gianlorenzo Blengini The following is the Japanese roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Head coach: Yuichi Nakagaichi The following is the Polish roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Head coach: Vital Heynen The following is the Russian roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Head coach: Tuomas Sammelvuo"}, {"text": "The following is the Tunisian roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Head Coach: Antonio Giaccobe The following is the American roster in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Head coach: John Speraw"}, {"text": "Hendricus \"Dick\" Dankers (22 April 1950 \u2013 2 March 2018) was a Dutch furniture designer, and founder and gallery owner of The Frozen Fountain, located on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. Life and work. Youth and early years in interior design and sales. Dankers was born on 22 April 1950, in Amsterdam and grew up in Rotterdam, where he completed the social academy after high school. After a world tour through America and Israel, he opened his first interior store in Amsterdam around 1975, focusing on vintage and art deco furniture. In 1985 Dankers opened The Frozen Fountain interior store in the Utrechtsestraat in Amsterdam. He collaborated with young designers to show their work, and also designed carpets and furniture himself. In 1990 he won the Dutch Furniture Award with his own designed round chest of drawers . The Frozen Fountain on the Prinsengracht. In 1992 in collaboration with Cok de Rooy they started The Frozen Fountain design gallery and moved to the Prinsengracht. The store offered a platform for starting designers such as Jurgen Bey, Piet Hein Eek, Hella Jongerius, Marcel Wanders, and Studio Job. He is remembered as \"the man who brought the Netherlands to design.\" In the first"}, {"text": "half of the 1990s, The Frozen Fountain organized several exhibitions with multiple design disciplines. There was a duo exhibition by Tejo Remy and Viktor & Rolf, and a duo exhibition by the theater group Alex d'Electrique and Henk Stallinga. Death. Dankers drowned in the sea while visiting his daughter in Brazil."}, {"text": "AnimaxFYB Studios is an animation multimedia company founded by Francis Yushua Brown. The company tells African stories in an animated format. They specialize in visual effects as well as 2D and 3D Animation. They have produced award winning animations. His studio is the first to have a project selected by Amazon Prime. History. AnimaxFYB Studios was founded in the year 2014 by Francis Y. Brown. The company won award as Best Animation at the African International in 2016, Official Selection of the FESPACO and Indie Film Festivals 2017, and Real Time International Film Festival for Best African Animation Film, 2017. Projects. Agorkoli. The story of Agorkoli focuses on the migration of the Ewe people who in search for greener pastures settled under Togbe Agorkoli, leader of the Notsies. They had a peaceful time for a period of time until an unknown rumour which became a big conflict between the Notsies and Dogbos. Osei Tutu. This is a 24 minutes episode animation telling the story of how Osei Tutu fought for his people to be freed from the people of Denkyira. According to the creative director of the studio, Francis Y. Brown, this animation focused on two main characters, Osei Tutu"}, {"text": "and Okomfo Anokye."}, {"text": "Abdul Alim was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former member of parliament for Joypurhat-1 and Minister. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Early life. Alim was born 1 November 1930 in Joypurhat District, East Bengal, British India. His father, Abdul Wahed Sarkar was the owner of Islamia Rice in Hoogly Pandua. His family used to live in Thaipara, Pandua, Hooghly District but moved to Joypurhat District soon after the partition of India in 1950. Career. Alim joined the Muslim League in 1958 and soon became Joint Secretary of the League. He served as the vice-chairman of Bogra District Unit of Muslim League. During the Bangladesh Liberation war he sided with Pakistan and was the chairman of the Joypurhat District unit of East Pakistan Central Peace Committee. He had helped form the Razakar paramilitary unit in Joypurhat. After the Independence of Bangladesh, he was charged under the Collaborators Act. Alim was elected chairman of Joypurhat Municipality in 1975 and re-elected in 1977. He was elected to parliament from Joypurhat-1 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979, 1996, and 2008. In 1978, he served in the Cabinet of President Ziaur Rahman Textiles Minister and Communications Minister. On"}, {"text": "27 March 2011, he was arrested on war crimes charges. On 9 July 2012, he trial began on war crimes charges at the International Crimes Tribunal. He was convicted on 17 counts of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment. Death. Alim died on 31 August 2014 in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh."}, {"text": "P\u00e9ter M\u00e1rki-Zay (, born 9 May 1972), often referred to by his initials MZP, is a Hungarian politician, marketer, economist, electrical engineer and historian. He has served as mayor of H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely since 2018, and is the co-founder of the Everybody's Hungary (; MMM/MMN). As the winner of the 2021 opposition primary, he was the candidate of the United for Hungary challenging Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n in the 2022 parliamentary election, which he lost. Early life and career. Childhood and education. M\u00e1rki-Zay was born in H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely, in the Hungarian People's Republic, on 9 May 1972, to a mother who was a chemist and a father who was a physics teacher. He grew up in a conservative and religious family. His great-grandfather was the principal of the Calvinist grammar school of H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely. M\u00e1rki-Zay graduated from the Bethlen G\u00e1bor Calvinist Grammar School (\"Bethlen G\u00e1bor Reform\u00e1tus Gimn\u00e1zium\") at H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely in 1990. From 1990 to 1993, M\u00e1rki-Zay attended the College of Commerce and Hospitality (\"Kereskedelmi \u00e9s Vend\u00e9gl\u00e1t\u00f3ipari F\u0151iskola\") at Budapest, where he studied marketing, then the University of Economics of Budapest (\"Budapesti K\u00f6zgazdas\u00e1gtudom\u00e1nyi Egyetem\") from 1993 to 1996, where he studied economics. Between 1997 and 2001, he studied electrical engineering at the Technical College of"}, {"text": "Budapest (\"Budapesti M\u0171szaki F\u0151iskola\"). In 2002, he also obtained a degree in history from the University of Szeged (\"Szegedi Tudom\u00e1nyegyetem\"). He also studied the history of economics at P\u00e1zm\u00e1ny P\u00e9ter Catholic University (\"P\u00e1zm\u00e1ny P\u00e9ter Katolikus Egyetem\") from 2000 and 2005, and graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy in 2006. Early career. Between 1996 and 2004, M\u00e1rki-Zay first worked at \"D\u00c9M\u00c1SZ\", which was at the time responsible for supplying electricity to Southern Hungary, then at Kontavill-Legrand as an economist and marketing manager. In 2004, he moved to Canada, with his wife Fel\u00edcia and their five children. There, he first worked as a door-to-door salesman for a phone service provider, then at the marketing department of Carquest. After about two and a half years, the family moved to Indiana, United States, where he continued to work for Carquest. Between 2008 and 2009, he was a member of the Eastern Indiana Regional Workforce Board. In 2009, the family returned to H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely, together with their two youngest children, who were born abroad. In H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely, he worked at the electricity supplier of Szeged, first in strategical planning, then leading customer service. In 2013, he became a member of the Hungarian Electrotechnical Association (\"Magyar Elektrotechnikai Egyes\u00fclet\")."}, {"text": "Between 2016 and 2017, he was the leader of marketing and domestic logistics at Legrand Hungary. Until 2014, he taught nonprofit and business marketing at the University of Szeged (\"Szegedi Tudom\u00e1nyegyetem\"). Political career. In 2018, M\u00e1rki-Zay announced that he would be running as an independent candidate in the H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely mayoral by-election. His candidacy was initially supported by three opposition parties, the Hungarian Socialist Party, Politics Can Be Different and Jobbik; Momentum and the Democratic Coalition endorsed him a few days later. M\u00e1rki-Zay said that he did not sympathise with the views of any of the parties supporting him, describing himself as a right-wing Christian, and a disappointed Fidesz voter. Despite the historically unprecedented unity of the opposition parties backing him, his candidacy was initially seen as a long-shot by many observers, owing to Fidesz's popularity in the city, as well as M\u00e1rki-Zay's political inexperience. On 25 February 2018, he defeated Zolt\u00e1n Heged\u0171s by votes to , becoming the city's first non-Fidesz mayor since 1990. He assumed office on 3 March, with Andrea Kis from the Hungarian Socialist Party as his deputy mayor. Following his success, M\u00e1rki-Zay continued to advocate for a nationwide unity between opposition parties. In 2018, he founded"}, {"text": "the non-partisan Everybody's Hungary Movement (\"Mindenki Magyarorsz\u00e1ga Mozgalom\"; MMM) in order to further cooperation between opposition parties, and to support representative democracy. During his first term as a mayor, M\u00e1rki-Zay vowed to fight for transparency. He revealed that the city was in a much worse financial situation than previously reported. He also made the donations to the city's sports clubs public and revealed that the city's previous leadership regularly failed to pay overtime to their workers. However, his time was not without controversy. He was fined for libel on multiple occasions and ordered to remove a \"migrant counter\" he placed inside the city hall. In 2019, M\u00e1rki-Zay ran for reelection, this time under the banner of MMM, as well as the Organisation for a Clean V\u00e1s\u00e1rhely (\"Tiszta V\u00e1s\u00e1rhely\u00e9rt Egyes\u00fclet\"). His candidacy was once again supported by all major opposition parties. He defeated the Fidesz-backed independent candidate Istv\u00e1n Grezsa by votes to , earning him a second term as the city's mayor. In 2021, M\u00e1rki-Zay announced his intent to run as a candidate for Prime Minister under the banner of the Hungarian opposition. In the first round of the primaries, M\u00e1rki-Zay came in third place with 20.43% of the vote, placing"}, {"text": "behind Kl\u00e1ra Dobrev and Gergely Kar\u00e1csony. Kar\u00e1csony of the PM\u2013MSZP\u2013LMP coalition withdrew before the run-off announcing his support for M\u00e1rki-Zay. On 17 October, M\u00e1rki-Zay won the run-off with 56.7% of the vote. Therefore, in the 2022 election, M\u00e1rki-Zay will be the leader and Prime Ministerial candidate of the United for Hungary political alliance. In 2021 he was named one of the 28 most influential people in Europe, in the \"Dreamers\" section, by Politico Europe. In early 2022, he tested positive for COVID-19 amid the election campaign. Political positions. M\u00e1rki-Zay has described himself as a right-wing Christian and a disappointed Fidesz voter. M\u00e1rki-Zay supports increased European integration including introducing the euro currency and joining the European Public Prosecutor's Office, as well as being in favour of Hungary remaining in NATO. He stated that, if elected in April, he will introduce a new constitution to restore the rule of law and to introduce same-sex marriage. On societal issues, he attacks Viktor Orb\u00e1n for his measures, which he considers to be liberticidal, labelling some of his government's actions xenophobic and homophobic, like the 2022 Hungarian LGBTQ in education referendum, and has been described as supporting LGBT rights. He accused the Prime Minister of"}, {"text": "\"organising immigration\" and said that it was \"in Fidesz\", the ruling party, \"that we find the most gay people\", suggesting that Orb\u00e1n's son shared this sexual orientation. He declared to be in favour of abortion rights. Accused of representing a coalition with left-wing personalities, he said: \"Jesus Christ was a left-wing person.\" Perceived as a neoliberal on economic issues, he opposes raising the minimum wage, believing that the market would be able to regulate salaries, and reforming the tax system. In a press interview in November 2021, he explained that \"for the time being, it is in Hungary's interest to be a tax haven\", with a corporate tax rate of 9%. Everybody's Hungary People's Party (MMN). On 18 May 2022, P\u00e9ter M\u00e1rky-Zay announced, he is establishing his own political party, the Citizens Party. On 10 January 2023, P\u00e9ter M\u00e1rky-Zay enrolled his own political party's new name, which is Everybody's Hungary People's Party. The party registered in June 2023. Personal life. As of 2021, M\u00e1rki-Zay is married to Fel\u00edcia Lilla Vincze, a physicist, midwife and doula. They have seven children: Ferenc (b. 1996), Lilla (b. 1997), Teod\u00f3ra (b. 1998), Gell\u00e9rt (b. 2000), Emma (b. 2003), L\u00f3r\u00e1nt (b. 2005) and P\u00e1l (b."}, {"text": "2009). The family considers itself practising Roman Catholic, even though M\u00e1rki-Zay is at odds with dogmatic Church teachings on marriage and abortion. P\u00e9ter M\u00e1rki-Zay is a dual national, holding both Hungarian and Canadian citizenship. He is fluent in English, German and French, but can also converse in Spanish, Russian, Romanian and Finnish."}, {"text": "The Museum of Estavayer-le-Lac and its frogs is located in the town of Estavayer-le-Lac, in the canton of Fribourg, where it has occupied the \"Maison de la D\u00eeme\" since 1927. This museum is also known as the \"Frogs Museum\" because of its collection of frogs, naturalized and arranged in scenes reproducing human attitudes. History. The Museum of Estavayer is a regional museum. It was built in a mansion from the 15th century. Most of the collections comes from donations from families in Estavayer or Fribourg, which highlights the culture and history of the region. Its nickname \"Frog Museum\" is due to its collection of 108 naturalized frogs. They take human poses and illustrate the daily life of the 19th century. The museum was initiated by a local association for the cultural development called \"Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de d\u00e9veloppement\" in 1900. The official inauguration, in its still current form as a municipal museum, took place on May 8, 1927. The museum has five rooms. Each has a thematic coherence: weapons, daily life, domestic life, natural history and farm life, and the frog collection. The museum also hosts temporary exhibitions. History of the building. The house in which the museum is situated was purchased"}, {"text": "in 1406 by Humbert the Bastard. He was the lord of Estavayer and the half-brother of Amedeus VIII, Duke of Savoy. The house was his home until his death in 1443. The street front has remained almost unchanged since 1408. The Humbert residential complex had several courtyards at the back, accessible by the passage under the museum. At that time, there were vegetable gardens, now converted into a public park. Before being transformed into a museum and opening its doors to the public in 1927, the house was used for various purposes such as a school and a grain attic. Despite a number of different functions, the house still has its original structure. Collections. Weapons. The Estavayer Museum has a large collection of weapons, some of which have been entrusted to the Museum by the inhabitants of Estavayer, while others come from abroad. Hubert de Boccard (1835-1908), a member of a noble family of the city and a traveller, donated most of this collection. Having served in the army, he became passionate about weapons, which he collected. The collection contains hast weapons, firearms, knives and other military equipment. The close border with France has brought foreign regiments to the region"}, {"text": "twice: the Bourbakis in the 1870s and the Spahis during the Second World War. Their traces, in the form of military objects and gifts, later became part of the museum. Everyday objects. Most of these objects come from families of the region, who have donated them or bequeathed them to the museum. They belong to the worlds of crafts and domestic life. The tools mainly represent the wood, leather and metal trades. We find the private and family sphere with clothes and accessories, a kitchen reconstructed in the style of the 17th century or even spinning wheels. In addition, dozens of old locks and keys are also on display. Paintings and maps. Many paintings decorate the walls of the exhibition. There are three main groups: historical personalities and family members of the region's upper middle class, the views of Estavayer and its surroundings, and religious representations. Natural History. The museum also has a natural history collection consisting of a large number of naturalized birds from the Estavayer-le-Lac region, but also animals from other countries. A caiman is one of those more exotic animals. Insects are also exposed. Frogs Collection. The most famous collection of the Estavayer Museum is the one"}, {"text": "that gives it its nickname \"Frog Museum\". The last room of the museum contains 108 naturalized frogs, installed in human postures. These productions date back to the middle of the 19th century and the mystery of their creation could never be completely solved. According to legend, they were made by Fran\u00e7ois Perrier, a former junior officer in the Vatican. He sought to reproduce moments of Estavayer's daily life at that time. Batrachians are arranged for an election banquet, in a classroom, for a family dinner, or as soldiers on exercise. The frog collection arrived in the museum between the 1920s and 1930s. It was completely renovated between 2012 and 2015, and the room that houses it was redone for the occasion."}, {"text": "The following is the list of squads that took place in the women's field hockey tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Australia. The following players represented Australia: Canada. The following players represented Canada: Netherlands. The following players represented the Netherlands: New Zealand. The following players represented New Zealand: United States. The following players represented the United States: West Germany. The following players represented West Germany:"}, {"text": "Zubarevka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Karshevitskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 54 as of 2010. Geography. Zubarevka is located 34 km southeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. 5-y Leskhoz is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ashley E. Jardina is a political scientist and an Associate Professor of Politics and Public Policy at The Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. She is the author of the award-winning book \"White Identity Politics\" published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. Studying for her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, she later became a doctoral student there, gaining her PhD. She was hired by Duke University as a political scientist in 2014. In 2015, the American Political Science Association awarded her the best dissertation in race and ethnic politics. Career. According to \"The New York Times\", a 2017 study by Jardina found that naming Donald Trump or his policies \"racist\" turned off some white voters, whereas describing these same behaviors as \"white supremacy\" did not. In 2018, \"The Economist\" covered her research into the difference between general white identity and specific racism or animus against other ethnicities, and in 2019, when \"Newsweek\" discussed her analysis further, she said \"There is a subset of people in the U.S. who feel their white race is important to them and feel the demographics are changing and the privileges and advantages that they have are"}, {"text": "under attack. That is different from 'I just don't like black people.'\" In March 2019, \"Pacific Standard\" reported Jardina's research that \"up to 40 percent of American whites feel solidarity with, and protective of, their racial group\". Reviewing poll findings, Jardina drew much of her research on the topic from the American National Election Studies, and has said that white Americans began to show patterns of this behaviour since 2000. In 2019, she authored \"White Identity Politics\" which examined the identity politics of white people."}, {"text": "Karshevitoye () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Karshevitskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 397 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Karshevitoye is located on the left bank of the Volga River, 40 km southeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zubarevka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Operation Karbala-9 (Persian: \u0639\u0645\u0644\u06cc\u0627\u062a \u06a9\u0631\u0628\u0644\u0627\u06cc 9) was an offensive operation in Iran\u2013Iraq War, which was launched by Islamic Republic of Iran Army with the operation code of \"Ya Mahdi, Adrekni\" (Persian/Arabic: \u06cc\u0627 \u0645\u0647\u062f\u06cc \u0627\u062f\u0631\u06a9\u0646\u06cc) on 9 April 1987. This operation ended inconclusively, and Iran had very large casualties from the numerous Iraqi traps. The goal of the operation which was in operation zone of \"QasrShirin-SarpoleZahab\" (Persian: \u0642\u0635\u0631\u0634\u06cc\u0631\u06cc\u0646-\u0633\u0631\u067e\u0644\u200c\u0630\u0647\u0627\u0628), was to liberate the heights of the operation region of Qasr-e Shirin. The Iranian government claimed that heights-542 and Baba-Hadi outpost border were liberated, and that it killed 1,800 Iraqis, and captured 55 of them. Despite that Shalamcheh region (in Iran) was involved in war, a new battle was launched\u2014in the west of Iran\u2014by Iranian forces against Iraqi army by this name (Operation Karbala-9); During the mentioned operation, Iranian forces attacked its enemies in \"Babadi-strait\" located in Pishgah area, and assaulted Iraqi army by passing explosive traps and landmines. Afterwards, Islamic Republic of Iran claimed that its army seized the strait of Babadi in three hours and made the rest of Iraqi forces to withdraw from the region. This operation ended in an inconclusive result, and Iran had very large casualties from the"}, {"text": "numerous Iraqi traps."}, {"text": "Arnaud Bovy (born 17 September 2000) is a former Belgian tennis player. Bovy had a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 570 achieved on 13 January 2020. He also had a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 572 achieved on 14 February 2020. He retired from professional tennis in August 2022. Bovy made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 European Open after receiving a wildcard for the doubles main draw partnering Steve Darcis."}, {"text": "Bhedia railway station is a railway station of Sahibganj loop line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside National Highway 2B at Bhedia in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Toatal 22 trains stop at Bhedia railway station."}, {"text": "Kovylny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kommunarovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 75 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Kovylny is located in steppe, 21 km northeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kommunar is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "From the foundation of the American Association (AA) in 1902 through its final season in 1997, its pitchers threw 97 no-hitters, which include 6 perfect games. Of these no-hitters, 72 were pitched in games that lasted at least the full 9 innings, while 25 were pitched in games shortened due to weather or that were played in doubleheaders, which were typically 7 innings. Only three of the league's six perfect games were tossed in full nine-inning games. Five no-hitters were combined\u2014thrown by two or more pitchers on the same team. A no-hit game occurs when a pitcher (or pitchers) allows no hits during the entire course of a game. A batter may still reach base via a walk, an error, a fielder's choice, a hit by pitch, a passed ball or wild pitch on strike three, or catcher's interference. Due to these methods of reaching base, it is possible for a team to score runs without getting any hits. While the vast majority of no-hitters are shutouts, teams which went hitless have managed to score runs in their respective games 11 times in AA games, some in extra innings. The first American Association no-hitter was thrown on August 10, 1906,"}, {"text": "by Harry Swan of the Kansas City Blues against the Columbus Senators at Neil Park in Columbus, Ohio. The first perfect game was pitched on May 26, 1940, by Mickey Haefner of the Minneapolis Millers versus the Milwaukee Brewers at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in a game that was called after six innings due to a six o'clock Sunday amusement blue law. The first nine-inning perfect game occurred on June 26, 1947, when Kansas City's Carl DeRose accomplished the feat against Minneapolis at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. The league disbanded after the 1962 season but reorganized in 1969. It continued to operate through the 1997 season. The final AA no-hitter was thrown on June 20, 1997, by Bartolo Col\u00f3n of the Buffalo Bisons over the New Orleans Zephyrs at North AmeriCare Park in Buffalo, New York. Two league pitchers have thrown multiple no-hitters. Charley Hall pitched three no-hit games for the St. Paul Saints (formerly the Apostles), giving him the record for the most career AA no-hitters. The first was a 12-inning affair, which he lost, in 1909. He won the second two 9-inning games in 1918 and 1920. Chris Knapp threw his first no-hitter in 1979"}, {"text": "for the Iowa Oaks and pitched the opening four innings of a combined no-hitter for Iowa in 1977. The teams with the most no-hitters are the Toledo Mud Hens (10 no-hitters, 1 a perfect game) and Indianapolis Indians (10 no-hitters). They are followed by the Kansas City Blues (8 no-hitters, 1 a perfect game) and the Louisville Colonels and St. Paul Saints (8 no-hitters each). The team with the most perfect games is the Oklahoma City 89ers, with two. References. Specific General"}, {"text": "Kolobovka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kolobovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 862 as of 2010. There are 23 streets. Geography. Kolobovka is located on the left bank of the Akhtuba River, between Solodovka and Stasov, 23 km southeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Solodovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kommunar () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Kommunarovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 882 as of 2010. There are 19 streets. Geography. Kommunar is located on the Caspian Depression, 84 km northeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kovylny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Konovalov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tsarevskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Konovalov is located 30 km southeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tsaryov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pierre de Latil (1903\u20132001) was a French science journalist known for his popular science works, but also as an author of youth literature. He died in 2001. In 1953 he authored of one of the first introductory works on cybernetics. He co-authored several essays with Jacques Bergier. He was a scientific columnist at Le Figaro and president of the AJSPI (\"Association des journalistes scientifiques de la presse d\u2019information\" - the Association of Science Journalists of the News Press) in 1968."}, {"text": "Caroline Bayantai Plumb OBE (born 23 November 1978) is a British internet entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is the current CEO and co-founder of Fluidly and previously served as a CEO of FreshMinds. She also currently serves as a non executive director of AIM-listed Mercia Technologies. In 2019, she was named as one of the most important women personalities in UK Tech 100 list. Career. Plumb was born in Manchester on 23 November 1978, the daughter of Stephen and Eleanor. She went to Bolton School Girls' Division. She then studied at St John's College, Oxford and gained a first class degree in Engineering, Economics and Management. After graduating she began her career as an entrepreneur and initiated FreshMinds as a research consultancy in 2000 with colleague Charlie Osmond. She left Freshminds and co-founded Fluidly, a cash flow management software business company and served as its chief executive officer until 2021. In February 2022, she became CEO at Gravita, a tech-enabled accounting firm and leading provider of audit, tax, payroll and accountancy services to small and medium-sized businesses. In 2003, she was nominated in \"Management Today's\" 35 Women Under 35 list for her outstanding services in the business field. In 2010, she"}, {"text": "was appointed by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as a UK Business Ambassador in the \"Professional and Business Services\" sector, a position she held until the Business Ambassador Network was closed in 2019. Plumb was appointed the OBE in the 2016 Birthday Honours \"for services to business and charity\". In February 2020, she co-founded the COVID-19 Volunteer Testing Network. Personal life. Plumb is the granddaughter of renowned Daur Mongol scholar Urgunge Onon, who co-founded the Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit at the University of Cambridge."}, {"text": "Leskhoz 5-y () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Karshevitskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010."}, {"text": "Maureen McQuillan is a New York-based contemporary artist, who, though primarily a painter, has worked in a range of mediums that include drawing, painting, camera-less photography, and sculptural installation. Across disciplines, she uses color and flowing line to create her complexly patterned abstractions. Process and themes. \"Recent work\". McQuillan creates kaleidoscopic abstractions with overlapping layers of translucent color and rippling lines. She takes a systematic approach, applying the ink according to a rigid set of her own rules akin to the structure of a line of music or computer code. In these works, she investigates the subjectivity of color, and how technology mediates and defines our modern perception of it now that the natural phenomenon is so often translated through printer ink or pixels. While the pieces are handmade, her process results in something that can feel digitally produced. The finished pieces are reminiscent of cellular structure under a microscope or cosmic phenomena through a telescope. She follows a set of strictly defined rules but embraces unforeseen effects. As she describes it: \"As much as I try to follow the rules I made at the outset, my process invariably runs off the rails, and goes off in an unexpected direction."}, {"text": "That is not to say I just rely on accidents, because my process is a very directed and restrictive system. It\u2019s just that all plans go awry and all systems go haywire.\" The translucent overlapping colors combine optically in unexpected ways. She works on wood panels, layering acrylic polymer, white lines, and translucent ink to create her complicated nets of folding ribbons. The layering creates a sense of luminosity and infinite space. The effect of shifting color and wavering line is subtle and full of movement, described by one critic \"as ephemeral-looking as smoke rings.\" Although she addresses digital technology, the tangibility of the artwork is essential; some of the spatial effects are achieved through the physical stacking of layers separated by clear medium. The finished pieces are up to 3/4 of an inch thick. Materiality is important to her drawings as well, as critic Helen Harrison explains: \"Ms. McQuillan\u2019s ink drawings on resin-coated paper subtly exploit the resistance of the two media, forcing distortions that recall seismic graphs.\" \"Monochromatic work\". McQuillan's early work is primarily monochromatic and uses undulating, repetitive lines to create a sense of space and rhythm. Critics have noted the reference to Op Art and commented"}, {"text": "on the mesmerizing quality of her twisting threads: \"There\u2019s no telling how Maureen McQuillan achieves the effect of streamers unfurling through the darkening space\u2026 but the result is hypnotic and as delicate as smoke.\" The drawings feel both highly structured and organic, which is a result of the process-driven way they are made. As in her later color pieces, she invents a set of arbitrary instructions. They are impossible to follow accurately, and she allows these failings in the human hand to create visual effects. She has worked with printer's ink and resin-coated paper, two materials that resist one another, and the chemical process creates its own distortions. As David Hunt puts it: \"Maureen McQuillan's threadlike lines of ink and resin flow across the canvas like jagged tributaries converging in an oceanic center.\" McQuillan describe her relationship with line thus: \"I am fascinated by the seemingly endless possibilities of line, and how I can evoke phenomena of the natural, virtual and artificial worlds via a simple, open, and performative process.\" She frequently incorporates skewed and distended grids. The negative and positive spaces are equally important, which increases the effect of spatial ambiguity. While her drawings are non-representational, they bring up"}, {"text": "numerous schematic associations, from an EKG reading to a weather map to a topographic map. Yet \"this is a topography of nothing but the artist's vision.\" They feel like they chart rational and scientific data, yet the optical effects are so strong and destabilizing, they might seem to describe something bigger and more abstract, like cyberspace. David Shapiro describes one piece as the \"so\u2013called stellar nursery where the black holes are born.\" Her drawings develop tension between pure abstraction and the cognitive impulse to create narrative around an image. \"Photograms\". As an extension of her drawing practice, McQuillan began producing photograms during a 2008 residency at the Islip Art Museum on Long Island, NY. Without a camera, she uses hand-drawn lines and their shadows to create images on photo-sensitive paper. The result is a kind of sculpture translated into two dimensions. The resulting imagery is complicated but the tools required are very simple, just a light bulb, paper and chemicals. \"Installation\". She created a site-specific installation at the Contemporary Museum Baltimore called Sensory Forensics. She was inspired by the idea that digital products like scanners and cameras are encoded with tiny flaws that distort their ability to accurately capture and"}, {"text": "reproduce images. The machines that we think of as creating perfect representations of reality are in fact encoded with errors and defects. The sculptural window installation was made from neon tubing, mylar, and more than a thousand feet of electrical cable. Public work. In 2018 McQuillan's first major public artwork, Crystal Blue Persuasion, opened at the 36th Avenue Subway Station in Astoria, New York, a permanent commission by MTA Arts & Design. She translated her signature ribbons of vivid color into geometric patterns, and, building on her practice of using clear acrylic mediums, created floor to ceiling laminated glass windows that span three sides of the station and fill the space with natural light. The title is drawn from the 1969 psychedelic rock song by Tommy James. The repetitive patterns capture the monotonous nature of commuting while celebrating the small variations of each day's journey. Education. Born in New York, McQuillan received a BA in English from Columbia University before attending the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Although she has spent most of her life in New York, she has also lived in Mississippi, Hong Kong, and Miami. Career. Maureen McQuillan has been showing in the"}, {"text": "US and internationally since the nineties. Group exhibitions include: The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; The Contemporary Museum Baltimore, Maryland; The Drawing Center, NY; The Islip Art Museum, NY; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin; and Le VOG Contemporary Arts Center, Fontaine and The College of Art and Design, Grenoble, France. The recipient of numerous awards and residencies, her work is held in public collections across the US and abroad."}, {"text": "Leshchev () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Pokrovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 181 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Leshchev is located on Caspian Depression, 21 km northeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kovylny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Malyayevka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Malyayevskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,260 as of 2010. There are 31 streets. Geography. Malyayevka is located 66 km from Volgograd, 11 km west of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novostroyka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mayak Oktyabrya () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Mayakskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 586 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. The village is located on Caspian Depression, 120 km from Volgograd, 82 km from Leninsk."}, {"text": "Nadezhdin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kommunarovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 61 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Nadezhdin is located in steppe, 74 km north of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kommunar is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Halvor Orin Halvorson (March 26, 1897 \u2013 October 20, 1975) was an American microbiologist. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1928, he continued to teach there until 1949, becoming director of their Hormel Institute in 1943. He served as head of the Bacteriology Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign beginning in 1949, and first director of the School of Life Sciences there beginning in 1959. He retired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1965, whereupon he returned to the University of Minnesota faculty. He served as president of the Society of American Bacteriologists (now known as the American Society for Microbiology) in 1955. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957. His son, Harlyn O. Halvorson, was also a microbiologist who served as president of the American Society for Microbiology in 1977. This made the Halvorsons one of two father-son pairs to both serve as presidents of the Society."}, {"text": "Novostroyka () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Tsarevskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 75 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Novostroyka is located on the left bank of the Kalguta River, 16 km southeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Malyayevka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pokrovka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Pokrovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 772 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. The village is located on Caspian Depression, on the left bank of the Volozhka, 67 km from Volgograd, 36 km from Leninsk."}, {"text": "Put Ilyicha () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Ilyichyovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 724 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Put Ilyicha is located on the Caspian Depression, 50 km northeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Stepnoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rassvet () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Rassvetenskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 684 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. The village is located on Caspian Depression, on the left bank of the Volga River, 96 km from Volgograd, 62 km from Leninsk."}, {"text": "Saray () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Tsarevskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 89 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Saray is located on the left bank of the Akhtuba River, 19 km ESE of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Solodovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Guskara railway station is a railway station of Sahibganj loop line under Howrah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside Guskara\u2013Dignagar Road at Guskara in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Toatal 40 express and passenger trains stop at Guskara railway station. It is a NSG-5 (non suburban group-5) category rail station. Trains. Some of the major trains available from Guskara railway station are as follows:"}, {"text": "Solodovka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Tsarevskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 389 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Solodovka is located on the left bank of the Akhtuba River, 20 km southeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Saray is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Stepana Razina () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Pokrovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 198 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Stepana Razina is located on Caspian Depression, on the left bank of the Bulgakov, 32 km southwest of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gornaya Polyana is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Adventures of Count Bobby (German: Die Abenteuer des Grafen Bobby) is a 1961 Austrian comedy film directed by G\u00e9za von Cziffra and starring Peter Alexander, Vivi Bach and Gunther Philipp. It was the first in a trilogy of films featuring the character Count Bobby. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Fritz J\u00fcptner-Jonstorff and Alexander Sawczynski. It was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna."}, {"text": "Stepnoy () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Stepnovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 749 as of 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. The village is located on Caspian Depression, 100 km from Volgograd, 45 km from Leninsk."}, {"text": "Traktorostroy () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Ilyichyovskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 258 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Traktorostroy is located on the Caspian Depression, 60 km northeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rassvet is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tsarev () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Tsarevskoye Rural Settlement, Leninsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,521, as of 2010. There are 19 streets. Geography. Tsarev is located on the left bank of the Akhtuba River, 19 km southeast of Leninsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Saray is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Viola da braccio (from Italian \"arm viola\", plural \"viole da braccio\") is a term variously applied during the baroque period to instruments of the violin family, in distinction to the viola da gamba (\"leg viola\") and the viol family to which the latter belongs. At first \"\"da braccio\" seems to encompass the entire violin family. Monteverdi's \"Orfeo\" (printed 1609) designates an entire six-part string section \"viole da brazzo\", apparently including bass instruments held between the knees like the cello and bass violin. His \"Selva morale\" (1641) contains a piece calling for \"due violini & 3 viole da brazzo ouero 3 Tronboni\"\" (2 violins & 3 viole da braccio or trombones), reflecting a general shift in meaning towards the lower instruments. Eventually it came to be reserved for the alto member, the viola. A famous example is Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto (1721), combining two viole da braccio with two viole da gamba. The German word for viola, \"Bratsche\", is a relic of this last use. Differences from viola da gamba. The families of the \"viola da braccio\" and the \"viola da gamba\" differ in size and form, the string tuning (\"viola da braccio\" in fifth tuning \u2013 \"viola da gamba\" in"}, {"text": "fourth tuning) as well as in the posture (\"viola da braccio\" = arm position, exception: \"bass-viola da braccio\" \u2013 \"viola da gamba\" = knee position) as well as in the bow position (\"viola da braccio\" = overbow grip \u2013 \"viola da gamba\" = underbow grip). History and development. Over the centuries of history in the violin and viola da gamba families, there had been a constant development into the present form of the modern instruments known to us as violins, violas and cellos. The double bass, however, developed from both the violone and the \"bass-viola da gamba\". The first instruments of the \"viola da braccio\" family were built in Italy about 1530. After an early form with three strings, a four-stringed version without string frets was developed with tuning in fifths. In this family, there were also different sizes and tunings, with different names based on pitch. There were soprano, alto, tenor and bass \"viola da braccio\". The alto viola da braccio's tuning is comparable to today's viola. The tuning for this alto viola da braccio was first recorded in the 16th century first (f-c'-g'-d\") but was later tuned lower and is now the same tuning as modern violas. The"}, {"text": "tenor viola da braccio\u2019s tuning was first tuned a minor third higher (B-f-c'-g') and later tuned lower and is now comparable to tenor violin\u2019s tuning. The soprano viola's tuning corresponded to today's violin, and the bass viola's tuning is the same as a modern-day cello's tuning."}, {"text": "Daniel Joseph Jaffe (August 19, 1809 - January 21, 1874) was a German merchant who came to Belfast in 1850 to establish a linen export business. He was the father of Otto Jaffe, who was twice Lord Mayor of Belfast and its first and only Jewish Lord Mayor. He is regarded as the founder of Belfast's Jewish community and built the city's first synagogue in 1871. Prior to coming to Belfast, Jaffe owned a considerable mercantile business in Hamburg. His business was also active in Dundee, Leipzig, and Paris. He was born in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in 1809 and died in Nice, France in 1874 aged 64 and is interred in the Jewish section of Belfast City Cemetery. In 1874, the same year of his death, a drinking fountain was erected to his memory at Victoria Square in Belfast. In 2007, the monument was taken to Shropshire, England to be repaired due to its poor condition and was returned to its original location in February 2008."}, {"text": "\"Don't Start Now\" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa. Lipa wrote the song with Caroline Ailin, Emily Warren, and its producer Ian Kirkpatrick. The song was released for digital download and streaming by Warner Records on 31 October 2019, as the lead single from her second studio album, \"Future Nostalgia\" (2020). A nu-disco song, it features a funk bassline, inspired by music by the Bee Gees, Daft Punk and Two Door Cinema Club. Elements used in the production include handclaps, a crowd noise, cowbells, synth bursts and accented strings. Lyrically, Lipa celebrates her independence and instructs a former lover to forget about their past relationship. \"Don't Start Now\" received widespread critical acclaim upon its release, with many reviewers noting significant growth in Lipa's sound and vocals. Critics also praised the use of 1980s and disco sounds for standing out among other pop releases at the time. At the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, the song was nominated in three categories: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance. The song peaked at number two on both the UK Singles Chart and the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100, surpassing Lipa's 2017 song \"New Rules\""}, {"text": "to become her highest-charting single on the latter. In the UK, the song registered the seventh-longest top 10 stay on the chart. \"Don't Start Now\" is considered to be the beginning of a revival for disco music in 2020 as downtempo, urban-styled music previously dominated mainstream music. The music video was directed by Nabil Elderkin and filmed in Brooklyn. It features point-of-view and high-angle shots of Lipa dancing at a crowded nightclub and masquerade ball. To promote the song, Lipa performed it on many television programmes and awards shows, including the 2019 MTV Europe Music Awards, the 2019 American Music Awards and the 2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards. Numerous remixes have accompanied the song, including an extended Live in L.A. Remix which features a 19-piece live band, for which an accompanying music video directed by Daniel Carberry was also released. Writing and production. Dua Lipa wrote \"Don't Start Now\" with the same team who wrote her 2017 single \"New Rules\": Caroline Ailin, Emily Warren and Ian Kirkpatrick. The song came about after Joe Kentish, the A&R head at Lipa's label Warner Records, challenged Kirkpatrick in late 2018 to recreate the success of \"New Rules\". The first writing session took place"}, {"text": "after Warren invited Ailin and Kirkpatrick to her home in Wyoming to attend a disco night at a local dive bar where songs including Gloria Gaynor's \"I Will Survive\" (1978) were played. Inspired by that night, they decided to write a disco song the next morning as \"it's the most fun to dance to\". The song's initial concept was based on Ailin's feelings of responsibility towards her ex following their relationship. Kirkpatrick also worked with producer J Kash, inviting several writers to help find a sound for the song, which became a back-and-forth between 1980s and disco music. They contemplated emulating music by Madonna, and created more than 10 reference tracks for Lipa to sample and choose from. Ailin, Warren and Kirkpatrick eventually co-wrote the song with Lipa in January 2019. The cowbell used on the song was present on the first demo and inspired by Two Door Cinema Club's music. Kirkpatrick based it on Lipa's phrasing in the chorus. According to him, the strings are a combination of Kontakt Session Strings, \"some weird Nexus 1970s string patch\", and live strings. Although the bassline of \"Don't Start Now\" sounds live, Kirkpatrick created it with MIDI. It was influenced by similar"}, {"text": "basslines the Bee Gees and Daft Punk used in their music that he had listened to in his youth. Kirkpatrick used a Scarbee MM-Bass plug-in for the leading bass sound and played it on a keyboard before modifying it. He wanted to abstain from disco for a more 1990s sound in the bridge by adding sub-bass combined with thumb bass guitar and slaps in the drop from Trilian. Lipa recorded most of her vocals with either a dynamic Shure SM7 or a Telefunken ELA M 251 tube microphone. Kirkpatrick said he understood the song better after Lipa sang it and was told by Kentish that the middle eight sounded like an \"after-thought\". He thus spent a further two weeks completing the song before sending stems to Josh Gudwin for mixing. To improve the middle eight, Kirkpatrick added a \"vocal chop\", and extra drums inspired by the Weeknd's song \"Can't Feel My Face\". He recalled, \"The first version of the drums didn't sound as fat. I was worried that the song would sound too disco, too classic. It needed something new, to make it the perfect mix of old and new\". Kirkpatrick had a separate project for the chord progression before"}, {"text": "the drop to help him decide which combination of piano and synths to use. For this section, he went through 25 different ideas and incorporated them into four versions. His final rough mix included nearly 100 tracks. Kirkpatrick sent the final version to Lipa when she was attending Glastonbury Festival in June 2019. \"Don't Start Now\" was recorded at Zenseven Studios in Los Angeles while the vocals were recorded at TaP Studio in London. Gudwin mixed the song at Henson Studios in Hollywood while Chris Gehringer mastered it at Sterling Sound in Edgewater, New Jersey. Music and lyrics. Musically, \"Don't Start Now\" is a nu-disco song. It features elements of dance-pop, Eurodance and synth-pop while channeling modern disco antecedents such as French house and Italo disco. The song has a length of 3:03, and is composed in time and the key of B minor, with a tempo of 124 beats per minute. Constructed in verse-chorus form, the verses and first two choruses have an Em\u2013Bm\u2013G\u2013D\u2013A chord progression, and the bridges chorus follows a Bm\u2013D\u2013Em7\u2013Fm7\u2013Gmaj7 sequence. Several 1980s and disco tropes are included in the French bloghouse production, which also makes use of laser weapon sound effects, electro-violin stabs and handclaps."}, {"text": "It additionally has a percolating funk bassline that interchanges with piano chords and the house beat. The song opens with a three-chord piano intro from the first part of the chorus and a fuzz sound of a spinning record. Lipa eschews modulation in her vocals and build from a lower register to a natural use of melisma, spanning from the low note of A3 to the high note of D5. It builds with the addition of accented disco strings, and bursts of disco synths. It has a strong kick and bass pattern that uses the low-end sparingly. After every fourth measure, a fill is used; for example, in the snare-kick sequence that precedes the second verse. A cowbell in appears in the anthemic, 1980s synth-pop chorus, which is backed by strings. The second verse adds a rhythm guitar loop and crowd noise is added in the second chorus. During the final chorus, chordal devices from the breakdown reappear for texture, and Lipa sings in call and response. Various critics viewed the song as a sequel to \"New Rules\" as both have similar themes whereas \"Don't Start Now\" proves that the rules created to get over an ex in the former"}, {"text": "track actually work in a breakup. According to Lipa, the lyrics have a theme of empowerment and are about \"moving on\" from a past relationship and \"not allowing anyone to get in the way of that\", while also finding confidence and happiness. She celebrates her independence, and uses bullet point instructions to address a needy former lover directly, with lyrics including, \"Don't show up, don't come out / Don't start caring about me now / Walk away, you know how / Don't start caring about me now\". Music critic Maura Johnston interpreted the lyrics as \"post-breakup rebirth\". Release and promotion. Prior to the single's release, Lipa panicked, never having asked for feedback on the song. Her manager, Ben Mawson, was concerned that its disco sound was too different from music popular on American radio at the time. However, Mawson was assured by his radio promotion executive that it was \"the kind of song that could change the radio\". On 10 October 2019, \"Variety\" mentioned the single's release date in an article about Lipa's management but subsequently edited the release date to \"soon\". Fans of Lipa leaked the song's title and lyrics on Twitter on 14 October 2019. Later that month,"}, {"text": "the singer cleared her social media accounts to announce the release of \"Don't Start Now\". She first shared two teaser videos on social media featuring snippets of the song on 22 and 23 October 2019. YouTube Music promoted the release on billboards in London and Times Square. The song was also promoted with its own lens filter on Snapchat. \"Don't Start Now\" was released for digital download and streaming on 31 October 2019 as the lead single from Lipa's second studio album, \"Future Nostalgia\" (2020). \"The Radio 1 Breakfast Show\" played the song exclusively to an eight-year-old fan of Lipa before its release. The song was sent for radio airplay in Italy the following day. It impacted contemporary hit radio formats in the United States on 5 November 2019. \"Don't Start Now\" has been promoted with several remixes. Ones by Dom Dolla, Purple Disco Machine, Zach Witness and Kungs were released throughout November and December 2019. A remix EP which includes all the aforementioned remixes along with one by Pink Panda was released 10 January 2020, followed by a remix by Kosovan DJ Regard on 24 January. A \"Live in LA\" remix that features Lipa performing with a 19-piece band"}, {"text": "was released on 21 February 2020. It was preceded by the release of a music video directed by Daniel Carberry on 10 January 2020, which includes dancers and rollerbladers in the background. The video was nominated for Best Live Video at the 2020 UK Music Video Awards. Critical reception. \"Don't Start Now\" received widespread acclaim from music critics. In her review for \"Rolling Stone\", Brittany Spanos called the song \"the peak of pop catharsis\" and \"a Studio 54 fantasy\"; she said it evolved Lipa's sound and that she \"finally finds her pop footing\". Nick Malone of \"PopMatters\" wrote that the song displays significant growth in Lipa's sound and identity, and that she is \"springing forth in full colour\" with sharper and more distinguishable vocals. For \"Under the Radar\", Conrad Duncan observed the \"fantastically sleek\" song played to Lipa's strengths. \"Los Angeles Times\" pop critic Mikael Wood felt Lipa's vocals had grown more soulful and suited the \"delightfully rubbery\" song's retro sound. Similarly, \"Pitchfork\"s Matthew Strauss thought that the production suits Lipa and appreciated her non-modulated vocals, writing that \"her voice sounds stronger than ever\". Laura Snapes of \"The Guardian\" cited Lipa's vocals as the song's best feature, writing that she"}, {"text": "distinguishes herself from her contemporaries with a classic style, rather than \"the charts' predominant rap-influenced sound\". Writing for \"Variety\", Chris Willman felt it brought \"a certain kind of deep groove and attitudinal buoyancy back onto the radio at a time we needed it most, which is anytime at all\". \"Gigwise\"s Jordan Emery complimented its \"satisfyingly catchy hooks and interesting ideas\", and \"slick bassline that just breathes effortlessness and joy\". Jolie Lash of \"Spin\" viewed the bassline as \"pop's best in recent memory\" and called the song \"an 'I Will Survive' for an era when we really need the reassurance\". Writing for \"Exclaim!\", Brad Garcia says \"it wasn't until she released 'Don't Start Now' that Dua Lipa became a household name.\" In her review for \"NME\", Rhian Daly deemed the song \"powerful pop perfection\", while \"musicOMH\"s Nick Smith described the song as a \"Moloko-esque nu-disco treasure\". AllMusic's Neil Z. Yeung appreciated Lipa's \"endless supply of confidence, charm, and cooler-than-you attitude\", and called it an \"immediate earworm\". Jon Freeman of \"Rolling Stone\" similarly wrote that it has instant appeal, with \"hooks piled upon hooks\" and \"a recipe for club glory\". \"Entertainment Weekly\"s Marc Snetiker described it as a \"dance floor jawdropper\". \"The"}, {"text": "Daily Telegraph\"s music critic Neil McCormick regarded it as \"a fantastic put-down of a needy ex\". In \"The New York Times\", Jon Caramanica explained the song was \"effective but not overambitious\", arguing that Lipa sells its \"kiss-off sentiment with rhythm but not punch\". Accolades. \"Time\" placed \"Don't Start Now\" fifth in its list of 2019's best songs, while \"Billboard\" and \"NME\" ranked the song at number 41 and 17 respectively. In 2020, \"Variety\" named it the best song of the year, and \"Consequence\", \"Gigwise\" and \"Spin\" placed it in the 9th, 8th and 20th positions in their year-end lists, respectively. \"Rolling Stone\" ranked the song sixth on its 2020 year-end list. In September 2024, \"Pitchfork\" included \"Don't Start Now\" on their list of \"The 100 Best Songs of the 2020s So Far\", ranking it at number 53. \"Don't Start Now\" won the American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Song at the 2020 ceremony, giving Lipa her first American Music Award. It received nominations for Best Song at the 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards as well as Best British Song and Best Song in the World at the 2020 \"NME\" Awards. At the 2020 Nickelodeon Mexico Kids' Choice Awards and 2020"}, {"text": "LOS40 Music Awards, the song received respective nominations for Global Hit and Best International Song. It was awarded an iHeartRadio Titanium Award for receiving one billions spins on the station in the United States. The song was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, marking Lipa's first acknowledgment in all three categories. The song won Most Performed International Work at the APRA Music Awards of 2021. Commercial performance. In November 2019, \"Don't Start Now\" debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart with first-week sales of 49,334 units, making it Lipa's highest debut on the chart and seventh UK top-10 single. It spent three consecutive weeks at number two; \"Dance Monkey\" by Tones and I kept it from the top spot. \"Don't Start Now\" charted for 25 weeks in the top 10, the seventh-longest overall, and spent 67 weeks on the chart in total. In July 2023, the song was certified quadruple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for track-equivalent sales of 2.4 million units. \"Don't Start Now\" topped the Irish Singles Chart for two consecutive weeks, making it Lipa's fourth chart-topper in Ireland."}, {"text": "In Australia, \"Don't Start Now\" entered the ARIA Singles Chart at number eight; it was Lipa's fifth single to reach the top 10 on the chart. The song spent 10 non-consecutive weeks at number two, placing it in joint-second with \"Moves like Jagger\" (2011) by Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera for most weeks spent at number two without reaching number one. It was blocked from the top spot by \"Dance Monkey\". The song charted for 29 consecutive weeks in the top 10, the fourth-longest top 10 stay in the chart's history. It was certified eight-times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for track-equivalent sales of 560,000 units. The song reached number three in New Zealand and was certified 7\u00d7 platinum by Recorded Music NZ (RMNZ) for 210,000 track-equivalent unit sales. \"Don't Start Now\" debuted at number 30 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 with a first-week tally of 14,000 downloads sold, 13.2 million streams and 10.2 million radio impressions. In its nineteenth week on the chart, the song rose to number two, held off the top spot by Roddy Ricch's \"The Box\". It became Lipa's highest-charting single in the US, and her second to reach the top 10."}, {"text": "\"Don't Start Now\" spent 52 weeks on the chart, becoming Lipa's first song to spend an entire year on the chart. In March 2021, the song received a quadruple platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for track-equivalent sales of four million units. In Canada, it peaked at number three on the Canadian Hot 100 and was certified nine times platinum by Music Canada (MC) for track-equivalent sales of 720,000 units. In September 2020, almost a year following the song's release, \"Billboard\" introduced their Global 200 chart and \"Don't Start Now\" debuted at number 37 and later reached a peak of 30 the following March. Elsewhere, and especially in Western and Northern Europe, the song was a smash hit, reaching the top ten in several countries, including Norway, The Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It reached equally the top twenty in France, Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Panama, Sweden and Spain and top thirty in Brazil. Music video. The music video for \"Don't Start Now\" was filmed on 14 October 2019 in Brooklyn. It was directed by Nabil Elderkin, who had previously worked with Lipa during her 2019 campaign for Yves Saint Laurent's Libre fragrance. The video"}, {"text": "was produced by Eric Brown with Operator Media serving as the production company. Elderkin found inspiration for the treatment by skating around London while listening to the song. He used darker lighting and moods in a balance he felt complimented \"Don't Start Now\". Various concepts and edits were explored before Lipa and her management signed off on the final cut. Lipa decided at the last minute to use the final scene at the start of the video. The music video premiered on YouTube on the day after the song's release. The video opens with a point-of-view shot of Lipa leaving a nightclub and throwing the camera onto the pavement. The clip blacks out briefly before rewinding to a scene from five hours earlier. In it, Lipa enters a pub and removes her orange Raf Simons jacket to perform on stage in a yellow Versace bra top and Marni jeans. The video then cuts to a crowded nightclub where Lipa dances under a disco ball and spotlight. In the next scene, filmed in the Manhattan social club The Players, she dances at a 19th-century-themed masquerade ball, and notices eyes on paintings coming to life. She runs down a staircase to return"}, {"text": "to the nightclub, and is later shown washing her face in the bathroom there and strutting its hallway. The video ends with a cumulative montage of the evening's events. Amy Francombe of \"The Face\" said Elderkin's signature directing style \"shines through\" in the neon colour schemes and high-angle shots. Writing for \"Paper\", Brendan Wetmore described the video as \"something straight out of the POV TikTok genre and put onto Vevo\". In her review for \"Vogue\", Rachel Hahn called it \"a fine showcase for Lipa's expert post-breakup style\". \"Nylon\"s Allison Stubblebine compared the crowded nightclub scene to one in Harry Styles' music video for \"Lights Up\". For the video, Elderkin was nominated for Best Direction at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, while the visual itself was nominated for Best Music Video at the 2020 Urban Music Awards. Live performances. Lipa gave her first live performance of \"Don't Start Now\" on 1 November 2019 on \"The Graham Norton Show\". Two days later, she performed the song at the 2019 MTV Europe Music Awards. She wore a black leotard and was surrounded by a float of 40 dancers in yellow bodysuits during the performance, which was directed by Es Devlin; it was"}, {"text": "acclaimed by the media. BBC News reporter Mark Savage said, \"Fans who'd previously made fun of her stage presence were won over by the dance moves and staging\". \"Clash\"s Zoya Raza-Sheikh wrote, \"All it took was a few minutes for the singer to \u2013 yet again \u2013 prove a questioning audience wrong\". Writing for \"PopMatters\", Evan Sawdey praised Lipa for \"nailing tight choreography and delivering a striking stage presence heretofore unseen\". Lipa's other renditions also featured floats of dancers and used the same dance routine, but were modified slightly to resonate on various stages. On 10 November 2019, she sang the song on the ninth season finale of \"The Voice of Germany\" with contestant Freschta Akbarzada. At her 2019 American Music Awards performance on 24 November, she wore a red bodysuit and was backed by a float of dancers in silver costumes during the 1970s-inspired rendition, which featured a giant disco ball and cube-shaped side tables as props. The performance ended with silver, cushion-shaped balloons falling from the ceiling. In Australia, Lipa presented the song at the 2019 ARIA Music Awards on 27 November 2019, and on the breakfast television programme \"Sunrise\" the following day. In Japan, Lipa sang \"Don't"}, {"text": "Start Now\" in an all-black Versace outfit at the 2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards on 4 December 2019; South Korean singer Hwasa of Mamamoo opened for her, staging \"New Rules\". On 17 December, she performed the song on the 17th US season finale of \"The Voice\" surrounded by roller skaters in a showgirl-inspired set. Lipa performed the song on \"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\" with a string section on 19 December 2019, and on \"Good Morning America\" the following day. On 31 December, she played \"Don't Start Now\" in a chequerboard miniskirt on \"Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve\". On 9 January 2020, Lipa performed the song on \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\". During the presentation, purple and blue lights were projected on stage, creating silhouettes of Lipa and her dancers against a white backdrop. Lipa gave a virtual performance of \"Don't Start Now\" for \"The Late Late Show with James Corden\" on 30 March 2020, while in self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her band, backing singers and dancers also performed from their respective homes via Zoom in a changing split-screen. On 22 April, she sang the song virtually on \"Big Brother Brasil 20\". On 17 September 2020, the singer"}, {"text": "presented the song for a second time on \"The Late Late Show with James Corden\"; this time as a parody version with \"New Rules\", titled \"New Rules For COVID Dating\", where Corden sang backing vocals. Lipa wore an Alexandre Vauthier disco dress, covered in gold studs, as well as sheer black tights and black platforms, with two gold hair clips. For some parts of the show, she also wore a sparkly face mask that matches the dress. Lipa performed the song as the closing track on her Studio 2054 livestream concert, which took place on 27 November 2020. On 19 December, she performed the song on \"Saturday Night Live\". For the performance, she wore a belted leopard-print top with black leggings and a gold chain necklace with a diamond, while dancing with backup dancers and a band. In 2021, Lipa performed the song as a medley with \"Levitating\" at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards and it was also included in a medley of \"Future Nostalgia\" tracks for her performance at the 2021 Brit Awards. The song was later included on the setlist of Lipa's 2022 Future Nostalgia Tour, in the encore and closing the show. Impact and legacy. \"Don't Start"}, {"text": "Now\" is considered to be the start of what would become a revival for disco music in 2020. At the time of its release, top 40 radio had been dominated by downtempo urban-styled music, and the song was one of very few dance tracks. Due to this, the song was also thought to have started a new wave of disco-oriented music in radio format. Some suspected that the song served as a \"refuge\" for some listeners during the COVID-19 pandemic as they were unable to attend hangouts with other individuals. Its bullet point lyricism was used as an instructional meme for social distancing protocols associated with the pandemic. It was included on the soundtracks of \"Love Island\", \"Love, Victor\", \"Riverdale\", \"Just Dance 2021\" and \"Resident Evil\". The video game \"Fortnite\" also used the song in its soundtrack, where a dance created by Filipino TikTok user Hannah Kaye Balanay was used as an emote. Various vocal parts from the song were sampled by vaporwave group Death's Dynamic Shroud for their track \u201cSee Me\u201d from their 2021 album \"Faith in Persona.\" Several artists have covered \"Don't Start Now\". American singer Hayley Williams covered it for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge in February"}, {"text": "2020, along with her song \"Simmer\". The cover was categorised as an R&B song with jazz elements; it retained the funk elements of the original but used sultry and raspy vocals, backed by drums. American band Echosmith performed an indie rock rendition of the song for a \"Billboard\" live at home concert, along with a cover of Coldplay's \"Fix You\". Australian rapper Illy performed a rap over the song that addresses social distancing, the Australian government's COVIDSafe app, and \"\". For Spotify Singles, Ingrid Andress recorded the song, converting it into an upbeat country ballad. On \"The Masked Singer\", \"Don't Start Now\" was a part of Chloe Kim's setlists. In \"Dancing with the Stars\" and \"Strictly Come Dancing\", actress Anne Heche and television presenter Clara Amfo both performed a cha-cha-cha dance to the song on each show, respectively."}, {"text": "is an Aten (NEO) asteroid, estimated to be about in diameter, that was first observed on 9 October 2019, and flew pass the Earth at , about away, its closest encounter in 115 years, on 14 October 2019 at 6:53 pm ET."}, {"text": "In the 2020s, the Belgium national football team played at the UEFA Euro 2020, 2021 UEFA Nations League Finals, 2022 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2024. Results. 65 official matches played ():"}, {"text": "Royce Metchie ( ; born September 11, 1996) is a Nigerian-Canadian professional football defensive back for the Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is a two-time CFL All-Star and a three-time Grey Cup champion after winning with the Calgary Stampeders in 2018 and with the Argonauts in 2022 and 2024. University career. Metchie played U Sports football for the Guelph Gryphons from 2014 to 2017. Professional career. Calgary Stampeders. Metchie was drafted by the Stampeders in the third round, 25th overall, in the 2018 CFL Draft and signed with the team on May 14, 2018. He began the 2018 season on the practice roster, but was soon elevated to the active roster and played in his first game on June 28, 2018, against the Ottawa Redblacks. He dressed in seven regular season games in his rookie season and recorded five special teams tackles. He was on the practice roster during the playoffs when he shared in the Stampeders' 106th Grey Cup victory. Following the off-season departure of starting safety Tunde Adeleke and the retirement of Adam Berger, Metchie became the Stampeders' starting safety for the 2019 season. He recorded his first career CFL interception during the Labour"}, {"text": "Day Classic on September 2, 2019, against the Edmonton Eskimos. He played and started in 17 regular season games for the team in 2019 where he had 48 defensive tackles, seven special teams tackles, and three interceptions. He signed a contract extension with the Stampeders on January 18, 2021. He played in seven games in 2021 where he had 31 defensive tackles, one interception, and one forced fumble. Toronto Argonauts. On February 4, 2022, Metchie was traded to the Toronto Argonauts in exchange for Cameron Judge as both players had contracts expiring the following week. He played in 17 regular season games where he had 72 defensive tackles and two interceptions. He also played in both post-season games, including the 109th Grey Cup, where he recorded three defensive tackles as he won his second Grey Cup championship in the victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. On February 3, 2023, it was announced that Metchie had signed a two-year contract extension with the Argonauts. On June 25, 2023, he scored his first career touchdown when he intercepted Jarret Doege and returned the ball 15 yards for the score. He played and started in all 18 regular season games where he matched"}, {"text": "his career-high of 72 defensive tackles and also had three pass knockdowns, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, and one interception for a touchdown. He also played in the East Final where he had five defensive tackles and one pass knockdown in the loss to the Montreal Alouettes. In the 2024 season, Metchie played and started in all 18 regular season games where he recorded a career-high 87 defensive tackles to go along with one interception, two pass knockdowns, two forced fumbles, and one fumble recovery. He started in all three post-season games, including the 111th Grey Cup where he had three defensive tackles in the Argonauts' 41\u201324 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Edmonton Elks. The Edmonton Elks announced they signed Metchie through free agency on February 11, 2025. Personal life. Metchie was born in Nigeria to a Nigerian father and Taiwanese mother, and spent some time in his youth in Ghana and Taiwan before spending his childhood in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Metchie's younger brother, John Metchie III, is a wide receiver who played college football for Alabama and was drafted in the 2022 NFL draft by the Houston Texans."}, {"text": "Pamela Glossop (born 22 September 1954) is an Australian former field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Susan Watkins (born 1 November 1957) is an Australian field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Robyn Leggatt (7 May 1957) is an Australian field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics. She received the Order of Australia in 2011 and was inducted into the NSW Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007."}, {"text": "Penny Dunbabin (n\u00e9e Gray; 12 October 1958 \u2013 21 May 2014) was an Australian field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Robyn Holmes (born 19 February 1964) is an Australian field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Colleen Pearce (born 20 December 1961) is an Australian field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics. She is the daughter of the 1964 Bronze and 1968 Silver medal winning Olympian Eric Pearce."}, {"text": "Karaeng Matoaya (c. 1573\u20131636) was the ruler of Tallo and the \"bicara-butta\" (first minister) of Gowa from 1593 until his death. He gained power after overthrowing Tunipasuluq, and transformed Makassar into one of the main trading centre in Eastern Indonesia. He converted to Islam around 1605, adopted an Islamic name \"Abdullah Awwal al-Islam\" and the Islamization of Gowa and Tallo subsequently happened under his influence. Biography. On the eve of Friday September 22, 1605 Karaeng Matoaya took the shahada and converted to Islam. Karaeng Matoaya was described as a pious Muslim by the Chronicle of Goa and Talloq, and was said to have followed all the prescriptions of Muslim law. Two years later, the people of Goa had all been converted to Islam. Three years after converting to Islam Matoaya sent an envoy to his brother, King of Bone, and asked him to perform the shahada and profess himself a Muslim. However, the request was firmly rejected by the King of Bone. Upon hearing this Matoaya launched the Islamic wars, also called the \"bunduq kasallannganga\", against the neighboring non-Muslim kingdoms to force them to accept Islam. The wars resulted in the conversion of the entirety of southwest Sulawesi, with Bone"}, {"text": "being converted in 1611. While religion played a significant factor, political and economic concerns for Matoaya also spurred the conquests. Additionally, the conquests of Matoaya had precedents in the area long before the rise of Islam, where similar punishments and subjugation status of the defeated states paralleled that of pre-Islamic times."}, {"text": "Julene Sunderland (born 8 June 1959) is an Australian field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Major General Inger \"Ann-Marie\" G\u00f6ransson (born 6 January 1947) was the first female general in the Swedish Armed Forces. She served as the Surgeon-General of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1997 to 2004. Early life. G\u00f6ransson was born on 6 January 1947 in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, the daughter of Gustav G\u00f6ransson, a carpenter, and his wife Ida (n\u00e9e Larsson). G\u00f6ransson worked as a temp in the surgical clinic at Malm\u00f6 General Hospital and in the surgical, medical, anesthesia, gynecological clinics at S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje Hospital from 1971 to 1974. She graduated from Lund University in 1972 with a Licentiate of Medical Science (\"Medicine licentiatexamen\") degree. Career. G\u00f6ransson worked in the surgical clinic at Huddinge Hospital from 1974 to 1980. In 1977 she acquired specialized expertise in general surgery, in 1978 she was employed by the Swedish Armed Forces and in 1980 she finish her doctoral dissertation on biliary tract surgery at the Karolinska Institute which gave her a Doctor of Medicine degree. In 1980 she served as surgeon at the Swedish field hospital in Lebanon, which was part of the Swedish UN operation within the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). In 1980 she was also appointed staff doctor in the Army"}, {"text": "Staff. In 1981, she was appointed lieutenant colonel and senior defense medical officer (\"f\u00f6rsvars\u00f6verl\u00e4kare\"). In the mid-1980s, she was invited to the United States Army for two years working as a teacher in field surgery, and building a laboratory in Washington for wound ballistics research. G\u00f6ransson attended the Swedish National Defence College in 1984. She then served as medical officer in the Upper Norrland Military District from 1985 to 1990. She was promoted to colonel in 1986. In 1989 she served again in Lebanon, this time as head of the entire Swedish medical operation there. G\u00f6ransson served in the Defence Staff from 1990. G\u00f6ransson was responsible for planning and launching the Swedish field hospitals in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War and in Somalia in 1993. During her time in the Defence Staff, she was responsible for the coordination of all research within the Swedish Armed Forces, i.e. also outside the medical field. Among other things, the development of a new radar and research into the effects of new weapons systems. In the mid-1990s, G\u00f6ransson served in the Ministry of Defence with demining issues. On 1 July 1997, she took office as the Surgeon-General of the Swedish Armed Forces. As"}, {"text": "Surgeon-General, she led a staff of about 20 people, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists and veterinarians at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters in Stockholm. In addition, she was the head of the doctors working at defense facilities around the country. Her responsibilities also included international defense medical commitments, such as Swedish field hospitals, as well as development and research. G\u00f6ransson left the position as Surgeon-General on 31 December 2004 after a turbulent time, when among other things she was reported to the Swedish Work Environment Authority by several doctors in the Swedish Armed Forces. On 1 May 2004, G\u00f6ransson assumed the position of Representative for the Swedish National Armaments Director (NAD) at the Swedish EU representation in Brussels, where she was responsible, among other things, for the Swedish participation in the establishment of an EU authority for defense capacity development, research, procurement and defense equipment cooperation."}, {"text": "Evelyn Botfield (born 29 January 1957) is an Australian field hockey player who competed in the women's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Nikolas James Needham (born November 4, 1996) is an American professional football defensive back for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UTEP Miners. Early life. Needham attended Buena Park High School in Buena Park, California where he played football. He was the 2013 first team All-Freeway League honoree. He played defensive back and wide receiver during the 2013 season. He averaged 87.7 yards per game. He was a two-star recruit on Scout.com and ranked 74th cornerback in the nation on 247Sports. College career. Needham was a member of the UTEP Miners for five seasons, redshirting his freshman season. He finished his collegiate career with 213 tackles, 13.5 tackles for loss and three interceptions and a school record 33 passes broken up in 41 games played. Professional career. Miami Dolphins. Needham signed with the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent on April 28, 2019. He was waived on August 31 as part of final roster cuts but was resigned to the team's practice squad the following day. Needham was promoted to the active roster on October 12 and made his NFL debut the next day against the Washington Redskins, starting at"}, {"text": "cornerback and finishing the game with one tackle and a pass defended. In Week 9 against the New York Jets, Needham recorded a team-high 9 tackles and sacked Sam Darnold once in the 26\u201318 win. Needham recorded his first career interception on November 10 against the Indianapolis Colts, picking off a pass from Brian Hoyer in the fourth quarter of the Dolphins' 16-12 win. In Week 15 against the New York Giants, Needham intercepted a pass thrown by Eli Manning during the 36\u201320 loss. He finished his rookie season with 54 tackles, a sack, one forced fumble and a team-high 11 passes defended with two interceptions in 12 games played. In Week 10 of the 2020 season against the Los Angeles Chargers, Needham recorded his first sack of the season on Justin Herbert during the 29\u201321 win. Needham was given an exclusive-rights free agent tender by the Dolphins on March 8, 2021. He signed the one-year contract on April 19. On March 11, 2022, the Dolphins placed a second-round restricted free agent tender on Needham. On October 19, 2022, the Dolphins placed Needham on injured reserve with a torn Achilles tendon. On March 17, 2023, Needham re-signed with the Dolphins."}, {"text": "Due to his torn achilles from last season, Needham was placed on the reserve/physically unable to perform list to start the 2023 season. He was activated on October 24. On March 10, 2024, Needham re-signed with the Dolphins. He was released on August 27, and re-signed to the practice squad. Cleveland Browns. On April 22, 2025, Needham signed with the Cleveland Browns. Personal life. Needham is the son of Steve Calhoun and Shannon Needham. He is an only child."}, {"text": "Belgrade Security Forum (BSF; ) is an international conference organized usually in September or October in Belgrade and brings together representatives of governments, academia and the non-governmental sector. Conference is jointly organized by the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy and European Movement in Serbia. History and Mission. The conference was launched in 2011 by the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and the European Movement in Serbia. The idea of the forum is to bring together all relevant stakeholders from the public administration, academia and the non-governmental sector of the Western Balkans, to exchange views and contribute to addressing ongoing issues in the region. The key values and mission of the initiative is the following: Structure and time of the event. The forum is usually organized every year in September or October in Hotel Hyatt Belgrade. The even usually has several panels, round tables and presentations various halls. There is also academic event that precedes the main event. with speakers."}, {"text": "Curling was inducted at the Youth Olympic Games at the inaugural edition in 2012. A total of 16 mixed teams (consisting of two boys and two girls) contested the mixed team tournaments in 2012 and 2016, with this being expanded to 24 teams in 2020. After the mixed team competition was finished, the mixed doubles (athletes from different countries). \"As of the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics.\""}, {"text": "Lisa Wieland is the current president of National Grid's New England business and former CEO of the Massachusetts Port Authority. Early life and education. Wieland obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and went on to get a masters of business administration at Harvard Business School. Career. Prior to joining Massport, Wieland worked as a consultant at Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, and as an editor for CNN. Weiland is also a member of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime System National Advisory Committee. Massport. Wieland joined Massport in 2006. In 2013, she was promoted to chief administrative officer for Maritime, and in 2015 became port director for Port of Boston. In 2019, she was appointed CEO of Massport in a process that considered over 100 applicants. She was selected in a five to two vote over Brian P. Golden, the head of the Boston Planning & Development Agency, by Massport's board of directors. Weiland permanently replaced longtime Massport CEO Thomas Glynn. In January 2019, Wieland was honored with the Pinnacle Award, issued by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, in recognition of her leadership and contributions to the local quality of life while"}, {"text": "serving at Massport. Massport announced in 2023 that Weiland would be stepping down from her role as CEO in November of that year. Weieland was replaced by Ed Freni as interim CEO. National Grid. In August 2023, National Grid announced that Weiland would succeed Steve Woerner as president their New England business."}, {"text": "The CSA OrthoCarolina Sportsplex is a soccer complex containing two stadiums located in Pineville, North Carolina, near the South Carolina state line. The complex is owned by the Charlotte Soccer Academy and sponsored by OrthoCarolina, a regional orthopedic practice. About. The four outside fields opened in 2015 with the stadium fields opening one year later. The facility is owned by the Charlotte Soccer Academy, which was formed in 2009 following the merger of the South Charlotte Soccer Association and the Charlotte Soccer Club. In 2019 the Matthews-based National Independent Soccer Association club Stumptown Athletic announced that they would play a number of \"showcase season\" games at the facility."}, {"text": "Big Wata is a 2018 Sierra Leone documentary that was directed by Gugi van der Velden and produced by Floris Loeff. Plot. The youth of a fishing community in Sierra Leone have discovered their new identity through surfing, but the elders in the community disapprove of what they set out to do but they have to fight all odds to make their dreams come true."}, {"text": "Devin Jacob Mann (born February 11, 1997) is an American professional baseball second baseman in the San Francisco Giants organization. Amateur career. Mann attended Columbus North High School in Columbus, Indiana, where he played baseball. In 2015, as a senior, he batted .410 with nine home runs, earning All-State honors. Undrafted in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft, he enrolled at the University of Louisville where he played college baseball. In 2016, Mann's freshman season at Louisville, he played in 39 games, batting .303 with nine doubles and 17 RBI, earning a spot on the ACC All-Freshman team. That summer, he played in the New England Collegiate Baseball League with the Newport Gulls. As a sophomore at Louisville in 2017, Mann started 64 games, hitting .268 with eight home runs and 44 RBI. That summer, he played briefly in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Orleans Firebirds. In 2018, his junior year, he slashed .303/.446/.504 with seven home runs, 52 RBI, and 15 stolen bases. Professional career. Los Angeles Dodgers. Mann was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the fifth round, with the 164th overall selection, of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft. Mann signed with the Dodgers"}, {"text": "and made his professional debut with the Rookie-level Arizona League Dodgers before being promoted to the Great Lakes Loons of the Single-A Midwest League, where he finished the year. Over 65 games, he batted .240 with two home runs and thirty RBI. Mann spent 2019 with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the High-A California League, with whom he was named an All-Star alongside being named the league's Player of the Month for June. Over 98 games with the Quakes for the year, Mann slashed .278/.358/.496 with 19 home runs and 63 RBI. He played in the Arizona Fall League for the Glendale Desert Dogs after the season. Mann did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mann was assigned to the Tulsa Drillers of the Double-A Central to begin the 2021 season, where he hit .244 with 14 home runs, 62 RBI, and 27 doubles over 110 appearances. He returned to Tulsa to begin the 2022 season before he was promoted to the Oklahoma City Dodgers of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League in early August. Between the two affiliates, Mann played in 118 games with a"}, {"text": ".264 batting average, 16 home runs, and 61 RBI. To open the 2023 season, he returned to Oklahoma City and slashed .307/.402/.541 with 14 home runs and 71 RBI. Kansas City Royals. On August 1, 2023, Mann was traded with Derlin Figueroa to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for Ryan Yarbrough. He was assigned to the Omaha Storm Chasers of the Triple-A International League. Over 126 games between Oklahoma City and Omaha, Mann batted .276 with twenty home runs, 86 RBI, and 42 doubles. Mann returned to Omaha for the 2024 season, making 101 appearances and batting .257/.358/.420 with 13 home runs and 52 RBI. He elected free agency following the season on November 4, 2024. San Francisco Giants. On April 29, 2025, Mann signed a minor league contract with the San Francisco Giants."}, {"text": "Myron Kolatch (born September 26, 1929) is an American magazine editor, who served as managing editor and then executive editor of \"The New Leader\" from 1960 to its closure in 2006. Background. Kolatch was born on September 26, 1929, in the United States; his parents were also born in the USA. Career. During the Korean War, Kolatch served in the United States Army (1951\u20131953). In 1953, Kolatch joined the staff of \"The New Leader\" magazine (1923\u20132006), long run by Sol Levitas (who, among other things, was a member of the American Committee for Cultural Freedom). In 1957, he was an editor. In 1960, he became managing editor; in 1961, he became executive editor. Assuming leadership of the magazine, Kolatch also inherited a scandal. \"The New Leader\" was co-publishing with Farrar Straus an anti-Communist book of essays. Book of the Month Club had selected\"Strategy of Deception: A Study of Worldwide Communist Tactics\", edited by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick. Then, it became known, the book had received secret funding from the United States Information Agency. Although Kirkpatrick was serving at the time as \"consultant for various Government agencies,\" she claimed no knowledge of the secret funding. Kolatch hired Diane Ravitch as a writer;"}, {"text": "other writers included Daniel Bell and Nathan Glazer. He also hired Stanley Edgar Hyman as book reviewer with a regular column called \"Writers and Writing.\" In 1963, TIME magazine describe the magazine as \"a Manhattan-based biweekly with a circulation of only 28,500, wields influence out of all proportion to its size.\" In 1965, the magazine received some funding from the Tamiment Library after the sale of its Tamiment camp. Kolatch remained executive editor until the magazine's closure in 2006. Personal life. On politics, during a 2007 interview, Koltach said, \"I have an uneasy feeling that Putin may be a twenty-first century variety of Stalin.\" On publishing, during the same interview, Kolatch said: Works. After \"The New Leader\"'s reportage on Yugoslavian writer Mihajlo Mihajlov landed him in 1964, Kolatch wrote a foreword to his book, published in 1966."}, {"text": "Dorothy Beatrice Spiers (n\u00e9e Davis; 25 May 1897 \u2212 2 September 1977) was a British actuary. She was one of two women to be the first to qualify as an actuary in the United Kingdom (UK). After studying mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge, she worked for the Guardian Assurance Company. She passed the actuarial exams at the Institute of Actuaries in 1923 with Gladys Gregory. From the 1940s to 1954, Spiers worked part-time as an actuary for the Guardian Assurance Company, and Eagle Star Insurance. She was also the national treasurer of the League of Jewish Women. Spiers died on 2 September 1977 in Brent, Middlesex. Early life and education. Dorothy Beatrice Davis was born on 25 May 1897 in Hackney, London, England, to Samuel and Sarah Davis (n\u00e9e Samuel). She was the second of three daughters. Her father Samuel was the headmaster of the Jewish Free School. Her early education was at the Wilton Road School and the City of London School for Girls. She studied mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge. Career. After graduation in 1918, Davis worked for the Guardian Assurance Company. While working there, she studied for the actuarial examinations at the Institute of Actuaries, enrolling at"}, {"text": "the institute in 1920. The institute had unanimously approved the admission of women at their general meeting in the previous year. She passed the exams in 1923 with Gladys Gregory and together they were the first women to qualify as actuaries in the UK. Three years later, Davis became the first woman to open the discussion at a sessional meeting of the Institute of Actuaries. After she had made her contribution, the male actuary who followed commented that \"those of them who had advocated the admission of women to the Institute had every reason to congratulate themselves\". Personal and later life. She married Henry Michael Spiers, an industrial chemist, in 1931. Henry had wanted to marry her earlier, but the Guardian Assurance Company at the time had a policy of not employing married women, so she had declined his proposal. After their marriage, she became a housewife, and the couple had two sons. She worked at the Continuous Mortality Investigation division of the Institute of Actuaries between 1932 and 1938. From the 1940s to 1954, Spiers returned to actuarial work on a part-time basis at the Guardian Assurance Company and Eagle Star Insurance. Outside of her actuarial career, she was"}, {"text": "a member of the council of the League of Jewish Women, and also its national treasurer. She died on 2 September 1977 at the Central Middlesex Hospital in Brent, Middlesex at the age of 80."}, {"text": "The Dutch Furniture Awards is a former annual furniture design competition in the Netherlands, organized from 1985 to 1998. This was an initiative of the Jaarbeurs Utrecht and the Vereniging van Vakbeurs Meubel (VVM). Overview. This design prize was awarded annually. In 1985 it started with three prices for furniture designs: the Award for the best Dutch furniture design, the Style prize, and the Furniture of the year. In the following year a fourth prize was introduced, the Prize for Young Designers. In recent years, the Style for Industrial Product Quality replaced the style prize. In addition to a main prize, each category has already been awarded one or more honorable mentions each year. Also, with some regularity, a grand prize was not awarded in a certain category if the jury felt that the product quality in that particular category had not been sufficient that year. The entries of the Dutch Furniture Awards were exhibited annually. This was for a longer time at an annual International Furniture Fair in the Utrecht Fair. In 1997 this was at the Kunsthal Rotterdam, and at the Woonbeurs in the Prins Bernhardhoeve in Zuidlaren. In 1998 the ceremony took place in the Naardense Promerskazerne."}, {"text": "The last presentation in 1999 took place again in the Jaarbeurs during the Interdecor home exhibition in Utrecht. The jury. The jury usually consisted of three people per category with a well-known designer and a furniture manufacturer, regularly supplemented by past prize winners. Known permanent judges were Sem Aardewerk, Willem van Ast, Gerard van den Berg, Jan des Bouvrie, Rob Eckhardt, Ton Haas and Jan Pesman. Other jury members included Thijs Asselbergs in 1985, and Karel Boonzaaijer"}, {"text": "Pierre-Luc Caron (born August 26, 1993) is a former professional Canadian football long snapper who played for six seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Calgary Stampeders and Montreal Alouettes. Early life and education. Caron attended Kent School (class of 2012) in Kent, Connecticut. University career. Caron played CIS football for the Laval Rouge et Or from 2012 to 2015. Professional career. Calgary Stampeders. Caron was drafted by the Calgary Stampeders in the fifth round, 42nd overall, in the 2016 CFL Draft and signed with the team on May 23, 2016. He played in 71 regular season games with the Stampeders and was part of the 106th Grey Cup championship team in 2018. He did not play in 2020 due to the cancellation of the 2020 CFL season. He informed the Stampeders that he would not be re-signing with the club in 2021 due to his wife getting a job opportunity in Montreal. Montreal Alouettes. On February 10, 2021, it was announced that Caron had signed with the Montreal Alouettes. He played for two seasons with the Alouettes before announcing his retirement on February, 10, 2023."}, {"text": "Inverted Brayton Cycle (IBC) (also known as \"Subatmospheric Brayton cycle\") is another version of the conventional Brayton cycle but with a turbine positioned immediately in the inlet of the system. Functionality. Incoming air may be heated up in the combustion chamber, in the heat exchanger, or the system may directly receive hot exhaust gas from an engine or some technological process. Been heated up in one of these ways, the gas expands in the turbine from pressure around the atmospheric to the subatmospheric one, after the turbine, created by the compressor located further in the gas duct. The gas should be cooled down in the heat-exchanger between the turbine and compressor to provide the difference in the work received in the turbine and the work needed for the compressor to maintain the subatmospheric pressure after the turbine. After the compressor, the gas is released to the atmosphere with the pressure close to the atmospheric one. Alternatively, the gas can be cooled down after the compressor again, as it gains some heat in the compression process, and then released. The heat received in the heat-exchangers between the turbine and compressor and after the compressor may be used for heating, providing the"}, {"text": "cogeneration mode of the system operation. The basic scheme of the IBC and temperature-enthalpy diagram are presented in figures 1 and 2. For external heat sources or high temperature storage systems, the closed process design of the inverted Brayton Cycle is also possible. The overall efficiency can thus be significantly increased."}, {"text": "The BMW 2 Series Gran Coup\u00e9 is a subcompact executive sedan produced by BMW since 2020. For most markets, the 2 Series Gran Coup\u00e9 is the smallest four-door sedan offered by BMW, except in China and Mexico where the F52 1 Series sedan was offered until it was discontinued in 2023. First generation (F44; 2020). The first generation of the 2 Series Gran Coup\u00e9 was revealed on 16 October 2019, and officially premiered at the 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show in November, and was launched in worldwide markets in March 2020. The 2 Series uses the front-wheel drive-based UKL2 architecture and uses a multi-link rear suspension system. As the result, despite its similar name, it is mechanically unrelated to the F22 2 Series coup\u00e9 and convertible. Compared to the F22 2 Series, the F44 has more knee room, more headroom, and a larger boot capacity at . It shares the same front hood, fender panel, dashboard and suspension as the F40 1 Series. All petrol and diesel engines are installed with particulate filters and meet the Euro 6d-TEMP emissions standard. Diesel engines also have AdBlue selective catalytic reduction. 218i models are available with a 6-speed manual transmission or a 7-speed"}, {"text": "dual-clutch transmission. 228i xDrive, M235i xDrive, and 220d models are only available with an 8-speed automatic transmission. 220i models are only available with a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission. Equipment. Standard equipment includes full LED lights and 40:20:40 split folding rear seats. Collision detection with braking intervention is also standard in European models. In addition to the basic model, the 2 Series is available in the Luxury and Sport line which adds 17-inch wheels and a sports steering wheel, and the M Sport line which adds 18-inch wheels, an M Sport steering wheel, and M Sport exterior styling. Optional equipment includes ambient lighting, a panoramic sunroof, a 9.2-inch windshield reflected head up display, and Apple CarPlay. The F44 2 Series can be unlocked via near-field communication by holding a smartphone near the door handle, and can start the engine by placing the smartphone in the wireless charging tray. The digital key can also be shared with up to 5 other smartphones. The 2 Series is also available with iDrive 7 which features over-the-air software updates and a digital assistant that can be activated by saying \"Hello BMW\". The digital assistant learns the habits of the user over time and can control in-car"}, {"text": "functions, check the maintenance status, or answer questions about the vehicle's functions. The 2 Series uses the navigation system and camera data to prevent unnecessary gear changes when travelling through corners and to determine appropriate shutdowns for the engine start-stop system. 218-228 models with the M Sport Trim and M235 models can be fitted with M Performance Parts. These include sport brakes, carbon fibre mirrors and M rims. Second generation (F74/F78; 2025). The second generation of the 2 Series Gran Coup\u00e9 was officially revealed on 15 October 2024 with production commenced in late 2024."}, {"text": "Vimukthi () is a 2010 Kannada language Indian drama film written and directed by P. Sheshadri. It is produced by Navyachitra Creations and stars Bhavana and Ramakrishna. The film deals with the Electra complex. Production. The film was shot in Varanasi. Release. \"Vimukthi\" was released theatrically on 12 February 2010. Reception. A critic from The New Indian Express wrote \"Vimukthi is a well enacted film with Bhavana and Ramakrishna coming out with flying colours. Veteran artistes like Venkatarao and Eknath Agarkal really shine despite the limited opportunity. The camera work of S. Ramachandra is outstanding\". B S Srivani from Deccan Herald wrote \"With Sheshadri choosing to dwell more on Madhavi\u2019s quest, the film\u2019s touch-and-go approach tests viewer patience. The second half however redeems the film with the associated gnawing pain\u2013a grim reminder of the director\u2019s class!\". A critic from Bangalore Mirror wrote \"Praveen Godhkindi\u2019s music and camera work by S Ramachandra Aithal are on par with Seshadri\u2019s thoughts. Vimukthi documents incidents more than expressing thoughts and ideas. The film could have been more complex and thought provoking\". A critic from News18 India wrote \"Sheshadri's characterization is apt though the editing could have been a little sharper. The climax of the"}, {"text": "film is another highlight when the daughter searches for her own identity and decides to unite with her husband in the process of finding her father\". Accolades. \"Vimukthi\" was awarded the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada at the 56th National Film Awards."}, {"text": "Judagadu() is a 1979 Indian Telugu action film directed by V. Madhusudhana Rao. The film became a superhit at the box office. The film stars Sobhan Babu and Jayasudha in the lead roles. The film became popular for the martial arts performance by Sobhan Babu. The film produced by Chatterjee under Samatha Films had his son, Kranthikumar playing the role of Sobhan Babu's younger brother. Chakravarthy scored the film's soundtrack. The song \"Mallela Velaa Allari\" became an instant hit upon release and is popular even today. Release. The film was released on 15 August 1979. The film ran for 100 days in a few centres across the state. The film had a theatrical run of 78 days in Hyderabad and 58 days in Secunderabad."}, {"text": "The Emancipator may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 23rd Hollywood Film Awards were held on November 3, 2019. The ceremony took place at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, and was hosted by Rob Riggle."}, {"text": "Cross is the third extended play by South Korean boy group Winner, released on October 23, 2019 under the label YG Entertainment. The EP features the lead single \"Soso\". The physical album comes in two versions: \"Crosslight\" and \"Crossroad\". Promotion. On October 7, Winner uploaded a poster to their official Instagram account indicating an upcoming album release. On October 10, the release date and title were unveiled. On October 14, the track list and title track \"Soso\" were revealed."}, {"text": "Keatley Surveying v Teranet is a judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada on issues of copyright, specifically Crown copyright, and intellectual property. It was released in September 2019. Synopsis. The appellant brought a motion in 2007 to certify a class action on behalf of all land surveyors in Ontario who registered or deposited plans of survey in the provincial land registry offices. It claimed that the respondent, who as agent of the Crown, trespassed on the copyright of the land surveyors who had generated the work. The appellant failed to convince the trial judge, failed to sway the Court of Appeal, and failed to persuade the SCC of the rightness of its cause. The judges were very concerned about the public interest, and the clear public character of the works. The concurrence judgment, which begins at \u00b692, hinged on the interpretation of section 12 of the Copyright Act."}, {"text": "Idael Childers Makeever (December 7, 1867 \u2013 August 23, 1954) was an American poet, songwriter, journalist and clubwoman. Early life. Idael Childers was born in 1867, in Porter County, Indiana, and educated in Valparaiso, the daughter of George Childers and Tryphena Ida Childers. Her father was a businessman, and her mother was born in Canada. After she was married and had two children in Nebraska, she returned to Indiana to take courses at Valparaiso University. Career. Makeever taught school in Indiana for several years as a young woman. She published two books of her poetry: \"Prairie Flowers and Meadow Grasses\" (1889) and \"Golden Rod and Dialect Poems\" (1898). She read her poem \"Nebraska\" at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, in 1898. Makeever's poem \"I'm Going Home\" was included in a 1902 collection of Indiana writers' works. \"She took up the unsung themes of the West,\" commented one profile in 1902. \"In the broad prairies,\" noted another, \"her poetic nature blossomed and flowered, and the notes of her songs mingled with the music of the meadowlark.\" Makeever was an active member of the Western Association of Writers. Makeever also wrote song lyrics, including \"The Dream Face\" (1909, music by Blanche M."}, {"text": "Tice). During World War I, she worked as a reporter for Omaha newspapers. During World War II, she was a newspaper columnist in Colorado, and worked at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Personal life. Idael Makeever married lawyer and mining executive Milton Alexander Makeever in 1889; with him, she moved to Stromsburg, Nebraska, where their two daughters, Merle and Iva Lee, were born in 1889 and 1894. She moved to Boulder, Colorado in 1902, while her husband was working at a gold mine in Mexico. She was widowed in 1940, and she died in 1954, aged 86 years, in Loveland, Colorado. Her papers are archived at Valparaiso University in Indiana."}, {"text": "is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 7 October 2019 and with the orbital uncertainty still high after 4 days of observation, it had the rare chance of impacting Earth in less than 2 years on 26 June 2021. The line of variation (LOV) was 730 million km long and overlapped Earth's position. It was listed at the top of the European Space Agency risk list due to its large size and near-term threat. Precovery images from 18 September 2019 were located, extending the observation arc to 23 days, and the object was removed from the Sentry Risk Table. On 26 June 2021 the asteroid will be from Earth. Orbit and classification. It is a member of the Flora family (), a giant asteroid family and the largest family of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.1\u20133.6 AU once every 3 years and 7 months (1,317 days; semi-major axis of 2.35 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.53 and an inclination of 22\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic."}, {"text": "Archedinskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,344 as of 2010. There are 37 streets. Geography. Archedinskaya is located 28 km southwest of Mikhaylovka. Poddubny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Live at Red Rocks is the first live album by John Tesh. Tesh performed with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Rodney Batdorf of AllMusic writes in his review that \"Live at Red Rocks is the ultimate John Tesh album, capturing the new age keyboardist at his peak.\" Production. All track information and credits were taken from the CD liner notes."}, {"text": "The Gentle Rain is a 1966 American-Brazilian drama film produced and directed by Burt Balaban and starring Christopher George, Lynda Day and Fay Spain. It became best known for its theme song \"The Gentle Rain\". It was the first production to star George and Day together; they would frequently appear together in both film and television roles throughout their careers, and they married in 1970. This was Balaban's final film; he died from cancer on October 14, 1965, several months before the film premiered. Plot. Judy Reynolds is a young lady who considers herself romantically \"frigid\" but wants to find her sense of passion for life. She takes an airline flight, running away from her parents in New York City to relocate to Rio de Janeiro. There she meets an attractive architect working on a large construction project. He does not respond to her attempts to begin a conversation, so Judy apologizes for disturbing him and leaves. Judy's acquaintance Nancy explains that Bill is mute, caused by an accident in which his former girlfriend was killed. Following a party held for Americans who live and work in Rio, Judy accompanies Bill to his apartment where he feebly tries to play"}, {"text": "guitar for her. He then shows her a letter, the first he has written in years, that states that since their first meeting he has fallen in love with her. However, she doubts that Bill is truly in love. While the rain falls on Bill's window, he writes \"Don't pity me\" on the glass panes, then collapses in sadness onto his bed. Judy sits on the bed to comfort him. Using basic gestures, he explains the details of the accident that left him mute. Bill was unable to rescue his fianc\u00e9e from the burning wreck, and following his last desperate scream as she died, he was left unable to speak. Judy continues to meet with Bill and their relationship begins to grow. After spending the day together touring Rio, they return to his home and make love that evening. When Judy wakes, she begins a one-sided conversation with Bill, confronting him with the truth that he can speak, but will not, because he has been punishing himself for the past three years. Judy leaves Bill alone in his room to face his inner demons. Bill realizes that he wants his relationship with Judy to continue but that he must reconcile"}, {"text": "his past to move forward in life. Bill considers phoning Judy to prove that he can indeed speak. Bill fears that he has lost Judy, and he stares at the phone that he must use to save the relationship. Grabbing his hair, he shakes as though shivering in great frustration. Production. \"The Gentle Rain\" was primarily filmed in Brazil. During the shoot, costars Christopher George and Linda Day renewed their friendship, begun while they worked for the same modeling agency, and would often meet for coffee. Reception. The world premiere of \"The Gentle Rain\" was held at the Florida Theater in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on February 10, 1966. The film was afforded a very limited American release in select markets. In a contemporary review in the \"Miami Herald\", critic George Bourke likened the style of \"The Gentle Rain\" to that of French New Wave films and wrote: \"[Balaban] has given his off-beat story ... thoughtful and at times tender treatment. In doing so, he may have prevented his film from getting the major attention it might have merited.\" In the \"Fort Lauderdale News\", reviewer Bob Freund called \"The Gentle Rain\" \"a charming, idyllic film about young love\", writing: \"Soap opera?"}, {"text": "Well, yes, 'The Gentle Rain' might fit into that over-used description. But it is a beautifully sustained mood film. While it is too long for what it tells, the picture creates a genuine interest in its characters, due to the intelligent direction of the late Burt Balaban.\" Critic Bill Morrison of the Raleigh \"News and Observer\" panned the film: \"A film should have a point of view and if successful will create and sustain a style that will make it linger in a viewer's memory. 'The Gentle Rain' fails. ... The film is just too erratic.\""}, {"text": "Bezymyanka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,718 as of 2010. There are 43 streets. Geography. Bezymyanka is located 30 km south of Mikhaylovka. Abramov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bolshaya Glushitsa () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 105 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Bolshaya Glushitsa is located 37 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Sennoy is the nearest rural locality. History. As of 1859, Bolshaya Glushitsa was in the list of settlements of the Don Cossacks under No. 1787. There were 10 households in the village, 27 men and 30 women."}, {"text": "Bolshemedvedevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 114 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Bolshemedvedevsky is located 43 km northwest of Mikhaylovka. Rekonstruktsiya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bolshoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,630 as of 2010. There are 27 streets. Geography. Bolshoy is located 26 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Mokhovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nicha Yontararak (; born ), known professionally as Minnie (; ), is a Thai singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress based in South Korea. She is a member of South Korean girl group I-dle, which debuted as (G)I-dle on May 2, 2018 under Cube Entertainment. Minnie made her solo debut with the extended play \"Her\" on January 21, 2025. Early life and education. Minnie was born on October 23, 1997, in Bangkok, Thailand and is a third-generation Thai. She has older twin brothers. She was born into a musical family, with her mother, aunt and uncle playing the piano. Minnie has been playing piano since she was five and taking vocal lessons since she was seven years old. Her mother was her main influence for loving music. She always watched her mom playing the piano, and learned to play it from her. Minnie attended Wattana Wittaya Academy and studied music at Grammy Vocal Studio in Thailand. She was a cheerleader, drummer, actress in a stage play, and more in her school. She also studied Chinese for four years. Minnie is multilingual. She speaks five languages including Thai, English, Korean, Japanese, and Mandarin. Career. 2014\u20132017: Pre-debut activities. In September 2014, she"}, {"text": "participated in the Cube Star World Audition in Thailand and came to South Korea in 2015 after her mother encouraged her, calling it a \"once in a life opportunity\". On March 23, 2016, Minnie was revealed to the public through Cube Entertainment's official Instagram. On November 5, she was featured in Jeon So-yeon's performance stage at \"Unpretty Rapstar 3\" concert. In June 2017, she participated in a promotional video for Rising Star Cosmetics along with Song Yuqi and Shuhua, future members of (G)I-dle. The same year, Minnie was given an opportunity to feature for Line Friends' \"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star\" and six songs in \"Dance Party! \u2013 Children's English Songs\". 2018\u20132019: Debut with (G)I-dle and collaborations. On May 2, 2018, Minnie debuted with (G)I-dle with their mini-album \"I Am\" and the title song \"Latata\". She received positive reviews for having a unique, attractive, and soothing voice. In their second album, \"I Made\", Minnie participated in composing, songwriting, and arranging \"Blow Your Mind\" which was first released through \"To Neverland\". A self-directed music video was released. Minnie confessed that she makes songs on piano and is taking MIDI classes to improve composing. She was credited in composing \"For You\" for (G)I-dle's"}, {"text": "Japanese debut album, \"Latata\". In October 2019, (G)I-dle took part in Queendom by Mnet. In the first preliminary stage, the viewers were overwhelmed with Minnie's Thai intro enchantment for \"Latata\", and was well received from viewers in South Korea and Thailand. In the third pre-contest unit stage, Minnie represents (G)I-dle's vocal member. She shared the stage with AOA's Hyejeong performing \"Instagram\" by Dean. The stage was voted the most anticipated unit stage by the contestants. Moreover, the song re-entered music charts and grew popularity amongst the general public due to their performance. On October 15, it was announced that Minnie teamed up with Wengie, a Chinese Australian YouTuber for a collaboration song \"Empire\" on October 18. \"Empire\" debuted at number 22 on the \"Billboard\" World Digital Songs. 2020\u20132024: Acting debut and solo activities. In 2020, Minnie participated in writing and composing \"I'm the Trend\" and \"Tung-Tung (Empty)\" alongside FCM Houdini. \"I'm the Trend\" is a song dedicated for Neverland and was unveiled during her group's first online concert on July 5, 2020. \"Tung-Tung (Empty)\" is an emotional song that expresses the feeling of a tired heart which was once full but became empty. Through Minnie's words, \"I hope that many"}, {"text": "people will sympathize with this song because it conveys loneliness.\" The song was released for (G)I-dle's Japanese second extended play \"Oh My God\". In September, Minnie made her acting debut in a Netflix's sitcom \"So Not Worth It\" alongside Park Se-wan, Shin Hyun Seung, Got7's Youngjae and Han Hyun-min. The show centers on multinational students living their lives together in a dorm in Seoul. Minnie plays a fictionalized version of herself, a genre savvy Thai girl who loves Korean dramas. In October, Minnie sung \"Getaway\" as part of \"My Dangerous Wife\" soundtrack and \"We Already Fell In Love\" together with Miyeon as part of \"Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol \" soundtrack On October 6, Glance TV introduced their new fashion show \"Minnie Soojin's i'M THE TREND\" () and paired Minnie and Soojin together. The duo had a styling battle every time for the title of 'Trend Center', which is a combination of a trend setter and an idol center. In addition, the duo revealed their styling secrets, various outfits, shopping tips and video pictorial 'Fashion Film'. The show premiered on October 14 through Naver Style TV. On November 22, Minnie appeared on \"Play Seoul\", a program produced by"}, {"text": "the Seoul Tourism Foundation and KBS where influential K-stars can share with global fans their experiences in Seoul in real-time. The show aims to promote safe post-COVID-19 tourism in Seoul. Minnie alongside Yuqi introduced the hip alley ways in Seoul by visiting Euljiro and Itaewon for their cafes and restaurants. In 2021, Minnie co-composed \"Moon\" and \"Dahlia\", which was released on January 11 for her group's fourth extended play \"I Burn\". On September 23, the singer featured in \"Money Honey\", a collaboration song with Thai rappers and . The song features lyrics about love that can't be exchanged with money or any other materials. It was released as a digital single on music streaming app Joox. 2025\u2013present: Solo debut with \"Her\". On December 3, 2024, it was reported that Minnie would be making her solo debut with an album releasing in January 2025. Minnie released her debut extended play \"Her\" and its lead single of the same name on January 21, which was preceded by its pre-release single \"Blind Eyes Red\" on January 7. Other ventures. Endorsements. Before Minnie's debut, she became a model for the local skin care line Celeb's Secret () alongside bandmates Yuqi and Shuhua. In July"}, {"text": "2022, Webtoon Thailand selected Minnie as their model to promote their new campaign, where Minnie picked three new stories to promote. It was later reported that the three titles were ranked at the top of the platform, and had the highest sales revenue at the time, as well as reaching over 50 million views of the video of the campaign in the span of seven days. On the same month, Minnie was announced as MAC's new muse. In August 2022, Minnie was announced as the muse for the South Korean clothing brand Laura Laura (). In September 2022, clothing brand ACBF selected Minnie alongside band member Yuqi as their new models. In November 2022, Minnie was announced as mode for the Italian clothing brand Duvetica. In December of the same year, Minnie was one of the celebrities who advertised for the South Korean traveling platform How About Here () and its partner at the time, Melon. Followed with her advertisement for the South Korean cosmetics brand 3CE. In February 2023, she became the muse for the South Korean brand handbag alongside bandmate Miyeon. In August of the same year, she was selected as the new ambassador for Prada's Italian fashion"}, {"text": "brand Miu Miu. Minnie landed her first solo magazine cover for \"L'Officiel Muse\"'s Thailand June 2021 edition. Since then she has been on the cover of Sudsapda, \"VogueMore Thailand\", \"Harper's BAZAAR Thailand\", and \"Elle Thailand\". She also appeared in an advertisement for Nespresso and Chiara Ferragni's limited edition coffee drink. Philanthropy. In February 2023, Minnie donated 20 million won to help in the 2023 Turkey\u2013Syria earthquake through Hope Bridge National Disaster Relief Association. Artistry. Musical style and songwriting. Journalist Jake Lau of \"South China Morning Post\" noted that Minnie has a versatile voice: \"she sings in a soft, breathy voice when performing more emotive songs and acoustic renditions, but on more powerful songs such as Lion, Minnie can belt out the powerful high notes\". Apart from her voice, she is also known for her striking eyes and strong gaze that is featured in many of (G)I-dle's music videos. Through an interview with \"HelloAsia\", she revealed that she gets inspired by her own story or from other people's stories or movies. Influences. Growing up in a family of musicians, Minnie stated that the music video of \"A Thousand Miles\" by Vanessa Carlton where she starts playing the song while the piano"}, {"text": "was moving, ignited her dreams as a musician. She commented, \"Ever since I saw that MV, I started thinking that I will sing and play the piano. I must become an artist like that\". She also cites Super Junior whose songs she often sang to while growing up that led her into K-Pop. Through a magazine interview, Minnie considered American singer Alicia Keys as her role model since her childhood. She explained that she used to watch a lot of television with her mother when she was a child, and the performance by Keys' 2003 hit \"If I Ain't Got You\" was what inspired her to pursue music. She also cited Australian singer Troye Sivan, Thai singer Stamp Apiwat, and American singer Charlotte Lawrence as her inspirations and hopes to collaborate with them someday. Composition credits. All song credits are adapted from the Korea Music Copyright Association's database, unless otherwise noted."}, {"text": "Bolshoy Oreshkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 243 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Bolshoy Oreshkin is located 20 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Maly Oreshkin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Burov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2010. Geography. Burov is located 45 km southeast of Mikhaylovka. Cheremukhov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vesyoly () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 147 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Vesyoly is located 60 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. 2-y Plotnikov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Saint-Paul River (, ) is a river on the Labrador Peninsula of eastern Canada. Its source is located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and it empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of Quebec. The Saint-Paul River is a salmon river that flows in a southerly direction. Location. The river rises on the height of land between the Atlantic and Saint Lawrence. The main channel is about , of which about is in Labrador. The river has a Strahler number of 7. It flows in a southerly direction, and empties into Esquimaux Bay in the Vieux Fort archipelago, about west of the municipality of Blanc-Sablon. The last fifteen kilometers of its course define the boundary between the cantons of Chevalier and Bonne-Esperance. The mouth of the river is in the municipality of Bonne-Esp\u00e9rance in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality. The village of Rivi\u00e8re-Saint-Paul is located on the west side of its mouth. Name. The Inuit who once lived at the river mouth called the river the \"Quitzezaqui River\", meaning \"Great River\". The Naskapi call it \"Aisimeu Shipu\", meaning \"Eskimo River\", while the Innu use \"Aiahtshimeu Hipu\", also meaning \"Eskimo River\". Louis Jolliet arrived"}, {"text": "at the river on 7 July 1694, and called it Rivi\u00e8re des Esquimaux. It was also called Grande Rivi\u00e8re. In March 1706 Jean-Amador Godefroy de Saint-Paul (1649-1730) was granted a trading concession at the river mouth, which was renamed the Rivi\u00e8re Saint-Paul. Basin. The river basin covers . It lies between the basins of the Napetipi River to the west and the Belles Amours River to the east. About 69.5% of the basin is in Labrador, north of the provincial boundary. The Quebec portion is partly in the unorganized territory of Petit-M\u00e9catina and partly in the municipality of Bonne-Esp\u00e9rance. The river basin include part of the proposed Basses Collines du Lac Guernes\u00e9 Biodiversity Reserve. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the river in sub-regions 6o-T, 6n-T and 6m-S of the east spruce/moss subdomain. Basque presence. Between July and August 2019 a team of underwater archaeologists discovered and examined four fishing sites on the Saint-Paul River that dated to the 16th century. The camps were full of objects such as cauldrons, ceramics, roofing tiles and ships nails that the Inuit probably bought from Basques. This showed that the Inuit were settled rather than nomadic, and also that the"}, {"text": "Basques had closer ties with the local people than had been thought. The objects were found in the river and on the shore. Fishing. The river is recognized as an Atlantic salmon (\"Salmo salar\") river. In 2018 harvesting of large salmon was allowed for only part of the year. The fishing season lasts from mid-June to mid-August. In 2013\u20132017 an average of 126 salmon were reported caught each year in the river. The bed of the river is composed of medium-size rocks, and the water is cold and clear, making ideal habitat for Atlantic salmon. Other species found at the river mouth include American eel (\"Anguilla rostrata\"), anadromous brook trout (\"Salvelinus fontinalis\") and rainbow smelt (\"Osmerus mordax\"). The Club de p\u00eache au saumon Saint-Paul (Saint-Paul Salmon Fishing Club) provides outfitting services. The club has exclusive rights in an area about upstream with many islands and rapids. They provides a cabin, canoe, and guided fly fishing and river fishing for Atlantic Salmon. The camp is accessed via charter float plane or helicopter. Pourvoirie Green Point also provides outfitter services, and has exclusive rights for of the river starting from from the river mouth and extending to Green Point Rapids. The service"}, {"text": "includes air transport from Blanc-Sablon, guided fishing and accommodation in camps on the river. The river exceeded its target for salmon management in 2018, and in July 2018 the Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks announced that in August anglers could keep their catch of one large salmon or longer in the Gros M\u00e9catina, Napetipi, Saint-Paul, Vieux Fort and Matapedia rivers."}, {"text": "Glinishche () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 55 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Glinishche is located 48 km east of Mikhaylovka. 2-y Sukhov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The International Union of Hairdressers was a global union federation bringing together trade unions representing hairdressers. In the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, many German hairdressers found work in other European countries, and this led the German Union of Hairdressers and Assistants to build links with unions in those other nations. In 1907, it organised a conference in Stuttgart, at which the International Union of Hairdressers was founded. Overview. The headquarters of the international trade secretariat were initially in Hamburg, but moved to Berlin in 1908. It ceased to function during World War I, but was re-established in 1921 by its former leadership. One of the smaller secretariats, in 1925, it had nine affiliates with a total of only 8,860 members. In 1933, its headquarters moved to Copenhagen, and by 1935 it had affiliates in Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. The federation again became moribund during World War II, and after the war, unions of hairdressers instead joined the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employees. Affiliates. The following unions were affiliated in 1922: 1907: Friedrich Etzkorn 1933: H. M. Christensen"}, {"text": "Pimpama railway station is a currently under construction railway station on the Gold Coast Line in Queensland, Australia. It will serve the Gold Coast suburb of Pimpama, and will be located between Ormeau and Coomera stations. History. The Gold Coast railway line opened in stages from 1996 - 2009. During its construction, provisions were made for a future station at Pimpama however due to low development in the area, the station was never built. In November 2017, the Queensland Government committed to building three new in-fill stations on the Gold Coast Line as part of the AU$5.4 billion Cross River Rail project\u2014Pimpama, Hope Island and Merrimac. Pimpama station will be built to accommodate the rapidly growing population in the region, in order to alleviate the pressure on the nearby Ormeau and Coomera stations. The station is expected to cost up to $40 million to construct, and is planned to be open in 2025, in time for the commencement of services on the new Cross River Rail line. Construction started in late 2022. Early work and site preparation activities had begun by January 2023. 40,000 cubic metres of spoil will have to be excavated. ADCO Constructions will design and construct the"}, {"text": "station. Design and location. The location for Pimpama station is off the Old Pacific Highway, near the Pimpama City Shopping Centre. The station will be integrated with other modes of public transport, and is planned to feature connections with pedestrian and bicycle paths. Each platform has a lift. The station concept design includes space for 380 car park bays. Pimpama station will offer a 40-bicycle lock up enclosure."}, {"text": "Grishin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2010. Geography. Grishin is located 71 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Talovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gurovo () is a rural locality (a passing loop) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010."}, {"text": "Demochkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 63 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Demochkin is located 36 km southwest of Mikhaylovka. Kurin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yeterevskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 794 as of 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. Yeterevskaya is located 39 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. 2-y Ilmensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Apostolic Nunciature to Ghana is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Ghana. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. The position of Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana has been vacant since 19 March 2019. In 1948, the Holy See established the Delegation to Dakar led by Marcel-Fran\u00e7ois Lefebvre to represent its interests in French colonial Africa. Following the decolonization of the region, the title of that position was changed to Apostolic Delegate to Western Africa on 23 September 1960 and given responsibility for Senegal, Upper Volta, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, Dahomey (Benin), Guinea, Mauritania, Niger, Sudan, Togo, Ghana, Gambia, and Sierra Leone. After further reorganizations of its offices for the emerging independent nations of Africa, the Holy See created the Delegation to Nigeria and Ghana\u2013a single office\u2013in May 1973. Separate nunciatures for Ghana and Nigeria were erected on 29 April 1976."}, {"text": "Zapolosny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2010. Geography. Zapolosny is located 21 km west of Mikhaylovka. Otruba is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ranged Marquis (, originally ) was a rank of the Chinese nobility that existed from the Warring States period to the Chen dynasty. Warring States period and Qin dynasty. During the Warring States period, most states had moved away from the primarily kin-based conception of political dynamics dating back to the Western Zhou, and began to abolish the \"fengjian\" system. This was replaced by the \"junxian\" system, with commanderies (, jun) and districts (, xian). Under this new administrative regime, sovereigns created new titles such as Ranged Marquises and Lords (\u541b) who taxed on their feeding fief . The Qin dynasty established the Twenty Ranks of Peerage Hierarchy () after Shang Yang's reforms, and the Ranged Marquis was the highest rank in all twenty ranks. A Ranged Marquis is granted a feeding fief, which only he could tax on, and not an inheritable fief. Different awards were assigned to vassals according to their military exploits: large fiefs of districts, small fiefs of townships (), or tiny fiefs of neighbourhoods (). Secondary Marquis (, marquis \"within the passes\", referring to the cultural homeland) was the second rank under Ranged Marquis in the Twenty Ranks of Peerage Hierarchy. Han dynasty. The Han"}, {"text": "dynasty inherited all twenty ranks of peerage hierarchy as established by the Qin dynasty. Ranged Marquis was the highest title of nobility for subjects who were not from the imperial family of the Han dynasty. Its original name was \u5fb9\u4faf (\"Ch\u00e8 H\u00f3u\"), and was changed to \u901a\u4faf (\"T\u014dng H\u00f3u\") or \u5217\u4faf (\"Li\u00e8 H\u00f3u\") because of a naming taboo on Emperor Wu of Han's name, Li\u00fa Ch\u00e8 (\u5289\u5fb9). The three distinct titles were administratively identical. Western Han dynasty. Ranged Marquis was the highest title a non-royal person could achieve. They would receive a golden seal with a purple ribbon. The number of taxable households varied greatly among marquisates. The smaller marquisates had only hundreds of households, but the larger marquisates may have more than ten thousand households such as those of Marquis of Guanjun (\u51a0\u8ecd\u4faf) and Marquis of Changping (\u9577\u5e73\u4faf). Marquisates were administered by a counselor-delegate (\u570b\u76f8 Gu\u00f3 Xi\u00e0ng) as a magistrate (\u4ee4, \u9577) in his district. The land owners could appoint their courtier-officers: household aide (\u5bb6\u4e1e Ji\u0101 Ch\u00e9ng), drafter (\u820d\u4eba Sh\u00e8 R\u00e9n), Grand Master of Gates (\u9580\u5927\u592b M\u00e9n D\u00e0 F\u016b), Frontrider (\u6d17\u99ac X\u01d0 M\u01ce), messenger (\u884c\u4eba X\u00edngr\u00e9n), etc. Those marquises who did not hold office in the central government and"}, {"text": "were not married to an imperial princess were required to leave the capital, Chang'an, and move to their peerage. The Commandant of the Nobles (\u4e3b\u7235\u4e2d\u5c09) supervised peers in the imperial capital, and commandery governors (\u592a\u5b88) supervised marquises in their fiefs. At first, Emperor Gaozu of Han, had said in the covenant of Baima \"If one gets a marquisate without military exploits, all people must attack him.\" This guidance was ignored, and instead powerful men like the prime minister (\u4e1e\u76f8) and consort kin \u2013 family heads whose daughters married into the imperial house \u2013 were enfeoffed while lacking military accomplishment. Eastern Han dynasty. There were five ranks of Ranged Marquis during the Eastern Han period. They were District Marquis (\u7e23\u4faf), Capital Township Marquis (\u90fd\u9109\u4faf), Township Marquis (\u9109\u4faf), Capital Neighborhood Marquis (\u90fd\u4ead\u4faf), and Neighborhood Marquis (\u4ead\u4faf). Marquises of Township or Neighborhood had staff but no marquisate: only District Marquises had marquisates, as in the Western Han. In normal conditions, marquisates whose owners died without sons would be revoked by the emperor, but close relatives could inherit the title in certain circumstances. Because Emperors of the Eastern Han had granted liberally a large number of lower tiered marquis titles, there was a large"}, {"text": "gap between ranks. The ranks among ranged marquises depended on their honorary titles or the number of households in their feeding fief. Three Kingdoms period. Cao Wei dynasty. The early Cao Wei dynasty has accepted the nobility titles of the Eastern Han. But Sima Zhao, the King of Jin (or Prince of Jin), created Five ranks of Peerage Hierarchy (\u4e94\u7b49\u7235\u5236) to replace the ranged marquis grade as the top noble titles in 264. Ranged Marquises had been preserved as lower titles for no-royal-family people, and the district marquises existed in both ranged marquises and five ranks of peerage hierarchy until the Liu Song dynasty. Shu Han and Eastern Wu dynasties. The hierarchy of Ranged Marquis in Shu Han and Eastern Wu was the same as that of the Eastern Han. Jin dynasty. The Jin dynasty inherited the noble titles of Cao Wei including the twenty ranks of peerage hierarchy and the five ranks of peerage hierarchy. During this period, ranged marquises were divided into three grades: District Marquises, Township Marquises and Neighborhood Marquises. Marquises lost marquisates but kept feeding fiefs and courtiers such as household aide (\u5bb6\u4e1e Ji\u0101 Ch\u00e9ng) and cadet (\u5eb6\u5b50 Sh\u00f9 Z\u01d0). The five peers rank in the"}, {"text": "first rank and the second rank respectively, while district marquises represent the third rank, township marquises as the fourth and neighborhood marquises as the fifth. Southern dynasties period. The nobility system of the Liu Song dynasty is the same as that of the Jin dynasty. The Southern Qi dynasty abolished the District Marquis grade of ranged marquises. The remaining two marquis grade is the eighth rank of nobility hierarchy in the Chen dynasty. The Sui dynasty conquered the Chen dynasty and abolished the last ranged marquises in 589."}, {"text": "Zinovyev () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 90 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Zinovyev is located 35 km southwest of Mikhaylovka. Senichkin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Theresienfeld is a railway station serving the town of Theresienfeld in Lower Austria."}, {"text": "\"England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity\" () is an Irish nationalist phrase which long served as a \"rallying cry\" for Irish people who desired political independence. It was popular across the political spectrum of Irish nationalism. In 1868, \"The London Review of Politics\" described it as \"the meaning of Fenianism\". Origin. The phrase was first used by Daniel O'Connell, an Irish politician and campaigner for Catholic emancipation. Later, the phrase became associated with John Mitchel. Reactions. On several occasions, Irish nationalists took advantage of crises in Britain to launch rebellions. However, for various reasons they were unable to take advantage of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. When the First World War broke out in 1914, it was perceived as an opportunity for a rising (which materialized in 1916). In the Emergency during World War II, some Irish republicans repurposed the phrase in advocacy of an alliance with Nazi Germany on the basis that it was at war with the United Kingdom. According to a 1998 article in \"Irish America\", the motto \"didn't always work successfully for the Irish\". Some Irish nationalists, including the Irish Republican Brotherhood, rejected the idea, believing that bloody conflict was more likely to draw attention to their"}, {"text": "cause and help them achieve their aims. O'Donovan Rossa complained that anyone who employed the phrase was a \"fraud\" and in practice used it as an excuse to do nothing while supposedly awaiting the 'difficulty', as they did not actually take advantage of the \"opportunities\" provided by England's difficulties when they later occurred. In a biography of James Stephens, Marta Ram\u00f3n wrote that the unwritten coda of the motto was often \"let's bide our time\". Stephens, however, rejected that idea. Although it was typically used in a hostile sense by those who perceived England's and Ireland's interests to be intrinsically opposed to one another, Sir Henry Christopher Grattan-Bellew proposed in an 1898 article in the \"New Ireland Review\" that the phrase be redefined in a \"friendlier and more constitutional sense\" to mean that Ireland could relieve England's difficulty for mutual benefit. Seamus Heaney wrote a poem titled \"England's Difficulty\" which appeared in \"Stations\", in which he asserted that during the Troubles, the opportunity resulting from England's difficulty was actually a source of trouble for many Irish people, who, akin to double agents, were torn between multiple loyalties."}, {"text": "The Emma S. Clark Memorial Library Association is a New York State Free Association Library registered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York. It is the oldest public library, in terms of continuous service from its original location, serving Suffolk County, New York, since it was built in 1892 by Thomas Hodgkins, its original patron. It has been in continuous service since then at the location on Main Street across from the Setauket Village Green and was made part of the Three Village Historical District as a contributing structure despite its 19th-century origins. This triangular section is the historical center of the original settlement and forms the core of the Old Setauket Historic District. History. The gabled structure stands on the nineteenth-century property where Thomas S. Mount, father of genre painter William Sidney Mount, (a contemporary of the Hudson River School painters), had a tavern and general store. The Land grant was deeded from the Setalcott Indians who inhabited the Setaukets from 3000 B.C. to present-day descendant families and homes in the Bethel-Christian Avenue-Laurel Hill Historical District. Speculating agents from New England and eastern Long Island purchased the land from the Sachems and began settling"}, {"text": "families in 1655, when most of the parcels were granted to individuals and families ranging from 6 to 12 acres in Setauket, New York. In 1889 Emma S. Clark died, and her bereaved Uncle Thomas G. Hodgkins purchased the land for the purpose of erecting a memorial to perpetuate her memory. Approximately $12,000 ($331K in 2018) was spent on infrastructure (grounds, buildings, books and fixtures) while an endowment of $16,000 was allotted for future purchases and operating expenses. Hodgkins died less than 2 months after the library was dedicated in October 1892. It was his wish to leave an \u201cInstitution of a useful, benevolent and elevating character, which shall be a means of pleasure and culture to come,\u201d John Elderkin, the Library trustee, stated in dedicating the memorial. Features. The main feature on the fa\u00e7ade is a 4-foot-tall clock with Roman numerals. Inside, the leaded glass window of the Archangel Michael-1892 by Otto Heinigke (1851\u20131915) and Owen J. Bowen (1873\u20131967) dominate the main reading room. The original collection of 1,500 reference books took up the stacks until a modernization in 1945 removed the public barrier. Until then librarians handled book requests and fetched the tomes for review. This modernization left"}, {"text": "intact the reading alcoves (where the fireplaces were) and others were added. Prior to WWII, the only improvements were to the lights, which were electrified in 1913. There was an additional outbuilding which served as a home for the librarian and also a number of groundskeepers, it fell victim to a fire in 1945. There have been three major structural additions since the 1960s; currently, the library is home to more than 240,000 books, periodicals, software items and audio-visual media. Current events. Oral history project: \"Come to listen, learn and share your memories of the Three Village area. Bring your old photographs or artifacts and discover what stories they may hold.\" Meet in the Board Room on the lower level of the library. Held weekly on Tuesdays; call ahead"}, {"text": "Alpine skiing at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics took place at the Les Diablerets a ski resort located in Ormont-Dessus, Switzerland, from 10 to 15 January 2020. Qualification. A total of 160 skiers qualified to compete (80 per gender). A NOC could enter a maximum of six skiers (three per gender). The top seven NOC's in the Marc Hodler trophy qualified the maximum six athletes, along with the host nation. All other nations scoring points qualified four athletes (two per gender). All remaining quotas were awarded to NOC's indicating interest and each NOC entered a max of one per gender. Quotas were officially awarded on December 9, 2019. NOC has received less quota than the calculated quota"}, {"text": "In the wake of the referendum held in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2016, many new pieces of Brexit-related jargon entered popular use.<ref name=\"BBC News 3/19\">BBC. (2019). \"Brexit: Jargon-busting guide to the key terms\" (BBC). Retrieved 29 March 2019.</ref> The word \"Brexit\" was named as Word of the Year 2016 by the publishers of \"Collins English Dictionary\". 31 January 2020, the day the UK ceased to be a member of the EU. The date was originally set for 29 March 2019 at 11 p.m. GMT, but was moved three times: first to either 12 April or 22 May, depending on whether or not a withdrawal agreement was ratified; then to 1 July or 31 October, depending on whether or not the UK held European Parliament elections; and finally to 31 January 2020. A derogatory variant of Brexit, used chiefly by its opponents. It is a portmanteau of the terms Brexit and shit (a profane word referring to faeces). See also Irish Sea border, Northern Ireland Protocol, Windsor Framework, and Brexit and the Irish border. UK domestic law has defined \"exit day\" for the purpose of dealing with the domestic consequences of Brexit, but the date is not formally linked"}, {"text": "to UK's departure from the EU. A \"flextension\" was also how European Council president Donald Tusk characterised the extension to 31 January 2020, which allows the UK to leave before the deadline, on the first of any month, if by then a deal has been approved by the UK and European parliaments. The 'Norway-plus model' proposed a similar but closer relationship with the EU: this proposed in addition that the UK would join the European Union Customs Union. A document setting out the intended future relationship between the UK and EU. The declaration formed the basis for the trade agreement negotiations that started once the UK left the EU. Unlike the withdrawal agreement which is a legally binding treaty, the political declaration had no legal force. T. Take back control: A treaty between the UK and the EU, setting out the terms for the UK's withdrawal. The first version was agreed in November 2018 but was rejected by the UK parliament three times.<ref name=\"BBC News 2/19\"></ref> The agreement contained the contentious Irish backstop, which was one of the reasons for opposition to it. The failed ratification led to the resignation of the UK prime minister, Theresa May, and her successor"}, {"text": "Boris Johnson sought to renegotiate it despite the EU's refusal to do so. In October 2019, the EU and the new UK government agreed a new version of the withdrawal agreement, with the backstop replaced by a different solution to the Irish border problem. The new agreement passed its second reading in the House of Commons in December 2019, following a general election in which the Conservatives won a decisive majority."}, {"text": "Felixdorf is a railway station serving the town of Felixdorf in Lower Austria."}, {"text": "The 1886 Amherst football team represented the Amherst University during the 1886 college football season."}, {"text": "Mishin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 211 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Mishin is located 49 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. 2-y Plotnikov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ilmensky 1-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 245 as of 2010. There are 19 streets. Geography. Ilmensky 1-y is located 20 km southwest of Mikhaylovka. Starorechensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ilmensky 2-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 294 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Ilmensky 2-y is located 35 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Bolshaya Glushitsa is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Karagichevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,331 as of 2010. There are 39 streets. Geography. Karagichevsky is located 36 km northwest of Mikhaylovka. Krutinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Hope Island railway station is an under construction railway station on the Gold Coast Line in Queensland, Australia. It will serve the Gold Coast suburbs of Helensvale, Hope Island and Oxenford, and will be located between Coomera and Helensvale stations. History. The Gold Coast railway line opened in stages from 1996 - 2009. During its construction, provisions were made for a future station at Hope Island however due to low development in the area, the station was never built. In November 2017, the Queensland Government committed to building three new in-fill stations on the Gold Coast Line as part of the AU$5.4 billion Cross River Rail project \u2013 Pimpama, Hope Island and Merrimac. In August 2021, Helensvale North station was renamed Hope Island as the result of community feedback. It is currently anticipated that approximately 2,800 passengers will use Hope Island station per day when it becomes operational. The station is expected to cost up to $40 million to construct, and is planned to be open by 2024, in time for the commencement of services on the new Cross River Rail line. The planned location for the station is off Hope Island Road, near Mangrove Jack Park and just south"}, {"text": "of the Coomera River. The station will be integrated with other modes of public transport, and is planned to feature connections with pedestrian and bicycle paths. The station concept design currently includes space for 174 car park bays."}, {"text": "Katasonov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 456 as of 2010. There are 19 streets. Geography. Katasonov is located 19 km east of Mikhaylovka. Prudki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Knyazhensky 1-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 188 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Knyazhensky 1-y is located southwest of Mikhaylovka. Knyazhensky 2-y is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Knyazhensky 2-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 45 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Knyazhensky 2-y is located 30 km southwest of Mikhaylovka. Knyazhensky 1-y is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Tolerance Oval is an international cricket ground in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. History. It was one of the venues used for the 2019 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier. In July 2021, the ground was awaiting accreditation by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to be used as one of the venues for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. In February 2024, Ireland cricket team was scheduled to play a Test match at the neighbouring Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium against Afghanistan. However, a week before the Test, the match was moved to this venue, making it the 122nd Test cricket venue in the world. Ireland's Mark Adair claimed the maiden Test five wicket haul to be taken at the ground."}, {"text": "Ascher Otto Wagner (12 October 1930, in Vienna \u2013 27 May 2000, in London) was an Austrian and British mathematician, specializing in the theory of finite groups and finite projective planes. He is known for the . Ascher Wagner received his Ph.D. in 1958 with the dissertation \"Some Problems on Projective Planes and Related Topics in the Theory of Algebraic Operations\" supervised by Kurt Hirsch. Wagner was a faculty member at the University of London and then at the University of Birmingham. In 1958 he married Gillian Mary Jaidka (1929\u20131993) in Hampstead, London."}, {"text": "Krutinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 221 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Krutinsky is located 44 km northwest of Mikhaylovka. Karagichevsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kukushkino () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 39 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Kukushkino is located 65 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Razdory is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kurin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 56 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Kurin is located 37 km southwest of Mikhaylovka. Demochkin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Malomedvedevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Malomedvedevsky is located 48 km north of Mikhaylovka. Bolshemedvedevsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Maly Oreshkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 100 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Maly Oreshkin is located 21 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Mokhovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mokhovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 528 as of 2010. There are 17 streets. Geography. Mokhovsky is located 23 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Maly Oreshkin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Siberian Elm cultivar Ulmus pumila 'Zhonghua Jinye' is an introduction from China. Description. 'Jinye' forms a dense, rounded shrub bearing soft yellow foliage. Pests and diseases. See under \"Ulmus pumila\". Cultivation. The cultivar was introduced to China in 2014; it is not yet known beyond that country. Accessions. None known. Nurseries. None known."}, {"text": "Orly () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 324 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Orly is located 50 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Sergiyevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Otradnoye () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,889 as of 2010. There are 38 streets. Geography. Otradnoye is located 13 km southeast of Mikhaylovka. Semenovod is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Otruba () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 255 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Otruba is located 16 km southwest of Mikhaylovka. Zapolosny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The International Union of Hotel, Restaurant and Bar Workers (IUHR) was a global union federation bringing together trade unions representing hospitality workers. History. In the late 19th- and early 20th-century, the Union of German Restaurant Workers was by far the strongest in Europe, and it established branches in many other countries, in cities to which German workers had migrated. In 1908, it organised a conference in Berlin which established the international union, with headquarters in the city. The secretariat ceased operations during World War I, but was re-established in 1920 at a conference in Amsterdam. Its headquarters were in Amsterdam for four years, before returning to Berlin, then moved to The Hague around the end of the decade. After World War II, it was again re-established, on this occasion based in Stockholm. In its early years, the IUHR was one of the smaller international trade secretariats. By 1925, it had 13 affiliates, with a total of 57,077 members, but it grew rapidly after World War II, and by 1960 its 15 affiliates had a total of 550,000 members. In 1961, it merged into the International Union of Food, Drink and Tobacco Workers' Associations, which renamed itself as the \"International Union"}, {"text": "of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations\". Affiliates. In 1960, the following unions were affiliated to the IUHR: 1908: Albert Baumeister 1912: Hugo Poetzsch 1920: J. G. van Heusden 1924: Rudolf Str\u00f6hlinger 1933: P. F. Loncke 1937: Henry Sj\u00f6h"}, {"text": "Where the Trains Go () is a 1949 German drama film directed by Boleslaw Barlog and starring Heidemarie Hatheyer, Carl Raddatz and Gunnar M\u00f6ller. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carl Ludwig Kirmse. It was shot on location in Freiburg in the French Zone of Occupation. It is part of the tradition of rubble films made in Germany following the Second World War, similar in style to Italian neorealism."}, {"text": "The 1888 Amherst football team represented the Amherst University as a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association (EIFA) during the 1888 college football season. Amherst compiled an overall record of 2\u20138\u20131 with a mark of 0\u20133 in EIFA play."}, {"text": "Osebury Rock (also known as Oseberrow or Rosebury) is a cliff on the River Teme near Lulsley in Worcestershire, England where fragmentary rocks of the Haffield Breccia layer are revealed. Its woodland and vegetation include some restricted varieties including the large-leaved lime and narrow-leaved bitter-cress. It was registered as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1990. The place is traditionally associated with fairies and Bate's Bush was said to be haunted. Bate's Bush was a maple tree at the nearby crossroads which was said to have sprung from a stake used to impale the body of a suicide."}, {"text": "Velikaya Guba (; Karelian and Finnish: \"Suurlahti\"; not to be confused with an identically named locality on Lake Segozero) is a village (selo) in the Medvezhyegorsky District, part of the Republic of Karelia, in turn a subject of the Russian Federation. It is located on Lake Onega, on the eastern bank of the Great Bay (hence the name), about 110 km south of Medvezhyegorsk and some 80 east of Petrozavodsk. From here a very sparsely populated area comprising 2,895 square kilometers is administered. The entire territory has some 2,500 inhabitants (rough data from the late 2010s). History. The area was lightly peopled by the ancestors of the Sami people, Veps and Karelians, before Russian speakers from the south began colonizing it from the 13th century onwards, creating monasteries and diffusing Orthodox Christianity among the local pagan tribes. Velikaya Guba's name first appeared in written documents in the year 1583. In 1877 it was made the chief center of a volost in Petrozavodsky Uyezd, in turn part of the Olonets Governorate. In 1905, said volost counted some 10,000 inhabitants in all. A busy trading town in the Zaonezhie area, Velikaya Guba also had a tourist port with steamboats. After many administrative"}, {"text": "changes during the first Soviet decades and the Continuation War, from September 7, 1944 to March 11, 1959 Velikaya Guba headed the Zaonezhsky District of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. Population. Numbers from the chief town proper went down from 1,364 in 2009 to 1,098 in 2010 to 1,035 in 2013. According to the Russian census held in 2010, 93% of the local inhabitants self-identify as Russians, and 2% each as Karelians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians. Transportation and economy. Velikaya Guba is linked to Medvezhyegorsk by a surfaced road (P17). A bus service links the town to Medvehyegorsk and Petrozavodsk. A ferry boat travels to Velikaya Guba, Kizhi Island, Sennaja Guba and Petrozavodsk. Kizhi Island and Sennaja Guba are linked in winter by a helicopter service to Peski airport near Petrozavodsk. The town hosts small sawmills and salmon aquaculture farms. Local facilities include a kindergarten, a secondary school, a cultural centre, a library, a small clinic, post office, a bank, a pharmacy and a few shops. There is also a small neuropsychiatric hospital. Tourism. The Zaonezhie area (also known as \u00c4\u00e4nisniemi in Finnish) is a destination for tourism due to its attractive taiga and lake nature and the historical remains of"}, {"text": "the Orthodox faith and architecture. Kizhi Island, 1 hour and 40 minutes by ferry away, is renowned for its \"pogost\" (originally a pilgrim's and traveller's hostel and trade center) and the related wooden building complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Other sights of national interest are the wooden churches of lakes Yandozero and Kosmozero, built in 1656 and 1769 respectively, and the 17th- and 18th-century chapels at Korba, Seletskaya, Ust-Yandoma, Vasilyev, and Volkostrov (Wolf Island). At Velikaya Guba, itself endowed with the status of historical settlement, a main sight is the Church of St. Alexy, Man of God, built in 1866. A guesthouse exists for tourists."}, {"text": "The 2022 Malaysia Cricket World Cup Challenge League A was the third round of matches in Group A of the 2019\u20132022 Cricket World Cup Challenge League, a cricket tournament which formed part of the qualification pathway to the 2023 Cricket World Cup. In October 2019, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that the Malaysia Cricket Association would host the tournament, with the series scheduled to take place between 16 and 26 March 2020. All of the matches had List A status. In March 2020, the ICC confirmed that the tournament had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of playing it later in the year. Prior to the March postponement, Canada, Denmark and Vanuatu had named their squads for the tournament. On 24 March 2020, an ICC media release stated that the tournament would be scheduled to take place from 30 September to 10 October 2020. However, on 25 August 2020, the ICC confirmed that the tournament had been postponed due to the pandemic. In April 2021, the ICC announced that the tournament would be played during November and December 2021. Eventually the series began in December 2022, with Canada in a strong position to progress. On"}, {"text": "6 December 2022, Canada defeated Singapore by 187 runs to secure first place in Challenge League A and a place in the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-off."}, {"text": "Jacek Robert B\u0105k (born 7 June 1962) is a Polish former footballer who played as a midfielder and forward. He had success as a player with Lech Pozna\u0144 and Legia Warsaw, and also had a notable spell with Lechia Gda\u0144sk. Career. Early years. Born in the village of Ro\u017awienica, B\u0105k started playing football in the nearby town of Jaros\u0142aw playing for the JKS 1909 Jaros\u0142aw youth team. In 1980, he joined the biggest team in the region, Resovia Rzesz\u00f3w, appearing for the club 42 times over the next two seasons. Lech Pozna\u0144. In 1982, he joined Lech Pozna\u0144, where he spent the next three seasons. He played a total of 84 league games scoring 4 goals. During his time with Lech, B\u0105k won the I liga in 1982\u201383 and 1983\u201384, and the Polish Cup in 1984. Lechia Gda\u0144sk. B\u0105k moved to Lechia Gda\u0144sk in 1985. He made his debut against his former club Lech on 31 July 1985 in a 0\u20130 draw. He spent 3 seasons with Lechia, playing 62 times in the top division for Lechia. During his time at Lechia the team were often towards the lower end of the table. He left during the winter of the"}, {"text": "1987\u201388 season when Lechia looked on the verge of relegation to the II liga. After Lechia, he spent six months with Zawisza Bydgoszcz. Legia Warsaw. B\u0105k moved to Legia Warsaw in 1988, making his debut against Olimpia Pozna\u0144. His time with Legia was as successful as his time with Lech. During his 132 appearances for the club, B\u0105k helped Legia win the Polish Cup in 1988 and 1989, as well as the Polish Super Cup in 1988. His final appearance for Legia came in November 1992, with B\u0105k leaving Legia during the summer of 1993. Later years. B\u0105k spent his later footballing years playing with Casale F.B.C., Chatillon St. Vincent and Crescentinese CC in Italy between 1994 and 1997. He returned to Poland in 1997 to play with Olimpia Warsaw until 1998. After 3 years away from the game he played with Marymont Warsaw in 2001. Honours. Lech Pozna\u0144 Legia Warsaw"}, {"text": "Mark W. Roberson (born 13 March 1967) is a retired javelin thrower. He represented England at four successive Commonwealth Games between 1990 and 2002. Biography. He won the silver medal at the 1986 World Junior Championships, finished sixth at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, seventh at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, sixth at the 1998 European Championships, fourth at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and sixth at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Roberson was twice British javelin throw champion after winning the 1997 AAA Championships and the 2001 AAA Championships. His personal best throw was 85.67 metres, achieved in July 1998 in Gateshead."}, {"text": "The 2022 Uganda Cricket World Cup Challenge League B was the second round of matches in Group B of the 2019\u20132022 Cricket World Cup Challenge League, a cricket tournament which formed part of the qualification pathway to the 2023 Cricket World Cup. All of the matches had List A status. The tournament took place in June 2022 in Uganda. In October 2019, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that the Uganda Cricket Association (UGA) would host the tournament, with the series scheduled to take place between 3 and 13 August 2020. However, on 10 June 2020, the ICC confirmed that the tournament had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In February 2022, the tournament was rescheduled for June 2022, with the fixtures announced in May 2022. Jersey won all five of their matches in Uganda, to close the gap on Uganda and Hong Kong at the top of the group table. Conversely, Bermuda lost all five of their matches, resulting in them being eliminated from reaching the World Cup Qualifier Play-off. Squads. The following squads were named for the tournament."}, {"text": "Merrimac railway station is an under construction railway station on the Gold Coast Line in Queensland, Australia. It will serve the Gold Coast suburbs of Merrimac, Worongary and Carrara, and will be located between Nerang and Robina stations. History. The Gold Coast railway line opened in stages from 1996 - 2009. During its construction, provisions were made for a future station at Merrimac however due to low development in the area, the station was never built. In November 2017, the Queensland Government committed to building three new in-fill stations on the Gold Coast Line as part of the AU$5.4 billion Cross River Rail project\u2014Pimpama, Hope Island and Merrimac. It is currently anticipated that more than 2,000 passengers will use Merrimac station per day when it becomes operational. The station is expected to cost up to $40 million to construct, and is planned to be open in 2026, in time for the commencement of services on the new Cross River Rail line. The planned location for Merrimac station is off Gooding Drive, about 750 m (2500 ft) east of the Pacific Motorway interchange. The station will be integrated with other modes of public transport, and is planned to feature connections with"}, {"text": "pedestrian and bicycle paths. The station concept design currently includes space for 278 car park bays. After the preliminary concept design details of Merrimac station were revealed by the Queensland Government in October 2019, City of Gold Coast councillor Glenn Tozer expressed concern over the station's planned location. He noted that road congestion in the station's proposed area was already an issue due to local school traffic and the lane merge at the Pacific Motorway interchange. Cr Tozer suggested an alternative location for the station about 1.6 km (1.0 mi) further north, off Elysium Road in the neighbouring suburb of Carrara. He claimed that this location would be ideal due to its proximity to an existing industrial precinct and the planned $1 billion Pacific View Estate major residential development."}, {"text": "The 1889 Amherst football team was an American football team that represented the Amherst College as a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association (EIFA) during the 1889 college football season. The team compiled an overall record of 3\u20135\u20132 and was outscored by a total of 198 to 173."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 season is Victoria Libertas Pesaro's 74th in existence and the club's 13th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian basketball. Overview. For the 2019-20 season, Pesaro entrusts the team to the young and promising coach Federico Perego, coming from a 5 years experience in the German Basketball Bundesliga as assistant coach of Brose Bamberg and head coach in the second half of his last year. But the season has an horrible start with a streak of 10 consecutive losses that forces the team to replace Perego with Giancarlo Sacco. Sacco's nomination is a comeback as he started his coaching career with Pesaro in 1984 until 1987 and again as head coach in the 1998\u201399 season. However, even with the new coach, Pesaro did not manage to interrupt the losing streak until the first match of the second half of the season against Fortitudo Bologna, after 16 consecutive losses. The 2019-20 season was hit by the coronavirus pandemic that compelled the federation to suspend and later cancel the competition without assigning the title to anyone. Pesaro ended the championship in the last 17th position with only one match won. Kit. Supplier: Erre\u00e0 / Sponsor: Prosciutto Carpegna DOP Players."}, {"text": "<section begin=roster/>The team composition is the same as the last game played on February 9 before the interruption of the championship due to the coronavirus pandemic. Before the official conclusion of the season, four players left the team. Clint Chapman first and Jaylen Barford, who moved to Virtus Roma, left in search for better opportunities, while Troy Williams and Zach Thomas were released after the pandemic to rejoin their families in the US. Current roster. <section end=roster/> Depth chart. <section begin=depthchart/> <section end=depthchart/> Squad changes. Unsuccessful deals. The following deal never activated and the player's contract was withdrawn before the beginning of the season."}, {"text": "Ana Diamond (born August 1996) is a British-Iranian scholar, author, and an advocacy strategist who is one of the founding members of The Alliance Against State Hostage Taking. The organization was formally founded in New York on 24 September 2019. Diamond rose to public eye following a false lawsuit brought against her by the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2014 during which she was wrongly accused of espionage for the United Kingdom, United States, and a number of Western intelligence firms. She denied the allegations throughout. Her arrest, similar to the arrest of numerous other dual-nationals, had been linked to the long-standing dispute of estimated \u00a3400m between Islamic Republic of Iran and United Kingdom. In recent years, Iran's behaviour and violation of human rights have been described as hostage diplomacy. Early life and education. Diamond was born in Sir, West Azerbaijan and moved to Finland with her parents when she was a toddler and went to Ressu International Baccalaureate School in Helsinki. She studied Film and Media Studies and Theology at King's College London. Though she was born in Iran and later obtained a temporary Iranian passport in order to visit her relatives in 2014, she is of British descent"}, {"text": "and held British and Finnish citizenships. Diamond's paternal great grandparents were English missionaries who traveled to Iran in the 19th century. They settled in Urmia, Iran, home to one of the earliest Christian churches, the Assyrian Church of the East, and the site of the first American Christian mission in Iran in 1835. Arrest and detention in Iran. Prior to travelling to Iran, Diamond took part in the University of California Education Abroad Program while still a student. Shortly after, she took on a filming project made possible in Jerusalem to document the life in the Old City. This, in addition to her involvement with the Conservatives when she was a teen, were used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp to justify her initial travel ban and detention in Iran. She was formally arrested with her parents in January 2016. For the next eight months, she was subjected to extensive interrogations while held in solitary confinement in Evin prison. Diamond was briefly transferred to the public ward, along with Narges Mohammadi and Atena Farghadani. At the time, Diamond was the youngest female inmate in Evin prison and one of the few dual-nationals to experience a mock execution. Diamond has described"}, {"text": "her treatment as \"demeaning\" and as \"torture\", and her case has been reported to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and United Nations Human Rights Council. Unlike most political and national security prisoners, Diamond was tried at the Special Clerical Court due to her family's clerical background. Her primary prosecutor was Ebrahim Raisi, who later became the eighth president of Iran. Release. In August 2016, Diamond was released on bail pending trial in excess of \u00a3180,000. She was placed under house arrest while her father was still imprisoned. In written evidence submitted to the UK Foreign Affairs Select Committee in April 2022, it was stated that the family's \u00a35.5 million worth of property and assets were ultimately confiscated by the IRGC in Iran prior to their release. Following the first official visit to Iran by the British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in late 2017, charges against Diamond were dropped and she was able to leave Iran by May 2018. Health issues. Since her return to the UK, Diamond has been open about the psychological trauma inflicted on her and the physical harm she suffered during her detention, including arrhythmia. She considers herself a torture survivor. When speaking with"}, {"text": "the \"i newspaper\", she said: The realisation that you might be taken and killed at any minute is very sobering, and in a way has been a pivotal factor in how I\u2019ve been able to bounce forward [...] I have this renewed sense of \u2018I need to make the most of my life\u2019 because I almost lost it. Scholarship to University of Oxford. Diamond is a mentee of Terry Waite, an envoy for the Church of England and a former hostage negotiator. Waite was himself a hostage in Lebanon for five years, and helped Diamond to recover from her ordeal following her release. \u201cThe most important thing he taught me was that I should try to use this time of imprisonment creatively and look at it as something that strengthens my character,\" she has said of her mentor. She has stated that Waite played a significant role in her recovery and helped her regain her confidence. In 2021, Diamond was accepted to study at Balliol College, Oxford with a scholarship. She announced on Twitter that she was a 2021 finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship from the Global category. In a feature on \"The Oxford Student\", she was quoted describing her"}, {"text": "time at Oxford as, \"Oxford helped me realise that even if you cannot achieve full justice, you can try to prevent injustice \u2013 with your work, words, advocacy, and presence. We must make our existence in this world worthwhile, and what better place to start that journey than at university.\" In an interview with Emma Barnett of the \"BBC Woman's Hour\", Diamond spoke about her experience by quoting the French novelist Andr\u00e9 Malraux: \"None of us walk through hell and come back empty handed.\" Advocacy. In September 2019, Diamond became one of the founding members of The Alliance Against State Hostage Taking, alongside Richard Ratcliffe, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Jason Rezaian, and Nizar Zakka. The Alliance was launched at the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York City in 2019. She has also worked closely with Freedom from Torture and Hostage UK in understanding the trauma of returning hostages and their rights to demand enforceable reparation, including restitution, compensation, and rehabilitation. Since the launch of the Alliance, Diamond has collaborated on a documentary with BBC Panorama to highlight that the arrest of dual and foreign nationals in Iran is often associated with the aim of extracting money, facilitating prisoner exchanges,"}, {"text": "lifting of sanctions, repayment of arms debts or other concessions. Diamond was one of the first individuals to speak out on the inhumane conditions surrounding the arrest of Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert. Following a lengthy but successful campaign for Dr Moore-Gilbert's release, Diamond gave an interview to the Guardian and said that \u201cThe Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps have been practising and perfecting their state hostage-taking for many decades now,\" and that she is advocating for a \"legal path to hold Iran accountable for their atrocious violations of human rights and the deliberate and planned acts of kidnapping and torture of foreign nationals.\" In July 2020, the UK government announced the launch of new 'Magnitsky'-style sanctions regime to target those who have perpetuated human rights violations and abuses around the world. The Alliance has contributed to the passage of Magnitsky legislation in the UK, designed to provide sanctions against individuals who have committed human rights violations. The laws are named in honour of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian tax advisor whose exposure of corruption and misconduct in Russia led to his arrest and death in police custody. Literary work. Diamond was awarded the 2024-2025 Alistair Horne Visiting Fellowship at St Antony's College,"}, {"text": "Oxford, to \"write a significant book of non-fiction for a general readership\". The same year, she won the Spread the Word Award for her non-fiction book, \"How Dare a Woman\""}, {"text": "The South Park Manor Historic District is a residential historic district in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district includes 263 Chicago bungalows built between 1915 and 1927. At the time, single-family homeownership was becoming broadly accessible to Chicagoans, and the bungalow was a popular choice for dense urban housing. The bungalows in the district were designed by several developers, but the district has a consistent appearance nonetheless. The use of a single home type throughout provided uniformity to the neighborhood, while stylistic variations such as the placement of dormers and porches gave each house its own character. The developers also gave their homes spacious lawns and private backyards to preserve green space in an urban setting. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 2004."}, {"text": "The 2020\u201321 UEFA Youth League was scheduled to be the eighth season of the UEFA Youth League, a European youth club football competition organised by UEFA. As in previous years, the final tournament, consisting of the semi-finals and final, would originally have been played at the Colovray Stadium in Nyon, Switzerland; however, due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the format of the competition was changed to a straight knockout tournament starting from 2 March 2021. On 17 February 2021, the UEFA Executive Committee cancelled the tournament. Teams. A total of 64 teams from at least 32 of the 55 UEFA member associations could enter the 2020\u201321 UEFA Youth League. They were split into two sections, each with 32 teams: In early April 2020, UEFA announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the deadline for entering the tournament had been postponed until further notice. All Domestic Champions Path teams in \"italics\" were declared champions or selected to play by the national association following an abandoned season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, and were subject to approval by UEFA as per the guidelines for entry to European competitions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The list of participants,"}, {"text": "from 36 associations, was published by UEFA on 7 December 2020. Celta Vigo, Lazio, 1. FC K\u00f6ln, Angers, Chertanovo Moscow, \u0130stanbul Ba\u015fak\u015fehir, AZ, Odense, Dinamo Minsk, G\u00f3rnik Zabrze, Olimpija Ljubljana, Ferencv\u00e1ros, Gy\u0151ri ETO, Apolonia and Waterford would have made their tournament debuts. Squads. Players had to be born on or after 1 January 2002, with a maximum of five players born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2001 allowed in the 40-player squad, and a maximum of three of these players allowed per each match. Round and draw dates. The schedule of the competition was planned as follows (all draws were planned to be held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland). The tournament would have originally started in September 2020, but was initially delayed to October due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, which caused the group stage of the 2020\u201321 UEFA Champions League to be postponed. However, due to the continuing pandemic in Europe, UEFA announced a new format on 24 September 2020. Instead of a group stage in the UEFA Champions League Path and two-legged ties in the Domestic Champions Path, all rounds would have been played as single-legged knockout matches. The schedule of the competition"}, {"text": "announced in June 2020, under the original format, was planned as follows (all draws were planned to be held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise). Round of 64. Draw. The draw for the round of 64 was held on 27 January 2021 (12:00 CET for UEFA Champions League Path and 12:25 CET for Domestic Champions Path). The 32 teams from the UEFA Champions League Path and the 32 teams from the Domestic Champions Path were split, and in both paths, there were no seedings, but UEFA divided the teams in each path into four groups of eight teams, which would be drawn separately. The first team drawn in each tie would have been the home team. Teams from the same association in the UEFA Champions League Path could not be drawn against each other, and based on political restrictions, teams from Russia and Ukraine could not be drawn against each other. Summary. The matches would have been played on 24 February, 2, 3 and 4 March 2021. Round of 32. The draw for the round of 32 would have been held on 12 March 2021 (morning). The 16 winners of the round of 64 from the"}, {"text": "UEFA Champions League Path and the 16 winners of the round of 64 from the Domestic Champions Path are split, and in both paths, there are no seedings. Teams from the same association in the UEFA Champions League Path cannot be drawn against each other. The matches would have been played on 6 and 7 April 2021. Round of 16. The draw for the round of 16 onwards would have been held on 12 March 2021 (afternoon). The eight winners of the round of 32 from the UEFA Champions League Path and the eight winners of the round of 32 from the Domestic Champions Path, whose identity is not known at the time of draw, would have been combined starting from the round of 16. The matches would have been played on 20 and 21 April 2021. Quarter-finals. The matches would have been played on 4 and 5 May 2021. Semi-finals. The matches would have been played on 17 May 2021 at the Colovray Stadium, Nyon. Final. The match would have been played on 20 May 2021 at the Colovray Stadium, Nyon."}, {"text": "Laura Sullivan-Beckers is an associate professor of evolutionary biology at Murray State University. She is credited with the discovery of \"Hebetica sylviae,\" a species of treehopper, named for her daughter Sylvie Beckers. Early life and education. Originally studying human forms of communication and earning a bachelor's in Spanish from the University of Tulsa, Sullivan-Beckers became fascinated with the ways birds communicate, and went back to school almost immediately, graduating from Northeastern State University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. She then pursued a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Missouri, publishing her doctoral research and graduating in 2008. Discovery of \"Hebetica sylviae\". In the summer of 2016, Sullivan-Beckers asked her 2-year-old daughter Sylvie to water some seeds she had just planted in the backyard of their home. Sylvie overwatered the soil, and small, bright green treehoppers began to float to the top. Sullivan-Beckers noted the oddity of tree-dwelling insects to be dead and buried in the ground. She soon began collecting samples from her backyard, including 72 of the new species, and sent them to Dr. Stuart McKamey, a collaborative researcher at the USDA. \u201cAs soon as it was confirmed as a new species, I"}, {"text": "knew I wanted it named after Sylvie. She was at the heart of the discovery, and it\u2019s not every day a mother gets the chance to name a species after her child,\u201d she said. The species is a variety of treehopper from the Darninae tribe. Sullivan-Beckers co-authored an illustrated description of the insects with Stuart H. McKamey which was presented at Entomological Society of Washington. Other research. Sullivan-Beckers continues to study wolf spider communication habits at Murray State, and teaches undergraduate courses in human anatomy, zoology, and ornithology. Additionally, Sullivan-Beckers has published a number of papers and book chapters on evolution and sexual selection in publications such as Evolution, Biometrics, Current Zoology, and Animal Behaviour."}, {"text": "F\u00e5hraeus, F\u00e5hr\u00e6us, or Fahraeus is a Swedish surname. It can refer to:"}, {"text": "Nagorny, Nagornyi, Nagornyy or Nahorny (Russian: \u041d\u0430\u0433\u043e\u0440\u043d\u044b\u0439, Ukrainian: \u041d\u0430\u0433\u043e\u0440\u043d\u0438\u0439) is a Slavic masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Nagornaya. It may refer to"}, {"text": "The Bermuda Triangle Challenge (BTC) (also known as the Chubb Bermuda Triangle Challenge, and formerly known as the Bermuda Marathon Weekend) is a road race event held on the island of Bermuda. The marathon has been held since 1975, while the challenge was created in 2008. The three-day running challenge takes place throughout Bermuda and includes a mile run on Friday evening, either the 10K run or walk on Saturday morning, and either the half or full marathon on Sunday. The event takes place in January, coinciding with the holiday weekend in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. observed in the United States. Race participants include runners from over 25 countries. Elite runners have included Olympic and World Champions and former world record holders such as Tyler Butterfield, Douglas Wakiihuri, Steve Jones, Steve Cram, Frank Shorter, Geoff Smith, Ron Hill, Kathrine Switzer and Grete Waitz. The race is supported by a number of top sponsors including - Chubb Limited, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bank of N.T. Butterfield, BF&M Insurance, Gosling Brothers, Bacardi Limited, Hamilton Princess, Zurich Insurance, Butterfield & Vallis, Strata-G Ltd & many others. History. The marathon was first held on as the Bermuda International Marathon. Seven runners participated, although only five"}, {"text": "finished the race. The marathon was not held again in 1976, but it returned in 1977. In 1978, the 10K race was added. That same year, Joan Benoit Samuelson ran her first marathon here, after having won the inaugural 10K the previous day. She treated the marathon as a long workout, and ended up in second place with a time of 2:50:54. In 1989, the mile race was added, and in 1993, the half marathon was also added. Courses. The event features scenic courses along the coast and beaches of Bermuda and through historic sections of the island showcasing the island\u2019s unique architecture. The point-to-point PricewaterhouseCoopers Bermuda Marathon course, which was redesigned in 2020, is IAAF certified and a Boston Marathon qualifier. The marathon course begins in Sandy's Parish at the Royal Navy Dockyard and travels through Ireland Island, Boaz Island around The Great Sound and continues along the Bermuda Railway trail and over the smallest drawbridge in the world, Somerset Bridge. The trail continues through Southampton Parish taking in the views of Gibb's Hill Lighthouse and the pink south shore beaches including Horseshoe Bay and Elbow Beach. The marathon course meets the half marathon course in Paget Parish and"}, {"text": "passes along the Bermuda Botanical Garden's and into Smith's Parish along Spittal Pond and Devil's Hole then continues into Flatt's Village along the North Shore Road by Government House and turns at Spanish Point and heads towards the City of Hamilton finishing at Hamilton Harbor. Other activities. The event includes leading speakers such as Bart Yasso, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Frank Shorter from the sports and health world and the BF&M 10k and PwC Half and Full Marathons culminate with a Finish Festival & Award Presentation Celebrations with live entertainment, free food and local adult refreshments. On Sunday, following the PwC events, the celebration takes place in Barr\u2019s Bay Park overlooking Hamilton Harbor. Added to the festivities are bands, Gombey dancers, DJ\u2019s and local celebrations along all the race courses."}, {"text": "Radivilov () is a Ukrainian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Radivilova. It may refer to"}, {"text": "Vance Bryden Gerry (August 21, 1929 \u2013 March 5, 2005) was an American storyboard artist, concept artist, and character designer known for his work on \"One Hundred and One Dalmatians\" (1961), \"The Sword in the Stone\" (1963), \"The Jungle Book\" (1967), \"The Aristocats\" (1970), \"The Rescuers\" (1977), and \"The Lion King\" (1994). He also operated his own letterpress printing business called Weather Bird Press. Biography. Gerry was born in Pasadena, California. A self-described poor student, he attended University School in Pasadena to complete his high school studies. There, he stated, \"Teachers usually liked my artwork in grammar school, watercolors and crayons and so on. So I had sort of always thought that I would be a commercial artist.\" Gerry then enrolled in Woodbury College and attended Art Center School for less than one semester before he was drafted into the United States Army. He served as a corporal during the Korean War and left in 1952. Following his military service, Gerry studied at the Chouinard Art Institute on a scholarship from the G.I. Bill. One of his teachers there was Donald W. Graham, who had taught animation training and orientation classes at Walt Disney Productions during the 1930s. He attended"}, {"text": "there for two and a half years. Realizing he would not make it professionally as an illustrator, Gerry was persuaded by his friend, Grant Dahlstrom, to work for him as a salesman. Graham, instead, recommended that he should work for Walt Disney Productions. In 1955, Gerry first worked as an assistant in-betweener. He then transitioned to being a layout artist in which he worked on \"One Hundred and One Dalmatians\" (1961) and \"The Sword in the Stone\" (1963). During the development on \"The Jungle Book\" (1967), he began working in the story department. Meanwhile, Gerry began his printmaking career in 1963, in which he founded the Peach Pit Press. Five years later, his wife suggested changing the name to the Weather Bird Press, which he operated in Laguna Beach, California. Back at Disney, Gerry returned to doing layout artwork for \"The Rescuers\" (1977) and \"The Fox and the Hound\" (1981) before leaving to continue running his letterpress printing business in 1977. He briefly returned to Disney for \"The Black Cauldron\" (1985) where he created early designs for the Horned King. Gerry envisioned him as a big-bellied Viking who had a red beard, fiery temper, and wore a steel helmet with"}, {"text": "two large horns. He left the studio again, but returned to work on \"The Great Mouse Detective\" (1986). By the 1990s, Gerry worked one day a week on the studio's in-development projects, in which he contributed visual development and character design artwork on \"The Lion King\" (1994), \"Pocahontas\" (1995), \"The Hunchback of Notre Dame\" (1996), \"Tarzan\" (1999), and \"Home on the Range\" (2004). Describing his working method, Gerry stated, \"It doesn't take much to get started. I'd just as soon start with a title of a picture and just start dreaming into it. A script is restricting because it tells you too much. I'd rather start earlier than that and look for possibilities for animation and entertainment, rather than story elements or structure.\" Towards the end of his career, he worked closely with fellow storyboard artists Joe Grant and Burny Mattinson. Gerry retired from Disney to continue working at Weather Bird Press with his longtime friend Patrick Roeh. Death and legacy. On March 5, 2005, Gerry died at the age of 75 from complications of cancer in Pasadena, California. Commemorating his passing, Don Hahn stated: \"He was a writer's writer and his sense of storytelling and influence on all of"}, {"text": "us was profound.\" Floyd Norman, who had worked alongside Gerry during the 1950s and 1960s, wrote the following: \"His whole approach to Disney story telling was so uncomplicated. In an era when young story artists pontificate endlessly about their story telling prowess, Vance was an intuitive story teller who seem to allow the story to flow out of him.\""}, {"text": "Tereza Ku\u010derov\u00e1 (born 5 May 1964) is a Czech artist. Her parents are V\u011bra Chytilov\u00e1 and Jaroslav Ku\u010dera. A native of Prague, Ku\u010derov\u00e1 is a graduate of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where she studied from 1982 until 1988 and worked with . During her career she has worked in a variety of fields, including graphic art, painting, and design. As a costume designer she has been associated with a number of films, and she has created several cartoons, which have been seen at numerous animation festivals. She has exhibited her work in the Czech Republic. Ku\u010derov\u00e1 joined the Hollar Association of Czech Graphic Artists in 2016. Two 1993 lithographs in color, \"Pani B/Mrs. B\" and \"Rust/Growth\", are owned by the National Gallery of Art."}, {"text": ", better known by her ring name , is an English-born Italian-Japanese professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand and is the current WWE Women's United States Champion in her first reign. She is also a former one-time NXT Women's Champion. Matsudo is best known for her time in World Wonder Ring Stardom from 2019 to 2024, where she became a one-time World of Stardom Champion, one-time Wonder of Stardom Champion, one-time goddesses of Stardom Champion, two-time Artist of Stardom Champion, and was also the winner of the 2020 Cinderella Tournament, the 2022 5 Star Grand Prix. She is the founder and leader of the Stardom-based faction Donna Del Mondo, and the recipient of the 2020 \"Tokyo Sports\" Women's Wrestling Grand Prize. She is also known for her tenure in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) from 2020 to 2024 due to its working partnership with Stardom, and became a one-time Strong Women's Championship. Matsudo has also performed for Ice Ribbon and Dream Star Fighting Marigold, becoming a one-time International Ribbon Tag Team Champion (alongside Tequila Saya). Early and personal life. Eimi Gloria Matsudo was born in London, England, on February 21, 1994, to an"}, {"text": "Italian father and a Japanese mother. When Matsudo was one year old, her family moved to Japan, where she was raised in Chiba Prefecture. She worked in her parents' Italian restaurant before training as a professional wrestler with Ice Ribbon in 2017. She was bullied as a child from elementary school to junior high due to her mixed race background, prompting her parents to put her in a private high school. Professional wrestling career. Ice Ribbon (2017\u20132019). Matsudo debuted under the ring name Giulia in a tag team match at \"New Ice Ribbon #845\", an event promoted by Ice Ribbon, on 29 October 2017, teaming with Takako Inoue in a loss to Nao Date and Satsuki Totoro. In November, she entered the Young Ice Tournament, where she was eliminated by Totoro in the first round. In April 2018, she wrestled Ice Ribbon's ace, Tsukasa Fujimoto, for the first time, losing in 39 seconds. On 24 September, Giulia got her first singles victory when she defeated Asahi. In the latter part of the year, Giulia began a feud with Tequila Saya, which eventually bought in male wrestlers Shinya Aoki and Hideki Suzuki, who acted as mentors for the female wrestlers and"}, {"text": "taught them new moves throughout their feud. After a match on 31 December, where Saya and Suzuki were defeated by Giulia and Aoki, her and Saya reconciled and formed a tag team known as Burning Raw. At the end of the year, she was presented with Ice Ribbon's New Face Award, the equivalent of winning rookie of the year. On 27 January 2019, Burning Raw unsuccessfully challenged Kyuri and Maika Ozaki for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship. After 17 February, Giulia announced she would be taking a month off from wrestling due to nerve damage in her hip. After returning, she began a feud with Maya Yukihi, which culminated in Giulia unsuccessfully challenging for the ICE Cross Infinity Championship on 25 May. In July, Burning Raw defeated Yukihi and Risa Sera to win the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship; Giulia's first championship win of her career. After 3 months as champions, Burning Raw lost the titles back to Yukihi and Sera on 23 September, ending their reigns at 70 days. On 13 October, Giulia announced she would be leaving Ice Ribbon. Independent circuit (2017\u20132024). On 1 October 2017, Giulia was invited by Toshiaki Kawada to compete on one of"}, {"text": "his Holy War shows, where she was defeated by veteran Command Bolshoi. Weeks later, Giulia was defeated by Aja Kong in a singles match for the Oz Academy promotion. Giulia made several appearances for Big Japan Pro Wrestling in events where joshi puroresu was also promoted. The first one was a house show on 9 June 2018, where Giulia lost to Tequila Saya. At 2018 Pro Wrestling Zero1's Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament on 18 November, she picked up a victory against Mochi Miyagi. At \"AWG Act In Osaka\", an event promoted by Actwres girl'Z on 21 July 2019, Giulia unsuccessfully challenged Saori Anou for the AgZ Championship. World Wonder Ring Stardom (2019\u20132024). On 14 October 2019, Giulia announced that she had signed with World Wonder Ring Stardom. On 8 December, she made her in-ring debut on Stardom where she defeated Hazuki. During January 2020, Giulia formed a new unit named Donna Del Mondo, recruiting Maika and Syuri to the stable in the process. On 8 February, Donna del Mondo defeated Queen's Quest (AZM, Momo Watanabe, and Utami Hayashishita) to win the Artist of Stardom Championship. On 24 March, Giulia defeated Jungle Kyona, Watanabe, fellow Donna del Mondo's stablemate Syuri, and finally"}, {"text": "Natsuko Tora to be crowned the 2020 Cinderella Tournament winner. In July, a feud began between Giulia and Tam Nakano, initially for the Wonder of Stardom Championship, that would continue intermittently for several years. On 26 July at Cinderella Summer in Tokyo, Giulia defeated Nakano in the finals of a four-woman tournament to win the vacant Wonder of Stardom Championship; winning her first singles title. On 3 October, Giulia had her first successful title defense, where she defeated Nakano in a rematch. In October and November, Giulia and Maika competed in the Red Goddesses' Block of the 2020 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League, under the team name Crazy Bloom. They reached the finals of the tournament, in which they lost to MOMOAZ. On 14 November, Donna Del Mondo lost the Artist of Stardom Championship to Oedo Tai (Bea Priestley, Saki Kashima and Tora), ending their reigns at 280 days. At Sendai Cinderella 2020 on 15 November, Giulia successfully defended the Wonder of Stardom Championship against Konami. On 20 December, Giulia defended the Wonder of Stardom Championship in a title vs. title match against fellow Donna Del Mondo's member Syuri, who also defended the SWA World Championship. The match ended in"}, {"text": "a time-limit draw, with both titleholders retaining their titles in the process. On 3 March 2021, at All Star Dream Cinderella, Giulia was defeated by Nakano in a hair vs. hair match for the Wonder of Stardom Championship, ending her reign at 220 days. During post-match, she had her head partially shaved in the ring, with the rest cut off backstage. At Yokohama Dream Cinderella 2021 on 4 April, Giulia teamed up with Syuri to win the Goddesses of Stardom Championship from fellow Donna Del Mondo's members, Maika and Himeka, after an interstable clash. Giulia and Syuri would later name their tag team Alto Livello Kabaliwan (English: \"High Level Madness\"), often shortened to ALK. Giulia made it to the second round of the 2021 Cinderella Tournament on 14 May, where she lost to Maika. At Yokohama Dream Cinderella 2021 in Summer on 4 July, ALK successfully defended their Goddesses of Stardom Championship against Stars (Mayu Iwatani and Koguma). Giulia took part in the 2021 5 Star Grand Prix, competing in the Red Stars' Block, but pulled out of the tournament after three matches due to dealing with several injuries. She made her in-ring return on 29 December, at Dream Queendom,"}, {"text": "where she successfully picked up a victory against Konami, who was departing from Stardom. On 3 January 2022, Giulia revealed Thekla from Ice Ribbon and Mirai from Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling as the two masked superstars who kept attacking various other wrestlers at the end of 2021. All three of them teamed up to defeat Cosmic Angels (Nakano, Mai Sakurai and Unagi Sayaka) in a six-woman tag team match. At Nagoya Golden Fight on 29 January, Giulia battled Iwatani into a time-limit draw in a No. 1 Contender match for the World of Stardom Championship, which awarded both of them an opportunity to challenge for the championship at World Climax 2022. On the first night of the event on March 26, Giulia unsuccessfully challenged Syuri for the World of Stardom Championship. After their match, Syuri announced she will leave Donna Del Mondo to walk on her path and form another stable, later revealed to be God's Eye. On the second night from March 27, Giulia teamed up with Maika, Himeka and Thekla to take out Prominence's Risa Sera, Suzu Suzuki, Akane Fujita and Mochi Miyagi, with whom all the Donna Del Mondo members had been in a feud. However, Suzuki"}, {"text": "stated that she was not finished with Giulia, despite her unit's loss, which meant that the feud was still standing. At the 2022 Cinderella Tournament, Giulia reached the second rounds on 10 April, where she lost to Koguma. At Flashing Champions on 28 May, Giulia teamed up with Sakurai to unsuccessfully face FWC for the Goddesses of Stardom Championship. At Fight in the Top on 26 June, Giulia, Maika, and Sakurai unsuccessfully challenged Oedo Tai (Saki Kashima, Watanabe and Starlight Kid), and God's Eye (Syuri, Mirai and Ami Sourei) in a three-way match for the Artist of Stardom Championship. Giulia was announced compete in the 2022 5 Star Grand Prix on 30 July. She won the whole competition on the last day of the tournament on October 1 by defeating Nakano in the finals. On 29 December at Dream Queendom 2, Giulia defeated Syuri to win the World of Stardom Championship for the first time. On 4 February 2023, at Stardom Supreme Fight, Giulia had her first successful title defense of the World of Stardom Championship by defeating Suzuki. On 4 March, Giulia's second title defense, against Maya Yukihi, ended in a double countout. It was later reported that the"}, {"text": "reason for the match ending in a double countout was due to real-life heat between the two. On 23 April, at All Star Grand Queendom, Giulia lost the title to Nakano, ending her reign at 115 days. On 27 May, at Flashing Champions, Giulia, Sakurai and Thekla, together known as the Baribari Bombers, defeating Artist of Stardom Champions REStart (Kairi, Natsupoi and Saori Anou) to win the titles. At New Years Stars 2024 on 3 January, Baribari Bombers participated in the 2024 Triangle Derby. After reaching the finals and deciding to defend the Artist of Stardom Championship, they lost the match and titles to Abarenbo GE, ending their reigns at 221 days. On February 27, 2024, Tokyo Sports reported that Giulia would be leaving Stardom at the conclusion of her contract. Giulia had her last match in Stardom on April 12, teaming with Syuri against Iwatani and Hanan. New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2020\u20132024). Giulia has taken part in exhibition matches organized by New Japan Pro-Wrestling, in relationship with World Wonder Ring Stardom, to promote female wrestlers. On 4 January 2020, in her first match, Giulia teamed up with Hana Kimura in a losing effort to Mayu Iwatani and Arisa Hoshiki on"}, {"text": "the first night of Wrestle Kingdom 14. On 5 January, the second night of Wrestle Kingdom 15, Giulia teamed up with fellow Donna Del Mondo's stable member Syuri to defeat Iwatani and Tam Nakano. On the second night of the Wrestle Grand Slam in MetLife Dome on September 4, Giulia once again teamed up with Syuri to defeat Momo Watanabe and Saya Kamitani. On 20 November 2022, at Historic X-Over, Giulia teamed up with Zack Sabre Jr. and defeated Syuri and Tom Lawlor in a mixed tag team match. On 5 July 2023, at NJPW Independence Day, Giulia defeated Willow Nightingale to become NJPW STRONG Women's Champion. On 20 August, at Multiverse United 2, Giulia wrestled in the U.S. for the first time in her career, where she successfully defended the Strong Women's Championship against Deonna Purrazzo, Gisele Shaw, and Momo Kohgo. Giulia lost the Strong Women's Championship to Stephanie Vaquer on Night 2 of Stardom Cinderella Tournament 2024, ending her reign at 249 days. Dream Star Fighting Marigold (2024). On 15 April 2024, former Stardom executive Rossy Ogawa held a press conference to announce his new promotion Dream Star Fighting Marigold, with Giulia being one of the initial members"}, {"text": "of the roster. On 20 May, she participated in the main event of Marigold's debut production, Marigold Fields Forever, tag-teaming with Utami Hayashishita in a losing effort against Sareee and Bozilla. At the end of the event, Giulia and Sareee were scheduled for a singles match at Marigold Summer Destiny, on 13 July 2024. However, the next day, it was announced by Marigold that Giulia had suffered a wrist fracture, with her near-term matches cancelled, and putting her match against Sareee for the inaugural Marigold World Championship in doubt. In the end, the bout took place, with Giulia coming unsuccessful. Giulia then announced that her final match for Marigold before moving to WWE would be on 19 August, against Mai Sakurai at Marigold Summer Gold Shine 2024. At the event, Giulia defeated Sakurai. WWE. NXT (2024\u20132025). After being spotted taking photos with fans at the WWE World at WrestleMania convention, and appearing at NXT Stand & Deliver in the crowd, it was later reported that Giulia was on the verge of signing with WWE. She made her official debut at NXT No Mercy, confronting NXT Women's Champion Roxanne Perez, establishing herself as a face in the process. At Week 1"}, {"text": "of \"NXT\"s CW premier on 1 October, Giulia failed to win the title from Perez after interference from the returning Cora Jade. At NXT Deadline on 7 December, Giulia won the women's Iron Survivor Challenge to earn an NXT Women's Championship match at , where she defeated Perez to win the title. She also participated in her first Royal Rumble match. At NXT Roadblock on 11 March, Giulia lost the title to NXT Women's North American Champion Stephanie Vaquer in a Winner Takes All match, ending her reign at 63 days. It was later reported that Giulia had suffered an injury prior to the match and would be taking time off to heal. Giulia returned from injury on the April 8 episode of \"NXT\", fending off Jordynne Grace and Jaida Parker from Vaquer, only to attack her afterwards, turning heel in the process. She would then challenge Vaquer for the NXT Women's Championship at NXT Stand and Deliver in a fatal four-way match also involving Grace and Parker, which Giulia lost after Vaquer pinned Parker. On the May 6 episode of \"NXT\", Giulia faced Grace in a #1 contender's match for the NXT Women's Championship, which she lost in what"}, {"text": "would be her final NXT appearance. Women's United States Champion (2025\u2013present). On April 21, Giulia made her first main roster appearance on the \"Raw\" after WrestleMania 41 alongside Roxanne Perez, interfering a match between Women's World Champion Iyo Sky and NXT Women's Champion Stephanie Vaquer. On the May 12 episode of \"Raw\", Giulia and Roxanne lost to Sky and Rhea Ripley in a tag team match. On the May 16 episode of \"SmackDown\", Giulia was announced as the newest member of the SmackDown brand. The following week, Giulia made her SmackDown debut, defeating Charlotte Flair and Women's United States Champion Zelina Vega in a triple threat match to qualify for the Money in the Bank ladder match at the namesake event by pinning Vega, but the match was won by Naomi. On the June 27 episode of \"SmackDown\", Giulia defeated Vega to win the Women's United States Championship. Professional wrestling style and persona. Giulia was nicknamed \"Beautiful Madness\" during her time in Stardom and the nickname was carried into WWE. One of her signature wrestling maneuvers is a variation of the scissored armbar crossface, which she calls simply \"Bianca\". She also uses a knee lift as her finisher, which she"}, {"text": "calls \"Arrivederci\", the other finisher is a northern lights bomb, a move popularized by fellow compatriot Akira Hokuto. Other media. On August 23, 2024, Matsudo released her own autobiography named \"My Dream\", describing her wrestling journey."}, {"text": "The House of Lies may refer to:"}, {"text": "Matej Accetto is a Slovenian judge and president of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia. Education. Accetto graduated from the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law in 2000 and received an LL.M. degree from Harvard University in 2001. He completed this Ph.D. degree at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law. Since then, he was employed at the same institution. Currently he is an Associate Professor of European law. He was ranked 24th on the list of Slovenian law professors based on the number of citations in the academic literature, published in January 2018. Career. Accetto was appointed a member of the Constitutional Court in March 2017, and became its vice president in September 2019. Accetto was appointed to the Constitutional Court based on the \"explicit request by Prime Minister Miro Cerar\" who taught at the same faculty of law. In two separate procedures at the Constitutional Court, an activist Vili Kova\u010di\u010d challenged decisions of Cerar and his government. Kova\u010di\u010d asked Accetto to recuse himself, or that the court should recuse him, because he had actively participated in the formation of Cerar's political party, and had contributed in writing of the party's agenda before the party was formally established. Accetto explained"}, {"text": "that he had never participated in any such activity, and that besides professional academical engagement he had no connections to Cerar or his political party. The Constitutional Court published Accetto's statements in two separate decisions, and based on these statements the court let Accetto be a judge on these cases. His judgment in both decisions was against the position of the government led by Miro Cerar and his political party. On October 14, 2019, in the morning, a website Pozareport.si published scanned copies of email correspondence between Accetto, Cerar, and some other founders of Cerar's political party. In these emails, Accetto extensively suggests political agenda for Cerar's party, and states that he would serve as a \"silent supporter\" of the group. On the same day, a few hours later, Constitutional Court published a judgment, in which judge Jakli\u010d disclosed that Accetto had several times pressured other judges to decide cases in favour of the Cerar government's decisions or legislation. Several journalists and politicians, and former European Court of Human Rights judge and Constitutional Court judge Bostjan M. Zupan\u010di\u010d, stated that Accetto should resign. Former president of the Constitutional Court Ernest Petri\u010d commented that the court should be without a stain"}, {"text": "and that judge's lying to other judges \"the worst thing possible.\" Constitutional Court judge Marko \u0160orli confirmed that judges had not known about Accetto's correspondence with Cerar and that Accetto had not informed judges about it. Former judge of the Constitutional Court said at first that the accusations were unfounded, damaging and \"unacceptable\", and three days later informed the public that he expects Accetto's resignation, if the allegations are proven to be true. Accetto called claims \"an attack on me and my integrity\" and the president of the Constitutional Court Rajko Knez called them \"unsubstantiated\". Vili Kova\u010di\u010d held asked for resignation of three judges, namely Accetto, Knez, and \u0160pelca Me\u017enar. On October 22, 2019, media reported that criminal procedure against Accetto was initiated for unfair, subverted, and skewed decisionmaking. According to the copy of the criminal charge, published first by Po\u017eareport.si, Accetto was accused of hiding the true relationship with the Cerar's political party, and deceiving the court, in order to be able to judge on a case concerning a prohibited music concert. The case was on lower levels decided by Ksenija Klampfer, then the Head of the Administrative Unit Maribor, and currently a minister belonging to the Cerar's political"}, {"text": "party, and Vesna Gjerke\u0161 \u017dnidar, then a Minister of Interior belonging to the Cerar's political party. Accetto had refused to deal with the case expeditiously, and had dismissed the appeal against Klapmfer's and Gjerke\u0161 \u017dnidar's decisions as unfounded, but the Administrative Court had later found that the concert was prohibited illegally. On November 12, 2019, Vili Kova\u010di\u010d filed another set of criminal charges against Accetto for subverted and skewed decision making in 22 of Constitutional Court decisions involving Cerar\u2019s party candidates or projects. Under the constitution, the State Prosecutors\u2019 Office is needs a Parliament\u2019s permission to prosecute a judge and as of November 2019, it has not yet asked the National Assembly to approve the prosecution of Accetto."}, {"text": "\"Let Them Eat Goo\" is the fourth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series \"South Park\". The 301st episode overall of the series, it premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on October 16, 2019. In the episode, marijuana farmer Randy Marsh, needing to boost his profits, finds a new use for the discarded portions of his harvests that may raise his profits, campaigning for the town to move toward a plant-based diet; while Cartman sees this as a threat to the food he loves to eat. The episode references the 2007 film \"There Will Be Blood\", and was also seen as a commentary on professional basketball player LeBron James's \"wishy-washy statement on the consequences of free speech\" in regards to the 2019\u201320 Hong Kong protests. Plot. Randy Marsh, owner of the marijuana business Tegridy Farms, tells his family that due to the end of his business deal with the Chinese government in the previous episode, profits are down. Randy's business partner, Towelie suggests taking the parts of the marijuana plants they usually discard after harvesting and sell it as mulch. Later at a Burger King, he samples one of that restaurant's plant-based Impossible Whoppers."}, {"text": "Though he finds that it tastes awful, the realization that customers will pay for plant-based burgers, even ones that taste bad, inspires him to create Tegridy Burgers, which are made from his discarded marijuana plants. At South Park Elementary school, fourth grader Eric Cartman is irritated that familiar lunch food like ground beef has been replaced with fish in response to complaints from students like Wendy Testaburger and Nichole, who tell Cartman that some students who do not eat red meat want healthier options. Enraged at the elimination of the food he likes, Cartman angrily rants before succumbing to a heart attack. The school counselor, Mr. Mackey, assures Cartman that the school menu will not change. Cartman subsequently delights in being able to eat barbecue ribs for lunch again, but Wendy and Nichole's continued protests prompt another heart attack for him. Randy starts selling Tegridy Burgers, first at a stand outside the Burger King, and then at a restaurant across from it. This angers the Burger King's employee, Rick. Randy campaigns for the adoption of vegan diets at a town meeting, arguing that it is better for the environment and animals. As a result of his efforts, beef loses popularity,"}, {"text": "but this prompts an angry cattle rancher to appear at Randy's home with his cows, complaining that they are now useless. The rancher leaves the animals there, where they eat Randy's marijuana and pollute his farm with their waste. To remedy this, Randy and Towelie decide to shoot the cows all to death, an endeavor Randy says they can do if they get really high. At a school assembly, PC Principal announces that as a compromise, Incredible Meat will be the supplier of the school's meals. That company's founder, who calls himself a Goo Man, says his green goo can be made to resemble any food requested, and that he wants to be the plant-based food supplier for the entire town. When Cartman returns to school from his hospital stay, he learns that on Taco Tuesday, the school cafeteria is serving Incredible Beef tacos. Not knowing it is plant-based, he eats the new tacos without incident. He learns the truth, however, from the Goo Man, who is now conspiring with Rick and the rancher. The Goo Man describes the complex industrial infrastructure responsible for the goo used to make Cartman's school lunches, but says that it does not work unless"}, {"text": "he owns all the eateries in town selling plant-based meat. When the Goo Man sees that Randy's new Tegridy Burgers restaurant is popular, it makes Randy a target for the Goo Man, who does not want competitors to his business. During a news broadcast focusing on Randy's business, Rick poses as a student protester criticizing the unethical practices of Tegridy Farms. The newscast then shows footage of Randy and Towelie's cow-killing rampage, causing the townsfolk to turn against Tegridy Farms. At school, Cartman reveals that he knows the truth about the plant-based meat in the school cafeteria, but that far from being angry, it is he who owes everyone else an apology. While he previously thought they were trying to force him to eat healthy, he has learned that the goo is made in a factory, with much added salt, just like all the other \"processed crap that comes in a box\" that he eats. Having only desired to \"eat the same garbage\" he always has, and since the goo is definitely garbage, he does not care that it is more sustainable or ethical. Reception. John Hugar with The A.V. Club gave the episode a B+ grade, praising the show"}, {"text": "for another strong episode. He especially liked the parody of \"There Will Be Blood\"'s Daniel Plainview character, and commented in his review, \"As we approach the mid-point of season 23, the show is in very good shape, and should have more than enough intriguing plotlines going on to keep viewers guessing the rest of the way.\" Jesse Schedeen, reviewing the episode for IGN, gave it a \"Good\" score of 7.3, calling it a \"solid but unspectacular episode\". Comparing it to other episodes of the season, he thought it was \"a less ambitious but solidly entertaining Cartman/Randy storyline\". Schedeen lauded how the episode ties the two storylines together, and thought the use of the 2007 film \"There Will Be Blood\" to parody the plant-based meat storyline was an unexpected choice. Schedeen also enjoyed how Cartman's dialogue poked fun at professional basketball player LeBron James's \"wishy-washy statement on the consequences of free speech\" in regards to the 2019\u201320 Hong Kong protests."}, {"text": "The International Landworkers' Federation (ILF) was a global union federation bringing together trade unions representing agricultural and forestry workers. History. The federation was established in 1920 at a conference in Amsterdam, and set up its headquarters in Utrecht. In 1924, it relocated to Berlin, but returned to Utrecht in 1933. By 1925, it had 15 affiliates, with a total of 377,800 members, and by 1954 this had grown to more than 1,000,000 members, principally in Europe. In 1960, the federation merged with the Plantation Workers International Federation, which mostly represented workers on plantations in poorer countries, forming the International Federation of Plantation and Agricultural Workers. Affiliates. In 1954, the following unions were affiliated to the federation: 1920: Piet Hiemstra 1924: Georg Schmidt 1933: Piet Hiemstra 1938: Oscar Lewinsen 1942: Walter Kwasnik 1950: Adri de Ruijter 1920: Walter Smith 1924: Joseph Forbes Duncan 1950: Edwin Gooch"}, {"text": "St. Stephen's Church (Danish: Sankt Stefans Kirke) is a Church of Denmark parish church located at N\u00f8rrebrogade 199 in the N\u00f8rrebro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. Built in 1874 to designs by Ludvig Knudsen, it is the second oldest church in the district. The composers Knud Jeppesen and Jens Bjerre Jacobsen have both served as organists. History. The first church in N\u00f8rrebro, St. John's, was completed at Blegdamsvej in 1861. The new St. John's Parish, which was disjoined from Trinitatis and Our Lady's Parishes, covered an extensive area which included all of N\u00f8rrebro and \u00d8sterbro and reached all the way to Hellerup and Br\u00f8nsh\u00f8j. The church's first pastor, Rudolph Frimodt, launched a campaign for more churches in the new districts of Copenhagen. In 1872, Frimodt arranged a meeting at Store Ravnsborg with the purpose of establishing a new church in the outer N\u00f8rrebro area. He ultimately managed to raise 34,000 Danish rigsdaler for the construction, 6,000 rigsdaler for a rectory and 10,000 rigsdaler for a trust that would pay the future pastor. Baron L\u00f8venskjold, the owner of Kristinedal and Nykro, contributed a corner of his garden at the corner of Havremarksvej provided the site. It was decided to name the church"}, {"text": "after Saint Stephen, one of the seven deacons appointed by the Apostles to distribute food and charitable aid to poorer members of the community in the early church, reflecting the fire social conditions that characterized the outer N\u00f8rrebro area. The architect Ludvig Knudsen was charged with designing the church. The foundation stone was set on 18 June 1873 and the church was consecrated on 26 December (St. Stephen's Day) 1874. The two first pastors;mdash&Peter Volf and Ivar Dall;mdash&were both representatives of the Inner Mission. The population of the new St. Stephen's Parish grew rapidly. In 1877, 800 children were born in the parish. In 1889, the number had grown to 1405. In 1890\u20131912, five new parishes were therefore disjoined from that of St. Stephen's: Holy Cross Parish (1890), Capernaum Parish (1895), Simon's Parish (1903), Kingo (1908) and Anna's Parish (1912). Architecture. The church is built in red brick. It is 35 metres long and 14 metres wide. The tower stands 31 metres tall. It consists of an apsis, chancel and a long nave, terminating in a tower at the western end. Flanking the nave, there are large wooden galleries, supported by wooden pillars. The artist Johannes Kragh created a series"}, {"text": "of 20 new church windows for the church in connection with its 50 years anniversary in 1934. Each of the windows depict a figure with a glory, holding another glory ready for the one who will follow. Furnishings. Altarpiece. The altarpiece was painted by Anton Dorph and features Jesus visiting the sisters Martha and Maria. Two sisters named Dorph Petersen from Bl\u00e5g\u00e5rds posed for the work. Martha and Maria are depicted on six of the 71 altarpieces that Dorphs has painted for Danish churches. The oldest is in Tyrstrup Church at Haderslev and the one in St. Stephen's is the second oldest. Pulpit. The pulpit from 1874 was originally decorated with four allegorical paintings representing Faith, Hope, Love and Justice. In connection with the 25 year anniversary of the church, it was renovated with by Johan N. Schr\u00f8der with new painting and gilding. He added a fifth, painting, depicting Jesus with the lamb, in addition to restoring the four original ones. In 1984, when the church was refurbished in connection with its 100 years anniversary, the pulpit was lowered and moved closer to the chancel. Font. The font is made of marble from Greenland. Organ. The current organ was built"}, {"text": "by Carsten Lund in 1983. He was given free hands by the congregation council, resulting in an eather unorthodox instrument equipped with 25 stops spread over 3 manuals and pedals. It is equal-tempered \u00e0 la 1750. The standard organ stops are supplemented by special unpitched stops imitated the nightingale (a pipe submerged in a small pool of water, creating the sound of a bird warbling when wind is admitted) and the Standard orchestral percussion instruments bass drum, chimes and cymbal. Votive ship. In 1882, Skifter Andersen, a model ship builder from Aabenraa, presented the votive ship \"St. Stefan\" to the church and it was installed in the nave the following year. The masts and rigging were installed by helmsmen S. C. Ibsen and Th. Knudsen. The haul was by Andersen used as a model for the ship \"Heinrich Augusta\" which he constructed for a trading house in Hamburg."}, {"text": "The 1994 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election was held on March 8, 1994, to elect the mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It saw the reelection of Jim Naugle. The election was nonpartisan."}, {"text": "Grace Helen Adams East (February 12, 1900 \u2013 1968) was an American trumpeter and performer. During a forty year career that peaked in the 1930s, she performed live shows in local, national and international venues in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, India, England, France and Belgium, and also performed on radio programs in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. In promotional material and newspaper articles she was described as \"America's foremost woman trumpeter\". She was also known for promoting the trumpet as a concert and classical instrument. Her repertoire usually included classical music but she often ended her performances with a special trumpet arrangement of George Gershwin's \"Rhapsody in Blue\". Early years. Born Grace Helen Adams in Los Angeles, California, on February 12, 1900, to Charles Milton and Harriet H. Adams, Grace showed an early aptitude for music. Enrolled in various music programs, she first started performing in music school recitals and school programs playing the piano and singing. One of her first recitals took place in 1909 when she was nine at the Los Angeles Temple auditorium. She took up the trumpet at 11, in part, it was said, to improve her weak lungs. Musical career."}, {"text": "By 1914 Grace Helen Adams was performing often throughout the Los Angeles area. She was described as a \"youthful musical prodigy\" at her debut at 14 as the cornet solo player with a 40 person brass band in Long Beach, California. Her first major public performance was with the official band of the Panama\u2013California Exposition in San Diego in January 1915. According to a newspaper article, \"when she motored down to San Diego ten days ago, the youthful artist went simply to visit the exposition. On the grounds she met one of the musicians with the official band, who upon learning that the talented visitor had her cornet with her, requested that she remain over for a week's engagement as soloist.\" Throughout the 1910s she played in many venues, usually churches. At 17 she was on tour in the eastern United States and at its end was offered a vaudeville contract. She declined the contract to return to Los Angeles and finish high school. During World War I she was frequently mentioned in local newspapers as participating in performances at local Army and Navy camps. For example, on January 5, 1918, the \"San Diego Union\" noted she performed at Fort"}, {"text": "Rosecrans and for \"all the men of the camps in and around San Diego during the last week\". Later that year she started her association with Hollywood when she performed at the Los Angeles Majestic Theater with film stars and members of her high school, Polytechnic, to raise money to buy an ambulance for the troops. At the war's end a San Francisco Bay area newspaper article in 1919 described her as a \"well-known Los Angeles cornetist\". By 1920 she married Thomas East and established her stage name as Grace Adams East. She and her husband moved to the San Francisco Bay area. Throughout the 1920s East performed in many Bay Area venues, especially churches and social and civic clubs. She often performed on radio, including on radio stations KTAB, KPO and KGO. In April 1927, a \"Pacific Coast Musical Review\" article mentioned she played with other Etude Club of Berkeley members. Her most active and documented performance period was the 1930s. During that time, she continued to perform in the Bay Area but later began tours in other parts of the United States. She regularly performed on the syndicated NBC radio program. She often performed at churches, schools, and"}, {"text": "social and musical clubs including the Business and Professional Women's Club Coast Musicians, San Francisco Musical Club, and Kiwanis Club. She was the President of the Etude Club of Berkeley in 1930-1931. She also taught music during the period. One of her students was Richard \"Dick\" Collins who later went on to be a recognized jazz performer. In the mid to late 1930s her musical career flourished. This period included a tour through the eastern United States. She played with the US Navy Band and was said to be the first woman soloist to perform with them. She performed in Chicago, New York, Washington, DC and other venues. While in Washington, DC reports said she played at the Daughters of the American Revolution conference at which Eleanor Roosevelt was in attendance. On the same trip, she performed at Easter services near the Washington Monument. In what may be an apocryphal story, she was said to have met President Roosevelt while sitting in his chair in the Oval Office during a private White House tour. She began to obtain additional recognition and was mentioned in national media. \"Time\" magazine reviewed a 1936 concert of hers in Washington DC and described her"}, {"text": "as \"a sure mistress of the trumpet\". It also noted her performance on the rim of the Grand Canyon where she played \"The Last Roundup\" at a memorial service in honor of Will Rogers. She had played at Rogers' last public performance. \"Talent\", a trade publication, identified her as \"Acclaimed America's foremost woman trumpeter\". Her 1937 promotional brochure highlighted several glowing reviews, including one from the \"Hollywood Citizen-News\", Hollywood, California stating: Other endorsements included the US Navy Band's concert master and the New York Women's Symphony Orchestra conductor. By 1937, she arranged a concert tour in Australia and New Zealand. Her husband's untimely death by suicide in January 1938 occurred just before her starting the tour in Hawaii. She played on the radio and at various venues in Australia and New Zealand until September. On her voyage to Europe she played at venues aboard ship and in Ceylon and India. In Europe she played in England, France and Belgium. Her tour was cancelled when war broke out in Europe in September 1939. She returned with many other American refugees to New York. She continued with her career by playing at churches and hotels in New York and at the World's"}, {"text": "Fair. In 1940 she continued performing and finished the year with performances in Honolulu, an engagement and later marriage to US Navy flight surgeon, Lt. Commander John M. Bachulus. Her career continued to have some success during World War II. Initially, she performed in the San Francisco Bay area after her husband was deployed overseas. Later, she received attention as she helped organize a Women's Marine Corps Reserve Band, the first ever woman's band in the US Marines. At the end of the war she again toured but this time as a captain with the USO. She performed in Europe in 1945 and was said to perform with the Paul Lukas troop. Later career. While she continued to give some musical performances in the early 1950s, her interests began to change. After visiting South America, she started giving travel presentations to small audiences in and around San Francisco. Her lectures highlighted South American music and culture. For a short period in the mid-1950s she was the social director at the Desert Inn, Palm Springs, California. Throughout the later 1950s and throughout the 1960s she was mentioned in social events in the San Francisco Bay area. In 1962 she married again"}, {"text": "and became Grace Adams East Santos. She died in 1968. She had no children."}, {"text": "The Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences (Portuguese: \"Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ci\u00eancias Humanas\", FFLCH) is a unit of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy, social sciences, history, geography, literature, languages and linguistics. It was founded in 1934 as the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Languages (\"Faculdade de Filosofia, Ci\u00eancias e Letras\", FFCL). Organization. The faculty currently offers five main undergraduate courses \u2015 history, geography, social sciences, philosophy and languages/literature (\"letras\") \u2015 which are organized under eleven departments: \"Emeriti\" professors. The title of \"emeritus\" professor (\"professor em\u00e9rito\") has been bestowed on the following professors:"}, {"text": "Sol Levitas (1894-1961) was an American magazine editor, an \"old-line Socialist\" and \"Russian refugee journalist\" who served as managing editor of \"The New Leader\" (1940-1950) and \"shaped the journal's character.\" Background. Sol Levitas was born Samuel Moisewitch Levitas in 1894 in the Russian Empire. Career. Levitas became a Socialist at age 15, became a Menshevik and close friend of Alexander Kerensky. In 1916, he first visited Chicago but returned home after the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty in February 1917. After the Bolshevik Revolution, he was imprisoned several times. In 1923, dressed as a Red Army colonel, he fled to New York City. He joined the Socialist Party of America and wrote for the \"Jewish Daily Forward\" and the \"Leader\". On January 19, 1924, the first issue of \"The New Leader\" hit newsstands. In 1930, Levitas became its business manager. In 1936, after years of infighting, editor James Oneal left Levitas in charge. In 1939, Levitas attacked the Hitler-Stalin Pact. In 1943, he criticized Upton Sinclair for signing a petition in support of the Soviet Union. In 1945, Levitas criticized all accommodation with the USSR (i.e., the Yalta Conference). By 1949, the magazine was in dire financial straits. In 1950,"}, {"text": "Levitas said that \"friends\" were contributing to the magazine and in 1957 said that amount with $15,000 per year. Personal life and death. Levitas married Esther Fera. Their children were a daughter, Nora, and a son, Mitchel R. Levitas, \"New York Times\" editor and 1959 Nieman Fellow, Levitas died age 66 on January 3, 1961, in New York City. Legacy. In 1960, former US Assistant Secretary of State and member of FDR's \"Brain Trust, Adolf A. Berle wrote that Levitas made \"The New Leader\" \"a wellspring of first-hand information on foreign affairs.\" He noted, \"In particular, he wished to prevent the crystallization into accepted history of untrue myths propagated by propaganda services.\" In 1984, Sidney Hook and Arnold Beichman wrote \"what distinguished \"The New Leader\", under Sol Levitas, from other publications was that its writers consistently involved themselves with other questions of the day, what Mr. Glazer felicitously calls \"the large areas of the public realm,\" such as technology, nuclear arms, ethnic relations, trade unionism and other issues.\""}, {"text": "Rakesh Pratap Singh (born 30 June 1976) is an Indian politician and a member of the 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly from Gauriganj constituency. He is a member of Samajwadi Party. Singh was elected for the first time in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh election, an accomplishment he repeated in 2017. He resigned on 31 October 2021 citing \"non-fulfilment of promises\" by the government. Singh was expelled from Samajwadi Party in June 2025 for working against party principles and supporting the BJP in the February 2024 Rajya Sabha elections. Personal life. Singh was born on 30 June 1976 to Tej Pratap Singh in Mau, Gauriganj of Amethi district in Uttar Pradesh. He completed High School in 1991 from SPIC Raniganj Kaithaula Pratapgarh. Singh married Shilam Singh on 1 June 1996, with whom he has a son and a daughter. He is an agriculturalist and industrialist by profession. Political career. Singh has served three terms as an MLA in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Gauriganj. In 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, he defeated his nearest rival Mohammad Nayeem of Indian National Congress after securing 44,287 votes, succeeding Chandra Prakash of Bahujan Samaj Party in the process. In 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative"}, {"text": "Assembly election, he repeated this by defeating Nayeem again, but with a much larger margin, securing 77,915 votes. On 31 October 2021, Singh resigned from the 17th Uttar Pradesh Assembly citing \"non-fulfilment of promises\" by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government. In the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Singh defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's Chandra Prakash Mishra Matiyari by a margin of 6,963 votes. In May 2023, Singh was booked for assaulting the husband of Bharatiya Janata Party's Gauriganj municipality chairperson candidate within police premises. On 23 June 2025, Singh was expelled from Samajwadi Party, alongwith two other members, for working against party principles and voting in favour of the rival BJP in the February 2024 Rajya Sabha elections. The party, however, did not cancel their assembly memberships, rendering them as \"unaffiliated MLAs\"."}, {"text": "The 2000 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election took place on March 14, 2000. Incumbent Mayor Jim Naugle ran for re-election to a fourth term. He was only challenged by Anthony G. Evans, Jr., a minister and pharmacy manager. Naugle was endorsed for re-election by the \"Miami Herald\" and the \"Sun Sentinel\". The \"Sentinel\" noted that \"Naugle's brand of populism has played well with the voters of Fort Lauderdale,\" and the \"Herald\" observed that he \"has taken a conservative approach to redevelopment, serving as a questioning voice even when he cannot build a consensus,\" Naugle ultimately defeated Evans in a landslide, winning re-election with 80 percent of the vote."}, {"text": "Artur Ashotovych Miranyan (; ; born 27 December 1995) is an Armenian professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Armenia national team. Club career. On 17 September 2013, Miranyan became a player who scored the first goal for Shakhtar Donetsk in the 2013\u201314 UEFA Youth League in its inaugural season. On 29 August 2014, Vardar announced the signing of Miranyan. He left Vardar on 16 September 2015. On 28 February 2021, Urartu announced the signing of Miranyan. On 6 July 2022, Miranyan left Urartu. On 5 February 2023, Alashkert announced the signing of Miranyan. On 8 July 2023 he left Alashkert. On 25 July 2023, Noah announced the signing of Miranyan. On 20 September 2024, Universitatea Cluj announced the signing of Miranyan. He left the club in June 2025. International career. Miranyan started his international career by playing for various Ukraine national junior teams. He made his debut at the 2012 UEFA European Under-17 Championship during its qualification game against Belgium team which Ukraine won 2:0. Miranyan made his international debut for Armenia on 12 October 2019 in a UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying match against Liechtenstein, which finished as a 1\u20131 away draw. \"Scores and results list Armenia's"}, {"text": "goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Miranyan goal.\" Honours. Vardar Urartu Individual"}, {"text": "Chico Army Airfield auxiliary fields were a number of airfields used during World War II to support the Chico Army Airfield. On September 11, 1941, the US Army rented from the City of Chico a small 1930's airport that sat on of land. The Airfield was north of the city center. The Army built up the small airport into the Chico Army Airfield. From the Chico Army Airfield operated the: United States Army Air Corps's Army Air Forces Basic Flying School, the Army Air Force Pilot School, the 10th Base Headquarters an Air Base Squadron and the 433rd Army Air Force Base Unit or Combat Crew Training Station of Fighter. To support the training of the many pilots, Chico Army Airfield operated a number of auxiliary airfields. Some auxiliary fields were no more than a landing strip runway, others were other operation airfield that supported the training at the Chico Army Airfield. Vina Auxiliary Field. Vina Auxiliary Field also called Vina Auxiliary Field No. 3 was a 323.62 acres US Army airfield 3 miles northeast of Vina, California in Tehama County. Vina Auxiliary Field was 15 miles northwest of Chico at at an elevation of 280 feet. The Vina Auxiliary"}, {"text": "Field was used for training pilots from Flying School at Chico Army Air Field. The Army purchased the land in 1942 and opened the in 3,000-foot by 3,000-foot paved landing mat in 1943. The square mat was also used as an emergency landing field. A disabled plane could land coming from any direction. Most of students landed and took from the field using Vultee BT-13 and BT-15 trainers. After the war on November 20, 1946, the airfield was transferred to the War Assets Administration. The sold and then used as a civilian airport for he County of Tehama. Later the airport was closed and the land sold to a private owner, now called the Deer Creek Ranch Airport a private airport. The Deer Creek Ranch Airport is still a 3,000-foot by 3,000-foot paved landing mat as built in 1942. Willows Auxiliary Field. Willows Auxiliary Field is located one mile west of Willows, California in Glenn County at . A single runway on the site was built in 1931 on what was a grass pasture. The runway was built by the Civil Aeronautics Administration on a site already picked by local groups. The airport was operated by the City of Willows."}, {"text": "On April 25, 1942, the US Army leased the airport with 318.20 acres of surrounding land and built a second runway on the site. The airport was used by the US Army for training pilots and troops. The two runways are: a 4,400-foot runway running north\u2013south and a 4,400-foot runway running from west-northwest to east-southeast. The runways were used as an auxiliary airfield for Chico Army Air Field and the Hamilton Army Airfield. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the US and Jimmy Doolittle planned a bombing raid on Tokyo. In 1942 some of the B-25 crews started their final bombing training at Willows Auxiliary Field. The Willows Auxiliary Field closed on July 24, 1944, and the lease was terminated June 11, 1945. The Country opened the Willows-Glenn County Airport on the site. The Airport is located just west of the Interstate 5 at the California State Route 162 exit. Kirkwood Auxiliary Field. Kirkwood Auxiliary Field also called Kirkwood Auxiliary Army Airfield No. 2 was an airfield used to train pilots in the Army Air Forces Basic Flying School at Chico Army Air Field. The Kirkwood Auxiliary Field was located at , near Capay, California, northwest of Sacramento, California. Kirkwood"}, {"text": "Auxiliary Field was 7 miles northeast of the town of Orland, California and 18 miles west northwest of the city of Chico. The War Department purchased 359.62 acres of farmland on October 8, 1942, for the airfield. The Army built a 3,000-foot square asphalt landing mat and a few wood support buildings. The most common plane used at the airfield was the Vultee BT-13. After the war, on 19 June 1947, the airfield was transferred to the Glenn County. County of Glenn used the Airfield as civilian airport till 1970, after the closure the site was returned to farmland. Campbell Auxiliary Field. Campbell Auxiliary Field also called Campbel Auxiliary Field No. 4 was a US Army airfield built 12 miles northwest of Chico at . The Army purchased the 470 acres of livestock grazing pasture in 1942 and built a 3,000-foot x 3,000-foot landing mat there. Campbell Auxiliary Field was used for training pilots. The land was sold on July 12, 1946, and the airfield closed. Today the land is open and there is a light traces of former landing pad, just north of Zimmershed Creek and Pin Creek. Oroville Auxiliary Field. Oroville Auxiliary Field also called Oroville Auxiliary Field"}, {"text": "No. 5 was a 360 acres Army airfield built in 1942 to train pilots. The 3,000-foot x 3,000-foot landing mat was located at . Unlike the other Chino auxiliary airfield, Oroville Auxiliary Field had a practice bombing range. The bombing range supported bombing, dive-bombing and skip bombing training ranges. Large white targets were built on the bombing range. The Oroville Auxiliary Field was closed on October 1, 1944, but opened again on June 18, 1945. On November 1, 1946, the airfield was closed and not reopened. Today the land is open and there is light traces of former landing pad, just south of the California State Route 149 at the Openshaw road exit-overpass in Wicks Corner, California. Orland Auxiliary Field. Orland Auxiliary Field is southeast of the city of Orland, California and 13 miles west of the city of Chico. The Army purchased the 558.20 acre of agricultural land called Crocker tract in 1942 for the Orland Auxiliary Field. The US Army built a 3,000 x 3,000-foot square landing mat on the site with a few support buildings. The Field was used to train fighter and bomber pilots from the Chico Army Airfield schools. The Orland Auxiliary Field was closed"}, {"text": "on November 30, 1946. Orland Auxiliary Field was transferred to Glenn County in May 1947, with conditions. Conditions were: used for public airport, Army improvements kept, changes not impact airport, Army could rent airport in state of emergency, land not sold without OK. Breach of conditions lose of land. The Orland-Haigh Airport opened in June 1947. A single 4,500 runway was built on the east side of the 3,000 by 3,000 Orland Auxiliary landing mat. The original outline of the Orland Auxiliary Field mat is visible from the air. The Airport is still open as the Haigh Field Airport, thus there has been no Breach. A sewage treatment plant was added to the land with other minor changes. Chico Army Airfield support. The following airfields were used in the support of training pilots at Chico Army Airfield school or were under the command of the Chico Army Airfield at one time. Hamilton Army Airfield also used or was in command of these airfields at some time: Siskiyou County Army Airfield is now the Siskiyou County Airport with a single north\u2013south 7,484-foot runway. Built by the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), but later turned over to the US Army. The army used"}, {"text": "the 7,484 runway for heavy bomber training. The 985.44-acre site was built in 1942 and is 4 miles northwest of Montague, California. For night landing a lighting system was installed by the Army. Later in October 1943 the base as turned over to be a sub base of Hamilton Field. On May 1, 1944, it was turned back over to be a Chino Auxiliary Field and used only as an emergency landing field. On December 30, 1944, the airfield declared inactive by the US Army. The Airfield was used on and off by fire fighters, US Forest Service and some small private planes. On 22 October 1962, the US Air Force rented the Airfield to station some Interceptor Squadrons from Hamilton Air Force Base and built some airfield improvements. The US Air Force ended its rental and removed jets on July 18, 1971, returning the Airfield to be a County Airport. Redding Army Airfield became the Redding Municipal Airport after the war. Redding Army Airfield was built in 1942 on 1,120 acres of acquired land near City of Redding. Two runways were built along with the needed support buildings. One runway ran north\u2013south and was 6,000 feet long and 150"}, {"text": "feet wide. The other runway ran northwest\u2013southeast and was 5,062 feet long. Redding Army Airfield is located 160 miles north of Sacramento in Shasta County, California. The City wanted a new Airport and put in for a Works Progress Administration project that was called the Stillwater Airfield. But with the start of World War II the US Army renamed the project the Redding Airdrome. The building of Redding Airdrome started on January 12, 1942. At completion, in March 1942, the Airdrome was renamed Redding-Shasta Army Air Field. During operations the name was shorted to Redding Army Airfield. The Redding Army Airfield was used as a refueling stop and for training in the Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft. Bombs for the planes were stored at the Airfield. On November 16, 1947, the Redding Army Airfield was turn over to the City of Redding. The City took the 6,000-foot runway and make it 7,003 feet for jets. The original Sacramento civil airport was called the Sutterville Aerodrome that was six miles south of the City of Sacramento; it opened in 1930 on 235-acres. With the start of World War II, the Sutterville Aerodrome was taken over for use by the US Army"}, {"text": "and renamed the Sutterville Auxiliary Field. At first, the airfield was used as subbase of Hamilton Field. The Army leased land around the airfield and expanded operations at the airfield, renamed it the Sacramento Army Air Field. The Airfield was used by 4th Air Force and the Western Training Flying Command. Training was first on Ball P-39 Aircobras. On April 7, 1945, train switch to heavy bomber with the 404th and 405th Army Air Force. Sacramento Army Air Field became a sub-base to Chico Army Air Field. It was used jointly by the 4th Air Force and the Army Air Forces Western Flying Training Command. By 1945, the Army had three lighted runways in operation: a 6,000-foot runway running north/west by south/east, a 5,000-foot runway running north\u2013south and a 5,000-foot runway running north/east by south/west. After the war, the Sacramento Army Air Field was returned to its owner, the City of Sacramento, and was renamed the Sacramento Municipal Airport. In October 1967, most airlines moved to the new Sacramento International Airport and the Sacramento Municipal Airport was renamed Sacramento Executive Airport."}, {"text": "Mozammel Haque was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and member of parliament for Sirajganj-5. Career. Haque is a former justice. He was elected to parliament from Sirajganj-5 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. He died on 17 October 2018 in Dhaka."}, {"text": "The 2003 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election took place on February 11, 2003. Incumbent Mayor Jim Naugle ran for re-election to a fifth term, and was challenged by City Commissioner Tim Smith. Naugle, a Democrat, frustrated local Democrats when he endorsed Republican Governor Jeb Bush for re-election in 2002, but Smith attracted little formal support from Democratic leaders. Naugle ultimately defeated Smith by a wide margin, winning 61 percent of the vote. Primary election. Campaign. On September 20, 2002, Smith announced that he would challenge Naugle for re-election, arguing for greater development, and criticizing Naugle's \"anti-gay remarks.\" Naugle, on the other hand, attacked Smith for being overly friendly to developers, and that gay residents \"like the fact that I don't vote for all the big towers.\" Throughout the campaign, Smith criticized Naugle for his treatment of city employees. Naugle noted that though he was not \"an easy person to work for,\" he believed that \"we're all public servants, and we work hard.\" The \"Miami Herald\" endorsed Smith over Naugle, noting that Naugle's \"accomplishments are undermined by his failure to adjust his old-school politics to the broadly diverse community that Fort Lauderdale has become.\" It criticized his hostility to the city's gay"}, {"text": "community and for \"tolerat[ing] for years the racially discriminatory culture within city government that recently led to a federally mandated consent decree.\" The \"Herald\" praised Smith as \"[r]eform-minded\" and a \"self-starter on community development\" with a vision that \"is one of inclusiveness for all the city's residents.\" The \"Sun Sentinel\", on the other hand, endorsed Naugle for re-election, praising Smith as \"an extremely effective commissioner,\" but noting that \"Naugle's strong performance as mayor gives him the edge.\" The \"Sentinel\" noted that Naugle \"deserves some credit\" for the city's transformation from \"a haven for college spring-break revelers from around the country\" to \"a thriving modern city catering primarily to a different brand of tourists: families.\""}, {"text": "The Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC) is an American government commission that provides recommendations to the United States government on regulations, research, and communications related to children's health. History. CHPAC was created under Executive Order 13045 by President Bill Clinton in April 1997. The committee has provided recommendations and advice on topics including water pollution, air pollution, chemical safety, risk assessment, environmental health, ADHD, childhood obesity, Asthma, child development, prenatal development, and child health. The committee is composed of researchers, academics, business representatives, health care providers, environmentalists, state and tribal government employees, and members of the public. Committee members meet throughout the year and provide recommendations to the EPA Administrator as well as the U.S. Office of Children's Health Protection. Members serve for three-year terms with a two-term limit."}, {"text": "Silauri () is a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia."}, {"text": "The 2006 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election took place on February 14, 2006. Incumbent Mayor Jim Naugle ran for re-election to a sixth term. He was challenged by former Miramar City Commissioner Dan Lewis, a political consultant. Naugle defeated Lewis in a landslide, winning re-election with 64 percent of the vote."}, {"text": "The 2021 Women's Hockey Junior Asia Cup was scheduled to be the eighth edition of the Women's Hockey Junior Asia Cup. The tournament was scheduled to be held in Kakamigahara, Japan from 6 to 12 April 2020. In March 2020 it was announced that the tournament would be postponed due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. On 27 October 2020 it was announced the tournament would be held from 16 to 22 August 2021. On 13 August 2021, the tournament was officially cancelled. China were the defending champions. The tournament served as the Asian qualifier for the 2021 FIH Junior World Cup, with the top three qualifying. After the cancellation the Asian Hockey Federation selected China, India and Japan as the Asian representatives at the 2021 Junior World Cup. Qualification. The top six teams from the 2015 edition qualified directly and they were joined by the top two from the 2019 Junior AHF Cup. Qualified teams. The following teams have qualified for the tournament."}, {"text": "Gaghma Dvabzu () is a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia."}, {"text": "Luoto is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Gurianta () is a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia."}, {"text": "Zunaed Siddique (born 6 December 1992) is a Pakistani-born cricketer who plays for the United Arab Emirates national cricket team. Siddique was born in Multan, Pakistan. He moved to the UAE in 2014. In October 2019, he was added to the UAE squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the UAE. He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for the UAE, against Oman, on 18 October 2019. In December 2019, he was named in the One Day International (ODI) squad for the 2019 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series. He made his ODI debut against the United States on 8 December 2019. In December 2020, Siddique was one of ten cricketers to be awarded a year-long full-time contract by the Emirates Cricket Board."}, {"text": "William Edgar Culkin (October 15, 1860 \u2013 June 25, 1949) was an American newspaper editor, historian, and educator. He was raised in New York, and later moved to Minnesota, where he served on the Minnesota Senate between 1895 and 1898 as a Republican. Early life. William Edgar Culkin was born in Oswego, New York, in 1860, where his early schooling took place. He moved to Minnesota in 1880, and he taught there for two years while continuing his studies. Culkin read law and was allowed to practice law from 1882, initially in Waverly, a town in Wright County. He was married in 1886 to Hannah Alice Young, and they soon settled in Buffalo, Minnesota. He and his wife had a son and three daughters. One, Margaret Culkin Banning, became a best selling author. Career. Culkin was elected three times as county attorney of Wright County, beginning in 1886. He belonged to the Republican Party. Culkin was elected to District 38 of the state senate representing Sherburne and Wright counties during the 29th and 30th State Legislative Sessions, which ran from January 1895 to January 1898. He defeated the Democratic and Populist party candidate, David Murdock. He served on several committees,"}, {"text": "and was chair of the Geological and Natural History Survey committee. In late 1897, he became the Registrar of the United States Land Office, in Duluth. Later life and death. Culkin was an associate editor of the \"Duluth Herald Newspaper\" early in the twentieth century. He became known as a local historian following his government career, and in 1922 was made the first president of the St. Louis County Historical Society. He died at Duluth in 1949 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Duluth, Minnesota."}, {"text": "Chakhvata () is a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia."}, {"text": "Vahid Evazzadeh is a theatre director, writer, dramaturge and filmmaker based in Denmark and United Kingdom."}, {"text": "The Constitutional Law Against Hatred, for Peaceful Coexistence and Tolerance (Ley constitucional contra el odio, por la convivencia pac\u00edfica y la tolerancia), also known simply as the Law Against Hatred, is a law passed unanimously by the Venezuelan Constituent National Assembly and published in Gaceta Oficial 41,274 on 8 November 2017. The bill was introduced to the Assembly on 10 August 2017 by President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and its discussion began on 4 September. The law establishes penalties that can include 20 years in jail, media shutdown, and fines to companies and electronic media. The law is controversial and has been criticized in Venezuela. Its detractors say that it is designed to oppress political dissent by criminalizing it, establishing restrictions on personal freedom and promoting both censorship and self-censorship. The lack of powers of the Constituent Assembly to legislate has also been pointed out, and the National Assembly of Venezuela declared it as null and void \"in rejection of the hate- and intolerance- generating instrument promoted by Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and the fraudulent Constituent [National Assembly]\", stating that the law violates Articles 49, 51, 57, 58, 62, 68 and 202 of the constitution. Outline. The law establishes the penalty of between 8"}, {"text": "and 10 years in jail for officials who delay the prevention or punishment of a hate crime and for health personnel who refuse to treat a person for reasons of hate. Article 21 establishes sentences of up to 20 years in jail for those who incite hatred, discrimination or violence against a person or group of persons by any means, and Article 22 legalizes the blocking of any type of media that are considered to violate the law through their content. The law indicates that the person who disseminates a \"hate message\" (broadly defined or undefined in the Law) on social networks must delete it within six hours of its publication, or else must pay a fine ranging from 50 thousand to 100 thousand tax units. The law also allows for radio or television service provider that promote hate or war propaganda to revoke these, and notes that any media that does not actively broadcast messages \"intended to promote peace, tolerance and equality\" will be fined by up to 4% of their gross income in the fiscal year immediately preceding that in which the offense was committed. According to the law, the fine will be paid into the Social Responsibility"}, {"text": "Fund of Radio and Television. The law prohibits the activity of groups, movements and social organizations that do not comply with what is established in it. Similarly, Article 11 orders the National Electoral Council (CNE) to revoke the registration of political organizations that promote \"fascism, intolerance or hatred towards national, racial, ethnic, religious, political, social, ideological, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or of any other nature.\" This article also states that the parties must have among their disciplinary rules a guideline on preventative measures against such hatred, and the penalty of expulsion of persons who contravene the law. Prosecution history. On 3 January 2018, Ronald G\u00fcemes and Erika Palacios were the first people to be prosecuted under the Law Against Hatred; both were arrested when a neighborhood protest was taking place against the government of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and they were arrested by the Naguanagua police command. Luis Armando Betancourt, coordinator of Foro Penal for Carabobo, denounced that the complaint was based on statements by police officials who indicated that they had expressed messages of harm against the president and described the judicial process as irregular because the detention was arbitrary, since \"they were committing no actual crime against"}, {"text": "him [Maduro]\". Betancourt also said there was a violation of law via home invasion; a commission of the CICPC, SEBIN, and the municipal police raided the homes of both G\u00fcemes and Palacios without any warrant order or authorization issued by a court, which is in violation of Article 196 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. According to the file, blank rounds, molotov bombs and grenades were seized, which was denied by the victims during the hearing. The family of Palacios reported that she had been tortured by police officers; among the allegations, they point out that she was handcuffed to a desk, that for four hours they threw cold water on her body and that a cellmate was beaten by an official when she tried to prevent Palacios from being taken to an interrogation. On 30 January 2018, the director and editor of the newspaper Regi\u00f3n Oriente in Cuman\u00e1 were summoned by the Direcci\u00f3n General de Contrainteligencia Militar (DGCIM) to testify following a complaint made against the 11 January publication of an article in the newspaper, in which the Communist Party of Venezuela warned the Maduro government that they were giving people reason for a social outbreak, such as the"}, {"text": "Caracazo, through inflation, shortages, lack of access to cash and the deterioration of the transport service. The National Press Workers' Union (SNTP) indicated that this DGCIM investigation was carried out by the military intelligence corps for crimes under the Law Against Hatred, being the first time an investigation against a media outlet had taken place for crimes in contradiction of it. On 12 September 2018, two firefighters from M\u00e9rida state, Ricardo Prieto and Carlos Var\u00f3n, were arrested by military counterintelligence officers after publishing a video in which President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro is portrayed as a donkey; in it, a firefighter leads a donkey through the station in M\u00e9rida while another speaks with the animal as if he were leading the president on one of his official visits. On 16 September, Judge Carlos M\u00e1rquez ordered that they be tried for violation of the Law Against Hatred, being charged with aggravated incitement of hatred. The defendants' lawyers said the firefighters made the video as a simple joke, not to incite hatred. On 18 September, when journalist Esteban Rojas of Agence France-Presse (AFP) asked Nicol\u00e1s Maduro about his opinion of the arrests at a press conference, Maduro attacked the journalist. The doctor was arrested"}, {"text": "on 20 May 2018 by officers of the DGCIM, the day on which presidential elections were held in Venezuela. Despite being a civilian, four days later he was presented before military courts in Fort Tiuna, to be charged. According to Alfredo Romero, director of Foro Penal, Marulanda was not allowed a defense. The military judge charged him with the crimes of treason and instigating hatred. During his detention, Marulando has been tortured by officials, reportedly having become deaf in the right ear after being hit over the head, and having lost sensation in his hands. By November 2018, six months after his arrest, his hearing had been deferred six times. In 2019, a Barinas state court dictated three months of community work to a man accused of instigating hate. The same year, after a campaign in media outlets and social media by progovernment movements, the pro-government Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela, through a Caracas court, ordered the ban of the screening of the documentary \"\" at the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar University (USB) specifically, as well as at public universities and other public spaces in general, in response to the request of a prosecutor investigating it as an alleged hate crime"}, {"text": "or as inciting hate crimes, established in the Law against Hatred. The USB Teachers' Association responded by saying: \"The regime's tribunal is a pretender and silences the freedom of speech once more in Venezuela. USB academics are affected because the university is forced to stop a screening. We expect domestic and international support.\" Tovar-Arroyo described the ban of his documentary as a \"success without precedent\", because now students would want to watch the documentary more. On August 19, 2020, the pro-government deputy Esteban Arvelo filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor's Office in the city of Caracas against the lawyer and human rights defender Jos\u00e9 Amalio Graterol, the social communicator Daniel Lara Far\u00edas, and the youth writer Juan Viale Rigo. The reason for the complaint was for the publication of information about the death of the pro-government politician Dar\u00edo Vivas.20 Arvelo mentioned on his Twitter account that, using his powers as vice president of the justice commission of the National Constituent Assembly, he filed a complaint on charges of promoting and inciting hatred. In addition to threatening to follow up until justice is done. On 13 April 2022, an arrest warrant was issued against Olga Mata after she recorded a"}, {"text": "humorous video published on the social network TikTok two years ago in which she names different arepas with the name of high-ranking government officials and the type of filling they had. His son, Florencio Gil Mata, was arrested, and both were charged with the crime of \"promotion or instigation to hatred\". Tarek William Saab, the Attorney General imposed by the 2017 Constituent National Assembly, set up the Special 4th Control Court \"with competence in cases related to terrorism\". William Saab subsequently released a video of Olga apologizing for the content of the video; the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Special Court agreed on a precautionary measure against her. Criticism. The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH), expressed concern that the law \"establishes exorbitant criminal sanctions and powers to censor traditional media and the Internet, in contradiction with international standards regarding freedom of expression\". The Rapporteur explained that the law was designed to allow the Venezuelan State to punish \"expressions that should be protected by the right to freedom of expression\", and that the State may even suppress content, as the law gives them the power to block and revoke"}, {"text": "licenses under the law in regards to any and all media, including the Internet. Echoing this point of view was the Catholic Church in Venezuela, with Roman Catholic prelate Roberto L\u00fcckert Le\u00f3n, Archbishop of Coro, raising concerns that the new law was in fact an attempt by the government to muzzle the country's opposition. According to lawyers, human rights activists, and deputies of the National Assembly, the objective of the law is to penalize citizens who rebel against the government. They also point out that the Constituent Assembly has no power to enact laws and that the sanctions are based on indeterminate legal concepts, such as hatred, that should facilitate only the discretionary application of sanctions. The National Assembly declared the Law against Hatred void, establishing that the law violates Articles 49, 51, 57, 58, 62, 68 and 202 of the Venezuelan Constitution; Articles 6, 11, 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and Articles 18 and 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Assembly also stated that the laws application violates the fundamental guarantees of the rule of law, and \"intends to annihilate, once and for all, democratic values.\" The"}, {"text": "deputy Biagio Pilieri opened a debate and introduced the draft of the bill in which the nullity of the law was declared, which stated that \"it is unconstitutional, illegitimate and illegal from its origin\", and criticized the Constituent Assembly as well as directly stating that the legislation was intended to oppress people who oppose Maduro. It continues that the law and its harsh punishments are \"in flagrant violation of the right to due process and presumption of innocence.\" The deputies who participated in the debate expressed that the law establishes restrictions on personal freedom, promotes self-censorship and censorship by the organs of the State, \"suppressing the few spaces that citizens have to discuss matters of collective interest and inhibiting the possibility of making complaints of any nature\"."}, {"text": "Anita Cantaline (born c. 1927) is a former American professional bowler from Detroit and later Warren, Michigan. A graduate of Cass Tech High School, she won her first women's championship in 1948. In December 1955, she won the U.S. Women's Open. She was inducted into the Women's International Bowling Congress (WIBC) Hall of Fame in 1979. She also won the Bowling Proprietors Association of America (BPAA) All-Star tournament in 1956, the WIBC all-events title in 1957, and WIBC team championships in 1957 and 1959. She was also named the BPAA National Individual Match Game champion in 1956. She was the first woman to win both the singles and doubles championships in the same year and was named 1956 Bowling Writers Association of America Bowler of the Year. As of 2008, she had made 62 tournament appearances."}, {"text": "The following is the list of squads that took place in the men's field hockey tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Group A. Argentina. The following players represented Argentina: Australia. The following players represented Australia: Kenya. The following players represented Kenya: Netherlands. The following players represented the Netherlands: Pakistan. The following players represented Pakistan: Spain. The following players represented Spain: Group B. Canada. The following players represented Canada: Great Britain. The following players represented Great Britain: India. The following players represented India: South Korea. The following players represented South Korea: Soviet Union. The following players represented the Soviet Union: West Germany. The following players represented West Germany:"}, {"text": "Kabir Hossain ( \u2013 3 May 2023) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician who served as a member of parliament for the Rajshahi-5 constituency. Career. Hossain was elected to parliament from Rajshahi-5 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. Death. On 3 May 2023, Hossain, age 85, was pronounced dead at the Rajshahi Medical College Hospital in Rajshahi due to old age. According to a statement made by Mossaddique Hossain Bulbul, BNP's forest and environment affairs secretary, Hossain had been suffering from various old-age complications, including diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure."}, {"text": "Md. Alauddin (7 January 1925 \u2013 26 February 2000) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a member of parliament from Rajshahi-14 and Rajshahi-5. Career. Alauddin was elected to parliament from Rajshahi-5 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1996, and joined the first Sheikh Hasina cabinet as a state minister. He subsequently lost his parliamentary membership for crossing over to a different party and was re-elected from Rajshahi-5 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Creighton Bluejays men's basketball team represented Creighton University in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bluejays were led by 10th-year head coach Greg McDermott and played their home games at the CHI Health Center Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska, as members of the Big East Conference. They finished the season 24\u20137, 13\u20135 in Big East play to earn share of the Big East regular season championship, and the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. The Big East tournament and all other postseason tournaments including the NCAA tournament were canceled shortly after the regular season ended due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The cancellations effectively ended the Bluejays' season. Previous season. The Bluejays finished the 2018\u201319 season 20\u201315, 9\u20139 in Big East play to finish in a four-way tie for third place. As the No. 5 seed in the Big East tournament, they lost to Xavier in the quarterfinals. They received a bid to the National Invitation Tournament as the No. 2 seed in the TCU bracket where they defeated Loyola and Memphis before losing to TCU in the quarterfinals. Schedule and results. !colspan=9 style=|Australia exhibition trip !colspan=9 style=|Exhibition !colspan=9 style=|Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=|Big East"}, {"text": "regular season !colspan=9 style=\"|Big East tournament Source"}, {"text": "Trauma und Berufskrankheit was a peer-reviewed medical journal covering different aspects of traumatology and occupational health. It was published by Springer Science+Business Media and is edited by Christian J\u00fcrgens. The journal published original research papers and systematic reviews, partly organised as research topics, from the areas trauma surgery, occupational medicine and sociomedical assessment. Abstracting and indexing. The journal was indexed in: Scopus, Google Scholar, EBSCO Academic Search, EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCO STM Source, EBSCO TOC Premier, EMCare, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Gale, Gale Academic OneFile, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC), Naver, OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, SCImago, Semantic Scholar and WTI Frankfurt eG."}, {"text": "Racheltjie de Beer is a 2019 Afrikaans film Directed by Matthys Boshoff, produced by Johan Kruger, and written by Bret Micheal Innes with Matthys Boshoff. The film stars Zonika De Vriers, Sandra Prinsloo, Marius Weyers, Seputla Sebogodi and Johannes Jordaan, The film is about a young Afrikaner girl Racheltjie De Beer played by Zonika De Vriers in the Voortrekker-era who sacrificed herself to save her brother. The film was produced in the Eastern Free State (Fouriesburg area). Release. The film premiered at the Silver Screen Festival at Camps Bay. Stian Bam won a Silver Screen Award for his performance as Racheltjie's father. It is scheduled to compete under the title Children of the Storm (Racheltjie de Beer) in the Narrative Competition at the San Diego International Film Festival in October 2020. The movie is also called Storm Riders for its North American release."}, {"text": "Detectives in Togas (original title: Caius ist ein Dummkopf; \"\"Caius is an Idiot\") is a children's book written by Henry Winterfeld, and translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Set in ancient Rome, the story follows a group of schoolboys who try to solve several crimes: the attack on their teacher and the desecration of a temple wall. \"Detectives in Togas\" was published in 1956, and reissued in 1984, 1990, and 2003. It was marketed for children ages 9\u201312. It was followed by two sequels: Caius geht ein Licht auf (\"Caius has a Revelation\"; English title: Mystery of the Roman Ransom) and Caius in der Klemme (\"Caius is in Trouble\"\"). Synopsis. \"Detectives in Togas\". During a Greek vocabulary class in the Xanthos School, Rufus plays a prank on Caius involving a wax tablet with the inscription \"Caius is an idiot\". Caius takes offense and starts a fight with Rufus, and Xantippus permanently dismisses Rufus from his school. When the pupils (sans Caius, who is skipping the day) arrive at the school the next morning, they find Xantippus locked inside his closet. Xantippus tells them that he was knocked out by a burglar the night before. He also admits"}, {"text": "that Rufus' dismissal was only meant to be a wholesome lesson and that he is welcome to return. The boys head to inform Rufus about the good news when they discover the words \"Caius is an idiot\" painted on the wall of the local Minerva temple. Caius' sister Claudia warns them that her father has seen the graffiti and that Caius has implicated Rufus. The boys rush to Rufus to warn him. Rufus swears that he didn't commit the desecration and surmises that someone else must have forged his handwriting. The boys return to the Xanthos School to get the wax tablet, but find it missing. Instead, they discover a gold chain which Xantippus recognizes as the property of the burglar. On a billboard featuring the daily public news is a writ describing the desecration and blaming Rufus by name. The boys return to Rufus's house, but his mother tells them that Rufus has been arrested. As they search Rufus' room, they find his clothes thoroughly soaked. The boys decide to consult Lukos, a famed seer who lives across the Xanthos School. They present the gold chain so Lukos can find out the burglar's identity, but they are inexplicably chased"}, {"text": "out, leaving the chain behind. Mucius, who finds Rufus' cloak inside Lukos's house, is accidentally locked in, but finds an escape via a ladder to the roof. Blinded by a storm, Mucius ends up falling through an opening in the roof of a neighboring bathhouse and lands in a pool that is being drained for the night, which saves his life. Locked inside the building, he is found by a bath keeper the next morning and learns that Rufus had also landed in the same bath the previous night. Xantippus realizes that the writ on the billboard was handed in for publication before the temple wall was desecrated. They learn that the writ was handed in by Tellus, a famous ex-consul known for his lavish parties. Xantippus suspects that one of Tellus' guests must have committed the sacrilege, and Antonius is sent to Tellus under a pretense to study the guest list of that particular day. Arriving in the midst of a feast, Antonius is plied with alcohol by Tellus; but while giving his host the slip, he finds the gold chain and its accompanying cloak inside Tellus' bedroom, indicating a relationship between Tellus and Lukos. Antonius spots Tellus sneaking"}, {"text": "into a bakery next to Lukos's house. The boys discover that the bakery's backyard offers entry to Lukos's abode. They sneak inside, but are trapped by Lukos, who confesses that he is responsible for the burglary in the school, the smearing of the temple wall, and Rufus' arrest because the boy had found out his most important secret. As he prepares to lock them up, the boys attack him and knock him out, and discover that Lukos is Tellus in disguise. When Tellus recovers consciousness, he confesses that he posed as a clairvoyant to pay off the massive debts he had accumulated due to his costly lifestyle. Rufus had sought Lukos out to charm Xanthos into forgetting about his dismissal, but discovered his true identity. When Tellus threatened him, Rufus fled and ended up in the bathhouse. Tellus decided to silence him by stealing the wax tablet and using it as a stencil. He also sent the writ to the Censor's office and reported him to the urban prefect. The boys force Tellus to write a confession, but then he flees up the ladder to the roof just as Vinicius, Xantippus and a group of praetorians arrive to rescue them."}, {"text": "The party tracks Tellus to the bathhouse, where they find him dead after a fatal plunge into an already drained pool, and Rufus is freed in the nick of time. \"Mystery of the Roman Ransom\". Xantippus' students offer their teacher a birthday gift of a deaf-mute slave named Udo, and Antonius offers him a tame lion to guard the school. Xantippus refuses both offers, and asks the boys to return Udo to his former owner, the slave trader Callon. When they arrive, an old slave tells them that Callon fled after he was threatened by an ex-gladiator named Gorgon seeking Udo. The boys then run into Gorgon, who tries to abduct Udo, but the boys escape and retreat with Udo to their secret cave. Udo reveals that he only pretended to be deaf and dumb to protect his life. Udo was the personal slave of Marcius Patricius Pollino. His master sent him to Rome with an important message, but when he arrived, he found the meeting point to be a graveyard. Udo hid and overheard the conversation between Gorgon and a short, fat man. Udo learned that the letter contained instructions for Gorgon to murder an important Roman senator and"}, {"text": "to kill Udo. As Udo fled the graveyard, he lost the letter and ran into a band of gladiators, who sold him to Callon. When Xantippus arrives, the boys inform him about the plot, and Udo mentions that a stranger had frequently visited Pollino. The boys find the lost letter, a list of unrelated names. Caius realizes that these names, read in a certain way, form the name of Vinicius, his own father. Caius runs off to fetch Tiro, his father's secretary, and alert the urban prefect, Lucius Terrentius Manilius. Udo remembers that Manilius is the name of his master's visitor, and Xantippus sends the boys after Caius. At the Villa Vinicius, Tiro tells the boys and Claudia that Caius was kidnapped by Gorgon. The boys deduce that Gorgon will likely meet with the fat man in the graveyard the next night. After spending the evening in the villa, the boys rush to the graveyard and eavesdrop on the conspirators. Mucius pursues the fat man, Antonius goes after Gorgon, and the remaining boys return to the school. Antonius later returns to tell them that he had followed Gorgon to the Colosseum and found Caius in one of the dungeon cells."}, {"text": "However, he was captured by the gladiators, locked in a vault, and had a lion released on him. The lion was Ramses, the tame lion Antonius wanted to gift to Xantippus. After escaping the Colosseum together, Antonius brought Ramses to the school. Xantippus and his pupils find that Udo has run away. Gorgon and Minimos, a dwarf gladiator, arrive at the school and demand Udo from them. When Rufus frees Ramses, Gorgon is overpowered and captured, while Minimos flees. Mucius, following the fat man, discovers that this conspirator is Manilius. After a messenger delivers urgent news of Pollino's arrest by Vinicius to Manilius, the prefect and another conspirator, a barque's captain, decide to flee immediately. After being chased by the barque's crew, Mucius rejoins his friends at the school. Caius appears, having been freed by Udo, and tells them that he learned that after the battle in the Teutoburg Forest, a handful of legionnaires had escaped the massacre and buried the annihilated legions' war chest, which contained over ten million sestertii in gold. Manilius, one of those legionnaires, recovered the gold with the help of his brother-in-law, Pollino. The Emperor learned of this and tasked Vinicius to recover the gold,"}, {"text": "but Pollino, who had hidden the gold, committed suicide shortly after his capture. For this failure, the Emperor has sentenced the entire Vinicius family to slavery in the marble quarries. The boys rush to the villa to save the Vinicius family, only to find that the Emperor has already sent agents to arrest Vinicius. Xantippus arrives with Udo, who has returned after freeing the other captives at the Colosseum. From Udo's story, Xantippus has deduced that the gold is hidden in the cage of a brown bear Pollino had shipped to Rome, with the bear serving as its guardian. Mucius realizes that the cage with the bear has been loaded onto the barque, and Vinicius and the Imperial agents immediately set out to chase it down. Xantippus declares that he will secure Udo's release so he can return home to Gaul, and Caius thanks Udo for saving his life. \"Caius Is in Trouble\". One day, Caius does not appear in school. The other boys tell Xantippus that they last saw him two nights ago, when they went to fetch tickets at the Circus Maximus for a chariot race featuring the famed racer ; however, the tickets were sold out. Caius"}, {"text": "declared that he would be able to get tickets and stormed off in a rage when the others laughed at him. Mucius saw Caius the next day, a holiday, with a mule and rope ladder. The boys head for Villa Vinicius to look for Caius, but the villa's doorkeeper tells them that Caius is dead and being buried. The boys return to tell Xantippus, but then Quintus, a retired centurion who served under Vinicius, arrives with a package from Caius' sister Claudia. Xantippus discovers a secret message imploring him to seek out Ben Gor, the only person who could save Caius, who was sentenced to death by the Emperor and about to be executed. However, with the delayed delivery of the message due to the holiday, any help for Caius is now too late. The next day, the boys return to Villa Vinicius, where Claudia tells them that she has no idea why Caius was executed, and that Ben Gor is a friend of the Vinicius family. Ben Gor is considered a national hero in Rome, leading the boys to believe that Caius must have somehow offended the Emperor while attempting to get spare tickets from Ben Gor. Claudia and"}, {"text": "the boys are shocked when they see Mopsa, Claudia's pet cat, alive after she had been used as a guinea pig for the poison which was administered to Caius. The boys quickly realize that if the poison did not work on Mopsa, Caius might still be alive, and they rush for the Vinicius mausoleum, where Caius's coffin has been stored. Inside the coffin, they find their friend alive but unable to stand up, so the boys ferry the coffin to the Xanthos School. Caius reveals that after he had separated from the other boys that night, he went to Ben Gor to ask him for spare tickets. Ben didn't have any, but suggested that Caius should go to the Emperor to ask him for some. With the imperial palace closed for the holiday, Caius, obsessed with getting the tickets, rented a mule from a public stable and procured a rope ladder to climb over the palace walls. He succeeded, but was arrested and knocked out by two Praetorian guards before he could explain himself, and subsequently found himself accused of intending to assassinate the Emperor. A group of Praetorians and an officer of the Emperor's secret police arrive and arrest"}, {"text": "the boys after it was discovered that Caius' coffin had been taken away. The boys are locked in a dungeon cell, but are visited by Ben Gor, who was alerted by Xantippus. Ben Gor tells the boys that he had explained everything to the Emperor, but the Emperor would only pardon Caius and his friends if Ben Gor wins the race. Ben Gor prevails and scores a triumphant victory, and the Emperor pardons Caius and his friends. The son of Vinicius, a very influential senator. Despite being the featured character in the German titulations, he habitually plays a more secondary role in the stories. He is somewhat slow-witted, stubborn and has a very short temper, and tends to inadvertently plunge his friends into deep trouble (thereby forming the base of their adventures). A Greek scholar who has opened a private school for the sons of wealthy patricians in the heart of Rome. Because of his stern and critical manner, his pupils have given him the nickname \"Xantippus\", based on Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates. However, whenever the boys get involved in dangerous adventures, he is a ready and very valuable source of knowledge and experience. The oldest of Xanthos' pupils,"}, {"text": "and as the most level-headed, also the leader of their band. His father is a famous tribune named Marius Domitius. The son of Marcus Praetonius, a famous general of modest wealth. He has an open crush on Caius' sister Claudia. The son of a senator. He is the most adventurous and imaginative of the boys, eager to dream up fanciful confrontations with all sorts of villains, monsters and other dangerous enemies. A senator's son. He is the most cowardly of the boys, but also extremely faithful to his friends and always tags along on their exploits. The son of a senator and judge, and therefore quite knowledgable about Roman law. As the most frugal of the boys, he is also their treasurer. Son of a senator, and the group's most vociferous complainer who regularly tangles with Caius. Caius' younger sister. Despite her tender years (11-13, as the series progresses), she has assumed the role of the Vinicius household's matron upon her mother's death. Caius and Claudia's father, and a high-ranking member of the Roman Senate. He is occasionally entrusted with confidential missions by the Emperor. Reception. In the journal \"Elementary English\", the reviewer calls it a \"rousing detective story\" and"}, {"text": "notes that Winterfeld was inspired by actual graffiti found during the excavation of Pompeii. The journal \"The Classical World\" says \"Detectives in Togas\" is a \"simple and lively story\". A reviewer in the library journal \"Collection Management\" says it \"adds life to the study of ancient civilizations\". The Christian Science Monitor says \"Detective in Togas\" \"neatly succeeds in constructing a lesson in ancient history around the plot of a whodunit and spinning the whole thing into a great tale for middle school readers\". A reviewer in \"Huntingdon Daily News\" says the book has a \"fascinating setting\", and is \"full of suspense and excitement\". \"Kirkus Reviews\" describes it as \"A good story and with its careful attention to Roman ways, this has its sparkle too\" and \"Publishers Weekly\" calls it \"delightful and witty\". For the 2003 reissue, reviewer Terri Schmitz says it is \"action-packed and filled with details about what daily life was like for patrician Roman boys, providing painless history lessons along with the rousing story lines.\" The Guardian says readers \"end up learning loads of interesting information about Ancient Rome as you go along - and even a bit of Latin!\" Television adaptation. In 1958, \"Detectives in Togas\" was"}, {"text": "adapted by BBC Television in the United Kingdom as a six-episode children's serial under the title \"The Riddle of the Red Wolf\". The adaptation was scripted by C. E. Webber."}, {"text": "The 2019 Offaly Senior Football Championship was the 122nd edition of Offaly GAA's premier Gaelic football competition for senior graded clubs in County Offaly, Ireland. Eight teams compete, with the winner representing Offaly in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts a league stage and progresses to a knockout stage. Rhode were the defending champions after they defeated Ferbane in the previous year's final, however Ferbane claimed revenge this year when defeating Rhode in the final to claim their first championship in 25 years their 12th title overall. This was Shamrocks' return to the senior grade after claiming the 2018 Offaly Senior B Football Championship title. Gracefield were relegated to the I.F.C. for 2020 when losing their Relegation Final to Tullamore. Format Changes. 2019 sees the adoption of a new criss-cross championship format. In 2018, the eight senior teams were in one group, but the 2019 season sees two groups made up of four teams. The format comprises two partially seeded groups of four at Senior A level with one county finalist, one beaten semi-finalist, one beaten quarter-finalist and one of the relegation play-off winners or promoted teams in each of the groups. Group 1 teams will play"}, {"text": "the teams in Group 2 thus ensuring that each team plays four games. The first two rounds are to be played on a home and away basis. The third round will then be played at O'Connor Park, while the fourth round will be played on the same day at neutral venues around the county. At the end of this phase, the top teams in each group contest opposite semi-finals while their opponents are decided by two quarter-finals. Those quarter-finals will be contested by the runners-up and third-placed teams in each group with the runners-up in Group A playing the third-placed team in Group A. Repeat fixtures are ruled out by virtue of the criss-cross system which will ensure those two teams did not meet in the round-robin phase. The second quarter-final will be formed in the same way from Group B. The bottom teams in each group will enter a Relegation Final. The group winners already in a semi-final will also play the winning quarter-finalists from their own groups, also ensuring no repeat fixtures at that stage. The Offaly CCC's hope is that they can make the championship more competitive than it has been Team Changes. The following teams have"}, {"text": "changed division since the 2018 championship season. To S.F.C.. Promoted from 2018 Senior B Football Championship From S.F.C.. Relegated to 2019 Senior B Football Championship Group stage. The following seeded teams were applied to the draw for Groups A and B based on their performance during the 2018 season. One team from each category was drawn into each group - Finalists: Beaten Semi-Finalists: Beaten Quarter-Finalists: Relegation Final Winner & I.F.C. Champions: Relegation play-off. The two bottom placed teams from each group play off in the relegation final with the loser relegated to the 2019 Senior B Championship."}, {"text": "Sir George Haliburton, Lord Fodderance (c.1580\u20131649) was a 17th-century Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice. Life. He was a member of the family of Haliburton of Pitcur (near Coupar Angus) and his father owned a nearby estate at Fotherance (aka Fodderance). He studied Law (probably at St Andrews University). He was elected a Burgess of Dundee in 1625. In November 1627 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice in place of William Livingston, Lord Kilsyth. He took the title \"Lord Fodderance\". In 1632 he purchased the Lauton estate in the parish of Cargill, Perthshire and Strabrok house near Linlithgow. He was knighted by King Charles I of England in 1633 at Holyrood Palace and was in the same year placed on the Parliamentary Commission for Surveying of the Laws. In November 1642 he was appointed President of the Court of Session. In 1643 he presided over a dispute between Viscount Dudhope and the City of Dundee. In 1646 he was witness at the baptism of his wife's niece, Helen Wedderburn, who later married John Dickson, Lord Hartree. He died on 15 March 1649 and was replaced as a Senator in November 1649 by John"}, {"text": "Dickson, Lord Hartree. Fodderdance was rebuilt as a Victorian mansion in the 19th century and renamed Lintrose House. Family. He first married the daughter of Sir Thomas Blair of Balthayock. He then in March 1625 married Magdalene Wedderburn, widow and cousin of William Wedderburn (d.1616), daughter of Alexander Wedderburn of Kingennie, and also his second cousin. Following George's death she married her third husband: John Ogilvy of Lownan."}, {"text": "Mar\u00eda Rene Duch\u00e9n Cu\u00e9llar (born 2 August 1965) is a Bolivian journalist, TV presenter, and politician. Biography. Mar\u00eda Duch\u00e9n was born in La Paz on 2 August 1965. Her father was from Potos\u00ed, her paternal grandmother was from Cochabamba, and her mother's family was from Santa Cruz. She studied at the American Institute in La Paz, traveling to the United States to earn a bachelor's degree. She studied chemical engineering and parallel social communication at the Universidad Cat\u00f3lica Boliviana. She has degrees in communication rights, microfinance, microeconomics and competition from Harvard University's graduate program. She is the director of Duch\u00e9n & Asociados and chairs the Nueva Esperanza Foundation. She became known on television in 1990 as a news anchor for Red ATB. She also worked at Coca-Cola for a short time. She entered politics in 2005 when she was the vice-presidential candidate for the political group Social Democratic Power (PODEMOS), accompanying Jorge Quiroga in that year's general election and finishing in second place nationally with 28.59% of the votes. After her political experience, Duch\u00e9n returned to working in media. In 2009, she left , continuing her journalistic work on Laser 98 radio in La Paz. Later she would serve as"}, {"text": "the host of Cadena A's central news, in addition to the weekly program \"Nuestras vidas\". She also hosted the program \"Todo a pulm\u00f3n\". In October 2016, she returned to Red ATB to present \"ATB Noticias\" and the analysis and interview program \"Anoticiando\". She also hosted a morning program on ATB Radio. Her work in the media has been recognized with the 2017 Maya Bolivia career award, the 2018 Luis Espinal Camps award granted by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia, and the 2019 Titicaca journalistic career award."}, {"text": "Emotional Oranges is an American R&B/pop duo from Los Angeles, California. History. Emotional Oranges was formed in 2017 when Azad \"A\" Right, an audio engineer for Drake, and Vali \"V\" Porter, a vocal coach for Adele, met at a bar mitzvah. The group released its first single \"Motion\" on SoundCloud on May 4, 2018. It was later used as the theme song of \"RuPaul's Drag Race\". On May 10, 2019, the group released their first mixtape, \"The Juice: Vol. I.\" Their second, \"The Juice: Vol. II\". was released on November 8, 2019. Both were released through Avant Garden Records and Island Records. Emotional Oranges has cited The Weeknd, The xx, Lauryn Hill, and Matty Healy from The 1975 as influences. Career. On May 10, 2019, the Emotional Oranges released \"The Juice: Vol. I.\" Emotional Oranges sold out its first headline run, called The Chill, Baby Chill tour. After playing the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles and the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, the group toured in London, Paris and Amsterdam. Leading up to the release of its second mixtape, Emotional Oranges went back on the road for A Very Emotional Tour with support from Avant Garden label-mates Chiiild."}, {"text": "This tour took them to Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, and Europe. Emotional Oranges performed \"Personal\" and \"Your Best Friend Is a Hater\" for Vevo's DSCVR Program. On November 8, 2019, the duo released their second mixtape \"The Juice, Vol. II\" through Avant Garden Records and Island Records. On October 13, 2020, the group released the song \"All That\" with Channel Tres from their mixtape \"The Juicebox\". They later released the second single, \"Bonafide\", with experimental band Chiiild on January 13, 2021. On April 13, 2021, the group released the single \"Down to Miami\" ft. Becky G. On June 11, 2021, their third mixtape, \"The Juicebox\", released featuring the previous four singles as well as features from Vince Staples, THEY., Yendry, and Kiana Led\u00e9. On August 30, 2022, the duo announced plans to return to Australia and New Zealand for The Sad Fruit Tour, with performances at the Metro Theatre in Sydney, Max Watts in Melbourne, The Triffid in Brisbane, and the Powerstation in Auckland. All performances took place in October 2022."}, {"text": "Andrew Deane (born 28 July 1967) is an Australian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Uruguayan law allows firearm possession on shall-issue basis. With approximately 35 civilian firearms per 100 people, Uruguay is the eighth most armed country in the world and most armed in Latin America. Current law. Licensing. Firearm possession in Uruguay require \"THATA\" (\"Authorisation for the Acquisition and Possession of Firearms\") card. Applicant for \"THATA\" must provide: Minimum age is 18. According to Decree N\u00b0 177/013 authorities may not require any additional conditions that must be met in order to get license except those stipulated by law. Firearm license must be renewed every three years and licensed owner may own up to eight firearms \u2013 police may issue permit for acquisition of more. It is possible to legally own more than eight firearms by registering as a firearms collector. Permitted weapons. Civilians are allowed to possess pistols chambered in a caliber up to 9mm with no \"extended\" magazines allowed (registered competition shooters can still own pistols chambered .40 S&W and .45 ACP) and a maximum capacity of 21 rounds, and revolvers of any calibers not larger than .45. Rifles chambered in .50 BMG or larger are illegal for the civilian population. The only legal semi-automatic rifles are those chambered for rimfire .22"}, {"text": "caliber cartridges or smaller, and their maximum magazine size is limited to 10 rounds. Rifles chambered in calibers larger than .22LR have to be of manual action (be it bolt action, lever action or single shot), and the magazine size is limited to 5 rounds. All shotguns must have barrel lengths longer than 400mm. Shotguns are restricted to 8 rounds in the loading tube or magazine, plus one in the chamber, and can be either semi-automatic or manual action (pump action, lever action, bolt action, single shot or double barrel). Firearms manufactured before the 20th century are not considered firearms according to Uruguayan Law (Decree 377/016, which uses the definition of \"firearm\" as written in the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacture of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials (commonly known as its Spanish acronym: CIFTA). With the THATA permit, it is possible to own only up to eight firearms. In order to be legally allowed to own more than eight firearms, one must register as a collector. Once a registered collector, there is no limit to how many firearms one is allowed to collect. Every registered gun must have undergone a ballistic fingerprinting test in"}, {"text": "a government facility. Usually gun shops take care of this requirement and only sell guns that have undergone the test, as only 20 tests are conducted in the government facility each week. The reliability of this method has been seriously called into question in countries where it has been implemented for several years. Some of the major criticisms have been that no crimes have been solved thanks to these types of databases, while building and maintaining them usually costs millions of dollars. So far, in Uruguay, no crimes have ever been solved thanks to this method. Permitted ammunition. For civilian self-defense use, only FMJ (full metal jacket) ammunition is allowed. The use of FMJ ammunition has been described as extremely irresponsible by many self defense instructors, as those rounds tend to overpenetrate and ricochet, posing an unnecessary threat to innocent bystanders. They argue that this risk could be greatly reduced with the use of JHP (jacketed hollow point) ammunition, which is illegal for civilians to use in Uruguay. The justification for this regulation is that Uruguay is a signatary of the Geneva Convention, which forbids the use of expanding ammunition, such as JHP ammunition, in war, and that it is"}, {"text": "normal to have this rule applied to civilian use of firearms also, and that the use of expanding ammunition is cruel and unnecessary. The police forces are allowed to use semi-jacketed soft point bullets in an effort to combat the risk of overpenetration and ricochets against the ground or other barriers, which could endanger unintended targets. Carrying firearms. The licensed carry of firearms requires a special carry permit issued by police. The applicant must present a good reason, especially proof of threat for one's life. The carry permit is issued at discretion of police. In practice, concealed carry permits are not issued to common citizens, only to private security guards, judges, and attorneys. The Law allows the carrying of one handgun only in concealed manner. It is illegal to carry guns during public events, demonstrations, public dances, in polling stations, and in bars with alcohol. Every time carrying permit is renewed, the applicant must prove that the previous reason is still valid. Policemen and military are allowed to carry their weapons in a concealed manner while off duty, as well as retired police and military. In recent times, politicians from the governing coalition have expressed their intentions of making the"}, {"text": "obtaining of concealed carry permits possible for common citizens. Firearm possession. As of 2018 there are 604,271 (or 18 per 100 people) registered firearms in Uruguay including revolvers (36.65%), rifles (23.5%), pistols (21.18%), shotguns (18.33%) and muskets (0.33%). \"Small Arms Survey\" estimates that there are approximately 600,000 illegal guns in Uruguay."}, {"text": "Schoenus megacarpus is a species of sedge endemic to the south-central region of South Africa. Diagnostic characters. Key diagnostic characters of \"S. megacarpus\" are its primary inflorescence bracts that are expanded proximally with membranaceous extensions. In addition, the bases of the flowering stems are often reddish. This species tends to have longer spikelets and nutlets compared to other species in the \"S. compar\" - \"S. pictus\" and allies group. \"Schoenus megacarpus\" appears similar to \"Schoenus compar\"; however, it does not have the viscous flowering stems and inflorescences that are present in \"S. compar\". Furthermore, \"S. megacarpus\" has red culm bases, whereas those of \"S. compar\" are usually ivory. Another key difference is that the primary inflorescence bracts of \"S. megacarpus\" have primary inflorescence bracts that are expanded proximally and have lateral membranaceous extensions. Similar to other sedges, plants in this group are very difficult to identify. It appears that part of this problem is caused by the tendency of the southern African \"Schoenus\" to form hybrids with each other. However, hybridization is yet to be observed in \"S. megacarpus\". Taxonomy. \"Schoenus megacarpus\" is a species in family Cyperaceae, tribe Schoeneae. Other notable genera in tribe Schoeneae include \"Lepidosperma\", \"Oreobolus\", \"Costularia\","}, {"text": "\"Tetraria\" and \"Gahnia\". The most closely related species to \"S. megacarpus\" are other southern African \"Schoenus\" species, specifically, species in the \"S. compar\" \u2013 \"S. pictus\" group. Southern African \"Schoenus\" were once classified as \"Tetraria\"; however, based on molecular and morphological differences, we now know that the two groups are evolutionary distinct. To ensure that this group of sedges is monophyletic (i.e. the genus only has closely related species), several species of \"Epischoenus\" and the southern African \"Tetraria\" were transferred into \"Schoenus\". In the field, the southern African \"Schoenus\" can be distinguished from \"Tetraria\" species by their lack of stem leaves and the absence of reticulate sheaths at the bases of the flowering stems. Distribution and ecology. \"Schoenus megacarpus\" grows throughout south-central South Africa, with its distribution ranging from the Anysberg Nature Reserve in the west to the Grahamstown area in the east. Most reports of this species are from high mountain slopes (above 1000 m) surrounded by fynbos vegetation. However, eastern collections of this species come from grassland vegetation at lower elevations."}, {"text": "Laser-run (also known as laser run) is a multisport competition consisting of running and shooting. It is a sport in its own right and the last event of the modern pentathlon where it was formerly known as combined. Distance and format. Laser-run is a competition that involves cross country running and laser pistol shooting in multiple sequences. Laser-run competitions are held under rules of the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM). The sequence of a laser-run is as follows: The number of repetitions and the distances depend on the age group of the competitors. Running distances range from 300 to 600 m. Distance to the target is 5 or 10 m. On senior level, a competitor runs five 600 m laps with four series of hitting five targets at a distance of 10 meters. There are different rankings according to gender and age group. From 2015 to 2021 the running distances were 200 m, 400 m and 800 m. Equipment. The laser-run uses laser pistols and targets that have to be homologated by the UIPM. Laser pistols are usually also provided by the organizers at regional competitions to enable an easier entry into the sport. In national or international competitions,"}, {"text": "the participants compete with their own pistols. The laser pistols are safe for spectators and participants. They are almost noiseless and they are not subject to weapons legislation. The laser-run uses electronic targets with five green and red lights as indicators. The target is similar to the one of 10 Meter Air Pistol competitions with the dimension of 17 x 17 cm and a black target area of 59,5 mm in diameter. The distance from floor level to the centre of the target is 140 cm. There are no special requirements for running equipment. Competitions. The first Laser Run World Championships were held in 2015. The Laser Run City Tour aims to introduce the sport to audiences in different cities all over the world. Furthermore, Laser-run was a showcase event at the 2019 World Urban Games in Budapest and was part of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games. Host cities of the Laser Run World Championships: Host nations of the Laser Run City Tour since 2017:"}, {"text": "Gert Staal (born 1956) is a Dutch researcher, publicist and critic in the fields of design, architecture and urban design. Educated as linguist and art historian over the years he was active as journalist, editor, author, manager and teacher particularly in those fields of Dutch design. Biography. Staal was born in 1956, and received his MA in Dutch language and art history at the University of Amsterdam. In 1981 Staal began working as a design journalist for \"de Volkskrant,\" where he wrote about design events on a nearly weekly basis. In late 1983, he moved to the \"NRC Handelsblad,\" where he continued to write about design-related topics for a period of more than five years. In the 1990s he continued to write occasionally for the \"NRC Handelsblad\", for \"de Volkskrant\", and for \"Trouw\". In the 1980s Staal had started writing and editing books on designers and design, and continued to do so over the years. In the next 40 years he wrote more than 50 publications. In the 1990s, he was chief editor at the Dutch design magazine Items for a while. When in 1993 the Netherlands Design Institute started, Staal was appointed deputy director under John Thackara. Later on"}, {"text": "he became a staff member of the Counsel for Culture, which advised the Dutch government on cultural matters. Beside all these activities Staal taught the AKV St. Joost and the Design Academy Eindhoven and participated in numerous design research and development projects."}, {"text": "Pahoturi may refer to:"}, {"text": "\"Super Clap\" (stylized as \"SUPER Clap\") is a song recorded by South Korean boy band Super Junior for their ninth Korean-language studio album, \"Time Slip\". It was released on October 17, 2019 as the lead single for the album by SM Entertainment, Label SJ, and Dreamus. Produced by Sebastian Thott, the song was composed by Sebastian Thott, Andreas \u00d6berg, and Ninos Hanna, with the lyrics penned by Ialala Studio. The song peaked at number 83 on Gaon Digital Chart in South Korea in its first week on the chart. In the United States, the song peaked at number 20 on the World Digital Song Sales. An accompanying music video was released on October 17, 2019, three days after the album's release. The song has been performed in the group's headlining concert, . Background and release. \"Super Clap\" features the vocals of nine active Super Junior members \u2014 Leeteuk, Heechul, Yesung, Donghae, Shindong, Eunhyuk, Siwon, Ryeowook, and Kyuhyun. During the band's appearance at HallyuPopFest on May 28, Leeteuk announced the band will release a new album in 2019, to celebrate the group's 15th anniversary. On September 3, Super Junior began releasing teaser images to generate hype for the album's release on"}, {"text": "October 14. On September 30, the track listing for the album was announced on the group's social media channels, with \"Super Clap\" selected as the titular track. On October 10, the band released the second teaser for their music video. Originally meant to coincide with the album's release on October 14, the song was digitally released alongside its music video on October 17, following of the passing of labelmate Sulli. Composition. \"Super Clap\" is an energetic dance-pop song with an emphasis on clapping, synth, and brass sounds on top of a very fast beat. The song was composed by Sebastian Thott, Andreas \u00d6berg, and Ninos Hanna. It was composed in the key of C major with the tempo of 140 beats per minute. The lyrics were penned by the production team Ialala Studio. The lyrics invite listeners to take a respite from the harsh realities of life. Critical reception. Tamar Herman from \"Billboard\" gave the song a positive review, describing the song as \"funky\". She further stated that the release of the song \"highlights Ryeowook and Yesung's vocals as the band's standout vocalists.\" Commercial performance. \"Super Clap\" debuted at number 83 on the Gaon Digital Chart for the week of"}, {"text": "October 13\u201319, 2019. The song was ranked at number 200 on the monthly Gaon Digital Chart for October 2019. In the United States, the song entered World Digital Song Sales at number 20, where it spent a week on the chart. Music video. The music video for \"Super Clap\" was released on October 17, 2019. It was choreographed by Tony Testa, with whom the band had collaborated previously for the choreographies of \"Mamacita\" and \"Devil\". Described as \"light-hearted\", the video shows the band dancing across several different places, namely; an office, an arcade, and in front of a private plane. It was later revealed that Heechul's appearance in the music video was limited due to health concerns. Promotion and live performances. The band promoted \"Super Clap on KBS World's \"Music Bank\" on October 18 and 25. The band returned to \"Music Bank\" on December 20 to perform the song, alongside their previous hit, \"Sorry, Sorry.\" The song was featured in the band's eighth overall tour, . Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. Studio Personnel"}, {"text": "Christos Kafezas (; born January 9, 2002) is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a tall combo guard. Professional career. In June 2019, Kafezas began his pro career with the Greek Basket League club Promitheas Patras, in a game against Panathinaikos, becoming the first ever player born in Patras to play in a Greek Finals Game during the 2018\u201319 season. In October 2019, he made his debut in one of the two European-wide secondary level competitions, the EuroCup, in a game against Maccabi Rishon LeZion, during the 2019\u201320 season. On July 25, 2023, Kafezas returned to Patras for Apollon, where he appeared in 17 league games."}, {"text": "The 2019 CS Warsaw Cup was held in November 2019 in Warsaw, Poland. It was part of the 2019\u201320 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Entries. The International Skating Union published the full list of entries on October 14, 2019."}, {"text": "\"I Think I\" is a single by South Korean boy band Super Junior released on October 4, 2019, by SM Entertainment and Label SJ. The single was featured in Super Junior's ninth Korean-language studio album, \"Time Slip\" (and later in its repackage \"Timeless\") as the fourth pre-release single. The song was then re-released in Japanese on October 30, 2019, as the lead single for their first Japanese EP, \"I Think U\". Background. \"I Think I\" features the vocals of nine active Super Junior members \u2014 Leeteuk, Heechul, Yesung, Donghae, Shindong, Eunhyuk, Siwon, Ryeowook, and Kyuhyun. Kyuhyun was discharged from his mandatory military service on May 7, 2019, and did not partake in the band's previous release, \"One More Time\". Kangin, who had been on hiatus since 2016 announced his decision to depart from the band on July 11. Sungmin continues his indefinite hiatus and voluntarily did not join band activities after last appearing for them for \"Mamacita\" album back in 2014. As a result, Super Junior became a ten-member group with nine active members promoting. During the band's appearance at HallyuPopFest on May 28, Leeteuk announced the band will release a new album in 2019, to celebrate the group's 15th"}, {"text": "anniversary. On September 3, Super Junior began releasing teaser images to generate hype for the album's release on October 14. The song was digitally released alongside its music video on October 4, albeit five hours behind schedule due to an alleged production issue. On October 30, the song was digitally released in Japanese. Composition. \"I Think I\" is classified as a fusion between Latin pop music with jazz strings and horns, and R&B, the former was a nod to their debut extended play. The song was composed by Rudi Daouk, Jakob Mihoubi, Nermin Haramba\u0161i\u0107, and JINBYJIN in the key of F# Major, with the tempo of 145 beats per minute. Its lyrics were written by January 8th, Jo Yoon-kyung, and member Eunhyuk. JINBYJIN was credited as the producer of the song. The lyrics of the song likens a time spent together akin to dancing. Music video. The music video for the song features the members walking around New York's 14th Street station. The music video featured minimalist choreography for a track with a dance rhythm. The Japanese version of the music video shows the members dancing around several sets. Live performances. The group promoted the song on KBS World's \"Music"}, {"text": "Bank\" on October 18 alongside \"Super Clap\". On October 26, the group performed the song at MBC's \"Show! Music Core\". The song was included in the setlist for the group's eighth tour (in overall), . Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. Studio Personnel"}, {"text": "The Mariupol Regional Intensive Care Hospital (), formerly known as Mariupol City Hospital No. 2 is the largest hospital in Mariupol and in the Donetsk region (Ukraine), designed to provide inpatient and outpatient tertiary level care to residents of the region and secondary to the population of the Central region of Mariupol. History. The Mariupol Regional Intensive Care Hospital was founded as the Mariupol (Zhdanov) City Hospital No. 2 in April 1980. On 22 December 2016, by order of the chairman of the Donetsk RegionalState Administration No. 1163 \"On the adoption of the common property of territorial communities of villages, towns, cities under the control of the regional council, the integral property complex of the municipal institution\" Mariupol City Hospital No. 2, the city hospital was transformed into a regional hospital with a name change. In 2019, the hospital continued work on thermal modernization of the room and repairs of the operating unit and emergency department, as well as the extension of the MRI room. Divisions. (1 January 2022):"}, {"text": "Keiko Margaret Lyons (n\u00e9e Inouye; November 21, 1923 \u2013 October 4, 2019) was the first female vice president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). She is known for her role in the CBC's \"Radio Revolution\", a populist revamp of the CBC Radio network which resulted in programs such as \"Quirks and Quarks\" and \"As It Happens\". Lyons was designated a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010 for her work in broadcasting. Early life and education. Lyons was born Keiko Margaret Inouye on November 21, 1923, in Mission, British Columbia, to Japanese immigrants Yoshinobu Inouye and Teru Tsuji. In 1942, Lyons and her family were forced to leave Mission due to a mass expulsion of Japanese-Canadians from the area. The family settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where Lyons did domestic work. In 1944, Lyons moved to Hamilton, Ontario, and worked as a maid at McMaster University while completing her high school diploma. She then attended the university and earned a degree in economics. After graduation, she married fellow student Ed Lyons and relocated to London, England. Career. Lyons began working as a typist for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1952. A year and a half later, she became a"}, {"text": "producer for BBC's Asian current affairs service, where she worked for six years. In 1957, Lyons interviewed Lester Pearson following his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize, and he encouraged her to enter the Canadian journalism industry. Accordingly, Lyons moved to Toronto in 1960 and became a public affairs producer for CBC Radio. She was soon promoted to supervisor. Lyons headed CBC Radio's current affairs department and directed the AM radio service before being promoted to vice president of network radio in 1983, becoming the first woman vice president at the CBC. Within the CBC, Lyons held a reputation of \"benevolent ferocity\" and was affectionately referred to as the \"Dragon Lady\". During the early 1970s, Lyons was tasked with revitalizing CBC's struggling radio service, which, according to Barbara Frum, had become \"ponderous, a sort of university of the air... it talked down to people and was patronizingly intellectual\". Aiming to create a more informal and entertaining atmosphere, Lyons hired several young producers and hosts, including Frum, Mark Starowicz and Peter Gzowski. Lyons incorporated pop and rock and roll music into her programs and eliminated lengthy documentaries. Under her leadership, CBC produced influential programs like \"Quirks and Quarks\", \"As It Happens\""}, {"text": "and \"Morningside\". This populist reimagining of CBC Radio was termed the \"Radio Revolution\". Lyons's changes were met with controversy: producer Val Clery complained that Lyons prioritized marketing over content, and newspaper critics accused Lyons of pandering to yuppies and turning the CBC into the \"Burger Queen of public broadcasting\". Supporters called Lyons \"formidably brilliant\" and commended her for saving CBC Radio from a \"suicidal\" trajectory. Lyons was remembered by CBC executive Peter Herrndorf as \"arguably the most important and the most influential CBC radio executive in the past 60 years\" and one of the network's greatest talent developers. In 1986, Lyons moved back to London, where she worked as Director of European Operations for the CBC. Lyons retired from the CBC in 1991 and returned to Toronto. Lyons was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by McMaster University in 1996. The university's Lyons New Media Center is named for her. In 2010, Lyons was made a Member of the Order of Canada for her achievements in broadcasting. Personal life and death. Lyons (n\u00e9e Inouye) married Ed Lyons in 1949. She had two children, a son and a daughter. Lyons served on the McMaster University Senate for six years and volunteered"}, {"text": "for local historical preservation societies and Japanese cultural organizations. Lyons underwent medically assisted death in Toronto on October 4, 2019."}, {"text": "Anania shanxiensis is a moth in the subfamily Pyraustinae of the family Crambidae. It was described by Zhaofu Yang and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Landry in 2019 as \"Anania sinensis\", which turned out to be a junior secondary homonym of a previously described taxon, \"Anania lancealis sinensis\" . The replacement name for \"A. sinensis\" is \"Anania shanxiensis\" . Description. With a similar colouration and wing pattern, the imagines (adult moths) of the \"A. shanxiensis\" closely resemble those of \"A. hortulata\", as which they might have been misidentified in the past. Both species can be distinguished from each other by a number of genitalic features, such as the number of coils in the female ductus bursae and the male ductus ejaculatorius (eight coils in \"A. shanxiensis\", seven in \"A. hortulata\"), the shape of the sella lobe and of its spinulose process, or the structure of the phallic rods. Genetically, \"A. shanxiensis\" and \"A. hortulata\" are closely related: In the DNA barcoding fragment of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene, the species exhibit an average of 2.73% of interspecific Kimura two-parameter distance. Using a molecular clock of 0.0115 per site per million years, the divergence time of the sister species \"A. shanxiensis\" and \"A."}, {"text": "hortulata\" is estimated to be 0.9 million years ago. Distribution. \"Anania shanxiensis\" is distributed in the Chinese provinces of Beijing, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan. So far, the species has not been recorded outside of China. Biology. The larval host plant is probably \"Marrubium vulgare\" (Lamiaceae), which was recorded as food plant for Chinese specimens of \"A. hortulata\", a likely misidentification of \"A. shanxiensis\". Etymology. The species epithet, \"shanxiensis\", refers to the Chinese province Shanxi, where the type locality of the holotype is located."}, {"text": "Amir Zafar (born 30 January 1965) is a Pakistani field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics. His father, Zafar Ali Zafari, also played field hockey for the Pakistan national hockey team."}, {"text": "Qazi Mohib (15 August 1963 \u2013 29 December 1996) was a Pakistani field hockey player. Considered \"very stylish for a full-back, possessed fine stick-work and dribbling ability, Qazi Mohib, played 123 matches and scored 41 goals for his country. He became the third player from Bannu, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to captain Pakistan hockey team, after the two brothers Abdul Hamid, Abdul Rashid Junior. Qazi Mohib led Pakistan to gold medals in the 1989 Asia Cup as well as the 1990 Asian Games, and a silver medal in the 1990 World Cup, among other distinctions. He also represented the national team at the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Qazi Mohib passed away on 29 December 1996. The main hockey stadium in his native Bannu is named after Qazi Mohib."}, {"text": "Zahid Sharif (born 11 November 1967) is a Pakistani field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Gjorgi Stoilov (; born 25 August 1995) is a Macedonian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Makedonija Gjor\u010de Petrov and the North Macedonia national team. International career. Stoilov made his international debut for North Macedonia on 13 October 2019 in a UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying match against Poland, which finished as a 0\u20132 away loss."}, {"text": "Georgi Vladimirov Stoilov (; 3 April 1929 \u2013 14 December 2022) was a Bulgarian architect and politician best known for designing the Buzludzha Monument. Early life. Stoilov was born on 3 April 1929 in the village of Kondofrey in western Bulgaria. As part of the Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II, he joined the Workers Youth League and the in 1944. Stoilov became a full member of the Bulgarian Communist Party by 1949. He graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute in 1954 before beginning his career at the Glavproekt Institute in Sofia. Career. Stoilov served in the National Assembly of Bulgaria from 1966 to 1990, was mayor of Sofia from 1967 to 1971, and was from 1971 to 1973. Stoilov died in Sofia on 14 December 2022, at the age of 93."}, {"text": "Naeem Amjad (born 7 June 1965) is a Pakistani former field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Eda Zoritte Megged (; born 9 February 1925) is an Israeli writer, essayist, playwright, translator and poet. Biography. Zoritte was born in Tel Aviv in 1925. She graduated from the Levinsky Seminar for Teachers in Jaffa, studied dance and theater in the United States and appeared there in productions of the Hebrew theater \"Pargod\", directed by Peter Frye. After returning to Israel, Zoritte began publishing essays about literature and art, in the literary supplement \"Masa\" (He: \u05f4\u05de\u05e9\u05d0\u05f4, the literature supplement of LaMerhav newspaper), in other newspapers and in books. Among her publications are an essay on the poetry of Nathan Alterman, a partial biography of Amir Gilboa, a biography of Avoth Yeshurun and studies of his works. She also published historical novels, including about Theodor Herzl's wife, Hayim Nahman Bialik's wife and Nathan Alterman's lover, the painter Zila Binder. In addition, she published novels, short stories and a poetry book, \"The Shadow of Time\". Zoritte is writer Aharon Megged's widow. She has two children."}, {"text": "Trichostema nesophilum, known as dune blue curls, Bald Head blue curls, and Carolina blue curls, is a species of flowering plant endemic to coastal dune grasslands in the southeastern United States. It was first formally described in 2019 by R. Kevan S. McClelland and Alan S. Weakley in the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. The specific epithet \"nesophilum\" is from the Greek for \"island\" and \"loving\", named for its habitat\u2014barrier islands along the coasts of North Carolina and South Carolina."}, {"text": "Las Culturistas is a pop-culture and comedy podcast co-hosted by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, produced by Will Ferrell's Big Money Players podcast network and iHeartRadio. Started in March 2016, it was previously part of the Forever Dog podcast network. Format. Each week, hosts Rogers and Yang discuss popular culture, current events, and their personal lives. Many episodes feature guests, whom the hosts invite to discuss their formative cultural experiences with the question, \"What was the culture that made you say 'Culture is for me'?\" Throughout the episodes, the hosts will declare certain statements to be \"Rules of Culture\" by reciting them together in unison and assigning them numbers, such as, \"Rule of Culture #1: If you don't love Gaga, you don't love yourself.\" Toward the end of every episode, there is a segment called \"I Don't Think So, Honey,\" during which the hosts and any guests are each given sixty seconds to rant about an element of culture they find frustrating. Every episode then ends with the hosts briefly singing a song, usually one that has been discussed at some point during the episode. The hosts refer to their listeners as Readers and have expanded to refer to them"}, {"text": "also as Kayteighs, Publicists, Finalists, and Kyles. \"Las Culturistas\" host occasional \"I Don't Think So, Honey Live\" shows featuring up to fifty local comedians performing their own versions of the segment. Every June since 2022, Yang and Rogers host an annual live parody award show in New York City called the Las Culturistas Culture Awards, which has featured live musical performances by Yang, Rogers, and others; guest appearances by fellow actors, comedians, podcasters, and musicians; and video acceptance speeches from minor and major celebrities including Taylor Swift, Andy Cohen, Ariana Grande, Alan Cumming, Vanderpump Rules' Ariana Madix, Bonnie Milligan, Cate Blanchett, and more. In 2025, the Culture Awards will be broadcast on Bravo. Reception. The podcast has received critical acclaim \"boots.\" Vulture has praised it for being original and avoiding guests that might rehash stories told elsewhere. Time rated it one of the 50 best podcasts in its 2018 list. It received a \"Best Podcast\" nomination for the 11th Shorty Awards in 2019. In 2023, it won the \"Podcast of the Year\" award at the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards. The podcast has been cited in academic work for the hosts' insight into the entertainment industry. In 2024, it won the \"Outstanding"}, {"text": "Podcast\" award at the GLAAD Media Awards. Hiatus. On their December 18, 2019 show, \"Nasal & Ridiculous,\" \"Las Culturistas\" announced they would be taking a hiatus and that the show would not continue on with the Forever Dog network. In March 2020, \"Las Culturistas\" returned with new episodes on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players podcast network with iHeart Radio."}, {"text": "Louisiana's 26th State Senate district is one of 39 districts in the Louisiana State Senate. It has been represented by Republican Bob Hensgens since a 2018 special election to succeed fellow Republican Jonathan Perry. Geography. District 26 covers all of Vermilion Parish and parts of Acadia, Lafayette, and St. Landry Parishes in Acadiana, including some or all of Abbeville, Kaplan, Erath, Scott, Rayne, Church Point, and Sunset. The district overlaps with Louisiana's 3rd and 4th congressional districts, and with the 31st, 39th, 40th, 41st, 42nd, 45th, 47th, and 49th 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": "The Muddlers Club is a restaurant in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was awarded a Michelin star in the 2020 Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland. Chef patron Gareth McCaughey (formerly of Ox) founded The Muddlers Club in 2015, naming it after a revolutionary secret society linked to the United Irishmen that met in the area in the 1790s. It is located in the Cathedral Quarter."}, {"text": "Lee at the Alamo is an alternate history short story by Harry Turtledove. It was published online at tor.com on September 7, 2011. Plot summary. The story begins with the point of divergence in December 1860 by General David E. Twiggs being unable to take command of the Department of Texas, which leaves Lieutenant-Colonel Robert E. Lee as the commander. The story itself is set in February 1861, shortly after the state of Texas voted to secede from the United States to join the Confederacy, to March 1861. Lee concludes that it is his duty to defend U.S. Army munitions and property in San Antonio, Texas, including the fabled Alamo, rather than to allow their surrender to the seceding Texas government, as Twiggs did in real life. That leads to a Second Battle of the Alamo. Lee is forced to surrender to Benjamin McCulloch after several weeks of siege but becomes a national hero. After Virginia eventually secedes, US President Abraham Lincoln is able to convince Lee to stay in the Union's service by agreeing to send him west, where he will not be fighting against his fellow Virginians. Award nomination. \"Lee at the Alamo\" was nominated for a Sidewise"}, {"text": "Award for Alternate History in 2012."}, {"text": "Pink Roses is an 1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh, one of his last works. It is now in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, to which it was donated by Helga Jacobsen in 1923 - its catalogue number is MIN 1843. It was painted during the last two months of his life, May to July 1890, which he spent in Auvers-sur-Oise."}, {"text": "Edward Hamilton West (July 25, 1906 \u2013 July 10, 1977) was a bishop of The Episcopal Church, serving in the Diocese of Florida from 1948 to 1974. Early life and education. West was born on July 25, 1906, in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Edward Hamilton West and Clarine Buell. He was educated at the Birmingham\u2013Southern College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1926. He then studied at the Virginia Theological Seminary and graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity in 1931. He also graduated with Master of Arts in 1934 from the University of Idaho. On August 29, 1933, he married Charlotte Matthews, and together had three children. Ordained ministry. West was ordained deacon in June 1931 by Bishop William G. McDowell of Alabama and priest in December of that year by Bishop Middleton S. Barnwell of Georgia. He then became minister- in-charge of St Agnes' Church Sandpoint, Idaho and of St Mary's Church in Bonners Ferry, Idaho in 1931. In 1932 he became rector of St Mark's Church in Moscow, Idaho, and in 1935 became chaplain of the Chapel of Incarnation of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. In 1941 went to Augusta, Georgia to serve"}, {"text": "as rector of Saint Paul's Church. He also served as deputy to the General Convention of 1943 and 1946. Bishop. On April 28, 1948, West was elected on the 12th ballot as Coadjutor Bishop of Florida during a special convention which took place in St John's Church, Jacksonville, Florida. He was consecrated October 4, 1948 by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. He succeeded as diocesan on February 1, 1956. In 1964, he ordered all churches under his jurisdiction to end racial segregation. He retired on December 31, 1974."}, {"text": "The Jones Expedition of 1873 was a survey completed during the summer of 1873 with the official purpose of finding a wagon route between the Union Pacific Railroad in the southern part of the Wyoming Territory and Yellowstone National Park. Captain William A. Jones led the expedition which included prominent scientists of the era, botanist Charles Parry and geologist Theodore Comstock as well chemists, topographers, astronomers, army infantry, eight wagons and 66 mules. The expedition was successful in discovering and documenting many features of western Wyoming including Togwotee Pass Overview. The expedition began on June 12, 1873 at Fort Bridger."}, {"text": "The 2019 Korean Series is the championship series of the 2019 KBO League season. The Doosan Bears, as the regular season champions, automatically advanced to the Korean Series, where they faced the Kiwoom Heroes. The series ran from October 22 to October 26. The Bears swept the Heroes in four games to win the title. Background. The Doosan Bears won the 2015 and 2016 Korean Series. They lost the 2017 Korean Series to the Kia Tigers. and the 2018 Korean Series to the SK Wyverns. The team won the pennant race to advance directly to the Korean Series in dramatic fashion. Trailing the SK Wyverns for second place for most of the year, Doosan was 9 games back of SK by late August and even fell back to third place behind the Kiwoom Heroes. After a rally which started in late August and following a late-season collapse of SK, Doosan was able to secure the pennant in the last game of the season. During this last game against the NC Dinos, Doosan overcame a three-run deficit in the eighth inning to finally win by a score of 6\u20135 in extra innings. With this victory, Doosan achieved the same record as"}, {"text": "the Wyverns, 88\u201355\u20131, but was ranked above SK due to winning the regular season head-to-head record 9\u20137. The Kiwoom Heroes, were founded in 2008, and have never won the Korean Series, despite appearing in the 2014 Korean Series and reaching the postseason in 6 of the past 7 seasons. 2019 marked the first year of the team's partnership with Kiwoom Securities, having been known as the Nexen Heroes the previous year. Kiwoom trailed SK and Doosan for most of the year, and finally settled for 3rd place in the regular season. In the semi-playoff, the Heroes beat the 4th-place LG Twins in 4 games, and swept the defending champions SK Wyverns in a rematch of the previous year's playoffs. Nexen faced Doosan for the third time in the postseason, with Doosan winning their two previous confrontations in the semi-playoff round in 2013 and 2015."}, {"text": "Heikki Aalto (born 12 March 1961) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward. Aalto played 37 games over two seasons for K\u00e4rp\u00e4t of the SM-liiga between 1981 and 1983, scoring one goal. He also played in the 1. Divisioona for Ketter\u00e4 and JoKP."}, {"text": "Me llevar\u00e1s en ti is a Spanish-language historical drama film created and directed by Iv\u00e1n Obando basend on the book of the same name by Editorial Planeta. The film stars Carlos Fern\u00e1ndez, Geraldine Zivic, and Mariana Fern\u00e1ndez. The film was screened on 7 September 2019 in Bucaramanga, Colombia at the 2019 Santander International Film Festival, and is scheduled to premiere on 24 October 2019 in national cinemas."}, {"text": "Action in Chains is a 1905 bronze sculpture by Aristide Maillol. The original called \"Monument to Blanqui\" was commissioned by Louis Auguste Blanqui, and resides at the Puget-Th\u00e9niers, for which it was originally commissioned. *Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, displayed since 1964 mat Tuileries Garden as part of a series of works by Maillol on open-air display *Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art (1906) *\u00d6sterreichische Galerie Belvedere *Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden *Hakone Open-Air Museum *Norton Simon Museum *Private collection (Sale by Dina Vierny, Christie's, 2005); *Billy Rose Collection, Israel Museum *Collection Dina Vierny, Paris; *Private collection at city of Perpignan, displayed at Banyuls-sur-Mer. *Kunstmuseum Basel *Art Institute of Chicago *Tate Gallery *Metropolitan Museum of Art *City of Perpignan; *Collection Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur; *Private collection. *Bronze study without arms (33 cm height) at Metropolitan Museum of Art *Charcoal Drawing at Metropolitan Museum of Art *Plaster cast (2.15 m height) at Mus\u00e9e Maillol"}, {"text": "Klaus Esser is a German lawyer and former CEO of Mannesmann. He current serves as an Advisory Director at General Atlantic. Career. In 1999, Esser was appointed as CEO of Mannesmann, where he oversaw the firm's hostile takeover by Vodafone. Despite his initial opposition to Vodafone's acquisition attempts, Esser ultimately agreed to a price of $180 billion. Immediately following the buyout, Esser received a bonus payment worth approximately $15 million. The payment provoked outrage in Germany, where executive salaries remained lower than in Britain or the United States. Criminal Trial. Shortly after the acquisition, German prosecutors launched a criminal investigation into Esser's conduct to determine whether the promise of redundancy payments by Vodafone had influenced Esser's decision to approve the deal. Along with six other former managers of the company, he was charged with criminal breach of trust. Ultimately, Esser and his co-defendants were acquitted by D\u00fcsseldorf's regional court. In 2005, prosecutors launched an appeal in Germany's federal court, describing the financial award given to Esser as \"unique in its level.\" The case culminated in a settlement, with Esser paying 1.5 million euros in return for prosecutors dropping the charges levied against him."}, {"text": "Bogodol is a populated settlement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mostar municipality. It is located 21 km from the city of Mostar, in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Geography. From the north, the slopes of the mountain \u010cabulja (Kuki, Vilinkosa, \u0106avarova kosa, Plesno, Kulica, Trostruke drage). From the south the hill Bile (Grozdac, Samograd, for Kr\u0161), from the southwest the hill Vo\u0161tica (the name comes from the Old Slavic river Vo\u0161tok which means east). From the west of Pavlova Jela (named after the haramba\u0161a Pavle Milanovi\u0107 who was killed and hanged by the Turks) On the east side is the village of Goranci, which also houses the Catholic parish church, on the west side is the village of Gornji Crna\u010d, on the south side are the villages of Gornji Gradac and Gostu\u0161a, and on the north is the village of Gornja Dre\u017enica. History. The Serb families Bojani\u0107, then Ivani\u0161evi\u0107 and Matkovi\u0107 from Montenegro began to settle here at the beginning, and the Croat ones at the end of the 18th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, emigration began to Mostar, then to Bosnia, Slavonia, and further to the United States. During the Second World War,"}, {"text": "a large number of Serbs were killed by the Ustashas. After the Second World War, emigration took place: Serbs throughout Vojvodina, and Croats mostly to Slavonia and Srem. In the late fifties, Bogodol became a victim of rural-urban migration. The elementary school built in 1950 was closed in the 1980s. The remaining Serbs were forcibly evicted in the last Bosnian war. Demographics. According to the 2013 census, its population was 148, all Croats."}, {"text": "Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Government Medical College & General Hospital, Baramati (GMCB) is a medical college and affiliate hospital located in Baramati, Maharashtra, India. It was founded in the year 2019. The PAH Government Medical College, Baramati is affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik. The college is recognized by the Medical Council of India for medical education in India. Currently, the Government Medical College, Baramati provides training to about 100 students in undergraduate medical courses. The college has five floors and parking space. The General Hospital has 21 wards and 13 operation theatres and has P+G+6 floors. The college and the general hospital are funded by the Government of Maharashtra. Location. The medical college and general hospital are situated in the same campus near the MIDC area of Baramati, in Pune District of Maharashtra. The nearest railway junction is Daund Junction while Baramati Railway Station is the nearest railway station. Nearest airport is the Pune International Airport. Admissions. The admissions for the MBBS courses began for the first time in the year 2019 after the approval was given by the Medical Council of India in May 2019. Currently, the intake capacity of the college is 100 students. Of the"}, {"text": "total available seats for the students, 15% are reserved for All India quota and 85% are reserved for State quota."}, {"text": "Sir Christopher Croker (\"fl.\" 1360s/70s) was a vintner of the City of London, revered as one of the \"Nine Worthies of London\" by Richard Johnson in his 1592 biography of eminent citizens. According to Johnson's account, Croker was apprenticed to a vintner of Gracechurch Street. He later became a soldier, and was a companion and friend of Edward the Black Prince who assisted Pedro of Castile in maintaining his claim to the throne of Castile in the War of the Two Peters (England was involved in the years 1362\u20131375)."}, {"text": "Bathing Woman with Raised Arms () is a 1921 bronze sculpture by the French artist Aristide Maillol. Since 1964 it has been exhibited in the Jardin du Carrousel next to the Tuileries Garden."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team represented the University of Wyoming in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Cowgirls were led by first-year head coach Gerald Mattinson, hired following the retirement of longtime coach Joe Legerski. The Cowgirls played their home games at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie, Wyoming and were members of the Mountain West Conference. The Cowgirls finished the season 17\u201312, 12\u20136 in Mountain West play, to finish in third place. They defeated Utah State in the Mountain West tournament before losing to Boise State in the semifinals. They did not play in a postseason tournament. Previous season. The Cowgirls finished the 2018\u201319 season 25\u20139, 13\u20135 in Mountain West play, to finish in third place. They defeated Utah State and San Diego State in the Mountain West tournament before losing to Boise State in the championship game. They advanced to the quarterfinals of the WNIT before losing to the eventual champion, Arizona. Longtime head coach Joe Legerski retired at the end of the season after 16 years as head coach. Offseason. Wyoming was picked to finish fourth in the Mountain West Conference by coaches and media. Schedule. !colspan=9 style=| Exhibition !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9"}, {"text": "style=| Mountain West regular season !colspan=9 style=\"background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;\"| Mountain West women's tournament Source:"}, {"text": "The Human Right Commission (HRC; ) is a Saudi government organization established on 12 September 2005 by the decision of the council of ministers. It claims to be independent of the Saudi government. The Commission states its aim as the protection and promotion of human rights in line with international standards. The Commission's official findings have consistently supported statements made by the Saudi government. For instance, in March 2019, the Human Rights Commission defended the Saudi authorities' refusal to allow an international investigation into the 2 October 2018 assassination of Jamal Khashoggi. Aims. The Commission states that it seeks to promote, defend and protect human rights in Saudi Arabia. It states that it is an independent organization, ensuring that all government entities are accomplishing the laws and regulations of human rights. The Commission states that it has the right, without any prior permission, to visit prisons at any time to ensure the implementation of human rights. The European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights states that the Commission's activities aim to obscure and draw attention away from Saudi human rights violations. It criticized the Commission for making false and formulaic claims: for instance, they say it praised the Juveniles Law of"}, {"text": "March 2018, which prevented the execution of those who were minors at the time of their crime, as a success, while not mentioning that Saudi Arabia executed six underage people in April 2019. Structure. The Commission is governed by a board of directors chaired by the head of commission, and with a membership of full- and (non-voting) part-time members. All members are appointed by the President of the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia, except for the Chairman and Vice-chairman, who are appointed by royal order. All members of the council of ministers are also appointed, and dismissed, by royal order. In August 2019, Awwad Alawwad was appointed head of commission, by royal decree, with the rank of minister. In 22 September 2022, Saudi Arabia has appointed the first woman, Hala al-Tuwaijri, as the new head of the Human Rights Commission with the rank of a minister. Public-relations spending. According to ALQST, the Human Rights Commission hired the US public relations firm Qorvis in 2020, for an annual sum of $684,000. Actions. Nazia Quazi, 2010. In 2009-2010, the Commission indicated that it was unable to help Nazia Quazi, a dual Canadian and Indian citizen, to return to her home in"}, {"text": "Canada. She was being held against her will in Saudi Arabia by her father, whom she claims confiscated her identity documents and credit cards, threatened her with a knife, and attempted to forcibly marry her to someone she does not know. Mass executions 2016. in 2016, the Commission publicly supported mass executions. A meeting between Canadian public officials and Commission members was criticized by human-rights advocates, for treating the Commission as a serious watchdog. Feminists arrested in 2018. In December 2018, the Commission visited Dhahban Central Prison and interviewed Loujain al-Hathloul and some of the other detainees of the 2018\u20132019 Saudi crackdown on feminists. The visit was part of an investigation into allegations that torture was used against the women; Saud al-Qahtani, a close advisor to crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, had allegedly been present at some of the torture sessions. \"Al Jazeera English\" judged it unlikely that the commission's investigation would lead to criminal charges against the torturers, and quoted a Saudi official who stated in reference to the commission's investigation, \"I don't see how they will hold anyone accountable if they already publicly denied that the torture ever happened.\" An unidentified source who heard the testimony told the"}, {"text": "Wall Street Journal that at least eight of the 18 activists interviewed had been physically abused, and that Saud al-Qahtani had threatened to rape Loujain al-Hathloul, kill her, and throw her into the sewage. Aziza al-Yousef, Eman al-Nafjan, and Samar Badawi were also said to have been tortured. 2019: statements on Jamal Khashoggi. In March 2019, at a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the head of the Saudi Human Rights Commission at the time, Bandar bin Mohammed al-Aiban, called the 2 October 2018 assassination of Jamal Khashoggi an \"unfortunate accident\" and opposed international investigation of the assassination. Al-Aiban claimed that three hearings had taken place in an internal Saudi court case dealing with the case, with the suspects' lawyers present. He stated that none of the suspects had been tortured. He stated, \"We have taken those measures required for us to solve this heinous crime\" and that the reason for Saudi Arabia refusing an international investigation was that that would constitute foreign interference and \"doubting the integrity of [the Saudi] judicial apparatus.\" Sales of kafala workers, 2019 actions. The kafala system used for Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia gives sponsoring employees control over the worker's employment,"}, {"text": "allowing them to transfer the sponsorship without government intervention, including for profit. There are a large number of ads offering kalafa workers for sale or rent, and some apps have categories for such transactions. The Commission took steps to curb the publishing of these ads, and later met with some workers. They have said that they will prosecute anyone advertising the \"sale, renting and sponsorship change of domestic workers in an illegal way.\""}, {"text": "Sollenau is a railway station serving the town of Sollenau in Lower Austria."}, {"text": "Jasenica is a populated settlement in the Mostar municipality, just south of the city of Mostar. It is from Mostar, from Sarajevo, from Dubrovnik and from Split. Demographics. According to the 2013 census, its population was 1,573."}, {"text": "Jytte Hilden (born 12 September 1942) is a Danish chemical engineer and politician (Social Democrats). She was elected member of the Folketing from 1979 to 1998, and was appointed Minister for Culture in Poul Nyrup Rasmussen's first Cabinet."}, {"text": "Saint Dominic is an oil on canvas painting of Saint Dominic by Titian, from \"c.\" 1565. It is held in the Galleria Borghese, in Rome. Description. The painting depicts Saint Dominic de Guzm\u00e1n, the founder of the Dominican Order. The saint is shown with the typical Dominican habit, with a white tunic, and a black cloak, with an hood on his head, in a brown background. He raises his left hand towards the sky, while around his head there is a thin white halo, as a symbol of his sainthood."}, {"text": "The 2020 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers are a series of qualification tournaments aimed to establish the participants of the 2020 Women's European Water Polo Championship. The matches were contested in April and October 2019. Qualification round. The six teams participating at the QR all advanced to the next stage; the final position of each team established the opponent in the Play-offs. The round was contested from 25 to 28 April 2019 in Rio Maior, Portugal. Play-offs. The teams ranked from 7th to 12th place at the 2018 EC directly qualified to this stage. The order of play was drawn on 8 June 2019; matchdays are 12 and 26 October 2019. Qualified teams. Teams already qualified through the 2018 European Championship:"}, {"text": "The International Festival of Cinema and Audiovisual of Burundi (FESTICAB) is an annual film festival held in Burundi. FESTICAB was established by the film director L\u00e9once Ngabo in 2009. It comprises competitions in three categories: Burundian films, East African films and international films. At the 2011 FESTICAB the East African Film Network (EAFN) was founded. The 2015 FESTICAB was disrupted by the protests against President Nkurunziza running for a third term, and many screenings needed to be cancelled."}, {"text": "Leobersdorf is a railway station serving the town of Leobersdorf in Lower Austria."}, {"text": "Ba\u010devi\u0107i is a populated settlement in the Mostar municipality, just south of the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, making it a suburb. It is from Mostar, from Sarajevo, from Dubrovnik and from Split. Demographics. According to the 2013 census, its population was 492."}, {"text": "Albert Raymond Krevis (born July 9, 1952) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Boston College Eagles, earning All-American, All-East, and All-New England honors twice. Krevis played in 13 NFL games; ten for the New York Jets and three for the Cincinnati Bengals. Early life. Krevis was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Raised in the Lake Hiawatha section of Parsippany\u2013Troy Hills, New Jersey, Krevis attended Morris Catholic High School in Denville Township, New Jersey followed by Boston College. Krevis statistically only showed his talent in college. Football career. While playing for the Boston College Eagles football team, Krevis lettered. He was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round, 39th overall in the 1975 NFL draft, and played three games for them. In 1976, he played ten games for New York Jets. Later life. In 1991, he was inducted into the Boston College Varsity Club Athletic Hall of Fame."}, {"text": "Women have served in the Canadian House of Commons since the 1921 entrance of Agnes MacPhail, a member of the Progressive Party of Canada from Grey Southeast. Over 370 women have since served in the House. there are 103 female MPs, or 30% of the body, the highest in Canada's history. Twenty-two of them were elected in the 2021 federal election. This represents a gain of three seats from the previous record of 100 women in the 43rd Canadian Parliament, of whom 98 were elected in the 2019 federal election, followed by two more at subsequent by-elections in 2020. Women have been elected to the House of Commons from every province and territory in Canada. Proportion of women in the House. Numbers and proportions are as they were directly after the relevant election and do not take into account by-elections, defections, or other changes in membership. Instead, women who were initially by-elected to their seats and later successful in holding them at a subsequent federal election are counted as having won the latter to serve full terms, if completed. \"Others\" include the Reform Party between 1988 and 1997, the Canadian Alliance only in 2000, Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois since 1993, and the"}, {"text": "Greens since 2011."}, {"text": "The 1472 Altarpiece was a tempera and oil on panel altarpiece by the Italian Renaissance painter Carlo Crivelli, dated 1472 on the central panel. Also known as the Fesch Altarpiece or the Eckinson Altarpiece, it is now divided up between a number of galleries in the United States and Europe. The work probably originated in or near Fermo, in the Marche, where the artist was active for a number of years. In 1834 Amico Ricci wrote of a \"Madonna with saints\" by Crivelli from the church of San Domenico in Fermo which had been sold a few years earlier. It is stylistically close to the artist's Massa Fermana Altarpiece. It had five panels on the main register, topped by a Piet\u00e0 which may have been flanked by four now-lost unidentified half-length saints. List of panels. An early reconstruction of the work was produced in 1933 by Venturi and this was improved in 1958 by Bernard Berenson and in 1961 by Federico Zeri:"}, {"text": "The 2003 Tampa mayoral election took place on March 25, 2003, following a primary election on March 2, 2003. Incumbent Mayor Dick Greco was term limited and was barred from seeking a third consecutive term. A crowded race emerged to succeed Greco, with County Supervisor of Elections Pam Iorio emerging as the frontrunner. She placed first in the primary election by a wide margin, winning 46 percent of the vote, and advanced to the general election against Frank S\u00e1nchez, a former aide to President Bill Clinton, who narrowly beat out City Councilmember Bob Buckhorn for second place, 21\u201319 percent. In the general election, Iorio defeated S\u00e1nchez by a wide margin, winning 64 percent to S\u00e1nchez's 36 percent."}, {"text": "Marcelo Diego Torrealba Otero (born 6 May 1996) is a Chilean professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Super Rugby Americas club Selknam and the Chile national team."}, {"text": "Dani\u00ebl Hendrik 'Daantjie' Rossouw (5 September 1930 \u2013 28 January 2010) was a South African rugby union player. Playing career. Rossouw finished his schooling at the Ho\u00ebrskool Jan van Riebeeck in Cape Town, where after he moved to Pretoria to study at the University of Pretoria. He joined the University's rugby club and made his provincial debut for Northern Transvaal. In 1953, Rossouw relocated to Stellenbosch to further his law studies at Stellenbosch University and was he selected to represent Western Province. Rossouw made his test debut for the Springboks in the third test match against the touring Australian team, captained by John Solomon on 19 September 1953 at Kingsmead in Durban. Rossouw's selection for this third test match was as a replacement for Tjol Lategan, who injured his shoulder in the previous test. He also played in the fourth test against the Australians and was set to continue as Springbok centre in the upcoming series against the British Lions. However, he decided to retire from rugby in the mid \u20131955, at a relatively young age of not yet twenty\u2013five. Rossouw scored one test try for the Springboks."}, {"text": "Elizabeth Hana Mandlik (born 19 May 2001) is an American tennis player. She is the daughter of Grand Slam champion Hana Mandl\u00edkov\u00e1. Mandlik has career-high rankings by the WTA of 97 in singles and 187 in doubles. She has won eight singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Career. 2019: WTA Tour debut. Mandlik made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2019 Luxembourg Open in the doubles tournament, partnering with Katie Volynets. 2022: Tour match win & top 125. Ranked No. 240, Mandlik qualified for the main draw and earned her first WTA Tour tournament win at the Silicon Valley Classic, defeating Alison Riske-Amritraj in straight sets. In the second round, she took world No. 4 and second seed, Paula Badosa, to three sets, losing only in a final set tiebreaker. As a result, she moved 60 positions into the top 200 in the rankings, at world No. 181. Mandlik won the US Open Wildcard Challenge to enter the women's singles tournament where she made her major main-draw debut, 33 years after her mother last played in the US Open. Mandl\u00edkov\u00e1 became the first US Open women's singles champion in the Open era to have a"}, {"text": "daughter also play the US Open. Mandlik played in the main draw of the US Open, defeating Tamara Zidansek in three sets, before losing to eventual finalist Ons Jabeur, in straight sets, in the second round. 2023: Australian Open and top 100 debuts. She made her debut at the Australian Open as a lucky loser, but was defeated in the first round by 27th seed Irina-Camelia Begu. At the Nottingham Open, she qualified for the main draw and defeated Viktoriya Tomova and seventh seed Camila Giorgi to reach the quarterfinals, where she lost to Alize Cornet. As a result she reached the top 100 in the singles rankings. She became the fifth American to reach this milestone and the ninth female player overall for the season. Personal life. Mandlik is the daughter of Grand Slam champion Hana Mandl\u00edkov\u00e1 and granddaughter of an Olympic runner, Vil\u00e9m Mandl\u00edk. Performance timelines. \"Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup, United Cup, Hopman Cup and Olympic Games are included in win\u2013loss records.\" Singles. \"Current through the 2023 Ningbo Open.\" Doubles. \"Current through the 2023 US Open.\""}, {"text": "Delta Yokuts, also termed Far Northern Valley Yokuts, is an extinct dialect network of Valley Yokuts, an indigenous Yokutsan language of California. Delta Yokuts dialects were spoken from directly northeast of modern Stockton to the confluence of the Merced and San Joaquin rivers near modern Hills Ferry. Among the attested and named dialects of Delta Yokuts were Yachikumne (Chulamni), Pasasamne, Tamukamne (also known as Tamcan), Cholovomne, Lakisamne, Atsnil, Coconoon (also spelled Huocon and Cucunun)."}, {"text": "Alessandro Cattaneo (born 12 June 1979 in Rho) is an Italian politician. He is a member of the centre-right party Forza Italia and served as Mayor of Pavia from June 2009 to May 2014. Cattaneo has been elected for the Chamber of Deputies at the 2018 Italian general election."}, {"text": "The Massa Fermana Altarpiece is a 1468 tempera and gold on panel by the Italian painter Carlo Crivelli, held in Santi Lorenzo e Silvestro church in the town of Massa Fermana. It is signed \"\". It is his earliest known surviving work and is notable for dating his return to Italy. The central register is a Madonna and Child flanked by Saints John the Baptist, Lawrence, Sylvester and Francis. Above this are panels of Mary at the Annunciation, the Piet\u00e0 and Gabriel at the Annunciation, whilst below is a predella showing Christ at Gethsemane, the Crucifixion, the Flagellation and the Resurrection. History. Amico Ricci (1834) quotes a local traditions that the work was commission by a count of the Azzolini family from Fermo, who were also lords of Massa Fermana. During the reconnaissance of the works of art wanted by the newly formed Italian government after the Unification of Italy, Cavalcaselle and Crowe saw the polyptych in 1861 in the manse. It was later exhibited in the municipal residence and then in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino, where it remained until the end of the Second World War, after which it returned to the church of origin. Description"}, {"text": "and style. The polyptych is composed of five main panels with the \"Madonna and Child\" in the center (105x44 cm) and on the sides the saints John the Baptist, Lawrence, Sylvester and Francis (105x44cm each). The panels with the \"Annunciation\" and \"Gabriel at the Annunciation\" measure 37x19 cm each, and the \"Piet\u00e0\" measures 51x28 cm. In the four compartments of the predella, the \"Crucifixion\" precedes the \"Flagellation\", a reversal of the usual order. The Madonna. The Madonna is seated on a throne in the center and holds in her arms the Child who blesses and holds a golden sphere, symbol of the terrestrial globe. The marble throne rests on a pedestal, in which an extinguished candle is embedded, close to the artist's signature. At the top it is refined by the red cloth that covers the backrest and by two large cranes resting on the sides, a peach and a quince, alluding to the Original Sin. The halos, of Mary and of the saints, are of an archaic type, like golden discs pinned to the back of the head and not foreshortened, on which the artist applied decorations in relief. The Madonna recalls the schemes of Filippo Lippi. Compared to"}, {"text": "the Madonnas of the Paduan or Zadar period (e.g., the\"Huldschinsky Madonna\"), the figure of the Virgin is here softened by a new tenderness, which will later be found in the artist's mature works. Flanking saints. The lower step unifies the compartments of the saints, but is differentiated according to the setting. For example, John the Baptist is imagined in the desert, resting on a jagged rock in the style of Mantegna, which is also found symmetrically in the rightmost panel, of Saint Francis receiving the stigmata, while the other two saints rest on a step of mottled marble. Varying in pose and attitude, the saints are recognizable by typical attributes (the scroll with John's Ecce Agnus Dei, Lorenzo's grill and the crucifix with golden rays \u2013 in relief \u2013 touching Francis' wounds), with the exclusion of Sylvester, who has no specific attributes apart from the sumptuous papal robe, but who is nevertheless recognizable as the titular saint (with Lorenzo) of the church. Conceived in a drier and more sculptural manner than the Madonna, the saints show a greater persistence of the Paduan Renaissance style. Upper panels. The original wooden frame which was to incorporate the upper panels in a more"}, {"text": "elegant way is lost. These three scenes are also spatially united, but only the side panels of the Annunciation, which have the same background with a crenellated wall. On the right the angel glides delicately with his wings and the fluttering cords of his robe and pad in relief; on the left Mary, sitting in front of the lectern, receives the visit of the dove of the Holy Spirit and accepts her destiny by humbly clasping her hands, while on the left there is a delicate glimpse of her bedroom, untouched as befits a virgin. These two small scenes represent a real exercise in perspective, with the grid represented in the blocks of the floor and in the progression of the joints between the brick walls. The Virgin's lectern itself is violently shortened. The type of the Madonna is influenced by Bartolomeo Vivarini, already known to the artist in Venice and also active in the Marche in those years. The \"Piet\u00e0\" has a sparse rocky landscape as its backdrop. The body of Christ stands at the same time heroic in its strong plastic physicality, and painful for the suffering of martyrdom, remembered not only by the grimace, but also by"}, {"text": "the cross that appears behind him with the three nails driven into the wood. The glimpse of the sarcophagus in perspective and the attention to the light output are beautiful, as demonstrated by the shadow that Jesus casts on the left edge, or that of the nails. Predella. The predella shows narrative scenes, rare in the artist's production. The inspiration from Mantegna's \"San Zeno Altarpiece\" is evident for the scenes (excluding the \"Flagellation\"), attempting to convey the drama of the events even more, as can be seen clearly in the \"Crucifixion\" where the elderly Mary is transfigured by a grimace of pain. The soldier lying foreshortened in the \"Resurrection\" is an explicit quotation of the \"Transport of Saint Christopher\" frescoed in the Ovetari Chapel in Padua. The \"Flagellation\" instead would refer to the perspective solutions of Paolo Uccello who worked in Urbino in that year, in particular the scenes of the \"Miracle of the Profaned Host\"."}, {"text": "The 2007 Tampa mayoral election took place on March 6, 2007. Incumbent Mayor Pam Iorio, who was first elected in 2003, ran for re-election. Despite speculation that former Mayor Dick A. Greco or wealthy businessman John H. Sykes might challenge Iorio, neither ended up challenging her. Instead, Iorio faced police captain Marion Serious Lewis and former Fire Department Chief Aria Ray Green, whom Iorio fired. Iorio ultimately won re-election in a landslide, winning 79 percent of the vote to Lewis's 12 percent and Green's 8 percent."}, {"text": "Ryan M. Milner is an American writer and professor in the communications department of the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He teaches several courses on modern media technology and digital communications. His primary field of study is focused on the effects of the internet on society and how people respond differently to emerging technologies. Education and career. Milner graduated in 2012 from the University of Kansas with a PhD in communication studies. His thesis was titled \"The World Made Meme\", and a book version of it was later published in 2016. Milner has been a professor of Communications at the College of Charleston since 2012. The various topics he teaches include digital media, research methods, free speech and podcasting, and media ethics. Milner has written several books and articles based on his research on internet culture and online communication. He studies how the internet affects people through many different aspects of society. Publications. Milner has written two published books as well as dozens of journal articles. He has also done research on video games as a tool of mediated communication and a device of entertainment on the same tier as other types of media such as films, TV shows,"}, {"text": "and books. Books Journals articles Research. The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media (2016 book). This book explores the cultural importance of internet memes. Memes can appear in many forms such as images, videos, texts, audio samples, etc. Every day, memes are created, combined, changed, and shared by countless people across the internet. Memes serve as a unique tool of communication. They not only are used as a basis for comedy but they are also used to make universal statements that can connect people based on familiarity. In \u201cThe World Made Meme\u201d, Ryan Milner analyzes the cultural phenomenon of this contemporary communication. He breaks down the vast tapestry of collective conversation in meme culture. The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online (2017 book). Co-written by Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner, \u201cThe Ambivalent Internet\u201d analyzes the constantly fluctuating tonality of the world wide web. Because the internet is so vast and contributed to by billions of people, it\u2019s impossible to categorize the entirety of the web as either good, bad or anything in between. The authors argue that the tools given to internet users are neutral by default and that these tools will be used differently depending on"}, {"text": "the individuals intentions. Overall, there is nothing that can be said or done on the internet that will surprise people anymore. Internet culture is typically known for its outrageous and often antagonizing content. With that being said, \u201cThe Ambivalent Internet\u201d goes into depth as to why people behave differently on the internet and why it is important for us to understand the intent behind these behaviors. Achievements. Milner has contributed to articles for multiple news outlets such as TIME, Slate, The Los Angeles Review of Books, NBC News, and The New York Times. In 2017, Milner had an art exhibit featured at Loyola University's School of Communication in Chicago, Illinois. The featured exhibit told the story of the history of internet memes over the past decade (2007-2017). The purpose of the exhibit was to have people see these memes as more than just quick jokes we scroll through on social media. His goal was to make people reflect on these images as a communicative form of satirical commentary on both pop culture and news stories."}, {"text": "Ave Maria is a 1964 motet by Franz Biebl, composed for double choir, a large four-part choir and a three-part choir which can be performed by soloists. It is a setting of part of the Latin liturgical Angelus prayer, which contains the Ave Maria (Hail Mary) as a refrain. The composition was originally written for men's chorus, but the composer wrote arrangements for mixed choir and women's choir. The work and arrangements were published by Wildt's Musikverlag, first in 1964. The piece first became famous when a U.S. group, the Cornell University Glee Club, included it in their Christmas programs, and more famous when the Chanticleer ensemble made it part of their regular repertoire. It was published in the U.S. by Hinshaw and became one of the publisher's best-selling items. History. Biebl was the organist and choir master of a parish in F\u00fcrstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, and of a men's chorus there, for which he composed many works and arrangements. He composed Ave Maria sometime before May 1959, when it was performed in a Maiandacht. It was written for men's chorus, and this version was published by Wildt's Musikverlag in 1964. However, it was not performed often, since German men's choirs generally"}, {"text": "did not perform religious music. On a 1970 tour in Germany, the Cornell University Glee Club from the U.S. met Biebl, who was working for the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk and responsible for choral music. Conductor Thomas A. Sokol received several of Biebl's compositions, which he performed in the U.S. When the Chanticleer vocal ensemble made \"Ave Maria\" part of their repertoire, it gained popularity. They first performed it in a charity event on 4 December 1989 at the City Hall in San Francisco, then presented it in subsequent Christmas concerts and included it in their tour program the next year. The work is now considered a standard of the choral repertoire. Biebl wrote arrangements for mixed choirs in 1985 and 1998. It was published in the U.S. by Hinshaw Music in 1992, and became one of the publisher's best-selling items, the four versions selling over 670,000 copies between 1992 and 2016. Text. The text is the beginning of the Latin Catholic liturgical Angelus prayer, three verses based on biblical sources, with the Ave Maria as a refrain. In Biebl's setting, the Ave Maria refrain contains only the first half of the Ave Maria prayer, the benediction of Mary and the"}, {"text": "fruit of her womb, Jesus. The second half, praying for Mary's intercession, is delivered as a conclusion, deviating slightly from the liturgical text by addressing Mary as Holy Mother twice, asking firstly for intercession with \"us sinners\", and secondly for \"in the hour of our death\", while the Ave Maria prayer combines both requests in one. The prayer is closed by Amen. Music. The original composition was in D major for men's choir, with a four-part choir TTBB and a three-part choir TTB. When it was published, it was transposed to C major. The verses from the Angelus are recited by one voice in chant-like fashion in free tempo. The refrain is sung by the choirs, with the four-part choir beginning and the three-part choir following one measure later, in an alternating pattern kept throughout the piece. The final choral setting, Sancta Maria, is intensified in vocal range and dynamics, concluding in Amen set in a similar pattern. The choral singing is marked once at the beginning \"Ruhig flie\u00dfend\" (Quietly flowing), in common time. The choirs operate in different rhythm: the four-part choir begins with three quarter-notes towards a long note in the second measure, while the three-part choir begins"}, {"text": "on the first beat in measure two. Biebl wrote arrangements for SATB/SAT (in B flat major which is probably the most popular), TTBB/SAA, and SSAA/SSA choirs. Aside from the TTBB/SAA arrangement, the three-part choir can be sung by a trio of voices. Program note. Wilbur Skeels \u2013 who published some of Biebl's other works \u2013 prepared the following information about the piece for use in choral program notes. All or parts of the information in this note are commonly cited by choirs recording or performing the piece. The piece gained practically no attention in Germany for many years. However, when Biebl was the head of choral programs for the Bayerischen Rundfunk (Bavarian Radio) he made a habit of inviting American choirs to come to Munich and sing on the radio and with other German choirs. One of these choirs was introduced to his Ave Maria and brought it back to the US, where it became increasingly popular. When Chanticleer recorded it, it became a hit, not only in the US but in Germany too, which now considered the piece must be special as it was such a hit in America. The source of the text is the thrice-daily devotional exercise"}, {"text": "called the Angelus in the Catholic Church. It is cued by the ringing of the \"Angelus\" bell, sometimes referred to as the \"Peace Bell.\" It consists of a thrice-repeated \"Hail Mary,\" each with an introductory versicle based on the Gospel, followed by a concluding versicle and prayer. Biebl uses the source text of the traditional Angelus nearly exactly, adding the words \"Maria dixit\" to the beginning of the second versicle, and omitting the second half of the first two Hail Mary's. The text sung in Biebl's composition is as follows: Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae \"The Angel of the Lord announced to Mary\" Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto. \"And she conceived by the Holy Spirit.\" [Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.] [\"Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.\"] Maria dixit: \"Mary said:\" Ecce ancilla Domini \"Behold the handmaiden of the Lord\" Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum. \"Do to me according to your word.\" [Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.] [\"Hail Mary, full of grace,"}, {"text": "the Lord is with Thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.\"] Et verbum caro factum est \"And the Word was made flesh\" Et habitavit in nobis \"And dwelt among us.\" [Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.] [\"Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.\"] [Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.] [\"Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.\"] According to normal practice in classical sacred composition, Biebl has not set the text of the closing versicle and prayer of the 'Angelus' to music. Instrumental arrangements. The San Francisco Renegades and the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps arranged the work for brass band. Specifically, the San Francisco Renegades, an all-age Drum and Bugle Corps, first adapted sections of Biebl's Ave Maria in their 2003 show: \"Red Skies At Night\". In 2005 they played the piece as the opener to their show, \"The Days of Future Past\". In"}, {"text": "2006 the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps, an International World Class Corps based in Rockford, Illinois, used the piece in its 2006 field show \"Faust,\" further expanding awareness of Biebl's arrangement. Both drum and bugle corps continue to perform Franz Biebl's \"Ave Maria\" as part of their yearly repertoire. Several transcriptions and arrangements of the Biebl \"Ave Maria\" have been written since 2010. One transcription is by Jerry Brubaker, horn player and arranger for 30 years with the US Navy Band, done after hearing the piece sung at a Navy funeral. It has been performed by the Navy Band horn section and the NIH Community Orchestra Horn Club on numerous occasions. In 2018 Triplo Press of Minneapolis, Minnesota, published an arrangement of the work by James Olcott for 12 trumpets. Pacific Crest Drum and Bugle Corps uses Franz Biebl's Ave Maria as their corps song. US First Amendment litigation. In 2009\u201310, an arrangement of the \"Ave Maria\" for wind ensemble was the subject of litigation that reached the United States Supreme Court. At issue was whether a school district was justified in prohibiting an instrumental performance of the piece (without lyrics) at a high school graduation ceremony due to"}, {"text": "its underlying religious nature. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the school district's actions. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case, but Justice Samuel Alito issued a rare written opinion dissenting from the Court's decision. In a footnote, Alito described Biebl's setting of the \"Ave Maria\" text as \"relatively obscure\" in comparison to settings by Franz Schubert, Charles Gounod, and other more well-known composers."}, {"text": "Roshan Cools (born 10 June 1975) is a Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is interested in the motivational and cognitive control of human behaviour and how it is impacted by neuromodulation. She was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. Early life and education. Cools was born in the Netherlands. Her father was a brain scientist and she recalls conversations about the brain and dopamine at the dinner table. Cools studied neuropsychology at the University of Groningen. She graduated cum laude in 1998 and moved to the United Kingdom. Cools worked with Trevor Robbins at the University of Cambridge on Parkinson's disease for her PhD awarded in 2002. Career and research. After earning her doctoral degree she worked as a Junior Research fellow and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge. She moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where she spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow with Mark D'Esposito. She won a Royal Society University Research Fellowship which was based at the University of Cambridge. In 2007 Cools moved back to the Netherlands, where she worked in the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging in the Donders Institute"}, {"text": "for Brain. At the Radboud University Nijmegen Cools leads the Motivational and Cognitive Control Lab. She was promoted to Full Professor in 2011. She studies the role of neuromodulators (dopamine and serotonin) in the control of decision making. She showed that the genes associated with dopamine impact how we learn from the long-term consequences of decisions, whilst serotonin is more strongly associated with short-term choices. She has also shown that people who gamble have increased levels of dopamine in their brains, whilst people who are addicted to drugs have average or lower than normal levels of dopamine. She used her expertise in decision making to show that dominant individuals are avid social learners; whilst they value their independence, they rely on social learning in complex decision making tasks. She is interested in advancing understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders, including impulse control disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Parkinson's disease. She demonstrated that people suffering from schizophrenia have motivation deficits from very early stages of their diagnoses, which are unrelated to their treatments. Cools is interested in the mechanisms by which we exert willpower and what happens to willpower in people with ADHD. She believes that the goals that are characteristic"}, {"text": "of human behaviour can be classified as motivational (i.e. maximise reward) and cognitive (i.e. complete task). Her research considers the interactions between motivational and cognitive control. Cools demonstrated that the neural networks of psychopathic criminals are different to that or normal people, with a strong focus on reward and a lack of self-control. She was appointed to the Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy to the Dutch government in 2014. Awards and honours. Her awards and honours include; She delivered a TED Talk at Radboud University Nijmegen in 2013. Selected publications. Her publications include;"}, {"text": "Chymomyza costata is a species of fly in the family Drosophilidae. It is found in the Palearctic."}, {"text": "The Treaty of Buftea was a preliminary peace treaty between the Kingdom of Romania on one side and the Central Powers on the other. Following the stalemate on the Romanian front after the campaign of 1917, the October Revolution and Russia's subsequent unilateral exit from World War I (see the Armistice between Russia and the Central Powers), Romania had little choice but to conclude a truce with the Central Powers (see the Armistice of Foc\u0219ani). On , during the between Ferdinand I of Romania and Ottokar Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, at the R\u0103c\u0103ciuni railway station, the Central Powers issued an ultimatum to Romania, threatening to denounce the armistice and resume the hostilities in 48 hours. Therefore, King Ferdinand summoned a on in Ia\u0219i, the Romanian capital-in-exile. After long and difficult discussions, which lasted 3 days, and despite the strong opposition of Queen Marie and General Constantin Prezan, the Crown Council decided to accept the ultimatum and send envoys to Buftea to negotiate a preliminary peace treaty. The Treaty of Buftea was concluded on . Preamble. The preamble of the treaty stated the wish of the signatory parties to end the hostilities and to extend the truce for 14 days,"}, {"text": "starting with 5 March 1918, during which the provisions of the final treaty could be agreed upon. Aftermath. The preliminary treaty of Buftea was followed by the negotiation and signing of the final peace treaty between Kingdom of Romania and the Central Powers, concluded on 7 May 1918 in Bucharest."}, {"text": "Amico Ricci Petrocchini, Petruccini or Petruchini (1794-1862) was an Italian art historian and marquess. He is most notable for his 1834 \"Memorie storiche delle arti e degli artisti della Marca di Ancona\", the first systematic survey of art history in the Marche. He also composed a number of cantatas for viola (1862). Life. Born in Macerata to a noble family from that town, he was a knight of the Ordine Mauriziano and was made a member of Macerata's Accademia dei Catenati as recognition for his \"dissertazioni\". He died in Modena."}, {"text": "The Balkan Masters Athletics Championships is an annual international athletics competition between masters athletes aged 35 and over from nations in the Balkans. It is typically held over two or three days in September. It features a full programme of track and field events, plus a half marathon. Organised by Balkan Masters Athletics, it was first held in 1991 and has been held every year since. The competition was the organisation's first regular championships, and was followed by a Balkan Masters Cross Country Championships in 2007 and a Balkan Masters Indoor Athletics Championships in 2015. Editions. Outdoor. 2020 not held. Medals. Source: Outdoor. 1991-2022: 30th Albania 2021: Indoor. 2015-2018:"}, {"text": "Juan Jos\u00e9 G\u00f3mez Centuri\u00f3n (born 26 May 1958) is an Argentine soldier and politician. He is a retired officer of the Argentine Army, a veteran of the Falklands War, where he received the Cross to the Heroic Valour in Combat, the highest military distinction. Politics. He was a candidate for President of Argentina by the NOS Front for the 2019 elections."}, {"text": "The 1976 Mexico City WCT was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Mexico City, Mexico. The event was part of the 1976 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from 9 March until 14 March 1976. Fourth-seeded Ra\u00fal Ram\u00edrez won the singles title. Finals. Singles. Ra\u00fal Ram\u00edrez defeated Eddie Dibbs, 7\u20136, 6\u20132 Doubles. Brian Gottfried / Ra\u00fal Ram\u00edrez defeated Ismail El Shafei / Brian Fairlie, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(7\u20134)"}, {"text": "A Stanislaw Lem Reader is a collection of writings by and about Polish science fiction writer Stanis\u0142aw Lem, one of the world's most widely read science-fiction writers. The book comprises an introduction by Canadian literary scholar Peter Swirski, two interviews by Swirski with Lem, and Swirski's translation of Lem's essay, \"30 Years Later\". Contents. The book is described as an \"eclectic collection\" on its back cover. It begins with Swirski's introduction titled \"Stanislaw Lem: A Stranger in a Strange Land\", an overview of Lem's literary work. The title is an allusion to Robert Heinlein's \"Stranger in a Strange Land\", stressing the uniqueness of Lem's original perceptions of the contemporary civilization, his aesthetics and philosophy. Peter Butko described this overview as \"condensed and insightful\". The second item is \"Reflections on Literature, Philosophy, and Science\", a personal interview of Swirski with Lem carried out in 1992, mostly focused on Lem's views on literature. The third item is \"30 Years Later\", Swirski's translation of Lem's essay \" Trzydzie\u015bci lat p\u00f3\u017aniej\" first published in Polish popular science magazine \"\" (\"Knowledge and Life\") in 1991. It is the second afterword (After the \"Twenty Years Later\") to Lem's \"Summa Technologiae\". Apart from the critical remarks on"}, {"text": "futurology, its significant part is the discussion of the technology of virtual reality predicted in \"Summa Technologiae\" under the term \"fantomatyka\" (\"fantomatics\"), a part of his bitter philosophical dispute with Polish philosopher Leszek Ko\u0142akowski. Lem also discusses which of his futurological predictions came true. The fourth item, \"Lem in Nutshell\", is Swirski's written interview with Lem carried out in 1994, mostly focused on Lem's views on science and philosophy. Comparing the second and fourth chapters (interviews), Butko notes that the \"first is less formal and more conversational\", while the second one is \"deeper\" and more scholarly. Unlike Jurich, who thinks the first interview was more focused on literature, and second more on science and philosophy, Butko concludes that both interviews have a similar focus on \"the relationship of literature with philosophy and science\". The book concludes with the bibliography section. It lists Lem's books, published both in Polish and English, and articles and essays translated into English \u2013 in the chronological order of first publications. It also includes a comprehensive list of critical literature on Lem in English \u2013 alphabetically ordered by author. Reviews. The book was positively reviewed by Butko, who concluded that \"Swirski's book is small in volume,"}, {"text": "but dense in ideas [and] is indispensable reading for any Stanislaw Lem reader.\" Jurich was more critical, noting that while the book gives English readers \"the opportunity to discover aspects of Lem not otherwise accessible [to those who do not read Polish]\" it is also \"far more frustrating than it is interesting or significantly informative\", arguing that the book provides \"too little insight into Lem's thought and art.\""}, {"text": "Turtle View (population: ) is a resort village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 17. It is on the shores of Turtle Lake in the Rural Municipality of Parkdale No. 498, approximately northwest of Saskatoon. History. Turtle View incorporated as a resort village on January 1, 2020. It was formed through the amalgamation of the organized hamlets of Indian Point \u2013 Golden Sands and Turtle Lake Lodge. Demographics. According to Statistics Canada, Turtle View had a population of 193 in 2021. Government. The Resort Village of Turtle View is governed by an elected municipal council and an appointed administrator that meets on the third Saturday of every month. The mayor is Troy Johnson and its administrator is Lorrie Bannerman."}, {"text": "Harriet C. Johnson (1845\u20131907) was an African-American suffragist and educator. Life. Johnson was born in December 1845 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia, graduating in 1864. Johnson began her career as an educator working as the principal at the Philadelphia Association of Friends for the Instruction of Poor Children's infant department. In 1868 she went on to become the principal of the preparatory and ladies' departments of Avery College in Pittsburgh. At that time Henry Highland Garnet served as president of the university. Garnet was a black nationalist and it is possible that his philosophies influenced Johnson's activism in women suffrage. Around 1870 Johnson attended the National Convention of the Colored Men of America (NCCMA) in Washington, D.C. where she was the only female delegate. Her presence there caused a debate, with some members arguing that the organization was for men only and others arguing that excluding Johnson because she was a woman was similar to African American men being excluded from government solely on the basis of race. The side advocating her inclusion prevailed and Johnson maintained her seat as the delegate from Allegheny City. In 1870 Johnson married Frederick J. Loudin, a"}, {"text": "member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers and leader of the Loudin Jubilee Singers. Johnson died on November 18, 1907, in Portage County, Ohio."}, {"text": "Vincent Dancy (born March 10, 1984) is an American college football coach. He is the currently the defensive ends coach for Mississippi State University. He was the head football coach for Mississippi Valley State University from 2018 to 2022. He also coached for Jackson State\u2014his alma mater\u2014and Paine. Early years. Dancy was a standout at Noxubee County High School and played college football at Jackson State, where he was an All-Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) performer. Coaching career. Dancy was the defensive coordinator for one season at Paine College before joining Rick Comegy's staff at Mississippi Valley State University in 2015. Dancy was named the interim head coach at Mississippi Valley State on November 20, 2017, when the university announced they would not renew Comegy's contract. On January 2, 2018, the \"interim\" tag was removed from Dancy's name, and he was named the head football coach at Mississippi Valley State."}, {"text": "Sherry Combs Johnson (August 16, 1938 \u2013 August 2, 2023) was an American ProRodeo Hall of Fame barrel racer. In 1962, she won the barrel racing world championship at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Fort Worth, Texas. Life. Sherry Combs Johnson was born Sherry Price on August 16, 1938, in Duncan, Oklahoma. Combs and her ProRodeo Hall of Fame sister, Florence Youree, grew up on their father's ranch near Addington, Oklahoma. The sisters were the only children of rancher John Henry Price. Youree always said they worked on his ranch \"as his boys\". They had his love of horses and rodeo. Youree met Dale Youree as a teenager. Dale was a tie-down roper competing on the college circuit and the Rodeo Cowboy Association (later the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association). They got married in 1950. The Yourees and Combs took off to rodeo full-time. Career. Combs Johnson was a five-time ARJA barrel racing champion. She was also a two-time ARJA all-around champion. When the first NFR was held in Dallas, Texas, Combs was one of the flag carriers in the opening ceremony. In 1980, Combs Johnson competed in her first West of the Pecos Rodeo. She split the win with"}, {"text": "Shanna Bush, but a coin toss gave the victory to Bush. In 1996, she competed in that rodeo for the last time, winning the title and buckle cleanly. At that time the Johnsons considered the rodeo a hometown one as they ranched nearby in Sydney. Combs Johnson is considered an innovator in her work writing rulebooks. She also served as an officer in many organizations, including the AQRJA and the WPRA. In 1991, she ran the barrels one last time at the NFR in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1962, Combs Johnson secured the World Champion honors for barrel racing, with the help of her horse, \"Red.\" She also was a 12-time NFR qualifier from 1959 to 1991. Only Charmayne James holds more qualifications. Combs Johnson was a five-time junior barrel racing champion. Combs Johnson's horse Star Plaudit, nicknamed \"Red\", was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2017. In 1962, Red won two world championships and assisted in winning a third. One was in barrel racing and the other two were in steer wrestling. No other horse has accomplished this. Death. Combs Johnson died from complications of COPD on August 2, 2023, two weeks before her 85th birthday."}, {"text": "Victor B. Allred (August 7, 1962 \u2013 April 12, 2025) was an American politician who served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. He was a member of the Republican party. Allred was born in Denver, Colorado on August 7, 1962, and died on April 12, 2025, at the age of 62."}, {"text": "Dale L. Wright (born ) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 116th District, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican party."}, {"text": "Rocky Miller (born October 22, 1965) is an American politician. who served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives for the 124th district from 2013 to 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party."}, {"text": "The Netherlands Design Institute () is a former institute for the promotion of design in the Netherlands. It was located in the premises of the former Museum Fodor at Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. Its mission was to stimulate high quality design in the Netherlands, to stimulating the interest in it, and to encouraging discussion about the profession. The organization was founded in 1993 and succeeded by the Premsela Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion ten years later in 2003. That in turn became part of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam in 2013. Initiatives. Over the years the institute initiated and participated in numerous smaller and some larger initiatives in the field of design, including exhibitions, conferences, publications and working on networks. This national initiative also collaborated with the existing professional organizations in the field of applied art, interior design, industrial design, architecture, etc. Theo Limperg prize. The institute managed the Theo Limperg Prize. This design award was established in 1988 by the stichting industrieel ontwerpen Nederland (ioN) to promote and stimulate originality in industrial design and design. In the 1990s the prize had been awarded once every two years. Doors of Perception. In 1993 the institute organized the first Doors of"}, {"text": "Perception conference in the RAI Amsterdam in collaboration with Stichting Mediamatic and the Amsterdam Society for Old and New Media. The first year about two hundred specialists in the field of new media and computer networks worked together with experts in sustainability changed ideas about a more sustainable world. The conference was originally planned at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, but was moved a bigger location because of the big interests. Droog Design collection. In the year 1994 the Droog Design collective was founded by Renny Ramakers and Gijs Bakker to promote contemporary Dutch design at that time. The Netherlands Design Institute has supported this initiative from the outset, including the joint presentation at the international Milan Furniture Fair in Milan in 1993, 1994, and 1995. New York Museum of Modern Art. Another initiative was the interior design of the New York Museum of Modern Art restaurant by young Dutch designers. The MoMA had commissioned Opera architects to select a number of artists and designers. Eventually Piet Hein Eek supplied chairs and tables, Rody Graumans his characteristic lamp bulb lamp, Joep van Lieshout the bar and serving trolleys, Henk Stallinga installed the light installation 'een m2 gezelligheid'(a square metre of cosiness)"}, {"text": "and Jos van der Meulen his paper bags. This initiative was supported by the Netherlands Design Institute, a Dutch ministry and the Dutch embassy. Rotterdam design prize. The Rotterdam Design Prize was established in 1993, partly on the recommendation of the Netherlands Design Institute. The prize was awarded annually from 1993 to 1997, after which it became a biennial prize. In addition to the Rotterdam design prize, the institute has also contributed to the European Design Award."}, {"text": "Betsy Head Park is a public park in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The park occupies two non-contiguous plots diagonally across from each other at the intersection of Dumont Avenue and Thomas S. Boyland Street, covering a collective . The modern-day park contains a playground, a swimming complex, and fields for baseball, football, tennis, and basketball. The park's swimming complex, the Betsy Head Play Center, was designed by Ely Jacques Kahn and consists of a bathhouse, a general swimming pool, and an infilled diving pool. The park is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, also known as NYC Parks. The construction of the park was funded by Betsy Head, a rich Briton who died in 1907. Plans for Betsy Head Park were completed in 1914 by Henry Beaumont Herts, and the park opened on September 30, 1915, with a bathhouse and a pool complex. The current Art Moderne style pool was built by Aymar Embury II and John Matthews Hatton during a Works Progress Administration project in 1935\u20131936. The bathhouse was not originally set to be renovated, unlike at other city parks with large pools, but it was rebuilt following a"}, {"text": "1937 fire. The park's facilities were renovated from 1979 to 1983 and again in the late 2010s. The Betsy Head Play Center was designated as a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2008. Recreation fields. Betsy Head Park is in two non-contiguous plots of unequal size, diagonally across the intersection of Dumont Avenue and Thomas S. Boyland Street. The park's recreational facilities include three baseball fields, two football fields, eight tennis courts, and six basketball courts. The football fields and four of the basketball courts overlap with the baseball fields and cannot be utilized when the baseball field is in use. The larger plot, at the southwestern corner of Dumont Avenue and Thomas S. Boyland Street, measures and is bounded by Thomas S. Boyland Street to the east, Dumont Avenue to the north, Livonia Avenue to the south, and Strauss Street to the west. The plot measures along the western and eastern boundaries and on the northern and southern boundaries. It occupies three typical city blocks. Before 2021, the western two-thirds of the larger plot contained two baseball fields, an overlapping football field, and eight handball courts and one basketball court on the southern border of"}, {"text": "the plot. In 2021, four of the handball courts were replaced with a full basketball court, and two handball courts were built in another part of the plot. A four-lane running track and a synthetic turf field were also added during the 2021 renovation, within what was previously the baseball and football field. A smaller plot exists at the northeastern corner of Dumont Avenue and Thomas S. Boyland Street. This plot, measuring , is bounded by Blake Avenue to the north, Bristol Street to the east, Dumont Avenue to the south, and Thomas S. Boyland Street to the west. The plot measures along the western and eastern boundaries and on the northern and southern boundaries. It occupies one typical city block. Before 2021, this section of the park contained another baseball field with overlapping football field and four overlapping basketball courts; one non-overlapping basketball court; and four tennis courts. One early feature in the smaller plot was a farmhouse and rest station with a \"model kitchen\", which in turn was adjacent to a small urban farm with 500 plots for schoolchildren to tend. During the 2021 renovation, a skate park, parkour course, and event area was added. Betsy Head Play"}, {"text": "Center. Original facilities. The original facilities were modeled after Armour Square Park in Chicago. The western two-thirds of Betsy Head Park's larger southwestern section was originally designed with a 15,000-to-20,000-capacity stadium containing a running track. A two-story field house, measuring , was just east of the stadium. The field house contained restroom facilities on the ground floor, and 25 club-rooms and 25 lockers on the second floor, as well as space for special events. Gymnasiums for men and women were to the north and south of the field house, each with numerous indoor recreation facilities for basketball, handball, tennis, and other sports. The eastern third of the park's southwestern section contained a swimming pool and bathhouse. The original swimming pool was described as being with the long edge being parallel to the eastern boundary of the park's larger plot. The original bath building was composed of two portions, one wing each to the north and south, just east of the swimming pool. The bathhouse could accommodate 400 people per hour or 4,000 per day, and a boiler room and towel room was in the basement. Current modernist design. The replacement bathhouse was designed in the Art Moderne style, similar to"}, {"text": "the Astoria Play Center, in Astoria, Queens. The building was upheld by the architect Ely Jacques Kahn as being \"above all...intended for enjoyable use\", while parks commissioner Robert Moses called its plans \"better than that adopted in any of the existing pools\". On the other hand, Embury, known to be a traditionalist in his designs, criticized the style. He once said of modernist architects: \"They leave off all ornamentation because, they say, the ornaments do not aid the structure to do its job.\" Architectural historian Robert A. M. Stern said the Betsy Head Play Center was \"perhaps the most inventive and most overtly Modernist structure\" of the WPA bathhouses erected by the New York City government. Unlike its counterparts around the city, the Betsy Head Play Center never contained a wading pool. It included a main swimming pool, as well as a diving pool that was later filled in. Bathhouse. The bathhouse is in Betsy Head Park's southwestern section, with its main entrance along Thomas S. Boyland Street to the east. The eastern facade consists mostly of glass-bricked walls set into a bonded brick wall, which correspond to the walls of the locker rooms inside. Stone coping is at the"}, {"text": "bottom and top of the facade, and a metal railing is above the stone coping at the top, serving as the handrail for the rooftop deck. The facade was built with materials that could not be easily stolen. The central section of the facade contains the building's main entrance, which is flanked by a curving glass brick wall on either side, and is accessed by a flight of four steps and a wheelchair ramp on the northern side of the steps. The western facade, adjacent to the pool, is similar to the eastern facade, but has two steps up from the pool area to the lobby. The curving glass wall on the northern side of the western facade was replaced for the installation of an elevator, and a wheelchair ramp extends along the southern half of the western facade. The lobby is in the central section of the bathhouse, separating the men's and women's locker rooms to the north and south, respectively. There are no walls or doorways to the west or east, allowing the facade to be lit naturally. Rather, roll-down metal gates are across the western and eastern entrances. The lobby contains a bluestone-tiled floor, while the white-plaster"}, {"text": "ceiling contains stepped concentric squares, with the innermost squares being slightly higher. A circular brick column rises through the center of the lobby. A ticket booth was in the lobby, but is no longer operational, as the pool and bathhouse are free to use. There are plaster-and-marble walls separating the lobby from each locker room and various smaller rooms such as the office area to the south and the first-aid room to the north. Above the doorways to each room are Art Deco-style letters indicating the room's purpose, such as the words \"MEN\" and \"WOMEN\" above the respective genders' locker rooms. There are metal double-doors leading to each of the locker room areas. The locker rooms contained several hundred lockers each and are outfitted with concrete floors and brick-with-terracotta walls. The locker rooms are designed with waterproof stepped ceilings similar to the lobby, and as a result, the acoustic quality of the locker rooms is weak. During winters, each locker room could be converted to gym facilities for each gender. The identical shower rooms, at the opposite end of the locker rooms, also contain entrances from the pool area to the west. The pool entrances are recessed into the building,"}, {"text": "and are flanked by curved walls with cinder blocks that are designed similarly to the original glass blocks. The letters \"MEN\" and \"WOMEN\" are also above these entrances. Above the building is a rooftop observation deck, accessed by stairs to the south and north of the bathhouse. The deck was shaded by a canopy supported by eight metal-clad parabolic arches, and there were concrete bleachers underneath the canopy. The roof is closed to the public. Pool. The pool area is west of the bathhouse, taking up much of the block between Livonia Avenue to the south and Dumont Avenue to the north. The main pool is rectangular, measuring with the longer axis running north\u2013south, and has a depth of . A cement deck surrounds the pool and is encircled by a chain link fence. Two small islands are in the center of the pool and contain triangular-capped filtration systems. Until the pool was renovated in the early 1980s, these islands contained fountains. The diving pool was south of the main pool. After it was infilled in 2005\u20132006, the space has contained a volleyball court. A storage area used by NYC Parks is on the east side of the pool area."}, {"text": "Concrete bleachers, along with a filter house, were on the southern side of the pool area adjacent to the volleyball court. The concrete bleachers were built with the original bathhouse in 1917 and were surrounded by a wall made of Flemish bond brickwork. The space underneath the bleachers contained five circular windows facing toward Livonia Avenue to the south. The bleacher was replaced with a new entrance in 2021. A two-story brick filter house is to the west and contains a metal doorway and short flight of steps that leads to Livonia Avenue. The former bleachers and filter house area are surrounded by a chain link fence. History. Early history. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Brownsville was a densely populated Jewish neighborhood. An estimated 25,000 people lived in Brownsville by 1900, many of whom lived in severely overcrowded tenements. The neighborhood had little open space, and a local group, the Hebrew Educational Society, recommended the establishment of a public park within Brownsville. Furthermore, Brooklyn in general had very few playgrounds: by the time Betsy Head Park was approved in 1913, there were only eight playgrounds in Brooklyn. Betsy Head, a rich Briton, died in 1907. Head's $365,000"}, {"text": "estate () was divided almost equally between facilities for New York City parks and various city charities; Head's daughter received only $5 (), as she disliked that her daughter had married a foreman. As part of Head's will, $190,000 () was allocated to New York City park facilities. The sum allocated to Betsy Head Park in Brooklyn was originally allocated for a park of the same name at Corlears Hook on the Lower East Side. The money was never used for this purpose, so in early 1913 some Brownsville residents asked the New York City Comptroller, William A. Prendergast, for the use of the funds for their own park. This caused controversy, as the land under the proposed park would be funded by a tax paid by landowners in the surrounding community, some of whom opposed paying said tax. In July 1913, the city approved the acquisition of the parkland. The land under the Betsy Head Playground was purchased for $240,000 () and paid-for by Brownsville landowners living within of the site. The playground's facilities were funded by the estate of Betsy Head. Plans for Betsy Head Park were completed in May 1914 by Henry Beaumont Herts, who proposed to"}, {"text": "include numerous facilities in each section of the park. The larger section would be composed of wading and swimming pools, a bathhouse, a running track, and tennis courts. The smaller section would comprise an administration building, a rest pavilion, a playground, and a garden for schoolchildren. This would help make Betsy Head Park into \"one of the finest in the world\". Betsy Head Park opened on September 30, 1915. The park contained a stadium with a running track, and a two-story field house with capacity for 4,000 people per day. As the only play area in the neighborhood, it was \"overcrowded\" upon opening. In the 1915 Panama\u2013Pacific International Exposition, Betsy Head Park's design received first prize in the New York City Parks portion of the competition. Works Progress Administration renovation. In 1934, mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia nominated Robert Moses to become commissioner of a unified New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. At the time, the United States was experiencing the Great Depression; immediately after La Guardia won the 1933 election, Moses began to write \"a plan for putting 80,000 men to work on 1,700 relief projects\". By the time he was in office, several hundred such projects"}, {"text": "were underway across the city. Moses was especially interested in creating new pools and other bathing facilities, such as those in Jacob Riis Park, Jones Beach, and Orchard Beach. He devised a list of 23 pools around the city, including one at Betsy Head Park. The pools would be built using funds from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal agency created as part of the New Deal to combat the Depression's negative effects. Eleven of these pools were to be designed concurrently and open in 1936. Moses, along with architects Aymar Embury II and Gilmore David Clarke, created a common design for these proposed aquatic centers. Each location was to have distinct pools for diving, swimming, and wading; bleachers and viewing areas; and bathhouses with locker rooms that could be used as gymnasiums. The pools were to have several common features, such as a minimum length, underwater lighting, heating, filtration, and low-cost construction materials. To fit the requirement for cheap materials, each building would be built using elements of the Streamline Moderne and Classical architectural styles. The buildings would also be near \"comfort stations\", additional playgrounds, and spruced-up landscapes. Construction for some of the 11 pools began in October"}, {"text": "1934. Even though there was already a pool at Betsy Head Park, Moses described its existing pool facilities as \"an antiquated tank\" that contained no filtration facilities; he proposed to refurbish it entirely as part of the WPA initiative. The existing field house largely remained intact, except for some modifications to make way for an enlarged pool. The field house's lockers were replaced by baskets, and its interior was expanded so that 4,660 bathers per day could use the facilities, rather than 4,000. By mid-1936, ten of the eleven WPA-funded pools were completed and were being opened at a rate of one per week. Except for the Betsy Head Pool, each opening featured elaborate performances attended by La Guardia. Betsy Head Park's pool was the ninth to open citywide. On August 7, 1936, Betsy Head Park's pool area opened without any ceremony or the mayor in attendance; over eight hundred children spread the news of the opening by word of mouth. The opening was arranged at the last minute, and the diving and wading pools were not yet complete. In September 1936, work started on converting the main pool to winter use, with workers temporarily draining the pool and adding"}, {"text": "basketball, handball, shuffleboard, tennis, and volleyball facilities. The original bathhouse was destroyed by fire on August 17, 1937, and the pool was closed for the rest of the season. Park commissioner Moses's letter to La Guardia, addressed three days later, advocated for the total replacement of the bathhouse. The pool area was reopened for the 1938 season, with a temporary one-story structure that housed the showers. The current one-story bathhouse was opened on May 27, 1939. By 1941, the other athletic facilities in the larger southwestern portion of the park were nearly complete. A new indoor playground in Betsy Head Park, to serve as a community recreation center during the winter, was announced in May 1948 and was supposed to begin the next year. However, by mid-1949 construction still had not started. A running track was opened at Betsy Head Park in 1952, one of eighteen opened citywide. The rest of the indoor Betsy Head Recreation Center was removed from the NYC Parks budget, and the money was instead allocated to the Brownsville Boys Club, which the city acquired in 1954. In the mid-20th century, Brownsville became a mostly African American neighborhood, and Betsy Head Park's patrons came to include"}, {"text": "boxer Riddick Bowe, who lived in Brownsville. Despite segregation being present at comparable facilities at the time, African American and white children and adults used the facilities without any conflict. Decline and renovations. Over the years, multiple children and young adults have drowned at Betsy Head Pool. For instance, a 7-year-old boy drowned in 1947, and a 4-year-old boy also drowned in 1988. A third child, a 4-year-old girl drowned in the pool in 1995, despite the presence of ten lifeguards. The drowning of the 4-year-old girl resulted in greater scrutiny, especially due to the lack of lifeguards around the pool, and resulted in the implementation of more stringent rules the following season, wherein kids under a certain height had to be accompanied by guardians. In 1999, an 18-year-old woman also drowned in the pool. By the 1970s, Betsy Head Park and other city parks were in poor condition following the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, and were widely seen as being unsafe. NYC Parks commenced a project to restore the pools in several parks in 1977, including at Betsy Head Park. In 1979, the agency set aside an estimated $5.2 million for the restoration of Betsy Head Park."}, {"text": "The renovation of Betsy Head Park was approved in January 1981, despite a shortage of employees in general across the NYC Parks system. The diving and swimming pools were rebuilt, the bathhouse was retrofitted with handicapped-accessible locker rooms, and the other recreational facilities in Betsy Head Park were rebuilt. The reconstructed park reopened on June 28, 1983. NYC Parks continued to face financial shortfalls in the coming years, and the pools retained a reputation for high crime. For the summer of 1991, mayor David Dinkins had planned to close all 32 outdoor pools in the city, a decision that was only reversed after a $2 million donation from a trust created upon the death of real estate developer Sol Goldman and $1.8 million from other sources. To prevent nighttime trespassing, NYC Parks added a heavy steel fence in 1993, which was attached to the existing chain-link fence around the pool. Additionally, in the 1990s, a practice called \"whirlpooling\" became common in New York City pools such as Betsy Head Park, wherein women would be inappropriately fondled by teenage boys. By the beginning of the 21st century, crimes such as sexual assaults had decreased in parks citywide due to increased security."}, {"text": "In 2008, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Betsy Head Play Center a landmark, making it the first individual landmark in Brownsville. The commission had previously considered the pool for landmark status in 1990, along with the other ten WPA pools in the city. Prototype designs for the construction of Betsy Head Playground were unveiled in 2009. The Rockwell Group was selected to design the play area. In early 2016, the playground inside the park was renovated for $5.05 million, with an \"Imagination Playground\" surrounded by a wooden pathway. The new play area, which features movable foam play blocks, is based on the group's Burling Slip playground in Lower Manhattan. Later that year, $30 million was allocated for further improvements to the park's recreational facilities as part of the city's Anchor Parks program. Work on these improvements commenced in 2019. The first phase of the renovation, consisting of renovations to the playground and adjacent recreational areas, was finished in June 2020 for $7 million. The second phase, composed of further recreational additions, was completed in April 2021 for $23 million, though some improvements were not completed until early 2022."}, {"text": "Dipak Banerjee (1930\u20132007) was an Indian economist. He obtained his Bachelor and, later on, Doctorate from the London School of Economics and taught at Presidency College, Calcutta, where he eventually became head of the economics department. Among his students at Presidency was noted Indian economist Debraj Ray. His wife Nirmala Patankar is also an economist, as is his son, the Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee."}, {"text": "The Irish Sea Bridge, sometimes called the Celtic Crossing by the media, is a hypothetical rail and road bridge that would span the Irish Sea and connect the island of Ireland to the island of Great Britain. It is one of a number of such proposed fixed sea links across Ireland and Britain. The bridge's length would depend upon the route taken; one such route, known as the Galloway route, would cross the North Channel, close to that taken by an existing ferry service, between Portpatrick in Dumfries and Galloway, and Larne in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, a distance of . The concept of an Irish Sea Bridge had been proposed many times since the Victorian Era. In 2018 Professor Alan Dunlop at the University of Liverpool revived the idea. By February 2020, British government officials began scoping the possible route and type of crossing. Particular risks to such a project include the depth of North Channel and the presence of a large underwater munitions dump at Beaufort's Dyke. It was suggested that these problems would be mitigated in part by the construction of a tunnelled section. A full feasibility study was published in November 2021. It estimated that a"}, {"text": "bridge would cost \u00a3335 billion, and a tunnel \u00a3209 billion. The study concluded that, although the technology exists to build either, any bridge would be \"the longest span bridge built to date\" and the tunnel would be \"the longest undersea tunnel ever built\". Concept. Proposal. The idea for a Scotland to Northern Ireland Bridge, sometimes branded in the press as the \"Celtic Crossing\" or \"Irish Sea Bridge\", was revived in 2018, by Professor Alan Dunlop at the University of Liverpool. He proposed a combined road and rail crossing between Portpatrick, in Dumfries and Galloway, and Larne in Northern Ireland, stating that \"the coastline between each country is more sheltered and the waterway better protected\" than the English Channel, where, as Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson had speculated on a possible bridge. He suggested that this would create a 'Celtic powerhouse' due to the potential for an increase in trade between the two countries, and the increase in investment from the construction of the project which he put at between \u00a315 billion and \u00a320 billion (a fraction of the \u00a3120 billion cost of the proposed bridge over the English Channel). At the Urbanism at Borders Conference in Aberdeen, Professor Dunlop later pitched"}, {"text": "the idea of the bridge at a keynote speech to an audience of international academics, architects, and engineers at Robert Gordon University. Engineering. Proposals to overcome the problems presented by the Beaufort's Dyke Trench, if it could not be cleared, include floating the bridge on deep connecting sea orbs connected to the seabed with tension cables, similar to those used on bridges in Norway. Professor Dunlop also suggested that the construction processes used for the \u00d8resund Bridge be looked at as a model for such a bridge. The \u00d8resund bridge had, by 2018, provided a \u00a310 bn return on its initial investment. However, it has 3 million people living within either end of the bridge, and the North Channel does not have a local population of this size. Furthermore the \u00d8resund Bridge was built in waters not over deep. Other suggestions for overcoming issues linked to Beaufort's Dyke have subsequently included a partially tunneled section (similar to that of the \u00d8resund Bridge), or incorporating artificial islands to link tunnels to the bridge. It has also been suggested that such a bridge or tunnel would be able to link up with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and a possible Belfast to"}, {"text": "Dublin high speed rail being studied for viability as of 2020. The different rail gauges in Great Britain () and the island of Ireland () are mutually incompatible however, so this would have to be resolved with a break of gauge system such as transshipment, bogie exchange, dual gauge rolling stock or Gauge Changer axles such as the Talgo-RD system amongst others. Rail industry leaders in the UK's High Speed Rail Group have demonstrated support for the tunnel proposal. By October 2018, the first concept images of the proposed bridge had been released. Economics. \"The National\", a Scottish newspaper, suggested the idea \"would be a huge boost to the economies of both countries, opening up trade and putting the otherwise neglected far South West of Scotland in the centre of a major route\". It did, however, also state that, \"There would have to be massive investment in infrastructure to upgrade the road and rail connections, especially on the Scottish side. The main roads leading to Stranraer are narrow, twisting, and unsuited for the amount of traffic that they currently have, never mind the increased traffic that would be generated by a fixed link. The single rail line from Ayr to"}, {"text": "Stranraer would have to be upgraded and electrified, and the rail link from Stranraer to Dumfries reinstated\". It has been suggested that the A75 road would need to be upgraded to handle the additional traffic; however, the Scottish government and Department for Transport had already received local requests to hold consultation on upgrading this road. In terms of its potential to link up communities and improve infrastructure Professor Dunlop has also noted the similarities between such a bridge and the Norwegian Coastal Highway, which forms a route crossing 20 fjords between Kristiansand and Trondheim, with 9 ferries but suggested to be using floating bridges and tunnels at a cost of around \u00a330bn. Further support has come from the fact that this part of Scotland has a large number of established ports and harbours, meaning it could form an epicenter for trade to America, Canada, the Caribbean and Scandinavia for both Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as the UK, Ireland and Europe more generally. It was also suggested that depending on the relationship of Scotland and Northern Ireland with the EU after Brexit the EU could use the port at Cockenzie and the Scotland-Ireland bridge as a means of transporting"}, {"text": "EU goods to Ireland via the Netherlands. By early October 2019 it was reported that the Scottish government had plans to re-purpose the nearby disused port at Stranraer as a lorry park in the event of a \"No Deal\" Brexit, due to concerns about traffic flows from Northern Ireland. It has been suggested that a bridge could help alleviate some of the potential pressure of traffic flows. Commentators in the \"i\" newspaper also suggested that such a bridge would have the potential to create a \"tourism corridor\" between Northern Ireland and Scotland. It has also been suggested that with increasing demand for travel between Great Britain and the island of Ireland (London to Dublin being the busiest air route in Europe), that the bridge could have a positive environmental impact by reducing the demand for flights. The Glasgow Urban Laboratory had published a report suggesting that a high-speed rail link connecting Edinburgh to Dublin via Glasgow and Belfast would be \"transformative\" for the economies of both Scotland and Ireland saying, \"fast-track rail links, both within Scotland and linking to other countries, and an updated road system, are priorities\". Senior economist Esmond Birnie at the University of Ulster claimed that \"Recent"}, {"text": "economic theory has emphasised the advantages of \"agglomeration\" arising from faster, cheaper transport: bigger and better labour markets and increased networking between firms\" and put the annual benefit from the bridge in the hundreds of millions. Political and public support. So far the project has at various times received support from senior politicians in both the UK and in Ireland, and across a number of political parties. The project has also received support from newspapers, periodicals, and engineering and logistics trade bodies. Support The project was first endorsed in late February 2018 by SNP Scottish Brexit Minister Michael Russell MSP, who when addressing Ireland's Seanad joint committee on European Union affairs stated that \"I think it's a great idea, it would open up my constituency and that's a good headline to see. There is a lot of talking to be done about that but I think it is important that talking starts. I know recent coverage indicates that it should happen\". In February 2018, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Coveney, publicly called for a feasibility study into the bridge during an address at Chatham House following a meeting with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, suggesting it was a"}, {"text": "means of nurturing the relations between the United Kingdom and Ireland, despite the challenges presented. By March 2018, the idea appeared to have the full support of the Scottish government, with a spokesman telling the BBC that it intended to \"initiate discussions\" on the bridge with both parties in Belfast, and the government of Ireland. and that Transport Scotland officials would be conducting talks with their counterparts in Northern Ireland. Mike Russell MSP said he had been in touch with Professor Alan Dunlop to discuss the bridge, claiming that \"A bridge, together with better road links to the central belt, would open up Argyll in a dramatic new way\" and that he was \"keen to see public bodies investigate the feasibility of such a link\". He went on to claim that Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Transport Scotland were willing to contribute funds towards a feasibility study. By April 2018, the Mayor of Mid and East Antrim had extended an invitation, on behalf of the council, to the relevant bodies in the government to further explore Larne as the possible end site for the bridge. The Mayor cited the short distance to Belfast, as well as the county's extensive film,"}, {"text": "tourism and leisure industries as reasons for consideration. On 25 April 2018 Ards and North Down Borough Council voted to write to the Scottish government, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and the Department for Infrastructure requesting the east coast of the borough also be considered as a possible end site for the bridge. The council's official opposition had objected to the request, claiming that the council should instead support the claim of neighbouring county Mid and East Antrim, as they believe the infrastructure already exists in Larne, while Donaghadee would be unprepared for the impact of such a bridge. The \"Belfast Telegraph\" suggested that this was reminiscent of ancient rivalries between the local ports. A spokesman for the Scottish government suggested that speculation on possible impacts on specific sites was premature as the project, including the design for the crossing, was still in its early stages. A spokesman for the Scottish government had previously stated that \"Given the scale of any such fixed link, it is important that all options are fully considered\". In July, Arlene Foster, then former First Minister in Northern Ireland, agreed that there appeared to be a growing support for the bridge in Northern"}, {"text": "Ireland. In August 2018, Jane Morrice, former Deputy Speaker to the Northern Irish Assembly, suggested that funding possibilities for the bridge were \"vast\", with private investors seeking infrastructure projects and investment from China. She also suggested funding could be raised from \"EU sources [which] could include the cross-border INTERREG programme, the European Investment Bank, the TransEuropean Network and HORIZON 2020. The EU PEACE programme could be another valuable source because the bridge would still respect the Good Friday Agreement by promoting peace and prosperity in the region.\" She claimed that \"The political and symbolic importance of such a link can't be underestimated, and the economic, social and cultural advantages could be significant\". In 2018, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Karen Bradley responding to questions in parliament suggested that the bridge was being discussed by the cabinet. In 2019, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon spoke out in favour of the bridge, stating that \"Whether it's around a bridge or in other ways strengthening the relationship between Scotland, the north of Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is a big priority for my government.\" As part of his campaign for the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election, Boris Johnson suggested that"}, {"text": "he supported the construction of the bridge, describing himself as \"an enthusiast for that idea\", and adding that he believed it would be best \"championed by local people with local consent and interest, backed by local business\". In September 2019, when asked to comment on the project, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Andrea Leadsom said the UK had \"amazing ambitions for the future\". \"The Independent\"s Europe Correspondent suggested that the UK was lagging behind by not taking the construction of the bridge seriously, suggesting that other countries had already invested in such bridges. The newspaper cited the example of Japan's islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, which are linked by the Seikan Tunnel which exceeds the length of the proposed bridge. It also cited the examples of the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link and the Helsinki-Tallinn Tunnel as evidence that the UK was lagging behind comparative European nations. While addressing supporters for the bridge in Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is quoted as having said \"With infrastructure projects, finance is not the issue, the issue is political will, the issue is getting the business community to see that this could be something that works for them,"}, {"text": "the issue is getting popular demand and popular consent for a great infrastructure project \u2013 and that is why you need Stormont.\" In late September 2019, a group of engineers wrote to \"National Geographic\" magazine agreeing that it was \"technically possible and far from unrealistic to build\" the bridge. In October 2019, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said \"Prime Minister Johnson is genuinely interested in taking a serious look at this idea of building a bridge between Antrim and Scotland...I know people dismiss it, but I don't. It needs to be looked at. It needs to be at least examined\". He later added \"I know people dismiss these things out of hand, but they used to dismiss the Channel Tunnel as well \u2013 the idea of building a tunnel between France and Britain \u2013 and I know what I see when I see a bridge tunnel between Denmark and Sweden, when you fly over New Orleans and you see 110 miles of bridge, it's extraordinary\". In March 2020, Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack told the Scottish Parliament that he supported a fixed link. In October 2020, specialist vehicle suppliers looked at which potential future engineering innovations would be most"}, {"text": "welcomed by truck drivers with the Irish Sea Bridge being one of the most supported. In February 2021, it was reported that both transport industry think tank Greengauge 21 and rail industry leaders in The High Speed Rail Group supported a fixed link. Opposition Other politicians and public officials have opposed the bridge, such as Conservative Party MP Simon Hoare and Ulster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken. Minister of Infrastructure Nichola Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labour Party has also expressed opposition to the proposals. Mallon's counterpart, and former Scottish Transport Secretary Michael Matheson has described the concept as a \"vanity project\", and stated that it would not proceed within Prime Minister Boris Johnson's lifetime. In July 2021, Boris Johnson's own former Chief Advisor Dominic Cummings controversially claimed that the plan did not have a credible basis beyond Johnson's desire to appear to be \"getting things done\". In a BBC interview, he stated that \"He didn't have a plan ... he didn't have an agenda. You know, the Prime Minister's only agenda is buy more trains, buy more buses, have more bikes and build the world's most stupid tunnel to Ireland, that's it.\" Issues relating to Beaufort's Dyke. In"}, {"text": "October 2018, MP Paul Girvan, transport spokesman for the DUP wrote an article in support of the bridge, stating that the munitions dumped in Beaufort's Dyke after World War II, often cited as a hurdle for the bridge project, are already washing up on beaches in Ireland and the UK and so a cleanup operation was already necessary regardless of whether the bridge was going to be built. In November 2018, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Karen Bradley indicated the government was aware of the issues, such as munitions and waste, regarding the seabed in this area, and that it was being discussed by cabinet as part of wider discussions around the bridge. In November 2020, a study carried out on behalf of the UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) found that nuclear waste had been deposited in Beaufort's Dyke, with much of it \"short-dumped\" outside of the Dyke itself, leading to uncertainty over how much radioactive material lies in the trench. NFLA campaigners described the report as \"alarming\" and called on authorities in Britain and Ireland to review measures designed to protect ferries, oil tankers and fishing trawlers that operate near the Dyke. A British Geological"}, {"text": "Survey also confirmed that explosions generated by degrading munitions are a relatively frequent occurrence. This prompted calls for authorities to clear the Dyke. In November 2020, further support came for a fixed link to reduce sea traffic and avoid the issue of ship collisions with submarines navigating near the dyke for testing. This followed a report from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch which reported an incident of a passenger ferry almost colliding with a submarine. In November 2021, South Scotland MSP Emma Harper sought agreement from the UK government that a full safety assessment would be carried out of Beaufort's Dyke, and asked for assurances that after the A75 road upgrade and the possible construction of a new nuclear power station in England, the UK Government would not once again consider Beaufort's Dyke as a nuclear waste dumping site. Development. In 2019, Boris Johnson had requested civil servants in the Treasury and Department for Transport undertake a cost and risk analysis of the proposed bridge, with special attention to be paid to possible funding options. The Department for Transport had reportedly already produced a factual paper on the subject for a former transport secretary. By February 2020, British government officials"}, {"text": "had been tasked with scoping out the full cost of building the bridge, though Number 10 would not confirm how many civil servants were working on the project. In June 2020, Downing Street confirmed that the Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained committed to the project. Following a freedom of information request questions were raised by the media as to whether the project had been shelved while civil servants were focused elsewhere during the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Cabinet Office spokesman responded that the bridge continued to be considered \"at a very early stage\", but that it remained a consideration as part of many \"general options to improve connectivity between the nations of the UK\". The Prime Minister's spokesman later confirmed that the government remained committed to the bridge, stating \"We have commissioned some internal work and we are looking at the feasibility of it, there's no change to that. The prime minister's views on this subject are very well known.\" At the end of June Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government announced that the funding for the bridge was being considered as part of their post-COVID-19 plan to revitalize the economy by increasing and improving the UK's infrastructure. Hendy review. In October"}, {"text": "2020, it was announced that Sir Peter Hendy would lead an independent review into the feasibility of various projects designed to improve the UK's infrastructure. This would include the Irish Sea Bridge. The analysis on the bridge would be undertaken by Douglas Oakervee. Oakervee had expressed concern that since the collapse of Flybe there are fewer opportunities to travel from Great Britain to the island of Ireland and that a rail bridge or tunnel could do something about the issue. In March 2021, Sir Peter Hendy's interim report recommended a full feasibility study be undertaken by engineers into the bridge. As a result, two engineers assessed the potential project, to build an outline of cost and timescale and the associated works needed. The two engineers appointed were Douglas Oakervee, (former chairman of HS2 and Crossrail), and Gordon Masterson, (former vice-president of Jacobs Engineering). The full cost of the review was \u00a3896,681 according to figures from the Department for Transport. In September 2021, unidentified sources within the British Treasury informed the \"Financial Times\" that regardless of the findings of the feasibility study the bridge or tunnel would likely be one of the early casualties of the spending review led by then"}, {"text": "Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak describing it to be \"dead, at least for now\" as a project. The feasibility study was published in November 2021. It estimated that a bridge would cost \u00a3335 billion, and a tunnel \u00a3209 billion. The report concluded that the cost of the fixed link, in either form, was \"impossible to justify\", and though noted \"the economic viability of the provision of such a link is not within the scope of [the] study\", recommended that \"further work on the fixed link should not progress beyond this feasibility study\". The study estimated that the bridge would take thirty years to construct, and would require \"very significant [road and rail] works\" on either side. The report did note that the project would \"likely give rise to more than 35,000 new jobs and apprenticeships for the design and construction phase alone\" and could \"revitalise parts of the United Kingdom's industry\". From an environmental standpoint it was noted that the bridge should be \"carbon neutral within 40 to 60 years after construction\", and as a \"bridge could be used as a platform to generate renewable energy from wind, tidal and solar sources\", while as a tunnel \"could be a"}, {"text": "heat source through the tunnel lining for its whole length\". It was also suggested that a fixed link \"would allow cabled and piped utilities and services to replace current seabed crossings with enhanced reliability and reduced maintenance\"."}, {"text": "Every Picture Tells a Story is a 1971 album by Rod Stewart. Every Picture Tells a Story may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Yulia Viktorovna Yuzik (; born 23 February 1981) is a journalist and non-fiction writer from Russia. She is author of \"Brides of Allah\" and \"Beslan Dictionary\", and contributed reports in Russian newspapers as well as \"Time\" magazine about modern Russian policies in the North Caucasus. In October 2019, Yuzik was briefly arrested in Iran. Early life and career. Yuzik was born in 1981 in Donetsk, Rostov Oblast. Despite what has been published in Iranian news media, Yuzik is of Russian and Polish-Ukrainian descent. At age 17, she first worked as a journalist for the local edition of \"Komsomolskaya Pravda i\"n Rostov-on-Don, \u2014 it was her dream to work there. Yuzik was promoted to the all-Russia edition of \"Pravda\" in Moscow, where she worked as a reporter. Yuzik also reported for \"Russky Newsweek\". \"Brides of Allah\". While reporting for \"Pravda\", she visited in 2002 Chechnya in the Russian North Caucasus. After meeting with Chechens, and earlier, in 2001, Dagestani people, she wrote a documentary about suicide bombers \"Brides of Allah\". Yuzik started to work on the book while on assignment in Dagestan in 2001, and read there in a local edition of all-Russia newspaper \"Moskovskij Komsomolets\" about Aiza Gazuyeva, a young"}, {"text": "Chechen woman who blew herself up near a military office in the Chechen town of Urus-Martan; the woman was the same age as Yuzik, which shocked her. Later the Moscow theater hostage crisis happened in 2002, when dozens of viewers of the musical \"Nord-Ost\" in a Moscow cultural center were killed. This motivated her to travel to North Caucasus to search for material for the book. \"Brides of Allah\" were published in 2003. It was a success, especially outside Russia, and was translated into Japanese and other languages. Yuzik left \"Pravda\" in 2003. She said, the newspaper management \"asked her to leave\", so she thought her departure was somehow connected with her book. \"Beslan Dictionary\". After a school in Beslan was captured by terrorists in 2004 and many children were killed. She visited Beslan and talked with local people, gathering material for her second documentary \"Beslan Dictionary\". Yuzik recorded dozens of residents who were struck by the catastrophe. Her method was inspired by documentarian Svetlana Aleksievich. Yuzik said the work was emotionally difficult. Thereafter she avoid watching documentaries about Beslan. The book was a success, published in France and Germany. Politician. Yuzik ran for Russian State Parliament (Duma) in 2016."}, {"text": "Her candidacy was registered in the North Caucasus' Republic of Dagestan, where Yuzik campaigned despite having no roots in the region. Yuzik claimed that she wanted to be an independent candidate not associated with a party. Newspapers called her to be associated with the Russian pro-democracy People's Freedom Party. Political activist and philanthropist Mikhail Khodorkovsky invested in her campaign. Detention in Iran. Looking for a job, Yuzik traveled to Iran in 2013, where she worked as an expert on Russia, as a lecturer in Tehran University about Salafism in Russia, as a consultant for the Iranian International news outlet \"Iran Today\", with the help of a translator because she did not know Persian (\"Iran Today\" was supposed to send her reportage to Russia 24, but she did not complete any reports). Yuzik worked in Iran for two months, then returned to Russia. Since then, Yuzik traveled without problem for short visits in Iran as a tourist. In 2018, her laptop was searched at the Tehran airport checkpoint and she was questioned by State Security for one day. While travelling to Iran to meet friends in 2019, she was detained and spent more than a week in Iranian jail, from October"}, {"text": "2 to 9. When she was freed with the help of the Russian Embassy, she said she did not know which jail she was in or where it was located. Yuzik feared that she would be accused as an Israeli spy. Yuzik said she was questioned multiple times by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who told her that if she admitted she was an Israeli agent, the Guard would free her at once. Yuzik decided that it was a lie and refused."}, {"text": "Gladue Lake 105B is an Indian reserve of the Flying Dust First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is in Township 63, Range 15, west of the Third Meridian, in the Jarvis Lake area."}, {"text": "Bonnie J. Morris (born May 14, 1961; Los Angeles, California) is an American scholar of women's studies. She completed a PhD in women's history at Binghamton University in 1989 and has taught at various universities including Georgetown University, George Washington University, and University of California, Berkeley. Morris has published research on various subjects, including the feminist movement, women in Chabad Judaism, the history of women's music, and lesbian erasure. In 2017, her archival collection of the women's music movement was exhibited at the Library of Congress, where Morris also presented the lecture \"The Sounds of Feminist Revolution\". She is a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist (\"Eden Built By Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals\", \"Girl Reel\", \"Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor\"), and winner of two national first-prize chapbooks (\"The Schoolgirl's Atlas\", \"Sixes and Sevens\"). In 2018, \"The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture\" was named an Over the Rainbow nonfiction selection by the American Library Association."}, {"text": "The Gold Eagle Reserve is an Indian reserve of the Mosquito, Grizzly Bear's Head, Lean Man First Nations in Saskatchewan. It is an urban reserve in the city of North Battleford."}, {"text": "Edward Rose (1849\u20131904) was an English playwright Edward Rose may refer to:"}, {"text": "Grasswoods 192J is an Indian reserve of the English River First Nation in Saskatchewan."}, {"text": "Greg Sharpe (born 1956) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 4th District, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican party."}, {"text": "Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari (), was a Hanafi jurist (faqih), Maturidi theologian, commentator of the Qur'an (mufassir), and a mystic (Sufi). He is perhaps best known for issuing a fatwa (a legal ruling) whereby anyone that gives Ibn Taymiyya the title \"Shaykh al-Islam\" is a disbeliever, and authored a book against him entitled \"Muljimat al-Mujassima\" (). Ibn Nasir al-Din al-Dimashqi (d. 846/1438) countered this fatwa by authoring \"Al-Radd al-Wafir 'ala man Za'am anna man Samma Ibn Taymiyya Shaykh al-Islam Kafir\" (), in which he listed all the authorities who had ever written in praise of Ibn Taymiyya or called him Shaykh al-Islam. He was born in Persia in 779 A.H./1377 A.D., and grew up in Bukhara and later travelled extensively to India, Arabia, Egypt and Syria. After involving himself in debates in Cairo between supporters and opponents of Ibn 'Arabi, he moved to Damascus where he composed the \"Fadihat al-Mulhidin wa Nasihat al-Muwahhidin\" () and also proceeded to attack Ibn Taymiyya, to the anger of the city's Hanbalis. He was praised by some scholars of his time, like Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, and Badr al-Din al-'Ayni. Life. He was born in Bilad al-'Ajam (Persia was often called Bilad al-'Ajam [land of 'Ajam])"}, {"text": "and educated in Bukhara, where he studied under Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani. It was from him that al-Bukhari inherited a profound dislike for monistic philosophy, which he saw as synonymous with Ibn 'Arabi and his followers. Al-Bukhari traveled widely in Iran and Central Asia searching for competent religious. From an early age he excelled in traditional and rational sciences such as the Qur'an, hadith, rhetoric, logic, poetry, and dialectics. He also studied classical Sufi manuals and was seen by many as an accomplished Sufi master. A well-rounded individual with broad intellectual horizons, al-Bukhari for some time resided in India, where his preaching and lectures earned him great popularity among Indian Muslims. Having favorably impressed a local ruler, al-Bukhari was invited to serve as his personal religious tutor and advisor. However, a man of principle, he soon fell out with his Indian patron and left the Subcontinent for Mecca, where he lived for several years until the Mamluk sultan Bars Bay (r. 825/1422-841/1438) invited him to the Egyptian capital. Soon after his arrival, he was embroiled in a vociferous public dispute over Ibn 'Arabi's orthodoxy, in the course of which he clashed with the influential Maliki qadi of Egypt, Muhammad al-Bisati (d."}, {"text": "842/1438), who advised caution in this matter. Following a public altercation with his opponent, an angry al-Bukhari took ostentatious leave of Cairo to the great chagrin of his Egyptian partisans. In Syria, where he settled after his departure, al-Bukhari kept thinking about his \"humiliation\" at the hands of al-Bisati and composed a lengthy refutation of Ibn 'Arabi and his school, titled \"Fadihat al-Mulhidin wa Nasihat al-Muwahhidin\" () Or, in another translation: (). Simultaneously, he got himself involved in another fierce controversy. Ironically, this time his target was Ibn 'Arabi's archenemy, Ibn Taymiyya, whom al-Bukhari accused of certain juridical \"innovations.\" Al-Bukhari's critique caused a great uproar in Syria that was home to many influential followers of Ibn Taymiyya. Unmindful of the wide opposition to his critique among his Syrian colleagues, al-Bukhari boldly demanded that Ibn Taymiyya be divested of his honorific title of shaykh al-Islam, proclaiming everyone who refused to do so an unbeliever. His condemnation of Ibn Taymiyya drew severe criticism and eventually a book-size refutation by the Shafi'i scholar Ibn Nasir al-Din al-Dimashqi (d. 838/1434)27 who sent his opus to Egyptian scholars for approval. As one might expect, upon receipt of this work, Muhammad al-Bisati seized the opportunity to"}, {"text": "denounce his former prosecutor as an ignoramus and troublemaker. Al-Bukhari's acrimonious polemic with the Syrian supporters of Ibn Taymiyya did not cause him to forget about his hostility to Ibn 'Arabi, whom he continued to accuse of heresy and juridical incompetence."}, {"text": "Sir Hugh Calverley () was a silk weaver of the City of London, revered as one of the \"Nine Worthies of London\" by Richard Johnson in his 1592 biography of eminent citizens. According to Johnson's account, Calverley lived during the reign of Edward III (r. 1327\u20131377) and was a renowned hunter and famed for killing a huge wild boar (or bear) while in the service of the King of Poland."}, {"text": "Louis W. Riggs (born ) is an American politician who is a Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He has represented the 5th House District since 2019. He was a professor at Hannibal\u2013LaGrange University."}, {"text": "Grizzly Bear's Head 110 & Lean Man's 111 is an Indian reserve of the Mosquito, Grizzly Bear's Head, Lean Man First Nations in Saskatchewan. It is about south of North Battleford. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 67 living in 17 of its 19 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": "John Dickson, Lord Hartree or Hartrie (July 1600 \u2013 1653) was a 17th-century Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice and a Member of Parliament. Life. He was born in July 1600. He trained in law but made much of his income from his estates. In 1630 he acquired the Kilbucho estate from the Earl of Morton. In 1633 he acquired the Hartree estate 1 mile south of Biggar, previously controlled by the Brown family, but under the feudal ownership of the Earl of Traquair. He was Depute Clerk Register to Sir Alexander Gibson, Lord Durie. He was Commissioner for Peeblesshire 1644 to 1651. Not until 1649 did he become an advocate and this seems to have been a contrivance to allow his election as a Senator of the College of Justice to replace his wife's uncle, George Haliburton, Lord Fodderance. In 1649/50 he was MP for Peeblesshire. In November 1650 he presided over the execution trial of an \"English spy\" Mosse. He died at Hartree Tower in 1653. Family. He married twice: firstly Bessie Barbour, and had two daughters and four sons. He secondly married Susannah Ramsay (1607-1690) daughter of George Ramsay, with whom he had seven"}, {"text": "daughters and four sons. One daughter, Elizabeth Dickson (1641-1669) married Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh. His numerous descendants included the botanist Alexander Dickson and Rev Dr David Dickson."}, {"text": "Haultain Lake 192K is an Indian reserve of the English River First Nation in Saskatchewan."}, {"text": "\u00cele-\u00e0-la-Crosse 192E is an Indian reserve of the English River First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is eastern of \u00cele-\u00e0-la-Crosse, on the east shore of Lac \u00cele-\u00e0-la-Crosse, Township 74, Range 12, west of the Third Meridian. It is at the mouth of the Beaver River."}, {"text": "Kahkewistahaw 72 is an Indian reserve of the Kahkewistahaw First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north of Broadview. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 502 living in 146 of its 184 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 58 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "Kawacatoose 88 is an Indian reserve of the Kawacatoose First Nation in Saskatchewan."}, {"text": "Keeseekoose 66 is an Indian reserve of the Keeseekoose First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north of Kamsack. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 491 living in 135 of its 155 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": "Kent Haden (born ) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 43rd District, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican party. Haden has twice proposed a bill to limit who can inspect farms in Missouri. His bill would mean that only state or federal agencies or the county sheriff could inspect facilities producing dairy products or raising livestock in the state. He first laid the bill in April 2019 but it died in the chamber. Haden laid the bill for a second time on 8 January 2020."}, {"text": "Keeseekoose 66-CA-04 is an Indian reserve of the Keeseekoose First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about east of Yorkton. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 1 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Keeseekoose 66-CA-05 is an Indian reserve of the Keeseekoose First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about east of Yorkton. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 4 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Keeseekoose 66-CA-06 is an Indian reserve of the Keeseekoose First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about east of Yorkton. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 1 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Keeseekoose 66-KE-04 is an Indian reserve of the Keeseekoose First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about east of Canora. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it was recorded as uninhabited."}, {"text": "Bourton Rovers Football Club is a football club based in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. Affiliated to the Gloucestershire County Football Association, The club are members of the and play at Rissington Road. Their nickname is the Rovers. History. The club was established in 1894. The club played in the local leagues in the area playing in the Cheltenham Football League, then moving up to the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League before moving to the Witney and District League. After finishing runners-up in the Witney and District Premier division at the end of the 2015\u201316 season, the club moved to the Hellenic Football League for the 2016\u201317 season. The club won Division 2 west in its first season, but were denied promotion as their ground was not up to the requirements for Division 1 football. After coming 5th in the 2018-19 campaign the club was promoted to Division one west along with the league champions Moreton Rangers. Ground. The club have played at the Rissington Road ground since 1894. The ground was given to the club by local benefactor George Moore."}, {"text": "Keeseekoose 66-KE-05 is an Indian reserve of the Keeseekoose First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north-east of Canora. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 5 living in 1 of its 2 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Mathew Owens is a British physicist and professor of space physics at the University of Reading in the UK. He has made major contributions to the understanding of the solar wind and space weather. Early life and education. Owens grew up in Wrexham, Wales, before graduating with an MSci in Physics with Space Science from University College London. He was awarded a doctorate from Imperial College London in 2003 in the field of Space Weather. Research career. His first postdoctoral position was at the Center for Space Physics, Boston University where he was part of the Consortium in Space-weather Modelling (CISM) and worked with Prof Nancy Crooker from 2004 to 2008. In 2008, he returned to Imperial College London as a senior research associate until joining the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading in 2010, where he works closely with Prof Mike Lockwood FRS and Prof Christopher Scott. Owens has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles on a variety of topics including the heliospheric magnetic field, the source of the slow solar wind, empirical and physics-based space-weather and reconstructions of long-term solar variability. He also works on the link between long-term solar variability and terrestrial climate, demonstrating that the"}, {"text": "Sun is not the primary driver of global temperature variations over the last few centuries. He developed and maintains the \"Heliospheric Upwind Extrapolation with time-dependence\" (HUXt) model of the solar wind, which enables rapid forecasting of space-weather conditions. His research has often been cited in the national and international press, including the BBC, \"The Times,\" \"The Guardian\", \"The Independent\", \"New Scientist\", \"Scientific American\", \"Forbes\", and \"IFLScience\". Owens' work is also regularly highlighted in the main news journal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), \"EOS\". Owens is a Co-Investigator for the Solar Orbiter magnetometer instrument. He leads an International Space Science Institute team focused on recalibrating the sunspot record."}, {"text": "Kimosom Pwatinahk 203 is an Indian reserve of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is on the south shore of the northerly part of Deschambault Lake. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 1061 living in 199 of its 221 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 40 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "Kinistin 91A is an Indian reserve of the Kinistin Saulteaux Nation in Saskatchewan."}, {"text": "When You're Smiling is Regis Philbin's second studio album, his first in more than 30 years. In his own words, \"When I grew up, it was the age of the great crooners. So, as a New York City kid, I wanted to be a singer. When I was 5, I knew every song Bing Crosby sang.\" Musicians. All track information and credits were taken from the CD liner notes."}, {"text": "Carlos D\u00e1vila (1887\u20131955) was a Chilean political figure and journalist. Carlos D\u00e1vila may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Walter FitzWalter, 3rd Baron FitzWalter (31 May 1345 \u2013 26 September 1386) was an English soldier and nobleman. Biography. Walter was the son of John FitzWalter, 2nd Baron FitzWalter and Eleanor Percy, the second daughter of Henry Percy, 2nd Baron Percy. His father died in 1361, when Walter was identified as being 16 years old. In October 1366 he came of age and received his inheritance. FitzWalter accompanied Sir Robert Knolles in leading a force of English troops in northwest France, where he was soon forced to seek refuge within the walls of Vaas Abbey. However, FitzWalter was attacked by Louis de Sancerre and a large French army. He was taken prisoner.{{sfn|Sumption|2009|pp= 89\u201391}} The ransom forced Walter to mortgage his castle and Lordship of Egremont to Alice Perrers, the king's mistress. As a woman of her time, Alice was obliged to act through male agents, of whom the best-known Thomas de Thelwall, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He served in John of Gaunt Spanish campaign of 1386, where he died at sea. Marriage and issue. He married firstly Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Dagworth and Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde, and they are known to have had the"}, {"text": "following issue: His second marriage was to Philippa, daughter of John de Mohun and Joan Burghersh. This marriage did not provide any issue."}, {"text": "The Saint-Augustin River (, ; ) is a salmon river in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Location. The Saint-Augustin River has its source in the mountains of Labrador, and winds south to Saint-Augustin Bay. of the main channel is in Labrador. Major tributaries include Matse River, Michaels River, Rivi\u00e8re \u00e0 la Mouche and Rivi\u00e8re Saint-Augustin Nord-Ouest. The Saint-Augustin Northwest River joins the Saint-Augustin River upstream from its mouth. The mouth of the river is in the municipality of Saint-Augustin in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality. At the mouth of the river the Pakuashipi (\"sand river\") Innu community is on the west shore and the village of Saint-Augustine is spread over hills on the east shore. The two communities are accessible only by sea or air. A barge is used to carry goods across the river, and a hovercraft takes passengers. A new barge was due to be delivered in 2020. The free passenger ferry takes five minutes to make the crossing, but only runs between April and December. After the river has frozen over it can be crossed by snowmobile over the \"Route Blanche\" ice bridge. Name. Louis Jolliet (1645\u20131700) called"}, {"text": "the river Pegouasiou, and Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin (1650\u20131712) called it Pegouachiou, meaning \"deceptive river\", probably given that name by the indigenous people because of it is shallow and the sandbars in its mouth are unstable. The name Saint-Augustin was given to the river in the 18th century, and then to the village on the east shore of its mouth. The name may refer to Augustin d'Hippone, a priest, or to Augustin le Gardeur de Courtemanche (1663\u20131717), first concessionaire of a strip of land that extended \"from the river called Kegaska to that named Kesesakion\". Basin. The Saint-Augustin River basin covers . It lies between the basins of the K\u00e9carpoui River to the west and the Coxipi River to the east. 40.4% of the watershed is in Labrador. The Quebec portion is partly in the unorganized territory of Petit-M\u00e9catina and partly in the municipality of Saint-Augustin. The Pakuashipi Innu community is in the river basin. The Saint-Augustin River has Strahler number 7. The headwaters of the main channel form at an elevation of . The maximum elevation in the watershed in , and the average elevation is . The river drops about in the Labrador section, then drops only in the last"}, {"text": ". A hydrometric station recorded flows from 1967 to 1982. Mean annual flows ranged from . Minimum flow in the winter was and maximum flow in May/June was . Environment. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the river in sub-regions 6o-T, 6n-T and 6m-S of the east spruce/moss subdomain. Land cover in the watershed is 74.3% forest, 12.9% non-forest vegetation, 3.1% barren, 1.3% wetlands and 8% water. Average daily mean temperature is , ranging from in January to in July. Annual total precipitation is . From the river mouth it is possible to see a wide variety of sea birds as well as seals and whales. The St. Augustine Migratory Bird Sanctuary is a nesting area for seagull, tern, ring-billed gull, herring gull, penguin, black guillemot and common eider. Fishing. The river is recognized as an Atlantic salmon (\"Salmo salar\") river. The Pourvoirie Kecarpoui arranges fishing/camping expeditions that include the V\u00e9co, K\u00e9carpoui, Saint-Augustin, Coxipi, Ch\u00e9catica and Napetipi rivers."}, {"text": "Nina Floy Bracelin was a botanist, plant collector, and scientific illustrator. A fuchsia, \"Fuchsia bracelinae\", is named after her. A willow, \"Salix lesiolepis bracelinae\", is named after her. She was given a lifetime membership to the California Academy of Sciences. She worked extensively with Ynes Mexia and with Alice Eastwood."}, {"text": "Pertti Ahokas (born August 5, 1947) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman. Ahokas played in the SM-sarja and SM-liiga for Jokerit, SaiPa, TuTo and TPS. He played 165 games in SM-sarja between 1969 and 1975 and 235 games in SM-Liiga between 1975 and 1982. He played a total of 400 matches in the SM-Liiga, where his stats were 49 + 63 = 112 and his ice time was 342 minutes. He won the Finnish championship in TPS in 1976. He also achieved two SC silver and two SC bronze ."}, {"text": "Barsine fuscozonata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Hiroshi Inoue in 1980. It is found in Taiwan."}, {"text": "The AN/PRC-10 is an American VHF portable radio transceiver, introduced in 1951 as a replacement for the wartime SCR-300 set. The AN/PRC-8 and AN/PRC-9 sets are basically the same but cover lower frequency bands. It remained in service with the American military until the mid 1960s when it was replaced by the transistorized AN/PRC-25 set. In accordance with the Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), the \"AN/PRC-10\" designation represents the 10th design of an Army-Navy electronic device for portable two-way communications radio. The JETDS system also now is used to name all Department of Defense electronic systems."}, {"text": "El hubiera s\u00ed existe (formerly known as \"Ni un minuto que perder\"), is a 2019 Mexican fantasy romantic comedy-drama film directed by Luis Eduardo Reyes, with a screenplay by Adriana Pelusi. It stars Ana Serradilla, and Christopher von Uckermann as the main's characters. The film is scheduled to premiere on 25 December 2019. The film finished filming in 2016, and has locations like Mexico City, and Mexico state. Plot. Elisa (Ana Serradilla) has become a shy, conservative girl, dedicated to her job and avoiding social life. Between her family and her job, the only person she lives with in her routine is Carlos, whom she could consider her best friend. One day Elisa is visited by her future self, who explains that the way to resume her life and find happiness is to lose her fear at work and let herself be found by love."}, {"text": "M\u00f3nica Brown (born October 24, 1969) is an American academic and author of children's literature. Known for her \"Lola Levine\" and \"Sarai\" chapter book series, as well as numerous biographies covering such Latin American luminaries as Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Dolores Huerta, and Cesar Chavez, she writes relatable characters that highlight the nuance and diversity of the Latinx experience and girl empowerment. Her motivation is to show that bicultural children are not made up of cultural fractions but whole people with a rich and vibrant cultural heritage, such as her character the bicultural red-headed Peruvian-Scottish-American Marisol McDonald. Brown is also an English professor at Northern Arizona University. Early life. Brown was born on October 24, 1969, in Mountain View, California, to Isabel Maria Vexler Valdivieso from Piura, Peru, and Daniel Doronda Brown from San Francisco. Monica is Mestiza and Romanian-Jewish on her mother's side and Hungarian Jewish, Scottish and Italian on her father's side. Brown was raised Catholic and converted to Judaism as an adult. Throughout her childhood, Brown took numerous vacations to visit her mother's family in Peru. Her diverse upbringing influences her work most notably in the character Lola Levine whose Jewish-Peruvian-American ancestry mirrors Brown's. Career. Brown earned"}, {"text": "a B.A. in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1991, an M.A. in English from Boston College in 1994, and a Ph.D. in English from Ohio State University in 1998. She is a tenured professor at Northern Arizona University, where she teaches courses on Chicano, African American, and Multi-ethnic literature. She has been a recipient of a Most Significant Creative or Artistic Achievement Award from Northern Arizona University. Giving birth to her daughters motivated Brown to begin writing children's books that reflected the significant contributions of the people of the Americas. Brown finds inspiration in her Peruvian and Jewish heritage and a commitment to bring diverse stories to children Brown's books are often published as dual language editions. She has even had one translated into Quechua an indigenous language of the Andes. Brown published her first children's book, \"My Name is Celia: the Life of Celia Cruz\" (\"Me llamo Celia: la vida de Celia Cruz\"), published bilingually in English and Spanish in 2004, for which she won the Am\u00e9ricas Award for Children's Literature. In her 2011 book \"Waiting for the Biblioburro\", Brown works to showcase the power of literacy and education by telling the story of a"}, {"text": "Colombian educator who reaches remote communities in Colombia with a donkey powered library. The book won a Christopher Award in 2012. Brown's 2012 book \"Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People\" won her a second Am\u00e9ricas Award for Children's Literature, and in 2015 she won the Judy Goddard Award in Children's Literature. Brown's book \"Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos\" was selected by \"The New York Times\" as one of the best illustrated books of 2017. In that year, she received a Valle del Sol Award for Latino Excellence In Art, Culture & Literature. Brown has also been a recipient of the Victoria Foundation's Professor Alberto Rios Award and an Outstanding Latino/a in the Literary Arts Award. In 2018, Brown launched a chapter-book series \"Sarai\", co-authored with child actress and internet sensation Sarai Gonzalez. The series is targeted at children 7-10 and is inspired by events in Sarai's life. Bibliography. Children's Books. Source: Marisol McDonald picture books Lola Levine series Sarai series, with Sarai Gonzalez"}, {"text": "John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. He has won the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature; has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; knighted by Italy; is one of the most acclaimed writers in the English language. As well as his novels, short stories, plays and non-fiction, Banville has published book reviews and other articles, and written introductions for the neglected short stories of women such as Elizabeth Bowen and Edna O'Brien. A partial bibliography may be found here; it is particularly helpful for locating the original publisher of Banville's books and it also verifies the year of publication of each. However, discrepancies remain between that bibliography and this one on the drama adaptations and original screenplays \u2014 for example, that bibliography calls the 1994 screenplay \"Seachange\", while the IMDb calls a screenplay from the same year by the title \"Seascape\". The above bibliography does not include Banville's book reviews, nor does it include his articles for various newspapers and magazine publications. A"}, {"text": "sample of these may be found below. * \"Doctor Copernicus\". London: Secker & Warburg, 1976 * \"Kepler\". London: Secker & Warburg, 1981 * \"The Newton Letter\". London: Secker & Warburg, 1982 * \"The Book of Evidence\". London: Secker & Warburg, 1989 * \"Ghosts\". London: Secker & Warburg, 1993 * \"Athena\". London: Secker & Warburg, 1995 * \"Eclipse\". London: Picador, 2000 * \"Shroud\". London: Picador, 2002 * \"Ancient Light\". London: Viking Penguin, 2012 Books. Pseudonymous works. The following have been published as Benjamin Black: # \"Christine Falls\". London: Picador, 2006 # \"The Silver Swan\". London: Picador, 2007 # \"Elegy for April\". London: Picador, 2011 # \"A Death in Summer\". London: Mantle, 2011 # \"Vengeance\". London: Mantle, 2012 # \"Holy Orders\". New York: Henry Holt, 2013 # \"Even the Dead\". London: Penguin, 2016 # \"April in Spain\". London: Faber & Faber, 2021 [published as John Banville] # \"The Lock-Up\". London: Faber & Faber, 2023 [published as John Banville] # \"The Drowned.\" Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hanover Square Press. 2024. [published as John Banville]"}, {"text": "The Havel\u2013Oder\u2013Wasserstra\u00dfe (HOW) is a navigable waterway connecting Berlin (Havel and Spree) and the German-Polish border at the West Oder River at Friedrichsthal north of Schwedt. Approximately 135 km long, it is composed of the following sections: The route between the Havel and Lehnitz lock and the peak position are together called Oder-Havel-Kanal for the Oderhaltung (Wriezener Alte Oder) section of the river, also known as the Oderberger Gew\u00e4sser. The German-Polish border forms part of the west or north Mescherin (enlargement of the total length by about 14 km) and the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal, the Berlin Westhafen on a short route with the Havelhaltung (by Spandau lock above the Spreem\u00fcndung). The HOW is a class IV federal waterway with restrictions."}, {"text": "Rodger L. Reedy (born ) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 57th District, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party. Missouri House of Representatives. Tenure. Reedy proposed a bill to allow the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to acquire the Antioch cemetery in west-central Missouri\u2019s Clinton as a state park and a historically significant educational site. It is operated and maintained by DNR\u2019s Division of State Parks. The bill was approved by the Missouri House 149-0, and later passed by the Missouri senate. The bill was signed into law by governor Mike Parson. Personal life. Reedy was born in Clinton and is a 1979 graduate of Lincoln High School in Lincoln, Missouri. He and his wife Rhonda have three grown children, Kayley, Austin and Wesley. They attend First Baptist Church in Clinton. Rhonda is a first grade teacher. In addition, she is also the co-owner of a gift shop in Clinton Square Historic District."}, {"text": "David Proctor may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Apostolic Nunciature to Burkina Faso is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Burkina Faso. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. The Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso is usually also the Apostolic Nuncio to Niger upon his appointment to said nation. The nunciature's new building was inaugurated on 30 January 2015. The Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso is Giancarlo Dellagiovanna."}, {"text": "Stevan Had\u017ei\u0107 (19 February 1868 \u2013 23 April 1931) was a general of the Royal Serbian Army and an army general of the Royal Yugoslav Army. In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he served four times as Minister of the Army and Navy and remained there until his death. Early life. Had\u017ei\u0107 was born on 19 February 1868 in Belgrade, to father Svetozar, a Serbian Army infantry colonel (in the Serbian-Turkish Wars he was the commander of the \u010ca\u010dak and parish brigade), and mother Mileva \"n\u00e9e\" Gherman. He joined the army in 1885 as a volunteer student of the 14th Infantry Regiment in the Serbo-Bulgarian War and returned to full-time education after the war. After graduating from high school in Ni\u0161, he enrolled in the 19th class of the Military Academy in 1886 and graduated four years later (1889). After acquiring the rank of artillery lieutenant, he was sent to Imperial Russia for training. The Russian Ministry first deployed him to an internship at the 35th Russian Artillery Brigade in Kostroma, after which he was admitted to the Nikolaev General Staff Academy in St. Petersburg (1891\u20131895). He was married in 1901 to Yelisavet-Eola (1879\u20131966), daughter of Colonel Alexander Simonovi\u0107 and Milica"}, {"text": "born Spasi\u0107, a later court lady of Queen Mary. They had a son Vojislav and a daughter Olga (1905\u20131965) who, in 1927, married Colonel Nikola Cani\u0107 (1897\u20131986). Their daughter is Mirjana Cani\u0107-Radojlovi\u0107 (1932). A whirlwind career. Upon his return to Serbia, his whirlwind military career began: from a sergeant in an artillery regiment, he was promoted to head of the General Staff Section and Chief of the Ministry of the Military by 1910. In the same year, he was appointed a military envoy to St. Petersburg, where he remained until the beginning of the Second Balkan War. After returning to Serbia, he took command of the Drina Division, which distinguished itself in the Battle of Bregalnica. In the Great War, he first led the \u0160umadia Division in combat in Ma\u010dva, and in August 1914 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the First Army. After retreating to Corfu, Had\u017ei\u0107 was given a duty that would mark his further life. Pursuant to the decree of the Minister of the Military of 24 February 1916, namely, the formation of the 1st Regiment of the Serb volunteer detachment. Composed of Serbian POWs, formerly in the ranks of the Austrian Army and originally from"}, {"text": "Serbian lands of the Habsburg Empire, volunteered \"en masse\" and in February the First Serbian Volunteer Division numbered almost 10,000 men in Russia, with Colonel Had\u017ei\u0107 appointed as its commander. Had\u017ei\u0107 arrived in Corfu, accompanied by 21 officers and just as many lower ranks, on a new duty in Odessa on 23 April 1916. Volunteers still continued to come and by mid-August (1916), the division had nearly 18,000 men. On 27 August 1916, Romania entered the war on the side of the Entente. In order to prevent the penetration of Bulgarian-German Turkish forces in Dobruja, the Russian supreme command decided to deploy troops to that part of the front as reinforcement. The Serbian Volunteer Division was part of the newly formed Russian-Serbian 47th Corps of General Andrei Zayonchkovsky. The unit arrived from Odessa to the villages of Koru Nasradina and Kara Sinan on 5 September and entered the battle of Dobrich two days later. The fighting in Dobruja lasted until the end of October; due to Romania's weak holding, the enemy made great progress on this part of the front, so the Serbian Division was withdrawn on 26 October 1916 in the Izmail region. During these fighting, 8,000 men were"}, {"text": "lost in battle. In early 1917, Had\u017ei\u0107 as commander was able to stem the tide and lead his division from victory to victory. In March 1917, after completing operations in Dobruja, he was appointed a military envoy to Romania, where he remained until 1919. Four times Minister of War. On February 17, 1920, Had\u017ei\u0107 was appointed the commander of the Second Army and remained in that position until 29 March 1921. Between March 1921 and December 1926 (with interruptions from 24 May to 20 July 1921, and from 27 July to 6 November 1924, when he was Minister of the Army and Navy for the second and third time, he served as King Alexander's first adjutant. He was elected Minister of the Army and Navy for the fourth time in 1926 and held that position until his death, April 23, 1931. Helping refugees from the October Revolution. Had\u017ei\u0107 never forgot the days spent studying, serving and fighting in Imperial Russia. His appreciation and love for Russia became pronounced after the outbreak of the October Revolution and the Civil War, which led to a large influx of Russian emigr\u00e9es into Serbia. To the best of his ability, he endeavored to assist"}, {"text": "them, and in gratitude was elected an honorary member of the Society of Russian General Staff Officers, the Society of Cavaliers of the Order of Saint George and the Georgian Arms and the Sarajevo Colony. He died at his family home on 23 April 1931. He is buried in the Belgrade New Cemetery."}, {"text": "Jim Murphy (born ) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 94th District, in Saint Louis County, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican party."}, {"text": "The 1984\u201385 RPI Engineers men's ice hockey team represented the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in college ice hockey. In its 6th year under head coach Mike Addesa the team compiled a 35\u20132\u20131 record and reached the NCAA tournament for the sixth time. The Engineers defeated Providence 2\u20131 to win the championship game at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Season. New ECAC. After a year in which Rensselaer set a new program record with 32 wins and reached the NCAA tournament for the first time in 20 years, RPI found themselves scrambling to adjust their schedule. All Six teams from the East Region of ECAC Hockey, along with newly admitted Lowell, broke away to from a new conference. While many of the higher-profile programs left, the reduction to 12 teams allowed the remaining ECAC members to play an even schedule for the first time in league history; all teams played one another twice, once at home and one on the road, except for Army who only played other ECAC members once. As part of the new scheduling arrangement, Rensselaer was paired with Vermont and the two teams would travel at the same time to visit the same region. For example,"}, {"text": "RPI's first conference road game was against Yale in Connecticut while at the same time Vermont played Brown in Rhode Island. The next night Rensselaer and Vermont swapped opponents which allowed all teams to reduce travel time while still fulfilling their new scheduling guidelines. Early season hiccup. The Engineers began the season with two strong home wins against Canadian teams but then immediately stumbled against St. Lawrence in their conference opener. The team recovered with a win over Clarkson the following night then hit the road for a set of games against North Dakota. RPI returned to the northeast after another weekend split and was able to finally win a weekend after getting a tough fight from Brown. Rensselaer ended the first part of their season with a fairly easy pair of games where they seemed to find the consistency that had served them well the year before. Holiday Tournament. For the 34th annual Rensselaer Holiday Tournament, RPI dominated Miami in the semifinal before facing their third Canadian team of the season and managed to down Toronto in the final to take their third consecutive tournament title. When the team returned to its regular schedule the following weekend they fought"}, {"text": "a series of close games, including a surprising strong effort from Division III Union, but RPI escaped an embarrassing fate to raise their record to 13\u20132. ECAC dominance. After that scare the Engineers didn't have another close game for almost two months, winning every game by at least 3 goals until their final game of the regular season, a 5\u20134 win over Cornell. After opening their conference schedule with a loss Rensselaer had won its final 20 conference games, the second best streak and the second most wins in conference history (both behind only 1970 Cornell) and the third highest winning percentage in ECAC history. Leading the way for the conference's top offense was junior center Adam Oates who had already set a new program record with 83 points the previous season and was well on his way to improving on the mark. RPI also possessed the #2 defense in the country, allowing only 54 goals in 21 conference games and were backstopped by Buffalo Sabres draft pick Daren Puppa. ECAC tournament. Searching for their second consecutive ECAC crown, Rensselaer ran through Princeton in the quarterfinal series and then headed to Boston where Puppa stifled the opposition, allowing only one"}, {"text": "goal in each of the final two games which the Engineers ended triumphantly. Puppa was named as tournament MOP and with their 32\u20132 record Rensselaer received the #1 eastern seed to go along with their automatic tournament berth. NCAA tournament. With the higher seed, Rensselaer played host to Lake Superior State in the Quarterfinals and opened by setting a new franchise record, with their 33rd win of the season, taking the contest 7\u20133. Because the Quarterfinal series was a total goal affair RPI would advance so long as could keep the second game close and a 3-3 tie was well within their margin for error. Because the Lakers could not win the series regardless of an overtime result no extra time was played and the game ended after regulation along with RPI's 30-game winning streak. Rensselear headed to Detroit for the Frozen Four and met the previous season's runner-up, Minnesota\u2013Duluth. In what became one of the more memorable games RPI and Duluth began fighting one another almost from the drop of the puck; the two teams got into a scrape then ended up with double matching minors and both teams played 3-on-3. during that time the Engineers opened the scoring"}, {"text": "with Tim Friday's fifth goal of the season. Afterwards RPI got into trouble with two consecutive penalties to give UMD a 5-on-3 advantage but their defense was able to hold the fort and prevent the Bulldogs from evening the score. In the second period Mark Baron scored twice in 30 seconds to give the Bulldogs their first lead of the game. John Carter tied the game with a power play goal off a rebound before George Servinis gave the lead back to Rensselaer. The game was then tied for the fourth time when Brett Hull scored a breakaway goal and the two teams headed into intermission. In the third, while killing a penalty, Servinis found himself on a partial breakaway but the puck got too far in front of him. Duluth goalie Rick Kosti charged out of the net to knock the puck away but Servinis reached it first and deflected the puck just enough for Kosti to miss it with his stick. Kosti's momentum carried him into Servinis but the RPI forward was able to stay on his skates, the same could not be said for Duluth defender Jim Johnson who went tumbling head over heels into the boards"}, {"text": "and allowed Servinis to shoot the puck into the vacated net. Duluth tied the game again when 1985 Hobey Baker Award winner Bill Watson shot his own rebound in behind Puppa. UMD's second lead of the game came from a Bob Herzig shot in the high slot that went under Puppa's glove. With regulation winding down and their chances dwindling, RPI fought to keep the puck alive in the Duluth end and, after a pass from behind the net, the puck pinballed off a Duluth skate right to Ken Hammond who slid the puck into the net. The two teams continued to battle for the first two 10-minute overtimes but at the end of the second tempers flared and the teams ended up with a slew of penalties. The third overtime period began 3-on-3 and after two minutes the teams played 4-on-4, but because Duluth had taken one additional penalty, the Engineers found themselves on a power play from a penalty that had happened 4 minutes earlier. The Bulldogs were able to survive most of the disadvantage but with only 15 seconds left in the penalty Carter fired a shot from the point that deflected off a Duluth stick and"}, {"text": "into the net, ending the game that saw RPI setting a new Frozen Four record with 16 penalties (followed closely by Duluth's 14). Championship. Rensselaer made their first championship appearance in 31 years with only Providence standing in their way. The Friars were coming off their own triple overtime victory in the semifinal but had an extra day to recover from the exertion. The extra playing time didn't seem to faze the Engineers, however, as RPI opened the scoring with a power play goal less than 5 minutes into the game. Rensselaer dominated the play but couldn't get the puck past Chris Terreri on any of their other 13 shots of the period and had to settle for a 1\u20130 lead after 20 minutes. It was more of the same in the second period but, after giving Providence a brief 5-on-3 advantage, George Servinis scored his second short-handed goal of the Frozen Four at the tail-end of the second penalty to give the Engineers a two-goal cushion. After that Terreri stood on his head and turned aside every RPI shot that came his way. Even with a 2\u20130 lead Rensselaer looked to be overpowering the Friars, leading in the shot"}, {"text": "total 31 to 12 after 40 minutes. Providence responded in the third, firing 10 shots at Puppa with Paul Cavallini finding the twine on the power play, but it was too little too late and when the final horn sounded RPI had won their second national title. Awards and honors. Unsurprisingly Chris Terreri was given the tournament MOP, the last player to do so who did not play for the championship team, but four Engineers did make the All-Tournament team: Tim Friday, Ken Hammond, Adam Oates and George Servinis. Oates finished the season third in the nation in scoring with 91 points and first in points per game (2.39), narrowly outpacing Bill Watson's 2.36 ppg mark. Oates' scoring prowess earned him a spot on the AHCA All-American East First Team along with Hammond while John Carter made the Second Team. All three made the All-ECAC First Team while Daren Puppa, despite finishing second in the nation with 30 wins and third with a 2.56 goals against average received no further mention beyond tournament MOP. While the national championship in itself was the main goal for the Engineers, the fact that they won against one of the Hockey East teams that"}, {"text": "had broken away from ECAC Hockey over the previous summer probably made the victory just that much sweeter. Schedule. !colspan=12 style=\";\" | Regular Season !colspan=12 style=\";\" | !colspan=12 style=\";\" | !colspan=12 style=\";\" | Players drafted into the NHL. 1985 NHL Entry Draft. Adam Oates, undrafted by his 22nd birthday, was able to sign a professional contract after forgoing his final year of eligibility. The $1.1 million deal he inked with Detroit was the most lucrative contract for a rookie at the time and the arms race for Oates' services led directly to the NHL instituting the Supplemental Draft. The secondary draft was used for players who were otherwise ineligible for the standard NHL Entry Draft."}, {"text": "Paul Quinn (born 18 April 1972) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for Parramatta, Penrith and South Sydney in the 1990s. A St Gregory's College product, Quinn earned Australian schoolboys representative selection in 1990 and was signed by Parramatta in what was reported to be one of the most lucrative contracts ever offered to a schoolboy player. Quinn, a back rower, was unable to establish himself in Parramatta's first-grade team, with most of his appearances coming off the bench, and crossed to Penrith for the 1993 NSWRL season. In 1994 he joined South Sydney and was a member of the team which upset the Brisbane Broncos to win the Challenge Cup in the 1994 pre season. His 1994 season was ultimately cruelled by a knee injury, but he made regular appearances in 1995 as a second rower and again in 1996, mostly at lock."}, {"text": "Jeff Shawan (born 1956) is an American politician who served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives for the 153rd district from 2019 to 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party. In 2020, Shawan did not run for re-election in the House of Representatives."}, {"text": "Carol Rose may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Gallipoli Cathedral, formally the Co-Cathedral Basilica of Saint Agatha the Virgin (), is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Gallipoli in Apulia, Italy. Completed in 1696, the Baroque church is a minor basilica and the co-cathedral of the Diocese of Nard\u00f2-Gallipoli. History. The Gallipoli Cathedral was constructed between 1629 and 1696, and is dedicated to Saint Agatha of Sicily. Architecture. The Baroque facade of the cathedral was designed by Giuseppe Zimbalo, Francesco Bischetini, and Scipione Lachibari. It is constructed out of \"carparo\" stone, sourced from Southern Italy. The church was built with a cruciform floorpan in the shape of a Latin cross. Interior. The interior of the church is a mixture of the Byzantine and Renaissance styles. The nave is flanked by columns of grey marble, which support an arcade. The interior is ornamented by paintings by Giovanni Andrea Coppola, a painter native to Gallipoli. Nicol\u00f2 Malinconico painted the frescoes on the walls and in the cupola, which depicts the martyrdom of Saint Agatha. The cathedral's altar is made of a reused Ancient Roman marble stele. There is an Ancient Greek inscription on the stele that reads: <poem style=\"margin-left: 2em\"></poem> Translated into English: <poem style=\"margin-left: 2em\">I"}, {"text": "am a most precious gift . . . I was placed on the remarkable altar . . . , which belonged to Marsilios, three times glittering and three times luminous. Acceding to the ardent desire of Magi . . . os, patron and priest, lord bishop Pantoleon, holder of this throne, sits with great piety.</poem>"}, {"text": "Rick Francis (born 1958 or 1959) is an American politician. He was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives representing the 145th District, from 2017 to 2025. He is a member of the Republican party."}, {"text": "The Premsela Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion was a Dutch institute for the promotion of design and fashion in the Netherlands from 2002 to 2013. This organization was named after Benno Premsela. It succeeded the Netherlands Design Institute and in 2013 merged into Het Nieuwe Instituut. History. Foundation. The Premsela institute started in September 2002, about two years after its predecessor the Netherlands Design Institute had closed their doors due to the recommendations by the Raad voor Cultuur. The State Secretary for Culture and Media in those days, Rick van der Ploeg, them ordered a government advisory committee to determine how the design sector in the Netherlands could be supported. The government advisory committee determined the need for more synergy in the societal, cultural and economic sectors around the field of design. In order to establish some effective government control over the sector it was thought that a new institute should cover multiple specialisms in the field. In new Premsela institute was to be located in Amsterdam. Platform 21, center for creation. In 2005 at the Zuidas, Amsterdam Premsela opened a new design center, called Platform 21. It was intended to be a meeting point for the public, designers"}, {"text": "and industry.\" The center was located in the renovated St. Nikolaaskapel in the Prinses Irenestraat, and contained spaces for exhibitions, and for lectures, debates and workshops. Platform 21 was going to be a design museum without its own collection. Exhibitions would be created with art and design works of other museums. In those days there were plans as well for a new design museum about 6.000 square meters located near the World Trade Center (Amsterdam). The plan of this museum was developed by Reyn van der Lugt, curator of the Netherlands Architecture Institute. Other activities. In 2010 the Amsterdam conference on Redesigning Design was organized in cooperation with Creative Commons Netherlands, and the Waag Society. The later editions of the Rotterdam Design Prize were organized by Stichting Designprijs Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in cooperation with the Premsela, Dutch Institute for Design and Fashion."}, {"text": "Andrew McDaniel (born January 22, 1984) is an American politician. He is a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives, representing 150th District from 2015 to 2023. He is a member of the Republican party."}, {"text": "La boda de mi mejor amigo () is a 2019 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Celso Garc\u00eda that premiered on 14 February 2019. It is an adaptation of the 1997 American film \"My Best Friend's Wedding\". The film stars Ana Serradilla, Carlos Ferro, Miguel \u00c1ngel Silvestre, and Natasha Dupeyr\u00f3n."}, {"text": "Chantelle Cameron (born 14 May 1991) is an English professional boxer. She is a former world champion in two weight classes, including the former undisputed light-welterweight champion, having held the WBC title between 2020 and 2023; the IBF and \"Ring\" magazine titles between 2021 and 2023 ; and the WBA and WBO titles between November 2022 and 2023. She previously held the IBO female lightweight title from 2017 to 2019 and light-welterweight title from 2022 to 2023. She has held the interim WBC female super-lightweight title since 20 July 2024. As an amateur, she won a silver medal in the light-welterweight division at the 2010 EU Championships in Keszthely, Hungary, and a bronze in the lightweight division at the 2011 EU Championships in Katowice, Poland, losing to Ireland's Katie Taylor in the semi-finals. Cameron would avenge this loss in May 2023, defeating Taylor via majority decision to retain her undisputed championship. Early life. Chantelle Cameron was born on 14 May 1991, in Northampton, England. She credits her love for combat sports to watching films starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and television programme \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\", stating: \"I loved all those fighting films. \"Kickboxer\" would have to be my favourite Van"}, {"text": "Damme film. The fighting in it is unreal. I loved Buffy because of the fight scenes and the fact she was a female role model.\" Cameron's introduction to combat sports was through kickboxing at the age of 10 at the Ultimate Sport Kickboxing Association (USKA), moving on to Muay Thai at 16. After a successful amateur career\u2014in which she remained undefeated, winning amateur titles in the IKF and WAKO\u2014she switched to boxing at the age of 18. Amateur career. Cameron won two English women's national championships; the ABA Championships in 2010, and the ABAE Championships in 2015. She reached the quarter-finals of the 2010 AIBA World Championships, losing to eventual silver medalist Vera Slugina of Russia. She also won the silver medal at the 2010 EU Championships, and a bronze the following year at the 2011 EU Championships, losing in the semi-finals to eventual winner Katie Taylor of Ireland. Results. 2010 | ABA Women's National Championships (63.5 kg) 2010 | European Union Women's Championships (64 kg) 2010 | AIBA Women's World Championships (64 kg) 2011 | European Union Women's Championships (60 kg) 2015 | ABAE Women's National Championships (60 kg) Professional career. Super-featherweight. In 2017, Cameron signed a promotional contract"}, {"text": "with Barry McGuigan's Cyclone Promotions. Under the guidance of Barry's son, Shane McGuigan, she made her professional debut on 26 May 2017, winning a six-round points decision (PTS) against Karina Kopinska at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales. After scoring technical knockout (TKO) wins over Bojana Libiszewska and Bilitis Gaucher in July and October respectively, Cameron fought Edith Ramos for the vacant IBO Inter-Continental female super-featherweight title on 11 November 2017 at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, winning via third-round TKO. Lightweight. IBO champion. A month later on 2 December, Cameron moved up a weight class to fight for her first world title, in her fifth fight, against Viviane Obenauf at the Leicester Arena in Leicester. She won by sixth-round stoppage via corner retirement (RTD) after Obenauf's corner called off the fight between rounds, capturing the IBO female lightweight title. The first defence of her title came on 3 March 2018, against Myriam Dellal at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland. She successfully retained her title via shutout unanimous decision (UD) over ten rounds, with all three judges scoring the bout 100\u201390 in favour of Cameron. She next scored a sixth-round TKO win in June over Natalia Vanesa"}, {"text": "del Valle Aguirre in a non-title fight, before making a second defence against Jessica Gonzalez on 13 October at the York Hall in London, with the vacant WBC Silver female lightweight title also on the line. Throughout the fight Cameron used footwork and stayed behind the jab, landing straight right hands and uppercuts on her opponent. Gonzalez was down on the canvas in the first-round, only for referee Ian John Lewis to rule it a slip. The Mexican fighter suffered a cut in the second-round from an accidental clash of heads. In the ninth, Gonzalez was deducted a point for hitting Cameron in the back of the head, while in a clinch, after the referee had called for the fighters to separate. Cameron won via shutout UD with the judges' scorecards reading 100\u201389, 100\u201388, and 100\u201388, retaining her IBO title and capturing the vacant WBC Silver title. In February 2019, Cameron announced on Twitter she had left Cyclone Promotions and trainer Shane McGuigan, stating, \"...they know the distress they have caused me and how isolated they made me feel, humiliated and just deflated, they had no time for a female boxer\", as well as citing training issues; \"My last fight"}, {"text": "camp was four weeks and I'm sick of the circumstances of chasing money and it's been seen in my most recent performance (Jessica Gonzalez)\". She has since joined up with MTK Global and trainer Jamie Moore. Further world title ambitions. Her first fight under MTK came in April, winning via second-round TKO in a non-title bout against Feriche Mashauri. This was followed by another non-title bout in May, again winning by second-round TKO against Vaida Masiokaite. Following her win over Masiokaite, Cameron relinquished her IBO title, saying, \"I wish to thank the IBO for their support and introducing me to the world stage as a major force in women's boxing. I will relinquish my IBO title to enable other female fighters to fight for this important title and to enhance their careers as well.\" Her next fight was against Anisha Basheel in a WBC lightweight final eliminator on 20 July at the Brentwood Centre in Essex, England. Cameron's WBC Silver title was on the line with the winner gaining a chance to face WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, and \"The Ring\" champion Katie Taylor for the undisputed female lightweight title. In a fight that outlets described as a dominant performance, Cameron"}, {"text": "scored a UD victory. Keeping behind the jab for the first few rounds, Basheel appeared to have trouble figuring out the former champion. Cameron stepped up the pressure from round five and onwards, unloading power punches in combinations and landing at will, rarely troubled by her opponent. Two judges scored the bout 100\u201389, while the third scored it 100\u201390, securing Cameron a mandatory shot at Katie Taylor. Light-welterweight. For her next fight, Cameron moved up another weight class to face former three-weight world champion Anah\u00ed Ester S\u00e1nchez. Cameron said on the decision to move up in weight, \"I am not waiting around for Katie Taylor. That's why I have moved up in weight for this final eliminator, because I want to face any world champion.\" The fight took place on 9 November 2019 at the York Hall, in what was a WBC light-welterweight final eliminator, with the winner earning a chance to face unified WBA and WBC champion Jessica McCaskill. After knocking Sanchez down in the ninth-round, Cameron went on to win the fight by UD to claim the WBC mandatory position in a second weight class. Two judges scored the bout 100\u201389 while the third scored it 99\u201390. It"}, {"text": "was announced in July 2020 that Cameron signed a multi-fight promotional contract with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Sport. WBC champion vs. Ara\u00fajo, Hern\u00e1ndez. In early September 2020, it was revealed that the WBC had approved Cameron to face 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Adriana Ara\u00fajo for the WBC female light-welterweight title, which McCaskill relinquished in order to defeat Cecilia Br\u00e6khus to become the undisputed female welterweight champion. On 15 September, Cameron's new promoter, Eddie Hearn, announced that the bout will take place on 4 October, with a venue yet to be announced. Cameron said of the match up, \"This chance I've been given is huge, I've finally got the platform to make myself a star. I won't take my opportunity for granted and will be taking every precaution to ensure I use this chance to shine. I want to make my dreams come true to unify and become a world champion with all of the belts, not just one.\" With the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes being chosen as the venue, Ara\u00fajo failed to make weight at the pre-fight weigh-in\u2014weighing over the light-welterweight limit\u2014meaning the vacant title would only be on the line for Cameron. After staying behind the jab and following"}, {"text": "up with combination punches for ten rounds, with Ara\u00fajo offering little resistance, Cameron won by a shutout UD in what outlets described as a dominant win. All three judges scored the bout 100\u201390 to award Cameron her first major world title. In January 2021, it was announced that Cameron would make the first defence of her WBC title against former world champion Melissa Hern\u00e1ndez, with the bout scheduled to take place on 20 March as part of the undercard for Lawrence Okolie's world title fight against Krzysztof G\u0142owacki at a venue yet to be named. After Cameron suffered a hand injury during training, the bout was rescheduled to 29 May and took place at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Paradise, Nevada, as part of the undercard of the Devin Haney vs. Jorge Linares world title fight. Cameron landed a flurry of punches in the fourth round, sending her opponent reeling into the ropes. Referee Celestino Ruiz determined that the ropes had held Hern\u00e1ndez up and issued a standing eight count, giving Cameron a 10\u20138 round. In the next round, after Cameron landed another flurry of punches with no response from Hern\u00e1ndez, Ruiz stepped in and called a halt to the"}, {"text": "contest at 1 minute and 38 seconds into the round to award Cameron a fifth-round TKO victory. Unification vs. McGee. In September 2021, it was announced that Cameron would put her title on the line in a unification bout against IBF female light-welterweight champion Mary McGee, with the inaugural \"Ring\" title also on the line. The bout took place on 30 October at The O2 Arena, with Cameron emerging victorious via UD. The judges' scorecards reading 100\u201390, 99\u201391 and 99\u201392. Undisputed World Champion. In November 2022, Cameron defeated Jessica McCaskill in a match held in Abu Dhabi, making Cameron the undisputed world light-welterweight champion and the United Kingdom\u2019s first undisputed female boxing world champion. Cameron vs Taylor. On 2 March, Cameron accepted a public challenge from undisputed lightweight champion Katie Taylor for a fight for Cameron's undisputed super-lightweight titles. The bout was subsequently announced by Eddie Hearn on 11 March to be taking place at the 3Arena in Dublin on 20 May. Cameron emerged victorious via majority decision with the judge's scorecards reading 95\u201395, 96\u201394 and 96\u201394. Cameron vs Taylor 2. On 25 November 2023 at 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland, Cameron has been scheduled to face Katie Taylor in the"}, {"text": "championship rematch. Cameron lost a majority decision to Taylor. Trainer change and signing with Frank Warren. Having already parted ways with her trainer, Jamie Moore, and switched to work under the guidance of Sheffield-based Grant Smith earlier in the year, Cameron split from promotors Matchroom in May 2024 signing up with Frank Warren's Queensbury Promotions. Cameron vs Mekhaled. Cameron won the vacant interim WBC female super-lightweight title with a majority decision victory over France's Elhem Mekhaled at Resorts World Arena in Birmingham on 20 July 2024. Two ringside judges scored the fight in her favour 98-92 and 99-92 while the third gave it as a 95-95 draw. Cameron vs Berghult. Cameron defended her title with a unanimous decision win over Patricia Berghult at Resorts World Arena in Birmingham on 2 November 2024. The three ringside judges scored the fight 99-91, 100-90 and 98-92. Switch to Most Valuable Promotions. After just two fights under the Queensbury banner, Cameron signed with Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions in May 2025. Cameron defended her interim WBC super lightweight title against Jessica Camara at Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, on July 11, 2025, winning by unanimous decision."}, {"text": "J. Craig Fishel (born 1949 or 1950) is an American politician. He was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 136th District, serving from 2019 to 2023. He is a member of the Republican party."}, {"text": "Henry Eric Maudslay, DFC (21 July 1921 \u2013 17 May 1943) was a pilot with No. 617 Squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF). He was killed in action while taking part in Operation Chastise, popularly known as the 'Dam Busters' raid. Early life. Henry Eric Maudslay was born on 21 July 1921 at 1 Vicarage Road, Leamington Spa, to Reginald Maudslay (a British engineer and car manufacturer) and his wife Gwendolen. For his education, he first attended Beaudesert School, a preparatory school at Minchinhampton in Gloucestershire. From there, he went on to Eton College where he represented the school at athletics and rowing. In rowing Maudslay was made the school Captain of the Boats in 1940 and he won the six mile cross country run for Eton in 35 minutes and 40 seconds. He also had success in the steeplechase, the one mile and the half mile. Military service. 1940-43. Maudslay had planned to join the Royal Air Force as an officer cadet at RAF Cranwell. However, the outbreak of the Second World War led to his volunteering in May 1940. After pilot training in Canada, as part of the Commonwealth joint air plan, he returned to Britain in"}, {"text": "February 1941 and was posted to 44 Squadron at RAF Waddington. He flew 29 operations in this period and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for an attack on two cargo ships with the cloud base dropping to 300 feet. In December 1941, he and other members of the squadron were sent to RAF Boscombe Down. There he participated in service trials and other work on the new heavy bomber, the Avro Lancaster. Maudslay carried out training assignments till his return to combat operations at RAF Skellingthorpe with 50 Squadron on 1 January 1943. He then moved with his crew to join 617 Squadron at RAF Scampton, although not all would fly with him on the Dams raid. 617 Squadron. On 25 March 1943, Maudslay and his crew moved to join their new squadron RAF Scampton. He wrote to his mother: Operation Chastise. On the night of 17 May 1943, Maudslay flew as commander of B Flight in his Lancaster, call sign Z-Zebra, against the Eder Dam. The geography made the approach difficult with he and comrade Dave Shannon making several approaches. When Z-Zebra's Upkeep bouncing bomb was dropped it struck the dam's parapet. It is believed that the resulting"}, {"text": "explosion damaged the aircraft. A red Very light was fired from Z-Zebra and the Squadron Leader, Guy Gibson, called out to Maudslay asking \"Are you ok?\" To which the faint signal came in reply, \"I think so. Stand by...\" which was the last known voice contact with the aircraft. The aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire at Emmerich before crashing near Klein-Netterden with the loss of the entire crew. Gibson wrote of Maudslay: Maudslay was initially buried at D\u00fcsseldorf North Cemetery before being reburied at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery on 3 October 1946. There he rests in the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. His grave stone carries the inscription, \"He died gloriously in the breaching of the Eder Dam.\" A tribute was paid in The Times by someone writing under the initials J. D. H.: In popular culture. Maudslay was portrayed in the 1955 feature film 'The Dam Busters' by Richard Thorp."}, {"text": "William Swan (August 14, 1715 - April 18, 1774) was an American silversmith, active in Massachusetts. Swan was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and worked circa 1740-1752 as a silversmith in Boston, where he married Levinah Keyes on December 4, 1743. He worked circa 1752-1754 as a silversmith in Marlborough, Massachusetts, where he moved on account of smallpox, then circa 1754 as a silversmith in Worcester, where he was appointed in 1772 as Clerk of the Market and in 1773 as Sealer of Weights and Measures. He died in Worcester, with his obituary in the \"Boston Weekly News-Letter\" (May 5, 1774) reading: \"Goldsmith, formerly of Boston, a Man of a very respectable Character.\" Through his sister, he was an elder relative of Vermont congressman Jonathan Hunt and thus William Morris Hunt. Swan's work is collected in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winterthur Museum, and Worcester Art Museum."}, {"text": "John F. Black (born 1952) is an American politician, serving as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives since 2019. His first two elections were from district 137, but after redistricting of 2022, he was reelected from district 129. He is a member of the Republican party. Black lives in Marshfield, Missouri, with his wife Cynthia. He is a Methodist."}, {"text": "This is the discography of Northern Irish punk rock band Stiff Little Fingers."}, {"text": "Barry Hovis (born 1964 or 1965) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 146th District, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican party. On May 17, 2019 while speaking in the House of Representatives of Missouri he used the term \"consensual rape.\" He later apologized and provided different explanations. He reported to the associated press that he meant to say, \"consensual or rape\" \"When pressed on whether that explanation made sense in the context of the rest of his sentence, he said that he believes there is no such thing as \u201cconsensual rape.\u201d Later when speaking to KCTV5 via phone he stated he was using \"street language\" in situations where somebody got drunk at a party and then reported a rape in a \"he said - she said\" situation. Speaking to the Southeast Missourian he stated \"he did not realize he had used the term \u201cconsensual rapes\u201d until it was pointed out by a House colleague.\" He went on to state these were situations where there was a \"difference of opinion between the two parties\". There is no record resolving the explanations."}, {"text": "Trevor Nickolls (8 June 1949 \u2013 29 September 2012) was a Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal Australian artist, known for his high-key acrylic paintings juxtaposing Western Desert 'dot-painting' and Arnhem Land 'cross-hatching' with western symbolism. He was recognised for the concurrent themes exploring industrial and spiritual societal experience, and European Australian and Indigenous Australian themes, which he referred to as \"Machinetime and Dreamtime\". Early life and education. Trevor Nickolls was born in 1949 in Port Adelaide, a suburb of Adelaide in the state of South Australia, Australia. He studied Western art theory and did not encountered traditional Aboriginal art in a meaningful way until his post-graduate degree at the Victorian College of the Arts in the late 1970s. He met Warlpiri artist Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa, a member of the influential Papunya school, and travelled throughout Arnhem Land, gaining practical experience of links between life, culture and land. He described the experience saying: \"I was right in it. It wraps itself around you, full of spirit, the space, the Dreaming, imagining how it was once.\" Artist. In 1990 he became the first Aboriginal Australian to be exhibited in the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale alongside Rover Thomas. In 2013 he posthumously won the"}, {"text": "Blake Prize for his work \"Metamorphosis\"."}, {"text": "Herman E. Morse (born September 15, 1949) is an American politician. He was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 151st District, serving since 2017. He is a member of the Republican party. Herman has been a resident of Missouri his whole life."}, {"text": "Bob Bromley (born 1952 or 1953) is an American politician. He has a 38 year old son, Patrick Bromley, who is a teacher, but someday wishes to have his own hunting YouTube channel. Bob is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 162nd District, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party."}, {"text": "The 2011\u201312 Ekstraklasa season was Lechia's 68th since their creation, and was their 4th continuous season in the top league of Polish football. The season covers the period from 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012."}, {"text": "Lane Roberts (born April 6, 1948) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 161st District, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party. Prior to seeking elected office, Roberts served as Director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety, and as Chief of the Joplin Police Department."}, {"text": "The Royal Navy mutiny of 1919 was a peaceful mutiny of several dozen sailors protesting against their deployment to the British campaign in the Baltic of 1918\u201319. Of all who left their ships 96 offenders were arrested and punished, ten by imprisonment. Background. The British campaign in the Baltic 1918\u201319 was a part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The codename of the Royal Navy campaign was \"Operation Red Trek\". The intervention played a key role in enabling the establishment of the independent states of Estonia and Latvia but failed to secure the control of Petrograd by White Russian forces, which was one of the main goals of the campaign. The action was unpopular with the men of the Royal Navy and earlier in the year on 13 January 1919, there was a mutiny on board while the ship was docked at Milford Haven. Eight men were court-martialled on charges of non-violent mutiny and sentenced to 90 days and two years hard labour followed by dismissal. Mutiny. When the men of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla found that they were going to be sent to the Baltic to take part in operations against the Russians, discussions took place"}, {"text": "about what options they had. The government had publicly pledged that only volunteers would be sent to take part in operations against the Russians. Yet here they appeared to violate that pledge when destroyers , and were ordered to the Baltic. On 12 October 1919, a code phrase, \"My name's Walker\" was sent through the fleet signalling the start of the mutiny and 150 sailors left their posts preventing the 1st Destroyer Flotilla from leaving Port Edgar, Scotland. Almost 50 men then marched to London to present their petitions at the British government in Whitehall. Of all who left their ships 96 offenders were arrested and punished, ten by imprisonment. Significant unrest took place among British sailors in the Baltic. This included small-scale mutinies amongst the crews of , \u2014the latter due in part to the behaviour of Admiral Cowan\u2014and other ships stationed in Bj\u00f6rk\u00f6 Sound. The causes were a general war-weariness (many of the crews had fought in World War I), poor food and accommodation, a lack of leave and a developing sense of class consciousness. Bibliography. Notes References"}, {"text": "2020 is a studio album by avant-garde folk musician Richard Dawson, released on 11 October 2019 by Weird World, an imprint of Domino Recording Company. Like its 2017 predecessor, \"Peasant\", each song on the album is from the perspective of a different fictional narrator. Through these individual perspectives, \"2020\" explores modern British citizens' broad social attitudes and anxieties. The album's press release describes Britain as \"an island country in a state of flux; a society on the edge of mental meltdown\". With the exception of \"Dead Dog in an Alleyway\", which featured contributions from Sally Pilkington, Nev Clay, and Rhodri Davies, Dawson played all of the instruments on \"2020\". For the drums, Dawson recorded each instrument individually, which in his estimation resulted in a \"stilted\" performance. \"It\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve used the rock drum sound and I wanted this to appear as a straighter album, but actually it still needs this awkwardness. So how do I get that? Well, maybe I get someone who can\u2019t play drums to play the drums!\" Critical reception. \"2020\" received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average"}, {"text": "score of 82 based on fifteen reviews, indicating \"universal acclaim\". Mark Deming of AllMusic highlighted Dawson's lyrics that reflect \"the social, political, and economic uncertainty that has swept the globe. But rather than dealing in sloganeering or checking off the familiar outrages that are part of our collective existence, Dawson casts his gaze on the daily lives of ordinary people trying to live their lives despite the fractures in the society around them.\" Ben Beaumont-Thomas of \"The Guardian\" thought that the songs were Palme d'Or-worthy Loachian masterpieces, full of quiet tenacity on an island slowly turning sour.\" Writing for The Quietus, Johnny Lamb called \"2020\" \"the most accessible\" of Dawson's records and said that the lyricism \"wonderful\", singling out praise in particular for \"Fresher's Ball\", which \"zooms in on the minutiae of things in a way that seems to extract the greatest emotional impact.\" \"Pitchfork\" likened the album to a short-story collection that can have \"an overwhelming, exhausting effect\" on the listener, but said that Dawson \"wieleded the glut of information in his favor.\" Track listing. All tracks are written by Richard Dawson."}, {"text": "Hardy Billington (born 1952 or 1953) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 152nd District, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican party. Positions. Child marriage. In May 2024, Billington expressed opposition to legislation introduced by Missouri state senator Holly Thompson Rehder that would prohibit anyone under the age of 18 from obtaining a marriage license in Missouri, with Billington claiming in an interview with \"The Kansas City Star\" that the bill would lead pregnant teenagers to seek abortions if they could not get married."}, {"text": "BATX is an acronym standing for Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi, the four biggest tech firms in China, often compared to GAMMA (Google, Amazon, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, Apple) in the United States. BATX were some of the first tech companies started in the 2000s during the rise of the Chinese technology revolution and quickly became widely used among Chinese netizens. Notably after 2015, some other tech companies like Huawei, DiDi, JD, DJI and ByteDance have also become some of the up-and-coming biggest tech giants in the industry. History. In 2000, under Chairman Jiang Zemin's instruction, China started the Golden Shield Project to manage the media and information flow within China, in an attempt to protect national security and limit the infiltration of Western propaganda. Under the Golden Shield Project, many American tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Netflix, and the like were denied access into China from the Great Firewall due to their refusal to follow local data laws, while others, such as Microsoft and LinkedIn, were allowed. At the same time, the population of Chinese netizens grew substantially since the introduction of internet in 1994. By 2018, China contains a population of 800 million netizens, 98% of whom are"}, {"text": "mobile users. Many Chinese tech companies flourished under this system, without competition from foreign businesses. BATX are a few of the earliest tech companies who saw the chance and began to occupy the internet market in the early ages of China's internet transformation. Influences. Baidu. Baidu Search is the most popular search engine in China. Baidu is often contrasted with Google, which is the biggest search engine company founded in United States. Google is banned in China. So Baidu provides an equivalent search experience for China's netizens. Other than Baidu Search, Baidu also provides many different other products, such as Baidu Maps, Baidu Cloud, Baidu Tieba, Baidu Knows, and more, catered to different needs for Chinese netizens. Baidu accounts for 64.55% of the search engine market share in China, and also is the third biggest search engine website in the world. Alibaba. The Alibaba Group was first started as an e-commerce company in 1999 in Hangzhou, China. Since then, it has become a giant tech corporation, including branches like e-commerce, entertainment, online payment, cloud-computing, and AI technology. Its most famous C2C products are Taobao and Alipay, which are closely incorporated into every Chinese online shopping experience. In 2017, Taobao.com was"}, {"text": "the third most visited website in China after Baidu.com and QQ.com. Taobao accounted for 58.2% of the e-commerce market share in China by 2018. Tencent. Tencent was first started by Ma Huateng as a social network platform. Most Chinese netizens came to know Tencent through its messaging platform QQ. Now, Tencent has developed many more areas of business, including social platform, entertainment, e-commerce, online payment, information services, and artificial intelligence. WeChat, one of the most famous messaging apps from Tencent, had 169.6 million active monthly users in 2018. WeChat is the third most commonly used messaging app worldwide in 2018, after WhatsApp and Messenger. Tencent Entertainment is also the No.1 in the online gaming industry in the world by 2018, followed directly by Sony. Xiaomi. Xiaomi, in contrast to the other three, focuses more on hardware technology like smartphones, home automation, smart TVs and other smart devices. Two thirds of Xiaomi's profit is generated by smartphone sales. Xiaomi became the biggest smart phone maker in China in 2014 before plummeting down to fifth place in 2016. Other tech companies in China. Although BATX has been a very popular acronym for people when referring to the biggest Chinese tech firms, there"}, {"text": "are also many other tech firms has picked up after 2010 and also became the leaders in their respective fields. On Forbes' 2019 Global 2000, 20 out of 184 tech companies on the list are from China. Huawei. Huawei became one of the most well known Chinese tech companies in the world by the 2010s. Founded by Ren Zhengfei at 1987 at Shenzhen China, it focuses on information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. Huawei became the No.1 at Telecommunication network in the world by 2012 and launched its first 5G smartphone, Mate 20 X 5G in July 2019. In 2018, Huawei generated revenue of 721,202 mm RMB of revenue, which is approximately 101,910.32 mm dollars. DiDi. DiDi Chuxing is the most popular taxi hailing service app in China. In 2018, there were over 30 million rides being used on DiDi each day. DiDi is available in more than 400 cities in China and has over 550 million users. DiDi accounted for 71.4% of the taxi hailing service share in China in 2018. DJI. DJI is a private Shenzhen-based technology firm which is the leading consumer and industrial unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) manufacturer today, holding a 76% market"}, {"text": "share worldwide as of August 2021. Their products are sold worldwide and include the Phantom and Mavic camera drone series, the Osmo camera and gimbal series, the DJI FPV series of first person racing drones, the Ronin series of camera gimbals, as well as the RoboMaster series of educational robots."}, {"text": "Santeri Airola (born 29 June 2000) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing for SaiPa of the Liiga. Airola was drafted 211th overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft. Playing career. Airola played as a youth within the SaiPa organization before moving to hometown Mestis club, Imatran Ketter\u00e4. He made his Liiga debut on loan with SaiPa on 29 December 2018 against Ilves. He went onto to play three games for SaiPa during the 2018\u201319 Liiga season. On 24 March 2020, Airola left Ketter\u00e4 agreeing to an optional three-year contract with Liiga club, Ilves."}, {"text": "Mike Henderson (born 1958/1959) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri Senate from the 3rd district, serving since 2025. He was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 117th District, serving from 2017 to 2025. He is a member of the Republican party. Political issues. Petitions. Henderson sponsored a bill that would make the initiative petition process for voters to amend the state constitution more difficult by raising the required threshold of votes. The bill raised national attention as being the first such proposal, as well as potentially violating the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution."}, {"text": "Mura-Drava-Danube (UNESCO designation: Ba\u010dko Podunavlje, ) is a transboundary biosphere reserve along the Drava, Mura and Danube rivers. The reserve spans , in Croatia, and in Hungary. Flood prevention dams on the rivers separate the reserve into a flooded area and a flood-controlled side. It is one of the best preserved wetlands in the Danube River Basin area. In 2009, the preliminary bilateral agreement between Croatia and Hungary was reached on creating a joint natural reserve in the Drava-Danube region. In March 2011, corresponding ecology ministries from five countries (Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia) agreed on creating a Trans-boundary Biosphere Reserve of Mura-Drava-Danube which would consist of more than of the core zone (already protected areas), of buffer zones and of transitional zones. It should include the already protected areas: Kopa\u010dki rit, Veliki Pa\u017eut, Mura-Drava (in Croatia), Danube-Drava National Park (in Hungary), Gornje Podunavlje, Kara\u0111or\u0111evo, Tikvara (in Serbia) and several Natura 2000 protected areas in Austria, Slovenia and Hungary. With in total, it would be among the largest protected terrestrial areas in Europe, hence it was named the \"Amazon of Europe - Mura-Drava-Danube\". In June 2016 UNESCO officially designated the reserve and in September 2016 five ministers opened the reserve"}, {"text": "and agreed on future cooperation and joint management. That management will include the administration of the river ecosystems in sustainable way, renewal and protection of the natural wetlands and biodiversity, taking care of the drinking water, spurring of the economic development: organic production, tourism and protection of the diverse cultural heritage in each of the countries. UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The reserve was officially designated UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on 14 June 2017 under the title \"Ba\u010dko Podunavlje\". Podunavlje is the second UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Serbia after Golija-Studenica, designated in 2001."}, {"text": "Marcia Lynn Huber is an American chemical engineer. She is a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Huber's research interests include developing models for the thermophysical properties of fluids. She was awarded the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal in 2005. Education. Huber received a B.S. in chemical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in chemical and petroleum refining engineering at the Colorado School of Mines after a brief stint working for Rockwell International. Her 1985 dissertation is titled \"An investigation of heat transfer in packed beds at high temperatures and low Reynold's numbers\". Huber's doctoral advisor was M. C. Jones. Career. After graduating with her Ph.D. from the Colorado School of Mines Huber began working at the NIST as a National Research Council (NRC) postdoctoral research fellow working with James Ely. Her post-doc focused on developing extended corresponding states models for the properties of fluids, especially heavy hydrocarbons. This work was expanded and incorporated into several early computer databases for thermophysical properties, including what is now NIST Database 23, more commonly called REFPROP. Huber is currently a chemical engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and is active in organizing the International"}, {"text": "Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, held triennially in Boulder, Colorado, US. Previous positions held by Huber at NIST include being the group leader of the Theory and Modelling of Fluids Group. Research. Huber has been the author or co-author of over 110 research papers, 19 patents, and has been cited over 12,900 times. Modeling the thermophysical properties of fluids Huber is interested in many aspects of developing models for the thermophysical properties of fluids. She often is involved with international collaborations to develop reference fluid correlations for the viscosity and thermal conductivity of many industrially important pure fluids such as carbon dioxide and water. Most recently she has focused on proposed low-GWP replacement refrigerants such as R1234yf and R1233zd(E). She also is interested in developing surrogate mixture models for the thermodynamic and transport properties of complex fuel mixtures, including aviation and transport fuels. Recent work has focused on low-sulfur diesel fuels, past research included biofuels, rocket propellants, and aviation fuels. Other interests include the solid-liquid boundary of fluids, fire-suppressant mixtures, surface tension, and development of mixture models for thermophysical properties. She also is part of the team that continuously works on developing and improving the REFPROP program. Awards and honors. Huber"}, {"text": "received the NIST Standard Reference Data Measurement Services Award twice, first in 1992 and again in 1995. She was awarded the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal in 2005."}, {"text": "Rudolph L. Veit (born August 16, 1953) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 59th District, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican party."}, {"text": "Henry Fork is a long 4th order tributary to South Fork Catawba River in Burke and Catawba Counties, North Carolina. Variant names. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as: Course. Henry Fork rises about 0.25 miles southeast of Propst Mountain in Burke County, North Carolina. Henry Fork then flows northeast into Catawba County then southeast to form South Fork Catawba River with Jacob Fork about 3 miles southwest of Startown. Watershed. Henry Fork drains of area, receives about 51.1 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 310.54 and is about 65% forested."}, {"text": "Douglas Beck (born 1964/1965) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri Senate from the 1st district, serving since 2021. He previously represented the 92nd district in the Missouri House of Representatives from 2017 to 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party. In the 2020 election cycle, he won the seat for Missouri Senate's 1st district, ascending from the Missouri House of Representatives and succeeding Scott Sifton. Missouri House of Representatives. During his time in the Missouri House of Representatives, in which he served from 2017 to 2021, he was the Ranking Member of the Economic Development and Workforce Development Committees and also served on the Veterans and Children and Families Committees. Missouri State Senate. Beck was elected in the 2020 Missouri State Senate elections, succeeding fellow Democrat Scott Sifton. Committee assignments. Source: Personal life. He was born and raised in St. Louis County, and graduated from Lindbergh High School in 1983. He attended St. Louis Community College. He has 2 children and 3 grandchildren."}, {"text": "Danny Busick (born 1959) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 3rd District, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican party. Career. In 2025, Busick sponsored legislation to increase taxes on agriculture land that includes leases to renewable energy projects."}, {"text": "William H. Falkner III is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 10th District, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican party and former mayor of St. Joseph, Missouri."}, {"text": "Colonel Henry Sandys, 5th Baron Sandys (died 6 April 1644), was an English nobleman and Cavalier officer in the English Civil War. Sandys was the third and youngest, but only surviving, son of Sir Edwin Sandys (eldest son of Miles Sandys and nephew of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William, 3rd Baron Sandys of The Vyne. Until their marriage in 1586, Sandys' parents were not related, their families having different origins: the family of Archbishop Sandys originated in Cumbria, while the Barons Sandys had their seat at The Vyne, Hampshire. Sandys married Jane, daughter of Sir William Sandys of Miserden, Gloucestershire. They had the following children: Due to the Civil War, Sandys was never summoned to Parliament as a peer. Sandys fought on the royalist side, received a mortal wound at the Battle of Cheriton (at Bramdean near Alresford, Hampshire) on 29 March 1644, and died on 6 April."}, {"text": "Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jean is a Swiss curler and curling coach. He is a and a three-time Swiss men's champion (1991, 1992, 1994)."}, {"text": "This article documents statistics from the 1999 Rugby World Cup, principally hosted in Wales from 1 October to 6 November. Team statistics. The following table shows the team's results in major statistical categories. Hat-tricks. Unless otherwise noted, players in this list scored a hat-trick of tries."}, {"text": "Heather Jean Patrick is an American physicist. She is a researcher and project lead at National Institute of Standards and Technology. Patrick's research focuses on applications of scattering and reflectance measurements, advanced light sources, and robotics to the characterization and metrology of optical materials. Education. Patrick completed a B.S. in physics from the MIT Physics Department. Her 1988 undergraduate thesis was titled \"Reduction of amplitude fluctuations in a laser diode pumped Nd:YAG ring laser\". Her academic advisor was Andrew D. Jeffries. Patrick earned a Ph.D. in physics at University of Colorado Boulder. Her 1995 dissertation was titled \"Dynamics of ultraviolet-light-induced refractive index changes in germanium-doped optical fiber\". Patrick's doctoral advisor was Sarah L. Gilbert. Career. From 1991 to 1995, Patrick worked at NIST Boulder Laboratories. She was at the United States Naval Research Laboratory from 1995 to 2000. Patrick worked at Optinel Systems, Inc. in Elkridge, Maryland from 2001 to 2004. Since 2005, Patrick works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. She is the project lead on the Robotic Optical Scatter Instrument (ROSI), a NIST facility for ultraviolet to shortwave infrared spectral and angle-resolved reflectance and scattering measurements. Patrick won the Judson C. French Award"}, {"text": "in 2018 for her contributions to developing ROSI. Patrick's research focuses on applications of scattering and reflectance measurements, advanced light sources, and robotics to the characterization and metrology of optical materials."}, {"text": "\"Mi saoco\" is a son montuno written and performed by Cuban singer Benny Mor\u00e9. It was recorded in February 1955 and released as a single by RCA Victor later that year. Mor\u00e9's recording featured his Banda Gigante with Eduardo Cabrera \"Cabrerita\" on piano and a large horn section featuring Santiago Pe\u00f1alver on saxophone. The song became a staple of Mor\u00e9's live repertoire, and one of his performances was filmed for television and later shown on BBC Arena in 1984 and 1986. That performance features Generoso Jim\u00e9nez on trombone, who joined the Banda Gigante in April 1955, after the original studio recording. Although labelled as a \"son montuno\" on the original single, \"Mi saoco\" has also been considered a guaracha-son due to its fast tempo. The lyrics of the song mention various places in Cuba: Vertientes, Camag\u00fcey, Florida and Mor\u00f3n, significant towns in Mor\u00e9's past. Because of its refrain, the song is also known as \"Me voy pa' Mor\u00f3n\", not to be confused with the song of the same name composed by Jos\u00e9 Herrera and released also in 1955 by Orquesta Melod\u00edas del 40."}, {"text": "\"Saoco\" is a song by Puerto Rican singer Wisin featuring fellow Puerto Rican singer Daddy Yankee. It was released in 2004 as the second single from Wisin's first solo studio album, \"El Sobreviviente\" (2004)."}, {"text": "The 2001 St. Petersburg, Florida, mayoral election was held on March 27, 2001, following a primary election on February 27, 2001. Incumbent Mayor David Fischer declined to run for a fourth term, and a crowded field emerged to succeed him. One of Fischer's campaign advisors, corporate lawyer Rick Baker, placed first in the primary election, winning 25 percent of the vote. City Councilmember Kathleen Ford narrowly beat out City Councilmember Larry J. Williams for second place, and advanced to the general election against Baker. Baker defeated Ford by a wide margin, 57\u201343 percent, winning his first time as mayor."}, {"text": "Mein Na Janoo is a 2019 Pakistani television series co-produced by Momina Duraid and Adnan Siddiqui under their home banners of MD Productions and Cereal Entertainment. It features Sanam Jung, Zahid Ahmed, Affan Waheed and Komal Aziz Khan. Plot. Saira and her mother, Farah face a lot of abuse from her cantankerous paternal grandmother and step-mother, Tehmina. Though, her half-sister, Kiran is very kind with the both of them. Saira's father, Waleed has two wives, having one daughter with each: Saira, who is his first wife's daughter and Kiran, who is his second wife's daughter. Saira's father also has two younger sisters and each of them have a son. His first sister, Sabra, has a son named Zulqarnain \"Nain\", a former PAF Flight Lieutenant, who is now visually impaired. His younger sister, Asma, has a son named Nehat, who developed feelings for Saira. Saira too has feelings for him. On the other hand, Kiran develops feelings for Nehat, but Nehat does not feel the same way. Even though Saira treats Nain as a brother, she harbors mild feelings for him yet Nain does loves Saira. However, the family doesn't approve of Saira and Nehat being together and as a result,"}, {"text": "Nehat gets engaged to Kiran. On the mehndi night of Kiran and Nehat, Nehat snatches the gun from the guard and runs off with Saira. Asma, Tehmina and her mother-in-law blame Farah for this. Nain then takes action against Nehat and gets Saira back. Once Saira has been found and returns safely, Nain beats Nihat to the point that he is hospitalized. Tehmina and Ama Ji were about to visit Nehat in hospital but Waleed forbids them from doing so and decides to cut all ties with Asma. Tehmina blames Saira for this. Soon, Waleed decides to marry Saira off with Nain to save her honor. However, Saira doesn't approve of this relationship as she thinks her father is trying to get rid of her by getting her married to a blind person. When Nehat finds out about this, he goes mad. However, Saira also develops feelings for Nain and the couple lives a good and loving life. Nehat starts stalking Saira and causes disputes to arise in Saira and Nain's relationship. Meanwhile, Waleed's younger brother Asghar had been missing for 20 years and they had all blamed Farah since then. It had been revealed that he was in coma"}, {"text": "for 15 years in hospital. He had been found and returned home safely. Asghar helps Farah clean her name and let her regain her honor. Nehat marries Kiran but is actually still obsessed with Saira. One night when Nehat goes into Saira's house, Nain discovers him and tries to kill him but Saira stops him from doing so, which makes Nain think that she had been having an affair with Nehat. Nain distrusts Saira and kicks her out. That leads to a big drama with the drop scene of Nehat being alone and a cripple in one leg due to a fight gone wrong with Nain and his divorce from Kiran. Nehat's parents move to Islamabad due to his father's new job but Nehat did not want to go leaving Saira so decides to stay behind. Nain and Saira patch up their differences and live happily ever after. Reception. The show was earlier liked by the viewers as it marked the return of Sanam Jung on small screen after a long time. It gained 6.7 TRPs at its highest. Later, it was criticized due to its huge complex storyline and unnecessarily dragging."}, {"text": "Saoco is a type of Cuban rum with coconut water. Saoco may also refer to:"}, {"text": "List of awards and nominations received by Michelle Williams may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Ellwood Walter was a ship used as a Liverpool packet ship in the 19th century. She was also chartered to take a Battery to Port Royal during the American Civil War. 1855 Launch of the Ellwood Walter. On January 16, 1855, the launch of the ship named the Ellwood Walter was announced in the New York Daily Tribute: \"Yesterday afternoon, shortly after 4 o'clock, the fine ship Elwood Walter was launched from the yard of Mr. Thomas Stack, foot of North Second. The vessel is 136 feet long on deck, 26 1/2 feed beer, 22 feed deep, and about 1,200 tons measurement. She was built for Mr. John B. Sardy and others. She is intended for their line of Liverpool packets, and will be commanded by Capt. James Malony. The vessel glided from the stocks in fine style, in the presence of several hundred persons, who came to see her launching.\" The Ellwood Walter, has the following ship registrations: Ellwood Walter - New Haven to Port Royal. On January 1, 1862, the Connecticut First Battery of Artillery was under orders to travel to Port Royal, South Carolina on the Ellwood Walter at the time of the Civil War. Captain"}, {"text": "Chadwick (see above ship registrations) was chartered to take the Battery to Portal Royal to go to the front lines. This account was written in the book \"History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865\": \"A large packet ship of the Black Ball line, the Ellwood Walter, Capt. Chadwick, of Lyme, had been chartered to take the Battery to Port Royal, South Carolina. There was much to be done before the ship was ready for the troops. Berths had to be built, stalls made between decks, and guns and ammunition loaded.\""}, {"text": "Ian Gately (born 21 March 1966) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and the Parramatta Eels. Biography. A Sydney-born forward, Gately played for Manly Warringah in the late 1980s. He debuted in the 1987 NSWRL season and made seven first-grade appearances that year, including Manly's semi-final win over Eastern Suburbs, but missed out on a place in the premiership-winning grand final team. At the end of the season, he was part of the Manly squad to travel to England to play the World Club Challenge, featuring as a prop in the club\u2019s six-point loss to Wigan. In 1988, he was a regular fixture for the Sea Eagles in first grade, putting together 21 appearances as a prop and second-rower. He occasionally filled in as goal-kicker when Michael O'Connor wasn't available. During the 1988 season, he also twice played against the touring Great Britain national team, scoring a try in Manly's 30-0 win at Brookvale Oval. He additionally represented the President's XIII, off the interchange bench, in a tour match against Great Britain in Queanbeyan. After a third and final season with Manly, Gately joined the Mick Cronin-coached Parramatta Eels in"}, {"text": "1990. However, he was unable to make an impact in first grade during his two seasons at Parramatta and spent most of his time in the reserves. In 1992, he spent a pre-season trialing with the Canberra Raiders, but failed to get signed to a contract and instead finished his career in England. Gately went on to play six seasons for English club Keighley and was a member of two championship-winning teams."}, {"text": "Bragesgade is a street in the Outer N\u00f8rrebro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from N\u00f8rrebrogade in the southwest to Nannasgade in the northeast. It is located in the so-called Mimersgade Quarter where many of the streets are named after Norse figures and localities. It is named afterBrage (Bragi). N\u00f8rrebrohallen's main entrance is located in the street. History. The street was given its name in 1889. It then ended at Rosagade (now Mimersgade) but it was later extended to Nannasgade. A complex of carriagehouses and workshops for the trams was constructed on the north side of the northwest side of the street in1898. It was later extended several times, for instance with its own substation in 1914. Several industrial enterprises were also built in the street. Brdr. Henzes Skrueboltefabrik was located at No. 8 but moved when a new plant on Strandlodsvej in Amager was inaugurated in the 1940s. Peter J\u00f8rgensens motorfabrik \"Dan\", the first Danish manufacturer of petroleum engines, opened at No. 10 in around 1910. It relocated to Herlev in 1953. Notable Buildings and places. N\u00f8rrebrohallen, located in the former remisse complex, is operated as a local culture and sports centre. The main building from 1898 was extended"}, {"text": "on a number of occasions, for instance in 1902 by Vilhelm Friederichsen. Kingo's Church (No. 25), on the corner with Nannasgade, was built in 1910. The National Romantic building was designed by Kristoffer Varming. Manufakturhandlerforeningens Stiftelse (No. 26A), located opposite Kingo's Church, was also built in 1909. The building was designed by Valdemar and Bernhard Ingemann. Transport. The southwestern end of the street is located approximately 430 metres from N\u00f8rrebro station and some 600 metres from N\u00f8rrebrosrunddel. The northeastern end of the street is located approximately 340 metres from Skjolds Plads."}, {"text": "Gulgastrura is a genus of springtails in the family Gulgastruridae. It is the sole genus of the family Gulgastruridae, and \"Gulgastrura reticulosa\" is its only species. It was discovered in 1966, in a limestone cave in Korea."}, {"text": "The TNCA Serie E was a family of various monoplanes built in Mexico by the Talleres Nacionales de Construcciones Aeron\u00e1uticas (National Aeronautical Construction Workshops). Design and development. The first aircraft of the Serie E family was a low-wing monoplane with registration number 2-E-98, which was dubbed \"Sonora\", this airplane made its first flight on March 2, 1922. It was powered by an le Rh\u00f4ne 9J 9-cylinder rotary engine, exceeding expectations, with performance significantly higher than similar aircraft at the time. Despite its benefits, the plane was not produced in series, because for was the Technical Consultant of the Aviation Department Ralph O'Neill, the aircraft could not be used for military purposes. The \"Sonora\" was in service with the Mexican Air Force until 1925 and later dismantled, being sold to a private individual. \u00c1ngel Lascurain and Antonio Sea made a redesign of the \"Sonora\", this time it was a high-wing monoplane that received the registration 3-E-130 and was nicknamed \"Tololoche\", which made its first flight at the end of March 1923. The \"Tololoche\" was powered by a 160-horsepower Le Rh\u00f4ne 18E air-cooled 18-cylinder rotary engine in 2 rows, also it had two machine guns synchronized with the propeller. Fuselage was made"}, {"text": "in a monocoque structure covered entirely in wood. Wings were semi-rigid covered with plywood, which were easy to disassemble by using two pins. In June 1923, a prototype similar to the \"Tololoche\" was built but with larger dimensions, which received the registration 4-E-131 and was nicknamed \"Quetzalc\u00f3atl\" or \"Tololoche grande\" because of its great resemblance to the \"Tololoche\". The \"Quetzlc\u00f3atl\" was powered by a BMW IIIa 6-cylinder water-cooled in-line engine and its fuselage was mostly built of wood. Four \"Quetzlc\u00f3atl\" were built, participating in observation and bombing flights during the Delahuertista rebellion. Another prototype that was built almost simultaneously with the \"Quetzalcoatl\", received the registration 5-E-132, which was nicknamed \"Mexico\", this airplane had two seats side by side and was powered by an le Rh\u00f4ne engine. It had his first flight on 21 August 1923. Low-wing monoplane, it was the first version of the Serie E and was built only a single example driven by a 110 horsepower Le Rh\u00f4ne 9J engine. It received the registration 2-E-98. High-wing monoplane used as a single-seat fighter, powered by a 160-horsepower Le Rh\u00f4ne 18E engine, It had 2 machine gun synchronized with the propeller. The only example received the registration number 3-E-130. (Also"}, {"text": "called \"Tololoche grande\") similar to the Tololoche but with enlarged dimensions, it was powered by a 185 horsepower BMW IIIa engine. Four examples were built. Version with side-by-side seats (\"Sonora\" and \"Quetzalcoatl\" had tandem configuration) powered by an 80 horsepower Le Rh\u00f4ne 9C engine. It was made only one example which received the registration 5-E-132."}, {"text": "Threads of Destiny is a lost 1914 silent drama film directed by Joseph W. Smiley and starring Evelyn Nesbit, in her feature debut. It was produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company and distributed by General Film Company."}, {"text": "Redirect from species to monotypic genus."}, {"text": "Raquel Ferreira is a baseball executive who is an executive vice president and assistant general manager for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). In 2014, she became the third female vice-president of baseball operations in MLB history. Baseball career. Ferreira was first hired by the Boston Red Sox in 1999 as an administrative assistant by Kent Qualls. In 2003, she was promoted to Director of Minor League Administration by then general manager Theo Epstein. In 2004, she played a key role in the team's rookie development program. In late 2014, Ferreira was promoted to Vice President of Baseball Administration, making her the third female vice-president of baseball operations in MLB history, joining Jean Afterman and Kim Ng, who have had assistant general manager roles with the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers, respectively. Ferreira has led large player signings for the Red Sox, such as the six-year, $120 million contract extension for Xander Bogaerts in April 2019. In September 2019, Ferreira became part of the interim leadership team\u2014along with assistant general managers Brian O'Halloran, Eddie Romero, and Zack Scott\u2014to oversee the Red Sox baseball operations department after the departure of general manager Dave Dombrowski. Along with"}, {"text": "additional responsibilities, she became the highest ranking woman in MLB operations and a rare female in charge of an MLB team during the regular season. In December 2019, the Red Sox and Ferreira agreed to a multi-year contract, under which her title is Executive Vice President / Assistant General Manager. During her tenure with the Red Sox, the team has won four World Series championships. Personal life. Ferreira was born and raised in Cumberland, Rhode Island, the daughter of Gamaliel and Lotty Ferreira, immigrants from Cape Verde. Ferreira graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a B.A. in Communications in 1992. She grew up watching the Pawtucket Red Sox, the local minor league team. Ferreira is married to Erik Stamps, with whom she has one daughter."}, {"text": "Henry Fiol (born January 16, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader and painter. He is known for his traditional approach to son cubano and other Cuban music styles, and he is considered a \"cult favorite\" among Latin music fans. Fiol was born in Manhattan, New York, United States, to an Italian-American mother and a Puerto Rican father. He studied fine arts at Hunter College and became a teacher before starting his career as a musician in the 1969. In 1974, he co-founded, along with William Mill\u00e1n, a Cuban-style conjunto called Saoco, recording two albums with the group, \"Siempre ser\u00e9 guajiro\" for Mericana Records and \"Macho Mumba\" for Salsoul Records. He was the bandleader, singer, songwriter and cover artist for both albums, before leaving the band because of creative differences with Mill\u00e1n. William Mill\u00e1n was the sole leader of Saoco on its next two and final albums. In 1980, Henry Fiol made his solo debut on SAR Records. He recorded two more albums for the label before forming his own record company, Coraz\u00f3n, along with a new band of the same name. He continued to release albums over the following decades. His latest album, \"Ciudadano del mundo\", was released in"}, {"text": "2012. His son, Orlando Fiol, is a pianist and conga drummer. Discography. With Saoco Solo albums"}, {"text": "is a Japanese field hockey player, who plays as a forward. Career. Australian leagues. In 2018, Kazuma Murata was signed to the Canberra Lakers as an import player for the 2018 edition of the Australian Hockey League. Following his appearance for the Canberra Lakers, Murata was signed to the Australian Capital Territory's new team, the Canberra Chill, for the inaugural tournament of the Sultana Bran Hockey One League. National team. Murata made his debut for the Japan national team in 2014, during a test series against New Zealand in Wellington. He won his first medal at a major tournament in 2018, at the Asian Games in Jakarta. The team won gold, and also secured qualification to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo."}, {"text": "DeWeese Reservoir is located in northern Custer County, Colorado between the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the Wet Mountains. The reservoir is owned by the DeWeese-Dye Ditch and Reservoir Company, which uses the water it stores to irrigate agricultural crops around Lincoln Park and Brookside in Fremont County, Colorado. The ditch and reservoir company owns the land under the reservoir and most of the land around it. The company has arrangements with other organizations to store water and for the use of the space. For example, it stores for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, it stores for the Bureau of Land Management (which also owns some land near the reservoir), and it stores some water for the Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District and the Round Mountain Water District, a local water company. State wildlife area. The lake and the land immediately surrounding it are also designated as the DeWeese Reservoir State Wildlife Area. It offers coldwater stream and lake fishing, hunting, and picnicking, hiking, wildlife viewing, and camping."}, {"text": "Isotogastrura is a genus of springtails in the family Isotogastruridae, the only genus of the family. There are at least 10 described species in \"Isotogastrura\". Species. These species belong to the genus \"Isotogastrura\":"}, {"text": "Julie Ann Borchers (born 1962) is an American physicist. Education. Borchers received her B.S. in physics at the University of Dayton in 1984. She completed a Ph.D. at University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign in 1990. Borcher's doctoral advisor was Myron Salamon. Her dissertation was titled \"Structural and magnetic properties of erbium thin films and Er/Y superlattices\". Career and research. Borchers is part of the Neutron-Condensed Matter Science Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She works as associate director for the Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) and is an instrument scientist for the polarized beam reflectometer (PBR). She acts as chair-elect for the APS Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG), working on bringing together students, scientists and engineers to advance the study and applications of magnetism. Her term as chair-elect is May 2020 to March 2021. Awards and honours. She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002. She was awarded NIST 2022 Distinguished Mentoring Award."}, {"text": "The 2005 St. Petersburg, Florida, mayoral election took place on November 9, 2005. Incumbent Mayor Rick Baker, who was first elected in 2001, ran for re-election to a second term. He was challenged by retired lawyer Ed Helm. Baker defeated Helm in a landslide, winning re-election with 70 percent of the vote."}, {"text": "Adriana Eleni Lita is a Romanian materials scientist who is a member of the faint photonics group at National Institute of Standards and Technology. She works on fabrication and development of single-photon detectors such as transition-edge sensors and superconducting nanowire single-photon detector devices. Life. Lita earned a B.S. in physics from the University of Bucharest. She completed a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at University of Michigan in 2000. Her dissertation was titled \"Correlation between microstructure and surface structure evolution in polycrystalline films\". Lita's doctoral advisor was John E. Sanchez, Jr. In 2003, Lita joined the faint photonics group at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder. She works on fabrication and development of single-photon detectors such as transition-edge sensors (TES) and superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) devices. Her work includes development of record high quantum efficiency TES devices optimized at various wavelengths from UV to near IR, integration of TES with optical waveguides platforms for photonic circuits, as well as materials development for SNSPDs. Her research has included Bell test experiments and the practical implementation of quantum key distribution. In 2021, Lita was awarded the Department of Commerce Silver Medal."}, {"text": "Plotnikov 2-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,088 as of 2010. There are 22 streets. Geography. Plotnikov 2-y is located 56 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Sekachi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Poddubny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 145 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Poddubny is located 24 km southwest of Mikhaylovka. Archedinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "<onlyinclude> October 2019. </onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Prudki () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 62 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Prudki is located 19 km west of Mikhaylovka. Katasonov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ashfield in Torquay, Devon was the childhood home of Agatha Christie. She lived there from her birth until the time of her marriage, and intermittently thereafter. She reluctantly sold it in 1940; in 1962 it was demolished and replaced with a small estate of houses. A blue plaque marks the top left corner of the two-acre property which was Ashfield. Christie loved this house, and even in old age remembered it fondly. In her autobiography, she stated: I remember, I remember the house where I was born. I go back to that always in my mind. Ashfield. How much that means. When I dream I hardly ever dream of Greenway or Winterbrook. It is always Ashfield, the old familiar setting where one\u2019s life first functioned\u2026 How well I know every detail there: the frayed red curtain leading to the kitchen, the sunflower brass fender in the hall grate, the Turkey carpet on the stairs, the big shabby schoolroom with its dark blue and gold embossed wallpaper. Ashfield and the Miller family. The Ordnance map to the right shows Ashfield surrounded by similar villa houses, each in their own one- or two-acre gardens. Ashfield was a large early Victorian house whose"}, {"text": "entrance carriage drive ran from Barton Road not far from the Blue Plaque. It wound through the front garden up to the house. The photo of the house above is from the back, showing the external glass conservatory on the right. This conservatory is marked on the map. The greenhouse, which Agatha said \"adjoined the house on one side\", was called K. K. The garden in the background in the photograph to the left is the main garden and stretches south-east toward the neighbouring property of \u201cSt Marys\u201d. Agatha's parents were Clarissa Boehmer and Frederick Alvah Miller. He was an American, born and raised in New York. Frederick's father Nathaniel had amassed a fortune through a partnership in a milling firm. Nathaniel came to England and married Clara's aunt. When he died in 1869 he left the bulk of his fortune in a complicated series of trusts to Frederick, his only child, but he also left Clara a small sum. Because of this inheritance, Frederick did not need to earn a livelihood, and so involved himself in many social pursuits; he was generally regarded as \"a gentleman\". In 1878 Frederick married Clara; a year later their first child, Margaret \"Madge\""}, {"text": "Frary Miller, arrived, and in 1880 their only son, Louis Montant \"Monty\" Miller, was born. Frederick needed to return to America for a short time, so he asked Clarissa to look for a house. She bought Ashfield with some of her inheritance from Nathaniel Miller. Agatha records her mother's recollections of this event in her autobiography: My mother, whom we always claimed was clairvoyant replied that they could always sell it again. Perhaps she saw dimly her family living in that house for many years ahead. I loved that house as soon as I got into it, she insisted. \"It's got a wonderfully peaceful atmosphere.\" The house was owned by some people named Brown who were Quakers, and when my mother hesitatingly condoled with Mrs Brown on having to leave the house they had lived in so many years the lady said gently, \"I am happy to think of thee and thy children living here, my dear.\" It was, my mother said, \"like a blessing\". The advertisement for Ashfield that Mrs Brown placed in the newspaper in 1880 is shown. It describes the many rooms of the house and gives an outline of the garden with its beautiful trees and"}, {"text": "fine views. Christie at Ashfield. Agatha Christie was born at Ashfield in 1890. Her baptismal certificate (which is shown on the right) records that she was living here with her parents Frederick and Clara. The vicar who performed the ceremony was Rev Henry William Majendie, who was rector of All Saints Church, Torre, until 1900. He was also the one responsible for the erection of the new church that Frederick Miller helped to construct by giving a generous donation in his infant daughter's name. The baptismal font that he used to christen Agatha is in the present All Saints Church. In her autobiography, she gave an account of her life at Ashfield and some descriptions of the house. The following include the relevant reports to enable a more detailed picture of the property to be formed. Her earliest memories were of the nursery and her nanny whom she called \"Nursie\". She said: The outstanding figure in my life was Nursie. And round myself and Nursie was our own special world, The Nursery. I can see the wallpaper now \u2013 mauve irises climbing up the walls in an endless pattern. I used to lie in bed looking at it in the"}, {"text": "firelight or the subdued light of Nursie\u2019s oil lamp on the table.\" She also remembered from an early age their cook Jane, who remained with the family for forty years. Jane Rowe is shown in the census form below as the cook living with the Millers in 1901. Agatha said: One other person of importance in the house was Jane our cook, who ruled the kitchen with a calm superiority of a queen. She came to my mother when she was a slim girl of nineteen promoted from being a kitchen maid. Jane cooked five-course dinners for seven or eight people as a matter of daily routine. For grand dinner parties of twelve or more each contained alternatives \u2013 two soups, two fish courses etc\". She described the external conservatory which can be seen in the photo of Ashfield above and in a close view below: \"The conservatory, a grandiloquent erection, containing pots of begonias, geraniums, tiered stands of every kind of fern, and several large palm trees.\" These palm trees can be seen in the photo. She also described the greenhouse called K. K.which can be seen in the above photo on the far left. She said it \"adjoined"}, {"text": "the house on one side\". \"This small greenhouse called I don\u2019t know K. K. (or possibly Kai Kai?) was bereft of plants and housed instead croquet mallets, hoops, balls, broken garden chairs, old painted iron tables, a decayed tennis net and Matilde [a rocking horse].\" Garden. Agatha was particularly fond of the garden and described it in depth. Some of the features she outlines can be seen in the Ordnance map above. \"There was a kitchen garden, bounded by a high wall which abutted on the road. This was uninteresting to me except as a provider of raspberries and green apples, both of which I ate in large quantities. Then came the garden proper \u2013 a stretch of lawn running downhill and studded with certain interesting entities. The ilex, the cedar, the Wellingtonia (excitingly tall). Two fir trees \u2026.. the turpentine tree which exuded a sticky strong smelling gum which I collected carefully in leaves and which was very precious balm. Finally the crowning glory the beech tree \u2013 the biggest tree in the garden with a pleasant shedding of beechnuts which I ate with relish. There was a copper beech too but this for some reason never counted in"}, {"text": "my tree world. Thirdly, there was the wood. In my imagination it looked and indeed still looms as large as the New Forest. Mainly composed of Ash trees it had a path winding through it. The wood had everything that is connected with woods. Mystery, terror, secret delight, inaccessibility and distance. The path through the woods led out onto the tennis or croquet lawn at the top of a high bank in front of the dining room window.\""}, {"text": "Razdory () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 329 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Razdory is located 67 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Kukushkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rekonstruktsiya () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,272 as of 2010. There are 21 streets. Geography. Rekonstruktsiya is located 36 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Troitsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rogozhin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 417 as of 2010. There are 15 streets. Geography. Rogozhin is located 25 km northwest of Mikhaylovka. Troitsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sekachi () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 653 as of 2010. There are 17 streets. Geography. Sekachi is located 67 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. 2-y Plotnikov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Semenovod () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 72 as of 2010. Geography. Semenovod is located 16 km southwest of Mikhaylovka. Otradnoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Senichkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 265 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Senichkin is located 28 km west of Mikhaylovka. Zinovyev is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sennoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,022 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Sennoy is located 40 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Bolshaya Glushitsa is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sidory () is a rural locality (a selo) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 2,515 as of 2010. There are 34 streets. Geography. Sidory is located 12 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Sebrovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Georg Macco (23 March 1863, in Aachen \u2013 20 April 1933, in Genoa) was a German landscape painter and illustrator, associated with the D\u00fcsseldorfer Malerschule. He is primarily known for his Orientalist works. Biography. He was inspired by stories of his great-great-uncle, the history and portrait painter , who painted a portrait of the Queen of Prussia and was a close friend of Beethoven and Goethe. His artistic career began at the Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf in 1880, where he studied with Eugen D\u00fccker and Johann Peter Theodor Janssen until 1887. During this time, he also contributed illustrations to \"Die Gartenlaube\" and drawings of coats-of-arms for his brother, , who was a historian and genealogist. He moved to Munich to further his studies and used that city as a base for his numerous travels, beginning with mountainous regions from Italy to Spitsbergen. Later, he travelled throughout the Middle East. The works he produced as a result of these travels would eventually become his most popular and sought after. His works may be seen at the Kunstmuseum D\u00fcsseldorf, the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen and the in Munich. Some of his works in Aachen were previously on the \"Schattengalerie\" (shadow gallery) list of works looted"}, {"text": "by the Nazis during World War II. Other works, not yet displayed, have been uncovered at the Simferopol Art Museum."}, {"text": "The Khartoum Memorial is a war memorial in Khartoum War Cemetery on the south-eastern side of Khartoum, Sudan. The memorial lists the names of 590 Commonwealth military personnel who died during the 1940\u20131941 East African campaign of World War II (in the Sudan, or in the advance into Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia) and for whom there is no known grave."}, {"text": "Starorechensky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 181 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Starorechensky is located 18 km southwest of Mikhaylovka. 1-y Ilmensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Staroselye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,001 as of 2010. There are 23 streets. Geography. Staroselye is located 17 km south of Mikhaylovka. Mikhaylovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Dubbo on 6 June 1942. It was triggered by the death of George Wilson (). Results. <includeonly> George Wilson () died.</includeonly>"}, {"text": "The 2009 St. Petersburg, Florida, mayoral election was held on November 3, 2009, following a primary election on September 1, 2009. Incumbent Mayor Rick Baker was barred by term limits from seeking a third term, and a crowded race emerged to succeed him. Former City Councilmember Bill Foster placed first in the primary election with 27 percent of the vote and advanced to the general election against former City Councilmember Kathleen Ford, a 2001 candidate for Mayor. In the general election, Foster narrowly defeated Ford, 53\u201347 percent, to win the election."}, {"text": "Tonka is a Croatian, Slovene and Slovak feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Antonia and Antonija used in Croatia and Slovenia, as well as a nickname. Notable people with this name include the following:"}, {"text": "Renato Ricci is a human name from Italian language or culture, may refer to:"}, {"text": "Carla Restrepo is a professor in the biology department of the University of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras Campus. Her research focuses on the study of tropical landscapes, including the processes underlying their large-scale dynamics. Education. Restrepo received her B.S. in biology at the University of Valle in Cali, Colombia, in 1984. In 1990, Restrepo received an M.S. in zoology at the University of Florida, where she also received her Ph.D. in 1995. Awards. Restrepo has received a number of prizes, honors, and grants in the course of her career. Research. Her main areas of research are landscape ecology, ecosystems, landslides and their impact on ecosystem diversity, changes in land cover and carbon budgets, forest fragmentation and phenotypic plasticity, and seed dispersal in fragmented landscapes."}, {"text": "James Hernandez Deakin (born October 27, 1972) is a Filipino-British television and events host, automotive journalist, video blogger, and motoring editor working for CNN Philippines and \"Philippine Tatler\". Biography. James Hernandez Deakin was born on October 27, 1972, in Manila, Philippines to a British father and a Filipino mother. He has two brothers, Patrick and Michael. Career. Deakin currently works as the motoring editor for \"Philippine Tatler\", a luxury-lifestyle magazine company. Deakin started working in CNN Philippines since 2014 with his shows \"Drive\" and \"The Service Road\", and also hosts \"New Day\" every Friday on the same network. Since 2017, Deakin is the main host of Miss Earth pageants. Personal life. Deakin has a wife named Shelley, from New Zealand, with whom he has three children. On February 14, 2023, he posted a photo on social media indicating he is currently dating social influencer, Roxy Delevin, who is 20 years younger than him. It is understood that he is separated from his wife although no details have emerged on whether this has been finalized at court."}, {"text": "is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan. She is a member of the Ladies Professional Shogi-players' Association of Japan. Women's shogi professional. Promotion history. Uekawa has been promoted as follows. Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks. Personal life. Uekawa married professional shogi player Ayumu Matsuo in April 2005, and Uekawa announced that she would be competing professionally under her married name. On December 1, 2014, however, the Ladies Professional Shogi-players' Association of Japan announced that Uekawa would no longer be competing under the name \"Matsuo\"."}, {"text": "Buhl Public Library is the public library serving Buhl, Minnesota, United States. Its building was constructed from 1917 to 1918 with local tax revenue from a mining boom. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 for its local significance in the themes of architecture and education. It was nominated for symbolizing how a company town used local funds to serve the educational and cultural needs of its multi-ethnic populace."}, {"text": "Donka is a feminine Bulgarian given name that is a diminutive form of the masculine name Andon used in Bulgaria. It is also a Polish feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Donata used in Poland, as well as a Russian feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Domna used in Israel, Vietnam, Moldova, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland. Notable people with this name include the following:"}, {"text": "Payne's Window is an album by the American jazz saxophonist/flautist Cecil Payne recorded in 1998 and released by the Delmark label the following year. Reception. Allmusic reviewer Michael G. Nastos noted: \"This release for the 76-year-old baritone saxophonist does not fare as well as \"Cerupa\" and \"Scotch & Milk\", primarily because his tone is thin and edgier than his partners, trombonist Steve Davis and the wonderful tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander. However, this is still a pretty good CD with nearly 73 minutes of vibrant, swinging modern jazz from the aforementioned horn players and especially the ever brilliant pianist Harold Mabern. ... Payne has all the support he needs. Perhaps his embouchure is wanting or he needs to tune up a little -- he is tonally challenged and that may dissuade some from championing him -- but more often than not, he's a successful team player, and that is evident in spades on this slightly off-putting but still enjoyable recording\". On All About Jazz Derek Taylor said \"All things considered though this disc is a treat from start to finish and is easily recommended. Take a leisurely look through Payne's propitious window and you're guaranteed to be pleased by what you"}, {"text": "see\". On the same site Jack Bowers stated \"this is as congenial a bop-oriented small-group session as one is likely to encounter. One of Payne's greatest assets is that his pleasant, full-bodied baritone has a personality all its own; another is that he seems thoroughly relaxed and comfortable in any framework from ballad to burner\". Track listing. \"All compositions by Cecil Payne, except where indicated.\""}, {"text": "Isolated levocardia (also known as situs inversus with levocardia) is a rare type of organs' situs inversus in which the heart is still in normal position but other abdominal viscera are transposed. Isolated levocardia may occur with heart defects and patients without having operations have low life expectancy: only about 5% to 13% of patients survive more than 5 years. Therefore, even though the risk of cardiac surgeries is high, once patients are diagnosed, operations are suggested to be held as soon as possible. Isolated levocardia is congenital. So far, there is not sufficient evidence to prove that chromosome abnormalities will result in isolated levocardia, and the cause of isolated levocardia is still unknown. Symptoms. Symptoms are dependent upon complications. Isolated levocardia without complications may have no symptoms. Symptoms of untreated cardiac defects may range from low exercise tolerance to death. Diagnosis. Systematic examination is need to be diagnosed. To determine the position of organs and major blood vessels of isolated levocardia patients, ultrasonography, CT, and MRI are used alone and in combination: Through data comparison, the average value of cardiovascular malformation in levocardia patients is 4.8\u00b11.8, and for isolated levocardia, the average value is 3.0\u00b11.7. Through the analysis of"}, {"text": "isolated levocardia cases, some common features of isolated levocardia patients are: Incidence & complications. In general population, the incidence of isolated levocardia is 1: 22,000; in all patients with congenital heart disease, the incidence is from 0.4% to 1.2%. There are extensive cases reporting that children and adults with isolated levocardia have complex cardiac defects, and neonate or infant with isolated levocardia may be complicated by bowel obstruction and cardiac anomalies. It is estimated that up to 95% of cases of isolated levocardia have associated cardiac deformities like right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) obstruction, septal defects, inversion of cardiac chambers and transposition of cardiac chambers. Prevention & treatment. Examination. Isolated levocardia is congenital, and so far, there is no efficient way to prevent it. However, in the prenatal period, a prenatal evaluation is suggested. It is recommended to include determination of the situs, identification of heart anomalies, and detection of the major vessels and abdominal viscera in the prenatal evaluation. In the postnatal period, a detection of IVC interruption may be helpful and a prophylactic lifelong antibiotic should be prescribed for the neonate to treat the increase of incidence of overwhelming sepsis in congenital asplenia. Besides, parents should be counseled"}, {"text": "appropriately. With accurate, thorough sonographic examination and if there is no congenital heart malformations and chromosomal aberrations, the risk of morbidity and mortality will decrease. Operation. If defects of the heart or intestines are present, surgical treatment may be required. Potential surgeries include: Blalock-Taussig, total cavopulmonary connection (Fontan procedure), Rastelli procedure. Blalock-Taussig is a traditional procedure, and Fontan procedure is widely operated recently. The goal of most isolated levocardia surgeries is to rebuild parts of the heart and \"redirect\" the way blood flows in order to augment pulmonary blood flow. Cardiac surgeries have high risk. Despite the advances in the operative management, morbidity and mortality remain high. Most death after receiving operations may attribute to a combination of cardiac failure and renal insufficiency. The surgical strategy chosen \u2013 hybrid versus traditional procedures, choices regarding the most appropriate pulmonary blood flow \u2013 will affect management throughout a patient's life. However, further studies are still required to identify determinants of the optimal surgical strategy in individual patients. In cases of intestinal malrotation, treatment may require a Ladd's procedure."}, {"text": "The 2019 Melon Music Awards ceremony, organized by Kakao M (a Kakao company) through its online music store Melon, took place on November 30, 2019 at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea. This is the eleventh ceremony in the show's history. BTS took home all four most prestigious Daesang awards of the night. Performers and presenters. The following individuals and groups, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. Winners and nominees. Only artists who released music between December 1, 2018 and November 13, 2019 were eligible, and the nominees were selected by calculating the number of downloads, streams, and weekly Melon Popularity Award votes achieved by each artist. Voting for Top 10 Artists took place on the Melon Music website from October 30 through November 13, 2019. Voting for Category awards took place from November 14 through November 29, 2019. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ()."}, {"text": "Donka may refer to the following:"}, {"text": "David Packard Corenswet (; born July 8, 1993) is an American actor. After graduating from Juilliard in 2016, he began guest starring in television series, including \"House of Cards\" in 2018. He played lead roles in the Netflix series \"The Politician\" (2019\u20132020) and \"Hollywood\" (2020), both created by Ryan Murphy. In 2022, he starred in the films \"Look Both Ways\" and \"Pearl\", and the HBO miniseries \"We Own This City\". After supporting roles in the film \"Twisters\" and the miniseries \"Lady in the Lake\" (both 2024), he rose to prominence with his portrayal of the titular superhero in James Gunn's DC Universe film \"Superman\". Early life and education. Corenswet was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up there and in Lower Merion (a Philadelphia suburb). His father, John Corenswet, was from a Jewish family in New Orleans, and worked as a stage actor in New York City for many years before becoming a lawyer. His mother is also a lawyer. His maternal grandfather is the American author and creator of the \"Choose Your Own Adventure\" book series, Edward Packard. Corenswet graduated from the Shipley School and attended the University of Pennsylvania for a year before transferring to the Juilliard School,"}, {"text": "where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama in 2016. Career. Beginnings (2002\u20132018). As a child actor, Corenswet appeared in numerous professional theater productions, including the Arden Theatre's 2002 production of Arthur Miller's \"All My Sons\", the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival's 2003 production of \"Macbeth\", the Walnut Street Theatre's 2003 production of \"La Vie En Bleu\", and the People's Light and Theatre Company's 2004 production of \"The Forgiving Harvest\", among others. Corenswet wrote the screenplay for and acted in \"Following Chase\" (2011), directed by Greg Koorhan. He next co-wrote, produced, and starred in a two-season sketch-comedy web series, \"Moe & Jerryweather\" (2014\u20132016) along with fellow Juilliard grad Adam Langdon. In 2016, director Rob Reiner cast Corenswet as a co-lead in his planned television series, \"The Tap\", set at Yale College in 1969. Corenswet played a student. USA Network ordered the pilot episode, which was filmed in 2017, but declined to pick up the series. In Corenswet's first film role after graduating from Juilliard, he starred as Michael Lawson in \"Affairs of State\" (2018), a political thriller. The film also stars Thora Birch, Mimi Rogers, and Adrian Grenier. \"Los Angeles Times\" described the film as \"well-acted\". Corenswet then appeared in"}, {"text": "several guest-star roles, including in \"House of Cards\", \"Elementary\", and \"Instinct\". Rising popularity (2019\u2013present). In Netflix's \"The Politician\" (2019\u20132020), directed by Ryan Murphy, he portrayed River Barkley, the lover and high-school political rival of Payton Hobart (Ben Platt). \"Vanity Fair\" described River as a \"wealthy, sporty, straight-A student\". Corenswet next starred as Jack Castello in \"Hollywood\" (2020), a Netflix limited series about the post-World War II film business in Los Angeles. The project reunited him with Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the creators of \"The Politician\". Corenswet was also an executive producer on the series. \"Men's Health\" magazine praised Corenswet's performance as that of a \"breakout lead\". \"IndieWire\" called it \"another star-proving turn from David Corenswet.\" In \"We Own This City\" (2022), a fact-based HBO limited series from \"The Wire\"'s writers and executive producers David Simon and George Pelecanos, Corenswet co-starred as the veteran police investigator David McDougall, whose work in 2016 helped uncover years of corruption in the Gun Trace Task Force of the Baltimore police department. Also in 2022, Corenswet co-starred as Jake in \"Look Both Ways\", a Netflix original romantic comedy-drama film. Corenswet then co-starred as The Projectionist in \"Pearl\", a feature film directed by Ti West"}, {"text": "and released in theaters by A24 in 2022. In 2024, along with Lucy Boynton, Justin H. Min, and Austin Crute, Corenswet co-stars in \"The Greatest Hits\", a film for Searchlight Pictures written, directed, and produced by Ned Benson. Described as a \"musical time travel romance,\" the film premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival. Also in 2024, Corenswet played Scott, a member of a team of tornado chasers, in \"Twisters\", a disaster film. Corenswet also appeared alongside Natalie Portman in the Apple TV+ series \"Lady in the Lake\", directed by Alma Har'el. In a November 2019 interview, he expressed interest in portraying Superman and hoped to eventually see a bright and optimistic version of the character after providing positive feedback about the dark and gritty tone in \"Man of Steel\" (2013). In June 2023, Corenswet was cast as Superman/Clark Kent and his clone Ultraman in the DC Studios film \"Superman\" from director James Gunn. The first live-action film in the DC Universe (DCU), it was released in theaters in July 2025, and earned Corenswet widespread critical praise for his performance. In October 2024, Corenswet was cast in Jonathan Levine's upcoming film \"Mr. Irrelevant\" as football player John Tuggle,"}, {"text": "the last player chosen in the 1983 NFL draft. Personal life. In March 2023, Corenswet and Julia Warner were married at Immaculate Conception Church in New Orleans. It was an interfaith wedding ceremony that included both his wife's Catholic customs and his father's Jewish customs. It was officiated by a priest and a rabbi. They have one daughter, born in 2024; in April 2025 it was reported that they had moved back to Pennsylvania to raise her. Corenswet has stated that he was raised Buddhist, but \"not in a religious sense\", and that his family went to a mindfulness retreat center for a week every summer when he was growing up."}, {"text": "Wolcott Lawrence (November 1, 1786 \u2014 April 29, 1843) was an American jurist, businessman, and politician who served multiple terms on the Michigan Territorial Council. Biography. Wolcott Lawrence was born November 1, 1786, in a town near Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He received a rural education and did not attend college, but studied law in the office of a prominent Pittsfield lawyer and eventually practiced law himself. In 1817, shortly after their wedding, Lawrence and his wife moved to Monroe, Michigan, and established a home on the River Raisin. His law practice was slow at first due to the sparse population of the area, but grew as the population grew. He gradually shifted his attention away from law towards the lumber and mercantile businesses as well as management of his real estate investments. When the government of the Territory of Michigan was restructured to include a new legislative council, Lawrence was one of the top 18 vote-earners in a general election. Those names were sent to President James Monroe, who selected nine, including Lawrence, to form the First Michigan Territorial Council in 1824. He continued to serve on the council until 1831, and was chairman of the judiciary committee for the entire"}, {"text": "time. Following Michigan's statehood, in 1836 he was appointed an associate justice of the Monroe County circuit court, and served until 1839. Lawrence died in Monroe on April 29, 1843. Family. Lawrence married Caroline Stebbins, of Springfield, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1816. Their eldest child, Lucretia Williams, was born in Monroe in December 1817, and was the first child born to American parents in the otherwise largely French community. Lucretia later married Alpheus Felch, a future governor of Michigan and United States senator."}, {"text": "Stoylovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 61 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Stoylovsky is located 39 km southwest of Mikhaylovka. Blizhny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Strakhovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 314 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Strakhovsky is located 42 km northwest of Mikhaylovka. Novoselsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Subbotin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 263 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Subbotin is located 61 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Razdory is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sukhov 1-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 158 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Sukhov 1-y is located 29 km southeast of Mikhaylovka. Abramov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "This is a list of the Honduras national football team results from 2020 to 2029. 2020. Honduras was scheduled to begin playing in 2020 in the CONCACAF Nations League Finals. However, the games were postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2023. 2025. See also: FIFA International Match Calendar Record. Record does not include matches against clubs or teams not affiliated to FIFA. \"As of 28 June 2025\""}, {"text": "Sukhov 2-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,379 as of 2010. There are 27 streets. Geography. Sukhov 2-y is located 36 km southeast of Mikhaylovka. Sukhov 1-y is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tishanka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2010. Geography. Tishanka is located 21 km northeast of Mikhaylovka. Mokhovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Troitsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,659 as of 2010. There are 28 streets. Geography. Troitsky is located 33 km northwest of Mikhaylovka. Rekonstruktsiya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 1896 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent in the 1896 college football season. In their first year under head coach Alfred C. N. Petersen, the team compiled a 2\u20132\u20132 record. John J. Finn was the team captain. Holy Cross' record book considers this its first season of varsity football play. It also featured the first game in the Boston College\u2013Holy Cross football rivalry, as well as the most controversial game in the history of the rivalry \u2013 and of Holy Cross football. BC and HC each claim to have won the November 14 rematch game, after both teams refused to follow referees' instructions following a controversial play with three minutes remaining in the game. Holy Cross was leading 6-4 when Boston College scored what its players, and a raucous home crowd, asserted was the go-ahead touchdown; Holy Cross maintained the runner had been tackled for a loss. Officials initially ruled in favor of Holy Cross, and Boston College's players protested by refusing to take the field, leading the officials to declare a 6-4 Holy Cross win. Under pressure from the South End Grounds crowd, however,"}, {"text": "they reversed their decision and asked Holy Cross, whose players were already celebrating their win, to resume play. Holy Cross refused. The game restarted with only Boston College players, who promptly scored a touchdown (then worth 4 points) to end the game with an 8-6 victory. Decades later, the two colleges continued to disagree on who had won the game. Because of the disputed win, some statisticians list Holy Cross with a 1\u20133\u20132 record in 1896. One of Holy Cross' star players this year was Louis Sockalexis, a multi-sport athlete who later found fame as the first Native American player in Major League Baseball. Holy Cross played its home games at two off-campus fields in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds and the Worcester College Grounds."}, {"text": "Frolov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 67 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Frolov is located 10 km north of Mikhaylovka. Sebrovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Cheremukhov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mikhaylovka Urban Okrug, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 175 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Cheremukhov is located 45 km southeast of Mikhaylovka. 2-y Sukhov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Ikva () is a river in Ukraine and a right tributary of the Styr River that flows through Lviv Oblast, Ternopil Oblast and Rivne Oblast in the Volhynian Upland. It is long and its basin area is . The river has at least one water reservoir near Mlyniv. Among its main tributaries is the Tartatska (right). The city of Dubno is located on the Ikva."}, {"text": "Albert Fertsch was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach State Normal School at Cheney\u2013now known as Eastern Washington University\u2014in Cheney, Washington from 1913 to 1916, compiling a record of 4\u20139. Fersch was also the head basketball coach at Cheney Normal from 1912 to 1916, tallying a mark of 11\u20132. Fertsch was born in Germany. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1910. After leaving Cheney, he was an administrator at the Indiana University extension in Gary\u2014now known as Indiana University Northwest."}, {"text": "The Idaho State University Neighborhood Historic District in Pocatello, Idaho is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The district included 317 contributing buildings and a contributing site on . It is roughly bounded by 6th, 9th, Carter, and Center Streets in Pocatello."}, {"text": "Clarence B. Jamison (born 1857) was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach. He led the Purdue University men's basketball team from 1906 to 1908. He previously served as the head football coach and basketball coach at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana."}, {"text": "Gardner Army Airfield auxiliary fields were a number of airfields used during World War II to support the Gardner Army Airfield. May 12, 1943 the US Army leased 1,396.36 acres for Gardner Field, located 9 miles southeast of Taft, California. Gardner Army Airfield was named after Major John H. Gardner, a World War I aviator hero. The Army built three runways to support training activities need for World War II. From Gardner Army Airfield the United States Army Air Corps's Western Flying Training Command started training the needed pilots. To support the training of the many pilots, Gardner Army Airfield operated a number of auxiliary airfields. Some auxiliary fields were no more than a landing strip, others were other operation airfield that supported the training at the Gardner Army Airfield. The Vultee BT-13 Valiant and Boeing-Stearman Model 75 were the most common planes used for training at Gardner Army Airfields, but large bombers were trained also. Gardner Army Airfield auxiliary fields were: Parker Field. Parker Field or Parker Field Aux No. 1 was located near Lakeview, California and Taft, California at , in Kern County. Parker Field was 6 miles northwest of Gardner Army Airfield and 22 miles southwest of"}, {"text": "Bakersfield, California. In 1941 the Army leased the 300 acre land from the County and built a 3,000' square asphalt landing mat, so planes could land in almost any direction. Parker Field had few improvement and was mostly used for training in landing and take off. The Parker Field was closed on March 10, 1945. Parker Field was just north of what is now California State Route 166, the site is now back to farmland and no trace remains of the airfield. Kern Field. Kern Field or Taft-Kern Field Auxiliary Field No. 2 or Taft-Kern Field Auxiliary Field No. 2 at with an elevation of 444 feet. Kern Field was 25 miles south of Bakersfield and 198 miles east of Gardner Army Airfield. In 1941 the US Army built on the 250 acre site a landing mat that was 3,000 feet by 3,000. The Army built two runways in a unique cross shaped. Taft Field had many improvements and was used often for training in landing and take off. Kern Field closed on February 28, 1945. Kern Field was just north of what is now California State Route 166 and west of the Interstate 5 in Lakeview, California. The site"}, {"text": "is now back to farmland and no trace remains of the airfield. Allen Field. Allen Field or Allen Field Aux No. 3 was located near Lakeview, California and 6 miles west of Mettler, California at , in Kern County. Parker Field was 14 miles northwest of Gardner Army Airfield and 26 miles south of Bakersfield, California. In 1941 the Army leased the 260 acre land from the County and built a 3,000' square asphalt landing mat. Parker Field had few improvement and was mostly used for training in landing and take off. The Parker Field was closed on March 10, 1945. Parker Field was just south of what is now California State Route 166 and just west of the Interstate 5, the site is now back to farmland and no trace remains of the airfield. Conners Field. Conners Field or Conners Field Aux No. 4 was located 20 miles east of the City of Taft in Kern County at . Conners Field was 20 miles east of Gardner Army Airfield and 20 miles south of Bakersfield. In 1941 the Army leased the 250 acre land from the County and built a 3,000' square asphalt landing mat, so planes could land"}, {"text": "in almost any direction. Conners Field had few improvements and was mostly used for training in landing and take off. The Parker Field was closed in October 1950. Conners Field was just south of what is now California State Route 223 and east of Interstate 5. The site is now back to farmland and no trace remains of the airfield. Taft Field. Taft Field or Taft Field Aux No. 5 or Taft-Kern Field was 5 miles east of the city of Taft, California and 16.5 miles east of Maricopa, California at in Kern County. Taft Field was 2 miles southeast of Gardner Army Airfield and 20 miles southwest of Bakersfield. In 1941 the Army acquired the 250 acre land from the private parties. The Taft Field was closed on 27 September 1945. Taft Field was east of what is now California State Route 33 and north of California State Route 166, the site is now back to farmland and a faint trace of the outline of the airfield remains. Cuyama Field. Cuyama Field Cuyama Field Aux No. 6 was 1.6 miles northwest of Ventucopa, California an 14 miles southeast of New Cuyama, California in the Cuyama Valley at in Santa"}, {"text": "Barbara. Cuyama Field was 14 miles northwest of Gardner Army Airfield and 50 miles southwest of Bakersfield, California. In 1941 the Army received a permit for the 48 acre land from the U.S. Forest Service and built a 4,5000 foot northwest/southeast asphalt runway at an elevation of 2749 feet. Cuyama Field had no improvements and was for bombers to train in landing and take off. The Cuyama Field was closed on 30 November 1946 and returned to the U.S. Forest Service. Parker Field was just east of what is now California State Route 33 and 6 miles south of the California State Route 166, the site is now farmland and no trace remains of the runway."}, {"text": "Olive, Again is a novel by the American author Elizabeth Strout. The book was published by Random House on October 15, 2019. It is a sequel to \"Olive Kitteridge\" (2008), which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In November 2019, the novel was selected for the revival of Oprah's Book Club. Similar to the first novel, \"Olive, Again\" takes the form of 13 short stories that are interrelated but discontinuous in terms of narrative. It follows Olive Kitteridge from her seventies into her eighties. Stories. \"Arrested\". Jack Kennison, a seventy-four-year-old widower and retired Harvard professor, drives to Portland to buy whiskey to avoid the possibility of running into Olive, who he has since separated from, at the grocery store in Crosby. Jack is pulled over by the police and given a ticket for speeding. \"Labor\". Olive attends a \"stupid\" baby shower. One of the pregnant guests goes into labor and Olive attempts to drive her to the hospital, but finds herself having to deliver the stranger's baby in the back of her own car. \"Cleaning\". Kayley Callaghan is a fourteen-year-old girl living in Crosby whose father died two years earlier. She begins to find a passion for playing the"}, {"text": "piano, which her father played. While cleaning the house of Mrs. Ringrose for money, Kayley begins experiencing sexual feelings and touches her breasts. She opens her eyes to find Mr. Ringrose watching her, urging her to continue. She agrees and later finds an envelope filled with money left for her by Mr. Ringrose when she leaves. She and Mr. Ringrose continue their unspoken arrangement every time she cleans the house. When her mother eventually finds the envelopes of money, Kayley instead hides it in the piano. One day, she comes home to find her mother sold the piano since she stopped playing it. Mrs. Ringrose tells Kayley she is no longer needed for cleaning. In the last days of summer, Kayley learns from Olive Kitteridge that Mr. Ringrose's behavior has become abnormal and he is being put in a nursing home. Two days before Kayley begins high school, she rides her bike near the nursing home and feels a longing for Mr. Ringrose. \"Motherless Child\". Olive invites her son Christopher, a podiatrist living in New York, to finally come visit Crosby with his wife, Ann, and their four children. Olive reveals her plans to marry Jack and Christopher expresses disbelief"}, {"text": "and anger. When Jack comes to meet Christopher and his family the next day, Christopher expresses anger at his mother but is quickly chastised by his wife. Christopher immediately apologizes and appears \"pale as paper\", though Olive feels pity for her son. Olive recalls yelling at her late husband Henry in public similar to how Ann yelled at Christopher. Olive reflects that she has \"failed on a colossal level\" with both Henry and their son Christopher and has \"lived her life as though blind.\" \"Helped\". Suzanne Larkin returns to Crosby, where her childhood home recently burned down with her father having died in the process. Suzanne finds a platonic consolation through conversations with her father's lawyer, Bernie. Bernie's compassion and empathy make a grieving Suzanne feel \"as though huge windows above her had been smashed\u2014the way the firemen must have smashed the windows of her childhood home\u2014 and now, here above her and around her, was the whole wide world right there, available to her once again.\" Bernie feels a similar connection to Suzanne, and is astonished by her \"uncorrupted\" nature. \"Light\". Olive encounters a former student of hers, Cindy Coombs, while grocery shopping. Coombs, who previously worked as a"}, {"text": "librarian, is gravely ill. Olive visits her unannounced one day and continues to see her afterwards. The two discuss mortality, and Olive confesses her \"pretty awful\" treatment of Henry. She says that she has become \"a tiny \u2014 tiny \u2014 bit better as a person\" but feels sick that Henry is not alive to receive her that way. The story's title refers to Cindy and Olive's mutual appreciation for the light in February: \"how at the end of each day the world seemed cracked open and the extra light made its way across the stark trees.\" \"The Walk\". Sixty-nine-year-old Denny Pelletier is walking alone one night in December in Crosby. He thinks something is wrong with his children but can't think of the answer. He reminisces about his childhood, his own children, his first love Dorothy Paige, and finally his wife Marie Levesque. Denny stumbles upon a man bent over a bench and calls the police, who arrive and intervene by injecting him with Naloxone. Denny walks home and realizes it is with himself that something is wrong, that he had been \"saddened by the waning of his life, and yet it was not over.\" When he returns home and"}, {"text": "is greeted by his wife Marie. \"Pedicure\". Olive gets her first pedicure. Jack contemplates his late wife, Betsy, and his affair with Elaine Croft. He thinks of and is frightened by \"how much of his life he had lived without knowing who he was or what he was doing.\" \"Exiles\". Jim, Bob and Susan Burgess \u2014 the siblings from \"The Burgess Boys\" (2013) \u2014 reunite in nearby Shirley Falls. The brothers' wives, Helen and Margaret, do not like one another. One evening, after drinking wine, Helen finds herself falling down the stairs and breaking several bones. Following Helen's accident, Margaret confesses to her husband that \"I couldn't stand her and she knew it, Bob. And I feel terrible.\" It is also revealed that Bob Burgess and his wife know Olive. \"The Poet\". Olive, now eighty-two years old, drives to the coffee shop in Crosby. She runs into a former student of hers, Andrea L'Rieux, who went on to become the United States Poet Laureate. Olive and Jack take a trip to Oslo, Norway. Later, in autumn, Jack dies in his sleep beside her. The following May, Olive is anonymously sent a poem written by Andrea that is based on their"}, {"text": "encounter. She is initially offended by Andrea's characterization of Olive as lonely. However, Olive eventually admits, \"Andrea had gotten it better than she had, the experience of being another.\" \"The End of the Civil War Days\". Married couple Fergus and Ethel MacPherson live on the outskirts of Crosby and have been married for forty-two years. Though, the two have barely spoken to each other in the last thirty-five years. They have lived with yellow duct tape separating their house ever since Fergus had an affair. Their silence and separation is somewhat broken when their older daughter, Lisa, returns from Portland to tell them she has become a dominatrix and is the star of a new documentary. The story draws parallels between the performance aspect of Fergus' Civil War reenactments with their daughter's work as a dominatrix. \"Heart\". Olive, eighty-three years old, suffers a heart attack in her hairdresser's driveway. She is assigned round-the-clock care in her home by nurse's aides. Olive befriends two of the nurses: Betty, a Trump supporter, and Halima, the daughter of a Somali refugee. Christopher visits Olive frequently and eventually helps her get into Maple Tree Apartments, an assisted living facility. \"The Friend\". In Maple Tree"}, {"text": "Apartments, Olive befriends Isabelle Daignault \u2014 the mother from \"Amy and Isabelle\" (1999). The two form a close friendship, caring for one another. Isabelle reflects with regret and shame for cutting off her daughter's hair, saying to Olive, \"The memory haunts me.\" Olive's oldest age mentioned in the novel is 86. Reception. \"Kirkus Reviews\" praised the novel, writing, \"Beautifully written and alive with compassion, at times almost unbearably poignant. A thrilling book in every way.\" \"Publishers Weekly\" called the novel \"cohesive\" and wrote, \"Strout again demonstrates her gift for zeroing in on ordinary moments in the lives of ordinary people to highlight their extraordinary resilience.\" In her review for \"The Washington Post\", Joan Frank gave the novel a positive review, calling it \"arguably better than the original\" and writing, \"Sentences flow in simplest words and clearest order \u2014 yet line after line hammers home some of the most complex human rawness you'll ever read.\""}, {"text": "Mar\u00eda Luisa Garc\u00eda S\u00e1nchez (7 July 1919 \u2013 12 October 2019) was a Spanish Asturian chef, cookbook author and leading expert on Asturian cuisine and the culinary traditions of Asturias. Her debut Asturian cookbook, \"El arte de cocinar\" (\"The Art of Cooking\"), first published in 1970, sold half a million copies and became ubiquitous in home kitchens throughout Asturias. It remains the best selling Asturian cookbook in history. She published a second part of her landmark cookbook, \"El arte de cocinar (parte 2)\" in 1982. Her other best known works include \"Platos t\u00edpicos de Asturias\" (\"Typical Dishes of Asturias\"), released in 1971, and her collaboration with other chefs on \"El libro de oro de la cocina espa\u00f1ola\" (\"The Golden Book of Spanish Cuisine\"), an eight volume encyclopedia of Spanish cuisine. Biography. Early life. Mar\u00eda Luisa Garc\u00eda was born in Cauxal, Tur\u00f3n, a small parish in the municipality of Mieres, on 7 July 1919. Her mother, Leonor S\u00e1nchez, was a housewife who died when she was young, while her father, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Garc\u00eda, was a worker at , a Spanish mining company. Garc\u00eda was baptized in parish in Mieres. She studied at the Colegio de las Dominicas and the Instituto de"}, {"text": "Mieres secondary school. Her early life was affected both by the death of her mother and the Spanish Civil War. Career. Following the death of her mother, Garc\u00eda spent years caring for her father and sisters. However, in 1957, when Garc\u00eda was in her late 20s, she was awarded a scholarship to study at the Escuela de Especialidades Ruiz de Alda in Madrid. There, she studied the culinary arts, food art, pedagogy, dietetics, and other professional disciplines. In 1959, Garc\u00eda returned to Mieres, where she embarked on a career as a culinary teacher and instructor. She initially began teaching at the Lloreo teleclub and La Pe\u00f1a in Mieres, but her classes soon expanded. By the mid-to-late 1960s, Garc\u00eda was offering two-month long cooking courses, often taught to housewives, across Asturias. Her colleagues and students encouraged her to compile and publish her first cookbook on Asturian cuisine, which was originally conceived as an additional textbook for her cooking classes. In 1970, Garc\u00eda, who was 51-years old at the time, self-published her first Asturian cookbook, \"El arte de cocinar\" (\"The Art of Cooking\"). She sold the first copies at a small stand at the Gij\u00f3n Trade Fair, which she used to publicize"}, {"text": "her recipes. The cookbook, which Garc\u00eda also self-edited and distributed herself, went on to sell more than half a million copies since 1970 and remains the best-selling Asturian cookbook in history. \"El arte de cocinar\" is now in its 30th edition, as of 2019. The book became a staple in home kitchens throughout Asturias. According to Eduardo M\u00e9ndez Riestra, the president of the Asturian Academy of Gastronomy, Garc\u00eda was a popular wedding gift. In 1982, Garc\u00eda released a second, follow-up volume of her cookbook, \"El arte de cocinar (parte 2)\". Garc\u00eda released another well known cookbook, \"Platos t\u00edpicos de Asturias\" (\"Typical Dishes of Asturias\"), in 1971. She also collaborated with other Spanish chefs on \"El libro de oro de la cocina espa\u00f1ola\" (\"The Golden Book of Spanish Cuisine\"), an eight volume culinary encyclopedia. She never published a recipe without personally preparing it. An international edition of her recipes, \"The Good Cook\", was released in North America by Time Life. During the late 1970s, Garc\u00eda married Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez, a F\u00e1brica de Mieres worker, in a wedding ceremony in Covadonga. Garc\u00eda prepared a meal for Pope John Paul II during the Pope's 1989 official visit to the Principality of Asturias at the"}, {"text": "request of the Archbishop of Oviedo Gabino D\u00edaz Merch\u00e1n. The dinner was held in Covadonga. Main regional dishes prepared by Garc\u00eda for the Pope and other dignitaries included , Cantabrian hake and Spanish omelettes. Beef for the other dishes was sourced from cows in Cangas de On\u00eds. Other smaller, Asturian dishes and desserts served by Garc\u00eda for the occasion included , sea urchin caviar canap\u00e9s, cream cheese, stewed beef, casadiellas, bu\u00f1uelos, and cabrales cheese. During the 1990s, she taught courses and workshops at Asturian cultural centers in Argentina, Belgium, Germany and Venezuela with the support of the autonomous government. She received several cultural and culinary awards, including the Insignia de Oro de la Hosteler\u00eda de Asturias (Golden Badge of Hospitality of Asturias) and the Grouse Award from the Asturian Center of Madrid. Mar\u00eda Luisa Garc\u00eda died from complications of Alzheimer's disease at her home in Mieres, Asturias, on 12 October 2019, at the age of 100. Her funeral was held at San Pedro Ap\u00f3stol parish in Mieres."}, {"text": "Lawrence A. Kirschling (died February 15, 2003) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania in 1948. Kirschlingwas a graduate of Villanova University and played college football at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh."}, {"text": "Tosia is a Polish feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Antonina or Antonia used in Poland. Notable people with this name include the following:"}, {"text": "All the Gin Is Gone is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Jimmy Forrest recorded in 1959 but not released by the Delmark label until 1965. Reception. Allmusic reviewer Scott Yanow stated Track listing. All compositions by Jimmy Forrest except where noted"}, {"text": "Star Plaudit (1948\u2013c. 1970), nicknamed Red, was a rodeo stock horse who excelled in steer wrestling and barrel racing. He was inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2015. He was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2017. Background. Star Plaudit, nicknamed \"Red\", was born in 1948. Red was a bay gelding. World champion barrel racer Sherry Combs Johnson first saw Red when her husband and his brother bought the horse together. Red was a steer wrestling horse. Red was 8 years old then. The brothers competed with him for a time, but then the Johnsons bought his brother out. Combs Johnson needed a barrel horse. Red took to barrel racing almost instantly. Combs Johnson believed that the steer wrestling pattern was responsible for his easy transition and ability to run hard without many mistakes. According to Combs Johnson, Red was also a very independent horse who did not care for human attention. But he did tolerate her best; perhaps like could be used. Career. Red accomplished a feat in rodeo that no other horse has duplicated. He won two world championships and assisted in the winning in another in one year. First, he carried"}, {"text": "his owner Combs Johnson to a barrel racing world championship. Then he carried her friend and hall of famer Tom Nesmith to a Rodeo Cowboys Association (now known as the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) steer wrestling world championship. Last, he assisted Nesmith in winning the all-around world championship. The year was 1962. \"He was one of those once in a lifetime horses\", said Johnson.\" For his early years, he competed in both events at most rodeos. After Combs Johnson was divorced, then Red was strictly hers and strictly a barrel horse. Death and legacy. Combs Johnson retired Red when he was 18 years old. She let her daughter Becky ride Red in his retirement. Sometime after he had been in her pasture a few years, she sent Red to a family friend, whose young daughter kept Red in the front yard and rode him. It was a tough decision for her, one where she asked the new owners not to tell her when Red died. \"Of course, I cried when they finally told me\", she admits. Red is buried in Bryan, Texas. Red died when he was 22 years of age."}, {"text": "Domingos is a Portuguese name."}, {"text": "Patterdale and Nile Farm is a Tasmanian heritage-listed site near Deddington about southeast of Launceston. It is notable for once being the home of Australian colonial artist John Glover (1767\u20131849). The farm houses and surrounding land featured in many of Glover's paintings. The site address is 173 Uplands Road, Deddington. The listed farmlands are spread across 14 parcels, several of which abut the River Hill Forest Reserve and overlook the Patterdale Creek and Nile River tributaries of South Esk River."}, {"text": "Marvin Augustus \"Preacher\" Franklin Jr. was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Nebraska State Teachers College at Kearney\u2014now known as the University of Nebraska\u2013Kearney\u2013from 1953 to 1954, compiling a record of 8\u20138\u20132. Franklin played college football as an end at Vanderbilt University from 1935 to 1938. After leaving Kearney, he worked as an assistant coach at the University of Houston under head coach Bill Meek. Franklin moved with Meek to Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 1957 and coaches the ends there for four seasons. He resigned in 1961 to become head football coach at the Kent School in Kent, Connecticut. After seven years at Kent, Franklin was hired as head football coach at Battle Ground Academy in Franklin, Tennessee."}, {"text": "Kastelsvej is a street in the \u00d8sterbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Classensgade to Strandboulevarden. History. Kastelsvej was originally called Citadelsvej. It continued to the northern entrance gate to Citadellet Frederikshavn (now Kastellet). A boom house was located approximately where Livj\u00e6gergade. A fee for using was charged and the provenue went partly to maintenance of the road and partly to the poorly paid servants at Kastellet. The Institute for the Deaf was built on the glacis in front of Kastellet in 1838. The Institute for the Deaf had been built as an arrowhead-shaped revelin which could easily be converted into a defensive structure in the event of a hostile attack. After Copenhagen's fortifications were decommissioned in the 1850s, it was joined by the Royal Institute for the Blind. A number of large villas were built on the street in the after 1900. They were originally meant to line the fashionable new street Bergensgade but it was never continued beyond Kristianiagade, Notable buildings and residents. The former Institute for the Blind is now home to Copenhagen Municipality's children's centre. The building was constructed in two stages in 1857 and 1880 to designs by Ferdinand Meldahl. The Museum Building (No."}, {"text": "19) was built in 1920 for shipping mogul Johan Hansen's extensive art collection. The Neoclassical building was designed by Einar Madvig and Poul Methling. It is now home to a commercial art gallery. It is flanked by two higher apartment buildings. The three-winged Kastelshaven (No. 8-16) is from 1928 and was designed by Peter Nielsen and Ivar Bentsen. The L-shaped Kastelsv\u00e6nget (20\u201330) is from 1938. Many of the old villas from the 1900s have been converted into embassies. The house at No. 32 is now home to the Spanish Embassy. The three houses at No. 36-40 are now home to the British Embassy. Public art. In front of the former Royal Institute for the Deaf stands a bust of Peter Atke Castberg who instigated the teaching of deaf children in Denmark in 1807. The bust was created by Viggo Chr. Hansen in 1922. The main entrance to the former Institute for the Blind is flanked by two zinc sculpture, depicting a blind boy and a blind girl. Transport. The nearest railway and metro station is \u00d8sterport."}, {"text": "The Apostolic Nunciature to Ethiopia is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Ethiopia. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. The Apostolic Nuncio to Ethiopia is usually also the Apostolic Nuncio to Djibouti, the Apostolic Delegate to Somalia and Apostolic Representative to the African Union upon his appointment."}, {"text": "Richard Kyle John Joyce (born 30 July 1992) is a New Zealand field hockey player who plays as a goalkeeper for Belgian club Racing Club de Bruxelles and the New Zealand national team. Personal life. Richard Joyce was born and raised in North Shore, New Zealand. Club career. In the New Zealand National Hockey League, Joyce played for the North Harbour men's team. He joined Racing Club de Bruxelles in the Belgian Hockey League for the 2020\u201321 season. International career. Under-21. Richard Joyce made his debut for the New Zealand under-21 team in 2012, at the Sultan of Johor Cup in Johor Bahru. The following year in 2013, Joyce represented the team at the Junior World Cup in New Delhi. At the tournament, the team finished seventh. Black Sticks. In 2014, Richard Joyce debuted for the New Zealand senior international team, the 'Black Sticks', during a test series against Japan in Wellington. Joyce claimed his first major medal for New Zealand in 2017, winning silver at the Oceania Cup in Sydney. He followed this up with silver medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, and again at the Oceania Cup in 2019 in Rockhampton."}, {"text": "Joe Brook (born 1972) is an American photographer. He has been a Staff Photographer for \"Thrasher Magazine\" for over 20 years. Early life and education. Brook grew up riding bmx and later on found a passion for skateboarding in Detroit and moved to San Francisco at the end of high school with $500 from his bmx bikes that he sold, a duffel bag, and a skateboard. Soon after arriving to the city, He moved into 824 Hyde St. an unofficial San Francisco skate hostel where Brook would live for 15 years. While living in San Francisco, Brook took photo classes at City College of San Francisco and spent time skating with acclaimed local skate filmers and photographers including Aaron Meza, Gabe Morford, Bryce Kanights, and Dave Metty. Photography career. Brook was introduced to photographer and magazine editor Lance Dawes by Aaron Meza, while Brook also became friends with Mark Whiteley from the local SF skate scene. After a few years of learning the craft, Brook began contributing to Slap magazine, run by Dawes and Whiteley. When Dawes announced he was moving to Los Angeles and leaving his role at Slap, Dawes and Whiteley asked Brook if he wanted to be"}, {"text": "a photo editor and photographer for Slap. Brook has photographed skateboarding for over 30 years, working for magazines including \"Slap,\" \"Thrasher,\" and \"Juxtapoz.\" Brook drives a van painted with an American flag called 'Big Blue' which he has crossed America many times in. In 2011, \u00e9S released a Joe Brook colorway of their Square Two Fusion shoe to honor his contributions to skateboarding. In 2016, Brook showed 20 years of skate photography at the Growlery in a show titled \"Defining a Distance.\" Tommy Guerrero performed at the opening."}, {"text": "Concept 21 (), arguably the first artist collective of performance art in China, was formed in 1986 in Beijing by five students \u2014 Sheng Qi (\u76db\u5947), Zheng Yuke (\u912d\u7389\u73c2), Zhao Jianhai (\u8d99\u5efa\u6d77), Kang Mu (\u5eb7\u6728), and Xi Jianjun (\u595a\u5efa\u8ecd). Formation. Concept 21 was formed in 1986 in Beijing. The group's inception began with \"52 Hours of Unfolding Action\", a collective performance which was executed on December 23, 1986. At the time, a group of students from Peking University organized a spontaneous art festival, and Sheng Qi invited his peers to orchestrate a performance at the campus of the university. Great Wall Performance. Enacted over the course of two days in May 1988, the collective executed a series of performances at the Great Wall of China by once again dressing in colourful strips of cloth around their bodies and head, similar to their attire in \"52 Hours of Unfolding Action\". The performance was divided into a number of stages in which the group engaged in various ritual-like actions. Shing-Kwan Chan argues that in this performance, the artists' body became at once a radical representation of the injustices of the past and of the contemporary individual grieving the injustices in the present."}, {"text": "Carl Wuttke (3 January 1849, Trebnitz - 4 July 1927, Munich) was a German landscape and architectural painter. Biography. From 1871 to 1873, he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, then with Angelo Quaglio in Munich. In 1874, he travelled to Italy on foot and remained there until 1876. After returning to Germany, he studied with Eugen D\u00fccker at the Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf until 1880. After 1885, he was a resident of Munich. Later, he went back to Italy, visiting Sardinia and Sicily as well. Many of his best-known works were sketched in those locations. He also made brief trips to Andalusia (1880) and Norway (1894), and travelled to North Africa (Algeria, Egypt) and the Sudan. In 1893, he visited the United States and, from 1897 to 1899, made a trip around the world, which included stops in China and Japan (1898). His sketches from there were used to create paintings for Kaiser Wilhelm II, which were hung in the \"Silbersaal\" (Silver Hall) of the Berliner Stadtschloss. His landscapes often include small genre scenes. As he progressed, his colors tended to grow brighter and his composition took on a fleeting effect, so that his work is often categorized as"}, {"text": "\"Pre-Impressionist\", but he never associated himself with any Secessionist movement."}, {"text": "Dorothy Mary Braund (1926\u20132013) was an Australian post-war figuration and contemporary feminist artist, whose practice included painting, printmaking and teaching. Braund's extensive career was instrumental in contributing to the Modernist art scene, along with a generation of significant women artists including: Mary Macqueen, Barbara Brash, Anne Marie Graham, Constance Stokes, Anne Montgomery (artist) and Nancy Grant. Braund's first solo exhibition, held in 1952 at Peter Bray Gallery in Melbourne, launched her career and from then on she had consistent shows and exhibitions. Braund has had approximately 29 solo exhibitions and participated in 25 group exhibitions throughout her career. Braund is also a part of the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art. Early life. Dorothy Braund was born in Malvern, Victoria on 15 November 1926. Braund was the only child of Mr and Mrs Gordon Braund. As an infant she made marks with a gold bangle in overlapping rhythms making large circular patterns on the white kalsomined wall next to her cot. Braund's parents encouraged her love for drawing as a child and often presented her with drawing and painting implements and paper for her to doodle on. At school, Braund won both the Art and Sewing Prizes two or three years"}, {"text": "in a row. Braund discovered a magazine photograph of an American sculpture of a woman washing her hair, which she cut out and stuck in her homework book as the first influence of complete simplicity. The figure was almost portrayed as one arch and was perfectly explained to Braund. Education. Braund was educated in Malvern at St Margaret's School, Melbourne from 1933 to 1940 and then Lauriston Girls' School from 1941 to 1943. The painter Louise Fairley, a friend of her aunt Isabel Tweedle, recommended that Braund attend The George Bell School in 1943 to study art. However, George Bell thought it was more suitable that she enrolled at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, as she was so young at 17. In the meantime, she began studies at RMIT in 1944. Braund found the industrial design, lettering, clay modelling and drawing in the course too complex. From 1945 to 1949 Braund studied at the National Gallery School under the instructors William Dargie, Murray Griffin and Alan Sumner. During this time, Braund's cohort were invited to choose their teacher and Braund chose Sumner who taught the modernists. The analytical approach taught by the Gallery school helped her find her"}, {"text": "simplistic painting style. Whilst here she won prizes for drawing the figure and still-life painting. Her efforts enabled her to be chosen by Sumner who sent Braund and other students to the George Bell School for extra study and to learn to draw quickly. The school proved a major influence in her work. Her formal classes with Bell ended in 1949 Braund also subsequently studied in England from 1950 to 1951. Involvements. Braund met John Reed, who she fell for, when she visited the Contemporary Art Society Exhibition. She describes Reed as an 'interesting looking man' who was sitting crunched at the desk eating grapes. She signed up that day to join the Contemporary Art Society. While studying at the National Gallery School, Braund and another student named Judy Hunter exhibited modernist works in 1943 with the Contemporary Art Society (CAS). However, CAS confronted them following the report in Truth that they had entered the works as a joke, resulting in a threat of eviction. Braund apologised and continued to exhibit with CAS, whereas Hunter refused to apologise and resorted to legal advice to help deal with the situation. Braund re-joined the Contemporary Art Society in 1952, where she became"}, {"text": "a regular 'Thursday night' participant at George Bell Studio from 1954. She was a supporter of Bell's teaching ideas at the studio and some of his former pupils went to her for lessons after Bell's death in 1966. Bell wrote to Braund before he died: 'On your kind will depend the carrying on of Art in this country.' George Bell appreciated her ability to use form, colour and surface to create good pictorial design. In 1954 Braund created the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Christmas card design. Braund also gave talks on ABC Radio from 1961 to 1964, and reviewed children's books for \"The Australian\" newspaper from 1969 to 1977. Teaching. Braund taught art at three Melbourne schools in the 1950s. From 1952 she taught two to four days each week at Lauriston Girls' School, Malvern. In 1955, she was selected as \"Art Mistress\" at St Catherine's School in Malvern. At Rossbourne House in Hawthorn, Braund taught disabled children. Travels. She travelled internationally in the 1950s and 60s, across Europe in 1950\u201351, Italy and Greece in 1958, as well as Pakistan, Persia, Turkey, India and Asia. Braund hitchhiked in England and the rest of the continent, where she explored sights"}, {"text": "and galleries. She spent time in London with fellow Australian artists Michael Shannon and John Rogers in 1951. In 1958 she visited George Johnston and Charmian Clift and their three children on Hydra. Upon seeing the works of her favourite artists, Georges Seurat and Piero della Francesca, she found them better that she expected. She travelled to Greece three times as she was motivated by the simplicity of colour and shapes, finding it the perfect setting for her painting style. In 1961 she again left Melbourne, this time with Guelda Pyke. They travelled on a freighter Chadraka and took a Kombi van on board, subsequently driving from Karachi through Pakistan, Iran and Turkey. They met fellow artist Nancy Grant on their travels. In 1962 she returned to Australia. The sights and experiences of Braund's extensive journeys greatly inspired her works. Braund's residence changed multiple times over the years; she lived in Asia, India, Greece, England and Australia. In 1989, she moved from her family home at Sorret Avenue, Malvern to a cliff-top retreat at Mornington. Art practice. Braund aimed to achieve ultimate simplicity in her work which is flat, carefully designed and small scaled. She worked in oil, Gouache or"}, {"text": "watercolour using colours of black, white, brown, grey and other tertiary colours with neutral backgrounds. These delicate colours evoke Italian Fresco paintings. Many of the themes in Braund's work drew on familiar everyday experiences and social activities such as public rituals of the Australian beach. Her work is either playful or gently satirical. Braund's artworks often illustrate scenes of intimate lovers, parents with children, relationships between individuals and groups expressed through articulations of form and shape of the human body. Braund's work focused on form and design as the main expression, characterised by rhythmic line tension, close colour harmony, tone, shape and reduction of the object. She employed vertical and horizontal lines for effect and rhythm. Her works achieve total economy whilst simultaneously maintaining the essence of the subject. In the 1940s and 50s, Braund rejected the national Romanticism of Australian art and wanted to convey emotion through observation and perception of line and form and representations of the familiar and mundane. She believed the story of a painting was about creating new things. During the mid 1960s, the figures in her work became more angular and abstract. Braund's Bali paintings were inspired by the sense of relationship, sympathy, compassion"}, {"text": "and tenderness of kids constantly with their fathers. She describes this notion as 'straight lines.' As she reflected on her oil painting 'Baby,' Braund stated, 'I find the head a bit disturbing, heads and faces are so personal that they intrude and give you a new interpretation. If you don't have faces you get the entire feeling between two bodies.\" She also reflected on her oil painting 'Ruffled Jumper,' 'I got sick of my boring heads which always look like eggs so to avoid the issue I put a hat on the child. I would happily paint folds in clothing until the cows come home. I find it much easier than painting flesh.' Braund worked in Melbourne and produced many images of women during her career, as did her contemporary Joy Hester. Braund worked in her Malvern glass-walled studio with views of the sea, which she shared a love for. In 1967, she painted a portrait of Barbara Brash for the Portia Geach Memorial Award, a prize for women's portraiture. The painting was completed from familiarity with drawings of her subject, whose life and practice connected personally with her own. It is a complete likeliness of the subject, yet totally"}, {"text": "abstract when the work is turned upside-down. Around 1972, Braund began working more often with gouache on paper, as this is a fast technique in exploring composition and aesthetic challenges. Braund stated in 1994, \"I've always been knocked out by simplicity. To me it's got such impact\u2026 far more than anything fussy\u2026 because you have to get it right. There's no chance for accidental effects. If you are simple everything has to relate and work.\" Reception. Braund's 'Figure composition' large scale work, painted for the National Gallery Travelling Scholarship in 1950, was regarded by the artist as a major work marking the transition from student to artist. The work recalls a sense of early Picasso in the treatment of figures and it represents the Melbourne figurative tradition. In 1950, Braund exhibited in a group show together with 20 other painters including Alan Sumner, George Bell, William Frater, Roger Kemp, Arthur Boyd and others, at the opening of the new Stanley Coe Gallery. She was pictured in The Herald Sun with Sumner and Frater. In 1952, she was included in the Victorian Artists Society Spring Exhibition and received a review by Alan Warren who states, \"With its almost savage brightness and"}, {"text": "sound patterns, Dorothy Braund's composition shows a definite maturing of a very personal style.\" In 1953, she was the only female artist in a group show of 'Ten Melbourne Artists' at the Peter Bray Gallery alongside John Brack, Charles Blackman, Roger Kemp, Leonard French, Michael Shannon, Arthur Boyd, Eric Thake, Grahame King and Alan Warren. Alan McCulloch wrote in The Herald of the 'almost purist simplicity' of Braund and other artists. Allen Warren wrote in The Age of the 'full rhythmic serenity of sculpture in her painting \"Girl Resting\".' The Age review for the Melbourne Contemporary Artists Group Show held in 1953, stated in 1954 that \"Dorothy Braund's contributions are the work of an artist who is steadily growing in strength as her colour becomes more subdued.\" In 1955 The Age review on the George Bell Group at Peter Bray Gallery commented on Braund's work, \"\u2026a joyous feminine expression.\" In 1957, Arnold Shore reviewed Braund's work, \"Dorothy Braund packs so much into a few simple shapes and colour tones.\" In 1959, Braund was featured in an almost full page spread in \"The Age\" newspaper titled \"Painter Returns\u2026So Much to Enjoy in Greece,\" in which Braund shared the experience of her"}, {"text": "seven months travelling in Greece and Italy and talked about her sketch-filled note books. The article included a photo of Braund with Grecian artefacts. In 1964 at Leveson Street Gallery, Bernard Smith reviewed Braund's work, \"Lively, personal style in which a classical feeling for form is linked with a shrewd and civilised eye for the bizarre and comical\" and \"there are one or two paintings which are masterly in their own way.\" In 1966, Braund won The Bendigo Art Prize, worth $300, with her work \"Dinner Party\". The judge, Brian Finemore from the National Gallery of Victoria, said that he would have bought the work for the Gallery if it had not won. In 1992, author Christopher Heathcote stated that many artists such as Braund have been \"unjustly neglected\", although they came to maturity in the 1950s. Braund's career spanned six decades, and she received the approval and recognition of academia and professional critics. Auctions. Braund stated in 1979 that she was glad that \"the collectors aren't interested because it means that people buy my paintings because they like them, not because they are good investments,\" confirming that she didn't feel undervalued as a female artist. Braund's work has been"}, {"text": "offered at auction multiple times, realising prices ranging from US$214 to US$20,935, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. On 14 and 15 August 1994, \"The Art Class\" 1960 and \"Bathers, Sandringham\" 1979, were auctioned at Christie's Sydney. Since 2007, and following the artist's death in 2013, the record price for this artist at auction is US$20,935 for \"John and Audrey\" 1956, sold at Mossgreen Auctions, Melbourne in 2014. Exhibitions and awards. Braund exhibited extensively in the Eastern states and is represented in several public collections including National Gallery of Australia, Art Canberra, Art Gallery of South Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, the Queensland Art Gallery, the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art at the University of Western Australia, university galleries such as the Monash University Museum of Art, and such regional galleries as Bendigo, Castlemaine, Langwarrin, and Mornington. Braund was awarded Prizes in competitive exhibitions at Albury 1962, Colac 1964, Bendigo 1966 and Muswellbrook 1972. Her exhibitions from the 1980s onwards, were largely with Eastgate & Holst Gallery, Melbourne. Since 1990, Jillian Holst and Rod Eastgate, who are Dealers in Fine Art, have been successful agents of Braund's. Represented. The Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery received 44 of Braund's"}, {"text": "works through the artist's estate in 2010, among them the Bathers series."}, {"text": "Elton L. Bomer (born July 30, 1935) is an American politician in the state of Texas. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1981 to 1985 and 1991 to 1995 before serving as Secretary of State of Texas under Governor George W. Bush from 1999 to 2000."}, {"text": "Lewis Magisterial District is one of ten magisterial districts in Mason County, West Virginia, United States. The district was originally established as a civil township in 1863, and converted into a magisterial district in 1872. In 2020, Robinson District was home to 5,635 people. Geography. Lewis District is located at the confluence of the Ohio River and the Great Kanawha, in the northern part of Mason County. To the north, it is bounded by Robinson District, to the east by Cooper District, to the south by the Kanawha River, and to the west by the Ohio. On the south side of the Kanawha are Arbuckle and Clendenin Districts, and across the Ohio to the west are Addison Township and the northernmost part of Gallipolis Township, both in Gallia County, Ohio. At just under nineteen square miles, Lewis is the smallest of Mason County's ten magisterial districts. Like most of Mason County, the majority of Lewis District is hilly, but there are broad river bottoms in the eastern and southeastern parts of the district. On the eastern side of the district, the bottom land is occupied by the city of Point Pleasant, the district's only incorporated community, and the county seat."}, {"text": "Besides Point Pleasant, the only other community in Lewis District is the unincorporated village of Hickory, the site of Hickory Chapel, and a post office from 1874 to 1906. A former village, Heights, was absorbed into Point Pleasant during the mid-twentieth century. The original settlement was just north of the boundary with Robinson District, but it gradually extended southward into Lewis District until it reached the northern end of Point Pleasant. The main streams in Lewis District are Crooked Creek and Threemile Creek. Crooked Creek flows through the northern part of the district, and at the base of the hills east of Point Pleasant. Until the 1940s, Crooked Creek formed the eastern boundary of Point Pleasant, flowing into the Kanawha River about half a mile above its confluence with the Ohio. As part of the flood control projects following the 1937 Ohio River flood, a flood wall was constructed around the Point Pleasant riverfront, and Crooked Creek was diverted into the Ohio River north of the floodwall. The former right-hand fork of Crooked Creek still flows into the Kanawha through the original mouth of the creek. A smaller run flows into the Kanawha about half a mile above the old"}, {"text": "outlet of Crooked Creek. Threemile Creek flows through the southeastern part of the district, emptying into the Kanawha three miles above Point Pleasant. Besides these, Oldtown Creek, most of which lies in Robinson and Cooper Districts, flows through the northwest corner of Lewis District before joining the Ohio. There are two main highways in Lewis District. West Virginia Route 2 runs south along the Ohio River from Point Pleasant to Huntington, and eastward through the hills to Ravenswood, in Jackson County. West Virginia Route 62 runs southeast along the Kanawha from Point Pleasant to Buffalo in Putnam County, and northward along the Ohio River, through Mason City, Hartford, and New Haven, before joining Route 2 at Mount Alto in Jackson County. Other important routes in Lewis District include Jericho Road, which traverses the center of the district from Point Pleasant to Hickory, where it meets Route 2; and the western end of Sand Hill Road, which travels through the middle of the county from Point Pleasant to Letart. Two railroads meet at Point Pleasant. The first, once part of the Kanawha and Michigan Railroad, followed the course of the Kanawha River from Charleston, and crossed the Ohio to Kanauga, Ohio,"}, {"text": "where it originally joined the Hocking Valley Railroad. Completed in 1885, the railroad bridge was the first span crossing the Ohio at Point Pleasant; the original bridge was replaced in 1919. This line is currently leased by the Kanawha River Railroad from Norfolk Southern, and carries freight from southeastern West Virginia to central Ohio. A second line, formerly part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, now CSX Transportation, follows the Ohio River for the length of the county, between Huntington and Ravenswood, crossing the Kanawha just east of Henderson and Point Pleasant. In the early twentieth century, three ferries carried passengers between Point Pleasant, Henderson, and Kanauga. These became obsolete with the construction bridges spanning the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The Silver Bridge, between Sixth Street in Point Pleasant and Kanauga, was built in 1928; it famously collapsed in 1967, and was replaced by the Silver Memorial Bridge, built two years later, and a mile downstream, in Clendenin District. The Shadle Bridge was built in 1931 between Viand Street in Point Pleasant, and Henderson on the south side of the Kanawha. It was replaced by the Bartow Jones Bridge in 1998. History. Although there is abundant evidence of Indian presence"}, {"text": "in the lands that would become Mason County prior to the arrival of Europeans, including by various groups of Mound Builders, by the mid-eighteenth century the area was largely uninhabited. This was likely due to pressure from the Iroquois Confederacy, which pushed most of the aboriginal inhabitants west of the Ohio. A notable exception in Mason County was a Shawnee town near the mouth of the Great Kanawha, which still existed in colonial times, and was known to the colonists as \"Oldtown\". An important Indian road, the Buffalo or Kanawha Trail, followed the north bank of the Kanawha through present-day Lewis District. Early exploration. French and Dutch traders had visited the Ohio Valley before 1700, but there is no definite record of exploration in Mason County until 1742, when Virginians John Howard and John Peter Salling followed the Kanawha to its mouth. Competing claims to the Ohio Country by France and Britain following the conclusion of King George's War led to the expedition of Pierre Joseph C\u00e9loron de Blainville, who traveled the length of the Ohio in 1749, burying lead plaques stating France's claim to the territory at the mouths of the river's principal tributaries. One such plaque was buried"}, {"text": "at the future site of Point Pleasant on August 18, 1749. During the winter of 1750 and 1751, Christopher Gist explored both sides of the Ohio on behalf of the Ohio Company of Virginia. Gist reached the mouth of the Kanawha, now in Lewis and Clendenin Districts, but no attempt was made to settle in Mason County until after the French and Indian War. The land that would become Mason County, West Virginia was first surveyed in 1772 by a team led by George Washington; his brother, Augustine, had been one of the organizers of the Ohio Company. The team surveyed a tract of 51,302 acres, just over eighty square miles, lying between Letart Falls on the Ohio, and the mouth of Threemile Creek on the Great Kanawha, including most of Lewis District, most of Robinson, and all of Waggener and Graham Districts. The land was patented to them on December 15, 1772, by Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, on behalf of King George III. Most of Lewis District consists of a 9,000 acre section allocated to Andrew Lewis, and accounting for the majority of the roughly 12,109 acres now lying in the district. The balance includes submerged"}, {"text": "land in the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, as well as a parcel of land in the southeastern portion of the district, east of the mouth of Threemile Creek, not included in the original survey. Indian warfare. An outbreak of hostilities between the colonists and the Indians led to Lord Dunmore's War in 1774. In the course of this conflict, Governor Dunmore ordered a regiment of Virginia Militia, under Colonel Andrew Lewis, to proceed to the mouth of the Kanawha, where he arrived on October 6. Although Dunmore sent instructions to Lewis to cross the Ohio and rendezvous with the governor's army near Chillicothe, his men were reluctant to abandon their strategic position\u2014on land that Lewis himself claimed\u2014and they set about constructing a fort at the present site of Point Pleasant. Here they were attacked by a force of Indians led by Chief Cornstalk on October 9. After a hard-fought battle, Cornstalk's men retreated, leaving the Virginians victorious in the only major battle of the war. Cornstalk subsequently made peace with the colonists, but while visiting Fort Randolph to warn the garrison of an alliance between the Shawnees and the British, the soldiers seized him and his son, Elinipsico, and two"}, {"text": "other Shawnees in retaliation for the murder of two militiamen by unknown Indians. The prisoners were subsequently murdered by the soldiers, over the protests of Captain Matthew Arbuckle. Although Indian forces appeared before the fort over the winter and again in May 1778, there were no major battles. Indian raids into the area continued as late as 1792, after which the growing number of settlers and their defenses deterred further incursions. Lewis District and Point Pleasant. The first settlers at Point Pleasant referred to it as \"Shawneetown\", due to the nearby Indian village at the mouth of Oldtown Creek, but as the Indians abandoned their settlement, the Virginians began to call their new village \"Point Pleasant\". Among the early settlers was Daniel Boone, who had been a scout for Colonel Lewis during Dunmore's War, and subsequently settled in Kentucky. He came to Point Pleasant in 1788, and opened a trading post. He was named Lieutenant Colonel of the Kanawha County Militia, and served a term in the Virginia House of Delegates beginning in 1791. He returned to Kentucky in 1795. In 1804, the Virginia legislature agreed to the petition of the residents for the creation of a new county, named"}, {"text": "for George Mason, with its seat at Point Pleasant. The first meeting of the county court was held in the house of William Owens on July 3, 1804. Francis Watkins was commissioned Sheriff, William Sterrett Clerk of the Mason County Court, Samuel Clemens Revenue Commissioner, Robert McKee surveyor, and Jesse Bennett Colonel of the County Militia. Soon afterwards, Walter Newman was licensed to operate ferries across the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, and to keep a tavern at Point Pleasant, and the following year Sheriff Watkins was licensed to perform marriages. Lewis District was almost entirely rural during the first half of the nineteenth century. Despite being the county seat, Point Pleasant was not surveyed until 1819, and not incorporated until 1833. Superstitious inhabitants attributed the town's failure to thrive to a curse brought about by the murder of Chief Cornstalk. There were few buildings in 1825, including the courthouse; four stores, one of them housing the post office; a hotel; and a horse-powered grist mill. All of the structures were wooden, except for two built from brick. The first steam-powered grist mill was built by Edmund Franklin and William W. Martin in 1832, and the first saw mill built by"}, {"text": "Franklin in 1839. By 1843, there were two churches, three stores, and about fifty houses. The Merchants and Mechanics Bank opened at Point Pleasant in 1853. After a long, slow beginning, the town grew considerably over the next thirty years. The \"Weekly Register\", now the \"Point Pleasant Register\", was founded by George W. Tippett in 1862. During the Civil War, the only battle occurring in Mason County occurred at Point Pleasant. On March 30, 1863, Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins, a native of neighboring Cabell County, attacked the Federal garrison at Point Pleasant with four hundred men from the 8th and 16th Virginia Cavalry, hoping to capture government horses and military supplies. The defenders, from Company 'E', 13th Virginia Infantry, commanded by Captain John D. Carter, took refuge inside the courthouse. The town was briefly shelled by a Federal artillery battery that had been stationed in Gallipolis, and taken up a position across the Ohio River at Kanauga. Not finding the anticipated stores, and concluding that the Federal troops were too firmly emplaced, Jenkins withdrew his men across the Kanawha. The skirmish resulted in very few casualties, but was notable for the murder of an elderly civilian, Andrew Waggener, one"}, {"text": "of the pioneer settlers of the county, and a veteran of the Battle of Craney Island during the War of 1812, by a Confederate soldier who had demanded Waggener's horse. After West Virginia gained its independence from Virginia in 1863, the legislature enacted a law requiring the counties to be divided into civil townships. Mason County was divided into ten townships, each of which was named after a pioneer settler of Mason County. The township including Point Pleasant was named in honour of Andrew Lewis, largely in recognition of his action at the Battle of Point Pleasant, and the fact that the land on which the battle was fought had been surveyed for and granted to him. Although one of the original proprietors of Mason County, Lewis never settled on his claim. During the War of Independence, Lewis was commissioned a brigadier general by the Continental Congress, but he retired due to ill health and dissatisfaction with his post in 1780, and died while on his way home to Botetourt County. Like the other townships, Lewis was converted into a magisterial district in 1872. Although other locations in West Virginia also honour Colonel Lewis, including Lewis County and the city"}, {"text": "of Lewisburg, Mason County has the only Lewis District."}, {"text": "William M. Gouge (1796 \u2013 1863) was an American economist who published \"A Short History of Paper Money and Banking in the United States\", an 1833 treatise that advocated for hard money policies. Following the publication of his treatise, Gouge emerged as an important figure in the presidential administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, and he played a major role in the creation of the Independent Treasury system. Historian Sean Wilentz writes that, \"if anyone was the intellectual architect of Jacksonian economic policy after 1832, it was the Philadelphia radical William Gouge\". Career. Gouge worked as an editor of the \"Philadelphia Gazette\" until 1831, gaining a reputation as an expert on the American monetary system. In 1829, Gouge joined several members of the Working Men's Party and some other Philadelphians in publishing an influential report that claimed that banks \"laid the foundation of artificial inequality of wealth, and, thereby, artificial inequality of power.\" In 1833, Gouge published \"A Short History of Paper Money and Banking in the United States\", arguing that banks had a tendency to issue too many bank notes, thereby triggering speculative booms and contributing to inequality. He further held that only precious metals could serve"}, {"text": "as currency, since, according to Gouge, precious metals were the lone medium of exchange with appropriate levels of both intrinsic value and scarcity. He thus advocated for the abolition of all paper money, starting with bills of smaller denominations. According to historian Paul Conkin, Gouge's treatise was the \"most widely read book on serious economic issues\" in U.S. history prior to the publication of \"Progress and Poverty\" in 1879. It was also republished in Britain by William Cobbett and in Canada by William Lyon Mackenzie. \"A Short History of Paper Money Banking in the United States\" was well-received by members of President Andrew Jackson's administration. At the behest of Vice President Martin Van Buren and Senator Thomas Hart Benton, Gouge was appointed to a clerkship in the United States Department of Treasury. Along with Condy Raguet, Gouge proposed the creation of an independent treasury system, whereby the federal government would store its funds as specie in government-controlled vaults, rather than relying on state banks or the national bank. Influenced by this proposal, President Van Buren (who took office following the 1836 presidential election) called for the establishment of the Independent Treasury, and Congress approved it in June 1840. The Independent"}, {"text": "Treasury system was abolished in 1841 following Van Buren's defeat in the 1840 presidential election, but the system was revived in 1846 and remained in place until the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913."}, {"text": "Campbell Nicholas Barry (born 1991) is a New Zealand politician. He has served as Mayor of Lower Hutt since 2019. Biography. Early life. Barry was educated at Wainuiomata High School. He went on to study at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2018. Political career. At the 2013 local body elections, Barry was elected a member of the Hutt City Council for the Wainuiomata ward and was re-elected in 2016. He was the youngest person ever to be elected onto the city council. In October 2016, Barry contested the Labour Party nomination for the electorate of for the against Ginny Andersen and Sarah Packer after long-serving member of parliament Trevor Mallard signalled his intention to stand as a list-only candidate at the election. Andersen won the selection. In June 2017, Barry raised a motion to abolish ratepayer-funded meals for city councillors at long meetings, as he believed elected members should pay for their own meals after the Council decided to introduce what he called \"a sham Living Wage Policy\". After a 7\u20136 vote, with mayor Ray Wallace voting in favour of retaining the meals, a public backlash engulfed the Council in controversy. At the"}, {"text": "2019 local-body elections, Barry was elected mayor of Lower Hutt, beating the incumbent Ray Wallace by 15,453 votes to 13,034. At 28, he was the youngest person ever elected to the office of mayor of a city in New Zealand. In July 2020 his council secured funding from the government to rebuild the Naenae pool, fulfilling a campaign promise. The council co-funded the project. In September of the same year the council passed a change to the city's rubbish collection system. On 15 May 2021, Barry opened Lower Hutt's first Dog Park. Named after veteran animal control officer, Les Dalton. Barry said at the opening \"It was a real privilege to open the park alongside Les\u2019 wife Jill. As everyone said, Les would be extremely excited and proud to see the park open today.\" In May 2021, Barry was elected as the new chair of Wellington Water, replacing the outgoing Chair David Bassett who had held the role since the establishment of Wellington Water in 2014. In 2021, he made the comment about the group, Speak Up For Women, a group formed in opposition to the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021, asking \"if this group needs a"}, {"text": "venue in the Hutt, I've got some nice new waste bins they can use?\" Following a complaint by the New Zealand branch of the Free Speech Union, he apologised for his comment. He was re-elected in 2022 with a 2,443 vote majority over Tony Stallinger of the United Hutt group. In 2025, Barry decided not to seek re-election as mayor in that year's local elections."}, {"text": "Kossi Koudagba (2 October 1995 \u2013 18 June 2020) was a Togolese professional footballer who played as a striker for ASC Kara of the Togolese Championnat National and the Togo national team. Career. He played for Espoir FC Ts\u00e9vi\u00e9 in the 2016\u201317 Togolese 2nd Division. For the rest of his career, he played with ASCK in the Togolese Championnat National. In November 2018, he was called up to the Togo National Team for their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Algeria. Koudagba made his international debut in July 2019, featuring for the full duration of a 2020 African Nations Championship qualifier with Benin in Porto-Novo. He died on 18 June 2020 from a short illness at the age of 24."}, {"text": "Gwyn Clarkston Shea (born August 3, 1937) is an American politician from Texas. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the Texas State Representative for the 98th district from 1983 to 1993. Shea also served as the 103rd Secretary of State of Texas from 2002 to 2003 under Governor Rick Perry. She was appointed to the office following the resignation of Henry Cuellar."}, {"text": "Euphane is a tetracyclic triterpene that is the 13\u03b1,14\u03b2-stereoisomer of lanostane. Its derivatives are widely distributed in many plants."}, {"text": "The Puget Sound Naval Academy (formerly the Moran School or Moran Junior College, and also called Hill Naval Academy) was a private, military style preparatory school intended to prepare young men and boys for attendance at the United States Naval Academy and the United States Coast Guard Academy. It was located in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Moran School. Frank G. Moran purchased the Manitou Park Hotel and its 40-acre property in 1914 and converted it to the Moran School for Boys, a private boarding school for the sons of well-off Seattle families. Ultimately, the school would occupy three buildings: the Day Hall (including dormitory and kitchens), Wilson Hall, and the Yates Hall (including administration offices and an auditorium, completed in 1918). In 1919, Frank Moran would found the Lakeside School in Seattle, with the intention of running the Lakeside School as a \"feeder\" school for his Moran School. Notable alumni from the school include Nobel Prize winning physicist Walter Houser Brattain (graduated 1920) and influential architect John Yeon. In November 1932, after installing a laboratory in the basement of the Wilson Hall, an explosion destroyed the building. The school would file suit against the Standard Oil company alleging that the explosion"}, {"text": "was due in part to defective equipment provided by Standard Oil, and the use of poorly trained employees to test the installation. The lawsuit would be decided in favor of Standard Oil. After the explosion, and against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the school would close for the first time in 1933. Sources refer to the school during this 1914 to 1933 period as the \"Moran School\", \"Moran School for Boys\", and the \"Moran Junior College.\" Puget Sound Naval Academy. Joseph Hill acquired the Moran School in 1937 for the cost of the school's back taxes and renamed it to Puget Sound Naval Academy. The Day and Yates Halls were renamed to U.S.S Dewey and U.S.S Bainbridge respectively. In addition to a normal high school curriculum, the academy included classes in seamanship, sailing and drill. Due to small enrollment, the academy did not have a sports team. In 1950, the school was renamed to the Hill Naval Academy. It also acquired , a former Navy patrol craft. The school would close its doors forever the following year, 1951. Fate. Some portion of the school was converted to the \"Messenger House\" retirement home, which was scheduled to close in 2018."}, {"text": "The school's administration building was used as a storehouse since the 1960s, and was used a set in the film \"Farewell to Harry\". The building deteriorated, and despite local efforts to save it, was demolished in 2017."}, {"text": "Avraamovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Verkhnerechenskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 148 as of 2010. Geography. Avraamovsky is located on the bank of the Tishanka River, west of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Markovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Artanovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tishanskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 225 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Artanovsky is located on the Tishanka River, southeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasnovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Punyamitra was the 26th Indian Patriarch of Chan Buddhism. A legendary figure, little information about him exists outside of Buddhist hagiographic texts. He is estimated to have died late in the 4th Century CE. Biography According to the Transmission of the Lamp. According to The Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp, Punyamitra was the eldest son of a king of southern India known as Virtuous Conqueror. Punyamitra's father favored the teaching of certain heretical Brahmin sects, and had Punyamitra imprisoned for reproaching the king for favoring these Brahmins. After the robe of Bahsyashita, the 25th Patriarch, was miraculously unburned despite being thrown into a fire, the king relented and ordered Punyamitra's release. Upon his release, Punyamitra sought ordination from Bashyashita and served as his attendant for six years in the royal palace. Bashyashita was already extremely old, and soon designated Punyamitra as his heir before his death. After Bashyashita's death, Punyamitra traveled to eastern India, where a group of Brahmins who practiced black magic attempted to oppose him. Punyamitra defeated them by banishing an illusion of a magical mountain and became advisor to the king who had previously patronized the Brahmins. Punyamitra declared that a sage lived in"}, {"text": "the king's country who would succeed him, and later encountered the orphan Prajnatara in the streets."}, {"text": "Buratsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tishanskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Buratsky is located on the Khopyor River, east of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Luchnovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Verkhnerechensky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Verkhnerechenskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 655 as of 2010. There are 15 streets. Geography. Verkhnerechensky is located on the bank of the Tishanka River, 15 km northwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhnerechensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Denisovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Upornikovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 143 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Denisovsky is located 35 km southeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rechensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dinamo () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Dinamovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 965 as of 2010. There are 20 streets. Geography. Dinamo is located 23 km southwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kamensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dryaglovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Uspenskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2010. Geography. Dryaglovsky is located on the Kalach Upland, 45 km northwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Uspenka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dyakonovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tishanskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was four as of 2010. Geography. Dyakonovsky is located northeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Klyuchansky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Michael Prichard is an American actor and audiobook reader. Prichard grew up on a farm in Kansas, and first developed his baritone voice by singing. He earned an MFA in theater from the University of Southern California. He is best known for narrating audiobooks, including the complete Nero Wolfe mystery series by Rex Stout and the complete Travis McGee thriller series by John D. MacDonald. During his career, he has narrated more than five hundred audiobooks. In recognition of his narration work, he received the Audie Award for History in 2010, as well as multiple AudioFile Earphone Awards. In addition to recording audiobooks, Prichard has acted on stage with Ray Bradbury's Pandemonium Theatre Company and with the Pacific Resident Theatre."}, {"text": "Zakhopyorsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Zakhopyorskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 492 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Zakhopyorsky is located on the right bank of the Khopyor River, 18 km southwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Atamanovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kamensky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kruglovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 155 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Kamensky is located 30 km southwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dinamo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Karaichevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Nizhnedolgovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Karaichevsky is located on Kalach Upland, 33 km north of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bereznyagovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasnovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tishanskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 72 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Krasnovsky is located on the right bank of the Khopyor River, 19 km southeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Artanovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasnopolye () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Krasnopolskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 453 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Krasnopolye is located on 26 km northwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Manino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kruglovka () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Kruglovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 938 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Kruglovka is located on the Peskovatka River, 37 km southwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Makhiny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Jeffrey Ellis Robson (30 September 1926 \u2013 5 September 2022) was a New Zealand badminton and tennis player. Early life and family. Born in Palmerston on 30 September 1926, Robson was the son of Maurice Alexander Robson, who later served as president of the New Zealand Badminton Federation between 1965 and 1967. He was educated at King's High School, Dunedin, where he represented the school in association football. In 1951, Robson graduated from the University of Otago with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery. In 1953, he married Heather Redwood, who also played international badminton for New Zealand. The couple had one child. Sporting career. Badminton. As a badminton player, Robson won nine New Zealand singles championships, seven national men's doubles and four mixed doubles titles. Tennis. In tennis, Robson won the New Zealand men's singles title three times, in 1949, 1952 and 1956. He also won five national men's doubles titles, and twice won the national mixed doubles championship. He represented New Zealand in the Davis Cup for three years, and was later the team captain. Honours and awards. In the 1976 New Year Honours, Robson was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to"}, {"text": "tennis and badminton. In 1990, he was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. That same year, Robson was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. Later life and death. Robson's wife Heather died in Auckland on 11 October 2019. Robson died in Auckland on 5 September 2022, at the age of 95."}, {"text": "Kuzminka () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Dinamovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Kuzminka is located on Kalach Upland, 26 km southwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dinamo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kulichki () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Rodnichkovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 88 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Kulichki is located on Kalach Upland, 47 km south of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rodnichki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lobachevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Verkhnerechenskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 123 as of 2010. Geography. Lobachevsky is located on the bank of the Tishanka River, 8 km west of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Avraamovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Captain Thomas Alexander Souter (11 December 1796 \u2013 10 June 1848) was the sole surviving officer of the last stand of the British Army, composed mostly of men from the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot, near Gandamak, Afghanistan, at the close of the first Anglo-Afghan War in 1842. Camp Souter, a former major military base near Kabul, was named after him. Life. Souter was born in Guildford, Surrey, to a career army officer father, Major Thomas Souter of Derbyshire. The younger Souter was promoted to the 44th Foot Regiment as a lieutenant in 1835 after serving in the 57th Foot. During the 1842 retreat from Kabul, Souter lost two horses and sustained a serious shoulder wound. He and a sergeant had donned the somewhat bedraggled colours of the 44th under their coats to protect them from further deterioration; the sergeant was killed before the remnants of the British army, a force of only 65-80 officers and men with 20 muskets between them, arrived near Gandamak on the morning of 13 January. According to Souter's account in a five-page letter to his wife written in captivity, only he, a mess sergeant, and seven men were spared while the rest were"}, {"text": "slaughtered after a day's fighting: \"In the conflict my posteen flew open and exposed the colour: thinking I was some great man from looking so flash, I was seized by two fellows who. . .took my clothes from me, except my trousers and cap, led me to a village, . . .and I was made over to the head man\". After a month, Souter was handed over to Akbar Khan, a son of Dost Mohammad Khan, whom the British had deposed in 1839 but who was later restored to power. Souter and the other prisoners were finally released in September 1842. Back in England, Souter served as a captain in the 22nd Regiment. He resigned on 26 May 1848 and died two weeks later. The regiment's colour endured a complicated fate: It was returned to Souter by one of his original captors, though stripped of its tinsel and tassels, then was in the individual possession of various men and officers of the 44th. In recent times, it has been displayed at the National Army Museum, London, England, along with a life-sized mannequin of Souter and the painting depicting the last stand at Gandamak, by William Barnes Wollen (1898), in which"}, {"text": "Souter is prominently positioned wearing the colour. Descendants. Thomas and his wife Hannah (n\u00e9e Harpur) had eight children who survived to adulthood. One son, Frank Souter, was the first police commissioner of Bombay. Their daughter Emma married Colonel Edward Penfold Arthur, the son of Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet, and had a daughter, Isabella Fanny, who married William James Wemyss Muir, the oldest son of Sir William Muir and Elizabeth Huntly Wemyss."}, {"text": "Lukovskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Lukovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 533 as of 2010. There are 15 streets. Geography. Lukovskaya is located on the right bank of the Khopyor River, 29 km northeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ostryakovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mazinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tishanskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 171 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Mazinsky is located southeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Artanovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Markovsky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Verkhnerechenskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2010. Geography. Markovsky is located on the bank of the Tishanka River, 14 km west of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Avraamovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Makhiny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kruglovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 25 as of 2010. Geography. Makhiny is located on the Peskovatka River, 32 km southwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kruglovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Melovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Zakhopyorskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Melovsky is located on Kalach Upland, 15 km northeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tushkanovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Battle of B\u1ebfn Tre took place during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War when Vietcong (VC) forces attacked B\u1ebfn Tre, the capital of Kien Hoa Province, on 31 January 1968. The battle lasted until 5 February when U.S. and South Vietnamese forces ejected the VC who suffered 328 killed. In the United States, the battle is best remembered for a quote from an unnamed American Major, reported by journalist Peter Arnett, that \"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.\" This quote has often been paraphrased as \"We had to destroy the village in order to save it.\" The veracity of the original quote has often been questioned. Background. Wedged between two branches of the Mekong River and crisscrossed by several smaller canals and rivers, B\u1ebfn Tre lies 13.3 km south of M\u1ef9 Tho. In 1967 it had a population of approximately 74,544 and was the capital of Kien Hoa Province, an island province surrounded by water with no bridge links to any of its four neighboring provinces. In January 1960, one of the very few high-ranking VC women, Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u1ecb \u0110\u1ecbnh, led the first large-scale armed rebellion against the South Vietnamese government at B\u1ebfn Tre."}, {"text": "\u0110\u1ecbnh's insurgents captured ten government buildings and assassinated 43 individuals before an Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) force retook the city ten days later. Although \u0110\u1ecbnh was unable to establish a permanent liberated zone, the rebellion provided great inspiration for VC insurgents in the south. Because of B\u1ebfn Tre's significance as the cradle of the southern insurgency, and also because the rural area surrounding it provided excellent terrain for guerrilla operations, the VC utilized this area as an important base for much of the 1960s. Army Brigadier General William Robertson Desobry, the IV Corps advisor, noted in a 1968 debriefing report: \"The population is fractured, is dissident and in general has little if any history of loyalty to Saigon. The 7th ARVN Division has had little success in operating here in the past two years.\" Despite the heavy VC presence in the Kien Hoa Province countryside, B\u1ebfn Tre itself was relatively peaceful just months before T\u1ebft. Battle. On 31 January the VC attacked 13 of the 16 provincial capitals in the Mekong Delta and captured large sections of M\u1ef9 Tho, Cai L\u1eady, B\u1ebfn Tre, C\u00e1i B\u00e8 and V\u0129nh Long. At 04:15 on the morning of the 31st, a"}, {"text": "force of approximately 800 VC from the 518th Main Force and the 516th Local Force battalions began their attack on B\u1ebfn Tre. On that day the city was defended by two battalions of the ARVN 1st Brigade, 7th Division, and about 70 American advisors from Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) Advisory Team 93 and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) personnel housed in the MACV compound (), a full city block of military buildings surrounded by a tall masonry wall in downtown B\u1ebfn Tre. Within 16 hours of the first attack, the VC controlled virtually the entire city and a string of fishing villages on the south bank of the B\u1ebfn Tre River. The only territory still in Allied hands was a four-square-block area surrounding the MACV compound, the Provincial headquarters, the main Republic of Vietnam National Police station and an ARVN logistics compound. Two battalions from the ARVN 10th Regiment were trying to fight their way into town, but the regimental commander had been killed leading an attack. With the U.S. Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) focused on saving M\u1ef9 Tho, B\u1ebfn Tre's defenders had to rely mainly on airpower and naval gunfire support from Patrol Boat, Rivers (PBRs) of U.S. Navy"}, {"text": "River Section 534 to keep the VC from completely overrunning their positions. PBRs 7-20 and 7-21 were patrolling along the H\u00e0m Lu\u00f4ng River not far from B\u1ebfn Tre when they heard gunfire coming from the city. They first thought that Vietnamese soldiers might be celebrating T\u1ebft, but soon noticed the telltale green VC tracer rounds and moved down the B\u1ebfn Tre River to investigate. About down the river they came across six Republic of Vietnam Navy LCVPs along the north bank firing at targets on the south bank. Shortly thereafter, the MACV Compound requested gunfire support from the PBRs, and the boats headed up the river to assist. They soon came under fire from the VC, but low tide and high riverbanks made it difficult for the VC gunners to hit the PBRs, and most of the rounds passed harmlessly over the boats. The PBRs' .50-caliber machine guns returned fire with a combination of full-metal jacket, red tracer and armor-piercing incendiary (API) rounds at the VC. Less than a minute after the firefight began the VC guns went silent and the shooting subsided. The two PBRs then idled offshore from the MACV compound before being relieved by PBRs 7-13 and"}, {"text": "7-14, and they headed to , anchored on the H\u00e0m Lu\u00f4ng River, for more fuel and ammunition. PBRs 7-13 and 7-14 got as far as the B\u1ebfn Tre Bridge when they were hit by fire from the south bank of the canal. A rocket or mortar round hit PBR 7-14, lightly wounding several crewmen. Other PBRs, some from other river sections, soon began arriving on-scene, and their gunfire began killing VC trying to cross the bridge from the south to the north bank near the B\u1ebfn Tre Marketplace (). PBR 7-18 a Mark II PBR outfitted with a 60mm mortar, shelled targets near the MACV compound with white phosphorus and high explosive rounds. Sailors equipped with M72 LAW rockets fired on VC hiding in buildings, setting them on fire. Other buildings were burned down with API and tracer rounds. VC Rocket-propelled grenades hit PBR 7-18, knocking out its controls. PBRs 7-17 and 7-16 soon rushed to the aid of the crippled boat, expending nearly all of their machine-gun ammunition trying to neutralize fire from the south bank. All boats were hit by small arms fire, and the 7-18 took over 40 hits before it was finally towed to safety by"}, {"text": "PBR 7-16. Air support began arriving just after the marketplace attack. Among the first to reach the scene were Navy helicopters from HA(L)-3, which immediately began attacking VC positions near the MACV Compound. Other aircraft soon followed, including U.S. Air Force AC-47 \"Spooky\" gunships. USS \"Harnett County\" also lent firepower to the effort by attacking targets near the confluence of the B\u1ebfn Tre and H\u00e0m Lu\u00f4ng Rivers. During the course of the offensive, the \"Harnett County\"s Bofors 40 mm guns delivered over 20,000 rounds of API shells in the B\u1ebfn Tre area, destroying 30 structures, three bunkers, a sampan, and a brick factory. At 18:10 on 1 February, reinforcements from the US 9th Infantry Division began arriving at B\u1ebfn Tre. Company B, 3rd Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment and Company B, 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment landed by helicopter in the MACV Compound to bolster its defensive perimeter. On the morning of 2 February the rest of the 3/39th Infantry was landed at the MACV Compound and the 2/39th Infantry was landed east of the city and moved west in an attempt to link up with the 3rd Battalion, which was supposed to break out from its defensive position and begin"}, {"text": "moving east. Both units encountered fierce opposition. Unfamiliar with urban warfare, the 3rd Battalion fought a slow, house-by-house advance, until it stalled near the main highway on the eastern edge of the city unable to advance further and link up with its sister battalion. The 2nd Battalion encountered a battalion-size force of VC, forcing it to move from its landing zones to the northern edge of the city. By this point the two battalions had lost 16 soldiers and were completely pinned down, unable to advance. Air support was called in on the eastern portion of the city with seven sorties going into one eight-block area. These strikes broke up the VC formations and forced them to flee across open rice fields, where they were attacked by helicopter gunships, artillery and fixed-wing strikes. With the air support, the 2nd and 3rd Battalions began making significant progress. The brick factory, near the mouth of the B\u1ebfn Tre River (), was one of the last structures destroyed. A group of VC holdouts had retreated to the beehive-shaped structure and the Army tried to negotiate a surrender, but the VC refused. Rather than sending troops into the building, the Army requested 40mm gunfire"}, {"text": "support from the \"Harnett County\", which destroyed the building. After three days of relatively light fighting, these units cleared the area of VC and on 5 February returned to Dong Tam Base Camp. As the 3rd Brigade's after-action report stated, \"With the enemy in control of virtually the entire city, it became a matter of door-to-door, street-by-street advance under constant sniper fire to drive him [the Viet Cong] out in the open.\" Aftermath. U.S. forces killed 328 VC, mostly during the battle of B\u1ebfn Tre. Civilian casualties in Kien Hoa Province included 528 killed and 1,219 wounded. B\u1ebfn Tre suffered major damage during the battle with over 5,000 homes destroyed and generated over 30,000 refugees in B\u1ebfn Tre and the neighboring M\u1ecf C\u00e0y District. U.S. Air Force Major James K. Gibson, a Forward Air Controller pilot who fought at B\u1ebfn Tre, blamed the VC for choosing B\u1ebfn Tre as the battleground: \"The way we selected these targets was determined by the VC. They chose the battleground and we really had no choice where we put the target.\" \"Destroy the town to save it\" quote. On 7 February Associated Press journalist Peter Arnett flew into B\u1ebfn Tre to report on the"}, {"text": "fighting there. In a report he filed he quoted an unnamed US Major as saying \"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.\" Arnett's quote rapidly disseminated throughout the American media and, according to William H. Hammond, a historian with the United States Army Center of Military History, soon \"passed into the lore of the war to become one of the most serviceable icons of the anti-war movement.\" Arnett never divulged which officer he was quoting; according to a 2018 Bloomberg News article, \"Among some on the right, it's become an article of faith that Arnett invented the quote.\" The article cites several historical uses of the \"destroy in order to save\" phrasing and suggests that rather than inventing the metaphor, the unnamed major was employing one long in use."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team represented the University of New Mexico during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Lobos were led by third-year head coach Paul Weir. They played their home games at The Pit, formally known as Dreamstyle Arena, in Albuquerque, New Mexico as members of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 19\u201314, 7\u201311 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for seventh place. They defeated San Jose State in the first round of the Mountain West tournament before losing in the quarterfinals to Utah State. Previous season. The Lobos finished 14\u201318, 7\u201311 in Mountain West play to finish in seventh place. In the Mountain West tournament, they defeated Wyoming in the first round before losing to Utah State. Roster. Source Schedule and results. !colspan=9 style=| Regular season !colspan=9 style=| Mountain West tournament Source"}, {"text": "State Route 269 (SR 269) is a east\u2013west state highway in central Middle Tennessee. Route description. Throughout its entire length, SR 269 is a two-lane highway. Rutherford County. SR 269 begins in Rutherford County in Allisona at an intersection with US 31A/SR 11, just a few hundred feet east of the Williamson County line. It heads east to enter Eagleville, where it has a concurrency with US 41A/SR 16 through downtown before splitting off along SR 99. They then leave Eagleville and head east through farmland for several miles to just west of Rockvale, where SR 269 splits from SR 99 and heads southeast through wooded and hilly terrain. SR 269 then re enters farmland and wind its way east past some subdivisions, where it crosses over the West Fork of the Stones River, before passing through Christiana, where it has an intersection and short concurrency with US 231/SR 10. The highway now turns south and winds its through some hills before crossing into Bedford County. Bedford County. SR 269 winds its way due south through some hills to pass through Bell Buckle, where it has an extremely short concurrency with SR 82 in downtown. It then turns southeast to"}, {"text": "pass through farmland before passing through Wartrace, where it has a short concurrency with SR 64. The highway then winds its way through farmland and rural areas for several miles, where it crosses the Garrison Fork and the Duck River, before passing through the community of Cortner and the town of Normandy. SR 269 now turns directly south and heads through mountains to cross into Coffee County. Coffee County. SR 269 almost immediately enters the city of Tullahoma and passes by several businesses along N Atlantic Street before crossing an overpass over N Washington Street and making a sharp right onto Marbury Crossing shortly before coming to an end at another intersection with US 41A/SR 16 just north of downtown. Ironically, even though SR 269 is signed east\u2013west for its entire length, it is signed north\u2013south at this intersection."}, {"text": "Black Forrest is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Jimmy Forrest recorded in 1959 but not released by the Delmark label until 1972. The album features alternate takes and five other songs recorded at the sessions that produced \"All the Gin Is Gone\". Reception. Allmusic reviewer Scott Yanow stated \"Forrest sounds fine, guitarist Grant Green was making his debut on record, and the rhythm section plays up to par. Get \"All the Gin Is Gone\" first, and then, if one wants to hear the rest of the story, this set\". Track listing. All compositions by Jimmy Forrest except where noted"}, {"text": "The Hintata or Hin Tata were a Berber tribal confederation belonging to the tribal group Masmuda of the High Atlas, Morocco. They were historically known for their political power in the region of Marrakesh between the twelfth century and sixteenth century. Having helped the Almohads come to power, the Hintata have always been very close to the Almohad caliphs and during the Marinid period, controlled the region of Marrakesh from the \"Jabal\" Hintata, in the High Atlas, coming to reign independently on fifteenth century and early sixteenth century. The Hafsid dynasty of Tunis were a descendant of the Hintata. Branches. The hintata were composed of nine clans. These clans were the Banu (Ait) Galga\u02beiya, the Banu (Ait) Lamazdur, the Banu (Ait) Tagurtant, the Banu (Ait) Taklawwuh-tin, the Banu (Ait) Talwuh-rit, the Banu (Ait) Tumsidin, the Banu (Ait) Wawazgit, the Banu (Ait) Yigaz, and their allies the Mazala. History. Almohad era. The Hintata entered the historical scene at the beginning of the twelfth century, when their principal \"sheikhs\", Wanudin ibn Yansilt, Namir ibn Dawud, Abu Magalifa and Faska U-Mzal, supported the Almohad Mahdi, Ibn Tumart, from 1123. The latter, Faska, henceforth got his name changed by the Almohad Mahdi to the"}, {"text": "name of a famous companion of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and, under his new name of Abu Hafs Umar ibn Yahya, contributed to the triumph of the Almohads, occupying important positions in their government\u2014having been mainly the closest collaborator of caliph 'Abd al-Mu'min\u2014until his death in 1181. This hintata \"sheikh\", Abu Hafs 'Umar, was the ancestor of the Hafsids\u2014his grandson, Abu Zakariyya Yahya was the founder of this dynasty\u2014the governors of Tunis since 1224, where they settled as an independent dynasty from 1229 to 1573. The Hintata formed an elite military unit in the Almohad armies, which participated in the Almohad expansion in North Africa and the Al-andalus. They also passed in al-Andalus, where they are expressly mentioned participating in some campaigns, like the Siege of Santar\u00e9m in 1184, conducted with troops brought from the Maghreb by the caliph Abu Ya'qub, who ended with his defeat and his death in front of Santarem. However, the presence of the Hintata did not leave any trace in the toponymy of the Iberian Peninsula. The Hintata were involved in dynastic struggles between Almohad claimants in the first half of the 13th century. A grandson of the hintati \"sheikh\" Abu Hafs Umar, called Ibn"}, {"text": "al Shahid, supported from the Maghreb the Almohad caliph al-'Adil, insurgent in Murcia in 1224, until he occupied Marrakesh, where he was murdered in 1227. Then Ibn al-Shahid proposed Yahya ibn al-Nasir as caliph, withdrawing his previous agreement with al-Ma'mun, who, when he entered Marrakesh in 1229, ordered the execution of a hundred \"sheikhs\", in particular of the Hintata and Tinmal, as well as their families. Marinid era. After the fall of the Almohad, the Hintata retained their power since one of their families, the Awlad Yunus, a family that seems to descend from the Almohad general Abu Hafs 'Umar, rendered political and fiscal services to the Marinids. After being defeated in the civil war with his son Sultan Abu Inan Faris in 1350, the marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman took refuge in jabal Hintata, where he was protected by 'Amir ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ali, the \"sheikh\" of Hint\u0101ta, the dethroned Sultan died at Jabal Hintata the following year. When the Sultan Abu 'Inan died in 1358, the kingdom was divided between several of his sons. The south of the Maghreb fell to Muhammad al-Mu'tamid who settled in Marrakesh, supported and advised by this \"sheikh\" of the Hintata,"}, {"text": "'Amir, who in 1360 received the visit, in the \"Hintata mountain\", of the vizier and writer Ibn al-Khatib, who gave a complimentary description of him and his people, \"supporters of the da'wa [Almohad], close friends of the Marinid dynasty\". Later, in return for their participation in the dynastic intrigues of Marinids, \"Sheikh\" 'Amir was officially recognized as \"governor of the whole of the Maghreb beyond Umm Rabbi'a\" by the powerful vizier al-Yabani, a title he held until 1362. At the same time, the marinid vizier entrusted him with the custody of the prince Abu l-Fadl, who had been charged with governing Marrakesh. Thus was set up, under the protection of the Marinids, an era of domination of the south of the Maghreb by the Hintata. They were under the direction of the Awlad Yunus branch which, along with other local dynasties, \"ruled in the mountains to the account of the Sultan while waiting to make themselves independent \". In fact, 'Amir eventually rose up against the Marinids who arrested him and then executed him in 1370. However, his family managed to stay at the head of the tribe, more and more detached from the central power, which was gradually declining."}, {"text": "Saadid era. The Hintata, \"kings of Marrakesh\", saw their power reduced to this single city and its surrounding territory, while they had to face, without much success, the Portuguese. On 23 April 1515, , led an unsuccessful attack on Marrakesh, because of the support of Saadians. These latter dynasty allowed the Hintata to maintain their power over the city for another ten years, until they themselves occupied Marrakesh, killing Mu\u1e25ammad ibn al-Nasir Bu-Shantuf, the last Hintata \"amir\", whose family was sent to Taroudant. The Hintata have since disappeared from Maghrebi historical sources and the traces of this confederation vanished. Modern era. In contemporary times, the name \"Hintata\" is no longer used in Morocco where, nevertheless, some of their clans, as is the case of Gayg\u0101ya, who in turn acquired the quality of a tribe. Some families still retain the traditional memory of their belonging to the Hintata, especially in the city of Sfax, Tunisia."}, {"text": "The Lithuania national football team represents Lithuania in association football and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF), the governing body of the sport in the country. The team's largest victory came on 20 May 1995 when they defeated Estonia 7\u20130. Their worst loss is 10\u20130 against Egypt in 1924."}, {"text": "Liga THB-KFA is a regional football league in Kedah, Malaysia. The league is managed by the football authority in Kedah, the Kedah Football Association (KFA). As part of a sponsorship deal with THB Maintenance SDH BHD, it was renamed as Liga THB-KFA. The league is at level 4 of the Malaysian football league system. Teams from this league entered the Malaysia FAM Cup, and champions go to the Malaysia A2 Amateur League."}, {"text": "Karen Whitsett (born November 8, 1967) is an American politician serving as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives since 2019, currently representing the 4th district. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and is often considered one of the more conservative Democrats in the House. In January 2025, Whitsett announced that she would not attend House Democrat caucus meetings. Early life. Whitsett was born on November 8, 1967 in Detroit, Michigan. State legislature. Elections. 2018. On November 6, 2018, Whitsett won the election and became a Democratic member of the Michigan House of Representatives for District 9. Whitsett defeated James Stephens with 95.1% of the votes. 2020. Whitsett won her August 2020 primary, beating out Roslyn Ogburn, a fourth-generation Detroiter and mother of five. She then won the general election. 2022. On November 8, 2022, Whitsett was elected with 87% of the vote to the 4th state House district, which had changed since previous elections with redistricting. 2024. Whitsett was reelected without a primary or general election challenger in 2024. Controversies. COVID-19. Whitsett reported she was diagnosed with COVID-19 on April 6, 2020. At the same time, Whitsett credited President Donald Trump and his personal support of"}, {"text": "hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin treatments with saving her life, stating, \"If President Trump had not talked about this, it would not be something that's accessible for anyone to be able to get that right now, it would not even be possible.\" In May 2020, Whitsett announced she would sue Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer over a censure pertaining to COVID-19, alleging that the Governor and the 13th Congressional District Democratic Party Organization were attempting to deprive her of her right to engage in protected speech after she publicly supported President Trump. In June 2020, Whitsett dropped the federal lawsuit. Abortion. In 2023, Whitsett was the sole Democrat in the Michigan House Health Policy Committee to vote against the Reproductive Health Act, an 11-bill package pertaining to abortion access. Whitsett's concerns included the use of state Medicaid funds for abortions and waiting periods between the consultation and the procedure. 2024 walkout. In the midst of the entire House Republican caucus boycotting the remaining days of the legislature, Whitsett walked out of the House chamber, denying House Democrats the ability to pass several remaining bills. Whitsett returned to the capitol building but refused to enter the chamber. She cited concerns about several bills"}, {"text": "which were voted out of committee to the House floor. Speaker Joe Tate eventually adjourned the House to December 31, ending the ability of the chamber to pass any further legislation. Personal life. Whitsett's lives with her husband, Jason, and their dog, Peace. They have one child. Whitsett and her family live in Detroit."}, {"text": "Filippo Martinucci (died 1862) was an Italian architect. He was the son of Vincenzo Martinucci. His son, also Vincenzo, was also an architect who collaborated with his father on several projects. Among his works in Rome were the Palace of S. Felice in the Via Dataria, the renovation of the Chapel of S. Sebastiano in Sant'Andrea della Valle finished by his son according to plans by Filippo Martinucci (1869), The Inner Staicase of the Vatican (1860), and the Chapel of S. Paul of the Cross in the Basilica of Saints John and Paul (1857), finished by his son, Vincenzo."}, {"text": "Mirny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Dinamovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 34 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Mirny is located 29 km southwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dinamo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nizhnedolgovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Nizhnedolgovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 530 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Nizhnedolgovsky is located on the bank of the Tishanka River, on Kalach Upland, 22 km northwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Fedosovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nizhnerechensky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Verkhnerechenskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 80 as of 2010. Geography. Nizhnerechensky is located on the bank of the Tishanka River, 17 km northwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnerechensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Olkhovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tishanskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2010. Geography. Olkhovsky is located 12 km northeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Atamanovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Briefings in Functional Genomics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering genomics. It was established in 2002 as Briefings in Functional Genomics & Proteomics, obtaining its current title in 2010. It is published by Oxford University Press and the editor-in-chief is Paul Hurd (Queen Mary University of London). According to the \"Journal Citation Reports\", the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 4.241."}, {"text": "Ostryakovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Lukovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 40 as of 2010. Geography. Ostryakovsky is located 26 km north of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lukovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Olympic Legacy Program was an initiative taken in effort to revitalize many of Atlanta\u2019s public housing projects in the early 1990s in preparation for hosting the 1996 Olympic Games. The initiative, guided by the principals of \u201cnew urbanism\u201d was proposed as a way to transform thirteen former projects scattered throughout the city. The initiative began with Techwood Homes in downtown Atlanta, Clark Howell Homes, and continuing to several other projects in each zone. The program was led by former Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) CEO Renee Glover. While the project's ultimate effect was to reduce the concentration of poverty in the city, and improve neighborhoods, employment and education opportunities, finding housing for some of the poor shifted to suburban housing which lacked many of the social services of government housing. History. The first public housing project to receive attention under this program was the Techwood Homes in downtown Atlanta. Techwood Homes, located next to the Georgia Institute of Technology, was the first public housing project that came as a result of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Housing Act. At the time of its construction, Techwood Homes was a white-family only housing project. When Atlanta's public housing finally integrated, years after"}, {"text": "President John F. Kennedy's desegregation order, Techwood became 50% African American within five years, and this percentage rose as the white families previously living there moved out in following years. While opening thousands of living units across the city, a majority of these projects were given little to no attention and soon became dangerous slum areas. Process. After the city was chosen to host the 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta's officials were encouraged to revitalize the city that would soon be the focus of millions of viewers worldwide, giving birth to the Olympic Legacy Program. Officials complained that the projects put too much poverty in one place. At this time, the first HUD's HOPE VI grant was given to the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) which was intended to replace older public housing projects to provide residents of these projects with help to achieve economic self-sufficiency. The AHA, led by chief executive officer Renee Glover, wanted to take this and start over with a new approach: the privatization of Atlanta's nearly 50-year-old public housing through a process of demolition and reconstruction. The neighborhoods that had organized to resist the destruction of the projects relented as a result of the campaign to prepare"}, {"text": "Atlanta for hosting the Games. In theory, market-rate units would bring private investment to the neighborhood that the public housing project lacked. Families in the subsidized housing units at the development would get to benefit from the newcomers, and the resulting Mixed income communities would thrive. Nevertheless, after the demolition, until new housing was built, people who were displaced (if they received assistance at all) moved elsewhere in Atlanta or to the suburbs. In the case of the residents displaced from Techwood/Clark Howell, the process involved turning attention to residents who were late on rent, allowed others to stay with them, or convicted felons. Techwood Homes, renamed to Centennial Place after its reconstruction, was the first project in Atlanta to experience this rapid gentrification. MIT professor of urban planning Lawrence Vale said \u201cthe message is that Atlanta\u2019s city officials transformed these people by fixing their neighborhood and their home\u2026 But the missing piece of that is that it's not the same people.\u201d Results. The results of the Olympic Legacy Program reveal the lack of sustainability precautions taken- most apparent in income changes and population densities. The Centennial area now is a large tourist attraction with luxury family apartment style living."}, {"text": "The median income in Techwood prior to redevelopment was $3,219 per year. Income limits have been increased to $34,000 for a household with two people and to $38,250 for a household with three occupants. With the privatization of the new units, rents increased which drew in even more investment as a positive feedback loop. Techwood/Clark Howell Housing Community included 1,195 units before the Olympics; after the Olympics the new Centennial Place Apartments (formerly Techwood Homes) with 360 subsidized units (30% for former income-level, not former residents) under private management. East Lake Meadows with 650 units and became The Villages at East Lake, with only 270 units rented to very low income households. After the Olympics: Carver Homes would become the Villages at Carver and would lose 700 units. Grady Homes \u2013 all 495 units destroyed in 2006, with plans for 615 new units, only 222 of which will be designated for \u201cpoor\u201d residents. Capitol Homes is gone completely, with a loss of 368 units. The population of public housing residents was reduced in each instance as the projects were replaced with mixed-income housing at lower densities. Other results of the Olympic Legacy Program were replacement of aged, badly performing schools,"}, {"text": "increased employment and employment training, increased surrounding property values, construction of community centers, private investment in surrounding commercial and residential projects including grocery, banking and retail redevelopments, and reduced crime. In a report by Harvey K. Newman it was found that some cities, such as Milwaukee and El Paso, had a different experience with the HOPE VI program than Atlanta. These cities experienced less conflict between residents and local housing officials in their use of HOPE VI grants. Two factors contributed to this lower level of conflict: that the grants were used to rehabilitate projects rather than demolition and replacement, and that these cities seem to have had more extensive resident involvement in the planning and implementation of the HOPE VI programs."}, {"text": "The Wanting is the tenth studio album by American country music artist Cody Jinks. It was released on October 18, 2019 through Late August Records, one week after Jinks released his previous studio album \"After the Fire\". Critical reception. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic states \"\"The Wanting\" is lean and low-key, a record that doesn't push its themes or sounds too hard\" and \"perhaps Jinks has his tongue somewhat in cheek, but all the old outlaw signifiers are presented as sincere. That slight hint of self-awareness helps give The Wanting a lightness during its songs of alcoholism, loneliness, and lost love, a lightness that helps make the record a balm during tough times.\" Josh Schott of \"Country Perspective\" similarly gave the album a favorable review, rating it a \"8/10\" and writing that \"The Wanting is an album full of deep introspection and some fun moments too\"."}, {"text": "Pavlovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Nekhayevskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 294 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Pavlovsky is located on the right bank of the Tishanka River, 5 km southeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nekhayevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pankinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Upornikovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 155 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Pankinsky is located between Akishevka River and 18K-6 Track, 23 km southeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Upornikovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pervomaysky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Verkhnerechenskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 25 as of 2010. Geography. The village is located 10 km south-west of Verkhnerechensky."}, {"text": "Potaynoy () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Rodnichkovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Potaynoy is located 53 km south of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Upornikovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rodnichki () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Rodnichkovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 921 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Rodnichki is located on Kalach Upland, 39 km south of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kruglovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sokolovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tishanskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 143 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Sokolovsky is located on the bank of the Tishanka River, 9 km southeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mazinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Solonka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Solonskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,064 as of 2010. There are 17 streets. Geography. Solonka is located on Kalach Upland, 46 km southwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kamensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bishop Joseph may refer to:"}, {"text": "Sukhovsky 1-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tishanskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Sukhovsky 1-y is located on the Kalach Upland, 10 km southwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sokolovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sychevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Upornikovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2010. Geography. Sychevsky is located 8 km south of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nekhayevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tishanskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Tishanskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 358 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Tishanskaya is located 23 km southeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasnovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tushkanovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Zakhopyorskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 215 as of 2010. Geography. Tushkanovsky is located on Kalach Upland, 23 km north of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rodnikovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Upornikovskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Upornikovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,197 as of 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. Upornikovskaya is located on the Kalach Upland, on the Akishevka River, 26 km southeast of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pankinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Uspenka () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Uspenskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 415 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Uspenka is located on the Kalach Upland, on the Manina River, 43 km northwest of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dryaglovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fungal DNA barcoding is the process of identifying species of the biological kingdom Fungi through the amplification and sequencing of specific DNA sequences and their comparison with sequences deposited in a DNA barcode database such as the ISHAM reference database, or the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD). In this attempt, DNA barcoding relies on universal genes that are ideally present in all fungi with the same degree of sequence variation. The interspecific variation, i.e., the variation between species, in the chosen DNA barcode gene should exceed the intraspecific (within-species) variation. A fundamental problem in fungal systematics is the existence of teleomorphic and anamorphic stages in their life cycles. These morphs usually differ drastically in their phenotypic appearance, preventing a straightforward association of the asexual anamorph with the sexual teleomorph. Moreover, fungal species can comprise multiple strains that can vary in their morphology or in traits such as carbon- and nitrogen utilisation, which has often led to their description as different species, eventually producing long lists of synonyms. Fungal DNA barcoding can help to identify and associate anamorphic and teleomorphic stages of fungi, and through that to reduce the confusing multitude of fungus names. For this reason, mycologists were among"}, {"text": "the first to spearhead the investigation of species discrimination by means of DNA sequences, at least 10 years earlier than the DNA barcoding proposal for animals by Paul D. N. Hebert and colleagues in 2003, who popularised the term \"DNA barcoding\". The success of identification of fungi by means of DNA barcode sequences stands and falls with the quantitative (completeness) and qualitative (level of identification) aspect of the reference database. Without a database covering a broad taxonomic range of fungi, many identification queries will not result in a satisfyingly close match. Likewise, without a substantial curatorial effort to maintain the records at a high taxonomic level of identification, queries \u2013 even when they might have a close or exact match in the reference database \u2013 will not be informative if the closest match is only identified to phylum or class level. Another crucial prerequisite for DNA barcoding is the ability to unambiguously trace the provenance of DNA barcode data back to the originally sampled specimen, the so-called voucher specimen. This is common practice in biology along with the description of new taxa, where the voucher specimens, on which the taxonomic description is based, become the type specimens. When the identity"}, {"text": "of a certain taxon (or a genetic sequence in the case of DNA barcoding) is in doubt, the original specimen can be re-examined to review and ideally solve the issue. Voucher specimens should be clearly labelled as such, including a permanent voucher identifier that unambiguously connects the specimen with the DNA barcode data derived from it. Furthermore, these voucher specimens should be deposited in publicly accessible repositories like scientific collections or herbaria to preserve them for future reference and to facilitate research involving the deposited specimens. Barcode DNA markers. Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) \u2013 the primary fungal barcode. In fungi, the Internal transcribed spacer (\"ITS\") is a roughly 600 base pairs long region in the ribosomal tandem repeat gene cluster of the nuclear genome. The region is flanked by the DNA sequences for the ribosomal small subunit (SSU) or 18S subunit at the 5' end, and by the large subunit (LSU) or 28S subunit at the 3' end. The Internal Transcribed Spacer itself consists of two parts, \"ITS1\" and \"ITS2\", which are separated from each other by the 5.8S subunit nested between them. Like the flanking 18S and 28S subunits, the 5.8S subunit contains a highly conserved DNA sequence, as"}, {"text": "they code for structural parts of the ribosome, which is a key component in intracellular protein synthesis. Due to several advantages of \"ITS\" (see below) and a comprehensive amount of sequence data accumulated in the 1990s and early 2000s, Begerow et al. (2010) and Schoch et al. (2012) proposed the \"ITS\" region as primary DNA barcode region for the genetic identification of fungi. UNITE is an open \"ITS\" barcoding database for fungi and all other eukaryotes. Primers. The conserved flanking regions of 18S and 28S serve as anchor points for the primers used for PCR amplification of the \"ITS\" region. Moreover, the conserved nested 5.8S region allows for the construction of \"internal\" primers, i.e., primers attaching to complementary sequences within the ITS region. White et al. (1990) proposed such internal primers, named ITS2 and ITS3, along with the flanking primers ITS1 and ITS4 in the 18S and the 28S subunit, respectively. Due to their almost universal applicability to ITS sequencing in fungi, these primers are still in wide use today. Optimised primers specifically for ITS sequencing in Dikarya (comprising Basidiomycota and Ascomycota) have been proposed by Toju et al. (2012). For the majority of fungi, the ITS primers proposed by"}, {"text": "White et al. (1990) have become the standard primers used for PCR amplification (with the most common pairing being ITS1 + ITS4). These primers are as follows: Forward primers: Reverse primers: Advantages and shortcomings. A major advantage of using the ITS region as molecular marker and fungal DNA barcode is that the entire ribosomal gene cluster is arranged in tandem repeats, i.e., in multiple copies. This allows for its PCR amplification and Sanger sequencing even from small material samples (given the DNA is not fragmented due to age or other degenerative influences). Hence, a high PCR success rate is usually observed when amplifying \"ITS\". However, this success rate varies greatly among fungal groups, from 65% in non-Dikarya (including the now paraphyletic Mucoromycotina, the Chytridiomycota and the Blastocladiomycota) to 100% in Saccharomycotina and Basidiomycota (with the exception of very low success in Pucciniomycotina). Furthermore, the choice of primers for \"ITS\" amplification can introduce biases towards certain taxonomic fungus groups. For example, the \"universal\" \"ITS\" primers fail to amplify about 10% of the tested fungal specimens. The tandem repeats of the ribosomal gene cluster cause the problem of significant intragenomic sequence heterogeneity observed among \"ITS\" copies of several fungal groups. In Sanger"}, {"text": "sequencing, this will cause \"ITS\" sequence reads of different lengths to superpose each other, potentially rendering the resulting chromatograph unreadable. Furthermore, because of the non-coding nature of the \"ITS\" region that can lead to a substantial amount of indels, it is impossible to consistently align \"ITS\" sequences from highly divergent species for further bigger-scale phylogenetic analyses. The degree of intragenomic sequence heterogeneity can be investigated in more detail through molecular cloning of the initially PCR-amplified ITS sequences, followed by sequencing of the clones. This procedure of initial PCR amplification, followed by cloning of the amplicons and finally sequencing of the cloned PCR products is the most common approach of obtaining \"ITS\" sequences for DNA metabarcoding of environmental samples, in which a multitude of different fungal species can be present simultaneously. However, this approach of sequencing after cloning was rarely done for the \"ITS\" sequences that make up the reference libraries used for DNA barcode-aided identification, thus potentially giving an underestimate of the existing \"ITS\" sequence variation in many samples. The weighted arithmetic mean of the intraspecific (within-species) \"ITS\" variability among fungi is 2.51%. This variability, however, can range from 0% for example in \"Serpula lacrymans\" (n=93 samples) over 0.19% in"}, {"text": "\"Tuber melanosporum\" (n=179) up to 15.72% in \"Rhizoctonia solani\" (n=608), or even 24.75% in \"Pisolithus tinctorius\" (n=113). In cases of high intraspecific \"ITS\" variability, the application of a threshold of 3% sequence variability \u2013 a canonical upper value for intraspecific variation \u2013 will therefore lead to a higher estimate of operational taxonomic units (OTUs), i.e., putative species, than there actually are in a sample. In the case of medically relevant fungal species, a more strict threshold of 2.5% \"ITS\" variability allows only around 75% of all species to be accurately identified to the species level. On the other hand, morphologically well-defined, but evolutionarily young species complexes or sibling species may only differ (if at all) in a few nucleotides of the \"ITS\" sequences. Solely relying on \"ITS\" barcode data for the identification of such species pairs or complexes may thus obscure the actual diversity and might lead to misidentification if not accompanied by the investigation of morphological and ecological features and/or comparison of additional diagnostic genetic markers. For some taxa, \"ITS\" (or its \"ITS2\" part) is not variable enough as fungal DNA barcode, as for example has been shown in \"Aspergillus\", \"Cladosporium\", \"Fusarium\" and \"Penicillium\". Efforts to define a universally"}, {"text": "applicable threshold value of \"ITS\" variability that demarcates intraspecific from interspecific (between-species) variability thus remain futile. Nonetheless, the probability of correct species identification with the \"ITS\" region is high in the Dikarya, and especially so in Basidiomycota, where even the \"ITS1\" part is often sufficient to identify the species. However, its discrimination power is partly superseded by that of the DNA-directed RNA polymerase II subunit \"RPB1\" (see also below). Due to the shortcomings of ITS-based primary fungal DNA barcoding, the necessity of establishing a second DNA barcode marker was expressed. Several attempts were made to establish other genetic markers that could serve as additional DNA barcodes, similar to the situation in plants, where the plastidial genes \"rbcL\", \"matK\" and \"trnH-psbA\", as well as the nuclear \"ITS\" are often used in combination for DNA barcoding. Translational elongation factor 1\u03b1 (TEF1\u03b1) \u2013 the secondary fungal barcode. The translational elongation factor 1\u03b1 is part of the eucaryotic elongation factor 1 complex, whose main function is to facilitate the elongation of the amino acid chain of a polypeptide during the translation process of gene expression. Stielow et al. (2015) investigated the \"TEF1\u03b1\" gene, among a number of others, as potential genetic marker for fungal"}, {"text": "DNA barcoding. The \"TEF1\u03b1\" gene coding for the translational elongation factor 1\u03b1 is generally considered to have a slow mutation rate, and it is therefore generally better suited for investigating older splits deeper in the phylogenetic history of an organism group. Despite this, the authors conclude that \"TEF1\u03b1\" is the most promising candidate for an additional DNA barcode marker in fungi as it also features sequence regions of higher mutation rates. Following this, a quality-controlled reference database was established and merged with the previously existing ISHAM-ITS database for fungal ITS DNA barcodes to form the ISHAM database. \"TEF1\u03b1\" has been successfully used to identify a new species of \"Cantharellus\" from Texas and distinguish it from a morphologically similar species. In the genera \"Ochroconis\" and \"Verruconis\" (Sympoventuriaceae, Venturiales), however, the marker does not allow distinction of all species. \"TEF1\u03b1\" has also been used in phylogenetic analyses at the genus level, e.g. in the case of \"Cantharellus\" and the entomopathogenic \"Beauveria\", and for the phylogenetics of early-diverging fungal lineages. Primers. \"TEF1\u03b1\" primers used in the broad-scale screening of the performance of DNA barcode gene candidates of Stielow et al. (2015) were the forward primer \"EF1-983F\" with the sequence , and the reverse"}, {"text": "primer \"EF1-1567R\" with the sequence . In addition, a number of new primers was developed, with the primer pair in bold resulting in a high average amplification success of 88%: Forward primers: Reverse primers: Primers used for the investigation of Rhizophydiales and especially \"Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis\", a pathogen of amphibia, are the forward primer \"tef1F\" with the nucleotide sequence , and the reverse primer \"tef1R\" with the sequence . These primers also successfully amplified the majority of \"Cantharellus\" species investigated by Buyck et al. (2014), with the exception of a few species for which more specific primers were developed: the forward primer \"tef-1Fcanth\" with the sequence , and the reverse primer \"tef-1Rcanth\" with the sequence . D1/D2 domain of the LSU ribosomal RNA. The D1/D2 domain is part of the nuclear large subunit (28S) ribosomal RNA, and it is therefore located in the same ribosomal tandem repeat gene cluster as the Internal Transcribed Spacer (\"ITS\"). But unlike the non-coding ITS sequences, the D1/D2 domain contains coding sequence. With about 600 base pairs it is about the same nucleotide sequence length as \"ITS\", which makes amplification and sequencing rather straightforward, an advantage that has led to the accumulation of an extensive amount"}, {"text": "of \"D1/D2\" sequence data especially for yeasts. Regarding the molecular identification of basidiomycetous yeasts, \"D1/D2\" (or \"ITS\") can be used alone. However, Fell et al. (2000) and Scorzetti et al. (2002) recommend the combined analysis of the \"D1/D2\" and \"ITS\" regions, a practice that later became the standard required information for describing new taxa of asco- and basidiomycetous yeasts. When attempting to identify early diverging fungal lineages, the study of Schoch et al. (2012), comparing the identification performance of different genetic markers, showed that the large subunit (as well as the small subunit) of the ribosomal RNA performs better than \"ITS\" or \"RPB1\". Primers. For basidiomycetous yeasts, the forward primer \"F63\" with the sequence , and the reverse primer \"LR3\" with the sequence have been successfully used for PCR amplification of the D1/D23 domain. The D1/D2 domain of ascomycetous yeasts like \"Candida\" can be amplified with the forward primer \"NL-1\" (same as \"F63\") and the reverse primer \"NL-4\" (same as \"LR3\"). RNA polymerase II subunit RPB1. The RNA polymerase II subunit \"RPB1\" is the largest subunit of the RNA polymerase II. In \"Saccharomyces cerevisiae\", it is encoded by the \"RPO21\" gene. PCR amplification success of \"RPB1\" is very taxon-dependent, ranging"}, {"text": "from 70 to 80% in Ascomycota to 14% in early diverging fungal lineages. Apart from the early diverging lineages, \"RPB1\" has a high rate of species identification in all fungal groups. In the species-rich Pezizomycotina it even outperforms ITS. In a study comparing the identification performance of four genes, \"RPB1\" was among the most effective genes when combining two genes in the analysis: combined analysis with either \"ITS\" or with the large subunit ribosomal RNA yielded the highest identification success. Other studies also used RPB2, the second-largest subunit of the RNA polymerase II, e.g. for studying the phylogenetic relationships among species of the genus \"Cantharellus\" or for a phylogenetic study shedding light on the relationships among early-diverging lineages in the fungal kingdom. Primers. Primers successfully amplifying RPB1 especially in Ascomycota are the forward primer \"RPB1-Af\" with the sequence , and the reverse primer \"RPB1-Ac-RPB1-Cr\" with the sequence . Intergenic Spacer (IGS) of ribosomal RNA genes. The Intergenic Spacer (\"IGS\") is the region of non-coding DNA between individual tandem repeats of the ribosomal gene cluster in the nuclear genome, as opposed to the Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) that is situated within these tandem repeats. \"IGS\" has been successfully used for the"}, {"text": "differentiation of strains of \"Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous\" as well as for species distinction in the psychrophilic genus \"Mrakia\" (Cystofilobasidiales). Due to these results, \"IGS\" has been recommended as a genetic marker for additional differentiation (along with D1/D2 and \"ITS\") of closely related species and even strains within one species in basidiomycete yeasts. The recent discovery of additional non-coding RNA genes in the IGS region of some basidiomycetes cautions against uncritical use of \"IGS\" sequences for DNA barcoding and phylogenetic purposes. Other genetic markers. The cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (\"COI\") gene outperforms \"ITS\" in DNA barcoding of \"Penicillium\" (Ascomycota) species, with species-specific barcodes for 66% of the investigated species versus 25% in the case of \"ITS\". Furthermore, a part of the \u03b2-Tubulin A (\"BenA\") gene exhibits a higher taxonomic resolution in distinguishing \"Penicillium\" species as compared to \"COI\" and \"ITS\". In the closely related \"Aspergillus niger\" complex, however, \"COI\" is not variable enough for species discrimination. In \"Fusarium\", \"COI\" exhibits paralogues in many cases, and homologous copies are not variable enough to distinguish species. \"COI\" also performs poorly in the identification of basidiomycote rusts of the order Pucciniales due to the presence of introns. Even when the obstacle of introns is"}, {"text": "overcome, \"ITS\" and the LSU rRNA (28S) outperform \"COI\" as DNA barcode marker. In the subdivision Agaricomycotina, PCR amplification success was poor for \"COI\", even with multiple primer combinations. Successfully sequenced \"COI\" samples also included introns and possible paralogous copies, as reported for \"Fusarium\". \"Agaricus bisporus\" was found to contain up to 19 introns, making the \"COI\" gene of this species the longest recorded, with 29,902 nucleotides. Apart from the substantial troubles of sequencing \"COI\", \"COI\" and \"ITS\" generally perform equally well in distinguishing basidiomycote mushrooms. Topoisomerase I (\"TOP1\") was investigated as additional DNA barcode candidate by Lewis et al. (2011) based on proteome data, with the developed universal primer pair being subsequently tested on actual samples by Stielow et al. (2015). The forward primer \"TOP1_501-F\" with the sequence (where the first section marks the universal M13 forward primer tail, the second part consisting of ACGAT a spacer, and the third part the actual primer) and reverse the primer \"TOP1_501-R\" with (the first section marking the universal M13 reverse primer tail, the second part the actual TOP1 reverse primer) amplify a fragment of approximately 800 base pairs. \"TOP1\" was found to be a promising DNA barcode candidate marker for ascomycetes,"}, {"text": "where it can distinguish species in \"Fusarium\" and \"Penicillium\" \u2013 genera, in which the primary \"ITS\" barcode performs poorly. However, poor amplification success with the \"TOP1\" universal primers is observed in early-diverging fungal lineages and basidiomycetes except Pucciniomycotina (where \"ITS\" PCR success is poor). Like \"TOP1\", the Phosphoglycerate kinase (\"PGK\") was among the genetic markers investigated by Lewis et al. (2011) and Stielow et al. (2015) as potential additional fungal DNA barcodes. A number of universal primers was developed, with the PGK533 primer pair, amplifying a circa 1,000 base pair fragment, being the most successful in most fungi except Basidiomycetes. Like \"TOP1\", \"PGK\" is superior to \"ITS\" in species differentiation in ascomycete genera like \"Penicillium\" and \"Fusarium\", and both \"PGK\" and \"TOP1\" perform as good as \"TEF1\u03b1\" in distinguishing closely related species in these genera. Applications. Food safety. A citizen science project investigated the consensus between the labelling of dried, commercially sold mushrooms and the DNA barcoding results from these mushrooms. All samples were found to be correctly labelled. However, an obstacle was the unreliability of ITS reference databases in terms of the level of identification, as the two databases (GenBank and UNITE) used for ITS sequence comparison gave different"}, {"text": "identification results in some of the samples. Correct labelling of mushrooms intended for consumption was also investigated by Raja et al. (2016), who used the \"ITS\" region for DNA barcoding from dried mushrooms, mycelium powders, and dietary supplement capsules. In only 30% of the 33 samples did the product label correctly state the binomial fungus name. In another 30%, the genus name was correct, but the species epithet did not match, and in 15% of the cases not even the genus name of the binomial name given on the product label matched the result of the obtained \"ITS\" barcode. For the remaining 25% of the samples, no \"ITS\" sequence could be obtained. Xiang et al. (2013) showed that using \"ITS\" sequences, the commercially highly valuable the caterpillar fungus \"Ophiocordyceps sinensis\" and its counterfeit versions (\"O. nutans\", \"O. robertsii\", \"Cordyceps cicadae\", \"C. gunnii\", \"C. militaris\", and the plant \"Ligularia hodgsonii\") can be reliably identified to the species level. Pathogenic fungi. A study by Vi Hoang et al. (2019) focused on the identification accuracy of pathogenic fungi using both the primary (\"ITS\") and secondary (\"TEF1\u03b1\") barcode markers. Their results show that in \"Diutina\" (a segregate of \"Candida\") and \"Pichia\", species identification is"}, {"text": "straightforward with either the \"ITS\" or the \"TEF1\u03b1\" as well as with a combination of both. In the \"Lodderomyces\" assemblage, which contains three of the five most common pathogenic \"Candida\" species (\"C. albicans\", \"C. dubliniensis\", and \"C. parapsilosis\"), \"ITS\" failed to distinguish \"Candida orthopsilosis\" and \"C. parapsilosis\", which are part of the \"Candida parapsilosis\" complex of closely related species. \"TEF1\u03b1\", on the other hand, allowed identification of all investigated species of the \"Lodderomyces\" clade. Similar results were obtained for \"Scedosporium\" species, which are attributed to a wide range of localised to invasive diseases: \"ITS\" could not distinguish between \"S. apiospermum\" and \"S. boydii\", whereas with \"TEF1\u03b1\" all investigated species of this genus could be accurately identified. This study therefore underlines the usefulness of applying more than one DNA barcoding marker for fungal species identification. Conservation of cultural heritage. Fungal DNA barcoding has been successfully applied to the investigation of foxing phenomena, a major concern in the conservation of paper documents. Sequeira et al. (2019) sequenced \"ITS\" from foxing stains and found \"Chaetomium globosum\", \"Ch. murorum\", \"Ch. nigricolor\", \"Chaetomium\" sp., \"Eurotium rubrum\", \"Myxotrichum deflexum\", \"Penicillium chrysogenum\", \"P. citrinum\", \"P. commune\", \"Penicillium\" sp. and \"Stachybotrys chartarum\" to inhabit the investigated paper stains."}, {"text": "Another study investigated fungi that act as biodeteriorating agents in the Old Cathedral of Coimbra, part of the University of Coimbra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Sequencing the \"ITS\" barcode of ten samples with classical Sanger as well as with Illumina next-generation sequencing techniques, they identified 49 fungal species. \"Aspergillus versicolor\", \"Cladosporium cladosporioides\", \"C. sphaerospermum\", \"C. tenuissimum\", \"Epicoccum nigrum\", \"Parengyodontium album\", \"Penicillium brevicompactum\", \"P. crustosum\", \"P. glabrum\", \"Talaromyces amestolkiae\" and \"T. stollii\" were the most common species isolated from the samples. Another study concerning objects of cultural heritage investigated the fungal diversity on a canvas painting by Paula Rego using the \"ITS2\" subregion of the \"ITS\" marker. Altogether, 387 OTUs (putative species) in 117 genera of 13 different classes of fungi were observed."}, {"text": "Khoroshensky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Upornikovskoye Rural Settlement, Nekhayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 110 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Khoroshensky is located on the Kalach Upland, on the Akishevka River, 17 km south of Nekhayevskaya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pankinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mary Elizabeth Haskell, later Minis (December 11, 1873 \u2013 October 9, 1964), was an American educator, best known for having been the benefactress of Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist Kahlil Gibran. Life. Haskell was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Alexander Cheves Haskell and his second wife Alice Van Yeveren (Alexander, sister of Edward Porter Alexander). She was educated at the Presbyterian College for women, Columbia, South Carolina, and Wellesley College, Massachusetts, A.B., 1897. She was the principal of a private school for girls in Boston, known as Miss Haskell's School for Girls. She taught here, along with her elder sister Louise Porter Haskell. In 1918, this school merged with The Cambridge School of Weston. On May 7, 1926, she married Jacob Florance Minis (1852\u20131936), whose first wife had died in 1921. Relationship with Kahlil Gibran. In 1904, she met Kahlil Gibran at an exhibition of his work at Fred Holland Day's studio, where she had offered to let him display his work at her institution. This interaction began what would come to be a lifelong friendship between Haskell and Gibran. She is known to have funded his artistic endeavors and edited his English writings. There is contention among"}, {"text": "biographers as to possible romantic dynamics between the two. Some assert that they were never romantically involved, while others assert they were, but that Haskell's family opposed the relationship. Between 1910 and 1911, Gibran proposed to Haskell, and they were briefly engaged. In a book by Joseph P. Ghougassian, Gibran was said to have \"offered to marry her\" in order to \"repay back in gratitude to Miss Haskell,\" even \"though the idea in his mind was despicable.\" Haskell broke off the engagement, claiming she preferred him as a friend, rather than spouse. She continued to be his patron and friend. Haskell financed Kahlil Gibran's trip to Paris, allowing for his studies at the \"Acad\u00e9mie Julian\" and the \"\u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts\". As an act of appreciation for Haskell's support and friendship, Gibran dedicated several of his writings to her memory."}]